The full text of Senior Independent Study Theses submitted during and after 2012 are available to download only by College of Wooster users. Unless listed as an exemplar, all other theses are restricted.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2007

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The Relationship of Architectural Energetics and Architectural Symbolism at the Mayan Site of Copan, Honduras, Karolina M. Walls

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Archaeology and Public Communication, David Walton

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This Should Be in a Museum! the Illegal Trade in Chinese Antiquities and What Can Be Done to Stop It, Andrew Womack
Department: Archaeology

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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

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Analysis of Three Structures and their Function at the site of Las Canoas, Honduras, Lara Britain

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Living on the Edge: Residential Structures in El Cafetal, El Parasio Valley, Honduras, Whitney Goodwin

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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

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Analysis of Ceramics from the Malloura Valley of Central Cyprus to Determine Social and Economic Change During the Late Roman Period, Christian M. Jones

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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

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"On We Sweep, with Threshing Oar, Our Only Goal Will be the Western Shore!" An Analysis of the Norse Presence in North America at L'Anse aux Meadows, in Relation to the Vinland Sagas, Emily Long

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Celtic Invasion of Ireland: Myth or Fact? Revisiting the Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age Transition, Catherine McMahon
Department: Archaeology

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The Celtic Invasion of Ireland: Myth or Fact? Revisiting the Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age Transition, Catherine Ambie McMahon

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The Syncretism of Pagan and Christian Beliefs in the Eastern Roman Empire as Shown Through Floor Mosaics, Rhian Alissa Stotts

Theses/Dissertations from 2005

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Political Agenda in Assyrian and Babylonian Sculpture in the First Millennium B.C, Kate Duffus

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Colonization of Polynesia: Theories and Evidence, Christin M. Jones

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The Celtic Invasion of Ireland: Myth or Fact? Revisiting the Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age Transition, Catherine A. McMahon

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Recording the Voices of the Past: An Investigation of the Wayne County Cemetery Preservation Society, Erin Toohey

Theses/Dissertations from 2004

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Small Scale Spatial Dynamics, Lara Britain

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Residue Analysis of Ceramics From Late Byzantine and Mediaeval Contexts at Pella, Jordan, Hanneke Aaltje Hoekman
Department: Archaeology; Chemistry

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Settlement Dynamics of Central Cyprus: a Gis Analysis, David Massey
Department: Archaeology

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Wayne County Cemeteries, Aaron Orszag
Department: Archaeology

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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

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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

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Conflict, Warfare, and Viewshed Analysis: the Pueblo III Period in the Silver Creek Drainage, East-Central Arizona, Leslie Nicole McCluskey
Department: Archaeology; Geology

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Plain and Simple: Health Care Decision-Making Among the Amish and Its Implications on the Process of Cultural Evolution, Cori Philips
Department: Archaeology

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Plain and Simple: Health Care Decision-Making among the Amish and its Implications on the Process of Cultural Evolution, Cori Diana Philips

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Silent Houses: An Examination of Social and Economic Pressures Present in Residential Architecture During the Classic/Postclassic Transition in El Coyote, Honduras, Georlin Denise Thorne
Department: Archaeology

Theses/Dissertations from 2002

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Oral Histories of Parishioners of St. Genevive Church, Calmoutier Ohio, Jeanne M. Harrington

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Analyzing Residues in Bronze Age Ceramics from Pella of the Decapolis, Hanneke Aaltje Hoekman

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Aniconic Images in Ancient Aegean Cultures, Michael Ludwig
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies

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The Use of GIS in Archaeology: The Malloura Valley, David Park Massey

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May His Shoul Be Bound up in the Bond of Eternal Life: Religious and Ethnic Self-Identity at the Ashne Hesed Cemetery, Erie, Pennsylvania, Heather L. McEwan
Department: Archaeology

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Lithic Reduction Strategy of the Archaic: Manufacturing and Use Traces in the Maccorkle Bifurcate Tradition of Ohio, Michael J. Miller
Department: Archaeology

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2001

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Anglo-Saxon and Romano-British Burial Practices: Signs of Migration and Cultural Interaction, Christopher Jeremy Barney
Department: Archaeology

