@mastersthesis {659,
	title = {New perspectives on settlement patterns: Sedentism and mobility in a social landscape},
	volume = {Phd},
	year = {1997},
	school = {Arizona State University},
	abstract = {Reconstructing the economic organization of ancient societies and unraveling the development of political complexity requires an understanding of sedentism and mobility. Southwestern archaeology has increasingly focused on sedentism and mobility using a conceptual framework derived from hunter-gatherer research, which emphasizes seasonal movement and the ecological factors that influenced mobility. While producing many valuable studies, this framework is inadequate for a full understanding of population movement. This dissertation addresses this problem by expanding the temporal and spatial scales examined and by viewing mobility as a socially negotiated activity.

Residential mobility in the Mesa Verde region is examined by focusing on two social scales--households and communities--and three analytic scales--sites, localities, and regions. Household residential mobility is evaluated by determining the occupation span of residential sites; occupation span is measured by determining the total accumulation of cooking pot sherds and calibrating an annual accumulation rate per household. Community sedentism within a locality is examined through an analysis of structure and site abandonment, and the length of time that individual communities occupied their locality is measured by determining how continuously timbers were harvested. Finally, community mobility within the region is assessed using tree-ring dates and settlement pattern data. These data on household and community movement are interpreted in social terms by reconstructing the changing social landscape in which mobility occurred. Geographic information systems analysis is used to examine how the rugged terrain of the Mesa Verde region affected population movement and to analyze the catchments surrounding individual communities.

Residential mobility is an essential part of the mode of production whereby individuals, households, and larger factions gained access to land and labor, the two most important resources for agricultural production. Thus, residential movement is an example of human agency, which occurred in the context of a social structure that developed historically. Land tenure, residence rules, and marriage rules are aspects of the structure that are particularly relevant to understanding population movement. This dissertation examines how the structure both enabled and constrained the practice of residential mobility, and how the practice of residential mobility both reproduced and transformed the structure.
},
	keywords = {colorado},
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	author = {Mark Varien}
}
@mastersthesis {734,
	title = {Navajo space use under conditions of increasing sedentism},
	volume = {PhD},
	year = {1993},
	school = {University of New Mexico},
	url = {no copy on file in LTRR},
	author = {Dana Oswald}
}
@mastersthesis {532,
	title = {A New Computerized X-ray Densitometric System for Tree-Ring Analysis},
	volume = {MS},
	year = {1984},
	school = {University of Arizona},
	abstract = {<p>A new facility for X-ray densitometric analysis is in operation at the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research. Tree-ring specimens are cute to a uniform thickness of 1.0 mm and contact radiographs are produced. The radiographs are scanned by a modified Joyce-Loebl optical microdesitometer interfaced with an Apple II microcomputer. The film optical densities are sampled at 0.02 mm increments and stored on magnetic disks. A battery of computer programs has been developed to edit and process these data, and to transform them into annual time series of various wood density characteristics for each specimen. Several of the programs employ interactive high-resolution graphics to enable the operator to ensure that the resulting series are accurate and complete. Data produced include maximum latewood density, minimum earlywood density, total ring width, average annual density, and integrated annual density. These parameters can be employed as paleoenvironmental indicators.</p>},
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	author = {McCord, Virgil Alexander Stuart}
}
@mastersthesis {481,
	title = {The Natural Growth Records of Reef Building Corals},
	volume = {PhD},
	year = {1978},
	school = {Yale University},
	abstract = {Through analysis of hermatypic coral incremental growth features, it is possible to determine the response of recent corals to their environments. In this way I have attempted to obtain a tool not only to gain knowledge of recent growth processes but also for reconstructing aspects of past environment conditions associated with fossil coral growth. The procedure has been first to determine time relationships and characteristics of coral skeletal density bands and to next use banding for investigations into areal growth rate patterns, coral population age distributions, and coral-climate interactions. Density band couplets, visible X-radiographically in medial sections of coral skeletons, are demonstrated to be formed annually for the corals Diploria labyrinthiformis from Bermuda...},
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	author = {Dodge, Richard Eugene}
}
@mastersthesis {594,
	title = {A Neoglacial Pollen Record from Osgood Swamp, California},
	volume = {MS},
	year = {1973},
	school = {University of Arizona},
	abstract = {A core from Osgood Swamp, California, which is located south of Lake Tahoe, in the Sierra Nevada, was analyzed every odd centimeter to depth of 61 cm. The Hypsithermal to Neoglacial transition occurs in the 51 to 49 cm interval. Pinus shows four distinct peaks and troughs, varying more than the other pollen types in the core. The Ericaceae show two distinct peaks accompanying the Pinus lows. Pollen analytical and ecological considerations indicate that bog heaths are the source of the Ericaceous record. The Ericaceae peaks are believed to represent periods of moist coldness corresponding to Neoglacial events in the Sierra Nevada. Correlation of an ash layer at 180 cm, immediately above a radio carbon date of 699 {\textpm} 300 B.P. with an ash layer at 170 cm in my core, and other considerations, give an inferred sedimentation rate of about 47 yr/cm in my core. This places the Ericaceae peaks at about 100 A.D. and 1630 A.D., and the Hypsithermal to Neoglacial transition in Osgood Swamp at about 2400 B.P.},
	author = {Zauderer, Jeffrey Norman}
}
