Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Author "Eckert, Suzanne"
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Bojakowski, Katie (2011-08-08)This dissertation research project focuses on maritime exploration during the Age of Discovery and the vessels that were the technological impetus for this dynamic era that ultimately led Christopher Columbus to the New ...
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Creasman, Pearce (2012-02-14)This dissertation is rooted in one general question: what can the wood from ships reveal about the people and cultures who built them? Shipwrecks are only the last chapter of a complex story, and while the last fifty ...
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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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Coe, Marion Mercedes (2020-12-02)This dissertation examines perishable artifacts to contribute to current studies on the multi-scalar identity of past people, and the flexibility and situational qualities of social organization in prehistoric populations ...
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Lovings, Aline (2012-02-14)This study uses Transition Analysis on the Mimbres skeletal remains of the NAN Ranch Ruin to provide a more complete picture of its demography. Previous attempts to reconstruct the demographic structure of prehistoric ...
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Crouch, Maria Shannon Parks (2013-12-10)This research tests the subsistence model for the adoption of ceramic technology among coastal fisher-hunter-gatherers of the southern Atlantic coast of Brazil (5000 to 600 BP). The subsistence model correlates the appearance ...