Dr. Todd Ahlman

  • Associate Professor of Practice at Center for Archaeological Studies

Scholarly and Creative Works

2025

  • Ahlman, T. M., McKeown, A. H., & Herrmann, N. P. (2025). Search and Recovery Report CS25-0241, an Aircraft Crash Site (FR-10029) Associated with MACR 3984, Clayes, Ille-et-Villaine Department, Brittany, France, Excavated from 17 May through 14 June 2025, during 25-5FR-B RT-P. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

2024

  • Jacobson, J. A., Ahlman, T. M., Armstrong, A., Gage, S., & Ahlman, K. (n.d.). Archaeological Data Recovery of Site 41CM308, Mission Hill Park, New Braunfels, Comal County, Texas. San Marcos, Texas: Center for Archaeological Studies.
  • Ahlman, T. M., Beier, Z. J. M., & Schroedl, G. F. (n.d.). Introduction. In Military Site Archaeologies in the Caribbean: The Landscapes and Communities of Contested Places and Pasts. New York, NY, USA: Berghahn Books.
  • Ahlman, T. M., Beier, Z., & Schroedl, G. F. (Eds.). (n.d.). Military Site Archaeologies in the Caribbean: The Landscapes and Communities of Contested Places and Pasts. New York, NY, USA: Berghahn Books.
  • Jacobson, J. A., Haliburton, S., Hamilton, E., & Ahlman, T. M. (n.d.). Archaeological  Survey for City of Kenedy Water Improvements Project, Karnes County, Texas. San Marcos, Texas: Center for Archaeological Studies, Texas state University. Retrieved from 602 University Drive Trinity 120
  • Ahlman, T. M., Sullivan, T. R., & Kmiec, T. B. (2024). Archaeological Investigations for  the Proposed Field of Graves Memorial, New Braunfels Cemetery, New Braunfels, Comal County, Texas. San Marcos. Retrieved from Texas State University

2023

  • Ahlman, T. M., McKeown, A. H., & Gaumnitz, K. M. L. (2023). 2021 Archaeological Investigations of the St. Croix Leprosy Hospital (12Vam 1-004), St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. San Marcos, TX, USA: Center for Archaeological Studies, Texas State University.
  • Ahlman, T. M., McKeown, A. H., Karastamatis, K., & Ahlman, K. (2023). 2022 Archaeological Investigations for Maroon Settlements, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. San Marcos, Texas: Center for Archaeological Studies.

2022

  • Jacobson, J. A., Ahlman, T., Curran, R., & Gaumnitz, K. (2022). Cultural Resources Survey for the Proposed Jackson Road Apartments, McAllen, Hidalgo County, Texas. San Marcos, Texas: Center for Archaeological Studies.

2021

  • Ahlman, T. M., & McKeown, A. H. (2021). Apprentice and Wage Laborer Economies in the British Caribbean: An Examination of Post Emancipation Material Culture and Housing on St. Kitts, West Indies. Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, 11(3), 251–280. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/21619441.2021.2013711
  • Ahlman, T. M., & Armstrong, A. (2021). Archaeological Investigations at Mission Hill Park, New Braunfels, Comal County, Texas. San Marcos, TX: Center for Archaeological Studies.
  • Ahlman, T. M. (n.d.). Results of Geophysical and Mechanical Trenching Survey in Search of the Phillip J. Burrow Burial, Wilson County, Texas. San Marcos, TX: Center for Archaeological Studies.
  • Schroedl, G. F., & Ahlman, T. M. (2021). Archaeological Evidence for Enslaved African Laborers from Two Locations at the Brimstone Hill Fortress St. Kitts, West Indies. In The Colonial Landscape of the British Caribbean: The Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology Monograph 11 (pp. 89–130). Suffolk, United Kingdom: The Boydell Press.

