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DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea Blackmore.

We volunteer and engage with the public because we believe that history matters; that visibility of the everyday, of peoples and pasts marginalized and made invisible should be central to what we do. We can use our work, pre- and post-contact, as a means for public engagement and to dismantle political discussions rooted in ahistorical notions of human behavior and morality. But in serving the public interest, how do we also serve our membership, both in protecting their rights as human beings...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Darcy Bird. Jacob Freeman.

Recent analyses of large samples of radiocarbon dates shows a change in radiocarbon date frequencies between 3000 BP and 800 BP. There is either an exponential or super-exponential increase in radiocarbon date frequencies followed by a sudden decline. The goal of this poster is to test a population ecology model as to whether or not the degree of population overshoot can predict the degree of population collapse. We want to analyze if the rate of increase in radiocarbon date frequencies over...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael D'Aprix. Nicola Sheyhing. Jesper de Raad.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper will present the outcomes of a second survey of European and world archaeologists intended to understand and explore the realities of early career archaeologists in commercial settings. The first survey conducted by the European Association of Archaeologists Early Careers Archaeologists Community focused only on academic archaeologists while...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ted Parsons.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Small and inexpensive alternatives for capturing three-dimensional (3D) data have continued to proliferate. Previous 3D capture systems included specialized Google and Sony smartphones, the Scanse Sweep, and the moderately expensive DotProduct DPI-8X handheld scanner. This poster examines developments in the low-cost scanner arena during the last two years...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ted Parsons.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster examines the development of new, highly portable, entries into the short-range (~5m) scanning arena use LiDAR sensors in recent iPhones and iPads and how they impact archaeological data collection. Previous small 3D capture systems included specialized Google and Sony smartphones, and the moderately expensive DotProduct DPI-8X handheld scanner....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sophia Maline. Melanie Miller. Jillian Swift. Christine A. Hastorf.

Charred food residues provide a unique window into ancient peoples’ culinary cultures, and chemical analyses of burnt meals can help us identify the ingredients used to create specific recipes. However, limited experimental work leaves us wondering - when we find residue in an ancient pot, are we viewing the remains of the final meal cooked in that pot or is it the product of multiple recipes? Does the chemical signature of the residue accurately reflect the meal(s) cooked in that pot? Seven...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexis Clark.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As archaeologists, we have a heightened awareness that the objects we discard in our daily lives persist and tell a story about contemporary society. But do we give enough consideration to the items we discard through the process of archaeological research? In 2012, an article published in the SAA Archaeological Record titled “Zero Waste Archaeology”...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Heilen. Shelby Manney.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Most archaeological investigations in the United States and other countries must comply with preservation laws, if on government property or supported by government funding. Academic and cultural resource management (CRM) studies have explored various social, temporal, and environmental contexts and produce an ever-increasing volume of archaeological data....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carol McDavid.

Pragmatism is a challenging approach for a host of reasons – some emerge from the cultural behaviors and institutional structures of the academy, and others from the inequities that persist in modern society. It is also a profoundly satisfying one, when it "works". This paper will reflect upon the opportunities and pitfalls encountered while "using" pragmatism over the past 20 years (practicing public and community archaeology, working with community groups and professional societies, editing a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Conger. Sam Olvey. Leonardo Umberger. Carla S. Hadden. Amanda D. Roberts Thompson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since at least 1972, the Center for Applied Isotope Studies (CAIS) at the University of Georgia (UGA) has maintained an archive of the pretreated and unpretreated remnants of samples sent for radiocarbon dating and stable isotope analysis. This growing archive now contains over 15,000 archaeological and geological specimens. In August 2022, CAIS initiated...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Frederic Sellet. Justin Garnett. Haley Bjorklund.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study evaluates the value of porcelain slip casting for the replication process of prehistoric end scrapers. The method when used in conjunction with 3D scanning and printing has already proven successful in making nearly exact replicas of prehistoric projectile points and their preforms. Many functionally identical copies can be made from a single...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fernanda Neubauer.

This is an abstract from the "Fire-Cracked Rock: Research in Cooking and Noncooking Contexts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The information potential of fire-cracked rocks (FCR) and their associated features remain surprisingly understudied, given that they are ubiquitous at many sites, often well preserved, are little affected by the activity of collectors, and span hundreds of millennia of the human experience. Whereas FCR preserves well,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Davies. Matthew Douglass.

