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Theses from 2024

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Consistent Seeds: Assessing Stability and Changes in Fodder at Farmsteads in Northern Iceland, Joseph Aramini

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Recipes for Resistance: Examining the Reproduction of Indigeneity Through Foodways at the Seneca Boston-Florence Higginbotham House, Nantucket, MA, Caitriona Mackenzie Parker

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Sanctified Spaces: An Analysis of Lived Religion and Ceramic Tableware at the Martin Luther Orphans' Home in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, Alexander Gartland Patterson

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By the Bootstraps: Transformations in Class, Mobility, and the Shoe Industry in 19th Century Grafton, Massachusetts, Lauren Schumacher

Theses from 2023

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Spirits and Spirituality: Temperance and Racial Uplift in Nineteenth-Century Nantucket, MA, John T. Crawmer

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Sisters and Stewards: Women and Community-Building at the African Meeting House on Nantucket, MA, Sean A. Fairweather

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Comparisons Across Time: Natural Resource Use at Two New Mexican Colonial Sites, Ivana M. Ivanova

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Sartorial Practices and Daily Life: Examining Black Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century Boston, Erica A. Lang

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Shellfish Utilization by the Pequots during the Early Seventeenth Century: An Analysis of Seven Shell Middens at the Calluna Hill Site (59-73) in Mystic, Connecticut, Matthew Picarelli-Kombert

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Planting the "Yankee" Identity: An Analysis of the Macrobotanical Assemblage at the ca. 1638 Waterman House Site in Marshfield, Massachusetts, Katharine Rieder Reinhart

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“Provisioned, Produced, Procured,” and Purchased?: A Macrobotanical Study of Enslaved Individuals’ Economic Engagement in the Shenandoah Valley, Linda A. Seminario

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Material Consumption of an 18th-Century Middling Urban Craftsman in Boston, Massachusetts, Lauryn E. Sharp

Theses from 2022

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Changing to Stay the Same: Spatial Analyses of Tobacco Pipes from 18th- and 19th-Century Eastern Pequot Households, Stephen P. Anderson

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The Function of a Nail: An Archaeological Examination of Three 18th- and 19th-Century Eastern Pequot Reservation Homes in Southeastern Connecticut, Salvatore A. Ciccone

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“The Circle Of Your Acquaintance”: Early 19th Century Ceramic Symbolism and Constructions of Black Womanhood at the Boston-Higginbotham House, Nantucket, MA, Lissa J. Herzing

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Opening Barrel 13: Reconstructing Provenience of a 19th-Century Excavation on Pimu Catalina Island, California, Through a Shell and Glass Bead Analysis, Melanie S. Lerman

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Centers of Community: A Spatial Analysis of the Mid-19th Century Populaton Residing on Beacon Hill, Boston, MA, Justin Malcolm

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Changing Tides, The Boston’s North End 1830-1930, Megan E. Sheehan

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Beakers, Berkemeiers, and Roemers: Glass Drinking Vessels from the 17th-Century Dutch Settlement of Fort Orange, New Netherland, Kristina Staats Traudt

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Lithic Debitage and Geospatial Analysis of Hemish Obsidian Procurement and Reduction Strategies in Colonial New Mexico, Adam Vitale

Theses from 2021

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Constructing Spaces, Deconstructing Meaning: An Examination of Architecture and Labor at a 17th-Century New Mexican Ranch, Katherine A. Albert

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Archaeology of Disease and Medicinal Practices in 18th-Century Boston, Massachusetts, Kaitlyn N. Ball

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Spaces of Time: An Archaeological Perspective on the Deborah Newman Homesite, Gary L. Ellis

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More Than Just a School: Medicinal Practices at the Abiel Smith School, Dania D. Jordan

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Creating Community: Examining Black Identity and Space in New Guinea, Nantucket, Jared Muehlbauer

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“A Permanent Blemish…in the Centre of the Village": Archaeology and Heritage Tourism on Burial Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Justin A. Warrenfeltz

Theses from 2020

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Useful Materials: PXRF Analysis of 17th-Century Flat Glass from Plymouth Colony, Grace E. Bello

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Small Towns and Mining Camps: An Analysis of Chinese Diasporic Communities in 19th-Century Oregon, Jocelyn Lee

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Form, Function, and Context: Lithic Analysis of Flaked Stone Artifacts at a 17th-Century Rural Spanish Estancia (LA 20,000), Santa Fe County, New Mexico, Clint S. Lindsay

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“We May Have Profitable Commerce And Trade Together”: An Analysis of 17th-Century Ceramics in Plymouth Colony, Elizabeth G. Tarulis

