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Thakar, Heather

Assistant Professor

Positions:

Curator, Anthropology Research Collections, Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts

Research Areas:

Paleoecology, Archaeology

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thakar@tamu.edu

1 979 845 5242

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ORCID

0000-0003-3571-724X

Research Areas:

Paleoecology, Archaeology

overview

Archaeological Theory, Evolutionary Ecology, Resilience, Foraging and Proto-agricultural Societies; Paleoecology, Paleoethnobotany, Zooarchaeology, Archaeometry (Isotope Geochemistry); Quantitative Methods, Chronological Models and Data Integration, Database Management; Archaeological Ethics, Curation and Collections Management

education and training

Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara - (Santa Barbara, California, United States) 2014
M.A. in Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara - (Santa Barbara, California, United States) 2008
B.A. in Anthropology and History, Texas Tech University - (Houston, Texas, United States) 2004

selected publications

Academic Articles2

Kistler, L., Thakar, H. B., VanDerwarker, A. M., Domic, A., Bergström, A., George, R. J., ... Kennett, D. J (2020). Archaeological Central American maize genomes suggest ancient gene flow from South America.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 117(52), 33124-33129.
VanDerwarker, A. M., Bardolph, D. N., Hoppa, K. M., Thakar, H. B., Martin, L. S., Jaqua, A. L., Biwer, M. E., & Gill, K. M. (2016). New World Paleoethnobotany in the New Millennium (20002013). Journal of Archaeological Research. (2),

Chapters3

Thakar, H. B. (2015). Dating the Tlacuachero Post-Archaic Deposits: Ceramic Analysis. Voorhies, B. (Eds.), An Archaic Mexican Shellmound and its Entombed Floors. 29-47. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press.
Thakar, H. B. (2015). The Tlacuachero Floors: Description and Sampling Methods. Voorhies, B. (Eds.), An Archaic Mexican Shellmound and its Entombed Floors. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology.
Thakar, H. B. (2012). Ancient actions predict modern consequences: Prehistoric lessons in marine shellfish exploitation. Conservation Biology and Applied Zooarchaeology. 92-109.