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Functional Analysis Of Weeden Island Pottery From Bayou St. John, Emily Talbert
Functional Analysis Of Weeden Island Pottery From Bayou St. John, Emily Talbert
Anthropology Undergraduate Senior Theses
Analyses of Weeden Island culture and Tate’s Hammock phase pottery are sparse throughout the literature and tend to adopt a culture historical approach. This study uses pottery sherds from the Bayou St. John assemblage to conduct a functional analysis in order to determine what food related activities took place at this site during the Tate’s Hammock phase and Weeden Island culture. By comparing vessel form with orifice diameter, temper material and size, and a subassemblage that was likely connected to mound activities, this study was able to determine multiple patterns. Cooking and storage vessels were the most common vessel forms …
Oldowan Stone Tools And Hominin Cognition, Brittney Highland
Oldowan Stone Tools And Hominin Cognition, Brittney Highland
Anthropology Undergraduate Senior Theses
The manufacturing of Oldowan stone tools marks a significant first step in human technological adaptation as part of the larger story of human evolution. Stone tools allow manipulation of the environment in a manner not capable by human ancestors’ “tooth and claw,” or biology, and just as importantly stone tool manufacture and use changes selective pressures related to cognition and learning. These cognitive/technological abilities drove the members of the genus Homo to become one of the most flexibly adaptive creatures on the planet. Examination of the evolution of human cognition and pedagogy allows for a more complete understanding of the …
From Sacred To Profane: European Materials Integration Into Mississippian Cosmology, Campbell Walker
From Sacred To Profane: European Materials Integration Into Mississippian Cosmology, Campbell Walker
Anthropology Undergraduate Senior Theses
Interpreting the significance of materials used by southeastern Native Americans to express their cosmological beliefs reveals certain trends that reflect changes in culture over time. We recognize that, for many hundreds of years within the Mississippian period, artifacts fashioned from specific materials reflected the relationship between these materials and their place in native cosmology. In the post-Mississippian period, nontraditional materials became available that were used to fashion these same traditional artifact forms. I present research on how Native Americans integrated these new materials into their cosmology by drawing analogies and distinctions between uses of traditional and nontraditional materials in relation …
Comparison Of Two Nineteenth-Century Native American Cultures Through The Analysis Of Pottery, Aislinn Clements
Comparison Of Two Nineteenth-Century Native American Cultures Through The Analysis Of Pottery, Aislinn Clements
Anthropology Undergraduate Senior Theses
Fort Mims and Holy Ground are two contemporary nineteenth-century sites occupied by Native Americans on opposite sides of the Creek Indian War. Pottery assemblages from each site were gathered and compared to determine similarity. It was found that both sites continued to use traditional Native American pottery, but in different quantities. Fort Mims used less decorated, more utilitarian vessels, whereas Holy Ground continued to use more complicated vessels. The main difference in the two sites came from the amount of European-style pottery: Fort Mims had more than twice the amount of European than Native American pottery, but Holy Ground had …
Seeing Is Evolving: Biocultural Evolution Of Refractive Error And Stone Tool Industries, Erin Mcquillan-Hicks
Seeing Is Evolving: Biocultural Evolution Of Refractive Error And Stone Tool Industries, Erin Mcquillan-Hicks
Anthropology Undergraduate Senior Theses
While previous studies have examined different aspects of hominin Biocultural evolution and stone tools, this project will consider the role which vision might have had in tool production. Paralleling Key and Lycett's line of argument, we believe that vision would have played just as integral a role in producing an ideal cutting tool as precision gripping. If a certain type of vision was "adaptive" to stone tool synthesis, then this would explain its frequency in modern human populations. Consequently, this study will attempt to answer why there is such a significant number of individuals possessing seemingly maladaptive visual errors in …
An Evaluation Of Native American Treatment In Alabama History Textbooks, Chelsey Wilson
An Evaluation Of Native American Treatment In Alabama History Textbooks, Chelsey Wilson
Anthropology Undergraduate Senior Theses
This study is an evaluation of a sample of Alabama history textbooks published throughout the past sixty years. Its purpose is to identify the manner in which Native Americans are portrayed and to expose biases using methods influenced by the work published by previous textbook evaluators. A sample of fourth and ninth grade textbooks beginning in the 1950s was selected for this project. The textbooks were selected based on their availability (most of them were found in the University of South Alabama library) and year published. The final sample represents a variety of authors and publishers.
Large Mammal Subsistence At Archaeological Site 1ba21, Lindsay Lagrange
Large Mammal Subsistence At Archaeological Site 1ba21, Lindsay Lagrange
Anthropology Undergraduate Senior Theses
For thousands of years American Indians lived and survived in the southeastern part of North America. They used traditional hunting technologies to capture and kill many different species of animals which furnished protein in their diet and raw material for manufacture of clothing and tools. These animals include hundreds of different species of fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians and mammals. While these diets were varied depending on geographic location and social affiliation, archaeologists have found patterns in the diets of the Southeastern Indians. They have found and continue to find that many American Indians in the Southeast were eating copious amounts …
Analysis Of The Fly Creek Kiln Site (1ba226) Ceramic Assemblage, Miranda Cleveland
Analysis Of The Fly Creek Kiln Site (1ba226) Ceramic Assemblage, Miranda Cleveland
Anthropology Undergraduate Senior Theses
This thesis is an investigation of the ceramic assemblage recovered from the Fly Creek Kiln site (1BA226) in Fairhope, Alabama. This large assemblage was recovered from limited excavations in a waster pile and provides insight into the range of vessel forms manufactured at the site, as well as the technological process of salt-glaze ceramic manufacture in the nineteenth century along the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay. In order to place the site in context, the history of designs and firing methods used by nineteenth-century potters in the southeastern United States are reviewed. The Fly Creek Kiln site is compared with …
French Colonial Archaeology: Structure 31 At Old Mobile, Rani Dormaier
French Colonial Archaeology: Structure 31 At Old Mobile, Rani Dormaier
Anthropology Undergraduate Senior Theses
Old Mobile (1MB94), a French colonial site dating from 1702 to 1711, is located in southwest Alabama, on the west side of Mobile River, which is now known as Twenty-seven Mile Bluff. Archaeological investigation of Old Mobile have been undertaken for the past sixteen years and this work has included the excavation of a number of structures. The artifact assemblage recovered from Structure 31, located on the northeast edge of the site near the Mobile River, was analyzed in an attempt to establish its function in relation to the larger community of Old Mobile. Detailed analysis of each artifact class …
Beads, Bifaces, And Blade Cores From The Middle Archaic, Alison Hadley
Beads, Bifaces, And Blade Cores From The Middle Archaic, Alison Hadley
Anthropology Undergraduate Senior Theses
The John Forrest Site is located in Claiborne County, Mississippi, just east of the Mississippi River. The site is situated on a large, flat ridge above James Creek. Today, the John Forrest Site appears to be nothing more than a large field, with woods bordering its extreme edges and slopes. However, years of surface collection by the landowner, John Forrest, has produced a large collection of artifacts. This surface assemblage contains a wide variety of stone tools and production debris, as well as some relatively rare types of stone artifacts. Blade cores, micro drills, and stone beads are absent at …