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CV: Alston V. Thoms, June 2005 Page 1 of 13 ALSTON VERN THOMS Curriculum Vitae, June 2005 Education PhD: Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, May 1989 MA: Anthropology,
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, May 1977 BA: History, West Texas State University, Canyon, Texas, May 1970 Present Position Assistant Professor (2001-present) Department of Anthropology,
Texas A&M University, College Station; Principal Investigator for sponsored-research projects through the Department of Anthropology Previous Positions 1995-2001: Director, Center for
Ecological Archaeology and Senior Lecturer, Department Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station 1990-1995: Associate Director, Center for Environmental Archaeology and Adjunct
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station 1981-1990: Staff Archaeologist, Acting Assistant Director, and Senior Staff Archaeologist, Center
for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman 1980-1981: Staff Archaeologist, Bonneville Cultural Resources, Eastern Washington University, Cheney 1978-1980: Cultural
Resources Discipline Manager, Benham-Blair and Affiliates, Inc., Environmental Resources Group (previously TECHRAD), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 1975-1978: Assistant Director, Staff Archaeologist,
Cultural Resources Inst. Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock 1976: Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock 1970-1973: U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer, working
the rural agricultural-extension program and teaching night classes in English at the local normal school, Pocone, Mato Grosso, Brazil 1969-1970: Assistant Curator of Anthropology, Panhandle-Plains
Historical Museum, West Texas State University (now West Texas A&M University), Canyon Courses Taught in Last Three Years Spring-2005: Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology (Anth 689); 7 students
Indians of North America (Anth 301), 175 students Fall-2004: Indians of North America (Anth 301), 162 students Spring-2004: Indians of North America (Anth 301), 246 students Fall-2003:
Indians of North America (Anth 301), 254 students Spring-2003: Cultural Resources Management (Anth 645), 11 students Indians of North America (Anth 301), 250 students Spring-2002: Indians
of North America (Anth 310), 180 students Fall-2002: Indians of North America (Anth 301), 240 students Directed Studies in Last Three Years Summer-2004: Anthropology 685, 1 student Fall-2002:
Anthropology 685, 1 student Summer-2002: Anthropology 685, 1 student Other Courses Taught Texas A&M University (1992-2001): Cultural Resources Management (Anth 645); Human Ecology of
Northwest North America (Anth 689); Ecological Perspectives in Heritage Resources Management (Anth 689); Field Archaeology (Anth 660, 4 field schools); Indians of North
CV: Alston V. Thoms, June 2005 Page 2 of 13 America (Anth 301); Introduction to Archaeology (Anth 202); Field Research in Anthropology (Anth 330, field schools as above); graduate/undergraduate
directed studies (Anth 685 and 485)
CV: Alston V. Thoms, June 2005 Page 3 of 13 Other Courses Taught, continued University of Rennes I (Archaeosciences Research Unit), Brittany, France (October 2000): Invited Professor,
taught a graduate seminar unit in North American Hunter-Gatherers Texas Tech University (1976): Undergraduate courses (taught as TA): Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology
and Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Escola Normal, Pocone, Mato Grosso, Brazil (1972-1973): English as second language (U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer, working in Brazilian agricultural
extension and teaching evening classes) Graduate Committees and Student Advising 2005-2006: Chair one PhD committee; serve on one MA and four PhD committees; advise four PhD students
2003-2004: Chaired two MA committees (both students graduated and accepted employment in cultural resources management); served on one MA and three PhD committees 1998-2002: Chaired
committees of five MA students who completed their degrees and accepted employment in cultural resources and museum work in state agencies and private organizations; served on four PhD
and four MA committees Edited Monographs (peer-reviewed) 2006 in press Archaeological and Paleoecological Investigations at the Richard Beene Site, 41BX831, South-Central Texas, edited
