Student Research Projects

Upcoming M.A. Thesis Defences

​Some of our current M.A. candidates:

Devon Howell
"An Investigation of Postclassic Maya Diet and Oral Health at Ka’kabish, Belize: A Dental Anthropological Approach"

Cory Tucker
"Ethnoarchaeological Insights on Human-Animal Interactions: Observations from Traditional House Compounds in Bagan, Myanmar"

Daniel Jankulovski
"Minoan Violent Athletics"

Julian Hirsch
"From Wear to their Wearers: The Beads of the Early Bronze Age IA (c. 3700-3400) Fifa Cemetery, Jordan in Context"

Adrian Gonzalez Gomez de Aguero
"Agricultural practices at Cerro de Oro, Cañete Valley, Peru: An isotopic investigation"

Justin Tighe
"Archaeological Potential of the Bruce Manitoulin Corridor"

Jelissa Kollaard
"The evolution of ground stone tools in the Middle Paleolithic: Functional analysis of an assemblage from Nesher Ramla, Israel"

Nicholas Stevenson
"Food Practices in Transition: Exploring Plant Processing Diversity During the Transition from Foraging to Farming"

Veronica Toms
"Religious and Cultural Change in Roman Isauria"

Stephanie D'Angelo
“Mycenaean Knossos” a new perspective: interpreting hidden patterns between Neopalatial, Final Palatial, and Mycenaean burials"

Melissa Seebeck
"Architectural Variations in Prepalatial Minoan Crete"

Tessa Grogan
"The Geographic Provenience of Camelid Fibre through Stable Isotope Analysis of Pre-Hispanic Textiles from the Atacama Desert, Chile"

Victoria Tait
"Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotope Analysis of Human Paleodiet at the Escape Site on St. Vincent"

Morgan Simmons-Feigel
"The Lion-Lid Sarcophagi and Other Funerary Containers of Isauria and Rough Cilicia"

Di Hansen
“Evaluating changes in lithic technological systems between the Late Archaic and Late Woodland in the Kawartha Lakes Region, Ontario”