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 701-800 of 19,165)

  1. Animal Use in the Last Maya Kingdom (2018)
  2. Animal utilization and animal rituals of the Okhotsk culture: with special reference to their period and regional differences (2017)
  3. Animal, Human, and Crafted Bone from the S-Sector of Piedras Negras (2018)
  4. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? The Characterization of “Resins” Binding Composite Artifacts from the Northern Colorado Plateau (2021)
  5. Animals and urbanization in northern Mesopotamia:Late Chalcolithic faunal remains from Hamoukar, Syria (2017)
  6. Animals at Spiro Mounds: Patterns from Faunal Specimens and Engraved Shells (2019)
  7. Animals at the Periphery: Investigating Urban Subsistence at Iron Age Sam’al (Zincirli Höyük, Turkey) (2021)
  8. Animals Do Speak but Are We Listening? Perspectivism, Slow Zooarchaeology, and Contemplating Animal Domestication (2023)
  9. Animals for the Ancestors: Comparing Animal Use in Funerary Rites at Ancient Hualcayán, Peru (AD 1–1000) (2019)
  10. The Animals of Pueblo Ritual: Faunal Analysis of a Kiva from Pot Creek Pueblo, NM (2017)
  11. Animate landscapes and the transference of authority: resistance to hierarchy among hunter-gatherers of the Eastern Woodlands (2015)
  12. Animated ships (2017)
  13. Animating Sacred Landscapes through Making Rock Art (2016)
  14. Animism and Agency in the Amazonian Landscape: A Consideration of the Ontological Turn Utilizing Perspectives from Modern Runa Communities (2018)
  15. Anna and the Sea: Reflections on Anna Kerttula's Influence on a Generation of North Pacific Archaeology (2019)
  16. Annually-Resolved Environmental proxies in the Great Lakes Region, 14 ka to 10 ka BP: A Time of Paleo-Indian Hunters and Megafauna Extinction (2016)
  17. Anomalous Floor 2 Features in the Point Pueblo Great Kiva (2019)
  18. Another F-----g Basket Baper: Decorated Specimens from Huaca Prieta, Peru (2016)
  19. Another Form of Slave Ship: Local Nautical Technologies and Practices in the Persistence of the Senegambian Slave Trade (1818–1888) (2021)
  20. Another Indigenous Feminist on Settler Colonialism in Archaeology (2018)
  21. Another Pint! Beer & Soda Bottles in Victorian Philadelphia: A Spatial Analysis (2016)
  22. Anshe Ky’an’a and Zuni Traditions of Movement (2017)
  23. Answering Chronological and Regional Interaction Questions via pXRF and LA-ICP-MS Analyses in the Interior Southeast (2015)
  24. Answering Pseudoarchaeology from the Repository (2019)
  25. Answering the Grand Challenges of Archaeology (2019)
  26. Answers in the Dirt: Taphonomy, Preservation Bias, and Pastoralism at Iron Age Nichoria, Greece (2017)
  27. The antecedents to the specialized microdrill industry on Santa Cruz Island, CA (2015)
  28. Antelope Cave and Far Western Anasazi Lifeways of the Virgin River Region (2015)
  29. Anthracological Analyses of the Iron Age Shell Middens Complex at Praia da Rocha, Inhambane, Mozambique (2019)
  30. Anthropocene Amazonia, Beyond the Buzzword: Centennial-Scale Anthropogenic Influences on Southern Amazonian Forests, 1000-2000 CE (2018)
  31. The Anthropocene Divide: Obscuring our Understanding of Socio-Environmental History (2017)
  32. The Anthropocene of Madagascar: Reviewing Chronological Evidence for Madagascar’s Colonization (2017)
  33. The Anthropocene: Present Singular or Past Plural? (2018)
  34. The Anthropogenic and Geogenic Coproduction of Seismically Triggered Soft Sediment Deformation Structures (SSDS) in Helike, Greece (2023)
  35. Anthropogenic Effects on Soil Quality of the Las Capas Irrigation System (2015)
