ALSTON V. THOMS Curriculum Vitae, March 2016

Department of Anthropology Office phone: 979.862.8541 Texas A&M University (TAMU 4352) Cell phone: 979.218.1193 College Station, Texas 77843-4352 E-mail: [email protected]

Education PhD Anthropology, 1989, Washington State University, Pullman MA Anthropology, 1977, Texas Tech University, Lubbock BA History, with Anthropology minor, 1970, West Texas State University, Canyon

Research Interests Western North American hunter-gatherer archaeology and ethnography; land-use intensification; plant-food utilization; cook-stone technology; collaborative work with American Indians

Academic and Professional Positions 2016-Present Professor and Director of the Archaeological-Ecology Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station 2006-2016 Associate Professor and Director of the Archaeological-Ecology Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station 2001-2006 Assistant Professor and Director of the Archaeological-Ecology Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station 1995-2001 Director, Center for Ecological Archaeology, College of Liberal Arts; Senior Lecturer, Department Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station 1990-1995 Associate Director, Center for Environmental Archaeology, Lecturer, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station 1981-1990 Senior Staff Archaeologist, Acting Assistant Director, and Staff Archaeologist, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman 1980-1981 Staff Archaeologist, Cultural Resources Program, Eastern Washington University, Cheney 1978-1980 Cultural Resources Discipline Manager, Benham-Blair and Affiliates, Inc., Environmental Resources Group, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 1975-1978 Assistant Director, Staff Archaeologist, Cultural Resources Institute, Texas Tech University, Lubbock 1976 Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock 1970-1973 U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer, Brazilian agricultural-extension program; teaching English, Poconé, Mato Grosso, Brazil 1969-1970 Assistant Curator of Anthropology, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, West Texas State University, Canyon

Archaeological Field Investigations and Field Schools by Geographic Area Pacific Northwest: Surveys and exploratory excavations in the Kootenai River valley, MT, including two TAMU field schools, with research focus on land-use intensification and site-formation processes; non-site survey along the middle Columbia River, WA; excavations at pit-house villages, confluence of Okanogan and Columbia rivers, WA; excavations at mat-lodge villages and camas processing sites in the Calispell Valley, WA; surveys and exploratory excavations, Skagit Valley, WA, and Willamette Valley, OR

Western Gulf Coastal Plains: Survey and exploratory excavations at pre-Columbian and historic sites (Euro-American and African-American) in the Brazos and Trinity River basins, TX, including one TAMU field school, with research focus on land-use intensification and site-formation processes; excavations, including two avocational field schools, at the Richard Beene site, a deeply stratified, Paleoindian-to-Historic locality along the Medina River, TX; exploratory excavation of a Late Pleistocene site with evidence of human-modified mammoth bone, along the San Antonio River, TX; survey and exploratory excavations, Nueces River basin, TX

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Archaeological Field Investigations and Field Schools by Geographic Area, continued

Southern Great Plains: Earth-oven excavations, Leon River basin, TX, with TAMU graduate students, for morphological and archaeobotanical studies, with research focus on land-use intensification and site-formation processes; survey of plains village sites, Arkansas River basin, KS; excavations at Late Pre-Columbian village sites, Canadian River valley, TX; survey and exploratory backhoe excavations, Running Water Draw, TX; excavation of Archaic site, Red River valley, TX

Southeast: Survey, White River basin, AK; survey, exploratory excavations, geomorphic studies, Late Paleoindian and Early Archaic sites, Tombigbee River basin, MS and AL; surveys, pineywoods, east TX; survey and exploratory excavations at Civil War POW camp, Neches River basin, east TX, including one TAMU field school, with research focus on intra-site patterning, socio- economic factors and site-formation processes

Southwest: Surveys of Archaic, Anasazi, and Historic (Native American and Euro-American) sites in upper Rio Grande basin, NM; survey and exploratory excavations at Archaic and Jornada Mogollon sites, middle Rio Grande basin, west TX; survey of Late Pre-Columbian sites, lower Colorado River basin, AZ and CA

External Research, Grants/Contracts, TAMU, as Principal Investigator (ca. $2,925,000) 2006-2016 $63,000: Geophyte Microfossil and Molecular Investigations, Earth-Oven Archaeology, Fort Hood, U.S. Army $63,000: Geophyte Microfossil Investigations, Earth-Oven Archaeology, Fort Hood. U.S. Army $10,000: Late Pleistocene Paleontological Investigations, Texas, Katy Prairie Conservancy, Houston

2000-2005 $33,049: Final Mapping and Archaeological Investigations for Mechanical Stabilization of Richard Beene Site, City of San Antonio, San Antonio Water System $190,847: Applewhite Reservoir Final Collections Preparation and Artifact Curation, City of San Antonio, San Antonio Water System $56,000: Libby Dam/Lake Koocanusa Archaeological Investigations, funded two Department fields schools, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District $10,000: Matagorda Cemetery Unmarked Graves Project, Matagorda Cemetery Association, Matagorda, Texas $72,066: Final Curation of Archaeological Materials and Records from Four Sites on the Inner Gulf Coastal Plain, Texas Department of Transportation, Austin $14,936: Archaeological Investigations at Veterans Park and Athletic Complex, Parks and Recreation Department, City of College Station, Texas

2000-2005 $8,750: Survey of Archaeological Sites on the campus of University of Texas at San Antonio, Center for Applied Technology, San Antonio $2,000: Archaeological Survey of Proposed Housing Areas, Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation, Livingston, Texas $24,251: Archaeological Survey of Nails Creek Unit of Lake Somerville State Park, Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife, Austin $128,543: Completion of Archaeological Analysis of National Register Sites at Libby Dam-Lake Koocanusa, Montana, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District

1991-1999 ca. $2,250,000: Ten archaeological investigations for local, state, and federal agencies and private organizations through the Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University; including four TAMU and two avocational field schools; training for ca. 125 students, research funding for six faculty members; collaborative research with faculty and funding/publications for graduate students in the Department as well as Colleges of Architecture and Agriculture and the Bush School of Public Service

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Internal Grants, Texas A&M University 2007 $10,000: Cooking Technology, Enhance Scholarly and Creative Activities Program 2006 $10,000: Geophyte Microfossils, Mexican American & U.S. Latino Research Center 2006 $1,500: Geophytes and Diet, Glasscock Center for Humanities Research 2000 $30,000: Collection Management of Memorabilia Materials Recovered from the Bonfire Collapse Site, Office of the President

Other External Research, Grants/Contracts, as Principal Investigator or Project Director 1980-89 ca. $1,500,000: Six major archaeological investigations for local, state, and federal agencies and private organizations through the Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman and the Cultural Resources Program, Eastern Washington University, Cheney; training for ca. 30 graduate students

1977-79 ca. $500,000: Three major archaeological investigations to federal agencies through the Cultural Resources Institute, Texas Tech University, Lubbock and Benham-Blair and Affiliates, Inc., Oklahoma City; training for ca. 10 graduate students

Recent Collaborative Research, 2006-2017 (for earlier projects, see refereed monographs) Geophyte Microfossil and Molecular Identification, with Vaughn M, Bryant, Jr., and eight graduate students, Department of Anthropology, TAMU and two archaeologists with Prewitt & Associates, Inc., Austin

Cook-Stone Technology and Ancient Carbohydrate Revolutions, with Alexandre Lucquin (French Lavoisier Grant award), representatives of Comanche Nation and American Indians in Texas-at Spanish Colonial Missions; ca. 10 undergraduate and graduate students, Department of Anthropology, TAMU and Texas State University, San Marcos

Late-Pleistocene Megafauna Investigations at Cypress Creek, Texas, with Vaughn M. Bryant; Jr., Department of Anthropology; Thomas Stedman, Department of Biology, TAMU; Rolfe Mandel, University of Kansas; Eileen Johnson, Texas Tech University; Ernest Lundelius, University of Texas; Patrick. Lewis, Sam Houston State University; six graduate and undergraduate students

Fort Trevino/San Ygnacio, TX, 1830s Historic-Sites Preservation, with David Woodcock and Robert Warden, Center for Heritage Conservation, College of Architecture, TAMU

Hearne Heritage-Tourism Project, TX, with Tazim Jamal, Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Science Department, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, TAMU

Work with American Indian Groups Southwest: Liaison between university- and private-based archaeological projects and various northern Rio Grande Pueblo and Lower Colorado Indian tribal councils and cultural committees (1975-1979)

Pacific Northwest: Ethnographic and ethnoarchaeological studies of root foods and cooking technology in collaboration with Kalispel and Kootenai people (1982-2000); liaison between archaeological projects and Confederated Kootenai and Salish Tribes of the Flathead Nation, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Kalispel Tribe of Indians, Spokane Tribe of Indians, Coeur d’Alene Tribe of Indians, and Nez Perce Tribe (1982-1996)

Texas: Liaison for archaeological and NAGPRA-related projects with Tap Pilam-Coahuiltecan Nations, American Indians in Texas at Spanish Colonial Missions, and San Antonio’s Intertribal Council of American Indians (1991-present); collaboration with representatives of Comanche Nation of Oklahoma, Mescalero Apache Tribe, and American Indians in Texas-at Spanish Colonial Missions on ancient carbohydrate revolutions research project (2008-2014)

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Courses Taught Texas A&M University, Department of Anthropology (1992-2016): Archaeological Methods and Theory (ANTH 602) Indians of Texas (619/419) Prehistory of Texas (ANTH 620) Cultural Resources Management (ANTH 645/489) Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology (ANTH 653) Ancient Foodways and Cooking Technology (ANTH 659) Field Archaeology (ANTH 660/330, 4 field schools in Montana and Texas) Graduate/Undergraduate Directed Studies (ANTH 685 and 485) Human Ecology of Northwest North America (ANTH 689) Ecological Perspectives in Heritage Resources Management (ANTH 689) Introduction to Archaeology (ANTH 202) Peoples and Cultures of the World (ANTH 205) Indians of North America (ANTH 301)

University of Rennes I, Archaeosciences Unit, Brittany, France; Invited Professor (October 2000) Graduate seminar unit in North American hunter-gatherers

Texas Tech University, Department of Anthropology, Lubbock; Instructor-of-record/TA (1976) Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Escola Normal, Poconé, Mato Grosso, Brazil (1972-1973) English as a second language

Graduate Students Current Chair/Co-Chair three PhD committees, Crystal Dozier, Laura Short, studying prehistoric fermentation processes, molecular approaches to ancient foodways and Chirrs Crews, studying lithic technology Member five PhD and 2 MA committees, Departments of Anthropology and Architecture, TAMU and Department of Anthropology, Texas State University

2000-2016 Chaired two PhD committee, Andrew Laurence, plant-food microfossils, presently works for U.S. Department of Homeland Security Chaired four MA committees, Bryan Mason, Michael Crow, Andrea Stahman, all work for private-sector Cultural Resources Management firms in Texas, and Masahiro Kamiya, currently teaching in Japan Member two MA committees, Texas State University, San Marcos

1995-1999 Chaired four MA committee, Steven Ahr, Michael Jackson, Stephanie Judjahn, Jennifer Logan; one works in archaeological research program at North Dakota State University, one in private-sector Cultural Resources Management firm in Texas; two work outside anthropology

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles Thoms, Alston V., Andrew R. Laurence, Laura Short, and Masahiro Kamiya (all Thoms’ grad students) 2015 Baking Geophytes and Tracking Microfossils: Taphonomic Implications for Earth-Oven and Paleodietary Research. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 22(4):1038-1070 (First online: 16 July2014)

Black, Stephen L. and Alston V. Thoms 2014 Hunter-Gatherer Earth Ovens in the Archaeological Record: Fundamental Concepts. American Antiquity 79(2):203-226.

