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DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander Craib.

Previous research in the Southeast has demonstrated that Dalton groups underwent a process of settling in to the landscape. This has been demonstrated through the identification of raw materials used for the production of Dalton hafted bifaces. A preference for locally available raw materials has been noted in previous studies, a departure from Clovis groups who routinely made use of non-local cherts. This trend has been well established outside of the Tennessee River Valley; however, little...

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Paige Paulsen.

This is an abstract from the "Ancient Pedestrians: Current Research in GIS-Based Movement Modeling for Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents analysis of movement potential at regional and local scale to describe the accessibility landscape of Iron Age (1300-300 BCE) Southeast Arabia. Interpreting the reasons for and outcomes of changing settlement patterns rely on descriptions of accessibility. During the Iron Age,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Derek Hamilton. Sophia Adams. Kerry Sayle. Katharine Steinke.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many of the central questions of archaeology engage directly with themes relating to movement, mobility, and migration. The two most common isotope systems that have been exploited for this purpose are strontium (87Sr/86Sr) and oxygen (δ18O), with sulfur isotopes (δ34S) being a much more recent addition to the isotopic arsenal for investigating residence...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Samuelsen. Adriana Potra. Barry Shaulis. Erik Pollock.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Complications with diagenetic contamination of ancient human tooth enamel is of primary concern for Pb isotopic studies. While conducting a study of a Caddo skull-and-mandible cemetery in southwest Arkansas (in collaboration with the Caddo Nation), it became clear that many samples were contaminated by soil Pb. Additional samples from the same teeth were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Wong. Martin Steskal. Elise Naumann. Johann Rasmus Brandt. Michael Richards.

Isotope analyses (C, N, Sr) have been conducted on human skeletal remains (n=150) from the Roman and Byzantine periods (ca. 133 BC – ca. 1453) from the sites of Hierapolis and Ephesos (Turkey) to characterize and compare their diet and mobility. In addition we undertook a large-scale strontium isotope-mapping project in the region, modern plant and snail samples are also used to characterize the local bioavailable strontium values in southwestern Turkey. Hierapolis and Ephesos were both major...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yajaira Nunez-Cortes. Ashley Sharpe. Nicole Smith-Guzmán. Geissel Vargas.

This is an abstract from the "Unraveling the Mysteries of the Isthmo-Colombian Area’s Past: A Symposium in Honor of Archaeologist Richard Cooke and His Contributions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Richard Cooke dedicated his career to the study of past human groups on the lower Central American land bridge (southern Nicaragua to northern Colombia) and their diversification in the tropical landscapes of the region. He has argued that the diverse...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Doherty. Ted Goebel.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Lithic technological organization studies and geochemical analyses provide a useful way for archaeologists to examine prehistoric forager mobility. In the Great Basin, these methods, when applied to assemblages from multi-component sites, have revealed diachronic changes in lithic raw material procurement patterns between the Paleoindian and Early Archaic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Horton.

This is an abstract from the "Maritimity in the Indo-Pacific World" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mosques are the outward expression of Islam in Swahili coastal communities. They were often the first building constructed of stone, and in many towns the only stone-built architecture, representing permanence and identify. In trading communities, mosques also had a role as places of safety for fellow muslim travellers, and where they could practice...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Ankele.

In comparison to the Late Paleoindian Period (10,000-8,000 rcybp), the Early Archaic (8,000-6,500 rcybp) in the Gunnison Basin, Colorado is a poorly understood time because of its relatively light archaeological signature. Not only is the archaeological record more ephemeral, but we also see a change in technologies, such as projectile points types, in this transitional period. Some archaeologists explain these observations as a result of changing environments and shifting settlement processes...

DOCUMENT Citation Only R. J. Sinensky.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Early Brown Ware Horizon, also known as the Basketmaker II-III transition, is one of the most pivotal yet poorly understood temporal intervals in the Prehispanic northern Southwest. This poster reports on recent site reconnaissance, small-scale excavations, and collections-based analyses focused on an area with a dense occupation at this time, East Central...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anneke Janzen. Mary Prendergast. Katherine Grillo.

First developing around 8,000 years ago, pastoralism in Africa has continued as a flexible and dynamic mode of subsistence. One key feature of this dynamism is mobility, which is crucial for many East African pastoralists today to access seasonally available pasture and water. In areas of unpredictable rainfall, mobile pastoralism permits more people to live in dry lands than do other subsistence strategies. How the earliest herders in Tanzania used the landscape is still relatively unknown....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Hernández Castillo.

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. Coastal research has stressed the variety of systemic roles played by shell middens as architectural features, markers of the landscape/seascape, and as the result of the accumulation of food debris. The latter is the effect of concrete economic behavior; however, the exploitation and consumption of shellfish on coastal settings...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Abigail Stone.

