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DOCUMENT Citation Only Caleb Ranum. Alan Farahani. Katherine Chiou. Julia Sponholtz. Patricia Mathu.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Traditional morphometric, or shape, analysis of archaeobotanical remains utilizes linear measurements taken in set axes of view (e.g., lateral) to generate quantitative assessments of morphological variation—mainly of carbonized disseminules—between taxa, or within a taxon. In contrast, landmark and semi-landmark analyses (LMA) apply statistical methods to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wayne Lorenz.

This is an abstract from the "Water and Sanitation Management in the Mediterranean " session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Water was a key element in the life of the Roman citizen in Pompeii. Beautiful mosaic fountain structures were constructed in several of the houses and gardens in Pompeii. So far, 11 locations with mosaic fountains have been excavated. Some of these were impressive in size, with the largest mosaic fountain located in the House of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Rucinski. Georgia Abrams. Tamira Brennan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2022, the Illinois State Archaeological Survey’s Curation Section undertook the monumental task of moving its ~24,000 ft3 Illinois Department of Transportation collections to a larger, modified-to-suit facility. These collections include some of the most significant projects carried out in Illinois. This paper addresses our methods for assessing the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Georgia Abrams. Hannah Rucinski. Tamira Brennan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As a result of moving its ~24,000 ft3 Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) collections to a more suitable facility, the Illinois State Archaeological Survey’s Curation Section is now more capable of addressing the present and future needs of the collections and its users. This paper details the move’s success and our ongoing efforts to create more...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Otar Berikashvili.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. “Ortvala Cave” (Double Eye) is located in the southern part of Georgia (South Caucasus), a distance of 98 km from present day Georgian-Armenian border, and represents a multilayer cave complex, combining deposits of Mousterian culture (Lower Paleolithic), as well as the deposits of Chalcholithic, Early Bronze, and medieval periods. Archaeological and...

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

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From January to March 2022, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) carried out the first documentation of in situ material culture from a space habitat. Since then, we have identified and marked the locations of thousands of artifacts in the 358 photographs made by the crew in six sample locations across the ISS. At the 2023 SAA Meetings,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tina Czaplinska. Meradeth Snow.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. DNA acquisition from skeletal remains reveals a wealth of information that observational analysis alone does not offer. Researchers can glean an individual’s ancestry, lineage, and biological sex and review genetic diversity. However, most current methods require some form of destruction to extract genetic material, which can dissuade entities (museum...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristof Cank. Joshua M. Henkin. Anita G. Cook. Nicholas H. Oberlies.

This is an abstract from the "Plant Exudates and Other Binders, Adhesives, and Coatings in the Americas" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Analyzing ceramics from ancient cultures, many of which are degraded or damaged from hundreds or thousands of years of weathering, present some unique challenges. Mass spectrometry coupled with separation techniques such as liquid chromatography provides a means to analyze residues on artifacts. However, most...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vibeke Vandrup Martens.

This is an abstract from the "Putting Archaeology to Work: Expanding Climate and Environmental Studies with the Archaeological Record" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Climate is changing now at an even higher rate than expected in some of the worst-case climate scenarios, with increasing temperatures, changes in precipitation, decreasing permafrost, more frequent and severe storms, sea-level rise, reduction of sea ice, floods, avalanches, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meredith Wismer.

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. Experimental archaeology is a valuable tool for investigating the past and can be used to develop hands-on, high-impact learning opportunities for undergraduate students, helping to demystify the scientific process. Assigning such activities can also address some of the assessment challenges posed by the use of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Dewey.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research reconstructs the osteobiography of an unprovenienced male individual that is part of an anatomical collection house at the University of Oklahoma to get more information about his life. This is done by reconstructing his biological profile and investigating possible habitual activity through skeletal indicators. Specifically, the analysis...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Phillip Leckman.

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. For over 30 years, archaeologists in southern New Mexico have discovered and managed cultural resources in a survey setting using the transect recording unit (TRU) method. This survey approach divides survey space into a grid of uniformly sized cells and serves as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Artur Ribeiro.

This is an abstract from the "In Defense of Everything! Constructive Engagements with Graeber and Wengrow’s Provocative Contribution" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the critiques *The Dawn of Everything* was subject to was that it failed to provide a clear method or had no method at all and that it was unscientific. There is some truth to these critiques since *The Dawn of Everything* does have its problems. However, underlying these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kostalena Michelaki. Andrea Torvinen. Andrea Berlin.

