Coastal and Island Archaeology (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "The Maritime Maya: Current Archaeology of Coastal Yucatan, Mexico, and Belize" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study reports on the desalination of pottery collected from seafloor mapping and underwater excavation from Site 8 in Paynes Creek National Park, Belize. Because the pottery was saturated with salt water, leaving it out without desalination results in the formation of salt crystals, which expand and...
Digging to the Core: Sea-Level Rise at the Ek Way Nal salt works, Punta Ycacos Lagoon, Belize (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Maritime Maya: Current Archaeology of Coastal Yucatan, Mexico, and Belize" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations in 2022 were carried out at Ek Way Nal, a submerged ancient Maya salt works in Punta Ycacos Lagoon in southern Belize in order to extract a 1.7m-long sediment column for examining the relationship between the ancient Maya settlement at the site and sea-level rise during the Late and Terminal...
The earliest phases of occupation at Klasies River Main Site, southern Cape coast, South Africa (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Early human adaptation on the African coasts: Comparing northwest Morocco and the Cape of South Africa" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Klasies River main, a well-known site in South African Middle Stone Age research, contributed significantly to palaeoanthropological evidence on early humans, and to knowledge of early human behaviour and palaeoenvironments. The earliest layers in Cave 1 at Klasies River is known as...
Early Occupants of Cyprus: Coastal Arrivals and Inland Explorations (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Ancient Seashore Sites and Environments in Geoarchaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Epipalaeolithic (c. 10-20 kya) hunters-gatherers in Southwest Asia experimented with plant and animal management and developed long-ranging, complex networks of exchange and movement, but little remains known of this period in Cyprus. The Ancient Seafaring Explorers of Cyprus Project (ASEC) extends the broader understanding of...
Epipaleolithic Fishing Technologies in the Southern Levant: New Insights from Jordan River Dureijat, Upper Galilee (Israel) (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Fishing Technologies: Exploring Manufacturing Techniques and Styles, Traditions, Exchange, Migration and More" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fish has been a significant part of the human diet for nearly two million years, yet early fishing technologies remain challenging to trace due to the perishable nature of materials like wood and plant fibers. Discoveries at the Epipaleolithic site of Jordan River Dureijat...
An Ethnoarchaeological Approach to Fishing Technology on the Central Coast of Ecuador (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Fishing Technologies: Exploring Manufacturing Techniques and Styles, Traditions, Exchange, Migration and More" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fishing has been an intrinsic element to life on the central coast of Ecuador for at least 5000 years and remains vital at the household, community, and commercial level in the modern day. Direct evidence of fishing technology is not always visible in the archaeological record,...
Excremental Gains: Seabird Guano Fertilization in Prehispanic Chincha, Peru (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Did the Chincha kingdom employ seabird guano from the nearby Chincha Islands to feed its growing population and increase its political power? Written sources emphasize the importance the Inca placed on seabird excrement as a fertilizer, particularly in maize cultivation. The Chincha Islands are noted for their abundant high-quality guano, to the...
Feeding the French Frontier: Foodways at Fort St. Frédéric in the Eighteenth-Century Champlain Valley (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Atlantic Frontier: Foodways and the Materialities of TransAtlantic Interactions." session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The mid-18<sup>th</sup> century French Fort St. Frédéric, on Lake Champlain, loomed large in Anglo-American minds (and histories) as the spear of France’s Atlantic empire – pointed directly at a heart of trade in the British Atlantic, Albany and New York City. Yet emic narratives and the...
The First Paleoethnobotanical Evidence from the Grenadines, Southern Lesser Antilles Provides Insight into Smaller Island Adaptations (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Ancient Seashore Sites and Environments in Geoarchaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Located approximately 190 km north of South America and measuring 32km2, Carriacou is the largest of the Grenadine islands and a promising case for understanding human eco dynamics in the Lesser Antilles. The island exhibits well-stratified midden deposits with a variety of faunal remains suggesting the primacy of fishing/marine...
Five Thousand Years of Oyster Harvesting on Ossabaw Island, Georgia: A Sclerochronological Analysis (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research project seeks to understand how Indigenous and Post-Contact inhabitants of Ossabaw Island harvested a key coastal resource over 5,000 years from the earliest year-round inhabitation during the Late Archaic (ca. 3000 BCE) to the Plantation Period (ca. AD 1850). Here we present the results of incremental oxygen isotope analysis on eastern...
Global Trade, Local People: Black Atlantic Archaeology in the Bight of Bonny (c. 1600-1900 CE). (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Atlantic Frontier: Foodways and the Materialities of TransAtlantic Interactions." session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Black Atlantic archaeology on the West African coast has contributed to understanding African participation in the transatlantic and global political economies in the last 500 years. While historical records attest to the Bight of Bonny's significant role in this economic system, its archaeology has...
Ground Truth: How Residue and Other Paleobotanic Analyses Are Provoking New Interpretations on the Early Cypriot Neolithic (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Our understanding of the early settlement of Cyprus has changed dramatically over the past few decades. We now know that people were on the island by at least the Epipaleolithic, and that the Neolithic, when Cyprus was permanently settled, is as old as on the mainland. Interdisciplinary research at the rare upland site of Ais Giorkis has revealed...
High-Precision Photogrammetry Mapping of the South Kohala Agricultural Field System, Hawai‘i Island (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many archaeologists employ high-precision remote sensing to study surface remains at a landscape scale. Hawaiian archaeologists pioneered remote sensing using aerial photography in the Kohala peninsula of north Hawaiʻi Island, beginning in the 1960s, and it was the location for the first regional-scale application of lidar in Hawai‘i. In March 2022,...
