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DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirsten M. G. Vacca.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "What Is "Historical"?", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper examines the history of historical categorizations in the North American archaeology tradition, tracing the reconfigurations of these temporalities through time. The shifting terminology is an attempt at decolonizing the temporal categories in archaeology but only serves to mask or reframe colonial narratives while subsuming Indigenous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristen Barnett.

Data collection and analysis at Housepit (HP) 54 Bridge River Site, British Columbia, has provided an opportunity for a range of studies emphasizing (but not limited to) questions of subsistence, inheritance, lithic technological adaptations and spatial organization of the ancient occupations of this household during the BR3 period (ca. 1300-1000 cal. B.P.). This poster draws upon data acquired through the systematic analysis of artifacts and ecofacts and is further enhanced through the use of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Judith Margarita Lopez Aceves.

This is an abstract from the "Many New Worlds: Alternative global histories through material stories" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Intoxicant consumption is a practice that was reported by the European colonizers when they first arrived in the Caribbean, however, their reports were often vague and lacking detail, leaving material evidence as the only tangible evidence of this consumption. But what if the material evidence we have does not align...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dougless Skinner.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation outlines the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) effort to consult, investigate, and evaluated traditional cultural places (TCP) for the Ambler Access Project. The Ambler Access Project is a proposed 211-mile industrial access road from the Dalton Highway to the Ambler Mining District in interior Alaska. The road is proposed to traverse...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian Kretzler.

This is an abstract from the "Recognizing and Recording Post-1492 Indigenous Sites in North American Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The nineteenth and early twentieth century history of western Oregon is rife with Euro-American presumptions about the trajectory, pace, and nature of Native cultural change. Federal architects of the state’s reservation system and, later, reservation agents wrote extensively about Native peoples’ ability...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Stevens.

This is an abstract from the "*SE The State of Theory in Southeastern Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Framed within Eurocentric materialism, economic theory of the deep past has largely formed a world of ‘natural resources’ ready for extraction, exploitation, and management. Conversely, Indigenous-based economies of North America-Turtle Island widely see an animate universe in which all creations have agency and tradition all their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mairead Doery.

This is an abstract from the "(Re) Imagining Rock Art Research" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. North American rock art researchers have long relied on stylistic conventions for identifying the age, cultural association, and, therefore, presumed “meaning” of petroglyphs and pictographs. These categories project archaeological lenses onto Indigenous iconography; when employed at rock art sites baring multiple iconographic “styles”, this approach...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cameron Huftalen. Colleen O'Loughlin.

This is an abstract from the "Temyiq Tuyuryaq: Collaborative Archaeology the Yup’iit Way" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This pilot study aims to culture and monitor bacterial species from a specific range of archaeological samples from Temyiq Tuyuryaq, a multigenerational village in northern Bristol Bay, Alaska. Goals of this study are to test our ability to identify variability and consistency of the microbial species present in conditions of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marlen Flores Huacuja. Humberto Garcia-Ortiz. Angelica Martinez-Hernandez. Lorena Orozco-Orozco. Meradeth Snow.

This is an abstract from the "Ancient DNA in Service of Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Currently in Mexico there are around 68 ethnic groups, grouped into 11 linguistic families, representing 15% of the Mexican population. The mitogenome (mtDNA) has allowed us to make inferences about the history of and relationships between these populations. However, the evaluation of the mitochondrial genetic structure in the Mexican population has...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Val Lopez.

This is an abstract from the "Current Insights into Pyrodiversity and Seascape Management on the Central California Coast" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Creation Story of the Amah Mutsun clearly delineates our traditional territory and asserts our responsibility to take care of Mother Earth and all living things. For thousands of years and many hundreds of generations the Amah Mutsun accumulated knowledge of how to ensure balance in their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Octavius Seowtewa.

This is an abstract from the "Tribal Engagement Best Practices: Lessons from Arizona and New Mexico" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Zuni ancestral homeland extends across the American Southwest, into Mesoamerica, and beyond. For generations, Ashiwi, or Zuni ancestors, became acquainted with the land and its elements, relying on Mother Earth to provide them with food, shelter, and the tools needed to survive, both physically and spiritually....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Jonsson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology is conducted with the hope that the artifacts unearthed through excavation will have enduring value as archaeological collections housed in institutions. However, this perceived value has been called into question as the field increasingly engages with descendant communities who often do not value Western-style museums and with the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Henry McMahon.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As the prolonged experiment of divine rulership began to lose its effectiveness across the Maya world, the Maya people began reshaping their political systems in an attempt to address the conditions through which they were living. As the shift to the Terminal Classic Period began at sites like Waka, new forms of governance began to take shape, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Munro-Harrison.

