The Department of Anthropology offers students the opportunity to explore the full scope of human adaptations; from our earliest hominid ancestors, to the urban societies of the modern world.
Anthropology includes both a cultural and a physical component. Cultural anthropology examines the role of culture in shaping the lives of people from every corner of the world, and in every walk of life. Physical anthropology focuses on early human evolution and the adaptations leading to anatomically modern people.
Archaeology studies past cultures and how ancient peoples used material culture to adapt to their natural and social environments. Together, these fields provide the student with a broad and compelling perspective on who we are, and how we shaped our contemporary world.
Submissions from 2015
Curation and Recycling: Estimating Paleoindian Endscraper Curation Rates at Nobles Pond, Ohio, USA, Michael J. Shott and Mark F. Seeman
Submissions from 2014
Artifacts of Cognition: the Use of Clay Tokens in a Neo-Assyrian Provincial Administration, John MacGinnis, M. Willis Monroe, Dirk Wicke, and Timothy Matney
Submissions from 2013
Human Colonization and Late Pleistocene Lithic Industries of the Americas, Michael J. Shott
Submissions from 2012
New Developments in Lithic Analysis: Laser Scanning and Digital Modeling, Michael Shott and Brian W. Trail
Submissions from 2011
Archaeological Investigations at Ziyaret Tepe, 2002, Timothy Matney
Submissions from 2010
Archaeological Excavations at Ziyaret Tepe, 2000 and 2001, Timothy Matney
Size-dependence in Assemblage Measures: Essentialism, Materialism, and 'SHE' Analysis in Archaeology, Michael J. Shott
Stone-Tool Demography: Reduction Distributions in North American Paleoindian Tools, Michael J. Shott
Submissions from 2008
The Leavitt Site: A Parkhill Phase Paleo-Indian Occupation in Central Michigan, Timothy Matney
Paleoindian Archaeology: A Hemispheric Perspective, J.Morrow and C.Gnecco eds., University Press of Florida, 2006, Michael J. Shott
Submissions from 2007
Pattern and Allometric Measurement of Reduction in Experimental Folsom Bifaces, Michael Shott, David A. Hunzicker, and Bob Patten
The Role of Reduction Analysis in Lithic Studies, Michael J. Shott
Biface Reduction and the Measurement of Dalton Curation: A Southeastern United States Case Study, Michael J. Shott and Jessie A. M. Ballenger
Measuring Reduction in Stone Tools : An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Gamo Hidescrapers from Ethiopia, Michael J. Shott and Kathryn J. Weedman
Purepecha Pottery Ethnoarchaeology, Michael J. Shott and Eduardo Williams
Submissions from 2006
Bars with Marble Surfaces at Pompeii: Evidence for Sub-elite Marble Use, J. Clayton Fant
Submissions from 2005
Use Life and Curation in New Guinea Experimental Used Flakes, Michael J. Shott and Paul Sillitoe
Submissions from 2004
Archaeological site distribution by geomorphic setting in the southern lower Cuyahoga River Valley, northeastern Ohio: Initial observations from a GIS database, Andrew Bauer, Lisa Park, and Timothy Matney
Archaeology at the Frontiers: Excavating a Provincial Capital of the Assyrian Empire, Timothy Matney
Representativity of the Midwestern Paleoindian Sample, Michael J. Shott
Modeling Use-Life Distributions in Archaeology Using New Guinea Wola Ethnographic Data, Michael J. Shott and Paul Sillitoe
Submissions from 2003
Weaving a Stronger Food-Assistance Net, Carolyn Behrman, Karen Flynn, and Arlee Hanlin
Reduction Sequence and Chaine Operatoire, Michael J. Shott
Submissions from 2002
Students in the Field: Linking Service-Learning and Undergraduate Research, Carolyn Behrman
Charity, Power and Entitlement Theory, Karen Coen Flynn and Carolyn Behrman
New Methods and Learning Strategies: A Subsurface Archaeogeophysical Survey and Mapping Course, Timothy Matney
Constructing Frames of Reference: An Analytical Method for Archaeological Theory Building using Ethnographic and Environmental Data Sets, Michael J. Shott
