Archaeometry & Materials Analysis (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chandra Reedy.

This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Measuring thermal conductivity of archaeological ceramics is useful because it is an important functional performance characteristic of vessels used for cooking or serving food or preparing or drinking hot beverages. The amount, size, and distribution of particles and pores greatly affect thermal conductivity, so this is a property that can be...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Miriam Domínguez.

This is an abstract from the "Illuminated Communities: The Role of the Hearth at the Beginning of Andean Civilization" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this presentation, the historical processes of the Formative Period in the Ecuadorian Andes are evaluated through the material renderings of fire from the site Potrero Mendieta. In this context, they are associated with a swift restructuring in the use of the circular architectural structures...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Eeckhout.

This is an abstract from the "A Movable Feast: Mobility and Commensalism in the Andes" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. At Pachacamac, the theme of mobility is closely associated with pilgrimage, as well as the reciprocal banquets that occurred at the site during the Late Intermediate period and Late Horizon, across various contexts. In this paper, we present material evidence of these activities from excavations carried out in different parts of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Agustina Vazquez Fiorani.

This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The development of ceramic technology produced substantial transformations in people’s foodways and cuisine, expanding the répertoire of existent ingredients, culinary techniques, storage capacities, among others. Thus, exploring the dimensions of ceramic technology and use amongst early farming societies holds the heuristic potential to explore...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alicia Boswell.

This is an abstract from the "Communities of Practice in the Ancient Andes: Thinking through Knowledge Transmission and Community Making in and beyond Craft Production" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper utilizes a Communities of Practice perspective to explore knowledge transmission of gilding technologies between craftspeople of the Moche and Vicus cultures during the first millennium CE on the north coast of Peru. Craftspeople played...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma LaMartina. Isobel Coats.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over four weeks in the early summer of 2023, a community-based archaeological project was conducted to re-record Whan·hang·kya·nu Pueblo in fulfillment of a Masters project in Public Archaeology at the University of New Mexico. Whan·hang·kya·nu Pueblo is a prehistoric site located in the Jemez District of Santa Fe National Forest and has been continuously...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabriela Oppitz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. By presenting isotopic (87Sr/86Sr, d15N, and d13C) data from human bones buried in shell-matrix sites (sambaquis) in Southern Brazil, this paper discusses how different ways of community coordination and organization can lead to alternative historical paths.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Brewer.

Historical artifacts from Room 28 in Pueblo Bonito provide a unique opportunity to investigate what the Hyde Exploring Expedition, Moorehead, and National Geographic Society excavations left behind during their excavations between 1896 and 1927. Using the 2013 UNM excavations in Room 28 as a starting point, analysis of the historical artifacts found in excavation and stabilization over the last century provides an important perspective on how those early excavators discarded their own material...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carol Woodland. Keith M. Prufer.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Interdisciplinary Isotopic Research" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Carbon, Nitrogen and Oxygen stable isotope analyses are popular tools within the field of archaeology. Applications for stable isotope analyses of human and faunal bone collagen and dental enamel include environmental reconstructions, modeling subsistence patterns, and investigating human-animal relationships, as well as potential to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jillian Huntley. Brandi MacDonald. May Nango. Djaykuk Djandomerr. Lynley Wallis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Unusually saturated black pigment in the Kunwarddebim (rock art) at the north-eastern end of the Madjedbebe rockshelter prompted an in situ analytic program of Raman and portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry. Here described results suggest a complex paint recipe for this black paint: a mix of bone black, magnetite rich minerals, and some organic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ancira Emily Baca Marroquin.

Narratives regarding the response from local groups to the Inca conquest of the Peruvian Central-South coast portray two confronting scenarios: resistance and acceptation. Resistance to the Inca conquest would have required a more violent Inca military campaign meanwhile acceptance would have required specific diplomatic negotiations. Written documents describe the actions taken by the Incas when a group resisted to be conquered. These actions include removing original populations and dispersing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Johnson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The popular "object-biography" approach to commodities generally focuses on hegemonic material culture in the hands of unintended consumers, such as the analysis of "European" goods found in "Native" contexts. What this fails to capture, however, is a kind of consumer agency that extends beyond the politics of identity. In other words, what are the structural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Veronica Lema. Javier Echeverría. Giuseppe Alva Valverde. Oscar Arias Espinosa. John W. Rick.

This is an abstract from the "Chavín de Huántar’s Contribution to Understanding the Central Andean Formative: Results and Perspectives" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En 2018 el Programa de Investigación Arqueológico y Conservación en Chavín de Huántar excavó la nueva Galería 3 del Atrio de la Plaza Circular, donde fueron reconocidos cuatro eventos deposicionales que consisten en concentraciones de cerámica, carbón, restos óseos y bienes...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Beth Scaffidi.

