Dr. Jayne-Leigh Thomas

Education

• Ph.D., Edinburgh University, 2011
• M.Sc., Central Washington University, 2006
• H.B.A., Eastern Oregon University, 2004

Selected Publications

Krupa, K., Thomas, J-L, Hawkins, R., Olds, J. & Willard, S. (2024). Holding Ground: Reconsidering the Sensitivity of Backdirt in the Context of NAGPRA. Journal of Field Archaeology, 49 (3), 186-191.

Thomas, J-L. (2023). Creating a New Partnership under NAGPRA: Collaboration and Repatriation in the Alaskan Arctic. Learning NAGPRA Project: Case Studies. https://lrnagweb.sitehost.iu.edu/case-studies/cs-new-partnership.html.

Herrmann, Edward W., Christina Friberg, Rebecca Hawkins, Jayne-Leigh Thomas, Jack Rossen, and August Costa. (2023). Furrows without Ridges: Evidence for an Agricultural Field at Angel Mounds (12Vg1), Southwestern Indiana, USA. Journal of Field Archaeology, 2023.

Thomas, J-L., & Krupa, K. (2021). Bioarchaeological Ethics and Considerations for the Deceased. Human Rights Quarterly, 43 (2), 344-354.

Thomas, J-L. (2021). Antropološka analiza sežganih človeških iz štirih grobov iz gomile (Anthropological analysis of human remains from four graves from the tumulus). In B. Teržan & M. Črešnar (Eds.), Pohorsko Podravje pred tremi Tisočtji: Tradicija in Inovativnost v pozni Bronasti in Starejška Zeleni dobi (Pohorsko Podravje Three Millennia Ago: Tradition and Innovation in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages, pp. 545-546. Ljubljana: Univerze v Ljubljani in Narodni muzej Slovenije.

Thomas, J-L. (2021). Antropološka analiza sežganih človeških ostankov z najdišč Porhorskega Podravja in Prekmurja (Anthropological analysis of cremated human remains from Pohorosko Podravje and Prekmurje). In B. Teržan & M. Črešnar (Eds.), Pohorsko Podravje pred tremi Tisočtji: Tradicija in Inovativnost v pozni Bronasti in Starejška Zeleni dobi (Pohorsko Podravje Three Millennia Ago: Tradition and Innovation in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages, pp. 493-524. Ljubljana: Univerze v Ljubljani in Narodni muzej Slovenije.

Sievert, A., Pyburn, K. A., Nichols, T., and Thomas, J-L. (2019). Learning NAGPRA and Teaching Archaeology. In P. M. Messenger & S. J. Bender (Eds.), History and Approaches to Heritage Studies, pp. 87-106. Gainsville: University of Florida Press.

Thomas, JL. (2018). Human Remains: Ethical Issues and Historical Perspectives. In C. Smith (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer: Cham. 

Thomas, J-L. (2017). Late Chalcolithic Skeletal Remains and Associated Mortuary Practices from Çamlibel Tarlasi in Central Anatolia. In E. Murphy & M. Le Roy (Eds.), Children, Death, and Burial: Archaeological Discourses, pp. 77-90. Oxford: Oxbow Books.

Pickard, C., Schoop, U-D, Dalton, A., Sayle, K., Channel, I., Calvey, K., Thomas, J., Bartosiewicz, L., & Bonsall, C. (2015). Diet at Late Chalcolithic Çamlibel Tarlasi, north-central Anatolia: An isotopic perspective. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Vol. 5, 296-306.

Thomas, J., Buchanan, M., Wilson, C., & Crane, A. (2015). Violence and Trophy Taking: A Case Study of Head and Neck Trauma in Two Individuals from the Gant Site (3MS11). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Special Issue Paper.

Crešnar, M., Bonsall, C., & Thomas, J. (2014). Pobrežje near Maribor. In B. Teržan and M. Crešnar (Eds.), Absolute Dating of the Bronze and Iron Ages in Slovenia, pp. 215-220. Ljubljana, Slovenia: Univerze v Ljubljani in Narodni muzej Slovenije.

Crešnar, M., Bonsall, C., & Thomas, J. (2014). Ruše. In B. Teržan and M. Crešnar (Eds.), Absolute Dating of the Bronze and Iron Ages in Slovenia, pp. 221-224. Ljubljana, Slovenia: Univerze v Ljubljani in Narodni muzej Slovenije.

Crešnar, M., Koprivnik, V., Bonsall, C., & Thomas, J. (2014). Gracic below Brinjeva gora. In B. Teržan and M. Crešnar (Eds.), Absolute Dating of the Bronze and Iron Ages in Slovenia, pp. 305-312. Ljubljana, Slovenia: Univerze v Ljubljani in Narodni muzej Slovenije.

Irvine, B., Thomas, J., & Schoop, U-D. (2014). A macroscopic analysis of human dentition at Late Chalcolithic Çamlibel Tarlasi, North Central Anatolia, with special reference to dietary and non-masticatory habits. Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica, 5 (1), 1-12.

Crešnar, M. & Thomas, J. (2013). New data on cremation burials from Northeastern Slovenia. In M. Lochner & F. Ruppenstein (Eds.), Cremation burials in the region between the Middle Danube and the Aegean, 1300-750 BC: Proceedings of the International Symposium held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences at Vienna, February 11th-12th, 2010, pp. 79-98. Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften: Austrian Academy Press.

Thomas, J. (2012). Human remains from a 6th millennium BC infant burial found at Boğazköy-Büyükkaya, Turkey. In U-D. Schoop, C. Pickard, & C. Bonsall (Eds.), Radiocarbon Dating Chalcolithic Büyükkaya, Archäologischer Anzeiger, 1-26.

Chatters, J., Hackenberger, S., Lenz, B., Prentiss, A., and Thomas, J. (2012). The Paleoindian to Archaic Transition in the Pacific Northwest. In C. B. Bousman & B. J. Vierra (Eds)., On the Brink: Transformations in Human Organization and Adaptation at the Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary in North America, pp. 37- 66. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.

Thomas, J. (2011). Preliminary Observations on the Human Skeletal Remains from Çamlibel Tarlasi. In A. Schachner (Ed.) Die Ausgrabungen in Bogazköy-Hattusa, Archäologischer Anzeiger, 31-86.

Thomas, J. (2009). Cremation studies: Developmental research within Slovenian osteoarchaeology - Raziskave kremacija: Razvojne raziskave v slovenski östeoarheologiji. ARHEO, 26, 53-61. Ljubljana, Slovenia.