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David Hurst Thomas

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Archeology

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#173

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David Hurst Thomas's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Davis
Masters Anthropology University of California, Davis
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Santa Barbara

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According to Wikipedia, David Hurst Thomas is the curator of North American Archaeology in the Division of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History and a professor at Richard Gilder Graduate School. He was previously a chairman of the American Museum of Natural History's Anthropology Division.

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David Hurst Thomas's Published Works

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Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, And The Battle For Native American Identity (2000) (283)
Arrowheads and Atlatl Darts: How the Stones Got the Shaft (1978) (216)
How to Classify the Projectile Points from Monitor Valley, Nevada (1981) (182)
An Empirical Test for Steward's Model of Great Basin Settlement Patterns (1973) (162)
Figuring anthropology: First principles of probability and statistics (1976) (141)
Climate change and the integrity of science. (2010) (137)
Great Basin Hunting Patterns: A Quantitative Method for Treating Faunal Remains (1969) (119)
The Awful Truth about Statistics in Archaeology (1978) (82)
On Distinguishing Natural from Cultural Bone in Archaeological Sites (1971) (65)
The anthropology of St. Catherines Island. 3, Prehistoric human biological adaptation. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; v. 57, pt. 3 (1982) (55)
Situado and sabana : Spain's support system for the presidio and mission provinces of Florida. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; no. 74 (1995) (53)
Projectile Points as Time Markers in the Great Basin (1991) (52)
Archaeological and historical perspectives on the Spanish borderlands east (1990) (45)
Native American Landscapes of St. Catherines Island, Georgia: I. The Theoretical Framework (2008) (45)
Affluent foragers : Pacific coasts east and west (1981) (43)
Points on Points: A Reply to Flenniken and Raymond (1986) (41)
The Archaeology of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale. 2, Biocultural interpretations of a population in transition. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; no. 68 (1992) (41)
A computer simulation model of Great Basin Shoshonean subsistence and settlement patterns (1972) (40)
Columbian Consequences. Vol. 3: The Spanish Borderlands in Pan-American Perspective (1992) (36)
The Spanish Borderlands in Pan-American Perspective (1991) (36)
Trend, tradition, and turmoil : what happened to the southeastern Archaic? : proceedings of the Third Caldwell Conference, St. Catherines Island, Georgia, May 9-11, 2008. (Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 93) (2010) (35)
Complexity among Great Basin Shoshoneans : The World's Least Affluent Hunter-Gatherers? (1982) (31)
High-precision AMS 14C chronology for Gatecliff Shelter, Nevada (2014) (29)
Native American landscapes of St. Catherines Island, Georgia. Part 2 ; Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 88, pt. 2 (2008) (27)
The archaeology of Monitor Valley. 2, Gatecliff Shelter. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; v. 59, pt. 1 (1983) (27)
Anthropology of St. Catherines Island 2. the Refuge Deptford Mortuary Complex (1979) (25)
Rich Man, Poor Men: Observations On Three Antebellum Burials from the Georgia Coast (1977) (25)
Prehistoric Pinon Ecotone Settlements of the Upper Reese River Valley, Central Nevada (1976) (24)
Columbian Consequences, Volume 2: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Borderlands East (1992) (23)
Early metal use and crematory practices in the American Southeast (2018) (23)
The anthropology of St. Catherines Island. 4, The St. Catherines period mortuary complex. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; v. 57, pt. 4 (1982) (21)
The Native Americans: An Illustrated History (1994) (20)
Predicting the Past: An Introduction to Anthropological Archaeology (1974) (20)
An Archaeological Perspective on Shoshonean Bands1 (1974) (20)
The Shellfishers of St. Catherines Island: Hardscrabble Foragers or Farming Beachcombers? (2014) (19)
Archaeology: Down to Earth (1992) (19)
The archaeology of Monitor Valley. 3, Survey and additional excavations. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; v. 66, pt. 2 (1988) (17)
The archaeology of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale. 1, Search and discovery. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; v. 63, pt. 2 (1987) (16)
