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This is an abstract from the "Acquiring Status and Power in Transegalitarian and Chiefdom Societies" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Japanese chiefly polities began evolving toward states during the Kofun period (middle third to early seventh centuries CE), as evidenced by the appearance of a key material symbol of increased social complexity and control: keyhole-shaped mounded tombs. Construction of these distinctive tombs reflects several...
Advances in using oxalate-rich mineral coatings as dating tools in Australian rock art shelters (2025)
This is an abstract from the "New approaches to the intractable problem of dating rock art" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Oxalate-rich, glaze-like mineral deposits are commonly found on low-angle surfaces in Australian rock art shelters. The synchronous growth of individual layers in these deposits across the Kimberley region of northwest Australia, suggests an environmental control, though the exact nature of this link is unclear. Some glazes,...
Advancing Machine Learning Approaches to Identifying Charcoal Morphologies and Fuels for Sedimentary Charcoal Analysis (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Practice, Theory, and Ethics of Machine Learning in Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Differentiating between natural and anthropogenic fire in the past remains one of the principal challenges in interpreting paleo-charcoal records and has implications for contextualizing changing fire regimes in our world today. During the Holocene, cultural burning practices throughout the globe were motivated by diverse...
The Age of Social Media: The Role of Archaeologists as Educators across Platforms (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Social media plays an important part in the dissemination of information in our world today. As we navigate the ever-changing landscapes of social media platforms, it is important to have conversations about our roles as educators online and the responsibilities we have on these platforms. As clickbait titles capture the eyes of social media users leading...
The Allure of Proboscideans: Rethinking the Effect of Large Prey Attractiveness on Human Evolution (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Elephant Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ubiquity of Proboscidean remains in early archaeological sites across the Old and New World underscores their significance in human prehistory. However, ethnography-based estimates of Proboscidean hunting returns have consistently undervalued their exceptional attractiveness as prey during the Paleolithic period. This study presents a critical reevaluation of...
Alternative Methods for Dating Rock Varnish at Murujuga, Western Australia (2025)
This is an abstract from the "New approaches to the intractable problem of dating rock art" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Placing robust age constraints on the production of rock art is difficult because the lack of suitable material for sampling. This is especially true in the case of petroglyphs where ‘paints’ are unavailable. The ARC-funded project ‘Dating Murujuga’s Dreaming’ faces this challenge by trying to identify a chronology for rock...
The Anakuakala Pictograph (Kiʻi Pakuhi) from Hawai‘i Island: A Contextual and Comparative Assessment. (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Value of Rock Art: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Current Rock Art Documentation, Research, and Analysis, Part I" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The 2014 eruption of Kīlauea Volcano prompted the emergency survey of a cave in the Puna District of Hawaiʻi Island. The survey recorded several kilometers of cave passage including stacked rock structures, midden, and also a distinctive feature in the form of a...
Analysis with Lidar of Coastal Environments on Pohnpei (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Ancient Seashore Sites and Environments in Geoarchaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. An airborne lidar data set collected over most of the island, and the entire coast, of Pohnpei, in the Federated States of Micronesia, allows for the development of a variety of digital models of the surveyed area. These models include digital terrain models (DTMs), which represent the surface of the ground without vegetation....
Ancestral Pueblo rock art in the socio-cultural and environmental context: Sand & Rock Creek Canyons in the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, Colorado, USA (2025)
This is an abstract from the "(Re) Imagining Rock Art Research" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Castle Rock settlement community dated to the 13th century AD located in Sand Canyon and Rock Creek Canyon in the Canyons of the Ancient National Monument, in southwestern Colorado, has been investigated since 2011, among other things focusing on the studies of relations between settlement, rock art, and landscape. In 2023, basing on a few tips from...
Ancient DNA Analyses of Mongolian Aurochs Shows Connections to Ancient East Asian Cattle (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Global Perspectives on Biomolecular Approaches to Human-Animal Interactions Past and Present" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Taurine cattle were domesticated in the Fertile Crescent and introduced to East Asia over 5000 years ago. Wild aurochs, the ancestor of domesticated cattle, were also present in East Asia during the introduction of domesticated cattle. It has been suggested that East Asian aurochs show some...
Ancient Footprints, Modern Voices: Empowering Indigenous Communities through Technology (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. James Cawley, a Cultural Technologist and Creative Director of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation, demonstrates how interactive technology and digital storytelling can empower Indigenous communities. His presentation showcases his work at the discovery site of 12,000-year-old footprints on the United States Air Force's Utah Test and...
Applying the Theory of Heart-Centered Archaeology to Issues of Exclusion in Archaeology (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper will work to explore not only the basis and creation of the theory of Heart-Centered Archaeology, but the way that it can be used to overcome the various issues of exclusion in archaeology that persist to this day. It will be compared to other theoretical approaches and broken down into the merits and drawbacks of Archaeology of the Heart...
Archaeological Mentorship Beyond the University (2025)
This is an abstract from the "From the Lab to the Field: Pioneering Approaches to Undergraduate Mentoring in Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Opportunities for mentorship extend beyond academia to the public and private sectors. Most entry-level positions in US archaeology are in CRM, but academic faculty often lack the familiarity with CRM archaeology needed to mentor students interested in this career direction. Chronicle Heritage’s...