This is an abstract from the "Stable Isotope Analysis in Global History" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In recent years, human skeletons have become less accessible to bioarchaeologists aiming to understand past lifeways through destructive chemical analyses—despite these methods being more affordable, accessible, and well-established than ever in the biological, social, and life sciences. Human skeletons provide the most direct evidence of how...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bryon Schroeder.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There is a long history of engaged amateurs providing the professional community with productive field efforts and artifact collections and of equal length is the controversy surrounding this work. The controversy, from the perspective of this talk, focuses on the issue of artifact context and the gap between the professional and amateur communities’ stances...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Francis Lamothe. Karine Taché. Cezin Nottaway. Solomon Wawatay. Marie Trottier.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations carried out since 2016 on the shores of Grand Lac Nominingue, Quebec, Canada, have uncovered thousands of ceramic sherds in the ancestral territory of the Anishinabe-Algonquin First Nation. These discoveries demonstrate the use of pottery by a nomadic population and lipid analysis show that various products were prepared in these containers,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alison Brooks. Joshua Porter. John Yellen.

This is an abstract from the "Establishing the Science of Paleolithic Archaeology: The Legacy of Harold Dibble (1951–2018) Part II" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Harold Dibble made major contributions to the study of cores and their relation to flake morphology. Other experimental studies have shown that repeated core morphologies may be the result of a complex series of learned steps, which are culturally transmitted (e.g., K. L. Ranhorn, PhD...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Estela Martínez. Guillermo Martinez Mora. Patricia Olga Hernandez. Adrián Velazquez.

This is an abstract from the "Approaches to Cultural and Biological Complexity in Mexico at the Time of Spanish Conquest" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El contexto funerario de una mujer adulta nos muestra que, dentro de las conductas funerarias presentes entre las élites de Tamtoc, era tradicional ataviar al individuo con lujosos bienes procedentes de muy diversas regiones. Las costumbres funerarias y el estudio sobre el origen de los objetos de...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicola Sharratt.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Techniques derived from analytical chemistry are critical to examining the impact of macro political change on the production and circulation of craft goods in the past. LA-ICP-MS analyses of objects and the raw materials used in their manufacture in the Moquegua Valley of southern Peru have been directed at reconstructing patterns of production and exchange...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicola Sharratt.

This is an abstract from the "Communities of Practice in the Ancient Andes: Thinking through Knowledge Transmission and Community Making in and beyond Craft Production" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In many regions of the south central Andes, the transition from the Middle Horizon to the Late Intermediate period was accompanied by significant disruption to regional sociopolitical and economic systems, including the organization of craft...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Virginia Ochoa-Winemiller. Terance L. Winemiller. William J. Folan. Lynda Florey Folan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Three-dimensional multi-line laser scanning reproduces highly accurate models that preserve measurable characteristics of portable artifacts such as figurines, whistles, stamps, and molds. Metrological analyses are revealing valuable information about manufacturing techniques, the crafter’s tool kit, the function of these artifacts, and the extent of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Taylor Greene.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Carter Robinson (44LE10) is a Mississippian mound site in use from the mid-14th century to the mid-15th century in the Appalachian Mountains of modern-day Southwest Virginia. This paper examines the roles of potential political elites within the community, first examining the artifact assemblage associated with the only excavated multi-phase structure at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nadia Neff. Erin Ray. Viorel Atudorei. Keith Prufer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Stable carbon (δ13C) and oxygen (δ18O) isotope analysis of the carbonate fraction of hydroxyapatite in human tooth enamel is a well-established and powerful tool in archaeological science that researchers use to study the relationship between past human populations and their environments. δ13C analysis can provide information on the primary producer...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Haley Holt Mehta. Claudia Camacho. Cindy Rodriguez. Daniel Pierce. Dirk Baron.

This is an abstract from the "Crossing Boundaries: Interregional Interactions in Pre-Columbian Times" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper will present the results of a multi-faceted research endeavor at the site of El Tesoro, Hidalgo, Mexico. Previous and recent research have shown that the Classic-period settlement at El Tesoro exhibited affiliations to both Teotihuacan and the Zapotec homeland in the Valley of Oaxaca and was likely related...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Hughes.

This is an abstract from the "Ann F. Ramenofsky: Papers in Honor of a Non-Normative Career" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geochemistry, geology, and archaeology all conjoin contemporary provenance studies. Geochemistry provides the chemical signatures of parent geological materials and the requisite data to support attributions of archaeological artifacts to "source" (chemical type), geology provides the overarching context for understanding the...