m.a. thesis titles 1960-today

Anthropology Students and MA Theses at SIUCMA Degree

yearLast Name First Name MA Chair MA Thesis Title

1960Abbott Ellen Kelley An Analysis of Mercado Red-on-cream: a Diagnostic Ceramic Grouping of the Ayala Phase of the Chalchihuites Culture

1961Peithman Russell Kelley Cultural History and Significance of Nayar White-on-Red

1964Hobgood John Riley Chalma, A Study in Directed Cultural Change

1964Manak Joseph Riley Western Apache Warfare and Raiding

1965Folan William Taylor The Sacred Cenote of Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico

1967Abbass Donna MacLachlan European Hats Appearing in Benin Art

1967Kessel Ralph Wagner Age Symbolization in Melanesia: A Study in Alliance and Dramaturgical Theories

1967Palmer Marianne Sue Kelley A Petrographic Analysis of Two Middle Mississippian Pottery Types

1967Ward David Kelley A Study of Canutillo Red-Filled Engraved Pottery

1970Lien Cheng-sing J Maring Double Unilineal Descent in a Taiwan Aboriginal Society

1970Ward Comer Walker The Economy as a Self-Regulating System: Baxthe, Mexico, a Case in Point (research paper)

1971Iseminger William Kelley Archaeological Investigations in the Kinkaid Creek Valley, Jackson County, Illinois

1971Liu Ellen Maring, J A Study of the Decline of Chinese Lineages in Taiwan and Hong Kong

1971Thongthew Somchintana Maring, J Genealogy and Political Structure of the Thais, 1620-1910: An Anthropological Assessment

1972Abbass Mazin Maring, J Skipping School: A Social Interaction Analysis

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1972Brieschke Walter Riley A Bibliography of Illinois Archaeology

1972Luck Michael Cook The Preliminary Foundation of Puluwatan Navigational Cognition

1972Moore Bruce Kelly On Hypothesis: Some Implications for Archaeology

1972Morgan John Muller Culture History or Culture Process: Disjunctive Archaeology

1972Schwerdtfeger Dale J Maring A Unified Approach to Rural Japanese Studies

1972Stocker Terrance Muller The Meaning of Crescent-shaped Eccentrics at Tula

1973Belmont Laura Altschuler Seminole Kinship System and Clan Interaction

1973Daly Mary Kathleen Riley Architecture and Church Furnishings of the Rio Grande Pueblos: A Problem in Differential Acculturation

1973Lafferty Robert Muller An Analysis of Prehistoric Southeastern Fortifications

1973Pickering Robert Kelly A Preliminary Report on the Osteological Material from Alta Vista, Zacatecas

1974Cairo James Cook In Our Own Image: A Physiological Theory of Religion

1974Dennis Deborah Gumerman The Origins of the Anasazi Development

1974Petraki Henri-Christian Riley The Origin of Wheat Agriculture in Southwest Asia

1974Prigge Daniel Maring, J The Influence of Religion on Social Participation in a Southern Illinois Community

1974Schindler Seth Dark The Subsistence Ecology, Sociospatial Organization, and Quality of Hunting-Gathering Adaptations, with Special Reference to the King Bushmen of Botswana

1975Ginsburg Ellen MacLachlan Peasants in Transition: The Process of Integration of a Peasant Part-Society Into the Larger Society of Modern Portugal


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1975Hofmann Jerry Maring, J The Conceptual Logic : A Unified Language for Anthropology and the Sciences

1975Jereb James Dark A Comparative Study of the Traditional Artists in Five African Societies

1975Nieman Janice Ann Maring, J Education: A Panacea to Poverty?

1975Schart William Riley Chaco Canyon: The History of an Archaeological Monument

1976Baumgartner Richard MacLachlan The Nosological Placement of Windigo: A Comparative Study in Western and Non-Western Theories of Mental Disorder

1976Chai Sally Dark A Study of the Sexual Division of Labor of the Yoruba and Hausa

1976Connelly Debra Cook A Model for Political Analysis in Oceania

1976Deutchman Haree Lynn Gumerman Attribute Analysis of Toreva Phase Ceramic Design Variability

1976Durall Wilma Handler Kinship Closeness in Southern Illinois

1976Nast Jo Anne Dark The Sources and Uses of Color Among the Central Algonquian and Winnebago