“Archaeology and the First Americans”: Randall H. McGuire’s Seminal Article (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Praxis Makes Perfect: Celebrating the Academic Life and Times of Randy McGuire" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Somewhere in the mid-1990s I began to fall out of love with archaeology. The reason? A rising and profound discomfort with the discipline’s bankrupt relationship with Native Americans. When I turned to the library stacks for help (as we did back then), I found only a few voices in the wilderness that spoke...
"Archaeology is a Weak Weapon for Political Action"? Reflecting on Marxism, Dialectics, and Praxis (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Praxis Makes Perfect: Celebrating the Academic Life and Times of Randy McGuire" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of Randy McGuire’s greatest contributions has been his clear articulation of a Marxist dialectical approach to archaeological research. The dialectic integrates theory and method, the parts and the whole, past, present and future, and the discipline of archaeology and larger society into a single...
Archaeology of Sixteenth-Century Spanish Colonial Expeditions in the North American Southeast: Countering the Popular Narrative (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Many New Worlds: Alternative global histories through material stories" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the middle of the sixteenth century, the North American Southeast witnessed several large, well-funded Spanish colonial incursions. Recent archaeological research in the Black Prairie of Alabama is within the zone of convergence of two such expeditions, those of Hernando de Soto (1540-41) and Tristán de Luna...
The Archaeology Research Laboratory: A Site for Increased Access to Student Training (2025)
This is an abstract from the "From the Lab to the Field: Pioneering Approaches to Undergraduate Mentoring in Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Participation in undergraduate research enhances students’ likelihood of matriculating into graduate programs, fosters a scientific identity, promotes a sense of belonging, and develops valuable transferrable skills. Archaeology has a strong history of hands-on training through field schools,...
Archaeometric Analysis of Pigments, Cueva Higuerillas Rock Art Site (Sonora, Mexico) (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Value of Rock Art: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Current Rock Art Documentation, Research, and Analysis, Part I" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cucurpe is in northwestern Sonora (Mexico), in the lower foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental. The region is characterised by rock art in small caves and rock shelters of volcanic tuff with a higher concentration of paintings than engravings. During the recording of...
Archaeometric studies of pottery from activity areas found in the multiethnic neighborhood center of Teopancazco, Teotihuacan, Central Mexico (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the metropolis of Teotihuacan, Central Mexico, the ca. 22 neighborhoods are the most dynamic social units of this multiethnic society. Teopancazco is one of the southeastern neighborhood centers; it was excavated by Linda R. Manzanilla and her students during 13 field seasons (1997-2005), and studied in an interdisciplinary perspective, including...
Archeology and the Third Americans (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Praxis Makes Perfect: Celebrating the Academic Life and Times of Randy McGuire" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> In 1992, Randy published “Archeology and the First Americans,” a timely analysis of archaeology’s culpability in promoting fantasy images of the Indigenous societies of North America that forced us to contend with the ideological implications of these images and the supportive role they have played in...
Are All Bones Equal? (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Animal Matters: Ethics in Zooarchaeology from Discovery to Display" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ontological turn in the humanities has been challenging the traditional nature/culture dichotomy in perceiving humans as animals like any other, particularly within a perspectivist framework. This shift encourages us to consider humans and other-than-human animals as part of a unified multispecies world. But what...
The Aurignacian of the Swabian Jura and the Age of Ivory (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Elephant Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Paleoltihic research in the Central Europe has its roots in the 1860s with the early excavations in Swabian Jura of southwestern Germany. Since then, every generation has contributed to this tradition. Among the many well-studied Paleolithic periods, the Swabian Aurignacian, the first phase of the Upper Paleolithic dating from ca. 42-35 ka BP, stands out for its...
Between class and ethnicity: the experience of women in the archaeology of the Central Andes (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Behind the Scenes and on the Stage: The Women Who Shaped Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The countries of the Central Andes are diverse in their class, ethnic, and gender compositions, as well as in how these identity categories intersect in practice. In this paper, I analyze whether this social reality—which partly began with Spanish colonization and took root during the rise of the young...
Beyond age determinations: Building theoretically informed contextualised understandings of deep time rock art in Sunda and Sahul (2025)
This is an abstract from the "New approaches to the intractable problem of dating rock art" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Innovations in methods that target datable materials using radiocarbon (Finch et al. 2019; Green et al. 2021) has enhanced the capacity of rock art researchers to date rock art in Australia, producing a range age determinations for a diversity of rock art motifs (Finch et al. 2020; 2021; Jones et al. 2017). Similarly age...
Beyond the Shell Ring: Examining the Impact of Sea Level Change during the Late Archaic/Early Woodland transition on Creighton Island, GA, U.S.A. (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Ancient Seashore Sites and Environments in Geoarchaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Shell rings appear along the coast of the Southeastern U.S. during the Late Archaic period (3000—1000 cal B.C.). These circular depositions of marine shell were abandoned as a result of fluctuating sea levels before the start of the Woodland period, around 1000 cal B.C. This research looks to the landscape surrounding the...