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 901-1,000 of 19,165)

  1. An Archaeological and Historical Inquiry of Andagua, Peru, 1000-1800AD (2015)
  2. Archaeological and paleo-environmental investigations in the Aitape area of northern Papua New Guinea, 2014 (2015)
  3. Archaeological Applications of Airborne LiDAR at the Maya Archaeological Site of El Palmar, Mexico (2019)
  4. Archaeological Applications of Optimal Foraging Theory: Employing Bayesian probability modeling to estimate profitability parameters for rare and extinct prey (2019)
  5. An Archaeological Approach to the Tobacco Industry in Puerto Rico. (2019)
  6. Archaeological Assessment of Land Claims (2017)
  7. Archaeological Ceramic Analysis as a Vehicle for Anthropological Holism at 1607 James Fort: An Essay in Honor of Dr. Joseph W. Ball (2018)
  8. Archaeological Ceramics for Beginners: A Hands-On Activity for Introductory Classes
  9. Archaeological Ceramics for Beginners: A Hands-On Activity for Introductory Classes (2015)
  10. Archaeological Chemists & Chemical Archaeologists: Working Together in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands, TX (2017)
  11. The Archaeological Climate: New Materialisms and Ontologies of the Anthropocene (2015)
  12. Archaeological Collaboration in North America: Are "Benefits" to American Indian Communities truly being maximized? (2015)
  13. Archaeological Collaboration in Northwest Wyoming: Recording BLM Sites with College Students (2019)
  14. Archaeological Collecting at the Museum of Northern Arizona: Then and Now (2019)
  15. Archaeological Collecting in Cultural Context: A Localized Study of Looting and the News (2019)
  16. Archaeological Collections at the Museum of Anthropology, Wake Forest University (2016)
  17. Archaeological Collections at the University of West Florida (2016)
  18. The archaeological collections of the Gulf Coast cultures at the National Museum of Anthropology (2017)
  19. Archaeological Commitment to Participation: Discovering the Local to International El Pilar Community (2016)
  20. The Archaeological Consequences of Human Fire Use: Analyses, Interpretations, and Implications for Understanding the Evolution of Pyrotechnic Behaviors. (2017)
  21. Archaeological Considerations in the Study of the Anthropocene (2016)
  22. Archaeological Contexts and Social Uses of Pututus in the Prehispanic Central Andes (2021)
  23. Archaeological Curation: Challenges and Opportunities (2019)
  24. Archaeological data from Washington State indicate that northern fur seals will likely once again be a dominant predator in the California Current System (2017)
  25. Archaeological data vs Historical Accounts. The Inca occupation of Incahuasi, the New Cusco, Cañete, Peru (2015)
  26. The Archaeological Dogs of New Mexico (2023)
  27. Archaeological Education and Public Outreach through Social Media (2015)
  28. Archaeological Epistemology and Praxis: Multidimensional Context (2016)
  29. Archaeological Ethnography for a Decolonizing Methodology in the Central Highlands of Peru (2017)
  30. Archaeological Evidence and the Chronology of K'iche'an Dominance in the Guatemalan Highlands (2019)
  31. Archaeological Evidence for Bighorn Sheep in the Portland Basin (2017)
  32. Archaeological Evidence for Islamic Uses of Megalithic Structures in al-Andalus (CE 711-1492) (2021)
  33. Archaeological Evidence for the Use of Maize in Cave Ritual (2023)
  34. Archaeological Evidence of Human Hunting and North American Megafauna Extinctions: A Statistical Reassessment of the Fenske Bone Surface Modifications (2023)
  35. Archaeological Evidence of Multiple Domestication of Rice (2018)
  36. Archaeological Evidence of the 1848 Newby Campaign Against the Navajos (2019)
  37. Archaeological Excavations at Hacienda La Esperanza, Manatí, Puerto Rico (2015)
  38. Archaeological Expansions in Tropical South America during the Late Holocene: Assessing the Role of Demic Diffusion (2021)
  39. Archaeological Field Schools Beyond Buzzwords: Engaging with Critical Pedagogy while Connecting with Administrative Goals (2018)
  40. Archaeological Field schools: Teaching Heritage Management. An Example from Menorca (2015)
  41. Archaeological Fish Traps on the Coast of British Columbia (2017)
  42. Archaeological Geographies - A Reflexive Consideration of the Impact of Archaeology across Racial and Socioeconomic Regions Using DINAA (2018)
  43. Archaeological Geovisualization Underwater (2018)
  44. Archaeological GIS Approaches to a Regional Analysis in São Paulo State, Southeastern Brazil (2019)
  45. Archaeological Heritage as State Nuisance: Object Lessons From Accidental Burial Discoveries (2015)
  46. Archaeological Heritage Management in Mexico: Current Panorama (2019)
  47. Archaeological Heritage Market and Museums in the Dominican Republic (2018)
  48. Archaeological Histories of Urban Indians and Why They Matter (2016)
  49. An Archaeological History of the Tamaylacha (Jubones) River Basin, circa First Millennium BCE (2021)
  50. Archaeological Identification, Investigation, and Implications of the Portuguese Slaver São José Paquette de Africa (2021)
  51. Archaeological Identifiers of Cultural Affiliation: The Case of the Middle Horizon(?) Site of Sonay, Peru (2019)
