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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. Intoxicant consumption is a practice that was reported by the European colonizers when they first arrived in the Caribbean, however, their reports were often vague and lacking detail, leaving material evidence as the only tangible evidence of this consumption. But what if the material evidence we have does not align...
<html>Better Baselines? Creating Robust and Meaningful Sulfur (δ<sup>34</sup>S) Isoscapes for Archaeological Studies of Residence and Mobility</html> (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Many of the central questions of archaeology engage directly with themes relating to movement, mobility, and migration. The two most common isotope systems that have been exploited for this purpose are strontium (<sup>87</sup>Sr/<sup>86</sup>Sr) and oxygen (δ<sup>18</sup>O), with sulfur isotopes (δ<sup>34</sup>S) being a much most recent addition to...
<html>Fish and Feces in the Low Countries: A Comparative Analysis of Macro-Remains and Shotgun Sequencing Results from Fecal Sediments (11<sup>th</sup> – 18<sup>th</sup> Century)</html> (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. Shotgun sequencing of fecal sediments, i.e., foods passed through the digestive tract, has the potential to refine and specify morphology-based identifications, particularly for taxonomic groups such as fish, which are challenging to collect and identify. Here, we present the shotgun sequencing...
<html>Holocene and Late Pleistocene Shorelines and Settlement on the Outer Northwest Coast: Archaeology of <i>Laxnuganaks/</i>the Moore Islands Archipelago, BC, Canada</html> (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. The outer coast of western North America is archaeologically significant because it was accessible and inhabitable for humans early on following the Last Glacial Maximum, and because its resource-rich islands necessitate unique lifeways and adaptations. We examine the geoarchaeological record of the Moore Islands, a small...
<html>Individuals from Isotopes: Can Stable Isotopes Distinguish the Remains of Different Cooper’s Hawks (<i>Accipiter cooperii</i>)?</html> (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. <html> Zooarchaeologists frequently try to calculate or isolate individual animals from assemblages that are highly fragmented and commingled, which often presents serious methodological hurdles. Biomolecular approaches can vastly improve the ability to identify individual animals from...
<html>Landa’s <i>auto de fe</i> and the destruction of the “idols” of Maní: Petrographic and Chemical Analysis of Incensarios from Maní, Mexico</html> (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2015, an archaeological rescue program was carried out in Maní, Yucatán, related to improvements in the main square with the aim of designating Mani as a "magical town". The excavations produced numerous fragments of the “idols” destroyed during the so-called auto de fe organized by Diego de Landa in Mani (1562) punishing the Maya population for...
<html>Landscapes of Death or Deaths for the Landscape? <i>Huaca</i> capture, spectacular violence, sacrifice, and consubstantiation at the Huaca de la Luna, Pyramids at Moche Polity (AD 400 – 850) of the North Coast of Perú</html> (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Landscapes of Death: Placemaking and Postmortem Agencies" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Political landscapes are often the focus of polity-sponsored feasts and performative rituals that reinforce power and subjugation. For the Pyramids at Moche (AD 400 – 850) on the north coast of Perú, previously reported bodies interred within the Huaca de la Luna were those of elite, nonlocal male warriors. In accordance with the...
<html>Looking at the Present to Understand the Past or <i>vice versa</i>? The Role of Long-Term Knowledge in Present and Future Policies</html> (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Modelling Human Behaviour through Ethnoarchaeology: Ethnoarchaeology as Long-Term Traditional Knowledge (L-TeK)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper I reflect on how an ethnoarchaeological approach to food sustainability can potentially impact the design of sustainable policies by offering an alternative perspective to mainstream knowledge. In recent years the incorporation of time-tested practices,...
<html>Possible Scavenging Behavior by Arctic Fox (<i>Vulpes lagopus</i>) in the Thule Whaling Zones (Nunavut, Canada)</html> (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. <html> Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus) have been hunted by Paleo- and Neo-Inuit for thousands of years, yet little is known about the interactions between humans and arctic foxes prior to the deposition of a fox’s remains in the archaeological record. Stable isotope analysis provides an opportunity...
<html>Stable Isotope and Radiocarbon Evidence for Caribbean Indigenous Relationships with an Introduced Rodent: Agouti (<i>Dasyprotca</i>) in the Pre-Contact Lesser Antilles</html> (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. <html> In the island Caribbean, the arrival of Indigenous peoples from South America during the Ceramic Age (ca. 2500-500 BP) was accompanied by introductions of continental animals and the inter-island movement of exotic species. These Indigenous efforts to reshape the island bioscapes have...
<html>Systemic symbolization of <i>Loxodonta cyclotis </i>by Baka hunter-gatherers</html> (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Elephant Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Baka hunter-gatherers of Central Africa have symbolically elaborated a “conceptual domestication” of the forest elephant Loxodonta cyclotis, yet an entirely wild species. That symbolic representation is strongly rooted in Baka naturalist knowledge of interspecific relationships between large mammals, acarids (tiks) and birds. These ethnographic materials...
