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DOCUMENT Citation Only Nelda Issa Marengo Camacho. Judith Ruiz González. Carlos Serrano Sánchez.

This is an abstract from the "The Movement of People and Ideas in Eastern Mesoamerica during the Ninth and Tenth Centuries CE: A Multidisciplinary Approach Part II" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Durante las últimas décadas se han documentado varios conjuntos de restos humanos no reverenciales y altamente procesados en diferentes estados de manipulación dentro el territorio de Mesoamérica. En un principio se les apreció como hechos aislados hasta...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christian Horn.

This is an abstract from the "Warfare and the Origins of Political Control " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For southern Scandinavia, the evidence of use-wear on weapons and of violent encounters settled the long debate over whether prehistoric warfare existed. Much of this violence was driven by waterborne raiding parties and maritime warriors and successful participation in fighting provided a path to social status. Each expedition lasted...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carl Drexler. Jami Lockhart.

This is an abstract from the "New and Emerging Geophysical and Geospatial Research in the National Parks" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pea Ridge National Military Park commemorates the March of 1862 battle that was the most important engagement fought west of the Mississippi River. Since the early 2000s, archaeologists from the National Park Service, Arkansas Archeological Survey, the Arkansas Archeological Society, and the NPS Volunteers in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Whittington. Robert Tykot. Karyn Olsen. Fred Longstaffe.

This is an abstract from the "Innovations and Transformations in Mesoamerican Research: Recent and Revised Insights of Ancestral Lifeways" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Analysis of human skeletal remains from the Postclassic Kaqchikel Maya capital of Iximché, Guatemala, supports the interpretation that many of the partial skeletal remains were trophies taken in war or were from war captives sacrificed at the site. Other, more complete, remains...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia Johnston. Keri Porter. Susan Sheridan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Early Bronze Age II-III (EBA) at Bab adh-Dhra’ represents a period of significant social change partially marked by the establishment of a fortified town at the site. This research examines the individual and community-wide implications of antemortem cranial depression fractures (CDFs) during this shift in socio-economic lifestyles and population...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Odlanyer Hernandez-de-Lara. Logel Lorenzo Hernandez. Esteban Grau. Judith Rodríguez Reyes.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeology of dictatorships in Latin America has had a significant development in the last decades, especially focusing on the south and central continental experiences. However, there is a lack of attention to the dictatorial processes in the Caribbean from an archaeological perspective. Cuba is not the exception. After the military coup of March...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rick Elliott.

This is an abstract from the "Material Aspects of Global Conflict" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper addresses a fundamental challenge in accounting for global conflicts in the historical record. The problem, as described here, is the “archives-versus-archaeology” gap: the space that exists between documentary evidence related to global conflicts held in archives and archaeological evidence of those conflicts on the ground. The “global”...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dominik Maschek.

This is an abstract from the "Rising Up Against Authority: Archaeological Approaches to Rebellion" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Violence and warfare can be counted amongst Michael Schiffer’s ‘cultural’ factors or transforms which influence the formation of the archaeological record. Although the application of violence itself is commonly a short-term process, it causes substantial impact on landscapes on both a human and an environmental scale....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Schaefer. Gabriel Prieto. John Verano. Michael Colton.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations at the Peruvian northern coastal site of Huanchaquito-Las Llamas (HLL) revealed the largest mass human sacrifice event in the Americas, with more than 400 sacrificed children, women, and camelids governed under the Chimú State. Dated to the Chimú’s imperial decline (circa 1450 CE), preliminary genetic analyses indicate that these children were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Whittaker. Kathryn Kamp. Chuck LaRue. William Bryce.

This is an abstract from the "The Global “Impact” of Projectile Technologies: Updating Methods and Regional Overviews of the Invention and Transmission of the Spear-Thrower and the Bow and Arrow" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Atlatl-related motifs are prominent in a limited area of the prehistoric American Southwest. The motifs include atlatls and darts and images relating to hunting and violence, all socially and symbolically important. While...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samuel Neunzig.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Why was the bow and arrow so widely used to replace the atlatl? To address this question, I present a study on the creation and use of the longbow and arrow in its early use, as well as the transition from the atlatl with focus on the effectiveness of both tools in penetrating power and accuracy at varying ranges to determine which is the overall more...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eunice Villasenor Iribe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Terraced landscapes are the remains of landscape management decision making that was shaped by the constant changes in social, economic, and ecological conditions of the surrounding regions. Within Mexico, terracing has been used extensively both spatially and temporally. Utilizing terracing, many groups were able to expand settlement and land use into...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Sutter. Gabriel Prieto.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Here we report dentally derived biodistance results for 120 Chimú-era (AD 1000–1450) children from three of six temporally discrete sacrificial events—specifically events 1, 4, and 5, at Pampa la Cruz (PLC), Huanchaco, Perú, which we compare with a late Chimú-Inka affiliated skeletal sample (n = 44) from the nearby cemetery at Iglesia Colonial, Huanchaco,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan McNutt. Camilla Damlund.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the American Civil War, Glasgow-built blockade runners emerged as crucial supply conduits to the Confederacy, prolonging the conflict and sustaining chattel slavery by clandestinely running cargo into Confederate ports. This paper delves into the historical archaeology of blockade runner cargos, an area relatively unexplored beyond shipwrecks. It...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Golitko.

