The goal of this dissertation is to identify the elite and non-elite power relationship between the Three Rivers Region primary center, La Milpa, and the small subsidiary center, Ixno'ha, during the Late Classic (A.D. 600 - 830/850). I analyze the domestic landscapes looking specifically at this relationship and how it reflected political change at the Late Classic beginning and end. The domestic landscape includes two parts: 1) the community patterns of house spatial associations to each other, environmental features, public centers, and infrastructure; 2) the household patterns of ceramic choices and house designs. What I found was that La Milpa and Ixno'ha shared many domestic landscape traits with largely similar Late Classic community and household choices. However, those choices shifted with greater similarity at the Late Classic end than the beginning. So, La Milpa elites showed potential influence over non-elite domestic choices during the late Late Classic. However, that influence was not overwhelming, thus suggesting a weakly centralized regional power structure. Moreover, the domestic landscape changes matched the political shifts only at the beginning of the Late Classic. This disparity suggests that non/elite and elite power regional relationships only partially connect to a regional political system. This research is about understanding hierarchical power relationships not just from the top-down elite view but also the bottom-up perspective, the domestic lives of the overall populations.

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Pedestrian based archaeological survey is commonly used throughout the western United States to locate, identify, record, and interpret archaeological sites. While procedures, such as transect spacing, transect orientation, data collection, artifact documentation, and site criteria may vary, most survey methods share a common goal: to locate and define the boundaries of archaeological sites. Other researchers question the traditional site-based survey method. Critics suggest that site-based surveys may fail to adequately detect and document artifacts outside of site boundaries (Dunnell and Dancey 1983; Wandsnider and Camilli 1992). Site-based methods may not discern archaeological signatures of past cultures that occurred on the scale of landscapes rather than discrete sites (Ebert 1992; Robins 1998) In response, siteless approaches have been developed to test and address perceived shortcomings of site-based survey methods. The siteless survey utilizes artifacts as the basis for studying the relationships between clustered and non-clustered materials. This thesis examines traditional site-based survey vs. siteless survey within a study area in southern Idaho. Moreover, the study investigates the utility of the nonsite approach to identify spatial distributions, associations, and patterning in cultural materials on the surface of the analysis area. The results of the survey, data management and analyses evaluate if artifacts are randomly distributed or aggregated. Survey results compare the surveys’ effectiveness in detecting artifacts. In this comparison, the effects of artifact obtrusiveness/visibility are considered. Results of survey data are examined at different spatial scales to identify clusters and evaluate cluster attributes. Spatial patterning analyses use GIS software including the Getis Ord Gi* hot spot analysis tool and the buffer tool in ArcMap 10.2. Both GIS analyses successfully identified clustering. Finally, the results of analysis compare artifact cluster attributes identified by GIS analyses with site attributes. Siteless survey data and post-field, GIS analyses demonstrate the ability to offer information not available through traditional site-based survey. These results suggest that the siteless survey methods and analytic techniques employed in this study warrant further testing and evaluation.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2005. / Restricted until May 2006. Bibliography: leaves 184-194.

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Glasgow, 2005. / Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of Glasgow, 2005. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.

Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, Chico. / Includes abstract. "Located in the Chico Digital Repository." Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-226).

The thesis examines changes in hunter-gatherer land-use along lower Cypress Creek, atributary of the Green River located in west-central Kentucky. Presented, are the results of the firstthree years of site survey and museum work conducted by the Cypress Creek Archaeological Project.Analysis of site location and hafted bifaces suggests that, throughout the Holocene, increasingemphasis was placed on certain locations and areas of the landscape. Comparison of the CypressCreek study area with other areas of Archaic research indicate that land-use was highly variable inboth space and time across the North American midcontinent.

The North Sakhalin Basin is a polyphase Neogene basin situated on an active strike-slip plate boundary between the Amur and Okhotsk microplates.  This basin contains a sedimentary record of the Amur River, as well as the tectonic processes which have resulted in the formation and deformation of the basin.  I use a multi-disciplinary approach, involving heavy mineral analysis, seismic interpretation and geomorphic observations and analyses, to constrain the evolution of the landscape, sedimentary basins and fluvial systems at this active continental margin. Detrital mineralogy and integrated sediment accumulation rates indicate that the drainage basin of the Amur River has been relatively stable since the Early Miocene, with no evidence for continental-scale drainage capture during this time.  Instead, sediment delivery to the basin has responded to a number of tectonic and climatic processes, most notably the onset of Northern Hemisphere glaciation in the Pliocene and uplift and erosion of the North Sakhalin Basin in the Late Neogene.  By contrast, the Colorado River, which also has a delta on an active strike-slip margin, has been profoundly affected by tectonic processes at the continental margin, resulting in major drainage re-organisation in the Late Neogene. Sediment delivery to the North Sakhalin Basin has been strongly affected by tectonic processes along the Sakhalin-Hokkaido Shear Zone.  The basin underwent a phase of transtension during the Early Miocene (>15 Ma), followed by continued strike-slip offset during the Middle-Late Miocene (15-6.3 Ma), and finally transpression during the Pliocene which is still ongoing today.  The diachronous, northeastward-propagating deformation and uplift of the North Sakhalin Basin (initiated between 6.3-3.6 Ma) is preserved in the geomorphic characteristics of fluvial networks, the first-appearance of recycled deltaic sediments and by onlapping reflector terminations on offshore anticlines.  The landscape of Sakhalin is transient, and continuing to deform in the present day.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2006. / "May 2006." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 203-216). Online version available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2006. / Title from title screen (site viewed on Sept. 12, 2006). PDF text of dissertation: xiii, 305 p. : ill., maps (some col.) ; 17.47Mb. UMI publication number: AAT 3208113. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm, microfiche and paper format.