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| Student | Thesis or Project | Year |
| Clarkson, Amber | Reinvestigating the Folsom Wedge at the Blackwater Draw Site, Roosevelt County, New Mexico | 2022 |
| Jankovik, Jonah | Locating Temper Sources in the Sapillo Valley for the Analysis of Lake Roberts Vista Site Painted Sherds | 2022 |
| Martinez, Erick | Patterned Variability of Los Esteros Lake Project, New Mexico, Projectile Points | 2022 |
| McCoy, Taylor | The Geospatial Modeling of Blackwater Locality 1 | 2022 |
| Meng, Fanxiu | Technological Analysis of Lithics from the North Bank of the Blackwater Draw Site | 2022 |
| Carbone, Catherine | Down to the Bone: Preliminary Study into Skeletal Weathering in the High Plains of Eastern New Mexico | 2021 |
| Rohrer, Michael | A Behavioral Comparison of Mimbres Limited-Activity Sites and Village Sites of the Classic Period in the Southern Mimbres Valley Using a Lithic Analysis Approach | 2021 |
| Rucker, Gabrielle | Powwows in the Time of the 2020-2021 Novel Coronavirus Pandemic | 2021 |
| Jeu, Michael | An Experimental Spatial Analysis of Lithic Discard Patterns: Comparing Modern, Ethnographic, and Prehistoric Behaviors | 2020 |
| McConnell, Joseph | Evaluations of the Calvin Smith "Folsom" Collection Using a Range of Variation in Southern High Plains Folsom Points | 2020 |
| Waggle, Tawnya | Mobility of Folsom and Late Paleoindian Occupations at Blackwater Locality No. 1 | 2020 |
| Crockett, Rebekha | Bosque Redondo as a Pharmakon: A Contextualized Understanding of Health and Medical Care | 2019 |
| Singletary, Ed | Searching for Provenience: Using Typology to Evaluate Cultural Associations of Axes, Hoes, and Mauls from the Southwest | 2019 |
| Gilbertson, Christine | Canal Sediments at Creekside | 2019 |
| Purdon, Donald | Projectile Point Variability at Fresnal Rock Shelter | 2019 |
| Shelley, Nathan | Assessing Archaeological Applications of Curated Sediment Samples: A Case Study from Mesa Portales, New Mexico | 2019 |
| Byers, Patricia | Archaic Subsistence: An Analysis of the Faunal Remains Collected by the Anasazi Origins Project | 2018 |
| Kidwell, Jasmine | Modeling Landscape Evolution across the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition at Blackwater Locality No. 1 | 2018 |
| Merritt, Michael | A Macroscopic Lithic Analysis from Ute Dam and Reservoir in Northeastern New Mexico | 2018 |
| Sparks, Lisa | Construction of a Mule Deer Utility Index | 2018 |
| Spence, Paul | An Analysis of the Features Found at Arena Ancestra, an Archaic Component of Arena Alta, LA 34307 | 2018 |
| Steele, Laura | Investigating the Dynamic Relationship between People and Turkey in the Pueblo IV Period: The Case Study of Sapa'owingeh (LA 306) | 2018 |
| Whaley, Aaron | An Experimental Inquiry into the Thermal Efficiency of Gallina Conical Utility Wares | 2018 |
| Freas, Rebecca | Contextualization of Pathological Changes in Archaeological Canid Remains from Guadalupe Ruin | 2017 |
| Gustafson, Martha | 2017 | |
| Natker, Leon | Communities of Practice, Kinship, and Identity: An Analysis of Style in Chupadero Black-on-White | 2017 |
| Richardson, Rachael | Evaluating Patterned Regional Variation in Clovis Flute Morphology | 2017 |
| Smith, Mara | A Paleopathological Analysis of Turkey Remains from the Archaeological Site of Salmon Ruins, New Mexico | 2017 |
| Griffin, Matthew | 2016 | |
| Loven, Jeremy | Utilization of faunal resources at site 315 and site 355: Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico | 2016 |
| Hartley, James | Environmental causes of the extinction of the pleistocene megafauna in the desert Southwest | 2015 |
| Hronec, Laura | An investigation of eolian processes on an archaeological site, Blackwater locality no. 1's locality X | 2015 |
