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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. Altered States of Consciousness (ASCs) have been used by individuals in a variety of contexts for diverse purposes, as far back as Antiquity. Archaeological investigations of these practices typically focus on indirect evidence of the use of altered states, such as residue analysis of...
No Maritime for YOU? The Analytical Value of “Maritime” as Commercial and Military Activity for Understanding the Evolution and Institutionalization of Global Economies. (2025)
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 formal definition of maritime specifically pertaining to human activity in the Oxford Dictionary is “connected with the sea, especially in relation to seafaring commercial or military activity.” A recent approach (Fleischer et al 2011) using temperate zone marine subsistence activity as a baseline, defines a maritime society as one that...
Non-human animal use at the Silo of Charlemagne (Orreaga/Roncesvalles, 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. This paper presents the preliminary results of a zooarchaeological study of the non-human bone recovered from the Silo of Charlemagne, a long-term, multi-use ossuary located in Orreaga/Roncesvalles, Navarre (Basque Country). Animal husbandry in the Pyrenees historically includes raising domestic...
Northern Latitude Hunters, Meat Caches, and Problems Assessing Season of Occupation from Faunal Remains (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. Hunting terrestrial mammals is an unpredictable enterprise, with boom periods interspersed with periods of poor returns. Lack of success can arise for many reasons: scarcity of animals or difficulty finding them; failing to get close enough for an effective shot; animals are in poor condition; communal drives...
Old growth Pinyon-juniper woodlands and historic properties in Colorado (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. Bureau of Land Management contracted Chronicle Heritage to help plan vegetation treatments on a landscape level by creating and utilizing a GIS model that informs planners and management the locations of old growth trees and associated historic properties. This model incorporated existing data on historic landscape modifications,...
On the frequency of overshot flakes in Siberian, Clovis, Folsom, Archaic lithic assemblages (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. Paleoindian archaeologists often suggest that overshot flakes, or a high frequency of overshot flakes, in lithic assemblages is characteristic or indicative of Clovis technology. Here, we present overshot flake frequency data recorded from Siberian, Folsom, and Archaic assemblages. We then compare these data to...
One square mile of rural ruin (2025)
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. What becomes of rural countryside in the aftermath of common agrarianism varies greatly across the southeastern United States. The new cities that take shape in those economically favored zones of urban development bear little resemblance to the contemporary rural that...
The Paleo-Peninsular Tradition of Baja California, México (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. A territory surrounded by seas, with extensive coasts, mountain ranges, and deserts, hostile and extreme environments, remote and rugged, a true “dead-end” of about 1250 kilometers in length, in the past hosted a very unique and singular tradition that developed throughout this “inhospitable” landscape. Traditions...
Paleogenetic history, diet, and health in early Chinchorro and later agricultural populations from the coast of northern Chile (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. This study aims to understand the genetic history of early archaic Chinchorro and later agricultural populations from northern Chile and to assess the impact of agriculture on the oral microbiome. We collected teeth (n=125) and dental calculus (n=70) samples from coastal and inland sites spanning 7,000-500 years...
Peacefare and Warfare in Human Evolution (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 role of warfare has been at the center of debate about human origins. Related hypotheses are often influenced by implicit assumptions about human nature, with many suggesting that humans are either innately violent or innately peaceful. In this talk we discuss the history of the study of the role of violence and...
Place-marking as world-making. Basque pastoralism and the landscape of diasporic identity in the American Southwest. (2025)
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. <html> Between the 19<sup>th</sup> and 20<sup>th</sup> centuries, an intensified flow of Basque immigrants streamed towards the Southwest of the United States. In the European mainland, Basques across the Pyrenees have practiced different types of seasonal transhumance...
Reconnecting Heritage, Habitats, and Landscapes: Strategies for Integrating Cultural and Natural Resource Management in the United States (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the United States, the management of cultural and natural resources follows distinct regulations and workflows, often leading to fragmented management approaches. Federal agencies, including the US Department of Defense (DoD), are increasingly interested in integrating these efforts to create more cohesive, inclusive, and synergistic management...
Reconstructing Prehistoric Human Subsistence Patterns Using Ancient Environmental DNA from Submerged Archaeological Sites (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. Ancient environmental DNA (aeDNA) is emerging as a powerful tool for analyzing genetic information from organisms across the tree of life, dating back millions of years. The cold, undisturbed, anaerobic, water-sealed conditions of submerged archaeological sites provide ideal preservation for...
