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.
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
AVIAN SCAVENGING, MUMMIFICATION, AND VARIABLE MICRO-ENVIRONMENTS AS FACTORS AFFECTING THE DECOMPOSITION PROCESS IN WESTERN MONTANA, Teresa Ann White
Household Organization in the Fur Trade Era: Socioeconomic and Spatial Organizations of Housepit 54, Alexandra Christine Williams
The Analysis of Differential Burn Patterns in a Hanging Specimen Compared to a Specimen Positioned on the Floor, Amanda Williams
The Crow Tribe's Knowledge of Local Plants, Jesse Wolff
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Examination of Scavenging Associated with Wolves, Jamie Bankaitis
Honor Killings Among Westward-Immigrating Muslim Communities - An Applied Anthropological Approach, Ariel Deborah Barrett
Forgotten Sepulchers: The Uninscribed Tombs in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt, Roselyn Campbell
Articulating Value of Archaeological Resources After Damage, Archaeological Crime and the Archaeological Resources Protection Act, Liv Kristina Fetterman
CAPITALISM, CONTRACEPTION AND CHEMICALS: A MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE PREMATURE SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT EPIDEMIC IN PUERTO RICAN FEMALES, Holly Lynn Horan
THE CENTER OF A HOMESTEADING COMMUNITY IN NORTHWEST MONTANA: ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS ON THE POLEBRIDGE SCHOOLHOUSE, ALEXANDER J. KROLL
Asymmetry of the humerus: The influence of handedness on the deltoid tuberosity and possible implications for osteometric sorting, Carrie Brady LeGarde
A HUMAN BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE YELLOWSTONE LAKE BASIN, YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING, Jordan C. McIntyre
Tradewinds and Traditions: Exploring the Archaeology of German Gulch, William Travis Norman
Archaeology Database Management: A Case Study in the Solution of Incompatibility Issues between Different Archaeological Databases, Nathaniel Scherr
Unraveling the population history of the Xiongnu to explain molecular and archaeological models of prehistoric Mongolia, Ryan Schmidt
Down Low Under the Big Sky, Amee Marie Schwitters
Another Day, Another Donut: Political Economy, Agency, and Food in a Montanan Homeless Shelter, Jacqueline Devereaux Semmens
Geoarchaeological Assessment of Horseshoe Cave (24RB1094, Rosebud County, Montana, Norman Bernard Smyers
Language Change in Spanish Heritage Speakers: the Interaction Between Lexical and Grammatical Aspect, Jackelyn Kelly Van Buren
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Crescent Hill Chert: A Geological and Cultural Study of a Raw Material Procurement Area in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Jacob Strong Adams
Debt Structure in the West: Money and Gift, and the Influence on Community, James A. Becker
A PRELIMINARY EVALUATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE TRIBAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE PROGRAM IN MONTANA, Heather Allison Brown
Feasting on Fido: Cultural Implications of Eating Dogs at Bridge River, Hannah Schremser Cail
Our Collective History: The Curation Crisis and the Excavation of an Archaeological Repository, Bethany Hauer Campbell
Sex and Ancestry Estimation Using the Base of the Cranium, David Andrew Carlisle
Addressing Food Insecurity and Developing Social Resources Through Community Garden Projects In Low-Income Areas: Qualitative Interviews with Outreach Coordinators From Three Urban Agriculture Organizations, Elizabeth R. Chalgian
THE USE OF CT ANALYSIS TO ASSESS THE AGES OF A MODERN HUMAN TOOTH SAMPLE: A COMPARISION WITH DENTAL ATTRITION AND THE LAMENDIN METHOD, Kristina Galdes
PARAFFIN: AN ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL ALTERNATIVE FOR BONE CONSERVATION, Victoria E. Luksha
Individual Agency and Military Structure: Personal Artifacts From 1890s Fort Missoula, Jackson Cossitt Mueller
Protohistoric Signatures of Household Material Wealth: An Interhousehold Analysis of the Bridge River Site (EeRI4), Lee Nicole Reininghaus
