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DOCUMENT Citation Only Yukiko Tonoike. Stefan L. Smith. Frank Hole.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between 1986 and 1994, the Yale University Khabur Basin Survey Project (KBP) carried out archaeological surveys of the middle Khabur region of northeastern Syria and recovered ceramic and lithic artifacts from 257 sites dating from the Palaeolithic to the Ottoman period. Following these ground investigations, in 1998, Nicholas Kouchoukos used Landsat...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Hoag.

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. While much has been written recently highlighting pioneering women’s contributions to archaeology, there has not been a systematic study of their roles as mothers and how they navigated their personal lives in a male-dominated field. In this paper I contextualize the role of motherhood in archaeology from an historical perspective,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dolores Piperno.

This is an abstract from the "Unraveling the Mysteries of the Isthmo-Colombian Area’s Past: A Symposium in Honor of Archaeologist Richard Cooke and His Contributions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper discusses Richard Cooke’s career in the context of my professional and personal relationships with him. Over a more than 40-year period beginning with my first trip to Panama in 1979 as a graduate student I enjoyed the benefits of his...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Berikashvili.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Samshvilde, in the South Caucasus (Southern Georgia), is a complex and multi-period archaeological site. The historical city occupies an impregnable location on a basalt cape flanked by the deep valleys. This distinctive landscape, combined with environmental conditions and abundant natural resources, have attracted people for millennia, but the “Golden...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melanie Chang. April Nowell.

This is an abstract from the "Establishing the Science of Paleolithic Archaeology: The Legacy of Harold Dibble (1951–2018) Part II" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Paleoanthropological hypotheses are often qualitatively different from questions asked by scientists studying the evolution of other living groups. They are frequently complex and very specific. Rather than seeking to illuminate basic evolutionary processes and mechanisms, they focus on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlos Figueroa Beltran. Nicole Mathwich.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Colonet region is located in northwestern Baja California, Mexico, and due to its geographic isolation and slow economic development, archaeological evidence of the prehistoric Yuman groups has been preserved for millennia. The region offers a unique research opportunity to examine the occupational sequence of late prehistoric people and the resource...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allyson Blanck.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There are many things one expects to find on a field site: a plethora of trowels, interns and students working away— but disability and medical equipment are not among them. Archaeology often shies away from including and accommodating disabled voices. This fear has created an environment in which those with disabilities are unsure if they will be welcomed or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Davies. Jessica Thompson.

This is an abstract from the "Developing Paleolithic Excavation Methods for the Twenty-First Century" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Piece-plotting, or point proveniencing, is a common practice in field archaeology. These data are important for intrasite spatial analysis and evaluating site formation processes. More detailed data collection requires more time and effort, leading to different decisions about size cutoffs between projects. Factors...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Monica Ramsey. John Marston.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Starch spherulites are a promising new paleoethnobotanical discovery. Well-studied in food sciences, starch spherulites form when amylose from plant starch recrystallizes in spherulitic morphology. This requires processing by humans (mainly through heat, although pH impacts this dynamic) in an aqueous environment. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kaelyn Olson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mortuary processes have tremendous political, cultural, and religious meanings. Understanding whether a skeletal assemblage was found as part of a primary or a secondary burial has a significant impact on the interpretation of a site or collection. This project evaluates the statistical significance of differences in skeletal element prevalence between primary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlyn Antoniuk.

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. The goal of this session is to explore the factors underlying persistent places, specifically thinking beyond resource availability or representationalist notions of meaning bestowed by humans. In this paper, I outline the theoretical ideas and concepts that underlie this symposium. I argue that all places exist as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kara Fulton.

This is an abstract from the "Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Archaeology Classroom" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many universities focus on the idea of graduating students who are “career ready.” One of the pillars of career readiness is the emphasis on transferrable skills, those skills focused on the ability to do something (e.g., think critically), as opposed to content-based or discipline-specific knowledge. In a world where the average...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Catherine Jalbert. Laura Heath-Stout.

