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This is an abstract from the "Material Aspects of Global Conflict" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A major topic of archaeological research includes the modeling of human movement across diverse landscapes, often in terms of how geography can facilitate or impede mobility. On an operational level, modeling human movement allows archaeologists to determine likely travel corridors that may aid in the identification of new sites and features, or...
Crnobuki: A Garrisoned Acropolis (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cal Poly Humboldt has established a relationship with the Museum of Bitola to conduct research in the Pelagonia region of Macedonia. The museum and Cal Poly Humboldt conducted an initial reconnaissance of several locations and established a research location in Crnobuki. The acropolis adjacent to the town is the location of an ancient Macedonian garrison...
Death on the Nile: War and Peace during the African Humid Period (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Terminal Pleistocene (14.6-12.8 ka) cemeteries of the Early African Humid Period (E-AHP) along the Nile in Sudan contain many skeletons with injuries (41.9% of burials) suggesting chronic intergroup warfare. During the Later AHP the Nile Valley was densely populated by hunter-gatherer-fisher communities of the Early Khartoum (EK) tradition (10.6-6...
Death that Endures: A Bioarchaeological and Biogeochemcial Study of Human Sacrifices from the Moche Valley, Peru (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project investigates how rituals of human sacrifice performed by the Chimú Empire (AD 1000/1100-1450/1470) transformed in response to Inca imperialism (AD 1450-1532) in the Moche Valley of Peru. Recent discoveries of hundreds of sacrificial victims in the Moche Valley suggest that ritual violence was used to maintain the sociopolitical and religious...
The Decline of Darts in Late Formative Taraco (Southern Lake Titicaca) and Its Implications for the Rise of Tiwanaku Hegemony (2024)
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. In this paper, we argue that both arrows and darts were used in the Taraco Peninsula (south Lake Titicaca) until the end of the Middle Formative period (around 250 BC), after which arrow technology began to predominate. A...
Deer, Drought, and Warfare: An Isotopic Investigation of Hunting Strategies from the Eleventh through the Fourteenth Centuries in the Central Illinois River Valley (CIRV) (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Recent Advances in Zooarchaeological Methods" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study explores the relationship between garden hunting and food security in the Central Illinois River Valley, an area plagued by endemic warfare and drought during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Located ~100 km north of Cahokia, the largest precolumbian polity in North America, the CIRV was composed of smaller settlements that...
Defensibility, Cooperation, and Centralization: A Comparative Analysis of the Interrelationship Between Warfare and Sociopolitical Organization in Late Intermediate Period Peru (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research advances the current theoretical agendas of warfare scholars, overcoming the limitations of earlier social evolutionary theories and examining the interrelationship between warfare and sociopolitical organization in the Huamanga Province of Peru during the Late Intermediate Period (LIP, AD 1000-1450). Only through the analysis of this...
Defensive or Ritual Networks? A Preliminary Geospatial Analysis of Cerro Prieto Espinal in the Jequetepeque Valley, Peru (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mountainsides formed powerful spaces for ritual, defense, and settlement, and Andean communities often considered them the very embodiments of their animate ancestors or wak’as. However, they remain understudied within the North Coast region despite their proliferation during the Late Moche and Late Intermediate Periods. This paper presents a preliminary...
Despots, optimization, and cooperative transitions in Maya society (2025)
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. Major evolutionary transitions in sociality are premised on the formation of cooperative groups and transformation of the collective group into an entity. Prior to the development of institutions, the kin group was the primary locus of cooperation and was limited largely by environmental and physical constraints....
Differentiating Chopping/Hacking Sharp Force Trauma Characteristics on Bone Following Burning of Remains (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bioarchaeologists and forensic anthropologists are often involved in the analysis and interpretation of perimortem trauma occurring to human remains with the goal of recognizing trauma characteristics that can be utilized in understanding the tool class used to inflict the trauma. Accurate interpretation of skeletal trauma also relies on the correct...
Disability, Impairment, and Care: An Analysis of Trauma Patterns from Bezławki, Medieval Prussia (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The bioarchaeological analysis of trauma in skeletal remains provides insights into the lives and lifestyles of past populations. Conventionally, such analysis has focused on military-aged males, with less attention paid to other demographic groups. The late-medieval cemetery site at Bezławki, Poland, provides an opportunity for a relatively broad analysis...
Dispersed Iron Production in the Urban-Rural Interface of Great Zimbabwe (2025)
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. Great Zimbabwe, the major civilization south of the pyramids, had a vibrant metallurgical industry within the urban center, but the most significant iron production was located in the hinterland. Here, extensive clusters of natural draft furnaces—some with unique rectangular morphologies—alongside abundant tap...
Documenting Early Exposure to Violence and Physical Stress among Juveniles in the Late Prehispanic Andes (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Growing up during periods of chronic warfare can have long-term impacts on health and well-being across the lifecourse. Public health research has demonstrated how early exposure to violence or other physical stressors contributes to increased morbidity and mortality among children and adolescents. Within bioarchaeology, investigating the lived experience...
