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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. The South Gap site (20AA232) is a hunting location most likely for targeting caribou ~55 kilometers offshore from mainland Michigan on the Alpena-Amberley Ridge. The site features a sinuous esker that runs north – south and serves as a natural drive line that channeled migrating caribou along a...
The Diversity of Domestic Dogs in Highland Chiapas: Long-Distance Exchange and Specialized Morphotypes (2025)
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. <html> As the oldest known domesticated species, dogs and humans have had a shared and enmeshed history in the Americas for thousands of years. By Spanish contact, historic accounts describe named, specialized morphotypes such as the hairless xoloitzcuintli and the short-legged tlalchichi; many questions remain about the origin and...
The Diversity of Growth in Kansas City - Connecting Archaeological and Historical Research in Kansas City's Historic Northwest Neighborhoods (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Working towards a More Inclusive Picture of the Past: Archaeology, Archives, and Historically Underrepresented Communities in Cultural Resources Management" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2019, the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) contracted Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company, Inc. (Burns & McDonnell) to complete this survey in compliance with all applicable Federal laws and in accordance with the...
Diving into the Stone Age: Approaches to Investigating a Submerged Stone Age Megastructure in the Baltic Sea (2025)
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. In 2021, geologists discovered a curious, almost 1km long stone wall in 21m of water off the German coast in the Baltic. The structure is situated on basal till in close proximity to the shoreline of a sunken lake, and exhibits a number of characteristics that point to an anthropogenic, rather...
The Domestication and Migration of Zea mays L. in Association with Holocene Climatic Variance (2015)
Maize is known to have originated in Mesoamerica from which it spread north and south adapting to many varied climatic and environmental conditions. This study details the origin of the species Zea mays L. The teosinte hypothesis and the concepts of seasonality and scheduling are used to discuss the domestication of maize by means of human selection. This information is used to highlight the basic circumstances necessary within a human population for maize agriculture to be adopted. Furthermore,...
Don’t Take it for Granite! Reestablishing the Geochemistry of Granite from the Maya Mountains (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Toolstone and Mineral Geography Across Time and Space" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ancient Maya exploited three geochemically distinct granite sources from the Maya Mountains for a variety of ground stone tool and construction purposes. Previously, we sampled these sources and provided signature ranges of important elements that differentiate them. Here, we discuss recent field work that targeted the...
Driving the Past: The Palimpsest Road (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Retelling Time in Indigenous-Colonial Interactions across North America" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The road is a quintessential piece of the American imaginary, connecting the landscape, and providing senses of freedom, movement, adventure, and discovery. Reconceptualized, however, the road can stand as a structure which confines and constrains, enabling forces of domination and obfuscating history. As it...
Drought, population pressure, and inequality drive inter-group conflict in the precontact U.S. Southwest (2025)
This is an abstract from the "*Behavioral Ecology in the Mountain West" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. To anticipate relationships between future climate change and societal violence, we need theory to establish causal links and case studies to estimate interactions between driving forces. Here, we couple theory from human behavioral ecology with a machine learning approach to investigate the long-term effects of climate change, population size,...
The Dry Creek Crossroad: Traditional Knowledge and Petroglyphs (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Dry Creek Site is a multi-panel, multi-component rock art site containing both historic Ute and Ancestral Puebloan motifs as well as historical and modern Euro-American images, located in a natural drainage corridor in the San Luis Valley of the Upper Rio Grande River Basin. These corridors were frequently used to ascend and descend the steep...
Duty of Care: Challenges facing Tribal Historic Preservation Offices following the 2024 Revisions to the NAGPRA Implementing Regulations (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Four Decades of NAGPRA, Part 1: Accomplishments and Challenges" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The January 2024 revisions to the implementing regulations of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 (NAGPRA) were a response to long-standing concerns that Federally-recognized Tribes have expressed over inadequacies in the NAGPRA compliance process. While the new regulations were undoubtedly a...
The dynamics of stylistic change in Arikara ceramics (1965)
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Early human settlers of the south-central Andean highlands during the Terminal Pleistocene: the megapatch model. (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Early Human Dynamics in Arid and Mountain Environments of the Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The high-altitude Andes (> 2,500 masl) have been classically rejected as a central landscape for the early occupation of South America because of extreme environmental conditions such as cold temperatures and hypoxia. Most Andean models propose a later exploration of the highlands, conducted by logistical parties...
Early peopling of the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert, 18 years later (2025)
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. Pampa del Tamarugal (PdT), an inland basin in the Atacama Desert’s lowlands, has become a focus for South American early peopling. Two pulses of increased rainfall in the highlands, between 18 and 9.5 ka cal BP, affected the desert’s hyperarid lowlands through runoff and elevated water tables. Excavations have uncovered six...