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Small Scale Ironmaking in Viking Age Skagafjörður, North Iceland, Nicholas Zeitlin

Theses from 2019

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Comales and Colonialism: An Analysis of Cuisine and Ceramics on a 17th-Century New Mexican Estancia, Adam C. Brinkman

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Cultures and Comfort: A Study of Personal Adornment at Avery's Rest, Julianne Danna

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Set in Stone: Recontextualizing the Lithic Assemblage of a Seventeenth-Century Storage Cellar in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Anna M. Greco

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Exploring the Social and Environmental Conditions of 17th-Century Estancias in New Mexico, Stephanie Hallinan

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Eat This in Remembrance: The Zooarchaeology of Secular and Religious Sites in 17th-Century New Mexico, Ana C. Opishinski

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Social Movements and Charitable Dress: An Examination of 19th Century Adornment at the Industrial School for Girls in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Madelaine A. Penney

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Potters' Norms: Examining the Social Organization of Ceramic Production of Panamanian Majolica and Criolla Wares in Panama la Vieja (1519-1673), Jean-Sebastien Pourcelot

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"The diet has been altered as agreed upon & is now very satisfactory": Socioeconomic Factors and Dietary Reform at the Dorchester Industrial School for Girls, Liz M. Quinlan

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Regional Variation in Grass, Sedge, and Cereal Cultivation During the Viking Age in Skagafjörður, North Iceland, Melissa M. Ritchey

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Environments Explored: An In-Depth Analysis of Soil Movement in Northern Iceland, Lauren Welch O'Connor

Theses from 2018

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“There are Among the Coloured People of this Place Remains of the Nantucket Indians:” Identity through Ceramics at the Boston-Higginbotham House, Victoria Anne Cacchione

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An Analysis of Form and Function of Ceramic Rim Sherds from LA 20,000, A 17th Century Estancia Outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, Caitlin M. Connick

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Community Through Consumption: The Role of Food in African American Cultural Formation in the 18th Century Chesapeake, Alexandra Crowder

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Palynological Investigations of Agropastoralism and Ecological Change at LA 20,000, New Mexico, Anya Gruber

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“The True Spirit of Service": Ceramics and Toys as Tools of Ideology at the Dorchester Industrial School for Girls, Sarah N. Johnson

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Corporeal Expressions of Identity at Sylvester Manor, Shelter Island, New York, 1652-1735, Elise Nadia Kline

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Understanding Epidemic and Encampment: Yellow Fever and the Soldiers of Smallpox Bay, Bermuda, Leigh Koszarsky

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A Century of Ceramics: A Study of Economic Engagement on the Eastern Pequot Reservation in the 18th and 19th Centuries, Kelton M. Sheridan

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Military and Economic Power in the Structuring of the Barbados Landscape, Ashby M. Sturgis

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Quantifying the Reliability of Ground Penetrating Radar at Archaeological Sites, Joseph Trebilcock

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Tools of Teaching: Metal at Magunkaquog, Nadia E. Waski

Theses from 2017

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A Diachronic Archaeology of Piscataway Displacement, 1680-1743, Alex J. Flick

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Household Activities and Areas: A Reanalysis of the John and Priscilla Alden First Home Site, Caroline Gardiner

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Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Tracing Fuel Use and Landscape Change on the Eastern Pequot Reservation 1740-1850, Kalila Herring

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Negotiating Space and Maintaining Place: Time, Materiality, and Lived Experience at Stewart Indian School, Jessica R. Hughston

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Identity Behind Glass: The Second Gore Place Greenhouse, Sean P. Romo

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Smoking as a Form of Persistence in a Christian Nipmuc Community, Jessica Ann Rymer

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Systems of Sheep Husbandry at Stóra-Seyla in Northern Iceland, Katherine R. Wagner

Theses from 2016

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Fashioning Identity: An Analysis of Consumption and Production Activity at a Nipmuc Farmstead, Allison K. Carlton

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Chase Home for Children: Childhood in Progressive New England, Katherine M. Evans

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Measured Resistance: A Black Feminist Perspective on the Domestic Reform Movement, Carolyn Horlacher

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'Improvement the Order of the Age': Historic Advertising, Consumer Choice, and Identity in 19th Century Roxbury, Massachusetts, Janice A. Nosal

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The Martha's Vineyard Experience: A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Diet and the Local Ecology, Richie Roy

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Ceramic Consumption in a Boston Immigrant Tenement, Andrew J. Webster

Theses from 2015

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Native Interactions and Economic Exchange: A Re-Evaluation of Plymouth Colony Collections, Kellie J. Bowers