1976Pulcher Ronald E Riley Final Report on the "Delta Mine Expansion" Archaeological Survey, Saline County, Illinois (research paper)

1976Reed Ellen MacLachlan American Indian Migration

1976Waters Anne MacLachlan Innovative Mechanisms and Variation in Bicyclists’ Use of Traffic Rules

1977Grove Laurel Gumerman A Study of Contract Archaeology

1977Gunsell Lana Thomas U.S. Government Policies as Community Development Approaches For American Indians

1977Klesert Anthony Gumerman An Analysis of Intra-Site Ceramic Design Variability


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1977Layhe Robert Gumerman A Multivariate Approach for Estimating Prehistoric Population Change Black Mesa, Northeastern Arizona

1977Lopinot Neal Gumerman A Partial Independent Archaeobotanical Test of an Archaic Model: A Case Study for Northwestern New Mexico

1977Malone Martin Cook A Folk Taxonomy of Psychotropic Drugs

1977Romero Maria Handler Peasant Society and Revolution: Comparative Perspectives in Bolivia and Peru

1977Rudolph James Muller Experimental Replication of the Effects of Agriculture on an Archeological Site

1977Sessions Steven Gumerman Culture Change and Periodic Adaptive Dynamics Measured in Biological Growth

1977Synenki Alan Gumerman Explaining the Relationship Between Surface and Subsurface Remains: A Multivariate Approach

1978Catlin Mark Plog The Function of Limited Activity Sites in Subsistence-Settlement Systems on Black Mesa, Arizona

1978Dickerson Donna Riley A Study of Ceramic Figurines From Palenque, Chiapas (research paper)

1978Eckles Jo Dee MacLachlan Job Opportunities for the GA Graduate in Anthropology

1978Holley George Muller Mississippian Agriculture at Kincaid : An Economic Approach

1978Kastl Richard Maring, E A Study of Four Jackson County, Illinois Cemeteries

1978Maruszak Kathleen Gumerman The National Register Within the Illinois Archaeological Preservation Program

1979Bagley Kathy Gumerman Towards a Functional Classification of Non-Ceremonial Structures on Black Mesa, NE Arizona

1979Chang Zue-Wan Maring, J The Acculturative Process of Chinese Immigrants in Chicago


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1979Eckles David Plog Sources of Bias in the Analysis of Faunal Remains from Black Mesa, Arizona

1979Klein Terry Gumerman Methods for Perceiving Social Group Size Change on Black Mesa, Arizona

1979Ravesloot John Gumerman The Animas Phase: The Post Classic Mimbres Occupation of the Mimbres Valley, New Mexico

1980Fernstrom Katharine Braun The Effect of Ecological Fluctuations of Exchange Networks, Black Mesa, Arizona

1980Paul Keltie-Jean MacLachlan Navajo Parental Transactions: A Theory of Child Exchange

1980Stephens Jeanette Butler Archaeological Testing for the Route 4 Realignment F.A. P. 68, Madison County, Illinois

1980Whitley L. Darrell Handler Cooperative Labor in the Caribbean: Analysis of Its Occurrence and Disappearance

1981Bearden Susan Riley Preceramic Settlement and Subsistence on Northern Black Mesa, Northeastern Arizona: An Initial Evaluation

1981Blomberg Belinda Riley Material Correlates of Increasing Sedentism: The Black Mesa Navajo

1981Burnam Susan Riley Sampling in Surveys of Vernacular Architecture

1981De La Cruz Ellen Braun Costa Rican Mace Heads: Their Symbolic Significance and Role in Information Exchange

1981Hargrave Michael Braun Woodland Ceramic Chronometry and Occupational Intensity at the Carrier Mills Archaeological District, Saline County, Illinois

1981Larsen Dawn Corruccini An Analysis of Possible Relationships between Stress Indicators in the Carrier Mills Skeletal Population

1981Manson Joni Riley Migration and Colonization: The Perils of Polynesia


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1981Miller Melissa Corruccini The Role of Postcranial Nonmetric Traits in Carrier Mills, Illinois Burials

1981Moore Kurt MacLachlan From Craftsman to Artist: Changes in the Position of the Blacksmith in Twentieth Century American Culture

1981Perry-Rudolph Teresa Muller The Distribution of Late Woodland Sites in the Black Bottom Area, Pope and Massac Counties, Illinois