Ecosystem Control and Costly Signaling: An Integrated Analysis of Holocene Hunting in the Bonniville and Wyoming Basins, USU (2025)
This is an abstract from the "*Behavioral Ecology in the Mountain West" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We explore and integrate different currencies that may underlie large-game hunting to guide a trans-Holocene analysis of variation in artiodactyl utilization using archaeofaunal data-sets from predominantly open-air sites from the Bonneville and Wyoming basins. The available empirical data continue to suggest that artiodactyls yield consistently...
Education and Training in the Archaeology of Climate Change (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Bridging Science and Service: How Archaeologists Address Climate Change" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As a matter of fundamental importance to the archaeology (and heritage) of climate change, climate change studies should become a common feature of archaeology (within anthropological and classical archaeology) curricula in both undergraduate and graduate studies. Teaching and training in the archaeology of climate...
The Effect of Postdepositional Fragmentation on Archaeological Oyster Shell Metrics (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) is an ecological and cultural keystone species that has been exploited by humans for millennia. Oyster size is a good proxy for population health, and researchers frequently use valve height and length measurements from archaeological and paleontological contexts that provide baselines for assessing past human...
Effectiveness of Site Protection Measures on U.S. Army Garrison Alaska Managed Lands (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Military Cultural Resources Management" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Negative impacts from military and recreational activity occurs on easily accessible archaeological sites on U.S. Army Garrison Alaska managed lands. Vehicular and foot traffic causes vegetation disruption, soil disturbance, and erosion. Implementation of site protection measures including physical obstacles, experimental site capping, signage,...
Emergency Life Support for Vulnerable Collections: A Collections Management Case Study on the Anderson Collection (2025)
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. This presentation discusses a detailed case study on the Anderson Collection, a large collection of Indigenous artifacts gathered by an amateur archaeologist. This collection, now under the care of the Tennessee Division of Archaeology (TDOA), offers a unique lens to explore issues of collections management, emergency...
Envisioning the Integration of Cultural and Natural Resource Management in the United States (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Military Cultural Resources Management" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the United States, cultural and natural resources are managed following separate sets of regulations, guidelines, methods, and workflows. The US Department of Defense (D0D) and other federal agencies seek to streamline and synergize management efforts by integrating cultural and natural resource management. While attention has been paid to why...
Establishing a New Database for Chert Raw Material Sources in Northern Belize (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Current Methods and Applications to Chert Sourcing: Case Studies from Across the Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Lithic raw material quality and abundance played a direct role in the decisions of past tool makers, the type of production, and the organization of exchange networks. The results of raw material procurement influenced the tool making process, whether this be the quality of material...
Ethical Bioarchaeology in Practice: The View from Cusco, Peru (2025)
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. NAGPRA has served as a crucial signpost for U.S. bioarchaeologists in their efforts to be and do better, including those who study skeletal individuals from (and in) other regions of the world. In these contexts, the most important NAGPRA directive is arguably for U.S. bioarchaeologists to center the...
Ethical Considerations for Human Remains in an International Context (2025)
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. In the United States, the repatriation of Native American ancestors has been ongoing for over 30 years, governed by the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) Act and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). These laws do not apply to the remains of non-Native American...
Ethics in the Classroom: How Prevalent are Ethics-Focused Course Offerings in US Anthropology Undergraduate Programs? (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology is a discipline highly concerned with ethics. On March 7, 2024, the SAA adopted a new set of ethics principles prompting a critical question: are higher-education anthropology programs in the United States effectively teaching the diverse range of ethical facets described in these newest principles? In this student-faculty co-creative poster,...
Everyday Life at Mission San Antonio de Valero (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Indigenous Practices and Material Culture: Seventy Years of Mission Life" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Within everyday life actors maintain, create, or reproduce identities. This is especially true for Indigenous inhabitants of Catholic missions in the New World. Indigenous groups were brought into the missions as neophytes and taught the daily practices of those under the Spanish Crown. Mission life was much more...
The Examination of A Brownware Assemblage: An Overview of the Sanchez Site Ceramics (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Sanchez site (AZ CC: 2: 452 (ASM)) has a brownware assemblage (ca A.D. 100 to 500) dating to the period when ceramics were first manufactured in the American Southwest. This site is a cerro de trincheras settlement or hilltop site near Safford, Arizona on the upper Gila River between the Mogollon and Hohokam cultural regions. It was primarily occupied...