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 201-300 of 19,165)

  1. Advances in Viking Archaeology: Aligning Data, Theory, and the Interdisciplinary Perspective (2016)
  2. The Advantages of Landscape-Scale Cultural Assessments for Public Land Management (2023)
  3. Adventures of the Mountain Hare: An Ancient DNA Study (2019)
  4. Advertising the Empire: Purépecha Strategies in the Imperial Heartland at Angamuco, Michoacán (2017)
  5. Advocacy for Archaeology: How Does a 35-Year Effort End Up in Failure and What to Do about It? (2023)
  6. Advocating for the Morrow Jones Cabin: Archaeological Investigations at a Historic Homestead (2017)
  7. Aeolian Geoforming at a Preceramic Mound in Coastal Peru (2017)
  8. Aerial Drone Photogrammetry of Aboveground Mortuary Architecture in the Amazonian Andes (2023)
  9. Aerial Imaging Using UAVs (Drones) in Chihuahua and Nayarit, Mexico, to Map and Archive Archaeological Sites (2018)
  10. Aerial Mapping Approaches for Long-Term Monitoring of Heritage Landscapes Impacted by Climate Change (2023)
  11. The Aferlife of Archaeometry; the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Database Project (2015)
  12. Affective Foundations: The Dissolution of Human Sacrifice under the Western Zhou, 1046-771 BC (2021)
  13. Affectual Ecosystems of Color: Pigments and the Co-creation of Power in the Chaco World (2023)
  14. Affording Archaeology: How the Cost of Field School Keeps Archaeology Exclusive (2019)
  15. The Afghanistan Cultural Heritage Education Program: A Collaborative, International Education Model (2018)
  16. African Ancestry or Neanderthal-Human Genetic Admixture in Eurasians? African Diversity Matters. (2017)
  17. African and Afro-Caribbean Cultural Identity, Vessel Function, and Inter-island Connectedness in Eighteenth- to Nineteenth-Century St. Croix, US Virgin Islands (2021)
  18. African Archaeology and the Ancestral Maya World (2023)
  19. The African Humid Period: Paleolimnological and Paleoecological Evidence (2018)
  20. African Power Plays: Inland Beads, Shells, and Shell Beads in Tanzania, AD 700-1350 (2016)
  21. The African-Caribbean Landscape of Wallblake Estate, Anguilla (2018)
  22. Afro-Caribbean Ceramics of St. Croix: The Intersection of Clay Sourcing Analyses and Afro-Crucian Heritage (2023)
  23. Afrocolonial Archaeology in Panama: La Villa de Santiago del Principe, the first free African peoples of the Americas (2015)
  24. After 3,000 years, the enduring site of Potrero Mendieta is still overlooking the Jubones River Basin (2016)
  25. After Dark: The Nocturnal Urban Landscape of Great Zimbabwe (2019)
  26. After the Crisis: Epigraphic Data on Political and Cultural Developments in the Maya Lowlands 800–1000 CE (2023)
  27. After the Dissolution: The Second Life of Monastic Stones (2016)
  28. After the Ice Age in the Ozarks (2019)
  29. After the War: An Analysis of the Mortality of American Soldiers from the Last Century (2017)
  30. The Afterlife in Exile: Butterfly Imagery on Teotihuacan-style Censers from the Pacific Coast of Guatemala (2017)
  31. The Afterlife of the Charnel Chapel at Rothwell (Northamptonshire, UK) (2017)
  32. The Afterlife of the Discovery of a Lifetime: Preservation of the Maya Murals of San Bartolo, Guatemala (2019)
  33. The Aftermath of Colonization: Wichita Subsistence Change in the Southern Plains (2021)
  34. Against the Alienability of Archaeology (2023)
  35. An Agate Basin Point from Michoacán, Mexico (2023)
  36. Agave Bloom Stalk Ovens in the Southern Chihuahuan Desert (2019)
  37. Agave Roasting Pits of the Mescalero Apache (2019)
  38. The Age and Distribution of the Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris ) in Tennessee and the Southeastern U.S. (2016)
  39. The Age and Function of Slab-Lined Stone Features Associated with a Fremont Foraging-Farming Landscape in Cub Creek, Dinosaur National Monument, Northeastern Utah (2023)
  40. Age and Sex Composition of Zooarchaeological Measurements via Bayesian Mixture Models (2016)
  41. Age Estimation Using Dental Development and Long Bone Length for the Children in the Late Classic Copan Maya Civilization (2023)
  42. Age of Heroes: elite warfare during the Eurasian Bronze Age (2016)
  43. Age-at-Death Estimations from Helton Mound 20 (2017)
  44. Ageing, childhood and social identity in the early Neolithic of central Europe (2016)
  45. Agelah and the Powershot: Digital Possibilities for Alternate Ways of Knowing in Archaeology (2017)
  46. Agency and Pilgrimage in a Living Landscape: Contemporary Lacandon Maya Visits to Ancient Ruins (2023)
  47. Agency of Access: Public Architecture in Mesa Verde National Park (2015)
  48. The Agency of Flowing Water in Human Mobility and Interaction (2018)
  49. The Agency of Monsoons in South Asia (2018)
  50. Agency, Structure and the Neo-Liberal Turn (2017)
  51. Agent Based Modeling (ABM) Approaches to Understanding Prehistoric Forager Ecology in Tokelau (2015)
  52. Agent Based Modelling on the origins of the sexual division of labour (2015)
