DR. VICTOR DOMINIC THOMPSON CURRICULUM VITAE Department of Anthropology 250A Baldwin Hall, Jackson St. University of Georgia Athens, Georgia 30602-1619 Phone: 850.776.2745, Email: [email protected]
ACADEMIC HISTORY Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, 2006 M.A. Anthropology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, 2001 B.A. Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens, 1997
Academic Positions:
Professor of Anthropology (with tenure), University of Georgia, Department of Anthropology July 2017 to Present
Director, Laboratory of Archaeology, University of Georgia January 2019 to Present
Research Associate, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC. April 2021 to Present
Courtesy Curator, University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville Florida 2013 to Present
Adjunct Curator, Georgia Museum of Natural History, 2014 to Present
Co-PI, GA Coastal Ecosystems, Long Term Ecology Research 2009 to Present
Research Associate, Center for Applied Isotope Studies, University of Georgia December 2015 to Present
Interim Director, Laboratory of Archaeology, University of Georgia October 2018 to January 2019
Director, Center for Archaeological Sciences, University of Georgia April 2013 to May 2019
Associate Professor (with tenure), University of Georgia, Department of Anthropology August 2014 to July 2017
Assistant Professor (tenure track), University of Georgia, Department of Anthropology August 2012 to August 2014
Assistant Professor (tenure track), The Ohio State University, Department of Anthropology August 2009 to August 2012
Assistant Professor (tenure track), University of West Florida, Department of Anthropology August 2006 to August 2009
Instructor, University of Georgia, Department of Anthropology August 2005 to 2006
SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES Publications
Journal articles (*peer review, current & former student/post-doc co-authors are underlined)
Garland, Carey, Brandon T. Ritchison, Bryan Tucker, and Victor D. Thompson 2021 A Preliminary Consideration of Craft Specialization and Settlement Expansion on Ossabaw Island, Georgia, USA. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. (in press).
*Thompson Victor D., Torben Rick, Carey J. Garland, Karen Y. Smith, David Hurst Thomas, Matt Sanger, Bryan Tucker, Isabelle Lulewicz, Anna M. Semon, John Schalles, Christine Hladik, Clark Alexander, Brandon T. Ritchison 2020 Ecosystem Stability and Native American Oyster Harvesting along the Atlantic Coast of the United States. Science Advances 6:eaba9652
*Thompson, Victor D., William H. Marquardt, Michael Savarese, Karen J. Walker, Lee A. Newsom, Isabelle Lulewicz, Nathan R. Lawres, Amanda D. Roberts Thompson, A. R. Bacon, C. Walser 2020 Ancient Engineering of Fish Capture and Storage in Southwest Florida. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117(15):8374-8381.
*Thompson, Victor D., Amanda Roberts Thompson William H. Marquardt, Karen J. Walker, and Lee A. Newsom 2020 Discovering San Antón de Carlos: the Sixteenth Century Spanish Buildings and Fortifications of Mound Key, Capital of the Calusa. Historical Archaeology 54: 334–353.
*Thompson, Victor D., Richard W. Jefferies, and Christopher R. Moore 2020 Exploring the Guale Village and Spanish Mission occupations at the Sapelo Shell Ring Complex through Bayesian Analysis. Radiocarbon (in press). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2020.42
Thompson, Victor D. and Stephen Kowalewski 2020 Reply. Southeastern Archaeology. (in press).
*Kowalewski, Stephen and Victor D. Thompson 2020 Where is the Southeastern Native American Economy. Southeastern Archaeology. (in press).
*Ritchison, Brandon T., Victor D. Thompson, Isabelle Lulewicz, Bryan Tucker, and John A. Turck
2020 Climate Change, Resilience, and the Fisher-Hunter-Gatherers of Late Holocene Georgia Coast. Quaternary International. (in press).
*Lulewicz Jacob, Victor D. Thompson, James Wettstaed, and Mark Williams 2020 Enduring Traditions and the Immateriality of Early Colonial Encounters in the Oconee Valley (Georgia) of the Southeastern United States. American Antiquity. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2020.40. (in press).
*Pluckhahn, Thomas, J. Neill Wallis, and Victor D. Thompson 2020 Using Bayesian Modeling to Evaluate Migrationist Explanations for Regional Settlement Change in the American Southeast. Journal of Archaeological Research. DOI: 10.1007/s10814- 019-09140-x. (in press).
*Marquardt, William H. Anthony Krus, and Victor D. Thompson 2020 Rethinking the Estero Island Site: A Possible Satellite Village of Mound Key. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2020.101145. (in press).
*Lulewicz, Isabelle, Neill Wallis, and Victor D. Thompson 2020 Exploring the Season of Mound Building through Oxygen Isotope Geochemistry at the Garden Patch Site, Gulf Coast Florida, USA. Southeastern Archaeology. DOI: 10.1080/0734578X.2019.1679571. (in press).
*Thompson, Victor D., Richard W. Jefferies, and Christopher R. Moore 2019 The Case for Radiocarbon Dating and Bayesian Analysis in Historic Archaeology. Historical Archaeology 53(1):181-192. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41636-018-0152-5.
*Napora, Katharine G., Alexander Cherkinsky, Robert J. Speakman, Victor D. Thompson, Robert Horan, and Craig Jacobs 2019 Is there evidence for atmospheric offset within the Northern hemisphere? Searching for an answer in massive bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) deposits in the Southeastern USA. Radiocarbon 61:1755-1763.
*Thompson Roberts, Amanda, Victor D. Thompson, Mark Williams, Michiel Kappers, Kristine Schenk 2019 Long-term Legacies and Their Challenges in the Age of Modern Curation at the University of Georgia. Advances in Archaeological Practice 7:274-283.
*Hadden, Carla S., Kathy M. Loftis, Alexander Cherkinsky, Brandon T. Ritchison, Isabelle H. Lulewicz, and Victor D. Thompson 2019 Radiocarbon in marsh periwinkle (Littorina irrorata) shell carbonate and conchiolin: applications for archaeology. Radiocarbon 61:1489-1500.
*Lulewicz, Jacob, Victor D. Thompson, and Chester B. DePratter 2019 Mapping Spanish Settlement at Santa Elena, 1566-1587: An Integrated Archaeogeophysical Approach. Archaeological Prospection 26:239-250. https://doi.org/10.1002/arp.1737.
*Krus, M. Anthony and Victor D. Thompson
2019 The Complexities of Dating Island and Coastal Settlements. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 14:1-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2018.1562500
*Wallis, J. Neill and Victor D. Thompson 2019 Early Platform Mound Communalism and Co-Option in the American Southeast: Implications of Shallow Geophysics at Garden Patch Mound 2, Florida, USA. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 24:276-289.
*Riehm, Grace E., Robbie Ethridge, Lydia Brambila, Brittany A. Brown, Lauren K. Collins, Danielle N. Effre, Stephen A. Kowalewski, J. Jacob Lulewicz, Morgan J. Lyon, Caitlin M. McDonald, Caitlin F. Plesher, Brandon T. Ritchison, Colleen N. Smith, Amanda J. Sutton, and Victor D. Thompson 2019 What is Ethnohistory? A Sixty Year Retrospective. Ethnohistory 66(1): 145-162.
*Napora, Katharine G., James Bonsall, Stuart Rathbone, and Victor D. Thompson 2019 Geoarchaeological Analysis of a Dunefield Shell Midden Site in Carrowdough Townland, County Sligo, Ireland. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 14:394-410. doi:10.1080/15564894.2018.1531332
Jones, K.C., Mary E. Porter Freeman, Amanda D. Roberts Thompson, and Victor D. Thompson 2019 A Short Report of Archaeological Investigations at the South End Site (9Ch155), Ossabaw Island, Georgia: 2018 Field Season. Early Georgia 47:47-53.
*Thompson, Victor D., 2018 A Perspective on Paleoindian Research from the Opposite End of the Foraging Spectrum. PaleoAmerica 4(3):177-182. doi: 10.1080/20555563.2018.1525526
*Thompson, Victor D., William H. Marquardt, Karen J. Walker, Amanda Roberts Thompson, Lee A. Newsom 2018 Collective Action, State Building, and the Rise of the Calusa, Southwest Florida. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 51:28-44.
*Thompson, Victor D., Chester B. DePratter, Jake Lulewicz, Isabelle Luewicz, Amanda Roberts Thompson, Justin Cramb, Brandon Ritchison, and Matthew Colvin 2018 The Archaeology and Remote Sensing of Santa Elena’s Four Millennia of Occupation. Remote Sensing 10(2), 248; doi:10.3390/rs10020248
*Thompson, Victor D. and Anthony Krus 2018 Contemplating the History and Future of Radiocarbon Dating in the American Southeast. Southeastern Archaeology 37:1-11. DOI: 10.1080/0734578X.2017.1364600
*Speakman, Robert J., Carla S. Hadden, Matthew H. Colvin, Justin Cramb, K.C. Jones, Travis W. Jones, Isabelle Lulewicz, Katharine G. Napora, Katherine L. Reinberger, Brandon T. Ritchison, Alexandra Edwards, Victor D. Thompson 2018 Market Share and Recent Hiring Trends in Anthropology Faculty Positions. PLOS One. 13(9): e0202528. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202528
*Speakman, Robert J., Carla S. Hadden, Matthew H. Colvin, Justin Cramb, K.C. Jones, Travis W. Jones, Corbin L. King, Isabelle Lulewicz, Katharine G. Napora, Katherine L. Reinberger, Brandon T. Ritchison, Maria Jose Rivera-Araya, April K. Smith, Victor D. Thompson 2018 Choosing a Path to the Ancient World in a Modern Market: The Reality of Faculty Jobs in Archaeology. American Antiquity 83(1):1-12.
*Lulewicz, Isabelle H., Victor D. Thompson, Thomas J. Pluckhahn, Oindrila Das, C. Fred T. Andrus 2018 Exploring Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Habitat Collection via Oxygen Isotope Sclerochronology at Crystal River and Roberts Island, Florida. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 13:388-404.
*Thompson, Victor D., Thomas J. Pluckhahn, Matt Colvin, Justin Cramb, Katharine Napora, J. Jacob Lulewicz, and Brandon Ritchison 2017 Plummets, Public Ritual, and Interaction Networks during the Woodland Period in Florida. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 48:193-206.
*Lulewicz, Isabelle H., Victor D. Thompson, Justin Cramb, and Bryan Tucker 2017 Oyster Paleoecology and Native Subsistence Practices on Ossabaw Island, Georgia. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 15:282-289.
*Roberts Thompson, Amanda D., Brandon T. Ritchison, Emma Cook, and Victor D. Thompson 2017 Tobacco Pipes and Plantation Period Activities at the South End Site (9CH155) on Ossabaw Island, Georgia. Early Georgia 45(1&2):67-92.
*Pluckhahn, Thomas J. and Victor D. Thompson. 2017 Woodland-Period Mound Building as Historical Tradition: Dating the Mounds and Monuments at Crystal River (8CI1). Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 15:73-94.
*Thompson, Victor D., Chester B. DePratter, Amanda D. Roberts Thompson 2016 Defining Santa Elena’s Colonial Landscape through Shallow Geophysics. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 9:178-190.
*Thompson, Victor D., William Marquardt, Alexander Cherkinsky, Amanda Roberts Thompson, Karen Walker, Lee Newsom 2016 From Shell Midden to Shell Mound: The Geoarchaeology of Mound Key an Anthropogenic Island in Southwest Florida, USA. PLOS One. 11(4): e0154611. doi:10.1371/journal. pone.0154611
*Porter, Mary, Victor D. Thompson, Amanda Roberts Thompson, and Chester B. DePratter 2016 Searching for Mission Santa Clara de Tupiqui on the Georgia Coast. Early Georgia 44:101- 121.
*Savarese, Michael, Karen J. Walker, Shanna Stingu, William H. Marquardt, and Victor Thompson 2016 The Effects of Shellfish Harvesting by Aboriginal Inhabitants of Southwest Florida on the History of Productivity of the Eastern Oyster: A Conservation Paleobiological Approach. Anthropocene 16:28-41.
*Fitzpatrick, Scott M., Victor D. Thompson, Aaron Poteate, Matthew Napolitano, and Jon Erlandson 2016 Marginalization of the Margins: The Importance of Smaller Islands in Human Prehistory. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 11(2):155-170. DOI: 10.1080/15564894.2016.1192568
*Turck, John A. and Victor D. Thompson 2016 Revisiting the Resilience of Late Archaic Hunter-gatherers along the Georgia Coast. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 43:39-55.
*Pluckhahn Thomas J., Victor D. Thompson, and W. Jack Rink 2016 Evidence for Stepped Pyramids of Shell in the Woodland Period of Eastern North America. American Antiquity 81(2):345-363.
*Gragson, Ted L., Florent Hautefeuille, Victor D. Thompson, and David S. Leigh 2016 Ground-Penetrating Radar Discovery and Imaging of the Early Christian Church of Notre Dame de Baudes near Labastide-du-Temple, France. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 6:584-593.
