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DOCUMENT Citation Only Garrett Silliman. Daniel Contreras.

This is an abstract from the "I Love Sherds and Parasites: A Festschrift in Honor of Pat Urban and Ed Schortman" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The authors, along with many others, got their first immersion in archaeology thanks to Pat and Ed as part of the Kenyon Honduras Program. Their subsequent trajectories in archaeology took both of them away from Mesoamerica, albeit in very different directions, but both trace their origins to the Naco...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Walsh. Anna Prentiss. Megan Denis.

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. Geneticists have used phylogenetic analyses to model population movements associated with emergence and movements of distinct populations in northeast Siberia and the Americas. However, archaeologists have rarely taken advantage of this approach to examine the emergence and radiation of cultural traditions in these regions. In...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charlotte Nash-Pye. Andrew Meek. St John Simpson.

This is an abstract from the "Current Research on Ancient Glass around the Indian Ocean" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The study of Islamic glass bangles has been undertaken on a localized or regional level by a number of authors. However, with advances in archaeochemistry the analysis of the primary production glass is offering new insights and contextualization to their typological and coloration differences. The presence of Islamic glass...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jesse Wolfhagen.

This is an abstract from the "The Expanding Bayesian Revolution in Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Profiles of stable oxygen isotopic values (δ18O) from archaeofaunal tooth enamel provide in-depth information about the past environments in which animals lived while their teeth mineralized. Cyclical regression models can fit a specimen’s isotopic profile to a particular sinusoidal curve to estimate aspects of past environments and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James VanderVeen.

This is an abstract from the "Interactions with Pseudoarchaeology: Approaches to the Use of Social Media and the Internet for Correcting Misconceptions of Archaeology in Virtual Spaces" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The various undead or reanimated humans in world folklore (e.g., zombies, vampires) are examples of using supernatural explanations to account for misunderstood or inconceivable phenomena found in the natural world. Such creatures and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Viola Schmid. Irini Sifogeorgaki. Gerrit Dusseldorp. Wei Chu.

This is an abstract from the "Debitage Analysis: Case Studies, Successes, and Cautionary Tales" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Raw materials are the lowest common denominator of any debitage analysis. And yet, the fracture mechanics of eccentric raw materials are not always fully considered when performing inter-/intra-assemblage comparisons. The fracture mechanics as one constraint to be respected by the knappers greatly influence archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Shennan.

Archaeologists have long used site counts and other measures to infer past population histories and such efforts have always been criticised by those who point to all the known and unknown unknowns that in their view make such efforts as dubious as getting to the topmost steps on Hawkes’s ladder of inference. In recent years most effort has been devoted to the use of summed radiocarbon probabilities for demographic inference since for most of later prehistory in most of the world it gives a much...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marianne Sallum. Julieta Flores-Muñoz. Francisco Silva Noelli.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Communities of practice are currently the majority of places in Latin America. They include Indigenous people, “quilombolas,” and their descendants with European and Asian people, living predominantly outside the cities, in the most diverse places, such as the agroforestry communities. Decolonized archaeology has an enormous challenge ahead of it, both in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Carballo.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology and Material Culture of the Spanish Invasion of Mesoamerica and Forging of New Spain" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As the discipline best suited for studying changes in human societies over long periods of time and the materiality of our existence, archaeology offers a valuable perspective on historic cross-cultural encounters viewed as deep history with tangible ramifications. At the quincentennial of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anthony Sinclair.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology as a research activity has changed dramatically over the past 70 years. Where once archaeology might have been seen as a discipline closely related to history and classics, the introduction of new techniques from other disciplines in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts has created a discipline that now thinks of itself and its research...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cynthia Otis Charlton. Danielle Dadiego. Judith Bense.

This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In Spanish West Florida, a military presidio was established in 1698 to try to protect Spanish shipping and interests in the naturally deepwater port of the Pensacola Bay from constantly encroaching British and French pressure. Over the next 65 years the presidio was moved four times, enduring British-led Indian raids, French occupations, and eight...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allison Mann. Susanna Sabin. Kirsten Ziesemer. Kirsten Bos. Christina Warinner.

Ancient DNA (aDNA) studies of preserved microbiomes from dental calculus and paleofeces shed light on the evolution of these complex microbial communities, as well as both human health and behavior in the past. Despite recent advances in the recovery and authentication of aDNA, environmental contamination and inconsistent molecular preservation remains a continuous concern. Recent studies suggest that dental calculus may provide a better preservation environment for DNA than other archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Heilen. Shelby Manney.