| Nutter, Stephanie | Southwestern alignments : a statistical look at the Chaco meridian | 2015 |
| Bennett, Stacey | Blackwater locality 1: Synthesis of South Bank archaeology: 1933-2013 | 2014 |
| Cruz-Morales, Christian | Correlation of death rate and periodontal disease in the prehistoric people of Pueblo Bonito | 2014 |
| Davis, Lauren | 2014 | |
| East, Nicole | Clay mineralogy variation in classic period biscuit ware ceramics | 2014 |
| Fitzgerald, Cassandra | Validation study of a recently developed method of sex determination on the distal humerus | 2014 |
| Hill, Katie | Guidance for documenting CCC properties: Examples from New Mexico | 2014 |
| Kendrick, Christine | Economic and ritual use of animals at the Sterling Site (LA 22652): A Chacoan outlier in the middle San Juan Basin | 2014 |
| Kilgore, Stephen | Great house outlier function and regional interaction: A lithic analysis of the Guadalupe Ruin community | 2014 |
| Schipani, Alexandra | The use of the scapula to determine biological sex | 2014 |
| Schroeder, Jessica | "Why do I have to work to learn?": An analysis of visual communication and visitor learning in archaeological museum exhibits | 2014 |
| Cline, Cathey Ann | 2013 | |
| Griffin, Catherine | 2013 | |
| Lenge, Sabrina | The motive of motifs: An analysis of Chihuahuan polychrome ceramic decorations | 2013 |
| Plaza, David | Digitizing the Anasazi Origins Project: A Geodatabase | 2013 |
| Prothro, George | Spatial Analysis of Ancestral Puebloan Settlements on Mesa Portales in Sandoval County, New Mexico | 2013 |
| Beers, Ward | 2012 | |
| Brown, Erin | A study of mobility/settlement patterns in southeastern New Mexico | 2012 |
| Goslin, Erin | Archaeology and Mescalero Apache Identity | 2012 |
| Govich, Erica | "Making something out of nothing": An ethnography of flintknappers in Portales, New Mexico | 2012 |
| Kubik, Garrett | An Edge-damage Analysis of Folsome Artifacts from the Mitchell Locality and North Bank of Blackwater Draw | 2012 |
| McCaffery, Harlan | Corn gobblers: A stable isotope analysis of prehistoric turkeys from the middle San Juan region, northwest New Mexico | 2012 |
| Prothro, Ziggy Crown | Archaeology in education : public outreach for archaeological awareness and educational enrichment | 2012 |
| Greene, Michelle | 2011 | |
| Sain, Douglas Allen | Clovis blade technology at the Topper Site (38AL23) | 2011 |
| De Cunzo, Antonio | 2010 | |
| Millward, Sara | Thermal features in southeastern New Mexico : an economic analysis | 2010 |
| Matthiessen, Kaitlyn | Geoarchaeological investigations of linear rock features, Lincoln County, New Mexico | 2009 |
| McKissick, Justin | The estimation of irrigable land for the Hohokam Canal Systems of the Salt River Valley: A GIS approach | 2009 |
| Waller, Kyle | Stable isotope analysis in the middle San Juan Region : the Tommy site and Mine Canyon site | 2009 |
| Enright, Erin | Faunal Analysis of the Tommy Site: Faunal Utilization in the Chacoan Southwest | 2008 |
| Mayer, Heather | The creation and implementation of a thematic unit and student activity book for the Blackwater Draw Museum and site | 2008 |
| Pfarr, Joshua | Geoarchaeological Investigations of Floodwater Farming at Canada, Alamosa, New Mexico | 2008 |
| Schuelke, Katherine | Variation in burned rock features in southeastern New Mexico: A siteless approach using statistics and GIS | 2008 |
| DeBoer, Beau | 2007 | |
| Fuhrman, Jesse | Sex and age-at-death profiles of the Point Community along the middle San Juan River | 2007 |
| Galassini, Stacy | Culturally modified Ponderosa Pine in the Zuni Mountains, New Mexico: A pilot study | 2007 |
| Myers, Nate | A Typological Assessment of the Mesa Portales Ceramics | 2007 |
| Myers, Tori | The stories old pots can tell: Using decorative aspects on whole vessels to evaluate centralization in the Casas Grandes region | 2007 |
