Browsing by Department "Anthropology"
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16th Century Cast-Bronze Ordnance at the Museu de Angra do Heroismo
(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Within the collections of the Museu de Angra do Heroismo (Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal) are nine cast bronze guns from the 16th century. Most were raised from the seafloor between the 1960s and 1990s, but this study ... -
A dialogue between material remains, historical documents, and oral history : Allenfarm and Rogers Plantation, a case study
(1996-05)Often lost behind the mythic veneer of Texas history is the fact that the eastern one-third of the state was a true part of the antebellum South. As a result, research into slavery era Texas has been slow in developing. ... -
"A Formidable Looking Pile of Iron Boilers and Machinery": Reconstructing the Civil War Gunboat USS Westfield
(2016-12-09)This dissertation reconstructs the former Union Navy Gunboat USS Westfield. Westfield belonged to an unusual class of civilian vessels that the Navy converted during wartime to serve in the Union's blockade of Confederate ... -
A GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF HOMINID MAXILLAE AND MANDIBLES
(2013-09-26)Fossil mandibular elements assigned to the taxon Australopithecus sediba were found at Malapa, South Africa. The mandibular elements have since been used to create a fully reconstructed version of the mandible of the animal. ... -
A Geospatial Analysis of Pre-Columbian Florida Log Boats
(2017-08-07)Log boats or dugout canoes are the earliest known watercraft in the global archaeological record. In pre-Columbian Florida, dugout canoes were used as early as 6,000 years ago. To date, more than 400 log boats have been ... -
A Roman wreck at Caesarea Maritima, Israel : a comparative study of its hull and equipment
(1995-05)The hull remains and equipment of a heavy Roman merchant ship are described and illustrated, with particular attention given to construction details and features. Succeeding chapters comprise individual treatments of each ... -
A seventeenth-century northern European merchant shipwreck in Monte Cristi Bay, Dominican Republic
(1996-08)Beginning in 1991 and continuing through 1994, the Pan- American Institute of Maritime Archaeology (PIMA), a nonprofit scientific and educational institution based in San Francisco, California, undertook the excavation of ... -
A tangled web : the role of material and ideational definitions of culture in evaluating Coahuiltecan cultural change
(2001)This thesis is grounded in the concept of Native American cultural change, focusing specifically on the Coahuiltecan peoples, native hunter-gatherers of south Texas and northeastern Mexico. Anthropological literature has ... -
The A.J. Goddard: Reconstruction and Material Culture of a Klondike Gold Rush Sternwheeler
(2012-10-19)The A.J. Goddard, a steamboat built for the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-1898, wrecked in 1901 on Lake Laberge, Yukon Territory, where it lay undisturbed until its rediscovery in 2008 by the Yukon River Survey Project, ... -
Advances in Archaeological Geophysics: Case Studies from Historical Archaeology
(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 ... -
Aging of Development: the Saemangeum Tideland Reclamation Project (STRP) in South Korea and Sustainable Development of the Two Townships in and out of the STRP
(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 ... -
Altitudinal Effects on The Behavior and Morphology of Pygmy Tarsiers (Tarsius pumilus) in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
(2013-08-06)Pygmy tarsiers (Tarsius pumilus) of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia are the only species of tarsier known to live exclusively at high altitudes. This study was the first to locate and observe multiple groups of this elusive ... -
Amphora Graffiti from the Byzantine Shipwreck at Novy Svet, Crimea
(2012-12-06)The thesis presents the results of a study of 1005 graffiti on 13th century Byzantine amphorae from a shipwreck in the Bay of Sudak near Novy Svet, Crimea, Ukraine. The primary goals of this thesis are 1) to provide an ... -
An Agricultural Market in the Northern Peruvians Andes: Formal/Informal Market Sectors, Method of Transfer, and Trust
(2013-05-31)This study considers the market of potatoes in Amazonas, Peru from an informal production sector to a more formal retail-marketing sector. I consider and challenge current understandings that attempt to model formal/informal ... -
An Analysis of Late Pleistocene Hominin Population Dynamics in Europe Using Ecological Niche Modeling Methods
(2016-12-06)This dissertation addresses questions concerning the patterns of population dynamics between Late Neandertals and early modern humans (EMHs) during the Late Pleistocene of Europe and the fluctuation of those patterns over ... -
An Ancient Iron Cargo in the Indian Ocean: The Godavaya Shipwreck
(2015-12-10)The Godavaya shipwreck, located off Sri Lanka’s southern coast at a depth of approximately 33 m (110 ft.), is one of the oldest shipwrecks yet discovered in the Indian Ocean. Dated to between the second century B.C.E and ... -
An Attribute Analysis of Looted Skeletal Remains from the Site of Panquilma in the Lurin Valley of Peru
(2013-09-28)Panquilma is a 13th–15th century pre-Hispanic community of the Lurin Valley in Lima, Peru and is located in the hinterland of Pachacamac, an important religious center of the ancient Andes. Sector 03 is composed of hundreds ... -
The Analysis and Conservation of Two 18-pounder Carronades from the U.S. Navy Schooner Shark
(2012-07-16)In February of 2008, two 18-pounder carronades were discovered off the Oregon coast near Arch Cape in Clatsop County. In addition to the carronades, several associated artifacts were collected from the site, including ... -
An analysis of navigational instruments in the Age of Exploration: 15th century to mid-17th century
(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)During the Age of Exploration, navigation evolved from a field filled with superstition into a modern science in Portugal, Spain, and England. The most common navigation instruments utilized and their subsequent innovations ...