Email: Antonia.Figueroa@utsa.edu

Ms. Figueroa has 11 years of experience in the field of archaeology. She has conducted an array of academic and CRM field work and research in Texas, Louisiana, Mexico and Belize. Ms. Figueroa has also taught courses in cultural anthropology and Mesoamerican archaeology at Our Lady of the Lake University. She joined the Center for Archaeological Research in 1997. Currently, she performs as a project archaeologist on field projects for the Center. Her research interests include the prehistory of Texas, Spanish colonialism in Texas and Mesoamerica, and Prehispanic Mesoamerica.

 EDUCATION

2001    M.A. in Anthropology, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Thesis title: Discerning Patterns of Prehispanic Land Management and Decision Making in Northwestern Belize: A Landscape Approach
1995    B.S. in Behavioral Science-AnthropologyUniversity of Houston-Clear Lake, Houston, Texas

PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS

Figueroa, Antonia L., and Blair W.B. Barr
2000    Chili Pepper Mound: Structure 14, a Post Classic Structure. In Northern Belize Coastal Project (NBCP): Interim Report, 1999. Shirley

B. Mock, ed. Report to the Department of Archaeology. Belmopan, Belize and Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies (FAMSI). ITC: University of Texas at San Antonio.

Figueroa, Antonia L., and Brian Langner
2001    Archaeological Survey of Harwell Properties on Culebra Creek, Bexar County, Texas. Center for Archaeological Research. The University of Texas at San Antonio.

Figueroa, Antonia L
2001    Discerning Patterns of Prehispanic Land Management and Decision Making in Northwestern Belize. Unpublished Masters Thesis. The University of Texas at San Antonio.

Figueroa, Antonia L.
2002    Archaeological Survey of Five Acres at the Proposed Medina Base Road Park, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. Center for Archaeological Research. The University of Texas at San Antonio. Letter Report, No. 145

Figueroa, Antonia L., and Steve Tomka
2004    Archaeological Survey of the Proposed Medina River Park, Bexar County, Texas. Center for Archaeological Research. The University of Texas at San Antonio. Archaeological Survey Report, No. 345.

Thompson, Jennifer, and Antonia Figueroa

2005 Archaeological Survey and Archival Research of the Naegelin Tract (41BX1600) in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. Center for Archaeological Research. The University of Texas at San Antonio. Archaeological Survey Report, No. 354.

Figueroa, Antonia L. and Charles Frederick
2008   Archeological Testing of the Pavo Real Site (41BX52), San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. Archaeological Report, No. 382. Center for Archaeological Research, The University of Texas at San Antonio.

PRESENTATIONS

Figueroa, Antonia L., and Ruth A. Mathews
2000    Quarries and Cobbles: Prehispanic Land Use in Northwestern Belize. Paper presented at the 65th annual meeting for the Society of American Archaeology at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Levi, Laura, Antonia Figueroa, and Ruth Mathews
2001    Tyranny of Place. Paper presented at the 66th annual meeting of the Society of American Archaeology at New Orleans, Louisiana

Edmondson, Donna, Antonia L. Figueroa, and Kristi M. Ulrich
2002    Legacy: An Educational Hands-On Approach to Archaeology. Poster presented at the 101st annual meeting of the AmericanAnthropological Association at New Orleans, Louisiana.

Figueroa, Antonia L. and Kristi M. Ulrich
2005 Documenting Variation in Goliad Wares from Three Colonial Period Texas Sites. Presented at the Texas Archeological Society 76th Annual Meeting, October 2005.

Figueroa, Antonia L.
Looking for Change: A Comparison of Native Ceramics from Late Prehistoric and Spanish Colonial Sites in Texas. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology 72nd Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas.

Tomka, S.A., J.R. Ferguson, M.D. Glasscock, N. Guven, L.B Love, A. Figueroa, K. Miller and M.S.F. Tomka
2009   Goliad Ceramics from Mission San Juan and Rancho de las Cabras: The Plot Thickens. Paper Presented at the Texas Archeological Society 79th Annual Meeting, Lubbock, Texas.
 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Fall 2004, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology.
Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, Texas
 Spring 2005, Central American Archaeology,
Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, Texas