Archaeometry & Materials Analysis (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only R. Alan Covey. Robert Selden. Astrid Runggaldier. Nicole Payntar.

This is an abstract from the "Alfareros deste Inga: Pottery Production, Distribution and Exchange in the Tawantinsuyu" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Inka conquest of the Chimú Empire on what is today the north coast of Peru brought a region with well-established economic and political practices under the rule of a highland polity that developed under distinct social and ecological conditions. Many aspects of Inka rule in Chimú territory were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Duff. Judith Habicht-Mauche. Rob Franks. Andrew Duff.

This is an abstract from the "Attention to Detail: A Pragmatic Career of Research, Mentoring, and Service, Papers in Honor of Keith Kintigh" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We report on research that uses LA-ICP-MS to examine glaze-paint pigmenting strategies and lead isotopes to investigate lead sources used during the Pueblo IV period in the Upper Little Colorado and Western Zuni Regions of the American Southwest. Pigment data suggest that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Huerta.

This is an abstract from the "Hill People: New Research on Tijeras Canyon and the East Mountains" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Paa-ko Pueblo, also known as the mission of San Pedro due to its colonial period component, is one of the better studied sites in the East Mountain region. However, the research presented here represents the first systematic look at late Rio Grande Glaze Ware (RGGW) pottery excavated from the site’s colonial context(s)....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tânia Casimiro.

This is an abstract from the "Many New Worlds: Alternative global histories through material stories" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The history of Portuguese globalization is often dominated by grand narratives of exploration and discovery, perpetuating a Eurocentric view of global encounters. However, material evidence from archaeological sites, together with historical evidence, offers alternative perspectives that challenge these official...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown. Shawn Morton.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Advances in Ground Stone Studies in the Eastern Maya Lowlands" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this presentation, we discuss our research into the use of granite by the ancient inhabitants of Alabama: a Late to Terminal Classic boomtown of the eastern Maya lowlands. One of our initial hypotheses regarding the relatively sudden rise of the town toward the end of the Late Classic period focused on granite as a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Abigail Fisher.

This is an abstract from the "Zooarchaeology and Technology: Case Studies and Applications" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Historic journals and early ethnographic accounts have the potential to inform on Native American cultural norms, including interaction with commensals, such as dogs. However, these accounts are imperfect due to biases couched in ethnocentrism and personal interests. This research seeks to test historic accounts related to dog...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Moore. Chantel White. Marie-Claude Boileau. Jason Herrmann. Vanessa Workman.

This is an abstract from the "Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Archaeology Classroom" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Material evidence is the hallmark of archaeological investigations, but bringing the reality of actual materials to the classroom can be challenging. We observe that the multisensory impact of hands-on activities in the classroom conveys key information and is a valuable way to engage students at the first-year, advanced undergraduate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claudia Celia. Heather Rockwell. Nathaniel Kitchel.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Red chert from the Munsungun Lake formation in northern Maine is found in late Pleistocene Fluted-Point period archaeological sites across northeastern North America. Despite its prevalence, there is no literature detailing the effects of heat alteration on red Munsungun chert. Here we report the effects of experimental heat alteration on red Munsungun...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Iride Tomazic. Amy Nicodemus. John O'Shea.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Advances in Zooarchaeological Methods" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the past archaeology rarely played a role in the discussion of anthropogenic pollution. This lack of study is mainly due to the skepticism around the accurate representation of heavy metals in archaeological material as a result of diagenetic processes. In this study, we present preliminary results of a systematic selection of animal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Siyun Guo. Yu Dong. Alice Yao.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper combines isotope analysis from collagen and hydroxyapatite patterns from the Bronze Age to imperial periods in the humid sub-tropical highlands of southwestern China. We sampled and analyzed 28 faunal bones and 4 teeth from two occupation sites in the Lake Dian basin that are associated with the Dian polity (ca. 700 – 100 BC) and span into the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brigitte Kovacevich.

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. Identification of greenstones in the field and lab can be challenging. This paper will discuss the possibility to preliminarily distinguish greenstones elementally with the use of Handheld X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (HHRXF). While HHXRF data has some limitations and produces only...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Taylor. Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan. Isaac Hart.

This is an abstract from the "New Directions in Mongolian Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The emergence of herding economies prompted drastic changes to life in eastern Eurasia—situating the cold, arid steppes of Mongolia as a center of the ancient world. Although a growing body of evidence points to an important role for mountain zones in this transition, issues of archaeological preservation have prevented a clear understanding of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris Widga. Darian Bouvier. Lawrence Todd. Amy Phillips. Kenneth Cannon.