| Renvall, Brian Alan | Worlds apart: Native reinterpretations of traditional anthropology museums in New Mexico | 2007 |
| Beacham, E. Bradley | Eggshell and the archaeological record : A developmental study of prehistoric eggshell | 2006 |
| Enke, Monica | Prehistoric water management at Pueblo Oso Negro, central New Mexico | 2006 |
| Ferriman, Colin | 2006 | |
| Fuller, Heidi | Post-Chacoan faunal variation in the San Juan-Mesa Verde region | 2006 |
| Gregory, Danny | The Ochoa Phase rocks: Raw material diversity and sedentism in the Eastern Jornada Mogollon | 2006 |
| Hull, Sharon | Using hydrogen and copper stable isotopes to source turquoise | 2006 |
| LaFond, Andre | Exploring the utility of obsidian hydration data through Great Basin projectile points | 2006 |
| Lloyd, Thomas | An analysis of the worked bone and antler artifacts from Salmon Ruin, San Juan County, New Mexico | 2006 |
| Condon, Peter | 2005 | |
| Meininger, Jason | Experimental Investigations of the Thermal Alteration of Chert from Fort Hood, Texas | 2005 |
| Moffatt, Charles | Prehistoric Site Locations on the Melrose Air Force Range, Curry and Roosevelt Counties, New Mexico: A GIS Approach | 2005 |
| Murrell, Jesse | Differential persistence of variation in prehistoric milling tools from the middle Rio Puerco Valley, New Mexico | 2005 |
| Nagayasu, Mikiko | Diagenesis of bison bones from Blackwater Draw Site, New Mexico | 2005 |
| Cheung, Albert | A study of the potential effects of automobile traffic on lithic flakes | 2004 |
| Conklin, Jeri Kay | 2004 | |
| Lander, Shelli | Investigating idiosyncratic variation in lithic technology | 2004 |
| Osbo, Amanda Ledwon | Unsex me here: An investigation into the use of DNA extraction and amplification techniques and their signficance in determining the sex of late prehistoric bison | 2004 |
| Aubuchon, Benjamin | 2003 | |
| Pflepsen, Paula Samuelson | Analysis of an archaic faunal assemblage at Blackwater Draw Locality No.1 | 2003 |
| Smith, Gavin Lane. | Prehistoric faunal exploitation in the Southern Middle Rio Puerco Valley, New Mexico | 2003 |
| Wood, Sunny | Use of documentary video in an archaeological discipline | 2003 |
| Bury, Benjamin | A view to a kill?: A late prehistoric bison procurement site on the southern high plains | 2002 |
| Comulada, Leila | 2002 | |
| Erickson, Luke | 2002 | |
| Espinosa, Nancy Sweet | Five mummies from the Miles Collection: A problem of provenance | 2002 |
| Fallis, Tonya Gale | 2002 | |
| Fariello, Kimberley | Is a hand lens enough: Blind test agreement in distinguishing bone surface modification | 2002 |
| Fenner, Jack | Putting a hair in the soup: An investigation into the archaeological analysis of single hairs | 2002 |
| Merchant, Janet | Fresnal rockshelter sandals: Descriptive analysis and chronological placement | 2002 |
| Dobbins, Melissa May | Native American painting in the New Mexican New Deal: An analysis of form, subject and content | 2001 |
| Konzelman, Gregory | A geoarchaeological study of the Paw Paw Cove Site (18TA212B), Tilghman Island, Talbot County, Maryland | 2001 |
| Madewell, Judy | Perceptions of control and a sense of agency among women in a welfare to work program | 2001 |
| Proper, Michael | The Eleanor Site: Standing at the foot of Guadalupe Ruin, Sandoval County, New Mexico (LA 57896) | 2001 |
| Bruce, Kevin | 2000 | |
| Field, Andrea | Late prehistoric faunal exploitation at Portales Spring (LA89599) | 2000 |
| Hutmacher, Sonia. | Piñon pine and people: GIS modeling of high altitude adaptions to changing environments | 2000 |
| Johnson, Tara | Archaeological photography: Experiments in ultraviolet, infrared and light painting techniques | 2000 |
| Patch, Shawn | Archaic lithic technology at Los Esteros Lake, Guadalupe County, New Mexico | 2000 |
