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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. The arrival of the Neolithic in Europe marked a pivotal transition in human history, defined by the introduction of agriculture and profound changes in human-animal relationships. Croatia, a major corridor for the spread of the Neolithic through Europe, offers a key setting to study these...
Exploring the Intersection of Ethnography and Technology: Understanding the Evolution of Human Technologies through Ethnographic Research: An Introduction (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Exploring the Intersection of Ethnography and Technology: Understanding the Evolution of Human Technologies through Ethnographic Research" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ethnographic research has profoundly enriched our understanding of the evolution of human material culture and technology. This symposium assembles a series of studies that delve into the intricate interplay between ethnography and the archaeological...
Exploring the Potential of Tracking Human Migration through Oral Archaea in Dental Calculus (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Understanding human movement through time and space is a major goal of archaeogenetic studies. Though the field has predominantly made use of DNA from ancient human remains, dental calculus offers the possibility of indirectly tracing human movement using the commensal microbes ancient humans carried with them. Although oral bacteria are being...
Fake it till you make it: Deep learning detection of archaeological features using simulated training data (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. High resolution digital surface datasets have become increasingly accessible over the last two decades. Archaeologists have responded by developing methods to streamline locating archaeological sites in these data at a landscape scale. As high-powered computing hardware and cloud computing solutions improve, deep learning...
Fauna in Preclassic (800 BC-AD 200) and Late Classic period (AD 600-930) Ritual Contexts at Nixtun-Ch’ich’, Petén, Guatemala (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Cooperative and Noncooperative Transitions in the Archaeological Record" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Nixtun-Ch’ich’ in Petén, Guatemala was heavily occupied in the Middle Preclassic (800-300 BC) and Late Preclassic (300 BC-AD 200) periods. The site was abandoned in the Early Classic period (AD 200-600), then reoccupied in the Late/Terminal Classic (AD 600-930) and Postclassic period (AD 930-1525). Excavations at...
Feeding the French Frontier: Foodways at Fort St. Frédéric in the Eighteenth-Century Champlain Valley (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Atlantic Frontier: Foodways and the Materialities of TransAtlantic Interactions." session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The mid-18<sup>th</sup> century French Fort St. Frédéric, on Lake Champlain, loomed large in Anglo-American minds (and histories) as the spear of France’s Atlantic empire – pointed directly at a heart of trade in the British Atlantic, Albany and New York City. Yet emic narratives and the...
Female Worker’s Role in Representing the Past in Museums (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. Museums perform as a window that exhibits the archaeological materials from the past to the public, and are often considered as neutral ‘authorities’ showing the ‘truth’. However, recent research doubts the authority of museums, arguing that the materials are interpreted and represented subjectively and selectively....
Females and Ancestors: Creating an ethical foundation to recover and analyze pre-Columbian osteological remains (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 visibility of female’s efforts to the development of Ecuadorian archaeology is still in progress. Therefore, we begin our conversation with an evaluation of the contributions of female archaeologists working within the domain of bio-archaeology, an arena practiced by mostly women. However, their voices are still...
The first Female Archaeological Team in China:Liu Hulan Archaeological Team (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. In the late 1950s, the Henan Cultural Relics Institute organized a group of female archaeologists and established a professional team named the "Liu Hulan(Liu Hulan is a famous female national heroine) Archaeological Team". This is the first professional archaeological team composed of only women in China. Through...
The First Paleoethnobotanical Evidence from the Grenadines, Southern Lesser Antilles Provides Insight into Smaller Island Adaptations (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. Located approximately 190 km north of South America and measuring 32km2, Carriacou is the largest of the Grenadine islands and a promising case for understanding human eco dynamics in the Lesser Antilles. The island exhibits well-stratified midden deposits with a variety of faunal remains suggesting the primacy of fishing/marine...
Flatfish in focus: Developing a ZooMS reference database to identify archaeological flatfish on the Pacific Northwest Coast (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. Archaeological fish remains provide detailed information on paleoenvironmental conditions, marine anthropogenic impacts, and past human-animal relationships. Fish bones, however, can be challenging to identify to species due to their morphology, the need for comprehensive comparative...
From Migration to Adaptation: A Morphological Study of Fremont Maize Cobs in the Northern Colorado Plateau (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Innovation and Population Dynamics in Drylands" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Approximately 5,000 years ago, maize (Zea mays) spread from its native region in southern Mexico into the American Southwest, where it underwent significant phenotypic changes due to human selection pressures. These changes were crucial for maize to adapt to various environmental conditions, including heat, water stress, and cold climates....
