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Examining the First Uses of Pottery by Northern Great Plains Peoples During the Time of Besant and Sonota
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Highly successful pedestrian era communal bison hunters of the Besant and Sonota archaeological phases were the first to use pottery on the northern Great Plains. While the Besant phase is widely distributed across this region, the Sonota phase is confined to North and South Dakota. The Sonota...
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The Métis experience at the Chimney Coulee site (DjOe-6): A historical archaeology investigation into a 19th-century hivernant site in the Cypress Hills
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The Chimney Coulee site (DjOe-6) is a locally well-known historic site and provincial recreation area a few kilometers north of the town of Eastend, Saskatchewan in the southwestern corner of the province. Located along the eastern slopes of the Cypress Hills, the site has a deep history as...
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Fall 2023
Houtaomuga site is located at the embankment of Lake Xinhuangpao in Da’an County of northeast China. Excavations from 2011 to 2015 revealed an occupation ranging from the early Neolithic period to late Liao Dynasty. This dissertation will focus on an unusual feature from the late Neolithic period...
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Spring 2023
Self-determination is a core concept framing the historical and ongoing efforts of Inuit in Nunavut seeking to align the territory’s social and political institutions with Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ), or Inuit ways of knowing, being and doing. Educational self-determination represents an...
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Faithful Stories: Exploring Shrine Veneration in Bangladesh in A New Light An Anthropological Study
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This research study looks into shrines and shrine veneration in Bangladesh in its current context. Shrine veneration as a social practice within South Asia and elsewhere has been controversial within the religious revivalist discourse for quite some time. The rising religious reforms under...
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Fall 2023
This study explores the social functions of humour in present-day Cuba. Nine participants located in the area of Santa Marta, Cuba, of varying age, sex, and occupation responded to ten questions on a questionnaire related to humour and Cuban life. Transcripts of their answers were analyzed...
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Entitlement, Victimhood, and Hate: A Digital Ethnography of the Canadian Right-Wing Social Media Landscape
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This dissertation is, at its core, an interrogation of white masculinity in Canada’s right-wing spaces. While my interlocutors spent a great deal of time discussing others, namely immigrants, globalist elites, and feminists, through their discourse, they revealed a lot more about themselves and...
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Voices from a Fractured Landscape: Fracking, Senses of Place, and Risks in Taranaki, Aotearoa New Zealand
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Based in the rural region of Taranaki, Aotearoa New Zealand, this ethnographic study documents the senses of place and risks as variously experienced by members of the communities where hydraulic fracturing occurs. In New Zealand, hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, began in 1989, and...
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Spring 2022
In this thesis I examine stories pertaining to women as told by the belongings recovered during excavations conducted at three hivernant Métis sites. The hivernants were groups of Métis families who banded together to form winter bison hunting brigades. Overwintering on the Canadian prairies,...
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Fall 2021
The degree of diaphyseal curvature in the human tibia has been shown to significantly correlate with activity levels in archaeological populations. Specifically, tibial anteroposterior curvature is greatest in physically active populations and decreases in less active populations. Interestingly,...