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DOCUMENT Citation Only John Staller.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. An endemic variety of maize (Zea mays L) cultivated on terraces around the Copacabana Peninsula between 3600 – 4100 masl has been identified in the altiplano of Bolivia. This is the only known maize variety cultivated above 3600 masl. Indigenous communities in this region refer to this maize variety as tunqu and they consider it sacred. There were wide-spread...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mara Stumpf. Sara Juengst.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dental modification has been well-documented from the coast of Ecuador, with practices including elaborate dental inlays and incisions. However, few examples come from recently excavated or well-provenienced sites, making the antiquity and changing significance of dental modification unclear. Additionally, it is unclear whether this practice originated in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only M. Elizabeth Grávalos. Emily A. Sharp.

Scholars have debated the nature of Wari state expansion during the Middle Horizon in north-central Peru for decades, suggesting both top-down imperialism and local resistance. While our paper does not aim to resolve this issue, we put previously reported datasets into conversation to examine both social change and cultural resilience in the Middle Horizon (MH). We draw on ceramic and mortuary evidence from the Callejón de Huaylas region of highland Ancash and identify the incorporation of a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Smeeks. Rebecca Spring.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Warfare theorists argue that scholars must move beyond social evolutionary theories and realize that warfare and sociopolitical organization are not autonomous and self-regulating; one cannot be understood in isolation from the other. Instead, scholars need to focus on the interrelationships between and interdependency of military infrastructure and societal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Ingram.

Increasing the public benefits of archaeology involves more than increasing our assertions of relevance. Relevance is a vague term that is easy to assert because it is difficult to disprove. Likewise, archaeology is not a predictive science and promoting "lessons from the past" creates unrealistic expectations of archaeologists and our work. If we are to connect the past to efforts to address climate change, we need to provide specific, archaeologically-informed examples that demonstrate how the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meredith Hardy.

This is an abstract from the "To Move Forward We Must Look Back: The Slave Wrecks Project at 10 Years" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 2014, the National Park Service, as a partner in the Slave Wrecks Project, has conducted a community archaeology program as part of multiyear effort combining underwater and terrestrial archaeology with public engagement activities. Christiansted National Historic Site, and the Danish West India and Guinea...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Trimble.

This is an abstract from the "Touching the Past: Public Archaeology Engagement through Existing Collections" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As professional archaeologists who are charged with carrying out meaningful research and long-term collections care, one of our ethical and professional obligations is to inform and engage the public in what we do and why it is interesting and important. Our attempts at this are often uneven, but we recognize...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Schwalenberg.

This is an abstract from the "In Search of Solutions: Exploring Pathways to Repatriation for NAGPRA Practitioners (Part IV): NAGPRA in Policy, Protocol, and Practice" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Veterans Curation Program (VCP) is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) funded program with a dual mission to rehabilitate USACE administered artifact and document collections and provide temporary employment and vocational training to veterans....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yuitza Rojas Fernández.

In the northwest corner of the capital city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, formal urban blocks were proposed and constructed in the 19th century in an area known as Ballajá. As part of a larger investigation, documentary research was carried out, and quantitative and qualitative data was analyzed to study the presence of women using the 1910 census. Germane to that investigation, were specific variables such as professions, trades, race, nationality, age and civil status, therefore providing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only BrieAnna Langlie.

In the 15th century, the Inca built the largest pre-colonial empire in the western hemisphere. In southern Peru near Lake Titicaca, an ethnic group known as the Colla violently resisted conquest by the Inca for several years. Because of their military prowess, the Inca named one quarter of their empire, Collasuyo, after this group. The Colla’s ability to resist Inca subjugation was facilitated by their decentralized economy evident in their construction and management of a new agricultural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Martini. Dennis Nicolas Lorenzo.

This is an abstract from the "Cuando los senderos divergen: Reconsiderando las interacciones entre los Andes Septentrionales y los Andes Centrales durante el 1ro y 2do milenio AEC / When Paths Diverge: Reconsidering Interactions between the Northern and Central Andes, First–Second Millennium BCE" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The department of Piura includes a significant portion of the modern national border between Ecuador and Peru and remains...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ora Marek-Martinez.

This is an abstract from the "Hood Archaeologies: Impacts of the School-to-Prison Pipeline on Archaeological Practice and Pedagogy" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. “In order to know yourself and find your way in this life, you need to know where you and your People come from and understand their relationship with the land.” This insight formed critical foundational knowledge that guides my Indigenous archaeological praxis. My experience and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aleksa Alaica.

This is an abstract from the "Multispecies Frameworks in Archaeological Interpretation: Human-Nonhuman Interactions in the Past, Part I" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A multispecies approach to archaeology creates the potential for inclusive debate on the value of identity among both human and nonhuman beings. This paper explores the way that camelid life histories where shaped by and influenced sociopolitical relationships among the Late Moche...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Surface-Evans.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Health, Wellness, and Ability" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Childhood illness and death at Federal Indian Boarding Schools are one of the most tragic aspects of these failed institutions. Preventable communicable diseases spread like wildfires in the close-quarters and overcrowded conditions of dormitories. Racist policies maintained poor nutrition and hard physical labor also contributed to illness...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Oscar Arias Espinoza. Atsushi Yamamoto. Juan Pablo Vargas Díaz.

