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  • Individual Society and Adaptation in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony--1650

    Creator:
    Hagerty, Dorothy Dean
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    The research examines the reasons for and value of both deliberate and amorphous mutual-aid societies that influenced the life and success of an individual who lived in seventeenth-century Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Information is developed to allow a contextual comparison of life in both areas. The mutual-aid...
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    , and the Massachusetts Bay Colony--1650 AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Dorothy Dean Hagerty for the

  • Competencies of informational speaking as perceived by selected American and Thai speech professors

    Creator:
    Kulthongkham, Sukkarnya
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    This study explored the applicability of a small portion of Western communication theory and practice to an Eastern culture. It compared the opinions or professional judgments of five Thai speech instructors who had obtained their doctorates in American universities with those of five American speech instructors who hold doctorates in...
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    Redacted for Privacy Chairman of Department of Speeci-Commu6u-ation Redacted for Privacy Dean of Graduat

  • The effects of the Mazama tephra-falls : a geoarchaeological approach

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    Matz, Stephan E.
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    About 7,000 years ago two major tephra-falls blanketed the Pacific Northwest in volcanic ash. These two tephra-falls, identified as the Llao and climatic tephra-falls, were a part of the eruptive events that led up to the collapse of Mount Mazama to form Crater Lake in the southern Oregon Cascades. The...
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    Effects of the Mazama Tephra-Falls: A Geoarchaeological Approach by Stephan E. Matz A THESIS

  • An Exploratory Study of Social and Personal Identity of Selected Anglo-American, Mexican-American, and Mexican National College Students

    Creator:
    Espinosa M., Jorge E.
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    Social and personal identities were examined for samples of college graduate students in three culturally different groups: Anglo-American, Mexican-American, and Mexican National. Four identities were explored in terms of salience, frequency, and valence: religious, family, gender, and peer. No differences were found between the groups on religious and gender identities....
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    Redacted for Privacy Dean of Gradr)e School (r Date thesis is presented April 30. 1982 Typed by Grace E

  • An analysis of lithic tools and debitage from 35CS1 : a prehistoric site on the southern Oregon coast

    Creator:
    Draper, John A.
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    The Philpott site (35CS1) is located on the north bank of the Coquille River near Bandon, Oregon. Test excavations at the site were conducted in 1978 by Oregon State University under the direction of Richard E. Ross. One artifact assemblage and one distinct component were defined during the analysis of...
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    the Souther Orevin Coast. Abstract approved: Redacted for privacy Richard E. Ross The Philpott site

  • Prehistoric Culture Diffusion in the Gran Chichimeca

    Creator:
    Lee, Eugene C. (Eugene Carlton)
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    The Gran Chichimeca is a North American area extending from the Tropic of Cancer to the south to the thirty-eighth parallel in the north, thus embracing northern Mexico and the American Southwest. The rise of the great mesoamerican civilizations to the south of the Gran Chichimeca and the consequent pressure...
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    : Prehistoric Cultu Abstract approved: DiffWon in the Gran ichimeca Redacted for Privacy Richard E. Ro' The

  • Social Change in Nepal : A Case Study

    Creator:
    Van Marter, Janet
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    This thesis examines one aspect of social change in Nepal. Contact with the outside world since 1951 has provided a non-traditional means of achieving access to highly valued occupations, resulting in the formation of an emerging elite. High caste status is no longer absolutely necessary to gain access to education,...
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    Redacted for Privacy 'Abstract approved: Rob-.E. Johnson 62' This thesis examines one aspect of social

  • Whale Cove (35LNC60) : an archaeological investigation on the central Oregon coast

    Creator:
    Rogers, Ann Bennett
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    The Whale Cove Site, 35LNC60, is a shell midden, showing occupations from 3010 B.P. to 330 B.P., spanning the Early and Late Littoral Periods. Analysis of mammalian faunal remains, bone and antler tools, lithics and discriptions of recovered shellfish artifacts allows for chronological refinement of the previously mentioned archeologically defined...
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    . Redacted for Privacy Abstract approved: Richard E. Ross The Whale Cove Site, 35LNC60, is a shell midden

  • The Identification of Early Prehistoric Settlement Patterns Along the Coast of Southwest Oregon : A Survey Based Upon Amateur Artifact Collections

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    Pullen, Reginald John
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    Surveys of amateur artifact collections in southwest Oregon indicate that traditional settlement pattern models for this region may be in error. Based on the distribution of major styles of projectile points, at least two distinct periods of occupation are definable. The Early period is tentatively dated between 1000 B.C. and...
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    Amateur Artifact Collections. Redacted for Privacy Abstract Approved: Richard E. Ross I Surveys of

  • Subsistence variability in the Willamette Valley

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    Havercroft, Francine M.
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    During the summer of 1981, Oregon State University archaeologically tested three prehistoric sites on the William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge. Among the sites tested were typical Willamette Valley floodplain and adjacent upland sites. Most settlement-subsistence pattern models proposed for the Willamette Valley have been generated with data from the...
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    Variability in the Willamette Valley Abstract approved: Redacted for Privacy V Richard E. Ross During the