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Name Topic Year Junior/Senior
Christopher A. Caputo
Tlingit Art and Archaeology 1994 Senior
Rebecca A. Crane A System Not Without Exceptions: A Study of Linear B 1996 Junior
William J. Hubbard Analysis of a Mastodon Trackway Located Near Saline, Michigan, and its Implications for the Systematic Hunting of Mastodon by Paleo-Indians (Archaeology, Geology) 1997 Senior
Erik L. Peterson God's Golden Box: The Role of the Ark of the Covenant as a Relic Within Both Ancient and Modern Societies
1997 Senior
Timothy A. Montbach Pottery Types of the Protohistoric Ohio Region 1997 Senior
Theresa Skinner   1997 Senior
Anna Roth Roots of Denial: The Link Between the Material Culture and Cultural Ideologies of the Victorian, Great Depression, and World War II Eras As Embodied in Morutary Monuments at the Wooster Cemetery
1997 Junior
E. Michael DiPaolo "Recent" Archaeology: A Look at Cape Henlopen, Delaware
1997 Junior
Jody Clauter A Comparison of Reconstruction and Experimental Archaeology at SunWatch Archaeological Park (33-MY-57) and Cahokia Mounds State Park (11-MS-38)
1997 Junior
Steven Brandes A Study of Lithic Projectile Points Recovered from a Prehistoric Site in Northern Ohio 1997 Junior
Rebecca A. Crane An Examination of Astronomical Alignments as Related to Public and Religious Structures in the Maya Region
1998 Senior
Sarah E. Harris The Phoenician-Punic Tophet: An Analysis of the Evidence Concerning Child Sacrifice (Archaeology/Classical Studies) 1998 Senior
John F. Oswald The Manipulation of Greek and Cypriot Rural Sanctuaries From 1050 to 450 B.C.E. (Archaeology/Classical Studies)
1998 Senior
Laura R. Baird A Study on the Origins of Agriculture in Mesoamerica and the Southwestern United States
1998 Junior
Carrie E. Simmons A Comparison of the Arts of the Ohio Hopewell and the Mesoamerican Maya and What It Can Tell Us About Their Cultures
1998 Junior
Sarah Conway Ceramic Analysis from Black Mesa, Arizona
1998 Junior
Jody Clauter Testing the Possibilities: A World-Systems Perspective on Interaction Between Mesoamerica and the Southeastern United States and the Development of the Mississippian Culture
1999 Senior
Steven Brandes Settlement Patterns Along the Vermillion and Black Rivers in Lorain County, Ohio and Subsistence Patterns Seen Through Microwear Analysis
1999 Senior
E. Michael DiPaolo Wooster in Pella: A History of the Site, the Excavations, and the Collection
1999 Senior
Laura R. Baird The Billman Family as a Case Study of German-American Farming Families in the Archaeological Record
1999 Senior
Carrie Simmons The Preservation of American Heritage
1999 Senior
Gabriel T. Califano The Etruscans and Rome: A Relation of Influences 1999 Senior
Anna W. Roth From Temple to Cathedral: The Institutionalization of Healing in Ancient Greece and Medieval Europe at Asklepieion of Epidauros and the Monastic Hospital and Cathedral of Canterbury
1999 Senior
Aaron Fuleki Data Management in the College of Wooster Archaeology Lab: The Acton Database 1999 Junior
Russ Kohrs The Millwood Rockshelter (33-KN-395), Knox County, Ohio: A Study of Exchange and Settlement Through Sourcing of Raw Materials
1999 Junior
Christopher J. Barney The Norman Cathedral Building Program Following the Conquest Functioning as a Mechanism of Control and Symbol of Dominance
1999 Junior
Jonathan R. Vanderplough The Acton Site (33KN345): An Analysis of the Flaked Stone Artifacts
1999 Junior
Tom Johnson Noah's Ark: Does It Really Exist and Why Do People Search for It?
1999 Junior
Sarah E. Nichols The Intrigue of Lerna III: A Site in the Argolid of Greece During the Early Helladic II Bronze Age
1999 Junior
Kathryn Joynt Tomb Architecture and Political Development on Crete during the Bronze Age
1999 Junior
Michael P. Krackenberger The Water Below: A Study of Salvage Rights and Their Effects on Underwater Archaeology
1999 Junior
Michael J. Miller A Study of Lithic Biface Manufacturing Traces in the MacCorkle Bifurcate Tradition of Ohio: Investigation into the Atlatl and Dart System
2000 Junior
Jonathan R. Vanderplough Lithics and Prehistoric Economy in Knox County, Ohio: A Lithic Debitage Analysis from the Acton Site (33KN395)
2000 Senior
Heather L. McEwen Thule, Ultimate No More: Ships of Exploration and the Development of the World-System
2000 Junior
Christopher J. Barney Anglo-Saxon and Romano-British Burial Practices: Signs of Migration and Cultural Interaction
2001 Senior
Tom Johnson The Archaeology of Mummification and its Significance in Egyptian Culture
2001 Senior
Aileen N. Heiser The Tressie Mcintosh Site, Clinton, Ohio: Using Nineteenth Century Ceramics as Indicators of Socioeconomic Status and Consumer Choice
2001 Senior
Crystal R. Miller The Future is in the Leaves, but the Present is in the Pot: Reflections of Political, Economic, and Ideological Changes of the Ming Dynasty in Yixing Teapots
2001 Senior
Amanda P. Moreland An Historical Archaeology Analysis of Slave Life on Plantations in Louisiana and Throughout the Southern United States
2001 Senior
Kathryn Joynt Who Owns the Past? An Analysis of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
2001 Senior
Aaron Fuleki Combining Archaeological Databases, Geographic Information Systems, and Multimedia Digital Reconstruction; An Application of the Modern Archaeology Lab in Settlement Pattern Analysis
2001 Senior
Kimberly A. House Lithic Analysis of the Acton Site (33KN345) and the Millwood Rockshelter (33KN395), Knox County, Ohio: A Study in Methodology
2001 Senior
Leslie N. McCluskey Cultural Affiliation of Serpent Mound, Adams County, Ohio
2001 Junior
Jeanne M. Harrington Gravestone Style and Analysis at St. Genevieve Cemetery in Calmoutier, Ohio
2001 Junior
Cori D. Philips Plants as Medicine
2001 Junior
Georlin D. Thorne Sociopolitical Indicators of Residential Structures at La Sierra in the Naco Valley, Honduras
2001 Junior
Hanneke A. Hoekman Analyzing Residues in Bronze Age Ceramics from Pella of the Decapolis
2002 Junior
Aaron Orszag Ancient Medecine: From Greece to Rome
2002 Junior
Heather L. McEwen May His Soul Be Bound up in the Bond of Eternal Life: Religious and Ethnic Self-Identity at the Anshe Hesed Cemetery, Erie, Pennsylvania
2002 Senior
Michael C. T. Ludwig Aniconic Images in Ancient Aegean Cultures (Archaeology, Classical Studies) 2002 Senior
Michael J. Miller A Lithic Reduction Strategy of the Archaic: Manufacturing and Use Traces in the MacCorkle Bifurcate Tradition of Ohio
2002 Senior
David P. Massey The Use of GIS in Archaeology: The Malloura Valley
2002 Junior
Jeanne M. Harrington Using an 18th Century Cemetery and Interviews with Parishioners of St. Genevieve to Determine How Religion Reinforced Ethnic Identity in the French-Catholic Settlement of Calmoutier, Holmes County, Ohio (Archaeology, Anthropology) 2003 Senior
Cori D. Philips Plain and Simple: Health Care Decision-Making among the Amish and its Implications on the Process of Cultural Evolution
2003 Senior
Georlin D. Thorne Silent Houses: An Examination of Social and Economic Pressures Present in Residential Architecture During the Classical/Postclassic Transition in El Coyote, Honduras
2003 Senior
Leslie N. McCluskey Conflict, Warfare and Viewshed Analysis: The Pueblo III Period in the Silver Creek Drainage, East-Central Arizona (Archaeology/Geology)
2003 Senior
David P. Massey Settlement Dynamics of Central Cyprus: A GIS Analysis
2004 Senior
Aaron Orszag Wayne County Cemetaries
2004 Senior
Joyce Stockins Osteological Analysis of Irish Bronze Age Populations: Searching for Nutritional Deficencies As Evidence of Social Complexity
2004 Senior
Hanneke A. Hoekman Residue Analysis of Ceramics from Late Byzantine and Mediaeval Contexts at Pella, Jordan Archaeology/Chemistry) 2004 Senior
Laura Britain