*Gragson, Ted L., Victor D. Thompson, David S. Leigh and Florent Hautefeuille 2016 Ground-Penetrating Radar Used in Discovery of the Early Christian Church of Notre Dame de Baudes near Labastide-du-Temple, France. Data In Brief 7:1588-1593. DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.04.057
*Thompson, Victor D., Thomas J. Pluckhahn, Oindrila Das, and Fred Andrus 2015 Assessing Village Life and Monument Construction (cal. AD 65-1070) along the Central Gulf Coast of Florida through Stable Isotope Geochemistry. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 4:111-123.
*Pluckhahn, Thomas J., Alex D. Hodson, W. Jack Rink, Victor D. Thompson, R.R. Hendricks, Glen Doran, Grayal Farr, Alex Cherkinsky, and Sean P. Norman 2015 Radiocarbon and Luminescence Age Determinations on Mounds at Crystal River and Roberts Island, Florida, USA. Geoarchaeology 30:238–260.
*Pluckhahn, Thomas, Victor D. Thompson, Alex Cherkinsky 2015 The Temporality of Shell-Bearing Landscapes at Crystal River, Florida. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 37:19-36.
*Thompson, Victor D. 2014 What I Believe: Reflections on Historical and Political Ecology as Research Frameworks in Southeastern Archaeology. Southeastern Archaeology 33:246-254.
Thompson, Victor D. 2014 Monumental Architecture, Households, and Archaeo-Geophysics in the American Southeast and Midwest. Introduction to special issue of the journal, Archaeological Prospection. 21(1): 1-3.
*Thompson, Victor D. William H. Marquardt, Karen J. Walker.
2014 A Remote Sensing Perspective on Shoreline Modification, Canal Construction, and Household Trajectories at Pineland along Florida’s Southwestern Gulf Coast. Archaeological Prospection 21(1):59-73. DOI: 10.1002/arp.1470
*Cherkinsky, Alexander, Thomas J. Pluckhahn, and Victor D. Thompson 2014 Variation in Radiocarbon Age Determinations from the Crystal River Archaeological Site, Florida. Radiocarbon 56(2):801-810. DOI: 10.2458/56.16960
*Thompson, Victor D., and C. Fred T. Andrus 2013 Using Oxygen Isotope Sclerochronology to Evaluate the Role of Small Islands among the Guale of the Georgia Coast, USA. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 8(2):190-209.
*Thompson, Victor D., Kristen Gremillion, and Thomas J. Pluckhahn 2013 Challenging the Evidence for Prehistoric Wetland Maize Agriculture at Fort Center, Florida. American Antiquity 78(1):181-193.
*Keller, Benjamin and Victor D. Thompson 2013 A Preliminary Report on the Role of Shark Teeth at Fort Center. The Florida Anthropologist 66(1-2):23-30.
*Thompson, Victor D., and Thomas, J. Pluckhahn 2012 Monumentalization and Ritual Landscapes at Fort Center in the Lake Okeechobee Basin of South Florida. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 31:49-65.
*Pluckhahn, Thomas J., and Victor D. Thompson 2012 Integrating LiDAR and Conventional Mapping of the Fort Center site in south-central Florida: A Comparative Approach. Journal of Field Archaeology 37(4):289-301.
*Moore, Christopher R., and Victor D. Thompson 2012 Animism and Green River Persistent Places: A Dwelling Perspective on the Shell Mound Archaic. Journal of Social Archaeology 12(2):264-284.
*Andrus, C. Fred T., and Victor D. Thompson 2012 Determining the Habitats of Mollusk Collection at the Sapelo Island Shell Ring Complex, USA using Oxygen Isotope Sclerochronology. Journal of Archaeological Science 39:215-228.
*Thompson, Victor D., and C. Fred T. Andrus 2011 Evaluating Mobility, Monumentality, and Feasting at the Sapelo Shell Ring Complex. American Antiquity 76(2):315-344.
*Thompson, Victor D., and John Worth 2011 Dwellers by the Sea: Native American Coastal Adaptations along the Southern Coasts of Eastern North America. Journal of Archaeological Research 19(1):51-101.
*Thompson, Victor D., Phillip J. Arnold, III, Thomas, J. Pluckhahn, and Amber VanDerwarker 2011 Situating Remote Sensing in Anthropological Archaeology. Archaeological Prospection 18(3):195-213.
*Thompson, Victor D., and John A. Turck 2010 Island Archaeology and the Native American Economies (2500 B.C. to A.D. 1700) of the Georgia Coast, USA. Journal of Field Archaeology 35(3):283-297.
*Thompson, Victor D., and Thomas J. Pluckhahn 2010 History, Complex Hunter-Gatherers, and the Mounds and Monuments of Crystal River, Florida, USA: A Geophysical Perspective. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 5(1):33-51.
*Pluckhahn, Thomas, J., Victor D. Thompson, and Brent Weisman 2010 Toward a New View of History and Process at Crystal River (8CR1). Southeastern Archaeology 29(1):164-181.
*Kaye, Quetta, Scott M. Fitzpatrick, Michiel Kappers, and Victor D. Thompson 2010 Beyond Time Team: Archaeological Investigations at Coconut Walk, Nevis, West Indies, 1st July – 4th August 2010. Papers from the Institute of Archaeology 20:137-147.
*Thompson, Victor D. 2009 The Mississippian Production of Space through Earthen Pyramids and Public Buildings on the Georgia Coast, USA. World Archaeology 41(3):445-470.
*Thompson, Victor D., and John A. Turck 2009 Adaptive Cycles of Coastal Hunter-Gatherers. American Antiquity 74(2):255-278.
*Thompson, Victor D., Philip J. Arnold, III, and Amber M. VanDerwarker 2009 Geophysical Investigations at Teotepec in the Sierra de los Tuxtlas, México. Journal of Field Archaeology 34(4):439-455.
*Pluckhahn, Thomas J., and Victor D. Thompson 2009 Mapping Crystal River: Past, Present, Future. The Florida Anthropologist 62(1):3-22.
*Thompson, Victor D., Wesley D. Stoner, and Harold D. Rowe 2008 Early Hunter-Gatherer Pottery along the Atlantic Coast of the Southeastern United States: A Ceramic Compositional Study. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 3(2):191-213.
*Thompson, Victor D. 2007 Articulating Activity Areas and Formation Processes at the Sapelo Island Shell Ring Complex. Southeastern Archaeology 26(1):91-107.
*Venter, Marcie L., Victor D. Thompson, Matthew D. Reynolds, and James C. Waggoner 2006 Integrating Shallow Geophysical Survey: Archaeological Investigations at Totógal, Veracruz, México. Journal of Archaeological Science 33(6):767-777.
*Jefferies, Richard W., Victor D. Thompson, and George R. Milner 2005 Archaic Hunter-gatherer Landscape Use in West-Central Kentucky. Journal of Field Archaeology 30(1):3-23.
*Thompson, Victor D., Matthew Reynolds, Bryan Haley, Richard Jefferies, Jay K. Johnson, and Laura Humphries
2004 The Sapelo Island Shell Rings: Shallow Geophysics on a Georgia Sea Island. Southeastern Archaeology 23(2):192-201.
Williams, Mark J., and Victor D. Thompson 1999 A Guide to Georgia Indian Pottery Types. Early Georgia 27(1):1-167.
Books and Guest edited journals
*Thompson, Victor D., and James C. Waggoner, Jr. (editors) 2019 (Paperback re-release) The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Small Scale Economies. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
*Krus, Anthony and Victor D. Thompson (editors). 2019 The Complexities of Dating Island and Coastal Settlements. Special issue of the Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology.
*Birch, Jennifer and Victor D. Thompson (editors) 2018 The Archaeology of Villages in Eastern North America. University of Florida Press, Gainesville.
*Pluckhahn, Thomas J. and Victor D. Thompson 2018 New Histories of Village Life at Crystal River. University of Florida Press, Gainesville.
*Thompson, Victor D., (editor). 2014 Exploring the Space Between: Remote Sensing, Monuments, Households and Broader Landscape in the American Southeast. Special issue of the journal, Archaeological Prospection.
*Thompson, Victor D., and David Hurst Thomas (editors) 2013 Life Among the Tides: Recent Archaeology on the Georgia Bight. Anthropological Papers Number 98 of the American Museum of Natural History, New York.
*Thompson, Victor D., and James C. Waggoner, Jr. (editors) 2013 The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Small Scale Economies. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
Works in edited volumes and other monograph contributions (*peer review)
Thompson, Victor D. 2021 Forward. In The Archaeology of Island Colonization edited by Matthew F. Napolitano, Robert J. DiNapoli, and Jessica H. Stone. University Press of Florida, Gainesville (Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archeology Series). (in press)
Thompson, Victor D. 2020 Forward. In Historical Ecology and Archaeology in the Galápagos Islands: A Legacy of Human Occupation by Peter W. Stahl, Fernando Astudillo, Ross W. Jamieson, Diego Quiroga, and Florencio Delgado. University Press of Florida, Gainesville (Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archeology Series).
*Pluckhahn, Thomas, J. Neill Wallis, and Victor D. Thompson
2020 From Small Histories to Big History on the Woodland-Period Gulf Coast. In The Historical Turn in Southeastern Archaeology, edited Robbie Ethridge and Eric Bowne pp. 43-60. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
Thompson, Victor D. 2020 Foreword. In Maritime Communities of the Ancient Andes, edited by Gabriel Prieto and Daniel H. Sandweiss. University Press of Florida, Gainesville (Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archeology Series).
Thompson, Victor D. 2019 Foreword. In The Archaeology of Human-Environmental Dynamics on the North American Atlantic Coast, edited by Leslie Reeder-Myers, John Turck, and Torben Rick. University Press of Florida, Gainesville (Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archeology Series).
Thompson, Victor D. 2019 Foreword. In An Archaeology of Abundance: Re-evaluating the Marginality of California’s Islands, edited by Kristina M. Gill, Jon M. Erlandson, and Mikael Fauvelle (editors). University Press of Florida Press (Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archeology Series).
*Ardren, Traci, Scott Fitzpatrick, and Victor Thompson 2019 Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Coral Reef Small Islands: A History of Human Adaptation in the Florida Keys. In The Archaeology of Human-Environmental Dynamics on the North American Atlantic Coast, edited by Leslie Reeder-Myers, John Turck, and Torben Rick pp. 232-259. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
*John A. Turck and Victor D. Thompson 2019 Human-Environmental Dynamics of the Georgia Coast. In The Archaeology of Human- Environmental Dynamics on the North American Atlantic Coast, edited by Leslie Reeder-Myers, John Turck, and Torben Rick, pp. 164-198. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
*Thompson, Victor D. 2018 Collective Action and Village Life during the Late Archaic on the Georgia Coast. In The Archaeology of Villages in Eastern North America, edited by Jennifer Birch and Victor D. Thompson, pp. 20-35. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
*Thompson, Victor D. and Jennifer Birch 2018 The Power of Villages. In The Archaeology of Villages in Eastern North America, edited by Jennifer Birch and Victor D. Thompson, pp. 1-19. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
*Thompson, Victor D., and Thomas J. Pluckhahn 2018 Living Islands: Anthropogenic Landforms of Crystal River along the Central Gulf Coast of Florida. In Multispecies Archaeology, edited by Suzanne Pilaar Birch, pp. 154-169. Taylor and Francis/Routledge Press, Oxford.
*Thompson, Victor D., and Thomas J. Pluckhahn 2018 Pipes, Cups, Platform Mounds, and Mortuary Ritual in the Lake Okeechobee Basin of South Florida. In Psychoactive Substances in Ancient Societies, edited by Scott Fitzpatrick, pp. 128-148. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
*Thompson, Victor D., Amanda D. Roberts Thompson, John E. Worth. 2018 The Political Ecology of the Event in Calusa Colonial Entanglements, in Uneven Terrain: Archaeologies of Political Ecology, edited by J. K. Millhauser, Christopher T. Morehart, and Santigo Juarez, pp. 68-82. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association.
*Ardren, Traci, Victor Thompson, Scott Fitzpatrick, Roger Sierra, and Joseph Stevenson 2018 When Foragers are Managers: Social Complexity and Persistent Foraging in the Florida Keys. In Early Caribbean and Circum-Caribbean Farmers, edited by Basil Reid, pp 311-326. Routledge Press.
*Basil A. Reid, Peter E. Siegel, Nicholas Dunning, Stéphen Rostain, Corinne L. Hofman, and Victor D. Thompson, and Scott M. Fitzpatrick 2018 Early Caribbean and Circum-Caribbean Farming: An Introduction. In Early Caribbean and Circum-Caribbean Farmers, edited by Basil Reid, pp. 1-33. Routledge Press.