by Alston V. Thoms and Rolfe D. Mandel (486 pp., Thoms as author or senior author of 6 chapters). Reports of Investigation No. 8, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University,
College Station. (reviewed by archaeologists with Texas Historical Commission and Department of Transportation) 2004 Yegua Creek Archaeological Project: Survey Results from Lake Somerville
State Parks and Trailway, East-Central Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms (280 pp., Thoms as author or senior author of 6 chapters). Reports of Investigation No. 5, Center for Ecological
Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station. (reviewed by archaeologists with Texas Historical Commission and Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife) 2001 Reassessing Cultural
Extinction: Change and Survival at Mission San Juan Capistrano, Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms (pp. 329, Thoms as author of 3 chapters). Joint publication: Reports of Investigation
No. 4, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station and National Park Service, San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, San Antonio. (reviewed by archaeologists,
historians, and ethnographers with NPS, San Antonio and Santa Fe) 2000 Tool-Stone Procurement Areas on Callahan Divide: A Survey of Camp Barkeley, Taylor County, Texas, edited by Alston
V. Thoms (114 pp., Thoms as author or senior author of 3 chapters). Technical Report No. 2, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station. (reviewed by archaeologists
with Texas Historical Commission and Texas National Guard) 2000 Uncovering Camp Ford: Archaeological Interpretations of a Confederate Prisoner-of-War Camp in East Texas, edited by Alston
V. Thoms (390 pp., Thoms as author or senior author 6 chapters). Reports of Investigations No.1, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station. (reviewed by
archaeologists and historians with Texas Historical Commission and Texas Department of Transportation) 2000 The Calispell Valley Archaeological Project Final Report. Five Volumes, co-edited
by (listed alphabetically) W. A. Andrefsky, Jr., G. C Burtchard, K M. Presler, S.R. Samuels, P. H. Sanders, A. V. Thoms (695 pp., Thoms as author of 1 chapter). Project Report No. 16,
Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman. (reviewed by archaeologists with Washington State Historic Preservation Office and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Seattle) 1997 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 (105
pp., Thoms as author or senior author 6 chapters). Technical Report No. 3, Center for Environmental Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station. (reviewed by archaeologists with
Texas historical Commission and Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife)
CV: Alston V. Thoms, June 2005 Page 4 of 13 Edited Monographs (peer-reviewed), continued 1994 The Valley Branch Archaeological Project: Excavations at an Archaic Site (41MU55) in the
Cross Timbers Uplands, North-Central Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms (364 pp., Thoms as author or senior author of 6 chapters). Reports of Investigation No. 15, Archaeological Research
Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station. (reviewed by archaeologists with Texas Historical Commission and Texas Department of Transportation) 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, edited by Alston V. Thoms (212
pp., Thoms as author or senior author of 6 chapters). Reports of Investigations No. 14, Archaeological Research Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station. (reviewed by archaeologists
with Texas Historical Commission) 1993 The White Creek Archaeological Project: Cultural Resources Resources Assessments for the Proposed Texas A&M University Wastewater Treatment Plant,
Brazos County, Texas, edited by Alston V. Thoms (144 pp., with Thoms as author or senior author of 4 chapters). Reports of Investigations No. 13, Archaeological Research Laboratory,
Texas A&M University, College Station. (reviewed by archaeologists with Texas Historical Commission) 1993 Archaeological Survey at Forth Hood, Texas, Fiscal year 1991 and 1992: Cantonment
and Belton Lake Periphery Areas, edited by Alston V. Thoms (167 pp., Thoms as author or senior author of 7 chapters). Archaeological Resource Management Series, Research Report No. 25.
