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A Faunal Analysis Of Five Woodland Period Archaeological Sites In Southwestern Michigan, Terrance J. Martin

Masters Theses

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Bone Flutes And Whistles From Archaeological Sites In Eastern North America, Katherine Lee Hall Martin

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to systematically classify perforated bone tubes known as flutes or whistles which had been recovered from archaeological sites in eastern North America. A sample was established from specimens described in the literature and additional specimens examined by the author. Sizeable collections in the Rochester Museum and Science Center in Rochester, New York, and the Ohio State Museum in Columbus, Ohio, were measured and photographed by the author. Specimens were also viewed at the McClung Museum in Knoxville, Tennessee.

A descriptive typology was constructed and spatial-temporal and functional correlations were tested against it. Spatial-temporal factors …

Social Status, Stature, And Pathology At Chucalissa (40sy1), Shelby County, Tennessee, Ronald K. Robinson

Masters Theses

Ethnohistoric and archaeological models have been used in making inferences about social interaction and relationships in Mississippian societies. In spite of an increasing awareness of cultural and biological interrelationships in approaching prehistoric societies, there remains a general lack of skeletal studies which have contributed to or supported these inferences.

The purpose of this investigation was to test the hypothesis that socially regulated or defined differences between groups of individuals existed at Chucalissa (40SY1), incorporating both archaeological and skeletal data. The ethnohistoric model of the Natchez social system and Ford's (1974:406) generalization that Mississippian societies were highly stratified due to a …

A Zooarchaeological Analysis Of Vertebrate Remains From Chota-Tanasi, A Historic Cherokee Village In East Tennessee, Arthur E. Bogan

Masters Theses

This study involves the examination and analysis of a faunal sample from the historic Overhill Cherokee village of Chota-Tanasi (4MR2-40MR62), Monroe County, Tennessee. A total of 33,385 pieces of bone was examined in an effort to determine which animals were utilized by the Cherokee and the probably importance of each species in the Cherokee diet. Analyses of this material showed that deer, bear, and turkey were the most important animals contributing to the meat diet. Ethnographic and historic sources suggest that the introduction of trade guns may have led to increased exploitation of the bear. Available data indicate that bison …

Contributions To Tualatin Ethnography: Subsistence And Ethnobiology, Henry B. Zenk

Dissertations and Theses

There is a considerable amount of unpublished source material on Kalapuyan ethnography. This consists primarily of manuscript field notes from three linguistically trained scholars: Albert S. Gatschet, who collected Kalapuyan linguistic and ethnographic data during a visit to Grand Ronde Reservation in 1877, Leo J. Frachtenberg, who worked with a number of Kalapuyan informants from 1913 to 1915, and Melville Jacobs, who worked with the last surviving speakers of Kalapuyan languages during a number of sessions between 1928 and 1936. Data from these three authorities, plus other available data, reveal many details about aboriginal Kalapuyan life ("aboriginal" here referring to …

The Morphology Of The Axillary Border Of The Scapula With Special Reference To The Neandertal Problem, Carol B. Dittner

Masters Theses

Controversy concerning Neandertal man’s place in anatomically modern man’s ancestry continues today, 120 years after the discovery of the first Neandertal at Dusseldorf. The major emphasis of this controversy concerns the cranium. In the postcranial material, however, there are two areas which exhibit morphological differences from modern man, all other postcranial features being within the ranges of variation of modern man. These two different postcranial features are: the morphology of the superior pubic ramus of the innominate and the morphology of the axillary border of the scapula. This thesis is concerned with the latter feature.

While the axillary borders of …

Mary's River Kalapuyan: A Descriptive Phonology, Yvonne P. Hajda

Dissertations and Theses

The thesis is an attempt to apply procedures of descriptive linguistic analysis to a body of material phonetically transcribed by Leo J. Frachtenberg in the Mary's River dialect of the central Kalapuyan language. In 1913-14 Frachtenberg collected thirteen volumes of myth texts in Mary's River, twelve from William Hartless and one from Grace Wheeler; in addition, there were notes to the texts, three volumes of grammatical notes, and some ethnographic material. The phonetic transcription was carried out in the pre- phonemic tradition of recording everything the speaker said as accurately as possible. There was no attempt to elicit forms in …

Religion, Kinship, And Labor In Luapala: Prosperity And Economic Stagnation Of Lake And River Fishing Communities, Karla Olga Poewe

Anthropology ETDs

In this dissertation I trace the interrelation­ships among economic activities, kin ties, and religious activities of a people who have some limited access to modern technology and uneven potential for economic de­velopment. I therefore analyze the material, ideological, and institutional means which these people employ in order to raise their standard of living. While I take environmental factors into account, I describe Luapulan conditions primarily in terms of internal dynamics based on cumulative, reciprocal, or conflicting action between kin and religious groups, and between alternative (matrilineal versus Protestant) ideologies about the distribution of the products of labor.

I found that …

Ethological Anthropology: An Examination Of Biological And Experimental Influences On Some Behavioral Systems In Human And Non-Human Primates, Robert Jennings Miller

Masters Theses

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Patterns Of Local Leadership Among Lake Nasser Fishermen, Nirvana A Essawi Khadr

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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The Catholic Pentacostal Prayer Meeting: A Dramatistic Perspective On A Contemporary Religious Awakening And Ritual, Melissa Siebert

Master's Theses

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Kin Relations Of The Aged: Possible Impact On Social Service Planning, Maria Siemaszko

Master's Theses

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The Kasten Mound Group, Fred K. Stuebe

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Constantinois View Of The Algerian Society: A Study In Continuity And Change, Gamila Mahmud Abdel Wahab

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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