C. Britt Bousman, PhD, Director of Curation

Email: cb26@txstate.edu
Phone: 512-245-8272
Office: ELA 234

Dr. Bousman has worked on archaeological projects in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Idaho, England, the Isle of Jersey, Zambia, Lesotho and South Africa since 1972. He holds degrees in Archaeology and Anthropology from Cambridge and Southern Methodist Universities. His research interests include African Stone Age archaeology, Paleoindian and Archaic archaeology in the US, geoarchaeology and paleoenvironmental analysis, technological organization, foraging theory, and modern hunter-gatherers. Dr. Bousman has recently been appointed as Associate Dean of Research in the College of Liberal Arts. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the Department of Anthropology at Texas State University-San Marcos. He has served as PI or co-PI on over 150 archaeological projects, and written over 100 articles, book chapters, reviews, technical reports, and magazine articles. He has also organized and co-organized over 10 symposia and workshops, and presented over 40 papers at professional meetings. To learn more about Dr. Bousman, click here.

Holocene pollen from swamp, cave and hyrax dung deposits at Blydefontein(PDF, 345.2 KB)

Scott, L., C.B. Bousman, M. Nayakale. 2005. Holocene pollen from swamp, cave and hyrax deposits at Blydefontein (Kikvorsberge), Karoo, South Africa. Quaternary International 129: 49-59.

Hunter-Gatherer Adaptations, Economic Risk and Tool Design(PDF, 208.9 KB)

Bousman, C. Britt. 1993. Hunter-Gatherer Adaptations, Economic Risk and Tool Design. Lithic Technology 18(1&2): 59-86.

Late-Pleistocene Horse from the Wilson-Leonard Archaeological Site(PDF, 30.9 KB)

Baker, Barry W., Michael B. Collins, and C. Britt Bousman. 2002. Late-Pleistocene Horse (Equus sp.) from the Wilson-Leonard Archaeological Site, Central Texas. Current Research in the Pleistocene 19: 97-100.

Later stone age technological strategies at Blydefontein Rock Shelter(PDF, 1355.2 KB)

Bousman, C. Britt. 2005. Coping with risk: Later stone age technological strategies at Blydefontein Rock Shelter, South Africa. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 24: 193-226.

The Chronological Evidence for the Introduction of Domestic Stock into Southern Africa(PDF, 164.4 KB)

Bousman, C. Britt. 1998. The Chronological Evidence for the Introduction of Domestic Stock into Southern Africa. African Archaeological Review 15(2): 133-150.

The Palaeoindian-Archaic transition in North America(PDF, 2009.3 KB)

Bousman, C. Britt, Michael B. Collins, Paul Goldberg, Thomas Stafford, Jan Guy, Barry W. Baker, D. Gentry Steele, Marvin Kay, Anne Kerr, Glen Fredlund, Phil Dering, Vance Holliday, Diane Wilson, Wulf Gose, Susan Dial, Paul Takac, Robin Balinsky, Marilyn Masson, and Joseph F. Powell. 2002. The Paleoindian-Archaic transition in North America: new evidence from Texas. Antiquity 76: 980-990.