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DOCUMENT Citation Only Juan-Jose Ortiz-Aguilu.

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. This paper explores the critical and chronological evolution of Donald W. Lathrap’s archaeological worldview, focusing on his contributions to the study of the American tropics. This study traces the development of Lathrap’s theoretical framework from 1955 to 1987, highlighting the ways in which his intellectual...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yuko Kanezaki.

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. This presentation outlines the findings from archaeological research conducted in the Upper Amazon region of the Upper Huallaga Basin. Interregional exchanges between the Andes and the Amazon are widely recognized as pivotal in shaping Andean civilization. In the mountainous regions of the Upper Huallaga Basin,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Boeda.

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. Understanding the chronology and earliest settlement patterns of the Americas cannot be achieved without studying past relationships between man and the environment. Adapting, moving or even disappearing in response to climatic fluctuations are the expected reactions. In order...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacob Welch.

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. In Perils of the Soul, Manuel Arias Sohóm described the nature of nonhuman entities to anthropologist Calixta Guiteras-Holmes (1961). Daily life and the real-world transpire through the interactions of both human and nonhuman persons – animals, springs, thread, instruments, and houses – which all live and possess souls....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Glascock.

The earliest ceramics in South America were made by the indigenous peoples at least 7500 years BP. Ceramics were used for a variety of purposes, including cooking and storage vessels, funerary urns, toys, ceremonial items, sculptures and other art forms. Over the past 25 years, the Archaeometry Laboratory at the University of Missouri Research Reactor has performed neutron activation analysis on more than 7,000 ceramics and clays from locations throughout South America to establish a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Waters.

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. Geoarchaeological studies are critical to the evaluation of late Pleistocene archaeological sites in the Americas. One of geoarchaeology’s important contributions is to provide an accurate age for a site and its associated stratigraphy. Today, I will discuss best practices for the radiocarbon dating of bone. Laboratories currently use...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anthony Villar Quintana.

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. Los lugares comunican mensajes que pueden interpretarse de diversas maneras según el momento y el ocupante. En este contexto, analizamos Shoymal, un sitio arqueológico en la cuenca media del río Utcubamba (Amazonas-Perú). Su arquitectura, de sillares tallados con representaciones en alto relieve, estuvo en uso...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Roosevelt.

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. 19th century natural scientists interested in Amazon archaeology saw the region as having a long prehistoric sequence of early hunters, sedentary ceramic fisherpeople, farmers, and complex societies. Both South American scientists and institutions...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Scherer.

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. The ethics surrounding the study of the skeletal remains of the “ancient Maya” are fraught and variable. For much of the second millennium AD, large swaths of the southern Maya lowlands were sparsely occupied by indigenous peoples, with population booms spurred by internal migration only in recent decades....

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Zeidler.

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. Anyone who has taken an academic course with Don Lathrap rarely forgets the experience, as his lectures were both brilliant in content and disciplined in delivery. It was also in these classroom contexts that he sometimes expounded on authors and ideas central to his thinking but that curiously never made it...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Clasby.

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. The curation and stewardship of legacy collections has become a critical issue within the field of archaeology due to the high institutional costs in maintaining collections as well as the struggle to find adequate space to often store hundreds of boxes. These issues are further compounded by the ever-looming...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carolina Rodriguez Alzza.

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. Donald Lathrap, renowned for his work on Shipibo material culture, also conducted significant research with the Iskonawa, a small Indigenous group of around 100 people living in the Peruvian Amazon. During the early 1970s, Lathrap visited the Iskonawa, meticulously documenting their ceramic production practices...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erick Valera Cumapa.

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. Donald Lathrap fue un arqueólogo estadounidense que llegó al Perú en 1956 para realizar su estudio de doctorado a lo largo de la ribera del río Ucayali. En el proceso de su trabajo, Lathrap desarrolló un profundo aprecio y afecto por el pueblo Shipibo Konibo, además de amistades muy cercanas, particularmente con...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paula Ugalde.

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. Pampa del Tamarugal (PdT), an inland basin in the Atacama Desert’s lowlands, has become a focus for South American early peopling. Two pulses of increased rainfall in the highlands, between 18 and 9.5 ka cal BP, affected the desert’s hyperarid lowlands through runoff and elevated water tables. Excavations have uncovered six...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thiago Kater.

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 Madeira River Basin, southwestern Amazonia, provides a unique lens to examine how places, particularly waterfalls, function as historical agents in the emplacement and transformation of human dynamics. This study utilizes the concept of "emplacement" to investigate the role of the Teotônio waterfall in shaping human...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hayley Woodward.

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. Across Postclassic Central Mexico and beyond, sculptors etched Aztec-style imagery and writing into the faces of living rock. Such images, ranging from scenes of deity veneration and cosmogonic genesis to symbolic representations of conquest, spark inquiry into the hegemonic nature of the Aztec Empire. Etching, literally...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bethany Turner.

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. NAGPRA has served as a crucial signpost for U.S. bioarchaeologists in their efforts to be and do better, including those who study skeletal individuals from (and in) other regions of the world. In these contexts, the most important NAGPRA directive is arguably for U.S. bioarchaeologists to center the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dorothy Lippert.

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. In the United States, the repatriation of Native American ancestors has been ongoing for over 30 years, governed by the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) Act and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). These laws do not apply to the remains of non-Native American...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Rojas.

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. The study of the development of various pre-Hispanic populations in Guatemala has primarily focused on relationships established through land-based networks. This perspective has limited the understanding of a broader development in which bodies of water played a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter W. Stahl.

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. The basic features of Donald Lathrap’s vision of pre-Columbian cultural developments in South America remain relevant for contemporary archaeological discourse. Although some of his retrodictive suggestions have not survived subsequent scrutiny, his ideas still resonate, while formerly prevailing models have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allison Sabo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Starkly juxtaposed resource distribution presented a notable challenge to the prehistoric inhabitants of the southern Atacama Desert. While the Pacific coast yielded a reliable abundance of food resources and materials (shell, bone, animal hide) for subsistence and certain types of manufacture, other raw materials had to be sought from discrete locales...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Blong.

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. Archaeological research in the Pacific Northwest has established the importance of this region for understanding the initial settlement of North America. Archaeological sites and Indigenous oral histories provide evidence for human occupation in the Late Glacial period, suggesting this may have been an initial entryway into North...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Nelson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The geographic origin, evolution, and spread of treponemal diseases remain highly debated. Treponema pallidum subspecies, responsible for modern treponemal diseases, were once believed to be linked to specific clinical manifestations and environmental contexts. However, recent genomic studies have revised this perspective by providing new insights into...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Meinekat.

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. Here, we present geoarchaeological results from the sites of Quebrada Jaguay-280 on the Pacific coast and Cuncaicha rock shelter in the high puna. We applied a multi-methodological, micro-contextual approach to inform on site formation processes, evaluate archaeological evidence and dating strategies, and assess site integrity. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Bentley.

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 Lady Bug archaeological site (8JE795) lies on the edge of an inundated sinkhole submerged by the Aucilla River in northwest Florida. Within this mid-channel sinkhole are dateable late Quaternary deposits as well as exposed chert bedrock used as a quarry before the site was inundated. During the summer of 2023 and 2024, excavations...