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DOCUMENT Citation Only Francisco Garrido.

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. The presence of tin bronze in the Southern Atacama Desert has primarily been associated with Inca influence, due to the empire's control over raw materials and the production of prestige goods. Although tin is not native to the region, our research indicates that its presence in Copiapó dates back to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven Holen.

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 2013 we published a book chapter titled “The Mammoth Steppe Hypothesis: The Middle Wisconsin Peopling of North America”. Although this chapter has been largely ignored by the archaeological community, we think the hypothesis is more easily defended today based on new...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Agnese Benzonelli.

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. Nueva Esperanza (400 BCE-1600 CE) is widely recognised as one of the most important Muisca archaeological sites in Colombia and the most extensively excavated settlement. The site includes more than 3,400 burials, domestic and ritual contexts, with a comprehensive archaeological record that comprises ceramics,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dominique Rissolo.

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. Coastal centers of trade and production shaped and reshaped political, economic, and social realities across the northern Maya lowlands during the Terminal Classic and Postclassic periods. Embodying a resilience and entrepreneurism unique to life by the sea, these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alba Menéndez Pereda.

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. As a product of the earth and the exuviae of the sun, the Inca held gold in high regard as a material used in the creation of sacred spaces, individuals, and performances. However, Inca state metalworkers rarely used gold on its own. Instead, they often combined it with alloys to achieve specific colors and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Colleen Zori.

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. Recent research on prehistoric Andean metal production highlights the variability in metalworking technologies found across western South America. Nonetheless, there exist clear similarities between these different regional metal production traditions, parallels that evidence complex histories of technology...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Catherine Popovici.

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 situ monuments are normally understood as static and fixed; yet, they are constantly interacting with an atmosphere in flux. Rain, fog, and clouds quickly morph and change at different elevations, amplifying or hindering the aesthetic experience of stone sculpture. This paper explores how localized weather phenomena...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Fariña.

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. South America contains the most controversial evidence when discussing the peopling of the Americas. The overall consensus is that humans reached South America after the Late Glacial Maximum (LGM), with widely accepted sites such as Monte Verde II, Huaca Prieta, Arroyo Seco 2, and several other final Pleistocene – early Holocene sites...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alicia Boswell.

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. Metal adornments such as headdresses, earflares, and other prescribed regalia were part of the ritual dress worn by Andean elites along with vestments of fine textiles and precious materials such as shell, stones, and feathers. In this paper I consider the design, imagery, and technology of Moche style metal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordi Benites Segura.

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. El montículo, como un tipo de sitio que implica la formación de elevaciones, representa una categoría ampliamente utilizada en el estudio arqueológico andino-amazónico. Sin embargo, aunque es una herramienta valiosa, en la práctica tiende a unificar importantes variaciones formales de carácter artificial o semiartificial,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricio De Souza.

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. There is consensus that during the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene (16-9 ky cal. BP), climatic conditions on the western slope of the Andes between 18 and 25°S were wetter than today. This event of higher humidity is known as the “Central Andes Pluvial Event” (CAPE) and is associated with the formation of paleo-wetland deposits due to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Brown.

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> This presentation explores "pan-Andean" practices of place-making and time-keeping during the 1^st millennium B.C. across distant corners of the Chavin world, including Ancash, Pasco, and Ica (Peru). Relational analysis of the webs of beings in Chavin ritual arts can reveal commonalities and disjunctures in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rosicler Silva.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Research returned in Serranópolis in 2020 focused mainly on the geoarchaeological context, in the area of the GO-Ja-02 archaeological site. In 2021, excavations provided new informations that deepen the understanding of the dynamics of human occupation in the region. Owing to the few traces of human occupation on the surface and the sandy characteristics,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kayeleigh Sharp.

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. The Gallinazo ethnic polity, as a whole, has rarely been studied. Since the time of Rafael Larco Hoyle and Wendell Bennett, when the southern Gallinazo pottery style (today known as Virú) was first recorded in the Chicama and Virú valleys, archaeological works have focused primarily on a limited range of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pamela Lara Tufiño.

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 ritualization of inland water through underwater deposition of offerings was a widespread practice in the past. Methodological developments in underwater archaeology have advanced the description, explanation, and preservation of this fascinating evidence,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lars Fehren-Schmitz.

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 recent decade, Paleogenomics has emerged as a powerful tool for uncovering past human dispersals. This is also true for South America, where alongside archaeological sources and traditional knowledge, the growing number of sequenced genomes from Native South American...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Luis Flores-Blanco.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Current evidence from the Terminal Archaic and Early Formative Periods of the Andean Altiplano indicates the use of a variety of resources within human subsistence economies, including plants, terrestrial animals, and lake resources. This period is significant in comprehending the origins of the neolithization process in the Andean Altiplano,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Meanwell.

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. It has been said in the past that “a pot is not a rock” and this statement still rings true. Ceramics are complex, composite materials with incredibly variable combinations of basic production techniques. In recognizing this, archaeology has had a demonstrable shift in ceramic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Clark Erickson.

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 W. Lathrap is probably best respected for his insistence on the priority of tropical forest cultures in the early development and elaboration of domesticates, agricultural economies, pottery, long distance trade and migration, canoe cultures, cultural innovation and early social complexity in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Branden Rizzuto.

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. Scholars have argued for decades that a transition from copper to copper-arsenic alloys occurred on the North Coast of Peru sometime during the Middle Horizon Period (ca. 600–1000 CE). This transition is still poorly understood because little physical evidence of smelting has been reported from the early...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thaís Pansani.

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 Santa Elina rock shelter in Central Brazil stands for its rich archaeological record, including expressive rock art, lithic artifacts, and bone and shell artifacts from the late Pleistocene to the Holocene. Our group has been studying the two ground sloths from the shelter...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Isabelle Druc.

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. Located in the Ayacucho highlands near Huancavelica, the site of Campanayuq Rumi in use during the late Initial Period until the Early Horizon (1100-400 B.C.) displays monumental public architecture and the influence of Chavín de Huantar in its material culture. Its location close to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Herr.

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 this session, we have invited authors, editors, and publishers from North and South America to discuss the role of regional archaeological journals in scholarly communication and their efforts to make these journals impactful and sustainable. Regional journals are often the products of historical societies, university...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Kinkella.

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 focuses on ancient Maya settlement at the Cara Blanca Pools, a string of 25 freshwater cenotes and lakes located in west-central Belize. Pool 1 has been the most extensively explored, with a depth of 235 feet and a geological makeup where the pool...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lindsay Bloch.

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. There is an inherent conservatism to journal publishing. When selecting a venue, the savvy author will typically identify which journals have published articles in a similar style or on a related topic. Editors will assess manuscripts to ensure they are relevant to the journal scope and of general readership interest. Regional...