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DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather McClure.

This is an abstract from the "Digging through the Decades: A 90-year Retrospective on American Archaeology; Biennial Gordon Willey Session in the History of Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. It all started modestly enough. A September 1937 drive to New Orleans from Santa Fe and then passage on the United Fruit Company liner Tivives with the ultimate destinations of Quirigua and Guatemala City. This small group of ten with their leader...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alice Kehoe.

This is an abstract from the "Digging through the Decades: A 90-year Retrospective on American Archaeology; Biennial Gordon Willey Session in the History of Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. World War II disrupted archaeology, with SAA members in uniform and travel restricted. Members resuming their careers in the late 1940s faced a more egalitarian America as thousands of men from uneducated families entered colleges on the G.I. Bill....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ari Caramanica.

This is an abstract from the "Emplacement and Relational Approaches to the Ancient Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The definition of “place” in early colonial north coastal Peru, was based, in part, on Iberian concepts of what constituted ‘good’ land. Ethnohistoric analysis of archival evidence from the period reveals a friction between two distinct worldviews around land, water, ownership, labor, and likely, place. To arrive at a better...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patience Beauchemin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Little ancient DNA work has been done on archaeological textiles due to the difficulty of extracting sequenceable DNA from dyed materials in which the presence of various pigments often inhibit biochemical analyses. However, DNA extracted from textiles would add an additional line of evidence in regards to, for example, choices of raw materials,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Overholtzer.

This is an abstract from the "Ethical Dilemmas in the Study and Care of Human Remains beyond North America" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While engaging in collaborative fieldwork at Xaltocan in 2009, I was surprised that descendants wished to exhibit all their excavated ancestors in the community museum. Subsequent ethnographic research with Juan Argueta showed that displaying and analyzing the dead was a crucial tool in affirming their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dan Sandweiss.

This is an abstract from the "Issues in Regional Journal Publishing in the Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Andean Past is a peer-reviewed, interannual publication series on Andean archaeology and ethnohistory. Founded by Dan Sandweiss at Cornell University in the mid-1980s, fourteen volumes have been published since 1987. Monica Barnes joined as co-editor for Volume 3 (1992) and became the editor from Volume 5; Dan serves as Founding...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Weronika Tomczyk.

The Castillo de Huarmey archaeological expedition has been working since 2010 and so far, faunal remains from 3 different contexts were analyzed. Although the zooarchaeological analysis is still not completed, the importance of South American Camelids seems to be significant. In all of the contexts, remains of these species predominated. Formative settlement delivered small assemblage, but with high numbers of consumption patterns. Dated for Early Intermediate Period and Middle Horizon palatial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. M. Adovasio. Tom Dillehay. J. S. Illingworth.

Recent analysis of the basketry assemblage derived from the re-excavation of Huaca Prieta, Peru indicate the production of several highly complex “wall” types concurrently with escalating cultural complexity at this unique coastal site. These basketry variations include two expressions of twining which are presently unparalleled in South America. Both types also exhibit blue dyed elements and appear to have been intentionally dismembered before deposition. The technical attributes, chronological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Holcomb.

This is an abstract from the "Geoarchaeology in First Americans Research, Part 1" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past several decades, the application of soil and sediment micromorphology in geoarchaeology has flourished, especially outside of the Americas. Despite the widespread acceptance and use of this approach by our European counterparts, a similar effect has yet to occur among geoarchaeologists focused on the early archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabriel Prieto.

This is an abstract from the "From Ores to Ontologies: Recent Research in South American Archaeometallurgy" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological excavations at three sites in Huanchaco, North Coast of Peru have yielded a few metal fishhooks associated with the Viru (150/100 B.C. – A.D. 450/500), Moche (A.D. 450/500 – 800/850), Chimu (A.D. 1000/1100 – 1450/1470) and the Inca (A.D. 1450/1470 – 1532) occupations. These metal artifacts were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Dobereiner.

For half a century, scholars have listed Mesoamerica and South America alongside the Near East, Egypt, China, and India as independent loci of emergent social complexity. Yet, recent scholarship has placed an increasing emphasis on the role of multi-regionalism and mobility in the emergence of world civilizations. These theoretical shifts, alongside suggestive findings of agricultural, material, and ideological unity in the Formative Americas, require us to ask: were pathways to complexity in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Juan Sarmiento Rodríguez.

This is an abstract from the "Entre costas, ríos, lagos y manantiales: Arqueología subacuática en contextos prehispánicos en Latinoamérica y el Caribe" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Desde hace varios años, en la Península de Barú e Islas del Rosario, al sur de la Bahía de Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), se ha venido hablando de la existencia de un cementerio prehispánico ubicado en el borde costero de la región. Distintas prospecciones...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christina Rieth.

