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DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather McClure.

This is an abstract from the "Digging through the Decades: A 90-year Retrospective on American Archaeology; Biennial Gordon Willey Session in the History of Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. It all started modestly enough. A September 1937 drive to New Orleans from Santa Fe and then passage on the United Fruit Company liner Tivives with the ultimate destinations of Quirigua and Guatemala City. This small group of ten with their leader...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alice Kehoe.

This is an abstract from the "Digging through the Decades: A 90-year Retrospective on American Archaeology; Biennial Gordon Willey Session in the History of Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. World War II disrupted archaeology, with SAA members in uniform and travel restricted. Members resuming their careers in the late 1940s faced a more egalitarian America as thousands of men from uneducated families entered colleges on the G.I. Bill....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ari Caramanica.

This is an abstract from the "Emplacement and Relational Approaches to the Ancient Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The definition of “place” in early colonial north coastal Peru, was based, in part, on Iberian concepts of what constituted ‘good’ land. Ethnohistoric analysis of archival evidence from the period reveals a friction between two distinct worldviews around land, water, ownership, labor, and likely, place. To arrive at a better...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Cohen.

Regime change is a social process that has occurred throughout human history and yet much is still unknown about how political developments shape local communities. This paper examines the impacts of the Late Postclassic (1350-1530 CE) Purépecha Empire on residents at Angamuco, an ancient city within the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin imperial heartland in Michoacán, Mexico. Imperial narratives in ethnohistoric texts emphasize that authorities controlled craft production, tribute, and social practices....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hector Neff.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Honor of Deborah L. Nichols" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Deborah Nichols explored the relationship between subsistence, especially agriculture, and changing modes of settlement and social organization throughout her career. For the most part, her contributions on these topics focused on the Basin of Mexico, where early inhabitants clustered along the shores of shallow lakes, taking advantage of resources...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lucia Henderson.

This paper considers the impact of the new highland chronology proposed by Dr. Inomata on prevailing interpretations of the stone sculptures of Kaminaljuyú. The revised chronology moves the archaeological record of Kaminaljuyú approximately 300 years forward, shifting the site’s sculptures to a wholly new cultural and chronological framework. This paper begins the process of re-contextualizing the art of Kaminaljuyú by investigating the ways in which the new chronology disrupts and/or supports...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Ratcliffe.

This is an abstract from the "The Subterranean in MesoAmerican Sacred Landscapes: A Multidisciplinary Assessment" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ritual cave use is a popular subject in Maya archaeology, but whether proximate sites had linked use is unknown. Recent discoveries in Monkey Bay National Park- a protected area situated in the Maya Forest Corridor in central Belize- have led to new evidence of various ritual activities that took place...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wesley Stoner. Deborah Nichols.

The Altica Project, that began in 2014, is an important step in addressing the limited problem-oriented research at Formative sites in the Basin of Mexico for over two decades. Altica is the earliest-known settled village in the Teotihuacan Valley and one of the only first-farming village sites in the Basin of Mexico that has not been engulfed by the urban sprawl of Mexico City. Despite its small size and remote location, Altica was an important piece in Early and Middle Formative exchange...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Juan Sereno-Uribe.

Arqlgo. Pablo Sereno Uribe. INAH Guerrero. The Chimalacatlán archaeological project has focused its research in the southern section of the state of Morelos. Initially, this archaeological site was excavated by the archaeologist Florencia Müller in 1943. The first actions developed by the Chimalacatlan archaeological project centered on the conservation and restoration of the different buildings along the site, focusing on those buildings that were extremely damaged. Subsequently, several...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Overholtzer.

This is an abstract from the "Ethical Dilemmas in the Study and Care of Human Remains beyond North America" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While engaging in collaborative fieldwork at Xaltocan in 2009, I was surprised that descendants wished to exhibit all their excavated ancestors in the community museum. Subsequent ethnographic research with Juan Argueta showed that displaying and analyzing the dead was a crucial tool in affirming their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Moore.

This is an abstract from the "Complex Human-Animal Interactions in the Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The origins of domesticated llamas and alpacas from their wild ancestors took place in arid and rugged environments. Zooarchaeological remains of camelids record the wellbeing, mobility, and longevity of individual animals. Records from several high-resolution assemblages from the central Andes show different life histories over time,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gavin Wisner. Katie Tappan. Dylan Wilson. Chrissina Burke. Norbert Stanchly.

Zooarchaeological materials from terminal deposits in the Belize Valley have the potential to assist archaeologists with understanding if terminal deposits represent ritual activities. This poster presents the results of zooarchaeological investigations of terminal deposits at the sites of Lower Dover and Baking Pot. While archaeologists from the Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project (BVAR) have focused on the pottery and lithic materials in these deposits a thorough comparative...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ahalisharaeyli Barreiro Castro.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster reports on the application of the Structure Vulnerability Profile (SVP) from the UWF Biocultural Lab to a Mesoamerican bioarchaeological sample. The SVP is a method to add to traditional bioanthropological skeletal profiles but considering “biomarkers” that reflect embodied inequality. The juvenile archaeological sample from Late Classic Copan...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Wyatt. Cameron S. Griffith. Rebecca Friedel.

