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DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Ahlrichs.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A recent cultural resource management project located in south central Pennsylvania's Path Valley identified a series of five sites oriented around one of the waterways forming the headwaters of the Potomac River Drainage. Background research and local informants indicate that a network of small- to medium-sized pre-contact sites can be found along the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Ives.

This is an abstract from the "*A New Look at the Southern Rocky Mountains: Crossroads of Western North America" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Divergence of the Pacific Coast Dene languages from other Dene languages required both significant time and distance to intervene. Yet, there are several indications that there was some degree of contact between Dene speech communities across the Rockies—especially the oral traditions surrounding Changing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin Gilmore.

This is an abstract from the "*A New Look at the Southern Rocky Mountains: Crossroads of Western North America" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Palmer Divide, an upland extending east from the foot of the Southern Rocky Mountains in central Colorado, contains a mosaic of plains and montane biomes and evidence of the people attracted to these resources. Franktown Cave contained an exceptional assemblage of perishable artifacts dated 3300-2500...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alyssa Bolster. Natasha Vang. Tiffiny Tung.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis is employed to assess diet in times of Wari influence in the southern hinterlands between the early (600–800 CE) and late (800–1000 CE) Middle Horizon (MH). We analyze bone collagen from 57 individuals interred at La Real, corresponding to two chronologically distinct mortuary contexts at this Majes Valley site...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zev Cossin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The trillion dollar market for e-commerce sales has transformed the infrastructural landscape into one that delivers commodities to consumers in record time. Amazon Prime freight containers and delivery trucks have provided a ubiquitous convenience that has changed the material realities of our everyday lives in substantive ways. In this paper we explore...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Clark Erickson. Samantha Seyler.

This is an abstract from the "The Legacies of Archaeologists in the Andes: Second Symposium, the Institutionalization and Internationalization of Andean Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The dynamic interaction between culture areas has been and continues to be important. Traditionally, the boundaries or frontiers between culture areas were considered fixed. Many scholars now recognize that these spaces were fluid and their inhabitants...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Biwer.

Food is a unique form of material culture, representing a multiplicity of ethnic, gender, racial, political, and economic identities, that is consumed and reaffirmed through daily practice. In this way, food remains provide a nuanced perspective on a variety of archaeological issues. This paper focuses on Wari imperial expansion and how foodways enabled both Wari colonists and local peoples to negotiate the colonial experience during the Middle Horizon (AD 600-1000), Peru. Using...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlos Fitzgerald-Bernal.

Se presenta una re-evaluación de la frontera oriental del Gran Chiriquí y su relación con la sub-región de Veraguas del Gran Coclé en Panamá Central. A partir de hallazgos recientes de petrograbados en el sur de Veraguas y una revisión de la literatura, se reconocen las limitantes inherentes a una definición estática de fronteras culturales y se analiza la "chiricanidad" de la cultura material veragüense como ejemplo de las dinámicas históricas en la conformación de entidades regionales. Se...

DOCUMENT Citation Only G. Van Kollias.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Investigations in Chiapas, Mexico" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The borders and frontiers of ancient communities provide a rich opportunity to examine the effects of social and political change. These interstitial spaces are often conceptualized as part of a polity body but may be better understood as spaces of continual change and reorganization, positioning these communities as active rather...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Atsushi Yamamoto.

This paper focuses on the emergence and diachronic development of sociopolitical complexity in northern Peru during the Initial Period and Early Horizon using new excavation and settlement pattern data from the site of Ingatambo in the Huancabamba Valley. I argue that significant changes in sociopolitical complexity occur alongside shifts and intensification in interregional interaction. During the Pomahuaca phase (BC. 1200-800); ceremonial centers with platform architecture appear suddenly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Martini. Dennis Nicolas Lorenzo.

This is an abstract from the "Cuando los senderos divergen: Reconsiderando las interacciones entre los Andes Septentrionales y los Andes Centrales durante el 1ro y 2do milenio AEC / When Paths Diverge: Reconsidering Interactions between the Northern and Central Andes, First–Second Millennium BCE" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The department of Piura includes a significant portion of the modern national border between Ecuador and Peru and remains...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Oscar Neill.

La zona nororiental de Honduras en la época prehispánica, y su interacción con Mesoamérica al oeste, ha sido poco abordada. El patrón de asentamiento regional así como interno de cada sitio es igual poco conocido y muchas veces confundido con el área vecina al este. Los reconocimientos de superficie en esta década nos han brindado resultados preliminares sobre el patrón de asentamiento regional y de sitio de la costa nororiental, concretamente en la Cuenca del Río Cangrejal, el Bajo Aguan en el...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Bossio.

