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Studies of Mycenaean architecture describe materials, construction techniques and floor plans with less attention to the human actors occupying it. Spatial analysis offers a way to study those actors by investigating the behavior and...
In 2005, Polish-born artist Krzysztof Wodiczko, known for using video projections to animate existing public monuments and architecture in more than a dozen countries, exhibited his first large-scale indoor video projection titled "If...
The medieval Roman icon, known as the Madonna della Clemenza (Santa Maria in Trastevere), is unusual for both its large size and its inclusion of a papal portrait. Debate over the age and patron of the icon has centered on the...
In this thesis I explore the concept of materiality in Gustave Moreau's oeuvre. For Moreau, this was an important concept, which influenced his art in a variety of different ways. Looking at three interpretations of the concept, I show...
"The Politics of Devotion: Patronage and the Sumptuous Arts at the French Court (1374-1472)" argues for the significance of devotional art in the construction of legitimate political identity in late-fourteenth and fifteenth century...
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, ...
Leonardo da Vinci's decoration of the Sala delle Asse in the Castello Sforzseca in Milan is a fresco decoration commissioned by Ludovico Il Moro, the Duke of Milan in 1498. The work is best described as an emblem of ducal power. In this...
This study examines the connection between architecture and economy in Mycenaean Greece; it is a deep investigation of economic theory and models of the Mycenaean economy, existing methods for the study of prehistoric architecture, and...
The Neolithic was a critical period in human history, when the establishment of agriculture, sedentary society, and craft specialization all took place. Despite an abundance of material from sites throughout Southeastern Europe during...
Building Mycenaean Identity: A Systematic Analysis of Early Helladic III to Protogeometric Domestic Architecture in Mainland Greece for Evidence of Social Groups
In this study, I reconsider the term, Mycenaean, and its social significance. As a starting point, I utilize the essential qualities of the term's definition: a group of individuals living in mainland Greece during the Late Helladic...
In this thesis, I consider how Odilon Redon symbolized the theme of evil in many of his black and white prints. I examine Redon's compilation of these prints into portfolios in dialogue with literary interpretations of evil in Charles...
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...
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...
The Eto Perro Dugout Canoe project is an experimental archaeology project conducted by Florida State University students Haley Messer and Krissy Hogeweg. The canoe was constructed using three manufacture methods: historic style tools...
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...
The term apotropaia is conventionally understood to refer to a specific type of protective magic in which an object possesses a supernatural ability to avert evil from its human users, the practice of which is generally assumed to be a...
An introductory technical manual to faux finishing with an oil medium, Proceed Low-Viscosity Glazing Medium, Adicolor Wetedge Medium, and Nova Color Gloss Medium. It compares the the oil medium to the three water-based mediums in four...
The mandible can provide valuable information on both the life history and genetic makeup of Archaic human populations. If two genetically separated Homo sapiens populations practice differing dietary behaviors, one may expect to see...
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...
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...
In May of 1928, the Premier salon indépendant de la photographie opened to the public. This exhibition, better known as the Salon de l'Escalier, was the first occasion at which modern photography was critically recognized in France....
In this paper, I suggest that the Byzantine Patriarch Photios (r. 858-867, 877-886) used the composition of the apse mosaic of the Theotokos and Christ-Child and its relationship to the light within Hagia Sophia to his political...
The Gaze of the Beholder: How National Identity in Nineteenth Century England Was Reinforced by the Collection and Display of Ancient Egyptian Material Culture
This thesis explores how the British Museum, David Roberts and Francis Frith asserted English identity throughout first part of the nineteenth-century. I argue that they did this through the collection and display of ancient Egyptian...
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 Photographic Essay as Index of African-American Identity in the Interwar Years: "Black Saturday," Roll, Jordan, Roll, You Have Seen Their Faces, and 12 Million Black Voices
This dissertation examines the intersecting space between word and image that characterizes the photographic essay as a distinct medium. To illustrate the power negotiations that occur in the interstices of word and image, this...
