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DOCUMENT Citation Only C Riley Auge.

This is an abstract from the "Magic, Spirits, Shamanism, and Trance" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Magic is essentially performative and heavily ritualized in its enactment whether wielded by specialized (e.g., shamans, cunning folk, alchemists) or lay practitioners. Each detail of the ritual performance not only works in tandem with all other aspects, but the details simultaneously connect with and draw upon cosmic forces as the agentic energy...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Evan Peacock. Sheeji Kathuria. David S. Nolen.

Applied zooarcheology has been on an apparent upward swing, gaining practitioners and seeing an increasing number of publications in natural science journals. Whether the intended consumers (conservation biologists, land managers) are receiving the message remains uncertain. We used a two-phase process to survey the literature pertaining to applied zooarchaeology: 1) keyword searching for highly cited applied zooarchaeology publications in Google Scholar; and 2) tracking of specific articles...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Wholey.

This is an abstract from the "Putting Archaeology to Work: Expanding Climate and Environmental Studies with the Archaeological Record" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Climate should be mainstream in education and be incorporated into all subjects because climate change is permeating. Many natural sciences are already centering climate literacy in coursework, but as the effects of climate change have become more visible and clearer, humanities,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret Helzer.

This is an abstract from the "Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Archaeology Classroom" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. After three decades of teaching archaeology courses at the college level, students still ask me about my views on Sasquatch, aliens, and intelligent design. In fact, these questions come up more frequently now than they ever had in the past. Those of us who teach archaeology are faced with a paradox: while current advancements in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mairead Doery.

This is an abstract from the "Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Archaeology Classroom" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Graduate students occupy a unique space in undergraduate archaeological education. We serve as teaching assistants, field school instructors, and trusted mentors to our undergraduate students, yet unlike professors, we are not viewed as commensurate authorities in the classroom. Simultaneously, we are positioned professionally as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katharine Ellenberger.

When teaching about preservation, it can be difficult to communicate the options and ethical dilemmas that inform principles of archaeological ethics. The message many members of the public get from brief exposure to digital records and virtual models often adds to the challenge, leaving them with impression that these are viable alternatives to physical site preservation. I propose employing evidence-based teaching practices to create public and university lessons which result in a properly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin Ray. Nadia Neff.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As archaeologists, we can be slow to adopt new technology in the field. Sensitive documents such as field notes and maps are often still done by hand for fear of data loss. Working in remote field settings with limited or no electricity can amplify this concern. This case study examines the use of an iPad for recording field notes, creating maps, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Buckley.

This is an abstract from the "Zooarchaeology and Technology: Case Studies and Applications" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. ZooMS, or ‘Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry’, is a relatively recently developed method in the field of archaeology, with the ability to identify large numbers of fragmentary animal bone to genus or species level. Most importantly, its advantages over ancient DNA-based approaches of identification are that it can be...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Delgado.

Advances in robotic and satellite technology have shifted ocean exploration into an interactive forum that links scientists and the public via "telepresence." Working with this paradigm, archaeologists have joined the ranks of ocean explorers on a variety of projects ranging from surveys to excavation in depths ranging from a few hundred to thousands of meters deep. The process has encouraged wider scientific integration, provided access to sites at depths previously not considered "workable,"...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Rabinowitz.

This is an abstract from the "Constructing Chronologies I: Stratification and Correlation" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper explores the potential of the PeriodO period gazetteer to facilitate temporal reasoning and visualization in archaeological datasets, both within and between stratigraphic databases that refer to PeriodO definitions for their period terms, and within and between datasets using only natural-language labels. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris Stantis. Lesley Chesson. Kirsten Verostick. Gregory Berg. Gabriel Bowen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Carbon and oxygen isotope ratios of human tooth enamel carbonate are frequently used to reconstruct past diet, movement, and environmental conditions. Despite a long legacy of research, samples are prepared and analyzed using a remarkably broad range of protocols, and this methodological heterogeneity raises questions about the comparability of isotopic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Greger Larson. Laurent Frantz. Angela Perri. Ophelie Lebrasseur. James Haile.

Despite numerous investigations leveraging both genetic and archaeological evidence, the geographic origins of dogs remain unknown. On the basis of an ancient Irish dog genome and an assessment of the spatiotemporal appearance of dogs in the archaeological record, a recent paper suggested that dogs may have been domesticated independently in Eastern and Western Eurasia from distinct wolf populations. Following those independent origins, a mitochondrial assessment suggested that the Mesolithic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lesley Chesson. Gregory Berg.

