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DOCUMENT Citation Only Andres Garzon-Oechsle. Valentina L. Martínez.

This poster presents information on the Manteño occupation (1500 BP – 1532) of the cloud forest within the Chongón-Colonche Mountains of coastal Ecuador. Survey and data recovered from eight archaeological sites containing stone structures located alongside Las Tusas River drainage suggest a specific mode of adaptation and settlement pattern that left a particular landscape signature. The survey was conducted by the Florida Atlantic University Archaeological Fieldschool in Ecuador during the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlos Reina.

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. This research explores the rivers of the Colombian Amazon Basin as critical pathways in the processes of prehispanic settlement and cultural expression, particularly through rock art. Focusing on archaeological investigations along the Caquetá River and its...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven James.

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. With over 500 publications, Robert F. Heizer (1915-1979) made substantial scientific contributions to American archaeology and anthropology, particularly in California, but also in the Great Basin, Alaska, Mesoamerica, and Egypt. In 1946, he became...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ana Mauricio.

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. The Boletín de Arqueología PUCP is a open access archaeology journal published by the Humanities Department of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). This journal started in 1997 publishing the results of thematic Andean archaeology symposia carried out at the PUCP. Since 2013, this journal has implemented a series of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Donn Grenda.

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. During the 1980s and 1990s, California archaeologists tried to increase the volume of soil being excavated with the goals of increasing the sample size from sparse middens and understanding internal site structure. Digging more required a way to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Smith.

This is an abstract from the "Geoarchaeology in First Americans Research, Part 2" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Spring Lake site is located along the Balcones Escarpment in central Texas and contains evidence of consistent human use throughout the Holocene in primary contexts. The area remains significant in the traditions of contemporary Indigenous Peoples that have called this region home for thousands of years. Early work at the site in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Isabel Rivera-Collazo.

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. Sea level change, socio-historical events, and environmental processes transformed the geomorphology of Puerto Rico. These in turn make working on coastal zones particularly challenging because these affect seascape and landscape morphology. This presentation shares...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jesse Tune.

This is an abstract from the "Geoarchaeology in First Americans Research, Part 2" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Anderson (1990) used data from statewide fluted point surveys to argue that the distribution of fluted points was non-random, and likely reflected “staging areas” for the peopling of the Americas. In succeeding years, others have argued that the clusters of points and sites reflect biases in the recording and recovery of fluted points....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Astolfo Araujo.

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. Sites dating from the Pleistocene / Holocene transition are becoming more common as archaeological research advances in Brazil. In this communication we will present new data from SE South America and address questions about site formation processes and dating that need to be addressed and incorporated into the reasoning about the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Szumilewicz.

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. While masks and masking rituals are well-documented in the archaeological, ethnographic, and ethnohistorical records in the Andes, few examples are as recognizable as the funerary “masks” of the Sicán/Lambayeque culture. The repetition of striking features, often on planes of gold, has made these masks a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Earley.

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. Images of Classic Maya kings have long been understood as potentially animate world centers that structured movement and identity for humans in ancient Maya centers. Sculptures depicting nonroyal individuals, however, offered different modes of interaction for humans and other-than-humans who moved in and through such...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claudia Chang.

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. In the 1970s a group of archaeologists from the University of Chicago began their early teaching careers in the graduate Anthropology Program at SUNY-Binghamton. These professors included Margaret Conkey, John Fritz, Fred Plog,and Charles Redman....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alejandro Soto Camacho.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project addresses the relationship between culture, funerary practices, and Jesuit religion at San Ignacio Church in Bogotá, Colombia through a demographic analysis of individuals interred in the crypt, a visual analysis of symbolism on the headstones, and historical research. The crypt includes approximately 485 individuals in single and common...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marcos Paulo Ramos.

This is an abstract from the "Beyond Pre-Clovis: Human Occupations in the Americas during the Last Glacial Maximum and the Perpetual Debate" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The objective of this communication is twofold: to share the basic heuristic applied to the study of lithic materials of low archaeological visibility and to present some of the results obtained. We applied the Techno-Functional Approach to investigate the lithic materials...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Nicolas.

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. Archaeological investigations at the site of Co Loa in Vietnam's Red River Valley (RRV) region yielded a class of architectural ceramics that emerged near the end of the first millennium BCE (300 BCE-100BCE). Laboratory analysis focused on the use of digital portable microscope on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michelle Young.

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. <html> Contact period documents indicate that many highland Andean groups claimed descent from other-than-human entities within the landscape. From mighty mountain lords (apu) to high-altitude lagoons (cocha), Andean peoples’ origins, and their identities as broadly constructed, have been understood as tied to ancestral...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Morgan.

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. The Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology faces significant challenges in regards to its mission, digital access and distribution, subscriptions, article submissions, staffing, and especially censorious policies enacted by the state of California that limit academic freedom and therefore the ability to publish. Here we...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eliane Chim.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The chronology of initial human occupation in the Americas is highly debated. While most scholars accept only post-Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) occupations, others advocate for a much earlier arrival of humans on the continent, with estimates ranging from 130,000 to 24,000 years ago. Rock art has played a significant role in this debate, with examples in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paulette Steeves.

This is an abstract from the "Beyond Pre-Clovis: Human Occupations in the Americas during the Last Glacial Maximum and the Perpetual Debate" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the Americas, human occupation prior to 14,000 years ago has historically been denied by archaeologists. The traditional Western archaeological story argues that Indigenous people have been in the Western Hemisphere for 12–15 kya. Archaeologists’ denial of the deep...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Mayta Campos.

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. Durante el Periodo Formativo Temprano (1800 – 1200 a.C.) en el valle de Casma, surgió un complejo sistema de asentamientos con arquitectura monumental de diversas escalas y magnitudes, las cuales se ubicaron tanto en el litoral como en el valle. Uno de estos sitios es Pampa de las Llamas – Moxeke, cuyos dos principales...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniela Fuenmayor.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hundreds of textile fragments were collected during excavations in 2012 of aboveground funerary structures in the Colca Valley, Peru. These fragments were scattered and impossible to relate to specific individuals because of the pervasive looting of these accessible tombs as well as subsequent disturbance and exposure to the elements. Despite these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lua Salomon Velasco.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project involves a methodological proposal for analyzing the color palette of the Jama Valley, using ceramic materials discovered in this region as the primary source. For the preliminary results based on the methodological porpose, the analysis initially focuses on the Jama-Coaque culture, with plans to expand the research to materials from other...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Genevieve Woodhead.

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. Image thresholding algorithms can help extract useful data, such as particle counts, from ceramic petrographic slide images. These metrics can assist archaeologists in identifying ceramic fabric groups, which in turn helps answer broad questions about pottery provenance, exchange...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katie Miller Wolf.

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. <html> Archaeological investigations in Honduras began in the mid 19^th century, with projects led by foreign institutions with hierarchical relationships toward local colleagues. Recently, archaeology has been transformed by those committed to strengthening the discipline in-country through projects...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carol Gonzalez-Velez.

Cultures in the Intermediate Area served as the catalyst for the potential connections that exist between north and south. Maritime trading routes were the most probable form of contact and dissemination of information and styles. Iconographic evidence points to contact between various people from Chupícuaro to San Agustin Their styles are but a few of the missing links for the interaction between cultures from north and south. SAA 2015 abstracts made available in tDAR courtesy of the Society...