This is an abstract from the "Digging through the Decades: A 90-year Retrospective on American Archaeology; Biennial Gordon Willey Session in the History of Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Arthur C. Parker was born in 1881 on the Cattaraugus Reservation in New York. Through out his career he served both as an advocate for Indigenous peoples and sites that they inhabited. His career was based on sites in NY, working with the New York...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Davenport.

This is an abstract from the "Ceramic Petrographers in the Americas, Production Practices and Social Networks from Multilevel Angles" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The “Pachacamac” style has been identified on the central and north coasts of Peru during the Middle Horizon. It is characterized by thin-walled and high-fired ceramics, restricted to serving vessel forms, and decorated with polychrome motifs that share iconography with both other...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fernando Armstrong-Fumero.

This is an abstract from the "Digging through the Decades: A 90-year Retrospective on American Archaeology; Biennial Gordon Willey Session in the History of Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Carnegie Institution of Washington program in Mayanist archaeology presents a pivotal transition in how U.S. archaeologists financed and organized large-scale projects in Latin America. In many ways, this organization consolidated an earlier...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marta Alfonso-Durruty.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hunter-gatherer (HG) groups show high levels of cooperation expressed through practices like food sharing. Although an egalitarian ethos has been identified in many HG, their social structures are not only variable but can intentionally and repeatedly alternate between different levels of hierarchy. The origin of inequality among HG has been attributed to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mitchell Allen.

This is an abstract from the "Issues in Regional Journal Publishing in the Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In many academic disciplines, regional societies and journals simply represent the academic location of their members, but their content covers a broad range of topics and places. In archaeology, regionality shapes the content as well. This has implications for the range of the readership and authorship —including non-academic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Roxana Cattaneo.

This is an abstract from the "Ceramic Petrographers in the Americas, Production Practices and Social Networks from Multilevel Angles" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A combination of mineralogical, geochemical and petrographic analyses is utilized in studying both clay raw material and pottery sherds from archaeological sites located in the Ongamira and Characato valleys (Córdoba, Argentina). By employing XRD, XRF, INAA, and crystallography to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zhuldyz Datka.

This is an abstract from the "Ceramic Petrographers in the Americas, Production Practices and Social Networks from Multilevel Angles" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ceramic paste recipes (e.g., variations in inclusion types, sizes, and frequencies) have the ability to show shifts in communities of practice through the choices made at the micro- and macro-scales. By integrating morphological and stylistic data with paste analysis, this research...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrea Torvinen.

This is an abstract from the "Ceramic Petrographers in the Americas, Production Practices and Social Networks from Multilevel Angles" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ceramic petrography is commonly used to investigate the technological choices embedded within constellations of practice that archaeologists recognize as large-scale collective identities such as the Mississippian cultural tradition. Using several lines of evidence, we aim to more...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Deborah Pearsall.

This is an abstract from the "Reflections and Ripples of the Caiman: Papers in the Spirit of Don Lathrap" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Southwest coastal Ecuador was a hearth of innovation in the prehistoric New World. By 4400 BC life in SW Ecuador was transformed as sedentary village life, ceramic production, and agriculture came together in the Early Formative Valdivia culture. By middle Valdivia (3000-2400 BC), one village, Real Alto, was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia Ayala.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper seeks to reflect on the definitions and application of collaborative methodologies in archaeology. We highlight the contributions of collaborative and indigenous archaeologies to generate knowledge based on joint efforts, which considers local perspectives as well as having a potential to benefit processes of community interest. In the specific...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Johnson.

This is an abstract from the "Reflections and Ripples of the Caiman: Papers in the Spirit of Don Lathrap" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Stylistic similarities between ceramics from the Central Andean Highlands and the Upper Amazon were central to Don Lathrap’s argument that Tropical Forest Culture contributed crucial components of Andean highland civilization. Artifacts from the Cave of the Owls provide “a possible connecting link” between...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yumi Park Huntington.

This is an abstract from the "Emplacement and Relational Approaches to the Ancient Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper offers new research and theories on relationships between architecture, landscape, and cosmology in the ancient Andes. Previous research has shown how the so-called Acropolis at Jatanca in the Jequetepeque Valley was built to form an almanac viewed along a nearby mountain, Cerro Cañoncillo, with sunrises at the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Holly Long.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cultural cranial modification is practiced in many cultures and has been interpreted to signify different facets of identity. In 2022, a surface collection from Sector A of the pre-Hispanic cemetery of CuzCuz revealed 12 complete adult crania with cultural cranial modification. These crania were discovered out of context—looted from their original...