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 18,701-18,800 of 19,165)

  1. What's in That Incense Burner? A Study of Residues at Balamku (2019)
  2. What's It Alder About? Paleobotanical and Zooarchaeological Analysis of Feasting Remains from the DgRv-006 Village, Galiano Island, SW British Columbia (2019)
  3. What's new in Canadian Shield Rock Art (2016)
  4. What's Up with the Ethics Bowl? Introducing a New Ethics and Responsible Research Project for Archaeology (2023)
  5. What’s an (Archaeological) Peasant? Notes on Rural Subjectivities in Atlantic Africa (2015)
  6. What’s Cooking? A Proteomic Approach to Analyse Ceramic Residues from Tell Khaiber 1 (2021)
  7. What’s For Dinner: An Examination of Animal Resources Utilized in the Okeechobee Basin Area of Florida. (2018)
  8. What’s Hot in Beringia? Cooking during the Pleistocene–Holocene Transition in Central Alaska (2023)
  9. What’s in a Dress?: An Archaeological Collection of Kapa Cloth from Nineteenth-Century Nu‘alolo Kai, Kaua‘i Island, Hawai‘i (2017)
  10. What’s in a grave?: a preliminary analysis of material culture from the Milwaukee County Institution Grounds Cemetery (2015)
  11. What’s in a Hammerstone? Insights on Core Technology at a Neolithic Quarry in Southern Germany (2021)
  12. What’s in a Label? Archaeological Taxonomies and Social Processes Past and Present (2015)
  13. What’s in a Microscopic Signature? Can We See Social Acceptance and Resistance? (2021)
  14. What’s in a Name: Caches, Offerings, and Problematic Deposits from the Medicinal Trail Hinterland Community, Belize (2023)
  15. "What’s in a Name?": Questioning the Idea of Olmec Origins for Jade Spoons (2017)
  16. What’s in a Seed?: Identifying Archaeological Chili Pepper Remains from Mesoamerica (2019)
  17. "What’s in that hole?" Engaging Subterranean Spaces in the Three Rivers Area of the Southern Maya Lowlands (2017)
  18. What’s in the Menu? Harappan Culinary Practices during the Urban Phase of the Indus Age (2019)
  19. What’s in the Oven? Specialized Processing, or Mixed Food Preparation in the Chumash Kitchen (2015)
  20. What’s in your ancient chicha?: Ethnoarchaeology and organic residue analysis (2015)
  21. What’s Really Important in the Ethnohistory of Sonora? (2018)
  22. What’s Shape Got to Do With It? Evaluating the Degree to Which Motion and Material Type Influence Edge Outline of Obsidian Flakes (2018)
  23. What’s that mound? Answers from interdisciplinary approach (2015)
  24. What’s the Deal with Corrugated Whitewares? An Analysis of the Corrugated Whitewares from the Haynie Site (2023)
  25. What’s Your Question? Theoretical Bioarchaeology in the American Southwest and Ancient Arabia (2021)
  26. Wheat and barley morphometrics: a new method for quantifying ancient cereal varietals (2016)
  27. The Wheel of Conflict: Physical and Spiritual Permanence of Mississippian Violence (2017)
  28. When and Where Did They Go? More Fully Conceptualizing Fort Ancient’s Descendants (2018)
  29. When Archaeology Meets History: Documenting the Conquest and Transition Period at Pachacamac, Peru. (2017)
  30. When Charismatic Megafauna Meet: The Relationship between Archaeologists and Proboscideans in North America (2015)
  31. When Contemporary Becomes Historic: Preservation Maintenance to Mission 66 Architecture at El Morro National Monument (2019)
  32. When Did Early Migrants Reach Pohnpei? Human Migration, Interisland Networks, and Resource Use in Eastern Micronesia (2021)
  33. When Do We Eat? The Life Cycle of Indigenous Maya Food-Plants and Temporal Implications for Residential Stability (2019)
  34. When Do You Stop and Why? Site Boundary Definitions at University Indian Ruin, Pima County, Arizona (2015)
