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DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Benitez. John Murray.

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. One of the most significant, yet understudied, subjects in paleoanthropology is the emergence of culture and its resulting transition from biological evolution to human-specific biocultural evolution. Scholarship on this topic has historically been lacking partly due to an absence of a coherent framework...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ece Erlat.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the early 1900s, the archaeological site of Sardis has attracted Classical archaeologists. However, archaeologists’ interaction with the local population has always been limited to labor and domestic service exchange. Such a relationship reflects colonial origins of archaeology in the Middle East and doesn’t address the knowledge-based needs of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Reamer. Kyle Olson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past 60-plus years, the adoption of more rigorous cultural heritage preservation laws in the U.S. and abroad coupled with a rapid expansion of active practicing archaeologists have led to ever-increasing volumes of archaeological collections. These enormous stores of artifacts and documentation have been acknowledged since the early-1980s as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ricardo Antorcha Pedemonte. Lane F. Fargher.

This is an abstract from the "Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Human modification of the environment with the goal of increasing productivity, variously referred to as landscape transformation, niche construction, environmental engineering, etc., has been recognized and studied...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Brewer. Michelle Pigott.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As many archaeologists have shown in recent years, the native groups the Spanish encountered during their colonization of what is now the Southeastern and Southwestern United States were not passive recipients of Spanish culture. Rather, each group had their own reactions to the Spanish throughout the duration of said colonization, sometimes peaceful,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Geneviève Pothier-Bouchard. Julien Riel-Salvatore. Michael Buckley. Karine Taché.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Advances in Zooarchaeological Methods" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. ZooMS (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry) collagen fingerprinting is increasingly applied to prehistoric faunal collections—especially highly fragmented and/or altered ones—to tackle questions regarding diet, subsistence, and hunting strategies. When mass sampling archaeological bones (i.e., hundreds of bone fragments), ZooMS is a powerful...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hetty Jo Brumbach. Robert Jarvenpa.

The sexual division of labor in many societies situates women and men in livelihood activities which differ markedly in their locations, facilities, and relationship to other features in both the built and non-built environment. The repeated juxtaposition of these behaviors and elements over time result in rather distinctive female and male viewsheds or vistas and, ultimately, gendered perceptions and interpretations of the landscape. Consider the perceptual field of a woman scraping hides on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tia B. Watkins. John Walden.

Ancient palatial complexes offer opportunities to understand the actors at the apex of prehistoric polities. With careful and complex design, these structures were built to represent the affluence of those who resided within their confines. While the external façade of a palace represents the defining barrier between the elite and the public, the architectural layouts of ancient palaces reveal multiple levels of exclusivity. The varying levels of privacy in different palaces may relate to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Hill. Jan Patrik.

This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences 2024" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Beginning around the eighth century the volume and scale of exchange between the societies around the Indian Ocean and southeast Asia increased substantially. Archaeological work at the trade port community of Madayi, in the Kerala State, southwest India provides evidence of the integration of this south Indian community into the contemporary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Bevan.

This is an abstract from the "Regional Settlement Networks Analysis: A Global Comparison" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Computational models of human settlement have been noticeable features of intra- and interdisciplinary research for several decades, whether such models focus on the present day, on the historically documented near-present, or on deeper archaeological time scales. Now is a useful moment to revisit the pedigree of these different...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Viola Koenig.

Speakers of this session are dealing with collections and museums in the Americas as well as Europe. They are sharing knowledge on the role of collectors of Pre-Columbian and indigenous American objects that represent the Pre-Columbian era and the colonial and later periods. Many of them were collected in the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. Ever since collections were subject to all kinds of moves and treatments. Collections were divided, and objects have been dispersed. Can we...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Victoria Lyall.

Museum collections resemble the tastes and character of the donors and curators that assembled them. This subjectivity lends them an idiosyncratic character. Nevertheless, the early network of dealers and donors connects many museums across the United States. Institutions like the Saint Louis Art Museum and the Denver Art Museum, for example, are linked through such relationships. This paper examines the history of such relationships and the manner in which collection histories may shed further...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Whitcher Kansa. Anne Austin. Ixchel Faniel. Eric Kansa. Ran Boytner.

The use of digital tools for data creation and presentation is pervasive in archaeology, and data preservation and dissemination is becoming common practice. Still, few archaeologists consider the life of their data beyond their own research purposes. This lack of broader consideration of the future uses of a dataset means that many researchers do not sufficiently describe their data to make it intelligible or useful to others, which risks filling repositories with data of very limited use. We...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Magnani.