United States Army Fort Hood, Texas. (reviewed by archaeologists with Texas Historical Commission and U.S. Army, Fort Hood, Texas) 1987 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 (662 pp., Thoms as author or senior author of 7 chapters). Project Report 4, Center
for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman. 1987 Upland Land Use and the Initial Assessment of 45PO148: The Sullivan Lake Archaeological Project, Northeastern Washington,
edited by Alston V. Thoms (pp. 123, Thoms as author of 6 chapters). Contributions in Cultural Resource Management No. 19, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University,
Pullman. 1986 Calispell Valley Archaeological Project: Interim Report for 1984 and 1985 Field Seasons, edited by Alston V. Thoms and Greg C. Burtchard (pp. 778, Thoms as author or senior
author of 4 chapters). Contributions in Cultural Resources Management, No. 10, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman. 1984 Archeology, Environment,
and Land Use Patterns in the Middle Kootenai River Valley, edited by Alston V. Thoms (592 pp., Thoms as author or senior author of 9 chapters). Project Report 2, Center for Northwest
Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman. 1983 Archaeological Investigations in Upper McNary Reservoir: 1981-1982, edited by Alston V. Thoms (277 pp., Thoms as author or senior
author of 5 chapters). Project Report 15, Laboratory of Archeology and History, Washington State University, Pullman. 1981 An Archaeological Survey of a Portion of Choke Canyon Reservoir
Area, McMullen and Live Oak Counties, Texas (283 pp., Thoms as senior author, with John Montgomery, and Alice Portnoy). Choke Canyon Series, Vol. III, Center for Archaeological Research,
University of Texas at San Antonio. 1980 Cultural Resources of the Proposed Bull Creek Reservoir, White and Faulkner Counties, Arkansas: A Preliminary Assessment (Thoms as senior author,
with Jerry Bowermon, Guy Muto, and David Hill) TECHRAD, Oklahoma City, report submitted to Mid-Arkansas Regional Water Development District, Little Rock, Arkansas. 1979 Cultural Resources
Reconnaissance and Preliminary Assessment for the Arkansas City Local Protection Project, Cowley County, Kansas (Thoms as senior author, with David Hill). TECHRAD, Oklahoma City, report
submitted to the US Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District. 1977 Archaeological Reconnaissance Survey of Portions of the Flood Control Improvement Area, Plainview, Hale County, Texas
(Thoms as senior author, with David Proctor). 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.
CV: Alston V. Thoms, June 2005 Page 5 of 13 Edited Monographs (peer-reviewed), continued 1976 The Archaeological Resources of the Brazos River Basin: A Summary Statement (Thoms as senior
author, with John L. Montgomery). Department of Anthropology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, report submitted to the US Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District. 1976 The Paleontological
Resources of the Brazos River Basin: A Summary Statement (Thoms as senior author, with John L. Montgomery). Department of Anthropology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, report submitted
to the US Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District. 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. Books Currently under Contract 2005 Discovering Camp Ford
(tentative title), Texas A&M University Press, ms. due, December 2006 2005 The Hidden Indians of Mission San Juan (tentative title), Texas A&M University Press, ms. due, December 2007
Peer-Reviewed Journal and Series Articles 2006 in press The Fire Stones Carry: Ethnographic Records and Archaeological Expectations for Hot-Rock Cookery in Western North America. In
Learning from Once-Hot Rocks, edited by Jeffery Leach (29 pp.), International Series, British Archaeological Reports. 2006 in press Rocks of Ages: Propagation of Hot-Rock Cookery in
Western North America. In Learning from Once-Hot Rock, edited by Jeffery Leach (31 pp.), International Series, British Archaeological Reports. 2004 Sand Blows Desperately: Land Use and
Site Integrity at Camp Ford, Confederate POW Camp in East Texas. Historical Archaeology 38(4):72-92. 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. 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. 1997 Sacred Guardians, Profane Practitioners, and Texans without History. Bulletin
of the Texas Archeological Society 68:191-213. 1993 Knocking Sense from Old Rocks: Typologies and the Narrow Perspective of the Angostura Point Type. Lithic Technology 18:16-27. 1992
The Richard Beene Site: A Deeply Stratified Paleoindian to Late Prehistoric Occupation in South-Central Texas (Thoms as senior author, with Rolfe D. Mandel). Current Research in the
Pleistocene 9:42-44. Book Chapters 1998 Earth Ovens. In Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia, edited by Guy Gibbon (and David Pokotylo, Plateau articles), pp. 232-235.
Garland Publishing, Inc., New York. 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. 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.
1979 Survey Error: A Result of Intensive Archaeological Surveys. In Scholars as Contractors, edited by W. J. Mayer-Oakes and A. Portnoy, pp. 95-105. Interagency Archaeological Services,
Office
CV: Alston V. Thoms, June 2005 Page 6 of 13 of Archeology and Historic Preservation, Heritage Conservation and Recreation Services, U.S. Department of Interior, Washington DC. Chapters
in Edited Monographs (peer-reviewed) 2006 in press Ecological Setting: The Lower Medina River Valley and Surrounding Inner Gulf Coastal Plain (Thoms as senior author, with Rolfe D. Mandel).