  35. When Dogs and People Were Buried Together (2018)
  36. When Good Projects Go Well: A Partnered Project in Southern Oregon between the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, a Private Land Owner, and Associated Federal Agencies (2019)
  37. When in the World? A Comparative Debitage Analysis of Single-component Sites through Time at Petrified Forest National Park (2015)
  38. When Irish Eyes View Maya Classic Period Political Systems (2018)
  39. When Is "Near" Close Enough? Old Data, New Interfaces and an Imperfect Present (2018)
  40. When is a fieldhouse? Reconsidering fieldhouses on the Pajarito Plateau using GIS modeling and excavation data (2017)
  41. When Is a Horse Not a Horse? It Depends on Your Local Ecology (2018)
  42. When is a Pithouse a Pithome?: Reconstructing a Fremont Household Underneath the Book Cliffs of Utah. (2017)
  43. When is an Artifact an 'Ethnic' Artifact? Case Studies from Ireland and Mexico (2018)
  44. When is Chert More Than Just Chert? Case studies of Elite Distribution of Utilitarian Goods in Northwestern Peten, Guatemala and Western Belize (2016)
  45. When Is Creolization? (2018)
  46. When Is Healing?: An Archaeological Case Study of the Chacoan and Post-Chacoan American Southwest (2019)
  47. When It Rains Now, It Is a Disaster: Heritage Landscapes during Climate Change (2023)
  48. When Lithics Hit Bones: Evaluating the Potential of a Multifaceted Experimental Protocol to Illuminate Middle Palaeolithic Weapon Technology (2017)
  49. When Mortars Speak Volumes: Assessing the Influence of Mortar Cavity Size on Processing Efficiency (2021)
  50. When Pots Walk: Reverse Archaeology at a Chaco Outlier Site in the Central Mesa Verde Region (2017)
  51. When Provenience is Lost: Achievements and Challenges in Conserving the Historical St. John’s, Belize Skeletal Collection (2017)
  52. When Should I Stop? Discerning the Minimum Number of Lithic Artifacts Required to Accurately Characterize Mode of Reduction (2016)
  53. When Smuggling Sailors met the First Angelinos: Material Messages from Forgotten Santa Catalina Island, California (2017)
  54. When Technological Analysis Becomes a Setback: The Case of the Points in the Interior of São Paulo State, Brazil (2023)
  55. When the Cat’s Away: Obsidian at Rio Amarillo Before and After the Collapse of Copan, Honduras (2016)
  56. When the desert meets the sea: the annual journey of quitovaquenses to the San Jorge beach as a community of practice (2017)
  57. When the Saints Come Marching In: Colony, Church and Change in the Andes (1480–1615) (2018)
  58. When the Small, Local Archaeology Project Goes Global – The Missoula Historic Underground Project (2016)
  59. When the Volcano Erupts: Lessons from the Archaeological Record on Human Adaptation to Catastrophic Environments (2019)
  60. When to defend? Optimal Territoriality across the Numic Homeland (2017)
  61. When to Hunt a Sea Lion, When to Hunt a Manatee: The Evolutionary Ecology of Marine Mammal Hunting in Insular Settings (2016)
  62. When Traditions Are Manufactured, Used and Broken: examples from Tupian contexts in Amazonia. (2017)
  63. When Window Mesh is Worth It: Assessing the Potential of Microrefuse in Spatial Analysis of Hunter-Gatherer Sites (2018)
  64. When You’re Feeling Blue: Maya Blue Fibers in Dental Calculus of Sacrificial Victims (2021)
  65. When, Where, and Wahy: Wielding the Wahy Over Time at El Zotz (2023)
  66. Whenever the Twain Shall Meet: Merging Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Data (2018)
  67. Where and How did the Maya Practice Agriculture in the Classic Period City of Naachtun, Guatemala? (2016)