2020

  • Hooge, J. D., & Ahlman, T. M. (2020). Archaeological Monitoring of Sessom Drive Bike/Ped Improvements, San Marcos, Hays County, Texas. Center for Archaeological Studies Technical Report No.75. San Marcos, TX, USA: Texas State University, Center for Archaeological Studies.
  • Hooge, J. D., & Ahlman, T. M. (2020). Archaeological Investigations at Dunbar Park, San Marcos, Hays County, Texas. Center for Archaeological Studies Technical Report No.69. San Marcos, TX, USA: Texas State University, Center for Archaeological Studies.

2019

  • Thornton-Barnett, S. R., Ahlman, T. M., Jacobson, J. A., & Hooge, J. D. (2019). Class III Cultural Resources Inventory/Survey at Buckley Air Force Base, Arapaho County, Colorado. Report prepared for United States Army Corps of Engineers, Northwestern Division, Omaha District, Omaha, Nebraska and Air Force Civil Engineer Center, Midwest Region, Peterson Installation Support Section, Colorado Springs, Colorado. San Marcos, TX, USA: Texas State University, Center for Archaeological Studies.
  • Schroedl, G. F., Ahlman, T. M., & Bowden, T. R. (2019). Further Studies of Archaeological Deposits Impacted by the Collapse of a Segment of the Orillon Bastion Wall and Monitoring of the Wall’s Restoration at the Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park, St. Kitts, West Indies. Brimstone Hill Fortress Archaeological Project Report No. 33. Knoxville, TN, USA: University of Tennessee.
  • Ahlman, T. M. (2019). An Examination of Housing for Enslaved and Free Blacks on Sugar and Cotton Plantations on the Southeast Peninsula of St. Kitts. In Archaeology of Domestic Landscapes of the Enslaved in the Caribbean (pp. 19–41). Gainesville, Florida, United States: University Press of Florida.
  • Ahlman, T. M., & Schroedl, G. F. (Eds.). (2019). Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean: Contextualizing Sites through Colonialism, Capitalism, and Globalism. Tuscaloosa, AL, USA: University of Alabama Press.
  • Ahlman, T. M., & Schroedl, G. F. (2019). Introduction: Contextualizing Caribbean Historical Sites through Colonialism, Capitalism, and Globalization. In Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean: On and Beyond the Plantation (pp. 1–9). Tuscaloosa, AL, USA: University of Alabma Press.
  • Ahlman, T. M., Schroedl, G. F., Heath, B., Gilmore III, R. G., & Ferguson, J. R. (2019). Inter- and Intra-Island Trade of Afro-Caribbean Ware in the Lesser Antilles. In Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean: Contextualizing Site through Colonialism, Capitalism, and Globalism (pp. 68–89). Tuscaloosa, AL, USA: University of Alabama Press.
  • Schroedl, G. F., & Ahlman, T. M. (2019). The Militray and Institutional Occupations of Charles Fort, St. Kitts, West Indies. In Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean: Contextualizing Sites through Colonialism, Capitalism, and Globalization (pp. 148–168). Tuscaloosa, AL, USA: University of Alabama Press.
  • Ahlman, T. M., & Schroedl, G. F. (2019). Consumerism in the Caribbean: Examining Material Remains from the Brimstone Hill Fortress and Plantation Contexts, St. Kitts, West Indies. In Archaeological Adaptation: Case Studies in Cultural Transformation from the Southeast and Caribbean (pp. 319–336). Knoxville, TN, USA: University of Tennessee Press.

2018

  • Hooge, J. D., & Ahlman, T. M. (2018). Archaeological Investigations at Moody Reunion and Fairgrounds, Floresville, Wilson County, Texas. Report prepared for City of Floresville, Texas. Center for Archaeological Studies Technical Report No. 76. San Marcos, TX, USA: Texas State University, Center for Archaeological Studies.
  • Schroedl, G. F., & Ahlman, T. M. (2018). An Assessment of Archaeological Deposits Impacted by the Collapse of a Segment of the Orillon Bastion at the Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park, St. Kitts, West Indies. Brimstone Hill Fortress Archaeological Project Report No. 32. Knoxville, TN, USA: University of Tennessee.
  • Ahlman, T. M. (2018, July). Review of The Intangible Elements of Culture in Ethnoarchaeological Research. Journal of Anthropological Research.
  • Ahlman, T. M. (2018, April). Review of Sugar Cane Capitalism and Environmental Transformation: An Archaeology of Colonial Nevis, West Indies. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. Wiley.

