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DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly Graf.

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. Shégߴ Xdaltthߴíߴ, located just 55 km south-southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska, is a well-stratified site with multiple components spanning from 14-5 ka. In five years of block excavation, we have found more than 50,000 materials in situ, including lithic and osseous artifacts, faunal remains, and macrobotanical remains. In addition, we...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlos Lopez.

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. Between the 1960s and 1990s, early human adaptation and coevolution in different environments of tropical and subtropical lowlands and in the Andean mountains of Colombia were highlighted. Although there have been different advances, 30 years later, in some regions there is still minimal evidence of the initial population. In this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Glascock.

The indigenous peoples of South America have been producing pottery for more than 7,500 years. Pottery was made into vessels for the cooking and storage of foods, funerary urns, toys, sculptures, and a wide range of art forms. Due to the regional differences in the composition of raw materials used to manufacture and decorate pottery, geochemical investigations of pottery have proven successful for studying trade and exchange, changes in technology, provenance, etc. Some of the methods used to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirsten Hawley.

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 study investigates the geochemical variation in archaeological ceramics from the freshwater submerged cavern site of Cueva Padre Nuestro in La Altagracia Province, Dominican Republic. We aim to determine whether significant geochemical differences exist between...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Saracino.

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 Uppsala Map of Mexico-Tenochtitlan depicts the Basin of Mexico circa 1540, just decades after the Spanish invasion. Created by Nahua mapmakers, it presents the only early colonial representation of the city and its surrounding basin from a Nahua perspective amidst a moment of dramatic cultural and environmental upheaval....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Heaney.

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 1965, the Smithsonian’s first Hall of Physical Anthropology opened with a “Skull Wall” whose 160 crania of “Peruvian Indians” visualized how the world’s population “exploded in historic times.” The wall came down in advance of NAGPRA, followed by other ancestors and human remains displayed in American...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter E. Siegel.

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 history of Caribbean archaeology more or less follows the trajectory detailed by Willey and Sabloff (1980) in their review of Americanist archaeology with notable differences in timing. In this presentation, I will trace nearly 100 years of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alyce De Carteret.

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 examines communal labor as a principal means by which people make and experience their place in the world. Emplacement is an active and ever-evolving phenomena that emerges from the things people do together. For Maya communities past and present, building a house is a paradigmatic example of communal,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Willis.

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. The stratigraphic and geomorphic contexts, and ultimately the chronometric determinations, at White Sands Locality-2 (WHSA-2) are topics of controversy that stem from conflicting interpretations of the processes that deposited the Ruppia seeds within the paleo-Lake Otero footprint site. Some studies have characterized the eastern...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Juliet Morrow.

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. Geochemical dating of artifacts, bones, or other materials associated with them is only one step toward proving the age of an archaeological site. The context and association of the artifacts, bones or other materials purported to be from human activity must also be accurately interpreted. An accurate interpretation is no small feat...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Corey Herrmann.

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. <html> The year 2025 marks the semicentennial of the Real Alto project led by Donald Lathrap and Jorge Marcos. It is also the fiftieth anniversary of one of Lathrap’s most impactful publications, Ancient Ecuador: Culture, Clay and Creativity (3000-300 BC), written to accompany a multi-year international...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Green.

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 Midwest was an early center for training professional archaeologists in the 1930-40s, but area researchers only slowly developed a sense of regional identity. The Midwest Archeological Conference (MAC), created in the mid-1950s, consisted for decades of simply an informal annual meeting. In 1976, with MAC still an anarchic,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andres Izeta.

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. Open science seeks to create a more transparent, accessible, and collaborative research environment. The Revista del Museo de Antropología contributes to this effort by offering a regional platform that moves from local relevance to broader recognition. Through its diamond open access model, the journal provides a space free for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marcelo Toledo.

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. Pampean human settlement is currently accepted from about 15 ky BP. Here we present occupation evidence from OIS 2/OIS 3 fluvial secondary sites containing unambiguous anthropically modified bones. The study area consists of low energy terminal Pleistocene fluvial depositional...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia Ayala.

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 colonization of South America presented diverse characteristics depending on the colonial powers involved and the Indigenous Peoples subjected to colonization, who early on witnessed the destruction of their cemeteries and the prohibition of their religious practices. The subsequent formation of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Ordoñez.

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 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), essential for the ethical treatment of indigenous remains and cultural artifacts in the U.S., has had unintended consequences beyond its borders. This presentation examines the impact of NAGPRA's principles on archaeological and ethnographic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Miguel Delgado.

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. <html> The early peopling of the Americas is a topic of intense debate. Among the most contentious issues remains the timing of the initial entry of humans into the continent. Currently, archaeological evidence recovered from sites dated to the Last Glacial Maximum has been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sibeli Aparecida Viana.

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 Central Plateau of Brazil has approximately one hundred archaeological sites that date from the late Pleistocene to early Holocene. In this context, the technical conception of unifacial ( "lesmas") is a cultural phenomenon that has intrigued archaeological research for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only María Plaza-Calonge.

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. We present new evidence from two metallurgical production sites in the Copiapó Valley, northern Chile, and explore the possibility of a unique metallurgical tradition in this region. The first site, La Puerta Fundición (LPF), features the earliest known metallurgical activity in the Atacama region, dating to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Walker.

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. Joan Wells Lathrap (1931-2023) was a social worker, community organizer and activist in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. In 1958 she married Donald Lathrap, and in 1961, their daughter Bonita Elena (or ‘Bonnie’) was born. Joan Wells was a significant part of Donald Lathrap’s professional and personal life. Although...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Angela Gore.

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 Beringian archaeological record is essential in understanding early human dispersals and adaptive strategies in the Americas. Despite a wealth of well-preserved lithic assemblages in interior Alaska, critical questions remain about how people adapted to dynamic late Pleistocene climate changes, particularly regarding toolstone...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pilar Escontrias.

In 1884, Friedrich Engels attributed the development of the nuclear family unit to the rise of the capitalist state and the subsequent emergence of private property in 16th century Europe. In The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, he posited that private property resulted in the restructuring of kinship practices where women gradually lost authority over their own activities, spaces, and their lives, and where the division of labor became gendered and spatialized. In this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Johanna Nichols.

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 recent decades a consensus has solidified among linguists that the settlement of the Americas began long before Clovis. Evidence includes the large number of irreducible language families in the Americas and the time required to produce them at expected proliferation rates;...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rolfe Mandel.

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. In this paper, the application of lithostratigraphy in geoarchaeological research is offered as a powerful tool for determining where Early Paleoindian and Pre-Clovis cultural deposits are likely to occur in buried contexts. This approach is facilitated by an understanding of the history for all sediment comprising each...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlos Del Cairo Hurtado.

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. El vínculo entre las comunidades que han habitado por siglos el territorio colombiano y los cuerpos de agua han conllevado a una continua adaptación y apropiación de los paisajes en los cuales conviven y subsisten. En este sentido, una arqueología de la comprensión...