*Thompson, Victor D. 2017 Conceptualizing Anthropogenic Islands through LiDAR in Southern Florida. New Approaches to Anthropological Remote Sensing, edited by Duncan McKinnon and Bryan Haley, pp. 127-140. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
*Colvin, Matthew and Victor D. Thompson 2017 A Procession of Faces: Considering the Materiality of Relational Ontologies in Southern Florida. In Dynamic Worlds, Shifting Paradigms: Engaging with the Relational Movement, edited by Mellissa Baltus and Sarah Bairess, pp. 41-63. Lexington Books.
*Winkler, Lauren A., Clark Spencer Larsen, Victor D. Thompson, Paul W. Sciulli, David Hurst Thomas, Elliot Blair, and Matt Sanger 2017 The Social Structuring of Stress in Contact-Era Spanish Florida: A Bioarchaeological Case Study from Santa Catalina de Guale, St. Catherines Island, Georgia. In Bioarchaeology of Contact, Colonial Encounters, and Colonialism: Global Visions and New Approaches from Studies of Human Skeletons, edited by Melissa S. Murphy and Haagen Klaus, pp. 129-161. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
Thompson, Victor D. 2016 Foreword. In The Powhatan Landscape: An Archaeological History of the Algonquian Chesapeake, by Martin Galivan, University Press of Florida, Gainesville (Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archeology Series).
*Thompson, Victor D., 2016 Finding Resilience in Ritual and History in South Florida. In Beyond Collapse: Archaeological Perspectives on Resilience, Revitalization, and Reorganization in Complex Societies. Carbondale, edited by Ronald Sonny Faulseit, pp. 313-341. University of Southern Illinois Press, Carbondale.
*Thompson, Victor D. and Christopher R. Moore
2015 The Sociality of Surplus among Late Archaic Hunter-gatherers of Coastal Georgia. In Surplus: The Politics of Production and Strategies of Everyday Life, edited by Christopher T. Morehart and Kristin De Lucia, pp. 245-266. University of Colorado Press, Bolder.
*Thompson, Victor D., and Thomas J. Pluckhahn 2014 The Modification and Manipulation of Landscape at Fort Center. In Precolumbian Archaeology in Florida: New Approaches to the Appendicular Southeast, edited by Neill Wallis and Asa Randall, pp. 163-182. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
*Pluckhahn, Thomas J., and Victor D. Thompson 2014 Monumentality Beyond Scale: The Elaboration of Mounded Architecture at Crystal River. In Precolumbian Archaeology in Florida: New Approaches to the Appendicular Southeast, edited by Neill Wallis and Asa Randall, pp. 62-73. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
*Pluckhahn, Thomas J., and Victor D. Thompson 2013 Constituting Similarity and Difference in the Deep South: The Ritual and Domestic Landscapes of Kolomoki, Crystal River, and Fort Center. In Early and Middle Woodland Landscapes of the Southeast, edited by Alice Wright and Edward Henry, pp. 181-195. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
*Thompson, Victor D. 2013 Whispers on the Landscape. In The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Small Scale Economies, edited by Victor D. Thompson and James C. Waggoner, Jr., pp. 1-13. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
*Thompson, Victor D., John Turck, and Chester DePratter 2013 Cumulative Actions and the Historical Ecology of Islands along the Georgia Coast. In The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Small Scale Economies, edited by Victor D. Thompson and James C. Waggoner, Jr., pp. 79-95. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
*Thompson, Victor D., and David Hurst Thomas 2013 Preface. In Life Among the Tides: Recent Archaeology on the Georgia Bight, edited by Victor D. Thompson and David Hurst Thomas, pp. 17-22. Anthropological Papers Number 98 of the American Museum of Natural History, New York.
*Thompson, Victor D., John Turck, Amanda D. Roberts Thompson, and Chester B. DePratter 2013 Entangling Events: The Guale Landscape Before and After the Arrival of the Spanish Missions. In Life Among the Tides: Recent Archaeology on the Georgia Bight, edited by Victor D. Thompson and David Hurst Thomas, pp. 423-437. Anthropological Papers Number 98 of the American Museum of Natural History, New York.
*DePratter, Chester B., and Victor D. Thompson. 2013 Past Shorelines of the Georgia Coast. In Life Among the Tides: Recent Archaeology on the Georgia Bight, edited by Victor D. Thompson and David Hurst Thomas, 145-167. Anthropological Papers Number 98 of the American Museum of Natural History, New York.
*Pennings, Steven, Merryl Alber, Clark Alexander, Melissa Booth, Adrian Burd, Wei-Jun Cai, Christopher Craft, Chester DePratter, Daniela DiIorio, James T. Hollibaugh, Chuck Hopkinson,
Samantha Joye, Christof Meile, Billy Moore, Brian Silliman, Victor D. Thompson, John Wares 2012 South Atlantic Tidal Wetlands. In Wetland Habitats of North America: Ecology and Conservation, edited by Darold Batzer and Andrew Baldwin, pp. 45-62. University of California Press, Berkeley.
*Thompson, Victor D. 2010 The Rhythms of Space-Time and the Making of Monuments and Places during the Archaic. In Trend, Tradition, and Turmoil: What Happened to the Southeastern Archaic? Edited by David Hurst Thomas and Matthew Sanger, pp. 217-227. Anthropological Papers Number 93 of the American Museum of Natural History, New York.
*Jefferies, Richard W., Victor D. Thompson, George R. Milner, Renee M. Bonzani, and Tanya M. Peres 2007 Cypress Creek Villages Revisited: Archaic Settlement and Subsistence in the Cypress Creek Watershed. In Current Archaeological Research in Kentucky, Volume Eight, edited by Sarah E. Miller, David Pollack, Kenneth Carstens, and Christopher R. Moore, pp. 37-75. Kentucky Heritage Council, Frankfort.
Articles and Chapters Submitted or in Preparation
Thompson, Victor D., Jake Lulewicz, RaeLynn Butler, Turner Hunt, LeeAnne Wendt, James Wettstaed, Mark Williams, Richard Jefferies, Suzanne K. Fish Submitted The Early Materialization of Democratic Institutions among the Ancestral Muskogean of the American Southeast. American Antiquity.
Napolitano, Matthew F., Robert J. DiNapoli, Scott M. Fitzpatrick, Traci Ardren, Victor D. Thompson, and Alexander Cherkinsky. Submitted New Marine Reservoir Corrections for the Florida Keys. Radiocarbon.
Cochran, Lindsey, Victor D. Thompson, Bryan Tucker Submitted Creating Living Predictive Models of Georgia’s Coastal Paleo-Environmental Landscapes. In Paleolandscapes, edited by Mike Carson.
Cochran, Lindsey, Victor D. Thompson, Christine Hladik, Ellen Herbert, and David G. Anderson Submitted The Timing of Sea Level Rise Impacts to Cultural Heritage Sites along the Georgia Coast, USA through Fine Grain Ecological Modeling. Anthropocene.
Marquardt, William H., Karen J. Walker, Victor D. Thompson, Michael Savarese, Amanda D. Roberts Thompson, and Lee A. Newsom Submitted Episodic Complexity and the Emergence of a Coastal Kingdom: Climate, Cooperation, and Coercion in Southwest Florida. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.
Kelly, Robert L., Madeline E. Mackie, Erick Robinson, Jack Meyer, Michael Berry, Matthew Boulanger, Jacob Freeman, Carey James Garland, Joseph Gingerich, Robert Hard, James Haug, Andrew Martindale, Scott Meeks, Myles Miller, Shane Miller, Timothy Perttula, James Railey, Ken Reid, Ian Fraser-Shapiro, Jerry Spangler, David Hurst Thomas, Victor Thompson, and Andrew White Submitted A New Radiocarbon Database for the Lower 48 States. American Antiquity.
Pluckhahn, Thomas, Victor Thompson, Isabelle Lulewicz, Trevor Duke and Matthew Compton Submitted Selfish for Shellfish, or Magnanimous about Mollusks? The Transformation of Cooperation across the First Millennium CE at Crystal River and Roberts Island, Florida, USA. In Complex Fisher-Hunter-Gatherers Archaeology in North America, edited by Christina Perry Sampson. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
Thompson, Amanda Roberts, RaeLynn A. Butler, Domonique deBeaubien, Miranda Panther, Turner Hunt, LeeAnne Wendt, Emman Spain, Raynella Fontenot, Linda Langley, Victor D. Thompson, Kristine Schenk, Mary Porter Freeman, Carey Garland, Claire Auerbach, and Chris Saunders In prep. The NAGPRA Nexus and the Evolving Role of Archaeological Laboratories. Advances in Archaeological Practices.
Thompson, Victor D. In prep. Common Pool Resources, Public Goods, and Collective Action among the Hunter- gatherers of Eastern North America. Journal of Archaeological Research.
Thompson, Victor D. In prep. Island and Coastal Archaeology in the Southeast United States. In The Oxford Handbook of Island and Coastal Archaeology, edited by Scott M. Fitzpatrick and Jon Erlandson, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Thompson, Victor D. In prep. The Society of Jesus in the Kingdom of the Calusa. In Santa Elena and Sixteenth-Century La Florida, edited by Robin Beck and Victor D. Thompson. Submission planned to University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
Cramb, Justin and Victor D. Thompson In prep. Sustainability Through Cycling and Collective Action Among the Atolls of the Remote Pacific. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.
Cochran, Lindsey, Victor D. Thompson, and John A. Turck In prep. Trans-temporal Human Impacts to Georgia’s Barrier and Back-Barrier Islands. Journal of Sustainability.
LeFebvre, Michelle J., Traci A. Ardren, Victor D. Thompson, Scott M. Fitzpatrick, Philippa Jorissen, and Matt Napolitano In prep. Archaeological insights on Indigenous Sustainability from Upper Matecumbe Key, Florida. Journal of Sustainability.
Philippa Jorissen, Michelle J. LeFebvre, Traci Ardren, Victor D. Thompson, and Scott M. Fitzpatrick In prep. Examining Prehistoric Settlement Patterns of Glades period sites in South Florida and the Florida Keys in Correlation with Marine Habitats and Potential Faunal Exploitation. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports.
Books in Preparation
Thompson, Victor, and Thomas J. Pluckhahn In prep. The Archaeology, Ecology, and Deep History of Georgia’s Native Worlds. Submission planned to University of Georgia Press, Athens.
Fagan, Brian M., and Victor D. Thompson In prep. Ancient North America: The Archaeology of a Continent (Sixth Edition). Thames and Hudson Press.
Beck, Robin, and Victor D. Thompson (editors) In prep. Santa Elena and Sixteenth-Century La Florida. Submission planned to University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
Reports
Thompson, Victor D. and William Marquardt (editors), with contributions by Karen J. Walker, Amanda D. Roberts Thompson, Lee A. Newsom, Elizabeth Reitz, Michael Savarese, Brandon T. Ritchison, Isabelle Lulewicz, Shelby Garret, and Mary E. Porter Freeman 2020 Report on Archaeological Investigations at Mound Key (8LL2) (2013-2014 Field Seasons) Lee County, Florida. Bureau of Natural and Cultural Resources, Division of Recreation and Parks, Department of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee, Florida.
Ardren, Traci, Victor D. Thompson, Scott Fitzpatrick with contributions by Michelle LeFebvre and Matthew Napolitano 2018 Archaeological Investigations at the Clupper Site (8MO17) 2014 and 2015 Field Seasons Monroe County, Florida. Bureau of Natural and Cultural Resources, Division of Recreation and Parks, Department of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee, Florida.
Ritchison, Brandon, Amanda D. Roberts Thompson, Victor D. Thompson, Mary Porter, and Bryan Tucker 2018 Survey and Mitigation of the South End Site (9CH155), Ossabaw Island, Georgia. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Historic Preservation Division, Atlanta, Georgia.
Williams, John M., and Victor D. Thompson 2016 The Caldwell Ceramic Papers. Laboratory of Archaeology Series No. 97. Athens, Georgia.
Roberts Thompson, Amanda, Adam Coker, Mary Scales English, Victor D. Thompson, Shannon Winterhalter 2016 A Current Inventory of Known Cultural Resources on Ossabaw Island, Georgia. Laboratory of Archaeology Series No. 96. Athens, Georgia.
Thompson, Victor D., Matthew Colvin, Isabelle Lulewiz, Jake Lulewicz, Katharine Napora, Brandon Ritchison 2016 Shallow Geophysical Survey of Farmer’ Bottom Site, 9ST62, Chattooga River Ranger District, Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests, Stephens County, Georgia. Report submitted to USDA Forest Service Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests 1755 Cleveland Hwy Gainesville, GA 30501.
Thompson, Victor D., and William Marquardt
2015 Report on Archaeological Investigations at Mound Key (8LL2) (2013 and 2014 Field Seasons), Lee County, Florida. Committee for Research and Exploration, National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.
