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Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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Changes in Anglo-Saxon Mortuary Practices Before and After Christian Conversion, Kathryn Libby

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Gendering Ceramic Production in Hohokam Society, Anna Mazin

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Monongahela Site Usage in the Late Prehistoric Period As Expressed in the 33ME61 Wansack Site (2-03), Jared Prestenbach
Department: Archaeology

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Mortuary Analysis of Athienou-Malloura, and the Rise of Social Complexity in Archaic Cyprus, Jim Torpy

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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Preservation of the Past: A Comparison of India and the United States, D. Claire Burns

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Preserving the Past: A Comparison Between the United States and India, D. Claire Burns
Department: Archaeology

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Sailing on the Edge: a World-Systems Analysis of Pirates and Privateers in the Atlantic and Caribbean in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Emily Butcher
Department: Archaeology

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Mom, What Are We? Culture Contact Between Maya and Olmec in Pre-Columbian Honduras, Anarrubenia P. Capellin Ortega
Department: Archaeology

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Journey to the New World: a World-Systems Approach to English Colonization at Jamestown, Catherine Gullett
Department: Archaeology

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Journey to the New World: A World-Systems Approach to English Colonization at Jamestown, Catherine E. Gullett

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Consumerism in the Caribbean: A Study of Consumer Trends within the British Colonial Caribbean, Christopher G. Haslam

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Consumerism in the Caribbean: a Study of Consumer Trends Within the British Colonial Caribbean, Christopher Gordon Haslam
Department: Archaeology

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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

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Off with Their Heads: The Use of Human Heads as Trophies in Central and South America, Katie Kowicki

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Off With Their Heads: The Use of Human Heads as Trophies in Central and South America, Katie Kowicki
Department: Archaeology

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Maize and Clay: An Evaluation of Human Dental Health from Preagricultural Subsistene, Claire Riggs Miller

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Mom, What Are We? Culture Contact between Maya and Olmec in Pre-Columbian Honduras, Anarrubenia Capellin Ortega

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Peripheral Settlement Flexibility: An Investigation of Philistine Culture Through World-Systems Ananlysis, Brian Porrett

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Use-Wear Analysis of Monogahela Lithics from the Wansack Site, Jared Prestenbach

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Determining Site Usage of the Orange Township Earthworks in Highbanks Metropark, Delaware, Ohio: Chert and Lithic Analysis, Anastasia Wallace

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Determining Site Usage of the Orange Township Earthworks in Highbanks Metropark, Delaware, Ohio: Chert and Lithic Analysis, Anastasia Wallace
Department: Archaeology

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Why the Plumbata Replaced the Pilum in Rome: A Study of the Thrown Weapons, Pilum and Plumbata, Owen Yeazell

Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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The Man Who Would be King: Legitimization in Migration Period Germanic Vernacular Literature and Mortuary Contexts, W. Brett Arnold

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Challenging Traditional History: A Proposal for Geophysical Investigation at the Historic Wildwood Estate in Beckley, West Virginia, Emily Butcher

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The Historic Built Landscape of The College of Wooster: An Investigation into Architecture, Curriculum, and Memory, Jacob L. Dinkelaker

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The Historic Built Landscape of The College of Wooster: An Investigation into Architecture, Curriculum, and Memory, Jacob L. Dinkelaker

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Interpreting Royal Portrait Stelae as Political Strategy: An Analysis of Iconography and Social Competition at Tikal and Copan, Chelsea R. Fisher

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First Century Judean Synagogue Architecture: How Understandings of Identity, Space, and the Sacred Influenced This Development, Derek Greeley
Department: Archaeology

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First Century Judean Synagogue Architecture: How Understandings of Identity, Space, and the Sacred Influenced this Development, Derek Harry Greeley

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An Evaluation of Jamestown's Participation in England's Trade Network, Catherine Gullett

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Exploring the Significance of Puebloan Cylinder Jars: Evidence of Ancestor Veneration at Pueblo Bonito, Renee Hennemann

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Maya Theatre States, Copan A Case Study, Anarrubenia Capellin Ortega

