11th Annual Lambda Alpha Symposium, Wichita State University, April 18, 2009

Abstract

Neanderthals and their relation to Homo sapiens / Kyle Ackerman -- A historical review of environmental Archaeology / Shannon Arney -- “The omu: An asmat tradition” (An Anthropological film) / Troy Belford -- The garifuna of belize / Jelena Brezjanovic-Shogren -- Sex estimation from crania / Lindsay Charles -- Cranial suture closure / Rachel Stephanie Dellovechio -- What are we doing here? Site 41_NU-54 and the 2009 field season / Jerry Elmore -- I see dead people: The spiritualist movement and its advancement of the 19th century women’s suffrage movement / Shannon Kraus -- Entrapment in the noose: Evidence of cause of death by hanging / Jennifer Ledford -- Stone ties: Continuing to define the Pratt complex / Nick Macaluso -- Applying sexing and aging techniques to Wichita State University biological anthropology lab juvenile material / Michelle L. Maynor -- Human cremains from a controlled vehicular fire investigatio / Moore-Jansen, Peer H., Elayne N. Pope, Laura Bennett -- Comparing environmentalism in the U.S.S.R and the United States / Amelia Norton -- Effects of physical stress on the femur and humerus based on subsistence patterns and physical terrain / Elizabeth Perez -- Morphological variation in the human femur / David Reed -- Herbs, health and medicine in Belize / Katie Ritter -- Archaeology and papyrology: Early christianity in late antique Egypt / Gregg Schwendner -- An application of cranial epigenetic variants to the WSU-BAL skeletal collection for the verification of their accuracy in the determination of group affiliation in smaller osteological collections / Carol Shallue -- Avian osteology: An ostrich osteology web-site / Krystal Teixeira -- Hamas: Dynamics of gender ideology / Kristen Waymire -- Contrast of cultures in Belize - Mayan and garifuna comparisons / Brent Weeks