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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. <html> <sup>14</sup>C AMS allowed targeting oxalates growing on rocks (mainly whewellite and weddellite) as potential dating material for rock art. Studies have confirmed that carbon in oxalate crusts comes not from the substrate on which they grow, but most probably originate from microbiota on surfaces. Additionally,...
Past Movement and New Models: Reconstructing Past Mobility in the Absaroka Mountains by Applying Bayesian Neural Networks Towards Refining Trace Element Modeling (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. Sourcing lithic raw materials in North America has become increasingly valuable for understanding past human behavior. However, the process often faces challenges due to monetary costs and the need to remove materials from their original landscape. Refining pXRF obsidian sourcing methods can help mitigate...
Paw-sitive Identification: Machine Learning with Biometrics Improves Canid Detection (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. Zooarchaeological canid identifications are made using an array of techniques, many of which were only ever designed to separate dogs from wolves and have never been tested against large samples. Skeletal measurements (termed biometrics) coupled with statistical analyses can improve identification...
People and Mammoth in Alaska (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Elephant Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological record of Alaska documents interactions between people and mammoth and offers a different perspective from the rest of the Americas, where research has focused on hunting. Hunting probably did happen in Alaska, but evidence for it is relatively limited. Mammoth remains in Pleistocene archaeological sites instead come mostly as ivory objects and...
Perceptions of Properness and the ‘Reemergent’ Dead (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. Every dead person has the potential to be claimed or disputed by someone long after their death. Drawing on the definition of ‘affect’ by Crellin and Harris (2021), Weiss-Krejci et al. (2022) refer to these dead as 'reemergent'. Whether a 'reemergence' of the dead takes place depends to a large extent on their affective...
Permanent Body Modification: Archaeological and Early Historical Evidence (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Today, permanent body modification (PBM) is very popular. Studies suggest that billions of people have experienced one or more types of PBM. But what is the history of PBM? When did the different types originate? Were they invented recently, or do they have a long history? Did they appear simultaneously or at different times? In this presentation, we shed...
Petroglyphs Age Estimates Using Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Measurements (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. Petroglyphs are often created by removing the dark rock varnish that covers rock surfaces in arid and semiarid regions. Subsequently, the varnish redevelops over time. We have developed a non-destructive in-situ technique, using portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF), for the measurement of the areal density of Mn and Fe on rock...
Pictograph Scenes that compare to Tabira Black and White Pottery (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. Archaeologists use depictions on pottery for comparison to pictographs and petroglyphs. Most common are Mimbres images that occur at rock art sites, but Chupadero Black and White pottery designs can also be comparable. Recently we have found several pictograph panels...
The Place of Coastlines in Prehistoric Systems Between the Lateglacial and Mesolithic Periods in Western France : Petrology's Contribution to Assessing the Spread of an Original Coastal Resource - Flint Pebbles. (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. The LGM and Lateglacial coastal occupations of the Armorican Massif (western France), now submerged, are largely absent from our socio-economic models and considerations for these period. Despite the lack of direct evidence, yet current data...
"The point, however, is to change it": Marxist archaeology and praxis in Spain through Randall McGuire's work (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. For those of us who seek to apply Marxist thought to our academic career and personal live to interpret and -at least try to- change the world, Randall McGuire’s work is an unquestionable reference. The wide range of topics he has tackled throughout his large career and his personal compromise with the...
Political Archaeologies that Matter: Randy McGuire and his Contributions to Archaeologies of the Recent Past. (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 is an archaeologist who lives and works his politics. Nowhere is this embodiment of the political in the discipline of archaeology more evident than in McGuire’s many contributions to our understandings of how archaeology can be conducted to illuminate social injustice in the recent past. This...
Polity, collectivity and trade: a Mediterranean island across temporal and social boundaries (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. This paper examines the organization and control of trade on Sicily and the different forms of polities on Sicily during shifts across the traditional archaeological boundaries of Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age. In other parts of Europe, these periods are currently conceptualized as going from more egalitarian,...
Power Divergences Among Pre-contact Puebloan and Mogollon Societies: Conflict and Cooperation in the American Southwest (2025)
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. This paper explores how two contemporary pre-contact (AD 800-1200) cultures in the American Southwest compared in power structures and leadership roles. We investigate the Ancestral Puebloans of the Chaco region and the Mimbres Mogollon people of southwestern New Mexico. As these societies reacted to changing...