2017

  • Hooge, J. D., & Ahlman, T. M. (2017). Wimberley Lot 171 River Bend Archaeological Survey, Hays County, Texas. Center for Archaeological Studies Technical Report No. 72. San Marcos, TX, USA: Texas State University, Center for Archaeological Studies.
  • Hooge, J. D., & Ahlman, T. M. (2017). Archaeological Investigations at Ramon Lucio Park, San Marcos, Hays County, Texas. Center for Archaeological Studies Technical Report No.73. San Marcos, TX, USA: Texas State University, Center for Archaeological Studies.
  • Ahlman, T. M. (2017, April). Review of Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism, 2nd ed. American Antiquity.

2016

  • Hooge, J. D., & Ahlman, T. M. (2016). Archaeological Report for the Investigations of the Proposed City of San Marcos Crosstown Riverside Pathway CSJ 0914-33-069. Center for Archaeological Studies Technical Report No.67. San Marcos, TX, USA: Texas State University, Center for Archaeological Studies.
  • Hooge, J. D., & Ahlman, T. M. (2016). Results of Archaeology Survey of a Proposed Expansion to a 1.5-Mile Tract of Evans Road, North Bexar County, Texas for Texas Antiquities Permit 7611. Center for Archaeological Studies Technical Report No. 70. San Marcos, TX, USA: Texas State University, Center for Archaeological Studies.

2015

  • Hooge, J. D., & Ahlman, T. M. (2015). Archaeological Monitoring of Trenching at Plaza Park, San Marcos, Hays County, Texas. Center for Archaeological Studies Technical Report No.64. San Marcos, TX, USA: Texas State University, Center for Archaeological Studies.
  • Hooge, J. D., Christmas, P., & Ahlman, T. M. (2015). Archaeological Investigations at the Way Ranch Site (41HY519). Center for Archaeological Studies Archaeological Studies Report No.34. San Marcos, TX, USA: Texas State University, Center for Archaeological Studies.

2014

  • Ahlman, T. M., Braly, B. R., & Schroedl, G. F. (2014). Stone and Glass Tools from St. Kitts’ Southeast Peninsula. Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, 3, 1–26.

2009

  • Ahlman, T. M., Schroedl, G. F., & McKeown, A. H. (2009). The Afro-Caribbean Ware from the Brimstone HIll Fortress, St. Kitts, West Indies. Historical Archaeology, 43, 22–41.
  • Ahlman, T. M. (2009). Uderstanding Historic Farmstead Continuity and Change Using Human Behavioral Ecology. Tennessee Archaeology, 4(1–2), 25–45. Retrieved from https://www.tn.gov/environment/program-areas/arch-archaeology/redirect--archaeology-publications/tennessee-archaeology-e-journal.html

2008

  • Ahlman, T. M., Schroedl, G. F., McKeown, A. H., Speakman, R. J., & Glascock, M. D. (2008). Ceramic Production and Exchange among Enslaved Africans on St. Kitts, West Indies. Journal of Caribbean Archaeology, (Special Publicantion #2), 109–122. Retrieved from https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/jca/issues/

2005

  • Ahlman, T. M., Marcel, D. L., Herrmann, N. P., & Creswell, B. A. (2005). Salvage of an Eroding Feature at the Tellico Blockhouse, Tellico Reservoir, Monroe County, Tennessee. Tennessee Archaeology, 1(2), 127–134.

2002

  • Schroedl, G. F., & Ahlman, T. M. (2002). The Maintenance of Cultural and Personal Identities of Enslaved Africans and British Soldiers at the Brimstone Hill Fortress, St. Kitts, West Indies. Historical Archaeology, 36(4), 38–49.