Cynthia Munoz received her M.A. from the University of Texas at San Antonio. She joined the Center for Archaeological Research in April 2001 and currently serves as project archaeologist, staff osteologist, and NAGPRA coordinator. As an archaeologist, Ms. Munoz has worked with materials from throughout Texas. Her interests include hunter-gatherer adaptations in Central, South, and Coastal Texas, intensification, subsistence, paleoenvironment, bioarchaeology, paleodiet, paleopathology, and mortuary archaeology. She has conducted bioarchaeological research on cemetery populations located on the Texas coastal plain studying both the dentition and stable isotopic analysis data. She is currently working on a National Science Foundation grant involving collagen extraction from jack rabbit and cottontail bones for stable carbon isotope analysis to determine paleoclimate at small spatial and temporal scales.

EDUCATION

2004  MA Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio

Thesis:  “ Native American Adaptation on the Texas Coastal Plain: A Study of the Dentition from Thirteen Prehistoric and Historic Cemetery Sites.”

1985  BBA Accounting,  Magna Cum Laude, University of Texas at San Antonio

SUPPLEMENTARY EDUCATION

Apr 2007  Workshop, InDesign CS2

Aug 2005  Workshop, Consulting with Native American Groups Workshop, Texas Department of Transportation

Jun 2004  Workshop,  NAGPRA, Texas National Guard and National Guard Bureau. 

Mar 2004  Workshop, Ceramics, Texas Archeological Society

Dec 2003  Workshop, Paper Conservation Techniques, Bureau of Reclamation.

June 2002  Historic Field School, Mission Nuestra Senora de la Purisima Concepcion

Mar 2001  Workshop,  Lithic Technology, Texas State University
                     
Oct 2000-Mar 2001  Internship, Center for Archaeological Research

Jun 2000  Prehistoric Field School. The Biesenbach Site

Feb 1999  Workshop,  Maya Hieroglyphic, Texas State University

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

Research Scientist Associate III, Center for Archaeological Research, San Antonio, Tx
Sept 2008-Present

Research Scientist Associate II, Center for Archaeological Research, San Antonio, Tx
Jan 2005-Sep 2008

Adjunct Professor, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Aug 2005-2007

Adjunct Professor, Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, Tx
Jan 2005-May 2005

Research Scientist Associate I, Center for Archaeological Research, San Antonio, Tx
Oct 2004-Dec 2004

Research Scientist Assistant II, Center for Archaeological Research, San Antonio, Tx
April 2003-Oct 2004

Research Scientist Assistant I, Center for Archaeological Research, San Antonio, Tx

April 2001-April 2003

PUBLICATIONS

Munoz, Cynthia Moore, Raymond P. Mauldin, Jennifer L. Thompson, and S. Christopher Caran
submitted Archeological Significance Testing at 41BX17/271, the Granberg Site:A Multi-Component Site along the Salado Creek in Bexar County, Texas
Archaeological Report No. 393. Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio

Meissner, Barbara and Cynthia M. Munoz
2009 Archaeological Survey and Historic Background Research Conducted for the Alamo Community College District at the Former Site of Playland Park, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. Archaeological Report No. 400, Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Kemp, Leonard, Bruce K. Moses and Cynthia M. Munoz
2008 An Archaeological Survey of the South Salado Creek Greenway, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. Archaeological Report, No 381. Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Munoz, Cynthia Moore and Leonard Kemp
2008 Texas Military Forces Archaeological Site Database Protocol. Manuscript on File. Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio

Munoz, Cynthia Moore
2008 An Intensive Pedestrian Archaeological Survey of the Salado Creek Greenway, Wetmore Avenue to Eisenhauer Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas Phase I: N. E. Loop 410 to Eisenhauer Road. Technical Report, No. 8. Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
 
Munoz, Cynthia Moore
2007 Human Skeletal Remains from Cayo del Oso – 41NU2. Manuscript on File. Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio

Munoz, Cynthia, Jennifer Thompson, and Raymond Mauldin
 2007 Research Design for the Analysis of Archeological Materials Recovered from Significance Testing of the Granberg Site (41BX17), Bexar County, Texas. Manuscript on File. Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Munoz, Cynthia Moore
2007 Archaeological Inventory of 216 acres of Martindale Army Aviation Support Facility, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. Archaeological Report No. 373. Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Munoz, Cynthia Moore
 2006 Archaeological Testing at 41BP679, Bastrop County, Texas. Archaeological Report No. 366. Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Ulrich, Kristi M, Antonia L. Figueroa, Jennifer L. Thompson, Anne A. Fox, Johanna M. Hunziker, and Cynthia M. Munoz
 2005 Archeological Investigations at Mission Espiritu Santo (41GD1), Goliad County, Texas (includes TARL Archival Series #3: Excavation of Aranama Mound Located Immediately West of the Yard of Aranama (Espiritu Santo) Mission) Archaeological Report No. 356. Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

