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DOCUMENT Citation Only Funda Ugras. Tamer Mertan. Müge Ergun. Tammy Buonasera. Mihriban Özbasaran.

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. Experimental studies can make significant contributions to understanding the function of grinding stones found in archaeological contexts. Milling technology at the early Neolithic site of Aşıklı Höyük in Turkey is dominated by querns or grinding slabs, but mortars and pestles are not uncommon. Most of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jillian Huntley. Brandi MacDonald. May Nango. Djaykuk Djandomerr. Lynley Wallis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Unusually saturated black pigment in the Kunwarddebim (rock art) at the north-eastern end of the Madjedbebe rockshelter prompted an in situ analytic program of Raman and portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry. Here described results suggest a complex paint recipe for this black paint: a mix of bone black, magnetite rich minerals, and some organic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Shott.

This is an abstract from the "Establishing the Science of Paleolithic Archaeology: The Legacy of Harold Dibble (1951–2018) Part I" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dibble demonstrated systematic effects of reduction on the size and shape of Middle Paleolithic flake tools. He identified independent (e.g., platform dimensions,) and dependent (e.g. flake mass) variables that registered the degree and pattern of reduction experienced by retouched tools....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Hynes.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. An artifact without associated documentation has limited archaeological value. Yet the need or desire for analysts and authors to retain associated documentation beyond the deposit of artifacts commonly results in the failure to transmit this essential part of the collection to the repository where the artifacts live. With the increase of born-digital...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Crystal Dozier. Angelina Perrotti. Elayne Rye.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ability to concurrently analyze multiple microfossils from the same palaeoecological or archaeological sample would allow for faster and multi-evidenced analyses. Most microfossils require chemical processing to become identifiable under different types of microscopy; acetolysis is commonly employed in palynological study. We present the effects of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia Martinez. Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales.

This is an abstract from the "13,000 Years of Adaptation in the Sonoran Desert at La Playa, Sonora" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. La Playa archaeological site is located at Boquillas Valley, Sonora, northwestern Mexico. Animal remains studied pertain to the Late Archaic/Early Agriculture period (1500/800 BC–AD 200). Their identification revealed different uses for animals as subsistence, bone artifacts, dog burials, and bird bundles. Although...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maia Dedrick.

This is an abstract from the "Place-Making in Indigenous Mesoamerican Communities Past and Present" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As famously outlined by historian Nancy Farriss, mobility was an important survival strategy for Indigenous peoples of the Yucatán peninsula of Mexico throughout the colonial period. During the middle colonial period and beyond, a tension existed between mobility and emplacement, as demonstrated when entire communities...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carol Colaninno. Emily Beahm. Carl Drexler. Shawn Lambert. Cassidy Rayburn.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The discipline of archaeology relies on the field school as a training tool to teach practical field skills to students learning to become archaeologists. Despite the discipline’s reliance on the field school as a foundational teaching tool, scholars have yet to investigate the learning processes that occur during field school instruction and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ed Carriere. Dale Croes.

This is an abstract from the "Defining Perishables: The How, What, and Why of Perishables and Their Importance in Understanding the Past" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ed Carriere, Suquamish Elder (88) and Master Basketmaker, has had a lifetime goal of practicing the art of making early indigenous cordage, nets, and basketry. Teaming up with Dr. Dale Croes (WSU), Ed and Dale have published their “Generationally Linked Archaeology” approach, using...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lexie Lowe.

This is an abstract from the "Current Zooarchaeology: New and Ongoing Approaches" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Within zooarchaeological discourse, a central theme concerning taphonomic studies is the observation and analysis of cut marks on faunal specimens. Of particular importance is the maintenance and consistency of methodological approaches in applying archaeological inferences to the diagnostic surface modifications on bones. Despite calls...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Hoag. Riley Rist.

This is an abstract from the "Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Archaeology Classroom" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pedagogical studies in higher education repeatedly underscore the importance and effectiveness of hands-on, deep learning as a means for student engagement and connection with subject matter. In this paper we outline several engaged activities and techniques employed in anthropology and archaeology classes at a college of art and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Duncan. Christopher Stojanowski.

This is an abstract from the "Human Remains in the Marketplace and Beyond: Myths and Realities of Monitoring, Grappling With, and Anthropologizing the Illicit Trade in a Post-Harvard World" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Commerce and trade in human remains involves a panoply of thorny ethical questions surrounding rights of the dead and the authority of the living to speak for them. Trafficking of human remains may be defined as unauthorized,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Summer Kiker. Douglas Bolender. Kathryn Catlin.