This presentation critically evaluates both the historic and present trajectories of the field of ethnoarchaeology and its outgrowths as practiced in indigenous communities today. This paper draws on long-term fieldwork conducted amongst two distinct communities who inhabit Arctic Europe and east Africa. I reflect upon the development and current state of ethnoarchaeology— often used as a tool to interpret archaeological remains of the deep past— and suggest new potential functions and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cyprian Broodbank.

This is an abstract from the "Social Archaeologies and Islands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Island archaeologists have tended to underplay the significance of continents and their social dynamics in influencing the temporal and spatial patterning witnessed among island societies at a regional and comparative level. When continents are considered, it is largely as staging posts for initial peopling, or as recipients of island trade, with much of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Krista Eschbach.

This is an abstract from the "Building Bridges: Papers in Honor of Teresita Majewski" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Native groups developed great diversity in food recipes, preparation techniques, and approaches to commensality. In some regions, such as in the Borderlands East, commensality tended toward communal-style serving vessels and related eating practices. Those practices contrasted with individual-style plates, bowls, and cups that were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Flordeliz Bugarin.

This is an abstract from the "Deepening Archaeology's Engagement with Black Studies" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology has much to offer Black Studies, and in turn, Black Studies has much to offer the archaeology of Africa and the African diaspora. In concert, these fields of inquiry hold the potential to enhance our understanding of history and culture in the African world and uplift archaeology as a field that is more relevant to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Keith Kintigh. Jeffrey Altschul.

Archaeological forays into the climate change debate have generally been through case studies that integrate archaeological, anthropological, and paleoenvironmental data into coherent, evidence-based narratives that document how cultural systems in a relatively small geographic region adapted to long-term climatic change. While these cautionary tales can play a valuable role in galvanizing public opinion, they generally have not influenced public policy. What is lacking are scalable inferences...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marley Brown.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2019 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the arrival to the first Africans to Jamestown, Virginia's founding colony, individuals captured by English privateers from a Portuguese slaver on its way to Vera Cruz, Mexico. Many captives in the same cargo were taken the same year to Bermuda, England's other colony controlled by the same joint stock company. ...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Xinyi Liu.

This is an abstract from the "Cultivating Cities: Perspectives from the New and Old Worlds on Wild Foods, Agriculture, and Urban Subsistence Economies" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent investigation has shown that between 5000 and 1500 cal BC, the Eurasian and African landmass underpinned a continental-scale process of “globalization” of food and foodways. By 1500 cal BC, the trans-Eurasian exchange of cereal crops brought together previously...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yichun Chen. Ben Marwick.

This is an abstract from the "Documenting Demographics in Archaeological Publications and Grants" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Disproportionate representation of genders has long existed in many academic fields. Rising interest in gender equality in society generally has resulted in greater scrutiny on gender inequality in academic communities. Analysis of authorship of peer-reviewed publications shows that archaeology is similar to other...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nadia Neff. Erin Ray. Viorel Atudorei. Keith Prufer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Stable carbon (δ13C) and oxygen (δ18O) isotope analysis of the carbonate fraction of hydroxyapatite in human tooth enamel is a well-established and powerful tool in archaeological science that researchers use to study the relationship between past human populations and their environments. δ13C analysis can provide information on the primary producer...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Debora Zurro. Ximena Power. Luca Sitzia. Virginia Ahedo.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeophycology: New (Ethno)Archaeological Approaches to Understand the Contribution of Seaweed to the Subsistence and Social Life of Coastal Populations" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Though seaweed consumption has only been exceptionally documented in most archaeological contexts, ethnographic data accounts for the extensive and intensive use of seaweeds and seagrasses. This study uses ethnographic data to propose...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ellen Pacheco. Shelby M. Patrick.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Human-animal relations are inherently dynamic in nature and, in recent years, archaeologists have started to explore alternative approaches to shed light on anomalous patterns that deviate from traditional models of understanding. Archaeologists traditionally assumed that they could account for cultural differences globally by employing western divisions...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Simon Weyer. Olivia Navarro-Farr.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster focuses on a cross-cultural examination of the processes of beer making and the links between social status and this class of alcoholic beverage in three unique ancient cultures: The Celts at Hochdorf in Southwest Germany, the predynastic Egyptians at Hierakonpolis, and the Wari at Cerro Baúl in Peru. Together, these constitute rather diverse...