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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles, continued

Short, Laura (Thoms’ grad student), Alston V. Thoms, Bin Cao, Alexander M. Sinyukov, Amitabh Joshi, Rob Scully, Virgil Sanders, and Dmitri V. Voronine 2014 Facile Residue Analysis of Recent and Prehistoric Cook-Stones Using Handheld Raman Spectrometry. Journal of Raman Spectrometry; presently available on line as DOI 10.1002/jrs.4593 (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jrs.4593/suppinfo).

Lundelius, Ernest, Rolfe D. Mandel, Vaughn M. Bryant, Jr., Kenneth Thies, and Alston V. Thoms 2013 The first Occurrence of a Toxodont (Mammalia: Notoungulata) in the United States. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(1):229-232.

Laurence, Andrew R. (Thoms’ grad student), Alston V. Thoms, Vaughn M. Bryant, Jr., and Casandra McDonough 2011 Airborne Starch Granules as a Potential Contamination at Archaeological Sites. Journal of Ethnobiology 31(2):213-232.

Thoms, Alston V. and Patricia A. Clabaugh 2011 The Archaic Period at the Richard Beene Site: Six Thousand Years of Hunter-Gatherer Family Cookery in South-Central North America. Bulletin of the Texas Archaeological Society 82:77- 115.

Thoms, Alston V. 2009 Rocks of Ages: Propagation of Hot-Rock Cookery in Western North America. Journal of Archaeological Science 36(3):573-591.

Thoms, Alston V. 2008 The Fire Stones Carry: Ethnographic Records and Archaeological Expectations for Hot-Rock Cookery in Western North America. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 27:443-460.

Thoms, Alston V. 2008 Ancient Roots of Carbohydrate Revolutions in South-Central North America. Plains Anthropologist 53(205): 121-136.

Thoms, Alston V. 2008 Obscured in the Midst of the Civil War: Enslaved African-Americans at Camp Ford. Journal of History and Culture 1(1): 25-49.

Thoms, Alston V. 2007 Fire-Cracked Rock Features on Sandy Landforms in the Northern Rocky Mountains: Toward Establishing Reliable Frames of Reference for Assessing Site Integrity. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal 22(5):1-34.

Thoms, Alston V., Eileen Johnson, S. Christopher Caran, Rolfe D. Mandel, and Thomas Vance 2007 New Evidence for Mammoth-Bone Quarrying on the Inner Gulf Coastal Plain of Texas. Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society 78:1-35.

Thoms, Alston V., Eileen Johnson, S. Christopher Caran, and Rolfe D. Mandel 2005 Glimpses of Mammoth-Bone Quarrying on North America’s Western Gulf Coastal Plain: Two New Localities near San Antonio, Texas. Mammoth Site Scientific Papers 4:183-185.

Thoms, Alston V. 2004 Sand Blows Desperately: Land Use and Site Integrity at Camp Ford, Confederate POW Camp in East Texas. Historical Archaeology 38(4):72-92.

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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles, continued

Thoms, Alston V. 2003 Cook-Stone Technology in North America: Evolutionary Changes in Domestic Fire Structures during the Holocene. Colloque et Experimention: Le Feu Domestique et Ses Structures au Neolithic aux Auges des Metaux, edited by Marie-Chantal Frere-Sautot, pp. 87-96. Collection Prehistories No. 9, Editions Monique Mergoil, France.

Thoms, Alston V. 1999 Beyond Texas’ Legacy: Searching for Cooperation without Submission. Texas Forum on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights (University of Texas Law and Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section of the State Bar of Texas) 4(1): 41-52.

Thoms, Alston V. 1997 Sacred Guardians, Profane Practitioners, and Texans without History. Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society 68:191-213.

Thoms, Alston V. 1993 Knocking Sense from Old Rocks: Typologies and the Narrow Perspective of the Angostura Point Type. Lithic Technology 18:16-27.

Thoms, Alston V. and Rolfe D. Mandel 1992 The Richard Beene Site: A Deeply Stratified Paleoindian to Late Prehistoric Occupation in South-Central Texas. Current Research in the Pleistocene 9:42-44.

Thoms, Alston V. 1976 A Review of Northeastern New Mexico Archeology. Awanyu 4(1):8-36.

Refereed Book Chapters and Essays Thoms, Alston V. 2008 Foreword. In Historic Native Peoples of Texas by William C. Foster, pp. ix-xii., University of Texas Press, Austin.

Thoms, Alston V. 2007 Learning from Cabeza de Vaca: Revelations about Hunter-Gatherer Foodways in South Texas at the Dawn of Written History. Special Exhibit Series, Texas Beyond History: The Virtual Museum of Texas’ Cultural Heritage, http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/cabeza-cooking/index.html. The University of Teas at Austin, College of Liberal Arts.

Thoms, Alston V., Jeff Taff, and Heather Smith 2006 Richard Beene Site. Texas Beyond History: The Virtual Museum of Texas’ Cultural Heritage, http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/beene/index.html The University of Teas at Austin, College of Liberal Arts.

Thoms, Alston V. and Susan Dial 2006 Camp Ford. Texas Beyond History: The Virtual Museum of Texas’ Cultural Heritage, http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/ford/index.html The University of Teas at Austin, College of Liberal Arts.

Thoms, Alston V. 1988 A Survey of Predictive Locational Models: Examples from the Late 1970s and Early 1980s. In Quantifying the Present and Predicting the Past: Theory, Method, and Application of Archaeological Predictive Modeling, edited by W. James Judge and Lynne Sebastian, pp. 581- 645. U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Denver.

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Refereed Book Chapters and Essays, continued

Thoms, Alston V. 1979 Survey Error: A Result of Intensive Archaeological Surveys. In Scholars as Contractors, edited by William J. Mayer-Oakes and Alice Portnoy, pp. 95-105. Interagency Archaeological Services, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, Heritage Conservation and Recreation Services, U.S. Department of Interior, Washington DC.

Peer-Reviewed Monographs, edited/authored as Principal Investigator (reviewed by agency/outside archaeologists and recommended for revision, publication, or not, as per research design and proposal compliance and in accordance with federal and state guidelines)

Thoms, Alston V. Karl Kibler, and Douglas Boyd (editors) 2015 Earth Ovens, Geophytes, and Microfossils: Investigating Burned Rock Features and Archaeobotanical Remains on Fort Hood, Central Texas. Research Report No. 65. Archeological Resource Management Series, U.S. Army, Fort Hood, Texas.

Thoms, Alston V. and Rolfe D. Mandel (editors) 2007 Archaeological and Paleoecological Investigations at the Richard Beene Site, 41BX831, South- Central Texas. Reports of Investigation No. 8 (two volumes), Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. and Patricia A. Clabaugh (editors) 2006 Sites and Site Formation Processes in the Tobacco Plains and Vicinity: Archaeological Investigations in the Middle Kootenai River Valley, Northwest Montana. Reports of Investigation No. 9, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. (editor) 2004 Yegua Creek Archaeological Project: Survey Results from Lake Somerville State Parks and Trailway, East-Central Texas. Reports of Investigation No. 5, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. (editor) 2001 Reassessing Cultural Extinction: Change and Survival at Mission San Juan Capistrano, Texas. Joint publication: Reports of Investigation No. 4, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station and the National Park Service, San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, San Antonio.

Thoms, Alston V. (editor) 2001 A Cultural Resources Survey of Proposed Water Pipeline Route in South Bexar County, Texas. Technical Report No. 3, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. (editor) 2000 Uncovering Camp Ford: Archaeological Interpretations of a Confederate Prisoner-of-War Camp in East Texas. Reports of Investigations No.1, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. (editor) 2000 Tool-Stone Procurement Areas on Callahan Divide: A Survey of Camp Barkeley, Taylor County, Texas. Technical Report No. 2, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

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Peer-Reviewed Monographs, edited/authored as Principal Investigator, continued

Andrefsky, William A. Jr., Greg C. Burtchard, K. M. Presler, Steven R. Samuels, Paul H. Sanders, Alston V. Thoms (editors listed alphabetically) 2000 The Calispell Valley Archaeological Project Final Report. Project Report No. 16 (five volumes), Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. (editor) 1997 The Upper Keechi Creek Archaeological Project: Survey and Test Excavations at the Keechi Creek Wildlife Management Area, Leon County, Texas. Technical Report No. 3, Center for Environmental Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. (editor) 1994 The Valley Branch Archaeological Project: Excavations at an Archaic Site (41MU55) in the Cross Timbers Uplands, North-Central Texas. Reports of Investigation No. 15, Archaeological Research Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. (editor) 1993 The Brazos Valley Slopes Archaeological Project: Cultural Resources Assessments for the Texas A&M University Animal Science Teaching and Research Complex, Brazos County, Texas. Reports of Investigations No. 14, Archaeological Research Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. (editor) 1993 The White Creek Archaeological Project: Cultural Resources Assessments for the Proposed Texas A&M University Wastewater Treatment Plant, Brazos County, Texas. Reports of Investigations No. 13, Archaeological Research Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. (editor) 1993 Archaeological Survey at Fort Hood, Texas, Fiscal Year 1991 and 1992: Cantonment and Belton Lake Periphery Areas. Archaeological Resource Management Series, Research Report No. 25. United States Army Fort Hood, Texas.

Thoms, Alston V. 1992 An Archaeological Survey of 20 Home-Site Tracts, Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation, Lower Neches River Basin, Polk County, Texas. Technical Report Series No. 8. Archaeological Research Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Peer-Reviewed Monographs, edited/authored as Project Director (reviewed by agency/outside archaeologists and recommended for revision, publication, or not, as per research design and proposal compliance and in accordance with federal and state guidelines)

Thoms, Alston V. and Greg C. Burtchard (editors) 1987 Prehistoric Land Use in the Northern Rocky Mountains: A Perspective from the Middle Kootenai River Valley. Project Report 4, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. (editor) 1987 Upland Land Use and the Initial Assessment of 45PO148: The Sullivan Lake Archaeological Project, Northeastern Washington. Contributions in Cultural Resource Management No. 19, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

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Peer-Reviewed Monographs, edited/authored as Project Director, continued

Thoms, Alston V. and Greg C. Burtchard (editors) 1986 Calispell Valley Archaeological Project: Interim Report for 1984 and 1985 Field Seasons. Contributions in Cultural Resources Management, No. 10, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. (editor) 1984 Archeology, Environment, and Land Use Patterns in the Middle Kootenai River Valley. Project Report 2, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. Randall F. Schalk, and Robert R. Mierendorf 1984 Cultural Resources Protection Plan for the Libby Reservoir, Northwest Montana. Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. (contributions by Shelia J. Bobalik, Karen Dohm, Todd R. Metzger, Deborah Olson, and Stephan R. Samules) 1983 Archaeological Investigations in Upper McNary Reservoir: 1981-1982. Project Report 15, Laboratory of Archeology and History, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V., John L. Montgomery, and Alice Portnoy 1981 An Archaeological Survey of a Portion of Choke Canyon Reservoir Area, McMullen and Live Oak Counties, Texas. Choke Canyon Series, Vol. III, Center for Archaeological Research, University of Texas at San Antonio.

