This collection includes theses, dissertations, and professional papers from the University of Montana Department of Anthropology. Theses, dissertations, and professional papers from all University of Montana departments and programs may be searched here.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2004

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The Chinese Presence in Virginia City Montana: A Historical Archaeology Perspective, Kristin Bowen

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Gender in public policy : a rhetorical analysis of "The Montana women's report", David Brooks

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The effects of two household accelerants on burned bone, Trisha L. Brown

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Excavations at the Big Sheep Creek site near Dell, Montana, Mark A. Carper

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Introduction to the concept of a "symmetry index" for use in the assessment of biface production goals illustrated using lithic materials from the Avon site (24PW340) Powell County Montana, Raven Garvey Carper

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Traditional healers as agents and leaders of change : an examination of the role of the healer in the time of AIDS, Allison Elizabeth Fissel

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Timeline in stone| Lithic indications of social and economic change at Housepit 7 of the Keatley Creek Site, Terrence M. Godin

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Subhousepit 3: assessing the role of a small semisubterranean mat lodge in late Plateau Horizon settlement strategies, Lucille E. Harris

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Variation in activity areas and temporal occupations at the Yaak River Site, Kristen Hauge

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Division by blood: Examining a history of political and racial clashes underlying American Indian identity, Barbara Anne Henderson

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Determination of Site Use as Inferred From the Lithics Data of the Post Adandonment Occupation of Housepit 7 at the Keatley Creek Site: Comparing Winter Village and Short-term Camp Models, André B. Jendresen

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Taxonomical structures of Australopithecus : a reanalysis of hominid phylogeny, David Alexander Lukaszek

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Big Horn Medicine Wheel| Source of power and conflict, Kelly P. McDonald

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Syncretic Iconography by Native Americans of Montana and Early Catholic Missionaries, Michael J. McGinley

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A Comparative study of the meadow locale at Alder Creek and the Murphy Cabin at Donner Lake: Using the historical and the archaeological record to create a new Donner memory, Jack C. McShane

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Analysis of dermatoglyphic heritability: A study of phenotypic relationships, Constance S. Muller-Ford

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Bridge River site of Lillooet, British Columbia| The faunal assemblage, Jackie L. Orcholl

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Analysis of artifacts from Avon Valley, Montana, Leslie M. Riley

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Missoula County Sheriff's Department case #8509102: A comprehensive forensic case report for "Christy Crystal Creek", Sydney Wimbrow

Theses/Dissertations from 2003

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Changing times, changing economics| A faunal resource history of Housepit 7 at the Keatley Creek Site, Melisse R. Burns

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Woman's health care movement of Montana 1969-1999 : from personal perspectives, Erin Cunniff

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Culture history of the Yellowstone River and Yellowstone Lake, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming and Montana, Elaine Skinner Hale

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A comprehensive examination of University of Montana Forensic Case #12, Jason M. Incillo

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Ancestry of North America : a statistical craniomorphic comparison of paleoindian skulls, J. Chad Jones

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Cultural landscape report for the Lewis and Clark Expedition's Travelers Rest campsite near present-day Lolo, Montana, Susan L. Knudsen

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Evaluation of HIV transmission knowledge and prevention behavior among migrant workers in Montana, Angela D. McCall

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Premortem tooth loss : a model for estimating adult age at death, Dawn M. Medved

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A comprehensive examination of University of Montana Forensic Cases 35A and 35B, Amy Lalaenya Nadolny

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Comprehensive forensic case report: The University of Montana case #UMFC37, Angela J. Regan

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Results of an archaeological survey along the Montana-Idaho stateline in the northern Bitterroot Range| LoLo Pass to Lookout Pass, Mark Talbot Vallier

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Concordance of two methods of assessing race of human crania, Christy Watterson

Theses/Dissertations from 2002

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Examination of Otis T. Mason's standard of authenticity| Salvage ethnography and Indian baskets at the Smithsonian Institution, Zachary T. Androus

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As long as water falls| An ethnohistorical study in the socioeconomic underdevelopment and cultural identity of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes| Using the events leading up to and surrounding the construction and future control of the Kerr Dam, William F. Arnold

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NAGPRA: Problems and solutions for successful repatriation, Megan AH. Bateman

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Frequency and severity of rickets and osteomalacia relative to levels of skin melanin, Jamie L. Elser

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Distinguishing human from non-human skeletal elements using photographs, Michael Eric Koetter

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Fractionated heirship: A Blackfeet case study, Justin B. Lee

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Determining postmortem interval : a preliminary examination of postmortem thorium actinium and radium isotopes in bone, Christine N. Rea

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The Viking expansion| Climate, population, plunder, John C. Sharpe

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Prehistoric quarrying at South Paint Rock Chert Quarries, Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming| An assessment of lithic procurement and reduction strategies, Kyle D. Wright

Theses/Dissertations from 2001

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Native Americans anthropologists and NAGPRA: A continuing controversy, Christine C. Baker

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Archaeological investigations at the Fries Site| An intrasite structural analysis of an upland Piedmont site in North Carolina, Alvin J. Banguilan

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Blackfeet cultural continuity and the Biographic Art tradition: The Deadmond Bison Robe example, Janis L. Bouma

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A study of dental attrition in a modern sample from the Northwest United States, Christopher M. Casserino

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Early and Middle Archaic projectile point technologies in the Closed Basin area of the San Luis Valley, Colorado, Scott A. Des Planques

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Effects of Koniag artificial cranial deformation on Eskimo population comparisons, Jamelon Emmick

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Utilization of fungal growth in the estimation of the post-mortem interval, Becky D. Floyd

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Limits of migration: The Shoshone move North, James Rodgers Free

