In June 2002, the C. E. Smith Museum of Anthropology at California State University received a gift of over one hundred Andean textiles and related artifacts. The majority of these materials are pre-Hispanic woven textiles of cotton and camelid fibe . . .

Fact and Fiction have the same source. This paper is a test of the hypothesis that the creation of both factual and fictional narrative derive from the same social and cognitive processes, mechanisms and conditions. The hypothesis of this paper wa . . .

The Diamond Divas are an all-female roller derby team from Bakersfield, California. Established approximately in 2009, the Divas are composed of a diverse group of women from a variety of class, educational, and professional backgrounds; however, thes . . .

This thesis describes and interprets a large rock feature complex and associated artifact caches from the Mirror Point site (CA-SBR-12134/H) located on the east side of Searles Lake within the boundaries of the South Range, Naval Air Weapons Station ( . . .

The primary goal of this research is to test four current models for South Asian population history with tooth-size allocation analyses and assess the degree and patterning of sex dimorphism based on tooth size among the Hazara. Odontometric data coll . . .

The primary goal of this research is to determine whether highland Pakistani populations share close biological affinities to one another, or if they represent phenetically distant groups. This research is undertaken in order to: 1. Test models of den . . .

Fort Tejon State Historic Park (CA-KER-2848/H) is what remains of the historic post located in Canada de las Uvas, Grapevine Canyon, in Kern County, California. The fort was occupied by the U.S. Army from 1854 to 1864. The focus of this work is the r . . .

Evidence of human occupation on Santa Rosa Island (SRI) spans 13,000 years and includes the oldest positively dated human remains in North America, pre-contact evidence of occupation and historic cultural resources of the ranching era. There are more . . .

This research focuses on phenomenological aspects and human behavioral ecology of the Chumash people that lived on Santa Rosa Island, with an emphasis on adaptations to the land that formed the basis of Chumash Island culture. Phenomenology is the men . . .

Purpose of Study: The purpose of this study was to determine if there were archaeological traces of the colonial past embedded in the landscape at the Bureau of Land Management’s Bear Creek Unit (Bear Creek Ranch). By studying the archaeological trace . . .

Although the Foster Care system is an institution aimed to successfully temporarily take care of under-aged children taken from or abandoned by their families, it has produced varied outcomes in the children's lives moving within it. The legal and bur . . .

"Purpose of the Study: This thesis aims to identify, interpret, and analyze culturally unmodified bones, and to advocate for new approaches to faunal remains analysis in archaeology and related fields. Culturally unmodified modified bones, I argue, ar . . .

Although the evidence suggests that bison were consistently taken by aboriginal hunters on the eastern Snake River Plain throughout the Holocene, quantitative faunal analyses indicate that bison were taken in modest numbers. However, Owl Cave is an ex . . .

As stated in the title, this thesis is an introductory course of study in New World Archaeology designed and structured for high school students as a one semester course. It is divided into seven teaching units that cover prehistoric culture areas of . . .

The region occupied by the Chumash of south-central California were divided into sub-groups who occupied different territories and spoke separate, but related languages. The Cuyama sub-group occupied the Cuyama Valley and the surrounding hills and mou . . .

This thesis presents the results of a field investigation into the role of the court interpreter. Field work consisted primarily of interviews with certified court interpreters and observation of court cases involving the use of an interpreter, and wa . . .

This thesis examines the chemical characteristics of red paints from eight different rock art sites at the Agua Dulce Village, an Early-Middle Period site located between the networks of the Southern California Coast and the Western Great Basin. By us . . .

The Van Norman Reservoir Archaeological Complex (Complex) in the north San Fernando Valley in Southern California was excavated in the 1970s after an earthquake exposed both pre- and post-contact artifacts at the reservoir. A sampling of units was con . . .

In China there existed two major indigenous medical traditions prior to contact with Western cultures. The purpose of this thesis is to examine these two traditions and to describe interactions between them. The two traditions considered in this thesi . . .