Thoms, Alston V. and Denise Carlevato 1981 Cultural Resources Investigations along the Bonneville Power Administration’s Proposed Chemawa-Salem Transmission Line, Polk and Marion Counties, Oregon. Report 100-3, Bonneville Cultural Resources Group, Eastern Washington University Reports in Archaeology and History, Cheney.

Thoms, Alston V., Jerry Bowermon, Guy Muto, and David Hill 1980 Cultural Resources of the Proposed Bull Creek Reservoir, White and Faulkner Counties, Arkansas: A Preliminary Assessment. TECHRAD, Oklahoma City, report submitted to Mid-Arkansas Regional Water Development District, Little Rock, Arkansas.

Thoms, Alston V. and David Hill 1979 Cultural Resources Reconnaissance and Preliminary Assessment for the Arkansas City Local Protection Project, Cowley County, Kansas. TECHRAD, Oklahoma City, report submitted to the US Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District.

Thoms, Alston V. and David Proctor 1977 Archaeological Reconnaissance Survey of Portions of the Flood Control Improvement Area, Plainview, Hale County, Texas. Cultural Resources Institute, Texas Tech University, Lubbock., report submitted through Espey, Huston, and Associates, Inc., Austin, Texas to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District.

Thoms, Alston V. and John L. Montgomery 1976 The Archaeological Resources of the Brazos River Basin: A Summary Statement. Department of Anthropology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, report submitted to the US Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District.

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1976 The Paleontological Resources of the Brazos River Basin: A Summary Statement. Department of Anthropology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, report submitted to the US Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District. Peer-Reviewed Monographs, edited/authored as Project Director, continued

Thoms, Alston V. 1976 Cultural Resource Survey and Inventory--Historic and Prehistoric--Santa Cruz Reservoir Area, New Mexico: Volume II, Archaeological Resources. Department of Anthropology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, report submitted to the National Park Service, Santa Fe.

Chapters in Peer-Reviewed Monographs

Boyd, Douglas K., Karl W. Kibler, and Alston V. Thoms 2015 Introduction to the Fort Hood Archaeobotanical Project. In Earth Ovens, Geophytes, and Microfossils: Investigating Burned Rock Features and Archaeobotanical Remains on Fort Hood, Central Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, Douglas K. Boyd, and Karl W. Kibler, pp. 1-12. Research Report No. 65. Archeological Resource Management Series, U.S. Army, Fort Hood, Texas.

Thoms, Alston V. 2015 Earth Ovens at Fort Hood: Variation in Form and Function. In Earth Ovens, Geophytes, and Microfossils: Investigating Burned Rock Features and Archaeobotanical Remains on Fort Hood, Central Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, Douglas K. Boyd, and Karl W. Kibler, pp. 159-198. Research Report No. 65. Archeological Resource Management Series, U.S. Army, Fort Hood, Texas.

Thoms, Alston V. 2015 Earth-Oven Cookery: Historical Background and Introduction to the Fort Hood Microfossil Study. In Earth Ovens, Geophytes, and Microfossils: Investigating Burned Rock Features and Archaeobotanical Remains on Fort Hood, Central Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, Douglas K. Boyd, and Karl W. Kibler, pp. 199-215. Research Report No. 65. Archeological Resource Management Series, U.S. Army, Fort Hood, Texas.

Thoms, Alston V., Andrew R. Lawrence, Laura M. Short, and Masahiro (Thoms’ grad student) 2015 Electric Oven Experiments in Microfossil Taphonomy. In Earth Ovens, Geophytes, and Microfossils: Investigating Burned Rock Features and Archaeobotanical Remains on Fort Hood, Central Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, Douglas K. Boyd, and Karl W. Kibler, pp. 237-255. Research Report No. 65. Archeological Resource Management Series, U.S. Army, Fort Hood, Texas.

Thoms, Alston V. 2015 Actualistic Experiments: Building and Using Earth Ovens and Other Cookstone Facilities. In Earth Ovens, Geophytes, and Microfossils: Investigating Burned Rock Features and Archaeobotanical Remains on Fort Hood, Central Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, Douglas K. Boyd, and Karl W. Kibler, pp. 257-290. Research Report No. 65. Archeological Resource Management Series, U.S. Army, Fort Hood, Texas.

Lawrence, Andrew R., Laura M. Short (Thoms’ grad students), and Alston V. Thoms 2015 Results of Microfossil Analyses. In Earth Ovens, Geophytes, and Microfossils: Investigating Burned Rock Features and Archaeobotanical Remains on Fort Hood, Central Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, Douglas K. Boyd, and Karl W. Kibler, pp. 291-350. Research Report No. 65. Archeological Resource Management Series, U.S. Army, Fort Hood, Texas.

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Chapters in Peer-Reviewed Monographs, continued

Thoms, Alston V. and Douglas K. Boyd 2015 Learning from Geophytes, Earth Ovens, and Fort Hood’s Once-Hot Rocks. In Earth Ovens, Geophytes, and Microfossils: Investigating Burned Rock Features and Archaeobotanical Remains on Fort Hood, Central Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, Douglas K. Boyd, and Karl W. Kibler, pp. 369-403. Research Report No. 65. Archeological Resource Management Series, U.S. Army, Fort Hood, Texas.

Thoms, Alston V., Ben O. Olive, David D. Kuehn, John E. Dockall, and Patricia A. Clabaugh 2008 Investigations at 41BX859: A Stratified Late Holocene Site. In Prehistoric Archaeological Investigations in the Applewhite Reservoir Project Area, Bexar County, Texas, edited by David L. Carlson, Patricia A. Clabaugh, Rolfe D. Mandel, and Charlotte D. Pevny, pp. 287-312. Reports of Investigation 7, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V., Steven W. Ahr (Thoms’ grad student), and Patricia A. Clabaugh 2008 Pampopa-Talon Crossing and Heermann Ranch Sites: Results of the 1994 Southern Texas Archaeological Society Field School. In Prehistoric Archaeological Investigations in the Applewhite Reservoir Project Area, Bexar County, Texas, edited by David L. Carlson, Patricia A. Clabaugh, Rolfe D. Mandel, and Charlotte D. Pevny, pp. 313-336. Reports of Investigation 7, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 2007 Archaeological Studies at the Richard Beene Site. In Archaeological and Paleoecological Investigations at the Richard Beene; Site, 41BX831, South-Central Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms and Rolfe D. Mandel, pp.1-13. Reports of Investigation 8, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. and Rolfe D. Mandel 2007 Ecological Setting: The Lower Medina River Valley and Surrounding Inner Gulf Coastal Plain. In Archaeological and Paleoecological Investigations at the Richard Beene; Site, 41BX831, South-Central Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms and Rolfe D. Mandel, pp.15-26. Reports of Investigation 8, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, Texas A&M

Thoms, Alston V. 2007 Excavation Areas in Pedostratigraphic and Site-Formation Contexts. In Archaeological and Paleoecological Investigations at the Richard Beene Site, 41BX831, South-Central Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms and Rolfe D. Mandel, pp. 61-82. Reports of Investigation 8, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 2007 Cultural Contexts: Ethnohistoric and Archaeological Records. In Archaeological and Paleoecological Investigations at the Richard Beene Site, 41BX831, South-Central Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms and Rolfe D. Mandel, pp. 121-136. Reports of Investigation 8, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 2007 Excavation Strategies and the General Nature of Archaeological Deposits. In Archaeological and Paleoecological Investigations at the Richard Beene Site, 41BX831, South-Central Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms and Rolfe D. Mandel, pp.137-174. Reports of Investigation 8, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, Texas A&M University, College Station.

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Thoms, Alston V. 2007 Archaeological Records at the Richard Beene Site: Summary and Synthesis. In Archaeological and Paleoecological Investigations at the Richard Beene Site, 41BX831, South-Central Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms and Rolfe D. Mandel, pp. 337-380. Reports of Investigation 8, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 2006 Archaeological Studies at Lake Koocanusa and the Tobacco Plains, 1994-2006: Project Background and Research Orientation. In Sites and Site Formation Processes in the Tobacco Plains and Vicinity: Archaeological Investigations in the Middle Kootenai River Valley, Northwest Montana, edited by Alston V. Thoms and Patricia A. Clabaugh, pp. 1-14. Reports of Investigation No. 9, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 2006 Ethnographically Documented Land-Use Patterns and Archaeological Expectations. In Sites and Site Formation Processes in the Tobacco Plains and Vicinity: Archaeological Investigations in the Middle Kootenai River Valley, Northwest Montana, edited by Alston V. Thoms and Patricia A. Clabaugh, pp. 59-76. Reports of Investigation No. 9, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 2006 Cook-Stone Feature Preservation Issues and Site Integrity in Lake Koocanusa and Vicinity. In Sites and Site Formation Processes in the Tobacco Plains and Vicinity: Archaeological Investigations in the Middle Kootenai River Valley, Northwest Montana, edited by Alston V. Thoms and Patricia A. Clabaugh, pp. 311-336. Reports of Investigation No. 9, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 2006 Site Distributions and Cook-Stone Features in the Tobacco Plains and Canyon Zones. In Sites and Site Formation Processes in the Tobacco Plains and Vicinity: Archaeological Investigations in the Middle Kootenai River Valley, Northwest Montana, edited by Alston V. Thoms and Patricia A. Clabaugh, pp. 337-352. Reports of Investigation No. 9, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 2006 Summary: National Register Evaluations, Land-Use Findings and Interpretations for Hunter- Gatherer and Agro-Industrial Sites. In Sites and Site Formation Processes in the Tobacco Plains and Vicinity: Archaeological Investigations in the Middle Kootenai River Valley, Northwest Montana, edited by Alston V. Thoms and Patricia A. Clabaugh, pp. 353-368. Reports of Investigation No. 9, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 2004 Archaeological Surveys at Lake Somerville State Parks and Trailway, Burleson and Lee Counties, Texas. In Yegua Creek Archaeological Project: Survey Results from Lake Somerville State Parks and Trailway, East-Central Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 1-7. Reports of Investigations No. 5, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 2004 Natural Resource Structure and Land-Use Potential in the Middle Reach of the Yegua Creek Basin. In Yegua Creek Archaeological Project: Survey Results from Lake Somerville State Parks and Trailway, East-Central Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 9-28. Reports of Investigations No. 5, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

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Thoms, Alston V. 2004 Native American Land-Use in the Yegua Creek Basin and Vicinity: Ethnohistoric and Archaeological Records. In Yegua Creek Archaeological Project: Survey Results from Lake Somerville State Parks and Trailway, East-Central Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 35-48. Reports of Investigations No. 5, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V., Steven W. Ahr, Dawn Alexander, and Stephanie K. Judjahn (grad students). 2004 Native American Artifacts. In Yegua Creek Archaeological Project: Survey Results from Lake Somerville State Parks and Trailway, East-Central Texas, edited by A. V. Thoms, pp. 131-150. Reports of Investigations No. 5, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 2004 An Assessment of Archaeological Records at Lake Somerville State Parks and Trailway: Past Land-Use Patterns and Future Research Directions. In Yegua Creek Archaeological Project: Survey Results from Lake Somerville State Parks and Trailway, East-Central Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 169-186. Reports of Investigations No. 5, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. and J. Bryan Mason (Thoms’ grad student) 2001 Environmental Setting. In Prehistoric and Historic Occupation in Brazos County: Archaeological Investigations of Two City Parks, Veterans Park and Athletic Complex and Lick Creek Park, College Station, Texas, edited by J. Philip Dering and J. Bryan Mason, pp. 5-22. Technical Report No. 4, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. and J. Bryan Mason (Thoms’ grad student) 2001 Cultural Setting. In Prehistoric and Historic Occupation in Brazos County: Archaeological Investigations of Two City Parks, Veterans Park and Athletic Complex and Lick Creek Park, College Station, Texas, edited by J. Philip Dering and J. Bryan Mason, pp. 23-39. Technical Report No. 4, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 2001 Introduction to a Lineal Descent and Cultural Affiliation Study for Mission San Juan Capistrano, Texas. In Reassessing Cultural Extinction: Change and Survival at Mission San Juan Capistrano, Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 1-20. Joint publication: Reports of Investigation No. 4, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station and San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, National Park Service, San Antonio.

