Society for American Archaeology

This collection contains the abstracts and presentations from the Society for American Archaeology annual meetings. SAA has partnered with Digital Antiquity to archive their annual conference abstracts and make the presentations available. This collection contains meeting abstracts and presentations dating from 2015 to the present.

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The Society for American Archaeology (SAA) is an international organization dedicated to the research, interpretation, and protection of the archaeological heritage of the Americas. With more than 7,000 members, the society represents professional, student, and avocational archaeologists working in a variety of settings including government agencies, colleges and universities, museums, and the private sector.

Site Name Keywords
44CE0085 • La Quemada • Nevada • Alta Vista • ontario • Gordion • Ceren • El Teúl • Las Ventanas • Buenavista

Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Non-Domestic Structures • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Archaeological Feature • Domestic Structures • Settlements • Rock Art • Agricultural or Herding • Ball Court • Artifact Scatter

Other Keywords
Historic • Zooarchaeology • Maya: Classic • Cultural Resources and Heritage Management • Ceramic Analysis • Landscape Archaeology • Material Culture and Technology • Geoarchaeology • Lithic Analysis • Survey

Culture Keywords
Historic • Ancestral Puebloan • Historic Native American • Mogollon • Woodland • Archaic • Euroamerican • Spanish • PaleoIndian • Hopewell

Investigation Types
Heritage Management • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis • Collections Research • Archaeological Overview • Data Recovery / Excavation • Systematic Survey • Architectural Documentation • Reconnaissance / Survey • Ethnographic Research • Ethnohistoric Research

Material Types
Ceramic • Fauna • Chipped Stone • Macrobotanical • Building Materials • Metal • Wood • Dating Sample • Ground Stone • Human Remains

Temporal Keywords
Civil War • Mimbres Classic period • Ancestral Puebloan / Sedentary through Classic Period • 19th Century • Historic • Magdalenian • 1880-1920 • Pueblo I and II • Postclassic • Prehistoric

Geographic Keywords
North America (Continent) • United States of America (Country) • Belize (Country) • USA (Country) • United Mexican States (Country) • Republic of Panama (Country) • Republic of El Salvador (Country) • Republic of Guatemala (Country) • Netherlands Antilles (Country) • Aruba (Country)

Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1,301-1,400 of 19,165)

