Browsing by Subject "Major anthropology."
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(Texas A&M University, 2000)In this study ceramics are used to study acculturation at two Spanish colonial sites in Texas. The sites are the Mission Nuestra Senora del Espiritu Santo de Zuniga and the Presidio Nuestra Senora de Loreto. Spanish sites ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2000)The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate how food mediates social relations at two African-American cafes in Bryan, Texas. To accomplish this goal, this thesis utilizes ethnographic data collected from the methodological ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2003)Nautical archaeology can be loosely defined as the study of the material remains of ships and their contents as a component of a broader cultural system. The oceans and lakes of the world are replete with shipwrecks from ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1994)Impermanent architecture was a major technology used to construct shelter in the Americas during the 17th and 18th centuries. Why these construction methods were employed instead of more permanent ones is a question ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1984)Not available
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(Texas A&M University, 2002)In 1686, a French ship known as Belle was anchored off of the Texas coast in Matagorda Bay when a storm struck. The vessel wrecked in that storm and sank into the shallow waters of the bay, taking with it a sizable portion ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1985)Not available
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(Texas A&M University, 2002)In the summer of 1995, the Institute of Nautical Archaeology began the excavation of a ninth-century Byzantine shipwreck off the southwestern coast of Turkey. In the area of the galley, an assemblage of 17 ceramic and ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2000)Over the past forty years an enormous collection of pewter artifacts has been recovered from the various archaeological excavations at Port Royal, Jamaica, both on land and underwater (Link 1960; Marx 1971; Priddy 1975; ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1980)Not available
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(Texas A&M University, 1989)Not available
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(Texas A&M University, 1996)Among the aspects of daily life represented on the walls of private tombs during the Old Kingdom in Egypt are reliefs depicting the construction of boat hulls. Examination of the twenty known reliefs and relief fragments ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1999)Three themes are especially significant in rural Japan today. The first two are the traditional strong sense of ancestral land ties shared by Japanese farmers and the shortage of heirs problem (atotsugi mondai), which they ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1998)The coasting schooner Annabella was built at Port Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1834. Originally constructed as a sloop, the vessel was built specifically for transporting raw materials such as cordwood, brick, coal, and ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1989)Not available
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(Texas A&M University, 1995)This thesis describes results of archaeological investigations and material analysis associated with six prehistoric sites in Runnels County, Texas that lie within a proposed Soil Conservation Service floodwater retarding ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1987)Not available
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(Texas A&M University, 1995)His Majesty's Sloop Boscawen was built on Lake Champlain by British forces in 1759 as part of their successful campaign to drive the French Army from the Champlain Valley. This thesis describes and analyzes the armament ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2002)Almost four hundred years after the wrecking of the Portuguese East-Indiaman Nossa Senhora dos Martires in 1606, excavations were begun at Sao Juliao de Barra by the Centro Nacional de Arqueologia Nautica e Subaquatica ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1986)Not available