Thoms, Alston V. 2001 Historical Overview and Context for Reassessing Coahuiltecan Extinction at Mission San Juan. In Reassessing Cultural Extinction: Change and Survival at Mission San Juan Capistrano, Texas, edited Alston V. Thoms, pp. 21-46. Joint publication: Reports of Investigation No. 4, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station and San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, National Park Service, San Antonio.

Thoms, Alston V. 2001 Synthesis and Conclusions: Native American Lineal Descent and Cultural Affiliation Issues at Mission San Juan Capistrano, Texas. In Reassessing Cultural Extinction: Change and Survival at Mission San Juan Capistrano, Texas, edited Alston V. Thoms, pp. 129-148. Joint publication: Reports of Investigation No. 4, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station & San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, NPS, San Antonio.

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Thoms, Alston V. 2001 Introduction. In A Cultural Resources Survey of Proposed Water Pipeline Route in South Bexar County, Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 1-4. Technical Report No. 3, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 2001 Natural and Cultural Resources of the Project Area. In A Cultural Resources Survey of Proposed Water Pipeline Route in South Bexar County, Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 5-10. Technical Report No. 3, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V., Steven W. Ahr (Thoms’ grad student), David D. Keuhn, and Rolfe D. Mandel 2001 Archaeological Survey Methods and Results. In A Cultural Resources Survey of Proposed Water Pipeline Route in South Bexar County, Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 11-24. Technical Report No. 3, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 2001 Summary and Recommendations. In A Cultural Resources Survey of Proposed Water Pipeline Route in South Bexar County, Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 43-44. Technical Report No. 3, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 2000 Introduction: Camp Barkeley. In Tool-Stone Procurement Areas on Callahan Divide: A Survey of Camp Barkeley, Taylor County, Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 41-67. Technical Report No. 2, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. and Damon A. Burton (grad student). 2000 Nature and Distribution of Cultural Materials at Camp Barkeley. In Tool-Stone Procurement Areas on Callahan Divide: A Survey of Camp Barkeley, Taylor County, Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 41-67. Technical Report No. 2, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 2000 Management Summary and Recommendations. In Tool-Stone Procurement Areas on Callahan Divide: A Survey of Camp Barkeley, Taylor County, Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 69- 72. Technical Report No. 2, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 2000 Introduction to the Camp Ford Archaeological and Historical Project. In Uncovering Camp Ford: Archaeological Interpretations of a Confederate Prisoner-of-War Camp in East Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 1-6. Reports of Investigations No.1, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 2000 Environmental Background, Land-Use History, and Site Integrity. In Uncovering Camp Ford: Archaeological Interpretations of a Confederate Prisoner-of-War Camp in East Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 7-26. Reports of Investigations No.1, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

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Thoms, Alston V. 2000 Historical Context and Synthesis of African-American Roles at Camp Ford and Vicinity. In Uncovering Camp Ford: Archaeological Interpretations of a Confederate Prisoner-of-War Camp in East Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 39-53. Reports of Investigations No.1, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. and Ben W. Olive (grad student) 2000 Field Strategies for Documenting Archaeological Remains at Camp Ford. In Uncovering Camp Ford: Archaeological Interpretations of a Confederate Prisoner-of-War Camp in East Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 55-71. Reports of Investigations No.1, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. and Patricia A. Clabaugh (grad student) 2000 General Nature and Distribution of Archaeological Features at Camp Ford. In Uncovering Camp Ford: Archaeological Interpretations of a Confederate Prisoner-of-War Camp in East Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 73-119. Reports of Investigations No.1, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University.

Thoms, Alston V. 2000 Synthesis of the Camp Ford Archaeological and Historical Project. In Uncovering Camp Ford: Archaeological Interpretations of a Confederate Prisoner-of-War Camp in East Texas, edited by A. V. Thoms, pp. 233-243. Reports of Investigations No.1, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Alston V. Thoms and Greg C. Burtchard 2000 Research Design. In The Calispell Valley Archaeological Project Final Report, edited by William A. Andrefsky, Jr., Greg C. Burtchard, K. M. Presler, Steven R. Samuels, Paul H. Sanders, Alston V. Thoms, 2.1- 2.12. Project Report No. 16 (five volumes), Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. 1997 Introduction to the Upper Keechi Creek Archaeological Project. In The Upper Keechi Creek Archaeological Project: Survey and Test Excavations at the Keechi Creek Wildlife Management Area, Leon County, Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 1-6. Technical Report No. 3, Center for Environmental Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 1997 Environmental Setting: Eastern Fringe of the Post Oak Savannah. In The Upper Keechi Creek Archaeological Project: Survey and Test Excavations at the Keechi Creek Wildlife Management Area, Leon County, Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 7-22. Technical Report No. 3, Center for Environmental Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V., Stephanie K. Judjahn, and Steven W. Ahr (Thoms’ grad students) 1997 Cultural Setting: Western Fringe of Native Agriculture. In The Upper Keechi Creek Archaeological Project: Survey and Test Excavations at the Keechi Creek Wildlife Management Area, Leon County, Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 23-36. Technical Report No. 3, Center for Environmental Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 1997 Land Use, Site Integrity, and Cultural Resources Management: Recommendations for the Keechi Wildlife Management Area. In The Upper Keechi Creek Archaeological Project: Survey and Test Excavations at the Keechi Creek Wildlife Management Area, Leon County, Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 71-76. Technical Report No. 3, Center for Environmental Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

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Thoms, Alston V. 1995 Sediments and Natural Site-Formation Processes at 41WT5. In The Anson Jones Plantation: Archaeological and Historical Investigations at 41WT5 and 41WT6, Washington County, Texas, edited by Shawn Bonath Carlson, pp. 107-132. Reports of Investigation No. 2. Center for Environmental Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 1994 Introduction and Research Strategies. In The Valley Branch Archaeological Project: Excavations at an Archaic Site (41MU55) in the Cross Timbers Uplands, North-Central Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 1-8. Reports of Investigation No. 15, Archaeological Research Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 1994 The Central Cross Timbers: Resource Productivity Potential from a Hunter-Gatherer Land-Use Perspective. In The Valley Branch Archaeological Project: Excavations at an Archaic Site (41MU55) in the Cross Timbers Uplands, North-Central Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 9-24. Reports of Investigation No. 15, Archaeological Research Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 1994 Hunter-Gatherer and Horticulturists in the Cross Timbers: Evidence from the Ethnohistoric and Archaeological Records. In The Valley Branch Archaeological Project: Excavations at an Archaic Site (41MU55) in the Cross Timbers Uplands, North-Central Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 25-41. Reports of Investigation No. 15, Archaeological Research Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. and Patricia A. Clabaugh (grad student) 1994 Residue Analysis as Assessment of Artifact and Feature Function: Analysis of Replicated Specimens and Stone Artifacts from 41MU55. In The Valley Branch Archaeological Project: Excavations at an Archaic Site (41MU55) in the Cross Timbers Uplands, North-Central Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 151-166. Reports of Investigation No. 15, Archaeological Research Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V., Ben W. Olive, and Patricia A. Clabaugh (grad students) 1994 Disarticulation of the Valley Branch Site: Landscape Evolution and Natural Site-Formation Processes. In The Valley Branch Archaeological Project: Excavations at an Archaic Site (41MU55) in the Cross Timbers Uplands, North-Central Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms,, pp. 167-186. Reports of Investigation No. 15, Archaeological Research Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 1994 Summary Comments on the Valley Branch Site: Natural Resources, Site-Formation Processes, Assemblages, and Land-Use Implications. In The Valley Branch Archaeological Project: Excavations at an Archaic Site (41MU55) in the Cross Timbers Uplands, North-Central Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms,, pp. 187-192. Reports of Investigation No. 15, Archaeological Research Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 1993 The Brazos Valley Slopes Archaeological Project. In The Brazos Valley Slopes Archaeological Project: Cultural Resources Assessments for the Texas A&M University Animal Science Teaching and Research Complex, Brazos County, Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 1-6. Reports of Investigations No. 14, Archaeological Research Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station.

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Thoms, Alston V. 1993 The Structure of Natural Resources in the Post Oak Savannah: Regional Productivity Potential. In The Brazos Valley Slopes Archaeological Project: Cultural Resources Assessments for the Texas A&M University Animal Science Teaching and Research Complex, Brazos County, Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 7-20. Reports of Investigations No. 14, Archaeological Research Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 1993 Indian Land Use: Examples and Patterns in the Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Records. In The Brazos Valley Slopes Archaeological Project: Cultural Resources Assessments for the Texas A&M University Animal Science Teaching and Research Complex, Brazos County, Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 21-32. Reports of Investigations No. 14, Archaeological Research Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 1993 Buried in the Sandy Mantle: Site Formation in the Post Oak Savannah. In The Brazos Valley Slopes Archaeological Project: Cultural Resources Assessments for the Texas A&M University Animal Science Teaching and Research Complex, Brazos County, Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 51-60. Reports of Investigations No. 14, Archaeological Research Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. and Ben Olive (grad student) 1993 The ASTRC Landscape and Natural Site-Formation Processes: Sandy Mantle Sediments and Reconstituted Cultural Stratigraphy. In The Brazos Valley Slopes Archaeological Project: Cultural Resources Assessments for the Texas A&M University Animal Science Teaching and Research Complex, Brazos County, Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 61-81. Reports of Investigations No. 14, Archaeological Research Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 1993 Summary of Assessment Strategies, Results, and Recommendations for the Sites’ Eligibility to the National Register of Historic Places. In The Brazos Valley Slopes Archaeological Project: Cultural Resources Assessments for the Texas A&M University Animal Science Teaching and Research Complex, Brazos County, Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 145-156. Reports of Investigations No. 14, Archaeological Research Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 1993 The White Creek Archaeological Project. In The White Creek Archaeological Project: Cultural Resources Assessments for the Proposed Texas A&M University Wastewater Treatment Plant, Brazos County, Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 1-6. Reports of Investigations No. 13, Archaeological Research Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 1993 Land-Use Potential: Structure of Natural Resources. In The White Creek Archaeological Project: Cultural Resources Assessments for the Proposed Texas A&M University Wastewater Treatment Plant, Brazos County, Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 7-24. Reports of Investigations No. 13, Archaeological Research Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station.

