Donald M. Thieme

Geologist, Archaeologist

Email: dmthieme@valdosta.edu

Work: (229) 219-1345

Home: (229) 247-9210

Cell: (229) 630-6829

EDUCATION + TEACHING + RESEARCH + GRANTS + PUBLICATIONS + EMPLOYMENT + AFFILIATIONS + REFERENCES + SAMPLE REPORTS + COURSE MATERIALS

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EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Archaeological Geology (2003)
Department of Geology, University of Georgia

M.A. in Conservation Archaeology (1989)
Department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

B.A. in Philosophy (1982)
New College of the University of South Florida

TEACHING STRENGTHS AND EXPERIENCE (see Statement of Teaching Philosophy)

Geomorphology, Environmental Geology, Weather and Climate, Historical Geology, Quaternary Geology, Clay and Soil Mineralogy, Fluvial Processes, Sedimentology, Stratigraphy

Archaeometry, Archaeological Stratigraphy, Petrographic Analysis of Soils and Ceramics

Assistant Professor at Valdosta State University (tenure track), fall semester of 2011

Instructor at Valdosta State University, fall semester of 2007 through spring semester of 2011

Lecturer in Physical Geology, Historical Geology, and Environmental Science at Georgia Perimeter College, fall semester of 2002 through spring semester of 2007

Visiting Assistant Professor at Georgia Southern University, spring semester of 2005

Lecturer in Physical Geography at Georgia State University, spring and summer semesters of 2004

Historical Geology Teaching Assistant Coordinator from 1995-1998 at the University of Georgia

Physical Geology Teaching Assistant from 1993-1995 at the University of Georgia

Archaeological Field School Instructor in 1984 at Southern Illinois University

RESEARCH PROJECTS (see Statement of Research Interests)

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) identification of unmarked graves in Sunset Hill Cemetery, Valdosta. August, 2010 - present

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) investigation of buried karst features in the Withlacoochee River valley. August, 2010 - present

Soil Erosion Rates in south Georgia measured using sediment cores from Mission Lake, Moody Air Force Base. June, 2010 - present

Stratigraphy of late Pleistocene through Holocene alluvium and wetland deposits in the vicinity of the Glass site, Telfair County, GA: June, 2006 - present

Lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the CEMEX quarry, Clinchfield, GA.: February, 2005 - present

Three-dimensional GIS geologic mapping and geoarchaeological investigations of Governors Island in New York Harbor: Summer, 1997 - present

Sedimentology and archaeological site formation in the tabby area of the north plantation on Ossabaw Island, GA: March-August, 2005

Environmental magnetism of Susquehanna Valley alluvium. Research on magnetic mineral phases at low temperature conducted as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Rock Magnetism, University of Minnesota. July, 2003 - February, 2004.

Clay mineralogy, stratigraphy, and tectonic deformation of the Conasauga shale at Outcrops near Dalton, Georgia (began in Summer of 2003)

Geomorphological mapping and coring for pollen in the Lower Rio Verde, Coastal Oaxaca, Mexico (began in Summer of 2000)

Field study of archaeologically dated alluvial sequences in the middle reaches of the North Branch of the Susquehanna River (Doctoral Dissertation Research, 1997-2000)

Archaeological site prospection and paleoenvironmental reconstruction of submerged contexts in New York and New Jersey Harbor (began in winter of 1998)

Mapping of clay sources in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico and mineralogical and petrographic analysis of ceramic raw materials (began in summer of 1992)

Computer Simulation and GIS Analysis of Prehistoric Agricultural Potential for Black Mesa in northeastern Arizona (Master's Thesis Research, 1985-1989)

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2011

Faculty Scholarship grant to attend the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the Geological Society of America in Wilmington, North Carolina to present a talk on "GPR Investigations of Buried Karst Features along the Withlacoochee River, Georgia, USA."

2010

Office of Sponsored Programs Research Administration, Valdosta State University. Faculty Research Seed Grant for "Sediment Coring in the Vicinity of the Glass site (9Tf145), Ocmulgee River floodplain at Jacksonville, Georgia."

