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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 Steven Campbell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Mt Tabor AME Zion Church is located in Mt Holly Springs, Pennsylvania and is a standing log cabin structure that dates to 1871. There is an active descendant African American community around the Mt Tabor AME Zion Church that is proud of their heritage and would like to tell their story. The main goal of this project is to interpret survey data from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Goran Pajovic. Gilbert Tostevin. Samantha Porter. Nikola Borovinic. Anne Melton.

This is an abstract from the "The Late Middle Paleolithic in the Western Balkans: Results from Recent Excavations at Crvena Stijena, Montenegro" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Theoretically informed research methods are only as good as the ability of the research team to put the methods into action. Between the well-intentioned plans of the PIs and the successful elucidation of fascinating anthropological questions lie the practicalities of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paula Hertfelder. Alejandra Abrego. Cinthia Campos.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Trincheras Tradition Project is an ongoing collaborative effort to better understand the prehispanic past of Northwest Mexico. Led by Dr. Randall McGuire and Elisa Villalpando, researchers from Binghamton University and the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) spent two field seasons in 2017 and 2018 excavating three Trincheras Tradition...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Franziska Fecher.

Honduran Archaeology has long focused on the investigation of Copan and the ancient Maya culture in the western part of the country. The non-Maya region has only been investigated intensively in the past 50 years, despite the fact that as a bridge between the cultures of Meso- and Southamerica Honduras offers an exciting area of investigation. Access to information about the non-Maya archaeology of Honduras is difficult, given that there are hardly any introductory summaries. In order to make...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Asa Randall.

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 shell mounds of the St. Johns River basin in northeast Florida are among some of the longest-lived places in North America. The repeated occupation over 9,000 years in duration attests to the attention paid to these places through depositions and encounters. Depositional histories reveal how places grounded...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Renae Campbell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In an increasingly digital world, digital archaeological collections have established themselves as important tools for artifact identification, comparative and collaborative undertakings, and information dissemination. This poster introduces the Historical Japanese Ceramic Comparative Collection (HJCCC), the first digital collection to focus on Japanese...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diana Gonzalez-Tennant. Edward Gonzalez-Tennant.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Cedar Key is located two hours north of Tampa along Florida’s Gulf Coast. While the town is overwhelmingly White today, it was home to a vibrant African American community between Reconstruction the early 20th century. This poster discusses a mixed methods project combining archival research, field mapping, ground penetrating radar (GPR) survey, and photogrammetry to document the presence...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kendall Baller.

Social network analyses provide insight into the strength and weakness of social connections across geographic areas. Discussions in the literature of the Mimbres region in New Mexico have stated that during the Classic period, the Mimbres ceramic tradition is confined to southwestern New Mexico, though this has not been tested with statistical assessments of data. Using ceramic style data from sites within and surrounding the Mimbres region, I investigate the levels of social ‘boundedness’ in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Neil Hauser. Teri Hauser.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. An investigation of over 300 images of contracting stem points from Nevada, Utah, and western Colorado was carried out using geometric morphometrics (GMM) techniques. The GMM analysis used over 150 landmarks on each of the 2D images. Examination of the principal components and landmarks with respect to geographic occurrence indicate these points changed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Teresa Ingalls. Danny Gregory.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. "Paperless archaeology" is becoming increasingly normal. Professionals in both academic and corporate spheres have turned to digital methodology as a means to organize and manage their projects and collect data. Normal field equipment now includes tablets and laptops using customized databases, apps for creating spatial data on site, digital cameras, and a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeremy Huggett.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Vision in the Age of Big Data" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological data is notoriously tricksy: while we appreciate it is always incomplete, frequently unreliable, often replete with unknown unknowns, we nevertheless make the best of what we have and use it to build our theories and extrapolations about past events. Are data in a digital environment any different? Is there any reason to think...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Suzie Thomas.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community-Based Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper I present the work of SuALT: the Finnish Archaeological Finds Recording Linked Open Database (Fi: Suomen arkeologisten löytöjen linkitetty avoin tietokanta). SuALT is still in development, but aims to make it easy and reliable for members of the public to record chance archaeological finds that they discover and to browse other...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Archambault.

This is an abstract from the "At the Frontier of Big Climate, Disaster Capitalism, and Endangered Cultural Heritage in Barbuda, Lesser Antilles" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Islands like Barbuda are particularly sensitive to waste management policies and behaviours; in addition to having to manage their waste daily, they also suffer the effects of tourism and the marine litter washed up on their coasts. These challenges are certainly not new,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Johi D. Griffin. Kathryn E Sampeck.

