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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past seven years, Alta Heritage Foundation (AHF) has responded to nearly a dozen catastrophic fires on the west coast. AHF is a 501(c) non-profit that works with canine human remains recovery teams to identify cremains, the cremated remains of individuals who were cremated prior to the fire and stored in private residences, and retrieve them for...
A Demography of Materials: High Resolution Multispectral Photogrammetry in Theory and Practice (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The recent availability of small multispectral sensors small enough to equip on unmanned aerial systems (UASs0 now allows archaeologists to survey the landscape at increasingly finer resolutions (10-20 cm) with topographic and compositional data. While at present the number of published archaeological studies using UAS-equipped multispectral cameras is small,...
Demystifying Southern Lowland Chultunes: The Ritual Space Hypothesis (2017)
This investigation’s working hypothesis is that chultunes, manmade subterranean features, served as ritual spaces in the southern Maya lowlands. The hypothesis is an outgrowth of my grounding in cave archaeology. Ethnographically, even subterranean features used for utilitarian activities, such as mining, come to have sacred meaning and this phenomenon can be documented in ethnohistoric sources. However, my hypothesis has not been tested. Dennis Puleston argued for a utilitarian function of...
Demystifying the High Priest’s Grave: Investigations in the Cave/Cenote below the Osario (2018)
One of the most enigmatic publications in Maya cave archaeology has been Edward H. Thompson investigation of the High Priest’s Grave at Chichen Itza in 1896. Thompson discovered a masonry shaft running down the center of the pyramid that gave access to a cave/cenote beneath the structure. This was the first account of a cave with a pyramid built over it and Thompson suggested that the cave contained seven chambers, hinting at the possibility of a Chicomoztoc. J. Eric Thompson in editing and...
Dena Dincauze: The Matriarch of New England Archaeology (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Female Firsts: Celebrating Archaeology’s Pioneering Women on the 101st Anniversary of the 19th Amendment " session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dena Dincauze (1934–2016) made a great impact throughout her archaeological career, not only in New England, but also throughout North America more broadly. As one of the first women to receive her PhD from Harvard University, Dena was also one of the first tenured female...
Dennis Stanford at SI: The Man, The Place, The Career (2018)
Dennis Stanford heads up the Archaeology division at the Smithsonian Institution and its Paleo-Indian Program. From the time he completed his graduate studies (PhD 1974, University of New Mexico), Dennis has held positions in the Department of Anthropology at SI, repository of the major archaeological collection in the United States. In his more than four decades at SI, he has fostered acquisition of archaeological (especially PaleoIndian) additions to the Department's collections, conducted...
Dennis Stanford's Legacy in Latin America (2018)
The influence that Dennis Stanford has had on archaeologists (and others) working in Latin America on the topic of early peopling is discussed, with specific reference to lithic technology, migratory models, and logistical/academic support.
Densidad poblacional y sus implicaciones socio-económicas en la primera capital olmeca de San Lorenzo, Veracruz. (2017)
En los últimos años, los análisis de densidad poblacional y distribución espacial conforman un tema medular en torno al desarrollo de las sociedades, ya que la forma en que se distribuye una población humana en el espacio conlleva determinantes efectos en la estructura interna de la sociedad y, viceversa, la interrelación de los factores económicos, administrativos, políticos y culturales en la sociedad son el reflejo de la organización espacial. El presente cartel muestra los resultados de un...
Dental Health and Activity Indicators in the Burials from the Godet Cemetery (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Exploring Globalization and Colonialism through Archaeology and Bioarchaeology: An NSF REU Sponsored Site on the Caribbean’s Golden Rock (Sint Eustatius)" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Sint Eustatius (Statia) is a Dutch Caribbean island with historical evidence of three main cultural groups: native people, people of African descent and people of European descent. As a hub of 18th century trade for various colonial...
Dental Morphology of the Prehistoric Chamorro, Guam (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dental morphology has a long history of use in understanding the biological distance and migrations of past populations. Though distribution of the frequencies of morphological traits of teeth have been documented around the world, variation within Micronesia is the least studied among the peoples of the Pacific, leaving peopling of the region the least...
Dentition, Kinship, and Status in the Mopan-Macal Triangle: Small-Sample Insights into Classic Maya Social Organization in Central Western Belize (2018)
Classic Maya social status is more complex than an elite verses non-elite dichotomy. Research suggests that a "middle" status group exists. However, the social segment from which they arise is unknown. This study focuses on individuals from the urban center of Buenavista del Cayo who are below the ruling elites in the "middle" rungs of social status, and those from the neighboring farming community of Guerra who are recognized as nonelites. Previous research suggested that no biological affinity...
A Deposit is More Than the Sum of It's Artifacts: A Case Study from Centro Ceremonial Indigena de Tibes, Puerto Rico (2019)
This is an abstract from the "From Middens to Museums: Papers in Honor of Julie K. Stein" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Constructing the depositional history of an archaeological deposit requires identifying and describing the physical attributes of the sediment particles, including artifacts. Observable changes in the physical properties is the basis for distinguishing one archaeological deposit from another. The Ceremonial Center of Tibes,...
Der Ursprung des Mais - eine neue Theorie (1986)
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Desarrollo de Santa Cruz Atizapan: un centro regional en la margen occidental de la Ciénaga de Chignahuapan, valle de Toluca (2017)
En Santa Cruz Atizapan, donde nace el río Lerma en la antigua ciénaga de Chgnahuapan, Estado de México, se inician las construcciones de montículos habitacionales hace 1500 años aproximadamente, al tiempo que se estaba desarrollando el centro regional en la margen oriental de la antigua zona lacustre, denominado La Campana-Tepozoco. La distribución de dichos montículos sugiere que la antigua población de dicho sitio ya tenía una noción clara acerca de la obra hidráulica que se emprendería hacia...
