Browsing by Author "Carlson, David"
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Parkoff, Justin 1981- (2012-12-07)This thesis reconstructs the royal Acropolis at Babylon and selected adjacent areas as they likely appeared during the late 6th century B.C. Today, all that remains of Babylon is scant archaeological ruins of building ...
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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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Stahman, Andrea Renee (Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)In the Gulf Coastal Prairie and Marsh region of Texas, historic archaeological sites are often obscured by dense vegetation resulting in extremely limited surface visibility. In an environment such as this, historic sites ...
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Smith, Heather Lynn (2012-02-14)This thesis presents an investigation into Paleoindian projectile-point morphology. A goal of this research is to determine if evidence of a normative cultural manufacturing protocol can be identified on Clovis projectile ...
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Vanzin, Rudi Helena (2015-05-01)The goal of this thesis is to argue that the bitumen-reed-boats utilized in the maritime trade between Mesopotamia and the Arabian Peninsula during the later Ubaid period (ca. 5300 - 4800 B.C.E.) probably originated as a ...
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Smallwood, Ashley Michelle (2012-10-19)This dissertation presents new data on Clovis site occupation, technological organization, and settlement in the American Southeast. Evidence suggests that traditionally-accepted, western-centric models do not fully explain ...
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Arcak, Cory (2010-10-12)The primary goal of the conservator is to stabilize and conserve artifacts with the best possible treatment available. Ideally, these treatments are noninvasive and reversible, and maintain the integrity of the object as ...
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Carlson, Keely Britt (2014-07-25)The present study involves the developmental simulation of the adult cranial morphology of the newly discovered species, Australopithecus sediba. Au. sediba has been the focus of considerable discussion and debate in ...
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Gore, Angela Kay (2022-06-06)This dissertation focuses on the lithic record of the Nenana valley, interior Alaska, to inform on prehistoric toolstone provisioning in eastern Beringia. I approach the record from a behavioral and geological perspective ...
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Parkoff, Justin Alan (2016-12-09)This dissertation reconstructs the former Union Navy Gunboat USS Westfield. Westfield belonged to an unusual class of civilian vessels that the Navy converted during wartime to serve in the Union's blockade of Confederate ...
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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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Franca, Raphael (2017-08-07)Log boats or dugout canoes are the earliest known watercraft in the global archaeological record. In pre-Columbian Florida, dugout canoes were used as early as 6,000 years ago. To date, more than 400 log boats have been ...
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Raterman, Jessica (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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Carlson, David (2013-03-05)Presentation given on March 1, 2013 to Texas Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association (TxETDA) meeting at Texas A&M University. The presentation addresses the issue surrounding the choices made by student in access ...
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Sweitz, Samuel Randles (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)The archaeological remains at Hacienda Tabi provide an opportunity to study the effects of large-scale societal changes on the lives of the Maya who worked on the hacienda. The households, represented by the ruins of the ...
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Smith, Heather Lynn (2015-07-17)This project is the first comprehensive analysis of fluted projectile points found across arctic North America and encompasses three levels of analysis that increase in scope geographically, methodologically, and theoretically. ...
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Sligh, Robert Bruce (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1990)In September 1939, as Europe went to war, the United States had an Army rated seventeenth in the world. The National Guard was a force, although partially equipped and trained, that could augment it. The Army quickly won ...
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Schwindinger, Patricia Helen (2018-08-27)The period 1730-1850 brought no major revolution in the design of wooden ships. Yet the origins of naval architecture and the beginnings of scientific understanding of hydrostatics and hydrodynamics can be traced to this ...
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Harrison, James Burr (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)This thesis examines six prominent Pecos River Style rock art anthropomorph attributes to determine if they are found in limited geographic districts of the Lower Pecos Region. Both Boyd (2003) and Turpin (2004) have ...
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Situating Male Fertility: A Demographic Analysis of Male and Female Fertility in the United States Cherry, Robert Christopher (2012-02-14)In this dissertation I investigate whether or not a series of social, demographic, and cultural factors affect fertility differently, in either direction or magnitude, for men and women. This work situates the study of ...