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DOCUMENT Citation Only Julie Julison. Randy Haas.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ethnography demonstrates entomophagy, or consumption of insects, to be a relatively common practice around the world. Despite such prevalence, insect foods are discussed rarely in the archaeological literature, presumably due to Western biases, which may acknowledge the presence of edible insects but refrains from considering them a viable food resource....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Darcy Bird. Timothy Kohler.

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. Following the adoption of agriculture, societies frequently experience several hundred years of dramatic intrinsic population growth, followed by a population stabilization or decline; together these patterns are called the Agricultural Demographic Transition (ADT). These patterns result from increased birth rates, which can...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Perry.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Government archeologists work in geographic areas that are associated with their agency’s mission and projects. By law, the government agency’s archeologist is required to consider all cultural entities that may be adversely affected by the project. This permits a more objective approach to the use of archeology as a tool that provides information that can...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jorge Rios Allier. Ma. del Pilar Casado Lopez.

This paper aims to present an overview of the public policies applied to rock art in Mexico in the last years. This cultural resource is perhaps little known in its entirety, yet presents an invaluable variety for its study. Its registration, conservation, and study have allowed in recent years to know more about the vast heritage which the country has it. One of the goals is also to comment on the public steps that have been implemented in this area in different regions.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Temple.

This is an abstract from the "Cooperative Bodies: Bioarchaeology and Non-ranked Societies" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Social complexity is a term that often refers to the evolution of inequality in human populations along socioeconomic scales. This concept is historically traceable to unilineal evolutionary paradigms where reduced complexity is often defined based on othering in comparison to Western industrialized capitalism. This study...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Enrico Crema. Anne Kandler. Clémentine Straub.

This is an abstract from the "Practical Approaches to Identifying Evolutionary Processes in the Archaeological Record" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the seminal works by Neiman (1995) and Shennan & Wilkinson (2001), evolutionary archaeologists and anthropologists have been trying to infer social learning strategies by analysing the temporal frequency of different cultural variants in a population. These early applications directly employed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Kelly. Madeline Mackie. Andrew Kandel.

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. Researchers have long been aware of an apparently rapid increase ca. 40,000–45,000 BP in the frequency of “symbolic” artifacts in the Old World paleolithic record. However, some hypothesize that if not for taphonomic loss the data would instead show a gradual increase in such artifacts’ frequency during the Middle Stone...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Christie.

This is an abstract from the "Rethinking Persistent Places: Relationships, Atmospheres, and Affects" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Western-trained scholars like to take for granted that the discipline of archaeology plays a foundational role in providing data from ancient sites from which scientists reconstruct histories, social organization, and what drew people to such places. Government institutions use such information to assign values to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amber Johnson. Jessica Totsch.

This is an abstract from the "Global Perspectives on Human Population Dynamics, Innovation, and Ecosystem Change" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Previous research that derived expectations from hunter-gatherer macroecology demonstrates that the combination of effective temperature zones and setting near coastlines or very large interior lakes display distinct patterns of resource intensification. These patterns allow researchers to predict the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Ashley.

This is an abstract from the "Transformations in Professional Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past three decades, archaeology has experienced a paradigm shift with the integration of digital recording and publishing methodologies. This “paper” critically examines whether, in our pursuit of technological advancements, we have remained true to the core principles of archaeological ethics. Are we on the brink of a digital dark...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Cook Hale. Ervan Garrison.

Submerged prehistoric archaeological sites have increased relevance in archaeology because they retain direct evidence addressing multiple questions, such as human dispersal patterns, use of coastal zones, and human responses to climate change. They also have potential for high degrees of preservation in some cases. However, just as often, they present significant site formation challenges including geochemical and mechanical degradation of artifacts and features, weathering and deflation of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carla Klehm. Camille Westmont. Kaitlyn Davis.

This is an abstract from the "Living Landscapes: Disaster, Memory, and Change in Dynamic Environments " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Remote sensing has been fundamental since the establishment of landscape archaeology, from capturing site layout to aiding in the synthesis of human-environmental relationships. Geospatial technology and its analytical software continue to advance at an accelerated pace and are considered almost integral to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carla Lancelotti.