In the Sahel, the Fulani are considered the archetypal cattle herders. Although their spread across West Africa is poorly understood, their arrival had profound effects on local populations. In Mali’s Inland Niger Delta, historical sources and isotopic analysis of archaeological cattle, sheep, and goat teeth from the site of Jenné-jeno and the modern town of Djenné suggest that specialized Fulani pastoralists arrived in the Delta between the 13th and 15th centuries AD. This coincided with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Randy Haas.

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. Human societies vary considerably in their internal diversity. The drivers of cultural diversity--why greater or lesser diversity occurs in different times and places--remain poorly understood. This study first examines projectile point diversity in North America over 13 millennia in order to characterize spatiotemporal variation in cultural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Striebel MacLean.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of Cities: Unearthing Complexity in Urban Landscapes", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. An assemblage of small triangular-mouthed Hessian crucibles was disposed of in a cellar midden at 28 Dock Street in Lower Manhattan circa 1724. The Dock Street dwelling was associated with the home and workshop of a Huguenot silversmith and family, his Huguenot apprentice, and an enslaved black man....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Perez.

While recent scholarship gives attention to Native American agency as it relates to the Spanish mission system, the same may not be said about military forts on the nineteenth-century American ‘frontier.’ Using archival material from Fort Davis, Texas and Fort Ross, California, this paper argues for a comparative approach in studying how groups from the Comanche/Apache and Kashaya Pomo tribes employed geographic mobility as a form of resistance in the face of Euro-American fortified occupation....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Abigail Moffett.

This is an abstract from the "Maritimity in the Indo-Pacific World" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite evidence of contact between southern African coastal communities and Indian Ocean maritime networks from 600 CE, the connections between these coastal groups, the communities of the interior, and oceanic maritime routes during the Global Middle Ages remain poorly understood. Our current project, ENTANGLED, employs an interdisciplinary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Francis Allard.

This is an abstract from the "Maritimity in the Indo-Pacific World" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The 1^st millennium BCE witnessed the expansion of maritime networks linking several coastal areas of the South China Sea. By the middle of the millennium, interaction involved not only the movement of decorative objects of different types (e.g. jade ornaments; glass and stone beads, some originating in South Asia), but also raw...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine France. Julianne Sarancha.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Establishing geographical provenance and life histories of North American colonial individuals is critical for understanding early population movements related to urbanization, immigration, and the changing demographics of an emerging nation. In East Coast North American archaeological studies, oxygen stable isotopes are the primary proxy for regional...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Antonio Martínez Tuñón. Veronica Perez Rodriguez.

This is an abstract from the "Regional and Intensive Site Survey: Case Studies from Mesoamerica" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Tonaltepec Ethnoarchaeological Project focused on one of the few surviving pottery-producing communities in the Mixteca Alta region of Oaxaca. The project investigated whether Tonaltepec’s contemporary tradition of pottery production can be traced back to prehispanic times. To do this, we conducted ethnographic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shannon Tushingham.

Northwestern California has long been recognized as a unique area at the margin of both the Pacific Northwest Coast and California. Recent excavations at sites along the Smith River in Tolowa ancestral territory can help us elucidate long-term evolutionary trends among affluent foragers in the region. This paper will examine some of the profound alterations in human organization that occur at Red Elderberry (CA-DNO-26), a site located along a portion of the Smith River known as a highly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rick J. Schulting. J. Alyssa White. Andrzej Weber.

Lake Baikal is unique in continental northern Eurasia for the size of its large hunter-gatherer cemeteries with good preservation of human bone. Many hundreds of stable carbon and nitrogen measurements are available on human bone collagen, made over the last two decades. The isotope ecology of Lake Baikal is very complex and highly variable, showing one of the largest ranges of δ13C values in the world. Thus, it is not surprising that the human results show considerable variation. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bryna Hull. Jelmer Eerkens. Reba Fuller.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. δ34S can be used in conjunction with δ13C and δ15N to examine if people were accessing resources from within the same local area or were seasonally mobile to exploit foods from other regions. Here we apply this stable isotopic triad to investigate mobility of hunter-gatherers from the central Sierra Nevada region. The δ13C and δ15N results demonstrate a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Frederick Lange.

To paraphrase the symposium organizers, for decades changes in the pre-Columbian material culture of Central America were attributed to either migration or conquest. When I began archaeological research in Costa Rica in 1969 the endless debate was about Mesoamerican influence. Technological and iconographic linkages were frequently cited, but rarely were the mechanisms of the proposed linkages adequately defined or demonstrated archaeologically. In 2008, perhaps unduly influenced by having moved...