Anthropology: Recent submissions
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Buried archives: Developing a geospatial database of maple grove cemetery
(Wichita State University, 2023-07)Cemeteries across the world provide a vast amount of information about the regional communities they were built within. While this information can be gathered and analyzed as is, adding in the geospatial element provides ... -
The Oldest Maps of the Great Plains
(University of Nebraska Press, 2023-06-01)This essay discusses maps that reflect two very different traditions of cartography. Both, however, derive from the expedition to the Great Plains led by Juan de Oñate in 1601. Archaeological evidence that confirms the ... -
Gendered representation of popular archaeology pictorial analysis of Archaeology magazine (1948-2020)
(Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)Archaeology is a discipline that has long captured the imaginations of the public. Despite the reality that the academic field has been dominated by female graduates since the 1970s, persistence in the discipline has been ... -
Analysis of lithic material from the Boxed Springs site (41UR30)
(Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)While the Boxed Springs site is primarily known for the elaborate Early Caddo (800-1200 CE) ceramic assemblage from cemetery contexts, lithic material is also abundant at the site. This study describes the stone tool ... -
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 ... -
Lithic and debitage analysis of Early Caddo site at Boxed Springs (41UR30) in East Texas
(Wichita State University, 2022-04-29)The Boxed Springs site in East Texas contains a large number of lithics from the Early Caddo period (800-1200 CE) to the late Caddo period (1400-1700 CE). The origin of the raw materials and lithic debitage often remains ... -
Fauna and flora of Boxed Springs (41UR30)
(Wichita State University, 2022-04-29)Boxed Springs (41UR30) located in East Texas is an Early Caddo (800-1200 C.E.) archaeological site split between multiple properties that has been sporadically excavated since the 1950s. The identification and classification ... -
Comparative investigation of building materials at Boxed Springs Site (41UR30)
(Wichita State University, 2022-04-29)Archaeological artifacts that are commonly connected to habitation have been unearthed at Boxed Springs (41UR30), in Upshur County, Texas, during two surveys in 2020 and 2022. By comparing the depth, weight, and quantity ... -
Using GIS to interpret the shovel tests from the Boxed Springs Archaeological Site
(Wichita State University, 2022-04-29)The Boxed Springs Site (41UR30) is a Caddoan mound center situated within the East Texas Pineywoods. Wichita State students have dug forty-four shovel tests on the site which have not yet been properly analyzed. This is ... -
Mound confirmation at 41UR30: Analysis of elemental profiles from sediment cores at the Boxed Springs Site
(Wichita State University, 2022-04-29)Boxed Springs (41UR30) is an Early Caddoan (ca. 1100 - 1300 CE) archaeological site in Upshur County, Texas. The Caddo people would build mound structures for culturally significant reasons. The initial investigation at ... -
Ceramic typology: Analysis of Caddoan assemblage from Boxed Springs site (41UR30)
(Wichita State University, 2022-04-29)The Department of Anthropology at Wichita State University excavated an assemblage of ceramic sherds from Boxed Springs Site (41UR30). Relatively little is known about this specific collection other than initial location ... -
Ceramic microfossil residues from the Merchant Site (LA43414)
(Wichita State University, 2022-04-29)Microfossil and residue analysis is an important tool to provide context for the environment and culture within the archaeological record. Versar, Inc contracted the Archaeology of Food Laboratory at Wichita State University ... -
Morphological variation in the bicondylar angle of the human femur
(Wichita State University, 2022-05)The bicondylar angle is the angle between the intercondylar plane that is perpendicular to the femoral shaft. The formation of the angle is influenced by biological factors, behavioral patterns, and how one interacts with ... -
Lithic variability at the emergence of the Great Bend Aspect: Bison hunting and processing toolkits from Southern Kansas
(Wichita State University, 2022-05)Recent investigations have identified campsites and village sites that were occupied right before the emergence of the Great Bend Aspect, an ancestral Wichita complex in central and southern Kansas, with clear associations ... -
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 ... -
Lambda Alpha Journal, v.49 (complete version)
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Letter from the editor
(Wichita State University. Department of Anthropology, 2019)The manuscripts included in the current volume reports address topics such as: 1) the evolution of color vision in primates (Kulick); 2) challenges to carry forward African American identity and cultural continuity in rural ...