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.


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  1. Analyzing Stress, Discovering Cooperation: A case study of a Late Archaic sample from the Green River region of Kentucky (2019)
  2. Analyzing the Relationship between Peri-abandonment Deposits and the Eastern Shrine of Xunantunich, Group B (2019)
  3. Analyzing the Use of Inter-Structure Space at Ames, a Mississippian Town in Fayette County, Tennessee (2016)
  4. Analyzing the Utilization of Shell in Chickasaw Pottery Using Petrographic and Chemical Composition Techniques (2019)
  5. Analyzing Urban and Industrial Threats to Heritage in Turkey Using Remote Sensing and GIS (2018)
  6. Analyzing Wood-use Behavior at Wupatki Pueblo (2017)
  7. Anarchy in the Trenches: Perspectives on Buen Suceso (2023)
  8. Anarchy, Archaeology, and the Decolonization of Collaborative Heritage (2015)
  9. Anarchy, Heterarchy, and the Bioarchaeological Evidence of Labor in the Tiwanaku “State” (AD 500–1100) of Bolivia and Peru (2021)
  10. Anatomical Characteristics of the Pedal Skeleton Provide Insights into the History of Human Footwear (2023)
  11. Anatomy of an Arctic Archaeobotanical Analysis: Insights about Ancestral Inuvialuit Plant Use at Agvik, Banks Island, NWT (2021)
  12. Ancestor Shrines, Diversity, and Distributed Power in West Africa: Understanding the Strength of Flexibility and Cooperation in Sociopolitical Histories (2023)
  13. Ancestor veneration in a domestic space in Panquilma. A preliminary approach based on the Ceramic Analysis. (2015)
  14. Ancestor Veneration or Funeral Practices? An Examination of Recuay Mortuary Variability in the Basin of Puccha (Ancash) between AD 200-900 (2019)
  15. Ancestor Veneration, Termination and Renewal: New Considerations of Construction Fill (2018)
  16. Ancestors and Ancestral Spirits: Understanding the Spirits of the Dead in Prehispanic Settlements of the American Southeast and Southwest (2015)
  17. Ancestors and the Power of Ruins in Nejapa and Tavela, Oaxaca (2023)
  18. The Ancestors You Choose: The Role of Predecessors at Xunantunich, Belize Group D (2021)
  19. Ancestors, Agency, and Formation Processes: Interpreting Problematical "Smash and Trash Deposits" at Ka’Kabish, Belize (2017)
  20. Ancestral Abstract Art of the Mojave Desert (2015)
  21. Ancestral Chickasaw Migration and the Makings of the Anthropocene in Southeastern North America (2018)
  22. Ancestral Landscapes of the Salish Sea: Exploring Inland Shell Middens, Social Memory and Coast Salish Narratives (2017)
  23. Ancestral Ohiyo Haudenosaunee Ceramic Styles and Technology (2019)
  24. Ancestral Pathways of Fiji: Using GIS to Analyze Landscapes of Movement and Lineages within the Sigatoka River Valley (2019)
  25. Ancestral Pueblo Agriculture on the Pajarito Plateau: A Geoscience Investigation of Field Terraces in the Northern Mountains of New Mexico (2018)
  26. Ancestral Pueblo Essentials: Evidence for Layered Social Institutions during the Basketmaker III Period in the Northern Southwest (2019)
  27. Ancestral Pueblo Fishing Associated with Mixed Foraging Goals and Environmental Stability in the Middle Rio Grande of New Mexico (2023)
  28. Ancestral Pueblo Site Distribution Data from Los Alamos National Laboratory on the Pajarito Plateau (2015)
  29. Ancestral Pueblo Turkey Management on the Pajarito Plateau (C.E. 1150-1600) (2019)
  30. The Ancestral Puebloan Community of Alkali Ridge: Investigating The "Prudden Unit" Paradigm (2018)
  31. Ancestral Puebloan Running and Walking Biomechanics (2023)
