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DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris Howell.

This is an abstract from the "Military Cultural Resources Management" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne) is supporting the Air Force Civil Engineer Center (AFCEC) with an ongoing enterprise-wide initiative striving for full compliance with Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) of 1990 for archaeological collections dating to prior to November 16, 1990. This poster discusses the general...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Dawson.

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. This paper discusses collaboration between the Avenir Conservation Center and Curators at Denver Museum of Nature and Science (DMNS) through an on-going Textile Research Project. The current stage of research focuses on archaeological textiles from Peru. So far 200 archaeological textiles from Peru have been identified. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ruoyu Peng.

This is an abstract from the "*Behavioral Ecology in the Mountain West" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Different ethnolinguistic groups in the Sierra Nevada exhibit substantial variability in settlement patterning, particularly in the intensity of their use of montane and alpine environments. Due to the similarity of environments throughout the range, these differences are not readily attributable to differences in environment or environmental...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Bartz.

This is an abstract from the "Culture, Climate, and Connections: Eventful Histories of Human-Environment Relations" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, we consider the functions of Late Archaic pottery vessels from the Middle Savannah River valley of Georgia and South Carolina to identify patterns of differential use between mobile and increasingly settled groups. To directly determine the function of these early cooking pots, organic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gerad Smith.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Northern Dene culture-bearers in Alaska and Canada maintain a number of oral traditions and place names recalling landscapes and geological events evoking the Late Pleistocene. Following these traditions, the following study tested sediment associated with massive jökulhlaups from Glacial Lake Atna. Using thermoluminescence methods, we date these large...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Mann.

This is an abstract from the "2025 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of David J. Meltzer Part I" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the ice age, was the Mammoth Steppe the planet’s largest terrestrial biome or a giant weed patch? At times during the last ice age (Marine Isotope Stages 2-4, ca. 15,000-70,000 years ago), the Mammoth Steppe extended from Iberia to the southern Yukon. One peculiarity of the Mammoth Steppe as a biome is that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Blong.

This is an abstract from the "Geoarchaeology in First Americans Research, Part 2" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological research in the Pacific Northwest has established the importance of this region for understanding the initial settlement of North America. Archaeological sites and Indigenous oral histories provide evidence for human occupation in the Late Glacial period, suggesting this may have been an initial entryway into North...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Boyd.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Bolivar Archaeological Project in Texas highlights the meaningful contributions that CRM archaeology can make to African diaspora studies and local communities of color. Tom Cook was a freedman blacksmith who lived and worked in the predominantly white community of Bolivar in north-central Texas from ca. 1871 to 1898. His blacksmithing skills enabled...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Rankin.

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. One of the four main strategic goals of the United States Department of the Interior is to conserve, protect, manage, and restore natural and cultural resources despite climate change and other stressors. To achieve this goal, the Bureau of Land Management's Battle Mountain District Office, which oversees over 10...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bernard Means.

This is an abstract from the "Military Cultural Resources Management" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As a Department of Defense Legacy Resource Management Program project, the Virtual Curation Laboratory (VCL) at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) explored different techniques for three-dimensional (3-D) documentation of cultural heritage on the island of O’ahu in March 2024, with the principle goal of creating a 3-D virtual public tour of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dan Healan.

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. Based on 45 years of field and laboratory research including participation in two projects co-directed by Deb Nichols, the author examines Mesoamerican prismatic core/blade technology from raw material acquisition through final product utilization and how it varied given the various contexts in which it functioned.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kurt Dongoske.

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. The effects of climate change disproportionately impact indigenous peoples and their deep time and deep space adaptive capacities. Diminishments in such capacities are overwhelmingly the product of the converging courses of capitalism, industrialism, and colonialism. This presentation examines how colonial- and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kurt Rademaker.

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. Can materials in the earliest archaeological sites of a region tell us where people came from, which environments and resources they were familiar with, and how much landscape knowledge they possessed? I will discuss evidence from terminal Pleistocene sites in the hyper-arid Pacific coastal desert and the high Andes...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shelly Wunderlich.

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 the first half of the Twentieth Century, families of Mexican and Mexican American farmers lived, worked, and died on a tenant plantation in Milam County, Texas. Over the next 100 years their community was forgotten until...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian Buvit.

This is an abstract from the "Geoarchaeology Within the Context of Cultural Resource Management (CRM) Today (Part One)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. CRM data recovery projects offer important opportunities to address both compliance and research questions. In 2024, a team of WestLand archaeologists excavated a portion of a turn-of-the-century mining town in southwest Washington State, focusing on two of 40 features believed to be houses, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wesley Stoner.

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. Deb Nichols has been integral in reconstructing ancient trade relationships in the Basin of Mexico and beyond. My work with her has greatly augmented the study of ceramic exchange for the earliest contexts in central Mexico. I will focus on our study of Early to Late Formative ceramic production systems and touch briefly on how ceramic exchanges...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Pauly.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Frame Biface Cache consists of three large bifaces found in Logan County, northeastern Colorado. The bifaces were knapped from Flattop chalcedony and are interpreted as late-stage preforms, with fairly flat faces, high width:thickness ratios, and edges that lack finishing work and use-wear. Two of them are very similar in dimensions, but one shows no...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Milton.

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. Water is essential for life. Forager research demonstrates that communities adjust mobility strategies in arid regions, often tethering to water sources. This talk investigates human-water relationships in multiple arid environments. We argue that, as the most critical resource for humans, water played a pivotal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Crystal Castleberry.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For five years, the Colonial Williamsburg Department of Archaeology has been investigating Custis Square, the Williamsburg home of John Custis IV. The overarching goal for the project is to collect the evidence necessary to restore Custis’ early eighteenth-century formal gardens, but restored landscapes and buildings in Colonial Williamsburg are more than...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Love.

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. With a robust natural and cultural resource policy framework firmly in place at the federal level, it is highly unlikely that the United States will experience another significant push towards increasing national protections for cultural and natural resources. Yet many heritage resources...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mikaila Walker.

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. Excavations conducted by Aditu Arkeologia at the sites of San Miguel de Excelsis and Santa Maria de Zamartze revealed more than 180 inhumated human skeletal remains dating from the eleventh to fifteenth centuries CE. These sites, located within the municipality of Uharte-Arakil (Navarre, Spain),...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nina Schreiner.

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. Stewarding state-controlled archaeological collections is challenging when state budget allocations determine the degree to which best practices may be realized in the repository. When daily routines are constrained by under-resourcing, engaging community stakeholders may seem out of reach; but regardless of capacity,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Jankiewicz.

This is an abstract from the "Military Cultural Resources Management" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Avon Park Air Force Range (AFR), located in the heart of central Florida, contains archaeological resources vulnerable to severe weather and flooding, as well as ecological and anthropogenic disturbances. Avon Park AFR in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Houston's National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping, is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sophia Dodge.

This is an abstract from the "*Behavioral Ecology in the Mountain West" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project addresses the understudied presence of Gambel Oak acorns in the archaeological record of the mountain west. While ethnographic data indicate that some Indigenous groups in the region consumed Gambel Oak acorns, their recognition in archaeological contexts has been limited. Recent ethnoexperimental work shows Gambel Oak acorns have a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Reynolds.

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. This project utilizes a Virtual Reality simulation of an ancient environment currently submerged underneath Lake Huron. The simulation was originally designed to help predict the location of ancient occupational remains of early Holocene hunter-gatherers. The system has been repurposed to provide...