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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 ...
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 ...
Between the leaves: cannabis policy, medicalization, and user communities in the Sooner State
(2023-12-15)
This anthropological study uses an ethnographic approach to contextualize and explore the policy behind Oklahoma’s expansive medical cannabis industry and the lived experiences of user communities in the state. First, I ...
Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Obsidian in Oklahoma: Conveyance Zones on the Southern Plains
(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 ...
Perception, visibility, and intervisibility in the late Archaic landscape of the Black Mesa region of Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Colorado
(2023-05-12)
Phenomenology, as an interpretive framework centered on perception and life experience, aids archaeologists in understanding past human relationships with landscapes and their features. In the Black Mesa region of Cimarron ...
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
(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 ...