  53. Agent Based Models of Ache Foraging and Grouping (2015)
  54. An Agent-Based Disaster Model: Marginality, Decision-Making, and Novel Resource Exploitation during ENSO Flooding Events in Chicama, Peru (2019)
  55. An Agent-Based Model to Explore the Relationship between Archaeological Assemblages, Past Social Networks, and Cultural Dynamics (2021)
  56. The Ages of Stemmed and Fluted Points in the Northwestern Plains and Rocky Mountains (2019)
  57. Aging and Funerary Practices at Monte Alban, Mexico (2018)
  58. Aging Mandibular Bison Teeth with ArcGIS (2017)
  59. Agouti commensalism? An open question in the prehistoric Lesser Antilles, West Indies (2017)
  60. Agrarian Landscapes of coastal Croatia: a view from Nadin-Gradina (2017)
  61. Agricultura ancestral y dinámica social en Quito desde el Formativo hasta la República Temprana (2021)
  62. Agricultural Diversification, Perennials and Complex Societies in Mesopotamia and the Yellow River (2017)
  63. The Agricultural Economy of the Iron Age Southern Levant: Contrasting Preliminary Archaeobotanical Data from Tel Abel Beth Maacah and Khirbat al-Balu’a (2023)
  64. Agricultural History of the Horn of Africa: New Archaeobotanical Evidence from Mezber (2017)
  65. Agricultural Labor Organizations and Management Strategies in the Prehistoric Erdaojingzi Site, Inner Mongolia, China (2023)
  66. An Agricultural Landscape on the Northern Mimbres Frontier, South-Central New Mexico, USA (2017)
  67. Agricultural Landscapes in Northern Argentina (2015)
  68. Agricultural Landscapes of the Mesopotamian-Zagros Borderlands (2021)
  69. The Agricultural Lexicon of Western Indo-European: Crop Names (2019)
  70. Agricultural Niche Construction in Roman North Africa: Simulating Irrigation and Deforestation on a Desert Margin (2018)
  71. Agricultural Practices in the Atacama Desert (Northern Chile): New Perspectives from Stable Isotope Analysis on Archaeological Crops (2019)
  72. Agricultural Practices of the Qin People from the Warring States Period to the Qin Dynasty: A Case from the Matengkong Site in Guanzhong Basin, China (2023)
  73. Agricultural Productivity of Four Different Physiographic Zones in the Lower Río Verde Valley, Oaxaca, Mexico: Using the Current Landscape as a Means to Facilitate an Understanding of Past Productivity (2017)
  74. Agricultural risk management in Mediterranean environments: a computational modeling approach (2016)
  75. An agricultural risk mitigation strategy using multiple water sources, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (2016)
  76. Agricultural Strategies and Intensification: A Study of Risk Management in the Southern Maya Lowlands (2018)
  77. Agricultural Wealth, Food Storage, and Commensal Politics at Azoria an Archaic City on Crete (2019)
  78. Agriculturas formativas del desierto tarapaqueño. (2015)
  79. Agriculture and Empire in the High-Altitude Atacama Desert (2015)
  80. Agriculture and Inter-village Space in the Ancient Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) World (2015)
  81. Agriculture and Landscape Change in the Tesuque Valley (2019)
  82. Agriculture and Resource Procurement for the Castro Settlements of NW Iberia: Examination of Floatation Samples for the Castro Site of Bagunte (2018)
  83. Agriculture at Las Capas: Tales Told by the Canals (2015)
  84. Agriculture development in the Bronze Age Hexi Corridor-archaeobtanic evidence from Xichengyi site (2017)
  85. Agriculture in the “Land of Hatti”: The Politics and Ecology of Farming in Late Bronze Age Central Anatolia (2023)
  86. Agriculture is a state of mind- the Andean potato’s unending domestication (2015)
  87. Agriculture Roles in Landscapes and Taskcapes: An Interdisciplinary Approach from Northwestern Argentina (2015)
  88. Agriculture, Alcohol, and Urban Economies in Late Neolithic North China: A Case Study from the Shimao Site (2021)
  89. Agriculture, Group Size, and Resource Richness (2023)
  90. Agriculture, Land Management and Expressions of Elite Control at the Ancient Maya City of Tikal (2018)
  91. An Agroecological Perspective on Crop Domestication in Western Asia (2019)
  92. The agroecology of inequality: Novel bioarchaeological approaches to early urbanization in western Asia and Europe (2016)
  93. Agropastoral Resource Management in the Negev Heartland toward the Close of Late Antiquity (2021)
  94. Agropastoralism in Bronze Age Transylvania: An analysis of faunal assemblages from the Geoagiu and Mureş Valleys (2015)
  95. Agua dulce, Agua salada. Diferenciación de actividades pesqueras en el sistema portuario de la costa este de Los Tuxtlas (2018)
  96. Aguada Fénix: An Early Middle Preclassic Monumental Site in the Middle Usumacinta Region (2019)
  97. The Ahistorical Shell Middens at the Northern Tip of South America (2023)
  98. An Aircraft Search and Recovery Mission in Southern England: A Case Study in Rehabilitation Archaeology (2021)
  99. Airway Beacons: Rehabilitation and Interpretation (2016)
  100. Akimel O’odham Projectile Point Design and P-MIP Archaeological Research (2015)