Trace Fleeman Garcia

Something like a scholar-writer or poet-archaeologist. My disparate research interests include semiotics, animal history, ethnobiology, hauntology, Western esotericism, and the historical archaeology of Central California. I often write on these topics at my blog trXiv (a play on the famous arXiv physics preprint repository, if you were wondering, which you weren't.) These are mostly half-baked ideas that I may or may not expand on in other venues, so please don't expect high-quality research.

My public-facing email is me [at] tracefleemangarica.com.

Academic work

Journal

Fleeman Garcia, T. (2025). Why Has Avian Archaeology not yet Emerged? Biosemiotics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-025-09631-z

Opinion

Fleeman Garcia, Trace. (2023, March 29). Don’t call it a comeback: California’s Tulare Lake never really went away. Los Angeles Times.

Conference papers

Fleeman Garcia, T. (2022). An Archae/pelago in the Valley: On Cultural Landscapes of the Southern Tulare Basin. SCA Proceedings, 35.

Preprints

Fleeman Garcia, Trace. (2025). Beyond geomythology: An ethnobiology of fossils. Open Anthropology Research Repository.

Conference presentations

Fleeman Garcia, Trace. (2019). Towards post-species spaces [Poster]. International Urban Wildlife Conference.

Fleeman Garcia, Trace. (2022). Gnostic Themes in Serial Experiments Lain. Anime Expo.

Fleeman Garcia, Trace. (2023). The Phantom Lake: Spectral Archaeology in the Tulare Basin. 88th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Professional & academic affiliations