1981Powell Terry Muller An Archaeological Study of Burned Structures at the Orendorf Site, Fulton County, Illinois

1981Reed Pamela MacLachlan Variability in Gray Ware Ceramics, Black Mesa, Arizona

1981Seme Michele Riley Methodology in Archaeological Faunal Analysis, An Example from Black Mesa, Arizona

1982Gould Robin Gumerman Site Differentiation Through a Functional Ceramic Typology: A Case Study from Perry Mesa, Arizona

1982Karosas John Corruccini A Reconsideration of the Skull from Nowosiolka and Its Possible Affinities to the Classic Neanderthals

1982May Ernest Rands Archaeological Geology: Problems in the Identification of Chert Types and Source Areas

1982Whitecotton Stephen Gumerman Modeling Effective Archaeological Contract Organizations

1983Avery George Muller Salt, Pots, and Diet: Replication Studies of Late Prehistoric Shell-Tempered Ceramics

1983Cody Patricia Muller The Development of Sedentism: A Test Case

1983Penny JoAnne Muller The Raw and the Cooked: Nutritional Evaluation of a Prehistoric Mississippian Diet

1983Robinson Cathy Braun The Effect of Sedentism on Exchange Activity in the Midwestern Late Archaic


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1983Sink Clifton Gumerman Site Catchment Analysis of Selected Habitation Sites on Black Mesa, Northeastern Arizona

1983Wagner Suzanne Butler State Historic Preservation Programs: Toward a Method for Reviewing Accomplishments in Archaeology

1984Hendel Christopher Maring, J Tourism as an Agent of Change: The Khumbu Region of Northeastern Nepal as a Case Study

1984Hutto Marguerite Braun An Examination of Ethnic Level Stylistic Variability in some Crab Orchard Projectile Points

1984Masquelíer Adeline Kurin Three Theories of American Kinship : An Empirical Analysis

1984Sizemore James Corruccini A Social Epidemiology of Rheumatoid Arthritis in Southern Illinois

1984Stravopodi Helen Corruccini The Phylogenetic Position of Petralona Skull and Its Dating Implication

1984Travers Jerome Muller Analysis of Prehistoric Musical Behavior in the Eastern United States

1985Bargielski Monica Rands Color and Chemical Composition in Palenque Ceramics: An Experiment in Methodology

1985Cichy Kelly Handler The Function of Gossip in Small Communities

1985Fuerst David Gumerman A Functional Analysis of the Chipped Stone from Early Puebloan Habitation Sties on Black Mesa

1985Miles Jo Ellen Rands A Functional Analysis of Black Mesa Ceramics

1985Parmenter Stephen Corruccini The Structural Demography of Himalayan Fraternal Polyandry and the Demographic Consequences of Adaptation to High Elevation

1985Ritter Elizabeth Corruccini Dietary Differences from Dental Features of Carrier Mills, Illinois Burials


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1986Gill Pritmohinder Corruccini A Demogenetic Study of the Lowland Rajput Population (research paper)

1986Jacobi Keith Gumerman An Examination of Population Mobility Through the Mortuary Record at Black Mesa, Northeastern Arizona

1986Pauketat Timothy Muller Predicting Occupation Span From Ceramic Refuse: A Case Study from the American Bottom

1986Tindall Randall Ford An Electromyographical Study of the Palmaris Longus Muscle

1987Geisler Elke Bender/Schmeck Cross Cultural Measurement of Cognitive/Learning Styles and Related Personality Traits: A Comparative Study of American, German and Chinese College Students

1987Holt Brigitte Ford An Evaluation of Rates of Change in Homo erectus

1987Sant Mark Butler "Fine-Grained" Functional Variability Within Cibola Whiteware Ceramics From the Mt. Taylor Region, New Mexico

1988Maring Lillian Hill Shunka: The Tradition of Japanese Erotic Folksong

1988Thieme Donald Gumerman Patches and Plots: The Relationship Between Local Land and Water Resources and Corn Farming on Northern Black Mesa, Arizona

1989Bloom Jonathan Muller A Spatial Analysis of Faunal Remains from the Bonnie Creek Site (21C4-46), A Mississippian Homestead in Interior Southern Illinois

1989Gemignani Christine Hill Rethinking Mt. Kaata: An Analysis of Ritual and Social Organization in an Andean Highland Ayllu