Dueling with Basketmaker II Spearthrowers: What Can We Learn from Mock Combat? (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Advances in Perishable Weaponry Studies: Developing Perspectives from Dated Contexts to Experimental Analyses" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Changes in weapon technologies are likely to affect many social dimensions. Understanding a society’s weaponry is critical for making inferences not only about hunting but also how these groups engaged in conflict. The role of spearthrowers and darts in hunting is becoming...
Dynamic and Diverse Roles and Identities of Women in Ancient Southwest Systems of Violence (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The definition of violence is unique to all societies. Violent behavior is thus recognized in myriad ways and observing it in past societies demands consideration of many forms of evidence. Interpreting individual roles in systems of violence requires that we look beyond weaponry, site destruction, male warrior burials, and lethal injuries. Our perception...
Early Mesopotamian Urbanism and Social Stress: Violent Conflict at Fourth Millennium BCE Tell Brak, NE Syria (2023)
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. Past urbanism is usually reconstructed as a positive development, with cities presented as locations of economic efficiency, technological innovation, and productive social networks. But past cities also presented challenges, as sources of disease, inequalities, and high mortality. At Tell Brak (NE Syria/northern Mesopotamia), urban growth...
Evaluating the Role of Warfare in the Upper Mississippian Transition of the Western Lake Erie Region of the Lower Great Lakes (2025)
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. The Western Lake Erie region of the Lower Great Lakes witnessed immense change at ca. AD 1250. Late Woodland people, who were seasonally mobile on a dynamic riverine and wetland landscape, became settled village agriculturalists. Lifeways, pottery, and toolkits changed drastically. Two hypotheses to explain these...
Experimental Methodologies: An Analysis of Ancient Bronze Crossbow Bolt Production (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This pilot research replicates the production of Dong Son trilobate bronze crossbow bolts using sandstone molds. The Dong Son site of Co Loa, located near Hanoi, Vietnam, is associated with the production of crossbow technology, as several thousand bronze bolts have been recovered archaeologically. However, there has been very little research done on...
Fauna in Preclassic (800 BC-AD 200) and Late Classic period (AD 600-930) Ritual Contexts at Nixtun-Ch’ich’, Petén, Guatemala (2025)
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. Nixtun-Ch’ich’ in Petén, Guatemala was heavily occupied in the Middle Preclassic (800-300 BC) and Late Preclassic (300 BC-AD 200) periods. The site was abandoned in the Early Classic period (AD 200-600), then reoccupied in the Late/Terminal Classic (AD 600-930) and Postclassic period (AD 930-1525). Excavations at...
Finding the Forgotten: Using Aerial and Terrestrial Remote Sensing to Search for a Civil War Mass Grave near Simpsonville, Kentucky (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> On January 25, 1865, Company E of the 5<sup>th</sup> United States Colored Calvary (USCC) was ambushed near the town of Simpsonville, Kentucky by a group of Confederate guerillas. Twenty-two of the USCC troops were killed and another eight were severely injured. The dead were hastily gathered and buried by the local residents and the wounded were...
A Flash of Silver in the Swamp: The Identification of a B-24 Crash Site from WWII in the Lowcountry of South Carolina (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On Dec. 15, 1944, a B-24 took off on a night navigation mission from Chatham Air Field in Georgia, headed to Florida. The crew of nine were training to patrol the East Coast for enemy submarines. Fifteen minutes into the flight, engine #1 caught fire. The bomber crashed less than five minutes later into swampland in the lowcountry of South Carolina. This...
Fortification and Infrastructures of Security in the Late Prehispanic Colca Valley - Arequipa, Peru (2025)
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. Fortifications are among the most enduring material records of warfare in the archaeological past. Studies of fortification often emphasize the importance of defensive walls, not only in preventing enemy intrusion, but also in controlling movement and delineating insiders and outsiders. This focus on enclosure draws...
From Enfilades to Medieval Caves: An In-Progress Report from the Medieval Roman Archaeological Survey of Kalymnos (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Aegean island of Kalymnos was unsurprisingly transformed by conflict between Roman and Arab Caliphate forces through the early Middle Ages; atypically among its neighbors, the end of antiquity seems to have produced a more durable and connected Kalymnian community, compared to that which came before. This paper expands on earlier GIS analyses of the...
From Mountain Worship to Guarding the Sacred Lakes: Surveys of Cerro Canoncillo, Cerro Prieto Espinal, and Cerro Santonte (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Bridging Time, Space, and Species: Over 20 Years of Archaeological Insights from the Cañoncillo Complex, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru, Part 2" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. At the heart of the community, Cerro Cañoncillo and its lakes formed enduring sacred spaces across the landscape. In this paper, we explore in greater depth how the ceremonial centers of the region interrelated spatially and symbolically with...
From Palace to Council House: The Postclassic Cooperative Transition in Petén, Guatemala (2025)
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. Classic Maya kings were often considered sacred and divine and at the top of the hierarchy of kingdoms. On monuments and decorated vessels, they were depicted as super-human beings, different from other members of society. The royal dynasties of Classic period Petén disappeared from the archaeological eye by the...