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DOCUMENT Citation Only Lucy Schuyler.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, and Public Education at Tijeras Pueblo, New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Beads, pendants, and other items of personal adornment were recovered during excavations at Tijeras Pueblo in 1948, 1968, the 1970s, and 1986, and are stored at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology in Albuquerque and the Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe. Shells from the Gulf of California, turquoise,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Brady.

At the 1985 Maya Ceramic Workshop, Arthur Demarest noted the intense interest in the Protoclassic. Indeed, ceramists with only a mammiform support and a handful of sherds would pause to speculate on the significance of a statistically insignificant number of sherds. During the 1990s, Joseph Ball and I doggedly worked to reexamine every aspect of the Protoclassic issue. Aided by contributions of a number of colleagues, the resulting document attempted to strip the Protoclassic of association...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Micah Smith. Tim Gibbs. Tim Roberts.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The La Junta de los Ríos (or La Junta) region of West Texas and Northeast Chihuahua is composed of villages scattered around the confluence of the Rio Conchos and Rio Grande. Based on limited investigations, La Junta village sites (AD 1200-1684) appear to be archeologically similar to, yet distinct from, adjacent Mogollon groups. While the region has been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Natalia Donner. Alexander Geurds.

This is an abstract from the "Reconstructing the Political Organization of Pre-Columbian Nicaragua" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeology of central Nicaragua offers a challenging arena for the deconstruction of traditional ceramic chronology discourses in Southern Central America. The ‘anthropology of techniques’ approach and ethnoarchaeological research have determined that the most stable steps in ceramic manufacture are connected to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diana Carhuanina.

This is an abstract from the "Alfareros deste Inga: Pottery Production, Distribution and Exchange in the Tawantinsuyu" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. La cerámica Inka en Vilcashuamán: Hacia el análisis de sus estilos En el marco del Proyecto del Tramo Vilcashuamán-La Centinela (Qhapac Ñan-Sede Nacional) desde el año 2017 se vienen realizando investigaciones arqueológicas en la Zona Monumental Vilcashuamán (Ayacucho, Perú), interviniéndose con...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Osvaldo Sterpone.

This is an abstract from the "La Restauración de Monumentos Prehispánicos en México: Principios, Práctica, y Visión al Futuro" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Se presentan los fundamentos de los principios estratigráficos en el proceso de documentación para la conservación de monumentos arqueológicos enfocado al caso de Monte Albán. En el procedimiento de documentación fueron utilizados instrumentos geofísicos que contribuyen a la identificación de...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timpoko Hélène Kienon-Kabore. Vincent Serneels.

Près de Kaniasso dans la zone d’Odiénné, sur les sites de Siola, zones 1000 et 2000, et Doumbala, une séquence chrono-technologique en trois phases a été mise en évidence, caractérisées par trois traditions techniques différentes : KAN 1 (1300 – 1450 AD), KAN 2 (1450 – 1650 AD) et KAN 3 (1650 - 1900 AD). Des vestiges présentant de grandes similitudes ont été identifiés sur de nombreux sites dans la région. Par contre, le site de la zone 4000 de Siola, dont l’étude sur le terrain a été reprise en...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Juan De La Peña Paredes. Yamile Lira López.

El valle de Maltrata, al oeste del estado de Veracruz, presenta un desarrollo poblacional que inicia desde el periodo Preclásico, continúa en el Clásico, Posclásico y Colonia, durante esos periodos de tiempo la población se fue asentando en distintas partes del valle, aprovechando los espacios naturales que se disponían. Desde el inicio de la ocupación se utilizó la posición estratégica del valle como una ruta de comunicación, comercio e intercambio, que fue usada por diversas culturas para la...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy B. Graves. Myles Miller.

This is an abstract from the "Hot Rocks in Hot Places: Investigating the 10,000-Year Record of Plant Baking across the US-Mexico Borderlands" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A decade of investigations of earth oven baking pits and their associated burned rock discard middens across southern New Mexico and west Texas have revealed new insights into the economic and social roles of these ubiquitous features. Investigations range from pedestrian and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Guy Hepp.

This is an abstract from the "Coastal Connections: Pacific Coastal Links from Mexico to Ecuador" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the 1960s, Ford argued that the first Pacific coastal Mexican pottery should more closely resemble that of northern South America than of early highland Mexican wares of the Tehuacán tradition. In the 1970s and 1980s, Kelly argued that Colima’s Capacha phase represented one of several "landfalls" of technological and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrea Vianello. Robert H. Tykot.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Metallurgy arrived quite late in Calabria, Sicily and Malta compared other regions, including the same Italian peninsula. Current hypotheses include an allogenous origin of metallurgy, brought by Aegean merchants, and an indigenous origin due to the presence of mines. The delicate state of many metals has prevented destructive analyses, but it has been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Duncan McLaren.