  1. Are We Living in a Simulation? Digital Reconstructions of Early Sites in Coastal Peru (2018)
  2. Are we looking to discover the first Americans or the first successful Americans? (2016)
  3. Are websites doing what we want them to do? Evaluating the effectiveness of websites for public archaeology (2016)
  4. Are You a Tool? A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Worked Bone from Wupatki National Monument (2019)
  5. "Are You There Gods?" Offerings and Communication Between Worlds in Protohistoric France (2017)
  6. Arene Candide to Anzick: Ritual Use of Red Ochre (2021)
  7. ARIADNE: Building a European data infrastructure for archaeology (2016)
  8. Arisen from the Ashes: Archaeology as Tabletop Gaming in “The Age of Silence” (2023)
  9. Arlington Springs Chronostratigraphy and Implications for Early Human Settlement along North America's Pacific Coast (2023)
  10. Arm Chair Archaeology: GIS-ing the 1733 St. Jan Slave Rebellion (2017)
  11. Armchair Archaeothanatology: Post-Excavation Archaeothanatology in the Caribbean (2015)
  12. An Army of Winged Souls: Butterfly Iconography in Teotihuacan (2017)
  13. Around the Lower Pecos in 1,095 Days: A Baseline Rock Art Documentation Project (2017)
  14. Around the Neighboring Watering Hole: Comparative Analysis of Fountains in Pompeii and Herculaneum (2021)
  15. Around the Watering Hole: An In-Depth Analysis of Pompeii’s Fountains (2019)
  16. ARPA and Confidentiality in the Digital Age (2019)
  17. Arqueoastronomy and built landscape: the spatial orientation of geometric enclosures in Western Amazonia (2016)
  18. Arqueologia y Comunidad en la provincia de Manabi, dos casos de estudio (2019)
  19. Arqueologos: Integrating 3d Visualization, Spatial Databases, and Desktop GIS Software to Improve the Management and Analysis of Archaeological Data (2016)
  20. Arqueología Comunitaria en la Región Ixil de Guatemala (2015)
  21. Arqueología de la infancia en la Frontera Norte Mesoamericana durante el Epiclásico. El caso de El Ocote, Aguascalientes. (2018)
  22. Arqueología de los repartos mercantiles en los Andes coloniales: endeudamiento, elites locales y cultura material. (2017)
  23. Arqueología del agua y las montañas: paisaje y patrón de asentamiento en la costa este de Los Tuxtlas. (2019)
  24. Arqueología en la Sierra Sur de Oaxaca: El sitio fortaleza de Quiavicuzas (2017)
  25. Arqueología para reivindicar: Huellas de africanía en la producción alfarera de Cartagena de Indias (S. XVI-XVIII) (2021)
  26. Arqueología Preventiva en México: experiencias, alcances, limitaciones y propuestas (2019)
  27. Arqueología y manejo patrimonial en San Pablo Villa de Mitla, Oaxaca. (2016)
  28. Arquitectura Habitacional: Sistema Constructivo y Organización Espacial en el Sitio Finca 6, Delta del Diquís, Costa Rica (2018)
  29. Arquitectura mudéjar en la Nueva España, un problema arqueológico (2023)
  30. Arquitectura Preclásica en el Grupo Balam Acrópolis Central de El Mirador, Peten (2015)
  31. Arrangement of the Handicraft Industry at the Site of Taijiasi in the Shang Dynasty (2019)
  32. The Arrival of Belief:religion and art at the extremities of the Silk Roads, AD 500-800 (2017)
  33. The arrival of the Incas and it consequences in the transformation of the sociopolitical landscape of the lower Lurin valley (2015)
  34. Arriving at a Meaningful Rock Art Interpretation (2019)
  35. #arrowheads: Instagram as a Creative, Social Media-Based Approach to Public Archaeology (2015)
  36. Arroyo Pesquero y su "otra" ofrenda (2018)
  37. "An Arson, A Wig, and a Murder": The Search for Particia Calloway (2017)
  38. Art and Experience in Chichen Itza (2021)
  39. Art and Interregional Interchange in the Huasteca (2016)
  40. Art and the Ancestors: Sculpture from the Cave Complex at Quen Santo, Guatemala (2015)
  41. Art in the Time of Promontory Cave: Enhancement of Rock Art Figures Using DStretch (2017)
  42. Art Objects Don’t Make Themselves! A Consideration of the Ik’ Style from the Petén Lakes Region (2016)
  43. The Art of Footwear, Footwear as Art: Thirteen Hundred Years of Twined Sandal Production in the Northern Southwest (2015)
  44. The Art of Interconnection: Chichen Itza and the Gulf Coast (2023)
  45. The Art of Noise at Teotihuacan: The Conch Shell Motif in the Classic Period (2015)
  46. THE ART OF PRESERVING SKINS IN THE GREAT TEMPLE OF TENOCHTITLAN (2015)
  47. The Art of Survival: Mitigating the Impacts of PTSD and Combat Stress through the Manipulation of Moral Status and Identity in the Colonial-Era Rock Art of Southern Africa (2023)
  48. Art, Archaeology, and Archives: Pañamarca at Midcentury (2019)
  49. Art, Archaeology, and Chronology Building: Recent Investigations at Fracción Mujular (2019)
  50. Arthur C. Parker: Legacies of a Seneca Archaeologist (2019)
  51. Articulating Economies in the Land of the Ik’ Lords: Evidence for Marketplaces and Multiple Modes of Exchange in the Late Classic Motul de San José Polity (2016)
  52. Articulating the Big Bend of Florida (2023)