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Leaving Their Mark: Processualism, Postprocessualism and the Classification of Native American Sacred Space, Rosalind Sawyer

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Beyond Fragile Remanants: Counting the Fibers, Christopher W. Stelter

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How Social Stratification Grew with the Polis, Christopher W. Stelter

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Stewards of Their Own Lands: An Evaluation of Tribal Cultural and Historic Preservation Effectiveness, Sarah Tate
Department: Archaeology

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Stewards of Their Own Lands: An Evaluation of Tribal Cultural and Historic Preservation Effectiveness, Sarah Tate

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An Examination of the Technique of Pollen Analysis, Jon Theisen

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Re-evaluating the Highbanks Metropark Orange Township Earthworks of Central Ohio, Anastasia Wallace

Theses/Dissertations from 2010

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Household Archaeology of the Frankish Period in Greece, Nicole R. Bethel

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Spread of Buddhism: The Spread of Buddhism into China by Examining Buddhist Ritual Sites, Claire Burns

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Factors and Results of Disintegration During Combat: An Examination of the Discrepancy between the Historical and Archaeological Records from the Battle of Saipan during WWII, Stephen Conroy

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The Roman Lead Tesserae, Bill Dalzell

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The Historic Freelander Department Store Building: A Case Study of Historic Preservation Practice in Wooster, Ohio, Jacob L. Dinkelaker

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"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

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The Effects of Climate Change on the Hopewell Cultural Collapse, Will Hansen

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A Comparison of Historical Records with the Archaeological Counterpart at Port Royal, Jamaica, Christopher G. Haslam

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Put On Ice: A Topographical Analysis of Frozen Bone, Katie Kowicki

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Shiny Rocks: Studying the Transition to Horticulture Using the Techniques of Microwear Analysis, Andrew Marley

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Learners in Clay: Assessing Childhood Development and Skill Sets within Woodland Ceramic Manufacture, Erica Prange

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Social Metaphors: An Analysis of Social Structure through a Study of Paracas Textile Motifs, Emma Schmitt

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Social Metaphors: An Analysis of Social Structure through a Study of Paracas Textile Motifs, Emma Schmitt

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Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Sculpture in the Context of Greek Society, Benjamin Stone

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This Land Was Made for You and Me: An Examination of Native Voice in Historic Preservation, Sarah Tate

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The Kingship of Cleopatra VII: Examination of Imperial Propaganda, Elizabeth Terveer

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The Workman's Manual: An Archaeological Field Guide to the Classification, Dating, and Conservation of Ohio's Prehistoric Ceramcis, Rik Workman

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Reconstructing the Paleo-Environment: Holocene Moisture Variability of the Kenai Lowlands, Alaska: Possible Paleoclimate Teleconnection between Driven the American Mid-Continent and North Pacific Driven by Shifts in Atmospheric Circulation, Terry Race Workman

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Excavating Hallowed Ground: An Assessment of the State of American Civil War Battlefield Archaeology, Allison Young

Theses/Dissertations from 2009

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The Manufacturing of Paints and the Mineral Trade in Ptolemaic Egypt: Analysis of Material From the Wooster Mummy, Jenna Arculeo

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The La Tene and its Role in the Germanic People's Transition from Tribes to Chiefdoms, W. Brett Arnold

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A Lasting Impression: The Huns in Europe, Stephen Conroy

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The History of the Neanderthals and Where They Fit Into the Human Ancestral Sequence, Dustin Ryan Gatrell

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The Collapse of the Hopewell Culture and its Relationship to Climate Change, Will Hansen

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Guardian of the Good: The Iconography of the Good Shepard in the Roman Empire, Chloe Haven-Tietze

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Experimental Lithic Microwear Analysis for Later Comparison with Artifacts from Rock Shelters in North-Central Ohio, Andrew Marley

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Function or Style?: Ceramic Manufacturing Advances throughout the Woodland Period, Erica Prange

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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

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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

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The Footprint of Empire: Evidence of the Macedonian Empire in Central Asia, Kathryn Trophia Roberts

