Mobility (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Pawlowicz.

From its inception in 2014, the Bantu Mobility Project has sought to recover the various mobilities that made up peoples’ experience of the Bantu Expansions, the spread of over 500 related languages across nearly half the African continent. We have sought to refocus research on the Bantu Expansions away from the macro-scale and onto the specific movements of people, animals, and material goods at various spatial and temporal scales. From an archaeological standpoint this effort necessitates...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anya Akimoff.

This is an abstract from the "Stable Isotope Analysis in Global History" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Tierras Blancas Valley in the Nasca region of southern coastal Peru is home to a diverse array of plant and animal species. The Nasca culture, which emerged during the Early Intermediate Period (100-650 C.E.), primarily used ceramics to depict these natural elements in their iconography. While previous isotope studies have investigated...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Abigail Peeples.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archeology at Lake Mead National Recreation Area (NRA) has primarily focused on areas where the Section 106 process has required survey such as areas subject to inundation from Lakes Mead and Mohave, as well as developed areas. This has led to only 5% of the 1.5 million acres that make up Lake Mead NRA being surveyed. Included in the previously surveyed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ariana Gugora. Tosha Dupras. Erzsébet Fóthi.

Between 2005 and 2009, archaeologists excavated more than 100 skeletons from the medieval (1240s AD) Hungarian site of Solt-Tételhegy. Little has been published about this archaeological settlement, and although previous stable isotopic research has described the migration patterns of medieval European peoples, here we present the first such study performed on a medieval Hungarian population. Stable oxygen isotope analysis was conducted on dental enamel from 23 individuals and on bone apatite...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chen Wang.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study investigates lead provenance and circulation patterns in Han Dynasty (202BC-220AD) China through the analysis of lead glazed pottery. Four objects from Harvard Art Museums were studied using a combination of typological study, elemental chemistry and lead isotope ratio analysis. The results for each object were compared with databases of ‘lead...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brooks Lawler.

Archaeologists have had difficulty agreeing upon uniform designations of certain kinds of toolstone that are not easily distinguishable visually. There are occasions when the archaeological definition of toolstone material and the geological definition of the same toolstone material do not match. A situation where this discrepancy might arise is when archaeologists give a more specific name to a cryptocrystalline silicate that is difficult to identify based on visual analysis. An understanding...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amélie Allard.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Colonial Archaeological Research in the American Midcontinent" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the late eighteenth century, the Mississippi Headwaters and Great Lakes area bustled with mobile European- and métis-descended traders hoping to make a trade with local Indigenous peoples. Often referred to as “the fur trade,” this willful exchange provided a stage for sets of relationships to be established,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Barakat. Elodie-Laure Jimenez. Vaughan Grimes. Emmanuel Discamps. Kate Britton.

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Research into the Late Pleistocene of Europe" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Understanding the movement patterns of past animals is key to unravelling Paleolithic hunter-gatherer mobility and landscape use. Strontium isotope analysis (87Sr/86Sr) has long been used as a proxy for provenance studies based on the high correlation between strontium values in faunal tissues and underlying lithology....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Dersam.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between 2021 and 2024, two complete fluted Clovis projectile points and eight fluted point fragments were recovered from five localities in the mountains of southwest Montana. Each of these five localities exhibits formal tools and reduction sequences consistent with Clovis lithic technology. Here we present observation on the ten fluted points...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christophe Snoeck. Rick Schulting. Michael Pateman. William F. Keegan. Joanna Ostapkowicz.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in the Archaeology of the Bahama Archipelago" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Initial settlement of the Bahamian archipelago is currently thought to have derived from Cuba and/or Hispaniola. The first forays may have been seasonal, with permanent settlement not in evidence until ca. AD 1000. As well as initial settlement, we might expect a continued movement of individuals between the Greater Antilles and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Eeckhout.

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. At Pachacamac, the theme of mobility is closely associated with pilgrimage, as well as the reciprocal banquets that occurred at the site during the Late Intermediate period and Late Horizon, across various contexts. In this paper, we present material evidence of these activities from excavations carried out in different parts of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alison Crowther.

