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DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Garnett.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Computer controlled additive manufacturing (3D printing) shows great potential for experimental archaeology, particularly lithics experimentation. As demonstrated by pioneering works in the current literature, 3D models of lithic artifacts can be printed to enable mold making and replication in porcelain, with far lower labor investment than through...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andreana Cunningham.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Futures through a Virtual Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Facial approximation is a salient tool in archaeology that aims to estimate the likeness of past peoples based on historic, anatomical, and artistic evidence. This project used an iterative and community-oriented approach to 2D manual facial approximation for three decedents buried at Rupert’s Valley Burial Ground in St. Helena. Rupert’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Zimmerle.

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Rock Art Documentation, Research, and Analysis" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Protected in cave shelters, Dhofar's painted rock art in Oman are well-preserved and give an unprecedented glimpse into Arabia's pre-Islamic history. The pictographs and accompanying South Arabian inscriptions, which extend from the coastal plain to the Rub' Al Khali desert and to the Jebel Qara mountains at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pilar Escontrias.

This is an abstract from the "Bringing the Past to Life, Part 2: Papers in Honor of John M. D. Pohl" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Making space for us to love archaeology in its prismatic wholeness is John Pohl’s greatest contribution to the field. We first met when I was an undergraduate taking his course on precolumbian art and archaeology of Mexico. He was my only college professor who encouraged me to connect archaeology with my own family...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia Johnston. Keri Porter. Susan Sheridan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Early Bronze Age II-III (EBA) at Bab adh-Dhra’ represents a period of significant social change partially marked by the establishment of a fortified town at the site. This research examines the individual and community-wide implications of antemortem cranial depression fractures (CDFs) during this shift in socio-economic lifestyles and population...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Espinosa. Blanca Iveth Castañeda Espinoza.

This is an abstract from the "Aproximaciones arqueológicas y paleontológicas en Santa Lucía, México" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En el sur de la base aérea de santa lucia se ha detectado fauna marina, específicamente restos óseos de peces, gasterópodos, caracol univalvo de agua dulce llamado Physa acuta, o Physella acuta, los cuales se han encontrado en arcillas y arenas, este presente trabajo será una aproximación a la zona marina del...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charlene Collazzi. Christopher Nicholson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The FAIR Principles for Data Stewardship asserts that data should be Findable, Accessible, and Reusable. Only by digitally preserving, efficiently curating, and ethically sharing data and information can we better understand the complex convergence of forces acting on humans and their societies across time and space. To this end, the Center for Digital...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren Herckis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cultural processes extend into digital places and create archaeological sites that unfold in relationships between physical assemblages and assemblages that are not physical. Archaeological sites like these require that we translate our methods and extend our theory to understand behavior in the contemporary world. A distinction between two types of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Noreen Tuross.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Science and African Archaeology: Appreciating the Impact of David Killick" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. “Archaeological Science” is a big tent often thought to have a common entry portal and ease in traversing its major approaches. In reality, the tents are often quite separate due to the training and interests of the investigators, as well as the information content and utility of the data. What...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelton Sheridan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents the findings from two seasons of fieldwork at Mission Espada in San Antonio as well as preliminary results from comparative analysis of the living quarters of the priests and Indigenous living quarters at the mission in the 18th century. This comparison is part of a larger multiscalar project that examines the lived experiences of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Walsh. Alice Gorman. Shawn Graham. Chantal Brousseau.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On 14 January 2022, NASA astronaut Kayla Barron placed adhesive tape on the walls of the International Space Station (ISS), marking the sample locations for the first archaeological work to be conducted in outer space. Over 60 days, ISS crew documented the station’s in situ material culture through daily photography of six areas. This payload, developed by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Warner.

This is an abstract from the "Thinking about Eating: Theorizing Foodways in Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The study of animal bones is an important contributor to many areas of archaeology, specifically in areas such as domestication, climate change, human/environment interactions, etc. However, when looking at the broader lens of anthropological theory as well as the burgeoning food studies movement, archaeology evidence is only...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Geena Hollis.

