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DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Reetz. Jeanne Moe. Elizabeth Pruitt.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology Education: Building a Research Base" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As scientists, archaeologists collect data. Why don’t we often collect data on the effectiveness of archaeology education programming? Public archaeology is developing into an essential practice. However, our field lacks extensive comparative information about the outcomes of these programs, and we rarely assess what our participants learn...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Knoerlein.

With a background in forensics, David Knoerlein, vice president of Forensic Digital Imaging, is a certified evidence photographer who has developed a new and innovative process for the digital documentation of artifacts. Mr. Knoerlein will demonstrate how to capture museum quality images right out of the camera. Utilizing a customized tabletop camera station, he will demonstrate how to capture detailed diagnostic images of artifacts with pure white (shadowless) backgrounds. This combination of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Wai.

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. Collecting objects forms a core game mechanic. Traditionally, critiques have focused on the trivialization of cultural objects. However, I argue that such collections have grown in their educational and informative ability for players. Furthermore, such games are reflexive, informing the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Herndon. Rob Griffin. Brian Odom. Dan Irwin. Tom Sever.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For more than four decades, NASA has played an outsized role in advancing the use of satellite imagery for archaeological applications. Starting in the 1980s, NASA archaeologist Dr. Tom Sever organized the first conference on archaeological applications of remote sensing, infusing NASA Earth Observations into cutting-edge archaeological research being...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madeleine Yakal. Iman Nagy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology as a discipline emerged as an extension of colonialism, and although recent efforts over the last several decades have worked to "decolonize" the field, non-local perspectives continue to be prioritized by Western institutions. This paper seeks to address perpetual inequality within the field of archeology by highlighting normalized practices...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John O'Shea.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Global Submerged Paleolandscapes Research" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite recent advances in method and approach, the underwater archaeological record continues to make a negligible contribution of prehistoric research. This is due, in part, to a series of widespread but erroneous beliefs about the character of the submerged record. These include the belief that underwater finds are chance...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ted Parsons.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 3D modeling is an integral part of many archaeology projects. Photo-based 3D modeling using Structure from Motion and Multiview Stereo (SfM/MVS) algorithms is widely used. SfM/MVS requires minimal field gear and can produce very high-quality output: Agisoft’s PhotoScan Professional® is the most popular commercial implementation of SfM/MVS. Adequate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Way. Amy Tabrett.

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. There is a general awareness among archaeologists that the intensity of a sampling program, i.e. the number of pits, their size and their spacing, has a strong bearing on discovery rates. However, rarely is the effect of this relationship explicitly assessed due to the difficulty of running the required mathematical models....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claire Maass. Amanda Friend. Lesley Chesson. Gregory Berg.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists are routinely tasked with sorting and identifying osseous remains in complex assemblages. When dealing with non-diagnostic fragments or significant taphonomic alterations, a straightforward determination of human or non-human based on osteological analysis is not always feasible. This study tests the use of nitrogen isotope delta values...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Porter. Christopher Hoffman. Kea Johnston.

The growth in object photogrammetry standards and techniques offers new opportunities for university museums concerned with collections care, research, education, and public engagement. The Phoebe Hearst Museum’s global collection of 3.8 million objects spanning two million years and six continents presents an ideal context in which to explore such opportunities and work through interesting challenges. This paper describes how UC Berkeley faculty, staff, and students are collaborating on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joel Alves. Carly Ameen. Tom Fowler. Naomi Sykes. Greger Larson.

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. Rabbits are one of the most recently domesticated animals, and yet, over thousands of years, they have lived in a diverse range of relationships with people. This close interaction is recorded in archaeological and historical records and reflected today in the diversity of breeds worldwide. Whilst extensive research has been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laurence Bartram.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology as a Public Good: Why Studying Archaeology Creates Good Careers and Good Citizens" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. What utility does an archaeological education provide students who choose careers off well-trodden archaeological paths? What do these students bring to their careers and society at large? This paper focuses on why academic training in anthropological archaeology can offer students a desirable...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marcus Hamilton.

