North America (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick Trader.

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. Geoarchaeological investigations conducted for the Interstate 69 Corridor Project resulted in the development of a model for buried archaeological site potential in the White River Valley of Indiana. The following paper focuses on the identification of buried Woodland archaeological sites. Previous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Strawn.

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 Middle Holocene, marked by the Hypsithermal, was a time of warmer and drier climate conditions that impacted subsistence strategies and settlement patterns. There is evidence of increased social complexity, including the development of long-distance exchange networks, the establishment of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Boulanger.

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 1971–1972 Texas Archaeological Society field schools, cohosted by Southern Methodist University, resulted in the identification of 230+ archaeological sites in Central Texas and partial excavation of several of these sites. Few of these sites were registered with the State of Texas. Poor curatorial practices—including...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carolyn Freiwald.

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. Ucanal, Guatemala was a Maya city in the central lowlands whose Terminal Classic population grew as other cities were abandoned. Domesticated animal species included dogs and at least one Muscovy duck whose diets show a variety of foddering strategies. An elite Late Classic worked bone deposit also shows the importance of whitetail...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Angela Gore.

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. The Beringian archaeological record is essential in understanding early human dispersals and adaptive strategies in the Americas. Despite a wealth of well-preserved lithic assemblages in interior Alaska, critical questions remain about how people adapted to dynamic late Pleistocene climate changes, particularly regarding toolstone...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karl Kibler.

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. On-going geoarchaeological investigations of the North Sulphur River floodplain, in association with the construction of the Lake Ralph Hall reservoir in Fannin County, Texas, USA, have revealed a 20,000-year plus record of alluvial aggradation punctuated by periods of floodplain stability and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine Halling.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. U.S. laws governing collecting and trafficking human remains versus flora and fauna (living or dead, incorporated into heritage items or art) vary but generally do not overlap. Flora and fauna trading is more explicitly regulated and enforceable than human remains. While both federal and state governments have multifold flora and fauna trafficking laws,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kate Compton-Gore.

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. Despite the decades old regulatory requirement under NAGPRA for museums and institutions to report known hazards such as pesticides, very few policies or procedures exist that address hazards, or ensure that potential or remaining toxins not escape notice. Although guidelines and recommendations addressed the issue in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Natalia Miles.

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. Data recovery projects in CRM, which typically involve excavation and collection of artifacts and material culture, are inherently destructive processes. The deleterious impact of such projects is amplified when collected objects and archival material are not properly prepped for curation and adequately housed at a repository....

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Carballo.

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. Over her distinguished career, exceptional in both service and scholarship, Deb Nichols made enduring contributions to the archaeology of three major eras of precolonial central Mexico—the Formative, Classic, and Postclassic periods. Her research within the Teotihuacan Valley in particular spanned the transition to early villages, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Johanna Nichols.

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. In recent decades a consensus has solidified among linguists that the settlement of the Americas began long before Clovis. Evidence includes the large number of irreducible language families in the Americas and the time required to produce them at expected proliferation rates;...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Abigail Musch.

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. Archaeology greatly contributed to the presence of Native American ancestral remains held in museum and university collections, and recently has been engaged in discussions about the ethical engagement with these collections. An important step in this discussion is to consider how the NAGPRA law, which has been in effect...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Schautteet.

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. Archaeological investigations conducted at the Alamo compound produced a multitude of cultural materials, among them being chipped stone tools. In depth analysis of the Alamo lithic assemblage identified formal hafted tools, hide scrapers, and arrow points. In Texas, the bison hunting toolkit generally consists of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward Knell.

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. Knell et al. (2023) developed a biotic resource structure and optimal foraging theory inspired land use model for Silver Lake, one of two playa lakes that once formed pluvial Lake Mojave in California’s central Mojave Desert. The land use model predicted that Paleoindians remained longer around productive, high-rank...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rolfe Mandel.

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. In this paper, the application of lithostratigraphy in geoarchaeological research is offered as a powerful tool for determining where Early Paleoindian and Pre-Clovis cultural deposits are likely to occur in buried contexts. This approach is facilitated by an understanding of the history for all sediment comprising each...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michelle Wurtz Penton.

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 (APAFR), located in central Florida, was established in 1942 as a gunnery and bombing range, encompassing over 100,000 acres within the Kissimmee River watershed. Archaeological surveys at APAFR began in the early 1980s, but it wasn’t until the early 2000s that these surveys were conducted according to state standards...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Kepka.

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. Data recovery excavations for Missouri Department of Transportation’s Broadway/Buck O’Neil Bridge Replacement Project, situated in downtown Kansas City, provided a rare glimpse into the material culture of marginalized populations...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maximilian Van Rensselaer.

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. Machine learning is a powerful tool for archaeological sensitivity mapping. This research compares machine learning approaches to Middle and Late Archaic archaeological prediction in the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, California and Nevada. Specifically, the analysis seeks to answer whether logistic regression, Random Forest, or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandria Mitchem.

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. In 1977, historic preservation specialists working at Bartram’s Garden (Philadelphia, PA) uncovered a surprising find under the floorboards of the attic of the family home. Over five kilograms of material had been cached by rodents over the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Established in 1728 by botanist John Bartram, the garden...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Birch.

Stephen Kowalewski has advanced a number of conceptual frameworks for the comparative study of organizational complexity. His multiscalar, cross-cultural approach permits the recognition of broad patterns while incorporating meaningful variation. In a 2013 paper, Steve explores the "work" involved in the formation of large, co-residential communities. He suggests that we might productively focus on the labor process, as community members purposefully redirected people’s time, energy, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven Holen.

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. In 2013 we published a book chapter titled “The Mammoth Steppe Hypothesis: The Middle Wisconsin Peopling of North America”. Although this chapter has been largely ignored by the archaeological community, we think the hypothesis is more easily defended today based on new...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Jenkins.

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 edges of forests and waterways in the Chesapeake region were spiritually potent places on the Woodland period landscape, serving as thresholds that opened pathways between worlds. Powhatan historical ethnography hints that these liminal spaces required people to perform ceremonies and offer gifts...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría.

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 presentation introduces the session honoring Deborah Nichols and her many substantive contributions to archaeology. The presentation focuses on three of her last major projects, which exemplify her scholarship in a broad range of periods in Central Mexico and Mesoamerica. They include her field project at the Formative village of Altica in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Lowry.

This is an abstract from the "Military Cultural Resources Management" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Port Tampa Cemetery is a Black cemetery dating to the early twentieth century. It was documented in death records, the Works Progress Association (WPA) cemetery survey, and the oral histories of longtime Port Tampa residents. In the first half of the twentieth century the exact cemetery location was lost during construction of MacDill Airforce...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Linn.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Heritage West is an ongoing community archaeology project co-created by academic archaeologists, museum professionals, community organizations, and descendent populations. Focused on a historically Black neighborhood razed in the late 1960s by the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, Heritage West aims to add material weight to oral historical evidence...