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DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Brown. Kevan Edinborough. Kenneth Ames.

Using data from a newly constructed regional 14C database for the Early and Middle-Holocene on the northern Northwest Coast of North America, a combination of Bayesian models, summed probability distributions and spatial analyses are used to evaluate hypotheses regarding the nature and timing for the development of collector strategies on the northern coast. Research and taphonomic biases are accounted for by binning the radiocarbon data, and by applying a general linear model to the data set. I...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordan Bowers.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the Late Iron Age, the Ave River Valley of Northern Portugal was one of the most densely populated areas of the Castro Culture, an archaeological culture in Northwest Iberia. Settlements at this time varied in size from small agricultural sites to large urban hillforts. In this poster, I explore the movement of people, and, by connection, goods and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Rainville.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Orange period (6000-3000 BP) communities in Florida have been defined by the manufacture of fiber-tempered ceramics within eastern Florida and have a well defined chronology. Orange period communities engaged physically with the landscape through shell and sand terraforming and community mobility. Contrastingly, the Archaic period in south Florida is not...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Catrine Jarman.

Recent reassessments of the gender balance among Viking Age Scandinavian populations in the British Isles have suggested a greater presence of immigrant women than previously thought. At the same time, increasing support for a view of the Viking world as a diaspora, with a sustained network between the original and the acquired homelands, has necessitated a better understanding of the mechanics of the migration process. This paper evaluates interdisciplinary evidence for the level of mobility...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fiona Hook.

This is an abstract from the "Maritimity in the Indo-Pacific World" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Coastal environments have been argued to be crucial in the dispersal of modern humans from Africa to Australia. However, there is limited archaeological evidence of coastal resource use between Arabia and Sahul before 50,000 years ago. Boodie Cave on Barrow Island, Australia, occupied by Aboriginal people around 51.1 ka, offers some of the earliest...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Todd Surovell.

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. This paper explores a key difference between modern and prehistoric flintknapping evident in the archaeological record. Modern knappers generate dense concentrations of flakes, while such clusters are rare in prehistoric sites, suggesting shorter reduction episodes in the past. One likely reason for this difference is that modern...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Isabel Cartajena.

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. It has been suggested that hunter-gatherer social complexity becomes evident during the late Middle Holocene in the Atacama puna. The Loa River basin is a highly advantageous location, characterised by a concentration of water and biotic resources, and contains multiple human settlements. The Late Archaic is represented by the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only W. Haas.

As obligate tool users, humans habitually reconfigure material-resource distributions. It is proposed here that such resource restructuring may have played an important role in shaping hunter-gatherer mobility decisions and the emergent macro-structure of settlement patterns. This paper presents a model of hunter-gatherer mobility in which modifications of places, including the deposition of cultural materials, bias future mobility decisions. With the aid of an agent-based model, this simple...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Clayton Meredith. Keith M. Prufer.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Interdisciplinary Isotopic Research" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite considerable research on mobility patterns of the Classic Lowland Maya, the mobility of pre-ceramic foragers is understudied. Elsewhere, logistical mobility strategies have been documented for archaeological and ethnographic forager populations in tropical forest biomes. Most often these strategies are related to seasonally...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elise Alonzi.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fosterage and mobility both require creating and breaking social ties. Early medieval Irish texts suggest that mobility and fosterage, which is the practice of children leaving home to be raised and educated, were means by which monastic communities gained members and sustained a prestigious social standing. Examining these practices through biogeochemistry...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Flora Vilches. Hector Morales.

Towards the end of the 19th Century, the subsistence mode of indigenous Atacameño society transited from an agricultural-pastoral economy to a more diversified capitalist-based one. This transformation resulted from a growing mining industry in the northern region of Chile. While part of the indigenous population migrated to the new productive enclaves, others remained in their territory, especially the herders of the puna. These highlanders, however, also took part of the new capitalist order...

DOCUMENT Citation Only George Lau.

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. One of the most salient and widespread innovations after the Chavín-period cults was the depiction of camelids across various ancient Andean cultures, from Moche to Nasca, and Pukara to Recuay. We can surmise that camelids played an increasingly prominent role in their respective social worlds, expanding horizons both economically...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Greg Hendryx. Joost Morsink. Charlotte Pevny.

Excavation was performed on the periphery of a substantial Pliocene-age deposit of Citronelle gravel in southwest Mississippi, 20 miles north of the Gulf Coast. This gravel deposit, which covered hundreds of acres, represents the southern-most exposure in the region. Historic Citronelle mining throughout the twentieth century has extirpated the signature of primary lithic reduction deposits; however, a discrete loci of cultural material spanning two millennia remains intact, and buried beneath...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Manuel J. San Román. Flavia Morello. Victor Sierpe. María José Barrientos. Jimena Torres.