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Implications of Ptolemaic Rule on Traditional Egyptian Culture, Matthew J. Breznai
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies

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Combining Archaeological Databases, Geographic Information Systems, and Multimedia Digital Reconstruction; An Application of the Modern Archaeology Lab in Settlement Pattern Analysis, Aaron Fuleki
Department: Archaeology

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Gravestone Style and Analysis at St. Genevieve Cemetery in Calmoutier, Ohio, Jeanne M. Harrington

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Tressie Mcintosh Site, Clinton, Ohio: Using Nineteenth Century Ceramics As Indicators of Socioeconomic Status and Consumer Choice, Aileen Heiser
Department: Archaeology

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The Tressie Mcintosh Site, Clinton, Ohio: Using Nineteenth Century Ceramics as Indicators of Socioeconomic Status and Consumer Choice, Aileen N. Heiser

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Lithic Analysis of the Action Site (33KN345) and the Millwood Rockshelter (33KN395), Knox County, Ohio: a Study in Methodology, Kimberly House
Department: Archaeology

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Archaeology of Mummification and Its Significance in Egyptian Culture, Thomas Frederick Johnson
Department: Archaeology

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Who Owns the Past? An Analysis of the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act, Kathryn Joynt
Department: Archaeology

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Cultural Affiliation of Serpent Mound, Adams County, Ohio, Leslie Nicole McCluskey

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Future Is in the Leaves, But the Present Is in the Pot: Reflections of Political, Economic, and Ideological Changes of the Ming Dynasty in Yixing Teapots, Crystal Miller
Department: Archaeology

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Historical Archaeology Analysis of Slave Life on Plantations in Louisiana and Throughout the Southern United States, Amanda Moreland
Department: Archaeology

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Translating Theran Wall Paintings, Sarah E. Nichols
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies

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Plants as Medicine, Cori Diana Phillips

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2000

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It's Not the Size of the Road; It's What You Do With It: A Study on the Effects of Transportation Routes and Trade on the Romanization of Gaul, Michael P. Krackenberger
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies

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Thule, Ultimate No More: Ships of Exploration and the Development of the World-System, Heather L. McEwen

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A Study of Lithic Biface Manufacturing Traces in the MacCorkle Bifurcate Tradition of Ohio: Investigation into the Atlatl and Dart System, Micahel J. Miller

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Lithics and Prehistoric Economy in Knox County, Ohio: A Lithic Debitage Analysis From the Acton Site (33Kn395), Jonathan Vanderplough
Department: Archaeology

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1999

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Billman Family As a Case Study of German-American Farming Families in the Archaeological Record, Laura Baird
Department: Archaeology

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Settlement Patterns Along the Vermillion and Black Rivers in Lorain County, Ohio and Subsistence Patterns Seen Through Microwear Analysis, Steven Brandes
Department: Archaeology

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Etruscans and Rome: A Relation of Influences, Gabriel Califano
Department: Archaeology

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Testing the Possibilities: A World-Systems Perspective on Interaction Between Mesoamerica and the Southeastern United States and the Development of the Mississippian Culture, Jody Clauter
Department: Archaeology

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House of the Vetii at Pompeii, Sarah Conway
Department: Archaeology; Art and Art History

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Wooster In Pella: A History of the Site, the Excavations, and the Collection, E. Micahel DiPaolo

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Wooster in Pella: a History of the Site, the Excavations, and the Collection, E. Michael DiPaolo
Department: Archaeology

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Data Management in the College of Wooster Archaeology Lab: The Acton Database, Aaron Fuleki

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Tomb Architecture and PoliticL Development on Crete during the Bronze Age, Kate Joynt

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The Millwood Rockshelter (33-KN-395), Knox County, Ohio: A Study of Exchange and Settlement Through Sourcing of Raw Materials, Russ Kohrs

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The Water Below: A Study of Salvage Rights and Their Effects on Underwater Archaeology, Micahel P. Krackenberger

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Preservation of American Heritage, Carrie Simmons
Department: Archaeology

