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Field |
Author |
Chair |
Title |
Date |
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| Dissertation |
Archaeology |
Barrett |
Shafer |
Constructive hierarchy through entitlement: inequality in lithic resource access among the ancient Maya of Blue Creek, Belize |
Dec/2004 |
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| Dissertation |
Archaeology |
Boyd |
Shafer |
The Work of Art: Rock Art and Adaptation in the Lower Pecos, Texas Archaic |
Dec/1998 |
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| Dissertation |
Archaeology |
Bruchez |
Carlson, David |
Archaeological Investigations, Department of Sololá, Southern Maya Highlands: PreMaya to Postclassic Settlement, Northern Terrestrial Rim and Subsurface Shore Lake Atitlán, Guatemala |
May/1997 |
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| Dissertation |
Archaeology |
Carlson |
Shafer |
Texas Beyond the Periphery: An Archaeological Study of the Spanish Missions During the 18th Century. |
Dec/1994 |
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| Dissertation |
Archaeology |
Dering |
Bryant |
Dynamic Variation in Agricultural Practices During the Classic Period in the Tonto Basin, Arizona. |
May/1996 |
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| Dissertation |
Archaeology |
Dockall |
Shafer & Solecki |
Technological and Functional Variability of Convergent tools from Nahr Ibrahim, Lebanon: Behavioral Implications for Levantine Mousterian Technological Organization |
May/1997 |
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| Dissertation |
Archaeology |
Gang |
Dickson |
Comparative Analysis of Lithic Materials Recovered from Shurmai (GnJm 1) and Kakwa Lelash (GnJm 2) Rockshelters, Kenya |
Dec/1997 |
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| Dissertation |
Archaeology |
Hampton |
Bryant & Shafer |
Rock Quarries and the Manufacture, Trade, and Uses of Stone Tools and Symbolic Stones in the Central Highlands of Irian Jaya, Indonesia: Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives |
May/1997 |
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| Dissertation |
Archaeology |
Jones |
Bryant |
Pollen Evidence of Prehistoric Forest Modification and Maya Cultivation in Belize. |
Dec/1991 |
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| Dissertation |
Archaeology |
Kuehn |
Waters |
The Geoarchaeology of the Little Missouri Badlands: The Late Quaternary Stratigraphic and Paleoenvironmental Context of the Archaeological Record |
May/1995 |
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| Dissertation |
Archaeology |
Meyers |
Carlson, David |
Community, Household, and Status at Hacienda Tabi, Yucatan, Mexico |
Dec/1998 |
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During the 16th century, English warships underwent design changes that were to have a major impact on the history of the world. Responding to pressures from the major European land powers, English monarchs were forced to realize that England's best defense, as an island nation, lay not in a large army but in a strong navy. With the reign of Henry VIII, English shipwrights began experimenting with various designs that would enable them to keep their country from being invaded. By the end of the reign of Elizabeth I, the English Navy was the most powerful afloat.
The nature of the evolution that transformed the bulky ships of the 15th century into the sleek men-of-war of the 17th can be traced by several means. First, it is necessary to understand all of the ships with which 16th-century English shipwrights were familiar. This gives us a technological "gene-pool" of characteristics from which the English had to draw. Second, we must study documentation and works of art from the period in question. Although the documentation is sparse, there is enough to show the different types of design that were being tried, and the kind of success that they enjoyed. Third, we must study the ships of England's enemies, particularly Spain, so that we can get an idea of the pressures that were put on English ships, and what strategies were employed to overcome them. Through this combination of research methods, it is possible to show that designs invented during the reign of Henry VII, with the aid of Italian shipwrights, eventually evolved into the famous 17th-century English ship of the line. |
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| Dissertation |
Archaeology |
Neyland |
Carlson, David |
A Study of the Cultural Adaptation in Pram-Class Boatbuilding in the Netherlands |
Aug/1994 |
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| Dissertation |
Archaeology |
Pearl |
Dickson |
Late-Pleistocene Archaeological and Geoarchaeological Investigations in the Mukogodo Hills and Ewaso Ng'iro Plains of Central Kenya |
May/2001 |
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| Dissertation |
Archaeology |
Pendleton |
Bryant |
Late Holocene Paleoenvironment and Human Ecology in Southwestern New Mexico |
May/1993 |
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| Dissertation |
Archaeology |
Raisor |
Dickson |
Determining the antiquity of dog origins: canine domestication as a model for the consilience between molecular genetics and archaeology |
Aug/2004 |
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| Dissertation |
Archaeology |
Reinhard |
Bryant |
Diet, Parasitism and Anemia in the Prehistoric Southwest |
Dec/1988 |
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| Dissertation |
Archaeology |
Schroeder |
Carlson, David |
Historical Archaeology in the Grand Prairie Division of Illinois: Environmental, Social, Demographic, and Technological Dimensions of Frontier Development |
May/1995 |
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| Dissertation |
Archaeology |
Sobolik |
Bryant |
Paleonutrition of the Lower Pecos Region of the Chihuahuan Desert |
May/1991 |
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| Dissertation |
Nautical |
Bratten |
Crisman |
The Continental Gondola Philadelphia |
May/1997 |
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| Dissertation |
Archaeology |
Zimmerman |
Bryant & Steele |
Dietary Reconstruction and Subsistence Strategies of Prehistoric Hunter Gatrs of the Texas Gulf Coast |
Dec/1997 |
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