Thompson, Victor D., 2014 Prospections Géophysiques Peu Profondes De Sites Archéologiques. In Recherches Sur Les Espaces, Le Peuplement Et Les Réseaux Anciens De La Garonne Rapport De Prospection-Inventaire Autorisation N°14/2014, by Nicolas Poirier Avec les collaborations de : Florent Hautefeuille (Université Toulouse – Jean-Jaurès, UMR 5608 TRACES), Ted Gragson (Université de Géorgie (USA), Department d’anthropologie), Victor Thompson (Université de Géorgie (USA), Department d’anthropologie), David Leigh (Université de Géorgie (USA), Department de géographie), Laurent Augereau (Master Géographie de l’Environnement, UT2J). Direction régionale des affaires culturelles de Midi-Pyrénées. Toulouse, France.
Turck, John A. and Victor D. Thompson 2013 An Archaeological Survey of Pumpkin Hammock (9MC350) McIntosh County, Georgia. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Historic Preservation Division, Atlanta, Georgia.
Thompson Roberts D. Amanda, Rob Cook, and Victor D. Thompson 2013 Investigations of a Fort Ancient Village at the Serpent Mound State Memorial (33AD1): An Analysis of the 1988-1994 Waterline and Site Surface Excavations, Adams County Ohio. The Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio.
Thompson, Victor D., Thomas J. Pluckhahn, Amanda D. Roberts Thompson, Kristen J. Gremillion, Hannah Morris, Ellen Burlingame Turck, Benjamin Keller, Kimberly Swisher, and S. Margaret Spivey 2012 Archaeological Investigations at Fort Center (8GL13) (2010 Field Season), Glades County, Florida. Bureau of Natural and Cultural Resources, Division of Recreation and Parks, Department of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee, Florida.
Turck, John A. and Victor D. Thompson 2012 An Archaeological Survey of Little Sapelo Island (9MC353), McIntosh County, Georgia. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Historic Preservation Division, Atlanta, Georgia.
Thompson, Victor D. 2011 Monuments and Maize? Fort Center and the Hunter-gatherers of the Okeechobee Basin. Committee for Research and Exploration, National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.
Turck, John A. and Victor D. Thompson 2011 An Archaeological Survey of Mary Hammock (9MC351), McIntosh County, Georgia. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Historic Preservation Division, Atlanta, Georgia.
John A. Turck and Victor D. Thompson 2010 An Archaeological Survey of Patterson Island (9MC493), McIntosh County, Georgia. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Historic Preservation Division, Atlanta, Georgia.
Thompson, Victor D., and Amanda D. Roberts Thompson
2010 Archaeological Excavations on Pumpkin Hammock (9MC350), McIntosh County, Georgia. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Historic Preservation Division, Atlanta, Georgia.
Pluckhahn, Thomas, J., Victor D. Thompson, Nicolas Laracuente, Sarah Mitchell, Amanda D. Roberts, and Adrianne Sams 2009 Archaeological Investigations at the Famous Crystal River Site (8CI1) (2008 Field Season), Citrus County, Florida. The Bureau of Natural and Cultural Resources, Division of Recreation and Parks, Department of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee, Florida.
Thompson, Victor D., and Nicolas Laracuente 2007 Geophysical Investigations at 8BY26: A Weeden Island site on Tyndall Air Force Base, Panama City, Florida. Archaeology Institute, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida 32514, Report of Investigations 157.
Jefferies, Richard W., and Victor D. Thompson 2006 Mission Period Native American Settlement and Interaction on Sapelo Island, Georgia. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Historic Preservation Division, Atlanta, Georgia.
Thompson, Victor D. 2002a Technical Choice and Cooking Technology among Holocene Hunter-Gatherers of the South Atlantic Coast: A Reanalysis of the Sapelo Shell Ring Materials. Report on file at the Antonio J. Waring Laboratory of Archaeology, University of West Georgia.
Thompson, Victor D. 2002b The Zooarchaeology of the Sapelo Shell Ring Site (9MC23). Report on file at the Antonio J. Waring Laboratory of Archaeology, University of West Georgia.
Richard Jefferies, Victor D. Thompson, and George Milner 2002 Cypress Creek Archaeological Project: Archaic Adaptive Strategies in West Central Kentucky. Kentucky Heritage Council, Frankfort Kentucky.
Alexander, Lawrence, Emily Williams, and Victor D. Thompson 2002 Phase II Testing of Archaeological Sites 1MA657, 1MA767, 1MA768, and 1MA769, at Redstone Arsenal, Madison County, Alabama. U.S. Army Redstone Arsenal, Alabama 35898, and Alabama Historical Commission Montgomery, Alabama.
Alexander, Lawrence, S., Victor D. Thompson, and Jeff M. Thomson 1999 Phase I Archaeological Survey of 72 Hectares for a Proposed Wildlife Habitat Improvement on Redstone Arsenal, Madison County, Alabama. U.S. Army Redstone Arsenal, Alabama 35898, and Alabama Historical Commission Montgomery, Alabama.
Alexander, L.S., H. Russel Campbell, Daniel J. Minnich, and Victor D. Thompson 1999 A Phase I Archaeological Survey of State Route 386, Sumner County, Tennessee. Tennessee Department of Transportation, Nashville.
Alexander, Lawrence, Carl Kuttruff, and Victor D. Thompson
1999a Phase II Testing of Archaeological Site 40LD52 in Loudon County, Tennessee. Tennessee Department of Transportation, Nashville.
Alexander, Lawrence, Carl Kuttruff, and Victor D. Thompson 1999b Phase II Testing of Archaeological Sites 40CR207 and 40CR210 in Carter County, Tennessee. Tennessee Department of Transportation, Nashville.
Alexander, Lawrence and Victor D. Thompson 1999 Phase I Archaeological Survey of US 231 Bypass from South US 231 to Baddour Parkway, Wilson County. Tennessee Department of Transportation, Nashville.
Citable Data
Garland Carey J., Victor D. Thompson, Rick T, Smith KY, Thomas DH, Sanger M, Tucker B, Lulewicz I, Schalles J, Hladik C, Semon AM, Bergh S, Alexander C, Ritchison BT. 2021 Oyster Paleobiology along the South Atlantic Coast of the United States. Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER Project, University of Georgia, Long Term Ecological Research Network. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/581d10fe0cd0d1d87b1d0742d1f84ad0
Turck, John A. and Victor D. Thompson 2014 A Comprehensive Radiocarbon Date Database from Archaeological Contexts on the Coastal Plain of Georgia. Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER Project; University of Georgia; Long Term Ecological Research Network. DOI: 10.6073/pasta/d0a83dc508e50e5038e6b6a3ccca36d6
Turck, John A. and Victor D. Thompson 2013 Archaeological Shovel Test Data for Little Sapelo Island, Mary Hammock, Patterson Island, and Pumpkin Hammock; Spring 2007, Summer 2007 and 2008. Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER Project; University of Georgia; Long Term Ecological Research Network. DOI: 10.6073/pasta/170c6db512991d4c8152cd81877d4b62
Book Reviews
Thompson, Victor D. 2014 Review of Feasting with Shellfish in the Southern Ohio Valley. By Cheryl Claassen. American Antiquity 79(3):577-578.
Thompson, Victor D. 2011 Review of The Eastern Archaic, Historicized. By Kenneth Sassaman. Southeastern Archaeology 30(2):413-414.
Thompson, Victor D. 2009 Review of Archaic Societies: Diversity and Complexity across the Midcontinent. Edited By Thomas Emerson, Dale McElrath, and Andrew Fortier. American Indian Studies and Research Journal 33(4):158-160.
Thompson, Victor D.
2008 Review of Native American Landscapes of St. Catherines Island, Georgia. Edited By David Hurst Thomas. Early Georgia 36(2):168-170.
Thompson, Victor D. 2007 Lines in the Past: Connecting Gulf Coast Archaeology. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 2(2):256-260.
Thompson, Victor D. 2006 Review of People of the Shoals: Stallings Culture of the Savannah River Valley. By Kenneth Sassaman. Society for Archaeological Sciences Bulletin 29(4):28-29.
Thompson, Victor D. 2005 Review of Signs of Power: The Rise of Cultural Complexity in the Southeast. Edited by Jon L. Gibson and Philip J. Carr. Southeastern Archaeology 24(1):95-97.
Essay
Marquardt, William H. and Victor D. Thompson 2015 Archaeological Investigations at Mound Key, 2013 and 2014. Friends of the Randell Research Center 14(1):1-3.
Thompson, Victor D., William H. Marquardt, and Karen Walker 2014 Pineland’s Ancient Landscape. Friends of the Randell Research Center 13(2):1.
Marquardt, William H. and Victor D. Thompson 2014 RRC/UF and UGA Return to Mound Key. Friends of the Randell Research Center 13(2):3.
Pluckhahn, Thomas J. and Victor D. Thompson 2012 CREVAP 2012: Joint USF and OSU Archaeological Field Schools. The Florida Anthropologist 65(4): 245-246.
Sampson, Christina Perry, Randee Hunter, and Victor D. Thompson 2011 Shallow Geophysics and Archaeology at Pineland. Friends of the Randell Research Center 10(3):1.
Encyclopedia articles
Ethridge, Robbie, Maureen Meyers, and Victor D. Thompson 2006a The Paleoindian Period. In The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, 2nd edition, History Volume 3. Edited by Charles Regan Wilson, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill.
Ethridge, Robbie, Maureen Meyers, and Victor D. Thompson 2006b The Archaic Period. In The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, 2nd edition, History Volume 3. Edited by Charles Regan Wilson, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill.
Ethridge, Robbie, Maureen Meyers, and Victor D. Thompson
2006c Late Archaic Domestication of Plants and the Woodland Period. In The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, 2nd edition, History Volume 3. Edited by Charles Regan Wilson, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill.
Thompson, Victor D. 2005 Coastal Shell Rings. In The New Georgia Encyclopedia (online), edited by John Inscoe. University of Georgia Press, Athens.
Blog Posts
Speakman, Robert J. and Victor D. Thompson 2018 The Reality of Faculty Jobs in Anthropological Archaeology. Cambridge Core blog. http://blog.journals.cambridge.org/2018/03/07/the-reality-of-faculty-jobs-in- anthropological-archaeology-part-1-the-faculty-perspective/
Outreach Materials
Speakman, Jeff, Matthew Colvin, Justin Cramb, Alice Hunt, KC Jones, Travis Jones, Isabelle Lulewicz, Katharine Napora, Katie Reinberger, Brandon Ritchison, Victor Thompson 2016 UGA Junior Archaeologist: An Explorer’s Guide to Georgia’s Past. University of Georgia, Athens.
GRANTS, CONTRACTS, AND RESEARCH SUPPORT
Submitted $78,694. NAGPRA Consultation Grant, Evaluating UGA’s Existing Holdings. National Park Service. Victor Thompson (P.I.), co-P.I. Amanda Roberts Thompson.
Submitted $90,183. Integrating Oaxaca Survey Data to Improve Models of State and Urban Origins. National Science Foundation, Victor D. Thompson (P.I.), Stephen Kowalewski (co-P.I.), Richard Blanton, (co-P.I.), Gary Feinman (co-P.I.), Linda Nicholas (co-P.I.).
2021 $19,999.20. Chattahoochee-Oconee Collections and Data Management. National Forest Service. Victor D. Thompson (P.I.)
2021 $5,500. Subaward to Laboratory of Archaeology from the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources for the project “SnowVision: A Machine Learning-Based Image Processing Tool for the Study of Native American Paddle Designs.” Victor Thompson (P.I.)
2020 $166,875. GCMS: Georgia Curation Management System. Georgia Department of Transportation. Victor Thompson (P.I.)
2020 $24,000. Chattahoochee-Oconee Collections and Data Management. National Forest Service. Victor D. Thompson (P.I.)
2020 $40,000. Piedmont – South Atlantic Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit. National Park Service. Victor Thompson (P.I.)
2019 $81,981. UGA, Laboratory of Archaeology, NAGPRA Consultation Grant. National Park Service. Victor Thompson (P.I.), co-P.I. Amanda Roberts Thompson.
2019 $223,611. Geographic Information Systems and Computer Modeling of Site Vulnerability and Climate Change. Georgia Department of Natural Resources Subaward. Victor D. Thompson (P.I.)
2019 $22,495. Chattahoochee-Oconee Collections and Data Management. National Forest Service. Victor D. Thompson (P.I.)
2019 $20,000. Upgrading Curation and Cataloging Collections of the Southeast Archeological Center. National Park Service. Victor D. Thompson (P.I.)
2019 $6,762,000. National Science Foundation for the project: LTER: Georgia Coastal Ecosystems-IV (Merryl Alber P.I. and 21 other co-P.I.s). ~$98,000 awarded to Thompson (co-P.I.)
2018 $25,175. Doctoral Dissertation Research: Constituting Monumentality and Co-Residence at Fort Center (8GL13) in the Okeechobee Basin, Florida. National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards. Victor D. Thompson (P.I.) and Doctoral candidate Matthew Colvin (co-P.I.).
