Thakar, Heather
individual record
Assistant Professor
Positions:
- Curator, Anthropology Research Collections, Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
- Assistant Professor, Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
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.
Repository Documents / Preprints1
- Roberts, A., Potvin, S., Hankins, R., Gatson, S., Laddusaw, S., Muise, I., ... Davis, C. B. (2021). The Gulf Coast Heritage Preparedness Initiative: Proposal to the Texas A&M University President's Excellence Fund.
researcher on
Principal Investigator3
recent teaching activities
- ANTH201 Intro To Anthropology Instructor
- ANTH205 Peoples & Cult Of Wrld Instructor
- ANTH291 Research Instructor
- ANTH370 Cultural Diversity & Ethics-mx Instructor
- ANTH412 Archaeological Theory Instructor
Email
thakar@tamu.edu
First Name
Heather
Last Name
Thakar
mailing address
Texas A&M University; Anthropology; 4352 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4352
USA