This is an abstract from the "Refining Archaeological Data Collection and Management to Achieve Greater Scientific, Traditional, and Educational Values" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The vast majority of archaeological investigation in the United States is conducted in compliance with preservation laws as part of cultural resource management (CRM) efforts. CRM studies have explored a wide range of social, temporal, and environmental contexts and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kary Stackelbeck. Greg Maggard.

This is an abstract from the "Dedication, Collaboration, and Vision, Part I: Papers in Honor of Tom D. Dillehay" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. With this paper, we reflect on Tom Dillehay’s contribution to archaeology by highlighting several facets of his approach to interdisciplinary research and scholarship that have heavily influenced our own work and careers, and those of many others. We do so in part by exploring our collective hemispherical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly Britt.

This is an abstract from the "Equity in the Archaeology of Disaster, Past, Present, and Future" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. When severe weather events strike, disaster ensues, leaving a catastrophic and at times an apocalyptic wake. This wake ripples through populations differently, generally preying on those already on the margins prior to the event and amplifying the structural inequities, whether they are economic, social, political, or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Percy Hei Chun Ho. Kristine Richter. Ryan Kennedy. Christina Warinner.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Cervidae family has long been central to societies throughout history, whether as venison meat or raw materials, as gifts from long-distance trades, and as trophies in ceremonial acts. However, species-level cervid exploitation and management remain underexplored due to identification difficulties from other sympatric cervids and bovids. Prior research...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian Andrews. Danielle Macdonald. Brooke Morgan.

This is an abstract from the "Defining and Measuring Diversity in Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Diversity in the architecture of sedentary and complex societies is well-studied, but an emphasis on the role of mobility in hunter-gatherer adaptation has resulted in a lack of discussion of the built environment among these communities. Here we take a temporally broad and cross-cultural approach to document variability in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Jensen. Jacob Freeman.

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. A critical question raised by 20 years of intensive archaeological research is: What processes drive the long-term expansion and rapid recession of human populations? In this poster, we test the hypothesis that variation in the violence of long-term population expansion and recession is caused by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Stiner.

This is an abstract from the "Culturing the Body: Prehistoric Perspectives on Identity and Sociality" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Given the collective evidence for the Paleolithic in Eurasia, it is peculiar that the emergence of durable art in archaeological records is taken to reflect a parallel emergence for the capacity of hominins to engage in symboling behavior of any sort. The ample record of burial practices of during the Middle...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Collard. Jonathan Harding. Dennis Sandgathe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Clothing is ubiquitous among living humans, and there is reason to believe it has been important for hominins for tens of thousands of years. Despite this, clothing has received little attention from scientific anthropologists. Consequently, there are some important questions about clothing use that have yet to be adequately addressed. One of these is,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Hanson.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Method and Theory: Papers in Honor of James M. Skibo, Part II" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Jim Skibo has undeniably had a profound impact in archaeological method and theory, but he has had an even greater role in teaching and student mentorship, providing his students with a robust foundation infused with Yooper wisdom. In an homage to the theoretical and methodological foundations provided by Jim,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jesse Casana. Austin Chad Hill. Elise Jakoby Laugier.

This paper presents results of recent research at several sites in North America and the Middle East in which aerial surveys have been undertaken using an advanced radiometric thermal camera and a multispectral sensor mounted on commercial-grade drones. While using drone-acquired color photography to produce ortho-imagery and digital surface models has become an increasingly standard practice in archaeology, thermal and near-infrared imaging offers the potential to detect both surface and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elisa Villalpando. James Watson.

This is an abstract from the "Transcending Boundaries and Exploring Pasts: Current Archaeological Investigations of the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The earliest settled villages in the Borderlands region of the Sonoran Desert are largely associated with the protracted transition from foraging to farming and the foundation of Formative period archaeological cultures in the region. Mortuary practices associated with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Randy Haas. Jennifer Chen. Tammy Buonasera. Jelmer Eerkens.

This is an abstract from the "American Foragers: Human-Environmental Interactions across the Continents" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The extent to which subsistence labor was divided among archaeological forager populations of the Americas is currently debated. This analysis uses bone isotope chemistry and Bayesian mixing models to examine trophic variation between female and male individuals from North and South American forager populations....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Reed Coil.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Numerous extrinsic hypotheses explaining Out of Africa I, like faunal turnover and hominins following fauna, have been rejected based on paleoecological models. Others have explored the importance of the hominin intrusion into the carnivore guild. Here, I build on this hypothesis by proposing a complementary hypothesis; the scavenging corridor hypothesis...