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DOCUMENT Citation Only William Pestle.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Forty-six newly documented anthropogenic shell works, stretching along 1.5 km of a paleoshoreline in the intertidal zone of southwestern Puerto Rico constitute a precontact landscape (a shellscape, if you will) without parallel on the island. Besides evidencing subsistence practices, these monumental features speak to the culturally mediated adaptive...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Allen.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeobotanical recovery in environmental settings with heavy clay and gley deposits is often challenging due to the difficuty of processing such sediments by flotation or wet-sieveing. Following good results from an initial experiment to improve visibility of floral and faunal remains in a gley deposit from Late Neolithic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rafael Segura Llanos.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Central Andes saw a long and complex development of prehistoric urban life. Although considerable progress has been made in understanding this process, our assessment is still very fragmentary due to the lack of key data on centers that appear to have been pivotal at the regional scale. In this paper, I examine Cajamarquilla, a site (> 100 ha) on the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda Seminario.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The contributions of enslaved African Americans to local formal economies have often gone unrecognized in previous historical and archaeological research; this is especially true concerning the actions of enslaved women. Black Feminist Theory allows researchers to consider the ways that Black women viewed and affected the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alejandro Figueroa.

This is an abstract from the "Animal Bones to Human Behavior" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The study of the Preceramic period (ca. 11,000–5,000 cal BP) in Mesoamerica has focused on the transition from a foraging way of life toward agriculture, plant domestication, and sedentism. Yet we know little about the processes and contexts that drove this transition, particularly the relationship between foragers and animal prey. In this paper I present...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kurt Fredrickson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Flint Run Complex in Northern Virginia contains not one, but several Late Pleistocene open-air stratified Paleoindian sites. Thunderbird (44WR11) is the main site within the complex with evidence of human occupation in the region at around 9,990 BP. Numerous tools were recovered which fit the Clovis technocomplex and extensive analysis has been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonah Bullen.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fungi are ubiquitous across diverse landscapes and play critical roles in human societies, influencing global foodways, land use, and economies. In North America, the ethnographic works of various Indigenous groups document the significance of fungi as dietary items, medicine, fire tinder, and more. Despite their demonstrated...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marilyn Masson.

This is an abstract from the "Northern Belize Archaic Period and Sahara Dust" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Analysis of a large sample of Late Archaic tools from the multi-year Belize Archaic Project at Progresso Lagoon provides an updated assessment of formal (and especially) informal flake tools utilized by Preceramic peoples extensively occupying the lagoon shore. Primarily from habitation sites, this analysis assesses the types of activities...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aurora Montúfar López.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Este trabajo informa de la arqueología, historia y etnografía de las principales plantas rituales cuyas estructuras: semillas, frutos, hojas, fibras (textiles) y resinas, fueron recuperadas en contextos de oblación y también en muestras sedimentológicas culturales de los sustratos del subsuelo del Recinto Ceremonial de México-Tenochtitlan, como parte de...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dylan Davis. Kristina Douglass.

This is an abstract from the "Behavioral Ecology and Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Madagascar’s southwestern coast has been inhabited by coastal foraging and fishing populations for over a millennium. Despite significant environmental changes in southwest Madagascar’s environment following human settlement, little is known about the scale, pace, and nature of human settlement and subsequent landscape modification. Recent...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Rosenswig.

This is an abstract from the "Northern Belize Archaic Period and Sahara Dust" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The 8,000 years before ceramic first appear is the longest epoch in the human occupation of Mesoamerica when domestication and sedentary life changed how the inhabitants of the region lived. Yet, despite the importance of changing adaptation, Mesoamerica’s Archaic period is known from only a handful of site, and most of these are caves and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Arion Mayes.

This is an abstract from the "The Classic-Postclassic Transition in Oaxaca" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research investigates population health and infectious disease at the site of Río Viejo during the Classic-Post Classic transition; testing the hypothesis that treponema was endemic in Oaxaca, specifically the lower Río Verde Valley along the Pacific coast, and identifiable in a congenital New World form through dental stigmata, as well...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pamela Garcia Ramirez.

This is an abstract from the "The Classic-Postclassic Transition in Oaxaca" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the fieldwork of the PRV22-24 the recovered ceramics were analyzed by conventional methods that include a detailed analysis of the primary contexts excavated, such as ovens, termination deposits, and middens. From the PRV24 collection a sample was taken to study through petrographic analysis. The sample focuses on the fine ceramic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mathias Vuille.

