The Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology at California State University, Chico, has a permanent collection that comprises over 2,000 ethnographic objects from around the world. The museum’s limited space results in the majority of the permanent coll . . .

This thesis investigates the inclusion and exclusion of cultural information within museum exhibitions at space and science centers, aerospace museums, planetariums, and public astronomical observatories in California, Oregon, Washington, and British . . .

Throughout the destructive patterns of Western expansion and the fervor of the California Gold Rush in the second half of the nineteenth century, California Indians suffered unmatched brutality under the guise of California’s developing democracy. In . . .

Commingling of human skeletal remains impedes anthropological analyses. Therefore, researchers must develop methods for individuating remains. One such method is osteometric sorting, but most studies have not included frameworks for resolving commingl . . .

In the past 20 years, the Internet has become one of the most important tools for Americans in everyday life. The increase usage of the Internet has made it imperative for museums, of all sizes, to not just look into, but to use the Internet as a sour . . .

Skeletal quantification is critical to the analysis of skeletal assemblages. The use of multiple skeletal elements to estimate numbers of individuals can increase viability of estimation methods. Quantification, however, is both necessitated and const . . .

The purpose of this study is to review and garner a better understanding of archaeological law and site protection as implemented by government agencies and affiliates in northern California. In recent years, a 67-year-old man was sentenced to three y . . .

Commingling provides a unique challenge in the identification of human remains. The ability to accurately sort the skeletal elements of two or more individuals is vitally important in mass disasters or in other situations in which the bones of one ind . . .

The identification of autopsy and dissection on human skeletal remains is challenged by a lack of formal diagnostic criteria for distinguishing between various anatomization activities. The Point San Jose assemblage consists of commingled, fragmentary . . .

The events of September 11, 2001 caused emotional trauma across the United States and elicited myriad reactions within the Nation that effected the lives of every American to some degree. In the months and years following the attacks, there was an ent . . .