Archaeometry & Materials Analysis (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeometric data obtained for various raw materials used by Central European communities in the Bronze Age (ca. 2300-800 BC) allow us to study technological interactions in the past realized mostly within usually small and densely settled sites. In this study, cross-craft contact zones between the selected activities are crucial. They are likely to...
Crumbling Walls: Terminal Classic Maya Collapse and Abandonment of Nim Li Punit, Belize (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper will present a synthetic review of the Terminal Classic collapse of the Maya site of Nim li Punit, Belize, based on new data from recent architectural excavations and artifact analysis. These lines of evidence show that around A.D. 800 the site saw the cessation of elite activities, the halting of new constructions, the disrepair of existing...
Cuisine and Craft at Ancient Hualcayán: Exploring Ceremonial Production during the Chavín to Recuay Transition (900 BCE–1000 CE) (2024)
This is an abstract from the "After the Feline Cult: Social Dynamics and Cultural Reinvention after Chavín" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, we explore the production techniques, provenances, and uses of the pottery and foods important for different kinds of ceremonies throughout the Chavín to Recuay transition at Hualcayán, an ancient community located in the Callejón de Huaylas valley of highland Ancash, Peru. Ritual celebrations...
Cultural and Social Identity in Tamtoc, San Luis Potosí: An Approach through Anthropomorphic Figurines Study (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The study of anthropomorphic ceramic figurines from Tamtoc in the Huasteca potosina provides information on the social identity of its population, through various ways of distinguishing and individualizing figures. The typology of headdresses and headgear offers a broad and plural panorama of the social attributes of identity. The iconographic diversity...
Cultural Evidence Indicates the Late Arrival of Modern Humans in Southern China during the Upper Pleistocene (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Technology, Production, and Social Changes in Chinese Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cultural remains are important indicators of modern human presence in the Late Pleistocene across Eurasia. Recent debates on the initial appearance of modern humans in southern China focused on its timing, two different opinions could be summarized: pre-70 ka vs post-50 ka, while disputes on hominin taxonomy,...
Cultural Evolution in the Paleo-SHK and Pacific Rim: A New Approach to Human Dispersal in Northeast Asia and Eastern Beringia (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Late Pleistocene Archaeology of the Northern Pacific Rim" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Determining the origin of the first people in North America has been an area of contention. One possible hypothesis proposes an origin on the Paleo-Sakhalin-Hokkaido-Kurile (PSHK) peninsula, stating that the numerous microblade cores and stemmed projectile points on the peninsula are similar to...
Cultural Identity and Ceramic Practice in Northern Togo, West Africa (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Togo, West Africa, is a unique cultural landscape with a diversity of groups making and utilizing pottery. This is particularly true for the Bassar area of northern Togo where four groups interact, the Lamba, the Kotokoli, the Konkomba, and the Kabiye. Several villages continue to make pottery and likely made it in the past. To clarify...
Cultural Transformations in Conchucos after 500 BC (2024)
This is an abstract from the "After the Feline Cult: Social Dynamics and Cultural Reinvention after Chavín" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The decline of the Chavín Interaction Sphere in the mid-first millennium BC was followed by major religious, cultural, and economic changes over a wide region of highland and coastal Peru. In this paper, we discuss these phenomena from the perspective of our ongoing research in the Chavín heartland of...
Culture Contact and Gender Dynamics in Early Iron Age Southern Italy (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While both gender archaeology and culture contact studies have well-developed bodies of theory, the intersection between these is undertheorized, especially outside more recent and better-documented historical archaeology. This is problematic, since any process of interaction potentially implicates divergent gendered expectations and norms, and can upset...
A Curious Presence: Examining Salado Polychrome Production and Provenance in the Phoenix Basin of Arizona through a Multi-method Approach (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences 2024" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between ca. 1300 and 1450 CE, Salado polychrome (Roosevelt red ware) pottery production and use spread rapidly, then persisted across the US Southwest, intersecting diverse cultural and regional traditions, and creating a material pattern termed the “Salado phenomenon.” In Arizona’s Phoenix basin during the Hohokam late Classic period, Salado...
Current Research on Islamic Glass Bangles of the Arabian Peninsula (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Current Research on Ancient Glass around the Indian Ocean" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The study of Islamic glass bangles has been undertaken on a localized or regional level by a number of authors. However, with advances in archaeochemistry the analysis of the primary production glass is offering new insights and contextualization to their typological and coloration differences. The presence of Islamic glass...
The Curse of Classic: Rethinking the Agency of Maya Ceramic Production (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Misinformation and Misrepresentation Part 1: Reconsidering “Human Sacrifice,” Religion, Slavery, Modernity, and Other European-Derived Concepts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Rooted in the Eurocentric concept of Classical antiquity, the “Classic” period is considered to have epitomized Maya civilization, standing in contrast to the developments that characterize the periods that came before and after. This dichotomy...
Defining Local versus Nonlocal Ceramic Production at Sardis (Turkey) Using Isotopic Analysis: The Example of Asia Minor Light-Colored Ware (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For over 50 years, material analytic studies have investigated the production and exchange of pottery across Asia Minor from late prehistory through the early Iron Age. Compositional data provided by ceramic petrography, neutron activation (NAA), and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) have successfully differentiated major regional wares and, in many cases, have...
