Senior Independent Study Theses from 2012
Consumerism in the Caribbean: a Study of Consumer Trends Within the British Colonial Caribbean, Christopher Gordon Haslam
Department: Archaeology
Gift That Keeps on Giving: Exploring the Role of Scenes Involving the Offering of Gifts on Egyptian Non-Royal Coffins and Tombs, Renee Hennemann
Department: Archaeology; Art and Art History
Off With Their Heads: The Use of Human Heads as Trophies in Central and South America, Katie Kowicki
Department: Archaeology
Off with Their Heads: The Use of Human Heads as Trophies in Central and South America, Katie Kowicki
Maize and Clay: An Evaluation of Human Dental Health from Preagricultural Subsistene, Claire Riggs Miller
Mom, What Are We? Culture Contact between Maya and Olmec in Pre-Columbian Honduras, Anarrubenia Capellin Ortega
Peripheral Settlement Flexibility: An Investigation of Philistine Culture Through World-Systems Ananlysis, Brian Porrett
Use-Wear Analysis of Monogahela Lithics from the Wansack Site, Jared Prestenbach
Determining Site Usage of the Orange Township Earthworks in Highbanks Metropark, Delaware, Ohio: Chert and Lithic Analysis, Anastasia Wallace
Department: Archaeology
Determining Site Usage of the Orange Township Earthworks in Highbanks Metropark, Delaware, Ohio: Chert and Lithic Analysis, Anastasia Wallace
Why the Plumbata Replaced the Pilum in Rome: A Study of the Thrown Weapons, Pilum and Plumbata, Owen Yeazell
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The Man Who Would be King: Legitimization in Migration Period Germanic Vernacular Literature and Mortuary Contexts, W. Brett Arnold
Challenging Traditional History: A Proposal for Geophysical Investigation at the Historic Wildwood Estate in Beckley, West Virginia, Emily Butcher
The Historic Built Landscape of The College of Wooster: An Investigation into Architecture, Curriculum, and Memory, Jacob L. Dinkelaker
The Historic Built Landscape of The College of Wooster: An Investigation into Architecture, Curriculum, and Memory, Jacob L. Dinkelaker
Interpreting Royal Portrait Stelae as Political Strategy: An Analysis of Iconography and Social Competition at Tikal and Copan, Chelsea R. Fisher
First Century Judean Synagogue Architecture: How Understandings of Identity, Space, and the Sacred Influenced This Development, Derek Greeley
Department: Archaeology
First Century Judean Synagogue Architecture: How Understandings of Identity, Space, and the Sacred Influenced this Development, Derek Harry Greeley
An Evaluation of Jamestown's Participation in England's Trade Network, Catherine Gullett
Exploring the Significance of Puebloan Cylinder Jars: Evidence of Ancestor Veneration at Pueblo Bonito, Renee Hennemann
Maya Theatre States, Copan A Case Study, Anarrubenia Capellin Ortega
Leaving Their Mark: Processualism, Postprocessualism and the Classification of Native American Sacred Space, Rosalind Sawyer
Beyond Fragile Remanants: Counting the Fibers, Christopher W. Stelter
How Social Stratification Grew with the Polis, Christopher W. Stelter
Stewards of Their Own Lands: An Evaluation of Tribal Cultural and Historic Preservation Effectiveness, Sarah Tate
Department: Archaeology
Stewards of Their Own Lands: An Evaluation of Tribal Cultural and Historic Preservation Effectiveness, Sarah Tate
An Examination of the Technique of Pollen Analysis, Jon Theisen
Re-evaluating the Highbanks Metropark Orange Township Earthworks of Central Ohio, Anastasia Wallace
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Household Archaeology of the Frankish Period in Greece, Nicole R. Bethel
Spread of Buddhism: The Spread of Buddhism into China by Examining Buddhist Ritual Sites, Claire Burns
The Roman Lead Tesserae, Bill Dalzell
The Historic Freelander Department Store Building: A Case Study of Historic Preservation Practice in Wooster, Ohio, Jacob L. Dinkelaker
