Browsing by Subject "Anthropology, Archaeology."
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Adaptation during the Antelope Creek phase: A diet breadth and site catchment analysis of the subsistence strategy at the Two Sisters site.
(2002)This study examines the subsistence strategies of the inhabitants of the Two Sisters site (34TX32), a Late Prehistoric period homestead of the Antelope Creek phase in the Oklahoma panhandle. Excavations in 1972 and 1973 ... -
Anthropological Literacy: Toward a Holistic Understanding of the Varieties of Human Experience through Oklahoma Social Studies Education
(2021-12-17)In conversations about education in Oklahoma, there are differing views on how to handle equipping students to navigate a diverse world. Social studies education research has long sought new approaches to prepare students ... -
Archaeology of eastern Sonora, Mexico: A reconsideration of Rio Sonora/Serrana social organization through comparative ceramic analysis
(2021-05-14)This study will provide an additional perspective on the socio-political organization of the late precolonial and protocolonial period (AD 1250 to ~1550) in the Rio Sonora/Serrana region through an analysis of textured ... -
Architecture and community variability within the Antelope Creek phase of the Texas Panhandle /
(1984)The study focuses on delineating cultural variability of the Antelope Creek phase, a late prehistoric village manifestation on the Southern High Plains of North America. Architectural remains from 28 extensively excavated ... -
Aspects of land tenure in an ancient southwestern farming society in the Mimbres Valley, New Mexico.
(2003)This dissertation investigates the origin and effects of land tenure practices in a prehistoric subsistence-level farming society in the American Southwest. Land tenure is viewed as a social response to overpopulation in ... -
Communal spaces: Aggregation and integration in the Mogollon region of the United States Southwest.
(2006)In general, the Mogollon region is characterized by limited water supplies and low average annual precipitation. However, pockets of the Mogollon area, including the Mimbres valley and the Gila River valley, represent ... -
Dancing with the Spirit Realm: An Iconographic Analysis of Renewal Imagery on the Engraved Shells from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma
(2023-05-12)The goal of this project was to determine whether or not a set of reproducible criteria could be developed and employed to identify depictions of dance in Spiroan iconography. Combining the previously identified depictions ... -
The development of late Paleoindian identity-based territories on the Southern Plains.
(2007)Projectile point styles become more diverse across North America during the late Paleoindian period. Researchers have thought this increase in diversity is part of a regionalization process related to environmental change ... -
Digging Deeper: Enhancing Archaeoparasitology By Combining Molecular Methods With Traditional Morphological Approaches
(2015-05-01)Coprolite science, human parasitism and ancient DNA methodology, converge most appropriately in the sub-specialty of archaeoparasitology – the study of prehistoric parasitism. In this study, we have applied targeted PCR ... -
The evolution of exchange in small-scale societies of the Southern High Plains.
(2005)A political economic perspective, which envisions exchange as an activity embedded in broader social, economic, and political institutions, provides the theoretical foundation for understanding the alternative roles that ... -
The geoarchaeology of Day Creek chert: Lithostratigraphy, petrology, and the indigenous landscape of northwest Oklahoma and southwest Kansas.
(2000)This research is designed to investigate the geoarchaeology of Day Creek chert. Located in the southern Great Plains of the United States, Day Creek chert supplied an important lithic raw material for prehistoric populations. ... -
Historic Choctaw archaeology: Social inequality in post-removal southeastern Oklahoma.
(2003)The Native American group we know as the Choctaw has previously been interpreted as a fairly recent social construct and the result of interaction that began after sustained contact with European colonists. This research ... -
Iconography and group formation during the Late Pithouse and Classic periods of the Mimbres society, A.D. 970--1140.
(2000)The research focuses on the Mogollon Mimbres region of the North American Southwest, and, in particular, on the Mimbres Valley of southwestern New Mexico, the heartland of Mimbres society. The Mimbres black-on-white ... -
Interpreting Land-Use During the Late Paleoindian Bull Creek Occupation on the Southern Plains
(2021-05-14)The Bull Creek late Paleoindian archaeological site (34BV176), located along a tributary of the Beaver River in the Oklahoma Panhandle, is among the few known earliest human occupation sites on the Southern Plains. Located ... -
Investigating Mound Activities at Mississippian Sites in the Southeast: A Spatial Analysis of Lithic Debitage at the Pevey Site (22LW510) in Mississippi
(2017)The Pevey site on the Pearl River in Mississippi is a large, multi-mound site from the Mississippi Period (1200-1600 A.D.). Relatively unstudied compared to other large mound sites in the Southeast, Pevey’s distinctive ... -
The Jamestown frontier :
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Mississippian political culture: Contrasting historical trajectories in southeastern North America.
(2001)Theories of cultural evolution have been called into question during the past few decades, recognizing that concepts such as "chiefdom" and "cultural adaptation" do not directly address changes in power relations or social ... -
Potawatomi Indians of the West :
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The Roles of Bedrock Mortars in Rockshelters of Eastern Oklahoma
(2022-05-13)Rockshelters form an important part of the archaeological landscape. Rockshelters served a number of purposes, and in pursuit of those purposes they could be altered or adjusted. A prominent example of these rockshelter ...