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Environmental Dimensions of Colonial Settlement: A Palynological Investigation of La Cienega, New Mexico, Kyle W. Edwards

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Deep Coring, Viking Age Accumulation Rates and Household Wealth in Skagafjörður, Northern Iceland, Eric D. Johnson

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Living the History: The Role of Archaeology in the Interpretation of the Wampanoag Homesite at Plimoth Plantation, Meredith P. Luze

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Connecting Networks of History and Heritage at America's Oldest Seaport, Kimberly Montoni

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Ubiquitous and Unfamiliar: Earthenware Pottery Production Techniques and the Bradford Family Pottery of Kingston, MA, Martha L. Sulya

Theses from 2014

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Orchard House and the Making of Little Women, Allison Conner

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Disturbed But Not Destroyed: New Perspectives on Urban Archaeology and Class in 19th century Lowell, Massachusetts, Katelyn M. Coughlan

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Corporeal Negotiation at the Margins of the Colonial Landscape: An Examination of Late Eighteenth-Century Embodiment on the Eastern Pequot Reservation, Keely B. Lewis

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Altered Lives, Altered Environments: Creating Home at Manzanar Relocation Center, 1942-1945, Laura W. Ng

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Final Rest at the Hilltop Sanctuary: The Community of Mount Gilead AME Church, Meagan M. Ratini

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Seeing Red: Characterizing Historic Bricks at Sylvester Manor, Long Island, NY 1652-1735, Martin John Schmidheiny

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From Horse to Electric Power at the Metropolitan Railroad Company Site: Archaeology and the Narrative of Technological Change, Miles Shugar

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Changing Environments and Economies: A Comprehensive Zooarchaeological Study of the Eastern Pequot, Courtney Williams

Theses from 2013

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Cultural Continuity in a Nipmuc Landscape, Joseph Bagley

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Understanding Slave Subsistence in the Context of Changing Agricultural Practices: Paleoethnobotany at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest, Samantha J. Henderson

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Architectural Debris and Construction Sequencing at an 18th-Century Rural Native American Household in Connecticut, Timothy D. Hollis

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"On Long Run Under the Blue Hills": An Archaeology of Tenancy on the Pennsylvania Frontier, Thomas J. Kutys

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Spatial Analysis and Subsurface Survey at a 19th-Century Eastern Pequot Site in Connecticut, Starla C. Lane

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"Put That In Your Pipe and Smoke It": An Exploratory Study of Native American Ceramic Tobacco Pipes at the James Fort Site in Virginia Using Portable X-Ray Fluorescence, Michael S. Ligman

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The Huguenot Home: Consumption Practices and Identity in Early 18th-Century New York City, Theodor M. Maghrak

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Residence, not Confinement: Daily Life at the Westport Town Farm, Westport, Massachusetts, Joshua Loyal Stewart

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Whitehall: Newport's History in a House, Katherine Malone Tarascio

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Indigenous Cuisine: An Archaeological and Linguistic Study of Colonial Zapotec Foodways On The Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Michelle R. Zulauf

Theses from 2012

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The Battle Of Chelsea Creek, May 27-28, 1775: KOCOA Military Terrain Analysis Applied To Heavily Urbanized And Coastal Marine Environments Boston, Chelsea, And Revere, Massachusetts, Craig James Brown

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Comparing Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) Techniques in 18th-Century Yard Spaces, Christiane Marie Carducci

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Subsistence in the Shrinking Forest: Native and Euro-American Practice in 19th-Century Connecticut, William A. Farley

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Bound in Stone: A Landscape and Architectural Analysis of the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation Reservation, Connecticut, Sarah LeAnn Hasho

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Household Spaces: 18th- and 19th-Century Spatial Practices on the Eastern Pequot Reservation, Anna Katharine Hayden

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Coastal Connections and Reservation Contexts: Eastern Pequot Collection and Consumption of Shellfish in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Ryan Hunter

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Growing Up a Washington: Childhood in 18th-Century Virginia, Heidi Elizabeth Krofft

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Sheep and Wool in Nineteenth-Century Falmouth, MA: Examining the Collapse of a Cape Cod Industry, Leo Patrick Ledwell

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Firearms Curation in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth Century Maritime Contexts: A Comparative Study, Edward John Rodley

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Bones in the Landfill: A Zooarchaeological Study from Faneuil Hall, Linda M. Santoro

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"She of Gentle Manners": An Examination of the Widow Pomeroy's Table and Tea Wares and the Emerging Domestic Sphere in Kinderhook, New York, Megan E. Sullivan