| Rooke, Lara Catherine | A GIS model of agricultural productivity and settlement distribution in the middle Rio Puerco Valley, NM | 2000 |
| Slatter, Shannon | Exploration of craniometric characters used in the analysis and classification of recovered canid specimens | 2000 |
| Anderson, Douglas | A geochemical analysis and characterization study of Narbona Pass chert | 1999 |
| Giacobbe, John | 1999 | |
| Pomfret, James | An examination of variation in Late Prehistoric Texas point styles: A view from Sterling County, Texas | 1999 |
| Williams, Eleanor | Bison ecology and taphonomy at the Arch Lake Site (LA 113551), Grulla National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico | 1999 |
| Bauroth, Erika | Historic settlement practices on the Llano Estacado, New Mexico | 1998 |
| Genovese, Kimberly | Enamel hypoplasia as an indicator of stress on Mesa Verdeans at Salmon Ruins | 1998 |
| Kilby, J. David | A geoarchaeological analysis of ten Pueblo III pit structures in the Sand Canyon locality, southwest Colorado | 1998 |
| Kunkel, Kristine | Timber harvesting using ground stone axes | 1998 |
| McLoughlin, Patrick | Thermally altered rock on the Melrose Air Force Range, Curry and Roosevelt Counties, New Mexico | 1998 |
| Mooser, Genevieve | The impact of urbanization on a Rarámuri community in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuaua | 1998 |
| Wenzel, Kristen | What put the small in the Arctic small tool tradition: Raw material constraints on lithic technology at the Mosquito Lake Site,Alaska | 1998 |
| Bergschneider, Lisa | 1996 | |
| Katz, Carolina | Archaeological collection management, an assessment of faunal collections from excavations in 1971, 1972, and 1974 at Blackwater Draw, Portales, New Mexico | 1996 |
| McNally, Elizabeth | Variation in flaked stone tool assemblages at lower Stanton Ruin and Fresnal Rock Shelter, southcentral New Mexico | 1996 |
| Reutter, Stacie | A technological and typological study of a Plainview Site on the high plains of Eastern New Mexico | 1996 |
| Aguila, Lourdes | Decorated ceramic diversity in the Fort Stanton Reservation, Lincoln County, New Mexico | 1995 |
| Stokes, Robert | Prehistoric settlement patterns in the Sapillo Creek Valley, Gila National Forest, New Mexico | 1995 |
| Wilcox, David | A geoarchaeological investigation at Upper Bonito I, Lincoln County, New Mexico | 1995 |
| Bowman, James | 1994 | |
| Shuster, John | Folsom tool assemblage variability and site function at Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1 and other selected sites | 1994 |
| Browne, Heidi Frances | Identifying ceramic production locations with thermally induced fractures: An experimental study | 1993 |
| Hillsman, Matthew | Evaluation of visible and ultraviolet-excited attributes of some Texas and macroscopically similar New Mexico cherts | 1992 |
| Salzer, Matthew | Variation in Mogollon Brownwares of the Sierra Blanca Region, Southeastern New Mexico | 1992 |
| Coleman, Richard | Quantitative copropalynological analysis of woodrat (NEOTOMA) middens from the Ft. Stanton Reserve, Lincoln County, New Mexico | 1991 |
| Brabant, Merry Lynn | Scanning electron microscopy of charcol samples from PROSOPIS SP. and QUERCUS HAVARDII | 1990 |
| Goldsmith, William | Macroscopic variability in cherts from drainages adjacent to the western edge of the Llano Estacado | 1990 |
| Jones, Robert | Analysis of a lithic sample, Fresnal Rock Shelter, southcentral New Mexico | 1990 |
| Kather, Scott | Obsidian utilization in the San Juan National Forest, Colorado | 1990 |
| Moots, Rita Ellen | Technological analysis of a cordage sample, Fresnal Rock Shelter, southcentral New Mexico | 1990 |
| Blazina-Joyce, Ruth | 1989 | |
| Dickenson, Joanne | 1989 | |
