Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Contextualizing High Fragmented Remains as Complex Mortuary Practices in the American Southwest (AD 700-1700), Julia Cristina Freiberger
Sourcing Clays and Styles: Interaction Networks at the Elk Ridge Site, Southwestern New Mexico, Danielle M. Romero
Cultural Crisis, Performance and Ritual: A Bioarchaoelogy of Violence in Early Precontact North Alabama (8,000-3,000 BP), Diana Sherman Simpson
Excavating the Archives: A Re-analysis of Artifacts Recovered from Catclaw Cave, Emily C. Swett
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Resilience on the Iron Road: A Collaborative Bioarchaeology of Overseas Chinese Laborer Exploitation and Exclusion (1850-1920), John Joseph Crandall
Negotiating a World in Upheaval: Resiliency of Indigenous Systems of Warfare among Yuman Groups, Joseph B. Curran
Maternal Health in the Context of Social, Political, and Economic Change Among Hadzabe Foragers of Tanzania, Kristen Herlosky
How Animals Affect Us: Examining the Relationship between Human-Animal Interactions and Human Well-Being, Elizabeth A. Johnson
Toolstone Use and Procurement Along Holocene Ivanpah Dry Lake, CA, Kara Jones
The Role of Style in Community Identity and Group Affiliation: An Archaeological Study of Virgin and Kayenta Branch Ceramics, Daniel Melvin Perez
Rock Or Relic? Lithic Technology and Social Life in the Mimbres Mogollon Region of Southwestern New Mexico, Jeffrey Dylan Clark Person
Gendered Bodies, Engendered Lives: Bioarchaeological Exploration of the Intersectionality of Gender, Health, and Trauma at Turkey Creek Pueblo, Arizona (AD 1225-1286), Claira Elizabeth Ralston
Experiences of Violence and Captivity: Labor Divisions at La Plata (AD 600-1250), Kathleen D. Stansbury
The Role of Small Puebloan Architectural Sites on the Southern Shivwits Plateau, William M. Willis
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Zooarchaeological Analysis of Subsistence Practices at the Lake Roberts Vista Site (LA71877) Gila National Forest, New Mexico, Laura A. Benedict
Hunter-Gatherers in Context: Hadzabe People and Early Nutrition Transition, Trevor Pollom
Locating a Marketplace at the Ancient Maya City of Lakamha’, Mexico Using the Configurational Approach, Jonathan Roldan
The Impact of Alzheimer Disease on Semantic Knowledge, Maileen G. Ulep
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Investigating Ancient Maya Late Postclassic Period Households and the Associated Function of the Buildings at Santa Rita Corozal, Belize, Melissa Badillo
Re-Analysing Astronomical Alignments of Potential E Group Structures to Demonstrate the Utility of Archeoastronomy Research About the Ancient Maya, Elizabeth Karen Shikrallah
The Barbaricum Trilogy: A Bioarchaeological Approach to Deciphering Sarmatians’ Saga on the Great Hungarian Plain, Cristina Tica
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
An Integrative Assessment of Post-Migratory Health and Violence at Point of Pines Pueblo (A.D. 1265-1450), Maryann Calleja
Zooarchaeology of Bone, Antler, and Ivory Technologies: A Case Study from the Central Anatolian Bronze and Iron Age Site Kaman Kalehӧyük, Sarah Raffae Macintosh
Love in South Korea: Transformations of Intimacy and Gender Relations in Korean Romantic Relationships, Alex Joseph Nelson
Excavating Gender: The Embodiment and (Re)presentation of Social Relations in Mierzanowice Communities of the Early Bronze Age, Mark Paul Toussaint
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Virtually Healthy: Using Virtual Ethnography to Survey Healthcare Seeking Practices of Transgender Individuals Online, Rogelio Arenas
Is Easier, Better? A Reevaluation of the Use of Non-Remodeled Bone as a Histological Predictor of Age-at-Death From the Femoral Midshaft Using GIS Software, Mariah Elaine Moe
The Bioarchaeology of Instability: Violence and Environmental Stress During the Late Fort Ancient (AD 1425 - 1635) Occupations of Hardin Village, Amber Elaine Osterholt