<html>Clamoring for Strength: Marine Mollusk, <i>Donax obesulus</i>, from the Peruvian North Coast Unveils the Strengths of Early to Late Intermediate Period El Niño Events</html> (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Throughout the Early to Late Intermediate Periods (200 BCE-1476CE), the north coast of Peru witnessed the rise and fall of powerful sociocultural groups. People of the Moche religious tradition and the Chimu state experienced multiple flooding events related to the El Niño phenomenon that tested their strengths and engineering. At ~600 CE, the Moche...
<html>Holocene and Late Pleistocene Shorelines and Settlement on the Outer Northwest Coast: Archaeology of <i>Laxnuganaks/</i>the Moore Islands Archipelago, BC, Canada</html> (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Ancient Seashore Sites and Environments in Geoarchaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The outer coast of western North America is archaeologically significant because it was accessible and inhabitable for humans early on following the Last Glacial Maximum, and because its resource-rich islands necessitate unique lifeways and adaptations. We examine the geoarchaeological record of the Moore Islands, a small...
A human-environment balance in ancient island seascapes in Asia-Pacific (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Ancient Seashore Sites and Environments in Geoarchaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper will focus on the cultural landscapes and seascapes associated with stone-walled tidal fish weirs in Yap, Federated States of Micronesia, the islands of Palau, and in Penghu, Taiwan. In the main volcanic islands of Yap, over 450 of the estimated 800 fish weirs have been located, highlighting 12 different styles that...
Island Time: Current Archaeological Research on Ambergris Caye, Belize (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Maritime Maya: Current Archaeology of Coastal Yucatan, Mexico, and Belize" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As the largest island among hundreds of offshore islands or ‘cayes’, Ambergris Caye, Belize was part of a network of coastal sites in Belize and Yucatan that together played a significant role in the economy of the ancient Maya. Yet despite the prominent role it played in Maya coastal trade, Ambergris Caye...
An Islandscape IFD: Predicting Archaeological Settlements from Grenada to St. Vincent, Eastern Caribbean (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Fifty Years of Fretwell and Lucas: Archaeological Applications of Ideal Distribution Models" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Building on the Caribbean-wide models presented in Giovas and Fitzpatrick (2014) and predictive models recently synthesized for Grenada, this study focuses on a fine-grained analysis of environmental and cultural factors affecting settlement locations in the multi-island/archipelagic region from...
Justification for the comparative analysis of occupations of the coast in South Africa and Morocco during the Middle Stone Age (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Early human adaptation on the African coasts: Comparing northwest Morocco and the Cape of South Africa" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Twenty years ago, discussions of coastal resource use in paleoanthropology were largely limited to a handful of papers. Today, the antiquity of coastal resource use and its significance is a vigorously debated research question in paleoanthropology. Coastal resources are important for...
Last Interglacial environments of the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain: plant wax biomarkers from Knysna Easterns Heads 1, Cape south coast of South Africa (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Early human adaptation on the African coasts: Comparing northwest Morocco and the Cape of South Africa" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The South Cape region of South Africa, part of the Cape Floristic Region, is a crucial area for investigating Pleistocene ecosystems and human evolution dynamics. The transition from the Middle to the Later Stone Age in this region coincides with the exposure of the...
Late Holocene Coastal Hunter-Gatherer Occupations at the Eastern Pampa-Patagonia Transition of Argentina (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The coastal archaeology of the eastern Pampa-Patagonia transition (Argentina) reveals human occupations since the Middle Holocene. In Bahía San Blas, near the mouth of the Río Negro River, the Pozzobón archaeological locality is spatially distributed along 300 meters besides the coastal strip, at only ca. 50 meters from the seashore. Here, we concentrate...
Lucayan Stone Celts: A Preliminary Overview of Style and Typology (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Advances in the Archaeology of the Bahama Archipelago" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Exotic hard stone materials (e.g., jadeites, cherts, basalts) and artefacts were imported into the entirely limestone Lucayan archipelago (The Bahamas/Turks and Caicos Islands) post-AD 700, to fulfil both functional and ceremonial needs. Many of these pieces were removed from their original contexts during the 19th/early 20th...
Maritime Archaeology along the Maya Seacoast of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea: What We Know Today and Where Are We Heading To? (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Maritime Maya: Current Archaeology of Coastal Yucatan, Mexico, and Belize" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The first work on the role played by the sea during the prehispanic period in the Maya area was published in 1897. From that moment on, the study of the sea associated with Maya culture focused on recognizing (1) the importance of maritime trade in the emergence of Maya civilization, (2) goods that were...
Maya and Caribbean Islands’ Population Affinities: Coastal Movement in Prehispanic Times (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Maritime Maya: Current Archaeology of Coastal Yucatan, Mexico, and Belize" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Yucatan Canal, separating Mesoamerica from the Caribbean’s Greater Antilles has been thought of representing a geographical barrier for the movement of people and goods. This has supposedly forged independent population dynamics in the two macro-regions. Nonetheless, the so far sporadic presence in the...
Maya Coastal Chipped Stone Tool Trade at Marco Gonzalez and San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, Belize (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Maritime Maya: Current Archaeology of Coastal Yucatan, Mexico, and Belize" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Given the absence of chert and obsidian sources on Ambergris Caye, Belize, lithic raw materials and finished tools had to be acquired from the mainland. Chipped chert and obsidian demonstrate different trade patterns; however, once tools made from these raw materials were acquired, they were treated as...