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  • A settlement model at the Robert Newel Farmstead (35MA41), French Prairie, Oregon

    Creator:
    Manion, Mollie Jo
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    This thesis is based on the excavations of the Robert Newell farmstead (35MA41), excavated in 2002 and 2003 by the Oregon State University Department of Anthropology archaeological field school. Robert Newell lived at this farm from 1843- 1854. Major architectural features, including a brick hearth and postholes were discovered at...
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    at the Robert Newell FarmsteadJ35MA41). French Prairie, Oregon Abstract approved

  • An Archaeological Analysis of the Architectural Artifacts and Features at the Robert Newell Homestead Site (35MA41)

    Creator:
    Modelski, Emily
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    This thesis will explore the architectural material culture excavated at the Robert Newell Homestead (35MA41), currently located in Champoeg, Oregon. Specifically, the research focuses on the vernacular architecture or the features and construction methods used that both reflect the environment and the cultural traditions of the dwellings occupants. The Robert...
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    : An Archaeological Analysis of the Architectural Artifacts and Features at the Robert Newell

  • Creating and sustaining a whole community in hierarchical institutions

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    Matheis, Christian G.
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    In this thesis, I examine some of the relationships between hierarchy and community that exist in institutions. Within institutions, individuals are separated from one another and organized hierarchically based on arbitrary inequalities. In general, I discusses inequalities based on race, class, gender, sexual orientation, age, ability, etc. Institutions organized based...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Christian G. Matheis for the

  • Photoperiodic control of development in the leafhopper, Agalliopsis abietaria Oman

    Creator:
    Brown, Robert David
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    Photoperiod controls the duration of both the fourth and fifth stadia in Agalliopsis abietaria Oman. Development was arrested in the fourth stadium unless short days were given during the second and third instars; a short arrest of development occurred if the short days did not begin until the fourth instar....
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF ROBERT DAVID BROWN for the

  • Palynological Perspectives on Younger Dryas to Early Holocene Human Ecology at Paisley Caves, Oregon

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    Saban, Chantel V.
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    The Younger Dryas climatic event is a global phenomenon associated with a 1,000 year return to glacial conditions during the late Pleistocene period between 12,800 and 11,500 cal BP. Because of its significant effects on paleoenvironmental conditions in some parts of the world, archaeologists commonly seek to assess whether the...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Loren G. Davis The Younger Dryas climatic event

  • Central place foraging and the winter village: a settlement pattern analysis in the lower Salmon River Canyon in Idaho

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    Carlisle, Kendra
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    Hunter-gatherers depend on naturally occurring resources and, in order to survive, must overcome resource procurement challenges inherent in their environment. One challenge relates to the temporal and spatial availability of resources, which hunter-gatherers address, in part, through the strategic use of space to position themselves for optimal access to necessary...
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    Pattern Analysis in the Lower Salmon River Canyon of Idaho Abstract approved: Loren G. Davis

  • The social dimension of Shakespeare's art : a Midsummer Night's Dream

    Creator:
    Schaefer, Mimi
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    The study of the social dimensions of Shakespeare's art is represented by the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, C.L. Barber, Robert Weimann, Edward Berry, and Michael Bristol. Their work analyzes the background in Elizabethan social practices and popular dramatic traditions that contribute to the form, structure, and meaning of Shakespeare's comedies....
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    . Abstract approved: Robert Schwartz The study of the social dimensions of Shakespeare's art is

  • Expression & identity : the word made flesh

    Creator:
    Beach, J. M.
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    This essay is an exploration of identity formation and expression. Humanity's identity formations create the orientations and languages with which we use to create our knowledge and understanding of the surrounding external environment (both social and physical) and our internal environment (psychological). This essay traces the sources of identity formation...
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    . Title: Expression and Identity: The Word Made Flesh. Abstract approved: Robert Frank This essay is an

  • On his own terms : William James, identity, and the development of American Psychology

    Creator:
    Stoller, Kevin R.
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    William James came of age at a time of great social and intellectual change in the United States. During this period, new professional identities proliferated, and a new culture of professionalization developed with important ramifications for conceptions of individual and social identity. Professionalization was also closely related to key intellectual...
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    the topic. On the social sciences, see Robert C. Bannister, Social Darwinism: Science and Myth in

  • Expanding the chemostratigraphic framework of the Cooper's Ferry site (10IH73) using portable x-ray fluorescence spectrometry

    Creator:
    Holcomb, Justin Allen
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    This thesis reports a study of pXRF chemostratigraphy at the Cooper's Ferry site, located in western Idaho’s Lower Salmon River Canyon. The author used portable x-ray fluorescence spectrometry (pXRF) in order to independently test and expand the current chemostratigraphic framework at the site. PXRF applications targeted two stratigraphic sections located...
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    -Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry. Abstract approved: Loren G. Davis This thesis reports