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DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Bair.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Buried settlements are rich archaeological resources, diachronically recording the daily lives and repeated practices of ordinary people. But in their complexity and size, settlements present challenges for the researcher, often limited by time, money, and labor. This paper presents a methodology designed to address challenges inherent in settlement...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cristina Real.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological record demonstrates that both Neanderthal and Anatomically Modern Human groups in west-southern Europe, particularly in the Iberian Peninsula and southern France, consistently included small prey in their subsistence strategies. Of the small prey species, Leporidae are particularly well represented in the archaeological record. Despite...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Brennan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Life course perspectives on health consider embedded experiences over time, accounting for changes in biological, social, and environmental contexts that can explain differential outcomes explained by life history trade offs. Within this perspective, sensitive period models posit that risk exposure at specific times has lifelong effects on the structure...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katharine Williams.

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. Tree-ring data have traditionally been used to study past climates and to establish detailed site construction sequences, particularly when paired with architectural analyses aimed at understanding wall bond-and-abutment patterns. In addition to climatological and temporal information, however, tree-ring data often indicate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jayson Gill.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research examines and compares the origins of Levallois technology and its relationship with Lower Palaeolithic bifacial production systems in the Armenian Highlands and Britain. While some argue for a single African origin for Levallois technology, increasingly support is found for a multiple origins model in which it independently evolves out of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Calistri.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Disert– meaning a hermitage or a place apart– is a multi-phase early ecclesiastical site that has served as a sacred place to the surrounding communities of County Donegal, Ireland, since at least the early medieval period. Today, it remains a site for spiritual pilgrimage or turas. With the support of the local community, four seasons of excavation by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only D. Gibson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Thanks to the chance survival of a rich corpus of historical documentation for County Clare, Ireland, and the early land survey work by Irish-speaking scholars in the nineteenth century, the territorial organization of Irish complex chiefdoms in Thomond can be reconstructed with a high degree of confidence. What may be reconstructed includes the internal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madelynn Green.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology and Folklore have long had a tense relationship, but in an era of archaeology focusing more and more on the current and descendant communities it is imperative for archaeologists to begin engage folklore traditions in their work. By engaging archaeology and folkloric methods both fields can benefit. In the case of this study, I have used the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Roos.

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. In the Southwest US, well-replicated fire histories suggest that abundant lightning and climate conditions drove frequent low-severity wildfires independent of human activities even as ethnography indicates that highly mobile, small groups of Western Apache (Ndée) foragers used fire in myriad land use contexts. Here we...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Windes.

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. Mindful identification and description of wood used in building construction suggests Ancestral and Historic Puebloans were discriminating consumers of arboreal resources. Using data gathered from Chacoan great houses and historic Pueblo buildings, we present evidence that indicates meaningful selection of wood species,...