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Recommendations For The Chamlidere Petrified Forest Management Plan, Fatma Ertem Dec 2010

Recommendations For The Chamlidere Petrified Forest Management Plan, Fatma Ertem

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Anything inherited from our ancestors or from nature can be considered as our heritage. Heritage can be classified as cultural and natural heritage. Turkey has been the cradle of many civilizations, religions, and ethnic groups because of the unprecedented natural heritage and critical geopolitical location of Anatolia. Given all the treasure of cultural and natural heritage in Turkey, heritage management practices have not been emphasized as they deserve. A petrified forest was found in Chamlidere, Ankara (Turkey) in 2004. Chamlidere petrified forest preserves information related to the biodiversity of forests in the Galatian Volcanic Province during the Early-Middle Miocene. When …

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Why Pentecostal? A Look At The Phenomenon Of Rapid Pentecostal Growth In Latin America, Allison Kidd Covington Jan 2008

Why Pentecostal? A Look At The Phenomenon Of Rapid Pentecostal Growth In Latin America, Allison Kidd Covington

Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal

I first got the idea for my thesis studying Spanish in Costa Rica in the fall of 2006. Not long after I arrived at my host family's home, my host mother asked me whether or not I was "evangelica". I was somewhat confused by this question because it went against my previous assumption that the majority of Latin Americans-or at least Latin American Christians were Catholic. Knowing a minimal amount of Spanish and very little about the culture, I answered yes, essentially translating "evangelica" as "Protestant". I would soon learn, however, that the term "evangelica" had much deeper meaning and …

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"Holiness Is Not A Luxury Of The Pure": Blessed Mother Teresa Of Calcutta And The Struggle Over Symbols, Emily Petty Puckett Rodgers May 2005

"Holiness Is Not A Luxury Of The Pure": Blessed Mother Teresa Of Calcutta And The Struggle Over Symbols, Emily Petty Puckett Rodgers

Anthropology Undergraduate Honors Theses

“Holiness is not a luxury of the pure” (Mother Teresa 1987). The quote that forms part of the title for this paper is from an interview with Mother Teresa that appeared in Anne and Jeanette Petrie’s film “Mother Teresa” in 1986. Mother Teresa is referring to the forms of holiness that can appear in unlikely places, such as in the homeless and dying of Calcutta. Just as these forms of holiness are constructed in unexpected and conceivably impure places, so are symbols. Neither holiness, nor symbols are necessarily pure, although their users may want to project them as such.

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From Truck Bed To Bare Feet: The Anthropology Of Tourism, Lee Ballard Jan 2005

From Truck Bed To Bare Feet: The Anthropology Of Tourism, Lee Ballard

Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal

In the summer of 2004, three companions and I set out on an adventure after a month of archaeology work in the northwest jungles of Belize. This essay is not only a loose account of some exploits and misadventures, but it also illustrates how the tourism industry has affected this region. Through my experiences I was able to create a dichotomy of two contrasting countries, Belize and Guatemala, in order to convey how tourism can affect the culture and structure of different societies. Here I present a portrait of how socio-economic changes, complex acculturation, and changes in environmental stability have …

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The Effects Of Enclosure Type On Aggressive Behavior In Captive Chimpanzees, Erica Renee Findley Jan 2002

The Effects Of Enclosure Type On Aggressive Behavior In Captive Chimpanzees, Erica Renee Findley

Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal

Male chimpanzees are known to be aggressively territorial in the wild. It is expected that the limited enclosures of captivity would make them even more aggressive. The Kansas City Zoo was chosen as an ideal venue to explore this assumption because it boasts the largest outdoor enclosure of its kind, and the apes alternate between this and much smaller indoor housing. Quantitative data on crowd size, time of day, temperature, and frequency/intensity/duration of aggressive behaviors were recorded for the alpha male in both enclosures during 300 hours of observation. These data were used to test the following hypotheses: as measured …

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Archaeology And The Public: Exploring Popular Misconceptions, Tamara Rakestraw, Amy Reynolds Jan 2001

Archaeology And The Public: Exploring Popular Misconceptions, Tamara Rakestraw, Amy Reynolds

Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal

To understand how the public views archaeology and uncover the sources of their perceptions, this paper summarizes the interviews of 58 Fayetteville area high school and college students from the Fall (2000). Using standard ethnographic techniques, including prepared questionnaires and open-ended conversation, we identified several trends in the public's perceptions of archaeology and have developed some hypotheses to account for them. As the Society for American Archaeology has only recently begun to understand, to better educate the general public about archaeology it is important to identify and understand the sources of these misconceptions. For more than a century, Hollywood, book …

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Cultural Atrocity Expressed In Cultural Art, Marlie Mcgovern Jan 2000