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 University. 2006 in press 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. Station. 2006 in press 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. 2006 in press 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. 2006 in press 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 Reports of Investigation
8, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, Texas A&M University, College Station. 2004 Natural Resource Structure and Land-Use Potential in the Middle Reach of the Yegua
Creek Basin, In Yegua Creek Archaeological Project: Survey Results form 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. 2004 Native American Land-Use in the Yegua Creek Basin and Vicinity: Ethnohistoric and Archaeological
Records. In Yegua Creek Archaeological Project: Survey Results form 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. 2004 Native American Artifacts (Thoms as senior author, with Steven W. Ahr, Dawn Alexander, and Stephanie
K. Judjahn [graduate students]). In Yegua Creek Archaeological Project: Survey Results form Lake Somerville State Parks and Trailway, East-Central Texas, edited by Alston V Thoms, pp.
131-150. Reports of Investigations No. 5, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station. 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 form 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. 2001 Environmental Setting and
Cultural Setting (senior author, with J. Bryan Mason [graduate student]). 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. 4-39. Technical Report No. 4, Center for Ecological Archaeology,
Texas A&M University, College Station. 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
CV: Alston V. Thoms, June 2005 Page 7 of 13 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. Chapters in Edited Monographs (peer-reviewed), continued 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. 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
and San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, National Park Service, San Antonio. 2000 Natural and Distribution of Cultural Materials at Camp Barkeley (Thoms as senior author, with
Damon A. Burton [graduate student]). 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. 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. 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. 2000 Field Strategies for Documenting Archaeological Remains at Camp Ford (Thoms as senior author, with Ben W. Olive [graduate student]). 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. 2000 General Nature and Distribution of Archaeological Features at Camp Ford (Thoms as senior author, with Patricia A. Clabaugh). 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, College Station. 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 Alston V. Thoms, pp. 233-243. Reports of Investigations No.1, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.
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. 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. 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,
CV: Alston V. Thoms, June 2005 Page 8 of 13 Center for Northwest Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman. Chapters in Edited Monographs (peer-reviewed),
continued 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—Sokane
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. 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. 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. 1986 Hot Rocks:
The Short-Term Storage of Energy I the Calispell Valley. In Calispell Valley Archaeological Project: Interim Report for 1984 and 1985 Field Seasons, edited by Alston V. Thoms and Greg
C. Burtchard, pp. 137-238 Contributions in Cultural Resources Management, No. 10, Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman. 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. 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.
1980 Archeology (senior author, with Jerry Bowermon and Guy Muto). 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. Draft Phase I interim report submitted to HCRS-IAS, Atlanta, by Benham-Blair and Affiliates, Inc., Oklahoma City. Articles and Monograph Chapters Currently
under Peer Review Fire-Cracked Rock Features on Sandy Landforms in the Northern Rocky Mountains: Toward Establishing Reliable Frames of Reference for Assessing Site Integrity. Submitted
to Geoarchaeology: An International Journal (accepted 2004, pending minor revisions) The Pampopa-Talon Crossings and Heermann Ranch Sites: Results of the 1994 Southern Texas Archaeological
Society Field School (Thoms as senior author, with Steven W. Ahr [graduate student] and Patricia A. Clabaugh). In Prehistoric Archaeological Investigations in the Applewhite Reservoir
Project Area, Bexar County, Texas, edited by David L. Carlson, pp. 281-306. Reports of Investigations No. 7, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, Texas A&M University.