A Community of Care: Patterns of Pathology and Trauma with a Focus on the Bioarchaeology of Care at Carrier Mills, IL (10,000 – 1000 BP), Alecia Schrenk
Living on the Move: the Digital Nomad Mobile Phenomenon Identity and Practice, Virginia Rachele Smercina
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Investigating Land Use by the Inhabitants of Western Cyprus During the Early Neolithic, Katelyn Dibenedetto
Life in Roman Canterbury: A Bioarchaeological Investigation of Health Status in a Late Romano-British Cemetery (AD 300-400), Elizabeth Sara Duffy
Mate Preferences among Single Mothers, Carol Yvette Franco
Postpartum Maternal Mood among Hadza Foragers, Kristen Herlosky
Supranational Identity Politics: Sovereignism in the EU, Emilio Jacintho
Investigating the Role of Liminality in the Cultural Transition of the Late Eighth Millennium BC on Cyprus, Levi Keach
Working with Constraints: The Merit of Prudence, Matthew Martinez
Why Such Constriction of the Moral Sphere? The Importance of Social Coordination in Croatia’s Ethnic Conflict, Michael Arthur Moncrieff
Nutrition Transition of Hadza Foragers: Implications for Juvenile Behavior, Trevor Pollom
A Middle Pueblo II Production Zone for Shivwits Ware Ceramics: Implications for Understanding Settlement Patterns and Socio-Environmental Responses on the Shivwits Plateau, William Morrow Willis
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
The Bioarchaeology of Inequality during the Middle Bronze Age in Central Anatolia, Cheryl Anderson
Aging and Fermentation as Adaptive Food Management Strategies in the Arctic, Celeste Giordano
Acute Salivary Steroid Hormone Responses During Coalitional and Dyadic Competitions in Hong Kong Juvenile Children, Timothy McHale
Violence in the Canyons: The Human Cost of Raiding and Warfare in Northeastern Arizona (AD 300-~1300), Caryn Elizabeth Tegtmeyer
Setting the Childless Free: An Ethnographic Study of the Practice of the Childfree Identity, Shelly Volsche
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Commingled Tombs and ArcGIS: Analyzing the Mortuary Context and Taphonomy at Bronze Age Tell Abraq, Maryann Calleja
Food Processing and Cooking Technology of the Mimbres Mogollon (Early Pithouse Period through the Mimbres Classic A.D. 200-1130), Ashley Morgan Lauzon
The Proof Is in the Pots: Residue Analysis of Virgin Branch Puebloan Ceramics, Brenna Lynn Wilkerson
Effects of Human Maternal Placentophagy on Postpartum Maternal Affect, Health, and Recovery, Sharon Marie Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
The Influence of Iron on Arctic Thule Migration Patterns, Alina T. Aquino
The Bioarchaeology of Social Order: Cooperation and Conflict Among the Mimbres (AD 550-1300), Kathryn Mary Baustian
The Painted Motifs of Cypriot Ceramic Art: A Study of Iconography & Identity, Paige Bockman
Watercraft, People, and Animals: Setting the Stage for the Neolithic Colonization of the Mediterranean Islands of Cyprus and Crete, Katelyn Dibenedetto
Effects of Human Maternal Placentophagy on Maternal Postpartum Iron-Status, Laura Kathleen Gryder
Picrolite and the Cypriot Neolithic: An Experimental Study, Forrest Dayton Jarvi
Chipped Stone Analysis of the Yamashita Sites in Moapa Valley, Nevada: A Technological Organization Approach, Tatianna Menocal
Bodies in Motion: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Migration and Identity in Bronze Age Cyprus, Anna Jean Osterholtz
An Investigation Into Human to Dog Attachment Systems and Their Influence on the Degree of Aversion Used in Training, Shelly Volsche
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Ground Stone Technology and Household Activities at the Harris Site, Southwestern New Mexico, Lauren W. Falvey
Keeping in Touch: Exchange as an Adaptive Strategy in Southern Nevada, Timothy Joshua Ferguson
Spatial Analysis of Chipped Stone at the Cypro-PPNB Site of Krittou Marottou Ais Giorkis: A GIS-Assisted Study, Levi Lowell Keach
