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This is an abstract from the "Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Archaeology Classroom" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Material evidence is the hallmark of archaeological investigations, but bringing the reality of actual materials to the classroom can be challenging. We observe that the multisensory impact of hands-on activities in the classroom conveys key information and is a valuable way to engage students at the first-year, advanced undergraduate...
"Have You Ever Seen a Walrus in Nebraska?" Reflections on the Career and Contributions of Larry Todd (2023)
This is an abstract from the "A Tribute to the Contributions of Lawrence C. Todd to World Prehistory" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation presents several case studies that highlight the contributions that Larry Todd has made to the study of human paleoecology.
Hidden People in the Past: Honoring the Scholarship of Debra Martin (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Debra L. Martin" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Because archaeologists use ancient material culture to reconstruct the lives of people in the past, they tend to find those people with the most abundant and well-preserved property. Only the past few generations of archaeologists have looked beyond large settlements and monumental buildings to investigate common people. But...
Hide Processing in Prehistory: An Experimental Approach to Prehistoric Tanning Technologies (2018)
The importance of skin processing technologies, in the history and dispersal of humankind around the planet cannot be overstated. This presentation outlines a systematic analysis methodology targeted at this specific material type, with the goal of determining the tanning technologies in use during prehistory, from extant archaeologically recovered processed skin objects. The methodology is a product of macroscopic and microscopic observations of a sample reference collection containing over 200...
Historical Photogrammetry: Bringing a New Dimension to Historic Landscape Reconstruction (2018)
Archaeologists always strive to use every available source of information when conducting research, and historic imagery and aerial photography are nothing new to the field. However, new technical developments are bringing another dimension to these old sources of information. Many historic aerial photos were taken in a series of densely overlapping photos to minimize the effects of lens distortion for use in surveillance, cartography, or other purposes where accuracy in measurement was...
Huayacocotla’s Early Holocene and Middle Archaic Human Occupations (2018)
The Hunter-gatherer Phase in Veracruz and Mexico project has studied the Huayacocotla region, located in the state's northern highlands. Until a few years ago the richness of evidence that these archaeological sites contain were unknown and today they make up part of the little we know about the state's earliest people. Here we review the relative chronology and different occupations for the Early Holocene and Middle Archaic sites by interpreting the alteration, refunctionalization and...
The Human Experience of Transporting and Raising Scarlet Macaws at Paquimé in Chihuahua, Mexico (2021)
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. In the US Southwest and northwest Mexico, prehispanic people valued birds as dietary resources, for their ritual significance, as integral elements of Indigenous cosmologies, and for the economic value of their feathers. Their multifaceted significance is clearest at the site of Paquimé in...
The Imitation Game: Hybridization of Styles and Trade Goods in Ancient Eastern Honduras (2018)
This paper discusses the spatial, typological, and stylistic analyses of obsidian and ceramic artifacts recovered from El Chichicaste and Dos Quebradas, two prehistoric sites in the department of Olancho, Eastern Honduras. Using geographic information systems and 3D laser scanning technology, analyses revealed the extent of trade relationships that these two ancient communities maintained with sites in Mesoamerica and their southern neighbors in Central America. We argue that integration of...
The Impact of Ceramic Raw Materials on the Development of Hopewell and Preclassic Maya Pottery (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDS), energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (ED-XRF), and X-ray diffractometry (XRD) are used to compare the mineralogical and chemical composition of pottery from Colha, a Preclassic Maya site in Belize and the Twin Mounds Village, a Middle Woodland, Hopewell site in...
Impacts to Archaeological Deposits by Heavy Equipment and Protective Site Hardening Techniques (2019)
This is an abstract from the "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: A National Perspective on CRM, Research, and Consultation" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Heavy equipment, whether from construction, agriculture, or other varied situations, can significantly and negatively affect surface and subsurface archaeological deposits, be it from direct or indirect contact with machinery. In-situ protective "site hardening" techniques have potential to mitigate...
In the Footsteps of the Muses: Writing for Archaeogaming Educational Modules (AEM) (2023)
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. Video games are no longer silly pastimes where you press “B” to jump. As video games have become a larger part of children’s life, so too have video games become a larger part of academia. Video games are now being designed to display academic and historical subjects such as Ancient Rome,...
In the Garden: Studies in the American Neotropics (2018)
Gardens are spaces where households grow plants for food, medicine, and beauty. They provide subsistence as well as economic benefits. However, gardens are more than just economically functional. Gardens are also spaces where families interact and children are socialized, gender and status are negotiated, and ancestral memories are maintained. Archaeologically, soil chemistry, archaeobotany, and spatial analysis have enabled us to identify the locations of gardens, but addressing more...
The Indigenisation of Maritime Archaeology (2018)
Indigenous peoples remain under-represented in maritime archaeology. What strategies are maritime archaeology practitioners using to increase Indigenous participation? This paper introduces the concept of Indigenisation—institutionalised (normative practice) change efforts towards Indigenous inclusion underpinned by principles of recognition and respect for Indigenous peoples, knowledges and cultures—to the discipline of maritime archaeology. Drawing on the Design and Evaluation Framework for...
