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DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael E. Smith. Aundria Arneson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The growth trajectory of a city through time is responsive to both internal and external forces. The shapes of such trajectories provide information about a variety of social, political, and economic processes that operated in the past. We present and analyze data from both well-excavated cities and regional settlement surveys in Mesoamerica. The patterns we...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fernanda Navarro Sandoval. José Luis Punzo Díaz.

This is an abstract from the "Ways to Do, Ways to Inhabit, Ways to Interact: An Archaeological View of Communities and Daily Life" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Como parte del proyecto “Prospección Arqueológica de Tzintzuntzan, Antigua Ciudad de Michoacán”, se analizó el paisaje norte de la cuenca del lago de Pátzcuaro para identificar la extensión de las modificaciones hechas en las laderas de los cerros, mediante la construcción de terrazas. A...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dan Trepal.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Hamtramck Historic Spatial Archaeology Project, launched in 2021, is an active digital, web-based public collaborative deep mapping project for the city of Hamtramck, an industrialized city completely surrounded by Detroit. The primary focus of the project is to create and launch a digital, web-based, publicly accessible deep map linking information...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Adams.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Nadine Moeller.

This is an abstract from the "Theorizing Prehistoric Large Low-Density Settlements beyond Urbanism and Other Conventional Classificatory Conventions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Much attention has been drawn to the discovery of unusually large agglomerations, so-called “anomalous giants,” that appeared out of nothing at different times and in many parts of the world, suddenly and without any signs for a noticeable long-term trend that would...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Creekmore.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In Upper Mesopotamia the Middle Bronze Age (2000 – 1600 B.C.E.) marked the regrowth of cities following the decline or collapse of cities at the end of the Early Bronze Age. Researchers question the degree of continuity in urban space across these periods and some have suggested that Middle Bronze Age cities were "hollow," containing relatively small built-up...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madison Baker.

This is an abstract from the "City and Country in the American West:Post-1848 Historical Archaeologies of Denver and Los Angeles" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Black Americans had the opportunity to build achievable wealth through land ownership under the Homestead Act of 1862. Alice Ballard was one of few Black women to homestead in California during the height of the Jim Crow Era. Excavations in 2018 at Alice's cabin site in Los Angeles County...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susanne Reichert.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology of Medieval Eurasian Steppe Urbanism" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The paper will introduce and discuss a set of themes deemed crucial for the understanding of settlement practices on the Mongolian plateau during the time of the Mongol Empire. The past 20 years witnessed a burgeoning of research endeavors regarding Mongol period settlement sites. Mongolian, Japanese, Russian, German, and US...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marc Levine.

This is an abstract from the "Moving the Needle: Expanding the Discourse on Modern Archaeology in Oaxaca Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tututepec (Yucu Dzaa) was a Mixtec capital that controlled much of coastal Oaxaca (Mexico) during the Late Postclassic Period (AD 1100-1522). Since 2005, residential excavations have focused on commoner lifeways, including patterns of domestic production, consumption, and exchange, and how these shed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth Ames. Kisha Supernant. Andrew Martindale. Susan Marsden. Corey Cookson.

Urbanism is almost exclusively associated with agriculture, although hunter-gatherers sometimes have seasonal aggregations numbering in the thousands. This paper considers the evidence for an urban-like settlement on the northern Northwest Coast. By AD 1787, the villages of nine tribes of the Northern Tsimshian were concentrated a small area in Prince Rupert Harbour (PRH), British Columbia and had been so for centuries. Prior to ca. 1500 cal BP the Northern Tsimshian lived in villages of varying...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Codlin.

This is an abstract from the "Cultivating Cities: Perspectives from the New and Old Worlds on Wild Foods, Agriculture, and Urban Subsistence Economies" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mesoamerica is a unique example of a center of urban development that thrived in the absence of large domesticated animals. And, while turkeys and dogs have a long history of domestic production in Mesoamerica, at the metropolis of Teotihuacan, we lack clear evidence...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laurianne Gauthier.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Urban developments feature monumental architecture as well as diverse engineering systems that were part of daily activities and larger landscape modifications. Some of the urban constructions in ancient Maya cities included reservoirs and canals. Reservoirs were also part of ceremonial activities to maintain good relationships between humans, deities,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Gillaspie.

This is an abstract from the "City and Country in the American West:Post-1848 Historical Archaeologies of Denver and Los Angeles" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Astor House, a historic building in Golden, Colorado, opened in 1867 during a time when Golden was vying to become the capital of the future state of Colorado. Originally intended as a glamorous hotel, the building operated as such for 25 years before being sold for back taxes. It...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eli Dollarhide.