The Power of Many: Alternative Social histories in the relationship between Crete and Egypt in the Bronze Age (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 discourse surrounding the presence of Egyptian artifacts on the island of Crete has predominantly centred on the concept of cultural transmission. Recent models challenge traditional colonial interpretations by recognizing the agency of local Cretan communities in integrating Egyptian materials into their own...
Predators and Preciosities: Acquiring and Displaying Status and Power in the Isthmo-Colombian Area (2025)
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. The Isthmo-Colombian area served as a nexus for communication and exchange among chiefdoms and middle-range societies in southern Central America, northern South America, the Antilles, northern Amazonia, and the northern Andes. Political actors and especially ambitious leaders acquired and openly displayed finely...
Prehistoric Landscape Transformation of Isla Espíritu Santo: a geoarchaeological approach (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. During the 12.5 to 6.5 ka period, early humans began to inhabit Isla Espiritu Santo (IES), which underwent significant changes due to rising sea levels. These changes led to the disappearance of ancient coastlines and the transformation of the...
Preliminary Study on the classification and function of ivories and ivory objects unearthed from the sacrificial pit of the Sanxingdui site (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Elephant Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Numerous ivories and ivory objects have been unearthed from eight pits found at the Sanxingdui site in Sichuan, China. These ivories and ivory objects can be roughly divided into three categories: buried objects, sacrificial utensils and decorations, which play different roles and functions in different scenes. The ivories with clear outlines placed on the upper...
Pueblo Closure: Migration and Exchange in an Animate World (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Ritual Closure: A Global Perspective" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Closure ceremonies and other rites of passage rituals mark the lives of buildings and can track the movements of peoples. In the Puebloan southwest these are common components of the archaeological record whose rich information remains relatively untapped. In this paper, we compare closure practices across Jornada Mogollon pueblos during the El Paso...
Putting the Settlers in Settler Colonialism: Power and Ideology in the Archaeology of Settler Sites (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. In recent years, archaeological studies of colonialism have drawn heavily on the concept of settler colonialism. While laudable, this perspective is most frequently applied to contexts of colonial conflict and trauma (e.g., war zones and battlefields). It is rarely the theoretical perspective applied to the...
Randy and the Archaeology of Northwest Mexico (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. From a first academic meeting in the late 1970s in the Chiricahua Mountains and the 18th Brumaire, to this day, in this well-deserved recognition, Randall McGuire, "el Randy" to the Mexican norteños, has had a profound impact not only on me but on the archaeology of Northwest Mexico.He has shared with...
Re-examining Maya Rock Art at Planchón de las Figuras, Chiapas, Mexico: Documentation of Petroglyphs with Close Range, High Resolution Photogrammetry and Relief Visualization (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. The Maya are well-known for their sculptures in stone, most prolific during the Classic period (AD 250–800); what Gordon Willey and Robert Redfield once called “great styles” or “great traditions,” respectively. More recently, archaeologists have investigated other...
Recipes in Transatlantic Contexts: Mountain Chicken and Ouicou (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. This paper examines the archaeology of Dominican creole cuisine by taking an in-depth look at one dish: mountain chicken (Leptodactylus fallax) paired with ouicou, or cassava beer. Using this dish as a touchstone of the early modern Lesser Antilles, I explore the archaeological possibilities of...
Reconstructing Women’s Contributions in Chinese Archaeology: Roles in Fieldwork and 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. In the history of Chinese archaeology, despite the significant contributions of women in Chinese archaeology since the early 20th century, the discipline’s historical narrative has remained predominantly male-centric, with women's voices seldom featured in mainstream discourse. Although women have played a vital role...
Reflections on-field mentoring and diverse archaeology student engagement at Boomplaas Cave (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. This paper reflects on a multi-year technical training and capacity-building program at Boomplaas Cave in South Africa's southern Cape region. Boomplaas is one of Africa’s flagship Middle and Later Stone Age archaeological sites and provides a unique environment to train students in...
Reimagining governance in the Zimbabwe culture: Some lessons from ancient Mberengwa (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. This study examines the persistent challenges in the historiography of early governance and state formation in the Zimbabwe culture (CE 1000–1900). Traditional analyses of Great Zimbabwe, and other large collectives such as Mapungubwe and Khami rely heavily on outdated socio-evolutionary models that portray these...