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Thoms, Alston V. 1993 Indian Land-Use: Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Records. In The White Creek Archaeological Project: Cultural Resources Assessments for the Proposed Texas A&M University Wastewater Treatment Plant, Brazos County, Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 25-32. Reports of Investigations No. 13, Archaeological Research Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Shawn Bonath Carlson and Alston V. Thoms 1993 Research Conclusions and Research Potential. In The White Creek Archaeological Project: Cultural Resources Assessments for the Proposed Texas A&M University Wastewater Treatment Plant, Brazos County, Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 101-106. Reports of Investigations No. 13, Archaeological Research Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 1993 Summary of Assessment Strategies and Recommendations for the Sites’ Eligibility to the National Register of Historic Places. In The White Creek Archaeological Project: Cultural Resources Assessments for the Proposed Texas A&M University Wastewater Treatment Plant, Brazos County, Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 107-112. Reports of Investigations No. 13, Archaeological Research Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 1993 Introduction. In Archaeological Survey at Fort Hood, Texas, Fiscal Year 1991 and 1992: Cantonment and Belton Lake Periphery Areas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 1-8. Archaeological Resource Management Series, Research Report No. 25. United States Army Fort Hood, Texas.

Thoms, Alston V. and David. L. Carlson 1993 Research Strategies. In Archaeological Survey at Fort Hood, Texas, Fiscal Year 1991 and 1992: Cantonment and Belton Lake Periphery Areas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 9-14. Archaeological Resource Management Series, Research Report No. 25. United States Army Fort Hood, Texas.

Thoms, Alston V. 1993 Environmental Background and Local Landscape. In Archaeological Survey at Fort Hood, Texas, Fiscal Year 1991 and 1992: Cantonment and Belton Lake Periphery Areas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 15-27. Archaeological Resource Management Series, Research Report No. 25. United States Army Fort Hood, Texas.

Thoms, Alston V. and Ben W. Olive (grad student) 1993 Archaeological Data and Late Prehistoric Period Population Dynamics. In Archaeological Survey at Fort Hood, Texas, Fiscal Year 1991 and 1992: Cantonment and Belton Lake Periphery Areas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 43-60. Archaeological Resource Management Series, Research Report No. 25. United States Army Fort Hood, Texas.

Thoms, Alston V., David. L. Carlson, and Ben W. Olive (grad student) 1993 Recommendations and Conclusions. In Archaeological Survey at Fort Hood, Texas, Fiscal Yar 1991 and 1992: Cantonment and Belton Lake Periphery Areas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 69-78. Archaeological Resource Management Series, Research Report No. 25. United States Army Fort Hood, Texas.

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Thoms, Alston V., Ben W. Olive, and Ruth N. Riegel (grad students) 1993 Appendix I: Prehistoric Site Descriptions and Assessments. In Archaeological Survey at Fort Hood, Texas, Fiscal Year 1991 and 1992: Cantonment and Belton Lake Periphery Areas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 91-118. Archaeological Resource Management Series, Research Report No. 25. United States Army Fort Hood, Texas.

Thoms, Alston V., Ben W. Olive, and Ruth N. Riegel (grad students) 1993 Appendix II: Historic Site Descriptions and Assessments. In Archaeological Survey at Fort Hood, Texas, Fiscal Year 1991 and 1992: Cantonment and Belton Lake Periphery Areas, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 119-126. Archaeological Resource Management Series, Research Report No. 25. United States Army Fort Hood, Texas.

Thoms, Alston V., Deborah L. Olson, and Marilyn J. Wyss 1992 An Assessment of Archaeological Site 45PO149, Pioneer Campground, Newport, Washington. In Archaeological Investigations along the Pend Oreille River, edited by Paul H. Sanders, pp. B.1- B.47. Project Report Number 18, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. 1991 Research Strategies for the Centennial Trail Archaeological Project. In Archaeology of the Middle Spokane River Valley: Investigations along the Spokane Centennial Trail, edited by John A. Draper and William Andrefsky, Jr., pp. 2.1-2.13. Project Report No. 17, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. 1991 Landscape Evolution and Economic Resource Structure of the Middle Spokane River Valley. In Archaeology of the Middle Spokane River Valley: Investigations along the Spokane Centennial Trail, edited by John A. Draper and William Andrefsky, Jr., pp. 3.1-3.29. Project Report No. 17, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University.

Thoms, Alston V. 1989 Transition from Hunting and Gathering to Agro-Industrial Land Use in the Spokane Valley. In A Cultural Resource Survey of the Spokane River Centennial Trail: Phase I—Spokane to the Washington/Idaho Border, edited by Randall Schalk and Marilyn Wyss, pp. 10-47. Contributions in Cultural Resource Management No. 17. Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. 1987 An Introduction to the Middle Kootenai Archaeological Project. In Prehistoric Land Use in the Northern Rocky Mountains: A Perspective from the Middle Kootenai River Valley, edited by Alston V. Thoms and Greg C. Burtchard, pp. 15-16. Project Report 4, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. 1987 The Middle Kootenai Region and Archaeological Site 24LN1054: Resource Potential and Research Directions. In Prehistoric Land Use in the Northern Rocky Mountains: A Perspective from the Middle Kootenai River Valley, edited by Alston V. Thoms and Greg C. Burtchard, pp. 17- 56. Project Report 4, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. 1987 Characteristics of Ecosystems in the Northern Rocky Mountains. In Prehistoric Land Use in the Northern Rocky Mountains: A Perspective from the Middle Kootenai River Valley, edited by Alston V. Thoms and Greg C. Burtchard, pp. 123-174. Project Report 4, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

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Thoms, Alston V. 1987 Adaptive Strategies in the Northern Rockies: Land Use and Archaeological Assemblage Variation. In Prehistoric Land Use in the Northern Rocky Mountains: A Perspective from the Middle Kootenai River Valley, edited by Alston V. Thoms and Greg C. Burtchard, pp. 231-278. Project Report 4, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Mierendorf, Robert R, Greg C. Burtchard and Alston V. Thoms 1987 The Regional Stratigraphic Record and Stratigraphy at 41LN1054. In Prehistoric Land Use in the Northern Rocky Mountains: A Perspective from the Middle Kootenai River Valley, edited by Alston V. Thoms and Greg C. Burtchard, pp. 303-336. Project Report 4, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Burtchard, Greg C. and Alston V. Thoms 1987 Site Structure and Data Recovery at 24LN1054. In Prehistoric Land Use in the Northern Rocky Mountains: A Perspective from the Middle Kootenai River Valley, edited by Alston V. Thoms and Greg C. Burtchard, pp. 459-490. Project Report 4, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. and Greg C. Burtchard 1987 Land Use in the Middle Kootenai Region: An Initial Perspective from the Bristow Creek Locality. In Prehistoric Land Use in the Northern Rocky Mountains: A Perspective from the Middle Kootenai River Valley, edited by Alston V. Thoms and Greg C. Burtchard, pp. 491-510. Project Report 4, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. and Greg C. Burtchard 1987 Continuing Data Recovery at 24LN1054 and Other Sites in the Bristow Creek Locality and the Reservoir Area. In Prehistoric Land Use in the Northern Rocky Mountains: A Perspective from the Middle Kootenai River Valley, edited by Alston V. Thoms and Greg C. Burtchard, pp. 511- 518. Project Report 4, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. 1987 The Sullivan Lake Archaeological Project. In Upland Land Use and the Initial Assessment of 45PO148: The Sullivan Lake Archaeological Project, Northeastern Washington, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 1-8. Contributions in Cultural Resource Management No. 19, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. 1987 Strategies for Archaeological Investigations. In Upland Land Use and the Initial Assessment of 45PO148: The Sullivan Lake Archaeological Project, Northeastern Washington, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 9-16. Contributions in Cultural Resource Management No. 19, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. 1987 Ecological and Cultural Contexts for Understanding the Archaeology of Sullivan Lake. In Upland Land Use and the Initial Assessment of 45PO148: The Sullivan Lake Archaeological Project, Northeastern Washington, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 17-36. Contributions in Cultural Resource Management No. 19, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

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Thoms, Alston V. 1987 The “Fit” between Expected and Observed Patterns at 45PO148. In Upland Land Use and the Initial Assessment of 45PO148: The Sullivan Lake Archaeological Project, Northeastern Washington, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 63-74. Contributions in Cultural Resource Management No. 19, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. 1987 Upland Land Use in the West-Central Selkirks: A Perspective from Sullivan Lake. In Upland Land Use and the Initial Assessment of 45PO148: The Sullivan Lake Archaeological Project, Northeastern Washington, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 75-82. Contributions in Cultural Resource Management No. 19, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. 1987 Recommendations for Continuing Investigations. In Upland Land Use and the Initial Assessment of 45PO148: The Sullivan Lake Archaeological Project, Northeastern Washington, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 83-86. Contributions in Cultural Resource Management No. 19, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. 1986 An Introduction to the 1984-1986 Calispell Valley Archaeological Project. In Calispell Valley Archaeological Project: Interim Report for 1984 and 1985 Field Seasons, edited by Alton V. Thoms and Greg C. Burtchard, pp. 1-6. Contributions in Cultural Resources Management, No. 10, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. 1986 Resource Potential and Research Directions in the Calispell Valley. In Calispell Valley Archaeological Project: Interim Report for 1984 and 1985 Field Seasons, edited by Alton V. Thoms and Greg C. Burtchard, pp. 7-59. Contributions in Cultural Resources Management, No. 10, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. 1986 Hot Rocks: The Short-Term Storage of Energy in the Calispell Valley. In Calispell Valley Archaeological Project: Interim Report for 1984 and 1985 Field Seasons, edited by Alton V. Thoms and Greg C. Burtchard, pp. 137-238. Contributions in Cultural Resources Management, No. 10, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. and Greg C. Burtchard 1986 New Research Data and Strategies for Continuing the Investigations of Land-Use Systems in the Calispell Valley. In Calispell Valley Archaeological Project: Interim Report for 1984 and 1985 Field Seasons, edited by Alton V. Thoms and Greg C. Burtchard, pp. 597-628. Contributions in Cultural Resources Management, No. 10, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. 1986 Introduction to the 1981-1984 Survey and Testing Project. In Archeology, Environment, and Land Use Patterns in the Middle Kootenai River Valley, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 1-6. Project Report 2, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. 1984 History and Summary of Cultural Resources Investigations in the Libby Reservoir Area. In Archeology, Environment, and Land Use Patterns in the Middle Kootenai River Valley, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 7-16. Project Report 2, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

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Chapters in Peer-Reviewed Monographs, continued