The anthropology of St. Catherines Island. 1, Natural and cultural history. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; v. 55, pt. 2 (1978) (16)
The Fort Sage Drift Fence, Washoe County, Nevada. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; v. 58, pt. 2 (1983) (16)
The beads of St. Catherines Island. (Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 89) (2009) (15)
Columbian Consequences, Volume I: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Borderlands West (1991) (15)
The archaeology of Monitor Valley. 1, Epistemology. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; v. 58, pt. 1 (1983) (15)
St. Catherines: An Island in Time (1988) (14)
A Diegueno Shaman's Wand: An Object Lesson Illustrating the "Heirloom Hypothesis" (1976) (13)
The anthropology of St. Catherines Island. 2, The Refuge-Deptford mortuary complex. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; v. 56, pt. 1 (1978) (13)
Great Lakes Copper and Shared Mortuary Practices on the Atlantic Coast: Implications for Long-Distance Exchange during the Late Archaic (2019) (12)
Ecosystem stability and Native American oyster harvesting along the Atlantic Coast of the United States. (2020) (12)
Early Life Stress at Mission Santa Catalina de Guale: An Integrative Analysis of Enamel Defects and Dentin Incremental Isotope Variation in Malnutrition (2018) (11)
Exploring Ancient Native America: An Archaeological Guide (1994) (11)
New Data On Rock Art Chronology in the Central Great Basin (1972) (11)
The Gruesome Truth about Statistics in Archaeology (1980) (10)
THE USE AND ABUSE OF NUMERICAL TAXONOMY IN ARCHAEOLOGY1 (1972) (10)
Columbian Consequences, Volume 3: The Spanish Borderlands in Pan-American Perspective (1993) (10)
Vibracores and Vibracore Transects: Constraining the Geological and Cultural History of St. Catherines Island (2011) (10)
Ecosystem stability and Native American oyster harvesting along the Atlantic Coast of the United States (2020) (10)
Mission and Pueblo Santa Catalina de Guale, St. Catherines Island, Georgia (USA) : a comparative zooarchaeological analysis. (Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 91) (2010) (10)
From Santa Elena to St. Augustine : indigenous ceramic variability, A.D. 1400-1700 (2009) (9)
A SHOSHONEAN PRAYERSTONE HYPOTHESIS: RITUAL CARTOGRAPHIES OF GREAT BASIN INCISED STONES (2018) (9)
The archaeology of Silent Snake Springs, Humboldt County, Nevada. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; v. 55, pt. 3 (1979) (9)
The Beads of St. Catherines Island (2009) (9)
Mission and Pueblo Santa Catalina de Guale, St. Catherines Island, Georgia: A comparative zooarchaeological analysis (2010) (7)
Prehistoric human biological adaptation (1982) (6)
X-Ray Diffraction Analysis of Pictograph Pigments From Toquima Cave, Central Nevada (1973) (6)
On the Use of Cumulative Curves and Numerical Taxonomy (1971) (5)
Geoarchaeology of St. Catherines Island, Georgia : proceedings of the Fourth Caldwell Conference, St. Catherines Island, Georgia, March 27-29, 2009. (Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 94) (2011) (5)
The struggle for the Georgia coast : an 18th-century Spanish retrospective on Guale and Mocama. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; no. 75 (1995) (5)
Cultural Resource Overview, Carson City District, West Central Nevada, Part 2 (1982) (5)
Listening to Six Generations of Chumash Women (2011) (5)
Great Basin Projectile Point Typology: Still Relevant? (2013) (5)
Natural and cultural history (1978) (5)
Seasonality and human mobility along the Georgia Bight : proceedings of the Fifth Caldwell Conference, St. Catherines Island, Georgia, May 14-16, 2010 (2012) (4)
God's Truth in Great Basin Archaeology? (1981) (4)
An Aboriginal Rock Alignment in the Toiyabe Range , Central Nevada BY (4)
Repatriation: The Bitter End or A Fresh Beginning? (1991) (4)
Retrospective Look at Columbian Consequences (1992) (3)
Magnetic Prospection and the Discovery of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale, Georgia (1985) (3)
Life among the tides : recent archaeology on the Georgia Bight : proceedings of the Sixth Caldwell Conference, St. Catherines Island, Georgia, May 20-22, 2011. (Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 98) (2013) (3)
Margaret Mead as a Museum Anthropologist (1980) (3)
The Life and Times of Fr. Junípero Serra: A Pan-Borderlands Perspective (2014) (3)
Archaeology of Silent Snake Springs Humbolt County, Nevada (1990) (3)
Columbian Consequences: The Spanish Borderlands in Pan-American Perspective. Vol. 3 (1993) (2)
Hogup Cave. C. Melvin Aikens. University of Utah Anthropological Papers No. 93, Salt Lake City, April 1970. xiii + 286 pp., 18 tables, 129 illustrations, 10 appendices. No price given. (1975) (2)
Anthropology of St. Catherine's Island for the St. Catherine's Period Mortuary Complex (1982) (2)
GEOMORPHOLOGY , SEA LEVEL , AND MARINE RESOURCES : ST . CATHERINES ISLAND (2011) (2)
