Graduate Student Research

Graduate students in archaeology have completed numerous Master’s theses and doctoral dissertations with support from the Research Laboratories of Archaeology. The extensive list, grouped by decade, can be found below. It is ordered by year starting with the most recent manuscripts and then by author’s last name. If a digital copy is unavailable please check Davis Library for a hard copy. You may also be interested in viewing undergraduate Honors Theses completed through the Curriculum in Archaeology.

2004 • Ethnicity in Archaeological Context: a Review and a Case Study from Peru • James Andrew Kenworthy (MA)

2004 • Native Constructions of Landscapes in the Black Warrior Valley, Alabama, AD 1020-1520 • Mintcy D. Maxham (PhD)

2004 • The Cherokee Town at Coweeta Creek • Christopher Bernard Rodning (PhD)

2003 • Woodland Ceramics and Social Boundaries of Coastal North Carolina • Jospeh Miner Herbert (PhD)

2003 • Biological Distance and the Ethnolinguistic Classification of Late Woodland (AD 800-1650) Native Americans on the Coast of North Carolina • Ann M. Kakaliouras (PhD)

2003 • A Bioarchaeological Perspective on Wari Imperialism in the Andes of Peru: A View from Heartland and Hinterland Skeletal Populations • Tiffiny A. Tung (PhD)

2003 • Agricultural Intensification and the Emergence of Political Complexity in the Formative Sierra de los Tuxtlas, Southern Veracruz, Mexico • Amber M. VanDerwarker (PhD)

2003 • To Know the Brethren: a Biocultural Analysis of the W. Montague Cobb Skeletal Collection • Rachel Jeannine Watkins (PhD)

2001 • Bioarchaeology, Mortuary Patterning, and Social Organization at Town Creek • Elizabeth Monahan Driscoll (PhD)

2001 • Mortuary Patterns at the Irene Site, Chatham County, Georgia • John Gerald Pleasants, Jr. (MA)

2001 • All Heroes Think Alive: Kinship and Ritual in Baguazhang • Jeffrey Lee Takacs (PhD)

2000 • Power Runs in Many Channels: Subfloor Pits and West African-based Spiritual Traditions in Colonial Virginia • Patricia Merle Samford (PhD)

2000 • Kin-based Burial Groups in Hellenistic-early Roman (325 BC-AD 150) Cyprus: A Biodistance Analysis of Mortuary Organization • Tiffiny A. Tung (MA)

2000 • Late Prehistoric Settlement and Society in Southeastern Scotland • Alicia L. Wise (PhD)

1990–1999

1999 • Common Wares: Approaches to a Gallo-Roman Ceramic Assemblage • Sara Bon (PhD)

1999 • The Sara and Dan River peoples: Siouan communities in North Carolina’s interior piedmont from A.D. 1000 to A.D. 1700 • Jane M Eastman (PhD)

1999 • Late Prehistoric and Early Historic Period Aboriginal Settlement in the Catawba Valley, North Carolina PART 1 and PART 2 • David Gilbert Moore (PhD)

1997 • Transitions and Continuity: Earthenware and Stoneware Pottery Production in Nineteenth Century North Carolina • Linda F. Carnes-McNaughton (PhD)

1997 • Continuity and Change in the Washakie Basin, Wyoming: Interpreting Mobility from the Archaeological Record • Gerold Franklin Glover (PhD)

1996 • Time, Space, and Social Dynamics During the Hopewell Occupation of the American Bottom • Thomas O. Maher (PhD)

1996 • The Early to Middle Archaic Transition in the Georgia-Carolina Piedmont: A View from the Gregg Shoals Site • V. Anna Tippitt (PhD)

1995 • Constructing the Past: Communicating with Objects in Burgundian Archaeology Museums • Susan Elizabeth Wallace (PhD)

1994 • Hardaway Revisited: Early Archaic Settlement in the Southeast • I. Randolph Daniel (PhD)

1994 • Continuity and Change: The Zooarchaeology of Aboriginal Sites in the North Carolina Piedmont • Mary Ann Holm (PhD)

1993 • A Re-examination of the Concept of the Rribe: A Case Study from the Upper Yadkin Valley, North Carolina • Rhea J. Rogers (PhD)

1992 • Diet Optimization Models and Prehistoric Subsistence Change in the Eastern Woodlands • Paul S. Gardner (PhD)

1992 • Settlements of the Pee Dee culture • Billy L. Oliver (PhD)

1992 • Aboriginal Intersite Settlement System Change in the Northeastern North Carolina Piedmont During the Contact Period plus Supplementary Data • Daniel L. Simpkins (PhD)

