Geoffrey Thomas

Biography

In 2005, Geoffrey Thomas completed the 4+1 program at Tulane University earning his bachelor's and master's degrees. In 2011 Thomas earned his doctoral degree from Florida State University under Frank Marlowe and Lynne Schepartz.

Since the fall of 2011, Thomas has been a specialized teaching professor in anthropology, teaching three courses per semester. He has also been undergraduate Adviser and director of the Human Remains Collections.

Thomas was awarded a Florida State University Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2015-2016.

Research Interests and Activities

• Skeletal biology
• Subadult growth and development
• Functional morphology and biomechanics
• Hunter-gatherer lifeways
• Evolutionary theory
• Paleopathology

Courses:

• ANT 2301 Evolution of Human Sexuality
• ANT 2511 Introduction to Physical Anthropology
• ANT 3300 Masculinity in Global Perspective 
• ANT 3520 Introduction to Forensic Anthropology
• ANT 4586 Human Evolution
• ANT 4525 Human Osteology
• ANT 4468  Bones, Bodies & Disease
• IDS 3933  Who Owns the Past

Select Publications and Professional Projects

Submitted 2019 — Diversity of Upper Limb Asymmetry in Three Archaic Hunter-Gatherer Populations. AJPA.

2018 — Baumeister, R.F., J.A. Maxwell, G.P. Thomas, and K.D. Vohs. The Mask of Love and Sexual Gullibility. In: J. Forgas & R. Baumeister (Eds.), The psychology of gullibility. New York: Routledge Psychology Press.

2018 — Boren, S., D. Slice, G.P.Thomas. Morphometric analysis of shape differences in WIndover and Point Hope archaic human mandibles. AJPA. 1-12 https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23728

2016 — G.P. Thomas. An 8,000 year old case of thalassemia from the Windover, Florida skeletal population. International Journal of Paleopathology. Vol. 14C: 81-90   

2016 — G.H. Doran and G.P. Thomas. Windover: an Overview. In Mesolithic burials – Rites, symbols and social organization of early postglacial communities. Edited by: Judith Grunberg, Bernhard Gramsch, Lars Larson, Jorg Orschiedt, and Harald Meller. Halle: Landesmuseum Halle, 865-884

2011 — Patterns in Adult and Subadult Upper Limb Asymmetry from North American Archaic and Mississippian Populations. Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Florida State University, Tallahassee.

Research Papers in Development

Thomas, G.P. Patterns in Subadult Upper Limb Asymmetry from North American Archaic and Mississippian Populations and the Effects of Culturally Specific Behaviors.

Thomas, G.P. Windover: Not your Typical Hunter-Gatherer.

Research Projects

2016 – Project Leader for the digitization of the Windover collection (8BR246). In conjunction with the FSU Digital Library Services, Thomas is heading a project to digitize all field note, excavation unit forms, shovel test forms, images, maps, X-rays, and logs created during the excavation of the Windover burial pond between the 1984-1986 field seasons. They will then be housed and available through FSUs digital repository.

DigiNole: Windover Archaeological Site Collection

Dissertation