2018 $289,652. Collaborative Research: Occupying New Landscapes: Late Archaic Shell Rings and the Coastline of the Georgia Bight. National Science Foundation, $188,953 awarded to Thompson (co-P.I.), Matt Sanger (P.I.), Sharyn Jones (co-P.I.).
2018 $300,925. Collaborative Research: Integrated Archaeological and Paleoecological Studies of Sea Tenure and Socioecology in Late Holocene Tampa Bay, Florida. National Science Foundation, $192,192 awarded to Thompson (co-P.I.), Thomas Pluckhahn (P.I).
2018 $25,200. Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Dendrochronological Approach to Climate and Culture during the Late Archaic- Early Woodland Transition along the Georgia Coast, USA. National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards. Victor D. Thompson (P.I.) and Doctoral candidate Katharine Napora (co-P.I.).
2017 $25,200. Doctoral Dissertation Research: Manihiki and Rakahanga: Persistence on the Margins of Oceania. National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards. Victor D. Thompson (P.I.) and Doctoral candidate Justin Cramb (co-P.I.)
2016 $25,187. Doctoral Dissertation Research: Reverberations of a Vacuum: Effects of the Collapse of a Region on its Neighbors, A Case from the Georgia Coast USA. National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards. Victor D. Thompson (P.I.) Brandon Ritchison (co-P.I.)
2016 $35,475. Georgia Department of Transportation for the project: Funds in Aid to Facilitate Native American Tribal Participation for the 2016 Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Total awarded to Thompson (P.I.)
2016 $20,000. Santa Elena Foundation for the project: Remote Sensing at Santa Elena (Chester DePratter co-P.I.). Total awarded to Thompson (P.I.)
2016 $240,342. National Science Foundation for the project: Collaborative Research: The Role of Surplus Production in the Emergence of a Complex Coastal Society. $124,195 awarded to Thompson (co-P.I.), William Marquardt (P.I.), Mike Savarese (co-P.I.)
2016 $13,840. National Geographic Society/Waitt Grants for the Project: Perishable Objects, Water Features, and Bounty of the Estuaries in the Kingdom of the Calusa Kingdom (William Marquardt co-P.I.). Total awarded to Thompson (P.I.)
2015 $8,000. U.S. Forest Service Grant for the project: Remote Sensing in Chattahoochee- Oconee National Forest. Total awarded to Thompson (P.I.)
2015 $4,000. Santa Elena Foundation for the project: Remote Sensing at Santa Elena (Chester DePratter co-P.I.). Total awarded to Thompson (P.I.)
2013 $19,150. Committee for Research and Exploration, National Geographic Society for the project: Mound Key: The Capital of the Calusa Kingdom (William Marquardt co-P.I.). Total awarded to Thompson (P.I.)
2013 $9,845. University of Georgia, Faculty Research Grants Program for the project: Mound Key: The Capital of the Calusa Kingdom (William Marquardt co-P.I.). Total awarded to Thompson (P.I.)
2012 $3,103,205. National Science Foundation for the project: LTER: Georgia Coastal Ecosystems-III (Merryl Alber P.I. and 12 other co-P.I.s). $77,990 awarded to Thompson (co-P.I.)
2011 $9,043. National Science Foundation for the project: Living with War: The Impacts of Chronic Violence on Everyday Life in the Central Illinois River Valley (Greg Wilson P.I., Amber VanDerwarker co-P.I.). Sub-award to Thompson (co-P.I.)
2010 $162,869. National Science Foundation for the project: Competition and Cooperation at Crystal River (Thomas Pluckhahn P.I., Brent Weisman co-P.I.). $28,888 awarded to Thompson (co-P.I.)
2010 $18,590. Committee for Research and Exploration, National Geographic Society for the project: The Construction of Circular Earthworks and Consumption of Maize at Fort Center. Total awarded to Thompson (P.I.), Thomas J. Pluckhahn (co-P.I.).
2008 $5,000. Research and Sponsored Programs, University of West Florida for the project: Radiocarbon Dates for Fort Center Research. Total awarded to Thompson (P.I.)
2008 $9,621. Georgia Coastal Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research Grant, National Science Foundation for the project: Archaeology and Coastal Modeling Part II. Total awarded to Thompson as affiliated-investigator.
2008 $2,000. Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity Award, University of West Florida for the project: Ceremony and Ritual in South Florida: A Reanalysis of Fort Center. Total awarded to Thompson (P.I.)
2006 $12,943. Georgia Coastal Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research Grant, National Science Foundation for the project: Archaeology and Coastal Modeling. Total awarded to Thompson as affiliated-investigator.
Recognitions, awards, and outstanding achievements
2018 University of Georgia, Online Learning Fellow
2009 Recipient of the C.B. Moore Award. Presented by the LMS of Harvard University and the Southeastern Archaeological Conference.
2005 University of Kentucky, Margaret Lantis Award for Excellence in Original Research by a Graduate Student
2004 Southeastern Archaeological Conference Student Paper Competition Winner ($7,000 in books/prizes)
2003 University of Kentucky Graduate School Dissertation Enhancement Award ($3,000)
2002 University of Kentucky, Susan Abbott-Jamieson Pre-Dissertation Research Award ($1,000)
Research Areas
• Historic Colonial Archaeology • Native American Southeast • Historical Ecology • Geoarchaeology/Shallow Geophysics/GIS • Monumentality • Shell Midden Archaeology • Wetlands, Islands, and Coastal Adaptations • Landscape Archaeology
Classes Taught
Graduate Scaler Approaches to Cooperation Archeological Method and Theory Archaeology of Time Boundaries, Territories, and Frontiers Human Ecosystem Evolution Archaeology of Hunter-Gatherers Archaeology of Political Systems Landscape Archaeology
Archaeology of Monumentality (grad/undergrad) Rise and Fall of Southeastern Chiefdoms (grad/undergrad) Ethnohistory (grad/undergrad) Integrative Conservation II
Undergraduate FYO: Ancient Artifacts! Introduction to Anthropology Tombs and Temples World Prehistory Archaeology of North America Southeastern Archaeology Archaeological Theory Aztecs and Maya Archaeology of the Maya Mesoamerican Archaeology Laboratory Methods in Archaeology Field Methods in Archaeology Collapse of Civilizations Georgia Museum of Natural History Internship
Supervision of post-doctoral research Current Advisees (N=2) Cochran, Linsey (supported by a grant from Georgia Dept of Natural Resources to Thompson) Garland, Carey (supported by a grant from National Science Foundation to Thompson)
Supervision of student research Current Advisees (N=6) Matthew Colvin (Ph.D. ABD at the University of Georgia) Jordan Chapman (Ph.D. in progress at the University of Georgia) Mary Porter (M.A. in progress at the University of Georgia) Brett Parbus (Ph.D. in progress at the University of Georgia) Clair Auerbach (Ph.D. in progress at the University of Georgia) Sarah Love, co-advisor with Jennifer Birch (Ph.D. in progress at the University of Georgia).
Current Committee Member (N=8) K.C. Jones (Ph.D. ABD at the University of Georgia) Jon Micon (Ph.D. ABD at the University of Georgia) Sarah Nowell (Ph.D. ABD at the University of Georgia) Travis Jones (Ph.D. ABD at the University of Georgia) Edgar Alarcon (Ph.D. ABD at the University of Georgia) Alex Edwards (Ph.D. ABD at the University of Georgia) Lindsey Parson (M.A. in progress at the University of Georgia) Jennifer Bedell (M.A. in progress at the Georgia State University, Atlanta)
Advisees who have completed degree (N=6):
Napora, Katherine (Ph.D. 2021). Dissertation Title: Time and Tide: Refining Cultural and Environmental Temporalities at the Late Archaic-Early Woodland Transition along the Georgia Coast, USA. Department of Anthropology, the University of Georgia.
Lulewicz, Isabelle (Ph.D. 2020). Dissertation Title: Localized Histories of Calusa Ecology and Economy, Southwestern Florida, AD 1000 – 1500, Department of Anthropology, the University of Georgia. Current Position: Research Archaeologist, Illinois State Archaeological Survey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Cramb, Justin (Ph.D. 2020) Dissertation Title: The Historical Ecology of a Dual-Atoll Cluster, Department of Anthropology, the University of Georgia. Current Position: Term Assistant Professor, University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
Ritchison, Brandon (Ph.D. 2019) Dissertation Title: The Downstream Effects of Abandonment: 14th Century Immigration and Transformation on the Georgia Coast, Department of Anthropology, the University of Georgia. Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.
Morris, Hannah (M.A. 2012) Co-Chair with Kristen Gremillion. Thesis Title: Paleoethnobotanical Investigations at Fort Center (8GL13), Florida, Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University, Columbus. Current Position: Ph.D. candidate in Integrative Conservation and Forestry & Natural Resources at the University of Georgia.
Laracuente, Nicolas (M.A. 2008) Thesis Title: A Landscape Analysis of First Spanish Pensacola. Department of Anthropology, University of West Florida, Pensacola. Current Position: archaeologist with the Kentucky State Historic Preservation Office.
Committees served, degrees completed (N=9) Garland, Carey (Ph.D. 2019, Anthropology, University of Georgia) Lulewicz, Jake (Ph.D. 2018, Anthropology, University of Georgia) Hale Cook, Jessica (Ph.D. 2017, Anthropology, University of Georgia) Hadden, Carla (Ph.D. 2015, Anthropology, University of Georgia) Turck, John (Ph.D. 2011, Anthropology, University of Georgia) Dobbs, David (M.A. 2018, Historic Preservation, University of Georgia) Napolitano, Matt (M.A. 2012, Anthropology, University of West Florida [chair while at UWF]) Winkler, Lauren (M.A. 2011, Anthropology, The Ohio State University) Maverick, Christine (M.A. 2010, Anthropology, University of West Florida) Mickwee, Christopher (M.A. 2010, Anthropology, University of West Florida)
External Ph.D. Examiner and Committee Member (N = 4) Letham, Bryn Andrew (Ph.D. 2017, University of British Columbia, Canada) de Souza, Jonas (Ph.D. 2017, University of Exeter, U.K.) Sanger, Matthew (Ph.D. 2015, Columbia University, New York) Allué, Lydia (Ph.D., in progress, Université Toulouse – Jean-Jaurès, France)
Editorship or board member of journals or other learned publications and societies 2020 to present Editorial Board Member, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 2011 to present Editorial Board Member, Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology
2017 to present Academic advisory board member, La Florida: The Interactive Digital Archive of the Americas, University of South Florida 2014 to present Book Series Editor (founding editor), Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archaeology, for the University Press of Florida 2014 to 2018 Associate Editor for Book Reviews, American Antiquity
Presentations
Conference Papers (*Published Counterpart, ✭Invited Presentation)
Jacob Holland-Lulewicz and Victor D. Thompson 2021 Democratic Institutions and Collective Action in the Indigenous American Southeast. The 2nd Russian-American Research Nexus Forum.
Thompson, Victor D., Torben Rick, Carey J. Garland, Karen Y. Smith, David Hurst Thomas, Matt Sanger, Bryan Tucker, Isabelle Lulewicz, Anna M. Semon, John Schalles, and Christine Hladik 2019 Trajectories of oyster paleobiology and human exploitation during the early Late Archaic Period (ca 5000 to 3100 BP) along the South Atlantic Coast of the United States. INQUA, Dublin, Ireland.
Parsons, Lindsey, Sally Walker, Victor Thompson, and Isabelle Lulewicz 2019 Archaeological Midden Scallops as a Key to How Climate May Affect Food Resources at the Pineland Site (AD 800-1850), Southwestern Florida. The Geological Society of America meetings, Phoenix AZ.
Thompson, Victor, Richard W. Jefferies, and Christopher R. Moore 2019 Exploring the Guale Village and Spanish Mission occupations at the Sapelo Shell Ring Complex through Bayesian Analysis. Radiocarbon and Archaeology, Athens, Georgia.
✭Thompson, Victor 2019 The Society of Jesus in the Kingdom of the Calusa. 52nd Society for Historical Archaeology, St. Charles, MO.
✭Thompson, Victor 2019 Time and Tempo in Shell Midden Archaeology. 84th Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Lulewicz, Jake, Victor D. Thompson, Chester B. DePratter 2019 Mapping Spanish Settlement at Santa Elena (1566-1587): An Integrated Archaeogeophysical Approach. 52nd Society for Historical Archaeology, St. Charles, MO.
Napora, Katharine, Alexander Cherkinsky, Robert Speakman, Victor Thompson, Robert Horan, Blaine Tyler, Craig Jacobs 2019 Radiocarbon Dating as a Preliminary Anchoring Step in Multimillennial Tree-Ring Chronology Development and the Determination of Appropriate Error Ranges for Modeling Inner and Outer Ring Dates in Long-Lived Species. Radiocarbon and Archaeology, Athens, Georgia.