1990Fishel Richard Muller An Analysis of Mississippian Jar Rim Angles From the Central Illinois River Valley

1990Koldehoff Brad Butler Household Specialization: The Organization of Mississippian Chipped-Stone-Tool Production


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1991Kovacik Joseph Teltser Microartifacts from the Plowzone: A Middle Woodland Application in Southern Illinois

1991Martin William Muller A Functional Analysis and Comparison of Three Mississippian Period Ceramic Assemblages from the Black Bottom of Southern Illinois, Pope and Massac Counties

1991McClinton Leslie Corruccini Africanity (or African Philosophy) and Its Effect on the Fertility of Africans and African Americans

1991McLorg Penelope Corruccini Internal and External Measurements of the Humerus: Implications for the Study of Osteoporosis

1991McNamara Teresa Butler Molluscan Exploitation in the Late Prehistoric and Early Historic Periods of Belau, an Analysis of Small Shell Middens on Babeldaob Island

1991Ross James Bender A Preliminary Attempt at the Reconstruction of Proto-Eastern Sudanic Phonology and Lexicon

1992Meyerson (now Ross) Julie Corruccini Premenstrual Syndrome : Clinical Disorder or Cultural Construction?

1992Schmechel Arlene Corruccini Pre-Adaptation and Origin of Aleuts

1993Hobbs David Ford Method and Theory in the Classification of the Platyrrhini: A Review of the Recent Literature, and a Proposed Revision in the Methodology of Cladistic Analysis (research paper)

1993Leavens David Ford Systematics of the Snub-Nosed Monkey: Rhinopithecus (research paper)

1993Rich Ron Adams From Outside the Law : Southern Illinois Women in Inheritance, 1819-1890

1993Titus Steve Smiley Prepared Core Technology at the Thornton Site : a Crab Orchard Tradition Base Camp in the Southern Illinois Interior

1993Zhou Liming Corruccini Peking Man (Woman): Hunter or Scavenger? (research paper)


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1994Emmel Steven Muller Social Complexity in Palestine During the Chalcolithic: A Review of the Evidence from the Northern Negev Desert

1994Foor Charles Rice, P Analysis of Late Postclassic Censer Materials from Structure II, Negroman-Tipu, Belize

1994Gray Patty Adams Looking For Self and Other in Soviet Ethnography (research paper)

1994Johnson Taryn Butler An Analysis of Marine Shell Samples from the Early Pre-Latte Period of Saipan (research paper)

1994Li Guang-Zhong Adams The Family Farm and Sexual Divisions of Labor in Southern Illinois

1994Mugaisi Gertrude Ford The Evolutionary Significance of Forelimb Use in Anthropoids : A Comparative Analysis

1994Simons Jeannette Butler Rock Fragments, Minerals, and Geographic Variation: The Paste Characterization of Pottery Sherds from Aguiguan Island, Mariana Islands, Micronesia

1994Simons Michael Butler Functional Comparison of Two Ceramic Assemblages from the Island of Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

1995Drake Hugh Butler Plowzone Microartifacts as Spatial Data: An Evaluation of the Mollie Baker Site (11-J-964) in Southern Illinois

1995Gitau Steven Benefit Towards an Understanding of a Small-Bodied Ape, Simiolus Leakeyorum, from the Middle Miocene Site of Maboko, Kenya

1995Legge Scott Corruccini A Method for the Estimation of the Age of Puberty from Epiphyseal Fusion

1995Specht William Corruccini Dental Health as an Indicator of Subsistence Pattern and Cultural Affiliation: The Schroeder Mound Burials

1995Strezewski Michael Benefit The Effect of Canid Chewing on Variously Aged White-Tailed Deer Mandibles


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1995Wesbrook Cherlyn Hill From Liminality to Rebellion : Famine Irish Immigrants and the New York City Draft Riot of 1863

1996Bonde Kirsten Adams The Transformation of an Herbal Tradition: The Use of Horchata in Vilcambamba, Ecuador

1996Eggensperger Roy Maring, J Glossolalia: The Footprints of God

1996Harris Wendy Muller Form and Function of Crab Orchard Tradition Pit Features in the Big Muddy River Drainage of Southern Illinois

1996Prufer Keith Rice, Cycles of Violence, Ethnogenesis, and Flight: Historical movements of the Q’eqchi’ Maya of Belize, Central America (research paper)

