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This thesis contends that the relative Uniformity of the funerary material culture described as the “Southern Plains Equestrian Nomad Archaeological Complex” (Shafer et al 1994:322-323) is a consequence of an increasing emphasis place by the Southern Plains tribes of the nineteenth century on the similarities underpinning their cultures The reasons given for this sense of accentuated commonality are: 1) a pre-existing undercurrent of shamanistic beliefs and world view shared by these tribes; 2)...
Cultural Resources Management in the United States Air Force: Development of a Planning Primer (1992)
The purpose of this study was to produce a USAF base-level primer for use as a guide to requirements, standards, and procedures concerning the preservation of cultural resources. Cultural resources include buildings, sites, districts, structures, and objects that have significant scientific, historic, or cultural value.
Environmental Analysis of Native American Settlement Patterns in the Late Archaic and Early Woodland Periods in Northern Indiana (2014)
This project explores environmental differences in site distribution between the Late Archaic and Early Woodland periods in LaPorte and St. Joseph Counties of Indiana. Comprehensive maps of sites were created using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) (with layers displaying topography, satellite imagery, soil type and quality, and drainage patterns) to analyze trends in settlement pattern. Individual sites were examined through surface surveys to determine what features of the environment...
The Modernization of the Salt River Project: The Impact of the Rehabilitation and Betterment Program (1987)
Following the cycle of economic depression of the 1920s and 1930s, and the manpower shortage caused by the outbreak of the Second World War, the various reclamation projects in the western United States suffered from broken-down systems. The Salt River Project, which serves the Phoenix metropolitan area with water and power, was one of these reclamation projects. Canals and laterals that carried invaluable irrigation water seeped and leaked, resulting in water losses of twenty-five percent; many...
Nominating the Mortandad-Sandia Cavate Complex: Using the National Register to Advance the Goals of Applied Archaeology (2017)
This project aimed at completing the process of nominating the Mortandad-Sandia Pueblo Complex to the National Register of Historic Places as a final applied thesis project for the completion of a Master’s degree in Humanities with a focus in Cultural Resource Management from Adams State University’s Department of History, Anthropology, Political Science, Philosophy, Spanish (HAPPS). This task was accomplished as a partnership among Los Alamos National Laboratory’s environmental stewardship...
Prehistoric Agricultural Strategies in West-Central New Mexico (1987)
Environmental fluctuations are frequently cited as a major factor effecting population displacement and cultural development in the American Southwest. Recent research suggests that the interaction of environmental, demographic, and behavioral variables might account for these presumed causal relationships, but behavioral responses to environmental fluctuations remain poorly understood. The environmental factors most likely to have been stressful to agriculturalists such as the prehistoric...
QUESTIONING COMPLEXITY: THE PREHISTORIC HUNTER-GATHERERS OF SAPELO ISLAND, GEORGIA (2006)
In this dissertation, I examine trajectories of cultural evolution among complex hunter-gatherers and middle range societies. Broadly, I consider the theoretical issues related to these two areas of study and how we should conceptualize the study of sociocultural evolution in societies organized at this scale. I apply these ideas to the study of the prehistoric hunter-gatherers who occupied Sapelo Island, Georgia, U. S. A. Specifically, I examine the Archaic period (4200 – 3000 B. P.)...
Radiocarbon Dating Early Trade and World System Expansion in Iroquoian Southern Ontario, Canada, AD 1550-1650 (2022)
This dissertation establishes a new timeframe for Indigenous participation in world-system expansion in southern Ontario, Canada ca. AD 1550–1650, by investigating how and when people living in three different Indigenous Nations in southern Ontario engaged with the expanding European world-system. This will be accomplished by: 1- Establishing an absolute timeframe for the initiation and development of Indigenous-European interaction through Bayesian chronological modeling of high-precision AMS...
Water Development on the Gila River: The Construction of Coolidge Dam (1987)
Because settlement and sustained growth in the arid West has been impossible without an adequate water supply, the history of the region requires an understanding of water resource development. In central Arizona, water development on the Gila River, the state's principle river, was attained only after a long period of conflict. Historically, the Gila River had been used by the Pima Indian community. This tribe had successfully dwelled for many centuries as an agrarian society by diverting the...