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DOCUMENT Citation Only Lucas Bueno. Juliana Betarello.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The aim of this presentation is to discuss the peopling process of the Central Brazilian Plateau through the study of archaeological sites located in the Middle Valley of the Tocantins River. The Central Brazilian Plateau is the region where there are the earliest dates available for the occupation of eastern South America; therefore, it is a crucial area...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pierre Zalloua. Elisabeth Matisoo-Smith. Michele Guirguis. Anna Gosling. Lorenzo Nigro.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the second millennium BCE, the Phoenicians linked east and west through their established trade networks across the Mediterranean. We investigate the extent of Phoenician integration with the communities they settled across the western Mediterranean. Skeletal samples from Phoenician burial sites in Lebanon, Italy, Spain, and Tunisia were collected. We...

DOCUMENT Citation Only P. Jeffrey Brantingham.

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. Steve Kuhn has long pushed us to consider the decisions that go into the design and maintenance of mobile toolkits. Foragers must contend with variable raw material distributions, the economics of stone transport, the limits of lithic technological design, and the uncertainties inherent to foraging. Inspired by Kuhn’s work, I use a neutral...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Nicholson. James Hinthorne. Shelia Pozorski. Thomas Pozorski.

Differential distribution of mineral resources in the Andean area has necessitated a long history of interaction between coastal and highland peoples. However, when it comes to the Casma Valley, it is not clear when these interactions began. This paper addresses this issue through an examination of the mineralogy of a set of pigment samples collected from tools found at four sites of the Sechin Alto Polity identified by way of X-ray diffraction (XRD). The results of the XRD findings will be...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lynette Russell.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Seacountries of Northern Australia and Island Neighbours", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From Norse sagas to Polynesian origin tales, to Bugis songs of Macassan voyages to Marege narratives of mapping, exploring, discovering, settling, trading, and returning are told across many maritime cultures. A close reading of these sources shows even the most mythic of stories can contain surprisingly specific...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mario Giron-Ábrego.

This poster addresses an understudied area relevant to the initial peopling of the Americas: what are the earliest indications of human activity in Mesoamerica (particular emphasis on Guatemala)? Its geographic location and its relatively narrow expanse make the southern half of Middle America the natural stage to funnel terrestrial and coastal/riverine routes of early human migrations. Despite this consideration, archaeological research targeting Paleoamerican horizons [pre-12,800 BP] in this...

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This archive contains the data and r code used to produce Figures 2a and 2b and to compare Figures 2a and 2b in POPULATION DYNAMICS, MOBILITY AND POTTERY USE AMONG HUNTER-GATHERERS ON THE MARITIME PENINSULA OF NORTH AMERICA authored by David MacInnes and published in 2023 in Northeast Anthropology No. 91 -92.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Neill Wallis. John Krigbaum. George Kamenov. Michael D. Glascock.

Populations across northern Florida during the first millennium CE were highly interconnected as evidenced by shared patterns of mortuary practices, material culture, and settlement patterns. Social networks evidently were predicated on common ritual practices that found purchase in diverse and far-flung communities, especially those associated with "Swift Creek" and "Weeden Island" archaeological cultures. Through time, and with an expanding suite of religious practices and paraphernalia,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Itaci Correa Girrulat. Valentina Cadena. Claudia Montero. Javier Arévalo. Javiera Giberto.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Inter-nodal archaeological studies show how pottery, among other functions, is part of the offerings found in ceremonial contexts associated with journeys through the Atacama Desert. Focusing on ethnohistorically recognized processional pathways, with the Licancabur volcano as a ceremonial node, our investigation centers on Sutar Conti, a site renowned for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Josefina Vasquez Pazmino.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological research in the Amazonian region provides detailed data on sites classified as villages, hamlets, and temporary or seasonal dwellings, with a wide cultural and chronological diversity. Pre-Hispanic settlements, both nucleated and village-type, consisted of houses built on earth mounds and connected by plazas, roads, raised fields, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Semanko.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For over 15,000 years, dogs have been accorded varying social roles within human society. In view of this, the Canine Surrogacy Approach derives from observations that dogs often consume the same food as people and accompany humans during migration. Dogs are commonly granted similar burial customs, as well. I explore this proxy approach through the case study...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Dennehy. Chris Merriman. Keith M. Prufer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Lithicists use various attributes of chipped stone tools to characterize hunter-gatherer technological organization, which is thought to be partly determined by mobility patterns of these groups; thus, lithic attributes serve as proxies for the amount and type of mobility practiced. In particular, lithic platform preparation has received attention as an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Beau Murphy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While our knowledge of cultural chronologies and spheres of interaction in the pre-ceramic Southwest rely heavily upon analyses of projectile point types, data remains sparse in many key areas. An archaeological survey recently completed for the SunZia Wind project – projected to be among the largest renewable energy arrays in the western hemisphere – by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Clark.

