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This is an abstract from the "New Directions in Mongolian Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents preliminary findings from ongoing research on the development of pastoralism in Mongolia’s semiarid desert-steppe. The project involves a multiscale investigation of human-environment interactions, specifically the relationship between climate change and land use, and how adaptive strategies impacted natural and social...
Adding Navigating Capabilities to a Deterministic Computer Model of Ocean Voyaging (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Modeling Mobility across Waterbodies" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since pioneering efforts in the 1970’s, computer models that simulate vessel displacement have contributed useful information to the debate around several historical and archaeological problems. Existing models can be separated into two categories. In stochastic models, wind and current values are based on a probabilistic description of these...
All Kinds of Interesting Possibilities: Tracking the Division of Labor from the Late Pleistocene to Middle Holocene in the American Southeast (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Far-Reaching Influence of Steven L. Kuhn" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Kuhn and Stiner (2006) argued that an overlooked, but salient difference between Neanderthals and modern humans was their approaches to dividing labor. Kuhn and Stiner contend that modern humans were “diverse specialists” that may have aided in their ability to adapt to novel and changing environments and outcompete generalists. Here, we...
Analysis of Lithic Material from Las Chachalacas (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents the analysis of ground stone tools and chipped stone material from Las Chachalacas, Sonora, Mexico excavated in the winter of 2021 to 2022. Numerical dates suggest a periodic occupation from the Early Archaic period to the Early Agricultural period. The ground stone tool analysis focuses on the intensiveness of grain processing (wild...
Ancient Mitochondrial DNA and Genetic Variation in Northwest Mexican Populations (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Looking to the West: New insights into Postclassic Archaeology in Michoacán" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The development of genetic sequencing technology has allowed for the recovery of ancient DNA from bone samples belonging to individuals who lived thousands of years ago, opening a window to the past and to better understand the dynamics of ancient civilizations. This study describes the genetic variation found...
Application of Multi-Isotopic Analysis (δ13C, δ15N, and δ34S) to Examine Mobility and Movement of People and Animals within an Iron Age British Society (2018)
The middle of the Iron Age in southern central Britain (c. 400–200 cal BC) is a period that is often seen as becoming regionally inward-looking. A primary focus of the mixed agriculturalists is on building and maintaining massive hillforts. There is very little long-distance exchange or trade noted in the archaeological record, and the metalwork at the time takes on insular forms (e.g. involuted brooches) that separate it from the Continental connections observable in both the Early and Late...
Archaeological and Archival Investigations into the Role of Anguillan Black Sailors in 17-19th Century Maritime Networks of Trade and Self-liberation. (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation summarizes archival and archaeological research into 17-19th century unsanctioned networks of trade and self-liberation between the enslaved and free Black residents of British Anguilla and nearby French/Dutch St. Martin. Presenting preliminary findings from two seasons of archaeological...
The Archaeology of Travel in Greater Nicoya (2018)
Sometime before AD 1, a dynamic interaction and exchange network developed among the villages and hamlets of Greater Nicoya. The range and frequency of trade within this region is demonstrated by geochemically sourced ceramic and stone artifacts. The travel routes along which these artifacts were traded remain poorly understood. Geographic information systems (GIS) offer a means to predictively model the optimal terrestrial and aquatic travel routes that interconnected the settlements of Greater...
Archaic Period Settlement Systems On Northeastern Mississippi (1982)
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The Art of Interconnection: Chichen Itza and the Gulf Coast (2023)
This is an abstract from the "The Movement of People and Ideas in Eastern Mesoamerica during the Ninth and Tenth Centuries CE: A Multidisciplinary Approach Part II" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We often talk about the connections between Chichen Itza and Tula, but these two great cities were far from alone in the ancient Mesoamerican world. In this presentation, I will explore artistic and architectural similarities between Chichen Itza and the...
Assessing hunter-gatherer mobility in Australia's Western Desert using historic aerial imagery from the 1950s (2017)
Access to water, food, and other resources is a critical factor structuring hunter-gatherer mobility, but few landscape-level studies have examined how resource availability influences where foragers go and how long they remain at one place before moving on. Using a newly available set of aerial images from the Western Desert of Australia taken in 1953, we utilize a simple ideal-free distribution model to reconstruct forager mobility by the fire footprints they leave behind. We examine three...
Assessing mobilities and interactions between the Lerma Valley and Zacapu, Michoacán during the Classic. Results of a ceramic analysis by chaines operatoires. (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Michoacán and West Mexico: New Research in Interaction, Exchange, and Mobility" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research focuses on the Lerma Valley, located at the interface between the lacustrine regions of Michoacán and the southwestern region of Bajío, and the Zacapu Basin. We aim to culturally characterize its populations during the Classic period (200-600 AD), using the technological approach of chaînes...
Assessing Mobility Among the Medieval Makurian Individuals Interred in Crypts 1–3 on Kom H at Old Dongola, Sudan (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As the capital of the medieval Kingdom of Makuria, in what is today Sudan, Old Dongola was a central location of administration and culture; Old Dongola was also the seat of a bishopric. Such factors would have made Old Dongola a key location for mobility, with various pull factors from economic, social, and religious, including monastic. Numerous...