University of Montana Forensic Case #12: Comprehensive Case Analysis, Lauren Leanne Richardson
CRANIOMETRIC ESTIMATION OF ANCESTRY IN PEOPLES OF INDIA, Cynthia K Coe Ross
Utilitarian and Industrial Ceramics of Montana in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Matthew Gregory Sadorf
The Seen and Unseen: Religion and Identity in the Chicago American Indian Community, Eli Steven Suzukovich III
Listen to the Bones: An Analysis of the Variation within the Faunal Remains at the Bridge River Site, Ogden Wyatt Ward
The 2010 Class III Archaeological Investigations of the Sheepeater Cliff Site (48YE29), Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Matthew Clyde Werle
Cultural Politics and Mining Development in Alaska's Bristol Bay Fishery, Amanda Rose Wlaysewski
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Klonopin Collectifs, the “Charms” of Diverted Pharmaceuticals and Other Pleasures of Non-Medical Prescription Drug Use, Henry Erikson Bundy
A Comparison Study of Vertebral Degenerative Joint Disease in the Hunter-Gatherer Population at Indian Knoll, Kentucky and Agriculturalists, Ashley Lynn Burch
Final Inventory Report Glacier National Park, Lake Sherburne Archeological Inventory & Report, RM-CESU Cooperative Agreement: CA-1200-99-007, Brenda Lea Covington
Cinnabar: Archaeology and History of Yellowstone's Lost Train Town, David Scott Dick
THE USE OF TOOTH PIT AND TOOTH/JAW MEASUREMENTS TO IDENTIFY CARNIVORE TAXA RESPONSIBLE FOR DAMAGE ON SCAVENGED BONE, Jennifer L. Foust
Analysis of The University of Montana Forensic Case 29, Daniel James Haak
Home Swede Home: The Archaeology of Swedish Cultural Identity at a Western Homestead, Amanda Clare Haught
Graduate Portfolio: An Anthology of Selected Professional Papers, Kevin John Lyons
"The Coming Man From Canton": Chinese Experience in Montana (1862-1943), Christopher William Merritt
Fort Owen: The History and Archaeology of a Contact Period Site in Western Montana, Donald Merritt
Masculine Domesticity in the Mining West: An Archaeological Investigation at Coloma Ghost Town, Margaret Anne Thurlo
WHY THE XWISTEN CROSSED THE RIVER: LITHIC TRANSPORT STRATEGIES ON THE CANADIAN PLATEAU, Michael Todd Wanzenried
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Worlds Apart: Social Mechanisms of Contrasting Fertility in European American and Native American Populations on the Northern Plains, Janet Mary Bush
A Spatial Analysis of 24HL1085: A Prehistoric Site in the Bear's Paw Mountains, Jessica Jo Bush
Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Three Crania Housed at the University of Montana Physical Anthropology Lab, Bonny Marie Christy
USING THE FREEZE-THAW CYCLE TO DETERMINE THE POSTMORTEM INTERVAL: AN ASSESSMENT OF PIG DECOMPOSITION IN WEST CENTRAL MONTANA, Beatrix Dudzik
Identification of fractures before and after removal of soft tissue: a case report, Walter Loren Kemp
Airport Rings: Stone Circle Archaeology In Yellowstone National Park, Michael Livers
RELATING TAPHONOMIC ANALYSIS OF BISON REMAINS TO CULTURAL AND SPATIAL INFERENCE: A STUDY OF THE FAUNAL REMAINS FROM THE TONGUE RIVER BUFFALO JUMP SITE (24RB2135), Blair Elizabeth Logan
HISTORICAL CEMETERY RESIDENTS UNEARTHED: REANALYSIS OF UMFC64 AND UMFC65, Nancy Kay Luger
An Examination of Error in the Application of Pubic Aging Techniques, Ellery Kate Lungmus
A COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA CASE 29, Jennifer Claire Munch
Testing of a Portuguese Method for Estimating Skeletal Age at Death in Adults Using the Acetabulum on an American Sample, Brian Paul Ouellette
The Postmortem Interval: A Systematic Study of Pig Decomposition in West Central Montana, Hillary Renee' Parsons
Age Estimation of Fetal Skeletal Remains from the Forensic Context, Jennifer Ellen Sanders
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
A Comprehensive Case Report on University of Montana Forensic Case 66, Christopher John Buckley
Comparisons in the cranial form of the Blackfeet Indians: A reassessment of Boas' Native American data, Jenee Caprice Gesler
