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This research identifies and discusses the changes occurring in family organizational patterns in rural areas around the megacity of Chennai, India, as a result of expanded educational opportunity. Chennai is located in the state of...
This thesis is an inquiry into the lives of four women in Tallahassee, Florida, who have not only chosen to adopt New Age beliefs, but also to become New Age healers. Of particular interest are the life events that influenced their...
Maritime archaeological sites located in the inter-tidal zone are common throughout the world. Such sites are difficult to investigate yet their state of preservation often provides unique archaeological data unavailable on most...
The goal of this dissertation is to present a new perspective on the economic, political, and social implications of food procurement in Early Formative Period (1600 â 900 BC) Mesoamerica. The dataset consists of archaeobotanical...
This dissertation explores how Q'eqchi' market women in San Juan Chamelco, Guatemala use capitalist exchange spheres to generate personhood, persons, and kinship. Women use local kin categories to establish themselves as marketers and...
This thesis examines an assemblage of artifacts recovered from the U.S. Army Transport Maple Leaf. This assemblage was part of a cargo of baggage from three regiments of Union Army troops sent to Florida in 1864. The U.S. Sanitary...
This thesis describes the filming and post-production strategy used to develop the ethnographic film, And the Rivers Flow: Hunting and Treaty Rights in a First Nations Community. This paper outlines my process, suggesting that an...
For over fifty years, archaeological research has been conducted across north Florida in an attempt to locate and identify securely the Spanish Franciscan missions established in the area from St. Augustine to Tallahassee between 1587...
This thesis explores the ways in which identity and culture can be expressed through tourist art, using a Seminole doll as an example of the connectivity of art. The Seminole doll, a quintessential Florida souvenir, is not just layered...
This dissertation examines how patterns of regional homogeneity in material culture develop on the local level. Archaeologists have long been concerned with how large, materially homogeneous culture groups develop over large regions...
An Archaeological Examination of Slave Life in the Danish West Indies: Analysis of the Material Culture of a Caribbean Slave Village Illustrating Economic Provisioning and Acquisition Preferences
This thesis will examine the artifact assemblages from three slave structures excavated in 1998 as part of a National Park Service project. The excavations of the three structures provided the researcher with a wealth of data regarding...
The consumption of alcohol among Indians of southeastern North America is examined in this thesis. I discuss and compare the colonial strategies of the Spaniards in La Florida and the English in Carolina. The Spanish colonial strategy...
The origin and time of appearance of human groups, the Paleoindians, in the Americas has been a significant question in Americanist archaeology. Beginning in the latter half of the nineteenth century and extending through the twentieth...
The Gift in the Cave for the Gift of the World: An Economic Approach to Ancient Maya Cave Ritual in the San Francisco Hill-Caves, Cancuen Region, Guatemala
This thesis presents the results of a regional cave survey in the San Francisco Hills near the lowland Maya site of Cancuén, Petén, Guatemala. The survey was a component of the Cancuén Archaeology Project directed by Dr. Arthur Demarest...
The Temporal and Geographic Distribution of Red-Filmed Ceramics in Northwest Florida the Archaeological Significance of Red-Filmed Ceramics in the Lower Southeast
This study examines the general temporal, geographic, and situational distributions of prehistoric aboriginal red-filmed ceramics in northern Florida. Anticipated results were that red-filmed ceramics, most particularly those showing...
In this dissertation, I evaluate the socio-political and economic changes during the transition from the Late Copper Age to the Early Bronze Age in South Moravia (Czech Republic). This part of prehistory has been envisioned as a period...
This thesis presents an analysis of faunal materials recovered from features at Fort Mitchell during excavations directed by J.W. Cottier between 2000 and 2002. Fort Mitchell was located west of the Chattahoochee River, in present...
In past decades, archaeobotanical research has facilitated a better understanding of the impact of cultivated and wild plants in the Great Hungarian Plain. With the introduction of complex flotation systems and improved sampling...
The communities of Apalachicola, Carrabelle, and surrounding Franklin County have been intimately tied to the sea. This connection has existed from prehistoric times to the present. However, the strongest ties to the sea existed...
College of Arts and Sciences Dancing Towards Pan-Indianism: The Development of the Grass Dance and Northern Traditional Dance in Native American Culture
Many of the dance styles found at modern Native American powwows have their roots within the Warrior Society dances that existed hundreds of years ago. Over time, the dance styles have changed and evolved. Dances have been shared between...
This study examines perceptions of the "typical American" from 49 cultures around the world. Contrary to the ethnocentric bias hypothesis, we found strong agreement between in-group and out-group ratings on the American profile ...
One of the most pressing concerns facing archaeologists and cultural resource managers in the twenty-first century is how to protect cultural resources for meaningful research and future investigation while ensuring access to citizens...
