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DOCUMENT Citation Only Sachiko Sakai.

This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study is a part of an investigation into the adaptation patterns among the small-scale farmers who lived in a very marginal environment in the American Southwest. The examination of the changes in the ceramic production and distribution in the Mt. Trumbull and adjacent areas was conducted using LA-ICP-MS and optically stimulated luminescence...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirsten Lopez. Cristina Rodriguez-Franco.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Work by Chronicle Heritage" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We know fire can affect obsidian hydration, but how do forest fires, and our management practices impact these sites and their potential for data contribution under Criterion D? Is there a different way of going about evaluating data contribution or management practices to work with management in our age of large, intense climate-change...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aldo Watanave. Michelle Watanave. Elvis Monzón. Sintia Santisteban.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, the authors will present the results of their first excavation season at Huaca Menocucho, in the Moche Valley on the north coast of Peru, exposing the political, religious, and economic activities carried out by the people who lived at the site. This excavation revealed the site was first occupied during the Initial period (1800–500 BC),...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrea Vianello.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In a world changed by COVID-19, it is valuable to look at past reactions to epidemics and learn from them. Modern economies and political systems are designed with the assumption that such events cannot happen. The real risks in food and staples production and distribution in America and Europe or the inability to protect the work force for just a few months...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Isabel Cartajena.

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. It has been suggested that hunter-gatherer social complexity becomes evident during the late Middle Holocene in the Atacama puna. The Loa River basin is a highly advantageous location, characterised by a concentration of water and biotic resources, and contains multiple human settlements. The Late Archaic is represented by the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edgar Carpio.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents the preliminary data from a study that has been carried out on a considerable collection of flint artifacts from Salinas de los Nueve Cerros, Guatemala. These were uncovered during the excavations of the site over eight field seasons. Flint is a local resource in Salinas and it was widely used to produce many objects mainly used as cutting...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hilda Lozano Bravo. Jose Luis Ruvalcaba. Ana Maria Soler. Luis Alberto Barba.

Human beings have modified surfaces to make them habitable, with time they made other floors to give it a better finish. The process was recorded in the floors interiors; we can observe the materials used in its elaboration and how they changed through time. Additionally, we can conduct other studies which help us understand the time-frame between structures. Floors are a complex material and their study helps us identify social aspects seen in past studies of other materials such as ceramics,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Henri Bernard.

This is an abstract from the "Hidden Gems: New Research on Lapidary, Lapidarists, and Polished Stone and Shell in the Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mesoamericans attributed mystical and magical powers as well as healing properties to Chalchihuitl, or greenstone, which also symbolized social power, beauty, water, fertility, life, perfection, and sacredness. Historical sources and archaeological contexts confirm that Mesoamerican...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Speer. Stance Hurst.

This is an abstract from the "The Elemental Analysis Facility at the Field Museum: Celebrating 20 Years Serving the Archaeological Community " session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Adair-Steadman Folsom site (41FS2) functioned as a lithic workshop and campsite between 10,800 and 10,300 RCYBP and is situated ~5 km away from an Edwards chert quarry (41FS12) in the Southern Plains. This research aims to determine potential sources of Edwards chert...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Saumur.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Oaxacan Cuisine" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation examines the archaeological possibilities for investigating prehispanic foodways and diet. We do this through the analysis of a burial recovered in Tomb 1 at Nduatiucu, in the Teposcolula valley in the Mixteca Alta. The burial first excavated in the 1970s by Winter et al. (1975) and later re-assessed and radiocarbon dated by Saumur...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gloria Hernandez-Bolio.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> For over 20 years the Proyecto Atlas de Guatemala (Atlas), has documented more than 400 sites across the many river basins and humid savannas of the southeastern Peten. Here the communities experienced rapid growth in the Early and Late Classic, developing into complex, yet mostly modestly centralized political entities. The Project’s reconnaissance...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bryon Schroeder.

This is an abstract from the "Hearths, Earth Ovens, and the Carbohydrate Revolution: Indigenous Subsistence Strategies and Cooking during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene in North America" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The West Texas–Big Bend region preserves some of the earliest examples of hot rock cooking in North America. These smaller early thermal features are thought to be the remnants of early plant baking subsistence events....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily McKenzie.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past few decades, archaeologists have embraced the compositional and elemental analysis of archaeological materials—primarily ceramic, metallic, and lithic objects—drawing new conclusions about the circumstances surrounding their production, such as the geographic origins of their raw components or the processes by which they were made. To explore the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Milosz Giersz.

