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 301-400 of 19,165)

  1. Akimel O’Odham Traditional Knowledge Regarding Platform Mounds (2019)
  2. Aknah and the moon spiners: gender relations and rituals in caves. (2017)
  3. Alaskan Game Drives: An Architectural Assessment (2017)
  4. Alaskan Legacy Collections Outside Alaska: Challenges, Opportunities and Potential (2019)
  5. Albarradas, Solarés, and Classic Maya Land Tenure in Northwestern Belize (2018)
  6. Alcohol, Rituals, and Spirits at the Late Shang Center: Residue Analysis of Ceramic Vessels in Anyang (2023)
  7. Alepotrypa Cave and Regional Networks of Southern Greece (2016)
  8. Alero las Quemas, a key site for the study of human occupations of Andean forest in Patagonia (Aisén, Chile). (2015)
  9. Aleutian Microtechnology in Anangula Times (9000 - 4000 BP) (2015)
  10. Alfarería en las fronteras de La Quebrada de Humahuaca, Jujuy, Argentina (Ceramics at the borders of the Humahuaca Quebrada, Jujuy Argentina) (2015)
  11. Algonquian Coastal Gardens and Landscape: Interpretations from Archaeobotany (2015)
  12. Algonquian Landscapes and Multispecies Archaeology in the Chesapeake (2019)
  13. Algunas consideraciones acerca del orígen y de la organización social de los Chachapoya (2015)
  14. ALIMENTACIÓN Y SOCIEDAD. PALEODIETA DE UNA POBLACIÓN MUISCA DE LA SABANA DE BOGOTÁ, EL CASO DE TIBANICA – SOACHA (2015)
  15. Alimento para las deidades: Nuevas prácticas sacrificiales y post sacrificiales en los centros mesoamericanos del Epiclásico y Posclásico inicial (2023)
  16. All for Drone and Drone for Free: A Free and/or Open-Source Workflow for UAV Imagery Collection and Analysis (2019)
  17. All in a Day’s Work: The Health and Welfare of Children Living in 19th Century Staffordshire, UK (2019)
  18. All in Good Time: the "New Highland Chronology" and the Sculptures of Kaminaljuyú, Guatemala (2015)
  19. All in One Boat: How to Keep a Raiding Party Together in Bronze Age Southern Scandinavia (2023)
  20. All in the Family: Using Archeology and Genealogy to Construct a Historical Narrative (2018)
  21. All Is Never Lost: Examining Coalescence, Cultural Resilience, and Survivance in the Archaeology of a Protohistoric Village on the Arkansas River (2023)
  22. All methods, no madness: Making sense of burial orientations using GIS (2016)
  23. All Politics Isn’t Local: The Role of Oxpemul in Classic Maya Geopolitics (2018)
  24. All Potted Up: Exploring Seasonality at Small Late Pueblo II and Early Pueblo III Sites at Petrified Forest National Park (2015)
  25. All Roads Lead to the Verapaz: The Northern Highlands as a Nexus of Classic Period Exchange (2019)
  26. All the Gods of the World: Modern Maya Agricultural and Rain Ritual in Yucatan, Mexico (2017)
  27. All the Underworld’s a Stage: Ancient Maya Ritual Stages of Xibalba (2015)
  28. ‘All things being equal’? Multiplex Material Networks of the Early Neolithic in the Near East (2018)
  29. The Allegory of Xibalba: Confronting Shadowy Realities in the ancient Maya Underworld (2019)
  30. Alliance Formation & Social Signaling: Village Interaction among the Monongahela (2019)
  31. Alliances, Coalitions, Hierarchies and Conflict in the Ancestral Pueblo World (2015)
  32. Alligators, Serpents, Pirates, and a Wedding: Ritualized Political Landscapes of the Oaxacan Pacific Coast, Mexico (2018)
  33. Allometry, Modularity, and Integration: Applying Biological Concepts and Statistical Tests to Stone Tool Shapes (2021)
  34. The Alluvial Geochronology of Pharo Village and Implications for Cycles of Site Occupation and Abandonment (2015)
  35. Ally, Client or Outpost? Examining the Relationship between Xunantunich and Naranjo in the Late Classic Period (2019)
  36. Alm Shelter: A Preliminary Report on a Deeply Stratified Rockshelter in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming (2019)
  37. Almenas and Architecture (2018)
  38. (Almost) Making it in the Margins: Medieval Norse Adaptation to the Arctic Fjord Environments (2018)
  39. Alone in the Deep Blue Sea: A comparison of Indonesian Colonial Period nutmeg plantations and New World plantations (2015)
  40. Alpine Adaptive and Paleoenvironmental Change at Alta Toquima (central Nevada) (2015)
  41. An Alpine Archaeological Landscape in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Wyoming (2017)
  42. Alterations in South American Oral Health Through the Colonial Period: The Story of Ancient DNA Trapped Within Dental Calculus (2017)
  43. Altered States: Evaluating Postmortem Modification of Dental Tissues (2019)
  44. Altering the Walls of Domesticity: Late 19th Century Modifications to Households in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2018)
  45. Alterity, Resistance, and Autonomy: Mortuary Archaeology and the Diversity of Indigenous Responses to Spanish Conquest in Lambayeque, Peru (2018)
  46. Alternative Complexities in the Central Andes: An Anarchist Approach to Chancay Political Organization in the Huanangue Valley (2018)
  47. An Alternative Explanation for a Modified Rabbit Innominate Spatulate Tool (2019)
  48. Alternative Interpretive Lenses for Landscape at Mulch’en Witz, La Milpa, Belize (2019)
  49. Alternative Mexico: A Mobile Application for the Preservation of Mexico's Heritage (2019)
