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DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Bellorado. Kelley Hays-Gilpin. Laurie Webster.

This is an abstract from the "Approaches to Archaeological Footwear" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Twined sandals were the most long-lived yucca-cordage sandals used by Ancestral Pueblo people in the US Southwest, bridging the Basketmaker II (100 BC–AD 550) through Pueblo III (AD 1150–1300) periods. They were among the most technologically complex, ornate, and resource-intensive textiles ever produced in the region and also a key feature of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Palus.

This is an abstract from the "In Search of Solutions: Exploring Pathways to Repatriation for NAGPRA Practitioners (Part III)" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Federal agencies and repositories holding federal collections have been bound to curation standards often developed without consideration for nontangible values and needs and a legacy of collecting practices intended to preserve the past yet uninformed by the interests and concerns of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Thakar.

Confronting the existing challenges of archaeological collections management amid increasing threat from environmental disasters Museums, Curation facilities, and Repositories worldwide are struggling to preserve irreplaceable cultural heritage. At the same time researchers and government agencies are also struggling to mitigate loss of valuable cultural heritage threatened outside of existing facilities. All involved clearly want to increase opportunities to learn valuable lessons and collect...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tatiana Niculescu.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Urban Archaeology: Down by the Water" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Adopted by City Council in November of 1989 and incorporated into the zoning ordinance in 1992, Alexandria’s Archaeological Protection Code serves to preserve the city’s rich heritage for future generations of scholars and the public. Recent large-scale projects along the waterfront have unearthed amazing finds, perhaps beyond what the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bethanny Prascik. Bryan Hill II. Olivia Jones.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although legacy collections are rarely discussed explicitly in research and are often portrayed as subpar due to the lack of publication or the outdated excavation methods, we argue that legacy data is an important resource in archaeology. Legacy collections provide unique datasets that are both easily accessible and readily available. The Archaeology Lab...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brooke Morgan. Logan Pappenfort. Margaret Alway.

This is an abstract from the "In Search of Solutions: Exploring Pathways to Repatriation for NAGPRA Practitioners (Part IV): NAGPRA in Policy, Protocol, and Practice" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dickson Mounds Museum (DMM) in central Illinois has been ground zero for the intersection of archaeological practice, Native American rights, and the responsibilities of a state museum. For over sixty years, DMM presented viewing of an open excavation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer A. Lupu. Mia L. Carey.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1985, archaeologists excavated the yard areas of Halcyon House, a national historical site located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Thousands of artifacts, spanning over a century, were unearthed before the project was prematurely terminated. The artifacts remained untouched in storage for nearly 30 years. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Casey D. Pecoraro.

The John Carlyle House, a ca. 1753 structure located in Alexandria, Virginia, is owned and operated as a historic house museum and park by the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority.  Limited archaeological survey of the site was conducted by the Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission in 1973, and the subsequent salvage excavations of four features were performed during restoration work on the house undertaken between 1974 and 1976.  The artifact assemblage was later processed, catalogued and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristen Martine. Emily Palus.

This is an abstract from the "Ideas, Ethical Ideals, and Museum Practice in North American Archaeological Collections" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Federal archaeological collections acquisition and management practices are guided by decades-old law and policy, intended to uphold aspirational and perhaps unachievable expectations for preserving our nation’s heritage. The resulting “curation crises,” or, rather, the system that has become the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Pelletier.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Since the late 19^th century, Chaco Canyon, Aztec, and the Middle San Juan have been some of the most intensively investigated areas of the United States Southwest. After its rediscovery by Spanish and later American expeditions, Chaco Canyon became a hub for massive excavations, beginning with the Hyde Exploring Expedition and National...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dania D. Jordan.

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 Abiel Smith School, an all-black primary school was constructed between 1834 and 1835 on Beacon Hill in Boston, MA. The Smith School is central to Beacon Hill’s Black history because it helped Black Bostonians advance in society and negotiate racism through education. However, like most schoolhouses in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael T. Lucas. Matthew Kirk. Kristin O'Connell. Susan Winchell-Sweeney.