1996Ruggiero Laura Newsom Yuchi Town (1Ru63): A Paleoethnobotanical Case Study

1996Stathakis Steven Muller Analysis of Fabric-Impressed Pottery From the Great Salt Spring in Gallatin County Illinois: Social Status and Salt Production During the Mississippian Period

1996Wilson Barbara Adams The Role of Society and Self-help in the Lives of Women with Anorexia Nervosa

1997Jacoby JoAnn Hill Because "Younger Brother" Is among Us: Narrating Identity and Differences in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia

1997Montenegro Jorge A. Shimada Coastal Cajamarca Pottery from the North Coast of Peru: Style, Technology, and Function

1997Natt Wendy Rice, P A Structural Design Analysis of Tin-enameled Pottery from Colonial Pacific South America

1997Schwarz Kevin Rice D Population and Agricultural Resource Issues in Prehispanic Highland Mexico

1997Wolff Gregory Rice, P A Consideration of the Terminal Classic Period in the Southern Maya Lowlands


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1998Anderson Lara Corruccini Modifications in the Rate and Timing of Growth Events in the Tibia as a Measure of a Prehistoric Population’s Developmental Response to Environmental Circumstances

1998Duncan William Hofling Lincoln, Reagan, and the Oral-Literate Continuum (research paper)

1998Goldstein David McCall Dissipative Structures as Social Metaphors: Chaotic Systems and 20th Century Social Theory (research paper)

1998Gonzalez Jason Rice, D Domestic Architecture of Terminal Classic Seibal: Maya Identities, Transformations, and Culture Change

1998Knight Frances Newsom Agricultural Tenancy, the Mid-Nineteenth Century, and Central Illinois, Historical Archaeology, the Jake Wolf Site, and Mason County

1998Kohring Sheila Rice, P Ceramic Production in the Late Preclassic: Standardization and Economic Specialization in the Chicanel Sphere

1998Perkins Christopher Sturzenhofecker The Marriage of Masculinity and Youth Violence: Issues of Black and White

1998Rockmore Matthew Rice, P The Social Development of the Itza Maya: A Reassessment of the Multiple Lines of Evidence

1998Van Arsdale Catherine Ford Differential Patterning of Vertebral Osteoarthritis as an Indicator or Sexual Division of Labor in a Hunting and Gathering Population

1998Wagner Julia McCall Towards a Humanistic Archaeology: Native Americans, Archaeologists and NAGPRA (research paper)

1999Carwile (Routon) Christey McCall The Dialectics of Flesh and Spirit: Abiku and Ogbanje as Category and Experience (research paper)

1999Gao Jing Hill Born into Changing Times: Feminism in China from the late 19th t the Early 20th Century


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1999Lawler Richard Ford Positional Behavior of Callicebus moloch brunneus (= Callicebus brunneus) at Cocha Cashu, Peru, with a Comparison to C. torquatus

1999Routon Kenneth Hill Anthropology and Subjugated Modes of Knowledge: Bridging Intersubjective Divides (research paper)

1999Seymore Daniel McCall The Carbondale Pigout: Constructing Community in an American College Town

1999Trieu Deborah Newsom Chiefly Power, Big Houses, and Foucault on the Northwest Coast (research paper)

1999Wanyerka Phillip J. Hofling The Language of the Nim Li Punit Inscriptions

1999White Andrew Corruccini Correspondence Between Internal and External Variables of the Proximal Tibia in Relation to Joint Degeneration

2000Andres Christopher Rice, P Caches, Censers, Monuments and Burials: Archaeological Evidence of Postclassic Ritual in Northern Belize

2000Atz Leiellen Corruccini Anterior Dental Wear in a Caribbean Slave Population

2000Palmer Angela Benefit Utilizing Dental Microwear Analysis: Exploring the Paleoecological Adaptations and Paleocommunity Structure of the Middle Miocene Primate Fauna from Maboko Island, Kenya

2000Whitcome Katherine Ford A Functional Examination of Sexual Dimorphism in Human Lumbar Vertebrae

2001Crawford Tafline Benefit Analysis of a Middle Miocene Hominoid Distal Radius - With Comments on the Locomotor Behavior and Phylogenetic Relationships of Kenyapithecus africanus

