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Title: A STUDY OF MATERIALIZATION, IDENTITY, AND AGENCY USING PXRF ANALYSIS OF CERAMICS FROM INCA PERIOD ECUADOR
Author: Sweitzer, Mackenzie
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Social structure, Archaeology, Area studies
Description: When the Inca Empire expanded across large portions of South America, they implemented various strategies to subdue and control their massively ethnically diverse subjects. One way that the Inca ideology and social order was imposed on the masses ...

Title: Brunswick Town Colonoware: A Look at Form and Function
Author: Johnson, Benjamin
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: This paper discusses the history of Brunswick Town through an archaeological study of Brunswick Colonoware as it applies to African-American life. By looking at the artifactual record from the original excavations of the town, I was able to determ...

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: 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: Iconography of Transformation: The Question of Hallucinogenic Remnants in Ritual Artifacts at Chavin de Huantar
Author: Nooe, Ryan
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: In a mountain valley of the South American country of Perú rests a site at the core of an ancient and influential culture. That site is known as Chavín de Huántar, a relatively small area which boasts monumental architecture and carved images of s...

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...

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: 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: Spatial Analysis of Activity Areas at the First Charles Town Settlement in North Carolina
Author: Bowers, Nicolas
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: Charles Town, North Carolina was an inhabited settlement just to the south of Wilmington, and was occupied from 1664-1667 and has only seen one major excavation, conducted by the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in the 1980’s-90’s. In th...

Title: THE COLORS OF PRESTIGE: AN ANALYSIS OF THE FORMS, DECORATIONS, AND USES OF INCA STONE VESSELS
Author: Banikazemi, Cyrus
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: The ethnohistoric and archaeological record provides ample evidence of the ideological significance of metals and pigments in the pre-Columbian Andean world. This study explores the use of these materials in the complex decorative techniques utili...