Coastal and Island Archaeology (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elena Vories.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological study of coastal shell sites in the southeastern United States offers critical insights into the subsistence strategies, cultural practices, and architectural innovations of Indigenous communities before European contact. Among these sites is Green’s Shell Enclosure, located on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, a Mississippian shell...

DOCUMENT Citation Only María Maldonado Vite.

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. Es muy conocida la existencia de interacciones culturales entre los pueblos que se asentaron en la Costa del Golfo, sobre todo del Preclásico con los prolíficos estudios de los Olmecas; pero sin duda los estudios más numerosos y avanzados son los Mayas. Las relaciones entre los Mayas y las élites del Clásico...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather McKillop.

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 sea provided opportunities for the maritime Maya, including a transportation highway, seafood, resources for building construction and tools, and ritual paraphernalia. Maritime settlement in southern Belize endured for at least a millennium, from a Middle Preclassic shell midden at Ich’aktun, to Classic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diana Carvajal Contreras.

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. Recent archaeological investigations into the marine traditions of Jicarita Island, located in the Coiba Archipelago in Panama, reveal a rich history deeply intertwined with maritime activities (Cal 1290–1060 B.P). This study sheds light on the maritime practices, technologies,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Travis Chai Andrade.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Often thought of as a discipline that concerns itself with ruins—that which is in the past—archaeology also serves the settler-colonial project, in the present and the future. For that reason, archaeology inherently functions as a political tool, even if typically imagined as an apolitical means of “preserving” the past. In other words, archaeology offers...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jayde Hirniak.

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. Using far-travelled volcanic ash in tephrochronological studies has transformed this technique. Traditionally, tephrochronology used visible tephra layers. However, methodological advances extended its capabilities to detect non-visible horizons (cryptotephra) which can be traced...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lara Sánchez-Morales.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Alluvial sequences have proven to be useful archives retaining proxy information about past climate and environmental changes associated with episodes of human habitation in different contexts. In the insular Caribbean, proxy evidence from sedimentary records such as these have provided a window into understanding the timing and processes of human arrival...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin Smith.

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. This research uses experimental archaeology and a technological approach to decipher functional linkages between disparate artifact forms and key stages in shell fishhook production strategies on California's Channel Islands and the adjacent mainland coast. The single piece...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Jane Berman. Ieva Juska. Perry Gnivecki.

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. We compared molluscan faunal assemblages from two neighboring Lucayan sites, the Pigeon Creek dune 1 (Late Lucayan) and the Pigeon Creek dune 2 (Early Lucayan) sites located on San Salvador, Bahamas. Two species, Lombatus gigas (Queen Conch) and Codakia orbicularis (Tiger Lucine), demonstrated the most significant temporal change in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dustin McKenzie.

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. Ichthyofaunal data indicate an increased exploitation of small bodied intertidal fish along the shore of Central California during the Late Holocene Period. Fish including pricklebacks (Xiphister spp.) were unlikely caught with known types of pre-colonial fishing technology...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jerome Reynard.

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 transition from MIS 4 to 3 encompassed significant behavioural change in southern Africa. In this region, the Howiesons Poort (HP) techno-complex, generally dated to MIS 4, is associated with more evidence of innovative behaviours, technologies and tools. In the post-HP, during...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Hallett.

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. Contrebandiers Cave is located on the Atlantic Coast of Morocco and is approximately 250 meters from the current shoreline. Harold Dibble and Mohamed El Hajraoui led excavations at Contrebandiers Cave from 2007 to 2011 and plotted finds with total stations. Middle Stone Age (MSA) and...