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DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeremy Beller.

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. Archaeological research in the southern Cape of South Africa continues to emphasize the region’s crucial role in understanding the emergence of cultural modernity among early modern humans. However, certain aspects of subsistence behavior, particularly the strategies for procuring raw materials and the associated patterns of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Shaver.

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. Identifying the locations of Choctaw Land Grants from the 1831 Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek is challenging due to limited and hard-to-obtain historical data. In Mississippi, archaeological sites linked to these grants are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fernanda Neubauer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The process of stone boiling involves heating rocks in or near a fire until they have reached an optimal temperature and then transferring them into a water-tight vessel, container, or pit containing liquid, thus cooking foods via wet heat. Unlike the direct heating of a ceramic vessel over a fire, the stone-boiling container is not placed on a heating...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Miranda Harding.

This is an abstract from the "*Behavioral Ecology in the Mountain West" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For decades, archaeologists have interpreted the material record of the Pleistocene-Holocene transition (PHT; ~14,500-9000 cal BP) to suggest that the first peoples in North America specialized in large game hunting. Increasing evidence, however, is documenting considerable temporal and spatial variability during the PHT across North America. In...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Law Pezzarossi.

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. When Nipmuc leaders requested an archaeological study of an eighteenth and nineteenth century Nipmuc household in Central Massachusetts, our team set out to carefully situate this Indigenous family’s story within nested contexts: first, within contemporary Massachusetts history; and then within more regional and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra Greenwald.

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 North Americans, including peoples of the Mountain West, invented and use(d) cradles to transport infants during maternal activities. Energy expenditures and return rates of mothers foraging with infants using carrying technology is understudied, but an important consideration among groups relying heavily on caloric contributions from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren Bussiere.

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. The Paint Rock Archaeological Project is an ongoing community-based investigation led by members of the Comanche Nation, the Lipan Apache Band of Texas, and Coahuiltecan tribes. Working with archaeologists from the University of Texas' Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, researchers from Abilene Christian Univeristy,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia Ayala.

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. The colonization of South America presented diverse characteristics depending on the colonial powers involved and the Indigenous Peoples subjected to colonization, who early on witnessed the destruction of their cemeteries and the prohibition of their religious practices. The subsequent formation of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sissel Schroeder.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent interest in the archaeology of dugouts and dugout canoe travel has accelerated research on these unique artifacts in collections, is associated with an increase in inadvertent discoveries, has prompted searches for dugout canoes in lakes and waterways using novel methods, and expanded efforts to date and identify wood type of dugouts. With a sample...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alex Barker.

This is an abstract from the "Celebrating Alice: Recognizing the Many Contributions of Alice Beck Kehoe" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Throughout her long career Alice Beck Kehoe has challenged us to recognize, on the one hand, the interconnectedness of past peoples, and to ignore, on the other, the blinders of accepted wisdom and strictures of the moment’s paradigm. This paper briefly discusses alternative ways of understanding the distribution...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Ordoñez.

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. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), essential for the ethical treatment of indigenous remains and cultural artifacts in the U.S., has had unintended consequences beyond its borders. This presentation examines the impact of NAGPRA's principles on archaeological and ethnographic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ann Cordell.

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. Even as a grad student, Tim Kohler was a renaissance individual in terms of expertise with the artifacts and materials of the southeastern US. At the Woodland Weeden Island-period McKeithen site in North Florida, his innovative statistical analyses and computerized mapping documented chronological and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Miguel Delgado.

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. <html> The early peopling of the Americas is a topic of intense debate. Among the most contentious issues remains the timing of the initial entry of humans into the continent. Currently, archaeological evidence recovered from sites dated to the Last Glacial Maximum has been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jakob Sedig.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Work by Chronicle Heritage Staff" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Three themes unite the posters in this session: Innovation, Growth, and Preservation. This poster reviews how Chronicle Heritage’s leadership in the CRM field encompasses these themes. The last few years have seen significant advancements in CRM. Fewer than twenty years ago, most archaeologists were trained to do basic tasks, such...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Makae Brieschke.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology in Color: Undergraduate Voices on Their Time in the Discipline" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. It is no secret that Archaeology has been a field predominantly filled with wealthy white men. In this paper, I explore accessibility in the field for people of color and low-income backgrounds. From my experiences doing field work at Hadrian’s Villa and Picuris Pueblo, to my coursework at Columbia University, I...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Ahlrichs.

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 archaeological resources of Path Valley in Pennsylvania contain a limited number of toolstone types. The primary toolstone is chert, native in the valley bedrock and readily accessible from both primary and secondary geologic contexts throughout the valley. Crystal quartz was used less often but is also locally available in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James C. Bard. Mark Warner.

An introduction to the session highlight the array of scholarship on numismatics and an exploration of the significance of mumismatics to the field of historical archaeology.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yusuke Watanabe.

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. Recent genetic studies on the movements of early human populations, including ancient DNA research, have suggested ancestral migrations from Southeast Asia to East Eurasia and the Americas. However, certain adaptive responses during the eastward migration into Eurasia remain unclear. By examining...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cherra Wyllie.

This is an abstract from the "Celebrating Alice: Recognizing the Many Contributions of Alice Beck Kehoe" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In October 1519, the Santa María de la Concepción arrived in the southern Spanish port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda from Veracruz carrying a letter to the crown from Hernán Cortés, along with an inestimable treasure of gold, silver, and featherwork. The cargo included a retinue of Totonac elites and indigenous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sibeli Aparecida Viana.

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. The Central Plateau of Brazil has approximately one hundred archaeological sites that date from the late Pleistocene to early Holocene. In this context, the technical conception of unifacial ( "lesmas") is a cultural phenomenon that has intrigued archaeological research for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mackenzie DePlata-Peterson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Across North America, there have been more than 75 proboscidean bonebeds with proposed evidence of human predation or scavenging (Grayson and Meltzer 2015). Only 14 of these sites are uncontested with strong evidence contributing to a collective agreement that these sites are indeed culturally associated (Grayson and Meltzer 2015). This leaves the vast...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Des Lauriers.

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. Placing people in particular spots in time and space gives only part of the evidence that we need to understand human history. With such limited information, we are adrift as to where populations may have come from and what decisions they were making in a world structured by human knowledge and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Pool.

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. This paper honors Deborah Nichols's legacy of research on craft production, exchange, and Formative period interregional interaction. In 2015 Stoner and Pool called for an “Archaeology of Disjuncture” to refocus attention on variation in intra- and interregional interaction, illustrating the approach with the case of the Classic period of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Josef Iwanicki.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Camp Au Train, located in Michigan’s Hiawatha National Forest, was a Civilian Conservation Corp camp that was later reused to house German prisoners during WWII. Historians and archaeologists have produced an extensive literature on CCC and POW camps, but they are typically discussed in isolation and separated from larger capitalist economic structures....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth Cannon.

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. Camp Guernsey's North Training Area (NTA) is located within the Hartville Uplift of eastern Wyoming, an area rich in archaeological resources, particularly extensive formations of toolstone-quality raw materials. Because of the potential for live training exercises to impact cultural resources, the...