Coastal and Island Archaeology (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zeljko Rezek.

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. Even though the archaeological record left by groups of earlier Homo sapiens can be found across the African continent, more substantive knowledge of human biological and cultural evolution comes only from few regions, one of which is northwest Morocco. Stratified deposits, most...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Walker.

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. Paleotopographic modelling is a powerful tool for assessing the shifting accessibility and connectivity of coastal arctic sites, as well as changes in nearshore marine habitats that were vital components of local subsistence economies. This paper introduces a method for visualizing coastal transformations at localized scales...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ted Roberts.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Late Archaic period in northwest Florida remains poorly understood and like so many regional archaeological constructs, deserves to be periodically reexamined. Archaeologists have long investigated Late Archaic archaeological “firsts” in the region, such as the earliest pottery in North America, the earliest shell midden accumulations, and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Panos Kratimenos.

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 Precolumbian Maya site of Marco Gonzalez, located at the southern tip of Ambergris Caye, is significant in appearing to have weathered the storm of the so-called Terminal Classic ‘Collapse’. While transformations abounded, unlike many other inland sites, Marco Gonzalez persisted into the ‘Postclassic’,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ismail Ziani.

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. North Africa holds a central position in the debate on the emergence and evolution of our species, thanks to numerous archaeological discoveries, especially the unearthing of the oldest known remains of Homo sapiens in Morocco, dated to 300 ka. Additionally, the discovery of various...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Graham.

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. "No sólo comercio sino también poder” was the title of a paper Graham presented at the Congreso de Mayistas in Izamal in 2016 and expanded on in Kyoto in 2017. The core problem, however, remains unsolved and worth investigating: What was the role of the commercial classes in the Maya dynastic collapse and in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Okanlawon.

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. The peak of the Atlantic trade, around the 17th and 18th centuries, saw a mass movement of people and things across geographical spaces. For the British traders, this period was also characterized by the rise of the Georgian culture of individualism, symmetry and orderliness. On the Upper Guinea coast,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maureece Levin. Aimee Miles. Emily Hillyard. Skyler Davis.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Food and Foodways: Emerging Trends and New Perspectives" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pingelap Atoll, located in Pohnpei State, Federated States of Micronesia, has been home to humans for approximately 1,700 years. At 1.8 km2 and 70 km from its nearest island neighbor, food procurement has traditionally relied on marine fishing and hunting as well as intensive management of the coral island...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kayla Worthey.

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> Understanding the climatic context of the human occupations of coastal landscapes in the Middle Stone Ages of North and South Africa is a necessary first step towards contextualizing early proliferations in these two regions of symbolic and functional technologies commonly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Rivas Alava.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Typically, paleopathology diagnoses ancient diseases by examining human skeletal remains through gross or histological analysis, radiography, and CT imaging. However, in recent years, iconography has increasingly enabled the identification of genetic-hereditary and congenital conditions that might otherwise only be detected in well-preserved skeletal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Harumi Fujita.

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. Modified pearl oyster (Pinctada mazatlanica) shells, which may represent fishhooks and/or ornaments, were recovered from various sites on Espiritu Santo Island, Baja California Sur, Mexico, and directly dated to ∼8700 calBP. At the Cañada de la Enfermería Sureste 3 site,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amira Ainis.

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 implies cultural practices that consider social, economic and ecological factors which can be explored through the study of the associated tool kits. The contexts of initial production and use of fishing technologies, how they spread, adapted, and changed through time...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Semon.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Late Archaic shell rings in the southeastern United States have unique depositional histories and site formations. One way to explore these shell deposits is to conduct photogrammetric analysis on shell stratigraphy. In this poster, I present the photogrammetry methods and preliminary results conducted on shell wall profiles at the Musgrove Shell Ring on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allan Ortega-Muñoz.

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. Palaeodemograhic analysis has been a useful tool to understand the evolution and adaptability of ancient populations. Because, historically, the small number of individuals exhumed in archaeological surveys along the coastal sites in the peninsula of Yucatan, the application of this methodology have been hard...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian Fahey.

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. Debates about the origins of precocious cultural behaviors appearing in Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 5 and 4 in Africa often center on changes in subsistence strategies or demographic pressures. Patterns of prey size reconstructed from archaeofauna can be a useful proxy in detecting...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Murray.

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. The heat treatment of stone is thought to be an important proxy for human cognition and social learning due to the complex sequence of events that combines multiple unrelated processes and objects. As early as 162,000 years ago humans on the south coast of South Africa were heating a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Glover.

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 Proyecto Costa Escondida (PCE) has been conducting interdisciplinary research along the north coast of Quintana Roo, Mexico since 2011. Project members have focused on the two ancient Maya port sites of Vista Alegre and Conil. Both have occupations stretching from the Middle Preclassic to the Historic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kia Taylor Riccio.

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. This paper examines the archaeology of Dominican creole cuisine by taking an in-depth look at one dish: mountain chicken (Leptodactylus fallax) paired with ouicou, or cassava beer. Using this dish as a touchstone of the early modern Lesser Antilles, I explore the archaeological possibilities of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zineb Moubtahij.

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> Archaeological sites in Northwest Morocco have provided valuable insights into early modern human behavior, particularly regarding the role of coastal resources, such as shells, in symbolic practices. Although some sites contain mollusc and fish remains, determining the exact...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shaun Sullivan.

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. Middle Caicos, in the Turks & Caicos islands hosted a protohistoric Chiefdom in the Classic Taino tradition as demonstrated by evidence of regional exchange, key resource control, social stratification, monumental public works, and the use of public ceremonial space that reflected advanced astronomical and calendric knowledge among...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Johnson.

This is an abstract from the "Supernatural Gamekeepers and Animal Masters: A Cross-Cultural Perspective" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Native peoples along the Pacific Coast of North America exploited stranded whales that washed ashore, providing abundant meat and oil for consumption. Many rock art sites along the coast between Alaska and Acapulco contain images of whales and other cetaceans, and portable effigies also depict these marine...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Kracht. Lindsay Bloch.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ceramic rattles and rattle vessel adornos have received little attention in current Caribbean archaeology literature. These rattles may be overlooked or misidentified in Caribbean ceramic collections due to their minimal audibility or “failure” during the construction process due to their technical complexity. Here, we evaluate existing reports of rattle...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carola Flores-Fernandez.

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. The use of hooks made of shells is a practice carried out by the first fishers along the Pacific Ocean. Evidence of these artifacts is found on coastal sites with antiquities up to 11000 years before present. The study of hooks manufacturing techniques is one approach to study...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashuni Emmanuel Romero Butrón.

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 archaeological site “El Meco” is located in the northeastern region of the Yucatan Peninsula, on the coast of the Caribbean Sea. The first explorations by W. Sanders in 1954 and the latter by Andrews, Robles, and colleagues in 1977 provided the basis to know the different moments of occupation that the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michelle LeFebvre. Lee Newsom. Rachel Woodcock. Andy Ciofalo. Michael Pateman.

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. LN-101 is a multi-component Lucayan site located on the windward coast of Long Island in The Bahamas. The site is situated along sand dunes directly on the beach and is characterized by the presence of earth ovens, evidence of bead manufacture, and associated human burials, with a notable absence of dense midden deposits or features...