Research Background
My active research interests include Stone Age archaeology of Sub-Saharan Africa , Paleoindian and Archaic archaeology in the US, Hunter-gatherer foraging theory and Technological organization, Geoarchaeology and paleoenvironmental analysis, and Antelope Creek farmers and hunters in the Texas Panhandle.

Currently Dr. James Brink (National Museum, Bloemfontein) and I are co-directing the investigation the Middle and Later Stone Age sites of Baden-Baden and Erfkroon in South Africa. This research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Leakey Foundation, Texas State University and the National Museum. In addition, I am working with Garth Sampson to convert the NSF-funded Zeekoe Valley Survey data from South Africa into GIS format. The Bureau of Land Management has supported our field school excavations at Antelope Creek homesteads on the Cross Bar Ranch and NPS is funding research at the Alibates Quarries, both in the Texas Panhandle.

I am co-chair of the Anthropology Section for the Texas Academy of Science and I serve as the 2012 Immediate Past President of the Texas Archeological Society. I am also a Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. I also serve as Associate Dean for Research in the College of Liberal Arts.

My recent, in press, submitted and in preparation publications are listed below:

Books & Edited Journal Volumes
C. B. Bousman and B. Vierra (eds.), in press From the Pleistocene to the Holocene: Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America. TAMU Press.

Michael Bever and C. Britt Bousman (guest editors) 2007 Recent Advances in Texas Paleoindian Archeology. Bulletin of the Texas Archaeological Society, Vol. 78.

C. Britt Bousman and David O. Brown (assemblers) 1998 Recent Paleoenvironmental Research in Texas, Plains Anthropologist, Vol. 43, No. 164.

Journal Articles & Book Chapters
Britt Bousman, James Brink, Mark Bateman, Holly Meier, Rainer Grün, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Lloyd Rossouw, Louis Scott, Daryl Codron, Gary Trower, and Stephen Tooth in prep Middle and Late Pleistocene Human occupations in the Western Free State, South Africa.

Bob Wishoff, Chris Davis, Paul Katz and Britt Bousman in prep Quarrying behavior at Alibates Flint Mines.

Robert Z. Selden Jr. and C. Britt Bousman in prep Temporal and Regional Dynamics of Archaeological Case Law in the United States.

S. Alan Skinner, C. Britt Bousman and Jesse Todd in prep Archaeological Investigation at the Dalbey Site (41DL350). Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society.

James S. Brink, Andy I.R. Herries, Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi, John A.J. Gowlett, C. Britt Bousman, John Hancox, Rainer Grün, Vera Eisenmann, Lloyd Rossouw submitted First hominine remains from a 1.07-0.99 Ma hyaena accumulation at Cornelia-Uitzoek, Free State Province, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution.

C. Britt Bousman and Bradley Vierra in press Chronology, Environmental Setting and Views of the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene Cultural Transitions in North America. In C. B. Bousman and B. Vierra (eds.), From the Pleistocene to the Holocene: Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America. TAMU Press.

C. Britt Bousman and Eric Oksanen in press The Paleoindian-Archaic transition in Central Texas and the Southern Plains. In C. B. Bousman and B. Vierra (eds.), From the Pleistocene to the Holocene: Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America. TAMU Press.

Louis Scott, Frank Neumann, George Brook, Britt Bousman and E. Norström, 2012 Terrestrial fossil-pollen evidence of vegetation and climate change during the last 26 ka in Southern Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews 32:100-118.

Michael B. Collins, David M. Yelacic and C. Britt Bousman 2011 “Realms,” A Look at Paleoclimate and Projectile Points in Texas. Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society 82:3-30.

Frank Nuemann, Louis Scott, Britt Bousman, and Leisl van As 2010 A Holocene pollen sequence and vegetation changes at Lake Eteza, KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 162:39-53.

C. Britt Bousman and S. Alan Skinner 2007 The Search for Late Pleistocene pre-Clovis archaeology in Texas: problems and potentials. Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society 78:37-46.

C. Britt Bousman and Michael Quigg 2006 Stable carbon isotopes from Archaic human remains in the Chihuahuan Desert and Central Texas. Plains Anthropologist 51:198:123-140.

C. Britt Bousman 2006 Satellite Archaeology for Everyone. The SAA Archaeological Record 6:3:32-34.

C. Britt Bousman 2005 Coping with risk: Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers at Blydefontein Rock Shelter. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 24:193-226.

Jeff D. Leach, C. Britt Bousman, and David L. Nickels 2005 Comments on assigning a primary context to artifacts recovered from burned rock middens. Journal of Field Archaeology 30:10-12.