Faculty Scholarship grant to attend the PAGES Workshop on Floodplain Lakes at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

Faculty Scholarship grant to attend the 75th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in St. Louis, Missouri to present a talk on "Landscape changes and the Spanish presence in middle Georgia, USA."

2009

Center for Applied Research, Valdosta State University. Seed Grant for "Shallow geophysical investigation of ruins and soil anomalies at the Smith site, Valdosta."

2003

Institute for Rock Magnetism, University of Minnesota. Visiting Fellow to study "Environmental Magnetism of Susquehanna Valley alluvium"

1997-2003

Pennsylvania Geological Survey Mapping Grants for dissertation field research on the North Branch of the Susquehanna River and sampling of glaciofluvial deposits for optical dating

1996

Franklin College Travel Grant for Doctoral Dissertation Research in Pennsylvania

1996

Student Travel Award for the 14th Biennial Meeting of the American Quaternary Association, Flagstaff, AZ

1995

Collections Study Grant to work with Zapotec Urns at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY

1994

Student Travel Award for the 13th Biennial Meeting of the American Quaternary Association, Minneapolis, MN

1985

Selected Participant in Summer Institute on Prehistoric Agriculture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

PUBLICATIONS AND GRADUATE THESES

Historic and possible prehistoric impacts on floodplain sedimentation, North Branch of the Susquehanna River Valley, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. In River Basin Sediment Systems, edited by Darrel Maddy, Mark Macklin, and Jamie Woodward, p. 375-403. Balkema Press, Rotterdam.

Detrital and pedogenic mineral phases in a buried soil formed in Susquehanna River alluvium of mid-Holocene age. In Classic Clays and Minerals. Program and Abstracts of the Clay Minerals Society 40th Annual Meeting, p. 151. Athens, Georgia.

The Derewal Prehistoric Site (28Hu530): A Multicomponent Stratified Site in the Delaware River Valley (with Ian Burrow, Bill Liebknecht, and Joseph Schuldenrein). Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of New Jersey, p. 12-43.

Late Pleistocene through Holocene degradational sequence in the Chattahoochee alluvial valley below the Fall Line. Southeastern Geology, v. 38, p. 279-290.

More on a Murky Subject: Impacts of Prehistoric Agricultural Activities in the Wyoming Valley. Pennsylvania Archaeologist, v. 70, no. 1, p. 81-82.

Hands Washed in a Muddy Stream: Corrections and Further Thoughts on "Wyoming Valley Landscape Evolution... " Pennsylvania Archaeologist, v. 69, no. 2, p. 45-52.

Wyoming Valley Landscape Evolution and the Emergence of the Wyoming Valley Culture. Pennsylvania Archaeologist, v. 68, no. 2, p. 1-17.

The prehistory of the Ocoee River drainage as evidenced by recent archaeological reconnaissance and limited testing in the Cherokee National Forest. Tennessee Anthropologist, v. 17 no. 2, p. 156-168.

Seasonal specialization, assemblage diversity, and the concept of a subsistence-settlement system: a statistical analysis of the Riverton culture. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, v. 16, no. 1, p. 85-117.

Patches and plots: the relationship between local land and water resources and corn farming on northern Black Mesa, Arizona. Master's thesis, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (January 1989)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

2007-2011

2002-2006

2005 (Jan-June)

2004 (Jan-Aug)

Visiting Lecturer in Physical Geography, Department of Anthropology and Geography, Georgia State University, Atlanta

1993-2002

1993-1998

1991 - 1993

Consultant in Data Processing and Computer Graphics with DRE Environmental Services, Inc. (now Franklin Engineering), Franklin, TN

1990-1991

Project Manager and Field Supervisor with DuVall and Associates, Inc., Franklin, TN

1987 - 1990

1986-1987

1986

1984-1986

1983-1984

Field and Laboratory Technician with the Black Mesa Archaeological Project (BMAP) Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

1982-1983

Field and Laboratory Technician with the Denver Service Center, National Capital Region National Park Service, Washington, D.C.

AFFILIATIONS

REFERENCES

Dr. Edward Chatelain, Department Head,
Department of Physics, Astronomy, and Geosciences,
Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA 31698
229/333-5752

Dr. Ervan Garrison, Professor,
Departments of Anthropology and Geology,
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30601
706/542-3922