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 offers a qualitative study of Classic Maya housebuilding and community-building. Archaeological studies of craft have demonstrated how technological processes are embedded within social, …
This dissertation examines themes of herding, mining, infrastructure, and environment in sixteenth and seventeenth century Huancavelica, Peru. Spanish colonial mining in the Americas flooded the …
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, …
My dissertation synthesizes archaeological, historic, and geospatial data from six years of research in Guatemala, investigating the role of conflict and defensive spaces in early …
In this dissertation I examine evidence for oral care practices in the southern Maya lowlands over time from the Late Preclassic to Terminal Classic periods …
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 …
Combining archival, oral historical, geospatial, and archaeological data, this dissertation is the result of several seasons of research with the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde …
My research seeks to clarify the nature of the glassmaking industry in the Eastern Mediterranean region during the 8th-12th centuries CE. Studying glass assemblages from …
This dissertation is focused on the prehistoric, indigenous culture of the northern two Balearic Islands (Mallorca and Menorca) during the second half of the first …
While mortuary contexts have traditionally been key loci for the discussion of ritual within archaeological literature, there has been little discussion of the emotional dimensions …
In polities headed by divine kings, the public performance of hierarchy and inequality is essential to political power. Yet what happens to that inequality when …
This dissertation employs a comparative sociological framework to consider how the economically- and culturally-entangled peoples of the Mediterranean and Near East constructed social distinction and …
Despite being thousands of miles from the Mediterranean Sea, the early United States was littered with the remains of classical antiquity. In creating their new …
Reconstructions of Classic Maya (AD 250-900) economic systems focus on evidence of production or exchange within a single community or the exchange of goods over …
This dissertation focuses on the bits and broken pieces that were used, reused, discarded, and buried in the past. Although fragmented artifacts are often reconstructed …
This dissertation posits the development of ‘communities of practice,’ and a redefinition of Late Roman identity, on Crete and Cyprus in the transitional mid-7th through …
As a cultural practice made most visible through its graphic artifacts, writing’s form can provide at least as much information about social organization of production …
This dissertation employs aspects of network theory to study social complexity in the Euboean Gulf from the Mycenaean Palatial period through the Protohistoric Iron Age …
Abstract of SOCIAL LANDSCAPES OF THE EGYPTIAN DESERTS, 3000-1100 BCE, by LAUREL DARCY HACKLEY, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2020. Historically, Egyptology’s approach to desert landscapes …