Desperate Times, Distinctive Places: Human Landscape Interaction at Tzak Naab, Belize (2017)
Located in northwestern Belize, the ancient Maya site of Tzak Naab lay at the intersection of an urban polity and vital agricultural space during the Terminal Classic, a period of considerable ecological and economic stress. The monumental architecture of the site strays from regional grammars with an atypical spatial syntax that emphasizes a connection to an adjacent bajo, a seasonally inundated wetland significant to the regional political economy. Attention to site planning and experiential...
Destabilizing the Planters Prospect: The Embedded Landscapes of White Creole Masculinity at an 18th-Century Plantation House in Montserrat, West Indies (2018)
At the close of the 18th century, a planter’s dwelling overlooking the Caribbean Sea on the northwest coast of Montserrat was destroyed by fire, and never reoccupied. Archaeological excavations yielded an intimate portrait of the domesticity of the British Empire materialized in fragments of everyday life. Little Bay was a small-scale sugar plantation with a physical landscape that conformed to the logic of sugar production—planting fields, sugar works, and the dwellings of the laboring...
Detecting the functions of patios in a Classic Maya regal palace at La Corona, Guatemala. (2017)
Classic Maya regal palaces were political institutions with many functions, ranging from domestic and ceremonial to administrative. This paper presents the results of the multi-facetted study of three adjoining patios of the palace at the Classic Maya Center of La Corona, Guatemala. Research suggests that these patios, dating to final phases of occupation in the Late Classic (8th and 9th centuries AD), were open spaces dedicated to activities relating to the preparation of food, the manufacture...
Determination of Burial Locations Using Soil Analyses at the Loyola Plantation in French Guiana, 1668-1763 (2017)
Our paper discusses the approach used to determine the location of burials in an equatorial environment where organic preservation is nil. Before using the space of the plantation cemetery to preserve the memory of the enslaved who lived at the plantation we had to demonstrate the extant of the cemetery using soil analyses. Memory of that period is a fleeting souvenir among local residents and we want to use archaeology to address issues with which they are confronted in order for them to...
Determining local marine reservoir effect ΔR correction factors for Cuba (2017)
The atmosphere constantly produces radiocarbon, 14C, which dissolves in the oceans as carbon dioxide. Theoretically, radiocarbon concentrations are equilibrated between the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. However, in some regions old seawater at the bottom of the oceans returns significantly older radiocarbon dates as water sinks down the water column, causing the isotopic decay of 14C to increase with depth. This creates a delay of ~200-500 years for the atmospheric carbon to be...
Determining the Chronology of Reef Island Development for Constraining Initial Human Colonization of Pacific Atolls (2021)
This is an abstract from the "When the Wild Winds Blow: Micronesia Colonization in Pacific Context" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As recent worldwide news coverage has aptly reported, Pacific coral atolls are the most precarious landscapes for human settlement, yet many of them evidence continuous occupation for 2,000 years. Coral atolls are unique in their small size, low elevation, limited diversity of terrestrial flora and fauna, poorly...
Developing Reproducible Methods for Defining and Evaluating Ceramic Compositional Groups Derived from NAA and LA-ICP-MS (2018)
The Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS), in collaboration with MURR and UNC Research Laboratories of Archaeology, has analyzed the elemental composition of nearly 400 coarse earthenware sherds from eighteenth and early nineteenth century plantation contexts from Jamaica. All of the sherds were analyzed using Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA), while nearly forty percent of these same sherds were analyzed via laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry...
The Development and Application of Isoscapes for Archaeological Provenance Studies in the Neotropics: Recent Developments and Future Directions (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Integrating Isotope Analyses: The State of Play and Future Directions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Isotope studies have become a common and effective method for inferring the geographic origins of a wide range of materials in various research disciplines, including archaeology. In recent years, such isotope approaches have also become more rigorous and quantitative, and increasingly make use of isoscapes (isotope...
The Development and Resilience of Complex Polity in the Southern Maya Lowlands: A Decade of Research at Uxbenká, Toledo, Belize (2017)
The original goals of Uxbenká Archaeological Project were to understand the geopolitical history of the polity in the context of wider regional developments during the Classic Period. Long suspected to be the earliest complex polity in southern Belize had intrigued archaeologists for decades based on its prominent locations between the Petén and the Caribbean Sea as well as its long history of descendant communities farming lands around the archaeological ruins. From 2008-2015 the Human Social...
Development and Use of Interactive Cultural Resources Tribal Relations Viewer for Informed Air Force Decision-Making (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Crucial Issues in United States Department of Defense Cultural Resources Management " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands (CEMML) collaborated with the United States Air Force Civil Engineer Center (AFCEC) to develop an interactive Cultural Resources Tribal Relations Viewer. This application uses WebApp Builder for ArcGIS and enables exploration of critical historic...
Development of a Classic Maya secondary polity at Itzimte (2017)
Itzimte (municipio La Libertad, Department of Peten, Guatemala) is a medium-sized Maya site in the savanna region in Central Peten. It was first described by Theobert Maler in 1908 and later visited by Sylvanus Morley in 1915 and 1921. In 2002 it was studied by Atlas Arqueologico de Guatemala team leaded by Hector Mejia. Itzimte consists of 6 principal plazas and 16 dispersed patio groups occupying about 50 ha. Monumental corpus of the site included 20 stelae (10 carved) and 12 altars (4...