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DOCUMENT Citation Only Wendy Teeter.

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. The goals of Indigenous archaeology have called for the incorporation of descendant community voices before and with the starting of a potential project. What will your project do to help descendant communities, how will they be incorporated and share in the work, scholarship, presentations,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Gillreath-Brown.

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. Severe heat waves and droughts are visible manifestations of climate change, and many people associate these events with climate change risks in the US. Drought impacts public health, economies, and quantity and quality of water. Over the past 2,000 years, the southwestern US has experienced several...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma Bonthorne.

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. Between the 18th and 20th centuries, the Basque Country was the setting for numerous large-scale conflicts, including the War of the Pyrenees, the Peninsular War, the Carlist Wars, and the Spanish Civil War. These conflicts deeply impacted Basque society and left an enduring legacy within the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Bettinger.

This is an abstract from the "*Behavioral Ecology in the Mountain West" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mountain environments, the treeless parts above 10,000 ft specifically, are traditionally viewed as less productive, more difficult of access, more physiologically challenging, and for those reasons, marginal to their subalpine counterparts. The ideal free distribution (IFD) of Fretwell and Lucas (1969) provides a means of testing this “marginal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christina Rieth.

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. Arthur C. Parker was born in 1881 on the Cattaraugus Reservation in New York. Through out his career he served both as an advocate for Indigenous peoples and sites that they inhabited. His career was based on sites in NY, working with the New York...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anne Parfitt.

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. This study utilized a systematic, multi-pronged approach to assess lithic raw material representation at six large, early Paleoindian-period sites in the Great Lakes and New England-Maritimes regions. A wide-ranging comparative database of lithic sources from within and outside of the region was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Davenport.

This is an abstract from the "Ceramic Petrographers in the Americas, Production Practices and Social Networks from Multilevel Angles" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The “Pachacamac” style has been identified on the central and north coasts of Peru during the Middle Horizon. It is characterized by thin-walled and high-fired ceramics, restricted to serving vessel forms, and decorated with polychrome motifs that share iconography with both other...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Smith.

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. Fieldwork at Otumba, directed by Deborah Nichols and Thomas Charlton, producednumerous important findings on the Aztec economy and urbanism. Otumba has played anoutsized role in our understanding of Aztec craft production and economic organization inparticular. The site has been presented as both prototypical example and outlier. Wecompare...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Dylla.

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. Since its creation by the Texas legislature in 1977, the Texas Historical Commission both houses the State Historic Preservation Officer for federal antiquities compliance and administers the Antiquities Code of Texas, which offers state-level protections to significant archaeological sites. The Alamo occupies a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Iñaki Arrieta Baro.

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. Tree carvings, arborglyphs, or lertxun-marrak in Euskera, etched by sheepherders constitute one of the most visible remnants of Basque culture in the Western United States. They are also a case of living forms containing art created in open spaces, which creates innumerable challenges for their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Fitzhugh.

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> The first sustained post-Norse northern contacts between Europeans and Indigenous North Americans began in the Gulf of St. Lawrence beginning in the mid-16^th century. Mik’maq of the southern Gulf were quick to engage with Basque whalers and traders. In the northern Gulf and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leland Bement.

The Beaver River Complex (NW Oklahoma) of early Paleoindian (Clovis and Folsom) large-scale bison kill sites began contributing to our knowledge of Folsom hunting organization two decades ago with the identification, excavation, and analysis of the Cooper site. Since then a total of five Folsom kill components have been identified at three arroyo kill sites within a 700 m reach of the Beaver River. The most recently discovered site, Badger Hole, contains the youngest Folsom kill component of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fernando Armstrong-Fumero.

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 Carnegie Institution of Washington program in Mayanist archaeology presents a pivotal transition in how U.S. archaeologists financed and organized large-scale projects in Latin America. In many ways, this organization consolidated an earlier...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Steber.

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. In 2022-2024, Chronicle Heritage surveyed 3700 acres along 70 miles of road between Cave Creek, Perry Mesa, and the Verde River on behalf of the Tonto National Forest. The survey resulted in an over 50% increase in the number of known sites in the project area and a 30% increase in the known room count. This area has seen...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Lekson.

While there are hopeful signs of change, for most of the last half-century American Anthropological Archaeology has been highly skeptical or openly hostile to continental-scale dynamics, particularly north of Mexico. Why was that? This paper briefly explores the history of our discipline, contrasts it to Europe and Latin America, and remarks on emerging, more realistic frames-of-reference for the prehistory of Native agricultural societies in North America. Examples begin with old chestnuts in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bridget Ambler.

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. As a Department of Interior (DOI) museum and the largest of three repositories within the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center and Museum (CANM) curates cultural materials from permitted archaeological projects, and numerous items from law enforcement actions and private donations. With...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Womack.

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. Over the last two decades East Asian archaeology has seen an increasing move towards the use of archaeometric analyses to gain deeper insights into past human realities, especially the relationship between climatic and cultural change. However, a lack of collaboration between scholars in the fields of archaeology...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Wiewel.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 1991, the National Park Service has offered a week-long series of lectures and field exercises aimed at promoting the use of ground-based geophysical, aerial, and other remote sensing methods within archeology. The workshop was originally created to address the lack of formal training opportunities in archeological remote sensing. Over time, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Perry.

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. The discipline and practice of archaeology in the US face escalating ethical challenges and calls for evolution and change. Public archaeology can serve as a vehicle to educate according to new norms and values, inspire student interest in ethical archaeology as a career, and enhance academic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karon Winzenz.

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. My master's thesis focused on sacred bundles and rituals depicted on Maya ceramics of the classic period. I am indebted to Justin Kerr and his Maya Vase Data Base. I studied bundles in both sacred and quotidian contexts. Today I discuss mythological scenes in which bundles are associated with the Maize God and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rhiana Ward.

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. Between 2019 and 2020, archaeologist conducted a series of test excavations within the footprint of the former Mission San Antonio de Valero – known today as the Alamo. Excavations were completed to assist preservationists in completing a series of architectural assessments for the two remaining structures of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Sain.

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. Chronicle Heritage has recently completed burial recovery excavations at the Vicksburg National Military Park (VICK) in Vicksburg, Mississippi. This undertaking was in response to a landslide event in February 2020 and continued erosional activity. The initial landslide caused the collapse of a portion of the cemetery’s Section T,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Seltzer-Rogers.

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. Black Mountain is one of the largest villages in the southern Mimbres valley of southwestern New Mexico and the type site for the Postclassic period (A.D. 1130-1450) Black Mountain phase (A.D. 1130-1300). In 2023, Chronicle Heritage conducted limited data recovery excavations for a compliance-based project at the Black Mountain...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathleen Jenkins.

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. The Mexican supply routes to the Texas missions were often unreliable, and could not guarantee an inventory of daily necessities to the mission population. As a result, the Indigenous populations of the missions were required to become self-sufficient and provide their own key resources. This necessitated mission...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jon Spenard.

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 Rio Frio Regional Archaeological Project recently recorded an extensive network of granitic rock quarry sites associated with an ancient Maya ground stone tool production industry in the Mountain Pine Ridge (MPR), Belize. At the extraction sites, raw material was workshopped into ground stone implements and then distributed...