Student Research
Undergraduate students in the Curriculum in Archaeology undertake a wide range of interesting and innovative research projects, some of which result in Honors Theses. Below are some recent examples. You may also be interested in viewing Master’s theses and Doctoral dissertations completed by graduate students in archaeology.
2021
The Styles and Distributions of Chunkey Stones in the Eastern Woodlands • Aidan Paul
2020
Rediscovering Tivoli. An Archaeological Investigation into William R. Davie’s Plantation Home • Mary Armstrong
Faithful unto Death: The Dog Burials of the Gaston Site in Halifax County, North Carolina • Mary Glenn Krause
2019
Cerro Cumbray: A Chimú Frontier Outpost • Matthew Ballance
Evaluating The Utility Of Portable X-ray Fluorescence To The Discrimination Of Human Remains From Commingled Contexts • Abigail Gancz
An Investigation of Euroamerican Ceramic Use in the Catawba Nation, 1760-1820 • Christopher LaMack
2018
The Enthroned Nude Female: An Exploration of Nabataean Domestic Religion Through a Terracotta Figurine • Emily Gray
Galindo in Volumes: Architectural Investment through Aerial Drone Maps at the Late Moche Site of Galindo, Peru • Brendon Murray
Deer Hunting at the Gaston Site • Bryan Towers
2017
An Analysis of Early Mississippian Burials from Mound C at Ocmulgee, Georgia • Rachel Metcalf
2016
Nutrition and Health in the Piedmont of North Carolina and Virginia: A Bioarchaeological Study • Carson Rouse
Analysis of Faunal Remains at the Wall Site in Hillsboro, NC • Ava Wells
2015
Seeking Clarity in Postholes: An Examination of Coles Creek Earthfast Architecture • Isaac Warshauer
2014
An Interpretation of the Sepphoris Synagougue Mosaics • Megan Hynek
Foodways in Transition: Plant Use and Community at the Wall (31Or11) and Jenrette (31Or231a) Sites, Hillsborough, North Carolina • Mallory A. Melton
The Fort of the Natchez • Brandon Prickett
2013
A Study of Moundville Copper Gorgets • Jonathan J. Branch
Refining Point Types in Southwest Mississippi • Natalie DeMasi
Housed Within: A Museum Display Critique and Investigation of a Classic Maya Household at K’axob • Anthony J. Meyer
2012
Treponemal Infection in its Biosocial Context at Late Woodland Garbacon Creek, North Carolina • Amy Anderson
Fortaleza de Quirihuac: A Chimú Fortress in the Middle Moche Valley • Patrick James Mullins
An Ethnobotanical Analysis of Two Late Mississippian Period Sites in the Upper Yazoo Basin • Sarah E. Settle
Camp Coker Creek: Investigation of the Presence and Spatial Configuration of a Confederate Encampment within the Multicomponent 40Mr708 Archaeological Site • Andrius Valiunas
2011
Geochemical Analysis of Catawba Ceramics • Rosanna Crow
The French Natchez Settlement According to the Memory of Dumont de Montigny • Melissa Litschi
Epiphyseal Union of the Seal Union of the Vertebral Rib Ends: A Comparison of Archaeological and Modern Populations • Caitlin Bonham Smith