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 . . .

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 . . .

Hominin fossil finds have been a source for scientific discoveries and debate for many years. Debates include whether our own species, Homo sapiens, evolved entirely in Africa, or if interaction between early Homo sapiens and other Homo groups existed . . .

A religious revival known as the Jesus Movement" took place in America beginning about 1968 and lasting until the middle 1970's. Participants in this movement often known as "Jesus Freaks," were generally youthful and alienated from mainstream behavio . . .

This thesis focuses on the results of a midden analysis of the site PAIC36 on the southeast corner of Isla Cedros, Baja California. The analysis offers both inter-site and intra-site comparisons of subsistence data for Late Holocene sites on the islan . . .

This thesis is designed to organize, analyze, and evaluate the archaeological data on the category of artifact known as "discoidals," specifically the right discoidal, from the latest to the earliest survey, excavation, evaluation, and report. The dat . . .

This study examines structuralism in anthropology, both theory and method, as a means of understanding cultural phenomena. Of primary concern are the structuralist works of the French anthropologist, Claude Levi-Strauss. The phenomenon of myth is used . . .