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Description:: During King Philip's War (1675-1676) in New England, English colonists and a small number of enslaved Africans and "friendly" Indians used dwelling houses as places …
Year:: 2013
Contributor:: Porter, Colin Arms (creator); Rubertone, Patricia (Director); Simmons, William (Reader); Anderson, Douglas (Reader); McBride, Kevin (Reader); Brown University. Anthropology (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Garrison houses; King Philip's War; Historical archaeology; War and memory; King Philip's War (1675-1676); Archaeology and history; New England
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Description:: Past hydroclimatic change is shown from the reconstruction of paleo-lake levels from New Long and Rocky Ponds in southeastern Massachusetts, and Davis Pond in western …
Year:: 2010
Contributor:: Newby, Paige E (creator); Donnelly, Jeffrey (Director); Herbert, Timothy (Director); Tullis, Jan (Reader); Russell, James (Reader); Anderson, Douglas (Reader); Brown University. Geological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: lake levels; Holocene; late Pleistocene; North Atlantic; Paleohydrology; Holocene Geologic Period; New England; North Atlantic Region
Collection:: Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Race and ethnicity are slippery concepts in the United States, as we can see from changes in census categories as recently as 2012, debates about …
Year:: 2015
Contributor:: Button, Emily (creator); Rubertone, Patricia (Director); Anderson, Douglas (Reader); Simmons, William (Reader); Shoemaker, Nancy (Reader); Brown University. Anthropology (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: historical archaeology; Native America; African America; New York; identity; Archaeology and history; Whaling; Material culture; Households; Group identity; Race; Ethnicity; New York (State)
Collection:: Anthropology; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: In Native New England, the struggle to demonstrate "community" is a necessary, but fraught, enterprise in Native groups' fights for social and legal recognition. Groups …
Year:: 2010
Contributor:: Reiser, Christine N (creator); Rubertone, Patricia (Director); Alcock, Susan (Reader); Anderson, Douglas (Reader); Simmons, William (Reader); O'Brien, Jean (Reader); Brown University. Anthropology (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Native American; Community; Mobility; Ethnicity and Race; Schaghticoke; Paugussett; Indians of North America; Migration, Internal; Ethnohistory; Scaticook Indians; Paugusset Indians; New England; Connecticut
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Description:: This dissertation reports excavations at the site of El Palmar, Petén, Guatemala, and the results of subsequent laboratory analysis. The overall objective of the present …
Year:: 2013
Contributor:: Doyle, James Alan (creator); Houston, Stephen (Director); Anderson, Douglas (Reader); Scherer, Andrew (Reader); Inomata, Takeshi (Reader); Garrison, Thomas (Reader); Brown University. Anthropology (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Mesoamerica; Maya Lowlands; Preclassic Period; Archaeology
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Description:: In the last quarter of the twentieth century, First Nations in Canada and the United States have found new reception to centuries of demands for …
Year:: 2011
Contributor:: Rosenmeier, Leah Morine (creator); Rubertone, Patricia (Director); Anderson, Douglas (Reader); Krech, Sheppard (Reader); Loring, Stephen (Reader); Brown University. Anthropology (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Native America; Mi'kmaq; archaeology of communities; landscape archaeology; repatriation; indigenous rights; land claims; descent
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