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Looking for Fish of the Right Age : Developing Predictive Modeling for Submerged Sites Using GIS, Salmon Genetics, and the Human Ecology of Salmon

Creator:: Krier, Jon C.
Abstract:: A major challenge to the study of the peopling of the Americas is that much of the Bering Land Bridge (Beringia), the geographic area that people migrating from Northeast Asia into North America would presumably have passed through, is now submerged due to sea-level rise since the last glacial maximum....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: sections. Thanks to Dr. Loren Davis, who challenged me to operationalize several concepts important to

A Reconstruction of Plant Species Composition at the Devil's Kitchen Site (Southern Oregon Coast) using Plant Opal Phytoliths and Charcoal Macro-remains

Creator:: Bulder, Nicholas H.
Abstract:: Although plant remains, such as opal phytolith and charcoal analyses, have been used since the beginning of the 20th century to reconstruct past environments by ecologists and botanists, only recently have these techniques been considered by archaeologists in understanding the past at the site level. This study employs opal phytolith...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The author expresses sincere appreciation to: Dr. Leah Minc, major advisor Drs. Loren

Degree and scale of interactions among chiefdoms during the pre-Hispanic late period in northern Highland Ecuador (AD 1250-1525)

Creator:: Yanchar, Kaitlin C.
Abstract:: During the Late Pre-Hispanic period, settlements in Northern Highland Ecuador were organized under a number of chiefdoms. While a basic hierarchical political system is described in the ethnohistoric literature, the nature of the interactions between specific settlements has remained unknown. This study utilizes two methods for describing the degree and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: professionalism continue to inspire me. I would also like to thank my committee members Dr. Loren Davis and Dr

Mapping Minerals, Charting Community: A Petrographic Study of Dalma Ware in the Chalcolithic Near East

Creator:: Buehlman-Barbeau, Savanna S.
Abstract:: The recent recovery of Dalma Ware at the archaeological site of Surezha, Northern Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraqi-Kurdistan), has raised questions regarding the method of its arrival in the region (Stein 2017; Stein & Fisher 2018). In order to assess Dalma Ware’s potential modes of dispersal into Northern Mesopotamia, ceramic petrography and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Analysis of Culturally Derived Speleothems by INAA and ICP-MS, a Multi-Analytical Approach

Creator:: Nation, Humberto E.
Abstract:: Over the last two decades, archaeologists have documented the widespread ancient Maya practice of collecting cave formations (speleothems) from ritually important caves and transporting them to their settlements. Little is known about their specific uses within settlements, but it is hypothesized that these objects convey a degree of sanctity from...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Ancient Greek agricultural soils of the Venella River Valley, Metaponto, Italy : An exploratory analysis

Creator:: Carpenter, Burl L.
Abstract:: Approximately 2700 years ago, Greek settlers from the Northwestern Peloponnese region of Achaea emigrated to the central coast of Southern Italy along the Gulf of Taranto. The city they founded, Metapontum, served as an important center for Magna Graecia, the lands on the Southern Italic peninsula wholly populated by Hellenic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: - Rebecca Lybrand, Loren Davis, Sharyn Clough, and Jay Noller. Jay - For being my PI, funding me, sending

Experimental evaluation and numerical modeling of a water source heat pump evaporator

Creator:: Means, Paul Morency
Abstract:: Water source heat pumps are increasingly being used for residential and commercial space heating. Typically, these heat pumps are capable of both heating and cooling, and historically the design emphasis has been on improving the units' cooling performance. Recently, there has been more interest in improving the heating performance, however,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Ghosts of the Gold Rush: Archaeological Investigations at Feature 96 in the Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park, Dyea, Alaska (49SKG-006)

Creator:: Diederich, Matthew J.
Abstract:: This thesis deals with the archaeological investigations of an 1897-1898 gold rush structure in the town of Dyea, Alaska. Little is known about this structure (Feature 96) from the historical records. A three year project was conducted to investigate Feature 96 in order to determine the function of the structure,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Analysis of dredge tailings pile patterns : applications for historical archaeological research

Creator:: Purdy, Sarah E.
Abstract:: For centuries humans have been searching for precious metals. The search for gold has greatly changed the landscape of the American West, beginning in the 1850s and continuing today. Various gold rushes around the country created mining colonies in remote areas, thereby connecting the frontier with the rest of America...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: remote sensing applications in archaeology. I would like to thank Dr. Loren Davis for all the hard

Boring to the Core: The Archaeology, History, and Dendrochronology of a Railroad Logging Camp, Ladee Flat, Clackamas County, Oregon

Creator:: Paullin, Pamela K.
Abstract:: Although the timber industry was the major economic force in the lives of several generations of Oregon families, very little archaeological investigation has been done on the dozens of abandoned logging camps that are scattered throughout the forests of the Pacific Northwest. This project focuses on Camp 1, a 1920s...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: me to persevere when the going got tough. Dr. David Brauner, Dr. Ron Doel, and Dr. Loren Davis

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Looking for Fish of the Right Age : Developing Predictive Modeling for Submerged Sites Using GIS, Salmon Genetics, and the Human Ecology of Salmon

A Reconstruction of Plant Species Composition at the Devil's Kitchen Site (Southern Oregon Coast) using Plant Opal Phytoliths and Charcoal Macro-remains

Degree and scale of interactions among chiefdoms during the pre-Hispanic late period in northern Highland Ecuador (AD 1250-1525)

Mapping Minerals, Charting Community: A Petrographic Study of Dalma Ware in the Chalcolithic Near East

Analysis of Culturally Derived Speleothems by INAA and ICP-MS, a Multi-Analytical Approach

Ancient Greek agricultural soils of the Venella River Valley, Metaponto, Italy : An exploratory analysis

Experimental evaluation and numerical modeling of a water source heat pump evaporator

Ghosts of the Gold Rush: Archaeological Investigations at Feature 96 in the Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park, Dyea, Alaska (49SKG-006)

Analysis of dredge tailings pile patterns : applications for historical archaeological research

Boring to the Core: The Archaeology, History, and Dendrochronology of a Railroad Logging Camp, Ladee Flat, Clackamas County, Oregon

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