2001Haney Jennifer Rice, P A Ceramic Characterization of Salt Pans at the Great Salt Spring, Gallatin County, Illinois

2001Reitz Justin Benefit Dental Microwear and Diet in Mesopithecus pentelicus from the Late Miocene (Earliest Turolian) of Pikermi Greece


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2002Davis Candace Benefit Intraspecific Variation in Anterior Dentition of Hominids and its Significance as a Tool in Assessing Evolutionary Relationships between Fossil Genera

2002Hernandez Michael McCall Unlocking the Closet Door

2002Ionis (Rhoads) Stella (Robyn) Sutton Private Dancing

2002Klaus Haagen Shimada Life and Death at Huaca Sialupe: The Mortuary Archaeology of a Middle Sican Community, North Coast of Peru

2002Smith Linda Hill/Sutton Making Music, Constructing Community: Dulcimer Festivals in the United States

2002Sullivan Timothy Rice, D Landscapes of Power: A Spatial Analysis of Civic Ceremonial Architecture at Tres Zapotes, Veracruz, Mexico

2002Taylor Sarah Shimada Artisan Autonomy in the Middle Sican State: Variability in Mold-Made Ceramics at Huaca Sialupe

2002Watt Christopher Benefit Dental Microwear and Diet in Parapapio ado from Laetoli, Tanzania

2003Aubry Scott Ford The Importance of the Unique Anatomy and Physiology of the Calvarium in the Differential Diagnosis of Cranial Lesions

2003Key Thomas Sutton/McCall New Life in Old Healing: Stories to Understand Movement and Self-Similarity in Healing Charms

2003Locascio William Rice, D Lake-Place Lords: Exploring the Socio-Political Ramifications of Tikal’s Water Management System

2003Mayher Janet Corruccini A Comparison of Anthroposcopic and Serological Approaches to South Asian Human Population Genetics (research paper)

2003Mitchell Cecelia McCall The Body and Space: Identity During Mardi Grad Parades (research paper)


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2003Vournelis Leo Sutton Moneys That Matter: Refashioning Identities Through the Consumption of Old and New Money

2004Bloth Iris McCall Understanding Ourselves as Women: An Examination of the Current Feminine Beauty Ideal of the United States in Relation to the Realities of Latinas on College Campuses

2004Goldbeck Carrie McCall Nos E Assim: The Formation and Expression of Krioulo Identity in Post-Colonial Cabo Verde (research paper)

2004Hatch John Corruccini Dental Biodistance of the Schroeder Collection (Northern Mexico) from Southwest Native American Samples

2004Pursell Corin Welch Geographic Distribution and Symbolism of Colored Mound Architecture in the Mississippian Southeast

2004Robinson Alexandra Ford Age, Behavior, and Tooth Function Derived From the Dental Wear of a Population of Peruvian Saguinus mystax

2005Brennan Tamira Welch Architectural Variation at the Kincaid Mounds Site (research paper)

2005DelCastello Brian Butler Stones and Sticks: An Adaptation of Bow and Arrow Technology in Southwestern Illinois

2005Matsumoto Go Shimada Pachacamac GIS Project: A Practical Application of Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing Techniques in Andean Archaeology

2005Rodriguez Aponte Juan Hill Learning to be Part of the Nation in the Orinoco Delta

2005Sipes Eric Butler A Comparative Analysis of Lithic Debitage from the Dillow’s Ridge Site (11U-635): An Upland Mississippian Large Biface Production Site in Union County, Southwestern Illinois

2005Smith Suzette Adams Lost Cross House: Beyond the Porch

2005South Katherine Rice, P Monkeying Around the Maya Region: A Four-Field Look at Primate Iconography and the Maya


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2005Wolf (Zambetta) Karen Ford Age, Sex and Life History Differences in the Utilization of Enrichment in Captive Lowland Gorillas

2006Carey Heather Butler More Than Child's Play: An Analysis of Mississippian Miniature Vessels from the Tennessee-Cumberland and Lower Ohio River Valleys

2006Carlo Bryan Rice, D Political Decentralization in the Maya Lowlands: An Examination of the Origins of Multepal or Joint Governance

2006Clapper (Pelch) Taryn Ford/Welch The New World and the Natufian: Musculoskeletal Stress Markers of Hunter Gathers and Lifeways

