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DOCUMENT Citation Only Gerald Oetelaar.

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. With the constant encouragement of Alice Kehoe for the past quarter of a century, my wife Joy, the historian in this project, and I have adopted counter-mapping as an alternative approach to interpret the archaeological record of the Northwestern Plains as an imprint of Blackfoot oral traditions. This approach...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeremy W Johnson. Dustin Hawks. Michael D Lewis.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Tumwata Village, located at Oregon City, Oregon, holds a complex archaeological record of thousands of years of Indigenous lifeways, overlain by 19th century settler and commercial expansion, and 20th century industrial domination. The resulting complexity presents a challenge for archaeologists attempting to understand both this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Fladd.

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. Museums, along with broader discipline of anthropology, are undoing significant ethical shifts as the field confronts the legacies of colonialism. In addition to rethinking how we make exhibits, label materials, and approach repatriations, we are also increasingly considering how collections were formed and their implications for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Perry.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Western ideologies that reinforce nature-culture divides are deeply entrenched in American mindsets and approaches to land and resource management. Resulting disciplinary divides can influence environmental determinations and decisions in ways that ignore or negatively impact cultural heritage. In contrast, archaeological and indigenous communities...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jamie Ross.

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. In 2022, staff in the Texas Historical Commission Historic Sites division received funding through an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Save America’s Treasures grant to develop a Community Curation program. This program is intended to enable the rehabilitation of legacy archeological collections through the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Boeda.

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. Understanding the chronology and earliest settlement patterns of the Americas cannot be achieved without studying past relationships between man and the environment. Adapting, moving or even disappearing in response to climatic fluctuations are the expected reactions. In order...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Gala.

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. Determining the origin of the first people in North America has been an area of contention. One possible hypothesis proposes an origin on the Paleo-Sakhalin-Hokkaido-Kurile (PSHK) peninsula, stating that the numerous microblade cores and stemmed projectile points on the peninsula are similar to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kegan Roady.

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. The cultural resource management (CRM) industry is growing rapidly, yet there is a widespread shortage of trained CRM professionals and a lack of adequate training opportunities for students. To address this disparity, the PaleoWest Foundation, Chronicle Heritage, and Crow Canyon Archaeological Center have partnered to offer a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allyson Brooks.

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. Proposed changes in current federal and state laws and regulations that are the basis of cultural resource management are occurring on a more frequent basis. With the focus on renewable energy siting, and increasing types of infrastructure projects, our profession is experiencing increased...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Blaine Burgess.

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 Chronicle Heritage’s recent survey of 4,500 acres in the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument (GCPNM). The Arizona Strip, particularly the GCPNM, sits at the western edge of the Ancestral Pueblo world, is adjacent to Fremont and Upland Patayan, and is encompassed by the ancestral homelands of the Paiute...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Montana Martin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The work from home requirements related to COVID-19 exposed some large gaps in processes for the conducting archaeological research and surveys. Data was often stored through paper copies and local servers that could not be accessed remotely. This was an issue at the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Tulsa District and reduced the ability to comply with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Wholey.

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. Often when we envision the future of archaeology, particularly archaeology education, factoring in and keeping up with new and advanced field and lab technologies spring to mind. At the same time, traditional archaeology education (e.g. material culture, chronology, spatial analysis) must continue to address...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra Bazarsky.

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. Obsidian was used by the ancient Maya to create tools, weapons, and symbols of status. Archaeologists have analyzed these objects to better understand ancient trade and production systems, as well as socioeconomic and ideological spheres. While obsidian and obsidian sources have been thoroughly examined in many parts of the Maya...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Witt.

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. Industrial-scale solar, wind, and water power generation projects often have an oversized impact on cultural resources. These projects, which may stretch over thousands of acres, can damage or destroy entire cultural landscapes, and existing regulations and policy do not adequately address...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Waters.

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. Geoarchaeological studies are critical to the evaluation of late Pleistocene archaeological sites in the Americas. One of geoarchaeology’s important contributions is to provide an accurate age for a site and its associated stratigraphy. Today, I will discuss best practices for the radiocarbon dating of bone. Laboratories currently use...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Donald Grayson.

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. This year’s Fryxell Award, for general interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology, has gone to David J. Meltzer. Perhaps the quickest introduction to the breadth, depth, power, and focus of Dr. Meltzer’s contributions in this realm is provided by his 2015 book, The Great Paleolithic War: How Science Forged an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris Widga.

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 last few decades in the Quaternary sciences have seen impressive leaps in the development of novel tools and techniques, as well as excellent examples of interdisciplinary research in pursuit of archaeological objectives. From ancient DNA found in skeletons and sediments to an almost dizzying variety of stable...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erik Otárola-Castillo.

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. Deb Nichols' seminal work on agricultural risk mitigation demonstrates that food-security risk management has been crucial for human survival. This study builds on her legacy. Using a Human Behavioral Ecology perspective, we examine how pre-contact foraging and farming societies in the North American Great Plains navigated uncertainties brought by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only K. Anne Pyburn.

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 Kehoe has been the reliable voice of reason in archaeology during my entire career. She championed women when the disciplinary hierarchy was a patriarchy that didn't see any problem. She advocated for Indigenous participation in knowledge production before terms like community and identity and colonialism...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erika Heacock.

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 June 2023, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS) closed its North American Indian Cultures Hall (NAICH), a legacy exhibit from the 1970s. In doing so, museum staff hoped to heal the harm caused by racist stereotypes perpetuated in the exhibit, and to repair broken relationships with Indigenous communities. When the doors...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sascha Menn.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For any faunal osteologist MNI is key to help identify the context of burials, mass graves, archaeological sites, food processing, etc. There is great difficulty in identifying the MNI with unidentifiable bone fragments. Here we present a study of prehistoric Odocoileus virginianus (white-tailed deer) bones from SUNY Plattsburgh archaeological field...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katharine Napora.

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. Archaeology is an ideal discipline by which to introduce students to integrated humanistic and scientific analyses, including those focused on studying the cultural responses regarding, and the modern impacts of, climate change. Here, we discuss the development of an experiential educational archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Reid.

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 Spring Lake Site (41HY160) is a significant multicomponent archaeological site in Central Texas. Located at one of the State’s largest freshwater springs, the site contains material from Paleoindian to Protohistoric times. A combination of aggregate and typological analyses was used to examine over 18,000 pieces of debitage from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Roosevelt.

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. 19th century natural scientists interested in Amazon archaeology saw the region as having a long prehistoric sequence of early hunters, sedentary ceramic fisherpeople, farmers, and complex societies. Both South American scientists and institutions...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Scherer.

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 ethics surrounding the study of the skeletal remains of the “ancient Maya” are fraught and variable. For much of the second millennium AD, large swaths of the southern Maya lowlands were sparsely occupied by indigenous peoples, with population booms spurred by internal migration only in recent decades....