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 18,201-18,300 of 19,165)
- Using the NHL framework to Advance the Development of Applied Archaeology (2017)
- Using the Past to Inform the Future: Employing Empirical Data to Guide Future Land Management Decisions (2018)
- Using the Present to Uncover the Past: Reconstructing the Ecology and Behaviour of Extinct Large Mammals on the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain (South Coast, South Africa) (2019)
- Using the State Archaeological Repository of Iowa: Collections Long Held Re-examined and Application of New Technologies (2019)
- Using Traditional and Nontraditional Isotopic Tracers of Diet and Mobility of Brazilian Shell Mound Populations (ca. 8000–1000 years BP) (2023)
- Using Trauma Distributions, Victim Profiles, and Differential Scavenging to Infer Characteristics of Prehistoric Warfare: A Case Study from the Peruvian Late Intermediate Period (AD 1000–1450) (2019)
- Using Ungulate Bones to Retouch and (Re)Sharpen Middle Stone Age End-Scrapers at Bushman Rock Shelter, South Africa (2023)
- Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Aerial Photogrammetry on the San Diego Coastline (2015)
- Using VR Phenomenological Landscape Analysis to explore Diachronic Ritual Space at Cerros, Belize (2015)
- Using X-radiography to Reveal an Ancient Zapotec Urn (2015)
- Using XRF Analysis on Historic Choctaw Ceramics from Chickasawhay Creek, Kemper County, MS (2018)
- Using Zooarchaeology to Explore the Origins of Medieval Urbanism: Evidence from Badia Pozzeveri near Lucca, Antwerp, and Ipswich (2021)
- Using Zooarchaeology to Study Urban Origins in Antwerp, Belgium: Evidence from the Burcht and Gorterstraat Sites (2019)
- Using ZooMS to Evaluate Targeted Species Harvest of Pacific Salmon (2023)
- Using ZooMS to Reconstruct Neanderthal Faunal Exploitation in the Early Sequence of Crvena Stijena, Montenegro (2023)
- Uso de Dispositivos Open Hardware en Proyectos Arqueológicos en México (2019)
- Uso de resinas en el Centro de Veracruz: El caso de los braseros y sahumadores de los sitios arqueológicos de Nopiloa y El Zapotal (2021)
- Uso de un Espacio Sagrado: Excavaciones de la Sacristía de una Reducción Colonial en la Sierra sur del Perú (2017)
- Ute "Prayer Trees", the Cultural Resource that Never Existed (2019)
- Ute Ethnographic Cultural Landscapes in Southeast Utah (2019)
- Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Historic Presevation Office Reflections on Tribal-Archaeologist Collaborations (2019)
- Utilitarian Lithics as Commodities: Comparing Classic Period Specialized and Multi-craft Producers in the Maya Lowlands (2023)
- Utility of low-cost drones to generate 3D models of archaeological sites from multisensory data (2015)
- The Utility of Metal Detector Surveys in CRM (2019)
- The Utility of Nestedness in Zooarchaeological Assemblages: A Study from the Northern Maya Lowlands (2017)
- The Utility of Portable XRF for Preliminary Site Prospection at Contaminated Colonial Period Mining Sites (Puno, Peru) (2019)
- The Utility of Public LiDAR Data for Detecting and Documenting Low-Relief Archaeological Sites: A Case Study from the Pockoy Island Shell Rings, Charleston County, South Carolina (2018)
- Utilization and Field Testing of LiDAR in the Maya Hinterlands (2018)
- Utilization of Fish Resources at the Hopoate Site on Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga (2018)
- Utilization of Quartz Crystal Lithics During the El Paso Phase Jornada Mogollon (2019)
- Utilizing Ancient Oral Microbes to Track Human Migrations across the Pacific Islands: Insights from Palau and Beyond (2021)
- Utilizing Corrugated Wares to Explore Regional Variations in the Virgin Branch Puebloan Culture (2015)
- Utilizing Cumulative Viewshed Analysis to Explore Virgin Branch Ancestral Pueblo Settlement Choice (2019)
- Utilizing LED and Solar Power at a Remote Field Site in the Holmul Region (2016)
- Utilizing Tablets for Mobile Data Recording in a CRM Context (2015)
- Utilizing Visual Resource Management to Assess Effects on Historic Properties; Working within the BLM VRM Framework (2015)
- Utopia through the Kaleidoscope: The Colors of Silk in Colonial Mexico (2021)
- UW MIA Recovery and Identification Project: A Multidisciplinary Approach to DPAA Partner Missions (2021)
- Vacationing in Wonderland: Archaeology of Tourism in Yellowstone National Park (2019)
- Validating niche-construction theory through path analysis (2015)
- Validation of a Non-Destructive DNA Extraction Protocol for Ancient DNA Analyses (2015)
- Valle de Bonanza (Zacatecas, Mexico): Desert Varnish and Technology in a Surface Lithic Assemblage (2019)
- Valley of No Masters: Exchanging Experiences at the Valley of the Masters, Northeastern Brazil (2018)
- The Value and Availability of Quality Obsidian at Antelope Creek (2017)
- Value and Impact: The New Philanthropy and Funding Archaeology (2017)
- The Value of all that Glitters: Beads in the Tombs around Pylos, Greece (2016)
- The Value of Anthropological Research for the Pueblo of Pojoaque (2019)
- The Value of Children in Ancient Egypt (2019)
- The Value of Colonialism as a Model for Anglo-Caribbean Material Practices at Emancipation (2016)
- The Value of Forensic Archaeology Training for All Law Enforcement Officers: A Case Example (2016)
- The Value of Legacy Collections for Recognizing and Reducing Error in Artifact Analysis (2019)
