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| Degree |
Field |
Author |
Chair |
Title |
Date |
Abstract |
| 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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| 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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The Continental gondola Philadelphia is the oldest intact warship currently on display in North America. With her recovery in 1935, Philadelphia testified to the heroic struggle between a tiny fleet of American warships and an overwhelmingly superior British fleet on the waters of Lake Champlain in October of 1776. Although the Americans were defeated and Philadelphia sank, the shipbuilding race and naval contest delayed the British invasion of the rebelling colonies for one year. This delay, according to most historians, gave the American forces much needed time to muster a defense that ultimately resulted in the British defeat at Saratoga in 1777.
Philadelphia's role in the naval engagement of 1776 has been the subject of several professional papers and the construction of her hull has been documented graphically. Nevertheless, in the 62 years since her recovery no comprehensive analysis of this vessel and, especially her associated artifacts has ever been produced. The primary focus of this dissertation is a study of the gunboat's history, construction, armaments, tools, utensils, personal items, and rigging elements. This will be accomplished by taking advantage of contemporary records, describing the previously undocumented collections of Philadelphia artifacts, and by analysis of recently-discovered photographs taken during the 1935 recovery of the vessel. As assessment will also be made of Philadelphia II built at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum during 1989-1991. The replica has provided a firsthand opportunity to evaluate how a vessel of this type was built, manned, sailed, and propelled by sweeps. |
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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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