| Joyce, Daniel | A geoarchaeological approach to predicting location of in situ archaeological sites in Chaves County, New Mexico | 1989 |
| Slaughter, Mark | A geochemical analysis of sediments from the Mitchell Locality of Blackwater Draw | 1989 |
| Kyte, Michael | A ceramic sequence from the Chupadera Arroyo Basin, Central New Mexico | 1988 |
| Bamat, K. Patrice | 1987 | |
| Bowman, Kathleen Knapp | An analytic study of obsidian from the middle Rio Puerco Valley, New Mexico | 1987 |
| Fifield, Terence | 1987 | |
| Hicks Patricia | 1986 | |
| Jones, Bruce | Osteology as archaeology: A pilot study of taphonomic variablesand man-mammoth associations in western North Ameriaca | 1986 |
| McNeil, Jimmy | Ornaments of Salmon Ruin, San Juan County, New Mexico | 1986 |
| Sharpe, Terry | Mennonite medical lore and its potential for modern medicine | 1986 |
| Grey, Mark | Conflicting values and expectations and the rural Swazi secondary school | 1985 |
| Roney, John | Prehistory of the Guadalupe Mountains | 1985 |
| Wilson, Dean | Regional exchange of San Juan tradition ceramics at Salmon Ruin, a resource approach | 1985 |
| Brett, Linda | Lithic raw material acquisition and reduction strategies in the Middle Puerco Valley, New Mexico | 1984 |
| Bettison, Cynthia Ann | An experimental approach to sickle sheen deposition and archaeological interpretation | 1983 |
| Johnson, Laila | The Cheyenne Indians: A correlation of ethnographic and archaelogical data | 1983 |
| McKenna, Peter | A case study of an early Bonito phase small site, 29SJ1360, in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico | 1983 |
| Curet, María del Rosario | Conch shell procurement and technology: An ethnoarchaeological and experimental approach | 1982 |
| Landis, Daniel | Approaches to lithic assemblages through a cultural resource management phase II testing program on the Columbia Plateau, Washington | 1982 |
| Tschaikowsky, Stefanie | The ethnobotanical and archaeological evidence for a hypothesized exchange system at site 48, near Santa Rosa, New Mexico | 1982 |
| Boldurian, Anthony | 1981 | |
| Durand, Stephen Roland | Quantitative analysis of ceramic surface samples from the Middle Rio Puerco Valley | 1981 |
| Gnabasik, Virginia | 1981 | |
| Hunt, Jennifer | Prehistory of the Ochoco National Forest, central Oregon, an ethnoarcheological study | 1981 |
| Hurst, Winston | The Blanding Navajos: A case study of off-reservation Navajo migration and settlement | 1981 |
| Misner, Elizabeth Jane | An alternative method of establishing the relative chronology of open air sites on the western edge of the Llano Estacado | 1981 |
| Miyoshi, Yayoi | The changing roles of a modern Brahman woman in Nepal, case study | 1981 |
| Moore, Roger A. Jr. | An analytical and stylistic approach to typology, the projectile point sequence at Salmon Ruin, New Mexico | 1981 |
| Adams, Rex | 1980 | |
| Karimzaded, Mohammad | Kohnak: A southwestern village of Iran : application of Kroeber-Redfield conceptual formulation of peasantry on an Iranian village | 1980 |
| Mofidi, Faegheh | Acculturation, a case study from Persia in the seventh century A.D. | 1980 |
| Whalley, Lucy Anne | Chacoan ceramic exchange in the middle San Juan area, A.D. 900-1300 | 1980 |
| Bleier, David | The interconnection of the environment and social structure of Portales N M, a study of the irrigation farmers in Roosevelt County | 1979 |
| Burgess-Terrel, Martha | 1979 | |
| Graves, Sandra Phoebe | Institutional acculturation: A case study of Smith's Home for the Elderly | 1979 |
| Lentz, David | The distribution patterns and fruit productivity of modern junipers growing in the Salmon Ruin area and the archaeological interpretation of juniper seeds and cones found in Salmon Ruin, New Mexico | 1979 |