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. One of Kuhn’s most notable contributions to archaeological theory is on the subject of lithic provisioning. Though decisions regarding provisioning might seem simplistic and obvious to us today, as a species completely enmeshed in a world mediated by technology and material culture, equipping oneself with the tools and the raw materials to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erik Marsh.

This is an abstract from the "A Movable Feast: Mobility and Commensalism in the Andes" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tiwanaku has long been compared to Cuzco, Rome, or Teotihuacán, but generalized models of state and empire have overlooked a crucial difference: Tiwanaku was built by mobile agropastoralists bound to the seasonal rhythms of the arid Andes. This dynamic means Tiwanaku's population was much lower than previously suggested and saw...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hirokazu Kotegawa.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dentro y fuera de Mesoamérica, se encuentran varios objetos portátiles con la iconografía olmeca. Pero ¿este fenómeno está mostrando la movilidad de los olmecas? Es difícil de responder esta pregunta porque los objetos pequeños se pueden trasladar de distintas maneras. Sin embargo, también hay otros objetos no portátiles con la iconografía olmeca para...

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Delancey Griffin. Emily Pihlaja. Jared Barlament.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ralph Solecki, made famous for his work arguing for the “humanity” of the Neanderthals of Shanidar Cave, contributed invaluably in his early career to Northeastern American archaeology by excavating sites in the New York metropolitan area which would soon become inaccessible due to urban expansion. First collected in the 1930s, the materials in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maureen Marshall.

The sudden appearance of hilltop citadels and vast cemeteries on the Late Bronze Age landscape of the South Caucasus suggests that it was a period of dynamic socio-political transformation as society shifted from highly mobile agropastoralism to a more settled lifestyle revolving around fortresses. Yet, within the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Armenia, there is little archaeological evidence of domestic architecture and activities, throwing into question people’s residential and subsistence practices....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Raúl López. Gloria Hernández.

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. Conventional inferences of Maya mobility have been based on cultural exchange. The isotopic composition measured in human skeletal remains provides a direct measure of past peoples’ movements. Founded on published isotopic datasets across the Maya area,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mariana Favila Vázquez.

This is an abstract from the "Underwater and Coastal Archaeology in Latin America" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En esta ponencia se presentará la metodología refinada del análisis geográfico de textos que permite relacionar nociones espaciales concretas con expresiones lingüísticas con distintos niveles de precisión. En particular, me concentraré en el problema de las rutas acuáticas que aparecen dispersas en numerosas fuentes escritas del...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lucia Diaz. Sarah Baitzel. Arturo Rivera Infante. Xinyi Liu.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ancient Andean pastoralism involved variable herding strategies, including short-term movements within the same ecozone, long-distance caravans for trade, and seasonal mobility across various altitudes. These multiregional pastoral practices are often difficult to differentiate in the archaeological record, yet they are central for understanding the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lily Singman-Aste.

This is an abstract from the "Maritimity in the Indo-Pacific World" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The village of Andavadoaka, located in the Morombe district of Befandefa in Southwestern Madagascar, is home to the Vezo fishing people. The coral reefs around the area have been the focus of conservation efforts due to their high biodiversity as well as threats to the ecosystem. These threats negatively impact the Vezo, as the sea is their main...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Burke.

This paper presents preliminary results from an ongoing study of Coastal Plains chert from Florida. Past research has demonstrated that Florida cherts can be coarsely differentiated into various quarry clusters on the basis of microfossil inclusions, and more recent research has suggested that geochemically characterizing these cherts may further improve provenance determinations. New methodological approaches include using a combination of microfossil analysis, NAA, and LA-ICP-MS to provide...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Uzzle. Karen Schollmeyer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fourteenth century Salado villages in southwest New Mexico show interesting contrasts with earlier villages from the Classic Mimbres period (AD 1000-1130). One of the most intriguing differences is the evidence that Salado period villagers may have employed a land-use strategy relying on more frequent mobility between villages and at larger spatial scales in...