From Palace to Council House: The Postclassic Cooperative Transition in Petén, Guatemala (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Cooperative and Noncooperative Transitions in the Archaeological Record" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Classic Maya kings were often considered sacred and divine and at the top of the hierarchy of kingdoms. On monuments and decorated vessels, they were depicted as super-human beings, different from other members of society. The royal dynasties of Classic period Petén disappeared from the archaeological eye by the...
From Quarry to Village: Lithic Resource Exploitation In Monongahela Cultural Tradition Johnston Phase Sites (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Future of Geoarchaeology: Student Research and Insights" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Monongahela Cultural Tradition (MCT) is a Late Prehistoric cultural manifestation represented by over 400 sites occupying present-day western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and northern West Virginia from approximately A.D. 1050 to 1650. Despite the widespread regional and temporal scope, much remains to be understood about...
From Shadows to Spotlight: Reassessing the Vital Yet Undervalued Roles of Women in the Care of the Uruguayan Archaeological Heritage (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. Since the first historicizations of archaeology in Uruguay, the ‘pioneers’ or ‘fathers of national archaeology’ have been at the center of the story. Without detracting from their merit, their work was sustained and supported by the work of many women who, in addition to carrying out fieldwork, were especially...
From tusk to town: sourcing flows of African ivory (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Elephant Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Using an artefact biography approach combining archival, archaeological and scientific data, it is becoming easier to source raw materials such as ivory ‘from tusk to town’. By mapping artefact journeys, we learn how materials move and are eventually crafted and valued in different cultural contexts to their origins. This paper will explore some of the key case...
A Geophysical Survey of a French and Indian War Friendly Fire Incident Site (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Future of Geoarchaeology: Student Research and Insights" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fort Ligonier was the last supply fort constructed for Brigadier-General John Forbes’ Expedition to take Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian War. On November 12, 1758, a skirmish between a British Virginia regiment and the French Army and their Native American allies occurred near Fort Ligonier. A young Col. George...
Getting Out of the Hole and Off the Ground: Starting a Collaborative Community Heritage Project from Scratch as Outsiders (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The North Brentwood Community Heritage Project developed out of a conversation in December of 2019 between one of the authors and a town councilmember. Work on the project finally began with digital documentation work in October of 2021, after a long Covid delay. The first excavation began in the Summer of 2022. Additional digital documentation...
Getting Over Myself and Other Ruminations on Decolonizing Archaeology (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. Randy McGuire’s writings on Native American heritage and decolonization have had a widespread impact throughout North America, and they have certainly influenced my own work in the American Southeast. As he has emphasized, the path toward partnership and multivocality can be a rocky one, but one that...
Global Trade, Local People: Black Atlantic Archaeology in the Bight of Bonny (c. 1600-1900 CE). (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Atlantic Frontier: Foodways and the Materialities of TransAtlantic Interactions." session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Black Atlantic archaeology on the West African coast has contributed to understanding African participation in the transatlantic and global political economies in the last 500 years. While historical records attest to the Bight of Bonny's significant role in this economic system, its archaeology has...
Globalized Histories Through Local Material Stories: The Micro and Macro Narratives of Portuguese Global Connections (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. The history of Portuguese globalization is often dominated by grand narratives of exploration and discovery, perpetuating a Eurocentric view of global encounters. However, material evidence from archaeological sites, together with historical evidence, offers alternative perspectives that challenge these official...
‘Grit-Tempered’ Women of the Mountains: Pioneering Contributions of Women to West Virginia Archaeology (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. West Virginia was one of the first states to hire a “state archaeologist” in 1960. Soon after the need for another staff archaeologist was recognized and a woman, Bettye Broyles, was hired in 1963. Bettye spent over a decade excavating pre-contact and historic sites in West Virginia. Her work is evident in the dozens...
Hidden Female Hands in Spanish Archaeology: A Perspective from the Herstory Project (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. In the past five years, the history of women in Spanish archaeology has been explored through two projects: ArqueólogAs (2020-2024) and Herstory (2024-2028). The Herstory project aims to provide a global, comparative, and diachronic perspective on women’s roles and contributions in Spanish archaeology. A key method...
The Horses of Chauvet Cave: A Horse Girls Perspective (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Value of Rock Art: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Current Rock Art Documentation, Research and Analysis Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Horse Panel from Chauvet Cave is world-famous and has been analyzed from many perspectives. This research paper is based on what is known about equine behavior and genetics and addresses the individuality of the horses in the panel. It provides evidence suggesting...
How to Make a Cooking Pot on Lesvos, Greece (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cooking pots do a job, a hard job. As a result, we have enshrined them as a special measure of ceramic functional suitability, a witness to know-how, and even technological progress. This paper explores the production of cooking pots by three different groups of potters on the island of Lesvos, Greece over the course of the twentieth century until...