Cultural Atrocity Expressed In Cultural Art, Marlie Mcgovern

Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal

Some of the most horrific chapters in human history have involved an ethnic dimension, notably the centuries-long obliteration of traditional Nigerian cultures by European colonizers, the attempted destruction of European Jews in the Holocaust, and the World War ll decision to assault the Japanese with atomic bombs. The consequences of the above atrocities are not contained within temporal or cultural barriers, but hold profound and pervasive ramifications within contemporary society in its entirety. More recent conflicts in Africa, Southeast Asia and the Balkans reemphasize the horror and suffering brought about by cultural collisions. One of the most potent reactions to …

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Methodology For Analysis Of Diet Grit Size On Molar Attrition For Fourche Maline And Caddo People, Judith C. Stewart, Mary L. Powell, J. C. Rose Jan 1978

Methodology For Analysis Of Diet Grit Size On Molar Attrition For Fourche Maline And Caddo People, Judith C. Stewart, Mary L. Powell, J. C. Rose

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

Using the Murphy (1959) system for scoring the degree of dentin exposure, Fourche Maline (Woodland) molars show a greater attrition rate than Caddo (Mississippian) molars. Archeological evidence suggests that this differential in attrition rates is caused by the use of stone grinders for food preparation in the Fourche Maline culture and their absence among the Caddo. Analysis of scratches on the occlusal surface of molars from these samples confirms this hypothesis. Several techniques for observing these scratches and reconstructing the grit sizes and grit particle frequencies responsible for this differential abrasion are evaluated.

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Machismo Syndrome: A Residential Correlate Of Its Expression In A Mexican Peasant Community, J. M. Brueske Jan 1976

Machismo Syndrome: A Residential Correlate Of Its Expression In A Mexican Peasant Community, J. M. Brueske

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

The Michaelson Goldschmidt hypothesis states that in peasant societies wherein male dominance is an ideal, matrilocal residence tends to encourage the expression of the machismo syndrome of behaviors. Recent ethnographic research in a Mexican peasant community supports the hypothesis by the finding that interpersonal violence (one measure of machismo) during a fiesta was perpetrated in every extreme instance by men who were residing matrilocally. The hypothesis thus effectively predicts, in this case, matrilocality as the variable most closely associated with the violent dimension of machismo.

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Observation On Female Cooperation Among The Zapotecs, An Indigenous People Of Southern Mexico, J. M. Brueske Jan 1975

Observation On Female Cooperation Among The Zapotecs, An Indigenous People Of Southern Mexico, J. M. Brueske

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

Cross-cultural study has suggested that the presence of an extradomestic market for women's produce is one precondition for the development of female solidarity groups, and that such groups seem to be antecedent to female public power and/or authority. If status is defined in these terms, then the Zapotec women of Asuncion, a village of the inland Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico, have not attained the preconditions of public power and/or authority. The complementary nature of husband and wife in the economic sphere assures women of some domestic power, however, and women do not seem to perceive their status as …

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Anthropology And The Academy Of Science: The Need For A New Role, Timothy C. Klinger Jan 1975

Anthropology And The Academy Of Science: The Need For A New Role, Timothy C. Klinger

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

Few anthropology papers were presented at the Annual Meetings of the Arkansas Academy of Science before 1968. Establishment of the Arkansas Archeological Survey in 1967 brought an influx of professional anthropologists to the state and a subsequent increase in the number of anthropology papers published. However, the growth in number of active anthropologists has created a need for more information channels within the state. The time is right for the Anthropology Section of the Academy to become a formal base for interaction and information dissemination among anthropologists.

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Site Abandonment And The Archaeological Record: An Empirical Case For Anticipated Return, Charles M. Baker Jan 1975

Site Abandonment And The Archaeological Record: An Empirical Case For Anticipated Return, Charles M. Baker

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

Cultural formation processes of abandonment are examined in light of recently discovered hammerstone caches at an aboriginal novaculite quarry site. De facto refuse formation is shown to vary according to the conditions under which site abandonment took place.

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Antiques - Objects Of Lateral Cycling?, Cheryl Claassen Jan 1975

Antiques - Objects Of Lateral Cycling?, Cheryl Claassen

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

After a brief discussion of the various ways the use-life of an object can be prolonged, an additional method is illustrated, that of adjacent cycling, Antiques are used as examples. The role of antiques as status symbols is suggested to be the reason for their prolonged use-life. The archaeological implications of adjacent cycling also are discussed.

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Mississippian Communities In The St. Francis Basin: A Central Place Model, Timothy C. Klinger Jan 1975

Mississippian Communities In The St. Francis Basin: A Central Place Model, Timothy C. Klinger

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

The development of Mississippian settlement models for northeast Arkansas is reviewed. It is argued that a five-tier central place hierarchy best accounts for the variability currently known to exist among Mississippian communities in the St. Francis basin.

