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DOCUMENT Citation Only Michelle Elliott.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Close to a century of archaeological research in the Bajío region of Mexico has revealed a long-term record of human occupation, ranging from mobile hunter-gatherers to early farming villages, state-level polities, and later colonial settlements where indigenous groups interacted with European populations. These developments were shaped in part by the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Sparenberg.

Maryland has 8,000 miles of tidal shoreline associated with the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries and more than 12-percent of its surface area in floodplains. These high risk areas for flooding and coastal erosion contain about 40-percent of Maryland’s archeological sites and presumably many more that have yet to be discovered. It is not feasible or prudent to excavate every endangered site, thus choices about which sites to investigate must be made strategically. This paper lays out a reasoned...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Whittaker Schroder.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Investigations in Chiapas, Mexico" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over three field seasons, the Lower Lacantun Archaeological Project has examined the political organization and settlement of the region surrounding the confluence of the Lacantun and Usumacinta Rivers in Chiapas, Mexico. This riverine landscape is unique in the Western Lowlands, presenting risks and opportunities related to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diane Chase. Elizabeth Graham. Melissa Badillo.

This is an abstract from the "“The Center and the Edge”: How the Archaeology of Belize Is Foundational for Understanding the Ancient Maya" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Without Belizean archaeological data, we would know very little about the Maya Postclassic period (CE 950–1530). While viewed as a period of lesser cultural development by earlier researchers, Postclassic archaeological research in Belize was published as early as 1898 but...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia Mothes.

This is an abstract from the "Celebrating the Contributions of Volcanologists Minard Hall and Patricia Mothes to Ecuadorian Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Stratigraphic cuts at archaeological sites in the Northern Highlands or along the Coast, often display volcanic ash deposits, 10-30 cm thick, produced by large VEI 5-6 explosive eruptions in the Ecuadorian Sierra. Eruptions by Pululahua (2300 yBP), G. Pichincha (1000 yBP), Cotopaxi...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Ingram.

This is an abstract from the "Multiscale Data and the History of Human Development in the US Southwest" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Vulnerability assessments investigate the social, environmental, and economic characteristics of people and places to identify where people are expected to be the most vulnerable to a warming climate and its consequences. Identifying the sources of vulnerability to drought is an essential component of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Akira Ichikawa.

This is an abstract from the "Equity in the Archaeology of Disaster, Past, Present, and Future" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Volcanic eruptions are hazardous events that affect past cultural and historical trajectories. However, despite several catastrophic eruptions having been recorded, some populations have chosen to continuously live in hazardous environments. Based on a long-term archaeological perspective, this paper shows human response,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fabián Villalba.

This is an abstract from the "Celebrating the Contributions of Volcanologists Minard Hall and Patricia Mothes to Ecuadorian Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El período tardío del suroriente ecuatoriano, enmarcado a un lado y otro de la cordillera del Cóndor (cuencas del Zamora y Altos del Chinchipe) no ha estado claramente establecido, sin embargo, los últimos estudios permiten ir tejiendo la historia preincaica. Se ha venido...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Judson Finley. Erick Robinson.

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. Northeastern Utah’s Uinta Basin marks the northernmost extent of maize agriculture diffused from the American Southwest, with as many as a dozen distinct Fremont pithouse communities forming between AD 300-1350. Recent work in the Cub Creek locality of Dinosaur National Monument demonstrates that Fremont...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach. Timothy Beach.

This is an abstract from the "“The Center and the Edge”: How the Archaeology of Belize Is Foundational for Understanding the Ancient Maya, Part II" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Questions of human subsistence, impacts, and response to environmental change have driven decades of research on ancient life in the Maya Lowlands. While traditional geoarchaeology and paleoecology methods have already documented a rich variety of agricultural and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Tran. Jason Woo. Thomas Crimmel. Anabel Ford. Sherman Horn III.

This is an abstract from the "Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As a critique of the temperate prejudice of the tropics, we embrace the hypothesis that the Maya forest represents a domesticated landscape to examine the settlement and environmental patterns of the ancient Maya of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meredith S. Chesson. Isaac Ullah. Paula Lazrus. Kostalena Michelaki. Giovanni Iiriti.

This is an abstract from the "Making Historical Archaeology Matter: Rethinking an Engaged Archaeology of Nineteenth- to Twenty-First-Century Rural Communities of Western Ireland and Southern Italy" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Small rural towns throughout Italy struggle with declining populations, and many sell houses for extraordinarily little money to lure people to become residents and invest in these communities. The Bova Marina...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katie Zejdlik.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Transylvania, Romania is a historic region with a tumultuous history. Work at the Papdomb archaeological site (AD 1050-present), located in the small village of Văleni (Patakfalva in Hungarian) provides a micro-look at how Szekler-Hungarians have remained steadfast and relatively unchanged since their arrival in the Carpathian Basin (12-13th century)....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Evan Peacock. Sheeji Kathuria. David S. Nolen.