This is an abstract from the "Inference in Paleoarchaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Concepts from resilience theory (RT) have been variously applied in studies of the deep human past. Given emphasis on cross-scale interactions and cyclical trajectories, RT provides a framework to interpret historical sequences in terms of general ecological processes. However, less consideration has been given to the interface between the trajectories of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian Codding. Kate Magargal. Douglas Bird. Rebecca Bliege Bird. David Zeanah.

This is an abstract from the "Life Is Risky: Human Behavioral Ecological Approaches to Variable Outcomes " session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Explaining major subsistence transitions in human prehistory requires an evaluation of the costs and benefits past people experienced. All too often, these trade-offs are explored solely by analysis of central tendency (i.e., mean returns), without exploring the distribution of possible outcomes. Here we explore...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jodi Reeves Eyre.

Digitization, the conversion of an analog item and creation a digital surrogate, is an important collections management tool. Digitizing collection materials can provide engaging images for public outreach and education, improve knowledge of the collection and access. It also aids in the preservation of materials by creating digital surrogates of content. Digitizing material can rescue content from obsolete media, provide a way for researchers to view content while protecting fragile, physical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Markham.

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. Climate change is the fastest growing threat to World Heritage properties, including archaeological sites, worldwide. Warming temperatures, sea level rise, coastal erosion, permafrost thaw, drought, worsening wildfires and more intense rainstorms, hurricanes and typhoons are putting...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul King. Franz Manni.

This is an abstract from the "Body Modification: Examples and Explanations" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Across continents, material evidence of body piercing jewelry abounds in the archaeological record. However, the varying procedures and processes of piercing, healing, and stretching these wounds for adornment remains unfamiliar to most archaeologists. This PowerPoint presentation discusses the early self-experimentations that led to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Radu Iovita. David Braun. Matthew Douglass. Simon Holdaway. Sam Lin.

This is an abstract from the "The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis and Human Origins: Archaeological Perspectives" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Because lithics preserve better than almost any other trace of human existence in the deep past, they receive the lion’s share of attention from Pleistocene archaeologists. In this paper we explore the theoretical and practical limitations of using lithics as subjects of evolutionary analyses. We base our...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Smith. Metin Eren.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. All natural substances have intrinsic acoustical properties. Flint, obsidian, and basalt, because of their comparable structure, have very similar sound properties. We explore here whether every piece of knappable stone, within certain parameters, will produce the same fundamental pitch along with its associated partials. The partials of the harmonic sequence...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shawn Graham. Damien Huffer.

This is an abstract from the "Human Remains in the Marketplace and Beyond: Myths and Realities of Monitoring, Grappling With, and Anthropologizing the Illicit Trade in a Post-Harvard World" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Human remains are traded openly across social media and the wider web. The posts that accompany these texts are sometimes graphic, often disrespectful, and normally afford no dignity to the dead. The imagery can similarly show no...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sam Lin. Alex Mackay.

This is an abstract from the "Inference in Paleoarchaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In archaeology, distinct processes in the past can generate similar patterning in the material record under varying temporal and spatial scales. Facing this challenge of equifinality, archaeologists frequently use parsimony to help assess competing explanatory models by preferring simpler explanations over more complex ones. However, there is little...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Simon Davies.

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Research into the Late Pleistocene of Europe" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper will evaluate the role of transferable techniques in Paleolithic technical innovations. I shall consider the interlocking technical aspects of mastic, ceramic, ground food, and pigment production, together with the technical overlaps in working wood and osseous materials. In addition, I shall consider the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aksel Casson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The use of role-playing games (RPGs) in university courses is increasingly common in the humanities and social sciences, most notably within the discipline of history. Here I describe my efforts to construct a series of mini-RPGs for an introductory archaeology course, with units designed around key behavioral developments: the emergence of technology,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sandra Joshel.

In the last 20 years, Roman archaeologists have analyzed the remains of Roman streets, counted graffiti, benches, and doorways in Pompeii and Herculaneum, and mapped the spaces of houses, workshops, and villas, and examined as well as the location of objects. Archaeologists have turned the material remains into facts and assembled an archive of the traces of human activities—traffic, movement, work, rituals, etc. How this scholarship has furthered our understanding of a heterogeneous population...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Neil Dixon. M. Kathryn Brown. Leah McCurdy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Digital photography has ushered in many new methods of documenting archaeological resources in the past 15 years. Many of these new methods have been flawed because of a misunderstanding of the potential of the digital technologies and the analog methods they replace. Reflective Transformation Imaging (RTI) photography is a relatively new technique to document...