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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 ...
The form and function of subterranean food storage structures: an ethnoarcheological study of the social and environmental determinants of pit storage
(1990)
This study identifies the principal factors affecting the selection and use of food storage pits through a cross-cultural examination of a worldwide sample of pit using societies. Three reasons why subterranean facilities ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Crossing to Care: Movement and Flexibility in Mexican Massage Healing
(2020)
Transnationalism and border studies have often rightly focused on the movement of people, materials, and ideas across national lines as well as issues of migration such as along the U.S.-Mexico border. This thesis examines ...
An Archaeological and Historical Examination of the Sulphur Fork Factory, 1817-1822
(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 ...
Discourses of Division: An Ethnography of the Oklahoma Proud Boys
(2022-05-13)
As a self-described group of "Western chauvinists," the Proud Boys have become lodged within the national consciousness because of their participation in historical and contemporary discourses concerned with fascism, ...