Browsing Undergraduate Research Scholars Capstone (2006–present) by Department "Anthropology"
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(2013-09-28)Panquilma is a 13th–15th century pre-Hispanic community of the Lurin Valley in Lima, Peru and is located in the hinterland of Pachacamac, an important religious center of the ancient Andes. Sector 03 is composed of hundreds ...
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(2014-09-15)This research follows an eighteenth-century merchant vessel through the major stages of its use, from its construction to its final voyage, highlighting the human interactions that occurred in and around the vessel and its ...
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The 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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(2013-09-26)Limited research has been conducted in the Rio Abajo region of New Mexico regarding the social dynamics of its people. In this project, I hope to further our archaeological understanding of this region using data from Goat ...
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The Buffalo Ranch site (41BU119) is located along the Brazos River in Burleson County, Texas under 11 m of late Quaternary alluvium. Here, a Wilson projectile point and Big Sandy projectile point, along with other artifacts, ...
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(2013-09-26)Fossil mandibular elements assigned to the taxon Australopithecus sediba were found at Malapa, South Africa. The mandibular elements have since been used to create a fully reconstructed version of the mandible of the animal. ...
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In field studies documenting the behavioral impact of social norms, there often exists a “spurious correlation” dilemma with exogenous variables (Manski 1993; Young 2015). At Texas A&M University’s Memorial Student Center, ...
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(2013-02-04)In the Pasión region of the Southern Lowlands of Guatemala, the ancient Maya practiced various types of intentional cranial shaping. This permanent body modification was employed by different techniques, such as constricting ...
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(2014-05-23)Ice Age archaeology in Alaska is important for understanding when and how people first inhabited the Bering Land Bridge and ultimately peopled the Americas during a period of global climate change. The Owl Ridge archaeological ...
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(2014-07-23)The Sunflower Project, a small nutrition-education project in a rural area in the Dominican Republic, grew haphazardly from its establishment in summer 2013, relying on non-academic resources and guides to shape project ...
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From 2014 to 2016, researchers from Texas A&M University carried out an investigation of a submerged archaeological site in Lake Champlain, Vermont. The site, Shelburne Shipyard, contained four steamboat wrecks from the ...
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(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 ...
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While Imperial Roman coinage is a highly studied topic by historians and archaeologists alike, there is still a major gap in this area with regard to the women who appear on it. Many studies have been done on individuals ...
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(2011-04-28)This thesis examines the nature of food residues on sherds of ancient Caddoan ceramic cooking vessels from East Texas, which was the homeland of Caddoan peoples for more than 2,000 years. Interior surfaces of some ceramic ...