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DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas J Elpel.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Curt Carbonell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Entry into cultural resource management (CRM) in British Columbia (BC) requires a bachelor of arts or science in anthropology or archaeology, academic streams not typically associated with high employability. Yet, archaeology in BC is booming. Industries traditionally employing BC archaeologists outside of academia, such as forestry and mining, must now...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bettina Arnold.

This is an abstract from the "There and Back Again: Celebrating the Career and Ongoing Contributions of Patricia B. Richards" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dead bodies are a source of a range of extreme emotions in human societies past and present, from superstitious fear of the dangerous dead (burials at cross-roads in medieval Germany) to ancestor veneration and the curation and display of skeletal remains (catacombs in Portugal, Italy, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Kansa. Sarah Whitcher Kansa. Joshua Wells. Kelsey Noack Meyers. Stephen Yerka.

This is an abstract from the "*SE Big Data and Bigger Questions: Papers in Honor of David G. Anderson" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists generate vast amounts of data in the form of databases, media files, spreadsheets, GIS files, reports, articles, and other literature. However, despite years of advocacy and data management investments, archaeological information is still poorly curated, scattered, incompatible, and haphazardly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dawid M. Grupa. Tomasz Dudzinski.

In the course of archaeological explorations conducted within churches and chuch yards, the researchers meet the most often skeletal burials. Their better or worse conditions depend on the environment of the burial location. In case of crypt burials, mummies of the deceased aren't frequently excavated, which fact is conditioned by special factors enabling corpses’ natural mummifying process. This very situation was observed in Szczuczyn church listed above. In winter 2013, inventory and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrea Blaser.

This is an abstract from the "Reckoning with Legacy Exhibits, Data, and Collections" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology (UMMAA) is now over 100 years old and curates a materially diverse, global collection. A research-centered mission, as well as an emphasis on processual archaeology, has deeply influenced UMMAA’s collections and associated records. This legacy data reflects norms of the times, curatorial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Noah Safari.

This is an abstract from the "In Search of Solutions: Exploring Pathways to Repatriation for NAGPRA Practitioners (Part IV): NAGPRA in Policy, Protocol, and Practice" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. It has been over three decades since the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) was signed into law on November 16, 1990. NAGPRA was passed in a different information environment than the one at present; electronic documents are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Kleeschulte.

This is an abstract from the "Four Decades of NAGPRA, Part 1: Accomplishments and Challenges" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) is a federal law that was passed in 1990. In the 30 years since the law was passed it has faced resistance and scrutiny from the museums, universities, and scientists who are meant to comply with the law. The medicolegal system (Medical Examiners and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Loa Traxler.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent changes to NAGPRA press museums to revisit and update inventories, assemble documentation, and reach out to Native American communities, establishing new relationships or re-engaging with communities in more expansive consultations, all activities that demand investment in time and personnel to handle the complexity of legacy collections. Drawing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zoe Milburn.

This is an abstract from the "Four Decades of NAGPRA, Part 1: Accomplishments and Challenges" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. At the 2024 meeting, data relating to NAGPRA compliance were collected from the membership during a poster presentation, an IRB approved digital survey, and ethnographic interviews. The survey sought to quantify and clarify barriers faced during the NAGPRA process. This presentation will present the results from more than...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laurie Rush.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As a twenty-one-year-old graduate student, I was present when an Indigenous ancestor, pipe in hand, was removed from the earth, placed in a box, and taken to storage. My encounter with this individual transformed and guided the course of my career in a field that has changed over the intervening decades and is working on recognition of human rights. I knew...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Haas.

This is an abstract from the "Four Decades of NAGPRA, Part 1: Accomplishments and Challenges" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper examines the initial implementation of the revised NAGPRA regulations, effective January 2024, within the Archaeological Research Laboratory Center at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The updated regulations introduce new definitions for NAGPRA items, such as “cultural items,” and include a duty of care...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlton Shield Chief Gover.

