Crystal Dozier

- Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Wichita State University
Crystal Dozier earned her PhD in Anthropology at Texas A&M University. Her research interests include the adoption and evolution of socio-political systems in the indigenous societies of pre-modern and early modern America. Crystal earned a BA in Anthropology from The University of Chicago. She was a Mercatus Center Adam Smith Fellow during the 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, and 2017-2018 academic years.
Publications & Appearances
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Analysis of a Coprolite from Conejo Shelter, Texas
This paper presents an analysis of the floral and faunal remains of a single human coprolite recovered from Conejo Shelter
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Teaching Anthropological Concepts of Race in Higher Education
Racial, ethnic, and nationalistic discrimination are pressing concerns in today's uncertain political climate. Racialism is the
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Military Diet on the Border
Archaeological investigations at Fort Brown (41CF96) have provided a wealth of information about military life in south Texas
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The Origins of Entrepreneurship and the Market Process
Human cooperation has been the focus of many disciplines of soical science. While people have lived in small, mobile groups for

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Improving Teaching in the Archaeology Classroom
Instruction at the college level is one of the major career paths for archaeologists. Today, all prospective archaeologists are
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Airborne Starch Dispersal from Stone Grinding
Starch granules can be recovered from a variety of archaeological contexts and have been used to interpret plant utilization, cooking technologies, and activity areas. This experiment assessed the distance maize starch granules travelled from an outdoor and indoor stone grinding station.

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Finding Children Without Toys
The idea that children's activities may be seen through traditionally adult material culture is rarely explored in archaeological analyses. This paper advocates a more nuanced interpretation of assemblages in archaeological datasets that highlights children and their activities.

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Saccharomyces cerevisiae Fermentation Effects on Pollen
Pollen is the reproductive agent of flowering plants; palynology is utilized by archaeologists because sporopollenin, a major component in the exine of pollen grains, is resistant to decay and morphologically distinctive. Wine, beer, and mead have been identified in the archaeological record by palynological assessment due to indicator species or due to a pollen profile similar to that recovered from honey, a common source of sugar in a variety of fermented beverages.
