Browsing by Subject "Anthropology"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)The French Revolution had begun in 1789 and by 1793 Britain and France were engaged in war. Hostilities extended to their world-wide possessions, and to the high seas where each nation strived to capture the other's naval ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)The concern over lead poisoning in modern times has, in turn, influenced many archaeologists and historians to investigate the ways in which exposure to lead may have affected populations in the past. Researchers interested ...
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(2022-04-22)If modern shipbuilding calls for engineers, computer software for 3D models and calculations, it represents a recent take on what is needed for ship construction. Until the 19th-century, ship construction in Europe was ...
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(2011-08-08)This dissertation research project focuses on maritime exploration during the Age of Discovery and the vessels that were the technological impetus for this dynamic era that ultimately led Christopher Columbus to the New ...
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(2015-09-29)Drawing on four years of participant observation, interviews, and game recordings, this dissertation explores the collaborative experience of imagined worlds in tabletop role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons. ...
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(2017-05-09)Accurate documentation of cultural heritage material is essential to its study and interpretation by archaeologists. In order to continually refine the documentation process, technological advances are incorporated into ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)This research presents an interpretation of palynological and macrobotanical data to determine room function for specific rooms in the NAN Ranch Ruin occupied from A.D. 750 to 1150 in southern New Mexico. The presence of ...
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The personal writings of German Prisoners of War (POWs) in the United States during World War II have the potential to generate a unique understanding of the internment experience of the average German soldier. Letters and ...
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Locomotion of the Red-Shanked Douc Langur (Pygathrix Nemaeus) in the Son Tra Nature Reserve, Vietnam (2018-11-30)This study aims to compile data on the locomotor behavior of the red-shanked douc langur (Pygathrix nemaeus). This dissertation focused on establishing the historical context for primate locomotion studies and provides a ...
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(2018-05-01)This project addresses questions about human foraging behavior in the ethnographic context of small-scale fishing-foraging in the Commonwealth of Dominica, an island in the Eastern Caribbean. The first goal of this project ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1991)Paleonutritional analyses require an integration of dietary disciplines to determine both the diet of a prehistoric population and the subsequent nutritional intake. Under optimal conditions, the zooarchaeology, paleoethnobotany, ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)In 1973, researchers from the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) were led to the site of a wrecked ship by sponge diver Mehmet A??k??n, near his hometown of Bozburun, Turkey. During further monitoring over the following ...
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(2005-12-07)Sax Rohmer (the pseudonym of Arthur Sarsfield Ward, 1883-1959) was one of the most widely read pop authors in the English-speaking world in the 20th century. His Fu Manchu first appeared in "The Zayat Kiss," in the British ...
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(2023-01-04)The adequacy of the diet on ships prior to canning and refrigeration is a debated topic. To determine whether sailors were nourished or malnourished, archaeological and historical data were used to replicate the salted ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)This study traces the development of an ancient class of Northern European watercraft, called pram. The term pram-class is used herein to refer to a broad range of flat-bottom, hard-chine work boats and freighters. The ...
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(2020-07-16)Turtle, tortoise, turpin, and terapen (terrapin) are just a few of the wide variety of terms found in primary documents of the maritime world to refer to reptiles belonging to the order Testudines. These animals were a ...