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Fall 2016
In China, the Chinese Communist Party (中國共產黨CCP) has created a complicated administrative system to control religion. The CCP severely regulated and almost eradicated a number of religious groups during the Cultural Revolution (文化大革命). In the early 1980s, however, religion was allowed to slowly...
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Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotope Analysis of Human and Faunal Skeletal Remains from the Formative Period of the Northern Highlands of Ecuador
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In Ecuador, the diet of prehispanic populations has been interpreted mostly based on the evidence recovered by archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological studies, if available. In contrast, stable isotope analysis for reconstructing diet is still a novel method that has been employed on only a few...
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Caribou hunting at ice patches: seasonal mobility and long-term land-use in the southwest Yukon
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Recently documented ice patch sites in the southwest Yukon are ideal for evaluating precontact hunter-gatherer land-use patterns in the western subarctic. Located in the alpine of the mountainous regions of the boreal forest, ice patches are associated with well preserved hunting equipment,...
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Central Inuit social structure: the view from Cumberland Sound, Baffin Island, Northwest Territories
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Doctoral thesis. This study explores the structural basis of variability in Central Inuit socioeconomic organization, with a focus on the community of Pangnirtung, Baffin Island, and the former whaling station (now historic site) of Kekerten in Cumberland Sound. // Includes glossary of Inuktitut...
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Characterization of Middle and Later Stone Age lithic artifacts from two rockshelter sites in Iringa Region, southern Tanzania
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Stone tools have a critical role to play in our understanding of the behavior of early humans. In particular, the types of raw materials that are present in stone tool assemblages, and the sources from which they are acquired, provide information relating to decision making processes, planning,...
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Cheechakos, Sourdoughs and Soiled Doves: Men, Women, and Community in a Klondike Gold Rush Boomtown 1896-1904
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The research upon which this thesis is based explores the concept of ‘doing ethnography in the archives’ as a methodology to inform a case-study approach to studying the historic population of stampeders residing in and around Dawson City during the Klondike Gold Rush. As an example of research...
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Childhood is Biocultural: Refining Our Approaches to the Study of Children in Biological Anthropology
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Understanding the ontogenetic effects of biocultural factors present in an individual’s environment during childhood is essential to the accurate interpretation of lived experiences in past populations. This period of life is critically important for physical and social development, and is...