  53. The articulation of the dead; understanding expatriation, materiality and voice in the process of repatriation. (2019)
  54. Artifact Boxes and Cans of Worms; Navigating the 87 Church Street Legacy Collections (2019)
  55. Artifact Density and Population Density in Bronze Age China (2023)
  56. Artifact Density and Predictive Modeling in Old Kiyyangan Village (2017)
  57. Artifact Distribution Patterns Among Aztec Period Households in the Coatlan del Rio Valley, Morelos, Mexico (2015)
  58. Artifact Distributions, Interaction Networks, and Social Complexity: Middle Preclassic development at Cahal Pech from a small-world perspective (2016)
  59. Artifact Geographies of the Viking Age (2017)
  60. Artifact Highlights from the Yeo Site (23CL199): A Kansas City Hopewell Site (2018)
  61. Artifact Networks, Cultural Transmission, and Polynesian Settlement (2015)
  62. Artifact Ubiquity as an Index of Ancient Maya Socioeconomic Variability at Actuncan, Belize (2018)
  63. Artifact-Based Measures for Scaling Research in the Rio Grande Pueblos (2017)
  64. Artifacts Addicts Anonymous: The Road to Recovery from Negative Data (2018)
  65. Artifacts and Lesson Plans: Using 3D Technologies to Teach Archeology (2019)
  66. Artifacts Talk Back: Technological Analysis of Flakes and Flake Scars (2017)
  67. Artifactual Composition of Terminal Deposits from the Classic Maya site of Baking Pot, Belize. (2017)
  68. Artificial cranial modifications of human remains from archeological sites in China (2017)
  69. Artificial Lines in Saltwater and Sand: Boundaries, Borders, and Beaches in Oceania and Australia (2019)
  70. Artiodactyl Exploitation in Northeastern California during the Terminal Prehistoric/Protohistoric Time Periods: Evidence of Environmental Rebound? (2017)
  71. Artisan production and morphological changes in skeletons from San Jose de Moro (North coast of Peru) (2017)
  72. Artisanal Diversification or “Multi-crafting” as Economic Strategy among Upper-Class Extra-household Groups at Cotzumalhuapa (2021)
  73. Artisanal Lineages, Communities of Practice and Learning Traditions in Muisca otive goldwork (Colombia): An Initial Exploration (2019)
  74. Arts and Sciences of Ancient Plants at McMaster University (2017)
  75. Arukhlo: Neolithic Settlement and Ritual Place in Georgia, Southern Caucasus (2017)
  76. Aryballos, Bowls, and Bolas: Examining the Distribution of Provincial Inka-Style Pottery in the Threatened Borderland Region of the Valles Cruceños (2019)
  77. Arybolas, amphoras and Manteño Ordinario: The production and significance of Ecuadorian transport vessels (2015)
  78. As Good as it Sounds: Archaeology of Las Delicias, Managua, Nicaragua (2015)
  79. As the ancestors were laid to rest: preliminary results from the archaeobotanical analysis of burial soils from the Yukisma Site (CA-SCL-38) (2016)
  80. "…As the Waves Make Towards the Pebbled Shore": Site Formation Processes on Drowned Coastal Sites and Implications for Preservation, Discovery, and Interpretation (2019)
  81. The As(h)cendant: Cosmological Work of Material Traces of Burning in the American Southeast (2018)
  82. Asa T. Hill, the WPA, and the Fluorescence of Systematic Archaeology in Nebraska (2015)
  83. Ascendancy through Ancestry: Evidence of Late Classic Sociopolitical Change at the Ancient Maya Site of Pacbitun, Belize (2017)
  84. Ash Deposition and Community Building in the Mississippian World: A Case Study from the Yazoo Basin (2018)
  85. Ash Matters: The Ritual Closing of Domestic Structures in the Mimbres Mogollon Region (2018)
  86. Ashes in Western US Rockshelters (2018)
  87. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust : the role of wood in ancient maya funerary sequences (2017)
  88. Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust in Caddoan Mortuary Ritual (2018)
  89. "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust" –Natufian Cemeteries and Human Perceptions of Nature (2017)
  90. Ashes, Arrows, and Sorcerers (2018)
  91. Asiatic Echoes - The Identification of Ancient Chinese Pictograms in pre-Columbian North American Rock Writing, 3rd edition 2021 (2021)
  92. Asking New Questions to Central Nicaraguan Pottery (2015)
  93. The ASOR Cultural Heritage Initiative: Planning for Safeguarding Heritage Sites in Syria and northern Iraq (2016)
  94. Aspectos bioarqueológicos de los grupos prehispánicos del semidesierto queretano durante el Epiclásico (2017)
  95. Aspectos constructivos del Grupo Cascabel (2021)
  96. Aspectos de aprovisionamiento y uso de la obsidiana en Chicoloapan Viejo, un asentamiento Epiclásico en la Cuenca de México (2021)
  97. Aspects of Carved Paddle Stamped Designs from the Middle Mississippi Period (2017)
  98. Aspects of ritual and domestic life in first farming village (PPNB period) : Contribution to Tell Halula (Euphrates Valley Syria) (2015)
  99. Aspects of Site Formation Processes at the Paleolithic site of La Ferrassie (Dordogne), France (2015)
  100. Assemblage formation and Paleolithic variability in the Middle Prut Valley region (Romania) (2015)