Since the fundamental work of Dorothy Menzel, it has been suggested that a new center of power and prestige arose on the North-Central Coast of Peru during the late Middle Horizon, and that its focal point was probably located in the Huarmey Valley. Unfortunately, this hypothesis has not been empirically confirmed for more than 40 years, due to the lack of strong evidence based on systematic archaeological research. Since 2010 an international team of scholars performs multidisciplinary research...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kat Slocum.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1836, after centuries of occupation, Native Americans signed over 13 million acres of Northern Michigan land to the U.S. in an attempt to curtail complete removal from their ancestral homeland. This research project examines the transitional period of land loss in the mid-19th century to analyze to what extent Native Americans utilized the landscape before,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gerardo Gutiérrez.

This is an abstract from the "Innovations and Transformations in Mesoamerican Research: Recent and Revised Insights of Ancestral Lifeways" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Multiple fragments of the so-called Codex Cardona began to circulate among street markets, boutique bookstores, and art galleries of Mexico City, the USA, and Europe between 1970 and 1980. It is estimated that this large format manuscript has 800 pages and 300 colorful plates...

DOCUMENT Citation Only WengCheong Lam.

This is an abstract from the "New materials and new insights for our understanding of the First Emperor's Mausoleum and early imperial China" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Qin state is often regarded as a war machine, renowned for its military prowess that led to the unification of China. However, recent archaeological discoveries from Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, suggest that advancements in iron technology were equally vital to this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carla Klehm. Mark Helper. Elisabeth Hildebrand.

This is an abstract from the "African Archaeology throughout the Holocene" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Beads play a prominent role in personal ornamentation in life and death: desired, exploited, and widely traded throughout prehistory. Although manufacture and use provide important social context, evaluating the materials used and their source locations is a crucial component of understanding how these industries arise. This paper features an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michelle Young.

This paper investigates the role of interregional interaction in the development of social complexity in the Central Andes during the Late Initial (c.1100-800 BC) and Early Horizon (c.800-200 BC) periods at the archaeological site of Atalla, a regional ceremonial center located in highlands of Huancavelica, Peru. Methodologically, this research integrates radiocarbon dating with stylistic, technical, and geochemical analyses of a range of materials to examine exchange and interaction on multiple...

DOCUMENT Citation Only George Lau.

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. One of the most salient and widespread innovations after the Chavín-period cults was the depiction of camelids across various ancient Andean cultures, from Moche to Nasca, and Pukara to Recuay. We can surmise that camelids played an increasingly prominent role in their respective social worlds, expanding horizons both economically...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Lash.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Climatic and environmental factors are ‘creeping’ phenomena with rapid thresholds, and there is a disjuncture between product and best-practice in terms of landuse. The ways in which people engage with their environment are necessarily influenced by the nature of the given region, but the form of that engagement is contingent on cultural and historical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Pailes.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Science and African Archaeology: Appreciating the Impact of David Killick" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The borderlands setting of the University of Arizona has made it an epicenter for research focused on Northwest Mexico. This geographical proximity combined with the unfailing collaborative spirit of Dave Killick resulted in his students (official and honorary) having an outsized impact on the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Huifa Yan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Warring States Period has been regarded as an essential period in terms of the transition of political structure. This transition leaves its influence on the forms of burials and tombs. This study aims to provide a new perspective on the political transition by studying the changes of remains of the elite tombs of Chu State during the Warring State Period....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Haruan Straioto.

This is an abstract from the "Current Methods and Applications to Chert Sourcing: Case Studies from Across the Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the São Francisco River Basin there is evidence of human occupation since 14.0 ky cal BP. Models of dispersal suggest an intensification of occupied areas around 11.0 ky cal BP, followed by regionalization after two millennia. The study of lithic technology, as the major evidence available, is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only R. Alan Covey. Robert Z. Selden Jr.. Nicole D. Payntar. Charles S. Spencer.

This is an abstract from the "Geometric Morphometrics in Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Found from highland Ecuador to northwest Argentina, the Inca narrow-mouth jar, or *aríbalo, is the most widely distributed marker of the period of imperial expansion across the Andes (ca. 1400–1530s). Hiram Bingham made the first formal description of the *aríbalo more than a century ago, as part of the first formal classification of Inca pottery....