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DOCUMENT Citation Only Sophie Husslein.

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. This poster summarizes the results of Chronicle Heritage’s recently completed South Kaibab Fuels Reduction Class III Project, conducted on behalf of the Kaibab National Forest (KNF) in advance of fire-reduction treatment. The survey covered 12,724 acres of KNF land within the Tusayan Ranger District. As a result of this survey,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jon Lohse.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent and ongoing research at August Pine Ridge, Belize is documenting an astonishing assemblage of complex bifaces representing human occupation and social interactions that took place in Central America from approximately 13,000 to 12,000 years ago. We see technological behaviors that reflect influences from Clovis practices that are well documented in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John O'Shea.

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. Constructed features of stone, wood, and other materials are increasingly recognized as a common feature of hunter-gatherer subsistence economies. Such constructions are used to increase both the certainty and quantity of captured animal resources. The detection of constructed features in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jane Buikstra.

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. In his carefully researched tome, The Great Paleolithic War (2015), David Meltzer demonstrates a remarkable depth of scholarship, carefully reading and evaluating 66 reference pages of primary sources. Included were 15 scholarly works by Aleš Hrdlička. Meltzer has thus critically engaged with the research...

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 Mirani Litster.

This is an abstract from the "Maritimity in the Indo-Pacific World" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Modern examples demonstrate that islands occupy an important role in globalisation events, and remote islands often have a specialised geopolitical and economic function. In this paper I will explore how early globalisation is reflected in remote island use, through an examination of the Maldivian archaeological record. Based on current evidence,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kegan Roady.

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. The cultural resource management (CRM) industry is growing rapidly, yet there is a widespread shortage of trained CRM professionals and a lack of adequate training opportunities for students. To address this disparity, the PaleoWest Foundation, Chronicle Heritage, and Crow Canyon Archaeological Center have partnered to offer a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Blaine Burgess.

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. This poster summarizes Chronicle Heritage’s recent survey of 4,500 acres in the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument (GCPNM). The Arizona Strip, particularly the GCPNM, sits at the western edge of the Ancestral Pueblo world, is adjacent to Fremont and Upland Patayan, and is encompassed by the ancestral homelands of the Paiute...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Donald Grayson.

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. This year’s Fryxell Award, for general interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology, has gone to David J. Meltzer. Perhaps the quickest introduction to the breadth, depth, power, and focus of Dr. Meltzer’s contributions in this realm is provided by his 2015 book, The Great Paleolithic War: How Science Forged an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael O'Brien.

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. It is difficult, if not downright impossible, to even begin to summarize the contributions Dave Meltzer has made to archaeology. I’ve long regarded him as the twenty-first-century heir to William Henry Holmes’s mantle. Few people have been as successful in pulling together truly interdisciplinary, as opposed to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris Widga.

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 last few decades in the Quaternary sciences have seen impressive leaps in the development of novel tools and techniques, as well as excellent examples of interdisciplinary research in pursuit of archaeological objectives. From ancient DNA found in skeletons and sediments to an almost dizzying variety of stable...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Whittemore.

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. Trepanation---creating holes in the cranial vault by boring, scraping, or cutting---has been documented archaeologically in numerous societies worldwide, but it is best-studied in the pre-Hispanic Andes. Early research on trepanation, conducted by Ephraim George Squier and later...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Curtis Hinsley.

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. Archaeologist David Wilcox and historian Curtis Hinsley met at the Harvard Peabody Museum in 1983 and found a common interest in the Hemenway Expedition of the 1880s, led by Frank Hamilton Cushing. They contracted with the University of Arizona Press for a seven-volume history of the expedition, based upon an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brendan Nash.

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. The South Gap site (20AA232) is a hunting location most likely for targeting caribou ~55 kilometers offshore from mainland Michigan on the Alpena-Amberley Ridge. The site features a sinuous esker that runs north – south and serves as a natural drive line that channeled migrating caribou along a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jens Auer.

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. In 2021, geologists discovered a curious, almost 1km long stone wall in 21m of water off the German coast in the Baltic. The structure is situated on basal till in close proximity to the shoreline of a sunken lake, and exhibits a number of characteristics that point to an anthropogenic, rather...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Horton.

This is an abstract from the "Maritimity in the Indo-Pacific World" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mosques are the outward expression of Islam in Swahili coastal communities. They were often the first building constructed of stone, and in many towns the only stone-built architecture, representing permanence and identify. In trading communities, mosques also had a role as places of safety for fellow muslim travellers, and where they could practice...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrés Menéndez-Blanco.

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 Europe, numerous rural regions are frequently interpreted as "marginal" or "peripheral" in relation to the significant transformations that occurred during the 16th-21st centuries. This idea is largely due to the fact that the material evidence of “modernization” is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniela Osorio.

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. The high-altitude Andes (> 2,500 masl) have been classically rejected as a central landscape for the early occupation of South America because of extreme environmental conditions such as cold temperatures and hypoxia. Most Andean models propose a later exploration of the highlands, conducted by logistical parties...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Abigail Moffett.

This is an abstract from the "Maritimity in the Indo-Pacific World" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite evidence of contact between southern African coastal communities and Indian Ocean maritime networks from 600 CE, the connections between these coastal groups, the communities of the interior, and oceanic maritime routes during the Global Middle Ages remain poorly understood. Our current project, ENTANGLED, employs an interdisciplinary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Francis Allard.

This is an abstract from the "Maritimity in the Indo-Pacific World" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The 1^st millennium BCE witnessed the expansion of maritime networks linking several coastal areas of the South China Sea. By the middle of the millennium, interaction involved not only the movement of decorative objects of different types (e.g. jade ornaments; glass and stone beads, some originating in South Asia), but also raw...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Bossio.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Goodrum.

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. As paleontologists and archaeologists began to find flint artifacts in Pleistocene deposits in France and Britain in the 1860s, followed soon thereafter by human fossils and Paleolithic art objects, researchers across Europe raced to discover further evidence for Paleolithic Europeans. In Moravia, now part of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Mann.

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. During the ice age, was the Mammoth Steppe the planet’s largest terrestrial biome or a giant weed patch? At times during the last ice age (Marine Isotope Stages 2-4, ca. 15,000-70,000 years ago), the Mammoth Steppe extended from Iberia to the southern Yukon. One peculiarity of the Mammoth Steppe as a biome is that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fiona Hook.

This is an abstract from the "Maritimity in the Indo-Pacific World" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Coastal environments have been argued to be crucial in the dispersal of modern humans from Africa to Australia. However, there is limited archaeological evidence of coastal resource use between Arabia and Sahul before 50,000 years ago. Boodie Cave on Barrow Island, Australia, occupied by Aboriginal people around 51.1 ka, offers some of the earliest...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kurt Rademaker.

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. Can materials in the earliest archaeological sites of a region tell us where people came from, which environments and resources they were familiar with, and how much landscape knowledge they possessed? I will discuss evidence from terminal Pleistocene sites in the hyper-arid Pacific coastal desert and the high Andes...