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Maintaining Kindness: Refugee Circuits of Support
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Major Questions about Teres Minor: The Pattern of Reactive Changes in a Precolumbian Human Skeletal Sample From Illinois
(2020-11-05)The ubiquitous presence of reactive changes at the insertion of a minor muscle of the rotator cuff on the proximal humerus (teres minor) is analyzed in an adult Late Woodland (AD 800–1150) period osteological sample (N = ... -
Mapping Moral Landscapes: Cartographies of Ascent and Descent in the Narratives of Pro-Life Activists
(2020-11-13)The Supreme Court ruling of Roe v. Wade in 1973 brought to the fore of public consciousness in the United States two dominant stances on the issue of abortion (i.e. pro-life and pro-choice), each organized around a rhetoric ... -
Mapping Optimal Prehistoric Clay Sources: Adapting Watson’s Method to GIS Technology
(2020-11-13)One of the basic problems in the study of prehistoric North American ceramics is clay sourcing. In a 1992 paper, Robert Watson proposed a method of predicting optimal clay sources using a combination of United States ... -
Nationalist Theory and Politicization of Archaeological Resources: Manifestations in Iraq
(2021-11-07)Archaeological resources have been used by political regimes to further their own interests across time and space for many decades since the discipline was established as a profession in the late 19th century. Regime-backed ... -
Neanderthal Behavioral Modernity and Symbolic Capabilities
(2020-11-05)In recent years, the distinction between anatomically modern humans (AMHs) and Neanderthals has come into question in light of genetic evidence that suggests they interbred. Some claim that this distinction can be maintained ... -
Negotiating Moral Identity with Type 1 Diabetes: Care and Contradiction in Conversations with Young Adults
(2020-11-05)This article is based on original ethnographic research among college students aged 18–25 living with insulin-dependent type 1 diabetes. I investigate how moral language in medical treatment settings and social environments ... -
Neolithic Cultural Hybridity: Social Entanglements and the Development of Hybrid Culture in the Western Mediterranean
(2020-11-03)With the advent and spread of food production technology, Mediterranean populations altered their lifeways, individually adapting to local environments in order to best accommodate the cultigens they would come to rely ... -
OBJECT: TBD A Reflective Essay on the Nature of the yet-to-be-decided Object in Exhibition Design
(2021-11-07)In the year 2018 the Field Museum in Chicago, in response to the contemporary demands of inclusivity and decolonization, declared that it will redesign its Native American Hall. The developers and curators, in collaboration ... -
One Day at a Time, Four Decades Apart: An Analysis of the Doxic, Mimetic, and Diagnostic Performances in the Original and Rebooted Pilots of the Classic Norman Lear Show
(2024-05-07)In the modern era, it has become easier than ever to watch serial shows, whether they air on primetime television or are released on subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services. However, the lack of Latinx representation ... -
Osteological Analysis of Burials Recovered from the Schrage Site, (47FD581) Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin
(2020-11-13)In August of 2009, human remains were inadvertently disturbed during construction work associated with USH 151 in Calumetville, Wisconsin. One adult was present in partially disturbed contexts beneath the existing pavement ... -
Red Ocher Burial Variability: A Test of the Effect of Outsider Influence on the Conservation of Ritual Forms
(2020-11-13)Christopher Hays (2010) proposed that prehistoric ritual behavior is conservative by nature but can be changed by contact with outside groups. This hypothesis is tested using burial data from seven Red Ocher complex sites ... -
Reliability Study of Methods for Scoring a Non-Metric Human Osteological Trait
(2020-11-13)To gain meaningful insights from non-metric trait analysis in the field of human osteological study, issues of reliability and context need to be addressed, especially for the analysis of discrete cranial traits. A preliminary ... -
Shipwreck Artifacts from the S.S. Otago and the S.S. Tairoa as Symbols of Dominant Maritime Regional Identity Narratives in Southeastern New Zealand
(2020-11-05)This article considers the actions of social actors and organizations, who through engaging with artifacts from the wrecks of the nineteenth-century S.S. Otago and S.S. Tairoa, have helped affirm the dominance of shipwreck-based ... -
Stone Beads of Ancient Afghanistan: Stylistic and Technical Analysis
(2020-11-13)Afghanistan occupies a unique geographic position at the crossroads of Asia on the trade routes between east and west. Among the many objects that moved through Afghanistan, stone beads were among the most common. The study ... -
Subadult Growth Stunting at Schroeder Mounds (11He177): A Late Woodland Sample from Illinois
(2020-11-05)Constitutional growth delay in subadults may be caused by chronic illness, malnutrition, and/or undernutrition. Very little is known about the community health of the presumptive forager-farmers of the Late Woodland (~ AD ... -
Tactile Encounters and the Ephemerality of the Graffiti Image
(2020-11-05)The use of new materials such as stickers, posters, and stencils has transformed how graffiti (or if you prefer street art) is made in the public spaces of Barcelona. In this article, I explore the practice of graffiti in ...
