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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. Traveling and working with Dave Meltzer for 40 years has been an adventure and learning experience. We first met working together on Archaic sites—to which we have returned later in our careers . Since then, we have reinvestigated Paleoindian sites, such as Lindenmeier, Midland, Miami, Black Mountain, Folsom, and...
Historical Archaeological Approaches to the Basque Influence on the Economic and Cultural Development of the American West (2025)
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. Popular conceptions of the settlement of the American West have long been associated with stoic cowboys, resolute homesteaders, and even California’s tenacious Miner Forty-Niners. These archetypes are representative the vast region’s development through the utilization of its abundant natural...
The Historical Ecology of Shell, Water, and Land in the Atchafalaya Basin (2025)
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. From archaeology to ethnohistory to ethnography, studies of Indigenous Gulf Coast communities have revealed remarkable watery landscapes of earth and shell. Throughout the Atchafalaya Basin, a dynamic and rapidly changing floodplain intersected by lakes, bayous, and marshes, and surrounding drainages,...
The History of "Laundry Lists" in North American Zooarchaeology (2015)
North American zooarchaeologists believe that prior to 1970, most zooarchaeological reports were laundry lists—lists of taxa identified, perhaps with abundance data. Laundry lists make up 68 percent of titles published between 1900 and 1959; 24 percent of titles published between 1960 and 1979 are laundry lists. Some laundry lists concern samples so small that one should not expect more than a list of identified species; other laundry lists were produced by zoologists who had no knowledge of...
The History of Caribbean Archaeology from ca. 1930 (2025)
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. The history of Caribbean archaeology more or less follows the trajectory detailed by Willey and Sabloff (1980) in their review of Americanist archaeology with notable differences in timing. In this presentation, I will trace nearly 100 years of...
Horse Paraphernalia: A Material Culture Study of the Reintroduction of Horses in the Americas and Their Integration into Native Cultures (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Horses were reintroduced in the Americas in the early 16<sup>th</sup> century by Spanish colonizers and adopted to varying extents by Native people over the following century. Evidence for Indigenous uses of horses in what is now the United States comes from written and oral histories, illustrations and depictions in rock imagery and other media,...
Household-level Management of Small game at Teotihuacan, Mexico: Zooarchaeological and Isotopic Proxies from Plaza of the Columns Complex (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. In the absence of large domesticates, one of the New World’s largest cities seems full of paradoxes. At Teotihuacan, the two known domesticates, the dog and turkey (17%), and the largest readily available herbivore, deer (11%), were not major contributors to animal protein, yet, there is no evidence of elevated cases of animal protein...
How Did The Seeds Get There? Ruppia cirrhosa Ecology, Depositional Context and Accurate Radiocarbon Dating at White Sands (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. The stratigraphic and geomorphic contexts, and ultimately the chronometric determinations, at White Sands Locality-2 (WHSA-2) are topics of controversy that stem from conflicting interpretations of the processes that deposited the Ruppia seeds within the paleo-Lake Otero footprint site. Some studies have characterized the eastern...
How Things Change: Exploring Long-Term Patterns in Use of Quarried Chert in Neolithic Southern Germany (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. Quarries and mines used to obtain silicites are known from Neolithic cultural landscapes across Europe, representing a common pattern of localized, repeated use of selected sources. Though common, Neolithic quarry sites are challenging to interpret in broader sociocultural context due in part to the chronological and regional...
How to Develop Software-Based Systematic Reviews of Archaeological Research Articles with Information from the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper illustrates the application of systematic review software to conduct meta-analyses of archaeological research articles. With an eye toward the practice of meta-analyses in archaeology and other sciences, we will explore the utility of systematic review software tools to accomplish meta-analytical tasks regarding subjects best addressed at the...
How to Tell a Footprint from a Hole in the Ground: Ichnofacies of the Great Salt Lake Desert, Utah, USA (2025)
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. The basins of paleolakes in the Desert West preserve an amazing archaeological record. Under certain conditions this archaeological record includes the contemporaneous trackways of humans and animals, these compelling, tactile features connecting people to landscapes across time. The discovery and...
How Worlds Collide: Drought and Culture Change in a Late Woodland Frontier (2025)
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. The interwoven pathways of culture and environment are key to the interpretation of the past. Ancient peoples navigated the complexities of environmental changes through strategic decisions and the management of local landscapes. This dynamic holds true for the Chesapeake region where historically...
<html>Animals and Political Economy in the Andes: Camelids and <i>Cuyes</i> as Food and Ritual Offering at Middle Horizon Huaca Colorada and Tecapa, Peru (650-1050 CE)</html> (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. Camelids and guinea pigs (cuy) are central to Andean cuisine and ritual practice. In this paper, we examine the variable use of camelids and guinea pigs in the complex social and political relationships of Late Moche and Transitional phases of the Andean Middle Horizon on the North Coast of Peru (650-1050 CE). We mobilize the analysis...
