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 2024
Peoples of India: The use of craniometric data to distinguish a separate ancestral group, Stephanie A. Craig
REIMAGINING THE ACCURACY OF THE LOVEJOY ET AL. (1985) AGE ESTIMATION METHOD OF THE AURICULAR SURFACE OF THE ILIUM THROUGH MODERN COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS, Alyssa L. Edwards
BEARING WITNESS: ANCIENT DNA ANALYSIS AND THE DYNAMICS OF FOOD PROCUREMENT IN A HISTORIC MISSOULA CHINESE COMMUNITY, Sarah Elizabeth Grenfell
ENDING THE DOOM CYCLE: REDEFINING HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND RECLAIMING TOTAL HERITAGE THROUGH COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY, Nikki Marie Manning
FOODWAY COMPARIONS AND PATTERNS OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOR: THE USE OF ORPHAN AND SALVAGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS FROM HISTORIC MISSOULA, MONTANA, Emily Thea Meick
Repatriation and a Biological Profile of Indigenous Remains of West Texas, Haley P. Rebardi
A HOME FOR ALL: INNOVATIVE MANAGEMENT AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES FOR HISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGISTS AT FEDERALLY REGULATED LANDSCAPES AT THE GARNET GHOST TOWN, Andrea Jean Shiverdecker
Zooming in on a Snapshot of Care: Adapting the Index of Care for Historical and Modern Individuals in the Terry Collection, Felicia Robyn Sparozic
Complexities of Companionship: Exploring the Human-Dog Relationship Through mtDNA Analysis of Bridge River Canine Remains, Seth Warnick
RECOVERING THE NIUM TRAIL: A JOURNEY THROUGH COLLABORATION AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY MAPPING, CRYSTAL WEST
AN ETHNOHISTORY OF THE BANNOCK TRAIL, Katharine Lucienne White
Puerto Rican Haplogroup Distribution: A Taíno History, Paige Mackenzie Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
THE ANALYSIS OF ANCIENT DNA: FROM MITOCHONDRIA TO PATHOGENS, Tre Joseph Marcus Blohm
AN EXAMINATION OF THE FOOD SYSTEM, FOODSCAPE, DIETARY PATTERNS, AND ACCOLATED HEALTH OUTCOMES OF SALISH PEOPLE WITHIN THE CONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAI NATION, Joshua William Brown
Activity Pattern Analysis from a Commingled and Fragmentary Necropolis: Entheseal Changes at Kourion Amathus Gate Cemetery (KAGC), Hannah Burgess Carson
All Under One Roof: An Ethnographic Commons in the Missoula Public Library, Caitlin Ervin
NEGOTIATING THE SACRED: UNDERSTANDING IMPACTS TO IKS AND ITEK FROM USE OF REMOTE SENSING AND GIS TECHNOLOGIES WITHIN TRIBAL LANDSCAPES, Renelda R. Freeman
Ancient Migrations in West Mexico: MtDNA Analyses, Patricio Gutiérrez Ruano
UNDERSTANDING IDENTITY, POWER, AND USE OF SPACE OVER TIME WITHIN HOUSEPIT 54, BRIDGE RIVER SITE (K’ETXELKNÁ’Z), BRITISH COLUMBIA, Ashley Elizabeth Hampton
META-ANALYSIS OF SCENT DETECTION CANINES AND POTENTIAL FACTORS INFLUENCING THEIR SUCCESS RATES, Molly Marie Jaskinia
FLICKER FEATHER FILMS: VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY, INDIGENOUS FILM, AND DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING, Martin I. Lopez
Venturing into the Virtual: An Analysis of Virtual Museums and Creation of UMACF Southwestern Basketry Virtual Exhibit, Monica D. Lusnia
Re-Curation and Recognition: Addressing The Curation Crisis Through the Garnet Ghost Town, Jocelyn A. Palombo
The Cultivation of Therapeutic Landscapes: A Medical Anthropological Approach to Understanding the Health and Wellbeing Qualities of the Garden of 1,000 Buddhas, Andrew Thomas Ranck
CHINESE MATERIAL CULTURE SIGNATURES IN NATIVE NORTH AMERICA: A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN ONLINE COLLECTIONS AND PLAINS, Erin Drin Rosenkrance and Erin D. Rosenkrance
SEEKING A COMMON THEME: A STUDY OF CERAMIC EFFIGY ARTIFACTS IN THE PRE-HISPANIC AMERICAN SOUTHWEST AND NORTHERN MEXICO USING COMPUTER IMAGE PATTERN RECOGNITION AND PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS, Lee Roger Tallier Jr.