This is an abstract from the "Late Pleistocene Stemmed Points across North America: Continental Questions and Regional Concerns" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological investigations into late Pleistocene and early Holocene archaeological components on the Pacific coast of Canada have uncovered several different approaches to chipped stone manufacturing. The earliest known assemblages are associated with calibrated radiocarbon ages between...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Dempsey. Leigh A. R. Cominiello.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The data potential of grinding tools has been neglected by archaeologists since the beginning of research in the American Southwest. The study of ground stone provides an excellent opportunity to examine important aspects of life in the Pueblo past, including food production and gender, and therefore should not be overlooked. This paper uses methodology...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra Edwards. Doug Dvoracek. Anna Semon. David Hurst Thomas. Robert J. Speakman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Few elemental and isotopic studies have been conducted on bronze bells recovered from 16th – 17th century Spanish Colonial missions. Mission bells shaped daily life as they not only provided a call to prayer and daily tasks, but also served to reinforce the power dynamics of colonialism. We recently completed a study of 85+ bronze bell fragments from Pueblo...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Annelou Van Gijn. Annemieke Verbaas. Nicholas Groat. Loe Jacobs.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the context of the BEFIM project ("Meanings and Functions of Mediterranean Imports in Early Central Europe") the life history of (drinking) vessels from the Early Celtic hillfort settlements of Heuneburg and Vix-Mont Lassoix was examined, studying the way of production and use. We set up an extensive experimental program of dozens of experiments to explore...

DOCUMENT Citation Only RJ Sliva.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Cienega phase (800 BC-AD 50) of the Early Agricultural period in southern Arizona is marked by an abrupt shift in projectile point technology from the large, heavy, side-notched San Pedro dart points of the preceding San Pedro phase (1200-800 BC) to significantly smaller, deeply corner-notched Cienega points. Investigations over the past two decades at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Meanwell. Linda Seymour. Elizabeth Paris. Carlos Peraza Lope.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Elaborately decorated and painted objects, most typically murals and incense burners, were a central part of the religious and cultural life at the Postclassic period Maya capital of Mayapán. These objects required great skill to produce and requisite control over a variety of materials, including plaster, pottery, and the pigments used as colorants. One...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pedro Horta. João Cascalheira. Nuno Bicho.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The arrival of modern humans in Iberia is a continuously debated topic, especially when it comes to its southernmost regions due to the evidence of late Neanderthal occupations. In Southwestern Iberia, there is evidence for the presence of both groups in the late Pleistocene. Although the exact moment of replacement is still unclear due to the lack of absolute...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Leslie. Sarah Sportman.

Site 21-85 is a large, multi-component site, with Archaic and Woodland period remnants, located adjacent to the Hollenbeck River, a major tributary of the Housatonic River, and Robbins Swamp, the largest freshwater swamp in Connecticut. The location of Site 21-85 would have afforded past peoples access to the fauna and flora associated with Robbins Swamp, travel routes north and south through the Housatonic River Valley, and fresh water from the adjacent Hollenbeck River. The site is also...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jim Railey.

Several recent excavation projects by SWCA in far southeastern New Mexico have produced an immense dataset on lithic artifacts from 20 sites. This includes attribute data from thousands of individually analyzed lithic artifacts, mostly debitage. The excavated sites collectively cover a large swath across the region, and as such encompass appreciable variation in terms of local raw material conditions, as well as temporal affiliation and site function. Statistical analysis of the dataset was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Angela Gore.

Investigating prehistoric landscape use is significant in answering questions about the adaptive strategies and behaviors of prehistoric Beringians. How can we define the lithic landscape? How did humans provision themselves in eastern Beringia, and how did these provisioning behaviors change through time? Toolstone procurement and selection behaviors influence toolkits, mobility, and settlement strategies; therefore, they are important in explaining prehistoric behavioral adaptation and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kaoru Akoshima.

The paper investigates some fundamental aspects of use-wear of lithic artifacts, concerning the relations between function and morphology. During the course of micro-wear research since the 1960s, it was often questioned whether tool typologies actually reflects their functions, or which morphological attributes are diagnostic of their utilization. Case studies in the Upper Paleolithic of East Asia also revealed variability in end-scrapers whose functions seem to be relatively consistent as hide...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marta Sánchez De La Torre. Xavier Mangado. François-Xavier Le Bourdonnec. Bernard Gratuze. Mathieu Langlais.

This is an abstract from the "Case Studies in Toolstone Provenance: Reliable Ascription from the Ground Up" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Montlleó open-air-site (Prats i Sansor, Catalonia) is located in one of the largest high-attitude valleys in the Pyrenees, the Cerdanya Valley, in SW Europe, at 1,144 masl. The site is in a natural road to cross the Pyrenees in the eastern part. The site, discovered in 1998 and excavated since the 2000 by a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Hull. Nathan Goodale. Alissa Nauman. Colin Quinn.

Utilitarian stone tools produced from raw materials that are linked to a place or landscape of significant social, ritual, and economic importance likely still carry that importance when tools are transported away from their source. Such objects can serve as indices of social relationships, economic priorities, and ritual practices. By transporting and using these objects, communities would have daily reminders of their connections to important places and activities that take place there....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Limberg. Christopher Noll.

This is an abstract from the "New Research into the Old Cordilleran" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In western Washington, Olcott sites are generally understood to represent a period of cultural and technological stability that extended through the early Holocene into the middle Holocene. While some researchers have suggested subtle technological evolutionary developments occurred over time, Olcott sites have often been characterized as a...