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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The University of South Dakota (USD) archaeological field school in summer 2024 took place at the Soapsuds Row area of Fort Meade at the Bear Butte Creek Historic Preserve in Sturgis, South Dakota. The term “Soapsuds Row” refers to the housing originally used by laundresses employed by Fort Meade in the late AD 1800s. The 2024 archaeological work focused...
Addressing Tribal Environmental Justice and Historic Preservation for Levee Infrastructure through Value-Added Geospatial Risk Analysis (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study focuses on concerns for levees that tribal, state, and federal historic preservation staff have anecdotally observed, but have not fully quantified. It was designed in direct response Tribal Historic Preservation Officers’ concerns following flood events in the Mississippi River Valley in 2019. The research design was developed in coordination...
Archaeological Bear Ceremonialism Interpreted through Tooth Measurements and Wear from Black Bears of Known Life History (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Concentrations of black bear (Ursus americanus) remains were examined from four Late Woodland archaeological features related to Kathio National Landmark in Minnesota, representing single ceremonial events in the history of the Dakota Nation. Archaeologically, they were superficially similar, consisting of fragmented bear cranial bone and teeth,...
Big Bangs, Cosmic Connections, and other Pauketatian Perspectives on Illinois Valley Archaeology (2025)
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...
The Center and the Plain: Results from an Analysis of Absorbed Residues from Mississippian and Fort Ancient Pottery from the Guard Site (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Guard site (12D29) has a mixture of non-local Mississippi Plain and local Fort Ancient pottery types. Mississippi Plain pottery is more concentrated in the central plaza whereas the Fort Ancient pottery is more common in residential areas. Here we report on an absorbed pottery residue analysis from a small sample for each of these pottery types to...
The Ceramic Analysis of the Collier Lodge Site (12PR36) (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Collier Lodge Site (12Pr36) is on the southern edge of Porter County in Indiana in the northmost part of the Kankakee Marsh. The archaeological site is uniquely represented by its extensive ceramic assemblage that spans from 1000 BC to historic times. Despite this trove of ceramic data, the chronology of the site and Northwestern Indiana region has...
Chaco and Cahokia in Continental Contexts (2025)
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...
Chronometric Evidence Does Not Support Cahokia’s “Big Bang” (2025)
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...
Commercial versus Private Life: The Fairchild Family Homestead on the Lake Michigan Dunes, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Fairchild site, located on dune land along the Lake Michigan in Sheboygan County, was the home of the Fairchild family, who moved from New York state to Sheboygan County in 1846. The family engaged in a variety of economic pursuits, notably including pound net fishing. Investigations of the site, located mere meters from the Lake Michigan shore, were...
Contextualizing a Multicomponent Precontact Site among Lake Michigan’s Dunes in Wisconsin (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological investigations of the Kohler Dunes and Swales site (47SB0713) situated in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, identified overwhelming evidence of precontact occupation and land use by Archaic, Early Woodland, Middle Woodland, Late Woodland, and Oneota populations. This paper parses the more than 1,000 features, 75 cultural strata, and 11...
Developing a Repository Collections Management Database (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Archaeological Research Laboratory Center (ARLC) curates archaeological collections, artifacts and archival records, from over 800 archaeological sites within a federally compliant (36 CFR 79) storage facility. Over several decades, collections management standards have changed regarding how the ARLC catalogs the...
Dirt Archaeology and Big Histories - Tacking Between Details and Impacts of Tim Pauketat’s Career in Archaeology (2025)
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...
A Disposable Footprint: The Archaeological Legacy of A Single-Use Consumer Explosion at a Minnesota Railroad Boomtown (ca. 1890–1910) (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The trillion dollar market for e-commerce sales has transformed the infrastructural landscape into one that delivers commodities to consumers in record time. Amazon Prime freight containers and delivery trucks have provided a ubiquitous convenience that has changed the material realities of our everyday lives in substantive ways. In this paper we explore...
Eastern Oneota Ecology at the Dawn of History: Stable Isotope Perspectives (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Indigenous Eastern Oneota groups inhabited the Prairie Peninsula region of Midwestern North American for several centuries. It is widely known they used maize and wild resources from a variety of different ecosystems. The ecosystems they used are usually inferred through site-catchment analysis or the presence of faunal and floral remains from different...