1991 • The Live Oak: Symbol of the South Carolina Lowcountry • Lin Dunbar (MA)

1991 • Ecology of Sedentary Societies Without Agriculture: Paleoethnobotanical Indicators from Native California • Julia Elizabeth Hammett (PhD)

1991 • Many Choctaw Standing: An Inquiry into Culture Compromise and Culture Survival Reflected in Seven Choctaw Sties in East-Central Mississippi • Timothy Mooney (Fourth Semester Paper)

1990 • Seventeenth Century Lithic Technologies of the Piedmont Siouans • Jane M. Eastman (MA)

1990 • The south Beune valley (Perigord, France): A Spatial Analysis of Magdalentian Engraved and Painted Caves • Elizabeth Malott Penton (PhD)

1980-1989

1989 • Late Prehistoric and Historic Period Paleoethnobotany of the North Carolina Piedmont • Kristen Johnson Gremillion (PhD)

1989 • Raised Up in Hard Times: Factors Affecting Material Culture on Upland Piedmont Farmsteads, Circa 1900-1940’s • Linda France Stine (PhD)

1988 • A Bioarchaeological Study of Mortuary Practice and Change Among the Piedmont Siouan Indians • Susan Homes Hogue (PhD)

1987 • Forager-Farmer Transitions in Coastal Prehistory • Paul R. Green (PhD)

1987 • The Cave Setting as Key to the Interpretation of European Upper Paleolithic Cave Painting, Drawing and Engraving • Elizabeth Malott Penton (MA)

1986 • Prehistoric Ozark Agriculture: the University of Arkansas Rockshelter Collections • Gayle Jeannine Fritz (PhD)

1986 • Ethnohistory of Aboriginal Landscapes and Land use in the Southeastern United States • Julia Elizabeth Hammett (MA)

1986 • Elizabethan Policies and Charles Town Colony: an Ethnohistorical-Archaelogical Approach • Michael O. Hartley, Sr.

1986 • Regional Archaeological Spatial Modeling: A Test case from the Upper Neuse River Basin, North Carolina • Scott L.H. Madry (PhD)

1985 • Faunal Remains from Two North Central Piedmont Sites • Mary Ann Holm (MA)

1985 • Puget Sound Prehistory: Postglacial Adaptations In the Puget Sound Basin With Archaeological Implications for a Solution to the “Cascade Problem” • John L. Mattson (PhD)

1984 • Aboriginal Use of Plant Foods and European Contact in the North Carolina Piedmont • Kristen Johnson Gremillion (MA)

1984 • An Ethnobotanical Study of Plant Food Remains from the Warren Wilson site (31Bn29), North Carolina: a Biocultural Approach • Daniel L. Simpkins (MA)

1983 • Variability among Unifacial Tools from the Hardaway site • Linda G. Hall (MA)

1983 • Arkietypes, American Folk Theories of Archaeology • Janet C. Hightower (MA)

1983 • The Paleoethnobotany of Oaxaca, Mexico • Margaret Snow Houston (PhD)

1983 • A Multiscalar Application of Remote Sensing in a Temperate Regional Archaeological Survey • Scott L.H. Madry (MA)

1983 • A Study of the Late Prehistoric, Protohistoric, and Historic Indians of the Carolina and Virginia Piedmont PART 1 and PART 2 • Jack H. Wilson, Jr. (PhD)

1982 • An Introduction to the Mortuary Practices of the Historic Sara • Liane Navey (MA)

1982 • An Analysis of Chicacon Settlement Patterns • Stephen Roberts Potter (PhD)

1982 • Shellfish gathering and shell midden archaeology • Gregory A. Waselkov (PhD)

1982 • Towards a synthetic approach to the Chesapeake tidewater: historic site patterning in temporal perspective • Kit W. Wesler (PhD)

1982 • An Analysis of Skeletal Material from Bwo67, Brunswick County, North Carolina • Homes Hogue Wilson (MA)

1981 • A Comparison of Two Pisgah Ceramic Assemblages • David Gilbert Moore (MA)

1981 • The Piedmont Tradition: Refinement of the Savannah River Stemmed Point Type • Billy L. Oliver (MA)

1980 • An Analysis of Dan River Ceramics from Virginia and North Carolina • Paul S. Gardner (MA)

1980 • Investigation of the Woodland period along the South Carolina coast • Michael Trinkley (PhD)

1980 • The Spatial Analysis of the Plow Zone Artifact Distributions from Two Village Sites in North Carolina • H. Trawick Ward (PhD)

1970-1979

1979 • Paleoethnobotany of the Kameda Peninsula Jomon • Gary William Crawford (PhD)