A crucial challenge in the public interpretation of Cherokee archaeology and cultural heritage is for Native community members to be able to inform the interpretation and presentation in every step of the process, from formulating research design, carrying out investigations, and the dissemination of the results. The emphasis in both formulating and interpreting cultural heritage work conducted by the authors is to use frameworks and approaches that start from Cherokee perspectives and goals....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allison Densmore.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The inherently destructive nature of archaeological excavations and the massive data output create a complex problem for data management in archaeology. Data are often limited to use by the original researchers or only made accessible to academics through paywalled publications. The archaeological record is a non-renewable resource. Thus, this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia Chyla.

This is an abstract from the "A Decade of Multidisciplinary Research at Castillo de Huarmey, Peru" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Castillo de Huarmey, a Wari provincial center and elite necropolis, was one of the most important locations on the Middle Horizon (AD 650–1050) Huarmey Valley landscape. In my presentation, I will address issues concerning the location of the site on a macro scale in the entire Huarmey Valley, on a micro scale (the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Davis. Knut Rassman. Hans-Ullrich Voss. Chris Carey. Christine Markussen.

The Brú na Bóinne World Heritage Site in Ireland is one of Europe's most significant Neolithic landscapes, and has been the focus of significant effort as regards remote sensing for the last 20 years. Until recently this focused on relatively low-resolution lidar survey and small-scale geophysical prospection, often 'monument-centric' in approach. In 2014 much higher resolution lidar data were obtained for part of the WHS alongside the first landscape-scale geomagnetic surveys within the area,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean Bergin. Grant Snitker.

During the early and middle Holocene, the introduction of agropastoral subsistence to Europe resulted in significant social and economic transformations. For decades, researchers have recognized that early agricultural communities had an ecological impact on the surrounding landscapes. As a whole, paleoecological records indicate increases in charcoal abundance and changes in vegetation communities’ distribution or diversity related to Neolithic agricultural land clearing, burning, or pastoral...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Anderson. Eric Kansa. Sarah Whitcher Kansa. Joshua Wells. Stephen Yerka.

This is an abstract from the "Global Perspectives on Climate-Human Population Dynamics During the Late Holocene" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Population trends in Eastern North America are explored using the incidence and distribution of diagnostic artifacts and components, using continental scale datasets like DINAA and PIDBA, and as developed by researchers at the locality, state, or regional level. Such research has a long history in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paige Brevick.

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. Humanities education at the grade-school level, particularly that of the ancient past, has frequently been characterized as lacking in new technologies and teaching tools. Additionally, the subject of the ancient world itself can be complex and intimidating for teachers who may be unfamiliar...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Carrie Heitman. Worthy Martin. Stephen Plog.

This is a pdf copy of the PPT slides used for the presentation in the SAA symposium. Over the last 12 years, the authors of this paper have been involved in a range of digital curation activities pertaining to legacy records and the integration and manipulation of those data to create new knowledge about the past. Primarily, we have worked together to create the Chaco Research Archive (CRA) and a variety of complementary projects including a mobile application and, more recently, the Salmon...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leslie Perkins. Travis Stanton.

The use of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) in Mesoamerican archaeological research been steadily increasing. Building on this knowledge, LiDAR was conducted during the summer of 2017 over a 6km2 area of the prehispanic site of San Gervasio, Isla Cozumel, Quintana Roo, Yucatan, Mexico. This was part of a larger survey and mapping project conducted by the Proyecto de Interacción Política del Centro de Yucatán (PIPCY) spearheaded by Dr. Travis Stanton. The proposed poster will discuss LiDAR...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Birge. Thibault Saintenoy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Carangas, primarily located in modern day Bolivia, were a Late Intermediate Period (LIP) group often associated with highland pastoralism and broader LIP traditions. They are also known for a series of colored adobe chullpas in the Rio Lauca basin and a network of linear geoglyphs called the Sajama lines which cover over 20,000 square kilometers. They...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joshua J. Wells. Mackenzie Edmonds. David Anderson. Eric Kansa. Sarah Kansa.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) is a linked open data hub situated to help illuminate theoretical and practical connections between compliance archaeology and broader realms of archaeological science and public knowledge. This poster provides an assessment of prevalence of compliance activity represented in the approximately one million...