This is an abstract from the "From Tomb Raider to Indiana Jones: Pitfalls and Potential Promise of Archaeology in Pop Culture" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Through this project I aim to document the ways in which Indigenous artists exercise self-determination in expressing identity through creative means. A complex and significant issue is evident in the depiction of Indigenous Australians within the media which continue to stereotype or ignore...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Selena Bernier.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Old Copper Culture (OCC), as a general term, is an archaeological culture that has been studied for decades and still continues to be used as an identifier in American Archaeology. Throughout these studies there seems to be something crucial missing: Indigenous perspectives. I argue that Indigenous Traditional Knowledge is necessary for the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sandra Gaskell. Gaylen D. Lee. John Pryor. William Leonard.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During early suppression efforts of two wildland fires, indigenous firefighters reduced damage by sharing unrecorded cultural site polygons created from oral tradition aligned to dozer lines ahead of the fire’s predictive path. During the Detwiler Fire (2017), and the Ferguson Fire (2018), the Tribal Archaeologists from two tribes, and the Cultural Officers...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fernanda Neubauer.

This is an abstract from the "Cultivating Food, Land, and Communities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation explores my ethnoarchaeological research on a long-term interdisciplinary project in collaboration with Guarani communities toward Indigenous land repatriation in Brazil and offers a case study of a collaboration designed within the framework of Indigenous archaeological approaches. The project’s planning and fieldwork were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Torres.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. NAGPRA empowered tribes to repatriate the remains and sacred objects of their ancestors. As a result, a movement developed and Indigenous archaeology was born. It has been with us for nearly 30 years now and some important benefits have resulted, especially in terms of interpreting archaeological data through an Indigenous lens. An amendment to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Jones.

Indigenous Cultural Resource Ceremonies looks at the relationship that Indigenous people have with archaeological sites and with sacred places. Spiritual connections that Indigenous people have with the land, waters and even with the stars and with the cycles of the moon. How is this relationship defined within modern archaeology and cultural resource management today? The relationship and the connections to places that we originate from. The villages, communities, towns, and the cities. ...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Olanrewaju Lasisi.

This is an abstract from the "Essential Contributions from African to Global Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the discoveries of the astronomical orientation of Stonehenge in the 1960s, several scholarships have employed skyscape archaeology to answer questions about state formation and consolidation of complex societies. The majority of these works have focused outside Africa, particularly on cultures in Latin America, China,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erik Stanley.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper examines indigenous understandings of the archaeological record through the case study of the Mopan Maya of Belize. Among many traditional Mopan Maya, classic era artifacts such as potsherds and stone points are often attributed to the Cheil or "those of the forest." Mopan believe that the Cheil are magical anthropomorphic beings descended from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Bess.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology: How Native American Knowledge Enhances Our Collective Understanding of the Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) or Indigenous Knowledge (IK)—evolved and evolving from hundreds or thousands of years of observation and interaction with specific environments—has answered questions posed by geomorphologists and archaeologists, among others, attempting to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabrielle Moran-O'Dell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On a 44-acre property located at USDA-NRCS Rose Lake Plant Materials Center (PMC) in Bath, Michigan, is a site that has a rich prehistoric background dating from the Late Woodland to the Late Archaic periods. The PMC has five known archaeological sites across the landscape that have shaped how the property is viewed. Based on pedestrian survey and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vickie Clay.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Indigenous Peoples have long participated in data recovery projects in the Great Basin, primarily as passive observers (monitors); however, they are rarely involved with the initial survey and recording of cultural resources. During a recent green energy transmission corridor survey through Nevada, Tribal members including elders and young people with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean Gantt.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this presentation I will discuss plans to diversify the Public Anthropology program offerings through the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center to include more accessible and relevant content for local Native American youth. I plan to utilize a "multi-cultural landscape approach" to the interpretation of the Central Mesa Verde Region which will include not only...