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Mounds of Life and Death: An Analysis of Adena and Hopewell Burial Mounds, Rosalind Sawyer

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Social Weaving: An Examination of Ancient Textiles and their Broader Social Relations in Pre-Columbian Peru, Emma Schmitt

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The Road to Salvation: Medieval Pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral, Nora Simon

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Catastrophic Disease and Cultural Perspectives: An Examination of the Art and Archaeology of the 14th Century Black Death in Europe, Elizabeth Terveer

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Relationship of Architectural Energetics and Architectural Symbolism at Selected Sites in Ancient Egypt and Mesoamerica, Karolina M. Walls
Department: Archaeology

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Excavating Public Misconceptions: Old World and New World Archaeology and Bias in the Media, David Walton

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The Relationship of Architectural Energetics and Architectural Symbolism at Selected Sites in Ancient Egypt and Mesoamerica, Karolina M. Wells

Theses/Dissertations from 2008

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A Study of the Effects of the Fourth Crusades on Local Byzantine Households in the Peloponnesus Through the Analysis of Household Materials from the Byzantine and Frankish Periods, Nicole R. Bethel

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Two Sides to the Street: The Dynamics of Maintaining Historical Sites to Promote Economic and Demographic Growth in Wooster's Traditional Downtown District while Preserving Its Local Heritage, Aubrey Brown

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The Impact of the Vikings in the Development of Settlement Types and Patterns in Early Medieval Ireland, Margaret C. Bullock

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Counterfit Coins in Roman Britain, Bill Dalzell

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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

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Putting Her in Her Place: Gender, Archaeology, and the Anglo-Norman Castle, Elizabeth Sand Eckel
Department: Archaeology; History

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No Myths of the Past; Rethinking Power and Control in Core-Periphery Relations through Modern Analogies: an Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Study in Northwestern Honduras, Whitney Goodwin

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Interpreting Africa's Past: the Use of Ekistics and Oral Tradition in the Examination of Great Zimbabwe, Ashley Marie Jirsa
Department: Archaeology

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Interpreting Africa's Past: the use of ekistics and oral tradition in the examination of Great Zimbabwe, Ashley Marie Jirsa

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Welcome to the Past: An Analysis of the Historiography and Archaeology Behind Early Colonial Living History Museums in America, Emily M. Long

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The Influence of Mythology on the Archaeological History of the Palace of Minos on Crete Through Arthur Evans, Kathryn Trophia Roberts

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In Search of a Tomb: An Archaeological Approach to the Location of Alexander the Great, Rik Workman

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Reflections of Strategy and Tactics in the Material Record: An Examination of Battlefield Archaeology in the Pacific Theater of World War II, Allison Young

Theses/Dissertations from 2007

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The Manufacturing of Paints in Ptolemaic Egypt, Jenna Arculeo

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Extended Study of the County Line Cluster of Occupied Rock Shelters in the Killbuck Valley of East-Central Ohio, Aubrey Brown

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Irish Medieval Ecclesiastical Structures, Margaret C. Bullock

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Colossal Portraits of Emperor Augustus, Alicia M. Dissinger

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Excavating the Excavated: Reevaluating the Uhle Textiles for Future Students, Katherine Duffus

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Excavting the Excavated: Reevaluating the Uhle Textiles For Future Studies, Katherine Duffus
Department: Archaeology

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The Worker, the Wife and the Nun: An Examination of the Historical Roles of Peasant Women in 12th-14th Century England, Elizabeth Sand Eckel

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Irish Medieval City Plans: The Location of Central Places Within the Medieval City of Cork, Brittany Rancour

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Household Archaeology and the East Field at Isthmia, Greece: Interpreting Domestic Space at a Ritual Center, Rhian Alissa Stotts

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Stories in the Stone: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Historic Cemeteries in Lewes, Delaware and Wayne County, Ohio, Erin Toohey

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Stories in the Stones: a Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Historic Cemeteries in Lewes, Delaware and Wayne County, Ohio, Erin Toohey
Department: Archaeology