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In 2014 the Iñupiaq Native American tribe of Alaska published Never Alone, a video game that adapts a traditional folktale into a cooperative puzzle platformer. The game is an assertion of sovereignty for the Iñupiaq people in its role...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Excavations from 17th and 18th-Century Houses: A Study of Artifacts of Personal Adornment and Dress from Spanish Colonial Mission San Luis De Talimali and St. Augustine Households
An analysis of jewelry and other artifacts of personal adornment from the reconstructed house at the frontier mission San Luis (8LE4) in Tallahassee, FL and the Avero house (8SA7-5) in the capital of the La Florida colony, St. Augustine, ...
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 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 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 explores the life stories of four Chinese and Taiwanese immigrants in Tallahassee by collecting detailed narratives. There are three aspects that this thesis focused on: 1) motivations for emigration from their home countries...
This research project entailed an investigation of whether the degree of similarity between various Islamic and pre-Islamic Middle Eastern societies' overall patterns of drug plant prescription, as calculated using principles of...
This dissertation focuses on a few possible causes and consequences of the sexual division of foraging labor in the Hadza, hunter-gatherers of Tanzania. I present three separate studies; the investigation of foraging goals as reflected...
Although there is an extensive literature discussing the origins of the Japanese we still lack strong hypotheses or theories which are widely agreed upon. While many argue that most of cultural elements in ancient Japan were influenced...
Archaeological Examination of Electromagnetic Features: An Example from the French Dwelling Site: A Late Eighteenth Century Plantation Site in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi
In this study the combined data from a geophysical survey, surface collection, and subsurface testing of the French Dwelling Site (22AD557) was presented to describe the archaeologically tested structural features at the site. The site...
This thesis will discuss the increasing threat that climate change poses to archaeological sites through sea level rise and erosion. This will provide background on the effects climate change will have on site preservation and...
Research on medieval villages in Malta has yet to become a priority among archaeologist of the Maltese Islands. This is not surprising since Malta holds so many amazing Megalithic temples and many other famous Neolithic sites. So the...
This thesis investigates the educational function of Native American art shops in Flagstaff, Arizona. Research was conducted in six Native American art shops: Puchteca Indian Art, Winter Sun Trading Company, Painted Desert Trading...
Archaeologists have been interested in the foodways of prehistoric peoples for over half a century, leading to a plethora of analyses on diet and subsistence strategies. In the last 30 years, archaeologists have come to focus on the role...
Ceramic anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figurines occur abundantly throughout Mesoamerica during the Middle Formative period. At the site of San Andrés in Tabasco, Mexico, archaeological excavations have recovered such figurines. The...
In ancient Egypt a proclivity existed for constructing analogies between divinities or corporeal elements of divinities and earthly objects. This thesis examines the specific relationship between analogous god parts and boat parts in...
Elusive Forever?: Assessing the Value of Least-Cost Networks in Locating Eighteenth-Century Maroon Archaeological Sites in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
In the late-eighteenth century, during the Spanish control of colonial Louisiana, Maroon settlements surrounding New Orleans reached its pinnacle in terms of expanse, population, and permanence. According to historic governmental letters...
My research focuses on the Maya (Masewal) peasants of Cayo, Belize in the villages of Bullet Tree Falls and Santa Familia. The principle aim of this thesis is to examine the livelihood strategies of the farmers within a context of social...
Santa Rita B (SRB) is a settlement in the Mid-Chao Valley on the northern coast of Peru. Over ten years of excavations by El Proyecto Arqueológico Santa Rita B (Proyecto Arqueológico Santa Rita – PASAR), material culture has been found...
Sharks have provided nutrition, raw materials, and symbolism to people globally both near the coast and inland. Shark remains, primarily teeth and vertebral centra, are recovered from archaeological sites around the world and often...
The study of tribal societies has long been riddled with questions regarding the validity of categorization of levels complexity, and how societal organizational structures change from perceived autonomy to interdependency and...
An Examination of Soil Cores and Environmental Reconstruction of the Pumpkin Key Shell Bearing Site (8Cr25) in the Ten-Thousand Islands Region of Southwest Florida
The Ten Thousand Islands (TTI) region of Southwest Florida is marked by shell middens and shell mound sites. Prehistoric populations created these sites through intentionality, and/or refuse deposition. The creation of mounds and middens...
The Windover archaeological site (8BR246) is one of the few mass pre-historic burial sites in North America. The 168 skeletonized men, women, and children were interned in a peat bog accompanied by cultural materials such as bone and...
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 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 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...
This study situates African women's fertility at the crossroads of historical trends and current politico-economic realities of gender and migration from developing to developed nations since 1991. It examines fertility as a site of...
Musculoskeletal stress marker (MSM) analysis was carried out on selected individuals from the Windover burial site (8Br246) in an attempt to reconstruct activity patterns. A combination of 23 muscle and ligament insertion sites were...
Households provide a glimpse into the everyday life of a small group of individuals. When studied systematically we can learn how households fit into the social, economic, and political systems practiced by the larger community. I...
David S. Phelps, of Florida State University, excavated the Refuge Fire Tower Site between 1968 and 1970 during a regional study of prehistoric settlement patterning on Florida's northern Gulf Coast. A preliminary report of these...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This thesis explores the social significance of prestige artifacts from the site of San Andrés, which was part of the Barí riverine network that supported La Venta, a paramount Middle Formative Gulf Coast center located in present-day...
Site discovery is critical to submerged archaeology's contribution to theoretical reconstructions of past peoples. Remote sensing tools help locate human activity and targets, and scientists are continuously devising new methods. Remote...
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...
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...
The Northwest Coast of Florida is dotted by Woodland Period sites that speak to the richness and complexity of the populations in that region. Mound Field (8Wa8), located in Wakulla County, is a Woodland Period site whose faunal...
This study focuses on the majolica recovered from three Spanish Mission sites in Apalachee Province of La Florida (1633-1704). I focus on the rim and foot ring thickness to determine whether there are observable manufacturing trends in...
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...
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