  32. Ancestral Puebloan Settlement Patterns of Redwood Llama Ranch: Analysis of GIS and Fieldwalking Survey (2019)
  33. The Ancestral Remains of the Cheslatta T'en: A Rare Burial Site from the Middle Holocene in Central British Columbia (2023)
  34. Ancestral Ties During a Period of Social Upheaval, An Example from the Early Classic Period in the Tucson Basin (2017)
  35. Ancestry and Heritage at a South Carolina Rice Plantation (2018)
  36. Anchoring in the Gulf: Trans-Species Dwelling and Building in Gulf Coast Florida (2018)
  37. Anchoring the Absolute to the Relative: Recent Chronological Research in the Virú Valley, Peru (2015)
  38. Ancient Alaskan Firewood Management Strategies and the Role of Selectivity: Preliminary Results (2018)
  39. Ancient American Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum (2016)
  40. Ancient and Contemporary Maya Ruins as Living Landscapes (2023)
  41. Ancient and Historic Glass Production in India: Preliminary Results of Raw Material Analyses (2023)
  42. Ancient and Medieval Monuments from Romania and Spain as a Testimony of Transcontinental Links—Cultural and Scientific Aspects (2019)
  43. Ancient Andean Scalarity (2019)
  44. Ancient Beads from Southeast Asia at the Corning Museum of Glass (2023)
  45. Ancient Biomolecules and Destructive Sampling at the National Museum of Natural History (2018)
  46. ANCIENT CACAO GROVES IN YUCATAN: A PALYNOLOGICAL APPROACH (2017)
  47. Ancient Caribbean-Mainland Plant and Animal Translocations: Cultural, Biogeographic and Biodiversity Legacy (2015)
  48. Ancient Ceremonial Landscapes in Northern Arizona (2023)
  49. The Ancient City of Dos Hombres: Material Expressions of Power (2017)
  50. Ancient Clam Gardens and Ecological Enhancement on Northern Quadra Island, BC (2017)
  51. Ancient Clam Gardens of the Southern Gulf Islands (2015)
  52. Ancient Clam Gardens: Exploring Cultural and Ecological Mechanisms that Enhanced Clam Production (2017)
  53. Ancient Crops, Modern Possibilities: A Study on the Potential for Millet Agriculture in the United States (2017)
  54. Ancient Demography in Northwest Yucatán, Mexico (2021)
  55. Ancient DNA Analyses of Dental Calculus from Plains Village Collections (2018)
  56. Ancient DNA analysis and the Indo-European dispersal (2017)
  57. Ancient DNA Analysis from Micro-fractures in Bridge River Stone Tools (2018)
  58. Ancient DNA analysis of early Neolithic cattle from Houtaomuga site, Northern China (2017)
  59. Ancient DNA Analysis of Fish Remains from Charlie Lake Cave (HbRf-39), British Columbia, Canada (2017)
  60. Ancient DNA Analysis of Microbes Preserved in Dental Calculus: Challenges And Opportunities (2018)
  61. Ancient DNA Analysis of Orton Quarry (2019)
  62. Ancient DNA analysis to investigate the history of malaria and malaria genetic adaptations in Europe (2016)
  63. Ancient DNA and Cranial Morphometric Analysis into Ancestry of Five Burials from Colonial Delaware (2015)
  64. Ancient DNA and Historical Ecology: An Innovative Approach to Environmental Conservation (2017)
  65. Ancient DNA from Campeche, Mexico, Reveals a Socially Segregated Population in the First Two Centuries after Hispanic Contact (2021)
  66. Ancient DNA from Etruscan Tombs and Beyond: A Case Study from San Giuliano (2021)
  67. Ancient DNA from Stone Tools (2017)
  68. Ancient DNA in archaeological bone tools from La Ventilla, Teotihuacan: sex determination and genetic structure. (2016)
  69. Ancient DNA Investigations of Possible Casas Grandes – Chalchihuites Interactions (2018)