  36. Anthropogenic Fire and the Origins of Agricultural Landscapes during the Neolithic Period (7,700–4,500 cal. BP) in Eastern Spain (2018)
  37. Anthropogenic Fire Management and Changing Land-Use Strategies in the Mammoth Cave Plateau and Sinkhole Plain, Central Kentucky, USA (2015)
  38. Anthropogenic land cover change over the last 6000 years: How can we use archaeology to inform global models? (2017)
  39. Anthropogenic Landscapes in Southern New England: An Archaeological Investigation of Farming Practices on an Eighteenth Century Colonial Farmstead in Southeastern Connecticut (2017)
  40. Anthropogenic Landscapes of Amazonia: A Spatial Analysis of Landscape Modification and Settlement Organization at Macurany, Brazil (2019)
  41. Anthropogenic plant translocations in the western Indian Ocean: Archaeobotanical perspectives on the Anthropocene from Madagascar and the Comoros (2016)
  42. Anthropogenic Thermal Alteration of Marine Bivalves, Recrystallization, and Isotope Integrity (2015)
  43. The Anthropogenic Wetlands of Northwestern Belize: Decades of Research and New Horizons for Study (2023)
  44. Anthropogenically driven decline and extinction of Sapotaceae on Nuku Hiva (Marquesas Islands, East Polynesia) (2015)
  45. Anthropology is Elemental: Teaching Children Using a Four-Field Approach (2018)
  46. The Anthropology of Data Design and Project Strategy (2017)
  47. Anthropology on Social Media (2023)
  48. Anthropology Underwater: Landscape archaeology above and below water in the Great Lakes (2018)
  49. Anthropomorphic Figures in Arabian Rock Art (2019)
  50. The Anthropomorphic Figurine Tradition of the Fremont Archaeological Culture (2023)
  51. Anti-Colonialism, State Development, and Araucanian Resilience in the South-Central Andes (2019)
  52. Anticipating Changing Heritage Values: Reevaluating Priority Cultural Resources Criteria in Pima County, Arizona (2021)
  53. The Antigua Valley, Guatemala: Dating and Contexts of the Middle Preclassic Period (2015)
  54. Antiquities, drugs, guns, diamonds, wildlife: toward a theory of transnational criminal markets in illicit goods (2015)
  55. The Antiquity and Persistence of Traditional Health Beliefs and Practices in the Northern Andes (2017)
  56. The Antiquity of Hunter-Gatherers Revisited (2015)
  57. Ants for Breakfast For Everyone! The Legacy of James Skibo’s Work on the Kalinga Ethnoarchaeological Project (2019)
  58. Anura in Moche Iconography (2015)
  59. Any Port in a Storm: Identifying Port Infrastructure and Architecture in the Upper Usumacinta (2015)
  60. The Anzick Genome Proves Clovis Is First, After All (2016)
  61. Anzick Site Lithics: A Study of Concave Margin Scrapers as an Integral Part of the Clovis Tool Kit (2015)
  62. The Anzick Site: A Rocky Mountain locale featuring recurrent human utilization across the millenia. (2016)
  63. Análisis arquitectónico del conjunto Patio Hundido y sus estructuras compuestas: Edificios A y B de Monte Albán (2021)
  64. Análisis Bioarqueológico de los Restos Óseos Recuperados en "EL TROPEL," Colima (2017)
  65. Análisis calendárico de las orientaciones astronómicas de la arquitectura de Tamtoc, San Luis Potosí. La importancia de su latitud geográfica y el uso del paisaje (2017)
  66. Análisis de la arquitectura de tierra en el Edificio “P” de la Zona Arqueológica de Monte Albán (2021)
  67. Análisis de redes haplotípicas del DNA mitocondrial (parcial) de los pobladores del Valle de Toluca. (2015)
  68. Análisis de Subsistencia y Selección de Recursos en Punta de Pájaro: Un Posible Yacimiento del Formativo Temprano en la Ciénaga del Guajaro Atlántico (2016)
  69. Análisis geoespacial de la distribución de sitios arqueológicos en la Sub-Región Diquís, Región Gran Chiriquí (2018)
