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DOCUMENT Citation Only Steve Filoromo. Paul Jackson. Kenny Pearce.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Research on Glass Beads and Ornaments in North America" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The material traces of those within certain spaces, such as the “Big Houses” of southern Louisiana’s plantations, are not restricted to the wealthy. Enslaved peoples, wage-laborers, and many others labored throughout the home. Here we utilize personal artifacts from Phase III data recovery excavations at the St. Amelia...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Simona Cheung.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology in Color: Undergraduate Voices on Their Time in the Discipline" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As a Chinese archaeologist studying the ancestral pottery of Picuris Pueblo in New Mexico, I am fascinated by the divergent worlds such artifacts occupy. Archaeology has historically maintained a rather singular approach to ceramic analysis, focused on quantification, tables, graphs—hard evidence designed to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nora Rose Thornton.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research examines the relationship between socioeconomic status, religious affiliation, and physiological stress in Industrial London. Two sites were used. The first site, St. Marylebone Paddington Street North, was a high-status Anglican cemetery active from 1772 - 1853. The second site, St. Mary and St. Michaels, was a low-status Catholic cemetery...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacob Welch.

This is an abstract from the "Place-Making in Indigenous Mesoamerican Communities Past and Present" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the Late Classic period, ancient excavators at an elite residence at Ucanha, Yucatan, Mexico, broke through several stucco floors and peeled away rocky fill before partially exposing two earlier buildings dating back to the Late Preclassic. Centuries separated the initial burial of these Preclassic buildings and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Donta.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the central questions facing anthropologists within the Algonquian culture area is to understand how the Connecticut River groups differed from others such as the Nipmuc, Abenaki, and Mohican. What did it mean to be Pocumtuc in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries? Archaeological information gathered from the late nineteenth through early...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathleen Allen.

Previous analyses at two early contact period Haudenosaunee village sites in the Cayuga region of central New York State (Parker Farm and Carman) have provided evidence for differences in the intensity of occupation and in the distribution of activities. Interpretations of site activities have included a more intensive focus on pottery production and utilization at Parker Farm and greater emphasis on hunting and shell bead production at Carman. Although differences in the reasons for the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Whisenhunt. Patricia Gilman.

This is an abstract from the "Mogollon, Mimbres, and Salado Archaeology in Southwest New Mexico and Beyond" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. What does it mean to be Mimbres at the far edge of the Mimbres heartland? Here, we consider questions of Mimbres identity and affiliation by examining ceramics and architecture from the Powers Ranch site. We also analyze Powers Ranch in relation to other Mimbres Classic components along the Gila River to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Schach. Donna Nash.

This is an abstract from the "Exploring Culture Contact and Diversity in Southern Peru" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological investigations in Moquegua indicate that this valley has been the site of multi-ethnic imperial processes since the Middle Horizon. Large cemetery sites in Moquegua have largely dated to the Middle Horizon Period, however, and thus little work has focused on the transition between the Late Intermediate Period and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meghan Caves.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper represents the culmination of master’s thesis research on identity negotiation in the urbanizing frontier of Arlington, Washington. During the summer of 2021, I reanalyzed the privy assemblage associated with the Teager/Weimer site, which was originally excavated during cultural resource mitigation in 2008 and is now held at the Burke Museum in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dennis Ogburn.

This is an abstract from the "New Advances in Cusco Archaeology: From the Formative to the Late Horizon" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although scholars know the technology the Inka used to quarry, transport, and shape the stones that were used in their high-quality structures, the exact process of how they maneuvered and fit the building blocks of their megalithic walls has long been elusive. Proposed solutions involving a repeated process of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Stapleton. Charles Stapleton.

In the years immediately following the conquest of the Aztec empire by the Spanish crown, there was a period of transition in which acculturation, adaptation, and/or adoption of new configurations of political powers, religion, and social structures ushered in the Colonial period in Mexico. One of the results of the encounter between indigenous and Spanish cultures is the syncretism that developed in the art and religious architecture of this region. Studies of syncretic art in colonial Mexico...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amelia Perez Trujillo.

This is an abstract from the "New Advances in Cusco Archaeology: From the Formative to the Late Horizon" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Qotakalli es un poblado de la época Inka planificado, a partir de una calle principal que también forma parte de un camino secundario que conduce a Wanacaure, Qotakalli se encuentra conformado por estructuras rectangulares divididas por una calle principal, 3 secundarias, 27 pasajes transversales y una plaza de...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Smith.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hinterland communities are important arenas for understanding community-level cultural and social development at the periphery of state power. In such communities where writing is not present, symbols become important vehicles for the transmission of identity information. Ceramic motif preference among individuals within these communities is one such mode...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brenda Arjona. Chelsea Blackmore.

