The dispossession of the Native American land base during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is at once a well-recognized historical process and a process seldom …
Generations of archaeologists have identified and examined craft production, specialization, and technological development as defining characteristics of sociopolitical complexity. Yet, the significance of North American …
This dissertation explores the ways in which 19th-century Irish residents of the American Mining West created and maintained community by embracing the saloon as a …
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 …
My dissertation explores the intellectual project of the Peruvian scientist and antiquarian Mariano de Rivero (1798-1857), focusing on a pioneering concept of technology that emerges …
On Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe (JST) is enacting contested approaches of reclaiming tribal histories threatened by persistent 19th century settler colonial narratives …
During the summer of 2017, the author participated in an excavation of a Roman craft production facility dating to the first century, CE. The excavation …
This dissertation is an archaeological exploration of Montserrat’s ongoing volcanic crisis that integrates both how the island has changed as a result of the eruptions, …