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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...
Fremen and Frost: An Arrakis Model of Early Human-Water Dynamics in the Central Andes (2025)
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. Water is essential for life. Forager research demonstrates that communities adjust mobility strategies in arid regions, often tethering to water sources. This talk investigates human-water relationships in multiple arid environments. We argue that, as the most critical resource for humans, water played a pivotal...
From mountain high to valley low: a comparative study of two medieval funerary sites in northwest Navarre (2025)
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. Excavations conducted by Aditu Arkeologia at the sites of San Miguel de Excelsis and Santa Maria de Zamartze revealed more than 180 inhumated human skeletal remains dating from the eleventh to fifteenth centuries CE. These sites, located within the municipality of Uharte-Arakil (Navarre, Spain),...
Generating Content for a Virtual World Learning Environment with POIs: The Land Bridge Paleo-Games (2025)
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. This project utilizes a Virtual Reality simulation of an ancient environment currently submerged underneath Lake Huron. The simulation was originally designed to help predict the location of ancient occupational remains of early Holocene hunter-gatherers. The system has been repurposed to provide...
Glassmaking in Nineteenth-Century Jalisco, Mexico (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> This paper contextualizes the production of glass in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, within the scientific developments taking place during the early 19<sup>th</sup>-century, particularly in the field of chemistry. Glass recipes from a Mexican glass workshop reflect changes in the technology and the use of chemical compounds that radically differ from...
Hemispheric Perspectives on Paleoindian Settlement Organization: A Comparison of Western Stemmed Tradition and Fishtail Patterns (2025)
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. Conventional models of Paleoindian settlement organization characterize the earliest inhabitants of the western hemisphere as highly mobile foragers operating in large territories, selectively utilizing high-quality toolstone. Raw-material studies, and particularly those engaging geochemical approaches, have been...
High Plains, Rocky Mountains, and White Sands: Travels with Dave Meltzer (2025)
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. Traveling and working with Dave Meltzer for 40 years has been an adventure and learning experience. We first met working together on Archaic sites—to which we have returned later in our careers . Since then, we have reinvestigated Paleoindian sites, such as Lindenmeier, Midland, Miami, Black Mountain, Folsom, and...
Historical Archaeological Approaches to the Basque Influence on the Economic and Cultural Development of the American West (2025)
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. Popular conceptions of the settlement of the American West have long been associated with stoic cowboys, resolute homesteaders, and even California’s tenacious Miner Forty-Niners. These archetypes are representative the vast region’s development through the utilization of its abundant natural...
<html>Stable isotope examination (δ<sup>18</sup>O, δ<sup>13</sup>C) of human remains from the Monastery of Santa María de Zamartze (Uharte-Arakil Municipality, Navarre)</html> (2025)
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> A subset of human remains (n=155) recovered during the 2011 to 2015 excavations from the Monastery of Santa María de Zamartze burial grounds were analyzed for stable oxygen and carbon isotopes derived from bone and tooth carbonate. Provided this site’s close geographic association with a...
The Human Cost of Violence: Exploring Disability and Debility in the Pre-Hispanic American Southwest (2025)
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. Injury recidivism (increased risk of injury following an initial insult) has been identified as a key factor in determining raid captives within communities when examining violence in the northern American Southwest (Martin 2010; Martin et al. 2008). For the La Plata Valley of New...
Human occupations at the Southern boundary of the Deseado Massif (Patagonia): results of ongoing excavations at La Gruta 1 and 3 (2025)
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. <html> The arid Deseado Massif, located in central Patagonia east of the Andes Mountains, has a high concentration of early human occupations. We present the results of ongoing excavations at La Gruta 1 and 3, two rockshelters located near the masif’s southern boundary in Santa Cruz province. Evidence obtained from...
The Human-Dog Singularity (2025)
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 first animal or plant with which humans formed a strong commensal relationship with was the wolf. This interaction led to dogs, the first of many domestic animals on which we now rely. Using the latest data from archaeological and scientific techniques including ancient DNA, I’ll detail what we know about how...
Identifying Ancient Mesoamerican Fortifications with a Bayesian Network Model (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. Identifying fortifications in the archaeological record can lead to inferences of important elements of past human behavior and social evolution. However, identifying ancient fortifications can often be difficult and contentious. One solution is to avoid a binary approach to identification and instead utilize a...