UMFC 140 A COMPREHENSIVE CASE REPORT, Daniel D. Warila
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
USING BONE BIOLOGY TO ENHANCE FORENSIC AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGICAL DNA ANALYSIS, Keith M. Biddle
Linear Programming Analysis and Diet Breadth Modeling at Bridge River, British Columbia, Sean Patrick Boyd
MORPHOMETRIC ANCESTRAL ANALYSIS OF INFRAORBITAL FORAMEN AND MAXILLO-FACIAL LANDMARKS OF ADULT NORTH AMERICAN SKULLS USING X-RAY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANS, Anna-Marie Lynn David
The Mountain Home: Spatial and Optimal Foraging Assessments of Hunter- Gatherer Mountain Landscape Use In The Beartooth Mountains, Montana, Scott William Dersam
Revisiting the Ladle House Site: A Starch Granule Analysis of Ground Stone Artifacts from 5MT3873, Cortez, Colorado, Kathryn Marie Kemp
TRACING MIGRATION AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN SUBADULTS AT THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF CONVENTO: A PRELIMINARY STRONTIUM ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS, Holli Kaye McDonald
Identifying Skeletal Trauma Markers Associated with Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), Haley K. Omeasoo
THE SYNDEMIC LANDSCAPE: A NEW PARADIGM FOR MONTANA SUICIDE PREVENTION GROUNDED IN AGRICULTURAL RENEWAL, Emory Chandler Padgett
PRELIMINARY STUDY IN MORE EFFECTIVE UTILIZATION OF 87Sr/86Sr ANALYSIS IN THE FIELD OF FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY, Samantha Powers
The effects humidity & temperature has on DNA contamination during storage, Samantha L. Ramey
THE EFFECTS HUMIDITY & TEMPERATURE HAS ON DNA CONTAMINATION DURING STORAGE, Samantha Leigh Allison Ramey
NEW INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AT 48PA551: LAND TENURE AND SUBSISTENCE STRATEGIES AMONG MIDDLE HOLOCENE ROCKY MOUNTAIN HUNTER-GATHERERS, Ethan Patrick Ryan
MOCCASIN ECONOMICS: ENTANGLED MUSEUM STORIES OF NIITSITAPI WOMEN, LABOR, AND FOOTWEAR, Michaela Ann Shifley
FOR THE LOVE OF LANGUAGE: MICRORITUEL IN THE SOCIALIZATION OF LANGUAGE TEACHERS, Rebekah Morgan Skoog
A COMPREHENSIVE FORENSIC CASE REPORT WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY LAB UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FORENSIC CASE #167, Tyler J. Trettin
Y-Chromosome DNA Extraction from Post-Cranial Skeletal Elements, Mykala D. Ward
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AND HISTORIC ARTIFACT ANALYSIS FOR THREE PROJECTS IN YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Monte Keoua White
HE, SHE, THEY, OTHER: AN EXAMINATION OF GENDER ASSOCIATIONS WITH THE CHATELAINE IN THE ANGLO-SAXON CULTURE, DANE A. WILLIAMS
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
THE ECOLOGY OF PUHA: IDENTITY, ORIENTATION, AND SHIFTING PERCEPTIONS REFLECTED THROUGH MATERIAL CULTURE AND SOCIORELIGIOUS PRACTICE, Aaron Robert Atencio
Mapping Ethnophysiographies: An Investigation of Toponyms and Land Cover of Missoula County, Montana, Emily L. Cahoon
A Moral Influenza: An Historical Archaeological Investigation of the Prohibition Era in the United States 1920-1933, Kelli Michele Casias
A COMPREHENSIVE FORENSIC CASE REPORT FOR THE BONNER COUNTY CORONER CASE #20-100, Megan Copeland
Uncovering Cooperation in Housepit 54, Bridge River, British Columbia, Canada, Megan Denis
Exploring Indigenous Involvement in the Fur Trade at the Bridge River Pithouse Village, British Columbia, Rebekah Jean Engelland
THE EFFECTS OF HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATION IN SOIL ON DNA DEGRADATION AFTER DECOMPOSITION, Samantha Hofland
Buffalo in the Mountains: Mapping Evidence of Historical Bison Prescence and Bison Hunting in Glacier National Park, Kyle Langley
Summer Vacation in the Wild: An Historical and Archaeological Study of Timber Land Fraud in the Tobacco Plains, Montana, Tyler Jay Rounds
READING THE BONES: A TAPHONOMIC INVESTIGATION OF ARCHAEOFAUNAL REMAINS RECOVERED FROM SITE 48PA551, NORTHWEST WYOMING, Morgan H. Thurman
The Influence of Ancestry, Sex, and Age on the Morphology of the Frontal Sinus in Black and White Individuals, Hope Annelise Vance
The Lost Histories of the Shetayet of Sokar: Contextualizing the Osiris Shaft at Rosetau (Giza) in Archaeological History, Nicholas Edward Whiting
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
THREE-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRIC SEX DETERMINATION AND MODELED FRAGMENTARY ANALYSIS OF THE HUMAN PUBIC BONE, Katherine Scot Baca
Conceptions and Receptions: A Case Study Analysis of Community Engagement at Four Local Museums, Mary L. Casey
A Comparative Analysis of Homicide Rates Utilizing the University of Tennessee Forensic Data Bank, Anna F. Hampton