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...
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...
The chief objective of this study is to examine the post-1948 life of forty-six paintings, originally a part of the United States Department of State's Advancing American Art collection. When given a second life after the collection's...
During the reign of Benito Mussolini (1925–1943), Italian architects reevaluated the purpose and direction that modernism had taken in Italy, reorienting its previous focus on progressive, functional architecture for the masses to...
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...
My aim in this paper is to investigate this history of Jamaican through the lens of twentieth-century Jamaican art from the theoretical perspectives of cultural landscape and identity studies, specifically by focusing on the work of...
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...
Ancient Roman bath complexes, both public and private, have been the source of curiosity for centuries. Scholars have studied the architectural forms of baths around the Mediterranean, although focus in Italy has been primarily reserved...
This thesis documents a 20th century African American cemetery located in Tallahassee Florida. Hickory Hill Cemetery which was utilized by sharecroppers living and working on the Welaunee Plantation has not been properly surveyed since...
Located in what is now Tallahassee, Florida is the former site of a Spanish mission named San Luis de Talimali (8LE4). This area was colonized by the Spanish in the heart of Apalachee territory and became an important component of...
Shifting Health Status in Individuals from Fulton and St. Clair Counties, Illinois during the Transition between the Woodland and Mississippian Periods
The focus of this thesis is to examine skeletal health indicators of prehistoric Native Americans populations from the Central Illinois River Valley from the early Woodland period into the Mississippian period. The effects of specific...
Cloud Gate, a monumental, sculptural-structure by artist Anish Kapoor, provides the focal point of this paper. I demonstrate through an exposition of specific art critical, art historical, and phenomenological reasoning why Cloud Gate...
Narrative cycles of St. Stephen, proto-martyr, are common, frequently found on ecclesiastical monuments of thirteenth-century France. The cathedrals of Bourges, Chartres, and Paris, to name only a few, support visual imagery inspired by...
This study investigates the use of central place models in Mycenaean archaeology, particularly as applied to the notion of "second order centers." Traditional models are strongly hierarchical, and their evolutionary, taxonomic basis has...
In August 1912, American photographer Alfred Stieglitz published Gertrude Stein's word portraits of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse in a special issue of Camera Work. Most scholars agree that these word portraits inspired the invention...
Stone tools and mastodon bones occur in an undisturbed geological context at the Page-Ladson site, Florida. Seventy-one radiocarbon ages show that ~14, 550 calendar years ago (cal yr B.P.), people butchered or scavenged a mastodon next to...
The goal of this research is to investigate whether mound and shell midden archaeological sites in the Atchafalaya River Basin region have influenced the biodiversity and vegetative health of the surrounding environment. The general...
Can an object be defined as votive solely based upon the presence of an inscription? Does relying upon such a definition restrict a more multivalent analyses of objects thus identified as votive? In this thesis, I examine the most...
This thesis documents the results and interpretations of data collected in the systematic shovel test survey of the Mound Field site (8Wa8) in coastal northwest Florida. Mound Field is a Weeden Island period circular midden site with an...
The Aucilla River Basin consists of archaeological sites temporally ranging from Paleoindian to Mississippian periods. Along with the archaeological sites, quarry outcrops utilized for stone tool production by past populations are...
The reliquary chapel of Saint John the Baptist in Siena Cathedral, built between 1482 and 1504, provides valuable insight into an important cultural and historical moment in late fifteenth century Italy. This dissertation explicates the...
The Bryan Site (8LE6256) is believed to be the location of a 17th-century Spanish Mission site located in Leon County, Florida. The site was discovered by landowner Dana Bryan and archaeologists from the State of Florida and Florida...
In 1985 Florida State University was asked to investigate an inadvertent archaeological discovery on private property in Leon County, Florida. A two-week survey of the area led to the documentation of a Deptford period site, the Marchant...
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