Defining the Organization of Middle Sicán (Peru) Governance (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. What do the multiplicity and coexistence of monumental mounds commonly called huacas at a single site represent about group(s) that built them? Do these huacas symbolize distinct, unrelated (in terms of kinship), competing sociopolitical groups or, conversely, related, multiple lineages, or something else? These questions guide our ongoing research at the...
Demarcating Spheres of Interaction in the Uplands of Central Arizona with Electron Microprobe Analyses of Phyllite-Tempered Pottery (2018)
Various conflicting ideas pervade debate about how 13th century occupation was organized in the upland zone of central Arizona, which overlooks the Phoenix Basin to the south. Some researchers characterize the upland settlements as subservient and peripheral to the densely packed irrigation-based Hohokam communities along the Salt River. Others, instead, describe the upland populations as independent communities with rich histories of their own. Still others speculate about the extent to which...
Determining Regional Hunting Patterns and Possible Domestication of Turkeys in the Mesa Verde area of the American Southwest (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Current Research on Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) Domestication, Husbandry and Management in North America and Beyond" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Strontium and oxygen analyses of archaeological bone samples are frequently used to map human mobility. In this work, these isotopic signatures are analyzed to investigate archaeofaunal material dating to 750-1280 AD in the Mesa Verde area to determine the origins of...
Developing a Methodology for the Identification of Shell Bead Money in the Archaeological Record (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There is evidence for the use of shell bead money by hunter-gatherer communities dating back at least 2000 years, yet there has been little research done on this topic. In her recent paper, Dr. Lynn H Gamble (2020) draws from anthropological theory about money, ethnographic records, and bead morphology from Chumash sites in southern California to develop...
Developing Temporally Relevant and Spatially Robust Sulfur (δ34S) Isotope Baselines for Archaeological Studies of Residence and Mobility (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many of the central questions of archaeology engage directly with themes relating to movement, mobility, and migration. The two most common isotope systems that have been exploited for this purpose are strontium (87Sr/86Sr) and oxygen (δ18O), with sulfur isotopes (δ34S) being a much more recent addition to the isotopic arsenal for investigating residence...
Diagenesis and Preservation of Pb Isotopes in Ancient Human Tooth Enamel Using Multiple Samples from the Same Tooth (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Complications with diagenetic contamination of ancient human tooth enamel is of primary concern for Pb isotopic studies. While conducting a study of a Caddo skull-and-mandible cemetery in southwest Arkansas (in collaboration with the Caddo Nation), it became clear that many samples were contaminated by soil Pb. Additional samples from the same teeth were...
Did the student become the master? The development of the glaze technology in Cyprus during the 13th to 17th centuries AD (2019)
This is an abstract from the "The Movement of Technical Knowledge: Cross-Craft Perspectives on Mobility and Knowledge in Production Technologies" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite marking the beginning of glazed ware production in Cyprus in the 13th century, the Paphos-Lemba production was a short-lived one and was replaced by other productions in the Famagusta, Lapithos, and Nicosia region. However, we know very little about the glaze...
Dieta, movilidad y etnicidad en la antigua ciudad de Toniná, Chiapas (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Dynamic Frontiers in the Archaeology of Chiapas" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En este trabajo presentamos evidencia de sacrificio humano y tratamientos póstumos de victimas recuperadas en la antigua ciudad maya de Toniná, en el sureste de México. El deposito ritual data de Posclásico mesoamericano que comprende desde 950 hasta 1521 dC. El objetivo es conocer las huellas isotópicas de individuos que fueron parte del...
Dietary Trends through Time at the Phoenix Powerhouse Site: A Stable Isotope Perspective (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Phoenix Powerhouse site has a 4,700-year history of use by Native peoples inhabiting the western slope of the central Sierra Nevada mountains in California. The site, currently managed by PG&E, has yielded human, faunal, and charred plant macrofossil remains during archaeological mitigation and investigation. At the request of the Tuolumne Me-Wuk and...
Differences in Procurement of Arctic Fox in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (NWT, Canada) Revealed through Stable Isotope Analysis (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches in Zooarchaeology: Addressing Big Questions with Ancient Animals" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite their prevalence in zooarchaeological assemblages across Inuit Nunangat (the Inuit homeland), there is a paucity of information in the ethnographic and zooarchaeological literature about Inuit and Paleo-Inuit relationships with arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus). Furthermore, the information...
The Distribution and Provenance of Turquoise from Southern New Mexico, USA and Northern Chihuahua, Mexico (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Recent Research at Jornada Mogollon Sites in South-Central New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Compared to other regions of the Southwest, little is known about prehispanic turquoise acquisition and exchange in southern New Mexico and adjacent parts of Texas or in Chihuahua, Mexico. Here, we explore the distribution of sites with turquoise in the Tularosa and Hueco Basins as well as in northern Chihuahua. In...
Do Not Be Distracted by the Talking Dog: Aspirational Status Display by Medieval Elites at San Giuliano (Lazio Province, Italy) (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Thinking Big in the Andes: Papers in Honor of Charles Stanish" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chip Stanish once told me that a good archaeologist should be able to be thrown out of a plane anywhere in the world and find something interesting to say about the material record there. Inspired by many years under Chip’s tutelage and drawing on my earlier work in the Andes, I here present data from my current research at...