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 Comoros islands have been a key node in Indian Ocean trading systems since the late first millennium CE, and are suggested to have played a significant role in the still mysterious Austronesian colonisation of Madagascar. Yet little systematic archaeological research has been undertaken in the archipelago since the 1980s, leaving major gaps in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Byron Ortiz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Esta investigación se basa en estudios y uso de caminos, en la región Noroccidental de Pichincha y la meseta de Quito, desde distintas perspectivas como: la arqueología del paisaje, memoria oral y análisis de la ruta óptima (LCP). Para empezar mi investigación se enfoca en la evolución de los caminos en la región, desde la época precolombina hasta...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacklyn Rumberger. Arthur Joyce. Sarah Barber. Stacie King. Guy David Hepp.

This poster presents a comparison of the isotopic data from male and female individuals interred in the lower Río Verde Valley of coastal Oaxaca, Mexico from the Early Formative period, beginning in 2000 BC, to the Early Postclassic period, ending in AD 1100. Our previous work in this region has focused primarily on broad dietary changes through time, focusing little attention on comparisons by sex. Our sample for the present study includes 54 individuals: 31 males and 23 females. These...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven Goldstein.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Quartz is a readily available lithic raw material that formed a large portion of the stone tool economy for many ancient societies globally. Considered a lower-quality material overall, physical properties of crystalline vein quartz constrain reduction strategies, often resulting in a narrow range of tool and debitage morphologies. This leaves open...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Gustas.

This is an abstract from the "Modeling Mobility across Waterbodies" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite much recent scholarship there is still much to learn about the exact method, route, and timing of the Peopling of the New World. Geographic Information System (GIS) based analytical methods provide opportunities to model where and when coastal peopling events could have taken place. I will compare the results of traditional Least Cost Path...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ciara O'Brien Butler. Katie Faillace. Richard Madgwick.

This is an abstract from the "Integrating Isotope Analyses: The State of Play and Future Directions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Isotopic and phenotypic methods are frequently employed in studies of migration and population affinity in the past; however, they are rarely integrated due to differences in scales. This paper presents a case study for the complementary use of multi-isotope (87Sr/86Sr, δ18O, δ34S, δ13C, and δ15N) analysis and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jon Lohse.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent and ongoing research at August Pine Ridge, Belize is documenting an astonishing assemblage of complex bifaces representing human occupation and social interactions that took place in Central America from approximately 13,000 to 12,000 years ago. We see technological behaviors that reflect influences from Clovis practices that are well documented in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathrin Naegele. Silvia Teresita Hernandez Godoy. Yadira Chinique de Armas.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The study of ancient Caribbean communities through archaeogenomic methods has seen an increased interest in recent years. In our study in 2020, we demonstrated that the Archaic Age Communities in the Greater Antilles exhibit a different genetic signal from the Ceramic Age communities in the Greater and Lesser Antilles. Still, we could not add more detail...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Beth Scaffidi.

This is an abstract from the "Stable Isotope Analysis in Global History" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In recent years, human skeletons have become less accessible to bioarchaeologists aiming to understand past lifeways through destructive chemical analyses—despite these methods being more affordable, accessible, and well-established than ever in the biological, social, and life sciences. Human skeletons provide the most direct evidence of how...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra Jonassen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study uses pXRF technology to delineate the conveyance of terminal Pleistocene-Early Holocene obsidian and fine-grained volcanic (FGV) toolstone and artifacts to pluvial Lake Mojave, California. Prior preliminary research indicates Paleoindians conveyed nonlocal Coso Volcanic Field (CVF) obsidian and Goldstone dacite to Lake Mojave from the northwest...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Doherty.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite its prominence in Paleoindian archaeology throughout much of North America, Clovis has long been overshadowed in the Great Basin by the potentially contemporary, and locally more prolific, Western Stemmed Tradition. Despite decades of research, the relationship between the two distinct techno-complexes remains unclear. Largely due to difficulties...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mirani Litster.

This is an abstract from the "Maritimity in the Indo-Pacific World" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Modern examples demonstrate that islands occupy an important role in globalisation events, and remote islands often have a specialised geopolitical and economic function. In this paper I will explore how early globalisation is reflected in remote island use, through an examination of the Maldivian archaeological record. Based on current evidence,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kyle Urquhart.

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 paper presents an agent based model used to simulate crowds of people gathering in public or semi-public plazas in residential neighborhoods at the site of Angamuco, Michoacán. The paper discusses the datasets and methodology behind the model, what kind of information it can provide, and discusses the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Neeley. Craig Lee.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Forager mobility is often linked to the organization of technology through the continuum of curated and expedient technologies. Curated technologies are expected to be associated with higher levels of mobility reflecting transport costs and longer use histories, in response to reduced access to raw materials. In contrast, expedient technologies are more...