This is an abstract from the "Four Decades of NAGPRA, Part 1: Accomplishments and Challenges" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Navigating the complexities of university bureaucracy to ensure compliance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) requires more than just legal adherence; it demands a collaborative process rooted in respect and partnership with Native American communities. This presentation explores the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Maloy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper is a critical appraisal of cultural resource management protocols associated with Indigenous Culturally Modified Trees, (CMTs). Living artifacts, eco-facts, or vivio-facts provide rich and powerful accounts of human interactions with a setting. These features challenge western views of what constitutes materiality of the past, a recognition,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Craig H Shapiro.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A decolonial approach to archaeology reflects on the power archaeologists maintain over historical epistemology, the damage archaeologists have caused to indigenous and marginalized communities, and how the continued neglect of indigenous agency perpetuates injustice. Institutions in the Global North responsible for safeguarding...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tristan J Harrenstein. Michael B Thomin.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. After rising up against the dragon of unethical archaeology that wurmed its way onto the National Geographic Channel through the show “Diggers,” the archaeology world has been in a relative state of peace. Now, however, a fell shadow looms on the horizon taking shape as a wave of videos on YouTube. Left unchallenged, this scourge promises to spread a new epidemic of site looting in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patti Johnson. James E. Fitting.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Dhody. Kimberlee Moran.

What to do when one box of bones becomes a whole cemetery? In late 2016, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that human remains were uncovered at a local construction site, 218 Arch Street, formerly a cemetery that closed in 1859, its dead supposedly having been interred elsewhere. Because the site is privately owned and the construction privately funded, no clear legal guidelines exist governing authority over human remains. Seeing a potential research project, the authors contacted the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William B. Butler.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Seifert.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Women’s Work: Archaeology and Mothering" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Becoming a mother was a learning experience in misogyny and discrimination. From a radical lack of maternity leave to the second shift at home, exhausted does not begin to describe my condition. However, as anthropologists, we are also trained to see our privilege (in my case a private office for pumping breastmilk and a flexible work...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Hoag.

This is an abstract from the "Celebrating Alice: Recognizing the Many Contributions of Alice Beck Kehoe" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In her recently published autobiography “Girl Archaeologist,” Alice B. Kehoe discusses the hurdles she overcame and trauma she endured as a woman looking to break into a professional space almost completely dominated by men. Her volume adds to the growing body of literature published over the last decade about...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mariane Gaudreau.

It is widely accepted that the study of material culture and oral narratives are two different but equally important avenues for looking into the past. While the distinct sets of data they produce frequently corroborate and/or complement each other, allowing for a deeper understanding of the past, discrepancies are not uncommon. In those cases, "scientific" data often take precedence and local knowledge is marginalized. While archaeologists see oral narratives as useful "tools" to archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlina De La Cova.

This is an abstract from the "Community Engaged Bioarchaeology: Centering Descendants" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation examines the history and creation of legacy collections, with a specific focus on the Hamann-Todd, Terry, and Cobb anatomical collections. These anatomical series, like many around the world, were amassed due to anatomical legislation that targeted marginalized communities. To better understand how to ethically...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marybeth Tomka. Lauren Bussiere.

This is an abstract from the "How to Conduct Museum Research and Recent Research Findings in Museum Collections: Posters in Honor of Terry Childs" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Archeological Research Laboratory (TARL) is the oldest and largest archaeological repository in Texas, housing many millions of artifacts from more than 8,000 sites in Texas and beyond. Collections at TARL range from massive WPA...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pamela Geller.

This is an abstract from the "Storeroom Taphonomies: Site Formation in the Archaeological Archive" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Plastics present a paradox for archaeology. They are ubiquitous and inevitable, taking myriad forms—bags for artifacts, tarps for units, containers for storage, etc.—in excavation and archival settings. Their utilitarian value is predicated on the presumption of durability and stability. But for how long and in what...