Thoms, Alston V. 1984 Investigative Strategies. In Archeology, Environment, and Land Use Patterns in the Middle Kootenai River Valley, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 49-68. Project Report 2, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. 1984 The General Nature and Distribution of Cultural Resources. In Archeology, Environment, and Land Use Patterns in the Middle Kootenai River Valley, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 69-106. Project Report 2, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. 1984 Lithic Artifacts: Form and Function. In Archeology, Environment, and Land Use Patterns in the Middle Kootenai River Valley, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 137-214. Project Report 2, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. 1984 Historic Sites and Artifacts. In Archeology, Environment, and Land Use Patterns in the Middle Kootenai River Valley, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 239-260. Project Report 2, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. 1984 Site Analysis and Selected Descriptions. In Archeology, Environment, and Land Use Patterns in the Middle Kootenai River Valley, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 261-362. Project Report 2, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. and Randall F. Schalk 1984 Prehistoric Land Use in the Middle Kootenai Valley. In Archeology, Environment, and Land Use Patterns in the Middle Kootenai River Valley, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 363-378. Project Report 2, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Schalk, Randall F., Alston V. Thoms, and Robert R. Mierendorf 1984 The Significance and Potential of Identified Cultural Resources at Libby Reservoir. In Archeology, Environment, and Land Use Patterns in the Middle Kootenai River Valley, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 379-388. Project Report 2, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V., Randall F. Schalk, and Robert R. Mierendorf 1984 Directions for Future Research. In Archeology, Environment, and Land Use Patterns in the Middle Kootenai River Valley, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 389-402. Project Report 2, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. 1984 A Summary of the Archaeology, Environment, and Land Use in the Middle Kootenai River Valley, Northwest Montana. In Archeology, Environment, and Land Use Patterns in the Middle Kootenai River Valley, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 403-424. Project Report 2, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V., Jerry Bowermon, and Guy Muto 1980 Archeology. In A Study of Late Quaternary Environments and Early Man along the Tombigbee River, Alabama and Mississippi, pp. 5.1-5.288, edited by Guy Muto and Joel Gunn. Phase I interim report submitted to HCRS-IAS, National Park Service, Atlanta, GA by Benham-Blair and Affiliates, Inc., Oklahoma City.

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Encyclopedia Articles Thoms, Alston V. 2017 Burned-Rock Features. In Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology, edited by Allan S. Gilbert, pp. 89- 94. Springer Press, Amsterdam.

Thoms, Alston V. 2015 Fire and the Development of Cooking Technology. In The Archaeology of Food: An Encyclopedia, edited by Karen B. Metheny and Mary C. Beaudry, pp. 165-168. Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, MD.

Thoms, Alston V. 2015 Fire-Based Cooking Features. In The Archaeology of Food: An Encyclopedia, Volume 1, edited by Karen B. Metheny and Mary C. Beaudry, pp. 168-171. Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, MD.

Thoms, Alston V. 1998 Earth Ovens. In Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia, Volume 1edited by Guy Gibbon (and David Pokotylo, Plateau articles), pp. 232-235. Garland Publishing, Inc., New York.

Thoms, Alston V. 1998 Root Foods. In Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia, edited by Guy Gibbon (and David Pokotylo, Plateau articles), pp. 264-266. Garland Publishing, Inc., New York.

Invited Abstracts, Research Notes, and Reviews Thoms, Alston V. 2004 Parks as Big-Game Habitat and Root Grounds: Native Land-Use Patterns in the Northern Rocky Mountains. 18th Biennial Meeting of the American Quaternary Association; meeting symposium topic: “Quaternary Grasslands-Forest Dynamics,” Lawrence, Kansas; abstract published in AMQU 2004: Program and Abstracts, pp. 81-84.

Thoms, Alston V. 2003 Review of Archaeological Perspectives on the American Civil War, edited by C. R. Geier and S. R. Potter. The Journal of Southern History 69(1):196-198.

Thoms, Alston V. 1999 Review of Hot Rock Cooking on the Greater Edward Plateau: Four Burned Rock Midden Sites in West Central Texas, edited by S. Black and D. Creel. American Antiquity 64:172-173.

Thoms, Alston V. 1998 Camp Ford: A Civil War Era Prisoner-of-War Camp. News and Views: Cultural Resources Management (Texas Historical Commission) 10(1):9-13.

Thoms, Alston V., David D. Kuehn and Rolfe D. Mandel 1997 Mammoth Remains Discovered at 41BX1239. News and Views: Cultural Resources Management (Texas Historical Commission) 9(2): 13-16.

Thoms, Alston V. and Ben W. Olive 1997 A Late Holocene Component from Multicomponent Site. News and Views: Cultural Resources Management (Texas Historical Commission) 9(2): 16-19.

Other Articles, Short Monographs and Chapters (non-refereed) Thoms, Alston V. 2015 Of Foodways, Human Remains, and Health: NAGPRA as a Catalyst for Common-Ground Research. The SAA Archaeological Record: The Magazine of the Society for American Archaeology 15(1): 39-42.

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Other Articles, Short Monographs and Chapters (non-refereed), continued

Thoms, Alston V. 2013 Volunteer Profile: Alston V. Thoms. The SAA Archaeological Record: The Magazine of the Society for American Archaeology 13(5): 11.

Thoms, Alston V. 2009 Historical Accounts, Archaeological Observations, and Ecological Interpretations along the Xavier Road of the Caminos Reales Corridor, Milam County, Texas. Los Caminos: Quarterly Newsletter of the El Camino Real Chapter of the Texas Master Naturalist, Fall:9-11

Thoms, Alston V. and Masahiro Kamiya (Thoms’ grad student) 2006 In Search of Legends and Unmarked Graves: Archaeological Explorations at Columbia Cemetery, West Columbia, Texas. Reports of Findings No. 1, Archaeological Ecology Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. (editor) 2001 The Matagorda Cemetery Project: Unmarked Graves and Community Heritage. Technical Report No. 5, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 2001 Introduction. In The Matagorda Cemetery Project: Unmarked Graves and Community Heritage, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 1-8. Technical Report No. 5, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 2001 Uncovering Graves and Grave-Tending Activities. In The Matagorda Cemetery Project: Unmarked Graves and Community Heritage, edited by Alston V. Thoms, pp. 19-26. Technical Report No. 5, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 2001 Matagorda’s Graves: Marked and Unmarked, Always Honored. In The Matagorda Cemetery Project: Unmarked Graves and Community Heritage, edited by A. V. Thoms, pp. 61-66. Technical Report No. 5, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 2000 Emotion Enigma. Scientific American: Discovering Archaeology 2(3):72.

Thoms, Alston V. 1999 Protecting Lost Graves. Discovering Archaeology 1(3):100-102.

Thoms, Alston V. 1996 Forest Fires and Site Formation Processes: Field School Studies at the Experimental Archaeology Grounds. In A Management Strategy and Study of Prescribed Burning Impacts on Heritage Resources in Ponderosa Pine/Douglas-Fir Composition Types on the Kootenai National Forest, Northeast Montana, edited by Rebecca Timmons, pp. 37-43. United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Region, Kootenai National Forest, Libby, Montana.

Thoms, Alston V., Ben W. Olive (graduate student), David Kuhn, and Patricia A. Clabaugh 1996 Early and Middle Holocene Occupations at the Richard Beene Site: The 1995 Southern Texas Archaeological Association Field School Project. La Tierra 23 (4): 8-36).

Thoms, Alston V. and Steven W. Ahr (Thoms’ grad student). 1995 The Pampopa-Talon Crossings and Heermann Ranch Sites: Preliminary Results of the 1994 Southern Texas Archaeological Association Field School. La Tierra 22(2):34-67.

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Other Articles, Short Monographs and Chapters (non-refereed), continued

Thoms, Alston V. 1995 Kootenai Valley Archaeological Project: Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Studies in the Northern Rockies, Northwest Montana. Tebiwa 25(1):125-127.

Thoms, Alston V. 1988 The Roots of Village Life. Universe 1(1):2-4. The Graduate School, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thoms, Alston V. 1987 The Roots of Prehistory in the Calispell Valley. Big Smoke 1987:3-28. Pend Oreille County Historical Society, Washington, Idaho.

Schalk, Randall F., Thoms, Alston V., and Robert R. Mierendorf 1982 Contract Archeology in the Public and Private Sectors. American Society for Conservation Archeology Report 9:4-10.

Dissertation 1989 The Northern Roots of Hunter-Gatherer Intensification: Camas and the Pacific Northwest. Unpublished PhD dissertation (551 pp., William D. Lipe, Chair), Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Thesis 1977 A Preliminary Projectile Point Typology for the Southern Portion of the Northern Rio Grande Region, New Mexico, unpublished MA thesis (223 pp., William J. Mayer-Oakes, Chair), Department of Anthropology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

Recent (2010-2015) Invited Academic Lectures 2015 Native Texan Foodways: Getting to the Roots of Indigenous Cookery, opening lecture, Fifth Annual Foodways of Texas Symposium: “The Texas Mexican Table.” Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio.

2014 Ancient Roots of Tejas y Coahuila: 10,000 Years of Evidence of Indigenous Cookery, inaugural lecture, Native American/Hispanic Heritage Month, Palo Alto College, San Antonio

2014 Learning about the Archaeology of South-Central Texas from the Richard Beene Site: The Importance of Ethnographic and Ecological Contexts, guest lecture, Texas Archaeology (ANTH 3318), Texas State University, San Marcos

2013 Toward Common-Ground Research: Archaeologists and Native Americans in Texas and Beyond. Texas A&M Regents Scholars Class, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University, College Station

2013 Getting to the Roots of Cook-Stone Technology in Texas and Beyond, brown-bag talk, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University

2013 Getting to the Roots of Cook-Stone Technology in Texas and Beyond, guest lecture, Texas State University Archaeological Field Schools along the Lower Pecos River

2012 The Human Element at Lick Creek Park: From Ancient to Last-Century Lifeways in the Post Oak Savannah, guest lecture, Biology Undergraduate Seminar, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station

2011 Experimental Archaeology Lessons: Getting to the Roots of Cook-Stone Technology in Texas and Beyond, guest lecture, Experimental Archaeology Club, Texas A&M University

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Recent (2010-2015) Invited Academic Lectures, continued

2011 Large Scale Excavations, Examples from the Pacific Northwest and Texas, guest lecture, Introduction to Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Texas State University, San Marcos

2011 Earth-Oven Cookery: Lessons from Ecology, Indians, Archaeologists, and Once-Hot Rocks, invited lecture, Pecos River Field School, Texas State University

2011 Learning from Once Hot Rocks: Getting to the Roots of Cook-Stone Technology in Texas and Beyond, inaugural lecture series, Department of Anthropology, Forensic Science and Archaeology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas.

2011 Ancient Roots of Pre-Agricultural Carbohydrate Revolutions and Cook-Stone Technology, invited lecture, Institute of Quantum Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station.

2010-2014 Anthropological Approaches to Historic Preservation, annual guest lecture, Architecture 446: Introduction to Historic Preservation, Department of Architecture, Texas A&M University, College Station

2010 Archaeological Quests for Ancient Carbohydrate Revolutions: Methods, Evidence, and Results from Texas, invited lecture, Pecos River Field School, Texas State University

2010 Remarkable Respect among New World Conquistadores: Reflections on Cabeza de Vaca’s American Transcontinental Journey, 1528-1537, invited lecture, Encounters along the Journey: An Interdisciplinary Symposium, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Professional Symposia Chaired/Organized Thoms, Alston V. (Chair) 2010 Evidencing Ancient Carbohydrate Revolutions in South-Central North America (4 participants). Poster Symposium. 75nd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, Missouri.