Analysis of Three Structures and their Function
at the site of Las Canoas, Honduras

2006
Senior
Christin Jones
Analysis of Ceramics from the Malloura Valley of Central Cyprus to Determine Social and Economic Change During the Late Roman Period
2006
Senior
Catherine McMahon
The Celtic Invasion of Ireland: Myth or Fact? Revisiting the Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age Transition
2006
Senior
Christopher Stelter How Social Stratification Grew with the Polis 2007 Junior
Whitney Goodwin Living on the Edge: Resedential Structures In El Cafetal, El Paraiso Valley, Honduras 2007 Junior
Ashley Jirsa Were the Women of Ancient Greece Just Desperate Housewives of the Past? An analysis of the role of women on the formation of the polis through the use of pottery 2007 Junior
Emily Irvine Where have all the Farmers Gone? A study on the disappearance of small farms in Wayne County, Ohio 2007 Senior
Andrew Womack This Should be in a Museum! The illegal trade in Chinese antiquities and what can be done to stop it 2007 Senior
Kimberly Klatka Constructing a Glimpse: The process of cultural display at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History 2007 Senior
Kathryn Baron Covered in Bug Spray and Dirt: A qualitative analysis of a residential summer camp experience at Camp Jewel YMCA 2007 Senior
Emily Blackie "This is 'Reel' Life": The role of documentary film in society and its effect on perception, history, and culture 2007 Senior
Erin Toohey Stories in the Stones: A spatial and temporal analysis of historic cemeteries in Lewes, Deleware and Wayne County, Ohio 2007 Senior
Rhian Stotts Household Archaeology and the East Field at Isthmia, Greece: Interpreting Domestic Space at a Ritual Center 2007 Senior
Katherine Duffus Excavating the Excavated: Reevaluating the Uhle textiles for future studies 2007 Senior


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