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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 Sarah Novak.

This is an abstract from the "Geoarchaeology Within the Context of Cultural Resource Management (CRM) Today (Part Two)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper examines the use of 3D modeling within an archaeological site and how this technology can enhance our understanding of the past. Two 1x1 meter units were excavated to an approximate depth of 250 centimeters at a large Southern California coastal cultural site. Unit 01 was placed on a 15%...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vincent Gaffney.

This is an abstract from the "Hunting for Hunters, Underwater: Results and Future Directions for Submerged Ancient Sites" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. After more than thirty years of study, palaeolandscapes research in the southern North Sea, usually referred to as Doggerland, has moved from the status of niche interest to an increasingly strategic area of investigation. Drivers for such a development includes the need to develop coastal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joshua Lynch.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2024, Arkansas Tech University (ATU), in partnership with the Ozark St. Francis National Forests and the WRI Research Station of the Arkansas Archaeological Survey, executed the first RPA4-certified Field School conducted on public lands in Arkansas. This four-week field school offered students and professional archaeologists the opportunity to gain...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fumi Arakawa.

This is an abstract from the "Thinking of Acronyms: a Kohler Obsession? Papers in Honor of Timothy A. Kohler (TAKO)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As population density increases throughout the Holocene, people tend to expand their mobility strategies to acquire necessary resources (e.g., food, raw materials, mating opportunities, etc.). This is a common perception of human behavior globally; however, archaeological records, particularly lithic...

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 Teresa Lacosta Ramírez.

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Basque Archaeology: Current Research and Future Directions" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the Roman Empire's interests in its provinces was the exploitation of their mineral resources. In the region of the Western Pyrenees, the Empire promoted mining activities for gold, silver, iron and copper. Notably, the mining complex in the Aierdi Ravine (Lantz, Navarra, Spain) stands out...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Loren Davis.

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Late Pleistocene Archaeology of the Northern Pacific Rim" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A number of North American sites predating ~14.5 ka, well before an ice-free corridor became available, have relatively large stone tool assemblages that allow some assessment of the underlying characteristics of the lithic tradition they share. These assemblages have a broad technological...

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 Karen Brunso.

This is an abstract from the "United States Archaeology at Crossroads Part 1: The Obstacles, the Failures, and the Victories" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Indian tribes are often listed last in any preservation literature. This unfortunate placement in the language has left many tribal preservation officials feeling like the “last check box” in preservation processes, leading to many misunderstandings and hard feelings. It does not have to be...

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 Dan Sandweiss.

This is an abstract from the "Issues in Regional Journal Publishing in the Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Andean Past is a peer-reviewed, interannual publication series on Andean archaeology and ethnohistory. Founded by Dan Sandweiss at Cornell University in the mid-1980s, fourteen volumes have been published since 1987. Monica Barnes joined as co-editor for Volume 3 (1992) and became the editor from Volume 5; Dan serves as Founding...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Max Schrader.

This is an abstract from the "Reckoning with Legacy Exhibits, Data, and Collections" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Northern Arizona University, Department of Anthropology, Faunal Analysis Laboratory (NAUDAFAL) prioritizes decolonizing zooarchaeology through our work. Despite this mission, the lab’s comparative collection is stored and organized in alignment with arbitrary Euro-Western epistemologies and lacks Indigenous perspectives for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Masami Izuho.

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Late Pleistocene Archaeology of the Northern Pacific Rim" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The precise locations and mechanisms of the emergence of ancient North American populations, which developed from a mix of East Eurasian and Ancient North Eurasian groups around 25,000 years ago, followed by a period of isolation and subsequent migration to the Americas after approximately...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Holcomb.

This is an abstract from the "Geoarchaeology in First Americans Research, Part 1" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past several decades, the application of soil and sediment micromorphology in geoarchaeology has flourished, especially outside of the Americas. Despite the widespread acceptance and use of this approach by our European counterparts, a similar effect has yet to occur among geoarchaeologists focused on the early archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrea Zurek-Ost.

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Basque Archaeology: Current Research and Future Directions" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Isotopic approaches to investigate geographic area of origin, mobility, and dietary practices have long been applied to archaeological and forensic contexts. Isotopic ratios from human bones and teeth can be used to derive information about cultural, geographic, and demographic group membership....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian Codding.

This is an abstract from the "*Behavioral Ecology in the Mountain West" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Indigenous land-use decisions influenced plants and animals across North America for thousands of years. These dynamics were disrupted by settler-colonial invasions, leading to declines in ecosystem function and health. Restoring Indigenous socioenvironmental systems and the cultural keystone species they support requires first identifying how...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pamela Pascali. Kirsten Green Mink. Jaime Awe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological sites in the United States are governed by a complex network of state and federal regulations, sovereign tribal governments, and private landowners. This often leads to difficulties managing access to heritage sites and their research potential. In contrast, extant literature describes the efforts of the Belize Institute of Archaeology and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Mather.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Concentrations of black bear (Ursus americanus) remains were examined from four Late Woodland archaeological features related to Kathio National Landmark in Minnesota, representing single ceremonial events in the history of the Dakota Nation. Archaeologically, they were superficially similar, consisting of fragmented bear cranial bone and teeth,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katelyn Kitch.

This is an abstract from the "Many Voices in the Repository: Community-Based Collections Work" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The Moore-Hancock Farmstead, a historic-age mid-19^th century log cabin structure and associated buildings located in central Austin, Texas, has been the subject of archaeological investigations since the early 1990s. Though the collections produced by this work sat on repository shelves for decades, they...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maitane Tirapu De Goñi.

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Basque Archaeology: Current Research and Future Directions" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2020, during a speleological intervention in a cave located in the Erro Valley (Navarra), the oldest set of skeletal remains in the region was discovered. Radiocarbon dating revealed the individual to be more than 11,000 years old, placing the remains in the early Mesolithic period. Due to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Stone.

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Late Pleistocene Archaeology of the Northern Pacific Rim" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The Late Pleistocene to early Holocene (~20,000-7000 cal BP) was marked by warming climates, rapidly rising sea levels, shifting oceanic conditions, and profound paleolandscape changes along North America’s Pacific coast. Dramatic transformations in the coastal environments of Baja...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Reese.

This is an abstract from the "Thinking of Acronyms: a Kohler Obsession? Papers in Honor of Timothy A. Kohler (TAKO)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The proliferation of artificial intelligence coupled with the accessibility of consumer-level computing equipment that can analyze big data has heralded a new paradigm of research in the hard and social sciences. While archaeology is often reticent to broadly adopt the newest technologies, a suite of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimball Banks.

This is an abstract from the "United States Archaeology at Crossroads Part 1: The Obstacles, the Failures, and the Victories" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Climate change is an umbrella that encompasses a variety of interrelated environment and social impacts such as sea level rise, increased temperatures, changing weather patterns, forest fires, drought, famine, migration, and conflict. Increasingly governments are trying to figure ways to...