Submitted to Texas Historical Commission (chapter accepted 2004, monograph acceptance pending approval of other chapters) Investigations at 41BX859: A Stratified Late Holocene Site (Thoms
as senior author, with Ben W. Olive [graduate student] David Kuhn, and Patricia A. Clabaugh). In Prehistoric Archaeological Investigations in the Applewhite Reservoir Project Area, Bexar
County, Texas, edited by David L. Carlson, pp. 307-330. Reports of Investigations No. 7, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, Texas A&M University. Submitted to Texas
Historical Commission (chapter accepted 2004, monograph acceptance pending approval of other chapters) Invited Abstracts and Book Reviews 2005 Glimpses of Mammoth-Bone Quarrying on North
America’s Western Gulf Coastal Plain: Two
CV: Alston V. Thoms, June 2005 Page 9 of 13 New Mammoth Localities near San Antonio, Texas (Thoms as senior author, with Eileen Johnson, S. Christopher Caran, and Rolfe D. Mandel). 2nd
International World Of Elephants Congress, Hot Springs, South Dakota (September 2005). Invited Abstracts and Book Reviews, continued 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). 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. 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. Notes and Comments 1998 Camp Ford: A Civil War War Era Prisoner-of-War Camp. News and Views: Cultural Resources Management
(Texas Historical Commission) 10(1):9-13. 1997 Mammoth Remains Discovered at 41BX1239 (Thoms as senior author, with D. Kuehn and R. Mandel). News and Views: Cultural Resources Management
9(2): 13-16. 1997 A Late Holocene Component from Multicomponent Site 41BX859 (Thoms as senior author, with B. Olive [graduate student]). News and Views: Cultural Resources Management
9(2): 16-19. 1995 Kootenai Valley Archaeological Project: Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Studies in the Northern Rockies, Northwest Montana. Tebiwa 25(1):125-127. Other Articles
(non-refereed) and Short Monographs 2001 The Matagorda Cemetery Project: Unmarked Graves and Community Heritage, edited by Alston V. Thoms (90 pp., Thoms as author of 3 chapters). Technical
Report No. 5, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station. 2001 A Cultural Resources Survey of Proposed Water Pipeline Route in South Bexar County, Texas,
edited by Alston Alston V. Thoms (52 pp., Thoms as author or senior author of 4 chapters). Technical Report No. 3, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.
2000 Emotion Enigma. Scientific American: Discovering Archaeology 2(3):72. 1999 Protecting Lost Graves. Discovering Archaeology 1(3):100-102. 1996 Forest Fires and Site Formations 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. 1996 Early and Middle Holocene Occupations at the Richard Beene Site: The 1995 Southern Texas Archaeological Association Field School Project (senor author, Ben
W. Olive [graduate student], David Kuhn, and Patricia A. Clabaugh). La Tierra 23 (4): 8-36). 1995 The Pampopa-Talon Crossings and Heermann Ranch Sites: Preliminary Results of the 1994
Southern Texas Archaeological Association Field School (senior author with Steven W.Ahr [graduate student]). La Tierra 22(2):34-67 1992 An Archaeological Survey of 20 Homesites 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
1988 The Roots of Village Life. Universe 1(1):2-4. The Graduate School, Washington State University, Pullman. 1987 The Roots of Prehistory in the Calispell Valley. Big Smoke 1987:3-28.
Pend Oreille County Historical Society, Washington, Idaho. 1982 Contract Archeology in the Public and Private Sectors (second author, with Randall F. Schalk and Robert R. Mierendorf).
American Society for Conservation Archeology Report 9:4-10. 1976 A Review of Northeastern New Mexico Archeology. Awanyu 4(1):8-36.
CV: Alston V. Thoms, June 2005 Page 10 of 13 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. Professional Meeting Symposia
Chaired 1997 Chair/Co-Organizer: Current Perspectives on Site Integrity and Significance in Texas (12 participants), 68th Annual Meeting of the Texas Archeological Society, Odessa. 1997
Chair/Co-Organizer: 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. 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. 1996 Chair: 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. 1986 Chair/Co-Organizer: The Calispell Valley Archaeological Project (6 participants),
39th Annual Meeting of the Northwest Anthropological Conference, Moscow, Idaho. Invited Presentations at Professional Meetings 2005 Ancient Savannah Roots of the Carbohydrate Revolution:
9000-500 B.P. Symposium, 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. 2005 Early Archaic Components at the Richard Beene Site, Bexar County, Texas. Early Archaic Session, Spring Meeting, Council of Texas Archeologists, Austin. 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. 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. 2000 Muddy Water and Clean Sand: Site-Formation Lessons from Camp Ford. Geoarchaeology Symposium; 71st Annual Meeting of the Texas Archaeological
Society, Houston. 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. 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. 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.
