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DOCUMENT Full-Text Rachel Fernandez. Leigh Anne Ellison.

With every trowel stroke, archaeologists expose layers of the past, allowing for the preservation of material while using destructive methods. Fortunately, with the formulation of research and documentation methods over the years, our destructive behavior has been offset with the increase of data and research possibilities. In more recent years, this data has taken on a digital format which has accumulated exponentially. As the amount of data produced from archaeological investigations increase...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adela Morris. Lynne Engelbert.

This is an abstract from the "Canine Resources for the Archaeologist" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The use of trained Historical Human Remains Detection dogs (HHRDs) is a noninvasive technique that can help locate burials, providing less destructive archaeological survey alternatives to the Native American Community. HHRDs can identify historical and precontact burial areas, so construction or other kinds of invasive activities can be avoided or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirsten Vacca. COSWA Committee Members .

This is an abstract from the "Gender in Archaeology over the Last 30+ Years" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Committee on the Status of Women in Archaeology (COSWA) was formed to “understand the current status of women in the profession through the gathering of data and to improve the position of women in archaeology” (SAA.org). Influences from gender and feminist theory over the years have informed the work COSWA does to address barriers faced...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn Lord. Greger Larson. Raymond Coppinger. Elinor Karlsson.

This is an abstract from the "Questioning the Fundamentals of Plant and Animal Domestication" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Domestic and wild animals are distinguished primarily by behavioral changes difficult to discern in archaeological remains. Domestication syndrome describes the suite of behavioral and morphological changes proposed to consistently accompany domestication, including skeletal changes. It is largely based on an experiment in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jesse Stephen. Nicole Rhoton. David Brown. Matthew Leavesley. Jason Kariwiga.

This is an abstract from the "A Multidimensional Mission: Crossing Conflicts, Synthesizing Sites, and Adapting Approaches to Find Missing Personnel" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The complexity of accounting for missing in action personnel is highly dependent on the past—and present—context of the loss. In late 1942, during the Battle of Buna-Gona in New Guinea, United States forces established a roadblock behind forward Japanese positions in an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ella Assaf Shpayer.

This is an abstract from the "Embodied Essence: Anthropological, Historical, and Archaeological Perspectives on the Use of Body Parts and Bodily Substances in Religious Beliefs and Practices" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The deep bond between humans and horses is well reflected in the Paleolithic record from its earliest stages. The significant role of horses (Equus) in Paleolithic diet is evident from the presence of horse skeletal remains, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bryandra Owen.

This is an abstract from the "Digitizing Archaeological Practice: Education and Outreach in the Archaeogaming Subdiscipline" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In his 2018 book, “Archaeogaming,” Dr. Andrew Reinhard presented compelling arguments and research for video games and board games being important areas of study for archaeologists. In the years since the release of this titular book, many archaeologists who are also “gamers” have begun...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anneke Janzen. Lauren Malone. Amy Mundorf.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Identifying skeletal remains to species can be a challenge in archaeological and forensics contexts. The high rates of fragmentation and often poor preservation of bones have rendered skeletal fragments specimens unidentifiable beyond broad categories, such as “large mammal.” Identification of skeletal specimens through Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tamara Dogandzic. Li Li. Shannon McPherron.

This is an abstract from the "Establishing the Science of Paleolithic Archaeology: The Legacy of Harold Dibble (1951–2018) Part I" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The shape and size of lithic artifacts are a main source of information about the technical and technological behaviors of past peoples. The mechanics of how flakes are formed is thus one of the central questions of lithic studies and one that Harold Dibble was intently focused on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander Nyers. Loren Davis. Danial Bean.

Over the past few years 3D scanning technologies have become a more common tool for archaeologists. These technologies allow for the rapid collection of large datasets that hold the potential to be used not only for display purposes, but also for sophisticated morphological analyses. In order to leverage 3D scan data for anything more than general viewing however, we as archaeologists must become fluent not only in the recording of metadata associated with model creation, but also in evaluating...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Sawchuk. Mary Prendergast.

This is an abstract from the "Ancient DNA in Service of Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent methodological advances have rapidly increased the pace and scale of ancient DNA (aDNA) studies, prompting widespread sampling in museum collections and raising ethical concerns about inter-lab competition, treatment of human remains, and the research questions being addressed. Another key issue is selection of material that will be destroyed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Greger Larson. Julia Best. Alison Foster. Ophelie Lebrasseur. Naomi Sykes.

