Browsing Digitized Theses and Dissertations (1922–2004) by Author "Carlson, David Lee"
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Hailey, Tommy Ike (1994-08)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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Smith, C. Wayne (1995-05)The assemblage of weights recovered from excavations at Port Royal, Jamaica is the largest collection of seventeenth-century weights recovered from a single colonial site. On June 7, 1692, just shortly before noon, an ...
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Bruchez, Margaret Sabom (1997-05)This dissertation reports findings of archaeological investigations conducted by Proyecto de Solola in the Lake Atitlan basin in southwestern Guatemala. The study began as an analysis of an account of the Cakchiquel Maya's ...
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Davis, Stanley Drew (1996-12)The Yakutat Foreland is a 120-km-long by 40-km-wide coastal plain, presently the ethnographic home of the YakutatTlingit. Prehistorically, the area was occupied variously by coastal groups from the west (Pacific Gulf Yupik ...
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Dockall, Helen Marie (1997-05)The purpose of this dissertation is to conduct a bioarchaeological analysis of the adaptation of Archaic Period hunter-gatherers living on the inland portion of the West Gulf Coastal Plain of Texas. This study, conducted ...
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Dewolf, Helen Catherine (1998-05)This dissertation examines 17th-century Chinese porcelain found in Port Royal, Jamaica during the various land and underwater excavations carried out since the late 1950s. The focus of the study is on the artifacts recovered ...
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Meyers, Allan Dale (1998-12)In the last quarter century, many studies have demonstrated how the archaeological record reflects known socioeconomic distinctions on plantation settlements in the American South and Caribbean. Despite the lack of empirical ...
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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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Powell, Joseph Frederick (1995-08)The "Tripartite" model of the peopling of the New World presents the hypothesis that all Native American linguistic, dental, and genetic variation was the result of three migratory "waves" from northeast Asia, whose ...
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Dering, J. Philip (1996-05)The Classic period farmers living in the Tonto Basin, Arizona faced a diverse and rapidly fluctuating physical and social environment. The archaeological evidence is presented for changing adaptive strategies implemented ...
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Kuehn, David D. (1995-05)Geoarchaeological studies undertaken in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park in the Little Missouri Badlands of western North Dakota provide a geological and environmental framework for the interpretation of ...
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Howard, Bryan Paul (1996-05)The clothing of 18th century runaway indentured servants and convicts is described in detail in advertisements seeking their apprehension and return. As such the descriptions offer unique glimpses of a class of material ...
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Schroeder, Erich Karl (1995-05)Three data sources were utilized to investigate processes of frontier development in a portion of central Illinois. The data consist of: public domain land records, federal population censuses, and gravestone inscriptions. ...
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Pendleton, Michael Wayne (1993-05)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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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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Parrent, James Michael (1990-12)For many years treasure hunters have considered the Caribbean region a prime target for their ventures. While some have chosen to seek contracts with island governments, others have chosen clandestine operations. Regardless ...
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Jones, John Glendon (1991-12)Eighty three soil samples from Cobweb Swamp, Belize, were examined for fossil pollen content. These samples, from a series of cores and an excavation profile, were examined in an attempt to establish a basic paleoenvironmental ...
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Neyland, Robert Stephen (1994-08)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 ...