Establishing a Baseline: New Archaeological Research in Lake Michigan Building Community and Indigenous Connections (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The variation in water levels of the Great Lakes over the past 15,000 years has resulted in portions of formerly dry land and unique environments becoming inundated. Although underwater archaeology in the cold, fresh waters of the Great Lakes has often focused on shipwrecks, older archaeological evidence of indigenous peoples is preserved. This project...
“Even Before the Battle’s Begun”: Historicizing Violence and Warfare in the Southeastern US (2025)
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. Archaeological approaches to warfare and violence have traditionally been influenced by socioevolutionary theoretical frameworks. The research stemming from these perspectives have focused on identifying external factors that caused warfare, the role of violence in the evolution of complex...
Forgetting to Remember, Remembering to Forget: Materiality Confronts Public Memory in the Missouri Ozarks (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Our research in the Ozarks of southwest Missouri yields insights that are at odds with national and local perceptions of the area. Archaeological, documentary, and oral history data show that late 19th and early 20th century communities were more racially diverse and economies less narrowly agrarian than assumed and, arguably, than they are today. In this...
From Tragedy to Triumph of the Commoners (2025)
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. Archaeologists tend to focus on the most visible sites and the elites and leaders who directed their construction, at the expense of understanding the lived experiences of the vast majority who built and supported them. While much of Tim Pauketat’s research centers on Cahokia, North America’s...
Grave Consequences: Comparing Nonintrusive Methods for Identifying Unmarked Graves at Maple Grove Cemetery (47AS0012) in Ashland County, WI (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The use of non-intrusive methods to identify unmarked graves, in or outside of a known cemetery, is not a novel pursuit, and many have been utilized to differing degrees of success. This poster will attempt to determine the effectiveness of several of these methods to identify graves at Maple Grove Cemetery (MGC) in Ashland County, WI where there are...
Historic Exploration at Wind Cave National Park (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project aims to document the material evidence of historic exploration of Wind Cave in South Dakota, which occurred during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Since the cave maintains a consistent dry climate and cool temperatures, items such as newspapers clippings, notes from early visitors, and candle remains can be found completely or...
History by the Bottle: Prohibition-Era Beverage Bottles from the Gass Saloon, Hamtramck, Michigan (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During Hamtramck, Michigan’s heyday, the city had more saloons per capita than any city in the United States. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, places like the Gass Saloon were central to daily life for residents of the industrial city, serving as hubs for business, entertainment, political discourse, and community growth. Archival records from the...
How Old, Broken Dishes Can Advance Research and Create Citizen Scientists (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Legacy donations can be a collections nightmare for repositories, CRM firms, and museums. Prior to the professionalization of archaeological collection management, donations often arrived without documentation, funding, or even a clear intent to study them. Beginning in 2022, the Illinois State Archaeological Survey (ISAS) initiated a plan to...
<html>Detecting Ancient Wild Rice (<i>Zizania</i> spp.) across the Upper Great Lakes of North America</html> (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Wild rice (manoomin, Zizania spp.) is closely linked to past and present Indigenous cultures in the North American Great Lakes region. However, wild rice is difficult to detect in lake sediments and archaeological contexts using traditional methods, such as pollen and macroremains, so both the ecological and cultural histories of this plant are poorly...
<html>Swelling or Shrinking? Using Carbonization Experiments on Goosefoot (<i>Chenopodium berlandieri</i>) to Measure the Effects of Charring on Seed Size</html> (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Charred seeds often present obstacles for paleoethnobotanists interpreting their data. Seed size continues to be an important variable in characterizing paleoethnobotanical assemblages, and the effects of charring and carbonization on ancient seeds is well studied for some species but not for others. It is important to understand these effects since...
Indigenizing Archaeology: Disassembling the Old Copper Culture (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Old Copper Culture (OCC), as a general term, is an archaeological culture that has been studied for decades and still continues to be used as an identifier in American Archaeology. Throughout these studies there seems to be something crucial missing: Indigenous perspectives. I argue that Indigenous Traditional Knowledge is necessary for the...