"Wait, Are We Related?" A Critical Analysis of the Neanderthals and the Ancestry of Modern Humans With Regard to the Child from Abrigo do Lagar Velho, Portugal, Dustin Ryan Gatrell
The Effects of Climate Change on the Hopewell Cultural Collapse, Will Hansen
A Comparison of Historical Records with the Archaeological Counterpart at Port Royal, Jamaica, Christopher G. Haslam
Put On Ice: A Topographical Analysis of Frozen Bone, Katie Kowicki
Shiny Rocks: Studying the Transition to Horticulture Using the Techniques of Microwear Analysis, Andrew Marley
Learners in Clay: Assessing Childhood Development and Skill Sets within Woodland Ceramic Manufacture, Erica Prange
Social Metaphors: An Analysis of Social Structure through a Study of Paracas Textile Motifs, Emma Schmitt
Social Metaphors: An Analysis of Social Structure through a Study of Paracas Textile Motifs, Emma Schmitt
Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Sculpture in the Context of Greek Society, Benjamin Stone
The Kingship of Cleopatra VII: Examination of Imperial Propaganda, Elizabeth Terveer
Excavating Hallowed Ground: An Assessment of the State of American Civil War Battlefield Archaeology, Allison Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
The Manufacturing of Paints and the Mineral Trade in Ptolemaic Egypt: Analysis of Material From the Wooster Mummy, Jenna Arculeo
The La Tene and its Role in the Germanic People's Transition from Tribes to Chiefdoms, W. Brett Arnold
A Lasting Impression: The Huns in Europe, Stephen Conroy
The History of the Neanderthals and Where They Fit Into the Human Ancestral Sequence, Dustin Ryan Gatrell
The Collapse of the Hopewell Culture and its Relationship to Climate Change, Will Hansen
Guardian of the Good: The Iconography of the Good Shepard in the Roman Empire, Chloe Haven-Tietze
Experimental Lithic Microwear Analysis for Later Comparison with Artifacts from Rock Shelters in North-Central Ohio, Andrew Marley
Function or Style?: Ceramic Manufacturing Advances throughout the Woodland Period, Erica Prange
Emergence and Development of Medieval Walled Towns: An Examination of Settlement Structure in Cork, Ireland From the Ninth Century Through the Fifteenth Century, Brittany Christine Rancour
Department: Archaeology
The Emergence and Development of Medieval Walled Towns: An Examination of Settlement Structure in Cork, Ireland from the Ninth Century Through the Fifteenth Century, Brittany Christine Rancour
The Footprint of Empire: Evidence of the Macedonian Empire in Central Asia, Kathryn Trophia Roberts
Mounds of Life and Death: An Analysis of Adena and Hopewell Burial Mounds, Rosalind Sawyer
Social Weaving: An Examination of Ancient Textiles and their Broader Social Relations in Pre-Columbian Peru, Emma Schmitt
The Road to Salvation: Medieval Pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral, Nora Simon
Catastrophic Disease and Cultural Perspectives: An Examination of the Art and Archaeology of the 14th Century Black Death in Europe, Elizabeth Terveer
Relationship of Architectural Energetics and Architectural Symbolism at Selected Sites in Ancient Egypt and Mesoamerica, Karolina M. Walls
Department: Archaeology
Excavating Public Misconceptions: Old World and New World Archaeology and Bias in the Media, David Walton
The Relationship of Architectural Energetics and Architectural Symbolism at Selected Sites in Ancient Egypt and Mesoamerica, Karolina M. Wells
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
The Impact of the Vikings in the Development of Settlement Types and Patterns in Early Medieval Ireland, Margaret C. Bullock
Phoenician, Aegean, and Persian, Oh My: The Development of Cypriot Sanctuaries in Relation to Greek Influence from the Late Cypriot through the Cypro-Archaic, Alicia M. Dissinger
Putting Her in Her Place: Gender, Archaeology, and the Anglo-Norman Castle, Elizabeth Sand Eckel
Department: Archaeology; History
Interpreting Africa's Past: the use of ekistics and oral tradition in the examination of Great Zimbabwe, Ashley Marie Jirsa
