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Title: Preliminary Assessment of Lead Glazed Coarse Earthenware Trade Relationships During Mid-18th and 19th Century North Carolina Piedmont through PXRF Analysis
Author: Dyer, Monica
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: Little documentation exists of the trade occurring in the central North Carolina Piedmont during the 18th and 19th century at wealthy farmstead sites or at surrounding sites of lower economic status. The intent of my research is to gain a greater ...

Title: Cranial Capacity Variation of Pleistocene Homo and Possible Speciation Events
Author: Hudock, Autumn
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Paleontology, Evolutionary developmental biology
Description: The field of paleoanthropology is tasked with studying the morphology of extinct hominins using fossilized remains. To study the evolution of the human brain, researchers use endocast data derived from fossil skulls, in order to assess when and ho...

Title: Raising Little Russians: Language Socialization and Language Shift in an Urban Kyrgyz Family
Author: McDermott, Ashley
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Ethnology, Sociolinguistics, Language and languages
Description: In Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Russian prevails as the lingua franca despite efforts by policymakers and language activists to promote the Kyrgyz language. This study uses language socialization as a lens to investigate language shift in the city by analy...

Title: PUT WHAT(?) IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT: A METHODICAL APPROACH TO THE SMOKING CULTURE OF A NINETEENTH CENTURY PLANTATION IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES
Author: Bubp, Rebecca
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: Holly Bend, a prolific and successful late 18th and early 19th century plantation owned by the Davidson family in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina has seen multiple excavations and research projects over the past several years. In this project, ...

Title: Providing Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of North Carolina Nurses' Experiences with COVID-19 Positive Patient Care
Author: Lee, Abigail
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Ethnology
Description: This is a case study of nurses’ perceptions providing care in North Carolina during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nurses participated in semi-structured interviews via Zoom about the impact of the pandemic on their working and personal lives. Drawing fro...

Title: RECONSTRUCTING AFRICA'S EVOLUTIONARY HISTORIES: DNA COLLECTION, CODING, ANALYSIS, and INTERPRETATION
Author: Winful, Olawunmi
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Area studies, History
Description: Finding a way to successfully interpret African diversity is important in accurately reconstructing the evolutionary history of our species. By collecting high quality DNA, genealogical, and demographic data on a large cross section of African and...

Title: Dietary Identity At Salango: Stable Light Isotope Analysis Of Guangala Period Burials (100 BCE – 800 CE)
Author: Cobb, Emilie
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Biochemistry, Archaeology
Description: Salango is an archaeological site on the coast of Ecuador that has been inhabited for thousands of years by multiple different cultures, including the Guangala (100 BCE- 400 CE). While research about mortuary treatment and socio-cultural character...

Title: Did They Belong: A Preliminary Study on Strontium Isotopic Analysis of the Guangala Culture Located at Salango, Ecuador
Author: Cruz, Zindy
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology, Geochemistry
Description: Due to advancements in technology, questions once thought of as unanswerable concerning migration and mobility have become possible to address. Strontium isotopic analysis has begun to bring about a change in how bioarchaeologists apply migration ...

Title: ACADEMIC INTEGRITY AND CULTURAL CAPITAL: A CASE STUDY OF INCOMING INDIAN GRADUATE STUDENTS IN ENGINEERING AND COMPUTING
Author: Birkett, James
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Ethnology
Description: As the number of international students studying in the United States continues to grow, it is important that educators and administrators at postsecondary institutions understand the diverse educational backgrounds of these students, which has th...

Title: ACTIVTY AND MOBILITY DURING THE TERMINAL ARCHAIC PERIOD IN THE EASTERN ANDES: A BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
Author: Shults, Ashley
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: The Archaic Period in the Andes is characterized as a time of increasing social complexity. Unfortunately, these mobile foraging groups have been understudied in the Eastern Andes, especially in Bolivia. This bioarchaeological analysis uses an emb...

