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DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Riebe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past 6 years, the Prehistoric Interactions on the Plain Project (PIPP) has carried out intensive and extensive archaeological investigations at the Late Neolithic site of Csökmő-Káposztás-domb located on the Great Hungarian Plain. Across the 105-hectare tell-centered settlement complex, a total of 20 test units and larger excavation blocks have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alysha Lieurance.

This is an abstract from the "Communities of Engagement: Incorporating Deep Time and Slow Science into Community Based Research Projects" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent publications outlining ethical guidelines for the handling of human skeletal remains stress the necessity of obtaining informed consent from donors, lineal descendants, descendant communities, and/or communities of care before conducting research. However, when consent...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Phillip Mendenhall.

This is an abstract from the "Communities of Engagement: Incorporating Deep Time and Slow Science into Community Based Research Projects" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation explores the implementation of the ‘slow science’ method, termed to incorporate meaningful indigenous community involvement into archaeological research. Recent initiatives involving descendant indigenous communities through land acknowledgement and explanatory...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Haws.

This is an abstract from the "Variability within the Aurignacian: New Research Outlooks" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Across Eurasia, abrupt climate shifts during the Late Pleistocene impacted human and natural systems. For the Iberian Peninsula, our knowledge of human adaptive responses during the Upper Paleolithic has improved in recent years with the development of new radiocarbon techniques and high-resolution paleoclimatic records....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wei Chu.

This is an abstract from the "Variability within the Aurignacian: New Research Outlooks" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While caves have traditionally been seen as prime habitats for early hominins, the prevalence of open-air Aurignacian sites in East-Central Europe has long invited a broader investigation into the spatial preferences and adaptive strategies of early humans in the region. One such early adaptation that has been suggested are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jaroslav Bruzek. Kevin Salesse. Petr Velemínský. Pascal Sellier. Dominique Castex.

The new evaluation of the skeletal remains and the archaeological documentation from the Saint Benedict cemetery in Prague is a unique opportunity for a bioarchaeological analysis of past mortality crises. The rescue archaeological excavation (held in 1971) and the first osteological analysis (Hanakova et al., 1988) showed in the baroque phase V (1635-1786) the presence of several multiple graves (approximately 30 with 190 individuals) and also many other simultaneous individual burials...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Harper Wall.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bog butter is an intentionally submerged artifact found in sphagnum peat bogs. Due to the acidic and anaerobic nature of peat environments, the bog butter containers and their contents have been uniquely preserved. The butter has been deposited in bogs dating from the early bronze age to the early modern period in modern-day Ireland and Scotland. Although...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Decker.

Byzantine Archaeologies Michael J. Decker The past twenty years have witnessed important research in the core areas of Byzantium, especially in Asia Minor, as well as in territories governed by Constantinople prior to the Arab conquests of the seventh century. Byzantine archaeology has long remained conservative and often the preserve of those interested in art history or nationalist agendas. Nonetheless, many aspects of Byzantine archaeology remain unexplored or neglected, in part because of a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dakota Buhmann.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 2015, the University of Wyoming and a team of Croatian archaeologists, have recovered human remains from Baraćeve Špilje, a cave located approximately 140 kilometers south of Zegreb, Croatia, on the boarder of Bosnia and Herzegovina. These remains were highly fragmented, intermixed with faunal elements, and predominately documented on the surface....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Silvia Gazzo.

This is an abstract from the "Variability within the Aurignacian: New Research Outlooks" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Marine mollusks were first deliberately collected for food consumption and tool production during the Middle Paleolithic in Europe. However, it was with the emergence of Homo sapiens in the Early Upper Paleolithic that a profound shift occurred, leading to the systematic and extensive gathering of these marine resources....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aadya Khemka.

This is an abstract from the "Communities of Engagement: Incorporating Deep Time and Slow Science into Community Based Research Projects" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This part of the presentation explores the dynamic relationship between the ancient Greek colonial site of Apollonia Pontica, founded in the 7th century BCE on the Black Sea, and the modern town of Sozopol, Bulgaria. Apollonia Pontica was a significant trading and cultural hub in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Luc Doyon.

This is an abstract from the "Variability within the Aurignacian: New Research Outlooks" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Aurignacian is a pivotal technocomplex in European prehistory marked by the development of novel socio-economic strategies, and symbolic and cultural systems at a continental scale. In recent decades, efforts were made to outline the contour of the cultural provinces occupied by the human groups comprised within the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only C. Scott Speal.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ancient Rome is arguably the quintessential patriarchal society in the western historical tradition, in which the male head of household had the very power of life and death over his wife and children. Cross-culturally, anthropologists have found that those in a position of hierarchical authority generally manipulate socio-political systems to their own...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Serena Lombardo.