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. Since Gero’s (1985) germinal article on gender inequities in archaeology, feminist archaeologists have theorized that different research processes in the discipline are gendered: fieldwork is masculine-coded and lab and museum work is feminine-coded. Based on research conducted by the SAA Task Force on Gender Disparities...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claire Smith. Heather Burke.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology to Transform and Disrupt: Teaching, Learning, and the Pedagogies of the Future" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. When we were students there were few Aboriginal archaeologists — and no Aboriginal faculty employed to teach archaeology at a university. When we became university teachers we worked to change this situation. This presentation outlines our teaching strategies and the efforts undertaken by our...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Naomi Martisius. Logan Guthrie. Danielle Macdonald.

This is an abstract from the "Animal Resources in Experimental Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological bone tools acquire a complexly layered series of traces throughout their use-life and after their deposition. Teasing out these traces and understanding their source is essential for any meaningful interpretation of ancient human behavior. Equifinality, the appearance of similar physical characteristics through different means,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Coco. Radu Iovita.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists typically define cultural areas on the basis of similarities between the types of material culture present in sites. The similarity is assessed in order of discovery, with newer sites being evaluated against older ones. Despite evidence for time-dependent site loss due to taphonomy, little attention has been paid to how this impacts...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Clark Sturdevant. Carol Colaninno.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There is a projected dearth of qualified archaeological professionals in the coming decade. As such, it becomes essential to discover the underlying causes of a lack of interest in pursuing a career in archaeology among individuals otherwise interested in the field. Social cognitive career theory posits that self-efficacy, expected outcomes, and goal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elie Pinta. Birgitta Wallace. Kevin Jenkins.

This is an abstract from the "Current Research and Challenges in Arctic and Subarctic Cultural Heritage Studies" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. L’Anse aux Meadows, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the first European settlement in North America, is located in the northernmost part of modern-day Newfoundland, Canada. During the eleventh century, Norse Greenlanders established a frontier site for short periods of time, a “gateway to resources”...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Guy Hepp.

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. In this paper, I discuss an analog role-playing game (RPG) entitled “The Uprising,” which I designed for an undergraduate university course on the archaeology of the senses. I reflect on how gaming in the classroom builds on recent pedagogical research and promotes participation not possible with traditional...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Johnston. Michael Buckley.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Biological age at death (AAD) is an important component of the biological profile, to aid investigators in cases with skeletal remains, also in archaeology to aid establishing site context. Current methods rely on predictable patterns of bone or teeth mineralization, growth and fusion or damage over time, though these methods are often subject to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Virginie Renson. Maria Verde. Alberto De Bonis. Wesley Stoner. Hector Neff.

This is an abstract from the "Geological and Technological Contributions to the Interpretation of Radiogenic Isotope Data" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The provenance of ceramics assessed through chemistry is most commonly approached through a comparison of ceramics with other ceramics of known origin. More rarely are chemical analyses employed to relate objects to their geological context. This problem derives from the inherent limitations of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Cipolla. Daryl Basarte. Michael Zimmerman. Anna Coon. Bryanda Owen.

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 emergent field of archaeogaming explores how people interact with gaming worlds. In this poster, we take a look at a subset of gaming, role-playing games (RPGs), and their potential for teaching archaeological concepts and critical thinking. We present three case studies of RPGs with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sandy Bardsley. Jamie Paxton.

This is an abstract from the "Experimental Pedagogies: Teaching through Experimental Archaeology Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For five years, we have cotaught an undergraduate Introduction to Experimental Archaeology course under the auspices of the history department at a small university. In this paper, we examine the ways in which history and experimental archaeology share traditions of scholarship, learning objectives, and appeal to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bruce Winterhalder. Eugène Morin. Douglas Bird. Rebecca Bliege Bird.

This is an abstract from the "Behavioral Ecology and Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the mid-1970s the biologist D. Griffiths proposed that body size determines prey return rates and, citing the diet breadth model, D. S. Wilson stated that the lowest-ranked prey type harvested reveals the general efficiency of the foraging economy. Archaeologists, beginning with Bayham and Anderson, quickly made use of these proposals, initiating a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kyle Palazzolo.

This is an abstract from the "Formal Models and Experimental Archaeology of Ground Stone Milling Technology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Among the various categories of ground stone technology in precolonial California, the mortar has a celebrated role in the shift to a subsistence economy dominated by acorn processing and consumption. The size and shape of mortars, both bedrock and portable, facilitated pulverizing and grinding of these and...