CV: Alston V. Thoms, June 2005 Page 11 of 13 1998 Co-Discussant: Symposium, Culture and Landscape in the North American Interior Far West; 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American
Archaeology, Seattle, Washington. Invited Presentations at Professional Meetings, continued 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 (volunteered) 2004 Buried in Medina River Bottomland: A Final Overview of Tools and Features at the Richard Beene Site (41BX831), South-Central Texas (Thoms as senior author,
with Patricia A. Clabaugh). 75th Annual Meeting of the Texas Archaeologist Society, College Station. 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. 2002 Indian Lifeways in the Post Oak Savannah. Public lecture sponsored
by Star of the Republic Museum, Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas. 2002 Pathways Through the Past and to the Future: The Land-Heritage Institute of the Americas, San Antonio’s Best-Kept
Secrete. Public lecture, sponsored by the San Antonio Environmental Network’s Summer Forum, Witte Museum, San Antonio. 2001 Reassessing Coahuiltecan Extinction: A Perspective from Mission
San Juan Capistrano, San Antonio, Texas. 72nd Annual Meeting of the Texas Archeological Society, Corpus Christi. 2001 Unmarked Graves and Community Heritage: The Matagorda Cemetery Project.
72nd Annual Meeting, Texas Archeological Society, Corpus Christi. 1999 Discovering Camp Ford, Texas: Archaeological and Historical Insights of a Confederate POW Camp. Public lecture
sponsored by the Edward Lea Camp 2, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Houston, Texas. 1997 POWs, Slaves, Rebels, and Citizens during the American Civil War: Preliminary Archaeological
Investigations, Camp Ford, Texas, C.S.A. (Thoms as senior author, with Robert Glover, Ben W. Olive [graduate student] and Patricia A. Clabaugh). 68th Annual Meeting, Texas Archeological
Society, Odessa. 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.
1996 Texas Cooking with Cabeza de Vaca: Implications for Cook-Stone Technology and Past Land Use. 67th Annual Meeting, Texas Archeological Society, San Antonio. 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. 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. 1993 Site Formation
Processes and Reconstituted Cultural Stratigraphy: Buried in the Post Oak Savannah's Sandy Mantle. 64th Annual Meeting, Texas Archeological Society, Laredo. 1993 Bulk Processing Features
as Evidence of Land-Use Intensification in the Northern Rocky Mountain. 1st Biennial Rocky Mountains Anthropology Conference, Jackson Hole, Wyoming. 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.
1991 Floodplain Environments and Archaeological Assemblages in the Lower Medina River Valley, South Texas. 49th Annual Plains Conference, Lawrence, Kansas. 1991 Excavations at the Richard
Beene Archaeological Site (41BX831), Lower Medina River Valley, South Texas. 62nd Annual Meeting, Texas Archeological Society, Austin.
CV: Alston V. Thoms, June 2005 Page 12 of 13 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; also presented in March 1990 at the Northwest Anthropological Conference, Eugene, Oregon. 1988 The Structure of Camas as a Staple Food Resource: A Perspective
from the Calispell Valley, Northeastern Washington; Northwest Anthropological Conference, Tacoma, Washington. Presented Papers (volunteered), continued 1986 Resource Distributions and
Settlement Patterns in the Calispell Valley; Northwest Anthropological Conference, Moscow, Idaho. 1983 A Preliminary Assessment of Land Use Patterns at Libby Reservoir, Northwest Montana;
Northwest Anthropological Conference, Boise, Idaho. 1982 Prehistoric Change in Land Use and Subsistence in the Middle Kootenai River Region: Past and Present Perceptions (Thoms as second
author with Randall Schalk, who presented the paper); Northwest Anthropological Conference, Burnaby, British Columbia. 1979 Settlement Pattern and Environmental Adaptation at Choke Canyon
Reservoir, Texas (Thoms as second author with Christopher J. Jurgens, who presented the paper). 44th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archeology, Vancouver, British Columbia.