Title: BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF A BRONZE AGE SKELETAL SAMPLE FROM THE QIJIA CULTURE CEMETERY MOGOU (1750-1100 BCE) IN GANSU PROVINCE, CHINA
Author: Johnson, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Physical anthropology, Archaeology, Area studies
Description: Bronze Age China has consistently been an area of research foci for both domestic and international researchers. However, paleopathological analysis of certain cultures within the "Northern Zone" is relatively new and demands scholarly exploration...

Title: A Focus On The Style Of Bone Harpoons In The Early Holocene: An Analysis Of Bone Harpoons From Koobi Fora, Kenya.
Author: Hovis, Ashley
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: While undergoing archaeological fieldwork in Ileret, Kenya, two Early Holocene (10,000-6,000 BP) sites are found containing bone harpoons. The purpose of this study is to examine the style of Early Holocene bone harpoons to see if people of East L...

Title: Gaze-Following, Social Monitoring, and Joint Attention in the Great Apes: A Comparative Analysis of Visual Communication and Potential Implications for Cognition
Author: Downing, Danay
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Animal behavior, Physical anthropology, Cognitive psychology
Description: Previous experimental studies indicate that gaze-following is a reliable indicator of advanced cognitive capacity in social primates. Group-living primates, in particular, must navigate complex social relationships among group members and other co...

Title: HAZARA DIASPORA RELIGIOUS DISAFFILIATION: AFGHANISTAN’S SHI'A WHO TURN AWAY FROM ISLAM
Author: Fekrat, Nasim
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Ethnology, Area studies, Islam--Study and teaching
Description: The topic of irreligiosity and secularism among Muslim immigrants is an understudied subject. Academic studies of Muslim immigrants, in particular, tend to focus on religious beliefs at the expense of other issues. This is particularly evident in ...

Title: Historical Consciousness and Collective Identity Formation in the Kings Mountain Historical Museum
Author: Mileski, Julia
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Museums--Study and teaching
Description: Many studies have been completed on historical consciousness in museum visitors of all ages, however, the topic of collective historical consciousness as compared to the potential of a collective current identity in small, rural history museums la...

Title: Locating the Enslaved Burial Ground at Rural Hill Plantation, Huntersville, North Carolina
Author: Gimson, Martha
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: This project addresses the structural violence inherent in the lack of preservation of the unmarked enslaved burial ground at the Rural Hill Plantation in Huntersville, North Carolina. When burial grounds of the enslaved are unmarked the legacy of...

Title: MISSIONAL SUBJECTIVITY: NEOLIBERAL HUMAN CAPITAL AND CHRISTIAN CAMPUS MINISTRIES
Author: Caro, Lennin
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Economics
Description: Since 2000, the anthropology of Christianity significantly grew in the scholarly literature. However, there remains this odd gap in examining Christians and their activities in college campuses. This paper attempts to fill this gap by doing ethnog...

Title: Messages from the Heart: Agent Orange and Narrative Conflict in Contemporary Vietnam
Author: Blattenberger, Philip
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Social sciences--Research, Museums--Study and teaching, History
Description: For six months in 2014 the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam hosted a temporary exhibition on Agent Orange. Entitled "Agent Orange: A Message from the Heart," the exhibit’s politically benign narrative tone featured reconciliatory r...

Title: Latino Narratives of Educational Experience in the Greater Charlotte Area
Author: Gray, Michelle
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Linguistics
Description: In analyzing interviews with ten Latino participants who have attended or are attending public school in the Greater Charlotte area using narrative discourse analysis, I found significant connections between identifying as self-motivated with rega...

Title: Linear Enamel Hypoplasia: An Analysis of Health Disparities Between the Early Intermediate Period and Middle Horizon of Nasca, Peru
Author: Moore, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: ABSTRACTELIZABETH MOORE. Linear Enamel Hypoplasia: An Analysis of Health Disparities of the Peruvian Coast. (Under the direction of DR. DENNIS OGBURN)There has been an abundance of research, archaeological and other, on the Nasca culture and linea...