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  • Measurement and meaning of archaeological diversity

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    Betz, Virginia Marie
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    Archaeologists use diversity as one way of characterizing their assemblages. Diversity refers to both the number of artifact classes present (richness) and the proportional representation of classes (evenness). Numerical diversity indices measure one or both components. Archaeologists use assemblage diversity to infer behavior of prehistoric cultures. Archaeological inferences about behavior...
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    Rocek and Prof. Clint Brown, for their time and effort spent on my behalf. This gratitude is multiplied

  • 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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    . Gerald Simonson, and Dr. Perry Brown each contributed to the completion of this project through their

  • Metaphor, Malheur, and Government: A Comparative Rhetorical Examination of Metaphor Usage the Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

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    Siegner, Samantha C.
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    On January 2, 2016 a militia occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon and captured national attention. The militia vowed to occupy until certain demands were met, and among these demands was a call for less federal control of land. While the occupation lasted 41 days, the militia remained...
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    Brown to determine why the Malheur militia’s movement was unsuccessful. This research focuses

  • The rhetorical dynamics of culture : an interdisciplinary approach to a synthesis between rhetoric and culture

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    Tobey, Toni K.
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    The frame of reference for understanding the rhetorical significance of cultural acts lies in the identification and explication of the diversity of theories which encompass sociological and anthropological definitions of culture. The paradigms presented in this thesis range from unilinear evolution, biological and environmental determinism, materialism, historical ethnology and reductionism...
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    writers and explorers as Spencer, Morgan, Tylor, Marx, Durkheim, Radcliffe-Brown, Boas, Levi-Straus

  • Technological progress, disacculturation, and our public schools

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    Morita, Sally J.
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    The problems facing our nation's public schools today cannot be divorced from our enthusiasm for technology and the positive relationship we believe it shares with our perception of progress. Based on the second law of thermodynamics, the law of entropy, author Jeremy Rifkin argues that the development of increasingly "efficient"...
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    Relationship Between Progress and Technology: Herbert Spencer and Jeremy Rifkin Part II. The Forces of

  • Words of Well-Being : The Relation of an Individual's Word Choice to their Social Well-Being

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    Krieger, Katy
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    The present research sought to investigate the relationship between an individual's word choice and their social well-being. In the present investigation, social well-being is a person's social health in relation to their social environment, social network, and ability to interact with others in a social context. This thesis was based...
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    from 2006-2010 (Brown, 2011), where participants ranging in ages from 18 to 54 took part in a ten

  • A methodology for analysis of historic textiles Ancon, Peru

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    Ishikawa, Sally Jo
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    Twenty-four woven Pre-Columbian textiles in the Apparel, Interiors and Merchandising Department (AIM) of Oregon State University were reported to be from Ancon, Peru. A methodology was developed to confirm the exact provenance of the AIM textiles. Technical fabrication characteristics were utilized to describe certain known Ancon woven textiles and to...
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    Researchers 1. Harner, 1973. 2. Mosely and Barrett, 1969. 3. O'Neale and Clark, 1956 4. Strong, Willey and

  • Man and the land : an ecological history of fire and grazing on eastern Oregon rangelands

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    Shinn, Dean Allison
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    Ecological and historical information are combined in examining the environmental influence of fire and grazing on rangelands in eastern Oregon through time. Competitive relationships between herbaceous and woody flora in the northern Great Basin are discussed, focusing broadly on the shrubsteppe regions 'of Franklin and Dyrness (1973) but with special...
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    roots to avoid the necessity of using the fire drill (Barrett, 1907; Forbes, 1839; Hough, 1926

  • An Osteo-archaeological Investigation of Pinniped Remains at Seal Rock, Oregon (35 LNC 14)

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    Snyder, Sandra L.
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    Analysis of the pinniped remains from site 35 LNC 14 reveal the presence of four species: Eumetopias jubata (Stellar sea lion), Zalophus californianus (California sea lion), Callorhinus ursinus (Northern fur seal),'and Phoca vitulina (Harbor seal). Ratios based on minimum number of individuals calculations disclose a high incidence of mature Stellar...
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    during the course of my research. Access to site 35 LNC 14 was generously granted by the Brown family

  • Closing the Gap : Using Theory to Analyze the African American Division 1 Football Player Graduation Gap

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    Smith, Dorian
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    African American male students are a small portion of the student body at NCAA Division 1-A schools, but they make up a large portion of population of college football players. African American male college students are also one of the most at-risk student populations on campus in regards to retention....
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    programs win games, thus leading to more national attention and higher admission numbers (Brown 1996). In