Browsing by Author "Dickson, D. Bruce"
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Desmet, Timothy Scott (2016-06-03)This dissertation presents advanced methods in data processing, statistical analyses, integration, and visualization of archaeogeophysical data to increase the accuracy of archaeological remote sensing interpretation and ...
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Choi, In Huck (2012-07-16)Is the biggest tideland reclamation project in the world (the STRP) sustainable? Since 1991, the STRP which aims at converting mudflats into 401 km2 farmland and industrial complex has been carried out in the southwestern ...
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Sanabria, Laura (1977)The question whether Prehistoric Tikal was agriculturally self-sufficient based on slash and burn agriculture is proposed. The problem is evaluated from the standpoint of its four most fundamental components: (1) Peten ...
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Gang, G-Young (1997-12)This dissertation compares lithic materials excavated from Shurmai (GnJm 1) and Kakwa Lelash (GnJm 2), two deeply-stratified dry rockshelters located in the Mukogodo Hills of the Laikipia and Isiolo districts of Central-North ...
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Barrett, Jason Wallace (Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)This dissertation tests the theory that lithic raw materials were a strategic resource among the ancient Maya of Blue Creek, Belize that markedly influenced the development of socio-economic hierarchies at the site. Recent ...
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Womack, Anne-Marie (2012-07-16)Female characters and references to femininity throughout American war literature disrupt discursive and biological divisions of the masculine and feminine. In examining gender and war literature over the twentieth century, ...
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Raisor, Michelle Jeanette (Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)Archaeologists have favored a date of 14,000-15,000 years before present (BP) for canine domestication. However, recent studies of mutations in the mitochondrial DNA sequence by molecular geneticists have implied that dogs ...
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Pertermann, Dana Lee (2012-10-19)Conflict Event theory has the potential to change how archaeologists investigate battlefield sites. As a theoretical paradigm, eventful archaeology allows us to give agency to social-structure changing events, going beyond ...
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Laporte, Catharina (2013-12-02)Religious behavior varies greatly both with-in cultures and cross-culturally. Throughout history, scientific scholars of religion have debated the definition, function, or lack of function for religious behavior. The ...
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Pearl, Frederic B. (2001-05)Archaeological and geoarchaeological surveys of the Mukogodo Hills and Ewaso Ng'iro Plains of Kenya are reported. Seventy-one archaeological sites dating from the Middle Stone Age to the present are described. An alluvial ...
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Dandridge, Debra Elaine (Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)This study investigates the effects that lichens have on rock surfaces in which ancient rock art (petroglyphs and pictographs) may be found. The study area includes four sites in the United States: one quartzite site in ...
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Whitaker, Blake (2014-03-05)The British Army provided military assistance missions for friendly nations throughout the 20th century. The majority deployed to Africa during the decolonization process. By 1980 London had thirty-five years of institutional ...
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Schonberg, Jeffrey Brett (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)Plato's authoritative depictions of the philosopher as the sole guide capable of leading readers to Truth develop slowly through his dialogues. Through analyses of the "Meno," the "Phaedo," and the "Timaeus," dialogues ...
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Everly, Daniel Eugene (Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)A direct historical approach is used in this thesis to document the lost wax casting technique as currently practiced by indigenous metallurgists in northeastern Thailand. The smiths observed at Ban Pba Ao, Ubon Ratchathani ...
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Fox, Georgia Lynne (1998-08)The examination and analysis of the kaolin clay pipe collection from Port Royal, Jamaica, revealed several trends. From a database of 21,575 pipes recovered from 1981-1990, 61 bowl types were identified and arranged in an ...
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Wiederhold, James Edward (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)This thesis is a use-wear study that deals with microwear on stone endscrapers used on one worked material: animal skins. The first part of the study defines and describes the process of rendering freshly skinned pelts ...
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Miracle, Jared Tyler (2014-12-03)Prior to the Second World War, very few Americans were aware that martial arts existed outside of the Olympic institutions (e.g. boxing and wrestling) and it wasn’t until the 1960s and 1970s that Asian martial culture ...