Changes in Osteoarthritis of the Elbow and Shoulder Joints in Women when Trasitioning from Hunting and Gathering to an Agricultural Subsistence, Kirsten Anne Green
Debating Identity: Urban Indians in the Healthcare System, Erin J. Klahn
Anthropometric Variation in California: A Study of Native American Populations, Catherine R. Mahoney
Using 3-D Geometric Morphometric Techniques to Further Understand the Relationship Between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, Jolen Anya Minetz
AGE AT DEATH ESTIMATION FROM THE SACRAL SIDE OF THE SACROILIAC JOINT, Misty Marie Keahi Rego
Why Take the Risk?: Women's Interpretive Repertoires for Choosing Home Birth, Laura Ann St. Clair
A Clean Slate: The Archaeology of the Donner Party's Writing Slate Fragments, Molly Elizabeth Swords
Custer's Last Drag: An Examination of Tobacco Use Among the Seventh Cavalry During the Nineteenth Century, Shannon Marjorie Vihlene
A Comprehensive Case Study of Missoula County Sheriff's Office Case #85-09102, Debbie L. Wilkey, RN
Depression-Era Coloma: A World-Systems Study of Mining and Daily Life Experiences in a Reoccupied Montana Ghost Town, Benjamin Woody
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
A Lithic Raw Materials Study of the Bridge River Site, British Columbia, Canada, Darrell Albert Austin
Boomtown to Outdoor Museum: An Examination of Nevada City, Montana, for Placement on the National Register of Historic Places, Lara Briann Feider
A Modern Examination of Marcus Goldstein’s Mexican Immigrant Population Data: Comparisons of Mexican-born and U.S.-born Children and Adults Living in 1930’s America and Mexico, Amanda Katelin Gango
The Tongue River Bison Jump (24RB2135): The Technological Organization of Late Prehistoric Period Hunter-Gatherers in Southeastern Montana, Joseph Shawn Hamilton
Small Robe Band of Blackfeet: Ethnogenesis by Social and Religious Transformation, Linda Matt Juneau
PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN MONTANA: A SAMPLE OF UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND KNOWLEDGE OF LOCAL SITES, HELEN ALEXANDRA KEREMEDJIEV
A REANALYSIS OF BOAS’S HEBREW IMMIGRANT DATA: COMPARISONS OF FOREIGN-BORN AND US-BORN CHILDREN LIVING IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICA, Margaret Rose Kress
THE SHIELD BEARING WARRIORS OF BEAR GULCH: A LOOK AT PREHISTORIC WARRIOR IDENTITY IN ROCK ART AND PLACES OF POWER, Melissa Marie Ray
Let's Piece the Past Together: Writing a Book about African Diaspora Archaeology Education for Middle School Students, Michelle Cull San Antonio
UMFC #66 A Comprehensive Case Report, Jeffery Adam Schiel
The Importance of Individual and Population Variation to Human Stature Estimation, Kelly Jean Shields
Ethnogenesis of Metis, Cree and Chippewa in Twentieth Century Montana, Elizabeth Sperry
Developing a GIS-Based Weights of Evidence Predictive Model to Locate the Probability of Prehistoric Sites in Southwest Montana, Jason Daniel Strahl
Faunal Analysis of the Tongue River Bison Kill Site (24RB2135) in Southeastern Montana, Hilleary Allison Sutton
A Comprehensive Case Report of University of Montana Forensic Collection Case #141, Yasuko Takebe
Decomposition and the Freeze-Thaw Process in Northwestern Montana: A Preliminary Study, Laura Beth Wagster
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Forensic anthropology : its contribution to forensic cases submitted to the University of Montana for analysis, Ana M. Byrne
Community dynamics and social status at the Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park, St. Kitts, West Indies, Jennifer B. Camp
Initial Investigations of Possible Historic Chinese Habitation of Site 24SA0122 (Poacher Gulch), Jennifer A. Childress
Historical demography of the Coeur d' Alene 1900-1930, Christina Joy. Heiner
Evolution and intelligent design: College students' perspectives, Bethany Klein
Alaskan Eskimo and Polynesian Island Population Skeletal Anatomy: The "Pacific Paradox" Revisited Through Surface Area to Body Mass Comparisons, Wendy Nicole Leach