This is an abstract from the "The Future Is Fluid...and So Was the Past: Challenging the 'Normative' in Archaeological Interpretations" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological narratives of colonial contact have dramatically shifted from a focus on colonizer/colonized dichotomies to discussions about plurality, ethnogenesis, and hybridity. However, much of the work in Mesoamerica continues to define the practice of colonization through a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeb Card.

Certain classes of material culture found in Honduras and El Salvador have long been recognized as being related to "Maya style" artwork and artifacts from Copan and Classic Maya cities to the north and west. These objects have been framed through questions of "influence", ethnicity, and boundaries. The recent re-analysis of a ceramic flask from Tazumal, with an unusual inscription tying the object to a Copan king and imagery of tribute, suggests a more distinct political lens through which to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Roberto López Bravo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Five years of survey and excavations are providing data regarding Postclassic and Contact-period Central Chiapas, allowing new proposals regarding the functioning of the Chiapanec polity. This study presents an analysis of the distribution of the population near ancient Chiapan, the capital of the Chiapanec polity at the time of the arrival of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley Schubert. Maureen Meyers.

The late Mississippian Pisgah culture, dating from 1200- 1500 CE, is found across a wide geographic area including western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, and southwestern Virginia. Pisgah sherds are often recognized by the presence of distinct rectilinear and later curvilinear stamped decoration with sand, grit, and/or mica temper. Excavations by Dickens (1976), Keel (1976), and Moore (1981; 2002) better defined changes over time in Pisgah ceramics while simultaneously showing the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Markens.

This is an abstract from the "Bringing the Past to Life, Part 1: Papers in Honor of John M. D. Pohl" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Monte Albán’s Tomb 7 is the most famous prehispanic find in Oaxaca owing to its exquisite mortuary offering. Since 1932 when Dr. Alfonso Caso and his colleagues discovered the treasure, archaeologists have routinely ascribed the deposit to Mixtec migrants since the tomb’s objects were rendered in the Mixteca-Puebla...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Felipe Barrantes-Reynolds.

This is an abstract from the "New Advances in Cusco Archaeology: From the Formative to the Late Horizon" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El objetivo de esta presentación es aplicar herramientas de arquitectura y construcción a sitios arqueológicos, desarrollando metodologías rigurosas y no invasivas para la reconstrucción virtual de edificaciones antiguas a partir de ruinas. El lugar de estudio es Cruz Moqo, ubicado en el complejo arqueológico de...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Delancey Griffin.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology in Color: Undergraduate Voices on Their Time in the Discipline" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Within the growing subfield of Indigenous Archaeology there is still a large gap in meaningfully addressing removal, characterized by the Indian Removal Act of 1830 that aimed to relocate Indigenous people West of the Mississippi through treaties and by force. Indigenous students experience an added personal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kent Johnson.

During the Middle Horizon, disparate communities in the south central Andes embraced Tiwanaku corporate culture to signal their affiliation with the Tiwanaku state, yet these communities also maintained separate regional and ethnic identities through distinct cultural practices. The archaeological record of the Moquegua Valley, Peru, provides an important opportunity to evaluate processes of belonging and exclusion within Tiwanaku society. Previous research indicates members of two...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Haley Rebardi. Meredith Snow. Bryon Schroeder.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The subject of this study is an Indigenous pre-Colonial individual from Southwest Texas. The individual was obtained from a private collector and is dated to the Archaic. With tribal approval and support an emphasis has been made to establish an ancestral profile with the end goal of repatriation. To facilitate this, the Indigenous individuals in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erik Simpson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Upper San Juan region of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado is an area of unique cultural developments related to, but differing from, the adjacent Chaco, Mesa Verde, and Rio Grande regions. Our knowledge of both internal developments and status of relations with external groups is poorly understood in comparison to those neighboring regions. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scotti Norman.

In the 16th century Andes (1532-1570s), conquest was not a rapid event, but rather an asymmetrical process in which Spanish authorities negotiated governance and conversion with indigenous and Inka established orders. New Spanish dictates were initially met with a variety of responses from local groups: alliance, manipulation of Spanish policies, and even violent rebellion by Inka holdouts. In the central highlands of Peru, local groups developed and participated in a revitalization movement...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michaelyn Harle. Lynne Sullivan.

This is an abstract from the "Living and Dying in Mountain and Highland Landscapes" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Topographical constraints played a role in shaping the social trajectory of the Southern Appalachian region. The Ridge and Valley physiographic province of East Tennessee includes the Tennessee River and is characterized by linear ridges and parallel valleys, with the Blue Ridge Mountains to the east and the Appalachian Plateau...