2006Meissner Nathan Rice, P A Semiotic Approach to the Maya "Postclassic International Symbol Set"

2006Nowak Matt Ford Functional Aspects of the Ankle During Locomotor and Postural Behavior in Chimpanzees and Gorillas: A Focus on Captive Animals

2006Porter Lisa McCall The Road to Jerusalem: The Labyrinth in Western Culture from the Middle Ages to the Present Day

2006Prime Jacqueline Ford Hand Manipulation Skills in Gibbons

2006Rospigliosi Campos Cristina Adams Alternative Development Programs and the Coca Dilemma in Peru and Bolivia (Research Paper)

2006Zhang Hong Hofling National Identity in Political Discourse : On China’s Official National Identity in the 21th Century (Research Paper)

2007Buchanan Meghan Welch/Lapham Patterns of Faunal Utilization at Kincaid Mounds, Massac County, Illinois

2007Fidler (Harrison) Meghan Sutton The "CSI Effect" : The State of Objectivity and Agency in DNA

2007Gilmore Zachary Lapham Large Mammal Utilization Subsistence Stress in Late Prehistoric South Texas


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2007Golden Jill Ford A Contribution to the Debate Over the Origin and Development of Treponemal Disease: A Case Study From Southern Illinois

2007Poblete May McCall This is Traditional, This is Not Islamic: Perceiving Some Swahili Childbirth and Child-Rearing Beliefs and Practices in Light of Mila (Custom) and Dini (Religion)

2008Baker Lindsey Corruccini Approaches to Multivariate Estimation of African American Versus European American Ancestry from the Distal Femur

2008Collier Margaret Barrios "I Gotta Try to Watch What I'm Eating, You Know?" Diabetes Programs in an American Indian Center

2008Coons Douglas Corruccini The Place of the Mladeč Remains in the Neandertal Question

2008Forsythe Elliott Ford Foraging Strategies, Adaptive Radiation, and Evolutionary Morphology of the Callitrichidae (Mammalia, Primates): Craniometric Evidence

2008Hosemann Aimee Ford Effects of Habitat Density and Other Variables on the Fundamental Frequency of the Nonhuman Primate Long Call

2008Munch Courtney Adams Tourism and the Creation of Identity: A Study of Tourism at the Lake of the Ozarks

2008Pressley Jon Corruccini Dental Reduction as Evidence of Microevolution and Selection Between Middle Archaic and Middle / Late Woodland Occupations at 11SA87A : The Black Earth Site

2008Rohm Mackenzie Butler A Terminal Middle Woodland Ceramic Complex from Southern Illinois

2008Shibata Chihiro Ford Maintenance of Social Bonds in Adult Pairs of Captive Cotton-top Tamarins (Saguinus oedipus)

2008Stricklin Dawn Corruccini A Preliminary Biocultural Analysis of Hereditary Tooth Decay Among Isolate Populations in the Northeastern Missouri Ozarks (research paper)


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2008Tanaka Yuki Hofling A Comparative Study of Maya Hieroglyphic Writing and Japanese Orthography in Quirigua Hieroglyphic Corpus

2009Batres Carlos Rice, D Tracing the "Enigmatic" Late Postclassic Nahua-Pipil (A.D. 1200-1500): An Archaeological Study of the Guatemalan South Pacific Coast

2009Fertaly Kaitlin Sutton Feeding the Family in Rural Armenia: A Re-Examination of Gender, Cooking and the Domestic in a Post-Socialist Society

2009Forsythe Lauren (Devitt) Prowse Dental Microwear Evidence for Variation in Dietary Texture at the Carrier Mills Archaeological District, Saline County, Illinois

2009Pitale Gauri Corrucini Descriptive Osteology of Postcranial Remains from Sanjan, Valsad District, Gujarat State, India (Research Paper)

2009Sanchez Polo Romulo Rice, D Warfare Among the Maya: The Projectile Points from Central Peten, Guatemala

2009Sharp Kayeleigh Shimada Iconography for the Living or the Dead? New Perspectives on Moche IV-V Ceramic Iconography, North Coast Peru

2009Zhang Qiaoyun Sutton When They say "Grill," They Mean "Grill": Why Does the Return of the Camellia Grill Matter in Post-Katrina New Orleans?