This paper explores one prominent material correlate of an interconnected ancient Near Eastern world: a category of ceramic vessels termed incised greywares. Archaeological excavations have revealed a significant corpus of incised greyware vessels from across the mid-third millennium BC Near East; they are found in contexts as diverse as the ancient city of Susa to small, communal tombs across the Omani peninsula. The primary focus of this paper lies in investigating an assemblage of this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Veronica Perez Rodriguez.

This is an abstract from the "Moving the Needle: Expanding the Discourse on Modern Archaeology in Oaxaca Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Cerro Jazmín Archaeological Project has recovered the remains of 65 individuals from the Late-Terminal Formative (300 BCE—300 CE) city of Cerro Jazmín, in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca. From a bioarchaeological perspective, our studies revealed that social inequality was not clearly marked among these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zachary Nissen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological studies of urbanism frequently seek to assess the factors which enable some cities to persist over the long-term while others fail after a few generations. This paper continues this line of inquiry by drawing on anthropological scholarship on inequality to examine the relationship between socioeconomic inequality and urban longevity. The paper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Vis.

Maya urban archaeology is progressively addressing how to ‘people the past’, using data exploration techniques. The Chunchucmil map (Hutson and Magnoni 2017) offers an exemplary spatial data resource. Chunchucmil features here as a testing ground for showcasing the interpretive research advances enabled by Boundary Line Type (BLT) Mapping. BLT Mapping resulted from establishing a common frame of reference to make radical comparisons between Maya and contemporary urban patterns. The anticipation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alex Badillo.

This is an abstract from the "Moving the Needle: Expanding the Discourse on Modern Archaeology in Oaxaca Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the Summers of 2022 and 2023, members of the Proyecto Arqueológico de Quiechapa (PAQuie) completed test excavations at the archaeological site of Las Mesillas located in southern mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. Innovative approaches were used to document the excavations that combined paperless and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Garrett Jones. Timothy Hare. Mike Dowell.

We describe an integrated heavy-lift unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and remote sensing platform used to map archaeological features under the forest canopy in the northern Yucatán. We collaborated with Mobile Recon Systems Inc. to construct a UAV-based aerial mapping system that can be used to create high-resolution maps and 3D models of archaeological ruins, excavations, caves, and cenotes for small to medium-sized areas of the forested environment. The system integrates Light Detection and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Carballo. Daniela Hernández Sariñana. Agustín Ortiz. Jorge Blancas.

This is an abstract from the "2024 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Luis Barba" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the project’s beginnings in 2012, Luis Barba has been a codirector of the Proyecto Arqueológico Tlajinga Teotihuacan (PATT), helping to bring an interdisciplinary research program to studying neighborhood organization and domestic life on the southern periphery of this early Mexican metropolis. After first investigating...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Soren Frykholm.

This is an abstract from the "Moving the Needle: Expanding the Discourse on Modern Archaeology in Oaxaca Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Walls encountered in archaeological contexts are notoriously difficult to date and assign function. In this talk, the authors report on two extensive, previously unknown walls from the site of Monte Negro in Oaxaca, Mexico. They discuss the possible temporality and purpose of these walls, alluding to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Arlen Chase. Diane Chase. Adrian Chase.

This is an abstract from the "2023 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Timothy Beach Part I" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Human-nature relationships are key to understanding past societal developments. The value of conducting transdisciplinary research, involving new methods and other investigators, has become increasingly apparent as the field of Maya Studies has matured. While there has continued to be a significant increase in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dean Blumenfeld. Rudolf Cesaretti. Angela Huster. Michael E. Smith.

This is an abstract from the "Teotihuacan: Multidisciplinary Research on Mesoamerica's Classic Metropolis" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The architectural map produced by René Millon’s Teotihuacan Mapping Project allows a fine-grained investigation of two features poorly understood for ancient cities. First, we use a kernel density analysis of residential structures to assess the differential population densities of the city. We find that there...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Green. Sneh Patel. Pam Crabtree.

In this talk, we introduce the papers of the session, which reflect the many threads of Rita P. Wright’s contributions to archaeology. Prof. Wright has established a suite of concepts and critiques that generate a comparative framework that is not restricted to a single geographical area. In her early work on ceramic production and craft, Wright synthesized the anthropology of technology with the archaeology of the Indo-Iranian borderlands, laying the foundation for a technological approach that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gyles Iannone.

This is an abstract from the "The Current State of Archaeological Research across Southeast Asia" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Comparative Urban Traditions project aims to rigorously explore pre-industrial cities and urban communities in all their complexity and diversity. Focusing on a set of archaeological case studies that are representative of a range of different time periods and geopolitical contexts, the approach is sensitive to both...