1978 Lithic Technology in the Choke Canyon Area, South Texas. 49th Annual Meeting, Texas Archeological Society, Corpus Christi. 1978 Contract Archeology, Research Designs, and Intensive
Survey. 43rd Annual Meeting, Society for American Archeology, Tucson, Arizona. 1977 Off-site Survey, 1977 Texas Archaeological Society Field School. 48th Annual Meeting, Texas Archeological
Society, Arlington. 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. Sponsored-Research Grants (awarded as Principal Investigator) 2005: $33,049, “Final Mapping and Archaeological Investigations for Mechanical Stabilization
of Richard Beene Site” from City of San Antonio, San Antonio Water System 2004: $190,847, “Applewhite Reservoir Final Collections Preparation and Artifact Curation” from City of San
Antonio, San Antonio Water System 2001: $56,000, “Libby Dam/Lake Koocanusa Site Assessment (Phase II)” from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District $10,000, “Matagorda Cemetery
Unmarked Graves Project” from the Matagorda Cemetery Association, Matagorda, Texas 2000: $72,066, “Final Curation of Archaeological Materials and Records from Four Sites on the Inner
Gulf Coastal Plain” from Texas Department of Transportation, Austin $14,936, “Assessment of Archaeological Sites at the Veterans Park and Athletic Complex, College Station, Texas” from
city of College Station, Parks and Recreation Department $8,750, “Cultural Resources Surveys of Areas Scheduled for Development at the University of Texas at San Antonio” from Texas
Center for Applied Technology, San Antonio $2,000, “Cultural Resources Survey of Housing Areas” from Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation, Livingston, Texas $24,251, “Archaeological
Survey of Nails Creek Unit of Lake Somerville State Park” from Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife, Austin $128,543, “Completion of Analysis of National Register Sites at Libby Dam-Lake
Koocanusa, Montana” from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District $30,000, “Collection Management of Memorabilia Materials Recovered from the Bonfire Collapse Site” from Texas
A&M University 1991-1999: Author/senior author of ten proposals to local, state, and federal agencies and private organizations, funded at approximately $2,250,000, Texas A&M University;
includes funding for six faculty members and funding/training for ca. 100 students in the Department of
CV: Alston V. Thoms, June 2005 Page 13 of 13 Anthropology, as well as collaborative research with faculty and funding for graduate students in the Colleges of Architecture and Agriculture
as well as the Bush School of Public Service 1980-1989: Author/senior author of six major proposals to local, state, and federal agencies and private organizations, funded at approximately
$1,500,000, Washington State University and Eastern Washington University 1977-1979: Author/co-author of three major proposals to federal agencies, funded at approximately $500,000,
Texas Tech University, and Benham-Blair and Affiliates, Inc., Oklahoma City Peer Reviewer for Articles, Grants, Promotions Journals: Geoarchaeology: An International Journal (2 articles),
Journal of Archaeological Science (2 articles), Plains Anthropologist Grants: National Science Foundation, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Texas Department of Transportation Promotion:
Department of Anthropology (Associate to Professor) Eastern New Mexico University Archaeological Field Studies by Geographic Area Pacific Northwest: Field schools (survey/excavation)
in the Northern Rocky Mountains, with research focus on land-use studies and site-formation processes; intensive survey and test excavations in the middle Kootenai River Valley, MT;
intensive survey along the mid-Columbia R.; large-scale excavations at housepit sites near Okanogan/Columbia R. confluence and at mat-lodge and camas processing sites in the Calispell
Valley, WA; small-scale survey and testing in the Skagit Valley, WA, and in the Willamette Valley, OR Western Interior Gulf Coastal Plains (Texas): Field schools (survey and excavation)
at pre-Columbian sites in the Brazos and Trinity River basins; large-scale excavations at a deeply buried Paleoindian-Historic site along the Medina River; initial investigations along