CHAPTER 1 WHY THIS ARCHAEOLOGIST CARES ABOUT GEOARCHAEOLOGY : SOME PASTS AND FUTURES OF ST . CATHERINES ISLAND (2011) (2)
An aboriginal rock alignment in the Toiyabe Range, central Nevada. American Museum novitates ; no. 2534 (1974) (2)
The archaeology [i.e. anthropology] of St. Catherines Island. 5, The South End Mound complex. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; v. 63, pt. 1 (1986) (2)
Bioarchaeology of the late prehistoric Guale (1995) (2)
The Archaeology of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale. Vol. 1, Search and Discovery (1989) (2)
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ST . CATHERINES ISLAND :5 . THE SOUTH END MOUND COMPLEX (2)
Alpine archaeology of Alta Toquima and the Mt. Jefferson Tablelands (Nevada) : the archaeology of Monitor Valley, contribution 4. (2020) (2)
Columbian Consequences. III. The Spanish Borderlands in Pan-American Perspective (1992) (1)
Pigment Composition of Prehistoric Pictographs of Gatecliff Shelter , Central Nevada BY (1)
Historical Archaeology and Native Agency across the Spanish Borderlands (2012) (1)
The Archaeology of Barrel Springs Site (Nv-Pe-104), Pershing County, Nevada (1972) (1)
Museums: Ethics of exhibition (2016) (1)
The South End Mound complex (1986) (1)
Indian Agency in Spanish Florida: Some New Findings from Mission Santa Catalina de Guale (2011) (1)
Edward Craig Morris (1939–2006) (2007) (1)
The archaeology of colonial encounters: comparative perspectives – Edited by Gil J. Stein (2008) (1)
War and peace on the Franciscan frontier (2015) (1)
The St. Catherines period mortuary complex (1982) (1)
Additional Pinon Ecotone Settlements of the Reese River Valley (1976) (1)
Memorial to Martin Alexander Baumhoff (1926-1983) (1984) (1)
Temporal and geographic extent of the late Holocene dry period in the central Great Basin, USA (2023) (1)
Digital Atlas of St. Catherines Island, Georgia, Version 1.0, (2009) (1)
Hidden Cave Archaeological Project: a Case Study in Creative Funding (1980) (1)
Materiality Matters: Colonial Transformations Spanning the Southwestern and Southeastern Borderlands (2017) (1)
The Distribution of Prehistoric Population Aggregates. George J. Gumerman (1977) (0)
Archaeology: A Complete Manual of Field Archaeology: Tools and Techniques of Field Work for Archaeologists. Martha Joukowsky (1981) (0)
Bioarchaeology of Cremated Human Remains from the McQueen Shell Ring (9Li1648) on St. Catherines Island, Georgia (2016) (0)
Forging Communities in Colonial Alta California. KATHLEEN L. HULL and JOHN G. DOUGLASS, editors. 2018. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. x + 292 pp. $60.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-8165-3736-5. (2020) (0)
AN UNKNOWN CONTEMPORARY EPITAPH OF THOMAS MASON (d. 1559) (1967) (0)
Kennewick Man: The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton . Douglas W. Owsley and Richard L. Jantz, editors. 2014. Texas A&M University Press, College Station. 669 pp. $75 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-62349-200-7. (2015) (0)
A Note on Marcantonio's Death of Dido (1969) (0)
Investigating the Genetic Impacts of Spanish missionization on the Guale of St. Catherines Island, Georgia (2017) (0)
: Archeological Survey in Eastern Nevada, 1966 . Don D. Fowler. ; The Archeology of Newark Cave, White Pine County, Nevada . Don D. Fowler. (1970) (0)
Book Review of Imagining Head-Smashed-In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains By Jack W. Brink (2009) (0)
Pigment composition of prehistoric pictographs of Gatecliff Shelter, central Nevada. American Museum novitates ; no. 2521 (1973) (0)
Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850. Steven H. Hackel (2006) (0)
Archaeology: The Past is Human: Ancient Mysteries Examined. 2nd ed. Peter White (1980) (0)
Search and discovery (1987) (0)
Book reviews (1976) (0)
PART 2 ANTHROPOLOGICAL PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NEW YORK : 1983 (0)
Archeological Reconnaissance of the Winnemucca-Battle Mountain Area of Nevada. Robert L. Stephenson and Kent Wilkinson. Research Papers of the Nevada Archeological Survey, No. 1, University of Nevada, Reno, 1969. 66 pp., 6 figs., 5 maps, 1 table. $1.00. (1970) (0)
Archaeology (1973) (0)
Holistic integration; building toward consensus in Georgia sea level history (2007) (0)
Landform Dynamics Associated with Mission Santa Catalina De Guale : St. Catherines Island, Georgia (2013) (0)
Carson-Still Water Archaeological Project Report of Activities: 1981 (1982) (0)
Foreword: Columbian Consequences in Quarter-Century Perspective (2017) (0)
Ethics and the Contemporay Museum of Anthropology (1983) (0)
A Retrospective Look at Columbian Consequences (1992) (0)
The archaeology of Hidden Cave, Nevada. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; v. 61, pt. 1 (1985) (0)
Great Basin Incised Stones and the Shoshonean World (2017) (0)
Early Americans: respecting ancestors. (2014) (0)

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