✭Cramb, Justin and Victor D. Thompson 2019 Coral Islands, High Islands: A Case of Continued Contact and Cultural Divergence in the Cook Islands. 84th Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
✭Lulewicz, Isabelle, Victor D. Thompson, William H. Marquardt, Karen J. Walker 2019 A Combined Bayesian and Zooarchaeological Approach to Understanding Local Histories of Socio-Ecological Adaptation in Southwestern Florida, USA. 84th Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Walker Karen J., William H. Marquardt, Victor D. Thompson, Michael Savarese, and Chris Walser 2019 The Under-Represented Mullet in SW Florida’s Archaeological Assemblages. 84th Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Thompson, Victor D., William Marquardt, Karen Walker, Isabelle Lulewicz, Mike Savarese, Lee Newsom, Amanda Roberts Thompson, and Nathan Lawres 2018 The Chronology and Construction of Water Courts at Mound Key, Capital of the Calusa Kingdom. 75th Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Augusta, Georgia.
Tucker, Bryan and Victor D. Thompson 2018 Preliminary Investigations at Bluff Field (9CH160) on Ossabaw Island, Georgia. 75th Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Augusta, Georgia.
Lulewicz, Isabelle, Victor D. Thompson, William H. Marquardt, Karen J. Walker 2018 A Bayesian Perspective on Socio-Ecological Dynamics at the Pineland Site (8LL33), Gulf Coast Florida. 75th Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Augusta, Georgia.
LeFebvre, Michelle J., Traci Ardren, Victor D. Thompson, Scott M. Fitzpatrick, Matthew Napolitano, P. Jorissen 2018 The Matecumbe Chiefdom Project: Historical Ecology, Political Economy, and Pre- Columbian Maritime Exploitation in the Florida Keys. 75th Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Augusta, Georgia.
Hadden, Carla S., Alexander Cherkinsky, Brandon T. Ritchison, Isabelle H. Lulewicz, and Victor Thompson 2018 Carbon Isotopes in the Marsh Snail Littorina irrorata and Implications for Radiocarbon Dating. 23rd International Radiocarbon Conference in Trondheim, Norway.
Cherkinsky, Alexander, Katharine Napora, Victor Thompson, Jeff Speakman, Robert Horan, and Craig Jacobs 2018 Is There Any Evidence for Atmospheric 14C Offset within the Northern Hemisphere? Searching for an Answer in Massive Bald Cypress Deposits in the Southeastern U.S. 23rd International Radiocarbon Conference in Trondheim, Norway.
Thompson, Victor D., Amanda D. Roberts Thompson, William H. Marquardt, Karen J. Walker, and Lee Newsom
2018 Discovering San Antón de Carlos: the Sixteenth Century Spanish Buildings and Fortifications of Mound Key, Capital of the Calusa. 51st Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Isabelle Lulewicz, Neill Wallis and Victor Thompson 2018 Village Aggregation and Native Subsistence Practices at a Middle Woodland Mound Center, Gulf Coast Florida, USA. Society for American Archaeology, Washington, D.C.
Katharine Napora, Victor Thompson, Jeff Speakman and Alexander Cherkinsky 2018 Establishing Multimillennial Dendrochronological Sequence in the Atlantic Southeast, USA Society for American Archaeology, Washington, D.C.
Marquardt, William H., Victor D. Thompson, Karen J. Walker, Michael Savarese, and Lee A. Newsom 2018 Cooperation and Coercion: Geography, Ecology, Climate, and Surplus Production in the Rise of the Calusa Kingdom. Society for American Archaeology, Washington, D.C.
Savarese, Michael, A. Arruza, Victor D. Thompson, Karen Walker, and William H. Marquardt. 2018 Paleoenvironmental context of Calusa cultural evolution on Mound Key, Estero Bay, Southwest Florida. 83rd Society for American Archaeology, Washington, D.C.
✭Savarese, Michael, Victor D. Thompson, William H. Marquardt, Karen J. Walker, Karen and Amanda D. Roberts Thompson. 2017 Sea-level Rise and Its Effects Upon Coastal Geomorphology, Estuarine Ecology, and Cultural Development of Southwest Florida and Calusa Society. Tidally United Summit. Seminole Learning Center, Hollywood, Florida.
*✭Thompson, Victor D., Matt Colvin, Justin Cramb, Katherine Napora, J. Jacob Lulewicz, and Brandon Ritchison. 2017 Plummets, Ritual Dance, Individuals, and Macroregional Interactions during the Woodland Period in Florida. 82st Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Vancouver, BC.
✭Krus, Anthony and Victor D. Thompson 2017 Gathering Shells and Time: A Bayesian Approach to Shell Mound Formation in Southwest Florida. 82st Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Vancouver, BC.
✭Thompson, Victor D. and Jennifer Birch 2016 The Compelling Power of Villages. 73rd Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Athens, Georgia.
*Lulewicz, Isabelle, Victor D. Thompson, Justin Cramb 2016 Oyster Paleoecology and Native Subsistence Practices on Ossabaw Island, Georgia. 73rd Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Athens, Georgia.
Cajigas, Rachel, Matthew Sanger, and Victor D. Thompson
2016 Cross-Mended Ceramic Sherds as a Proxy for Depositional Processes at Two Late Archaic Shell Rings in Coastal Georgia . 73rd Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Athens, Georgia.
✭Turck, John and Victor D. Thompson 2016 86 Percent Science, 32 Percent Fun. 73rd Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Athens, Georgia.
Krus, Anthony, and Victor Thompson 2016 Bayesian modeling of shell mound deposits at Estero Island, Fort Myers Beach, Florida. 8th International Symposium 14C and Archaeology, Edinburgh, Scotland.
*✭Thompson, Victor and Chester B. DePratter 2016 Remote Sensing and Future Exploration of Santa Elena’s Sixteenth Century Landscape. The Santa Elena Conference, Beaufort, South Carolina.
✭Thompson, Victor and John Turck 2016 Human-Environmental Dynamics of the Georgia Coast. 81st Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Orlando, Florida.
✭Colvin, Matthew and Victor D. Thompson 2016 Procession of Faces: Considering the Materiality of Relational Ontologies in Southern Florida. 81st Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Orlando, Florida.
*✭Lulewicz, Isabelle, Victor Thompson, Thomas Pluckhahn, Oindrilla Das and Fred Andrus 2016 From Habitat Exploitation to Monument Construction: Exploring the Nature of Shell Deposits at Crystal River and Roberts Island through Stable Isotope Geochemistry. 81st Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Orlando, Florida.
✭Napolitano, Matthew, Traci Ardren, Scott Fitzpatrick, Victor Thompson and Michelle LeFebvre 2016 Subsistence Strategies and Small Island Adaptations: New Evidence from the Florida Keys. 81st Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Orlando, Florida.
✭*Thompson, Victor D., William H. Marquardt, Alexander Cherkinsky, Amanda D. Roberts Thompson, Karen J. Walker, Lee A. Newsom, Elizabeth J. Reitz, and Michael Savarese 2015 The Geochronology of Mound Key, An Anthropogenic Island in Southwest Florida. European Association of Archaeologists, Glasgow Scotland.
Porter, Mary, Victor D. Thompson, Amanda D. Roberts Thompson, and Chester B. DePratter 2015 Evaluating the Evidence for a Spanish Mission on Creighton Island, Georgia. Society for Georgia Archaeology. Atlanta, Georgia.
Savarese, Michael, Shanna Stingu, Karen Walker, William Marquardt, Victor D. Thompson 2015 Employing Principles from Conservation Paleobiology to Investigate the Effects of Shellfish Harvesting by Aboriginal Inhabitants of Southwest Florida. The Geological Society of America, Baltimore, Maryland.
Thompson, Victor D., Amanda Roberts Thompson, Robert J. Speakman, Elliot Blair, and Alice Hunt 2015 All That Glitters Is Not Gold: pXRF Analysis of Gilded Beads from Spanish Period Sites in the Southeast. 72nd Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Nashville, Tennessee.
Compton, Matthew J., Thomas J. Pluckhahn, and Victor D. Thompson 2015 A Regional Perspective on Late Woodland Animal Use at the Roberts Island Shell Mound Complex. 72nd Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Nashville, Tennessee.
Lulewicz, Isabelle, Victor D. Thompson, Thomas J. Pluckhahn, Oindrila Das, Fred T. Andrus 2015 Exploring Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Habitat Collection via Oxygen Isotope Sclerochronology at Crystal River and Roberts Island, Florida. 72nd Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Nashville, Tennessee.
Thompson, Victor D., Amanda Roberts Thompson, and Robert J. Speakman 2015 Preliminary Research on Gilded Beads. Society for Georgia Archaeology. Valdosta, Georgia.
Sierra, Roger, Joseph Stevenson, Traci Ardren, Victor D. Thompson, Scott Fitzpatrick, and Jim Clupper 2015 Evaluating Small Islands: Preliminary Results of Archaeological Research at Upper Matecumbe Key. Florida Anthropological Society Meetings, Boca Raton.
✭Pluckhahn, Thomas J. and Victor D. Thompson 2015 Early Village Societies in The American South and Beyond. 80th Society for American Archaeology Meetings, San Francisco, California.
✭Semon, Anna and Victor D. Thompson 2015 David Hurst Thomas and the Guale Problem: Rethinking Late Prehistoric Mobility along the Georgia Sea Islands. 80th Society for American Archaeology Meetings, San Francisco, California.
Winterhalter, Shannon, Amanda Roberts Thompson, and Victor D. Thompson 2015 Seen and Unseen: Historical Landscapes of Ossabaw Island, Georgia. 4th Preservation South Conference. Athens, Georgia.
Thompson, Victor D., William H. Marquardt, Karen J. Walker, Amanda Roberts Thompson, Lee A. Newsom 2014 In the Shadow of the King’s House: Exploring Calusa and Spanish Architecture at Mound Key. 71th Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Greenville, South Carolina.
Savarese, Michael, Karen J. Walker, William H. Marquardt, and Victor D. Thompson 2014 Patterns of Change in Oyster Population Structure through the Late Holocene: Distinguishing the Effects of Human and Naturally Mediated Environmental Change in Southwest Florida’s Estuaries. 71th Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Greenville, South Carolina.
✭Pluckhahn, Thomas J., Victor D. Thompson, and J. Matthew Compton 2014 Archaeological Investigations at the Roberts Island Shell Mound Complex: Late Woodland Settlement and Ceremony on Florida’s West-Central Gulf Coast. 71th Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Greenville, South Carolina.
✭Duke, Trevor C., Thomas J. Pluckhahn, Lori O’Neill, and Victor D. Thompson 2014 Temporal Trends in Invertebrate Faunal Remains from Crystal River (8CI1) and Roberts Island (8CI41). 71th Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Greenville, South Carolina.
Golsch, Matthew J., Brandon T. Ritchison, Matthew H. Colvin, Bryan Tucker, Victor D. Thompson 2014 Utilizing Complementary Techniques to Understand Formation Processes at the Ossabaw Island Shell Ring (9CH203). 71th Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Greenville, South Carolina.
Tucker, Bryan, Victor D. Thompson, and Matthew J. Golsch 2014 Geophysical Investigations at the Cane Patch site (9CH35) on Ossabaw Island, Georgia. 71st Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Greenville, South Carolina.
✭Andrus, Fred C., Oindrila Das, Victor D. Thompson 2014 Assessing the Precision of Oxygen Isotope Seasonality Reconstructions in Midden Mollusks. Geological Society of America. Vancouver, Canada.
✭ Turck, John A. and Victor D. Thompson 2014 Continuity, Change, Complexity, and Organization during the Late Archaic Period of Coastal Georgia. Eastern States Archaeological Federation, Maryland.
✭Thompson, Victor D., and Scott M. Fitzpatrick 2014 The Fluid Histories of Island and Coastal Societies. 79th Society for American Archaeology. Austin, Texas.
Turck, John A., and Victor D. Thompson 2014 Measuring the Impacts of Past Behavior on the Present Environment: A Case Study from the Georgia Coast. 79th Society for American Archaeology. Austin, Texas.
✭Pluckhahn, Thomas J., and Victor D. Thompson 2014 Production, Exchange, and Complexity at Crystal River. 79th Society for American Archaeology. Austin, Texas.
✭Thompson, Victor D., Amanda Roberts Thompson, and John E. Worth 2013 The Political Ecology of Guale and Calusa Social Action in Early Colonial Entanglements. 112th American Anthropological Associate Meetings, Chicago, Illinois.
✭Thompson, Victor D., Thomas J. Pluckhahn, W. Jack Rink, Glen Doran, Christina Perry Sampson, Alex Hodson, Sean Norman
2013 Exploring Middle Woodland Period Architectural Engineering through Shallow Geophysics and Coring at Crystal River, Florida. 70th Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Tampa, Florida.
✭*Pluckhahn, Thomas, Victor D. Thompson, Alex Cherkinsky 2013 Deconstructing the “Midden” at Crystal River. 70th Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Tampa, Florida.
