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The Roger Mills expansion project: An archaeological investigation
(Wichita State University, 1990-11-01)Archaeological investigations of a 150 foot right of way in the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma produced information on 13 previously unrecorded sites and isolates in Texas and 31 sites and isolates in Oklahoma. The majority ... -
Archeological survey of the proposed El Dorado Wastewater Treatment Plant, Butler County, Kansas
(Wichita State University, 2005-06-08)Pursuant to an agreement between the City of El Dorado, Professional Engineering Consultants, P.A., and Wichita State University for the performance of a cultural resources investigation of the area of impact of the ... -
Morphological variation in the mandible of white males and females from the East Texas region for potential applications for skeletal identification
(Taylor & Francis, 2022-04-06)The mandible is a bone that preserves well in forensic and archaeological contexts and has sound use for sex estimation techniques when the bones of the cranium and pelvis are absent. Past research has frequently used ... -
Serving up a slice of entrepreneurship on campus: The new Pizza Hut museum
(University of California Press, 2022-02-01)An interdisciplinary team at Wichita State University with individuals from the departments of Business, Communication, History, and Museum Studies worked with a design firm to rehabilitate the first Pizza Hut into a museum, ... -
Origin stories podcast: Stories about us
(Wiley, 2021-12-03)In a time where everyone from your old college roommate to every celebrity under the sun starts their own podcast, the last thing we need is yet another one. Despite all of this, Origin Stories manages to stand out. This ... -
Effects of acetolysis on starch granules
(Elsevier, 2021-04)The ability to concurrently analyze multiple microfossils from the same palaeoecological or archaeological sample would allow for faster and multi-evidenced analyses. Most microfossils require chemical processing to become ... -
The environments of Australopithecus anamensis at Allia Bay, Kenya: A multiproxy analysis of early Pliocene Bovidae
(Elsevier, 2021-01)Australopithecus anamensis, among the earliest fully bipedal hominin species, lived in eastern Africa around 4 Ma. Much of what is currently known about the paleoecology of A. anamensis comes from the type locality, Kanapoi, ... -
A council circle at etzanoa? Multi-sensor drone survey at an ancestral Wichita settlement in southeastern Kansas
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-10)This article presents results of a multi-sensor drone survey at an ancestral Wichita archaeological site in southeastern Kansas, originally recorded in the 1930s and believed by some scholars to be the location of historical ... -
Chemical residue evidence in Leon Plain pottery from the Toyah phase (1300–1650 CE) in the American Southern Plains
(Elsevier, 2020-08)Archaeological remains from the Toyah Phase (1300-1650 CE), prior to Spanish colonization of the American Southern Plains in central and south Texas, suggest that foraging indigenous peoples maintained a feasting economy. ... -
Anthropological archaeology and the Viennese students of civilization
(Springer, 2020-03)In this paper, I explore the parallel trajectories of anthropological archaeological and Austrian economic thought from central Europe to the Anglosphere. I note the work of Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) and Friedrich Hayek ... -
Bariatric surgery as a proxy for nutritional stress in stable isotope investigations of archaeological populations
(Elsevier, 2020-04)Pathophysiological fractionation of stable nitrogen and carbon isotopes during periods of nutritional stress has the potential to bias investigations of ancient diets using such methods, particularly when no corroborating ... -
Play and ritual: Rhythm, pulsation, and fractal dynamics
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019-09-07)Editorial: for Don Handelman on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Introduction: Although we intuitively ‘know’ that play and ritual sometimes constitute one another—and that the boundary between them is so thin that at ... -
Playing with frames of reference in veneration rituals: Fractal dynamics in encounters with a Muslim saint
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019-09-07)Paradigmatic shifts in anthropological theory shaped the ways in which play and ritual are conceptualized. By demarcating these shifts, the argument is made that an analysis of both play and ritual must start with the ... -
Analysis of a coprolite from Conejo Shelter, Texas: Potential ritualistic viperous snake consumption
(Elsevier, 2019-06)This paper presents an analysis of the floral and faunal remains of a single human coprolite recovered from Conejo Shelter, Texas (41VV162). The unique contents of this specimen warrant full description. Floral macrobotanical ... -
“Finding” the Eucharist in central Australia: Intichiuma ceremonies and the study of ritual sacrifice as a sacrament of communion
(UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, 2019-02)Different theoretical frameworks have played a major role in several interpretations of ethnographic material collected among the Aborigines of Central Australia. This article explores the theoretical frameworks that ... -
Dynamics of ritual reflexivity in the Alevi Cem of Istanbul
(Berghahn Journals, 2018-09-01)The Alevi cem is a communal ritual that is performed weekly among members of a major religious minority in Turkey. Although formerly celebrated exclusively in rural village communities, this ritual became publicly accessible ... -
Non-invasive electromagnetic skin patch sensor to measure intracranial fluid–volume shifts
(MDPI, Basel, Switzerland, 2018-03-29)Elevated intracranial fluid volume can drive intracranial pressure increases, which can potentially result in numerous neurological complications or death. This study’s focus was to develop a passive skin patch sensor for ... -
Implications of Micro-Scale Comparisons for the study of entangled religious traditions: reflecting on the comparative method in the study of the dynamics of Christian-Muslim relations at a shared sacred site
(MDPI AG, 2018-02-01)This article applies the comparative methodology proposed by Oliver Freiberger to a case study on Christian-Muslim relations at a shared sacred site in Antakya (formerly Antioch), which belongs to Hatay, the southernmost ... -
Book review: Faithfully urban: pious Muslims in a German city
(University of Chicago Press, 2017-02)In Faithfully Urban, Petra Kuppinger explores the rich possibilities of urban ethnography by way of studying Muslim participation in the production of everyday culture. Her ethnography shows how Islam in Stuttgart has ... -
Issues in measuring success in community-based Indigenous tourism: elites, kin groups, social capital, gender dynamics and income flows
(Taylor & Francis LTD, 2017)Tourism development is a key feature of the neoliberal economic development model. Through a mix of state and private investment, Indigenous communities in Mexico are encouraged to transform local cultural and environmental ...
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