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Dr. C. Britt BousmanDirector of CAS at Texas State University-San Marcos
Dr. Bousman has worked on archaeological projects in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Idaho, England, the Isle of Jersey, Zambia,
Lesotho and South Africa for over 32 years. He holds degrees in Archaeology and Anthropology from Cambridge and Southern Methodist
Universities. His research interests include Paleoindian archaeology, geoarchaeology, technological organization, foraging theory,
African and Old World Paleolithic archaeology, and modern hunter-gatherers. He teaches in the Department of Anthropology at Texas
State University-San Marcos. He has served as PI or co-PI on over 100 archaeological projects, and written over 100 articles, book
chapters and reviews, CRM reports, and magazine articles. He has also organized and co-organized over 10 symposia and workshops,
and presented over 35 papers at professional meetings. Recently, he co-published an article on the Paleoindian/Archaic transition,
and a book chapter on the Paleoindian Archaeology of Texas.
Journal Articles:Coping with risk: Later stone age technological strategies at Blydefontein Rock Shelter, South Africa, 2005The Palaeoindian Archaic transition in North America: New evidence from Texas, 2002 Late-Pleistocene Horse (Equus sp.) from the Wilson-Leonard Archaeological Site, Central Texas, 2002 The Chronological Evidence for the Introduction of Domestic Stock into Southern Africa, 1998 Hunter-Gatherer Adaptations, Economic Risk and Tool Design, 1993 |
 Taking paleomagnetic samples at Cornelia, South Africa. |
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Carole LeezerGrant Director/Principal Investigator Carole Leezer has over 8 years of archaeological experience through numerous academic and CRM research projects in Belize, Mexico and Texas. She holds a Masters Degree in Anthropology with an emphasis in Archaeology from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her thesis research examined ceramic artifacts in order to determine the role of feasting among ancient Maya commoners. Besides her interest in the ancient Maya, she is interested the historic archaeology of antebellum plantations of southern Texas. She has served as Archaeological Laboratory Director for the Southern Texas Archaeological Association as well as for Projecto Yalahau, in Quintana Roo, Mexico. At CAS she is responsible for the administrative duties of contract and grant management in addition to archaeological fieldwork, artifact analysis, and report production. |
Dave NickelsResearch Scientist Mr. Nickels directs and trains archaeologists in the field and laboratory. Mr. Nickels has over 11 years of experience in archaeology and has worked on 81 archaeological projects in Texas and New Mexico , with sites ranging in age from >11,000 to < 100 years old. He is familiar with state and federal rules and regulations regarding cultural resources (specifically, archaeological sites and structures) and is well qualified to evaluate both historic and prehistoric archaeological sites. He has authored or co-authored 44 technical reports and journal articles, and has presented 11 papers at archaeological symposia. He holds degrees in archaeology and anthropology from The University of Texas at San Antonio. His Masters Thesis contained a comparative analysis of prehistoric diet, mobility, and technology across several regions of Texas. His ongoing archaeological research projects include Spanish Colonial Missions, history and historic development, prehistoric economy and technology, and archaeological site formation processes. |
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Eric OksanenMA Graduate Student Eric Oksanen is a graduate student who has worked in archaeology for ten years in Ontario, Texas, and Missouri. Regionally, he has conducted testing and data recovery excavations on Paleoindian and Early Archaic sites along the San Marcos River. His research interestes include Paleoindian landscape archaeology and the Pleistocene/Holocene transition. At CAS, he is analyzing the artifacts from the 2004 excavations at 41HY161 on the campus of Texas State. |
Lindsey StokerMA Graduate Student & Director of Curation Lindsey Stoker is the curator at CAS and she is currently working on her MA in Anthropology. She has a BS degree in Management and International Business from Texas A&M University and a BA in Anthropology from Texas State University - San Marcos. She has taught in Puebla, Mexico and has conducted archaeological field work in the panhandle and central Texas. |
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Maggie MooreTechnical Editor Maggie Moore has over 5 years of archaeological experience through numerous academic and CRM research projects in Mexico and Texas. She graduated from Trinity University, San Antonio, with a Bachelor's Degree in Anthropology. She served as Archaeological Laboratory Director for Projecto Yalahau, in Quintana Roo, Mexico. Her interests include the ancient Maya and historic archaeology As an editor at CAS she assists in the technical writing of reports in addition to the editing and preparation of archaeological reports for publication. |
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Emory WorrellGrant Specialist Emory Worrell is a graduate of the Anthropology program at Texas State University-San Marcos, He has been a student volunteer and employee at CAS since 2001. He has worked as a crewmember in three large-scale archaeological survey and testing projects in central Texas, and has participated in numerous artifact analysis and curation projects within the CAS laboratory. |
Associated Faculty
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 Dr. James Garber, Professor of Anthropology. Dr. Garber's main research interests are in Mesoamerica archaeology. He has worked extensively in Belize and the US. He holds degrees from the University of New Mexico and Southern Methodist University. Dr. Garber has conducted research in Texas.
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 Dr. Jon McGee, Professor of Anthropology and Department Chair. Dr. McGee began his work with the Lacandon Maya in 1980 and received his Ph.D. from Rice University in 1983. McGee is married, has a son and daughter, and has taught at Texas State University-San Marcos since 1985. He is the author of numerous works on the Lacandon including Life, Ritual and Religion Among the Lacandon Maya (Wadsworth 1990), and the coauthor of the text Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History, now in its second edition. He is currently working on a third book, Chasing the Peso: Watching Lacandon Maya Lives.
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 Dr. Elizabeth M. Erhart is a biological anthropologist and received her Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin in 1996. Dr. Erhart specializes in the study of living primate and has been involved in an on-going reseach project on the behavior and ecology of lemurs in Madagascar for several years.
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 Dr. Richard Warms, Associate Professor of Anthropology. Dr. Warms has worked with merchants and with veterans of the French Colonial Army in West Africa since 1979. He recieved his Ph.D. from Syracuse University in 1987. With Jon McGee, he is co-author of Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History, and with Serena Nanda, of the introductory anthropology textbook, Cultural Anthropology, which will soon appear in its seventh edition.
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 Dr. F. Kent Reilly, Professor of Anthropology. Dr. Reilly's main research interests converge around the religion, art, and visual validation of elite authority in New World chiefdoms and early states. His primary focus is Mesoamerican Civilization, the ancient Olmec and Maya, and the art and iconography of the prehistoric Mississippian Period of the Southeastern United States. He recieved his Ph.D. from University of Texas in 1994.
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 Dr. Ana Juarez, Associate Professor of Anthropology. Dr. Juarez research focuses on issues of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, tourism and globalization among Latinas/os in the United States and in Latin America, especially among Mayas in Quintana Roo, Mexico. She has also published on Mexican American children's literature and urban archaeology. Her most recent publications appeared in The Journal of Latin American Anthropology, Human Organization, Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, and Latin American Indian Literatures Journal. She recieved her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1996.
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