Archaeologists usually assume that human societies are structured as a superorganism system in which various social, cultural, economic, and political sectors are intertwined and mutually influenced. Once force occurs in one sector, dynamic interactions will transmit the force a…
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This research explores the spatial patterning of archaeological surface features at the Jenné-jeno Settlement Complex to gain a better understanding of the settlement organization represented by the nucleated settlement clusters. This involved an intensive surface survey recordi…
Much of the public policy discourse about immigration in the UK has drawn on the experiences of post-war immigrants from the former British colonies. The volume and composition of immigration flows has changed significantly in recent years with substantial increases in the numbe…
In the New England Maritimes region, and especially New Hampshire, small lithic sites or scatters represent the most prevalent Paleoamerican site type identified on the landscape in the course of cultural resource management (CRM) and research activities. Correspondingly, distri…
Despite decades of archaeological excavations in the western Wādī Hadramūt and its tributaries, when compared to its neighbors in Southwestern Arabia, the Pre-Islamic kingdom of Hadramūt is poorly understood. The interior Wādī Hadramūt of the Islamic period is even less well kno…
This dissertation examines intra-immigrant group similarities and differences in migration and settlement experiences, taking two south Asian subgroups in Toronto---Indian Bengalis and Bangladeshis---as a case study. The research contributes theoretically and empirically to thre…
The Highlands of Transjordan at the eastern frontier of Egypt's Levantine empire engendered a distinct cultural and political history due to the region's geographical delineation and ecological zonation. For much of the past century, scholarly consensus followed the Glueck Hypot…
The development of urbanism has often been associated with the appearance of state-level society. Although a single definition of urbanism is not universally accepted, archaeologists generally agree that changes in population size, distribution, and integration, as reflected in …
Bagan, Myanmar’s capital during the country’s Classical period (c. 800-1400 CE), and its surrounding landscape was once home to at least four thousand monuments. These monuments were the result of the Buddhist pursuit of merit-making, the idea that individuals could increase the…