Browsing Anthropology by Subject "Archaeology"
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Akrotiri Aetokremnos and the Cypriot Pygmy Hippopotamus: An Interdisciplinary Look at a Late Pleistocene Large Mammal Extinction
The cause for large mammal extinctions in the Late Pleistocene has been debated for decades, with two main factors constantly discussed--human hunting and climatic change. The Cypriot pygmy hippopotamus represents a case ... -
An Archaeology of Survivance on the Grand Ronde Reservation: Telling Stories of Enduring Native Presence
This dissertation forwards an archaeological research framework grounded in Gerald Vizenor’s concept of survivance. Archaeologies of survivance center Native presence in all aspects of archaeological knowledge production. ... -
Applying cultural evolutionary theory to the technological transition during the Late Pleistocene in Korea
The cultural-technological transition in stone artifacts from the Middle to Upper Paleolithic during the Late Pleistocene is considered as one of the major revolutions in the prehistory of humankind, along with the appearance ... -
Archaeological Evidence of Change in Social Organization at Kiwulan, an Iron Age site in Northeastern Taiwan, during European Colonization
Colonial encounters between Europeans and Indigenous people have long been an important topic in historical archaeology as scholars seek to explore their effects on Indigenous social, cultural, and material worlds. However, ... -
Black Sea Change: A Revision of the Sinop Ceramic Chronology Using Luminescence Dating
Fifty-nine ceramic sherds from eleven archaeological sites within the Sinop promontory of the Turkish Black Sea coast were dated by luminescence to establish a regional ceramic chronology. This absolute chronology was ... -
Case Studies in Geoarchaeometry
This dissertation consists of four standalone papers. Each paper addresses a distinct geoarchaeological challenge through the application of specialized technical methods and experimental data. New approaches to data ... -
Creating an Empire: Local Political Change at Angamuco, Michoacan, Mexico
Regime change is a critical social process that has occurred throughout human history and yet much is still unknown about how political developments shape local communities. This dissertation examines the impacts of the ... -
Creating and Transcending Territorial Boundaries in Late Holocene Pacific Coast Communities
(2013-02-25)In this research, I investigate precontact territorial behavior in the San Juan Islands, Washington and San Nicolas Island, California. Drawing on economic defensibility models, I generate hypotheses for change over time ... -
The Ecology of Human Diets during the Holocene at North Creek Shelter, Utah
This research examines the ecology of human diet using archeological evidence from a specific site in western North America, North Creek Shelter (NCS) near Escalante, Utah. I use ecological measures and theory to quantify ... -
Foraging Variability in the Prehistoric Caribbean: Multiple Foraging Optima, Resource Use, and Anthropogenic Impacts on Carriacou, Grenada
(2013-07-25)This research assesses the zooarchaeological evidence for variable foraging strategies at two matched Caribbean sites, Sabazan and Grand Bay, on the Grenadine Island of Carriacou during the Late Ceramic Age, ca. AD 400 - ... -
Insularity and Interaction: Investigating the role of exchange and inter-island interaction in the Banda Islands, Indonesia
Trade and exchange exerted a powerful force in the historic and protohistoric past of Island Southeast Asian communities. Exchange and interaction are also hypothesized to have played an important role in the spread of new ... -
Long-term chronology of subsistence and the role of intensive agriculture in the central part of the Korean peninsula during the Late Holocene
The transition from foragers to farmers and the role of intensive rice agriculture have been among the most controversial subjects in Korean archaeology. However, the relatively high acidity of sediment in the Korean ... -
Measuring Cultural Transmission at Archaeological Scales: How Can We Improve Empirical Sufficiency?
Cultural transmission has long been a key organizing principle within anthropology, but the effort to formalize cultural transmission models and fit them to archaeological data is more recent, stimulated by work by Robert ... -
Of Pots and People: Investigating Hunter-Gatherer Pottery Production and Social Networks in the Kuril Islands
Ethnographic and archaeological research shows that hunter-gatherers have colonized and inhabited a diverse range of environmental settings. One example of this is the occupation of the unique sub-arctic, island environment ... -
Re-thinking the Emergence of Iron Metallurgy in Taiwan - a Trade Diaspora Model
As a society is composed of waves of immigrants, overseas influences have been common to Taiwan since ancient times. Among these external forces, the overseas immigrant-influenced technological leap is believed to be the ... -
Stories of Sugpiaq Survivance: Uncovering Lifeways at Ing'yuq Village
This dissertation explores various storytelling methods in archaeology, as situated within a community-based project in Old Harbor, Alaska, a Sugpiaq village in the Kodiak Archipelago. The research is grounded in archaeologies ... -
The Price of Spice: Archaeological Investigations of Colonial Era Nutmeg Plantations on the Banda Islands, Maluku Province, Indonesia
The Banda Islands were the world’s sole source of nutmeg in the 16th century. Control over the spice trade was a major goal for European powers during the Age of Expansion. Consequently, the Banda Islands were a location ... -
Understanding changes in mobility & subsistence from terminal Pleistocene to Late Holocene in the highlands of New Guinea through intensity of lithic reduction, changing site types, and paleoclimate
Why did people in the highlands of New Guinea move from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle and subsistence pattern, and develop a subsistence pattern centered on root and tree crop agriculture? How did the ancient residents of ... -
Using Landscape Learning to Explore Diachronic Change: A Quantitative Model and Western Stemmed Tradition Case Study
University of Washington Abstract Using Landscape Learning to Explore Diachronic Change: A Quantitative Model and Western Stemmed Tradition Case Study David B. HuntChair of the Supervisory Committee Professor Emeritus ...