This is an abstract from the "Human Behavioral Ecology at the Coastal Margins: Global Perspectives on Coastal & Maritime Adaptations" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper we discuss the characteristics of marine hunter-gatherer peopling (Alakaluf) in the Strait of Magellan (52°30'- 54°00'S) during the last 2000 radiocarbon years. Focusing on zooarchaeological information and other sources of evidence, we evaluated the modalities of use of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicole George.

The relationship between concave base and Western Stemmed Tradition (WST) projectile points in the Great Basin is not well-understood. They may represent sequential Late Pleistocene technologies, coeval technologies used by different ethnolinguistic populations, or different components within the same toolkits. To explore the latter possibility, I collected geochemical sourcing data for both types of artifacts recovered from three adjacent valleys in southeastern Oregon: (1) Warner Valley; (2)...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kylie Williamson. George Kamenov. Neill Wallis. John Krigbaum.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. River Styx, a Middle Woodland (ca. AD 100-300) ceremonial center located in North Central Florida, is currently the only known site in prehistoric Florida where cremation was the sole form of deposition of human remains. Previous analysis of material remains from the site indicate extra-local connections up into the Ohio Hopewell and Great Lakes regions. To...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edwin Harris. Christopher T. Fisher.

The growing adoption of LiDAR for archaeological analysis makes determining how ancient peoples modified, interacted and moved through the landscape more practical. Initial analysis of the LiDAR produced imagery covering the Postclassic (1000-1520 CE) Purépecha site of Angamuco, located in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin of Michoacán, Mexico showed a highly urbanized multi-nucleated settlement sprawled across 26km2 of an ancient lava flow, with a complex urban structure. Here I discuss the results from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dario Guiducci. Ariane Burke.

The large-scale colonization of unfamiliar environments by Late Pleistocene humans would have required advanced navigational abilities. Archaeological signatures of spatial cognition are difficult to identify in Prehistory, although the presence of well-dated sites can help us track human mobility across the landscape. In this research, we test whether structural properties of the environment played an important role in helping humans navigate new landscapes, providing affordances for wayfinding...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Bracewell.

This paper considers post-sedentism in hunter-gatherers: how the fact of having previously been sedentary affects the behaviour of societies that increase their mobility in response to changing environmental conditions. The case-study in question is the transition in Northern Finland from a sedentary Sub-Neolithic, supported by high concentrations of marine resources in the river estuaries of the region, to an increasingly mobile adaptation in the Early Metal and Iron Ages. Although village...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Stewart. Mark Brodbeck. Andrew Darhling. Jennifer Rich.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents the preliminary results of a GIS-based approach for the documentation and interpretation of a prehistoric Hohokam travel corridor in the South Mountains of Phoenix, Arizona. Trails, their associated features and co-occurrences of artifacts, when combined with settlement data, provide important clues about intercommunity relationships and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barbara J. Heath.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Land Unto Itself: Virginia's Northern Neck, Colonialism, And The Early Atlantic", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Early records from Chicacoan, the first permanent English community on Virginia’s Northern Neck, refer to residents “going to Virginia,” in spite of living within that colony’s established boundaries. Settling land that the colonial government had forbidden its citizens to occupy, and openly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Janes. Michael Cloud.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ongoing large scale archaeological ground surveys are being conducted primarily in the southern San Juan Basin of New Mexico to determine if regional Chacoan Roads connect various great house outliers there. These surveys identified a series of linear sherd scatters following an east to west trend between the Standing Rock Great House Community and the Peach...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kisha Supernant.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Landscapes of Care: Exploring Heart-centered Practice in Historical Archaeology", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The homeland of the Métis Nation of Canada is a vast landscape, making it challenging to trace our material history across many colonially imposed borders. Métis ancestors moved across this landscape along trails and river systems, creating a web of interconnected places tied together through kin...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hirokazu Kotegawa.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El color rojo fue muy importante en distintas civilizaciones antiguas a lo largo del tiempo y espacio para los seres humanos. En la costa sur del Golfo de México se encuentran la sociedad Olmeca y la otra posterior llamada Villa Alta por su fase cronológica de la región. Desde la sociedad Olmeca, el uso de pigmento rojo, hematita, es común como la...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Davies.

This is an abstract from the "Modeling Mobility across Waterbodies" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Current debates over migration and mobility in Pacific prehistory hinge on the capacity of mariners to sail to windward. With this ability, voyages between any two points were possible, with ease of travel conditioned on the favorability of winds. Without it, movement in any given direction was dependent on winds traveling along a similar path, a...