This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pottery is a powerful tool for understanding past societies. The timing and function of a site, the nature and rhythms of daily life, and the social relations of site inhabitants with each other and with people from far away regions are questions archaeologists ask of ceramic data regularly. The power of such data can be greatly enhanced when they...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlos Figueroa Beltran.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The colonization process in the Baja California Peninsula began with the arrival of Hernán Cortés in Bahía de la Santa Cruz in 1535. Then, the peninsula was called Terra Ignota, a Latin term used in cartography for regions that have not been mapped or documented. Its geographical isolation from the rest of New Spain made it a territory wrapped in fantasy...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam King.

This is an abstract from the "Art Style as a Communicative Tool in Archaeological Research" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In his study of Mississippian smoking pipes of the South Appalachian region, Blanton notes that in the Middle Mississippian period smoking rituals became more formalized and restricted to ritual specialists. He identifies several pipe themes associated with the social and political influence of Etowah. In this paper I follow...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathan Klembara.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology has long occupied a fruitful and yet uneasy position within academia in the United States. Anthropological archaeology has long drawn methods and theories from the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities, which in many ways has expanded the interpretive and analytical possibilities of the discipline. However, it has also caused...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Guillermo De La Fuente. Sergio D. Vera.

This is an abstract from the "Scaling Potting Networks: Recent Contributions from Ceramic Petrography " session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The southern sector of the Abaucán Valley presents an important prehispanic occupation belonging to the Early Formative period (ca. 200 BC–AD 600). The main material evidence of this occupation is given by the presence of small household units characterized by a quadrangular settlement pattern associated with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Zaia.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. People continue to migrate to digital/online spaces and communities, especially during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. This migration often entails constructing digital habitats and habitations as well as its own material culture and evidence of online settlement, use, and abandonment. This session presents several case studies featuring the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robin Singleton. Kristen Rayfield. Karissa Hughes. Courtney Hofman. Staff La Brea Tar Pits.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Asphaltic deposits are a valuable source of well-preserved faunal assemblages; however, DNA extraction from such deposits has remained problematic. Harsh chemical treatments and boiling are generally used to remove asphalt from faunal material in these contexts as it does not damage the morphology; however, it may impact biomolecule preservation....

DOCUMENT Citation Only W. James Stemp. Danielle Macdonald. Naomi Martisius. Christopher Brown.

This is an abstract from the "Animal Resources in Experimental Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Increasingly, archaeologists have adopted various approaches from engineering and materials sciences to quantify the surfaces of artifacts and ecofacts. Different microscope systems and surface texture/roughness parameters have been employed with various degrees of success. Although most studies have focused on chipped stone tools and animal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Annapaola Passerini.

This is an abstract from the "Constructing Chronologies II: The Big Picture with Bayes and Beyond" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Kura-Araxes horizon (KA; 3500–2500 BCE), which characterizes the EBA in the South Caucasus, is at the center of an archaeological debate regarding the timing of its development and dispersal into areas of the greater Near East, including eastern Anatolia, northwestern Iran, and the Southern Levant. Increasing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Dye. Caitlin Buck. Robert DiNapoli.

This is an abstract from the "Constructing Chronologies I: Stratification and Correlation" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The joint posteriors of Bayesian calibration can be analyzed with Allen's interval algebra to guide phyletic seriation, which comprehends the three modes of artifact change recognized by evolutionary archaeologists, including anagenesis, cladogenesis, and reticulation. Using the example of beads recovered from stratigraphically...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anabel Ford.

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. It was the writing and award of NSF Women in Science grant that brought to the fore for me the issues of women in archaeology. Motivated to build on my associations, I sought speakers in archaeology that could represent the world of possibilities. In that search, I was able to meet many women in the field and learn of existing informal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Des Lauriers.

This is an abstract from the "Humble Houses to Magnificent Monuments: Papers in Honor of Jerry D. Moore" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While better known for his exceptional work on households and South American archaeology, Jerry Moore’s contribution to sparking a surge in the archaeology of the “Forgotten Peninsula” of Baja California should not go unmentioned. Most importantly, he brought a strong dose of anthropologically informed and...