This is an abstract from the "Beyond Borders at the End of a Millennium: Life in the Western Andes circa 500–50 BCE" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Nuestra exposición abordará la relación existente entre los sitios arqueológicos Cerro Narrio y Loma de Pinzhul durante el Periodo Formativo Final (500 aC-50 aC) de Ecuador. Proponemos que en esta sección del Cañar coexistieron ambos sitios como lugares ceremoniales que tenían relaciones de intercambio...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Estanislao Pazmiño.

Localizado en la alta amazonía ecuatoriana el entorno geográfico del valle del río Upano acoge una amplia diversidad ecológica y de suelos que, sin duda, resultaron atractivos para los diferentes grupos humanos que se asentaron en la región durante la época prehispánica. Por otra parte la ubicación estratégica hizo que el valle sin duda constituya un nodo importante en la interacción cultural entre los altos valles andinas y las tierras bajas amazónicas. Ambas situaciones fueron favorables para...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Oscar Neill.

La zona nororiental de Honduras en la época prehispánica, y su interacción con Mesoamérica al oeste, ha sido poco abordada. El patrón de asentamiento regional así como interno de cada sitio es igual poco conocido y muchas veces confundido con el área vecina al este. Los reconocimientos de superficie en esta década nos han brindado resultados preliminares sobre el patrón de asentamiento regional y de sitio de la costa nororiental, concretamente en la Cuenca del Río Cangrejal, el Bajo Aguan en el...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Arabel Fernandez.

Excavaciones en el segundo templo de la Huaca Cao Viejo del Complejo Arqueológico El Brujo (valle de Chicama, costa norte centroandina), revelaron un hallazgo sin precedentes en la arqueología peruana. Este sector fue el lugar de enterramiento de tres personajes de alto estatus social, acompañados de otros dos individuos de menor jerarquía. En esta oportunidad presentaremos los resultados del proceso de apertura del fardo del personaje femenino conocido como la Señora de Cao. Diversos factores,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jean-Paul Rojas. Benjamin Ramirez. Mozelle Bowers.

This is an abstract from the "Finding Community in the Past and Present through the 2022 PARCC Field School at Buen Suceso, Ecuador" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Buen Suceso, a Formative period Valdivia site, is located in the Culebra-Colin (Manglaralto) valley of Ecuador’s coastal plain, on the lands of the contemporary comuna Dos Mangas, and flanked by the Chongón-Colonche Hills. The site is in a tropical rainforest ecoregion characterized by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Van Buren.

Air pollution caused by pre-industrial metal production in the Andes has been reported by scholars using data collected from lake sediments and ice cores. An important source of this pollution, which consists primarily of lead dust, is Potosí, Bolivia, a mining center that produced large quantities of silver during the early colonial period and, perhaps, during prehispanic times as well. This paper examines the environmental effects of indigenous silver production by investigating the operation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebekah Montgomery.

This presentation examines the collection of unfired clay models, or maquetas, from the Moche site of San José de Moro, Peru, proposing an interpretation focused on their unique materiality and position within the artistic corpus at the site.  A renewed focus on Moche architectural representation treats these three-dimensional models as miniaturized, mimetic sculptures of monumental buildings, often used to understand the function of ceremonial space in the past. As of 2012, fifty maquetas have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabriela Oré Menéndez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster addresses the lack of equity present in archaeological practice, focusing on the use of high-end technological methods, like image analysis and multispectral satellite remote sensing (MSRS) in particular. The use of these advanced computational tools allows for a new type of regional- and even inter-regional scale research and expands and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Oscar Huamán López.

This is an abstract from the "Wari and the Far Peruvian South Coast: Final Results of Excavations in Quilcapampa" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavaciones arqueológicas en el sitio de Quilcapampa. Arequipa, dieron como resultado el hallazgo de fragmentos cerámicos del Horizonte Medio cuya iconografía y estilos tienen estrecha relación con la cultura Wari, el hallazgo incluye a formas de vasijas y diseños de la época 1B y 2A (estilos Chakipampa,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Harris. Mary Lennon.

This is an abstract from the "Novel Statistical Techniques in Archaeology II (QUANTARCH II)" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research presents a method to test the endogenous spatial correlation effect when modeling the landscape sensitivity for archaeological sites. The effects of endogenous spatial correlation are inferred using a Hierarchical Bayesian model with an Conditional Auto-Regressive (CAR) component to better understand the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Umberto Lombardo.

Estimates of population density in pre-Columbian Amazonia have been based on calculations of the carrying capacity of the environment, generally classified as varzea, terra firme and savannah. These estimates, however, have been criticized because they overlook the fact that i) the Amazonia environment is far more diverse in terms of soils, vegetation and climate than this simplistic classification and ii) pre-Columbians increased, both intentionally and unintentionally, the productivity of the...