Thoms, Alston V. and Rolfe D. Mandel (Co-Chair) 2007 Late Pleistocene and Holocene Paleoecology and Archaeology at the Richard Beene Site, Coastal Plain, South-Central North America (10 participants), 72nd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas

Thoms, Alston V. (Chair and Co-Organizer with James Bruseth, Discussion/Forum) 1997 Current Perspectives on Site Integrity and Significance in Texas (12 participants), 68th Annual Meeting of the Texas Archeological Society, Odessa.

Thoms, Alston V. and Jeffery Leach (Chair and Co-Organizer) 1997 Learning from Once-Hot Rocks (Part 1): Middle-Range Archaeological Research Strategies for Burned-Rock Studies (12 participants), 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Nashville, Tennessee.

Jeffery Leach and Alston V. Thoms (Co-Organizer) 1997 Co-Organizer: Learning from Once-Hot Rocks (Part 2): Archaeological Case Studies for Burned- Rock Studies (12 participants), 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Nashville, Tennessee.

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Professional Symposia Chaired/Organized, continued

Thoms, Alston V. (Chair) 1996 Cook-Stone Archaeology in Texas: Assessing the Nature of Fire-Cracked Rock Features in South- Central North America (12 participants), 67th Annual Meeting of the Texas Archeological Society, San Antonio.

Thoms, Alston V. (Chair and Co-Organizer) and Greg C. Burtchard 1986 The Calispell Valley Archaeological Project (6 participants), 39th Annual Meeting of the Northwest Anthropological Conference, Moscow, Idaho.

Invited Presentations at Professional Meetings Thoms, Alston V. (discussant) 2014 Collaboration 101: Practical Tips and Cautionary Tales in Community-Based Archaeology, a Forum. 79nd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas.

Thoms, Alston V. and Ramon Vasquez 2011 From Graves to Health: Finding Common Ground in Texas, Land Heritage Institute and Native Foodways. Opening Session/Presidential Forum: NAGPRA: Creating the Next Generation of Research Questions and Practices, presented at the 76nd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, California.

Thoms, Alston V. 2010 Ancient Foodways without Borders: Microscopic Evidence and Its Contemporary Potential. Opening session/round table: Archaeology without Borders, presented at the 81st annual meeting of the Texas Archaeological Society, Corpus Christi.

Thoms, Alston V. 2010 Early Holocene Earth Ovens in South-Central North America: Evidence of Ancient Carbohydrate Revolutions with Bioanthropological Ramifications? Presented in a poster symposium entitled Evidencing Ancient Carbohydrate Revolutions in South-Central North America at the 75nd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, Missouri.

Thoms, Alston V., Andrew Laurence, Masahiro Kamiya, Laura Short, and Sunshine Thomas (Thoms’ grad students) 2010 From Geophytes and Nuts to Cook-Stones and Beyond: Experimentally Tracking Wild Microfossils from Their Contemporary Hideouts in Texas to Ancient Cooking Facilities. Council of Texas Archeologists, Spring Meeting, Austin.

Thoms, Alston V. 2008 Toward Understanding Burned Rock Midden Variability in South-Central North America: A Comparative Perspective from the Pacific Northwest. Burned-Rock Midden Session, Spring Meeting, Council of Texas Archeologists, Austin.

Thoms, Alston V. 2007 Allaying Suspicions and Forming Alliances: Toward Collaboration at the Richard Beene Site, South-Central Texas, “Opening Session” entitled Borders, Boundaries, and Bridges in Texas Archaeology. 72nd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas.

Thoms, Alston V. 2007 Land-Use Localization: An Intensification Hallmark of Early-to-Late Holocene Hunter-Gatherers at the Richard Beene Site, Late Pleistocene and Holocene Paleoecology and Archaeology at the Richard Beene Site, Coastal Plain, South-Central North America symposium, 72nd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas.

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Invited Presentations at Professional Meetings, continued

Thoms, Alston V., Eileen Johnson, S. Christopher Caran, and Rolfe D. Mandel 2006 Mammoth-Bone Quarrying in the Post Oak Savannah and Vicinity: An Ecological Perspective. Paleo-Indian symposium, 77th Annual Meeting of the Texas Archaeological Society, San Angelo.

Thoms, Alston V., Eileen Johnson, S. Christopher Caran, and Rolfe D. Mandel 2005 Glimpses of Mammoth-Bone Quarrying on North America’s Western Gulf Coastal Plain: Two New Mammoth Localities near San Antonio, Texas. 2nd International World of Elephants Congress, Hot Springs, South Dakota.

Thoms, Alston V. 2005 Ancient Savannah Roots of the Carbohydrate Revolution: 9000-500 B.P. Symposium titled Where the West Begins and Why: An Ancient Ethnobotanical Boundary; 46th Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany: The Economics of Ethnobotany, Fort Worth, Texas.

Thoms, Alston V. 2005 Early Archaic Components at the Richard Beene Site, Bexar County, Texas. Early Archaic Session, Spring Meeting, Council of Texas Archeologists, Austin.

Thoms, Alston V. 2001 Of Fire, Food, and Heritage: Archaeological Insights into Long-Term Increases in Cooking Costs. Conference, Archaeology on the Pecos: Taking Stock of 30 Years of Archaeological Investigations on Public Lands in Southeast New Mexico; New Mexico Archaeological Council, Carlsbad.

Thoms, Alston V. 2000 Cook-Stone Technology in North America: Evolutionary Changes in Domestic Fire Structures during the Holocene. International symposium, Le Feu Domestique et Ses Structures: Au Neolithique et aux Ages des Metaux (Domestic Fire Structures from the Neolithic through the Metal Ages); Bourg-en-Bresse and Beaune, France.

Thoms, Alston V. 2000 Muddy Water and Clean Sand: Site-Formation Lessons from Camp Ford. Geoarchaeology Symposium; 71st Annual Meeting of the Texas Archaeological Society, Houston.

Thoms, Alston V. 1999 Archaeological Insights into the Texas Corner of the Confederacy: Camp Ford, CSA, a POW Encampment. Military history symposium; 103rd Annual Meeting of the Texas State Historical Association, Dallas.

Thoms, Alston V. 1999 Integrity and Diversity at Camp Ford: Archaeological Insights into a Confederate POW Camp. Public Forum presentation; 70th Annual Meeting of the Texas Archaeological Society, Fort Worth.

Thoms, Alston V. 1998 Natural Site-Formation Processes on Sandy Upland Landforms: Examples from Northwest and South-Central North America. Site-formation symposium; 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle, Washington.

Thoms, Alston V. (co-discussant) 1998 Culture and Landscape in the North American Interior Far West symposium; 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle, Washington.

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Invited Presentations at Professional Meetings, continued

Thoms, Alston V. 1995 Late Paleoindian Phantoms and Early Archaic Land-Use Strategies: A Savannah Perspective from the Southeastern Periphery of the Southern Plains. Paleoindian Archaeology Symposium; 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Presented Papers/Posters at Professional Meetings Thoms, Alston V., Andrew R. Laurence, Masahiro Kamiya (Thoms’ grad students), and Vaughn M. Bryant 2011 Experimentally Tracking Geophyte Microfossils from Raw to Baked Residue Status. Poster presentation at the 76th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, California.

Laurence, Andrew (Thoms’ grad student) and Alston V. Thoms 2011 Microscopic Revelations from Pre-Columbian Earth Ovens in Central. Poster presentation at the 76th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, California. Presented Papers/Posters at Professional Meetings, continued

Thoms, Alston V., Andrew R. Laurence, Masahiro Kamiya (Thoms’ grad students), and Vaughn M. Bryant 2010 Calling Up, Mobilizing, Deploying, and Re-Deploying Microfossils: Experimentally Tracking Geophytes USOs from Raw to Baked-Residue Status. Poster presentation at the 81st annual meeting of the Texas Archaeological Society, Corpus Christi.

Thoms, Alston V. 2006 Pathways to Ancient Lifeways in South Bexar County: Archaeological Revelations of 9,000 years of Hunting and Gathering along the Medina River. Quarterly meeting/lecture sponsored by the Southern Texas Archaeological Association, San Antonio.

Thoms, Alston V. 2005 Blackened Geophytes and Reddened Cooking Stones: Archaeological Testimonies for Carbohydrate Revolutions in Texas’ Post Oak Savannah. 76th Annual Meeting of the Texas Archaeological Society, Austin.

Thoms, Alston V. and Patricia A. Clabaugh 2004 Buried in Medina River Bottomland: A Final Overview of Tools and Features at the Richard Beene Site (41BX831), South-Central Texas. 75th Annual Meeting of the Texas Archaeologist Society, College Station.

Thoms, Alston V. 2002 Rolling Rocks and Shifting Sands: Frames of Reference for Assessing Stratigraphic Integrity on Stable Sandy Landforms. 67th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Denver, Colorado.

Thoms, Alston V. 2001 Reassessing Coahuiltecan Extinction: A Perspective from Mission San Juan Capistrano, San Antonio, Texas. 72nd Annual Meeting of the Texas Archeological Society, Corpus Christi.

Thoms, Alston V. 2001 Unmarked Graves and Community Heritage: The Matagorda Cemetery Project. 72nd Annual Meeting, Texas Archeological Society, Corpus Christi.

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Presented Papers/Posters at Professional Meetings, continued

Thoms, Alston V., Robert Glover, Ben W. Olive (grad student) and Patricia A. Clabaugh 1997 POWs, Slaves, Rebels, and Citizens during the American Civil War: Preliminary Archaeological Investigations, Camp Ford, Texas, C.S.A. 68th Annual Meeting, Texas Archeological Society, Odessa.

Thoms, Alston V. 1997 Long-Term Trends in the Use of Rock Heating Elements: Implications for Land-Use Change. 62nd Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Nashville, Tennessee.

Thoms, Alston V. 1996 Texas Cooking with Cabeza de Vaca: Implications for Cook-Stone Technology and Past Land Use. 67th Annual Meeting, Texas Archeological Society, San Antonio.

Thoms, Alston V. 1995 The Raw and the Cooked: Morphological Variation in Mass Accumulations of FCR. Workshop on Hot-Rock Features; Spring Meeting of the Council of Texas Archaeologists, Austin.

Thoms, Alston V. 1994 Sacred Guardians, Profane Practitioners and Texans without History. Compliance Workshop for Native American Graves and Repatriation Act; National Park Service and Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

Thoms, Alston V. 1993 Site Formation Processes and Reconstituted Cultural Stratigraphy: Buried in the Post Oak Savannah's Sandy Mantle. 64th Annual Meeting, Texas Archeological Society, Laredo.

Thoms, Alston V. 1993 Bulk Processing Features as Evidence of Land-Use Intensification in the Northern Rocky Mountain. 1st Biennial Rocky Mountains Anthropology Conference, Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Thoms, Alston V. 1992 Land Use Diversity on a Subtropical Landscape: Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene Archaeology, Lower Medina River Valley, South Texas. 57th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Thoms, Alston V. 1991 Floodplain Environments and Archaeological Assemblages in the Lower Medina River Valley, South Texas. 49th Annual Plains Conference, Lawrence, Kansas.