The Affinities and Disparities within: Community and Status of the African American Slave Population at Charles Pinckney National Historic Site, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
The dissertation investigates how patterns of consumption reflect internal patterns of social hierarchy among the enslaved plantation community and what were the degrees of resistance and accommodation of those enslaved and their...
Fort Mitchell (1Ru102), a frontier fort in East Alabama, was built during the First Creek Indian War in 1813 and occupied until 1840, four years after Indian Removal. In spite of its historical importance, information concerning daily...
Shugendo (lit. "The way of power") is a Japanese syncretistic religion of mountain asceticism, combining elements from Shinto, Shamanism, Taoist magic, Confucian ethics, and above all Mahayana Buddhism. Its proclaimed purposes are to...
Traditional military targeting of integrated air defense systems predominantly used lethal methods. In today's political climate, and technological advances associated with these systems, traditional lethal targeting of integrated air...
The Grand site (8DU1) on Big Talbot Island (northeast of Jacksonville, Florida) is a mound complex containing a Mississippian period shell ring and an overlying sand burial mound. The shell ring dates almost exclusively to the St. Johns...
This dissertation contributes to anthropological debate regarding the effects of interaction on material and symbolic culture. The investigation tests the hypothesis that Maya writing emerged in late Middle Preclassic through Early...
The late 19th and early 20th -century shipping industry experienced a transition in ship technology from sail to steam propulsion. This thesis examines the continued use of iron-hulled barques during this transitional period, with a...
The development of agriculture and complex sociopolitical systems are two of the most significant changes in human history. Longstanding theories suggest that emergent elites gained power through managing agricultural resources. This...
This thesis examines Early Woodland subsistence and settlement practices through the analysis of ceramic, lithic, and faunal assemblages associated with the Deptford occupation zone at the Williams site (8TA32), Taylor County, Florida....
This study examines Middle to Late Woodland subsistence practices in the Gulf coastal zone through faunal analysis of the archaeological features excavated at the Bird Hammock site (8Wa30). Bird Hammock was excavated by Judith Bense in...
Beyond being just a part of a somewhat interesting local fable, the story of the growth and development of an African American òrìs̱à devotees in Philadelphia is an Yorùbáland via Cuba. Its adoption by African American devotees is thus...
I examined early dairying practices on the Great Hungarian Plain during the Neolithic and Copper Age (6000-3000 cal. B.C.) to identify evidence for the intensification of animal product use. The results demonstrate how the pattern of...
This dissertation examines strategies of regional integration from the perspective of second order centers (SOCs). These sites are defined in socio-political terms as the second tier within an administrative hierarchy of a regional...
Between 1968 and 1972, B. Calvin Jones, an archaeologist for the State of Florida, Division of Archives, History and Records Management, discovered and investigated site 8JE106, which he identified as the site of the seventeenth century...
LCMs (landing craft, mechanized) played a number of important roles in World War II. Despite their significance, they have rarely been analyzed in the archaeological record. This thesis presents a model used to help identify and evaluate...
Four shipwrecks of Late Antiquity were discovered in deep water during a survey in the summer of 2000 near the city of Sinop on the southern coast of the Black Sea. The survey was part of a long-term Institute for Exploration (IFE)...
This dissertation examines social relations and identity construction as expressed through mortuary ritual. Mortuary treatment has long been used by archaeologists to examine human social structure, and burial is now seen as an important...
Molecular analysis of absorbed organic residues from Middle Formative period feasting ceramics from the Olmec site of San Andrés in Tabasco, Mexico, demonstrates the use of traditional Mesoamerican special feasting foods and beverages as...
Political Complexity in Denmark during the Roman Iron Age: A Spatial Analysis of Settlement Patterns, Roman Imports, Grave Distribution, and Soil Types
Studying settlements can lead to an understanding of a community's political, economic, and ideological sectors. While, many settlement studies exclusively examine either environmental or cultural attributes, by utilizing both variables, ...
This thesis explores the ritualistic, artifact, demographic, health, and status differences exhibited in burials throughout Florida over a span of 8, 000 years. The study summarizes and examines many of the ritual and biological data...
Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park, located in Tallahassee, Florida, is home to one of the more beautiful ornamental gardens in the State of Florida. The gardens were designed and developed by Alfred B. Maclay between 1923 and 1944, and...
This dissertation examines the political economy of linguistic and social exchange among Yucatec Maya tourist workers in Coba, Quintana Roo, Mexico. I argue that local employees recreate the house (`otoch') in the market through spheres...
Archaeological material recovered from a trash pit feature located at the intersection of Artillery Lane and Aviles Street in St. Augustine is compared to other sites from the colonial city. Detailed analysis and interpretation of the...
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