Reconstructing social identity, impairment, and potential caregiving relative to treponematosis at the pre-European contact Aklis site, St. Croix, USVI. (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. Despite extensive clinical documentation of the psychosocially and physically debilitating effects of treponematosis (e.g., yaws) and intensive investigations into the disease’s ancient burden in the Americas, physical impairment as well as disability and health-related caregiving have...
Reefs & Relics: An Ichthyo-Archaeological Approach to Cultural and Environmental Conservation in Andavadoaka, Madagascar (2025)
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 village of Andavadoaka, located in the Morombe district of Befandefa in Southwestern Madagascar, is home to the Vezo fishing people. The coral reefs around the area have been the focus of conservation efforts due to their high biodiversity as well as threats to the ecosystem. These threats negatively impact the Vezo, as the sea is their main...
Reexamining Early Foraging Occupations of High-Altitude Plateaux (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. In 2006, Aldenderfer reviewed evidence of human occupations of the world’s high-altitude plateau regions (Ethiopia, Tibet, and the Andean Altiplano), noting the deleterious effects of living at high-altitudes: hypoxia, extreme cold stress, and low primary productivity of ecological systems. Aldenderfer argues that...
Reflecting on middle-Holocene human survivance across the Plains (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. David Meltzer’s discovery of a wellfield with over 60 wells at the Mustang Springs Site, Martin County, Texas points to survivance strategies deployed by mobile hunter-gatherers to manage harsh drought conditions during the Holocene Thermal Maximum (HTM). These wells, which date approximately to 6800 bp, attest to...
Regional Coastal Dhow Trade Networks are not Limited by Monsoons, Rather Driven by Trade Needs: Implications for the early Swahili Marinescape (2025)
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 nature of how ancestral peoples of the Eastern African coast engaged with their maritime environment remains a source of debate and uncertainty in the archaeological literature. Therein, the alternating monsoon seasons that occur during the winter and summer across the Indian Ocean are often seen as a major roadblock to maritime trade on the...
Return to Lindenmeier: A Folsom Landscape on the Edge of the Plains and Rockies (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. Herein we follow the trail of David J. Meltzer, who for the past 40 years blazed a distinct path through the Clovis and Folsom archaeological record. And though some of this is well-trodden territory, David foraged new insights regarding these ancient peoples through his historical scholarship, interdisciplinary...
The Role of Paleoecology in Understanding Early Holocene Submerged Landscapes and Archaeological Sites in the Laurentian Great Lakes (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. The Laurentian Great Lakes experienced profound fluctuations in lake levels following deglaciation in response to climate change, isostatic adjustment, and meltwater routing. At the same time, these water bodies acted as magnets for past hunter-gatherer populations, resulting in archaeological...
Roudnice; Archaeological Methods and Historical Narratives in the Bohemian Forest (Czech Republic) (2025)
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. <html> This presentation offers a multi-temporal exploration of the layered processes of modernization through a case study in the Bohemian Forest, Czech Republic. The application of archaeological method in a small and detailed case study contributes to the weaving of...
Rural Abandonment in the American North: Archaeology at Frost Town, New York (2025)
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. Frost Town is located in the Fingers Lakes Region of New York and was once home to an industrial logging site that harvested old-growth timber in the 19th century by Euro-American settler colonialists. Frost Town eventually became a rural town after the timber was...
Rural transformations and community-based archaeology in the Pisgah National Forest (2025)
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. Over the last six years, the mountain town of Old Fort, NC has been at the center of a scenario that would be familiar to many residents of rural communities in desirable landscapes. The construction of a new trail system in the Pisgah National Forest on the slopes...
Some History of Archaeology's Most Fundamental Concept: Artifact (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 concept ‘artifact’ is arguably the core concept of archaeology; without artifacts it is doubtful there would be an archaeology discipline as we know it today. Three questions warrant exploration: First, what is the history of how we determine that particular things are artifacts? Second, what is the history...
Spirit Cave Resilience: How do We Explain 10,000 Year Continuities? (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. <html> Paleoindians <u>buried </u>Spirit Cave Man in a Nevada cave and archaeologists excavated these remains in 1940. The Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe filed a NAGPRA claim requesting repatriation of the Spirit Cave ancestor they call The Storyteller. After a two-decade legal impasse, the tribe made the...