<html>Dendroarchaeological Explorations of the Diné-Hispanic Raiding Relationship in 18<sup>th</sup> & 19<sup>th</sup> Century New Mexico</html> (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. <html> Accounts from Spanish and Mexican-era New Mexico have long emphasized the central role that raiding and captive-taking played in defining the colonial relationship with the Diné (Navajo) during the 18<sup>th</sup> and 19<sup>th</sup> centuries. Much of the research to date has focused on understanding how New...
<html>Indaa bínatsíkęęs: Cyclical, Reciprocal and Relational Understandings of <i>Nígosdzán</i></html> (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. As an evolving discipline that is hopefully and truly continually moving toward a path where Tribal and Indigenous communities across the world have complete control over their own identities, heritage, histories and futures how do we continue to challenge settler colonial narratives that continue to dominate the...
<html>Mistakes have been made: An Archeo-<i>Logical </i>assessment of pre-14,500 cal BP evidence for Human Presence in the Americas</html> (2025)
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. Geochemical dating of artifacts, bones, or other materials associated with them is only one step toward proving the age of an archaeological site. The context and association of the artifacts, bones or other materials purported to be from human activity must also be accurately interpreted. An accurate interpretation is no small feat...
<html>Re-evaluating the Dietary Significance of Gambel Oak Acorns (<i>Quercus gambelii</i>) in the Great Basin, Colorado Plateau, and Southwest: Evidence from Experimental Foraging, Direct Bomb Calorimetry, and Tannin Extraction</html> (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. Ethnographic evidence documents the exploitation of Gambel oak (Quercus gambelii) acorns as a food resource in the Great Basin, Southwest, and Colorado Plateau. However, a paucity of identified macro- and micro- botanical acorn remains in the archaeological record has resulted in a critical underestimation of the significance of the resource for...
<html>Stable isotope examination (δ<sup>18</sup>O, δ<sup>13</sup>C) of human remains from the Monastery of Santa María de Zamartze (Uharte-Arakil Municipality, Navarre)</html> (2025)
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. <html> A subset of human remains (n=155) recovered during the 2011 to 2015 excavations from the Monastery of Santa María de Zamartze burial grounds were analyzed for stable oxygen and carbon isotopes derived from bone and tooth carbonate. Provided this site’s close geographic association with a...
<html>The <i>Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology</i> and Its Role in Promoting and Unifying Regional Archaeological Research Agendas</html> (2025)
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. The Midwest was an early center for training professional archaeologists in the 1930-40s, but area researchers only slowly developed a sense of regional identity. The Midwest Archeological Conference (MAC), created in the mid-1950s, consisted for decades of simply an informal annual meeting. In 1976, with MAC still an anarchic,...
<html>The <i>Revista del Museo de Antropología</i>, from Local to Global: Fostering Open Science through Regional Diamond Open Access Journals</html> (2025)
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. Open science seeks to create a more transparent, accessible, and collaborative research environment. The Revista del Museo de Antropología contributes to this effort by offering a regional platform that moves from local relevance to broader recognition. Through its diamond open access model, the journal provides a space free for...
<html>Weathering Change: <i>Responses to Climatic Change along the Black Warrior River</i></html> (2025)
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. During the Late-Mid Holocene the southeast was impacted by dramatic changes in climate causing what appears to be a large shift in past people’s interaction with the landscape seen through a regionwide restructuring of settlement patterns and the abandonment of significant places. Noting these...
Human Occupation of Argentinean Pampean Plains During Peri-LGM Times (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Beyond Pre-Clovis: Human Occupations in the Americas during the Last Glacial Maximum and the Perpetual Debate" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pampean human settlement is currently accepted from about 15 ky BP. Here we present occupation evidence from OIS 2/OIS 3 fluvial secondary sites containing unambiguous anthropically modified bones. The study area consists of low energy terminal Pleistocene fluvial depositional...
Human occupations at the Southern boundary of the Deseado Massif (Patagonia): results of ongoing excavations at La Gruta 1 and 3 (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. <html> The arid Deseado Massif, located in central Patagonia east of the Andes Mountains, has a high concentration of early human occupations. We present the results of ongoing excavations at La Gruta 1 and 3, two rockshelters located near the masif’s southern boundary in Santa Cruz province. Evidence obtained from...
Human Settlement and Subsistence derived from Starch Granules on Ground Stone Tools in southern Nevada, USA (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. This study integrates starch granule analysis, botanical surveys, and comprehensive site analysis to shed light on the relationship between local plant resources and past human settlement and subsistence activities. Starch granule analysis on ground stone tools has the potential to reveal information about plant foods that have been processed...
Human-Animal Interactions in the North American Southeast (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. While the southeastern region of North America is home to one of the major centers of plant domestication, no large animals native to this region were added to the global suite of domesticated animals. Domesticated livestock were introduced from elsewhere, both tools of, and accessories to, European settler colonialism. These animals...