*✭Thompson, Victor D. 2013 Finding Resilience in Ritual and History in South Florida. Visiting Scholar Conference, Beyond Collapse: Archaeological Perspectives on Resilience, Revitalization, and Reorganization in Complex Societies. Carbondale.
*Cherkinsky, Alex, Victor D. Thompson, and Thomas J. Pluckhahn 2013 Variation in Radiocarbon Age Determinations from the Crystal River Archaeological Site, Florida. 7th International Symposium 14C & Archaeology, Ghent, Belgium.
*Pluckhahn, Thomas, J., Victor D. Thompson, and Alexander Cherkinsky 2013 The Temporality of Midden Formation at Crystal River: Evidence from New Excavations and Radiocarbon Dates. 65th Florida Anthropological Society, St. Augustine, Florida.
✭Thompson, Victor D., and Thomas J. Pluckhahn 2013 Engineering Islands and Island Engineers: the Social and Technological Implications of Anthropogenic Landforms along Crystal River. Symposium “Seas of Permutation: Global Perspectives on the Archaeology of Islands” for the 78th Society for American Archaeology. Honolulu, Hawaii.
Reitsema, Laurie, and Victor D. Thompson 2013 Large-scale Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy Assessment of Bone Carbonate Diagenesis in Poland: Towards an Acceptable Range (Poster). 78th Society for American Archaeology. Honolulu, Hawaii.
Swisher, Kimberly, Clark Spenser Larsen, Victor D. Thompson, and Paul Sciulli 2013 Temporal Trends in Skeletal Morphology in Biocultural Context from the Prehistoric Georgia Bight (Poster). 78th Society for American Archaeology. Honolulu, Hawaii.
*✭Thompson, Victor D. 2012 What I Believe. Plenary Session: “Taking Stock of Social Theory in Southeastern Archaeology” for the 69th Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
*✭Thompson, Victor D., William Marquardt and Karen Walker 2012 Rediscovering Pineland’s Landscape through Remote Sensing in Southwest Florida. Symposium “Exploring the Space Between: Remote Sensing and the Broader Landscape” for the 69th Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
✭Pluckhahn, Thomas J. and Victor D. Thompson 2012 The Crystal River Early Village Archaeological Project: An Introduction and Progress Report. Symposium “New Light on an Old Enigma: Recent Research at Crystal River” for the 69th Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Andrus, C. Fred T., John Blitz, Victor D. Thompson 2012 Sclerochronological Detection of Short Term Events in Archaeological Sites: Example from the Graveline Mound site, Mississippi, and Sapelo Shell Rings, Georgia, USA. Geological Society of America, New Developments and Applications in Sclerochronology, Charlotte, North Carolina.
✭Thompson, Victor D. and Thomas J. Pluckhahn 2012 Pipes, Cups, Platform Mounds, and Mortuary Ritual in the Lake Okeechobee Basin of South Florida. Symposium “Psychoactive Substances in Ancient Societies” for the 77th Society for American Archaeology. Memphis, Tennessee.
✭Winkler, Lauren A., Clark Spencer Larsen, Victor D. Thompson, Paul W. Sciulli, Dale L. Hutchinson, and David Hurst Thomas 2012 The Social Structuring of Stress in Contact-Era Spanish Florida: A Bioarchaeological Case Study from Santa Catalina De Guale, St. Catherines Island, Georgia. 81st American Association of Physical Anthropologist. Portland, Oregon.
*Pluckhahn, Thomas J., Victor D. Thompson, Jack Rink, and Brent Weisman 2012 Stepped Pyramidal Mounds of the Woodland Period in the Southeastern United States. 77th Society for American Archaeology. Memphis, Tennessee.
Turck, John A., Victor D. Thompson, and Alex Cherkinsky 2012 Considering Context and Sample Selection along the Georgia Coast: Implications for Radiocarbon Dating Methods in Archaeological Settings. 77th Society for American Archaeology. Memphis, Tennessee.
Andrus, C. Fred T., and Victor D. Thompson 2012 Reconstructing Estuarine Climate from Midden Samples: Challenges of Salinity and Transportation. American Geophysical Union, Ocean Sciences Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah.
*✭Thompson, Victor D., Kristen Gremillion, and Thomas J. Pluckhahn 2011 Hunter-gatherers of the Okeechobee Basin: Debunking Prehistoric Wetland Maize Agriculture at Fort Center, Florida. Symposium “Precolumbian Archaeology in Florida: New Approaches to the Appendicular Southeast” for the 68th Southeastern Archaeology Conference. Jacksonville, Florida.
*✭Pluckhahn, Thomas J. and Victor D. Thompson 2011 Monumentality Beyond Scale: The Elaboration of Mounded Architecture at Crystal River. Symposium “Precolumbian Archaeology in Florida: New Approaches to the Appendicular Southeast” for the 68th Southeastern Archaeology Conference. Jacksonville, Florida.
*Keller, Benjamin (Undergraduate Advisee) and Victor D. Thompson 2011 The Role of Shark Teeth at Fort Center. 68th Southeastern Archaeology Conference. Jacksonville, Florida.
*Fitzpatrick, Scott, Michiel Kappers, Quetta Kaye, and Victor D. Thompson 2011 Archaeological Investigations of Coconut Walk, a Late Ceramic Age site on Nevis, West Indies. 24th Congress of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology, Martinique.
*Thompson, Victor D. and C. Fred T. Andrus 2011 Assessing Habitats of Mollusk Collection and Models of Late Archaic Settlement along the Atlantic Coast, USA using Oxygen Isotope Sclerochronology. 34th Society for Ethnobiology meeting. Columbus, Ohio.
*Pluckhahn, Thomas J. and Victor D. Thompson 2011 Integrated LiDAR and Total Station Mapping of the Fort Center Site (8GL13). Florida Anthropological Society Meeting. Orlando, Florida.
*Thompson, Victor D., John Turck, Amanda D. Roberts Thompson, and Chester DePratter 2011 Entangling Events: The Guale Landscape and the Spanish Missions. American Museum of Natural History Caldwell VI Conference. St. Catherine’s Island, Georgia.
Thompson, Victor D. 2011 Conduits of Complexity: Creating, Commemorating, and Materializing Surplus in Hunter- Gatherer Economies. Symposium “Surplus: The Politics of Production and the Strategies of Everyday Life” for the 76th Society for American Archaeology. Sacramento, California.
*✭Thompson, Victor D. and Thomas J. Pluckhahn 2010 Monumentalization and Ritual Landscapes: An Example from Fort Center in the Lake Okeechobee Basin of South Florida. Symposium “The Ritual and Domestic Landscapes of Early and Middle Woodland Peoples in the Southeast” for the 67th Southeastern Archaeology Conference. Lexington, Kentucky.
*✭Pluckhahn, Thomas J. and Victor D. Thompson 2010 Constituting Similarity and Difference in the Deep South: The Ritual and Domestic Landscapes of Kolomoki, Crystal River, and Fort Center. Symposium “The Ritual and Domestic Landscapes of Early and Middle Woodland Peoples in the Southeast” for the 67th Southeastern Archaeology Conference. Lexington, Kentucky.
*✭Thompson, Victor D., Philip J. Arnold, III, Thomas J. Pluckhahn, and Amber M. VanDerwarker 2010 Shallow Geophysics and the Analysis of Persistent Places. Symposium “Anthropological Geophysics” for the 75th Society for American Archaeology Conference. St. Louis, Missouri.
✭Thompson, Victor D.
2010 The Historical Ecology of Ritual and Monumentality in South Florida. Symposium “From Field to Table: Historical Ecology of Regional Subsistence Strategies” for the University of South Carolina Visiting Scholar Conference. Columbia, South Carolina.
✭Thompson, Victor D., John A. Turck, and Chester DePratter 2009 Cumulative Actions and the Historical Ecology of Islands along the Georgia Coast. Symposium “Fifty Centuries of Coastal Living- Archaeology from the Savannah River to the St. Johns” for the 66th Southeastern Archaeology Conference. Mobile, Alabama.
Turck, John A. and Victor D. Thompson 2009 Natural and Human Impacts on Back-Barrier Islands of Georgia (Poster). The Long Term Ecological Research All Scientist Meeting, Estes Park, Colorado.
*Pluckhahn, Thomas J. and Victor D. Thompson 2009 Recent Archaeological Research at Crystal River (8CI1). Florida Anthropological Society Meeting. Pensacola, Florida.
*✭Thompson, Victor D., John A. Turck, and Chester DePratter 2009 The Historical Ecology of Islands Large and Small along the Georgia Coast. Symposium “The Historical Ecology of Hunter-Gatherers” for the 74th Society for American Archaeology Conference. Atlanta, Georgia.
✭Thompson, Victor D. 2008 Legacies of the Ancients and Long-Term Ecological Research. Marine Eco-Civilization Forum, Wenzhou, China.
Thompson, Victor D. and Thomas J. Pluckhahn 2008 The Crystal River Landscape: Shallow Geophysics at a Famous Florida Site. 65th Southeastern Archaeology Conference. Charlotte, North Carolina.
Turck, John A. and Victor D. Thompson 2008 Geoarchaeological Analysis of Two Back-Barrier Islands on the Coast of Georgia. Symposium “Environmental Archaeology in the Georgia Bight” for the 65th Southeastern Archaeology Conference. Charlotte, North Carolina.
Andrus, C. Fred T., and Victor D. Thompson 2008 Oxygen Isotope Analysis of Midden Mollusks to Assess Site Formation Processes and Subsistence Strategies at the Sapelo Island Shell Rings. Geological Society of America. Houston, Texas.
*✭Thompson, Victor D. 2008 The Rhythms of Space-Time and the Making of Monuments and Places during the Archaic. American Museum of Natural History Caldwell III Conference. St. Catherine’s Island, Georgia.
*✭Thompson, Victor D., and Philip J. Arnold, III.
2008 Space and Architecture at Teotepec: Geophysical Investigations in the Sierra de los Tuxtlas. Symposium “Recent Archaeological Research on the Mesoamerican Gulf Coast” for the 73rd Society for American Archaeology Conference. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
*✭Thompson, Victor D., and C. Fred T. Andrus 2007 Our Season of Death on the Georgia Coast: A Geochemical Analysis of Clams and Oysters from Shell Rings and Middens. Symposium “Coastal and Island Archaeofaunas” for the 64th Southeastern Archaeology Conference. Knoxville, Tennessee.
Andrus, C. Fred T., and Victor D. Thompson 2007 The Sapelo Island Shell Rings: An Example of Applications and Challenges in Geochemical Analysis of Middens. Workshop “Stable Isotopes in Archaeological Midden Shells: High-Resolution Paleoclimatic and Paleoenvironmental Archives” sponsored by PAGES (Past Global Changes). McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Thompson, Victor D., and T. R. Kidder 2007 Archaeologies of Transformation. Symposium “Complexity and Transformation in World Archaeology” for the 72nd Society for American Archaeology Meeting. Austin, Texas.
*✭Thompson, Victor D., and John A. Turck 2006 Hunter-gatherer Histories and Landscapes of Coastal Georgia. Symposium “Southeastern Historical Ecology and Landscapes” for the 63rd Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Little Rock, Arkansas.
*Thompson, Victor D., and C. Fred T. Andrus 2006 Monument, Midden, or Both: Evaluating Coastal Georgia Shell Rings Through Stable Isotope Geochemistry. Symposium “New World Shellmounds and Shellmiddens: A Bicoastal Comparison” for the 71st meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Reynolds, Matthew D., and Victor D. Thompson 2006 Electrical Imaging at the Sapelo Island Shell Ring. Symposium “Geoprospection and Heritage Management” for the 71st Society for American Archaeology. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
*Thompson, Victor D., Wesley Stoner, and Harold Rowe 2005 Slice It, Digest It, and Zap It: Petrographic, Chemical, and Mineralogical Analysis of Late Archaic Ceramics from two Shell Ring Sites on the Southeastern Coast 62nd Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Columbia, South Carolina.
Jefferies, Richard W. and Victor D. Thompson 2005 Contact Period Native American Settlement and Interaction on Sapelo Island, Georgia. 62nd Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Columbia, South Carolina.
Thompson, Victor D.
2005 Mound, Midden, and Meaning: Past and Current Research at the Sapelo Island Shell Ring Complex. Symposium on the Archaeology of the Southeastern Coastal Plain. Douglas, Georgia.
*Thompson, Victor D., Wesley Stoner, and Harold Rowe. 2005 Slice It And Digest It: Petrographic and Chemical Analysis of Late Archaic Ceramics from two Shell Ring Sites on the Southeastern Coast (Poster). 70th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Salt Lake City, Utah.
*Venter, Marcie, Victor D. Thompson, Jamie Waggoner, and Matthew D. Reynolds 2005 Stone Architectural Features at Totógal: Shallow Geophysics as Complementary Field Strategies in the Sierra de los Tuxtlas. 28th Annual Midwest Conference on Mesoamerican Archaeology. Bloomington, Indiana.
