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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...
The Irish Medieval Patron-Client State in World Perspective (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The state of the O’Briens, at times called the Kingdom of Limerick, lasted from the mid-eleventh century until it accepted the sovereignty of Henry VIII at the end of the sixteenth century. In its features it conforms to the model of the patron-client state that William Sanders formulated to distill the similarities in organization that were apparent in...
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...
Learning to Navigate Cultural Resource Managment through a Simulated Tabletop Game (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Leveling Up: Gaming and Game Design in Archaeological Education and Outreach" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While the use of simulations in educational contexts for archaeology is not new, the ways in which this approach have been employed have not fully explored the higher-level educational benefits possible. Many simulations focus on the general concepts of archaeology, rather than viewing them as genuine...
Less Writing, More Eating: Using Experiential Learning to Promote Engagement at a Small Liberal Arts College (2024)
This is an abstract from the "AI-Proof Learning: Food-Centered Experimental Archaeology in the Classroom" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Warren Wilson College is a small school in Asheville, North Carolina that integrates work, study, and community service through the lens of experiential learning. In this talk, I will discuss some of the pedagogical choices in my Archaeology of Food and Feasting course that promoted student engagement apart from...
Leveraging Behavioral Ecology to Understand the Relationship between Resource Availability and Human Violence (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Behavioral Ecology and Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Violence is a pervasive feature of human prehistory, and its traces can be found throughout the archaeological record. Collective violence has important effects on individual survival and is thought to play a critical role in the evolution of complex social systems. However, participation in coalitionary violence elicits a collective action problem and...
Los señores de la Casa del Mendrugo, Puebla: Tras los pasos de su vida a partir de los dientes (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Advances in Puebla/Tlaxcala Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Los cráneos decorados de nueve hombres y una mujer del México Antiguo atestiguan una compleja red social y cultural que trasciende hasta nuestros días. Al no contar con un registro arqueológico de su hallazgo, los análisis óseos, dentales, gráficos, de manufactura, tafonómicos y arqueométricos, son valiosos puentes de conocimiento que permiten...
Low-Density, Dispersed Urbanism in the Tropical World: Some Global Implications (2018)
Though low-density, dispersed urbanism is conventionally understood as a feature only of modern industrial societies there was actually substantial low-density, dispersed urbanism in the agrarian world of Central America, Sri Lanka and SE Asia during the 1st and early 2nd millennia CE. These cities, such as Tikal, Anuradhapura and Angkor with areas between 200 and a 1000 sq km, substantially altered their natural environment and were dependent on massive infrastructure. They were then impacted...
A Macroarchaeology Approach: How Can Archaeology Make Novel and Useful Contributions to Evolutionary Theory? (2019)
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. The quality of the archaeological record limits the range of evolutionary research questions archaeologists can ask. The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis mostly describes micro-scale phenomena that unfold at the hierarchical level of the individual and over very short time scales. This means that most of...
Maize Adaptation to Changing Environments (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Subsistence Crops and Animals as a Proxy for Human Cultural Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. All organisms must contend with rapidly changing environments in the face of climate change in order to ensure the survival of the population (Hoffmann and Sgrò 2011). Domesticated plants, with a 10,000 year history of adapting to new environments, provide an excellent model for understanding genetic responses to...
Maize Domestication and Dispersal in the Americas (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Fryxell Symposium in Honor of Dolores Piperno" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dolores Piperno’s work during the last four decades transformed our understanding of maize domestication and dispersal in the Americas. To honor this legacy we synthesize current genetic, paleoecological, and archaeological data regarding the early development of this globally important staple crop. Genetic evidence indicates initial...
Making Data Free, Immediate, and Having Equitable Access: How Federal and State Agencies Work to Meet OSTP Governance through Responsible Curation and Preservation (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. With the call from the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to make federally-funded research openly and immediately available, many archaeologists, archivists, and CRM professionals in the U.S. are left wondering how this affects their research and ability to preserve and protect their data. Most affected by this governance are state and...
Making the Invisible Visible or How Culture History Can Have An Impact (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper treats Archaeology as an exercise in revitalizing social memory. In it we detail the current development of the Anthropology degree program at Medgar Evers College CUNY. Emphasizing anthropology and archaeology as a means to promote the underrepresented narratives of marginal groups in the Americas, the program also provides the knowledge required...
The Marginal Utility of Inequality (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The emergence of hereditary social inequality resulted in enormous impacts on human history, yet its causes remain heavily debated and unexplained. Here we propose and evaluate an environmentally informed model explaining the emergence of social inequality based on the interaction between circumscription and environmental inequality. We demonstrate how the...
Mass Spectrometry Database of Archaeologically Relevant Plants for Organic Residue Analysis (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Organic residue analysis in archaeology using mass spectrometry (MS) is a robust technique to detect and explore ancient biomolecules for reconstructing past cultural behavior, such as diet composition and even specific recipes. Studies often involve targeted MS analyses of known or suspected substances, while untargeted analyses characterizing broad...
Measuring Lithic Complexity from the Lower Paleolithic through the Late Holocene (2019)
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. The extended evolutionary synthesis emphasizes the importance of understanding how the interaction of biological and cultural inheritance systems have shaped human evolution. Within the animal kingdom, modern humans possess a unique ability to transmit and maintain complex cultural traditions (Tennie et...
Mesolithic and Neolithic Recipes under the Microscope: A Comprehensive Approach for the Study of Archaeological Food Remains (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeogastronomy: Grocery Lists as Seen from a Multidimensional Perspective" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Research into food in archaeology has traditionally focused on the potential resources and ingredients from the identification of recovered plant and animal remains, as well as cooking technologies including pottery, ground stone tools, fire installations, etc. However, the different processes behind the...
The Metallurgical Cycle and Human Responses to Material Fatigue (2018)
Innovations in metallurgy had and continue to have significant and transformative effects on society. From mineral exploration and mining to primary metal production, manufacturing, and consumption across a range of social contexts, metallurgy influenced a wide range of distinctly human conditions. However, while metals are particularly transmutable, they also rapidly corrode back into increasingly stable mineral compounds in processes that people tried to mitigate and often unsuccessfully...