1979 • Cycles of Aggregation and Dispersal: The Dynamics of Settlement in Central Oaxaca, Mexico as Seen from the Miahuatlan Valley • Charles William Markman (PhD)

1978 • Evaluation of an Improved Proton Magnetometer at Prehistoric Town Creek, North Carolina • Marshall D. Graham (MA)

1978 • Dimensional Analysis of Variance: Notes on a Statistical Approach for the Identification of Artifact Association • Richard H. Kimmel (MA)

1977 • Prehistoric Races of Maize and Cultural Diffusion • Mary Eubanks Dunn (PhD)

1977 • Fluctuations in Sea Level in the Late Pleistocene and the Archaeological Potential of the Bering-Chukchi Platform • Donald H. Keith (MA)

1977 • Prehistoric Dan River Hunting Strategies • Gregory A. Waselkov (MA)

1977 • Feature Fill, Plant Utilization and Disposal Among the Historic Sara Indians • Jack H Wilson, Jr. (MA)

1976 • The Paleoethnobotany of the Hamanasuno Site, Hokkaido • Gary William Crawford (MA)

1976 • The Bussinger Site: A Multicomponent Site in the Saginaw Valley of Michigan with a Review of Early Late Woodland Mortuary Complexes in the Northeast Woodlands • John R. Halsey (PhD)

1976 • A Briefe and True Report …: an Archaeological Interpretation of the Southern North Carolina Coast • Thomas Coriell

1976 • An Ethnohistorical Examination of Indian Groups in Northumberland County, Virginia: 1608-1719 • Stephen Roberts Potter (MA)

1976 • A Typology of Thom’s Creek Pottery for the South Carolina Coast • Michael Trinkley (MA)

1975 • The Rose Island Site and the Cultural and Ecological Position of the Bifurcate Point Tradition in Eastern North America • Jefferson Chapman (PhD)

1975 • The Post-Archaic Occupation of Central South Carolina • George E. Stuart (PhD)

1974 • South Appalachian Earth Lodges • Daniel J. Crouch (MA)

1974 • Mural Painting at Tulum and Tancah, Quintana Roo, Mexico • Marla Korlin Hires (MA)

1974 • Gralisa Ceramic Group: a Graphite-and-Red-Painted Pottery from the Coast of Oaxaca • Margaret Snow Houston (PhD)

1974 • The Voice of the Neighbors: A Study of Tlapanec Community Boundaries and their Maintenance • Marion Oettinger, Jr. (PhD)

1974 • The Archaic Period in the Central Savannah River Area: A Study of Cultural Continuity and Innovation PART 1 and PART 2 • Richard L. Smith (PhD)

1973 • Tuscarora Political Organization, Ethnic Identity, and Sociohistorical Demography, 1711-1825 • Douglas W. Boyce (PhD)

1973 • The Icehouse Bottom Site, 40 Mr 23 • Jefferson Chapman (MA)

1973 • A Preliminary Archaeological and Ethnographic Analysis of Sabo Ceramics • Michael W. Corkran (MA)

1973 • On the Use of Contemporary Genetic Materials for Reconstruction of Evolutionary Processes and Events in Prehistoric Polynesian Populations • Ellen Louise Edgar (MA)

1973 • A Study of the Interrelationship of the Authentication of Zapotec Urns and the Evolution of Maize • Mary W. Eubanks (MA)

1973 • Dental Morphology, Attribution, and Pathology in Selected Skulls from Town Creek Indian Mound, Mount Gilead, North Carolina • Martha D. Graham (MA)

1973 • The Late Classic and Early Postclassic Ceramics from the Eastern Portion of the Oaxaca Coast • Robert James Long (MA)

1973 • Copena: A Tennessee Valley Middle Woodland Culture • John Allen Walthall (PhD)

1972 • The Direct Historical Approach in American Archaeology • Alexander Henderson Morrison (MA)

1971 • Notes on Tuscarora Political Organization, 1650-1713 • Douglas W. Boyce (MA)

1971 • Towards a Reconstruction of Creek and Pre-Creek Cultural Ecology • Veletta Canouts (MA)

1971 • Methods and Problems of Mound Excavation in the Southern Appalachian Area • Keith Touton Egloff (MA)

1971 • South Appalachian Mississippian • Leland Ferguson Greer (PhD)

1971 • Carved Stone Monuments from the Coast of Oaxaca • María Natalia Jorrín (MA)

1971 • The Calendar Of The Loxicha Villages: The Culture History Of A Present-Day Mesoamerican Ceremonial Almanac • Charles W. Markman (MA)

1970 • The Pisgah Culture and its Place in the Prehistory of the Southern Appalachians • Roy S. Dickens (PhD)