Sample Bias in the Distribution and Abundance of Midwestern Fluted Bifaces, Michael J. Shott
Weibull Estimation on Use Life Distribution in Experimental Spear-Point Data, Michael J. Shott
The Reliability of Surface Assemblages: Recent Results from the Gillett Grove Site, Clay County, Iowa, Michael J. Shott, Joseph A. Tiffany, John F. Doershuk, and Jason Titcomb
Submissions from 2001
Ethics and Fieldwork across Anthropology's Subfields, Carolyn Behrman and Timothy Matney
Crises in Forager Studies, Ethnographic and Archaeological, Michael Shott
The Mortality of Things: Correlates of Use Life in Wola Material Culture Using Age-at-Census Data, Michael Shott and Paul Sillitoe
Submissions from 2000
The Quantification Problem in Stone-Tool Assemblages, Michael J. Shott
Flake Size from Platform Attributes: Predictive and Empirical Approaches, Michael J. Shott, Andrew P. Bradbury, Philip J. Carr, and George H. Odell
Submissions from 1998
Status and Role of Formation Theory in Contemporary Archaeological Practice, Michael j. Shott
Submissions from 1997
Activity and Formation as Sources of Variation in Great Lakes Palaeoindian Assemblages, Michael J. Shott
Lithic reduction at 13HA365, a middle Woodland occupation in Hardin County, Michael J. Shott
Stones and Shafts Redux: The Metric Discrimination of Chipped-Stone Dart and Arrow Points, Michael J. Shott
Transmission Theory in the Study of Stone Tools: A Midwestern North American Example, Michael J. Shott
Submissions from 1996
An Exegesis of the Curation Concept, Michael J. Shott
Mortal Pots: On Use Life and Vessel Size in the Formation of Ceramic Assemblages, Michael J. Shott
Stage versus Continuum in the Debris Assemblage from Production of a Fluted Biface, Michael J. Shott
Submissions from 1995
The Fairest of Them All: Gender, Ethnicity and a Beauty Pageant in the Kingdom of Swaziland., Carolyn Behrman
How much is a scraper? Curation, use rates, and the formation of scraper assemblages, Michael J. Shott
Reliability of Archaeological Records on Cultivated Surfaces: A Michigan Case Study, Michael J. Shott
Submissions from 1994
Size and Form in the Analysis of Flake Debris: Review and Recent Approaches, Michael j. Shott
Submissions from 1993
Spears, Darts, and Arrows: Late Woodland Hunting Techniques in the Upper Ohio Valley, Michael J. Shott
Submissions from 1992
On Recent Trends in the Anthropology of Foragers: Kalahari Revisionism and Its Archaeological Implications, Michael J. Shott
Radiocarbon Dating as a Probabilistic Technique: The Childers Site and Late Woodland Occupation in the Ohio Valley, Michael J. Shott
Submissions from 1990
Nausea and Vomiting during Teenage Pregnancy: Effects on Birth Weight, Carolyn Behrman, Mary L. Hediger, Theresa O. Scholl, and Cynthia M. Arkangel
Submissions from 1989
Bipolar Industries: Ethnographic Evidence and Archaeological Implications, Michael J. Shott
On Tool-Class Use Lives and the Formation of Archaeological Assemblages, Michael J. Shott
Shovel-Test Sampling in Archaeological Survey: Comments on Nance and Ball, and Lightfoot, Michael J. Shott
Submissions from 1988
IRT 794b and the Building History of the Hadrianic Baths at Leptis Magna, J. Clayton Fant
Submissions from 1987
Feature Discovery and the Sampling Requirements of Archaeological Evaluations, Michael J. Shott
Submissions from 1986
Technological Organization and Settlement Mobility: An Ethnographic Examination, Michael J. Shott
Submissions from 1985
Four Unfinished Sarcophagus Lids at Docimium and the Roman Imperial Quarry System in Phrygia, J. Clayton Fant
Seven Unedited Quarry Inscriptions from Docimium (Iscehisar, Turkey), J. Clayton Fant
Submissions from 1984
Gainey Site: Variability in a Great Lakes Paleo-Indian Assemblage, Donald B. Simons, Michael J. Shott, and Henry T. Wright
Archaeological resources of the Thumb area of Michigan, Paul D. Welch, Richard I. Ford, and Michael Shott
Submissions from 1983
Design and Evaluation of Shovel-Test Sampling in Regional Archaeological Survey, James J. Krakker, Michael J. Shott, and Paul D. Welch