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. In 1998, Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc., excavated 3 small late-eighteenth century barrel features in downtown Albany. Wooden barrels were commonly used as liners for wells, privies, and sumps, however these three pits were unusual in that they were located on the interior of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin Guthrie.

This is an abstract from the "In Search of Solutions: Exploring Pathways to Repatriation for NAGPRA Practitioners (Part IV): NAGPRA in Policy, Protocol, and Practice" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In response to stagnated repatriation efforts in the 32 years since the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA, 43 CFR 10) became law, a new proposed rule to revise implementation regulations was entered into the federal register...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Caseldine.

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. Expertise in NAGPRA has been traditionally gained through hands-on experience. Personal reflections published in books, lectures, webinars, workshops, the NAGPRA community of practice, and National NAGPRA all provided insights, but the process is often mystifying for those starting out. Recognizing the need for more...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barry C. Kent.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Alicia Paresi. Jennifer McCann.

All archeological material found on National Park lands must be curated and cared for in perpetuity, though often very little funding is designated for this purpose. This has led to an enormous backlog of artifacts and records in almost every park. For the last 15 years, the Northeast Museum Services Center has been providing cataloging services to National Park Service units in the Northeast Region. In that time, we have recovered an incredible amount of data about the NHPA-generated archeology...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anabella Coronado.

This is an abstract from the "Ideas, Ethical Ideals, and Museum Practice in North American Archaeological Collections" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The history and everyday lives of the Comcaac (Seri) people are intrinsically linked to their ancestral landscape on the central coast of the Sonoran Desert and the Gulf of California. The community’s powerful and complex oral tradition, language, and the continuous occupancy of their originally...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Pfannkuche.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William A. Farley.

We have all heard the adage that "one hour in the field equals ten in the lab".  It is proof of this saying that nearly every archaeological laboratory boasts an impressive collection of meticulously collected soil samples. Nearly every complex archaeological excavation has the potential to yield hundreds or even thousands of liters of carefully collected sediment, despite the excavator’s knowledge that the mass majority will never be analyzed. Archaeobotanists can find great research value in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gregory Lattanzi.

This is an abstract from the "In Search of Solutions: Exploring Pathways to Repatriation for NAGPRA Practitioners (Part I)" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In April 2023, one of the largest and most complex NAGPRA repatriations occurred in the northeastern United States. The Abbott Farm NHL repatriation included major museums, three federally recognized tribes, and the reburial of around 200 ancestors and over 10,000 associated funerary objects. As...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Poulsen. Joseph M. Bagley.

Every so often, the fingerprints of potters are left in the wet clay of coarse earthenware vessels.  Many of these evocative "signatures" have been observed on redware that was excavated from the 18th-century Parker-Harris Pottery Site and Three Cranes Tavern Site in Charlestown, Massachusetts.  Using a short-range 3D laser scanner to capture this data, a small comparative data set was compiled to determine if these biometric identifiers (finger and hand prints) could be used to directly connect...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Taylor W Brown.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Prohibition is often remembered as the wild and roaring Jazz Age, filled with flappers, mobsters, federal agents, and hidden speakeasies. In today’s imagination, despite strict anti-alcohol laws, booze flowed freely in the streets and people drank with reckless abandon. But how did resistance to Prohibition manifest in Pensacola,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aja Palermo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the mid-1990s, the LSU Museum of Art received a collection of nearly 60 Andean objects as a donation from a private collector. More than half of the items donated are textiles and/or tools used in making textiles, all thought to have come from Peru. Beyond this geographic pointer, little information came with the collection, so the catalog entries for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ruth Trocolli. Christine Ames. Nicole C Grigg.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Urban Preservation Challenges in a Global Perspective", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Studying the immigrant experience in urban archaeological contexts can be a challenge. Sites with immigrant residents often included tenants rather than property owners and were subject to high turnover. Washington, DC has always been a transient city and presents a particular global perspective where opportunities and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Jonsson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology is conducted with the hope that the artifacts unearthed through excavation will have enduring value as archaeological collections housed in institutions. However, this perceived value has been called into question as the field increasingly engages with descendant communities who often do not value Western-style museums and with the...