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DOCUMENT Citation Only McKenzie Alford. Douglas Mitchell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Digital databases are critical to archaeological data management, but our increasing use of them since the 1980s means that some of them have become artifacts in themselves. Cultural resource management (CRM) firms in particular rely on different databases to document mortuary features and associated funerary objects, but as many CRM collections have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allison J.M. McGovern.

This paper highlights the value of existing museum and contract archaeology collections to new directions in archaeological research. Renewed attention to "old" data sets serves to decolonize archaeology and to challenge existing narratives with new questions. The collections discussed in this paper all come from eastern Long Island, New York. I draw attention to how narratives of Native American cultural loss and disappearance are constructed locally through archaeological heritage, and I...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas E. Beaman Jr..

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boxed but not Forgotten Redux or: The Importance and Usefulness of Exploring Old or Forgotten Collections" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Between 1958 and 1968, archaeological pioneer Stanley South excavated a total of 13 colonial era primary households and associated structures at the ruins of 18th century Brunswick Town.   Catalogs of the hundred thousands of artifacts South completed, and the remainder...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren D. Bussiere.

Housing more than 15 million artifacts from over 8,000 archaeological sites, the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin has a significant need for high-functioning collections tracking systems. As part of our institutional digitization strategy, TARL has begun implementing a system of bar codes for collections, with the goal of facilitating artifact retrieval and replacement as our collections are used for research, education, and public outreach. The system...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elisabetta Cova.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Milwaukee Public Museum, officially founded in 1882, but in fact in its early stages since 1851, was at the forefront of nineteenth-century museography at a crucial time for both the establishment of Wisconsin as a state of the Union and the institution of museums in the US. This paper investigates the historical, cultural and social context within...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Furlong Minkoff. Teresa Teixeira.

Unlike other presidential house museums, Montpelier did not inherit a large collection of objects with clear Madison provenance. However, archaeology has been instrumental to reconstructing Montpelier’s story and is one of the only ways for us to know what objects were in the homes of the Madisons and their enslaved laborers. The Montpelier Foundation is currently in a rather unique position: not only are artifacts being unearthed daily, we also have the budget to actively seek out and acquire...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Grace Conrad.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fieldnotes, hand drawn maps, personal communication, and some door-knocking: these are the pieces of the puzzle that allowed us to relocate a Fort Ancient site located near Cincinnati, Ohio. The Peach Orchard site sits atop a prominent hill, overlooking the more well-known Turpin site and the floodplain of the Little Miami River. It was first...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Cook. Rebecca Hawkins. Aaron Comstock. Grace Conrad.

This is an abstract from the "Improving and Decolonizing Precontact Legacy Collections with Fieldwork: Making Sense of Harvard’s Turpin Site Expedition (Ohio)" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As with many archaeological sites, the Turpin site has factored into various social, historical, and archaeological narratives ranging from the good to the bad and ugly. Here we begin by situating Harvard’s archaeology project at Turpin within the social...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alicia Paresi. Jennifer McCann.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Meanwhile, In the NPS Lab: Discoveries from the Collections" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archeologists at Boston’s African Meeting House were surprised to discover an intact porcelain plate on the site’s surface. More shocking was the mark identifying the plate as coming from the exclusive Porcellian Club, one of the storied finals clubs of Harvard University. The club was founded in 1791 and boasts...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia Johnston.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Thirty-five years after the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act’s (NAGPRA) formation, federal organizations are still working through backlogs of inventory to comply with the legislature. This poster presents a realistic case study of how bioarchaeology can be a productive part of the NAGPRA process by detailing the steps that were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melanie S Lerman.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond Ornamentation: New Approaches to Adornment and Colonialism" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Schumacher Collection, which was excavated in 1877 from Santa Catalina Island off the coast of Los Angeles, contains approximately 283,000 shell and glass beads that lack provenience data. While beads are often examined through a framework of personal adornment and identity construction, antiquated...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Asli Erem.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Throughout thousands of years, various civilizations and groups have depicted their beliefs on objects and architecture. Maya rulers are an example in how architecture, extravagant costumes, jewelry, weaponry, ceramics were used to emphasize their title as ajaw.Ajaw, the title for a ruler which represents the king’s massive authority for their people...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine McEnroe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Beginning in 2021, a team of stakeholders worked to develop an exhibition to showcase the breadth and wonder of archaeological materials excavated at Colonial Williamsburg. This exhibition, Worlds Collide, is the first installation in the newly established Margaret Moore Hall gallery in the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg. Our team worked...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meghan C Caves.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boxed but not Forgotten Redux or: The Importance and Usefulness of Exploring Old or Forgotten Collections" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Cultural Resource Protection (CRP) work produces many assemblages of material that have varying levels of analysis conducted within the scope of the contract. These collections provide numerous opportunities for methodological testing and verification and reanalysis with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ben L. Ford.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boxed but not Forgotten Redux or: How I Learned to Stop Digging and Love Old Collections" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Historic Hanna’s Town collection consists of artifacts from an 18th-centruy town in western Pennsylvania excavated both 40 years ago by amateurs and two years ago by closely supervised field schools. The earlier collections often lack precise provenience information but represent a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brendan Culleton. Margaret Davis. Richard Rosencrance. Thomas Connolly.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As part of an ongoing collaboration dating ethnographic collections, the University of Oregon sent a piece of a leather moccasin to the PSU Radiocarbon Lab for dating. The moccasin was recovered in 1938 from a near-surface deposit of Roaring Springs Cave, Oregon. Another moccasin from this context produced an anomalously old radiocarbon age – 7670±35 BP –...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carrie Heitman. Octavius Seowtewa. Curtis Quam. Gilbert Yuselew. Michael Gchachu.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Native communities have long been excluded from the process of knowledge construction about their ancestral places. This exclusion has taken many forms: lack of voice or authority in museum excavations, curation, and exhibits; inaccessibility of collections that were removed from Native lands to geographically distant institutions or sold to collectors;...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Heaney. Bradymir Bravo. Frank Salomon. Chris Stantis. Tiffiny Tung.

