Browsing by Subject "Archaeology"
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Archaeology and the community : constructing bridges for the knowledge of the past in Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala City
(2014-05)Based on archaeological excavations at Kaminaljuyu mound E-III-5 and educational workshops at the public school “Delia Luz Gutierrez de Castellanos”, this paper explores how children position themselves in relation to their ... -
The archaeology of San Antonio's main plaza, investigations at 41BX1753
(2010-12)This thesis documents the fieldwork component of the archaeological survey, testing, and data recovery efforts associated with 41BX1753, a historic-age site located in downtown San Antonio, Texas. This paper details the ... -
Architectural variability in the Caddo area of eastern Texas
(2010-05)This dissertation focuses on the nature of architectural space in the Caddo area of eastern Texas, in the southwestern portion of the Caddo archaeological area. The early European accounts and the archaeological record ... -
The beads of Bosutswe, Botswana
(2010-05)The hilltop archaeological site, Bosutswe in Botswana had a nearly a thousand years of continuous occupation. Nearly every single strata in both precincts produced shell beads of various materials and origin. By using ... -
Coffin hardware analysis and chronology of the Head Cemetery, Robertson County, Texas
(2013-05)Atkins performed an archaeological relocation of a nineteenth century cemetery on behalf of Luminant Mining Company, within the Kosse Mine in Robertson County, Texas between the years of 2011 and 2012. The Head Cemetery ... -
Digging through time: psychogeographies of occupation
(2015-12)This dissertation is about the relationship between contemporary art and politics in the case of Israel-Palestine and Lebanon. Specifically, I look at the ways that artists have dealt with the history of this region and ... -
Eating inequality : food, animals and people at Bosutswe
(2014-05)This study addresses the use of wild and domestic animals at the Iron Age site of Bosutswe, Botswana. I argue that that the Western (commoner) inhabitants consumed more wild game than Central (elite) inhabitants. The overall ... -
Excavation and preliminary analysis of a Maya Burial at the Medicinal Trail archaeological site, Belize, Central America
(2011-05)The following report describes the excavation and preliminary analysis of Burial 5 at Group A of the Medicinal Trail archaeological site in northwest Belize. The excavation of Burial 5 occurred over the duration of the ... -
Family matters in Roman Asia Minor : elite identity, community dynamics and competition in the honorific inscriptions of imperial Aphrodisias
(2014-05)In the city centers of Roman Asia Minor, honorific monuments, which consisted of a portrait sculpture and biographical inscription, filled the agoras, aedicular facades, and colonnaded avenues. While some monuments were ... -
Freedom's paradox : negotiating race and class in Jim Crow Texas
(2014-08)This dissertation focuses on black Texans and the entanglement of race and class during the Reconstruction and Jim Crow periods. I explore the role that landownership played in freedmen’s aspirations for citizenship and ... -
From templa to tecta : illusionistic coffered ceilings and the construction of Roman domestic space
(2015-05)Embellishing one's house was an important part of Roman life for the majority of individuals. The evidence from Pompeii reveals that almost all buildings had some sort of painted surface, often of very high quality. Many ... -
Geoarchaeological and archaeobotanical approaches to human-environmental interactions during the Archaic to Preclassic Periods in Northwestern Belize
(2015-05)This report reviews human-environmental interactions in Northwestern Belize during the transition from Archaic (8000 to 4000 B.P.) to Preclassic periods (4000 B.P. to 2000 B.P.). Specifically, the transition of subsistence ... -
Handbook of Texas Archaeology: Type Descriptions
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The Hellenistic pottery from the Panayia Field, Corinth : studies in chronology and context
(2010-12)The new chronology of Corinthian fine ware presented in this dissertation is based on pottery from the recently discovered Hellenistic deposits (dated from the 3rd to 1st c. B.C.) in the Panayia Field. This new Panayia ... -
Human-environment interactions on the desert South Coast, Peru : a review of paleoclimate proxies and archaeological evidence
(2017-05-05)The dynamic environment of the Peruvian Andes has always been conceptualized as central to human lifeways. A growing body of paleoclimate research provides new evidence to improve our understanding of the environmental ... -
Hun Tun hinterland complexity : investigations of a commoner settlement in northwestern Belize
(2016-05)This dissertation focuses on hinterland social complexity in northwestern Belize. The archaeological site of Hun Tun was investigated to understand ancient Maya life ways in a household context. The site itself contributes ... -
Hunters, soldiers, and holy men : an archaeological study of masculinities and male household space at Mission San Antonio de Padua, Monterey County, California
In this dissertation, I examine masculinity and domestic spaces inhabited by men at San Antonio de Padua, an 18th and 19th century Spanish mission site in central California. My research includes two all-male residences: ... -
The Jumano in the first century of colonial contact : ethnohistoric and archaeological perspectives
(2013-05)The Jumano Indians of Texas have long been an enigma in Texas history and archeology. Many researchers from both disciplines have sought to connect the historic accounts with those of archeological assemblages, but have ... -
Landscape archaeogeophysics : a study of magnetometer surveys from Etowah (9BW1), the George C. Davis site (41CE19), and the Hill Farm site (41BW169)
(2009-12)Archaeogeophysics, the use of eophysical mapping techniques to recover archaeological information, is being used with increasing success in North America. Archaeologists can often use geophysics as a tool for collecting ... -
Methods and simulations of muon tomography and reconstruction
(2016-05)This dissertation investigates imaging with cosmic ray muons using scintillator-based portable particle detectors, and covers a variety of the elements required for the detectors to operate and take data, from the detector ...