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This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Basque Archaeology: Current Research and Future Directions" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the Roman Empire's interests in its provinces was the exploitation of their mineral resources. In the region of the Western Pyrenees, the Empire promoted mining activities for gold, silver, iron and copper. Notably, the mining complex in the Aierdi Ravine (Lantz, Navarra, Spain) stands out...
An Analysis of Middle Paleolithic Fauna from Hole Fels (Swabian Jura, Germany) (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The sites of the Swabian Jura preserve long sequences of hominin occupation that span the Middle and Upper Paleolithic, including the oldest known art and musical instruments, which date to the Aurignacian period. Historically, we have thought of the Middle Paleolithic occupation of the region as being relatively ephemeral and low-density as compared to...
Applications of Isotope Analysis to Conflict Archaeology: A Case Study from the Northern Iberian Peninsula (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Basque Archaeology: Current Research and Future Directions" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Isotopic approaches to investigate geographic area of origin, mobility, and dietary practices have long been applied to archaeological and forensic contexts. Isotopic ratios from human bones and teeth can be used to derive information about cultural, geographic, and demographic group membership....
The archaeological discovery and analysis of the "Hombre de Loizu" (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Basque Archaeology: Current Research and Future Directions" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2020, during a speleological intervention in a cave located in the Erro Valley (Navarra), the oldest set of skeletal remains in the region was discovered. Radiocarbon dating revealed the individual to be more than 11,000 years old, placing the remains in the early Mesolithic period. Due to the...
The Archaeology of Historic and Modern Conflict in the Basque Country (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Basque Archaeology: Current Research and Future Directions" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between the 18th and 20th centuries, the Basque Country was the setting for numerous large-scale conflicts, including the War of the Pyrenees, the Peninsular War, the Carlist Wars, and the Spanish Civil War. These conflicts deeply impacted Basque society and left an enduring legacy within the...
Are Big Data Better Data? A Historical Evaluation of Dinetah Navajo Tree-ring Data (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Tree-Ring Materials as a Basis for Cultural Interpretations" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The tremendous expansion of research and computing power in the past few decades has resulted in the creation of large databases in many fields, and archaeology is no exception. But what have we really learned? In the early 1990s, astronomers searched the skies with the most advanced technology of the time. They addressed such...
Basque Tree Carvings in the American West (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Basque Archaeology: Current Research and Future Directions" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tree carvings, arborglyphs, or lertxun-marrak in Euskera, etched by sheepherders constitute one of the most visible remnants of Basque culture in the Western United States. They are also a case of living forms containing art created in open spaces, which creates innumerable challenges for their...
Basque Whaling and Inuit Contacts on the Quebec Lower North Shore (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Basque Archaeology: Current Research and Future Directions" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The first sustained post-Norse northern contacts between Europeans and Indigenous North Americans began in the Gulf of St. Lawrence beginning in the mid-16<sup>th</sup> century. Mik’maq of the southern Gulf were quick to engage with Basque whalers and traders. In the northern Gulf and...
Bedlam, Bags, and Burial Rites: Female Hip Assemblages in Early Medieval Britain (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the early medieval period, burials across Britian included a wide variety of grave goods, which often signaling status, ethnicity, and varied by demographic factors. This study explores objects included in female graves which have been interpreted as bags worn about the hip. A functionalist interpretation may be too simplistic for understanding...
Communities of Practice in Neolithic and Copper Age Iberia: The Application of RTI to the Engraved Stone Plaques (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Engraved slate plaques are a distinctive feature of the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic of the west and south-west of the Iberian Peninsula, largely recovered from megalithic tombs, as well as diverse mortuary and non-mortuary contexts. More than a century of research has investigated their form, function, distribution, and evolution across the fourth and...
Dendrochronological Recognition of Two Traumatic Events in Navajo History: The Fearing Time/Long Walk and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Tree-Ring Materials as a Basis for Cultural Interpretations" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over recent centuries the Navajo of the Southwestern U.S. have faced several traumatic periods that affected their culture and lives. Two of the most dynamic of these were the Fearing Time/Long Walk of the 1850s and 1860s and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic. The Fearing Time resulted in the Navajo seeking refuge and safety in...
Dendrochronology at the Pile-Dwelling Site of Lucone D (Brescia, Italy): Chronology, Building Reconstruction and Wood-Use Practices (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Tree-Ring Materials as a Basis for Cultural Interpretations" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Early Bronze Age Lucone D pile-dwelling settlement, a UNESCO World Heritage site component, is located in the basin of Lucone di Polpenazze del Garda, northern Italy. It has been excavated, by Museo Archeologico della Valle Sabbia from 2007 to today. Over 400 samples already subjected to dendrochronological analysis allow...
Evidence of Fragmentation and Decapitation Practices in the Funerary Treatment of the Dead in Western Roman Britain (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent studies using bioarchaeological data and evidence of mortuary treatment practices associated with decapitation burials have concluded there were regional and more nuanced site-by-site variations during the Late Roman period (3rd – 5th century A.D.) in western Roman Britain. This research presents the bioarchaeological and mortuary analysis results...