This is an abstract from the "Northern Belize Archaic Period and Sahara Dust" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Several studies have highlighted the role of the Holocene ‘Green Sahara’ in affecting environmental conditions across the tropics. Expansive Saharan vegetation altered albedo and evapotranspiration, and changed atmospheric circulation, impacting climate over remote regions. For example, mid-Holocene precipitation changes in eastern South...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vibeke Martens. Jens Rytter.

This is an abstract from the "Climate and Heritage in the North Atlantic: Burning Libraries" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. To respond to climate change impacts as well as other societal and environmental impacts to archaeological preservation, Norway has been applying environmental monitoring of archaeological deposits and sites since the 1990s. To standardize monitoring methods, tools, and evaluations, a Norwegian Standard was implemented in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Isabelle Holland-Lulewicz.

This is an abstract from the "Culture, Climate, and Connections: Eventful Histories of Human-Environment Relations" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Modelling expected environmental conditions derived from past global climatic trends presents an issue of scale when linking the historical trajectory of past societies to climatic change. Global climate change influences local environmental conditions at scales critical to the contextualization of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Seidemann.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Federal agencies are mandated to follow the National Historic Preservation Act’s Section 106 process when undertaking or funding projects that have the potential to impact certain historic sites or structures. These mandates have run headlong into the reality of cemetery damage from recent, increasingly devastating storms and other impacts of climate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margarita Caballero.

This is an abstract from the "The Classic-Postclassic Transition in Oaxaca" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Central-Mesoamerica has several lacustrine basins that stand out as particularly sensitive to moisture fluctuations. The lacustrine sediments they preserve represent good records of hydroclimate variability, which in this region are interesting because they can give a valuable paleoclimatologic background for the analysis of human –...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Cajigas.

This is an abstract from the "Culture, Climate, and Connections: Eventful Histories of Human-Environment Relations" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Creighton Island shell ring (9MC87) is a crescent-shaped shell midden, approximately 40 m in diameter, that was constructed by Native Americans participating in multi-seasonal, cooperative and sustainable shell-fish mass capture and fishing techniques during the Late Archaic period (3000–1000 B.C.)....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zachery Clow.

This is an abstract from the "The Classic-Postclassic Transition in Oaxaca" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Classic-Postclassic transition is hypothesized to have affected health outcomes in the lower Río Verde Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. Set within a multiscalar approach, this research examined the relationships between health, diseases, culture, climatic changes, and the physical manifestations left behind on the skeleton from a biocultural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Angelina Perrotti.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study uses pollen, fungal spores, charcoal, and human demographic models to investigate vegetation change from an iconic 61,000 year record at Lake Tulane, Florida. The pollen record shows oscillations between pine and oak-dominated vegetation, with Heinrich events aligning with peaks in pine, indicating warm, wet climates in central Florida during...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kyr Goyette.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Limited ethno- and archaeobotanical studies have been conducted on the forest-steppe ecological zone of northern Mongolia. This project focuses on the creation of a macrobotanical and phytolith reference collection of flowering plants in this region as part of ongoing archaeobotanical research with the Tarvagatai Valley Project, particularly in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Kulick.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Research on social change and ‘crisis’ demonstrates that both phenomena require analyses of longer-term processes and discrete local processes that need to be evaluated on site-by-site bases (Vigh, 2008; Visacovsky, 2017). The multi-scalar attention required to study crisis and change at individual Bronze Age settlement sites on Crete, Greece, has been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Itzel Chagoya Ayala.

This is an abstract from the "The Classic-Postclassic Transition in Oaxaca" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cerro Jazmín fue una importante urbe del Formativo tardío en el Valle de Nochixtlán, Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca. La ubicación del Cerro Jazmín fue estratégica como nodo entre los Valles de Oaxaca, la Mixteca Baja, Puebla y la Cuenca de México, lo que convirtió al Cerro Jazmín en una ciudad accesible, y a su vez, influenciada por los cambios...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Casey Nielsen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The end of the Pleistocene is characterized by pronounced climate change, human arrival and dispersal, and the extinction of a variety of taxa, the majority of which were mammals. During this period, the continent experienced the loss of thirty-eight genera of mammals, over 70% of which are classified as megafauna. Historically, the cause of these...