Browsing Digitized Theses and Dissertations (1922–2004) by Department "Anthropology"
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(1993-12)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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(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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(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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(1996-12)The assemblages of pan-balance weights recovered from the excavations of Cape Gelidonya and Uluburun shipwrecks, in southern Turkey, comprise the largest and most complete collection of Late Bronze Age pan-balance weights ...
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(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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(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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(2001-05)Until recently, the negative effects associated with the spread of large retail institutions away from the central business districts of local communities was most commonly identified with towns and cities in the developed ...
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(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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(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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Contemporary public celebrations of the Day of the Dead in Austin, Houston, and San Antonio, Texas (1999)The Day of the Dead, a Mexican folk-catholic holiday annually observed on November second, is devoted to remembering and honoring deceased family members. Since the 1970s the holiday has become increasingly popular within ...
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(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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(2002-05)Between the third and seventh centuries AD, ship and boat construction underwent fundamental transformations for both merchant and military activities. The Roman Empire extended over a vast territory and included numerous ...
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(1991-12)Ship classification based on construction has traditionally divided boats into two major families: shell-built, in which the exterior skin of planking or other material is the primary component, and skeleton-built, in which ...
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(1998-05)The development of Asian watercraft began with simple flotation devices: the log float, bundles of vegetation, inflated animal skins and pottery vessels. From these, developed skin boats, basket boats and, most fundamental ...
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(1996-12)The maritime and riverine past of the southeastern United States has often been ignored or poorly addressed in previous archaeological research. Historical records and archaeological data indicate that this heritage was ...
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(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. ...