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Anthropology: Recent submissions
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Connaissance and Savoir-Faire: A Chaîne Opératoire Perspective on the Lithic Industries at the Iler Earthworks (AaHr-22), Essex County, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-27)In a chaîne opératoire or ‘operational sequence’ conceptual framework, reduction technologies are recognized as an entangled, stepwise enactment of human knowledge (connaissance) and skill (savoir-faire). Through this ... -
Reconstructing the Life Histories of the Individuals Buried in the Rock-cut Cave Church of St. Georges, in Gurat, France
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-25)In the 1960s and 1970s, eighteen individuals were excavated from the cave church of St. Georges, located in Gurat, France. This thesis develops osteobiographies for these individuals to build on previous studies relating ... -
Bird Monitoring and New Media: An Anthropological Exploration
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-25)As the diversity of new media increases, people have more choices than ever before to select between various media for specific uses. In this thesis, I draw from my own research to look at the ways that bird monitors ... -
Bioarchaeology in Greece: Breathing Life into the Early Helladic and Archaic Skeletal Assemblages from Klenia
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-15)Rescue excavations between 2014 and 2015 in Klenia, Corinthia, Greece uncovered an assemblage of human skeletal remains from one Archaic (750-479 BCE) and four Early Helladic (2650-2200 BCE) tombs. Until recently, ... -
Dorset Use of Caribou Bones at Mingo Lake (LdFa- 1): A Faunal Analysis and Application of 3D Technology for the Recovery of Bone Tool Blanks
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-17)The faunal remains from the Dorset culture component at the LdFa-1 site, located at Mingo Lake on Baffin Island, showcase extensive cutting on some caribou bones in the form of the groove and splinter technique. These bones ... -
Imagining Greece: Sensing Antiquity in Two Athenian Museums
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-09)Physical and sensorial experiences of museums provide publics with a material ground to (re)imagine history and its relationship to contemporary society. Through these experiences, museums become venues of spatialized ... -
Beneath the Hype: Engaging the Sociality of Artificial Intelligence
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-23)Artificial intelligence (AI) is highly visible in today’s public media. With potential uses across domains such as healthcare, labour and transportation, its capacity to impact human lives is widely apparent. As it continues ... -
Living as a Self-sufficient Second-class Citizen: Chinese International Undergraduate Students’ Journey to Permanent Residency in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-24)In recent years, Canada has become one of the world’s most popular destinations for studying abroad, and China has become the top sending country of international students to Canada. In Canada’s 2015 International Student ... -
iNaturalist: Understanding Biodiversity Through a Digital Medium
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-23)Much of the current excitement about citizen science is due to the innovative use of internet-based media platforms. These are designed to enable data production while seeking to be instructive or even entertaining for its ... -
Exploring the Origins and Mobility of the Medieval Monastic Inhabitants of a Cave Church in Gurat, France using Strontium Isotope Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-22)Researchers inevitably must destroy a portion of their sample to conduct stable isotope analyses and obtain the chemical signatures embedded within biological hard tissues such as tooth or bone. However, the degree to which ... -
Crossing the Cuesta: A GIS Analysis of Intra-Site Settlement Patterns at the Mt. Albion West Paleoindian Site (AhGw-131)
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-19)Excavated by Archaeological Services Inc. (ASI) between 1998 and 2004, the Mt. Albion West (AhGw-131) Early Paleoindian site is one of only a handful of Late Pleistocene sites in Ontario. Situated adjacent to the Red Hill ... -
Salvaging on the Coast of Erebus Bay: An Analysis of Inuit Interaction with Material from the Franklin Expedition
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-02)Over the course of the 19th century, many European explorers sailed in search of a Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic. These journeys brought them into territory occupied by Inuit, who both traded with the ... -
The Effects of Collagen Rehydration on Postmortem Fracture Morphology: Implications for the Perimortem Interval
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-29)The purpose of this thesis was to explore the effect of water saturation on the fracture morphology of dry bones – specifically, this research sought to determine if rehydrating dry bones would cause skeletal material to ... -
Ruptures in Canada’s Nationalist Narrative: Situating Toronto’s Former-Yugoslav Immigrants in the Indigenous-Settler Context
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-20)With the increasing prevalence of Indigenous discourses in the public consciousness, it becomes clear that the role of immigrants in the Indigenous-Settler dynamic has yet to be understood, and is particularly understudied ... -
Ontario's Archaeological Curation Crisis - Twenty Years Later
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-20)Archaeological collections are cherished for future educational opportunities, cultural or spiritual reasons and archaeological research. With the ongoing destruction of archaeological sites, the information stored in these ... -
View from a Body: Situating the Lived Experience of Painful Obsessions and Compulsions
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-18)Painful obsessions and compulsions have been traditionally consigned to the realm of mental illness. However, an investigation into the lived experience of these tendencies demonstrates that they constitute embodied forms ... -
Digging Online: Crowdfunding for Archaeology
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-17)Archaeology permits us precious glimpses into the mysterious past, captivating the public with its intrigue. However, the expensive nature of archaeological work often leads to a struggle for funding. Crowdfunding allows ... -
Practice Molds Place: Communities of Pottery Production and Situated Identities at Location 3 (AgHk-54)
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-06)The archaeological study of Late Woodland communities in southern Ontario has identified two spatially and culturally distinct manifestations known as the Western Basin and Ontario Iroquoian Traditions. Recently, the ... -
Distinguishing Burials in Thebes, Greece: Using MNI and MLNI as a Differentiation Technique
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-22)The objective of this thesis was to determine an additional method to help distinguish between types of burials in Thebes, Greece and generally in archaeological remains. Using two quantification methods, MNI and MLNI, ... -
Developmental Defects in Ancient Context – Causations of Cleft Palate in the Athenian Agora
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-21)This research looks at the infant cleft palates recently identified in the Athenian Agora. This assemblage provided the opportunity to expand the ways which bioarchaeology may study developmental defects which affect the ...