The past several decades of research have identified caves as important loci for Precolumbian and historic Maya ritual activity. To the ancient Maya, caves served as portals to the underworld, functioning as sites where ritual practitioners could be in closer contact with important deities and enact rites associated with natural forces. The Belize River Valley has been a significant area for cave exploration and excavation, and Stela Cave in particular, located in the Cayo District in western...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alejandra Vidal-Elgueta.

This is an abstract from the "Materialidades, representaciones, vegetales y animales del mundo Colonial de Andinoamérica y Mesoamérica" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeobotanical studies in Tarapacá, Northern Chile, have mainly focused on pre-Hispanic plants like maize, potatoes, and quinoa. Hence, the study of plants introduced during the post-Inca period (from the 16th century onwards) has been limited. These new plants, brought from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Rosa Figueroa.

This is an abstract from the "The Subterranean in MesoAmerican Sacred Landscapes: A Multidisciplinary Assessment" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Archaeology is invariably defined along the lines of the scientific study of material remains to reconstruct past human history. This would appear to make artifact analysis central to archaeological research. In the course of my research on the Midnight Terror Cave artifact assemblage, however, I...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia Mayo Torné.

This is an abstract from the "Hidden Gems: New Research on Lapidary, Lapidarists, and Polished Stone and Shell in the Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The study aims to identify the origin of mosaic stone tesserae mirrors discovered in El Caño, Gran Coclé (750–1100 CE). It is part of a broader research effort aimed at understanding the exchange system between the central region of the Isthmus and the northern and southern parts of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Kowalewski.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> This project integrates, curates, and makes widely accessible the raw data from eight systematic regional surveys (1971–2011) covering 5775 km², including 6000 sites and over 10,000 components, in Oaxaca, Mexico. Materials consist of field notes, site and artifact forms, coded data, sketches, maps, air photos, photographs, and project...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Dobereiner.

For half a century, scholars have listed Mesoamerica and South America alongside the Near East, Egypt, China, and India as independent loci of emergent social complexity. Yet, recent scholarship has placed an increasing emphasis on the role of multi-regionalism and mobility in the emergence of world civilizations. These theoretical shifts, alongside suggestive findings of agricultural, material, and ideological unity in the Formative Americas, require us to ask: were pathways to complexity in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anabella Coronado. Adriana Linares.

Esta ponencia detalla la reciente investigación participativa en las comunidades de Santa María Nebaj, San Juan Cotzal y San Gaspar Chajul, localizadas en el Departamento de El Quiché, Guatemala. La investigación socialmente comprometida comienza con la elaboración de un atlas regional que reconozca y actualice el listado "oficial" de sitios arqueológicos para su protección. Entre las herramientas metodológicas más valiosas destacan los datos provenientes de historias orales que sobreviven...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Juan Sarmiento Rodríguez.

This is an abstract from the "Entre costas, ríos, lagos y manantiales: Arqueología subacuática en contextos prehispánicos en Latinoamérica y el Caribe" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Desde hace varios años, en la Península de Barú e Islas del Rosario, al sur de la Bahía de Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), se ha venido hablando de la existencia de un cementerio prehispánico ubicado en el borde costero de la región. Distintas prospecciones...

DOCUMENT Citation Only AnaBeatriz Balcarcel.

La Gran Acrópolis Central es el corazón del sitio arqueológico El Mirador, el cual presenta diferentes grupos de edificaciones de variada complejidad. Uno de ellos es el Grupo Balam con arquitectura del Preclásico Tardío. Se investigó los aspectos físicos, espaciales, funcionales, sociales e ideológicos a través de una secuencia arquitectónica minuciosa. El estudio permitió conocer no solamente los materiales y sistemas constructivos, las remodelaciones arquitectónicas, el arte en estuco...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christina Rieth.

This is an abstract from the "Digging through the Decades: A 90-year Retrospective on American Archaeology; Biennial Gordon Willey Session in the History of Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Arthur C. Parker was born in 1881 on the Cattaraugus Reservation in New York. Through out his career he served both as an advocate for Indigenous peoples and sites that they inhabited. His career was based on sites in NY, working with the New York...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Davenport.

This is an abstract from the "Ceramic Petrographers in the Americas, Production Practices and Social Networks from Multilevel Angles" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The “Pachacamac” style has been identified on the central and north coasts of Peru during the Middle Horizon. It is characterized by thin-walled and high-fired ceramics, restricted to serving vessel forms, and decorated with polychrome motifs that share iconography with both other...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cristina Verdugo.

This is an abstract from the "Black as Night, Dark as Death: Bioarchaeology of the Mesoamerican Subterranean" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The association of human sacrifice with the subterranean continues to be debated. The connection of sacrifice with ritual sites should hardly be surprising. The continued debate is partially due to the generally poor preservation of skeletal material in the Maya area and the lack of bioarchaeologist working...