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Alston V. Thoms
Associate Professor
Email: a-thoms@tamu.edu
Phone: (979) 862-8541
Office: 309J Anthropology
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Journal, Series, and Encyclopedia Articles
dot 2008 Ancient Savannah Roots of the Carbohydrate Revolution in South-Central North America. Plains Anthropologist 205(53):121-136
dot 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) 477-510
dot 2007  New Evidence for Mammoth-Bone Quarrying on the Inner Gulf Plain of Texas (Thoms, A.V., Johnson, E., Caran, S.C., Mandel R.D., and Vance, T.).   Bulletin of the Archeological Society of Texas 78:1-35.
dot 2004 Sand Blows Desperately: Land-Use History and Site Integrity at Camp Ford, a Confederate POW Camp in East Texas. Historical Archaeology 38(4):72-92.
dot 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.
dot 1999 Beyond Texas’ Legacy: Searching for Cooperation without Submission. Texas Forum on Civil
Liberties and Civil Rights (journal publication of the University of Texas Law and Individual
Rights and Responsibilities Section of the State Bar of Texas) 4(1):41-52.
dot 1998 Earth Ovens. In Archaeology of Prehistoric North America: An Encyclopedia, Plateau
editor, David Pokotylo, pp. 232-235. Garland Publishing, Inc., New York.
dot 1998 Root Foods. In Archaeology of Prehistoric North America: An Encyclopedia, Plateau
editor, David Pokotylo, pp. 264-266. Garland Publishing, Inc., New York.
dot 1997 Sacred Guardians, Profane Practitioners, and Texans without History. Bulletin of the Texas
Archeological Society 68:191-213.
dot 1993 Knocking Sense from Old Rocks:  Typologies and the Narrow Perspective of the Angostura Point Type.  Lithic Technology 18:16-27. 
Invited Presentations/Long Abstracts
dot 2005 Glimpses of Mammoth-Bone Quarrying on North America's Western Gulf Coastal Plain: Two New Mammoth Localities near San Antonio, Texas (Thoms as senior author, with Eileen Johnson, S. Christopher Caran, and Rolfe D. Mandel).  2 nd International World of Elephants Congress, Hot Springs, South Dakota, September 2005 (abstract published in Mammoth Site Scientific Papers, Vol. 4:183-185).
dot 2004 Parks as Big-Game Habitat and Root Grounds:  Native Land-Use Patterns in the Northern Rocky Mountains .  18 th 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).
Articles and Chapters Under Review
dot The Fire Stones Carry:  Ethnographic Records and Archaeological Expectations for Hot-Rock Cookery In Western North America. Manuscript resubmitted and accepted (July 15, 2008) to Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (previously submitted to and withdrawn from British Archaeological Reports, International Series ).
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Rocks of Ages: Propagation of Hot-Rock Cookery in Western North America.  Manuscript submitted (July 16, 2008) to Journal of Archeological Science (pre viously submitted to and withdrawn from British Archaeological Reports, International Series ).

dot 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)
dot Subsistence Patterns, Site Structure, and Cook-Stone Features. In Sites and Site Formation Processes in the Tobacco River Plains and Vicinity: Archaeological Investigations in the Middle Kootenai River Valley, Northwest Montana. Reports of Investigation No. 8, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University. Manuscript submitted for review to Seattle District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle. 2003
Recent Edited Monographs
dot 2006 in press Archaeological and Paleoecological Investigations at the Richard Beene Site, 41BX831, South-Central Texas , e dited 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)
dot 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)
dot 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 )
dot 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)
dot 2000 Uncovering Camp Ford : Archaeological Interpretations of a Confederate Prisoner-of-War Camp in East Texas , e dited 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)
Recent Chapters in Edited Monographs
dot 2006 in press Introduction to 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.1-14. Reports of Investigation 8, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University , Texas A&M University. 
dot 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.
dot 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.
dot 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.
dot 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.
dot 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 of Investigation 8, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, Texas A&M University, College Station.
dot 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.
dot 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.
dot 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.
dot 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.
Other Articles and Short Monographs
dot 2005 (senior author, with P. A. Clabaugh, S. Thomas, M. Kamiya, and J. Reyes, Jr.)  Archaeological Survey and Monitoring in 2005 at the Richard Beene Site , South-Central Texas .  Technical Report No. &, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University , College Station .
dot 2001 (editor and principal contributor) The Matagorda Cemetery Project: Unmarked Graves and Community Heritage. Technical Report No. 5, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University.
dot 2001 (editor and principal author) A Cultural Resources Survey of a Proposed Water Pipeline Route in South Bexar County, Texas. Technical Report No. 3, Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M University, College Station.
dot 2000 Emotion Enigma. Scientific American: Discovering Archaeology 2(3):72.
dot 1999 Protecting Lost Graves. Discovering Archaeology 1(3):100-102.
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