Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"eastern woodlands"”.
-
People, Places, and Plants: An Appraisal of Subsistence, Technology and Sedentism in the Eastern Woodlands
… prehistoric human populations inhabiting the Eastern Woodlands by considering how increasing reliance on cultivated foods during the Holocene led to economic circumstances in which investment in the specialization of plant-food processing tools was beneficial. It further identifies that tool …
-
Crow History 1700-1950: A Political and Social Battle to Retain their Culture
… I examine the movement of the Crows from eastern woodlands onto the Northern Plains, with an emphasis on the separation from the parent tribe. I argue the Crow purposely create a new and unique maternally based social and familial kinship system because of the separation from the parent …
-
Paleopathology at the Shady Grove Site (22QU525): A Study of Health in the Upper Yazoo Basin During the Middle Mississippian Period
… As agriculture spread throughout the Eastern Woodlands, it led to widespread health consequences, including poor nutrition and increased levels of infection. Also, environmental shifts during the Mississippian Period (AD 1000-1539) caused drier conditions, potentially leading to crop …
-
Community as assemblage in the Late Cahokian hinterlands
This dissertation is a study of how community emerged and affected the decline of Cahokia, the largest pre-Columbian city north of Mexico. Cahokia’s rapid rise (ca. 1050 CE) entailed the coalescence of community among a diverse population. This new community, which formed a Cahokian identity, was …
-
From the Mouths of Babes: Using Incremental Enamel Microstructures to Evaluate the Applicability of the Moorrees Method of Dental Formation to the Estimation of Age of Prehistoric Native American Children
This dissertation assesses 1) the appropriateness of applying traditional dental aging methods derived from a Euro-American population to prehistoric Native Americans from the Ohio Valley and 2) the utility of incremental microstructures of dental enamel. Enamel microstructures such as perikymata …