Browsing UW-L Archaeology Senior Theses by Title
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Regional variation in Hopewell copper use
(2012)The Hopewell complex arose in the Middle Woodland period around 2000 years ago in the Midwest United States. Conical burial mounds, elaborate artifacts, and acquisition of exotic materials characterized Hopewell. Questions ... -
Religion and Spanish colonialism in the Phillipines
(2013)The indigenous Filipinos had religions of their own long before the arrival of the Spanish. After nearly four-hundred years of Spanish contact in the Philippines, the Filipinos appeared to have adopted Catholicism from ... -
The reuse of monastic materials in post-dissolution contexts at Thornton Abbey
(2013)During the Reformation Period in England, many monasteries were dissolved as a way to remove the Catholic influence from the country. Building materials were removed from the empty monasteries and reused to build new ... -
A review of archaeological public outreach programs : interpreting the past and educating the public about archaeology
(2013)Popular media has had a significant impact on the way the public perceives and interprets the modern discipline of archaeology. As a result, it has become increasingly important for archaeologists to understand how the ... -
Revisiting Seville : the significance of house-yard burials at the Seville Plantation, St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica
(2009-05)The phenomenon of African slave house-yard burials in Jamaica is a rare occurrence. Archaeological excavations in the 1990s on the Seville Plantation site uncovered four separate house-yard burials typical of a distinct ... -
The role of Hellenistic Tell Es-Sweyhat: cultural variation between the core and fringe within the seleucid upper Euphrates
(2012)Cultural interaction and diffusion is a multi-faceted phenomenon, which occurs varyingly in different contexts. The site of Tell es-Sweyhat, located in modern Syria, off the east bank of the Euphrates River, was occupied ... -
Shipwrecked sailing vessels of Wisconsin's Lake Michigan
(2010)There are literally thousands of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes. Near the eastern coast of Wisconsin, hundreds of these wrecks lay on the bottom of Lake Michigan. This paper examines the shipwrecked sailing vessels of ... -
Shipwrecked? Defining the St. Augustine storm wreck
(2013)This is a comparative study of the storm wreck site in St. Augustine, Fl. The purpose of this study is to better define what kind of site the storm wreck is. I looked at three different types of maritime sites; shipwreck, ... -
Significance of classic Maya ceramic vessels in feasting
(2009-05)Within the past few years, many Maya archaeologists have addressed the significance of feasting in ancient Maya society and the way in which this ritual can be identified through the use of special ceramic vessels. The use ... -
Small mammal component of the Gottschall Rockshelter (47Ia80) : environmental reconstruction and an analysis of possible owl/raptor influenced taphonomic processes
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Solar alignments and the ritual structures of neolithic Orkney
(2012)The Neolithic period arrived around 4000 B.C. in Britain, along with pottery, domestication of animals and plants, and a burial mound tradition from Continental Europe. This tradition quickly spread throughout the British ... -
South American camelids in Central Andean religious practices
(2010)This paper focuses on using ethno-historic and ethnographic sources in order to determine if these works are able to assist with interpreting what is found archaeologically. It looks at the uses of South American camelids ... -
Special burial practices for suicide in North America
(Archaeological Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, 2007-05)Extensive previous research has been done to compare methods of burial between societies, but little has been done to observe variation within a society as relating to one method of death: suicide. This paper will focus ... -
Stasis in the population of Metaponto : analysis of environment, health, and political unrest
(2013)The Greek colony of Metaponto offers an invaluable insight to the study of both rural and urban populations. Analysis of population is an important study to be able to examine social, political, and economic impacts ... -
Stones, bones, and antler tines : a comparison of midwest arrow points
(2013)Cultures in the Midwest such as the Mississippian and Oneota crafted projectiles from raw materials ranging from local stone to exotic materials, bone and antler. This thesis is a study of differences in the nature of raw ... -
Strategic middlemen: ?b Monongahela, Mohawk, and Meskwaki settlements in a trade landscape
(2012)North America was home to a vast set of trade networks both prehistorically and historically. In several instances key passages within these networks were controlled by societies who acted as middlemen. This position allowed ... -
Stylistic variation in Moche and Nasca iconography
(2011)Two of the most well-known ancient Peruvian populations, the Moche and Nasca, have been viewed as contemporary yet with little in common by most archaeologists and historians alike. With the differences of these societies ... -
Subsistence strategies of the Oneota tradition in Southwestern Wisconsin : a nutritional profile
(2013)In the La Crosse region, the Oneota people utilized a variety of wild animal and plant resources, as well as their own domesticated plants. Did this population suffer from nutrition related diseases or were there any ... -
Terrestrial and aquatic mollusks as environmental indicators at the Brogley Rockshelter, Grant County, Wisconsin
(2008-05)The Brogley rockshelter (47Gt156) is an archaeological site located in southwestern Wisconsin's Driftless Area. It has both an Archaic and Woodland human occupation which, after excavation, resulted in the discovery of a ... -
Tiwanaku ceramic style and its influence on theory, interpretation, and conclusions of Andean archaeologists
(Archaeological Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, 2007)This paper investigates the interpretation of ceramic style in the context of Andean Archaeology. I will focus specifically on the ceramics of the Tiwanaku people that occupied the Lake Titicaca Basin for nearly a thousand ...