Browsing Anthropology electronic theses and dissertations (MU) by Thesis Semester "2009 Spring"

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  • A biological distance study of Steed-Kisker origins 

    Baier, Melissa A., 1980- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Nonmetric trait frequencies of crania affiliated with the Steed-Kisker phase of northwestern Missouri were compared with crania from the Northern and ...

  • Diet, subsistence and health: a bioarchaeological analysis of Chongos, Perú 

    Dietz, Michael J., 1970- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
    It is possible to assess important archaeological questions about prehistoric individuals and groups, learning a great deal about their lives through bioarchaeological analysis of human skeletal remains. This dissertation ...

  • Evolution and religion : theory, definitions, and the natural selection of religious behavior 

    Ellsworth, Ryan M. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
    Chapter 1 Presents a brief summary of recent theory and research into religion from evolutionary cognitive psychology and behavioral ecology. Chapter 2 addresses the debate over whether religion is an adaptation directly ...

  • Prehispanic agriculture and climate on the Pacific slope of Guatemala 

    Collins, Shawn K. (Shawn Kay) (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
    The relationship between agriculture and social complexity is a complicated one through both time and space; this is no less true in prehispanic Mesoamerica. Human occupation of the Pacific Coast of Gualtemala prior to ...

  • The social economics of organic production in Columbia's Farmer's Market 

    McCune, Lornaida (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The research involves preliminary field investigation of the impacts of social demands on economic decisions made by producers, such agricultural ...