This is an abstract from the "Small Dwellings on the Viking Frontier: New Research from Kotið, North Iceland" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Icelandic Viking Age archaeological assemblages are notorious for their paucity and limited range of material types. Kotið, a small dwelling dating to the original Viking Age settlement of Iceland, is no exception. In two seasons of excavation, only a handful of artifacts have been recovered; however, three...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Denis Sharapov.

This is an abstract from the "Steppe by Steppe: Advances in the Archaeology of Eastern Eurasia" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Due to the heavy influence of sixteenth- to nineteenth-century ethnography, many researchers still consider the Late Bronze Age (LBA) (2100–1300 BC) populations of the Trans-Ural steppe/forest-steppe to be nomadic pastoralists—a situation where most or all of human population is involved in periodic movements between...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Hutson. Bruno Athie Teruel. Rodolfo Canto Carrillo. Jaycee Castro.

This is an abstract from the "Beyond Leaky Pipelines: Exploring Gender Inequalities in Archaeological Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The leaky pipeline for women in archaeology has been documented in a number of contexts. This paper begins by measuring the size of the leak in the pipeline from PhD programs to tenure-track positions in US anthropology departments. As an attempt to move toward explaining why gender inequalities persist, we...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian Bates.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Funded through a National Science Foundation – Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (NSF-IUSE) grant, the overarching goal of the project is to improve STEM competency among both STEM and non-STEM undergraduate students. The National Science Foundation has long recognized archaeology as a STEM discipline, although many students do not make this connection....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alvaro Montenegro.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The efficiency and safety of ocean travel is greatly dependent on along-trip environmental conditions. Agent-based simulations that optimize routes based on expected environmental conditions have been used by the shipping industry and the sailboat racing community for decades. Some recent efforts in archaeology have used the latter models. Here I describe...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Kurnick. Samantha Fladd.

This is an abstract from the "Beyond Leaky Pipelines: Exploring Gender Inequalities in Archaeological Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the last 35 years, scholars have produced an ever-increasing number of publications critiquing sexism and androcentrism in contemporary archaeological practice. Various studies have considered the relationship between intersectional gender identities and the completion of doctoral degrees, submission...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madeleine Mant. Zoe Alker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Skin and Bone examines the embodied experience of injury, accidents, and interpersonal violence of over 65,000 Londoners during the Industrial Revolution (1760–1901). Osteoarchaeological datasets from the Museum of London Centre for Human Bioarchaeology in combination with contemporary hospital (Middlesex, Royal London, Guy’s, St. Thomas’) and criminal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Hernandez.

This is an abstract from the "Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Archaeology Classroom" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the course of the twenty-first century, archaeologists have increasingly embraced digital technologies for research, data curation, and public engagement. Yet, like the practice of pedagogy as a whole, greater emphasis and systematic investigation is required on the role of new technologies in the archaeological classroom. Beyond...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brooke Priest. Anna Coppola. Magen Hodapp. Chrissina Burke.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pig bones have historically been used as a proxy for human skeletal remains because of the similarities in cell structure and soft tissue texture. Using pig elements, and continuing the work of previously completed research on the taphonomic effects of fertilizer on faunal bone conducted by the Northern Arizona University Faunal Analysis Laboratory...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Sternberg. Alessandra Pecci.

This is an abstract from the "2024 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Luis Barba" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Luis Barba is the 2024 Fryxell Award honoree, in recognition of his excellence in interdisciplinary research contributing significantly to American archaeology. Luis started his career with academic degrees in chemical engineering, geology, and anthropology. His research interests and over 200 publications focus on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carola Flores-Fernandez. Gabriela Covarrubias. Felipe Rivera.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fishhooks on Choromytilus chorus shells (mussel) can be found along the northern coast Chile (18° to 30° Lat. S) and were manufactured between 7500 and 4000 yrs cal BP. Manufacture marks on these artefacts are prominent features to observed, describe, and compare. In this way, the study of shell fishhooks’ manufacture techniques allows us not only to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Southorn. Siân Halcrow. Claire Cameron.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Motherhood" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. New Zealand was the “poster child” for relatively low infant mortality rates in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries compared with other OECD countries; however, little is known about how social disadvantage may have increased the mortality rates for marginalized groups. We investigate the causes of death and age at death of infants (one year of age...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Berikashvili.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Zakagori fortress in Truso Valley, Northern Georgia (South Caucasus) represents unique medieval complex which was controlling military and economical routs leading from the South to the North in medieval times. This unique complex is known as an architectural and archaeological monument, which combines stratas and sediments of High and Late Medieval...