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1998

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Examination of Astronomical Alignments As Related to Public and Religious Structures in the Maya Region, Rebecca Crane
Department: Archaeology

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Viking Women: An Exploration of Female Roles and Activities in Late Iron Age Scandinavian Society, Ann-Catherine Frederick
Department: History; Archaeology

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Phoenician-Punic Tophet: An Analysis of the Evidence Concerning Child Sacrifice, Sarah Harris
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies

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Manipulation of Greek and Cypriot Rural Sanctuaries From 1050 to 450 B.C.E., John Oswald
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies

Theses/Dissertations from 1997

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A Study of Lithic Projectile Points recovered from a Prehistoric Site in Northern Ohio, Steven Brandes

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A Comparison of Reconstruction and Experimental Archaeology at SunWatch Archaeological Park (33-MY-57) and Cahokia Mounds State Park (11-MS-38), Jody Clauter

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"Recent" Archaeology: A Look at Cape Henlopen, Delaware, E. Michael DiPaolo

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Analysis of a Mastodon Trackway Located Near Saline, Michigan, and Its Implications For the Systematic Hunting of Mastodon By Paleo-Indians, William Hubbard
Department: Archaeology; Geology

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Pottery Types of the Protohistoric Ohio Region, Timothy Montbach
Department: Archaeology

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God's Golden Box: the Role of the Ark of the Covenant As a Relic Within Both Ancient and Modern Societies, Erik Lars Peterson
Department: Archaeology

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Roots of Denial:The Link Between the Material Culture and Cultural Ideologies of the Victorian, Great Depression, and World War II Eras as Embodies in Mortuary Monuments at the Wooster Cemetary, Anna Roth

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Examination of the Collapse of the Anasazi Civilization in the Chaco Canyon Region, Terressa Skinner
Department: Archaeology

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1996

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Analysis and Interpretation of the Aurelian Column, David Carew
Department: Archaeology

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Space Matters: The Maya Articulation of Myth and Cosmology as Represented in the Spatial Elements of Building Construction and City Planning: The Example of the Ball Court Sector of Late Classic La Sierra, Garrett W. Silliman

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Space Matters: The Maya Articulation of Myth and Cosmology as represented in the Spatial Elements of Building Construction and City Planning: The Example of the Ball Court Sector of Late Classic La Sierra, Garrett W. Silliman

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Arthurian Legend Revisited: the Archaeological Investigation and Historical Resolution of the Figure of King Arthur in Dark Age Britain, Jennifer Szemer
Department: Archaeology

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Warriors and Farmers: the Expansion of Scandinavia Between 800 and 1100, Damien Seattle Tietjen
Department: Archaeology

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Report of the Excavations at the Norman Cullison Site: a Protohistoric Village in Coshocton County, Ohio, Andrew Vellenga
Department: Archaeology

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1995

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Evolution of Medical Practices Before the Fall of the Roman Empire, Laurie Warneke
Department: Archaeology

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1994

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Tlingit Art and Archaeology, Christopher Caputo
Department: Archaeology

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Scientific Archaeological Method, Oral Narrative, and Advice Literature: a Multidisciplinary Approach to Interpreting the Material Culture of Rural America, Anamaria Mihalega
Department: History; Archaeology

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Reconstruction of the Paleotopographic and Paleogeologic Landscape Including An Archaeological Spatial Component Within a One By Three Kilometer Area Containing the Akrotiri Excavation on Thera in the Southern Aegean Sea, Marcus Pillion
Department: Archaeology; Geology

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1993

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Cult of Yahweh: An Archaeological Perspective, Eric Dyrhsen
Department: Archaeology

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Search For a Pre-Clovis Occupation of the Americas, John Esson III
Department: Archaeology

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1992

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Treasures of the Earth, Moon, and Sun: An Archaeological Study of the Items Associated With the Roman Mystery Cults of Cybele, Isis, and Mithras, Gary DeVore
Department: Archaeology

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1989

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Archaeoastronomical Features in the Maya Civilization, Christopher McLaren
Department: Archaeology