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DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley Lemke.

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. One of the most significant planetary changes since the Pleistocene has been fluctuating water levels. Changes in sea level, particularly since the last glacial maximum left vast landscapes once exposed and now submerged. Paleoenvironmental research and modeling of submerged landscapes has shown...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Kinkopf.

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. Bioarchaeologists have framed care as a largely positive, altruistic, and compassionate act of service given to chronically ill and disabled people. Medical interventions, especially surgical ones, often have lifelong consequences for people who survive them. This paper draws on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephanie Lozano.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Tlaloc glyph has been considered a symbol which refers to the Teotihuacan Tlaloc and appears in the diverse cultural material of the grand metropolis. Examples of the Teotihuacan Tlaloc glyph also appear outside the Central Mexican highlands such as within the Maya area. Two examples of this emblematic glyph appear on the Tikal Marcador. The Tikal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Roger Echo-Hawk.

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 bestowing of the SAA 2025 Fryxell Award on David Meltzer honors an intellectually panoramic legacy of scholarship. Dr Meltzer is a key advocate for adhering to both rigorous analytical standards and cordial critical dialogue – his work has enlightened my own intellectual journeys since the early 1990s. In...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cristina Incio-DelRio.

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. Although peasant communities seem to have changed little from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century according to the prevailing historical narratives, the analysis of their materiality indicates the opposite. Thus, this presentation brings the case of Terra de...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lawrence Todd.

This is an abstract from the "Early Human Dynamics in Arid and Mountain Environments of the Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 2002, the Greybull River Sustainable Landscape Ecology (GRSLE) project has conducted annual archaeological field research in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (Shoshone National Forest, NW Wyoming, USA), focusing on elevations above 2500 m. By employing an artifact-based rather than a site-based approach, this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diana Simpson.

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. When considering the boundaries of care in the past a relativistic perspective forces us to reconsider what we perceive to be “normal.” This paper will explore how alternate realms of possible intervention and care manifest within the archaeological record of the early Precontact...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Stewart.

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. Caribou Inuit on the Canadian tundra camped where the barrenground caribou were expected to come – on migratory routes, especially at crossings on the Kazan River in the summer and fall. Camp locations were subject to change from year to year, even though many places are considered ‘traditional’...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katelyn McDonough.

This is an abstract from the "Early Human Dynamics in Arid and Mountain Environments of the Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Foodways reflect many aspects of people’s lives, cultures, and environments. Despite a rich history of subsistence studies, Pleistocene dietary information from across the Americas has yet to be systematically compiled. This project aims to consolidate that information, focusing first on plant foods in arid regions...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Macdonald.

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. Identifying use-wear traces on lithics from submerged sites presents unique and intriguing challenges. Currently, there are limited taphonomic studies that explore the impact of lacustrine depositional environments on the preservation of wear traces, complicating the interpretation of traces...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rafael Millán-Pascual.

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. In 1953 Franco signed an economic-military agreement with the U.S. administration that accelerated the international recognition of the Dictatorship. Contrary to the political premises of the World War II allies, the Cold War opened (again) the recognizion of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Neil Hauser.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents the results of an investigation of differences in contracting stem point shape across the Great Basin, Colorado Plateau, and greater American Southwest. Contracting stem points from 17 locations or areas consisting of both excavated sites and surface collections were used. By comparing the occurrences of tightly constrained projectile...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Geoffrey Smith.

This is an abstract from the "Early Human Dynamics in Arid and Mountain Environments of the Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Northwestern Nevada’s High Rock Country features a robust record of late Pleistocene and early Holocene human occupation. Sites with Western Stemmed Tradition (WST) assemblages occur in caves and rockshelters, along stream channels, and around the margins of pluvial lake basins. In this paper, we use historic annual...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Luis Borrero.

This is an abstract from the "Early Human Dynamics in Arid and Mountain Environments of the Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Human dispersal in South Patagonia at the end of the Pleistocene proceeded at different rhythms, according to the location of barriers and distances between suitable places. Peri-Andean areas where difficult to explore, given the complicated topography and harsh winters. The only area with Late Pleistocene...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Yerkes.

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. SE Europe during the Neolithic and Early Copper Age (5500-4000 cal. B.C.E), and Eastern North America during the Late Prehistoric period (1000-1650 A.C.E.), are marked by similar socioeconomic changes in tribal societies. There is evidence for new food production and exchange patterns, but also for increased conflict....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richie Rosencrance.

This is an abstract from the "Early Human Dynamics in Arid and Mountain Environments of the Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cold mitigation through technological, social, and settlement strategies is one of humanity’s defining evolutionary benchmarks. Even with fire and shelter, humans are unable to sustainably live in environments where temperatures fall below 0°C. The innovation of structurally and functionally complex technologies...