  70. Análisis morfológico y químico de escorias de cobre del sitio Jicalán Viejo, en el Occidente de México (2023)
  71. Apache use of a sacred site. Oral history of Apache Elders. (2015)
  72. The Apalachee in a Cultural Borderlands: A Discussion of Hybridized Ceramic Practice in the 18th century (2016)
  73. Apishapa Rock Art and Soul Capture (2017)
  74. Apishapa Structures and Subsistence Strategies in Purgatoire Canyon Colorado (2018)
  75. Aplicación de la topometría digital en conservación e investigación de los monumentos mayas (2015)
  76. Aportación de las fuentes históricas para un avance de la arqueología colonial en México (2016)
  77. Aportes a la Interpretación Arqueológica de la Zona Sur en Honduras. (2018)
  78. Apotguan Revisited: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Latte Period Burials from Guam (2019)
  79. The Apparent Resilience of the Dry Tropical Forests of the Nicaraguan Region of the Central American Dry Corridor to Extreme Variations in Climate over the Last c.1200 Years (2019)
  80. The Appearance, Use, and Production of Glass in Ancient Sub-Saharan West Africa (2019)
  81. Apples and Oranges? Positioning Regional Archaeology in a Global Perspective (2017)
  82. The Applicability of Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS): A Case Study of Sourcing Ceramics in the Northern Mimbres Area (2017)
  83. Applicability of Maxent Predictive Modeling in Locating Pre-Hispanic Quarries in the Callejón de Huaylas, Peru (2019)
  84. Application of a Novel Machine Learning Methodology to the Study of Dipodomys spp. Response to El Niño Southern Oscillation events Throughout the Holocene (2019)
  85. Application of Architectural Energetics Models to the Iron Age Tumuli of Bin Tepe in Lydia, Western Turkey (2016)
  86. Application of Compound-specific Radiocarbon Dating of Hydroxyproline from Bone Collagen (2015)
  87. Application of Dietary Isotopes to Estimate Temporal Context of Unidentified Remains in British Columbia Canada (2023)
  88. Application of end-member mixing analysis (EMMA) of grain-size distributions to characterize site formation processes of Rimrock Draw Rockshelter (35HA3855), Harney Basin, Eastern Oregon (2015)
  89. An Application of Geospatial Technology to the Collection and Analysis of Human Skeletal Remains (2017)
  90. Application of Heritage Value in Museum Engagement (2016)
  91. An Application of Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling to Upper Paleolithic Archaeological Cultures in France between 32 and 21 cal ka BP (2021)
  92. Application of LIDAR in New Site Discoveries, Susitna Valley, Alaska (2015)
  93. Application of Multi-Isotopic Analysis (δ13C, δ15N, and δ34S) to Examine Mobility and Movement of People and Animals within an Iron Age British Society (2018)
  94. Application of Object-based Image Analysis of High Resolution Imagery to Identify Archaeological Features on Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) (2015)
  95. An application of obsidian hydration dating to prehistoric sites in Japan (2015)
  96. Application of Photogrammetric Methods to Archaeological Site Documentation: Archaeological and Experimental Case Studies (2017)
  97. Application of Protein Mass Spectrometry to Zooarchaeological Bone (2015)
  98. Application of Stable Isotope Analysis to Questions of Status Formation and Dietary Disparities at Chalcatzingo, Morelos, Mexico (2016)
  99. The application of strontium isotope analysis to historic cemetery contexts: a case study for the creation of robust individual identifications (2015)
  100. The Application of Strontium Isotopes in Tracking Holocene Bison in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (2023)