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DOCUMENT Citation Only Mitchell Allen.

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. In many academic disciplines, regional societies and journals simply represent the academic location of their members, but their content covers a broad range of topics and places. In archaeology, regionality shapes the content as well. This has implications for the range of the readership and authorship —including non-academic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Kessler.

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. American Archaeologists have frequently relied on Euro-American documents, accounts, and material goods to construct timelines for Indigenous sites in the Colonial and Contact eras. While the temporal precision of manufactured goods and written accounts are attractive to archaeologists, these sources may flatten...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ana Navas-Méndez.

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 this paper, I discuss the process of conducting decolonial research to make visible the contribution of non-European groups in the construction of colonial Panama. In general, archaeologists have researched Spanish settlements in the Caribbean and Pacific coasts, focusing mostly on the restoration and preservation of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steve Tomka.

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 Indigenous population of the San Antonio missions was drawn from five distinct regions of north and south of the Rio Grande. The ethnic groups indigenous to these regions manufactured distinct arrow point forms prior to entering the missions in the early eighteenth century. Yet over the next 70 years there is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Burke.

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. Archaeological research on the Coastal Plain of the southeastern United States has yielded a rich assemblage of stone tools produced by late Pleistocene and early Holocene hunter-gatherers, but little research has been undertaken to quantitatively define and describe the variable stone resources...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Roxana Cattaneo.

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. A combination of mineralogical, geochemical and petrographic analyses is utilized in studying both clay raw material and pottery sherds from archaeological sites located in the Ongamira and Characato valleys (Córdoba, Argentina). By employing XRD, XRF, INAA, and crystallography to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zhuldyz Datka.

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. Ceramic paste recipes (e.g., variations in inclusion types, sizes, and frequencies) have the ability to show shifts in communities of practice through the choices made at the micro- and macro-scales. By integrating morphological and stylistic data with paste analysis, this research...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrea Torvinen.

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. Ceramic petrography is commonly used to investigate the technological choices embedded within constellations of practice that archaeologists recognize as large-scale collective identities such as the Mississippian cultural tradition. Using several lines of evidence, we aim to more...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathaniel Kitchel.

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. In northeastern North America (New England, southern Quebec, and the Canadian Maritime Provinces) red and mottled red and green chert from the Munsungun Lake formation northern Maine is associated with fluted-point-period occupations in the region. Various characterization methods including visual...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carolyn Dillian. Charles Bello.

Charles Conrad Abbott is most well known for his participation in the "Great Paleolithic Debate" of the late 19th century, in which he used archaeological evidence to propose an independent evolution of humans in the New World and the Old World. His theories were soon dismissed as incorrect, but for a brief time, he gained scientific renown for his scholarly publications. However, his theories must be examined within the framework of scientific thought during this time. In 1859, Charles Darwin...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Holli McDonald.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bioarchaeological research has played a significant role in understanding the Casas Grandes region of Northwest Mexico. Excavations at the archaeological sites of Convento and Paquimé recovered at least 652 burials dating to AD 700-1450, almost half of which were designated as subadult burials based on original site documents. This provides a robust...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven Emslie.

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. Many cave deposits in the western U.S. are rich in late Pleistocene vertebrate fossils and plant remains preserved in sediments and packrat middens. These caves are usually deep, dry, and located in arid environments where preservation and mummification of organic remains is highest. Many of these same caves were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Isabelle Holland-Lulewicz.

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. Modelling expected environmental conditions derived from past global climatic trends presents an issue of scale when linking the historical trajectory of past societies to climatic change. Global climate change influences local environmental conditions at scales critical to the contextualization of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sharisse McCafferty.

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. Alice Beck Kehoe has been a multidimensional scholar throughout her amazing career in Anthropology and Archaeology. She has authored and/or edited over 20 books, the newest boldly titled, “Truth & Power in American Archaeology. Her interests are truly diverse, covering Native American nations (Blackfoot, Cree,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kaylyn Moore.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Collaborative archaeology fosters relationships between communities and archaeologists to create new perspectives of the past. This paper examines the collaborative process between archaeologists from the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma’s Historic Preservation Office and myself, aiming to develop a curriculum focusing on Choctaw cultural heritage utilizing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Cajigas.

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. Creighton Island shell ring (9MC87) is a crescent-shaped shell midden, approximately 40 m in diameter, that was constructed by Native Americans participating in multi-seasonal, cooperative and sustainable shell-fish mass capture and fishing techniques during the Late Archaic period (3000–1000 B.C.)....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nayeli Jiménez Cano.

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 Mesoamerican archaeology, animal management in coastal environments is often underexplored, particularly concerning the consumption of invertebrates beyond mollusks. This presentation addresses this gap by examining the exploitation of stone crabs (Menippe mercenaria) at Isla Cerritos, Yucatán, Mexico, during the Terminal Classic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carole Nash.

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 future of American archaeology demands that practitioners identify the distinction between scientific scholarship and service as not only spurious but harmful to our discipline. The academic luxury of privileging scholarship as the driver of disciplinary progress undermines the value of the everyday work,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Kelly.

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. The timing and nature of terminal Pleistocene colonization of the western hemisphere is central to the career of David Meltzer. In 1988, as young, wet-behind-the-ears professionals, we presented a narrative model to explain several facets of early Paleoindian archaeology: the nature of faunal processing, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Honora Sullivan-Chin.

Today, the former homeplace of William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) Du Bois is a National Historic Landmark administered by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, which assumed stewardship of the property in 1987 after more than seventy years of relative abandonment. Nondescript and overgrown, the space appears to be little more than a vacant parking lot and accompanying sign alongside Route 23 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Indeed, ongoing efforts to commemorate Du Bois and to interpret the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Hoppes.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A recent Class III Cultural Resources Inventory of over 53 square miles Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in the central Great Basin within Pluvial Lake Newark and the Pancake Range has resulted in the documentation of over 650 archaeological sites. These include large-scale pronghorn traps, residential camps, and toolstone quarries dating from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sophie Husslein.

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. This poster summarizes the results of Chronicle Heritage’s recently completed South Kaibab Fuels Reduction Class III Project, conducted on behalf of the Kaibab National Forest (KNF) in advance of fire-reduction treatment. The survey covered 12,724 acres of KNF land within the Tusayan Ranger District. As a result of this survey,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John O'Shea.

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. Constructed features of stone, wood, and other materials are increasingly recognized as a common feature of hunter-gatherer subsistence economies. Such constructions are used to increase both the certainty and quantity of captured animal resources. The detection of constructed features in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paulina Przystupa.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Data Literacy Program (DLP) of the Alexandria Archive Institute/Open Context ran from late 2020 to 2025 with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation. This paper summarizes insights gained from the program, whose goal was to widen and diversify community engagement with cultural heritage data. The paper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Raad.

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. Curating legacy archaeological collections poses complex challenges while offering an opportunity to engage students in critical dialogue about museum ethics, provenance research, and the politics of display. Stanford University students in my Spring 2024 course “Introduction to Museum Practice” grappled witih the purpose,...