This is an abstract from the "HumAnE Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The chicken is a relatively recent addition to global cuisine. Unlike cattle, sheep and pigs, which were domesticated 10,000-12,000 years ago, convincing evidence for the domestication of Red Junglefowl, native to Southeast Asia, does not emerge until at 5,000 years ago, at the earliest. Furthermore, multiple strands of evidence suggest that chickens were not...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathleen Holen. Steven Holen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Prey animal bone modification by humans has long been part of the archaeological record; however, debate continues as to whether this evidence alone is sufficient to justify interpretation of technological activity. This is especially true if such evidence is used in support of archaeological sites older than 16 kya in the Americas. This poster synthesizes...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julie Hoggarth. Tia Watkins. Claire Ebert. Sylvia Batty.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Numerous studies have demonstrated the most immediate impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic upon the sciences have fallen on younger women and women with young children. These studies highlight how social crises, such as global pandemics, exacerbate existing disparities in social, political, and economic structures. To date no study has yet identified its...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marcy Rockman.

This is an abstract from the "Accelerating Environmental Change Threats to Cultural Heritage: Serious Challenges, Promising Responses" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Modern anthropogenic climate change has its roots in the Industrial Revolution and has developed further through social and economic processes that have grown into world dependence on fossil fuels. Archaeology has much to say about these developments and provides important cultural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laurel Freas. Kelley Esh.

This is an abstract from the "A Multidimensional Mission: Crossing Conflicts, Synthesizing Sites, and Adapting Approaches to Find Missing Personnel" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological recovery of an aircraft crash site differs significantly from traditional archaeology in that the former often takes place in locations unsuitable for human habitation, in geographic and environmental settings beyond the scope of standard excavation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jane Anderson. Stephanie Carroll.

This is an abstract from the "Refining Archaeological Data Collection and Management to Achieve Greater Scientific, Traditional, and Educational Values" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Extractive and unethical research practices led to the accumulation of Indigenous collections in vast national repositories that have missing, incomplete, and impoverished records and metadata. The articulation of Indigenous Peoples’ rights and interests in data...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Beth Sheehan.

Journal publishers are poised to influence and be influenced by disciplinary attitudes toward data sharing. A previous study of the relative strength or weakness of data sharing policies in journals that publish gene microarray expression data (Piwowar and Chapman, 2008) found that stronger data sharing policies are generally associated with higher journal impact factors and an increased percentage of articles with shared and available data. In fact, even the presence of a "weak" policy...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Trisha Biers. Marta Mirazón Lahr.

The Duckworth Collection is one of the world's largest repositories of human remains, numbering approximately 18,000 individuals. These range from blood samples, to hair bundles, single bones, complete skeletons, mummies, and decorated skulls, and are widely used for scientific research. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, anthropological and biological research gave us a greater understanding of human diversity, much of it based on anatomical evidence. Cambridge was at the forefront of this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lior Weissbrod. Yaron Dekel.

Research on the origins of animal domestication has relied heavily on the use of morphometric characteristics of skeletal remains as diagnostic markers for important shape and size changes, which supposedly signaled the beginnings of domestication processes. However, the utility of this approach for pinpointing the timing and geographic and cultural context of initial domestication has been recently questioned. This approach has been undermined by empirical findings from geometric morphometric...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicolas Gauthier.

This is an abstract from the "The Expanding Bayesian Revolution in Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological data are crucial for understanding how human societies shaped—and were shaped by—their biophysical environments. Yet these data are often sparse, noisy, and time averaged, making it difficult to uncover patterns of change across space and time. Process-based simulations are one way to fill the gaps in these imperfect proxy...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Li Li. Sam Lin. Jonathan Reeves. Shannon McPherron.

This is an abstract from the "Establishing the Science of Paleolithic Archaeology: The Legacy of Harold Dibble (1951–2018) Part I" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The underlying physics of stone tool production is an important component in the studies of lithic technology. The field of fracture mechanics offers rich literature on the basic principles of flake initiation, propagation, and termination. However, results from these fracture mechanics...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth Aitchison. Doug Rocks-Macqueen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Labor market intelligence can tell us about the size, shape and dynamics of professional archaeology, as it is today and as it has been in the past. This valuable information helps individual archaeologists to see where they are in their careers, helps employers to recognize their place in the market and helps educators see where the students they have trained...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allison Balabuch.

This is an abstract from the "Crafting Archaeological Practice in Africa and Beyond: Celebrating the Contributions of Ann B. Stahl to Global Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology contains fascinating subject matter that can provide the themes and content for many school subjects in K-12 education. Although there are many resources available for teachers, they are often difficult to find and/or only focus on the basic skills or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gregory Lockard.

This paper will provide an overview of international lender standards for cultural heritage and their implementation on development projects throughout the world. The paper will begin with a discussion of the history and objectives of international lender standards for cultural heritage. This discussion will focus on Performance Standard 8 (Cultural Heritage) of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Performance Standards on Environmental and Social Sustainability (2012), as the Equator...