Interpreting Africa's Past: the Use of Ekistics and Oral Tradition in the Examination of Great Zimbabwe, Ashley Marie Jirsa
Department: Archaeology
Welcome to the Past: An Analysis of the Historiography and Archaeology Behind Early Colonial Living History Museums in America, Emily M. Long
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
The Manufacturing of Paints in Ptolemaic Egypt, Jenna Arculeo
Extended Study of the County Line Cluster of Occupied Rock Shelters in the Killbuck Valley of East-Central Ohio, Aubrey Brown
Irish Medieval Ecclesiastical Structures, Margaret C. Bullock
Colossal Portraits of Emperor Augustus, Alicia M. Dissinger
Excavating the Excavated: Reevaluating the Uhle Textiles for Future Students, Katherine Duffus
Excavting the Excavated: Reevaluating the Uhle Textiles For Future Studies, Katherine Duffus
Department: Archaeology
Irish Medieval City Plans: The Location of Central Places Within the Medieval City of Cork, Brittany Rancour
Household Archaeology and the East Field at Isthmia, Greece: Interpreting Domestic Space at a Ritual Center, Rhian Alissa Stotts
Stories in the Stones: a Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Historic Cemeteries in Lewes, Delaware and Wayne County, Ohio, Erin Toohey
Department: Archaeology
The Relationship of Architectural Energetics and Architectural Symbolism at the Mayan Site of Copan, Honduras, Karolina M. Walls
This Should Be in a Museum! the Illegal Trade in Chinese Antiquities and What Can Be Done to Stop It, Andrew Womack
Department: Archaeology
This Should be in a Museum! The Illegal Trade in Chinese Antiquities and What Can be Done to Stop It, Andrew Womack
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Analysis of Three Structures and their Function at the site of Las Canoas, Honduras, Lara Britain
Living on the Edge: Residential Structures in El Cafetal, El Parasio Valley, Honduras, Whitney Goodwin
Were the Women of Ancient Greece Just Desperate Housewives of the Past? An Analysis of the Role of Women on the Formation of the Polis through the use of Pottery, Ashley Marie Jirsa
Analysis of Ceramics from the Malloura Valley of Central Cyprus to Determine Social and Economic Change During the Late Roman Period, Christian M. Jones
Analysis of Ceramics From the Malloura Valley of Central Cyprus to Determine Social and Economic Change During the Late Roman Period, Christin M. Jones
Department: Archaeology
Celtic Invasion of Ireland: Myth or Fact? Revisiting the Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age Transition, Catherine McMahon
Department: Archaeology
The Celtic Invasion of Ireland: Myth or Fact? Revisiting the Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age Transition, Catherine Ambie McMahon
The Syncretism of Pagan and Christian Beliefs in the Eastern Roman Empire as Shown Through Floor Mosaics, Rhian Alissa Stotts
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2004
Residue Analysis of Ceramics From Late Byzantine and Mediaeval Contexts at Pella, Jordan, Hanneke Aaltje Hoekman
Department: Archaeology; Chemistry
Settlement Dynamics of Central Cyprus: a Gis Analysis, David Massey
Department: Archaeology
Wayne County Cemeteries, Aaron Orszag
Department: Archaeology
Osteological Analysis of Irish Bronze Age Populations: Searching For Nutritional Deficiencies As Evidence of Social Complexity, Joyce Stockins
Department: Archaeology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2003
Using An 18th Century Cemetery and Interviews With Parishioners of St. Genevieve to Determine How Religion Reinforced Ethnic Identity in the French-Catholic Settlement of Calmoutier, Holmes County, Ohio, Jeanne Harrington
Department: Archaeology; Sociology and Anthropology
Conflict, Warfare, and Viewshed Analysis: the Pueblo III Period in the Silver Creek Drainage, East-Central Arizona, Leslie Nicole McCluskey
Department: Archaeology; Geology