| Priesnitz, James | A preliminary investigation of organizational loci at Salmon Ruin: A Chacoan outlier in northwest New Mexico | 1979 |
| Terrel, James | Architectural analysis at Guadalupe Ruin, Sandoval County, New Mexico | 1979 |
| Komara, Gregory Lee | A reevaluation of the chronology and analysis of the artifacts from the Clear Fork silts | 1978 |
| Lekson, Stephen | Settlement patterns in the Redrock Valley, Southwestern New Mexico | 1978 |
| Baker, Thomas Ray | 1977 | |
| Choi, Bong Woo | Phonemic analysis of Korean | 1977 |
| Crane, Cathy Janet | A comparison of archaeological sites on the Uncompahgre Plateau and adjacent areas | 1977 |
| Ferguson, Bobbie Harrison | 1977 | |
| Gibson, Douglas Earle | Use-wear analysis and functional interpretation of Sandia points | 1977 |
| Hogg, Don Jack | Report on the excavation of three Mogollon pit houses on the upper Mimbres River, New Mexico | 1977 |
| Sweetland, Wm. | Preparation of cast artifacts and their utilization in museums | 1977 |
| Babcock, Thomas | 1976 | |
| Dodd, Walter | Battered implements from Armijo Rockshelter: An investigation of function | 1976 |
| Doebley, John | A preliminary study of wild plant remains recovered by flotation at Salmon Ruin, New Mexico | 1976 |
| Haecker, Charles | 1976 | |
| Henebry, Lourdes | Metrical and non-metrical analysis of prehistoric Fremont Indian crania, deformed and undeformed | 1976 |
| Hewett, Nancy Smith | 1976 | |
| Nielsen, Jeffrey Alan | Archaeological site location through remote sensing | 1976 |
| Alsoszatai-Petheo, John | The East Rim Site, California, (S.B.C.M. 1803), an early western lithic co-traditional site | 1975 |
| Deem, Sandra Sue | A sociolinguistic substratal view of the Spanish-speaking drug subculture | 1975 |
| Marchand, Karen Elaine | The ceramic technology of a Hopewellian manifestation in Eastern Kansas | 1975 |
| Schermer, Scott | Resistivity surveying of historic sites | 1975 |
| Van Middlesworth, Charles Lynn | The Kansa, cultural construction and preservation of traditional culture under acculturation | 1975 |
| Anzalone, Ronald David | Archaeological investigations in San Lorenzo Canyon, Socorro County, New Mexico | 1974 |
| Clifton, Donald | 1974 | |
| Hennen, Gary Willis | A paleo-ecological locational analysis of the lower Scioto region of Ohio | 1974 |
| Kinkade, Gay Marion | The Vernon Site: A basketmaker III site in Northwest New Mexico | 1974 |
| Patterson, David | An analysis of the human skeletal material from the Antelope Creek focus of Northern Texas | 1974 |
| Patterson, Deborah | Dental variation among three Panhandle aspect populations | 1974 |
| Smith, Howard Norman Jr. | A survey and stylistic analysis of rock art in the San Juan Basin, northwestern New Mexico | 1974 |
| Ainsworth, Allan | 1973 | |
| Anzalone, Catherine Slusser | A preliminary investigation into spatial cognition at Sandia Pueblo, New Mexico | 1973 |
| Arrom, Jose | Decision-making and managerial strategies in human adaptation : the case of the Roosevelt County cattlemen | 1973 |
| Arrom, Judith Siess | Mexican-American protestantism in Portales, New Mexico | 1973 |
| Beckett, Patrick | Cochise culture sites in south central and north central New Mexico | 1973 |
| Fritz, Valerie Dian | 1973 | |
| Stevens, Dominique Elizabeth | Blackwater Draw Locality No.1, 1963-1972, and its relevance to the firstview complex | 1973 |
| Gettys, John Marshall | The Tres Pedras Site of northern New Mexico | 1972 |
| Gettys, Kathleen | An analysis of an unprovenienced ceramic collection from the Miles Museum | 1972 |
| Beach, Marshall | 1971 | |
| Broilo, Frank | 1971 | |
| Nagle, Nancy Charvat | An analysis of the sound system of informal spoken Somoan | 1971 |
| Roxey, Donna Marie | A history of social and economic trends in Valdez, New Mexico | 1971 |
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