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DOCUMENT Citation Only Alison Hadley.

This is an abstract from the "Interactions across the North American Midcontinent" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Red pipestone artifacts often inspire archaeological investigations of craft production at the site level. Reconstructions of pipestone in the past center on the object itself as central to ritual paraphernalia. However, a regional perspective of pipestone’s role in the economies of indigenous and colonial communities are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Blackwood.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Creating 3D models of cultural materials raises ethical concerns for how they are captured, stored, displayed, and utilized. Mainly, who is and who has the right to make these decisions? Professional societies and associations have established principles and codes of ethics related to best practices, but language pertaining to 3D models or digitally...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zach Chase.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite insights from recent archaeologies of the senses, notions persist in the human and social sciences of vision as the invariant individual’s passive reception of a phenomenally “given” world, while cognitivists posit a universal “visual grammar.” In contrast, this paper asks how archaeology might draw on and contribute to the understanding that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Reed Coil. Paula Doumani-Dupuy. Katherine Erdman. Madina Makulbekova.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Formal training in archaeological field methods for undergraduate students in Kazakhstan is currently not widely available or well-funded. This reality often turns students away from archaeology. Over the past year, we planned, developed, and implemented the creation of a simulated archaeological site on the Nazarbayev University campus in Nur-Sultan...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret Morris. Isabel Rivera-Collazo. John Hildebrand. Petr Krysl.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Acoustic methods for exploring the underwater landscape contribute to the effectiveness of underwater archaeology research, largely by allowing efficient mapping of the seafloor and sub-bottom. Detection and identification of specific materials and artifact types within archaeological landscapes is an important step in using this technology to efficiently...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christina Bolte. John E. Worth.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeologies of Contact, Colony, and Resistance" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the 2015 discovery of the 1559-1561 Tristán de Luna y Arellano Settlement on Pensacola Bay, archaeological investigations have yielded material traces of a distinctively "New Spanish" colonial culture. In 1559, a mere 38 years after Cortes’ conquest of Mexico, Luna was dispatched from Veracruz with 12 ships, 1,500 colonists,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joel Edmondson. Nathan Lawres. Jessica Dees. Andrew Carter.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Foodways provide an important window for us to view important components of cultures, and they provide an important vehicle for engaging a broad audience in an educational way. They are something that we can all relate to because we all participate in them in one way or another. The University of West Georgia’s Interpretive Anthropology Garden is an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Keith May.

This is an abstract from the "Constructing Chronologies I: Stratification and Correlation" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Records of archaeological stratigraphic data and the relationships between separately identified stratigraphic units are fundamental to understanding the overall cohesiveness of an archaeological excavation during fieldwork, analysis, publication, and in any resulting archive. Having divided the archaeology into various units...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Suzanne Pilaar Birch.

This is an abstract from the "Defining and Measuring Diversity in Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While identifying and defining diversity in material culture studies, bioarchaeological assemblages, and site distribution has long been de rigeur, the advent and development of stable isotope analysis in archaeology since the publication of Leonard & Jones' seminal 1989 volume provides yet another layer of complexity in archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nayeli Jiménez Cano. Séverine Zirah. Kristine Richter. Matthew Collins. Elise Philippe Bearez.

This is an abstract from the "Past Human-Shark Interactions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Sharks are apex predators, and their presence in the world’s waters serves as an indicator of the health of marine ecosystems. The species-specific identification of sharks in archaeological materials is essential for reconstructing ancient exploited ecosystems and improving current marine baselines to support conservation efforts as these fish are severely...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Blair.

This paper analyzes the role of public anthropology in socio-ecological justice movements by examining conflicts over natural resources and indigenous sovereignty through policy-oriented research. It considers the Natural Resources Defense Council’s (NRDC) international projects to protect "special areas" and wildlife in the Western hemisphere, specifically rivers in Chilean Patagonia, and the boreal forest in Canada. Despite geographical, historical and cultural differences, these two priority...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Carter.

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. For many years the shellfish, Spondylus, has been seen as a driver for long distance exchange. Overfishing of the highly sought Spondylus pushed harvesters farther and farther north, possibly as far as West Mexico, in search of the red, orange and/or purple shell and promoting interaction between distant and disparate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jesse Casana. Madeleine McLeester.