Louis Scott, C. Britt Bousman, and Makisang Nyakale 2005 Holocene pollen from swamp, cave, and hyrax dung deposits at Blydefontein (Kikvorsberge), Karoo, South Africa. Quaternary International 129:1:49-59.

C. Britt Bousman, Barry W. Baker, and Anne C. Kerr 2004 Paleoindian archeology in Texas. In: The Prehistory of Texas, edited by Timothy Perttula, pp 15-97. Texas A&M University Press.

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

Current Grants and Contracts
Britt Bousman 2010 Recalibration survey of available quarry pit location data at the Alibates Quarries. National Park Service.

Britt Bousman and James Brink 2009 Excavation of Middle and Later Stone Age Sites at Erfkroon, South Africa. National Science Foundation.

Book Reviews
C. Britt Bousman 2011 Review: The Light Gray People: an ethno-history of the Lipan Apaches of Texas and Northern Mexico, by Nancy McGowan Minor. Southwestern Historical Quarterly CXIV:3:327-328.

C. Britt Bousman 2007 Review: The Borderlands Late Archaic, from foraging to farming, by Bradley Vierra. Agricultural History, 81:4:557-558.

Web Publications
Robert J. Selden and C. Britt Bousman 2009 U.S. CRM Case Law Database 1906-2009. http://www.thc.state.tx.us/archeology/aaresource.shtml

Recent CRM and Other Reports
David L. Nickels and C. Britt Bousman (assemblers) in press Archaeological Phase II Testing at 20 Sites at Camp Swift, Bastrop County, Texas 2002. Report Submitted to the Texas National Guard.

Britt Bousman and James Brink 2011 Annual NSF Report for Grant No. 0918074, Excavation and Analysis of Middle and Later Stone Age Sites at Erfkroon, South Africa. Submitted to the National Science Foundation.

Eric Oksanen, Barbara Meissner and C. Britt Bousman 2011 Archaeological Investigations at the Ice House Site, 41HY161 Early Archaic Technology, Subsistence and Settlement along the Balcones Escarpment, Hays County, Texas. Archaeological Studies Reports No. 14. Center for Archaeological Studies, San Marcos: Texas State University.

C. Britt Bousman, Chris R. L. Davis, I. Robert Wishoff, Paul Katz and Charles Swenson 2011 Results of the Alibates Flint Quarries Resurvey Project. Report submitted to National Park Service. Center for Archaeological Studies. Technical Reports.

Britt Bousman and James Brink 2010 Annual NSF Report for Grant No. 0918074, Excavation and Analysis of Middle and Later Stone Age Sites at Erfkroon, South Africa. Submitted to the National Science Foundation.

David L. Nickels and C. Britt Bousman (assemblers) 2010 Texas River Center Archaeology, Test Excavations at 41HY160, Hays County, Texas. Archaeological Studies Reports No. 13. Center for Archaeological Studies, San Marcos: Texas State University.

David Nickels, C. Britt Bousman and Jessica Hurley (assemblers) 2010 A 3475 Acre Survey of Camp Swift, Bastrop County, Texas. Archaeological Studies Reports No. 10. Center for Archaeological Studies, San Marcos: Texas State University.

Abigail Peyton, Russell K. Brownlow, C. Britt Bousman, and Terri Meyers 2008 Cultural resource investigations of the USACE jurisdictional areas within the 356-acre III Forks Tract, Georgetown, Williamson County, Texas, Volume 2. Horizon Environmental Services, Inc. Austin.

Ken Lawrence, Steve Carpenter, Britt Bousman, Kevin Miller, Leland Bement, and John Lowe 2007 Interim report: archaeological investigations for the Interstate 37 Bridge at the San Antonio River Improvement Project, Bexar County, Texas. SWCA Cultural Resources Report, Austin, SWCA Environmental Consultants.

Britt Bousman 2007 The Pleistocene Chronology at Cornelia as Determined by Paleomagnetic Analysis of Sediment Samples. Report Submitted to Dr. James Brink, head, Florisbad Quaternary Research Department, National Museum, Bloemfontein.

Jon C. Lohse and C. Britt Bousman 2006 National Register Evaluation of Eight Sites at Camp Swift Army National Guard Training Center, Bastrop County, Texas: Swift V. Archaeological Studies Reports No. 8. Center for Archaeological Studies, San Marcos: Texas State University.