Indigenous Archaeologies across the Global South: Confronting World-Building and World-Destroying Capacities and Realities (2023)
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. In recent years, archaeological research and cultural heritage management have advanced considerably toward the integration of community-guided practices and processes. The dimensions of research ethics and social justice appear to play increasingly prominent roles in the design and...
The Intention of Actions—A Cross-cultural Study on Ancient Backfilling Processes (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the last few decades, the study of ancient backfilling processes at prehistoric sites has aroused research interest: besides the architectural features, the surrounding layer structure came into focus. A fundamental distinction is made between natural layers and deliberately applied material. In contrast to geological erosion or debris layers, the fill...
The Interaction of Aesthetics and Technology between East and West, from the Perspective of Glass Beads from Xinjiang, China (2019)
This is an abstract from the "From Tangible Things to Intangible Ideas: The Context of Pan-Eurasian Exchange of Crops and Objects" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Xinjiang is located in the crossroads of the Silk Road and connected the Central Asia, South Asia and central China. During the 2nd to 1st millennia BC, glass beads were transferred from the West Asia and South Asia to central China through the Tianshan corridor and southern edge oasis...
Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Capacity Building for Characterizing Plant Exudates: On Supporting the Resilience of Future Endeavors in Residue Analysis (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Plant Exudates and Other Binders, Adhesives, and Coatings in the Americas" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Interdisciplinary collaboration is essential when it comes to characterizing plant exudates and other archaeological residues. But how do we push the ball forward and become confident that we are producing new insights into material culture from our work, especially at this time when collaboration has become...
Introduction to Symposium: Collaborative and Community Engaged Scholarship and Case Studies (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation is an introduction to our ninth symposium on “Collaborative and Community Engaged Scholarship (CES)”—an important topic in our profession, encompassing a growing diversity of activities and best practices. Conducting research (and other types of historic preservation endeavors) in effective partnership with a wide spectrum of...
Introduction to the Intersection of Sustainability and Climate Change in Tropical Social Systems (2018)
In 2015 world leaders adopted the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals detailed in The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Recently, policy makers, archaeologists and other tropical scholars have been working with UNESCO Mexico, focusing on sustainability in tropical regions. One of the session discussants, Dr. Nuria Sanz, Director of UNESCO Mexico, has laid out the key aspects of particular important to tropical areas, resulting in the focus on five of the 17 goals: Goal...
The Invisibility of Violent Women (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Women of Violence: Warriors, Aggressors, and Perpetrators of Violence" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We are all capable of violence. Violence utilized by men is rarely—if ever—questioned, but for women it is presumed a tool employed only by exception. Individuals and groups of both sexes have used violence to many ends. Though sex may influence the context and mode of employment, the capacity for violence is...
Is a Woman’s Place in the Household? Gender, Prestige, and Feminized Archaeology (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Beyond Leaky Pipelines: Exploring Gender Inequalities in Archaeological Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists consider the household the smallest unit of economic and social production and acknowledge household activities have bottom-up effects on society. However, studies of households are not as headline-grabbing as “lost” cities and royal tombs and may be undervalued in terms of impact factor and...
Is There (and What Is) a “Nubian-Levallois” from the Etic Perspective of Flake and Fracture Formation? (2023)
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. Lithic experimentation and the understanding of the so-called nubian-levallois technology are just two among many aspects of Harold’s legacy. The results of so far the only controlled experiment on core surface morphology, some of which resembles nubian-levallois in featuring a prominent...
John White's Playboy Black vs. Playboy White, Part 2 (2018)
John White once published a piece comparing the depiction of both Native Americans and Blacks in the cartoons of Playboy Magazine from its inception to 1970. In this work, John discovered that as a result of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's the image of Blacks in cartoons changed from ones oriented on cultural and racial distinctions to ones that merely displayed blacks in the cartoon. In short, the humor of the cartoon was no longer fixated on Black race or culture, but on other...
Judging a Vessel by Its Surface: Investigating Production Process in Corinthian Ceramics through Use of Multiple Non-invasive Instruments (2019)
This is an abstract from the "From Materials to Materiality: Analysis and Interpretation of Archaeological and Historical Artifacts Using Non-destructive and Micro/Nano-sampling Scientific Methods" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Evidence of ceramic production techniques, such as multiphase firing utilized by 4th-century BCE Greek potters, can be observed through use of non-invasive instrumentation. Portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (pXRF),...
The Landscape of China’s Participation in the Bronze Age Eurasian Network (2018)
In the last decade, much has been learned about the network of interactions in Bronze Age Eurasia, and the importance of the steppe pastoralists in the creation of this network. However, the mechanisms that enabled societies in ancient China (both those bordering on and distant from the steppe) to participate in the Bronze Age Eurasian arena are still poorly understood. Based on the latest archaeological discoveries in China, this article focuses on the participation of four regions of ancient...