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Physical Growth Of Preschool Children Participating In The Cherokee Wic Program, Patricia Anne Driscoll

Masters Theses

Physical growth data of 921 Cherokee Indian children who are or who were participants of the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) from 1976 to 1982 was collected. Information was obtained from 390 WIC women with children on the WIC program. Distance and velocity data for height and weight were documented for the WIC children from birth to five.

Mean heights for these children tended to be less than those of Native Americans living in Minnesota and less than or equal to those reported in the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) growth charts. Mean weights, …

A Synthesis Of The Late Woodland Mason Phase In The Normandy And Tims Ford Reservoirs In Middle Tennessee, Betty J. Duggan

Masters Theses

From ca. 600 A.D. to 1100 A.D. Late Woodland groups occupied the upper Duck and Elk River valleys in the Eastern Highland Rim Physiographic Section in Middle Tennessee. These Mason phase peoples lived primarily on the older alluvial terraces where they exploited a wide range of locally available resources from three types of habitation loci: base camps, seasonal encampments and task-specific stations. Artifactual and floral data suggest that these people were Woodland hunter-gatherers who were familiar with horticultural practices.

An Analysis Of The Aboriginal Ceramic Artifacts From Chota-Tanasee, An Eighteenth Century Overhill Cherokee Town, James Frederick Bates

Masters Theses

The Chota-Tanasee (40MR2-40MR62) ceramic analysis incorporates all aboriginal ceramics recovered during seven excavation seasons at the site. The total ceramic assemblage consists of 154,444 artifacts. Ceramics indicate that the site was utilized sporatically from the Early Woodland Period to proto-historic times. Throughout the eighteenth century the site was intensively occupied by the historic Overhill Cherokee.

A descriptive classification system is developed which is used to define 55 ceramic types and residual categories primarily on the basis of temper and surface treatment attributes. Discrete attributes are further utilized to describe vessel and rim sherd morphology.

The distribution of the various ceramic …

Insect Activity And Its Relationship To Decay Rates Of Human Cadavers In East Tennessee, William C. Rodriguez Iii

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to collect data on the specific insects which are found in association with decaying human cadavers. Four nude unembalmed human cadavers were each placed, at various times of the year, within a decay research facility located in an open wooded area. Data were collected daily throughout the entire decay cycle on the various insect populations which frequented each cadaver. Analysis of the data shows that there is a direct correlation between the rate of decay and the activity of carrion insect families found in association with a decaying cadaver. Application of this entomological and …

The Ledbetter Landing Site: A Study Of Late Archaic Mortuary Patterning, Katherine French Higgins

Masters Theses

The Ledbetter Landing site (9BN25) is placed in its environmental context and its archaeological background is discussed. The archaeological studies of the subsistence/settlement patterning for the Ledbetter Phase in the Western Valley physiographic province are also investigated, and some of the results of these studies are found to be suspect. The application of mortuary patterning analysis to determine the type of social organization at a site is discussed in general terms. It is hypothesized that the Ledbetter Landing site's Late Archaic, Stratum 2 burials should reflect an essentially egalitarian social organization. This is tested by examining the significant associations among …

Jean-Paul Sartre's Concepts Of Praxis And History In His Critique Of Dialectical Reason, Kyung Ock Chun

Masters Theses

The primary problem of this study is to clarify Sartre's concept of praxis as a projective action of human consciousness which creates history and makes it intelligible. I focus on Sartre's attempt to combine an existential humanism with a theory of history as a progressive movement generated by individual actors, their social groups, and their environmental surroundings. Sartre's Critique provides the philosophical basis for understanding social institutions and behavior, and describes human action as a complex totality comprising free subjectivity and its unavoidable environment.

This inquiry focuses on the existential root of Sartre's theory of history and the problematic nature …

A Biocultural Approach To The Skeletal Biology Of The Dallas People From Toqua, Kenneth R. Parham

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to present osteological information for the skeletal remains from Toqua, a Late Mississippian site representative of the Dallas Focus, and to assess these data from a biocultural perspective. Analytical considerations included aspects of paleodemography (examination of mortality by life table analysis), metrics and morphology (measurements and indices, stature, and cranial deformation), and paleopathology (porotic hyperostosis, periosteal reactions, and other pathological conditions that were simply described).

Analyses were conducted for the total skeletal series (N=439) in order to assess general conditions of mortality and morbidity for the population as a whole and along age and …

A Functional And Distributional Analysis Of Certain Notched, Grooved And Perforated Stone Artifacts From North America, Gary Ford Coleman

Masters Theses

The distribution and possible functions of notched, grooved and perforated stone artifacts commonly referred to in the archaeological literature are examined. These artifacts are primarily found on sites located in environmental settings which suggest that they were associated with fishing activities. In different regions of North America, however, variations in subsistence activities dictated the manner in which these artifacts functioned. Archaeological and environmental site data and ethnographic/ethnohistoric evidence are utilized as tools for testing the numerous hypothesized functions of notched, grooved and preformed stones. Data examined in a case study involving notched stones from the lower Little Tennessee River Valley …

An Analysis Of Anglo-American--Cherokee Culture Contact During The Federal Period, The Hiwassee Tract, Eastern Tennessee, Thomas B. Ford

Masters Theses

Cherokee--Anglo-American culture contact during the Federal Period in eastern Tennessee is examined. This study attempts to understand the historic outcome of this particular contact situation by looking at the motivating normative beliefs underlying the actions of each culture. Also of interest is the identification of those core qualities of Cherokee culture that enabled survival of contact and extreme acculturation.

The Anglo-American culture was divided into two subcultures: the Federal Government and Frontier Settler. Both subcultures possessed distinctive beliefs and exhibited dissimilar patterns of behavior. The Cherokee studied embodied an eastern Tennessee regional subculture that was not necessarily reflective of the …

An Examination Of The Variability In The Mississippian I And Ii Lithic Assemblages At The Martin Farm Site (40mr20), Tennessee, Charles Clifford Boyd

Masters Theses

The goal of this study is the examination of the temporal variability between the Mississippian I and II Period components at the Martin Farm site (40MR20) in terms of their lithic assemblages. Lithic artifacts from the 1975 excavations are studied, and only artifacts from well-dated contexts are used for this analysis. These artifacts are compared to the lithics from Feature 325, a Mississippian I feature at Tomotley (40MR5), and to late Woodland III Period Features 20 and 80 from Jones Ferry (40MR76).

A total of 9938 lithic artifacts are analyzed using a nominal categorization of discrete variables. Data produced by …

Prehistoric Mortuary Patterning And Change In The Normandy Reservoir, Coffee County, Tennessee, Tracy Charles Brown

Masters Theses

A total of 127 human burials dating from the Late Archaic Ledbetter phase through the Mississippian Banks phase was recovered from sites in the Normandy Reservoir, Coffee County, Tennessee, and three nearby sites located outside the reservoir area. Formal comparative analyses of mortuary attribute states were performed on phase-level burial samples. These analyses resulted in the isolation of mortuary patterning phenomena involving body disposal, the spatial organization of burials on sites and their integration with community patterns, and the location of burials on functionally differentiated site types within local settlement systems. In turn, these patterning phenomena were assessed for their …