  52. Archaeological Implications for an Agent-Based Model of Subsistence Intensification in the Western Desert of Australia (2016)
  53. Archaeological Implications of Vegetation Shifts in the Northern Chihuahuan Desert (2015)
  54. Archaeological Inference and the Concept of Culture (2016)
  55. Archaeological Inquiry and Integrating Science and Social Studies: A Research Opportunity (2017)
  56. Archaeological Investigation and Relocation of a Slave Cemetery at the Nashville Zoo, Davidson County, Tennessee (2015)
  57. An Archaeological Investigation into the Genetic and Dietary Histories of Dogs at the Bridge River Site, BC (2017)
  58. An archaeological investigation of gender on the late prehistoric steppe (2015)
  59. Archaeological Investigation of the Stone Feature Located at Area 12, Gault Site Bell County, Texas (2015)
  60. Archaeological Investigations at a Multicomponent Site on the Shiviwts Plateau (2021)
  61. Archaeological Investigations at the Double Flute Folsom site (LA178142), New Mexico (2019)
  62. Archaeological Investigations at the Elk Ridge Site, Mimbres Valley, New Mexico (2016)
  63. Archaeological Investigations at the Stō:ló spiritual site Uwqw’iles - the Restmore Caves site (DiRj-34) (2017)
  64. Archaeological Investigations in El Paraíso. A Late Preceramic Architectural Complex in Lima – Peru (2018)
  65. Archaeological Investigations of Deeply Stratified Deposits at Crumps Sink, South-Central Kentucky, USA (2016)
  66. Archaeological Investigations of the Archaic and Paleoindian Occupations at Hall’s Cave, Texas (2018)
  67. Archaeological Investigations of the Intertidal Ecotone on the Central Pacific Coast of Canada (2017)
  68. Archaeological investigations on the Lucy Islands, near Prince Rupert, B.C. from 2010 to 2013: New evidence relating to the Development of North Coast Culture. (2017)
  69. Archaeological Landscape Studies in Alkali Ridge and Montezuma Canyon during the Pueblo II and III Periods (2019)
  70. Archaeological Landscapes and Districts and Section 106 of the NHPA - Examples from California (2015)
  71. Archaeological Maize: Does It Vary across Space and Time? (2019)
  72. Archaeological Mollusks from Xalla (2021)
  73. Archaeological National Historic Landmarks in the United States (2023)
  74. Archaeological Night-Vision: Experiments in Aerial Thermography (2016)
  75. Archaeological Open Air Hunter-Gatherer Sites in the Serranopolis Region, Brazil: An Interpretation of the Landscape (2019)
  76. Archaeological Patrimony, Spirituality, and the Construction of a New Indigenous Class in Highland Bolivia (2017)
  77. Archaeological Pedagogy, Gentrification and the City: Community-Engaged Scholarship in San Francisco (2017)
  78. An Archaeological Perspective on Oral Traditions, Regarding Migration, of the Northern Caddoan Speaking Tribes (2018)
  79. An Archaeological Pilot Study on Manihiki and Rakahanga, Two Remote Atolls in East Polynesia. (2016)
  80. Archaeological Plant Remains from the Lower Xingu (2021)
  81. Archaeological Preservation (2015)
  82. Archaeological Project Amacuzac, Morelos and Guerrero Mexico. (2015)
  83. The Archaeological Project of the Ceremonial Center of Tibes: Summary and Recent Discoveries (2016)
  84. Archaeological Project pipeline Chihuahua -Durango " (preliminary results) (2016)
  85. ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROPERTY "BIENES MUEBLES" REGISTRY IN PARTICULAR CUSTODY SUCH AS HERITAGE CULTURAL PROTECTION MECHANISM. (2017)
  86. Archaeological Prospecting using Remote Sensing Techniques in Quiechapa, Oaxaca, Mexico (2016)
  87. Archaeological Prospection at Cerro Coyotepetl, Tepeticpac, Tlaxcallan: Preliminary Results from the 2017 Field Season of the Proyecto de Arqueología Cotidiana de Tepeticpac (2018)
  88. Archaeological Prospection Using Aerial Thermography and Quantitative Image Processing Methods (2019)
  89. Archaeological Proxies of Early Modern Human Niche Construction in Northern Malawi (2019)
  90. Archaeological Rat Diets Reflect Settlement Density: An Isotopic Investigation of Historical Rat Bones from Urban and Rural Sites in Upper Canada (2018)
  91. Archaeological Re-Survey, Contemporary Bahamian Cemeteries, Lucayan Prehistory, and Heritage Management (2015)
  92. Archaeological Reconnaissance and Excavations at El Encanto (Petén, Guatemala) in 2018 (2021)
  93. Archaeological Reconnaissance at Fracción Mujular: A Small Site with Big Connections (2016)
  94. Archaeological Reconnaissance Survey of the Bluffs of St. Teresa, Franklin County, Florida (2023)
  95. Archaeological recovery associated with the Wanapum Dam emergency drawdown, central Washington State. (2016)
  96. Archaeological Recovery of Late Pleistocene Hair and Environmental DNA from Interior Alaska (2023)
  97. Archaeological Relocation of Five Historic Cemeteries in North-Central Tennessee (2023)
  98. Archaeological Remote Sensing at Damariscove Island and Colonial Pemaquid, Coastal Maine (2023)
  99. Archaeological Repositories in British Columbia (2017)
  100. The Archaeological Repository of Colorado State University: Expanding Opportunities for Accessibility and Research (2019)