This is an abstract from the "Big Ideas to Match Our Future: Big Data and Macroarchaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology reconstructs human behavior in the past from a biased, sparse, and fragmentary record, at multiple scales of space and time, from site-specific local events, to regional, continental, and global patterns. However, in practice, it is not always clear at which scale we are asking archaeological questions, and how...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher McFarland. Ho Jung Yoo. Rosemary Elliott Smith. Thomas E. Levy. Falko Kuester.

Although new technologies have made it possible to document historical and archaeological sites in greater detail than ever before, and have made it faster and easier to disseminate information, they have also brought about new challenges, especially in connection to long term data preservation. As the quantity of information stored digitally continues to grow it becomes increasingly important to actively curate the information now, for present and future reuse. Not only does data need to be...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the last decade, scholars in the fields of archaeology and history have come to appreciate the potential of digital tools for transforming how we excavate, organize data, and share it with the world. As these various approaches become more integral to these disciplines, instructors have also been working on improving the digital literacy of their students....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Rogerson Jennings.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The practice of collections management is changing with the ever-growing technology that is embedded in society today. The museum's visitor no longer receives information on an analog platform, or at least not the majority of it, so why is this the main form of communication between museums and patrons? This creates a necessity for museums to alter their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brittany Hundman. Alyssa M. Tate. Jonathan Heile.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Established field sample collection procedures have fostered misconceptions of the vulnerable nature of organic materials destined for radiocarbon dating. To address common contamination concerns and debunk these misconceptions, wood samples of known age were intentionally exposed to a variety of substances found in the field and the lab, including coffee,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lee Drake.

The Lukas-Tooth and Price algorithm for empirical calibration of x-ray fluorescence systems has become the standard for archaeometry, particularly in obsidian sourcing. Here, a new way of using the computer language R and HTML5 websites is introduced to calibrate these systems.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zoë Shmidt. Kalina Kassadjikova. Lars Fehren-Schmitz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ancient DNA extraction protocols are inherently destructive and, therefore, are often controversial and problematic. For some communities, destructive processing of human remains could be perceived as a desecration of ancestors. For laboratory scientists, the destruction of samples limits the ability to replicate results. Harney et al. (2021) present a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip Carr.

This is an abstract from the "Inference in Paleoarchaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the late twentieth century, the investigation of settlement patterns and mobility were considered important archaeological endeavors. Analyzing stone tools assemblages to make inferences of group mobility was based on utilizing simple dichotomies. For stone tools, the concepts of curated and expedient dominated thinking. Likewise, the constructs of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Piscitelli.

This is an abstract from the ""Is There Gold in that Field?" CRM and Public Outreach on the Front Lines" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This is a call to action for CRM professionals and archaeologists more broadly. In a world of viral tweets and social media influencers, the past is getting swept under the rug. Our work is regulated to gray literature, a checked box before breaking ground. Nevertheless, our efforts reveal powerful human stories...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander Rogers. Christopher Stevenson.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Obsidian Studies of the Old and New Worlds" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Obsidian hydration dating (OHD) is a method for estimating age of an obsidian artifact based on time-dependent absorption of water. The process is temperature-sensitive, and its application to archaeological dating currently requires assuming that current temperature parameters are a reasonable approximation to ancient temperatures....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elise LeCompte.

This is an abstract from the ""Re-excavating" Legacy Collections" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The analysis of legacy collections is often hampered by documentation that is fragmentary, preserved on obsolete media, or entirely absent. Like the physical material that makes up a legacy collection, the associated documents may be spread across institutions. This may include other museums, educational facilities, government agencies, and private...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Yaquinto. Lyle Balenquah.

This is an abstract from the "Braiding Knowledge: Opportunities and Challenges for Collaborative Approaches to Archaeological Heritage and Conservation" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Heritage Voices Podcast, hosted by the Archaeology Podcast Network, centers the voices of indigenous and traditionally associated peoples in discussions on anthropology, cultural resources and heritage, and land management. This includes a focus on community...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Oliver Boles. Emily Hammer. Kathy Morrison.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. PAGES LandCover6k explores the relationship between past human activity and variability in the palaeoecological record to produce global maps of anthropogenic land-cover change based on sound archaeological knowledge and palaeoecological proxies, maps which will be available for use by the climate modelling community to better understand past climate dynamics....