This is an abstract from the "Variability within the Aurignacian: New Research Outlooks" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Apidima cave complex (Caves A-E, Peloponnese, Greece) is among the most significant Palaeolithic sites in south-eastern Europe. Two fossilized human crania recovered from Cave A in the 1970s-80s, indicate the presence of an early H. sapiens population followed by a Neanderthal one in the Middle Pleistocene. Important...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Porter.

This is an abstract from the "Variability within the Aurignacian: New Research Outlooks" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We know that Neanderthals and Anatomically Modern Humans were exchanging DNA, but were they also exchanging ideas? In this paper, we investigate this question by comparing lithic technology across the so-called “Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition” in western Europe. Assemblages studied include La Rochette couche 7...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Agathe Cadieux.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Liguria, Italy, offers an ideal setting to study how hunter-gatherers adapted to the climatic, social and political changes of the transition to the Neolithic. Additionally, Liguria is an interesting region to study this question since it was one of the first regions of the Western Mediterranean to be colonized by Neolithic agriculturalists and thus...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Armando Falcucci.

This is an abstract from the "Variability within the Aurignacian: New Research Outlooks" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Aurignacian marks a critical phase in the expansion of Homo sapiens across Europe, defined by considerable internal variability. In Italy, this variability is evident as the earliest Aurignacian in the north appears contemporaneous with the Uluzzian in the south, highlighting distinct regional trajectories worth in-depth...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Manuel Alcaraz-Castaño.

This is an abstract from the "Variability within the Aurignacian: New Research Outlooks" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Aurignacian shows an uneven distribution in the Iberian Peninsula. Protoaurignacian and Early Aurignacian industries are only clearly recorded in the northern regions, while south of the Ebro basin only late Aurignacian sites have been unquestionably documented, besides controversial cases. Yet, all these sites are located...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Olivier Weller. Jérôme Dubouloz. Laurence Manolakakis.

The Michelsberg Culture saw the onset of major enonomic, social, technological and cultural transformations in agricultural societies around 4200 BC Cal. The most striking feature is without doubt the appearance in the landscape of large sites enclosed by complex systems of ditches and palissades. On the other hand, different modes of production and the exploitation of flint and salt show not only networks of raw material procurement but also a new organisation of territories and the role of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Belford.

Historical archaeology has become much more widely accepted in Europe in the last ten years The same period has also seen tremendous changes in the way archaeology is undertaken in many European countries. Some - such as the UK, Ireland, and the Netherlands - have adopted an 'Anglo-Saxon' model of free-market capitalism within a regulatory framework; others - such as France and Poland - remain strongly wedded to a more traditional statist model. These methodological differences reflect - and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Percy Hei Chun Ho.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The human-deer relationship extends deep into antiquity, with many members of the Cervidae family long being utilized as raw materials, foodstuff, medicine, as well as ceremonial objects. However, few studies have emphasized species identification within the Cervidae family, largely due to morphological similarities between different Cervid species, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Canessa.

This is an abstract from the "Variability within the Aurignacian: New Research Outlooks" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Aurignacian has long been associated with the emergence and expansion of modern humans across Europe. However, despite or because of its broad distribution, artefact assemblages attributed to the techno-complex show considerable variability at both regional and chronological scales. One current obstacle for understanding...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Airola.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Gać, a village in Greater Poland, near Poznań, and Czysty Square, formerly the Cemetery of our Savior in Wrocław, are two archaeological sites in Poland dating to between the 16^th and 19^th centuries. Ancient DNA analysis has been carried out on the remains of individuals excavated from both sites’ cemeteries in order to assess...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Angelica Caraballo-Santiago.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The transition from the Copper to the Bronze and Iron Ages is shown through changing sociopolitical and economic organization reflected in faunal material. With ZooMS (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry), fragments unidentifiable through morphological analysis can be identified through chemical analysis. ZooMS was applied to 34 samples collected from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madelyn Mezzell.

This is an abstract from the "Communities of Engagement: Incorporating Deep Time and Slow Science into Community Based Research Projects" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation explores the roles of animals and fantastical beasts in Etruscan iconography from the Archaic to the Late Orientalizing period and the manner in which their misinterpretation, or complete lack thereof, affects our understanding of communities who inhabited very...