This is an abstract from the "Theorizing Warfare: Global Perspectives on Defense and Fortification" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Buffer zones, areas unoccupied due to conflict or threat of conflict, have been abundantly documented historically and ethnographically and recognized archaeologically in some regions. In the context of ecological models of warfare, their existence was taken by some to suggest that population and resource pressure did...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Holli McDonald. Lacy Hazelwood.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bioarchaeological research has played a significant role in understanding the Casas Grandes region of Northwest Mexico. Excavations at the archaeological sites of Convento and Paquimé recovered ~652 burials dating to AD 700–1450, providing a robust skeletal population for investigations, including research on population demographics, violence patterns, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Sutter. Gabriel Prieto. John Verano. Rachel Witt. Julio Asencio.

This is an abstract from the "Ritual Violence and Human Sacrifice in the Ancient Andes: New Directions in the Field" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In recent years, hundreds of Chimú-Era child sacrifices have been discovered at locations to the north of the Chimú’s capital—Chan Chan—by the Programa Arqueológico Huanchaco. He we report on biodistance results for 22 recently excavated child sacrifices from Pampa la Cruz-Monticulo 1, Episode 3 (~AD...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jan Bemmann.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. What does the term crisis mean and what are archaeological indicators of a crisis in general? How can archaeology contribute to the ongoing debate about the Chinggissid crises (1330-1370)? The term crisis defies a precise definition and is often used as synonym for collapse, decline, disaster, dissolution, and fragility. In this analysis it is used as an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Jennings.

This is an abstract from the "Cooperative and Noncooperative Transitions in the Archaeological Record" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In recent years, archaeologists have noted an oscillation between more pluralistic and more autocratic forms of governance in the same societies. This paper argues that our understanding of these transitions has been hampered by oversimplified models of political complexity. Decision-making today is often...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Arkush.

This is an abstract from the "Warfare and the Origins of Political Control " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Premodern groups under significant external threat often developed a politics of solidarity, emphasizing group strength and shared responsibilities rather than vertical distinctions. This paper draws on evidence from the late precolumbian Andean highlands to illustrate how the demands of defense shaped political dynamics and leadership...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Leventhal.

This is an abstract from the "Rising Up Against Authority: Archaeological Approaches to Rebellion" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The Maya Social War (originally called the Caste War of the Yucatan) was a massive rebellion and disruption of the mid 19^th century political, social, and economic systems of the Yucatan Peninsula. This rebellion (1847 – 1901) can be identified within some archaeological contexts. But this eruption is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kim Hwajung.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the last few decades in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on the Korean peninsula, there has been a gradual transformation of associated meanings and memories from conflict and trauma to peace and reconciliation. Amid the ongoing conflict and tension between the two Koreas, this change is actively promoted by tours that visit destroyed buildings and war...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dennis Ogburn.

This is an abstract from the "Warfare and the Origins of Political Control " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ancient empires relied on warfare to conquer other groups and incorporate them politically. However, they did not always resort to armed conquest and often annexed new territories through negotiation backed by the perception of the empire’s military strength, which also underpinned the consolidation and perpetuation of political control in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jon Frey.

This is an abstract from the "Theorizing Warfare: Global Perspectives on Defense and Fortification" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In distinction to many fortifications in Greece that receive little scholarly attention, the early Byzantine wall known as the Hexamilion has been the subject of two major publications. The first by Timothy E. Gregory systematically studied the extant remains of the barrier wall snaking 8 km over the Isthmus of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christina Halperin.

This is an abstract from the "Cooperative and Noncooperative Transitions in the Archaeological Record" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Governance during the Classic period in the Maya Lowlands was heavily based on the institutions and relationships surrounding divine kingship, which was characterized by paramount rulers and their hierarchical relations with other political officials and the populace. This paper examines changes to this governing...