  68. Where Are All the Woodland Villages of Vermont? (2023)
  69. Where are the Boot Marks? Evaluating the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail (2018)
  70. Where Are the Brewers? Feasting and Operational Chains in Anglo-Saxon England (2018)
  71. Where are the camelids? II: contributions from the stable isotope ecology to understand mobility and exchange patterns in the South Central Andes (2017)
  72. Where are the camelids? Mobility models and caravanning during the Late Intermediate Period (ca. 1000-1400 A.D.) in the northernmost Chile, South Central Andes (2017)
  73. Where Are the Cinchecona? Mortuary Architecture and Socio-political Organization in Jauja, Peru, during the Late Intermediate Period (2019)
  74. Where are the lives? Characterising settlements from small artefactual debris (2015)
  75. Where Are We Going? The Impact of Project Archaeology on the Profession, Past and Future (2015)
  76. Where Are You Staying? Lodging Facilities in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2018)
  77. Where condors reign: Methodological challenges in the bioarchaeology of Chachapoya cliff tombs in Peru (2017)
  78. Where Did the Fish Go? Use of Archaeological Salmonid Remains to Guide Recovery Efforts in the American West (2019)
  79. Where did the Sacrificial Subjects Live? An Oxygen Isotope Study of Individuals Sacrificed by the Aztecs during the Late Postclassic Period (2017)
  80. Where Do Data Come From? The Legacy and Future of Cultural Resource Management Bioarchaeology (2019)
  81. Where Do We Go from Here? A Review of Prehistoric Forager Mobility in Liguria (2023)
  82. Where does the Amazon end? (2016)
  83. Where does your community live? The TrowelBlazers experience. (2015)
  84. Where Have All of the Artifacts Gone: Examining the Impact of Structural and Environmental Racism on Site Preservation (2023)
  85. Where Have All the Collections Gone? Mexican Archaeology in World Museums (2018)
  86. Where Have All the Women in Archaeology Gone: Gender (In)Equity in Tenure-Track / Tenured Academic Jobs (2023)
  87. ‘Where Individuals Are Nameless and Unknown’: Osteobiography Reveals the ‘Big Man’, the Ritualist, the Heiress, and the Priest (2017)
  88. Where is Camaxtli? Assessing the Iconography of Tlaxcallan Collective Government (2018)
  89. Where is Tak’alik Ab’aj Within the Fabric of Preclassic Interrelations? (2017)
  90. Where is Temple? : Construction and Use of Ceremonial Group at Tayasal (2015)
  91. Where Is the Chief? A Reevaluation of the Concepts of Chiefdoms and Cacicazgos in Caribbean Archaeology (2023)
  92. Where is the evidence for selection? (2016)
  93. Where Is the Waterline? Integrating Terrestrial and Underwater Investigations in the Aucilla River, Florida (2021)
  94. Where Men Get Their Meat: Predicting Jump Locations at the Grapevine Creek Buffalo Jump Complex (2016)
  95. Where My Ladies At? The Fight to Erase the Gender Gap in Publication (2021)
  96. Where No Mestiza Has Gone Before: Brokering Colonialism, Ethnogenesis, and Gendered Landscapes in Alta California, 1775-1845 (2019)
  97. Where Rivers Flow: Mandan and Hidatsa Subsistence Economies from an Archaeomalacological Perspective (2015)
  98. Where Text Meets Trowel: Using an Integrative Approach to Consider Internal Sociopolitical Dynamics at Postclassic Etlatongo (2021)
  99. Where the Buffalo Groan: Topographic Variables Governing the Placement and Spatial Organization of Wold Bison Jump, Wyoming (2016)
  100. Where the Buffalo Roam and the Antelope Play: A Comparison of Soils in the Walnut River Valley of South-Central Kansas and associated Woodland and Late Prehistoric Period Settlements Using ArcGIS . (2015)