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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, ...
The Analysis of a Fourche Maline Mound Site: Troy Adams (34LF33)
(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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Hybrid Approach to Assessing Giardia intestinalis Genetic Diversity in Two Traditional Human Populations
(2020-05-08)
The protozoan parasite Giardia intestinalis is traditionally viewed as a harmful agent of diarrheal disease in humans, and is the target of prevention and treatment efforts around the world. However, most cases of G. ...
Ravenscroft (34BV198) Bison Skull Piles: Explorations of Purpose and Meaning
(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 ...
In Search of the Emerald City: Life Next to a Kansas Superfund Site
(2021-05-14)
This thesis is an ethnographic investigation of the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant and the surrounding town of De Soto, Kansas. I argue that the ammunition plant has produced not only embodied impacts in the form of ...
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 ...