This is an abstract from the "Theorizing Warfare: Global Perspectives on Defense and Fortification" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Western Lake Erie region of the Lower Great Lakes witnessed immense change at ca. AD 1250. Late Woodland people, who were seasonally mobile on a dynamic riverine and wetland landscape, became settled village agriculturalists. Lifeways, pottery, and toolkits changed drastically. Two hypotheses to explain these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samuel Hemsley. Caitlin Stewart.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Virgin Anasazi Region of the Southwestern United States of America is a relatively unrepresented region in archaeological literature. In the past, the undeveloped nature of the region combined with the regions remoteness have resulted in a dearth of unconsolidated literature on the archaeology of the region. Recent archaeological investigations by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Seltzer-Rogers.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Work by Chronicle Heritage" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chronicle Heritage recently excavated part of a moderately sized, multicomponent site, LA135004, in advance of development near Taos in northern New Mexico. The prehispanic component, dating AD 1050–1300, consists of at least one room block with features, extramural cooking pits, and thousands of ceramics, flaked and ground stone, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Ferguson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Obsidian procurement studies in West-Central New Mexico have proven valuable in characterizing changes in social connections over time. Previous research into the obsidian procurement patterns in the Lion Mountain area focused on the Pueblo II through Pueblo III periods represented by the majority of archaeological sites in the area. Recent in-field XRF...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Rowe. Guy Duke.

This is an abstract from the "Cuando los senderos divergen: Reconsiderando las interacciones entre los Andes Septentrionales y los Andes Centrales durante el 1ro y 2do milenio AEC / When Paths Diverge: Reconsidering Interactions between the Northern and Central Andes, First–Second Millennium BCE" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Valdivia tradition of coastal Ecuador (ca. 3800–1450 BC) was one of the first sedentary, agricultural, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Whitney Goodwin.

This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences 2024" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. At the site of Selin Farm (AD 300–1000) in northeastern Honduras, recent research revealed repeated episodes of large-scale feasting occurring over a period of nearly a thousand years leading up to major shifts in local social and political organization (Goodwin 2019; Reeder-Myers et al. 2021). Shell midden mounds at the site contain large...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Klinton Burgio-Ericson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Primary sources have long attested to the training of Indigenous carpenters in early colonial New Mexican woodworking. By the 1620s, Spanish craftsmen began introducing techniques based in the widespread Iberoamerican Mudéjar carpentry vernacular, which Pueblo artisans learned and used in constructing Franciscan missions. These accounts have received...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea Reedy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Presidio San Sabá was the largest military outpost in the Texas region during the mid-eighteenth century. This research project is a continuation of Dr. Fradkin and Dr. Walters’s previous faunal analysis conducted on a portion of the site’s assemblage. This inquiry will focus on comparing the areas within the interior plaza to provide insight into dietary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea Reedy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Presidio San Sabá was the largest military outpost in the Texas region during the mid-eighteenth century. This research project is a continuation of Arlene Fradkin, and Tamra Walters’ previous faunal analysis conducted on a portion of the site’s assemblage. This inquiry will focus on comparing the areas within the interior plaza to provide insight into...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren Kohut.

This is an abstract from the "Theorizing Warfare: Global Perspectives on Defense and Fortification" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fortifications are among the most enduring material records of warfare in the archaeological past. Studies of fortification often emphasize the importance of defensive walls, not only in preventing enemy intrusion, but also in controlling movement and delineating insiders and outsiders. This focus on enclosure draws...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jose Barragan.

Frontiers are usually spaces of interaction between multiple groups of people navigating through established cultural and political lifeways. The zone of Tumupasa functions as a peripheral site on the margin between the Yungas and the Amazon. This region will form the center of my study area to identify historical and archaeological lines of interaction between highland and lowland groups. I argue that the region of Tumupasa, Bolivia is situated on a natural geographic transit point between the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mallory Matsumoto. Andrew Scherer. Omar Alcover Firpi.

Prior reconnaissance efforts in the Middle Usumacinta River region have identified a series of low walls associated with Tecolote, La Pasadita, and other border sites in the Yaxchilan kingdom. Similar defensive features have also been identified at the Piedras Negras secondary center of La Mar. These walls are interpreted as the foundations for wooden palisades, and served to protect not only immediate communities, but also the kingdom at large. However, this paper presents the first evidence...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Begley.

This is an abstract from the "Advances and New Perspectives in the Isthmo-Colombian Area" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Throughout their history, the polities in eastern Honduras existed along a frontier, interacting with larger, powerful groups from a different cultural tradition to the west and with more closely related people to the south. During the period between 500 and 1200 CE, eastern Honduran groups adopted several significant elements...