Theses/Dissertations from 2009
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
Counterfit Coins in Roman Britain, Bill Dalzell
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
The Influence of Mythology on the Archaeological History of the Palace of Minos on Crete Through Arthur Evans, Kathryn Trophia Roberts
In Search of a Tomb: An Archaeological Approach to the Location of Alexander the Great, Rik Workman
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
The Worker, the Wife and the Nun: An Examination of the Historical Roles of Peasant Women in 12th-14th Century England, Elizabeth Sand Eckel
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
Archaeology and Public Communication, David Walton
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
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Political Agenda in Assyrian and Babylonian Sculpture in the First Millennium B.C, Kate Duffus
Colonization of Polynesia: Theories and Evidence, Christin M. Jones
The Celtic Invasion of Ireland: Myth or Fact? Revisiting the Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age Transition, Catherine A. McMahon
Recording the Voices of the Past: An Investigation of the Wayne County Cemetery Preservation Society, Erin Toohey
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Small Scale Spatial Dynamics, Lara Britain
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
Plain and Simple: Health Care Decision-Making Among the Amish and Its Implications on the Process of Cultural Evolution, Cori Philips
Department: Archaeology
Plain and Simple: Health Care Decision-Making among the Amish and its Implications on the Process of Cultural Evolution, Cori Diana Philips
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
Oral Histories of Parishioners of St. Genevive Church, Calmoutier Ohio, Jeanne M. Harrington
Analyzing Residues in Bronze Age Ceramics from Pella of the Decapolis, Hanneke Aaltje Hoekman
Aniconic Images in Ancient Aegean Cultures, Michael Ludwig
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies
The Use of GIS in Archaeology: The Malloura Valley, David Park Massey
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
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
Anglo-Saxon and Romano-British Burial Practices: Signs of Migration and Cultural Interaction, Christopher Jeremy Barney
Department: Archaeology
Implications of Ptolemaic Rule on Traditional Egyptian Culture, Matthew J. Breznai
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies
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
Gravestone Style and Analysis at St. Genevieve Cemetery in Calmoutier, Ohio, Jeanne M. Harrington
Tressie Mcintosh Site, Clinton, Ohio: Using Nineteenth Century Ceramics As Indicators of Socioeconomic Status and Consumer Choice, Aileen Heiser
Department: Archaeology
The Tressie Mcintosh Site, Clinton, Ohio: Using Nineteenth Century Ceramics as Indicators of Socioeconomic Status and Consumer Choice, Aileen N. Heiser
Lithic Analysis of the Action Site (33KN345) and the Millwood Rockshelter (33KN395), Knox County, Ohio: a Study in Methodology, Kimberly House
Department: Archaeology
Archaeology of Mummification and Its Significance in Egyptian Culture, Thomas Frederick Johnson
Department: Archaeology
Who Owns the Past? An Analysis of the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act, Kathryn Joynt
Department: Archaeology
Cultural Affiliation of Serpent Mound, Adams County, Ohio, Leslie Nicole McCluskey
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
Historical Archaeology Analysis of Slave Life on Plantations in Louisiana and Throughout the Southern United States, Amanda Moreland
Department: Archaeology
Translating Theran Wall Paintings, Sarah E. Nichols
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies
Plants as Medicine, Cori Diana Phillips
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2000
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
Thule, Ultimate No More: Ships of Exploration and the Development of the World-System, Heather L. McEwen
A Study of Lithic Biface Manufacturing Traces in the MacCorkle Bifurcate Tradition of Ohio: Investigation into the Atlatl and Dart System, Micahel J. Miller
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
Billman Family As a Case Study of German-American Farming Families in the Archaeological Record, Laura Baird
Department: Archaeology
Settlement Patterns Along the Vermillion and Black Rivers in Lorain County, Ohio and Subsistence Patterns Seen Through Microwear Analysis, Steven Brandes
Department: Archaeology
Etruscans and Rome: A Relation of Influences, Gabriel Califano
Department: Archaeology
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
House of the Vetii at Pompeii, Sarah Conway
Department: Archaeology; Art and Art History
Wooster In Pella: A History of the Site, the Excavations, and the Collection, E. Micahel DiPaolo
Wooster in Pella: a History of the Site, the Excavations, and the Collection, E. Michael DiPaolo
Department: Archaeology
Data Management in the College of Wooster Archaeology Lab: The Acton Database, Aaron Fuleki
Tomb Architecture and PoliticL Development on Crete during the Bronze Age, Kate Joynt
The Water Below: A Study of Salvage Rights and Their Effects on Underwater Archaeology, Micahel P. Krackenberger
Preservation of American Heritage, Carrie Simmons
Department: Archaeology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1998
Examination of Astronomical Alignments As Related to Public and Religious Structures in the Maya Region, Rebecca Crane
Department: Archaeology
Viking Women: An Exploration of Female Roles and Activities in Late Iron Age Scandinavian Society, Ann-Catherine Frederick
Department: History; Archaeology
Phoenician-Punic Tophet: An Analysis of the Evidence Concerning Child Sacrifice, Sarah Harris
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies
Manipulation of Greek and Cypriot Rural Sanctuaries From 1050 to 450 B.C.E., John Oswald
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
A Study of Lithic Projectile Points recovered from a Prehistoric Site in Northern Ohio, Steven Brandes
"Recent" Archaeology: A Look at Cape Henlopen, Delaware, E. Michael DiPaolo
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
Pottery Types of the Protohistoric Ohio Region, Timothy Montbach
Department: Archaeology