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DOCUMENT Citation Only Vincent Gaffney.

This is an abstract from the "Hunting for Hunters, Underwater: Results and Future Directions for Submerged Ancient Sites" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. After more than thirty years of study, palaeolandscapes research in the southern North Sea, usually referred to as Doggerland, has moved from the status of niche interest to an increasingly strategic area of investigation. Drivers for such a development includes the need to develop coastal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Teresa Lacosta Ramírez.

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Basque Archaeology: Current Research and Future Directions" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the Roman Empire's interests in its provinces was the exploitation of their mineral resources. In the region of the Western Pyrenees, the Empire promoted mining activities for gold, silver, iron and copper. Notably, the mining complex in the Aierdi Ravine (Lantz, Navarra, Spain) stands out...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mikkel Pedersen.

This is an abstract from the "2025 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of David J. Meltzer Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Meadowcroft Rockshelter, located near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a significant archaeological site excavated by James Adovasio and his team from 1973 to 1978. The site contains stratified layers of artifacts and charcoal dating from the Historic period back to approximately 17,300 years ago, suggesting early...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eske Willerslev.

This is an abstract from the "2025 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of David J. Meltzer Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During this talk I will introduce the Ancient Environmental Genomics Initiative for Sustainability (AEGIS) aimed at accelerating and delivering new strategies for developing resilient crops and agricultural systems and hence mitigate the risk of a human food crisis in the face of climate changes. This ambitious...

DOCUMENT Citation Only José Víctor Moreno Mayar.

This is an abstract from the "2025 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of David J. Meltzer Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Americas were the last continent to be reached by anatomically modern humans. Thanks to large-scale genomic studies, archaeology, anthropology and geology we have a broad understanding of the process whereby the ancestors of present-day Indigenous Americans originated in Northeast Asia, reached the continent...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrea Zurek-Ost.

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Basque Archaeology: Current Research and Future Directions" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Isotopic approaches to investigate geographic area of origin, mobility, and dietary practices have long been applied to archaeological and forensic contexts. Isotopic ratios from human bones and teeth can be used to derive information about cultural, geographic, and demographic group membership....

DOCUMENT Citation Only David González-Álvarez.

This is an abstract from the "On Both Sides of the Atlantic: Historical Archaeology of Rural Modernization from the American and European Traditions" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Cantabrian Mountains in northwestern Spain have been exploited by pastoralist groups since Late Prehistory (ca. 6000 BP), thereby shaping these landscapes in the longue durée. The anthropogenic pressure on the environment resulted in the transformation of upland...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maitane Tirapu De Goñi.

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Basque Archaeology: Current Research and Future Directions" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2020, during a speleological intervention in a cave located in the Erro Valley (Navarra), the oldest set of skeletal remains in the region was discovered. Radiocarbon dating revealed the individual to be more than 11,000 years old, placing the remains in the early Mesolithic period. Due to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma Bonthorne.

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Basque Archaeology: Current Research and Future Directions" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between the 18th and 20th centuries, the Basque Country was the setting for numerous large-scale conflicts, including the War of the Pyrenees, the Peninsular War, the Carlist Wars, and the Spanish Civil War. These conflicts deeply impacted Basque society and left an enduring legacy within the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James O'Connell.

This is an abstract from the "2025 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of David J. Meltzer Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pleistocene Sahul, the continent created when falling sea levels opened a dry land connection between New Guinea and Australia, was first colonized by anatomically modern Homo sapiens c. 47-51 ka. A small number of sites beyond this age in the north, south and west of Australia, including two claimed to be...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Adler.

This is an abstract from the "2025 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of David J. Meltzer Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the challenges in collaborative community-based anthropological research is finding mutually beneficial pathways for the host community, and those invited to conduct research, to simultaneously support both sovereignty (host community) and research integrity (outside researchers). For example, what happens...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Iñaki Arrieta Baro.

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Basque Archaeology: Current Research and Future Directions" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tree carvings, arborglyphs, or lertxun-marrak in Euskera, etched by sheepherders constitute one of the most visible remnants of Basque culture in the Western United States. They are also a case of living forms containing art created in open spaces, which creates innumerable challenges for their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Fitzhugh.

