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DOCUMENT Citation Only Julien Riel-Salvatore.

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. Probably more so than any other technocomplex, research on the Aurignacian sensu lato has been a crucible of basic science in Paleolithic archaeology and paleoanthropology. Over the past century and a half, steady research on this industry has greatly refined our understanding of its defining features and, increasingly, its...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Polly Burnette-Egan.

The Bronze Age is a period of fundamental social and technological changes in Europe, including the emergence of more complex political and economic systems. Pecica "Şanțul Mare," a large tell located in the Carpathian Basin (Romania), provides an ideal case study of economic reorganization throughout the course of the Middle Bronze Age (MBA), when it came to rise as a regional center. The Middle Bronze Age was an era of more centralized control over animal production and specialized horse...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Gadsby.

Since it began exporting the national park idea nearly a century ago, the National Park Service (NPS) has become instrumental in the protection and preservation of cultural heritage throughout the world. Cultural heritage conservation activities conducted in partnership with other nations enable NPS to disseminate important messages about the dangers of looting and the importance of protecting heritage sites. They also help to spread contemporary preservation practices and technologies to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marissa Ramsier.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The late medieval cemetery at Żelewo 1-3 is a lakeside site located in what was then Pomerania and is now North-Western Poland. The site is associated with a Cistercian monastery in the nearby town of Kołbacz. Remains were excavated in 2019 and then in 2023 and 2024 as part of a salvage archaeology project that coincides with the Żelewo Bioarchaeology...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fabio Negrino.

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 Riparo Bombrini site is located in the famous Balzi Rossi archaeological area in western Liguria. The site has preserved cultural remains from the Proto-Aurignacian and Classical Aurignacian periods, dating from about 42,000 to 33,000 years ago. The Proto-Aurignacian level testifies to the earliest presence of AMHs in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristina Whitney.

In the 19th century, ethnographers documented numerous Pueblo groups throughout the American Southwest making and using ceramic flat-backed canteens. These canteens pose unique manufacturing issues due to their shape: they are symmetrical along only one axis due to one flat and one bulbous side, and the closed rim is parallel to the flat side, not perpendicular as is usual. They are also extremely similar in shape to large European canteens, and thus can offer insight to the complex...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elisabetta Cova.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Milwaukee Public Museum, officially founded in 1882, but in fact in its early stages since 1851, was at the forefront of nineteenth-century museography at a crucial time for both the establishment of Wisconsin as a state of the Union and the institution of museums in the US. This paper investigates the historical, cultural and social context within...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nora Rose Thornton.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research examines the relationship between socioeconomic status, religious affiliation, and physiological stress in Industrial London. Two sites were used. The first site, St. Marylebone Paddington Street North, was a high-status Anglican cemetery active from 1772 - 1853. The second site, St. Mary and St. Michaels, was a low-status Catholic cemetery...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Neal Payne.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Marcham (Oxfordshire, United Kingdom) is a multiperiod archaeological site that was excavated by the University of Oxford between 2001 and 2011. In this poster, we present the preliminary archaeobotanical results from 100 samples spanning the site’s Bronze Age through Anglo-Saxon occupation, with significant Middle Iron Age and Roman evidence. Iron Age...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Olivia Young.

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. Wine as an anthropological object is a tool, allowing us to study winemaking communities across time. The regional culture and economy of Tuscany has been shaped by the historical agricultural and production methods of winemaking. With the growing popularity of global wine brands,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Goring.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) inhabited Europe and Asia during the Pleistocene becoming extinct around 24kya during the Last Glacial Maximum. Cave bears coexisted with Neanderthals and early modern humans under similar climatic and ecological conditions, leaving traces to improve our understanding of Pleistocene environments. Within their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Nicodemus. John O'Shea.

Pecica Şanţul-Mare (Romania) was a major trade center during the Middle Bronze Age. Its inhabitants participated intensively in regional and extra-regional exchange networks, bringing a range of utilitarian and prestige goods into the Lower Mureş valley. The quantity and diversity of imported items at Pecica far exceeds that of contemporary settlements in the region, with goods often by-passing other Mureş Culture communities along the major trade routes. Pecica also appears to have had...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maayan Shemer.

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. Since its first definition in the early twentieth century, the Levantine Aurignacian has been closely associated with the Aurignacian technocomplex of Western Europe, based on close similarities in the guiding fossils retrieved from both regions. Their distinction compared to the local archaeological record further stressed this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only paul courtney.

This paper will briefly review some of the characteristics of North American, British and Contintental Eropean historical archaeology.from ahistorical perspective.The aim is to provide a background for other more detailed papersin this session on the nature and future direction of European historical arcaheology. There is no coherent Continet-wide approach to historical or post-medievalk arcaheology. Nevertheless, there are widely shared aspects whci serve to distibguish it from North American...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meryl Shriver-Rice.

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. Building upon its community-based mission, and goals to bridge cultural and ecological heritage across a deep time perspective, the Potentino Exploration Project (PXP) conducted community-based participatory research in the Seggiano basin (2023-2024). These ethnographic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katina Lillios.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Agroal is a hilltop settlement located in a karstic landscape along the Nabão River in central Portugal. Three seasons of excavation and survey were conducted at Agroal between 1988 and 1990 and revealed two phases of occupation: the first, during the Bronze Age (2000-1000 BCE), and the second, between the 13^th and 17^th...