Imparting Vitality in Death: A case of perimortem dental modification at the Late Classic Maya site of Lacanja Tzeltal (2025)
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. The Classic Maya modified teeth in order to impart new qualities, maybe even protections, upon an individual. Specifically, modifications that replicated the ik’ sign (wind, breath) on the anterior teeth have been linked to the notion of vitality. Could this vitality be viewed as...
Infant Feeding Practices Within a Bioarchaeology of Care Framework: Investigating Isotopic and Paleopathological Data from a Wari Community (600-1000 CE) in the Peruvian Andes (2025)
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. <html> Breastfeeding is a dynamic, embodied process and powerful mediator of maternal and childhood health. Accordingly, this study builds a preliminary understanding of breastfeeding and weaning as an intervention of care. Stuart-Macadam (1995:27) describes breast milk as a “vital,...
Innovation, Growth, and Preservation in CRM (2025)
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. Three themes unite the posters in this session: Innovation, Growth, and Preservation. This poster reviews how Chronicle Heritage’s leadership in the CRM field encompasses these themes. The last few years have seen significant advancements in CRM. Fewer than twenty years ago, most archaeologists were trained to do basic tasks, such...
The Intersection of Ritual Violence and Disability in the Chimú Empire: A Bioarchaeological Study of Human Sacrifices in the Moche Valley on the north coast of Peru (2025)
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. Scholarly interest in disability and care within bioarchaeology has grown significantly in recent decades. The application of theoretical frameworks and cutting-edge techniques has enabled scholars to shed light on how individuals with physical differences were perceived and treated...
Invisible Battlefields and Archaeological Research on War (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. Discussions of the deep history of social violence depend on archaeological evidence, evidence that is subject to the same issues of bias and preservation as other archaeological evidence: organics decay and archaeologists work where we can see objects. Warfare research in archaeology depends particularly on...
Jewels of the Mouth: Tooth Polishing and Oral Care as Care among the Classic Maya (2025)
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. Since its inception, studies carried out under the auspices of the Bioarchaeology of Care have largely focused on individuals with significant pathologies and impairments. Often, the concept of caregiving in the past (though defined broadly as “health-related care”) takes on a rather...
Leaving the Legacy Behind: Lab Perspectives and Efforts on Curation Backlogs (2025)
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. Data recovery projects in CRM, which typically involve excavation and collection of artifacts and material culture, are inherently destructive processes. The deleterious impact of such projects is amplified when collected objects and archival material are not properly prepped for curation and adequately housed at a repository....
The Lithic Technology of a Wetland Transient Land Use Strategy: The View from Pluvial Lake Mojave, California (2025)
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. Knell et al. (2023) developed a biotic resource structure and optimal foraging theory inspired land use model for Silver Lake, one of two playa lakes that once formed pluvial Lake Mojave in California’s central Mojave Desert. The land use model predicted that Paleoindians remained longer around productive, high-rank...
Machine Learning Approaches to Archaeological Sensitivity Modeling in the Age of Wildfire, Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, California and Nevada (2025)
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. Machine learning is a powerful tool for archaeological sensitivity mapping. This research compares machine learning approaches to Middle and Late Archaic archaeological prediction in the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, California and Nevada. Specifically, the analysis seeks to answer whether logistic regression, Random Forest, or...
Martial Landscapes and Contextualizing the Archaeology of War with a Case Study from Kalymnos, Greece (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 Greek island of Kalymnos was an anomaly in a region devastated by the Roman-Caliphate warfare of the initial Middle Ages. Amidst regional depopulation and passive resistance by flight, Kalymnos uniquely displayed active, military resistance, its population renucleating into fortified kastra which remained...
Material and Form Effects on Fishhook Durability: Experimental Assessment of Late Pleistocene Fishhooks (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although fish-hooks are a global technological phenomenon over 20,000 years old, bone and shell fish-hooks are under-researched experimentally. In this study we assess whether differences in material and form produce significant differences in hook durability. Consensus artifact models representing averages of Late Pleistocene fish-hook assemblages from...
Multi-Instrument Sub-Bottom SONAR Surveys in Lake Huron: Results and Paths Forward (2025)
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. Over the course of two preliminary field seasons in 2023 and 2024, sub-bottom SONAR surveys in Lake Huron have uncovered a series of previously unknown stratified deposits and resonance signatures indicating the presence possible paleoenvironmental records and submerged archaeological sites,...