the San Antonio River of mammoth remains with possible human-modified bone; test excavations at Late Prehistoric and Historic (Euroamerican and African-American) sites in the Brazos
River valley; large-scale upland survey and site testing (prehistoric and historic sites) in the Frio River basin Southern Great Plains: Survey of plains villages in the lower Arkansas
River basin, KS; excavations at Late Prehistoric villages in the Canadian River valley, TX; survey along Running Water Draw, TX Panhandle; full-scale excavations at upland Archaic site
near the Red River, north-central TX Southeastern Woodland Margins: Survey of portions of the White River basin, AK; survey, testing, and geomorphic studies at Early Archaic and Late
Paleoindian sites in the Tombigbee River basin, MS and AL; small-scale surveys in the pineywoods of east TX; survey and excavations at Civil War POW camp in east TX (including as part
an undergrad/grad. Field Archaeology class) American Southwest: Large-scale surveys of Archaic, Anasazi, and Historic (Native American and Euroamerican) sites in upper Rio Grande basin
and Southern Rockies, NM; survey and test excavations at Archaic and Jornada Mogollon sites, west TX; and survey work at Late Prehistoric sites in the lower Colorado River basin, AZ
and CA Work with Native Americans and Avocational Groups Pacific Northwest: Ethnographic and ethnoarchaeological studies of root foods and cooking technology among Kalispel and Kootenai
people (1982-2003); liaison between archaeological projects and Kootenai, Kalispel, Spokane, Salish, Couer d’Alene, Colville, and Nez Perze tribes (1982-1996) American Southwest: Liaison
between university-and private-based archaeological projects and various Pueblo, Lower Colorado, and Quechan tribal councils and/or cultural committees (1975-1979) Texas: Principal Investigator/liais
on for archaeological and NAGPRA-related projects and Indian organizations including Tap Pilam-Coahuiltecan Nations, American Indians in Texas at Spanish Colonial Missions, and San Antonio’s
Intertribal Council of American Indians (1991-2003); Principal Investigator for two avocational field schools in south-central Texas and work at Civil War site for the Smith County Historical
Society (1991-2000) Awards 2000 Award of Excellence for Outstanding Archeology, presented by Texas Historical Commission 1996 Marshall-Fallon Lecturer, presented by College of Liberal
Arts, Texas A&M University
CV: Alston V. Thoms, June 2005 Page 14 of 13 1995 Heizer Award for Outstanding Contributions to Southern Texas Archaeology, presented by Southern Texas Archaeological Association 1995
Certificate of Appreciation: Northern Rocky Mountain Archaeological Research, 1982-1995, presented by Kootenai National Forest, Libby, Montana Service: Committees, Organization Positions,
Faculty Representative 2001-2003 Faculty Advisory Committee to Vice President of Student Affairs, appointed as the College of Liberal Arts’ representative, TAMU 1999, 2001 Great Conversations,
dinner host, for College of Liberal Arts Development Council members, TAMU 1999-2000 Curriculum Committee appointed as member, Department of Anthropology, TAMU 2002, 2004 Graduation
Marshall, Department of Anthropology, TAMU 2002 Memorial Student Center-Dinner Conversations, TAMU, faculty host for four dinners with eight undergraduate students 2002-2003 Back to
School program, Indians of North America selected as a classroom for members of the College of Liberal Arts Development Council, TAMU 1998-2007 Faculty Fellow, Historic Resources Imagining
Laboratory, College of Architecture, TAMU 2002-2005 Honorary Director, Land Heritage Institute Foundation (a San Antonio-based 501-C3) 2002-2005 Board of Directors member, Cultural Preservation
and Graves Protection Association (an Austin-based 501-C3) 2001-2005 Government Affairs Network, Society for American Archaeology, appointed as Texas’ representative 1999-2004 Committee
on Consulting Archaeology, appointed member, Society for American Archaeology 2005 Academic Affairs Committee, member, Council of Texas Archaeologists 1999-2001 Multi-Cultural Relations
Committee, chair and co-chair, Council of Texas Archeologists 1997-1999 President-elect, President, and Immediate-Past President, elected position, Council of Texas Archeologists