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Basque Archaeology: Current Research and Future Directions" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The first sustained post-Norse northern contacts between Europeans and Indigenous North Americans began in the Gulf of St. Lawrence beginning in the mid-16^th century. Mik’maq of the southern Gulf were quick to engage with Basque whalers and traders. In the northern Gulf and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Steber.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Work by Chronicle Heritage Staff" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2022-2024, Chronicle Heritage surveyed 3700 acres along 70 miles of road between Cave Creek, Perry Mesa, and the Verde River on behalf of the Tonto National Forest. The survey resulted in an over 50% increase in the number of known sites in the project area and a 30% increase in the known room count. This area has seen...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Judith Ruiz.

This is an abstract from the "(De)Pathologizing the Past: New Perspectives on Intervention and Modification as Care in the Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this work, we propose to know the type of care received by a girl between eight and ten years of age, who suffered from possible congenital syphilis in the chronic stage in the pre-Hispanic population of the Maltrata valley. To do this, we are based on the postulates of the...

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 Christopher Kerns.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. It is well known that archaeology is done in the present with the future in mind, something archaeologists can sometimes easily forget. We care about the remnants of the past and put an extraordinary amount of effort into studying, preserving and protecting them because they tell a story about the people and places that matter to us, today, in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Whittington.

This is an abstract from the "(De)Pathologizing the Past: New Perspectives on Intervention and Modification as Care in the Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. An adult female from the elite part of the Late Postclassic Highland Maya site of Iximche', Guatemala had a jade pendant buried with her and was near another person buried with a gold necklace. She had extensive osteoporosis, a collapsed thoracic vertebra, a healed periosteal reaction,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Sain.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Work by Chronicle Heritage Staff" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chronicle Heritage has recently completed burial recovery excavations at the Vicksburg National Military Park (VICK) in Vicksburg, Mississippi. This undertaking was in response to a landslide event in February 2020 and continued erosional activity. The initial landslide caused the collapse of a portion of the cemetery’s Section T,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meredith Carlson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Primate archaeology is a burgeoning area of inquiry that sheds light on the technological aspects of primate behavior and its implications for human evolution. However, primate archaeology also offers opportunities for the validation of archaeological proxies through actualistic study. Among living primates, behavior and site formation can be observed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Seltzer-Rogers.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Work by Chronicle Heritage Staff" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Black Mountain is one of the largest villages in the southern Mimbres valley of southwestern New Mexico and the type site for the Postclassic period (A.D. 1130-1450) Black Mountain phase (A.D. 1130-1300). In 2023, Chronicle Heritage conducted limited data recovery excavations for a compliance-based project at the Black Mountain...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven Emslie.

This is an abstract from the "2025 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of David J. Meltzer Part I" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many cave deposits in the western U.S. are rich in late Pleistocene vertebrate fossils and plant remains preserved in sediments and packrat middens. These caves are usually deep, dry, and located in arid environments where preservation and mummification of organic remains is highest. Many of these same caves were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Kelly.

This is an abstract from the "2025 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of David J. Meltzer Part I" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The timing and nature of terminal Pleistocene colonization of the western hemisphere is central to the career of David Meltzer. In 1988, as young, wet-behind-the-ears professionals, we presented a narrative model to explain several facets of early Paleoindian archaeology: the nature of faunal processing, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Luis Manuel Gonzalez-La Rosa.

This is an abstract from the "(De)Pathologizing the Past: New Perspectives on Intervention and Modification as Care in the Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Across the globe, progressive tooth wear is related to diet and cultural use of teeth. In the Andes, often high levels of tooth wear are associated with the sandy grit in coastal diets. Extensive tooth wear is classified as an experience of old age. In these contexts, care is invoked...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alison Crowther.

This is an abstract from the "Maritimity in the Indo-Pacific World" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Comoros islands have been a key node in Indian Ocean trading systems since the late first millennium CE, and are suggested to have played a significant role in the still mysterious Austronesian colonisation of Madagascar. Yet little systematic archaeological research has been undertaken in the archipelago since the 1980s, leaving major gaps in...