This is an abstract from the "A Tribute to the Contributions of Lawrence C. Todd to World Prehistory" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the late Holocene, large bison herds occurred in grass-dominated ecological zones across much of the North American mid-continent. However, in situ fossils and historic accounts illustrate the adaptability of bison to a broad ecological niche space, from grassy prairies and plains to eastern forests. Yet,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Lyons.

This is an abstract from the "Current Issues in Japanese Archaeology (2019 Archaeological Research in Asia Symposium)" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Extensive excavation records and legacy materials provide ample opportunities for novel research in Japan. This project seeks to open and demonstrate new avenues of inquiry using legacy data and previously excavated materials related to well-studied topics by linking environmental change to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Day.

This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cooking pots do a job, a hard job. As a result, we have enshrined them as a special measure of ceramic functional suitability, a witness to know-how, and even technological progress. This paper explores the production of cooking pots by three different groups of potters on the island of Lesvos, Greece over the course of the twentieth century until...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Judith Margarita Lopez Aceves.

This is an abstract from the "Many New Worlds: Alternative global histories through material stories" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Intoxicant consumption is a practice that was reported by the European colonizers when they first arrived in the Caribbean, however, their reports were often vague and lacking detail, leaving material evidence as the only tangible evidence of this consumption. But what if the material evidence we have does not align...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin Lane.

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. In the 1990’s Parsons, Hastings and Matos identified Special Function Settlements describing habitation sites with dense clusters of agglutinated structures and circumscribed open areas in the highlands. They theorized that these places functioned less as permanent settlements, and more as spaces were people congregated and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jaron Davidson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Few strontium (Sr) isotope studies have focused on the eastern Great Basin of North America, and because Sr ratios vary regionally and stratigraphically, establishing an isotopic baseline is often the first step in being able to interpret Sr values in their archaeological context. Such isotope baselines can help in determining local vs nonlocal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Monica Warner.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Stable oxygen isotope (δ¹⁸O) analysis of the carbonate fraction in human tooth and bone hydroxyapatite is well-established in archaeology. Researchers use δ¹⁸O values in human bone and tooth bioapatite to reconstruct migration, climate, and water sources. Bioavailable stable oxygen isotopes of carbonates and phosphates...

DOCUMENT Citation Only George Bey.

This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2015, an archaeological rescue program was carried out in Maní, Yucatán, related to improvements in the main square with the aim of designating Mani as a "magical town". The excavations produced numerous fragments of the “idols” destroyed during the so-called auto de fe organized by Diego de Landa in Mani (1562) punishing the Maya population for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carla Lancelotti.

This is an abstract from the "Modelling Human Behaviour through Ethnoarchaeology: Ethnoarchaeology as Long-Term Traditional Knowledge (L-TeK)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper I reflect on how an ethnoarchaeological approach to food sustainability can potentially impact the design of sustainable policies by offering an alternative perspective to mainstream knowledge. In recent years the incorporation of time-tested practices,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Flavia Morello Repetto.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The long-distance transport of obsidian is a characteristic feature of the early maritime hunter-gatherer societies that inhabited Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. Their presence in the archaeological record is assessed in relation to the development of specialized maritime lifeways that extended along the western archipelago of the Southern Cone of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia McNeill.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Understanding a population’s mobility patterns is key to reconstructing how a group gains resources and adapts to changing contexts. Strontium isotope (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr) analysis is a powerful tool in archaeology to investigate past movements of humans and animals in relation to bioavailable ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr maps...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Francis Lamothe. Karine Taché. Roland Tremblay.

The Laurentians is a region of rolling hills, mountains and lakes occupying a strategic position in the vast hydrographic basin that drains the northern shore of the Saint Lawrence River. Archaeological fieldwork undertaken since 2015 demonstrates the integration of this landscape within interaction networks encompassing several other regions of the greater Northeast at various time periods. Ceramic remains, notably, reveal close links between Alquonquins of the Laurentians and both Hurons to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adolfo Gil. Gustavo Neme. Maria de la Paz Pompei. Laura Salgan. Nuria Sugrañes.

This is an abstract from the "Global Perspectives on Climate-Human Population Dynamics During the Late Holocene" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Central Western Argentina shows during historical times a surprising mosaic of human strategies, ranging from populations with domestic plants and animals in one extreme, to populations focused on wild resources in the other. In general, this variation was associated with more sedentary and dense...