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DOCUMENT Citation Only Yun Zhang.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper reviews studies of Tang and Song blue-and-white porcelains, both archaeologically and scientifically, based on published data, and compares blue-and-white with sancai which represents the earliest use of cobalt pigment in Chinese ceramics. Thirty-nine Tang blue-and-white wares and seven Song wares have been excavated from city sites, kilns, a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniela Wolin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Mongol Empire of the thirteenth to fourteenth centuries was a time of great interconnectedness, characterized by the widespread movement of people, goods, technologies, and practices across Eurasia. Our knowledge of this period comes from a variety of sources, including texts, a rich array of material culture, and archaeological investigations of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yoshifumi Ikeda. Randall Sasaki.

The story of Kamikaze, or the legendary storm that destroyed the ill-fated fleet of Khublai Khan off Japan, is a well known story in history. It is recorded that more than three thousands vessels were lost. The search for the lost fleet took decades while only small hull fragments and scatters of artifacts were found. In 2015, finally a well-preservd vessel was discovered at Takashim Island in Nagasaki Prefecture. Unfortunately, the large majority of Japanese archaeologists had not realize the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Estevan Ramirez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The incorporation of photogrammetric documentation methods at archaeological sites has been a growing interest in research across various regions of the world. In 2024, Statistical Research, Inc. in collaboration with the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology, initiated the first phase of a multi-year project focused on historic...

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 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...

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 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 Percy Hei Chun Ho.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The human-deer relationship extends deep into antiquity, with many members of the Cervidae family long being utilized as raw materials, foodstuff, medicine, as well as ceremonial objects. However, few studies have emphasized species identification within the Cervidae family, largely due to morphological similarities between different Cervid species, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zhe Zhang.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Aurochs have generally been considered ancestors of modern domestic cattle. It is broadly accepted that aurochs have been regarded as extinct during the Pleistocene, and the domestic cattle were first introduced from the Near East to China during the Middle Neolithic period. However, aurochs were found out as the dominant species at Houtaomuga, a...

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 Kirie Stromberg.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper re-evaluates the major size increase and shift from use of stone molds to clay molds in dōtaku (bronze bell) production in the Late Middle Yayoi. Over 500 dōtaku bronze bells traditionally dated to the middle through late Yayoi (ca. 200 BCE–250 CE) have been passed down or excavated, predominantly from the Kinki region of Honshu. They became...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ross W. Jamieson.

The Pacific Ocean has been an imposing barrier to human travel since the first humans ventured into the region.  It has also been an important route of travel joining vastly different peoples that surround and inhabit it.  The Pacific takes up half the surface of the planet, and yet historical archaeologists have rarely taken the time to treat it as a single entity.  The "Atlantic World," "the Black Atlantic," "Atlantic Worlds" are our stock in trade.  But does the Pacific World exist?  If so,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Morgan. Loukas Barton. Bayarsaikhan Jamsranjav.

New paleoenvironmental proxy data indicate a series of changes in hydrology and environment from the terminal Pleistocene through middle Holocene in Uvs Province, Mongolia. Recent archaeological surveys, excavations and GIS-based analyses suggest these changes may correlate with alterations in technology and land use that are arguably consistent with the temporal span thought to represent the adoption and/or in situ development of pastoralist economies across the region. These correlations are...

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 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 Joseph Wayman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In Foot Cutters: A New Hypothesis for the Function of Acheulean Bifaces and Related Lithics, Joseph Wayman, Lithic Technology 2010, v35-2, I propose that the predominate toolkit of the Early/Middle Pleistocene were not used as hand tools, but instead were devices used to arm traps intended to damage the feet and lower legs of prey animals so that the...