Browsing UW-L Archaeology Senior Theses by Title
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Intersite and intrasite analysis of Mississippian sites of the Northern Hinterlands
(2010)Over the past one hundred and fifty years scholars interested in the past have pondered over the settlements of Mississippian peoples throughout the Midwestern United States. Many excavations and studies have been undertaken ... -
The Israelites in Egypt : an archaeological outlook on the biblical Exodus tradition
(2011)During the past few decades the reliability of historical texts, especially the Bible, has been questioned by scholars and archaeologists. This paper analyzes indirect archaeological and historical evidence from Egypt and ... -
Late prehistoric bone marrow extraction : a case study in western Wisconsin
(2009-05)The Swennes Upper Garden Terrace site (47Lc333) in La Crosse County, Wisconsin has been the location of multiple excavations by the Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse since 1995. ... -
Lithic analysis of Cade 3 (47Ve630) in Vernon County, Wisconsin
(2008-05)Cade 3 is one of several archaeological sites located within the Cade National Register Archaeological District, located in the Bad Axe River Valley in Vernon County, Wisconsin. This site was partially excavated in the ... -
Looking for the past in the present : ethnoarchaeology of plant utilization in rural Bolivia
(2009-05)Ethnoarchaeology is a still developing field of anthropology, where the methods of ethnography and archaeology are combined to interpret archaeological findings and generate and test hypotheses. Ethnobotany is the study ... -
A macroscopic analysis of lithics from the eastern Driftless : what is local?
(2016-09-16)Lithic sourcing is a common practice used by archaeologists in order to investigate mobility and trade. The lithic material available within the Driftless Area of Wisconsin exhibits a wide degree of variation in color, ... -
Mass burials of the Holocaust
(2013)During the Holocaust, an estimated six million Jews as well as other groups, were killed and disposed of in mass graves. While archaeological investigations have been done at Holocaust sites, none of them have included a ... -
Mayan medicine : rituals and plant use by Mayan ah-men
(2013)Mayan civilization is a great example of a culture that was able to live off of the land and thrive using the resources around them. This paper looks at ah-men healers in Classic Mayan societies. It examines the plants ... -
Mechanics of bipedalism : an exploration of skeletal morphology and force plate analysis
(Archaeological Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, 2007-05)There are several theories on how humans learned to walk, and while these all address the adaptations needed for walking, none adequately describes how our early ancestors developed the mechanism to walk. Our earliest ... -
Mesolithic health and subsistence at Langhnaj and Mahadaha, India
(2012)The late Mesolithic period in India saw the emergence of agriculture in the Harappan civilization. From here agriculture spread east and south replacing hunting and gathering. Health throughout the world changed as agriculture ... -
The missing link: an examination of skin clothing production of north central plains Native Americans
(2011)Deer hides are one of the most commonly used materials for clothing production among the prehistoric Northern Great Plains peoples. Richard Michael Gramly?s 1977 article, Deerskins and Hunting Territories: Competition for ... -
Mithraism : archaeological evidence of the spread and change of a Roman cult religion
(2008-05)The cult of Mithraism is generally well-known in circles concerning Roman history and archaeology. The set of beliefs embodied by this cult transformed very rapidly when adopted by the Romans. This adoption most likely ... -
Modelling settlement location in the Troad using geographic information systems
(2013)The Hellenic period began around 2,700 years ago in the Troad. This was followed after a short period of turmoil by the Hellenistic around 2,200 years ago. These periods are characterized by the introduction of Greek culture ... -
Mount Vernon: of workers and race.
(2010)The domestic artifacts of the Mount Vernon distillery site offer data on the lives of white workers. In comparing the domestic glass and ceramic artifacts of the distillery with comparable glass and ceramic data found ... -
New thoughts on the trade of lapis lazuli in the ancient near east : c. 3000 - 2000 B.C.
(2010)The trade of lapis lazuli in the ancient Near East has been one of continuous interest over the past forty years. It has been theorized that the semi-precious stone, which occurs naturally in modern-day Afghanistan, reached ... -
Norse cultural reaction to climate change during the little ice age and their societal collapse in Greenland
(2013)This study aims to understand the adaptations of the Norse Greenlanders to climate change in their new home. In hopes of understanding the changes thoroughly, a multi-disciplinary study will be used. The aim of this study ... -
Nubian a-group and Egyptian Naqada trade relations in the predynastic
(2012)The archaeological study of interregional trade provides the unique opportunity to reconstruct not only the foreign relations of cultures that are no longer in existence, but also how these relations evolved over extended ... -
The officer corps in Roman Britain
(2013)This thesis explores the level of change in the Roman officer corps in Britain from A.D. 43 to 410. This is a period of conquest and stability operations followed by a slow withdraw of the Roman military presence on the ... -
Origin and spread of rice cultivation within the Yangtze River Valley, southern China
(Archaeological Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, 2007-05)The purpose of this paper is to provide a description of the origin and spread of rice cultivation within the Yangtze River Valley. The region of eastern China, particularly the Yangtze River is thought to be the point ... -
Paleopathological interpretation of trepanima pallidum in 18th century crypt assemblages from Christ Church, St. Luke & St. George, London
(2010)This paper covers both the osteological and paleopathological interpretation of three crypt assemblages from Christ Church, St Luke and St George London. Each of the three sites had varying numbers of individuals analyzed. ...