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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...
A Historical and Archaeological Investigation of the Nineteenth Century Occupations at the San Luis De Talimali Mission Site (8LE4), Leon County, Florida
The goal for this thesis is to present a historical, and archaeological assessment of the nineteenth century occupations at the Mission San Luis de Talimali (8Le04) site. San Luis is a multicomponent site that has seen Native American, ...
Half Mile Rise Sink (8TA98) is a submerged prehistoric site located approximately one hundred meters downriver from the Page-Ladson site in the Aucilla River of Northwest Florida. Here, all known Floridian Paleoindian projectile point...
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)...
The end of the Pleistocene and subsequent transition into the early Holocene marked a time of great environmental, climatic, and geological flux in Florida. Furthermore, these changes influenced a shift in the technologies of people...
Over the last two decades, the archaeological investigation of African American cemeteries has become a contentious issue. Oftentimes, the archaeologists are at odds with the African American community over how these types of excavations...
This thesis offers the first comprehensive exploration of the Rotherwood site (40SL61) in Upper East Tennessee, focusing on faunal remains to understand the subsistence practices of its original occupants. Located along the South Fork...
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...
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 examines prehistoric watercraft documented in the region now inhabited by the Wabanaki, an indigenous maritime society living in New England and the Canadian Maritimes, from archaeological and oral traditions perspectives....
The purpose of this research project is to provide insight into 3D GM methods in regard to lithic artifact research and provide data that allows a better understanding of the variables that affect a 3D GM study and the importance of the...
This thesis presents a detailed analysis of a St. Johns II (A.D. 900-1250) ceramic assemblage recovered from the Shields site in extreme northeastern Florida. The ceramic assemblage was recovered from activity areas immediately north and...
Landscape influences various areas of the Oceti Sakowin such as their history, community, spiritual belief, sovereignty and natural resources. However, their land, the center of who they are, continues to be affected by capitalistic...
This study will examine St. John's II period subsistence practices along the St. John's River through faunal analysis of archaeological material from the Shields Mound site (8DU12). Shields Mound, and the nearby Grant Mound, were...
This research reconstructs Paleoindian social organization using models that describe the manner in which people create and maintain variability and consistency in material culture and predicts the spatial and chronological patterning...
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...
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...
Hurricanes and other major storm events are a challenge for any coastal community, both modern and past. During the past half-century hurricanes caused nearly half a trillion dollars in property damage throughout the Southeastern United...
The eastern wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris) was an important resource for Mississippian period (ca. A.D. 1000-1450) peoples in Middle Tennessee. Turkeys were an integral part of Native American life and their use for food...
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...
This thesis examines the faunal remains from Site 40DV7, a shell-bearing Archaic through Mississippian period site in Middle Tennessee. The goal of the investigation is to answer three research questions about human behaviors during the...
This thesis examines ideas of authentic folk music in America and the role it plays in the Tallahassee folk music community. In looking at how the identification of folk music has changed throughout the history of its research and...
Study of the eighteenth-century Sadana Island ship and the cargo it was transporting is an opportunity to add to our understanding of Ottoman-era Muslim seafaring. The Sadana Island shipwreck was explored by Cheryl Ward during excavation...
Archaeological excavations in Florida have recovered numerous specimens of megafauna over the past decades. A sample of these specimens have been subject to carbon and oxygen stable isotope analysis to determine individual diet and water...
The geological and hydrological contexts of the Wakulla River Drainage Basin may present the conditions needed to host potentially significant archaeological deposits associated with intact stratigraphy. To date, there is no in-depth...
The primary goals of this study were to present a complete analysis of the faunal material recovered from an unusual deposit at Lagartero in Chiapas, Mexico, and to introduce an alternative approach to the interpretation of ambiguous...
During the last glacial episode (130, 000-11, 500 years ago), nearly 5% of the Earth’s water was locked within ice sheets. This caused the lowering of global sea-levels to approximately 134 meters below modern levels. The reintroduction of...
This thesis presents a historiography of classifying schemes of Native American language groups, compares several of the most prominent models, and examines these models with current cultural data. This research doesn't attempt to...
Anterior dental crowding is a condition that is more prevalent in agricultural populations than foraging societies. Though the origin of dental crowding has been debated for years, earlier studies have tied the development of this...
Lithic debitage was recovered from archaeological salvage excavations from an intact organic anaerobic deposit that was uncovered during the replacement of a retaining wall along the northeastern shore of Salt Springs in the Ocala...
Bourbon has been distilled in Kentucky throughout the history of the Commonwealth and has influenced how cities in Kentucky have grown, both physically and economically, over time. Throughout the 1870s until Prohibition, a large boom in...
Ripley P. Bullen's "A Guide to the Identification of Florida Projectile Points, remains the most important reference on Florida projectile points. The Guide" was published in 1969 and revised in 1975. Since 1975 several works of...
This study shows how Native American groups in Florida used dogs between the Early Archaic and First Spanish periods. The study relies on data from 89 archaeological sites which contained representations of dogs and dog bones. A...
Numerous pre-Contact fishhooks have been recovered from the Aucilla River in northwest Florida. These specimens have provided evidence of small capture fishing methods such as hook and line fishing, primarily in the form of bone hooks....
Forensic anthropology has traditionally been concerned with the identification of an individual recovered from a clandestine grave and analysis of their skeletal material. The data gathered from these burials are often treated as...
The selection of the sickle cell trait occurred prior to the origin of agriculture, and possibly prior to the origin of Homo sapiens. This is shown by examining the evolutionary history of Plasmodium, the genetics of abnormal hemoglobin, ...
The study of settlement geography, demography and social behavior in the prehistoric Carib and TaÃno societies of the Caribbean has recently become a prominent domain of interest to archaeologists working in these islands....
The life story of Farouk Lavell Kamma offers a glimpse into the changing cultural attitudes about popular music, race relations, and black national consciousness in 1950s and 1960s America. His reflectively reconstructed musical life...
Since the passing of NAGPRA legislation in 1990, the academic community has published extensively on the process of repatriation and its impacts on the field of anthropology and stakeholder communities. While systemic critiques of the...
This research delves into the complex history of Chitimacha-speaking communities to form a speculated migrations route during the French Colonial era. The arrival of the French marked a pivotal moment, introducing diseases, displacement, ...
Since the passing of NAGPRA legislation in 1990, the academic community has published extensively on the process of repatriation and its impacts on the field of anthropology and stakeholder communities. While systemic critiques of the...
Long in the Tooth Paleoclimate Reconstruction Using Legacy Faunal Collections and Stable Isotopes at the Page-Ladson Site (8JE591), Jefferson County, Florida
In the past half century, the remains of terrestrial megafaunal species have been recovered from archaeological sites across the Florida peninsula. Many of these remains have been the subject of archaeological investigations – both...
The Heber Springs site (3CE68) is a Woodland period (700BC-AD 1000) site located in Cleburne County, Arkansas. In 1979, the Arkansas Archaeological Survey excavated four units into the mound at the Heber Springs site and recovered...
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