Assessing Mobility and Social Interactions through Integrated Analyses of Complicated Stamped Pottery in the American Southeast (2015)
In the Deep South of the American Southeast, regional scale social interactions burgeoned alongside the growth of nucleated villages, widespread mound-building projects, and conspicuous mortuary ceremonialism during the Middle and Late Woodland period (ca. AD 100 to 800). A premier material for understanding the significance of social interactions across the southern landscape comes from Swift Creek Complicated Stamped pottery, a ubiquitous class of material culture that provides direct evidence...
Beached Lives in The Recife Port, Brazil: First Insights in Diets and Mobility of the People from Pilar Cemetery, 16th to the 18th centuries. (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This research focuses on the city of Recife, Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil, from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Recently archaeological excavations inside the Port of Recife revealed that the occupation of the area was first established as a fortress in the 16th century. Later, the area became one of the main...
Behavior from Spatial Structure in Archaeological Sites: A Working Model Based on Dukha Ethnography (2018)
Archaeologists commonly observe clear qualitative structure in the spatial distribution of artifacts deposited in archaeological sites. Quantification and interpretation of such structure remains a major challenge. Drawing on multiple field seasons of observation among the Dukha—residentially mobile reindeer herders of the Mongolian Taiga—we present a likelihood based method for quantifying site-level structure in the use of space. This ideal ethnographic case in which behavior-structure...
Beyond the Marañon: A Consideration of Cajamarca's Changing Relationships with Chachapoyas societies (2016)
This paper offers observations regarding the distribution of Cajamarca fine, painted kaolin-ware pottery recovered to the east, across the Marañon canyon in the Chachapoyas region cloud forests. Cajamarca’s complex societies lay at the center of expansive interaction networks during pre-Hispanic times. The clearest evidence of Cajamarca's long-distance communication networks consists of its signature fine, painted kaolin-ware bowls discovered in sacred and mortuary contexts across the Central...
A Bioarchaeological Approach to Ychsma Regional Interactions: Stable Oxygen and Radiogenic Strontium Isotopes and Late Intermediate Period Mobility on the Central Peruvian Coast (2016)
Archaeological and ethnohistoric evidence indicates that, for the Inca Empire and the Spanish Viceroyalty, the Rimac and Lurin Valleys on central Peruvian coast served as a key regional hub for religious and administrative activities. The nature of regional interactions prior to Inca imperial influence in this area, however, remains unclear. Well-known historical narratives claim populations from the adjacent Huarochirí highlands defeated coastal Ychsma populations for agricultural land, but...
Bioarchaeological versus Archaeological Data on the Beginnings of Southeast and Central European Early Neolithic (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The short paper focuses on Early Neolithic continental Europe, with presenting new archaeological results compared to similarly recent ancient DNA and stable isotope studies. I shall address various scenarios from selected regions in the Balkans, in northern Germany before zooming in the eastern and western part of the Carpathian basin. Here again,...
Biomechanical Analysis of Northern and Southern Plains Femora: Behavioral Implications (1994)
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Bone Gut Heart Stone (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Far-Reaching Influence of Steven L. Kuhn" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. When hired into the Oberlin College Department of Anthropology in 2008 I learned I was also de facto steward of two thousand cultural objects that were warehoused in a pair of campus custodial closets. The antiquated collection, with its objects hailing from around the world and uneven documentation, represented an intellectual conundrum and...
Burning Questions and Smoldering Answers: Cremation Burial Practices in Middle Balsas Region during Postclassic Period (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Michoacán and West Mexico: New Research in Interaction, Exchange, and Mobility" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Death is the terminal stage of human life. When studying this crucial element of life, it is challenging to consider such aspects as interaction or exchange. However, if we interpret the funerary ceremonies as a form of interaction between the living and the dead, a new interpretive lens where mortuary...
Caminos del Horizonte Medio en Arequipa:Paisaje como un espacio socialmente constituido (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Wari and the Far Peruvian South Coast: Final Results of Excavations in Quilcapampa" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Presentamos los caminos que durante el Horizonte Medio integraron al valle de Siguas, Vitor, Majes y Ocoña dentro de una dinámica de estudio de la visibilidad y ritualidad espacial. Para ello tomamos con ejemplo de discusión el sitio de Quilcapampa La Antigua, valle de Siguas, Arequipa, Perú. La...
CAMP: A New Project for the Study of Pastoral Archaeological Sites (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Exploring Long-Term Pastoral Dynamics: Methods, Theories, Stories" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pastoralism is now recognized as a smart economy for food production in drylands, especially in the current scenario of climate change, where natural resource variability is increasing globally. Outdated stereotypes about the inefficiency and irrationality of pastoralism are being reevaluated, and there is a shift in the...
Camping and Hot-Rock Cooking: Hunter-Gatherer Land Use across the Southwest Pecos Slopes (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Understanding changes in mobility and subsistence practices among Jornada Mogollon hunter-gatherer groups remains a substantial research issue. Residents across the Permian Basin largely maintained a hunting-and-gathering cultural adaption throughout prehistoric times, although some segment of the local population practiced cultivation during the Late...