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Collection Of Dalton Points From Yell County, Arkansas, Robert L. Brooks Jan 1973

Collection Of Dalton Points From Yell County, Arkansas, Robert L. Brooks

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

The hypothesis that projectile points serve functions other than use as a head for a missile was examined by Morse and Goodyear in regard to Dalton points. The writer reexamined this hypothesis in light of a significant collection of Dalton points from Yell County, Arkansas, and further substantiates the hypothesis formulated by Morse and tested by Goodyear.

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Population Profiles By Factor Analysis: Study Of A Rural Arkansas Community, Mary Jo Grinstead, Sandra Scholtz Jan 1972

Population Profiles By Factor Analysis: Study Of A Rural Arkansas Community, Mary Jo Grinstead, Sandra Scholtz

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

Factor analysis was used as a preliminary data analytic technique to delineate population profiles in a rural, poverty-level community. The technique was useful in defining the nature of sociological interdependencies in the population so that the heterogeneity in the community could be understood. Four factors identified as representing socio-economic status, age-work attitudes, morality, and participation dimensions were extracted from the correlation matrix.

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Environmental Adaptation: The Otomi Indians Of The Mezquital Valley, Gloria A. Young Jan 1971

Environmental Adaptation: The Otomi Indians Of The Mezquital Valley, Gloria A. Young

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

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Historical Archaeology In Arkansas, Patrick E. Martin Jan 1971

Historical Archaeology In Arkansas, Patrick E. Martin

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

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Reconstruction Of An Arkansas Hopewellian Panpipe, Gloria A. Young Jan 1970

Reconstruction Of An Arkansas Hopewellian Panpipe, Gloria A. Young

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

Panpipes have been found in North America only on Hopewell sites. A particularly well preserved specimen from the Helena Crossing Site was described by James A. Ford. From this description a reconstruction which produced a true octave was made from native cane. Since the panpipe is a more primitive instrument than the flutes in use during Hopewell florescence, it is postulated that this instrument was used by shamans in the cult of ancestor worship.

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Profiling Techniques In Archaeology, Stephen E. Adams Jan 1970

Profiling Techniques In Archaeology, Stephen E. Adams

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

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Eddy Bluff Shelter Of Beaver Reservoir Of Northwest Arkansas, James D. Morrison Jan 1970

Eddy Bluff Shelter Of Beaver Reservoir Of Northwest Arkansas, James D. Morrison

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

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Archeological Investigation Of Bayou Bartholomew, 1969, Martha Ann Rolingson Jan 1970

Archeological Investigation Of Bayou Bartholomew, 1969, Martha Ann Rolingson

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

Archeological investigation along Bayou Bartholomew in Ashley County was initiated with the primary objective of establishing a chronological sequence of prehistoric cultures. This paper reports the first season of fieldwork. Emphasis was placed on locating sites and obtaining adequate surface collections while only two sites were tested. The different types of sites and their relationship to the Bayou Bartholomew channels are discussed. Prehistoric occupations from four general periods are outlined, including late Archaic, early to middle Woodland, late Woodland and Mississippi.

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Art And Culture Among The Ashanti Of Ghana, Charles E. Johnson Jan 1970

Art And Culture Among The Ashanti Of Ghana, Charles E. Johnson

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

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Classification Of Some European Trade Beads From Louisiana And Mississippi, John B. Huner Jan 1970

Classification Of Some European Trade Beads From Louisiana And Mississippi, John B. Huner

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

The sources of trade beads found in archeological sites in North American may be discovered through a system of bead classification. Typology should be based on shape, size, materials, color and translucency, decoration, and method of manufacture. A chronology can then be established. Ethnological data may reveal European contact and intertribal trade.

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Skeletal Analysis Of Three Bluff Shelter Burials, H. Eugene Hickman Jr. Jan 1969

Skeletal Analysis Of Three Bluff Shelter Burials, H. Eugene Hickman Jr.

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

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Type-Variety Concept: A Possible Indicator Of Diffusion And Culture Areas, John B. Huner Jan 1969

Type-Variety Concept: A Possible Indicator Of Diffusion And Culture Areas, John B. Huner

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

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Experiments In Aerial Photography, Dan Printup Jan 1969

Experiments In Aerial Photography, Dan Printup

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

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Implications Of Land And Fresh-Water Gastropods In Archeological Sites, John W. Clark Jr. Jan 1969

Implications Of Land And Fresh-Water Gastropods In Archeological Sites, John W. Clark Jr.

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

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Controlled Surface Collection At The Spinach Patch Site, Franklin County, Arkansas, Michael P. Hoffman Jan 1969

Controlled Surface Collection At The Spinach Patch Site, Franklin County, Arkansas, Michael P. Hoffman

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

This paper discusses the technique of controlled surface collection as an interpretative aid at the Spinach Patch site, 3FR1, a prehistoric village site in Ozark Reservoir. The research involved was made possible through a cooperative agreement with the National Park Service, Southeast Region.

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Preliminary Description Of The Blue Snake Society, Diana L. Weathersby Jan 1969

Preliminary Description Of The Blue Snake Society, Diana L. Weathersby

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

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