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Stephen Houston's Impact on Maya Archaeology: Celebrating His Completion of 3 K'atuns (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Garrison. Andrew Scherer.

This is an abstract from the "Decipherment, Digs, and Discourse: Honoring Stephen Houston's Contributions to Maya Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Stephen Douglas Houston was drawn to archaeology and ancient scripts from a young age, fascinated by the rune stones of his mother’s native Sweden. While he is most widely seen as an epigrapher to outsiders, Mayanists recognize that he is, in fact, a world class field archaeologist that knows...

Symposium on Salvage Archaeology (1961)

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In March of 1955, Dr. Frederick Johnson, Secretary of the Committee for the Recovery of Archaeological Remains, on behalf of the Committee, suggested that a symposium on salvage archaeology might be held during the Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology in May. He asked Drs. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr. of the Smithsonian Institution and John M. Corbett of the National Park Service to formulate an agenda for such a symposium and make such arrangements as might be necessary with the...

Tello and Carrión Cachot on Recuay Culture: A Visual Archaeology (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only George Lau.

While the achievements of the great Peruvianist Julio C. Tello and his theories about Andean civilisation are well-chronicled, much less work has addressed his engagements with archaeological illustration, its practices and desires, especially beyond his signature Chavín work. This paper examines the imagery and arguments of key publications by Tello and his student and intellectual disciple, Rebeca Carrión Cachot, on the Recuay culture (ca AD 100-700). Together, they discerned the culture’s...

“They left about the time I could begin to depend upon them”: Helen Sloan Daniels and the National Youth Administration Durango Public Library Museum Project (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bernard Means.

This is an abstract from the "Female Firsts: Celebrating Archaeology’s Pioneering Women on the 101st Anniversary of the 19th Amendment " session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the lesser known programs that funded archaeological excavations during the Great Depression was the National Youth Administration (NYA). NYA archaeology has been overshadowed by projects funded by its more prominent “cousin,” the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and its...

This Man - William Thomas Mulloy 1917-1978 (1979)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carling I. Malouf.

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This Man -- Roy M. Austin (1984)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carling I. Malouf.

Total Station Archaeology: Digging the Dibble Way (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Curtis Marean.

This is an abstract from the "Establishing the Science of Paleolithic Archaeology: The Legacy of Harold Dibble (1951–2018) Part II" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The methods that we use to excavate archaeological sites shape the resulting data in an unchangeable manner and have significant downstream impacts on our ability to study and interpret our data. In 1987 Harold Dibble published “Measurement of Artifact Provenience with an Electronic...

Transforming Orphan Archaeological Collections to Student Theses (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Glenn Farris.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Like many state agencies, California State Parks have been the source of a number of archaeological excavations which generated collections of notes and artifacts. A significant number of these collections were either not fully studied and written up or have material that deserves another look and the preparation of a more formal report. In coordination with...

Troyville Concept and the Gold Mine Site (1982)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John S. Belmont.

Troyville-Baytown Issue (1982)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jon L. Gibson.

Turning a Critical Eye on the History of Maya Cave Archaeology (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ann Scott.

This is an abstract from the "Studies in Mesoamerican Subterranean Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A major reformulation of the history of Maya cave archaeology has recently been proposed for the second half of the twentieth century. Jon Spenard, in his dissertation, has suggested that modern cave archaeology began to emerge during the Post War Period (1950 – 1980) based on work carried out in Belize. This paper takes a closer look at...

Twenty-Five Years of Archeology In the Eastern United States (1952)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carl E. Guthe.

Two Pioneering California Women Archaeologists, 1940s–1960s: Agnes Bierman Babcock and Freddie Curtis (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven James.

This is an abstract from the "Female Firsts: Celebrating Archaeology’s Pioneering Women on the 101st Anniversary of the 19th Amendment " session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although this may seem surprising, there were very few women California archaeologists prior to the 1940s. This presentation discusses the lives of two pioneering women archaeologists who worked primarily in Southern California from the late 1940s to the 1960s, that of Agnes Bierman...

University's Role In Statewide Archaeology (1958)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dee C. Taylor.

Victorian Values: North American Archaeology at the British Museum during the Nineteenth Century (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian Taylor.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The founding collection of the British Museum, given by Hans Sloane in 1752, contained several Archaic and Late Prehistoric stone points from North America, some of the first examples from the continent to be included within early museum collections. Over the following 150 years the collection expanded rapidly fulfilling a need for contemporary, analogous...

Washington Archaeological Society: a Case History of Amateurism and Professionalism (1965)

DOCUMENT Citation Only C. G. Nelson.

Where does your community live? The TrowelBlazers experience. (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brenna Hassett. Suzanne Pilaar Birch. Rebecca Wragg Sykes. Victoria Herridge.

The TrowelBlazers project is a community-sourced digital archive of short biographies and images of women whose significant contributions to the fields of archaeology, geology, and paleontology have often been overlooked. Originating in a conversation on Twitter between four early-career researchers, the project began life as a tumblr blog designed to share inspirational images and stories of women researchers in the past. Different social media accounts allow us to interact with a number of...

Where Have All the Collections Gone? Mexican Archaeology in World Museums (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Sellen.

In the second half of the nineteenth century, before the era of professional archaeology, those interested in the evidence of the past collected, and on an unprecedented scale. Most of these massive holdings have been since acquired by public museums around the world, where they have been co-mingled with other collections, and in the process, objects have been severed from their historic moorings. Focusing on Mexican collections, this talk looks back on a decade of work in museums and archives...

Why are Archaeological Collections Relevant in the 21st Century? The Caribbean Experience (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paola Schiappacasse.

The late 19th century and beginning of the 20th century provides us with numerous examples of the acquisition of collections carried out by museums. When archaeologists talk about those collections, housed at museums worldwide, the discussions are often directed towards how the lack of context limits or nullifies their research potential. I argue that we need to go back and carefully re-examine the research prospects of these collections. This presentation considers several avenues for research...

Witches and Aliens: How an Archaeologist Inspired Two New Religious Movements (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeb Card.

Egyptologist and Folklorist Margaret Murray was a major figure in the creation of professional archaeology in the United Kingdom, President of the Folklore Society, and advocate for women’s rights in higher education. However, another major part of her legacy was the mainstream acceptance of the concept of the "witch-cult," a hidden ancient religion dating back to the Pleistocene but continuing until at least the seventeenth century when it was persecuted by witch-hunters. Historians have...