Applied zooarcheology has been on an apparent upward swing, gaining practitioners and seeing an increasing number of publications in natural science journals. Whether the intended consumers (conservation biologists, land managers) are receiving the message remains uncertain. We used a two-phase process to survey the literature pertaining to applied zooarchaeology: 1) keyword searching for highly cited applied zooarchaeology publications in Google Scholar; and 2) tracking of specific articles...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Young.

This is an abstract from the "Deep History, Colonial Narratives, and Decolonization in the Native Chesapeake" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The “taskscape,” or a landscape comprised of actions and labor (Ingold 1993, 2000), provides a means for assessing the change and continuity of a place over time. Through the study of plant remains (including macrobotanical remains, phytolith residues, and starch grains), taskscapes from the Late Archaic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alden Yépez.

This is an abstract from the "Celebrating the Contributions of Volcanologists Minard Hall and Patricia Mothes to Ecuadorian Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many authors who have studied the upper Upano region of the Ecuadorian Amazon have suggested that a significant shift occurred between AD 300 and 600, followed by a hiatus of 200 years until AD 800, which is attributed to a supposed catastrophic eruption of the Sangay volcano. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Florencio Delgado Espinoza.

This is an abstract from the "Celebrating the Contributions of Volcanologists Minard Hall and Patricia Mothes to Ecuadorian Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The history of northern Ecuador is marked by the enduring resilience of its inhabitants, who have continuously adapted to a dynamic and often challenging environment. Along the northern coast, communities have repeatedly faced significant hardships, including frequent flooding...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dominica Stricklin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study applies isotopic analyses of carbon (ẟ13Ccoll) and nitrogen (ẟ15Ncoll) from bone collagen, with carbon (ẟ13Cap), oxygen (ẟ18O), and strontium (87Sr/86Sr) to faunal remains excavated from a peri-abandonment deposit at the ancient Maya site of Xunantunich during the Terminal Classic period. Peri-abandonment deposits represent a distinct phenomenon in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maia Dedrick. Luke Auld-Thomas.

This is an abstract from the "Multispecies Frameworks in Archaeological Interpretation: Human-Nonhuman Interactions in the Past, Part I" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper considers the development of agriculture and society in northeastern Yucatán, Mexico, drawing on evidence from lidar imaging, paleoethnobotany, and isotopic studies. We focus on geological features known as dolines, sinkholes, or rejolladas—round, low areas that dot the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ann Stodder.

This is an abstract from the "Multiscale Data and the History of Human Development in the US Southwest" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study takes a multiscalar approach to understanding human development and lived experience in the Southwest, marshalling archaeological, paleoenvironmental, bioarchaeological, and epidemiological information about populations, communities, and individuals. Well documented climatic changes are associated with...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ben Nelson. Vincent Schiavitti.

Fieldwork from the 1989-90 seasons at La Quemada

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carly Ameen. Joel Alves. Thomas Fowler. Greger Larson. Naomi Sykes.

This is an abstract from the "HumAnE Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Human immigration and biological invasions are high-profile topics in modern politics, but neither are uniquely modern phenomena. Migrations of people, animals and ideas were common in antiquity and are frequently incorporated into expressions of cultural identity. However, the more recent the migration, the more negative modern attitudes are towards them. Native is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dylan Davis. Kristina Douglass.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The environmental impacts of human societies are generally assumed to correlate with factors such as population size, whether they are industrialized, and the intensity of their landscape modifications (e.g., agriculture, urban development, etc.). As a result, small-scale communities with subsistence economies are often not the focus of long-term studies...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Tveskov. Donald Ivy.

This is an abstract from the "Heritage Sites at the Intersection of Landscape, Memory, and Place: Archaeology, Heritage Commemoration, and Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Old Town Bandon site is a large archaeological site on the Oregon Coast that lies beneath the sidewalks of a settler community. The site has been the subject of over 30 years of archaeological research guided by the Coquille Indian Tribe. This work has revealed the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Ingram.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology and Landscape Learning for a Climate-Changing World" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the 1200s–1400s CE in the US Southwest and Mexican Northwest, tens of thousands of people were on the move—many leaving places where knowledge of landscapes had accrued at the scale of millennia. By the end of the 1400s, population levels had declined by about 50%. What conditions led to this migration and...