Browsing by Author "Athreya, Sheela"
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Bible, Rachael Cloud (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 ...
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Moody, Brittany Leigh Staff (2017-12-08)The understanding of morphological variation between fossil and modern humans is critical to the discussion of evolutionary processes within the Homo lineage. Neanderthals are recognizably distinct in their morphology from ...
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Kennedy, Larkin Frost (2016-08-31)In late antiquity, a series of historically documented invasions and natural and economic crises can be juxtaposed with increasing archaeological evidence for the strength of Eastern Mediterranean trade connections and the ...
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Butaric, Lauren Nicole (2013-04-30)Ecogeographic patterns of modern human craniofacial diversity suggest external nasal structures reflect climatic adaptations for respiratory and thermoregulatory functions. Regarding internal structures, the maxillary sinus ...
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Manley, Danielle EThe focus of this research is to explore the possibility that Australasians contributed to modern indigenous South American populations during and after the time when the major peopling events of the Americas are thought ...
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Athreya, Sheela (Journal of Anthropological Sciences / Rivista di Antropologia - JASS / Istituto Italiano di Antropologia, 2012)
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Ford, Bonny Marie (2018-07-26)The population structure of Central Asia and the effects of population history on that structure have not been well studied. To address this gap, 4,169 mtDNA control region sequences from Central Asia and the surrounding ...
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Downs, Wayne J. (2010-07-14)In this work I investigate the role of emotion in the moral philosophies of Immanuel Kant and T.H. Green. Noting Kant's reputation as a rationalist holding a predominately negative view toward emotions, I studied the works ...
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Yoder, Cassady J. (2009-06-02)The medieval period of Denmark (11th-16th centuries) witnessed two of the worst demographic, health, and dietary catastrophes in history: the Late Medieval Agrarian Crisis (LMAC) and the Black Death plague epidemic. ...
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Springer, Victoria Suzanne (2013-04-11)Recent genetic studies have confirmed that there was admixture between African early modern humans and archaic populations throughout the Old World. In this dissertation, I examine European early modern human dental ...
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Wiersema, Jason Matthew (2009-06-02)In this dissertation I evaluate the potential of the morphology of the petrous portion of the human temporal bone as seen on axial CT scans of the head as a means to generate identifications of fragmentary human skeletal remains. ...
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Brophy, Juliet (2012-02-14)This research better resolves the environmental mosaic that is typically reconstructed for the A. robustus-bearing faunal assemblages of South Africa and evaluates whether A. robustus were habitat specialists or habitat ...
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Hoffmeister, Kristin Keir (2019-07-12)The Preclassic (1000 BC-250 AD) and Terminal Classic (800-900 AD) periods were dynamic eras of profound change for the lowland Maya of Central America. In particular, dramatic changes in social structures appear to be ...
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Bartelink, Eric John (Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)In this study, I use bioarchaeological data derived from human burials to evaluate subsistence change in mid-to-late Holocene central California (circa 4950-200 B.P.). Previous investigations in the region have proposed ...
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Condon-Heck, Emilie Fenn (2014-01-21)There exists a large disagreement among scholars concerning the origin of the Tierra del Fuegian (TDF) population of South America. This population is distinctive because its members possess extremely robust crania compared ...