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Evolution of hunter-gatherer socioeconomic systems during the middle to late Holocene in the Upper Columbia and the Interior Northwest, Nathan B. Goodale

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Cultural site evaluation of Coloma, Montana, 2000, Paige A. Hoskinson

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Culture history of the German Gulch Chinese, Garren J. Meyer

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Comparison of 3 methods for locating buried remains, M. Damon Murdo

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Analysis of prehistoric archaeological features on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Brooke M. Simpson

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Temporal variability in lithic technological organization at the Keatley Creek Site, Holly Jean Stelton

Theses/Dissertations from 2000

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Forensic entomological case study and comparison of burned and unburned Sus scrofa specimens in the biogeoclimatic zone of northwestern Montana, Seth Barnes

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Selves in practice: Identity formation through the practice of alternative medicine, Molly J. Bleecker

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An independent test of the technique of aging skeletal material from the sternal end of the right fourth rib, Andrew Scott Catey

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Making Missoula home| Voiced representations and participation in creating a sense of place, Jennifer P. DeBerry

Gendered discussions and metaphors of progress affecting the 1999 debate about school closure in Missoula Montana, Naomi A. DeMarinis

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Duality of social identity: Theories concerning self and social categorization, Chris Girard

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"We are Indians and will always be Indians": Strategies for the preservation of ethnic identity by the Fox Indians of Iowa, Carolyn Marie Grimaldi

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Shamanism and the state: A conflict theory perspective, David K. Gross

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Discrimination against the Hutterites: The racialization of a religious community in rural Montana, Susan Huntley

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Cost-benefit relationships at South Everson Creek quarries, Christina E. Kelly

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Observing gender in the material cultures of six Northwestern Plains societies: An ethnographic/ethnohistoric comparison, Kathy La Plante

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Chronology of housepit occupations at the Keatley Creek Site| An analysis of stratigraphy and dating, Michael P. Lenert

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Prehistoric cultural resources of the Whitetail Pipestone area, Jefferson County Montana| An overview and implications for cultural resource managers, Sandra L. Morris

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On being White in America: An exploration of identity in the ethnic majority, Beverly T. Orth

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Historical demography of the Chippewa-Cree of the Rocky Boy's Reservation Montana 1917-1937, Annajeanette Presnell

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Identity formation of Mexican-Americans in the West Side community of St. Paul Minnesota, Rani Francesca Salas-McLean

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Face value: Cosmetics and Japanese performances of ethnicity, Bonnie Schenk Darrington

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The estimation of ante-mortem weight from adult human skeletal remains: An examination of the humerus and the femur, Thomas Scott Sichta

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Examination of the phylogenetic value of molar cusp patterns for Australopithecus Paranthropus and early Homo, Michael Sperazza

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Variability in flake technology at Tree Frog, a protohistoric site in the Centennial Valley, Montana, Kristin Ann Vanwert

Theses/Dissertations from 1999

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Metaphors of The Origin of Species: A case study of the relationship between metaphor thought and bodily experience, Abdulsalam S. Al-Zahrani

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The Golden "M" Project: History lost and found, Sandra Koppenberg Fisher

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Good hunter| A study of the beliefs and motivations of appropriate hunting behavior by Montana hunters, Chad M. Huddleston

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A controlled comparative analysis of secondary burial practices : sacred space symbology and the dead, Sharon K. Moses

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Examining variation in shield bearing warrior rock art, David Moyer

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Admixture and racial classification : the use of discriminant analysis in classifying individuals of mixed ancestry, Darcy D. Olson

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Statistical comparison of Spode/Copeland ceramics between historic Metis and European occupations in central Alberta, Timothy Panas

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Redefining masculinity: The Promise Keeper movement in Montana, Staci V. Richards

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Lithic tradition change in a contact context as demonstrated by an artifact assemblage from Espiritu Santo de Zuniga, Victoria, Texas (41VT11), Robert C. Schweitzer

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Food calls in a captive population of rhesus macaques ( Macaca mulatta), Kevin W. St. Jacques

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Biomedical encounters and human adaptability, Christopher Canterbury Wahlfeld

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Middle Archaic and Late Archaic/Woodland patch use in the Little Missouri Badlands, North Dakota, Greg L. Wermers

Theses/Dissertations from 1998

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Montana masks| The implications of shell mask gorgets to trade between the Plains and Southeast, Derek Stetler Beery

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24CA37, A bison kill in Cascade County, Montana, Arrow R. Coyote

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Rock bake ovens: Material culture used to preserve social heritage, William Stacy Culpepper

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Stylistic analysis of pictographs and petroglyphs in Hells Canyon, Robyn L. Johnson

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Changing patterns of everyday living in Livingston Montana: Oral histories of women who worked for the railroad, Julia Katherine Keffer

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Non-site analysis of the archaeology of the Wasatch Plateau, Utah, Wanda Raschkow

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What's theory got to do with it?| Problems, processes and purposes for archaeological explanation, Jeffrey W. Sogard

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Choosing cremation in Missoula Montana: implications for theories on western individualism, Danielle Valentine

Theses/Dissertations from 1997

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Computer mediated interpersonal relationships, Benjamin P. Doan

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Study of the intensification of agriculture in the Taos district of New Mexico and its physical effects over time| A comparison of adult stature and dental health between two populations of prehistoric Native Americans, Erin K. Driskell

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Ecotourism anthropology and the ecosystem : developing sustainable tourism : case study - Belize C.A., James Anthony Flanagan

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Effects of uranium development on tribal sovereignty| With an emphasis on the Spokane Tribe of Washington State, Scott M. Herron

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Origin and spread of syphilis, Jun Hong

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Evolution of political and religious structures in early state level societies| Ideology in archaeological method and theory, Timothy B. Hughes