  70. Ancient DNA of a nomadic population provides evidence of the genetic structure of the royal ancient Mongols (2017)
  71. Ancient DNA of Camelids from Far Southern Peru: Whole Genome Enrichment Methods Reveal Breeding History at Tiwanaku and Inca Sites (2023)
  72. Ancient DNA Perspectives on Kinship and Racialized Labor at a 17th century Delaware Frontier Site (2018)
  73. Ancient DNA prospecting in the Caribbean: preliminary findings and future perspectives (2015)
  74. Ancient DNA Studies in Tropical Environments: A Study into the Genetics of the Pre-Columbian Indigenous Population of Puerto Rico (2017)
  75. Ancient DNA Studies of Domesticated Cattle in Northern China (2017)
  76. Ancient DNA, Zooarchaeology, and the Case for Whale Hunting on the Northern Oregon Coast (2015)
  77. Ancient Dog Genome Preserved in Tumor Provides Novel Insights into the Domestication of Dogs (2018)
  78. Ancient Dogs of the Tennessee River Valley (2017)
  79. The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead on Coffins: Ritual Protection and Justification of the Deceased. (2015)
  80. Ancient Egyptian Curses and Bog Bodies: The Role of Pseudoarchaeology in Tumblr's Subculture (2019)
  81. Ancient Egyptian mummy genomes suggest an increase of Sub-Saharan African ancestry in post-Roman periods (2017)
  82. Ancient explosives from Jerusalem identified on the analysis of the mysterious sphero-conical ceramic vessels using archaeological chemistry (2016)
  83. The Ancient Floors of Housepit 54, Bridge River site: Stratigraphy and Dating (2015)
  84. Ancient Genomics of Hunter-Gatherers at Lake Baikal: Shamanka II Case Study (2023)
  85. Ancient genomics of Neolithic to Bronze Age Baikal hunter-gatherers (2017)
  86. Ancient Glass Studies from 1st-2nd Millennium AD Africa: What Have We learned and Where Are We Going (2015)
  87. Ancient Greenstone Mosaic Masks from the Central Maya Lowlands of Guatemala: A Contextual and Technological Study (2017)
  88. Ancient Herring DNA from the Burton Acres Shell Midden (45KI437) and Pacific Herring Population Dynamics in the South Salish Sea (2019)
  89. Ancient Hominin Bone Proteomes: Improving our Understanding of Past Human Behavior through the Study of Ancient Bone Proteins. (2017)
  90. Ancient Human DNA Analysis from Central California: Interpreting the Penutian Migration through Genetics. (2017)
  91. Ancient Human DNA from Shum Laka (Cameroon) in the Context of African Population History (2019)
  92. Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans (2015)
  93. Ancient Human Herbivorous Diet Reflected by the Analysis of Starch Grains from the Xijincheng Site, Bo'ai county, Henan province, China (2015)
  94. Ancient Human-Animal Interactions in Chachapoyas Region: Isotopic Analysis of Zooarchaeological Remains from Kuelap, Peru (2018)
  95. Ancient Impacts on a Modern Environment: Soil Management and Intensive Agriculture in a Pre-Columbium Urban Context (2016)
  96. Ancient Indigenous Cuisine: Multiproxy Investigations of Food Choice and Cooking (2023)
  97. Ancient Inscriptions and Climate Change: A Study of Water Management at the Ancient Capital of Bagan, Myanmar (2021)
  98. Ancient Landscapes of Amazonia: A Study of Pre-Colonial Processes and Contemporary Use at Macurany, Brazil (2018)
  99. The Ancient Landscapes of South Texas Initiative and Augmented Reality: An Immersive Experience in Archaeological Education and Community Engagement (2023)
  100. Ancient Landscapes of the Rocky Mountain Front: A View from the Billy Big Springs Site, MT (2018)