Browsing by Author "Waters, Michael"
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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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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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Pertermann, Dana Lee (2012-10-19)Conflict Event theory has the potential to change how archaeologists investigate battlefield sites. As a theoretical paradigm, eventful archaeology allows us to give agency to social-structure changing events, going beyond ...
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Johnson, Phillip R (2013-06-05)This dissertation research presents the elemental and technological analyses of basalt adze quarries from the Samoan Island of Tutuila. Both Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA) and Energy Dispersive X-ray ...
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Lynch, Joshua James (2020-12-09)This dissertation presents new data on projectile point variability, technological organization, and site distribution in Upper Paleolithic Siberia and late Pleistocene/early Holocene Beringia, relating projectile point ...
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Geoarchaeology, Paleoecology, and Holocene Subsistence Change on the Upper Snake River Plain, Idaho Keene, Joshua Lake (2016-11-04)This dissertation presents new data on geochronology, site formation processes, projectile-point typology, and lithic technological organization in the Intermountain West’s Snake River Plain and Bonneville Basin, relating ...
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Mcdonough, Katelyn Needham (2021-06-23)This dissertation investigates the dynamics of climate and culture in the Great Basin of North America using multiproxy data derived from combustion features, coprolites, and sediment cores from Connley Caves and Paulina ...
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Waters, Michael; Stafford, Thomas; Jr.; Kooyman, Brian; L. V. Hills (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015)
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Welch, Daniel JosephThe personal writings of German Prisoners of War (POWs) in the United States during World War II have the potential to generate a unique understanding of the internment experience of the average German soldier. Letters and ...
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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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Perrotti, Angelina Giovanna (2018-03-07)Researchers interested in late-Pleistocene extinctions continue to debate the potential drivers of this event and, at times, do not even agree on the timing of extinction for various species in different regions. This ...
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Morse, Mckenzie (2010-10-12)This dissertation is a palynological examination of the Mayan archaeological site at Blue Creek, northwestern Belize. This study uncovers more than 4,500 years of environmental and agricultural history of the region, which ...
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Welch, Daniel Ryan (2014-05-06)Recent advances in the archaeology of the Samoan Islands have forced us to reconsider the generally accepted phylogenetic model for the chronology of cultural change in prehistoric Samoa. In this dissertation I use new ...
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Keene, Joshua L. (2010-10-12)The archaeological literature warns against trusting the context of artifacts found within a vertisol due to the constant mixing of sediments caused by the shrink/swell properties of clays. These churning processes were ...
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Wann, Kevin W (2023-05-04)Avocados (Persea americana) are highly nutritious fruits that dominate the global export market and have an extensive genomics research background. They have a complex domestication history with some disagreement on the ...