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DOCUMENT Citation Only Martin Gallivan.

This is an abstract from the "Building a Better Chronology for Fifteenth–Eighteenth-Century Eastern North America through Radiocarbon Dating and Collaborative Research Agendas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Constructing a chronology for the Native Chesapeake on the eve of the colonial era presents several challenges. These include a predominant focus on European settlement, fluctuations in the radiocarbon calibration curve, a scarcity of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Rooney.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Hollywood and Valley Plantation, located in southeast Arkansas on the banks of Bayou Bartholomew, was home to at least four waves of migrating African Americans: two forced migrations of enslaved people of color in the 1820s and 1840s, and two voluntary migrations of Black sharecroppers in the 1870s and 1900s. Preliminary excavations at two different...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ariel Gilmore.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. When thinking of the African Diaspora one cannot deny the themes of resistance, resilience, and justice that seem to unite these very distinct cultures. This project focuses on the African diaspora and interrogates what diaspora means using media archaeology. Media archaeology is defined as a field of study that seeks to understand how change over time...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fumi Arakawa.

This is an abstract from the "Thinking of Acronyms: a Kohler Obsession? Papers in Honor of Timothy A. Kohler (TAKO)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As population density increases throughout the Holocene, people tend to expand their mobility strategies to acquire necessary resources (e.g., food, raw materials, mating opportunities, etc.). This is a common perception of human behavior globally; however, archaeological records, particularly lithic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Reese.

This is an abstract from the "Thinking of Acronyms: a Kohler Obsession? Papers in Honor of Timothy A. Kohler (TAKO)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The proliferation of artificial intelligence coupled with the accessibility of consumer-level computing equipment that can analyze big data has heralded a new paradigm of research in the hard and social sciences. While archaeology is often reticent to broadly adopt the newest technologies, a suite of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Gillreath-Brown.

This is an abstract from the "Thinking of Acronyms: a Kohler Obsession? Papers in Honor of Timothy A. Kohler (TAKO)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Severe heat waves and droughts are visible manifestations of climate change, and many people associate these events with climate change risks in the US. Drought impacts public health, economies, and quantity and quality of water. Over the past 2,000 years, the southwestern US has experienced several...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Asa Randall.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Shell miners reduced or removed shell-bearing sites across Florida in the 19th and 20th centuries. Archaeologists often work around this destruction to reconstruct how ancient landscapes emerged and were experienced in the deep past. In this poster, I focus on how these ancient places of social significance were destroyed, and outline an archaeology of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marcela Demyan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The UGA Laboratory of Archaeology is on year three of an NPS Saving America’s Treasures grant to rehabilitate archaeological material and associated documentation and media collected within Georgia’s five coastal counties. This includes over 1,500 boxes from more than 300 cultural sites, over 50 different investigations and represents in some cases, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Wyatt.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 2017, the Bass Street Community Archaeology Project has been conducting excavations at the site of one of the earliest African American neighborhoods in post-emancipation Nashville. The Bass Street Community was located on the north side of Saint Cloud Hill, the site of Fort Negley, a Civil War era fort constructed by the Union forces in Nashville....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gregory Wilson.

This is an abstract from the "Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the course of his career, Timothy R. Pauketat has made many groundbreaking contributions to precolonial North American archaeology. In this paper, we explore the implications of three of his most prominent contributions for understanding the Mississippian occupation of the Illinois River...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley McCuistion.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The curriculum of the Williamsburg Bray School is discussed in several correspondences between the school’s trustees and sponsors, and inventories of the textbooks provided to the school offer additional insight into what the students were learning. While these resources clearly indicate the purpose of the school was to indoctrinate Black children into...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hui Xiao.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Located at the Apalachicola River mouth in northwest Florida, the Pierce Mounds site (8Fr14) is the largest ceremonial center in the region and a hub for human activity from the Early Woodland to Mississippian periods (ca. 500 BC–AD 1500). Previous research identified interesting but confusing settlement patterns, including a possible oval plaza formed by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Lekson.

