Browsing OU - Theses by Author "Randall, Asa"
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The Analysis of a Fourche Maline Mound Site: Troy Adams (34LF33)
Parker, Candace (2020-05-08)The Fourche Maline archaeological culture is a group of people that have constructed a series of mound sites that are located along the Fourche Maline creek in eastern Oklahoma with other similar sites in Arkansas, Louisiana, ... -
An Archaeological and Historical Examination of the Sulphur Fork Factory, 1817-1822
Jones, Rachel E. (2023-05-12)The United States Indian Factory System, an early experiment in public enterprise, was a late addition to the North American Fur Trade phenomenon. Created by an act of Congress in 1795, the factory system established a ... -
A Ceramic Analysis of a Caddo Village Site in the Northern Caddo Frontier: An Archaeological Investigation of the School Land I Site (34DL64) in Delaware County, Oklahoma
Hueffed, John (2023-12-15)School Land I was a Spiroan Caddo village site positioned near the northern periphery of the Caddo cultural area in present-day northeast Oklahoma. This site was excavated in 1939 and 1940 as a salvage attempt to gather ... -
Dancing with the Spirit Realm: An Iconographic Analysis of Renewal Imagery on the Engraved Shells from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma
Schwarz, Raphael Jr (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 ... -
Digging Deep into the Summer Activities at Bull Creek (34BV176): A Late Paleoindian Site in the Southern Plains
Ramos Berrios, Alanis (2022-12-16)The Bull Creek site (34BV176), located along a tributary of the Beaver River in the Oklahoma Panhandle, belongs to a short list of late Paleoindian open-habitation camps. Events at Bull Creek are superimposed on one another. ... -
Early Middle Archaic Placemaking: A Faunal Analysis of Three Pit Deposits from Silver Glen Springs (8LA1), Florida
Cerimele, Nicole (2017)In this thesis I examine the vertebrate faunal remains from three pit deposits dating between approximately 8500-7000 calibrated years BP, which were recovered from the site of Silver Glen Springs (8LA1) in northwestern ... -
Identifying Geophysical Patterning Along the Landscape of the Silver Glen Springs Archaeological Complex
Rainville, Charles (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 ... -
Identifying Socialized Landscapes in the Bridger Mountains, Montana
Dudley, Meghan (2017-05)Archaeologists, working in the Rocky Mountains and throughout the world, have long recognized that people, regardless of time and space, invest social meanings into the landscape around them. Based on de Certeau’s (1984) ... -
Investigating Mound Activities at Mississippian Sites in the Southeast: A Spatial Analysis of Lithic Debitage at the Pevey Site (22LW510) in Mississippi
Luthman, Sarah (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 ... -
A Lithic Analysis of School Land I (34DL64) A Northern Caddo Village in the Foothills of the Ozarks
Mofidi, Ethan (2024-05-10)School Land I (34DL64) is a Harlan Phase (A.D. 1050-1250) Caddo village site set in the Arkansas River basin at the confluence of the Grand and Elk Rivers in Delaware County, Oklahoma. This site was originally excavated ... -
Petrographic Quartzite Source Discrimination in the Upper Gunnison Basin, Colorado: Implications for the Archaeological Study of Prehistoric Hunter-Gathers
Dalpra, Cody (2016-05-14)Recently (Pitblado et al. 2008, 2013), an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and geologists collaborated to develop a protocol for sourcing quartzite in the Upper Gunnison Basin, Colorado where archaeological assemblages ... -
Place, Space, and Community in the Spiro Region: A Multi-sensor Geophysical Survey of the Brackett Site (34CK43) in Cherokee County, Oklahoma
Flores, Alexandra (2020-05)The Brackett site (34CK43) is a Harlan Phase (A.D. 1050-1250) single mound site located at the confluence of the Illinois River and Baron Fork Creek in Cherokee County, Oklahoma. The site also had seven house-like structures ... -
Ravenscroft (34BV198) Bison Skull Piles: Explorations of Purpose and Meaning
Baker, Caitlin (2022-12-16)Ravenscroft is a late Paleoindian arroyo bison kill located along a tributary of the Canadian River named Bull Creek in the Oklahoma Panhandle. Multiple field seasons eventually identified two stacks of bison skulls at the ... -
The Ravenscroft II Site: A Late Paleo-Indian Bison Kill Event in the Oklahoma Panhandle
Muhammad, Faisal (2017-05-12)The winter kill model combines aspects of optimal foraging theory and animal behavioral ecology to explain large scale bison hunting organization on the North American Great Plains. These same theories are applied to the ... -
The Roles of Bedrock Mortars in Rockshelters of Eastern Oklahoma
Cole, Harmony (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 ... -
Settling in at the Cross Bar Ranch: Antelope Creek Settlement Patterns and Distributions in the Texas Panhandle
Krause, Michael (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 ... -
Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Obsidian in Oklahoma: Conveyance Zones on the Southern Plains
Oliver, James (2023-12-15)Obsidian is an exotic lithic resource rarely found in Oklahoma, yet it still occurs in the archaeological record. This project utilized Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) Mass Spectrometry to geochemically source ... -
The St. Johns River: An archival project investigating interior occupation of the St. Johns River Region by Native Americans during the Colonial Period
Sutton, James (2021-05-14)Abstract My project focuses on studying burial mounds along the St. Johns middle valley during the Colonial Period, ca. 1500-1845CE. Currently, little is actually known regarding the interior of the St. Johns or which ...