• The prevalence of extra-lethal violence across cultures in warfare 

  Johnson, Aaron Z. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  Extra-Lethal Violence, a form of physical aggression that goes beyond the necessity to kill someone, presents a conundrum: it is inefficient and dangerous to produce, especially during warfare. Extra-Lethal Violence, ...

• A geometric morphometric approach to Casas Grandes ceramic specialization 

  Topi, John R. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)

  Recent studies use geometric morphometrics, the quantitative study of shape and its variation, to examine aspects of the archaeological record. This thesis builds on such applications by applying morphometrics to the ...

• The birth and adoption of kinship: Folklore and fakelore in the context of nation-states and world religions 

  Begley, Ryan O'Dell (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)

  This dissertation centers upon the premise that human kinship, cooperation, and sociopolitical organization are not fully comprehensible without reference to the influence of stories in shaping them and that stories are ...

• Obsidian source distribution and mercantile hierarchies in Postclassic Aztatlán, West Mexico 

  Pierce, Daniel E. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  In Precolumbian Mesoamerica, trade was central to social organization, the spread of ideas, and the widespread distribution of goods across the landscape. For the Aztatlán tradition of Postclassic (AD 900- 1350) West Mexico ...

• Femoral angles and their correlates 

  Child, Stephanie L. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  This research addresses a central theme in anthropological research focused on the reconstruction of activity patterns from skeletal remains in past populations. In general, my research focuses on the ontogeny and development ...

• Queen Anne's revenge a systems analysis of Blackbeard's flagship 

  Kircher, Kenneth Wayne (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  The goal of this study was to examine the life history of the pirate flagship Queen Anne's Revenge using a functional systems approach to observe how the ship affected and was affected by the macrosystems operating around ...

• Merchant mothers and fishermen fathers : parental investment and subsistence work among the boat-dwelling Shodagor of rural Bangladesh 

  Starkweather, Katherine E. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)

  This dissertation addresses three general research questions. First, what are the socioecological conditions that lead Shodagor families to employ particular strategies in order to balance subsistence work and childcare? ...

• A geochemical look at obsidian procurement and exchange in the Medio period world: A case study 76 Draw (LA 156980) 

  Noneman, Heidi F. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Geochemical provenance analysis of obsidian is a productive avenue for studying social interaction and lithic raw material procurement strategies in ...

• Evaluating socioeconomic status using food utility indices in historical faunal assemblages 

  Trusler, Allison Kate (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  Evaluating socioeconomic status in complex societies using zooarchaeological data has been the focus of several studies in the past two decades. Taking a novel approach that uses a theoretically informed model and food ...

• Intrinsic properties of bone as predictors of differential survivorship 

  Golda, Stephanie DuPont (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)

• Using relative dating and seriation to identify trends in Northeastern Missouri Late Woodland period pottery decoration 

  Warner, Vincent dePaul (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)

  [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This thesis uses correspondence analysis and vessel wall-thickness time trends to investigate the type and location of decoration on the lips of pottery ...

• Alloparental care in two societies : who helps and in what circumstances 

  Perry, Gretchen Cara (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)

  This dissertation investigated alloparental care in two societies. Most prior research on alloparental care finds that close kin, matrilateral kin (especially grandmothers) are more frequent and more beneficial alloparents ...

• A study of property and knowledge inheritance in 19th Century Scania, Sweden 

  Rowles, Jeremy (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)

  Knowledge and property are both inheritable from parents to children, and who receives the inheritance is influential in deciding which children maintain or advance in social class in societies where social mobility exists. ...

• Phylogenetic and morphometric analyses of Eastern fluted-point forms 

  Boulanger, Matthew T. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)

  [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation constitutes two mutually complementary approaches to the study of Paleoindian material culture in eastern North America, ca. 13,500-10,500 ...

• Documentation of Missouri white-tailed deer chronoclines: implications for archaeology, paleoecology, and conservation biology 

  Swaim, Abby (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)

  Multiple ecological factors (e.g., Bergmann's rule, competition, food quality and quantity) can be responsible for changes in animal body size over time. White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) serve as an ideal candidate ...

• Cut mark pattern differentiation between the lower Paleolithic and the Holocene and its implications 

  Craig, Heather (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)

  Previous research proposed that an archaeological site's faunal assemblage cut mark angle patterning may vary based on the butchering and meat-sharing behaviors of the hominins that created the archaeological assemblage. ...

• Russian old believers in Alaska : linguistic and cultural continuity of traditionalist refugees 

  Bass, April Renee (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)

• To die so far from Dixie : modeling epidemic dysentery in a Civil War prison camp 

  Lander, Rebecca Shattuck (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)

• Support for breastfeeding mothers and determinants of long-term breastfeeding in the United States 

  Cisco, Jayme Nichole (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)

• An analysis of mammalian taxonomic diversity and domposition of early Paleoindian zooarchaeological assemblages in the United States 

  DeAngelis, Joseph Anthony (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)

  [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.]

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