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Early Middle Archaic Placemaking: A Faunal Analysis of Three Pit Deposits from Silver Glen Springs (8LA1), Florida
(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 ...
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 ...
Bison Hides and Biomechanics: Experimental Bioarchaeology of Wichita Scraper Technologies
(2017-05)
This study utilizes methodologies and theories from biological anthropology, archaeology, and kinesiology to conduct an experiment to test the effects of a change in Wichita scraping technologies during the Pre- and ...
USING ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES TO INTEGRATE THE SOCIAL AND MEDICAL MODELS OF DISABILITY
(2017)
The medical model of disability views the challenges and solutions to disability via medical terms. Within the social model of disability (SMD), impairment is the physical condition specific to a person, whereas disability ...
COMPARISON OF FIVE DIFFERENT DNA EXTRACTION METHODS FOR MICROBIOME RECONSTRUCTION FROM COPROLITES
(2017-05)
The human microbiome has become an intense area of research over the past fifteen years due to its importance for understanding human health and disease. The revolution in Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) techniques has ...
FORAGERS AND COLLECTORS IN THE ARCHAIC AND WOODLAND PERIODS: LITHIC EVIDENCE FROM LAKE HUDSON, MAYES COUNTY
(2019)
The archaeological record in northeastern Oklahoma has been infrequently plumbed for evidence regarding the timing and pace of the hunter-gatherer change from mostly “Forager” strategies to mostly “Collector” behavior. The ...
AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE EARSPOOLS OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER VALLEY AND SURROUNDING REGIONS
(2018)
Earspools dating from the Mississippi Period are found throughout the Southeast
region of North America. Some of these artifacts were recovered from sites in the
Arkansas and Red River Valley regions which share similarities ...
Impact of Sample Collection Preparation on Metabolomic and Microbiome Profiles
(2019)
Anthropological studies of human biology are predominately field-based, and burdened, by the need for well-preserved biological samples. In the emerging application of multi-omics, definitions of “well-preserved” and ...
Identifying Socialized Landscapes in the Bridger Mountains, Montana
(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) ...
Native Subjectivity, Reproduction, and the Politics of Ethnography
(2017)
Birth and child-rearing have long figured as premiere sites for social scientific research. As Rapp & Ginsburg (1995) argue, anthropological inquiry into reproduction provides a unique opening for the study of socio-political ...