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Description:: This dissertation reconstructs North and South Carolina Lowcountry plantation waterfronts as a means of better understanding mobility, inequality, and human-environment interactions in the antebellum Lowcountry. Using a theoretical framework of hydrosociality, the author undertook archaeological and archival research to investigate the question: how did the built environment of navigable waterways...
Keyword:: Maritime Studies, Anthropology, and Archaeology
Subject:: Archaeology
Creator:: Schwalbe, Emily Anne
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 05/31/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_986235 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16584

Description:: This dissertation investigates long-term biographies of seventeen small medieval settlements in the region of Hegranes, Skagafjörður, North Iceland, placing their creation, development, and reuse in the context of coupled social and environmental change. The individuals and households who lived at the Hegranes sites were at the nexus of both kinds...
Keyword:: Environment, North Atlantic, Sustainability, Archaeology, Medieval Europe, and Iceland
Subject:: Archaeology
Creator:: Catlin, Kathryn A
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14744 and etdadmin_upload_675578

Description:: People and horses have a deep, co-constructed, and co-evolutionary history. This dissertation evaluates sociopolitical change of the Hungarian Bronze Age (2800 – 800 BC) in the context of long-term shifts in human-horse relationships. In the Bronze Age, horses are assumed to mount the development of complex polities ruled by elite,...
Keyword:: Horses, Hungary, Human-Animal Relationships, Archaeology, and Bronze Age
Subject:: Physical anthropology, Ancient history, and Archaeology
Creator:: Kanne, Katherine Stevens
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14475 and etdadmin_upload_627420

Description:: This dissertation examines how the maintenance and adaptation of heritage monuments and ritual traditions have contributed to the sustainability of communities on the islands of Inishark and Inishbofin along the west coast of Ireland. My analysis combines archaeological investigation of a pilgrimage tradition on Inishark, from its origins in the...
Keyword:: Ireland, Pilgrimage, Sustainability, Archaeology, Early Medieval, and Heritage
Subject:: Religion, Sustainability, and Archaeology
Creator:: Lash, Ryan P
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_655026 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14564

Description:: This dissertation examines how preparing settlements for war (i.e. fortification) relates to the maintenance of power relations. Violence has psychological and physical effects that can lead to asymmetries of power and extreme forms of social inequality (Brumfiel 1998; Carneiro 1970; Earle 1997; Fanon 1968; Farmer 2005; Flannery and Marcus 2012;...
Keyword:: Warfare, Maya, Practice, Landscape, Power, and Archaeology
Subject:: Anthropology
Creator:: Christopher Luis Hernandez
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/26/2018
Date Modified:: 10/26/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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