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DOCUMENT Citation Only Luke Gliganic.

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. Rock engravings are a valuable component of the global archaeological record. They are significant to modern populations and are a visual archive of past cultural expression that can reflect material culture, practices, ideologies, territoriality, social organization, and environments in ways that other archaeological remains...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Forcier.

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. Rock markings have long captivated the public imagination. More recently, the archaeological field has witnessed a renaissance in rock-marking scholarship as researchers recognize both the continued importance of these features to descendant communities and their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sofía Pacheco-Fores.

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. Mentorship and practical research experience are essential for the recruitment, training, and retention of archaeology undergraduate students. The combination of getting hands-on experience in the field and having someone from whom they can seek advice and receive feedback enables undergraduate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Humphreys.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. An increasing body of literature, including peer-reviewed research, suggests that participation in archaeological fieldwork, labwork, and conservation benefits military veterans. Data now demonstrates conclusively that most military veterans will receive at least short-term mental health benefits from participation in tailored archaeological fieldwork....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Faithleigh Podzimek.

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. Our project conducts a comparative analysis of Mimbres-style petroglyphs located in the heartland of the Mimbres River Valley, NM to those found in a cultural border region of the Chiricahua and Pinaleño Mountains in southeastern Arizona. The Mimbres heartland...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Dye.

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. Early eighteenth century French accounts concerning the Choctaw and Natchez provide critical insights into the multiple strategies Mississippian chiefly elites employed to gain and legitimize power. I argue that ruling elites devised multiple means to garner, enhance, and legitimize holds over various sources of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elikplim Kuto.

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. This paper investigates the potential of ethnoarchaeology to contribute to sustainable development by modeling human behavior through the study of food storage practices. Ethnoarchaeology, the study of contemporary societies to understand past societies and archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chase Peterson.

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. Fluted-point technology, like Clovis, is associated with some of the earliest modern-human dispersals across the Americas. Forager groups utilizing this technology emerged and proliferated in North America approximately 13,000 years ago. Archaeologists generally agree that Clovis groups dispersed their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Walker.

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. Paleotopographic modelling is a powerful tool for assessing the shifting accessibility and connectivity of coastal arctic sites, as well as changes in nearshore marine habitats that were vital components of local subsistence economies. This paper introduces a method for visualizing coastal transformations at localized scales...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jasmine Kidwell.

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. <html> The region of far west Texas remains understudied in terms of its cultural, climatic, and environmental past. Current paleoclimatological and environmental proxy datasets are few and inconsistent in time, resolution, and scope. Using sedimentary archives from cave, playa, and ciénega deposits, we use molecular...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Keyser.

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 Vissotzky petroglyphs are located in the northern Rocky Mountains of western Montana. During our 2023 recording project we documented more than 300 representational petroglyphs at the site, but the most unexpected finds were a dozen atlatls, demonstrating that the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julio Amador.

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. <html> We carry out a detailed iconographic study of one of the reliefs that was carved on the slopes of Cerro Chalcatzingo, in the Mexican State of Morelos, during the Middle Formative period, as well as of several paintings in caves of the State of Guerrero and painted...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bradymir Bravo.

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. En Huarochirí y Yauyos, cada vez menos, los “muertos” guardados en sus tumbas desde tiempos prehispánicos, construyen un paisaje vivo que interactúa con las comunidades locales (con respeto, miedo y devoción) a través de narrativas orales, ritos y ceremonias festivas heredadas de tiempos remotos. Esto contrasta bruscamente con la...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Seminew Mogesie.

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> The Late Plesitocene saw major developments in human behavior including technological transition, behavioral modernity, range expansion, and dispersal within and beyond Africa which broadly overlapped with ecological and climatic fluctuations. However, we know little about the ecological and environmental settings through which H. sapiens...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine Conlan.

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. Caribbean sea turtle histories are deeply intertwined with past human activities. It has long been acknowledged that to fully support sea turtle recovery we must account for the activities acting on populations prior to modern baselines. As sea turtles are long-lived, species level data...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Judson Finley.

This is an abstract from the "Innovation and Population Dynamics in Drylands" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Utah’s northern Uinta Basin represents the maximum biophysical extent of maize agriculture in the American Southwest. The adoption of maize agriculture between AD 200–300, as well as the subsequent development of early agricultural villages, occurred within well-defined multidecadal precipitation parameters. Here we focus on the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ségolène Vandevelde.

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. Rock art is one of the oldest forms of symbolic expression, offering unique insights into the human spirit and providing a window into the worldview and cosmogony of its creators. Despite extensive study worldwide, many questions remain unanswered: What is the temporality of use of rock art sites? Is there multiple creation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claudine Gravel-Miguel.

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. While archaeologists aim to use the latest technology to detect, classify, or analyze archaeological sites, they still face the classic problem that some sites are simply no longer visible due to soil deposition and erosion. While satellite imagery and aerial LiDAR data can sometimes help us see the outlines of certain...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lucas Proctor.

This is an abstract from the "Innovation and Population Dynamics in Drylands" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents the results of recent fieldwork at the Neolithic site of KHS-A, located north of the modern Al-Khashbah oasis in central Oman. The KHS-A site was identified in 2022 and consists of a cluster of stone structures, prepared fireplaces and lithic artifact scatters covering an area of over 3600 sq. meters on top of a relict...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Thompson.

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. Recent research suggests that locations on the continuum of collective to despotic forms of governance correlate with degrees of inequality. Among more despotic forms of governance, certain individuals disproportionately accrue resources, increasing wealth inequality. However, how governance affects different...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Steelman.

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. New research is overcoming challenges associated with dating pictographs. The Shumla Archaeological Chemistry Laboratory uses a novel approach with two independent methods to provide secure dating results for paintings. The first method employs plasma oxidation to isolate organic carbon directly from the paint layer for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacob Kalodner.

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> Bronze and Iron Age Eastern Kazakhstan, bordered in the northeast by the Altai-Sayan Mountains and the southeast by the Saur-Tarbagatai Mountains, lay along not only the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor (IAMC) but also within an open steppe corridor linking the eastern Eurasian steppe, western Eurasian steppe, and China. Given its geographic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Okanlawon.

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. The peak of the Atlantic trade, around the 17th and 18th centuries, saw a mass movement of people and things across geographical spaces. For the British traders, this period was also characterized by the rise of the Georgian culture of individualism, symmetry and orderliness. On the Upper Guinea coast,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jerimy Cunningham.

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. Archaeologists have embraced ethnographic analogy because they do not believe their first-hand "modern" experiences can be abstracted into models that are applicable to ancient lifeways. Ethnoarchaeology has thus been tasked with studying “traditional” communities to create...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tyler Mullins.

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. In the last decade, several articles have detailed the possibility of identifying archaeological sites containing lithics remotely using acoustic resonance. However, limited research has been conducted into understanding resonant signatures of...