This is an abstract from the "Cultivating Food, Land, and Communities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The incorporation of time-tested practices, encompassing Traditional Knowledge (TK), Local Knowledge (LK), and Indigenous Knowledge (IK), into sustainable agrifood system development has gained substantial traction. These practices are designed to address challenges such as food sustainability, food sovereignty, and enhancements to agrosystems. TK...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jesse Casana.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Vision in the Age of Big Data" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Declassified CORONA spy satellite imagery, collected from 1960-1972, has proven to be a uniquely valuable resource for discovery, mapping, and interpretation of archaeological landscapes. These high-resolution, stereo photographic images preserve a picture of sites and cultural landscape features that have been impacted or destroyed by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eleanor Scerri.

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. Models of recent human evolution are fundamentally rooted in the idea of tree-like genealogies and species concepts, regardless of the specifics. The range of explanatory models has elicited some consideration of the need for flexibility, yet without a reconsideration of the fundamental heuristics, we are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Eble. Zachary Hruby.

This is an abstract from the "Ceremonial Lithics of Mesoamerica: New Understandings of Technology, Distribution, and Symbolism of Eccentrics and Ritual Caches in the Maya World and Beyond" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Almost a century of bias in favor of direct percussion in the archaeological modeling of biface manufacture in the New World has obscured the central role of indirect percussion in this process. We examine ethnohistorical and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mario Zimmermann. Shannon Tushingham.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. At present, smoking is considered one of the largest threats to public health globally. Nonetheless, the inhalation of psychoactive substances after deliberate combustion has deep historical roots. Moreover, current models hold that smoking was invented independently in the Americas and Africa. This paper reviews the archaeological evidence available for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only José Luis Punzo Díaz. Ben Nelson.

This is an abstract from the "25 Years in the Casas Grandes Region: Celebrating Mexico–U.S. Collaboration in the Gran Chichimeca" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Beginning with the first investigations in Paquimé, one of the most important issues that archaeologists have identified was the site’s apparently intimate relationship with Mesoamerica. This idea is supported by relatively abundant copper objects, as well as ceramic remains from southern...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sam Lin.

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. The Rolland and Dibble synthesis was an ambitious attempt to reframe the interpretation of Middle Paleolithic variability. The model postulates that Middle Paleolithic assemblage variability is continuous in nature, driven principally by raw material availability and occupation intensity....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret Conkey.

This is an abstract from the "Painting the Past: Interpretive Approaches in Global Rock Art Research" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, I will suggest that rock art research is an excellent example of how we can advance many of the goals of the slow science movement, despite continued practices by some rock art researchers that promote "the scoop" and other problems that slow science advocates are trying to work against. As rock art...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erick Robinson. Jacob Freeman. Robert Kelly.

This is an abstract from the "Global Perspectives on Climate-Human Population Dynamics During the Late Holocene" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many archaeological radiocarbon time-series throughout the world display a decline of radiocarbon date frequencies from ca. 900-600 cal BP. In this presentation we examine alternative hypotheses that may explain these trends. We analyze whether dramatic declines in radiocarbon date frequencies are due to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erica Begun-Veenstra.

For many people, material objects hold the memory of a time and place. For some families, these objects, collected at meaningful and important times and places, can become heirlooms with an additional, familial significance tying generations to a distant time and place. For others, these objects reflect personal journeys and experiences. By examining two case studies—the Michoacan originating ceramics of the N1W5:19 compound at Teotihuacan and the exchange and collecting of lapel pins at an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tammy Buonasera. Antonio V. Herrera-Herrera. Carolina Mallol.

This is an abstract from the "Charred Organic Matter in the Archaeological Sedimentary Record" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Molecular and isotopic analyses of sediments from archaeological combustion features is a relatively new area of study. Applications have the potential to inform us about ancient pyro-technologies and patterns of animal exploitation in a wide range of human contexts but may be particularly informative with regards to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marissa Molinar.

This presentation examines traditional, contemporary, and experimental methods of illustration and photography in rock art recording. Addressed accordingly are the processes and problems unique to pictographic (painted) and petroglyphic (pecked) parietal imagery, superimposition and dating. As a rock art researcher, photographer, and artist, many examples will be drawn from my fieldwork; specifically contemporary methods utilizing panoramic photography and an experimental photographic technique...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Beekman.

This is an abstract from the "Coastal Connections: Pacific Coastal Links from Mexico to Ecuador" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Much research on the links between Mesoamerica and South America has focused on the methods of exploitation of shell (e.g. Spondylus, Strombus) and its possible trade across sub-regions. However, superficially similar methods of exploitation may be local solutions to common problems and methods for sourcing shell remain...