Corrugated Ware Function and Use as Identity Markers at the Harris Site, Danielle Romero
Analysis of Lithic Assemblages from Virgin Branch Puebloan Sites on the Shivwits Plateau, Thomas Carl Wambach
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The Impacts of Colonial and Environmental Processes on Ceramic Plainware at Salinas Province, New Mexico, Lindsey Elizabeth Daub
Examining Household Identity Through Lithic Technology at the Harris Site, Justin Albert Demaio
A Bird Cannot Fly With One Wing: A Study of Women's Responses to and Attitudes Toward Sexual Infidelity in Montego Bay, Jamaica, Dana Renae Foster
"What's in a name?": Heteroglossia and History in Native Alaskan Names, Shannon Hannahs
Chronologies of Pain and Power: Violence, Inequality, and Social Control Among Ancestral Pueblo Populations (AD 850-1300), Ryan Patrick Harrod
Beliefs in Action: Ideologies, Motivations, and Capital among English as a Second Language Learners, Damon Lasiter
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Prehistoric Foraging Strategies in the Piute Valley of Southern Nevada, Christopher Alan Brosman
Sociosexuality, mate preferences, and sex steroid hormone levels among breastfeeding women in Manila, Michelle Escasa
Blurring Boundaries: Mexican-American Border Patrol Agents Performing Border Guard Roles and Experiencing Emotional Labor, Aaron Hockman
Label Use and Mixed Race Asian Americans: Discourses, Performances, and Boundaries, Ellen Macdonald
Valley of Fire Petroglyphs: A New Perspective on an Old Idea, Eric John Pacl
Environmental Adaptations at Neolithic Ghwair I as seen from a Zooarchaeological Perspective, Doss F. Powell
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
An Evaluation of the performance characteristics of olivine temper in Pueblo II Virgin River Puebloan ceramics, Sharlyn Anderson
Fertility symbols in rock art: Cupuls and incised grooves in the Lower Pecos, Texas, Cara D. Connolly
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in urban India, Heidi A. Manlove
A landscape approach to Late Prehistoric settlement and subsistence patterns in the Mojave Sink, Tiffany Ann Thomas
Bioarchaeology of compassion: Exploring extreme cases of pathology in a Bronze Age skeletal population from Tell Abraq, U.A.E., Jamie D. Vilos
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Composite of complexity: Manifestations of whiteness and class among Las Vegas Italian Americans, Danielle Nicole Axt
Health status of infants and children from the Bronze Age tomb at Tell Abraq, United Arab Emirates, Kathryn Mary Baustian
The Effects of cellular theta breathing meditation on cell mediated immune response: A controlled, randomized investigation of altered consciousness and health, Marjorie D. Hardgrave
Use of an animal model to explore prenatal predictors of insulin and glucose metabolism in Southwestern Alaskan Yupiit, Julie Jo Kachinski
Bordered identities: Class, ethnicity, and transnational social networks, Rayette Ellen Martin
Trade and exchange in the Neolithic Near East: Implications of obsidian remains from Ais Yiorkis, Cyprus, Megan M. Melson
Is there evidence for the observation and use of astronomy at the Harris Site in the Mimbres Valley?, Denise Ruzicka
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Zoroastrians on the Internet, a quiet social movement: Ethnography of a virtual community, Helen Gerth
When did the ancestors of Polynesia begin to migrate to Polynesia? The mtDNA evidence, David Lesniewski
Analysis of flaked stone lithics from Virgin Anasazi sites near Mt. Trumbull, Arizona Strip, Cheryl Marie Martin
Arid climate decomposition and decay: A taphonomic study using swine, James William Munkres
Self-actualization in the lives of medieval female mystics: An ethnohistorical approach, Cherel Jane Ellsworth Olive
New Yarmouth, Eastern Neck, Maryland: Resistance to town building from the Colonial Period to the present, Brynn Torelli
Puebloan plain-weave pointed/rounded-toe sandals, David Toy Yoder