- VAMPing Up Stewardship in the National Parks: Preliminary Lessons from the Volunteer Archeological Monitoring Program (2023)
- The Vanishing Treasures Training Program- Closing the Skills Gap (2019)
- Variability among the Dead: Population Structure and Inferred Cultural Adaptations to the Changing Environmental and Sociopolitical Landscapes during the Late Moche (AD 650–800) Era in the Jequetepeque Valley, Peru (2018)
- Variability in Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Ratios in Banana Yucca (Yucca Baccata) from Cedar Mesa, Utah: Environmental, Inter-Organ and Processing-based Effects (2015)
- Variability in Clovis Biface Morphology from the Type-site, Blackwater Draw Locality 1 (2019)
- Variability in Large-Area Magnetic Surveys at Hopewell Earthworks and the Challenges of Big Data (2016)
- Variability in Molluscan Assemblages: Indicators of Changing Cultural and Environmental Factors in Lucayan Life (2019)
- Variability in Neolithic Cattle Populations: a Case Study from the Orkney Islands (2015)
- Variability in northern and southern Preceramic lomas sites of coastal Peru (2015)
- Variability in the Cultural Assemblage During the Formative Period in the Upper Colorado River Drainage Basin (2019)
- Variability in the Middle Stone Age of the Horn of Africa: a technical tradition of southeastern Ethiopia (2016)
- Variability of Clovis Lithic Assemblages from El Fin del Mundo and the San Pedro River Valley (2023)
- The Variable Resilience of Large and Small Holdings on the Svalbard Estate, NE Iceland: A Multidisciplinary Study of Farm Abandonments Circa AD 1300 (2018)
- Variation and Similarity in Obsidian Tool Styles and Technologies at the Zaragoza-Oyameles Source Area, Puebla, Mexico (2015)
- Variation in 5βstanols Excretion in Humans and Its Implications for the Application of Fecal Biomarkers in Archaeology (2018)
- Variation in Animal Predation and Processing Strategies at the Bridge River Winter Pithouse Village (EeRl4) Thru Time: A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Subsistence Change (2015)
- Variation in butchering intensity between glacial and interglacial cycles at Pinnacle Point 5-6 (2015)
- Variation in Large Sites from the Longshan Period of Northern China (2017)
- Variation in Obsidian Source Consumption within the Kingdom of Piedras Negras (2019)
- Variation in Response to Heat-Treatment in Jasper from the Perkinsville Valley, Arizona (2021)
- Variation in Site Use through Time: Find distribution at Knysna Eastern Heads Cave 1, (Western Cape, South Africa), from Marine Isotope Stage 3 through the Last Glacial Maximum (2016)
- Variation in the Architectural Morphology of Ancient Maya Palaces (2016)
- Variation in the Configuration of the Middle Snake River and its Relationship to Prehistoric Fishing Site Locations (2019)
- Variation in the Lithic Technological Organization Accompanying Household Expansion at Housepit 54, Bridge River site, British Columbia (2015)
- Variations in Connectivity: Mapping Long-distance interaction in the Prehistoric U.S Southwest (2016)
- Variations in Cranial Vault Modification at Uraca, Majes Valley, Peru (2015)
- Variations in Initial Period Ceremonial Architecture at the Caballo Muerto Complex (2016)
- Variations in Late and Terminal Classic Ceramic Firing Facilities within Southeastern Mesoamerica. (2015)
- Variations in Mochica Metalwork (2017)
- Variations in Settlement Patterns and Neighborhood Organization in Early Horizon Peru (2018)
- Variations on a Theme: Expanding Site Stewardship (2023)
- Variations on an Osirian Theme: Gendered Expressions of Identity in Osiris Funerary Shrouds from Roman Egypt (2015)
- Varied Outcomes of the Colonial Encounter in Hawaii Island's Hinterlands (2019)
- Variety Is the Spice of Life: Chili Pepper Domestication and Agrobiodiversity in the Americas (2019)
- A Variety of Cerendipitous Discoveries (2015)
- Variety of Rain Forest Subsistence Strategies. A Comparative Overview (2016)
- The variscite of Gavà, Spain: characterization and system of exploitation and diffusion in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula (2017)
- Vasagård Archaeological Project: A Causewayed Enclosure and Timber Circles in the Island of Bornholm, Denmark (2019)
- Vassals or Friendly Confederates: Disjuncture and Identity Imposition in the Late Horizon Northeastern Andean Montaña (2021)
- The vast and secret museum of Chiriqui: Stripping the sharpness and beauty from obsidian (2015)
- Vegetation Change at Poverty Point, Louisiana (2018)
- Vegetative Agency and Social Memory in Houselots of Ancient Cobá (2018)
- Venerating Death and Fertility: Implications of Late Terminal Classic Maya Use of Monuments with Skeletal Imagery (2021)
- Veneration and Pilgrimage at a Hinterland Shrine: Evidence from the Medicinal Trail Community, Northwestern Belize (2019)
- The Venture Smith Site: An Eighteenth-Century African American Homestead in Haddam, Connecticut (2018)
- Venturing into the Borderland: Revisiting the 13th-Century Occupation of the Upper Gila (2015)
- The VerHage Site: A Late Archaic Seasonal Village located in Wallkill Drainage of Southeastern New York. (2018)
- Vertebral Wedging: A potential tool for the determination of parity in archaeological samples? (2016)
- Vertebrate analysis of column samples taken from Hup’kisakuu7a (93T, DfSh-43) (2017)