Thoms, Alston V. 1991 Excavations at the Richard Beene Archaeological Site (41BX831), Lower Medina River Valley, South Texas. 62nd Annual Meeting, Texas Archeological Society, Austin.

Thoms, Alston V. 1990 Root Foods and Hunter-Gatherer Intensification: The Role of Camas in the Pacific Northwest. 55th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archeology, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Thoms, Alston V. 1990 Root Foods and Hunter-Gatherer Intensification: The Role of Camas in the Pacific Northwest. 43rd Annual Meeting of the Northwest Anthropological Conference, Eugene, Oregon.

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Presented Papers/Posters at Professional Meetings, continued

Thoms, Alston V. 1988 The Structure of Camas as a Staple Food Resource: A Perspective from the Calispell Valley, Northeastern Washington. 41st Annual meeting of the Northwest Anthropological Conference, Tacoma, Washington.

Thoms, Alston V. 1986 Resource Distributions and Settlement Patterns in the Calispell Valley. 39th Annual Meeting of the Northwest Anthropological Conference, Moscow, Idaho.

Thoms, Alston V. 1983 A Preliminary Assessment of Land Use Patterns at Libby Reservoir, Northwest Montana. 37th Annual Meeting of the Northwest Anthropological Conference, Boise, Idaho.

Schalk. Randall and Alston V. Thoms 1982 Prehistoric Change in Land Use and Subsistence in the Middle Kootenai River Region: Past and Present Perceptions. 36th Annual Meeting of the Northwest Anthropological Conference, Burnaby, British Columbia.

Jurgens, Christopher J. and Alston V. Thoms 1979 Settlement Pattern and Environmental Adaptation at Choke Canyon Reservoir, Texas. 44th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archeology, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Thoms, Alston V. 1978 Lithic Technology in the Choke Canyon Area, South Texas. 49th Annual Meeting, Texas Archeological Society, Corpus Christi.

Thoms, Alston V. 1978 Contract Archeology, Research Designs, and Intensive Survey. 43rd Annual Meeting, Society for American Archeology, Tucson, Arizona.

Thoms, Alston V. 1977 Off-site Survey, 1977 Texas Archaeological Society Field School. 48th Annual Meeting, Texas Archeological Society, Arlington.

Thoms, Alston V. 1976 An Archaeological District Nomination for the National Register of Historic Places: Santa Cruz Reservoir Archaeological District, New Mexico. 47th Annual Meeting, Texas Archeological Society, Houston.

National Media Exposure 2012 Who Owns the Past? The Federal Government Should Fix or Drop New Regulations That Throttle Scientific Study of America’s Heritage (The Editors). Scientific American, April. http://pages.ucsd.edu/~rfrank/class_web/UnivHouse/Who%20Owns%20the%20Past.pdf

2011 Archaeologists and Native Americans Team Up to Interpret the Past, Shape the Future (Kate Wong). Blog, Scientific America, March 31. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/WSS/post.php?blog=43&post=244

2008 A Meal of Roasted Vegetables? That’s So 4 Millenniums Ago (Thomas H. Maugh II), Science File. Los Angeles Times, December 27. http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/27/science/sci- earlyfoods27

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National Media Exposure, continued

2008 Ancient Rock Piles Reveal Early American Cuisine (Jennifer Vargas), Discovery News, December 22. http://www.discovery.com/news/2008/12/22/native-american-oven.html or indirectly @: https://ancientfoods.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/ancient-rock-piles-reveal-early- american-cuisine/

2007 Fire-Cracked Rocks and the Carbohydrate Revolution (Dale Graham). Mammoth Trumpet 22(1):4-6, 18-20. http://www.centerfirstamericans.com/mammoth/issues/Volume- 22/vol22_num1.pdf

1997 Hot-Rock Cooking Party: For Archaeologists, The Proof is in the Pudding or Rather, in the Agave, Cactus and Other Goodies (Jack Page). Smithsonian Magazine, November. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/hot-rock-cooking-party-145917013/?no-ist

Awards 2000 Award of Excellence in Archeology (Camp Ford), presented by Texas Historical Commission, Austin

1996 Marshall-Fallon Lecture, “Sacred Guardians, Profane Practitioners & Texans without History,” College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University, College Station

Awards, continued

1995 Heizer Award for Outstanding Contributions to Southern Texas Archaeology, presented by Southern Texas Archaeological Association, San Antonio

1995 Certificate of Appreciation: Northern Rocky Mountain Archaeological Research, 1982-1995, presented by Kootenai National Forest, Libby, Montana

Service Recent (2006-2017) Invited Reviews for Granting Agencies, Journals, Book Publishers National Science Foundation, Archaeology Program, U.S. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Standard Research Grant Program Pearson, Allen, Bacon Publishing Company John Wiley & Sons’ Wiley-Blackwell American Antiquity Archaeology in Washington Journal of Archaeological Science Journal of Ethnobiology Journal of Field Archaeology Journal of Texas Archaeology and History Geoarchaeology: An International Journal North American Archaeologist Paleoamerica Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C (includes Archaeology Program) Quaternary International

International 2010-2013 Board of Directors (elected), Society for American Archaeology

2008-2010 Committee on Repatriation (appointed), Society for American Archaeology

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Service, continued

2001-present Government Affairs Network, Texas’ representative (appointed), Society for American Archaeology

1999-2004 Committee on Consulting Archaeology (appointed), Society for American Archaeology

Regional 1999-2001 Multi-Cultural Relations Committee, chair and co-chair (appointed), Council of Texas Archeologists

1997-1999 President-Elect/President/Past-President (elected), Council of Texas Archeologists

Local 2002-2016 Honorary Board of Director (appointed), Land Heritage Institute Foundation, a San Antonio-based 501-C3 that manages 1,200 acres, encompassing the Richard Beene site and other archaeological properties

2002-2004 Member (invited) of the Board of Directors of Cultural Preservation and Graves Protection Association, an Austin-based 501-C3 organization

University 2001-2003 College of Liberal Arts representative (appointed) for the Faculty Advisory Committee to the Vice President for Student Affairs

Colleges 2012-present Assessment Representative (appointed) from Department of Anthropology to College of Liberal Arts Committee on Assessment, Texas A&M University

2012 Department of Anthropology Representative (appointed), College of Liberal Arts’ Diversity Committee, Texas A&M University

2008-2012 Journalism Review Committee (invited), College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University

2002-2003 Back to School program, Indians of North America class, selected as a classroom visit for members of the College of Liberal Arts Development Council, Texas A&M University

1998-present Faculty Fellow (invited), Center for Heritage Conservation, College of Architecture, Texas A&M University

Department of Anthropology 2012-present Assessment Coordinator (appointed),

2011 Chair (appointed), ad hoc Diversity Committee 2010-2011 Faculty Advisor (invited), Experimental Archaeological Club 2007-2008 Collections Committee 1999-2000 Curriculum Committee (appointed)

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Recent (2009-2016) Public Education/Outreach Presentations

A Short History of Native San Antonio & Vicinity: From 12,000 BC to AD 2016: From Mammoths & Deer to Missions & Citizenry. Invitee public presentation at the San Antonio Public Library, San Antonio, Texas, as part of Native American Heritage month, November 2016

Wild Roots and Hot Ovens. Invited open house event for the public at the Land Heritage Institute, San Antonio, June 2016

Native Texans Span 13,000 Years: From Ancient Foodways to Barbacao, invited lecture for the Chevron Native American Network, Houston, Texas Chapter, May 2015

Native Lifeways on the Brazos Valley, invited outdoor lecture for the Brazos Valley (Brazos Co.) chapter of the Texas Master Naturalists organization, October 2011, 2014, 2015, and 2016

Native San Antonio Event – Hot-Rock Cookery Demonstration, invited by American Indians in Texas- at Spanish Colonial Missions, built meat and roots oven with six grad students, October 2014

Land Heritage Institute’s planning workshop for Institute Development with museum, living exhibit, and history professionals, May 2014

Earth-Oven Cookery: Demonstrating and Ancient South-Texas Techniques, with two grad and one undergrad students, in conjunction Department of Anthropology and Experimental Archaeology Society, Texas State University for Texas’ Archaeological Awareness Month; November 2012 and 2013

Native American Cooking Technology and Lifeways in the Medina Valley, invited oven-building demonstration and tour of the Richard Beene site and vicinity for Native San Antonio and the Arts-Science Symposium sponsored by the Land Heritage Institute, non-profit, with three grad students, April 2012

Ancient Native American History and Foodways in the Brazos River Valley, invited “breakfast conversation,” Downtown Bryan Lions Club, June 2012

Native History and Foodways in the Post Oak Savannah and Vicinity: Brazos Valley Perspective, invited lecture, Archaeology Awareness Month, Burleson County Historical Commission, Caldwell, Texas, October 2012

The Human Element at Lick Creek City Park: Historical and Archaeological Records; invited PowerPoint lecture (Wednesday evening) and a walking tour (Saturday morning) of this city park for Friends of Lick Creek Park, a local non-profit, June 2012

Ancient Native Lifeways in the Brazos Valley and Vicinity, invited lecture by the Burleson County Historical Committee for Archaeological Awareness month, October 2012

Of Bison, the Post Oak Savannah, and Native Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways, public lecture for grand opening of The Bison: American Icon exhibit, Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History, in cooperation with the National Endowment of Humanities, 2011

Native Foodways in the Brazos River Valley, 2011, invited lecture in conjunction with Native America Month, to prison-education staff, Federal Women’s Prison Camp, Bryan, Texas

Earth-Oven Cookery: Demonstrating and Ancient South-Texas Techniques( with graduate students Kamiya, Short, Laurence, Parrotte) Second Annual Native San Antonio, April 2011, a public event sponsored by the San Antonio Chapter of the Native Plant Society of Texas and the Land Heritage Institute, San Antonio

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Recent (2009-2017) Public Education/Outreach Presentations, continued

Cabeza de Vaca’s Archaeologically Relevant Revelations: Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways on the Coastal Plains of Texas , invited presentations, 2011, Houston Archaeological Society, Houston, Texas and Fort Bend Archaeological Society, Richmond, Texas

Camp Ford Archaeology, invited public-archaeology exhibit, 2011, 43rd annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Austin Texas

Camp Ford Archaeology, invited presentation, 2011, to Sons of Confederate Veterans, Major George W. Littlefield, Camp 59, Austin, Texas

Hot-Rock Cook Off, Veterans Park, City of College Station; three-day public demonstration of Native American hot-rock cookery, co-sponsored by Archaeology Ecology Laboratory, Fort Hood/US Army, City of College Station, Comanche Nation, OK, November, 2009; October 2010

Mammoths and Ecology in Prehistoric Texas: Perspectives from the Post Oak Savannah and Vicinity, invited lecture, November 2009, Institute of Texan Cultures, University of Texas at San Antonio

10,000 Years of Human Occupation of Bexar County, Texas as Evidenced at the Richard Beene Site, invited lecture, November 2009, Institute of Texan Cultures, University of Texas at San Antonio

The Roots of Native American Foodways in Texas’ Post Oak Savanah, invited lecture, 2009, Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Bryan Chapter

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