Browsing by Subject "Anthropology"
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Biomolecular Preservation in Dental Calculus from the Teotihuacan Ritual Landscape
(2019-05-10)The advent of high-throughput sequencing techniques has yielded a wealth of genomic information about the human oral microbiome. This research has expanded with the direct sequencing of DNA from dental calculus (calcified ... -
Comparative subtidal and supratidal taphonomic changes in the elemental components of marine vertebrate bones using energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy and principle component analysis: ecological and forensic application
(2018)Individuals and agencies of multiple disciplines have evolved interests which result in the studies and research of marine mammals as well as other protected marine dwellers such as sea turtles. Aside from wildlife ... -
ECHOES OF HERITAGE: CO-CREATING A CULTURAL HERITAGE CURRICULUM WITH THE CHOCTAW NATION OF OKLAHOMA’S HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE USING ARCHAEOLOGY AS A TOOL
(2024-08-01)Collaborative archaeology fosters relationships between communities and archaeologists to create new perspectives of the past. This thesis examines the collaborative process between archaeologists from the Choctaw Nation ... -
Identifying Geophysical Patterning Along the Landscape of the Silver Glen Springs Archaeological Complex
(2019-05-10)The Silver Glen Springs Complex (SGSC) is a collection of archaeological sites that has been thus-far defined by the terraforming regime of shell mounding conducted by fisher-gatherer-hunters that created many monumental ... -
Settling in at the Cross Bar Ranch: Antelope Creek Settlement Patterns and Distributions in the Texas Panhandle
(2022)Previous research conducted by Dr. Christopher Lintz into the settlement patterning of Antelope Creek groups in the southern Great Plains found that those settlements could be typified according to their site function, and ... -
The Transformation of Biological Research and Science in Native American Communities
(2019-05-10)Native Americans suffer from drastically higher rates of health disparities than other minorities and have been the subjects of research and colonial classifications for decades. Because of a variety of factors have acted ... -
Views From the Saddle: Empathy and Romanticization in Oral Narrative and Multispecies Communication
(2024-05-10)In the summer of 2023, I traveled to Wyoming to conduct fieldwork while working on a dude ranch as a wrangler. The research I conducted had two particular focuses: the learned narratives that wranglers shared with guests ... -
The Visualization of the American Southwest: Ethnography, Tourism, and American Indian Souvenir Arts
(2017-05)This dissertation addresses the visualization, or artistic documentation, of the American Southwest in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Artistic images in the form of drawings, paintings, photographs, and ... -
White Cherokees on Red Earth: Blood and Belonging
(2021-12-17)In this thesis, I address White Cherokee identity, the historical trajectory it emerges from, and some of its political consequences. White Cherokee identity comes from social arrangements, place relationships, and ...