This is an abstract from the "Arqueología colaborativa en los Andes: Casos de estudios y reflexiones" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. To prehispanic Andeans in central Peru, donning a facial-bone mask, a wayu, reanimated the dead and honored ancestral victories. Following these masks’ description in the c. 1608 Quechua-language manuscript of Huarochirí, scholars presume Spanish priests destroyed them to extirpate the “idolatry” of ancestor worship....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicole Estey Walsh.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Meanwhile, In the NPS Lab: Discoveries from the Collections" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The year was 1968. Hawaii Five-O premiers, Richard Nixon wins the presidency, and excavations at the Casey House at Minute Man National Historical Park conclude. In the 52 years since the excavation, the collection has been largely ignored and completely unstudied despite containing outstanding examples of material...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Magen Hodapp. Chrissina Burke.

This is an abstract from the "Storeroom Taphonomies: Site Formation in the Archaeological Archive" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Animal bones and the artifacts manufactured from them have long existed in conflicting archaeological and museum classification systems. Curating institutions once classified them as non-artifactual, or as ecofacts, and only in more recent years have worked animal bones been categorized as artifacts. Regardless of these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick S Rivera.

Since the passage of historic preservation legislation in the middle of the twentieth century, the pace of mandated excavation has always exceeded the resources devoted to preservation and curation of our national heritage.  Many of the archaeological projects conducted on public land have never been properly inventoried, preserved, or publicized.  As a result, these investigations remain largely inaccessible to researchers, and they create an immense burden on repositories.  In 2009, the U.S....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Conger. Sam Olvey. Leonardo Umberger. Carla S. Hadden. Amanda D. Roberts Thompson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since at least 1972, the Center for Applied Isotope Studies (CAIS) at the University of Georgia (UGA) has maintained an archive of the pretreated and unpretreated remnants of samples sent for radiocarbon dating and stable isotope analysis. This growing archive now contains over 15,000 archaeological and geological specimens. In August 2022, CAIS initiated...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eve Hargrave. Krystiana Krupa. Ryan Clasby. Aimee Carbaugh.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The NAGPRA Office at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is in the process of coordinating a multi-tribe, multi-institution project with the goal of repatriating Ancestors and cultural items from the Cahokia site, near present-day East St. Louis. This presentation summarizes the development and current status of the project, as well as its future...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Shepard.

This is an abstract from the "Four Decades of NAGPRA, Part 1: Accomplishments and Challenges" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Intentional and thorough NAGPRA efforts illustrate the prevalence of archaeological material removed from the same sites, and even from the same excavation events, that is now scattered among institutions. Provenance research and communicating with state archaeological surveys or organizations can reveal collecting and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirsty Escalante.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While scholars have been concerned since the 1960s about the widespread looting of Maya sites to supply the international antiquities market, countless objects have been illicitly exported over the decades from Guatemala and surrounding countries. The repatriation of looted antiquities to their countries of origin has received increased attention as source...