Richard S. Jones, Eric Oksanen and C. Britt Bousman 2006 Annual Report to the City of San Marcos for Texas Antiquities Permit No. 2872, Hays County, Texas. Technical Reports No. 26. Center for Archaeological Studies, San Marcos: Texas State University.

S. Alan Skinner, C. Britt Bousman, Neely Plumb, Anita P. Wilson, Jesse Todd, and Tom Jennings 2006 Archaeology and Quaternary Geology at Lake Ralph Hall, Fannin County, Texas. Dallas: AR Consultants.

S. Alan Skinner, C. Britt Bousman, Jesse Todd, Jeff Craver, Thomas A. Jennings, Leslie L. Bush and Art Tawater 2005 Archaeological Investigations at the Dalbey Site (41DL350) Dallas, Texas. Dallas: AR Consultants.

David L. Nickels, Antonio Padilla, James Barrera, and C. Britt Bousman 2005 Archaeological Survey of 307 Acres at Camp Swift, Bastrop County, Texas: 2003. Archaeological Studies Reports No. 6. Center for Archaeological Studies, San Marcos: Texas State University.

Chaired MA and BA Theses
Jennifer Anderson, in progress, 1st year, MA Thesis.
Jennifer Gandy, in progress, 1st year, MA Thesis.
Jacob Hooge in progress, Underwater Geoarchaeological Research at Spring Lake, San Marcos. 2nd year, MA Thesis.
Anna Gilmer in progress, Geoarchaeological Investigations of Natural Site Formation Processes at the Gault Site, a Paleoindian and Pre-Clovis site in Bell County Texas. 2nd year, MA Thesis.
Haley Rush in progress, Faunal Analysis at the Rowe Valley Site, 41WM437, Williamson County, Texas. 2nd year, MA Thesis.
Senna Thornton-Barnett in progress, An ethnobotanical approach to the identification of archaeologically significant plants in the Free State, South Africa. 2nd year, MA Thesis.
Josh Heffner 2011 Subsistence, technology, and site use through time at 41HY160, the Tee Box Six Locale. MA Thesis, Texas State University.
Ken Lawrence 2010 A Recalibrated Chronological Framework for Texas Archaeology-Geoarchaeology. MA Thesis, Texas State University.
Ira Wishoff 2010 An analysis of quarrying behavior at Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument, Fritch Texas. MA Thesis, Texas State University.
Stephen Schooler 2009 Trace element analysis of Spanish, French and Native American musket balls from colonial era sites in Texas. MA Thesis, Texas State University.
Zachary Seldon 2008 The legal basis for cultural resource management: the case law. B.A. Honors Thesis, Texas State University.
Eric Oksanen 2008 Archaeological investigations at the Ice House Site 41HY161: a revaluation of Early Archaic technology, subsistence, and settlement along the Balcones Escarpment and Central Texas. MA Thesis, Texas State University.
Luis Alvarado 2008 Ochoa Indented Brownware: Late Prehistoric ceramic production in the Southern Plains. MA Thesis, Texas State University.
Greg LaBudde 2008 Interchangeability in the organization of Archaic projectile technology: examples from the northern Chihuahuan Desert. MA Thesis, Texas State University.
Deirdre Aery 2007 Technological organization at the Spring Lake Site (41HY160): the 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2006 excavations. MA Thesis, Texas State University.
Holly Meier 2007 Antelope Creek Ceramics: an INAA comparison. MA Thesis, Texas State University.
Laura Acuña 2006 The economic contribution of root foods and other geophytes in prehistoric Texas. MA Thesis, Texas State University.
Abby Weinstein 2005 Investigations at an Antelope Creek phase isolated homestead (41PT109). MA Thesis, Texas State University.

Currently I teach a number of undergraduate and graduate courses in the Anthropology Department that are listed below

Undergraduate Courses:
World Prehistory—ANTH 3306
Archaeological Artifact Identification and Analysis—ANTH 3313
The Origin and Evolution of Human Behavior—ANTH 3316
Geoarchaeology—ANTH 3338
Curation of Archaeological Materials—ANTH 3376N
History of Anthropological Thought—ANTH 4310 (team taught)
Archaeological Field School—ANTH 4630

Graduate Courses:
History of Anthropological Thought—ANTH 5310 (team taught)
Archaeological Artifact Identification and Analysis—ANTH 5313
The Origin and Evolution of Human Behavior—ANTH 5316
Geoarchaeology—ANTH 5338
Anthropological Statistics—ANTH 5374P
Curation of Archaeological Materials—ANTH 5374Z