Browsing UW-L Archaeology Senior Theses by Title
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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 ... -
The trade and exchange of ceramics across the medieval middle east during the crusader period : a study of acre and jaffa
(2013)In 1096, the Crusaders set out to for the Levant region in the Middle East in hopes of taking the Holy Land from the Muslim population that resided there. Once the Crusaders settled in the eastern Mediterranean, trade and ... -
Trade or migration? A Study of red-black burnished ware at Tell Qarqur, Syria
(2010)Both trade and migration have been used by archaeologists to explain change in material culture. In particular, archaeologists have interpreted changes in the types of ceramics recovered at archaeological sites as evidence ... -
Trends in prehistoric grayware of the American Southwest as represented by the Chaco Canyon assemblage from Basketmaker III to Pueblo III
(Archaeological Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, 2007-05)The advent of pottery about A.D. 400 among the ancestral Puebloans of Chaco Canyon marked a cultural shift to a more sedentary lifestyle. Chaco Canyon itself flourished from A.D. 1100 until A.D. 1300 when it fell to a ... -
Underwater imaging on the Great Lakes to locate deep wrecks
(Archaeological Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, 2007-05)Commercial Shipping on the Great Lakes began in 1679 with the arrival of the Griffon; the history of Great Lakes shipwrecks began with this same ship in the same year when she failed to reach port after setting sail out ... -
Unity in numbers : the archaeology of the demimonde (1840-1917)
(2008-05)Prostitution served as a logical economic career choice for women in the nineteenth century due to a lack of prosperous labor options. It offered the hope of a modest economic status and autonomy for women despite the ... -
Use of forensic archaeology to investigate genocide
(2008-05)The discipline of forensic archaeology is an essential component in the investigation of genocide. A forensic archaeologist is trained in grave recognition, excavation, and the identification of human remains. They are ...