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This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Uniting traditional knowledge with scientific data is critical to fully manage and interpret significant cultural resources. Collaboration with Indigenous communities is necessary throughout the process to best understand and interpret valuable archaeology and the landscapes it inhabits. This presentation outlines some of the proactive ways Hill...
Rethinking the Function of Rock Inscriptions, from Northeast Africa to Southeast Asia (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. Cross cultural comparative rock art research that incorporates local perspectives is scarce. This research is a reflection of fieldwork conducted at two sacred sites in two culturally distinct regions, in Northeast Africa and Southeast Asia, where the practice of...
Rethinking the role of elephant carcasses in early hominin foraging decisions (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Elephant Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Paleolithic record has many examples of elephant carcasses in association with stone tools. In some cases, there is further behavioral evidence of hominin exploitation in the form of cut marks, spatial distribution and representation of skeletal parts, and/or depositional context. Most analyses have focused on the quality of evidence for behavioral associations...
A Return to Polysemy and the Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Agency and Ideology in Modern and Ancient Bodies in Place (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. The agency of the dead, particularly the dead body, has been hotly debated in biological anthropology and archaeology. Can the dead influence the living? Or are dead bodies purely at the mercy of the cosmological and pollical whims of the extant world? This presentation examines multiple aspects of the emplaced dead body to argue...
The Rise of Complexity among the Bini (West Africa) (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. <html> The paper examines the rise of socio-political complexity among the Bini of modern Nigeria. It is shown that this process took place mainly in the second half of the 1<sup>st</sup> millennium CE, was stimulated by the spread of agriculture and iron among the Bini, and is connected with their struggle for...
Ritual Closure at Point of Pines Pueblo: Forgetting Immigrant Identity and Creating a New Community (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Ritual Closure: A Global Perspective" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Beginning with Emil Haury’s (1958) brief article on the burning of the Maverick Mountain room block at Point of Pines Pueblo, archaeologists have consistently interpreted this process as an incident of inter-ethnic violence perpetrated by the locals in the Point of Pines region in order to drive away the Kayenta immigrants who had settled at the...
Ritual Closure on the Fremont Frontier (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Ritual Closure: A Global Perspective" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For roughly 1000 years, the far northern extent of the cultural North American Southwest reached into Utah, inhabited by peoples we refer to as the Fremont. During the Fremont Late Period (ca. A.D. 1000–1300), many structures across the vast region were intentionally burned and buried with specific ritual artifacts including figurines, gaming...
Ritual termination and rejection of the status quo in Mesoamerica. (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Ritual Closure: A Global Perspective" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ritual termination events are a routine religious practice throughout much Mesoamerica. As part of the world renewing religious perspective, they can involve a wide range of objects from the smallest incensarios to large, monumental structures such as pyramids. However, an important distinction remains to be analyzed, terminations that are part of...
Rock Art 3D Modeling: Documentation and Presentation of Federal Sites (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. Rock art documentation strategies often focus on extracting individual panels out from the whole of a rock art site to photograph, document, and study the site. This approach has provided the majority of rock art site documentation on Bureau of Land Management public...
Rock art as a manifestation of power and status in Scandinavian Bronze Age rock art. (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. In this paper we argue that the Scandinavian Bronze Age rock art can be associated with status and power and that the institutional idea of secret societies is the concept that best connects the warrior ideals shown in the rock art. It has recently been proposed that Scandinavian Bronze Age rock art was created by...
Rock Art as a Paleoenvironmental Proxy: Using Animal Depictions to Determine Differences in Environmental History Between Two Colombian Regions. (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. Rock art research has traditionally focused on the identification and interpretation of motifs, both representative and non-representative. In recent times, scholars have increasingly started to investigate how rock art can inform on the environmental history of the...
Rock Art Landscapes: Identification of Rock Art distribution patterns at different spatial scales in La Lindosa, Guaviare Colombia (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. This presentation shows an initial approach to rock art landscapes in Nuevo Tolima, Serranía of La Lindosa, based on a systematic study of rock paintings. The analysis supposes that multiple human activities left traces currently visible in the rock art landscapes...
The Rockshelters Of The Vernal Area: Re-Examining The Leo C. Thorne Perishable Collection In The Uintah Basin (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. In the early 1930s, a local photographer, named Leo C. Thorne, documented twelve rockshelters in the Ashley-Dry Fork and Steinaker Draw area northwest of Vernal, Utah. Thorne amassed a substantial artifact collection from these and other local sites around the Uintah Basin, now displayed at the Uintah County Heritage Museum (UCHM) in...