Human vertebrae-on-posts: mortuary politics and persistence in colonial southern Peru (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Landscapes of Death: Placemaking and Postmortem Agencies" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. What does the development of ritualized behaviors say about how Indigenous peoples endured political turmoil? This study examines how local communities in the Chincha Valley of southern Peru confronted European colonialism through mortuary practice. After dominating the Chincha Valley of southern Peru in the Late Intermediate...
A human-environment balance in ancient island seascapes in Asia-Pacific (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. This paper will focus on the cultural landscapes and seascapes associated with stone-walled tidal fish weirs in Yap, Federated States of Micronesia, the islands of Palau, and in Penghu, Taiwan. In the main volcanic islands of Yap, over 450 of the estimated 800 fish weirs have been located, highlighting 12 different styles that...
Impacts of settler-colonial Invasion on ecosystem structure and animal occurrence in the Bear River Basin (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Machine-Learning Approaches to Studying Ancient Human-Environmental Interactions" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Exogenous factors, such as climate, and endogenous dynamics, such as human resource and landscape modification influence ecological conditions. Over long temporal scales, these dynamics create socio-environmental systems (SES) that influence the distribution of plant and animal species across the...
Imperial Public Relations: What can ceramic sciences (actually) tell us about political consolidation? (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists and other scholars find that, today and in the past, political entities like states and empires were diverse and sometimes short-lived. This means that the integration of diverse communities required a targeted and organized approach that served as an ancient public relations campaign for political elites. Material evidence for these...
Implementing a Needs Assessment to Strategically Inform Revisions to the Iowa Archaeological Certification Program for Avocational Archaeologists (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Iowa Archaeological Certification Program is a joint effort between the University of Iowa (UI) Office of the State Archaeologist (OSA) and the Iowa Archeological Society (IAS). Established in the 1970s, the program invites the interested public to learn field and lab skills while assisting professional archaeologists in a volunteer capacity...
Implications of Ancient Footwear Variability for Inferring Behavior from Artifacts, Impressions, and Ichnology (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Footprints and Footwear" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ichnological (trace fossil) record and negative impressions of perishable technologies left in plastic media comprise two underutilized lines of evidence for reconstructing ancient perishable material culture. Technological and morphological variability in archaeological and ethnographic Indigenous American footwear provide a starting point for generating...
In search of submerged Late Glacial prehistoric coastal occupations in the Western Channel: the contribution of acoustic detection of flint assemblages (2025)
This is an abstract from the "<html>Twenty Thousand Leagues (and Years!) under the Sea:<i> </i>Exploring the Place of Seashores in Prehistoric Socio-economic Systems</html>" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Research into late glacial communities in western France has made great progress in the last twenty years. In addition to being able to characterize the technical and symbolic systems of the various prehistoric communities that succeeded one...
In the Absence of Material Culture: An Archaeological Perspective on the Ancient Human Footprints From White Sands National Park, New Mexico (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Footprints and Footwear" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fossilized human footprints at White Sands, dated to between 23,000 and 21,000 years BP, have attracted scientists from various disciplines since their discovery. The tracks have been dated, biometric inferences from specific tracks have been made, and trackway kinematics explored. So far, no material culture has been found or associated with this ichnological...
Indigenous Knowledge and Public Lands: A Collaborative Approach to Indigenizing Education in Outdoor Recreational Spaces (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Early colonial violence in the Eastern United States had a detrimental impact on Native nations, including population reduction, loss of cultural knowledge, and forced assimilation. As a result, very few Native communities on the East Coast have received Federal Recognition status from the U.S. Government. The lack of acknowledgment has created...
Infant carrying in early prehistory: an investigation into technological possibilities using ethnographic data (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. Baby slings and carrier are frequently theorised as the earliest examples of containers and containment technology, with important evolutionary implications for infant care and mobility practices. While the direct data on prehistoric infant carriers...
The Influence of Randy McGuire on British 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. Over the course of his career, Randy McGuire has been one of the most cogent advocates for a Marxist archaeology, while engaging in positive debates with other theoretical traditions. This advocacy has been conducted at a theoretical and a practical level, while maintaining a position that archaeology itself...
Interdisciplinary approaches to plant stable isotope analysis: a case study from Late Antique Roman Karanis (Egypt). (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Stable Isotope Analysis in Global History" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Stable plant isotope analysis can provide proxy data to help model agricultural practices in the past, such as manuring and irrigation, or reconstruct environmental circumstances (e.g., related to water availability). Interpretation of such data is often challenging as they can be explained through different mechanisms or socioeconomic...
Interpreting Ritual Deposits at a Multiethnic Site in Spanish Colonial New Mexico (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Ritual Closure: A Global Perspective" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Interpreting evidence of ritual practices can be especially challenging in colonial contexts, where people, plants, animals, and materials from various places are forced into direct, sustained contact. In eighteenth-century New Mexico, centuries of Spanish colonialism produced a multiethnic, socially stratified population of agropastoralists who...
Interregional Interaction during Inka Rule: The Production and Circulation of Inka- Pacajes Pottery in Northern Chile (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The provincial ceramic style of Inka-Pacajes, which originated in the Bolivian altiplano, is well-known for its bowls and plates decorated with small black llamas on an orange to red background. It is widely found across the southern Inka Empire (Collasuyu) in contexts that suggest it was circulated by the state. It is thus a possible example of the...