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Full-Text Articles in Anthropology
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 …
Squirrel Monkey Pelvic Morphology And Difficult Pregnancies: It's Not All In The Hips, Lucinda Freeman
Squirrel Monkey Pelvic Morphology And Difficult Pregnancies: It's Not All In The Hips, Lucinda Freeman
Anthropology Undergraduate Senior Theses
Researchers at the CNPRR have observed a reduction in the reproductive success of female squirrel monkeys of Bolivian origin (Saimiri boliviensis boliviensis) due to nonviable termination of their pregnancies. Difficulties with pregnancy, including dystopias and stillborn infants, seem to be a result of an extremely large fetal to mother weight ratio. This factor has led to studies of the pelvic size and shape in the Bolivian origin female squirrel monkeys. Aksel and Able (1983) devised a pelvimetry method for evaluating the bony structures of the pelvis in order to predict perinatal outcome. This thesis will apply the pelvimetry methods of …
Mom's Day Out: Investigating The Proximate Causes Of Allomothering In Squirrel Monkeys, Amber Wright
Mom's Day Out: Investigating The Proximate Causes Of Allomothering In Squirrel Monkeys, Amber Wright
Anthropology Undergraduate Senior Theses
Allomothering, which is defined as non-material infant care, is a behavior that is found among many animal species. Although it is widely acknowledged in primate species in particular, it is not well understood. Allomaternal behavior is well documented but the proximal causes are not known. Most primate species live in groups and have intense social relations which govern every aspect of their behavior. Allomothering could then be better understood by looking at the social relationships that exist between members of a group. This research tries to better understand what causes certain females to allomother over others by looking at the …
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 …
The Late Woodland Period On The Lower Tombigbee River, George W. Shorter Jr.
The Late Woodland Period On The Lower Tombigbee River, George W. Shorter Jr.
CAS Monographs
This report presents the results of archaeological research conducted by the Center for Archaeological Studies at the University of South Alabama for the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) as part of a project to widen Alabama Highway 177, from its origin at US Highway 43 to Boise Cascade Road, in Clarke County near the City of Jackson. Archaeological field work began in 1996 with a Phase I cultural resources survey involving shovel tests placed along both sides of the highway (Shorter and Lawrence 1996). The presence of four previously recorded sites--1CK236, 1CK286, 1CK287, and 1CK290 - was confirmed and their …
The Old Mobile Project Newsletter, Gregory A. Waselkov, Stephen Thomas
The Old Mobile Project Newsletter, Gregory A. Waselkov, Stephen Thomas
CAS Monographs
Local tradition has long associated the area of Twenty-seven Mile Bluff on the Mobile River with the location of the early French settlement of Mobile. But archaeological traces of this important historical site have only recently been discovered. The old town site is now the focus of a research project directed by archaeologists at the University of South Alabama.