This is an abstract from the "Finding Fields: Locating and Interpreting Ancient Agricultural Landscapes" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Twenty-five years ago, Naomi Miller and Katheryn Gleason edited the seminal volume, *The Archaeology of Garden and Field, an authoritative guide to the identification and interpretation of archaeological field systems and other evidence of past agricultural practice inscribed within the landscape. This paper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marcy Rockman. Andrew Potts.

Archaeology has many connections to climate change: damage and loss due to the impacts of changing environments, the capacity to provide insights for policy and decision-makers about the human processes of adaptation and migration, community connections to the past and the importance of place, citizen science, media coverage, and connections between heritage and identity in conflict, to name only a few. This paper overviews this range of connections and the importance of assessing where cultural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristin Dew-Meeuwen.

This is an abstract from the "Gender in Archaeology over the Last 30+ Years" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation will deconstruct American archaeology's past to understand modern socio-politics of gender distributions within the discipline and how these proportions shape archaeological theory, practice, and authority. By connecting the foundations of American archaeology with what they coin the "boys club of archaeological knowledge...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wesley Gibson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this research, I explore the efficacy of stream network analysis as a data set to use in archaeological predictive modeling. Stream network analysis allows the researcher to use a digital elevation model (DEM) to create a geographic information system (GIS) layer representing stream channels in a study area. Stream network analysis can also be used to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gizeh Rangel De Lázaro. Marcelo Sánchez-Villagra. Stacey Ward. Caitlin Raymond. Laura Wilson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Intentional cranial modification (ICM) represents one of the most outstanding biocultural practices of the past in the Americas, resulting from a millennial evolution within distinct cultural territories. When the Europeans first arrived in the Caribbean in 1492, ICM was a widespread tradition among most of the native populations of the continent. Here we...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lois Martin.

This is an abstract from the "The Precolumbian Dotted-Diamond-Grid Pattern: References and Techniques" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Several precolumbian royal garments with simple, repeating geometric designs have explicit associations to maize, and hint at a deep significance to the cloth pattern–corn plant connection. In the Andes, Inca Coyas (noblewomen) wore special woven belts during the annual corn-planting ceremony. Sophie Desrosiers...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashlee Bird.

This is an abstract from the "From Tomb Raider to Indiana Jones: Pitfalls and Potential Promise of Archaeology in Pop Culture" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In her essay "Tradition and Performance", Stephanie Nohelani Teves details the importance of living Hawaiian tradition and identity, embodied by Kanaka Maoli performers. These performers preserve, shape, and embody indigenous tradition and knowledge, as well as personify what it means to be...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristine Richter. Ryan Kennedy. Jess Miller-Camp.

This is an abstract from the "Storeroom Taphonomies: Site Formation in the Archaeological Archive" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Natural history collections (including zooarchaeological collections) provide essential information for archaeologists. They are primarily used in identifying bones and other hard tissues, and they provide references for biomolecular and isotopic studies. Biomolecular data from these collections are increasingly the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sophie Miller.

This is an abstract from the "If Animals Could Speak: Negotiating Relational Dynamics between Humans and Animals" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Current discourse articulates domestication as a series of actionable, multidimensional processes, shaped by temporally relevant cultural and social factors; “social contracts” (sensu Armstrong Oma) as maintained, agentive, sustained human-animal relationships. This definition is particularly relevant...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Hull.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We love to think that we are firmly in charge of our domestic spaces, and we love sharply delineated definitions. The designations of “wild” and “domestic” species speak to this; we define domestic species as those who have changed irrevocably under the reproductive control of humans. However, there are still species who exist in the spaces in-between:...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David S. Anderson.

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. More often than not, the general public learns about archaeology through flashy headlines proclaiming glamorous finds and grand interpretations with little to no explanation of how those conclusions are drawn. As a result, students in their first archaeology class struggle to understand the reasons behind...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katharine Napora. Kristine Schenk. Chris Saunders.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dendroarchaeology, the use of tree-ring analyses to understand past human societies, is an excellent subfield by which to introduce students and the public to archaeological science because of its accessibility: trees are a visible part of many peoples’ daily lives, and people often have basic knowledge of tree growth that can be drawn on to introduce the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Raad.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Collection-based pedagogies present an exciting platform for active, inquiry-based learning and advancing the goals of equitable teaching. They engage interactive, critical, reflective, creative, affective, and other approaches that anchor learning and build community in the tangible, physical presence of objects. This presentation is about teaching with,...