PRESENTATIONS

Munoz, Cynthia Moore, Raymond P. Mauldin, Kristen Mt.Joy and Marie Archambeault
Archaeological Site Monitoring, Protection and ARPA.
Presentation for the National Environmental Workshop sponsored by the Army National Guard, Costa Mesa, California.
March 2009

Figueroa, Antonia, Cynthia Moore Munoz, Steve Smith, and Raymond P. Mauldin
Exploring the Impacts of Raw Material Availability and Size on Prehistoric Chipped Stone Assemblages in Central and South Texas.
Presentation for the Texas Academy of Sciences Annual Meetings, Junction, Texas.
March 2009

Munoz, Cynthia Moore, Lynn Wack, Kevin Daiber, Oliva Short and Patricio Villenueva Paleoecological Reconstruction using Small Herbivores from Archaeological Sites. Presentation for the Texas Academy of Sciences Annual Meetings, Junction, Texas.
March 2009

Munoz, Cynthia Moore, Leonard Kemp, Raymond P. Mauldin and Robert Hard
Is There Gold in Them Thar Hares? Using Small Herbivores from Archaeological Sites in Paleoecological Reconstruction.
Poster presentation for the 79th Annual Texas Archaeological Society Meetings, Lubbock, Texas.
Oct 2008

Thompson, Jennifer, Raymond P. Mauldin and Cynthia Moore Munoz
Assessing Hearth Reuse Frequency through Patterning in Burned Rock Size.
Presentation for the 79th Annual Texas Archaeological Society Meetings, Lubbock, Texas.
Oct 2008

Kemp, Leonard, Cynthia Moore Munoz and Raymond P. Mauldin
Appropriate Scales and Bunny Tales: Using Small Herbivores from Archaeological Sites in Ecological Reconstruction.
Presentation for the Texas Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Corpus Christi, Texas.
Mar 2008

Munoz, Cynthia Moore and Leonard Kemp
Creating a Geospatial Data Management System for Archaeological Sites.
Presentation for the Society of American Archaeologists Annual Meetings, Austin, Texas.
Apr 2007

Munoz, Cynthia Moore
Native American Adaptation on the Texas Coastal Plain:  A Study of the Dentition from Thirteen Prehistoric and Historic Cemetery Sites. 
Presentation for the South Texas Archaeological Association Annual Meetings, San Antonio, Texas.
Jul 2006          

Hard, Robert J., Cynthia Moore Munoz, and Anne Katzenberg. 
Frames of Reference and Aquatic Resource Use in Texas and North America. 
Poster Presentation for the Society of American Archaeologists Annual Meetings, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Apr 2006         

Munoz, Cynthia Moore
Native American Adaptation on the Texas Coastal Plain:  A Study of the Dentition from Thirteen Prehistoric and Historic Cemetery Sites. 
Presentation for the Hill Country Archaeological Association, Kerrville, Texas.
Jan 2006
 
Munoz, Cynthia Moore
Native American Adaptation on the Texas Coastal Plain:  A Study of the Dentition from Thirteen Prehistoric and Historic Cemetery Sites. 
Presentation for the 76th Annual Texas Archaeological Society Meetings, Austin, Texas.
Oct 2005         

O’Brien, Tom and Cynthia Moore Munoz
A Maya Sacrifice at Chan Chich
South Texas Archaeology Fair, University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas
Oct 2001         

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Society for American Archaeology

Texas Archeology Society

Texas Academy of Sciences

AWARDS

Award for best professional poster
Frames of Reference and Aquatic Resource Use in Texas and North America. 
Hard, Robert J., Cynthia Munoz, and Anne Katzenberg
Society of American Archaeologists Annual Meetings, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Apr 2006

Department of Anthropology Graduate Student Thesis Scholarship
University of Texas at San Antonio
2003

Department of Anthropology Graduate Student Thesis Scholarship
University of Texas at San Antonio
2002

Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honor Society

Dean’s List, University of Texas at San Antonio