Extending the Use-Lives of Ancestral Pueblo Kivas and Great Kivas: A Tree-Ring Perspective (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Tree-Ring Materials as a Basis for Cultural Interpretations" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological concept of "architectural continuance” refers to the extended longevity of selected buildings and, especially, to the efforts made by those structures’ owners or caretakers to keep them in service over time. Archaeological evidence for the continuance of ancestral Pueblo kivas and great kivas shows how these...
From mountain high to valley low: a comparative study of two medieval funerary sites in northwest Navarre (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Basque Archaeology: Current Research and Future Directions" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations conducted by Aditu Arkeologia at the sites of San Miguel de Excelsis and Santa Maria de Zamartze revealed more than 180 inhumated human skeletal remains dating from the eleventh to fifteenth centuries CE. These sites, located within the municipality of Uharte-Arakil (Navarre, Spain),...
Historical Archaeological Approaches to the Basque Influence on the Economic and Cultural Development of the American West (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Basque Archaeology: Current Research and Future Directions" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Popular conceptions of the settlement of the American West have long been associated with stoic cowboys, resolute homesteaders, and even California’s tenacious Miner Forty-Niners. These archetypes are representative the vast region’s development through the utilization of its abundant natural...
Historically Contingent: Case Studies in the Interpretation of Tree-Ring Date Distributions (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Tree-Ring Materials as a Basis for Cultural Interpretations" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. After 95 years of archaeological tree-ring dating in the American Southwest, there are now tens of thousands of tree-ring dates with which scholars can guide their analyses. When dealing with randomly distributed datasets, large samples sizes can mean more reliable statistical inferences. When dealing with spatially,...
<html>Better Baselines? Creating Robust and Meaningful Sulfur (δ<sup>34</sup>S) Isoscapes for Archaeological Studies of Residence and Mobility</html> (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Many of the central questions of archaeology engage directly with themes relating to movement, mobility, and migration. The two most common isotope systems that have been exploited for this purpose are strontium (<sup>87</sup>Sr/<sup>86</sup>Sr) and oxygen (δ<sup>18</sup>O), with sulfur isotopes (δ<sup>34</sup>S) being a much most recent addition to...
<html>Stable isotope examination (δ<sup>18</sup>O, δ<sup>13</sup>C) of human remains from the Monastery of Santa María de Zamartze (Uharte-Arakil Municipality, Navarre)</html> (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Basque Archaeology: Current Research and Future Directions" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> A subset of human remains (n=155) recovered during the 2011 to 2015 excavations from the Monastery of Santa María de Zamartze burial grounds were analyzed for stable oxygen and carbon isotopes derived from bone and tooth carbonate. Provided this site’s close geographic association with a...
<html>Upper Paleolithic Landscapes, Settlement Systems, and the <i>Longue Durée</i></html> (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Published scholarship of the Upper Paleolithic foregrounds the archaeology of cave deposits, larger archaeological sites, and unusual discoveries, an overrepresentation that biases the regional analysis of Late Pleistocene settlement systems. This presentation demonstrates the analytical necessity of systematically sampling and characterizing...
In-Built Age in Archaeological Tree-Ring Samples and Behavioral Implications (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Tree-Ring Materials as a Basis for Cultural Interpretations" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Age disparities between wood and charcoal and their archaeological contexts are a common problem in archaeological chronometry. With high precision dating techniques such as dendrochronology and wiggle-matching, even small age-offsets could affect the accuracy of chronological inferences and thus behavioral interpretations. In...
Late Neanderthal Subsistence at Lapa do Picareiro (Portugal): A Zooarchaeological and Taphonomic Study (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Identifying variability in Neanderthal behavior through time during the Late Pleistocene is critical for understanding the processes which culminated in the disappearance of Neanderthals on local and regional scales. One region, Portuguese Estremadura (central Portugal), has a growing Middle Paleolithic archaeological record with several key sites...
Non-human animal use at the Silo of Charlemagne (Orreaga/Roncesvalles, Navarre) (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Basque Archaeology: Current Research and Future Directions" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents the preliminary results of a zooarchaeological study of the non-human bone recovered from the Silo of Charlemagne, a long-term, multi-use ossuary located in Orreaga/Roncesvalles, Navarre (Basque Country). Animal husbandry in the Pyrenees historically includes raising domestic...
Perforated Disks as Indicators of Magdalenian Social Networks (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the Middle and Upper Magdalenian (ca. 18,000 to 14,000 cal BP), people across western and central Europe created and circulated perforated disks made largely of bone and stone. Averaging ca. 4 centimeters in diameter, the disks were one of many portable decorated items produced during the Magdalenian in the context of rapid population expansions...
A Provenience Analysis of Glass Wine Bottle Seals and the Commodification of Household Goods in Early Eighteenth-Century Colonial Virginia (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> In this presentation I use a pXRF analysis of the chemical composition of glass wine bottle seals recovered from John Custis IV’s manor house in Williamsburg, Virginia to investigate the development of mercantile networks in the early 18<sup>th</sup> century British Atlantic world. Utilizing the documentary and archaeological record related to this...