This is an abstract from the "Digitizing Archaeological Practice: Education and Outreach in the Archaeogaming Subdiscipline" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The interest in playing video and card games has increased rapidly throughout the past three decades. In the last two decades, the interest in archaeogaming has increased. When archaeogames are discussed, the conversation tends to relate around the educational aspect of the games, which is very...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ran Chen. Yue Wu.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The miniaturization of lithic artifacts indicates a significant shift in lithic technology and functions since the Upper Paleolithic, revealing a probable shift in subsistence strategy. Microblades are specific kinds of small stone tools that occur in sites dating back to the Upper Paleolithic through Neolithic in many parts of the world. Although it is widely...

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Christopher Gillam.

This is an abstract from the "*SE Big Data and Bigger Questions: Papers in Honor of David G. Anderson" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the mid-1990s, David Anderson was already an accomplished National Park Service (NPS) archaeologist and scholar in the US Southeast and beyond. I was a fresh out of Arkansas MA with a Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data tape from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) and some big ideas on the peopling of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley Hampton.

This is an abstract from the "Digitizing Archaeological Practice: Education and Outreach in the Archaeogaming Subdiscipline" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. How do we tell stories about the past? Historical-themed board games provide one such avenue for transmitting history. With the rise of independent publishers and crowdsourced publishing, recent opportunities to broaden the narrative and creative scope of these types of games have expanded...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Theo Kassebaum.

This is an abstract from the "Animal Bones to Human Behavior" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Sheep (*Ovis aries) and goats (*Capra hircus) are foundational to the discussion of the spread of domestication across Anatolia and southeastern Europe, but the similarity of their archaeological remains poses a major hurdle to understanding species-specific management practices. Responding to the difficulty in separating caprines by species, this paper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caroline Parris.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The term “curation crisis” describes the challenges facing collections care on a large scale: issues of limited space, staff, and funding and of meeting federal curation standards. Yet, beyond these big picture problems, some of the greatest challenges of managing archaeological collections are the smaller collections problems one inherits from previous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Russell Cutts.

This is an abstract from the "Fire-Cracked Rock: Research in Cooking and Noncooking Contexts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Experiments quantifying the thermal curved-fragment (TCF) model (Cutts et al. 2019) unsurprisingly yielded considerable numbers of fire-cracked rocks (FCR; yet not strictly conforming to TCF definitions). Many exhibited characteristics commonly described in FCR—e.g., broken, cracked, crazed, crenated, crenulated, pocked,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cerisa Reynolds.

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. The archaeology of food is rarely revelatory of an individual’s diet or of individual meals. Instead, it is usually indicative of a community’s procurement and processing patterns, consumption patterns, cooking methods, and disposal practices. But how can we teach students to understand this distinction and to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Ames.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research addresses structures of migrant ship-board space during nineteenth-century transatlantic crossings. I ask to what extent did controlled use of space reinforce conditions of class on nineteenth-century migrant vessels, and in what ways were boundaries challenged by passengers? I argue that challenging shipboard boundaries was a means by which...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordan Chapman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Science communication can be a daunting task for researchers who seek public engagement, especially through multimedia formats. Building from your knowledge, experience, and research will make developing multimedia skills more approachable. Creatively including scientific principles to develop aspects like storytelling and in-media citations helps to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Holli McDonald. Lacy Hazelwood.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bioarchaeological research has played a significant role in understanding the Casas Grandes region of Northwest Mexico. Excavations at the archaeological sites of Convento and Paquimé recovered ~652 burials dating to AD 700–1450, providing a robust skeletal population for investigations, including research on population demographics, violence patterns, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Hard. Eva C. Wikberg. Michael L. Cepek. June A. D. Burke.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A new course taught in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) during Fall 2022 provided early career planning information to lower division undergraduates. Titled “Anthropology Matters”, the course had the goal of enhancing the success of undergraduate majors preparing for anthropology related careers. Representing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christina Sampson.

This is an abstract from the "Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Archaeology Classroom" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Open education (also known as open pedagogy) begins with the values of sharing and accessibility that have motivated the increased use of Open Educational Resources (OER) throughout higher education. Open education is not only about the adoption of OER materials; it also involves a shift in teaching orientation toward an emphasis on...