  50. Alternative Mexico: a Mobile Application to Preserve Contemporary Heritage Values (2016)
  51. An Alternative Pattern of Coalescence: A Study of Architecture and Organization at a Non-fortified, Pre-Inca Town in the Southern Highlands of Peru (2019)
  52. Alternative Recipes: Exploring the Diversity of Foods Prepared in Prehistoric Earth Oven Cooking (2019)
  53. Alternative Strategies in Confronting Looting and Trafficking in Defense of Peruvian Portable Heritage. (2015)
  54. Altica and the Role of Middlemen in Formative Obsidian Exchange (2017)
  55. Altica ceramics and figurines: Stylistic and chronological analyses (2017)
  56. The Altica Project: Reframing the Formative Basin of Mexico (2017)
  57. Alutiiq Use of Birds during the Ocean Bay Period at Rice Ridge (49-KOD-363), Kodiak Island (2021)
  58. Always Changed But Never Gone: A Century of Farming in Southeastern Massachusetts. (2019)
  59. Always facing east…except when they’re not: Preliminary analysis of mortuary trends at Cahal Pech, Cayo, Belize (2015)
  60. Always Halfway There: Keeping Up with Digital Archaeological Data in Virginia (2018)
  61. Amacuzac archaeological project. (2016)
  62. Amateur and Professional Archaeologists: Who’s Who? (2016)
  63. An Amazing Deposit of Obsidian Blades in a Sector of Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala (2023)
  64. Amazonia as a Perpetual Elsewhere: The Possible and the Permissible in "Natural" Landscapes (2019)
  65. An Amazonian Crossroads: Results from Pilot Fieldwork on the Xingu-Amazon Confluence, Brazil (2016)
  66. Amazonian Landscapes: the characteristics of anthropic landscapes in the Middle Xingu River (Pará, Brazil) from pre-colonial to Contemporary times (2016)
  67. Amazonian mounds. When Human sciences met Earth sciences (2016)
  68. Amazonian Palm and Tree Fruits Fed Residents during the Pleistocene–Holocene Transition (2023)
  69. Amber Runs through It: The Centralization of Wealth and Power in Late Prehistoric Lika, Croatia (2019)
  70. Ambiguous beings: the ontological autonomy of Inuit dogs (2016)
  71. Ambiguous Iconography: Queering the Shell Game (2015)
  72. The ambivalence of caves and rockshelters in medieval Norway (2017)
  73. Ambrose Bierce’s Indian Inscriptions: Biographic Art Along the Bozeman Trail (2019)
  74. American archaeological expeditions to Cuba related with Museo Antropológico Montané (2016)
  75. The American Falls obsidian source: near, far, or unknown? (2015)
  76. American Periphery, Sonoran Heartland: Recent Archaeological Explorations of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (2019)
  77. American Pompeii: Old evidence on Late Classic ties between the Pacific Coast and the Antigua valley (2017)
  78. American Southwest, Mexican Northwest: An Examination of Ground and Chipped Stone Artifacts from Garden Canyon Village (2016)
  79. American Spaces, Irish Places: Assessing Three Urban Communities in 19th Century Irish-America (2019)
  80. Amerind Foundation Collection and Archives (2016)
  81. Amerindian archaeological site DEM construction and analysis from UAV flights (2015)
  82. Amino Acid d13C Analysis of Ancient Marine Consumers Quantifies Environmental Change in a Nearshore Ecosystem through the Late Holocene (2019)
  83. Amity Pueblo: A Different Sort of Horror (2015)
  84. Ampare y Perjuicios: Land and Legality in a Colesuyo Village during the Colonial Period (2016)
  85. The anahuatl pectorals from the offerings of the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan (2017)
  86. Analogist Ontology at Chavín de Huantár (2016)
  87. Analysing cultural change (2015)
  88. Analysis and 3D Modeling of Pithouse Architecture during the Developmental-to-Coalition period Transition in the Albuquerque Basin (2016)
  89. Analysis and Comparison of the Paleo-ecological Reconstruction of Simpson Springs to the Archaeological Record of Camels Back Cave in the Bonneville Basin of Utah (2023)
  90. Analysis and Implications of Post-Depositional Bias in the Basin of Mexico (BOM) Surveys: A Preliminary Case Study of the Texcoco Survey Region (2021)
  91. Analysis and Interpretation of the Bandelier Landfill Site: Determining the Information Potential of a Multicomponent Historic Trash Site (2019)
  92. An Analysis of 3D Mapping Methods of Historic Burials at Bethel Cemetery (2023)
  93. Analysis of a Bayesian Network Methodology for Site Similarity Assessment (2023)
  94. Analysis of a Jun/Wasi Nut Cracking Stone from Western Ngamiland, Botswana: Implications for the Origins of Hominin Technology (2021)
  95. Analysis of a late Archaic hearth feature at the Debra L. Friedkin Site in central Texas (2017)
  96. An Analysis of a Middle Holocene Faunal Assemblage from the Matcharak Peninsula Site in Alaska’s Brooks Range (2016)
  97. An Analysis of an Early-to-Mid Holocene Projectile Point Assemblage from Little Steamboat Point Rockshelter, Warner Valley, Oregon (2015)
  98. Analysis of an Obsidian Source from the Cougar Pass Region of the Absaroka Mountain Range (2017)
  99. Analysis of Anatomical Dissection at Point San Jose Hospital, Fort Mason, San Francisco (2018)
  100. Analysis of Ancient Chinese Pottery Utilizing X-Ray Fluorescence and Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (2017)