SYNCHRONY: AN ASPECT OF THE ABILITIES OF STEPPE HORSE ARCHERS IN EURASIAN WARFARE (525 BCE – 1350 CE), Chris Hanson
Alas, Poor Yorick: A DNA Analysis of Ancestry Using Crania, Claire Hanson
SECRETS OF SOIL: A GEOCHEMICAL INVESTIGATION AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF THE EARLY LIVING FLOORS OF HOUSEPIT 54, BRIDGE RIVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Nathaniel Louis Perhay
DIET-BREADTH ANALYSIS IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST: METABARCODING METHOD WITH COPROLITES, Paige Nicole Plattner
A Snapshot of Care: Creating Models of Care for Individuals Included in the Terry Collection, Felicia Robyn Sparozic
THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AT PLAZA H, CAHAL PECH: A STUDY IN RESILIENCY, Rachel A. Steffen
A Chip off the Old Rock: An Investigation of Hunter-Gatherer Lithic Behavior at Site 48PA551 Using the FIeld Processing Model, Emma Lydia Vance
HANDING DOWN THE HERITAGE: PRESERVING IRISH DIASPORIC IDENTITIES IN THE FESTIVAL CITY OF MONTANA, Margaret Mary Walsh
A NEW CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING BURNED HUMAN REMAINS, Amanda Noel Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
3D PRINTING OF THE PROXIMAL RIGHT FEMUR: IT’S IMPLICATIONS IN THE FIELD OF FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY AND BIOARCHAEOLOGY, Myriah Adonia Jo Allen
THE QUEST OF VISION: VISUAL CULTURE, SACRED SPACE, RITUAL, AND THE DOCUMENTATION OF LIVED EXPERIENCE THROUGH ROCK IMAGERY, Aaron Robert Atencio
Sexual Dimorphism in Skeletal Trauma Associated with Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), Keith Biddle
RECONNECTING INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE TO THE SUNLIGHT BASIN: INTEGRATING TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND ARCHAEOLOGY, Liz Dolinar
GRANT-PROPOSAL WRITING AS A CRAFT AND POTENTIAL WAYS TO IMPROVE GRANT-PROPOSAL WRITING KNOWLEDGE AND APPLICATION READINESS FOR STUDENTS SEEKING FUNDING ASSISTANCE ATTENDING POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION, Eileen L. Flannigan-Lewis
A Comprehensive Forensic Case Report for the University of Montana Forensic Collection Case #141, Nohely Gonzalez
“IF THE WATER IS TAKING IT AWAY, LET THE WATER TAKE IT AWAY…”: A STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF CONSULTATION AT LAKE KOOCANUSA, Kayla Ciara Johnson
Cultural Property Protection and Preservation During Counterinsurgency Operations: A Handbook for Archaeologists Choosing to Serve with the American Military in the Global War on Terrorism, Thomas Joseph Livoti
NATIVE AMERICAN CONSERVATION CORPS PROGRAMS: CULTURAL HERITAGE AS AN APPROACH TO COMMUNITY WELL-BEING, Michaelle Anne Machuca
HUMAN VS. NON-HUMAN BONE: A NON-DESTRUCTIVE HISTOLOGICAL METHOD, Haley N. O'Brien
Mapping Ideologies: Place Names in Glacier National Park, Kaitlin E. Pipitone
DNA ANALYSIS ON CERAMIC COOKING VESSELS, Britney J. Radford
DNA integrity in forensic samples, Samantha L. Ramey
LEARNING FROM THE LANDSCAPE: INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES AND PLACER MINING LANDSCAPES IN THE ELK CREEK MINING DISTRICT, WESTERN MONTANA, Brent Stephen Rowley
Learning From Stone: Using Lithic Artifacts to Explore the Transmission of Culture at Bridge River, British Columbia, Anne V. Smyrl
IS HUMLA, NEPAL REALLY OPEN DEFECATION FREE? LATRINE USAGE AND UPKEEP POST ODF, Evan William Stewart
A Comprehensive Case Report for the University of Montana Forensic Anthropology Laboratory Case #18-188, Elizabeth Rose Valentine
An Investigation of Historic Euro-American Inscriptions at Madison Buffalo Jump, Jay Thomas Vest
THE ANZICK ARTIFACTS: A HIGH-TECHNOLOGY FORAGER TOOL ASSEMBLAGE, Samuel Stockton White V
CONSTRUCTING DISTANCE, RESPONSIBILITY, AND MEMORY MANAGEMENT THEORIES: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH TO DEATH NOTIFICATION INTERACTIONS, Teresa Ann 'Lilly' White
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, Erin Chiniewicz
8HG1312 Amanda's Terrace Lithic Analysis, SEAN FLYNN
The Sylvan Blindspot: The Archaeological Value of Surface Vegetation and a Critique of its Documentation, John S. Harris
VARIATION OF TOOL MARK CHARACTERISTICS IN FROZEN BONE AS IT RELATES TO DISMEMBERMENT, Elena Hughes
A CERAMIC ANALYSIS OF TWO TERMINAL CLASSIC MAYA SITES: EXAMINING ECONOMIC TIES THROUGH POTTERY, Kara B. Johannesen
PIG TRAUMA MODELS: A CIVILIAN PERSPECTIVE ON AR-15 POST-CRANIAL SKELETAL TRAUMA, Lauren M. Kenney
TRIBAL CONSULTATION: A CRITICAL REMINDER OF CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT LAWS AND OBLIGATIONS, Natasha F. LaRose