This is an abstract from the "The Intersection of Archaeological Science and Forensic Science" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation describes the theoretical frameworks for isotope data collection and interpretation that will help archaeological scientists ensure their contributions to forensic investigations are scientifically sound and legally defensible. Archaeological science is now commonly used in forensic settings to reconstruct...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Naoko Matsumoto. Atsushi Iriki. Saburo Sugiyama.

This is an abstract from the "Ancient Landscapes and Cosmic Cities out of Eurasia: Transdisciplinary Studies with New Lidar Mapping" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ancient consciousness may be a key concept to discern human biocultural evolutionary processes. We reassess how indigenous people out of Eurasia developed consciousness about time and space and created conceptual dividing apparatuses, like calendar systems. We begin with theoretical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirsten Green. Meradeth Snow.

No one expects to face any sort of harassment or discrimination and we can feel blindsided when something occurs that puts us, and/or our career, at risk. The question of ‘what next?’ can be daunting, especially in the face of choices that have massive repercussions personally and professionally. Frank discussion of the variety of ways to best maneuver a harassment situation, based on the literature and the experience of peers and colleagues, will be discussed. Additionally, how harassment and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aylar Abdolahzadeh.

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. For many Paleolithic archaeologists, it is important to determine whether similar characteristics of lithic artifacts and/or assemblages resulted from convergent evolution because this may help us better understand the evolutionary developments of stone artifact technologies from H....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Curtis Marean.

This is an abstract from the "Establishing the Science of Paleolithic Archaeology: The Legacy of Harold Dibble (1951–2018) Part II" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The methods that we use to excavate archaeological sites shape the resulting data in an unchangeable manner and have significant downstream impacts on our ability to study and interpret our data. In 1987 Harold Dibble published “Measurement of Artifact Provenience with an Electronic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sovi-Mya Wellons. Ryan Seidemann. Christine Halling.

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. Buddhist and Hindu Tantra practitioners have a well-known tradition of salvaging the skeletal remains of tantric monks from sky burials and converting elements for subsequent ceremonial use. These converted remains, broadly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Miranda LaZar. Jonathan Dombrosky.

This is an abstract from the "Birds in Archaeology: New Approaches to Understanding the Diverse Roles of Birds in the Past" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ability to track trade of socially valued goods made from raptor bones can give archaeologists a deeper understanding of both human-raptor interactions and networks of exchange. Reconstructing distribution of such goods from production centers, however, requires the ability to identify bones...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Cobb.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology to Transform and Disrupt: Teaching, Learning, and the Pedagogies of the Future" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In our collaborative work, Karina Croucher and I have developed a pedagogy that we have called an inclusive learning assemblage approach (Cobb and Croucher 2020). We have argued that archaeology is powerfully placed to deliver teaching and learning that foregrounds the lived experiences of our...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Devin Pettigrew.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many controlled archaeological weapons experiments have used homogenous target simulants to answer a variety of questions. Target simulants, however, must be shown to be scalable for the weapons we study; they must be shown to capture the same characteristics that make weapons effective in their original application. This paper presents original research...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claire Smith. Kellie Pollard. Anita Painter. Maria Ortiz. Andrew Coe.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Congress: Multivocal Conversations Furthering the World Archaeological Congress Agenda" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This conversation is between archaeologists (both Indigenous and non-Indigenous) and Aboriginal people from the Barunga region of the Northern Territory Australia. We present our emerging vision for reorienting archaeology so its primary purpose is as a tool for social good. We discuss...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Summer Austin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study is a multidisciplinary investigation into factors that create, enhance, and normalize demand for collecting antiquities. Using the original blockbuster, Treasures of Tutankhamun, as the case study, this doctoral research investigates the correlating antiquities markets' reaction to Tut blockbusters by gathering, quantifying, and contextualizing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Asher Blake. Zoe Anderson. Madison James. Mariah Smith. Catalina Terlea.

This is an abstract from the "Experimental Pedagogies: Teaching through Experimental Archaeology Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Undergraduate ceramic archaeological instruction is built around the common, and often taken for granted, categories of raw materials, functional forms, and decorative characteristics. As students, we primarily study these categories to classify materials in field and laboratory settings with little time or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Young. Piotr Bojakowski. Richard Wills.

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. A significant portion of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)'s unresolved loss cases involve incidents that occurred over water, at sea, or otherwise within a body of water. In the context of underwater forensic archaeology, addressing these cases require a...