Browsing Graduate and Professional School by Author "Wachsmann, Shelley"
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Inglis, Douglas Andrew (2020-08-03)This dissertation provides a preliminary report on the discovery of a Third Dynasty boat-burial from Abusir South (ca. 2544 BCE), and reevaluates a corpus of 70 Egyptian boats and boat-burials from the third millennium, ...
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Brooks, Catherine Freedom (2021-12-10)The first trans-Atlantic exchanges of flora and fauna occurred on Christopher Columbus’ initial journey to the American continent in 1492 and initiated a process that Alfred Crosby has termed the “Columbian Exchange”. ¹ ...
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Nowak, Troy Joseph (Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)During the late 19th century, a number of large marble eyes were discovered near the Athenian naval facilities at Zea. Although initially published as the eyes of ancient Greek warships, many scholars have doubted the ...
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Traster-Lee, Loyalty Nerys Shi We (2021-01-19)The Godavaya shipwreck, located off Sri Lanka’s southern coast at a depth of approximately 33 m (110 ft), is presently dated to between the second century B.C.E. and the second century C.E., making it the oldest known ...
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Bachhuber, Christoph Stephen (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)The trade mechanisms joining the Mycenaean Aegean to the greater Levant have intrigued and eluded Bronze Age scholarship since the earliest discoveries of foreign objects in Mycenaean burials. In the past decade, topics ...
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Lickliter-Mundon, Megan Elaine (2018-07-17)Aviation archaeology as a field of study has struggled with competing academic, professional, and public definitions and priorities since its establishment. In some ways, this sub-discipline of historical or underwater ...
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Inglis, Douglas Andrew (2014-07-28)Eleven boats are depicted in the bas-reliefs that cover the walls of Borobudur, a ninth century C.E. Buddhist monument located in central Java. These vessels are an important source of information about the complexities ...
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Cain, Cashion Alexander (2016-11-09)Architects are often concerned with elements of structure and their relationship to the spaces they create. In this study I use case-control and observational study of two preexisting styles of architecture: Romanesque and ...
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Harrison, Peyton William (2022-08-19)Piracy in the Americas is a popular topic for the public and academics alike. Unfortunately, this has led to a significant amount of sensationalizing about what it meant to be a pirate, especially at its peak in the Americas. ...
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Marshall, Dawn Marie (2009-05-15)Ethnopalynology is a specialty within palynology that centers specifically on past and present palynological data related to humans. Palynological data may be a significant tool to archaeologists if the applications and ...
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Larson, Thomas S. (2010-01-14)Underwater excavations of a Late Bronze Age shipwreck at Uluburun, Turkey recovered a combined 475 oxhide and plano-convex discoid copper ingots. While the hoard of ingots excavated at Uluburun brings the total number of ...
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Ingram, Rebecca Suzanne (Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)Beads are one of the earliest forms of ornamentation created by humans; prized during the Bronze Age for both their aesthetic as well as amuletic value, beads also served to signify the social status of the wearer. Beads ...
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Choltco, Margaret E. (2010-07-14)Although it is accepted that Phoenician colonization occurred on Sardinia by the 9th century B.C., it is possible that contact between Sardinia‟s indigenous population and the Levantine region occurred in the Late Bronze ...
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Jarvis, Charlotte Amalie Keatinge (2022-03-24)This thesis analyzes the historical, pictorial, and archaeological evidence for genever (Dutch gin) and gin consumption among sailors in the Dutch Republic and the United Kingdom during the Age of Sail (1550-1850). While ...
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Polzer, Mark Edward (2010-10-12)In 2002 and 2003, the Institute of Nautical Archaeology excavated the remains of an East Greek ship that sank off the coast of Pabuç Burnu, Turkey, sometime in the second quarter of the sixth century B.C. The scant remains ...
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Atkinson, Christopher (2012-07-16)The fishing method of trawling, or dragging, has long been shown to be harmful to a plethora of sea life inhabiting the world?s oceans and inland waterways. Fishing nets scour the seabed, disturbing everything in their ...
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Frizzell, Timothy James (2020-03-25)Lack of research currently limits our understanding factors for preservation of shipwrecks along with the impact of these wrecks on the deep environment. Technology capable of assisting archaeologists in the study of these ...
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Morriss, Veronica Marie (2012-07-16)In ancient Egypt, the Nile was both a lifeline and a highway. In addition to its crucial role for agriculture and water resources, the river united an area nearly five hundred miles in length. It was an avenue for asserting ...
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Lin, Shih-Han Samuel (, 2012-08-29)The Uluburun shipwreck was discovered in 1982 when a Turkish sponge diver informed the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) of his discovery of metal biscuits with ears. INA archaeologists recognized this as a description ...
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Kofahl, Meko (2013-07-29)The major European epidemic of bubonic plague in the sixth century C.E. – named for the ruling Byzantine emperor, Justinian – devastated the empire at the same time that outside pressures in the form of Goths, Vandals, ...