2010Amadio Ayla Lapham, Balkansky Ritual Use of Animals at Formative Period Tayata: A Comparative Perspective

2010Johnston Kevin Welch Methodological Developments in the Use of Stable Isotope Analysis for Reconstructing Paleodiets (Research Paper)

2010Nause Chrystal Prowse Prevalence and Timing of Enamel Hypoplasias in the Vagnari Skeletal Sample (1st 4th Centuries AD)

2010Roop Heston Sutton The Anthropology of Cycling: An Ethnographic Detail of Cycling's Experience

2011Howe Jessica Welch The Development or Archaeological Excavation Techniques: Chicago at Kincaid


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2011Nishio Tomoe Fuller Metadiscursive Construction of Japanese Women's Language: Images and Ideologies

2011Szumiliewicz Amy Shimada Symbolic Uses of Metal in Moche Burials (Research Paper)

2011Warren Laura Webster Central Illinois Powwow Community: A Unique Path of Creation, Cultivation, and Connection to American Indian Culture, Identities, and Community

2011Wilbanks Kimberly Corruccini Schizophrenia Across Cultures: Significant Interactions of Biology and Environment (Research Paper)

2012Berner Jamie Reichard Sleeping Site Selection in Relation to the Distribution of Food Resources in Gibbons (Hylobates lar)

2012Boles Steve Welch Fluorite: A Mineral of Importance in the Prehistoric Southeast

2012Cleary Megan Dabbs Sex Estimation from the Human Clavicle: A Discriminant Function Analysis

2012Davis Emily Fuller/Hofling Faroese Language Revitalization and Its Support for Nationhood (Research Paper)

2012Higelin Ponce de Leon Ricardo Ford Symbolism and Use of Human Femora by the Zapotecs in Oaxaca, Mexico During Prehispanic Times

2012Litschi Melissa Shimada Political Economy and Marxism Theories in the Interpretation of Inka State Maintenance (Research Paper)

2012Liu Jiaying Sutton Coming to the Torch Festival: Ritual Practice, State Policies, and Ethnic Minority Identity in Liangshan Yi Area

2012Munson Susannah Corruccini What Big Teeth You Have!: Genetic Admixture and Tooth Size in an Enslaved Population from Newton Plantation, Barbados

2013Chahalis Amanda Fuller Language, Heritage, and Identity: Intergenerational Differences in Mexican Migrant Families Living in Southern Illinois


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2013Palomares Rodriguez Teresa Maria Balkansky, The Oaxaca Barrio in Teotihuacan: Mortuary Customs and Ethnicity in Mesoamerica's Greatest Metropolis

2013Roberts Lindsey Dabbs A Taphonomic Study Exploring the Differences in Decomposition Rate and Manner between Frozen and Never Frozen Domestic Pigs (Sus scrofa)

2013Speer Cynthia McCall Building Community Through Performance, Ritual and Play at the Texas Renaissance Festival

2014Bader Alyssa Dabbs Stress, Health, and Social Differentiation: A Middle Sican Case Study

2014Birnbaum David Welch Ceramic Technology and Cultural Identity in the Fox Lake Sanctuary, Brevard County, Florida

2014Burns Jennifer Hill Sensing the Past: Ethnoaesthetics and Memory Within Oklahoma Choctaw Cultural Revitalization Projects

2014Crow Rosanna Welch Axe-Heads and Mississippian Political Economy: A St. Francois Provenance Study

2014Jackson Wesley Butler Late Woodland Ceramic Decorative Styles in the Lewis Phase of the Lower Ohio Valley: An Investigation of Social Connectedness

2014Sutherland Kayla Lapham A Comparison of the Dr Robert Zingg Archaeological Collection to Early 20th Century Tarahumara Material Culture

2015Adams Kaitlin Sutton Social Seeds and Encultured Cultures: Materiality, Knowledge and Place through Small-Scale Farming in Southern Illinois

2016Feller Jessica Reichard The Evolution of Inequity Aversion: Nonhuman Primate Responses to Unequal Reward Distributions

2016Florkiewicz Brittany Ulrich Reichard Facial Behavior and Pair Bonds in Hylobatids

2016Leon Alysia Shimada Funeral Home or Ritualistic Edifice? An Assessment of an Enigmatic Structure at the Late Pre-Hispainic Site of Panquilma, Central Coast Peru


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2016Trevizo Elizabeth David Sutton Shopping and Sociability at a Traditional Market in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico


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