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This community contains research materials by students and faculty members in the Department of Anthropology at Washington State University. Included here are theses and dissertations, conference presentations and posters, reports, addenda, articles, and more. Members of the anthropology department conduct research in the Biocultural Lab, Geoarchaeology Lab, Lithic Analysis Lab, Paleoethnobotany Lab, Physical Anthropology Lab, Stable Isotope Lab, and the Zooarchaeology Lab. The department also maintains ethnographic and archaeological research collections, and study collections of floral, faunal, palynological, lithic, soil/sediment and ceramic materials. The Museum of Anthropology and the Plateau Center are additional resources for students.
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Cedar Mesa Project
This collection contains theses, dissertations and other publications related to the Cedar Mesa Project. -
Dolores Archaeological Program
This community contains materials documenting the Dolores Archaeological Program conducted 1978-1983. -
Faculty - Anthropology
This community features scholarly work by faculty members in the Department of Anthropology at Washington State University.
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Electronic Dissertations and Theses - Anthropology
This collection contains dissertations and theses by students in the Department of Anthropology at WSU. -
Newsletters, Department of Anthropology
This collection contains newsletters for the Department of Anthropology at WSU.
Recent Submissions
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Anthro News, Fall/Winter 2019-2020
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SAA's Archiving the Archaeologists: Bill Lipe
(2020)SAA's "Archiving the Archaeologists" series is an oral history project designed to capture personal insights and recollections of archaeologists near retirement or already retired. Archaeologists interviewed in the series ... -
How Many Turkeys Did It Take to Make a Blanket?
(4/27/2019)This talk was presented at the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument Visitor Center in Dolores, Colorado. -
La Manta and La Clinica: Raising children in a Limeno migrant community
(2019)This dissertation investigates experiences and practices of childrearing in an impoverished community of Andean migrants living in a single neighborhood in Lima, Peru. Research was conducted with families with children ... -
Tale of a Test Pit: The research history of a midden column from the Turkey Pen site, Utah
(2019)Presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting. In 1972 R.G. Matson and a small crew excavated a dry, stratified midden at a Pueblo Cliff Dwelling site in Grand Gulch, as part of the Cedar Mesa Project. ... -
LEADERSHIP, PRESTIGE, AND SOCIAL LEARNING ACROSS TRADITIONAL SOCIETIES
(2019)Evolutionary approaches to leadership are reinvigorating and unifying a diverse field. Influential evolutionary theories in anthropology have increasingly linked human leadership with prestige and social learning. Until ... -
ETHNOBIOLOGY, ILLNESS PERCEPTIONS, AND HEALTH EDUCATION AMONG MAASAI CHILDREN IN NORTHERN TANZANIA
(2019)Medical anthropology specializes in documenting the nuances of ethnomedical systems across cultures and works with stakeholders at various levels of socio-ecological systems to address illness-related problems and promote ... -
Anthro News, Winter 2018-2019
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Diet and Nutrition Among the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation
(2019)The purpose of this study is to document the ethnohistory of nutritional trauma and understand resiliency responses among the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation. What local strategies and responses to nutritional ... -
Archaeology and Politics of the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah
(11/29/2018)This talk was presented at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, on late November, 29, 2018. -
Early Agricultural Societies in the Southwest: The Basketmaker II Case
(2018-11-01)This presentation was given in Anthropology 539 on November 1, 2018. -
Using Science to Revive Old Excavations
(6/5/2018)The value (and excitement) of archaeological field work doesn’t end when the pits are backfilled, the artifacts are analyzed, and the reports written. At least that’s true if the collections are safely curated in a well-run ... -
Bears Ears Controversy: Some Monumental Issues
(Archaeology Southwest, 1/8/2018)This blog post was published in January 2018 by WSU professor emeritus Bill Lipe in response to the Trump administration's announcement in December 2017 that it will radically shrink federally protected lands in Utah, ... -
TIS THE SEASON: AN EXPERIMENTAL EXAMINATION OF TOOLKIT VARIABILITY, LATE PLEISTOCENE- EARLY HOLOCENE INTERIOR ALASKA
(2018)Simultaneous use of two distinct projectile technologies in interior Alaska, during the end of the Pleistocene and early Holocene, is a study domain that has generated many diverse hypotheses. Some researchers view the ... -
Lithics and the Late Prehistoric: Interaction on the Southern Columbia Plateau
(2018)The people of the Columbia Plateau have been frequently characterized as a homogenous culture despite a 2,500-year depth of history and large spatial extent. Moreover, differences in artifact form, assemblage composition, ... -
Presidential Authority to Revoke or Reduce National Monument Designations
(2018)The Antiquities Act of 1906 grants the president the power to designate national monuments in order to protect historic landmarks and structures. Pursuant to this power, a president has the corresponding power to revoke ... -
Position on H.R. 4532, Shash Jáa National Monument and Indian Creek National Monument Act
(2018-01)The National Parks Conservation Association submitted the following position to the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources Federal Lands Subcommittee ahead of a hearing scheduled for January 9, 2018. -
Understanding Culture History Using Topographic Morphometrics of Lithic Projectile Points: Paleoindian Case Studies from the Great Plains and Northern Alaska
(2018)The classification of projectile points into types has long been used by archaeologists to develop regional chronologies and serves as a basis by which to explain cultural continuity or change over time. This study ... -
Turkey Pen Excavation
(2018)The Cedar Mesa Project was an archaeological project on Cedar Mesa in SE Utah, funded by the National Science Foundation and co-directed by William (Bill) Lipe and R.G. Matson. This report provides background information ... -
ETHNOBIOLOGICAL COLLABORATION WITH TWO SOCIETIES OF THE LATIN AMERICAN TROPICS
(2018)Ethnobiology, defined as the scientific study of dynamic relationships among peoples, biota, and environments (SoE, 2017), is a field that combines different approaches from other disciplines while also including issues ...