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List of Recent M.A. Theses in Historical Archaeology

Breen, Eleanor E.
2003 Whose Trash is it Anyway? A Stratigraphic and Ceramic Analysis of the South
Grove Midden, Mount Vernon, Virginia.

Britt, Sean F.
2005 Fueling the Fire: An Examination of Inter-Relationships between Humans and
the Environment through Colonial Caribbean Fuel Sources.

Brown, David A.
2001 ‘To the Place Where it Began’: Seventeenth-Century Settlement Patterns in
Abingdon Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia: History, GIS, and Archaeology.

Burns, Michael Thomas
2000 Military Equipment and Methods of Warfare of the Samnites and Other Oscan
Speaking Peoples.

Carocci, Molly
2001 Stone Fruit: Thoreau’s Native American Artifact Collection at the Fruitlands
Museum.

Carovillano, Jeffrey R.
2002 Adaptation and Resistance. An Analysis of Native American Activity at Den
Rock during the Contact Period.

Chartier, Craig S.
2001 An Explanation of the Proportional Differences in Shellfish Between Two
Features at the Sandy’s Point Site.

Cipolla, Craig N.
2005 Negotiating Boundaries of Colonialism: Nineteenth-Century Lifeways on the
Eastern Pequot Reservation, North Stonington, Connecticut.

Currie, Douglas R.
1999 Soil Micromorphology of a Seventeenth-Century Native American Corn Field.

Di Gregorio, Giampaolo A.
2003 ‘Every Other House a Tavern’: Individualism and Consumer Consciousness in the
Taverns of Boston.

Dubell, Gregory R.
2007 Visions of Grandeur: An Archaeological Investigation of Landscape Organization
and Transformation at Gore Place, Waltham, Massachusetts.

Dujnic, Teresa
2005 Intentions of Independence: Medicinal Practice and Community Identity at
Boston’s African Meeting House.

Gallagher, Diana S.
2006 Widow Pratt Privy, Newport, Rhode Island: An Archaeobotanical and
Archaeoparasitological Analysis.

Gary, Jack
2005 ‘Functioning in Another Register’: Manifestations of Colonial Interactions in the
Material Culture of Sylvester Manor.

Geisler, Jessica W.
2003 Tracing the Footsteps of Ritual: Concealed Footwear in Quincy, Massachusetts.

Goldstein, Karin J.
2001 Creation of a New England Gentry: The Winslows of Plymouth Colony.

Gordenstein, Samuel L.
2005 Rock Art Preservation and Tourism: A Case Study in Brazil.

Henkel, Melody
2001 Archaeology and Microhistory: A 19th Century Physician’s Saddlebag.

Herbster, Holly
2005 A Documentary Archaeology of Magunkaquog.

Howlett, Katherine F.
2002 Is Gender Etched in Stone? A Lithic Analysis of a Contact Period Native
American Site.

Jacobucci, Susan A.
2006 Constant Changes: A Study of Anthropogenic Vegetation Using Pollen and
Charcoal on the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation Reservation, North Stonington,
Connecticut.

Kotkin, Jeffrey H.
2000 Teaching What Counts in Archaeology: A New Approach to Archaeology
Education.

Lathrop, Hazel H.
2000 The Culture of Flowerpots.

Lombardi, Kathryn M.
2001 Coal Mining in Baldwin: How Industry and Culture Shaped a Landscape.

Lommen, Kate I.
2001 Mapping Transformation in the Grubenhauser of Anglo-Saxon England.

Luf, Keith A.
2002 Historical Survey of Archival Cataloging Practices for Moving Image Material
and the Implications for the Historical Research.

McNeil, Julie A.
2005 Potsherds and People: Considering the Connections between Ceramics and
Identity at the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation Reservation, North Stonington,
Connecticut.

Malpiedi, Jennifer T.
2006 Porgy and Bass: A Study of the Faunal Remains from the Sandy’s Point Site.

Mohler, Paul J.
2000 Soil Phosphate Analysis: The Evaluation of a New Testing Method.

Murphy, John Paul
2002 An Analysis of Crystal and Crystalline Quartz Material from Magunco.

Patton, Jonathan K.

2007 Material Studies of Eastern Pequot Clothing in 18th- and 19th-Century Connecticut: Issues in Collaborative Indigenous Archaeology.

Proebsting, Eric L.
2002 ‘History From the Ground Up’: Soil Micromorphology at a Long Island
Plantation.

Rauh, Carolyn C.
2004 Common Threads: Katherine Nanny Naylor and the Context of the Cross Street
Back Lot Textiles.

Shaffer, Zahava Esther
2001 Whitman on Track with the Old Colony Railroad: The Untold Story.

Sportman, Sarah P.
2003 A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Animal Husbandry at a Northern Provisioning
Plantation: Sylvester Manor, Shelter Island, New York.

Trubey, David W.
2000 Known and Potential Naval Shipwreck Sites in the Waters Off Massachusetts:
Inventory, Assessment, and Management Strategies.

Witt, Thomas A.

2007 Negotiating Colonial Markets: The Navigation of 18th-Century Colonial Economies by the Eastern Pequot.