Department Head Professor IdEx Chair, Université de Toulouse Director, Sustainable Human Ecosystems Laboratory My research over the last 20 years has centered on the origin and practice of agropastoralism in the Pyrenees Mountains and Iberian Systems of continental Europe. I am particularly interested in the pivotal role played by agropastoralism in the social, political, economic and religious transformations in the Franco-Iberian region during the last 2,000 years. I seldom work alone and my collaborations are designed to integrate geomorphic, geophysical, archaeological and socioecological evidence to reveal the contingency and behavioral variability of human agents in transforming a landscape. The overall goal of our research is to connect the present continuously and strongly to the past so we may contribute to building a more desirable and sustainable future. Research Research Areas: Cultural Anthropology Archaeology Research Interests: Human ecosystem ecology Historical landscape ecology Continental / Mediterranean Europe Southeastern US South America Mountain systems Domestication of plants, animals and landscape Multilevel approaches to individual, household & community Airborne / Ground-based remote sensing Quantitative/qualitative/spatial analysis Selected Publications Selected Publications: Gragson, T. L and Coughlan, M. R. 2024. The social-ecological landscape of herding on the high mountain commons of Larrau in the Western Pyrenees (France). Frontiers in Human Dynamics 6 htts://doi.org/10.3389/fhumd.2024.1359845 Gragson, T. L and Thompson, V. D. 2022. Legacy radiocarbon dates and the archaeological chronology of the Western Pyrenees. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 43: 103483. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103483 Gragson, T. L, Coughlan, M. R. and Leigh, D. S. 2020. Contingency and Agency in the Mountain Landscapes of the Western Pyrenees: A Place-Based Approach to the Long Anthropocene. Sustainability 12, 3882. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12093882 Gragson, T. L., Hautefeuille, F., Thompson, V. D., & Leigh, D. S. 2016. Discovery and appraisal of the early Christian church of Notre Dame de Baudes near Labastide-du-Temple, France. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 6: 584-593. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.03.038 Gragson, T. L., Leigh, D. S., and Coughlan, M. R. 2015. Basque Cultural Landscapes of the French Western Pyrenees. Cultural Capital 12: 565-596. http://dx.doi.org/10.13138/2039-2362/1153 Education Education: PhD, Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, 1989