*Thompson, Victor D. 2004 The Function and Formation of Shell Rings: A Case Study from Sapelo Island. 61st Southeastern Archaeological Conference. St. Louis, Missouri.
Thompson, Victor D. 2004 Inside, Outside, and Beyond: Late Archaic Circular Spaces on the Georgia Coast. 69th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Montreal, Quebec.
Jefferies, Richard W., and Victor D. Thompson 2003 A Reevaluation of Contact Period Occupation at the Sapelo Island Shell Ring Site, McIntosh County, Georgia. 60th Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Charlotte, North Carolina.
Thompson, Victor D. 2003 Technical Choice and Cooking Technology among Holocene Hunter-Gatherers of the South Atlantic Coast: A Reanalysis of the Sapelo Shell Ring Materials. 60th Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Charlotte, North Carolina.
Reynolds, Matthew D., and Victor D. Thompson 2003 Electrical Imaging at the Sapelo Island Shell Ring. 60th Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Charlotte, North Carolina.
*Thompson, Victor D., Matthew Reynolds, Bryan Haley, Richard Jefferies, Jay K. Johnson, and Laura Humphries 2003 The Sapelo Island Shell Rings: Remote Sensing on a Georgia Sea Island. 68th Annual Society for American Archaeology Meeting. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Thompson, Victor D. 2002 Portrait of a Hunter-Gatherer Landscape: An Example from West-Central Kentucky. 59th Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Biloxi, Mississippi.
*Jefferies, Richard W., Victor D. Thompson, and George Milner 2002 Cypress Creek Villages Revisited: Archaic Settlement and Subsistence in the Cypress Creek Watershed. 67th Society for American Archaeology. Denver, Colorado.
Jefferies, Richard W., Victor D. Thompson, and George Milner 2001 Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Strategies in West-Central Kentucky (Poster). 58th Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Jefferies, Richard, George Milner, and Victor D. Thompson 2001 Diachronic Patterns in Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Strategies in the Lower Cypress Creek Valley of West-Central Kentucky (Poster). 66th Society for American Archaeology Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana.
Thompson, Victor D. 2001 Variations on a Theme: Hunter-Gatherer Diversity and Sedentism in the North American Midcontinent. 58th Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Thompson, Victor D. 2000 A Model for Variation and Complexity in Hunter-Gatherer Societies: An Example from Southern Illinois. 57th Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Macon, Georgia.
Conference Organizer
Thompson, Victor (conference chair) 2016 Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Athens, Georgia.
Thompson, Victor D., and David Hurst Thomas 2011 New Perspectives on the Native American Archaeology of the Georgia Bight, the American Museum of Natural History Caldwell VI Conference. St. Catherine’s Island, Georgia.
Organized Symposiums
Krus, Anthony and Victor D. Thompson 2017 Moments In Time: Re-Creating History With The Bayesian Approach. 82nd Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Vancouver, BC.
Birch, Jennifer and Victor D. Thompson 2016 The Power of Villages. 73rd Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Athens, Georgia.
Krus, Anthony and Victor D. Thompson 2015 Complex Issues in Dating Coastal and Island Settlements. European Association of Archaeologists. Glasgow, Scotland.
Bettinger, Robert and Victor D. Thompson 2015 Fryxell Award for Interdisciplinary Research for David H. Thomas. 80th Society for American Archaeology Meetings, San Francisco, California.
Fitzpatrick, Scott M. and Victor D. Thompson 2014 Rise and Resistance: Complex Polities among Island and Coasts. 79th Society for American Archaeology. Austin, Texas.
Pluckhahn, Thomas J. and Victor D. Thompson 2012 New Light on an Old Enigma: Recent Research at Crystal River. 69th Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Thompson, Victor D. 2012 Exploring the Space Between: Remote Sensing and the Broader Landscape. 69th Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Thompson, Victor D. and James C. Waggoner, Jr. 2009 Footprints on the Landscape: the Historical Ecology of Hunter-gatherers. 74th Society for American Archaeology Meeting. Atlanta, Georgia.
Kidder, T. R. and Victor D. Thompson 2007 Complexity and Transformation in World Archaeology. 72nd Annual Society for American Archaeology Meeting. Austin, Texas.
Meyers, Maureen and Victor D. Thompson 2005 Ceremony and Daily Life Through the Eyes of a Pot. 62nd Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Columbia, South Carolina.
Iriarte, Jose and Victor D. Thompson 2004 Constituting Social Life and Ritual in Circular Communities Across the Americas. 69th Society for American Archaeology Meeting. Montreal, Quebec.
Thompson, Victor D. and J. Christopher Gillam 2002 Understanding Landscapes of Southeastern Hunter-Gatherers. 59th Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Biloxi, Mississippi.
Invited Discussant
2021 Constructing Chronologies II: The Big Picture with Bayes and Beyond. 86th Society for American Archaeology. San Francisco, California.
2019 Spelling it Out: Deciphering the Architectural Grammar(s) of Precolumbian Florida. 76th Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Jackson, Mississippi.
2017 Advancements and Prospects in Geoarchaeology Today: The SAA GIG at 20. 82nd Society for American Archaeology. Vancouver, B.C.
2016 Problems and Progress in Radiocarbon Dating: Perspectives on Southeastern Archaeology. 73rd Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Athens, Georgia.
2015 Life in the Diminutive Realm: Human Adaptations to Smaller Island Environments. 80th Society for American Archaeology. San Francisco, California.
2010 Exploring Middle Archaic Preconditions of Southeastern Social Complexity: Multiregional
Approaches to a Complex Problem, 67th Southeastern Archaeology Conference. Lexington, Kentucky.
Invited Presentations
2021 Calusa Histories at Mound Key, Capital of the Kingdom. University of West Florida, Pensacola.
2021 Looking towards the Future at Mound House and Estero Bay. Mound House Museum, Ft. Myers Beach, Florida.
2020 Cooperation and the Great Houses of the Island Capital of the Calusa. University of California, Visiting Lecture, Santa Cruz, California.
2020 Examining the Historical Ecology of Climate Change and Collective Action in Two Coastal Southeastern U.S. Case Studies. University of Tennessee, Visiting Lecture Series, Knoxville, Tennessee.
2020 Discovering San Antón de Carlos: Sixteenth Century Spanish Buildings and Fortifications at Mound Key, Capital of the Calusa. Blue Ridge Archaeology Guild, Dahlonega, Georgia.
2019 Native American Histories and their Importance for the Modern Ecosystems of the Georgia Coast. US Department of Agriculture, Russell Research Center, Athens, Georgia.
2019 Wetlands and the Ancient and Modern Worlds. Taft Fellows program, University of Cincinnati, Ohio.
2018 In the Shadow of the King’s House: New Discoveries at Mound Key, Capital of the Calusa. University of Miami, Florida.
2017 The Ebb and Flow of Life Before and After 3800 BP along the Georgia Coast. Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, NERC Radiocarbon Facility, University of Glasgow, Scotland U.K.
2016 Shell Landscapes of the Anthropocene in the Ancient South. Invited lecture for the Department of Anthropology, the University of South Carolina, Columbia.
2016 The Temporality of Maritime Landscapes of the Ancient South. Invited lecture for the Department of Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University, State College.
2016 Living and Feasting on Ossabaw Island 3800 Years Ago. Ossabaw Island Foundation and Education Alliance, Savannah, Georgia.
2015 Deep Histories and Colonial Encounters in the Kingdom of the Calusa. Invited lecture for the Stigler Lecture Series, Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
2015 From the Waters, they Emerge-- Shell Landscapes of the Ancient South. Invited lecture for the Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene.
2015 Through a Shell Darkly: Exploring Time, Monuments, and Anthropogenic Landscapes along the Coasts and Islands of the Ancient South. Invited lecture for the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tucson.
2014 Past Futures: An Archaeology of the Anthropocene. Invited lecture for Anthropocene Lecture Series, University of Georgia, Athens.
2014 The Long Tides of History in the Kingdom of the Calusa. Invited lecture for the Department of Anthropology, Georgia State University, Atlanta.
2014 Crafting the Ancient Landscapes of Southern Florida and Beyond. Keynote lecture at the Calusa Heritage Day, Florida Museum of Natural History, Pine Island, Florida.
2014 The Ebb and Flow of Life along the Georgia Coast during the Archaic. Invited lecture Weedon Island Research Preserve, Tampa, Florida.
2013 The Green Agora: Ritual and Daily Life at Fort Center in the Okeechobee Basin. Invited lecture to the Southwest Florida Archaeological Society, Fort Myers, Florida.
2011 Lords of the Lake: Monument Builders of the Okeechobee Basin. A Closer Look Lecture to the National Geographic Society, Washington D.C.
2011 Colliding Worlds: Anthropology, Ecosystem Science, and Community. Keynote lecture for the Anthroplus Conference. Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, College Park.
2009 Perspectives on Small Island Economies of the Georgia Coast Presented to the Department of Anthropology, Archaeology Roundtable, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.
2008 Integrating Archaeology and Long-Term Ecological Research. Presented to the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.
2008 Cumulative Actions: Historical Ecology and Landscape Transformations. Presented to the Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.
2008 Time, Space, and the Creation of Place at the Sapelo Shell Ring Complex. Presented to the Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
2007 Life Among the Tides: The Great Shell Rings of Prehistory. Presented at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta, Georgia.
PUBLIC SERVICE Dissemination of research and public outreach through numerous public talks and site tours (2005- 2020).
OTHER SERVICE Service to the Profession 2014-2019 Executive Board, SAA Island and Coastal Archaeology Interest Group 2015-2018 Society for American Archaeology Government Affairs Committee 2015 National Science Foundation, SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowships Panel 2010-2011 National Science Foundation, REU Review Panel 2007-2010 Treasurer of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference (Elected Position) 2001-2003 Southeastern Archaeological Conference Student Affairs Committee Member
External Promotion and Tenure Reviewer Smithsonian Institution (for curator) University of British Columbia (for full professor) Washington State University (for full professor) University of New Hampshire (for full professor) Arizona State University (for associate professor) University of Arizona (for associate professor) University of Cincinnati (for associate professor) University of Toledo (for associate professor) University of Arkansas, Arkansas Archaeological Survey (for Research Archaeologist)
Manuscripts, Grants, External Peer Reviews (N=144) National Science Foundation (11 x 2010, 12 x in 2011, 2 x in 2012, 2014, 12 x 2015, 2 x 2016, 2 x 2018, 3 x 2020, 1 x 2021) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) (1 x 2016; 1 x 2018) Agence Nationale De La Recherche, (French National Research Agency) (1 x 2021) National Geographic Society (2006, 2011, 2013, 3 x 2014, 2 x 2015, 2 x 2016, 2 x 2017) Sea Grant (2017) Smithsonian Institution (2015) Cambridge University Press (2016) Oxford University Press (2014) Routledge Press (2020) Thames and Hudson (2019) University Press of Florida (2010, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021) University of Alabama Press (2013) University of Colorado Press (2015, 2016, 2019) MacArthur Foundation (2012) American Museum of Natural History (2020) American Anthropologist (2011) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2019) PLoS ONE (2017, 2019) American Antiquity (2006, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2 x 2019, 2020) Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (2008, 2010, 2014, 2 x 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2 x 2020) Journal of Archaeological Science Reports (2014, 2 x 2016, 2017, 2 x 2018, 2019, 2020) Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory (2017) Advances in Archaeological Practice (2014) Journal of Archaeological Research (2012, 2014, 2016)
Journal of Field Archaeology (2010, 2013, 2014, 2016) Archaeological Prospection (2013, 2 x 2017) Cambridge Archaeological Review (2017) Geoarchaeology: An International Journal (2009) Anthropocene (2013) WIRE’s Water (2016) Remote Sensing (2014, 2016, 2018) Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology (2 x in 2008, 3 x in 2012, 2016, 2018, 2019) Journal of Coastal Conservation (2011) Quaternary International (2015, 2016, 2020) Southeastern Archaeology (2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2020) Florida Anthropologist (2009, 2013) Early Georgia (2005, 2008, 2014)
Membership in Professional Societies American Association for the Advancement of Science Register of Professional Archaeologists Society for American Archaeology Society for Historical Archaeology Southeastern Archaeological Conference Society for Georgia Archaeology
Service to the University The University of Georgia 2020-2021 Search Committee for Director of Center of Applied Isotope Studies 2018 to 2020 Franklin College Review Committee for Promotion and Tenure 2019-2020 Chair, Search Committee for Anthropology Faculty 2015-2016 OVPR External Review Member for the UGA Marine Institute 2012 to Present Faculty Associate, Center for Archaeological Sciences 2012 to Present Faculty Associate, Institute for Native American Studies 2015 to Present Executive Advisory Committee, Department of Anthropology 2018 to Present Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of Anthropology 2012 to 2016 Graduate Studies Committee, Department of Anthropology 2014 Search Committee Anthropology/Geography Faculty