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Intercultural Influences In Early Peruvian Ceramic Design And Decoration, Clinton Pace
Intercultural Influences In Early Peruvian Ceramic Design And Decoration, Clinton Pace
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
About eleven thousand years ago the earliest known human inhabitants of the Central Andean area began a lifestyle which developed into some of the richest cultures of the ancient American civilizations. The people living in this thirteen-hundred-mile arid mountain zone, which is now the nation of Peru, produced some of the most outstanding examples of ceramics in the world before the birth of Christ.
The purpose of this study was to examine representative examples from various early Peruvian cultures in an attempt to identify their characteristics and to determine the extent to which the pottery forms of certain early cultures …
Logging In The Upper Cumberland River Valley: A Folk Industry, Steven Schulman
Logging In The Upper Cumberland River Valley: A Folk Industry, Steven Schulman
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The purpose of this study is to examine the logging industry found along, the upper Cumberland River from the 1870s to the 1930s. Because the industry was very much a part of the economic lifeblood of the people of the region, the study will focus upon the loggers and raftsmen who worked with the timber. Any attempt to describe the lumber business alone would be futile due to the nature of the industry. It is impossible to separate the logging industry of the Cumberland from the general folk life of the area, because of the involvement of the people in …
The Little People Of Pea Ridge, David Sutherland
The Little People Of Pea Ridge, David Sutherland
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Cumberland County, Kentucky, is situated on the Tennessee line just at the western edge of the Appalachian Mountains. The county's terrain is typical of land in the foothills of a mountain range and varies from flat farmland and good bottomland along the Cumberland River to steep, wooded hillsides and rough, rocky ridge tops. Areas often take part of their names from outstanding topographic features of the land. Community names such as White's Bottom, Howard's Bottom, Cherry Tree Ridge and Bow Schoolhouse Ridge are common in Cumberland County. On Pea Ridge, which runs along the north shore of Dale Hollow Lake, …
Ua35/11 Student Honors Bulletin, Vol. I, No. 1, Wku Honors Program
Ua35/11 Student Honors Bulletin, Vol. I, No. 1, Wku Honors Program
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Articles written by honors program students. They were originally research projects, class papers or essays written for academic credit, but in each case the student has done further work editing and improving his or her manuscript for this publication. The articles represent a broad range of interests and disciplines, and they indicate a healthy attempt on the part of at least some students to dig for deeper knowledge and understanding than is usually associated with undergraduate study.
- Harris, James. The Trent Affair; Restraint vs. Irresponsibility
- Massey, Scott. Foolishness
- Oskins, Doug. Reuse of Sewage as a Potable Water Supply
- Alvey, Richard. …