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New Perspectives On The Seventeenth-Century Protohistoric Period In East Tennessee: Redefining The Period Through Glass Trade Bead And Ceramic Analyses, Jessica Nicole Dalton-Carriger Aug 2016

New Perspectives On The Seventeenth-Century Protohistoric Period In East Tennessee: Redefining The Period Through Glass Trade Bead And Ceramic Analyses, Jessica Nicole Dalton-Carriger

Doctoral Dissertations

The Protohistoric period in East Tennessee is poorly understood in the archaeological record and is defined as the intermediate period between the Late Mississippian and Historic periods in the seventeenth century. Earlier research focused on depopulation, population replacement, and the rise of Overhill Cherokee settlements in the eighteenth century, with little attention to the transitional Protohistoric period. The goal of this dissertation is to examine new fields of evidence and employ new dating methods in order to fully understand the Protohistoric period in East Tennessee

This dissertation does this in three ways. It explores three hypotheses concerning the habitation of …


Devitrification Rates Of Fused Silica In The Presence Of Trace Impurities, Nicholas Kivi, Adrian Moore, Kayla Dyar, Samuel Haaf May 2016

Devitrification Rates Of Fused Silica In The Presence Of Trace Impurities, Nicholas Kivi, Adrian Moore, Kayla Dyar, Samuel Haaf

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

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