This is an abstract from the "Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tim Pauketat published Cahokia: Ancient America’s Great City in 2009. That same year, I published History of the Ancient Southwest. While differently structured, the books shared similar goals: to place their protagonists – Cahokia and Southwest – in context(s), epistemologically and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alyssa Catlin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Nestled in a vibrant Miami neighborhood is the diverse and historically rich area known as Coconut Grove, or simply the "Grove." Today, visitors to this neighborhood encounter trendy restaurants and million-dollar homes at its core. Meanwhile, West Grove remains predominantly populated by descendants of Afro-Caribbean immigrants who were part of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick Druggan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cahokia was the largest pre-contact Indigenous population center north of Mexico, and its development and dissolution are tied in myriad ways to numerous communities across the American Southeast and Midwest. Most current scholarship emphasizes a “Big Bang” which models the emergence of Cahokia as a profound and rapid event at ca. AD 1050 characterized by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peyton Foti.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A comparative analysis of brothel sites and red-light districts in three major port cities during or around the period of the American Industrial Revolution. While this paper will focus primarily on the site Storyville in New Orleans, Louisiana, both Five Points in Manhattan, New York, and Hell's Half Acre in Los Angeles, California will be used as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Picarelli-Kombert.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since arriving on Ossabaw Island ca. 5,000 years ago, Guale communities have intricately engaged with their natural environment, creating a diverse array of subsistence practices reflected in the archaeological record, most visibly the consumption and disposal of large quantities of eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica). Guale people living at the town...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allen Rutherford.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Phase III data collection excavations at two sites in Fannin County, Texas identified household contexts dating to the Early to Middle Caddo periods (AD 1000-1450). Ceramic analysis from those contexts has focused on differentiating between utilitarian and fine wares and using their ratios, in conjunction with radiocarbon dating of intact features, to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Angelina Perrotti.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study uses pollen, fungal spores, charcoal, and human demographic models to investigate vegetation change from an iconic 61,000 year record at Lake Tulane, Florida. The pollen record shows oscillations between pine and oak-dominated vegetation, with Heinrich events aligning with peaks in pine, indicating warm, wet climates in central Florida during...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Saunders.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Visualization of artifacts is a key element of archaeology and the dissemination of information. Although technology has improved exponentially in the past few decades, the ethical use of such visual depictions of artifacts have not caught up to the degree of information these images have the potential to convey. Here, I examine recent trends in the use...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rilee Rodgers.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The "Curation Crisis" refers to problems associated with the neglect of long-term care and management of archaeological collections. U.S. repositories in charge of caring for archaeological collections are underfunded, understaffed, and overcrowded, leaving them unable to properly care for collections. Despite the magnitude of this problem, most...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Rodning.

This is an abstract from the "Building a Better Chronology for Fifteenth–Eighteenth-Century Eastern North America through Radiocarbon Dating and Collaborative Research Agendas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Berry site, located in the upper Catawba River Valley of western North Carolina, is the location of the principal town of the Native American province and polity of Joara, and the location of the mid-sixteenth-century Spanish outpost of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eileen Ernenwein.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Watauga, an ancestral Cherokee site in the upper Little Tennessee River Valley of southwestern North Carolina, includes a Middle Mississippian period center with remnants of two platform mounds. Noninvasive site surveys in summer 2024 examined more than three hectares with ground penetrating radar, magnetometry and UAV-based LiDAR. These combined methods...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Baires.

This is an abstract from the "Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The lengthy and illustrious career of Timothy Pauketat has spanned decades of research in the American Bottom of Illinois. Rooted in meticulous methodology and a “dirt archaeologist” at heart, Tim’s theoretical scholarship has ranged broadly. Here we focus on the two decades in which Tim’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lindsey Cochran.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Environmental resources in the historical period in the southeastern United States were targeted differently than in any other preceding time period. While regional connections have been made between natural resource and historic settlement locations, few cross-cultural and cross-temporal synthesis exist. In this paper, we seek to articulate the major...