The Role of Captives in Status-Striving in Transegalitarian and Chiefdom Societies (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. Ambitious leaders in transegalitarian and chiefdom level societies used a variety of approaches to achieve control over other people and the material wealth in their society. They organized or participated in raids and warfare, they led efforts to defend against raids of other groups, they hosted competitive feasts,...
The Rubber Hit the Road, But How Do I Keep the Wheels Rolling?: Staying Engaged in Public Archaeology and Outreach While Digging Deeper into Management and Compliance (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cultural Resource Management, Compliance, Public Archaeology, Community-Based Research, Collaborative Archaeology, and many other subfields create numerous intersections and roundabouts. Some connect the entire country and others make it safer for parents to drop off their kids at school in the morning. The Colorado Department of Transportation...
San Pablo Villa de Mitla, Rock Art and The Prehistoric Caves Initiative: Effectiveness of Polycentric Governance in Managing Cultural Heritage (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. <html> <b>This study presents the outcomes of applying the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework to define focal action situations within the Mexican Cultural System (MCS). Through a detailed examination of San Pablo Villa de Mitla, Rock Art, and The...
Satellites and Sociocultural Economics in the Pacific (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Using data collected by satellite and aerial remote sensing platforms, we developed an economic model of human niche construction at the islands in the Pacific. We argue that types of niches are determined by human choice, given environmental conditions, which can be both assets and challenges. Deciding to surmount challenges increases cultural capital,...
The Scream of the Butterfly:The Aftermath of Massacre Landscapes (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. Context and history are crucial to examine when interpreting both local and broader implications and effects of mass killings and massacres. Massacre scholars have shown that political-economic and cultural events shape the ideas of the perpetrators who become convinced that a massacre is the only option to solve a perceived...
Semiotics for Rock Art (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. Semiotics applied to rock art is useful when it is part of an archaeological project because semiotics contributes a framework of principles of communication, methodology and definitive vocabulary from linguistics for analyzing imagery in a substantive manner. Using...
Shifting Prosperity amid Cycles of Collective and Autocratic Governance at Caracol, Belize (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. The city of Caracol, Belize shifted back and forth between more collective and more autocratic governance at least four times over its 1,500-year history. In the Preclassic, early conurbation between three centers (Downtown Caracol, Hazcap Ceel, and Cahal Pichik) created the initial conditions for Caracol’s...
The significance of proboscidea heads in the Paleoithic: Ethnoarchaeology of trans-species skull cult with reference to the Pavlonian and Mezinia (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Elephant Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In numerous cultures human and non-human heads and their separable components have been revered as spiritually significant and as sacra used in ritual within “head (or skull) cults”; often considered as ensouled beings imbued with vital force. Potent elements of the head include soft-tissue structures such as eyes, tongue, the brain, and ears; skeletal structures...
The Significance of Stones: Ritual Reuse of Hearthstones and Monuments in Early Medieval Wales (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Ritual Closure: A Global Perspective" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Early medieval Wales was a fragmented political landscape, and the threat of incomers from Ireland and Scotland led to an increased sense of urgency amongst the Welsh uchelwyr (elites) to retain their hold on the land. To that end, ancient standing stone monuments were given secondary function as property boundary stones, lending legitimacy to land...
Slips and Lasers: Characterizing White Slip Clays on Salado Polychrome Ceramics from the Phoenix Basin of Arizona using LA-ICP-MS (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Salado polychrome pottery (Roosevelt Red Ware) was produced in numerous locations across the American Southwest between ca. 1300 and 1450 CE. In this study, we use laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) of white slip clays on Salado polychrome pottery from the Phoenix Basin of Arizona, paired with the results of...
A Snapshot of Copper Age Lifeways: Insights from the Banat Region, Serbia (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. From hunting to domestication, animals have always been a key factor in human survival. However, the dynamics of the relationships between animals and humans vary across time, space, and societies. In European prehistory, animals have been studied as a means of subsistence and economic...
Social impact of ethnoarchaeological research on ceramics in the Comitán region, Chiapas, México (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This work focuses on the social changes observed after 5 years of studying pottery making in the Eastern Highlands of Chiapas. Pottery making among the descendants of Tojolabal Maya is documented to compare techniques and materials used in Protohistoric period (1500-1600) wares with modern ones. During this research we established close...