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DOCUMENT Citation Only Lynne Goldstein.

This is an abstract from the "Kin, Clan, and House: Social Relatedness in the Archaeology of North American Societies" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological site of Aztalan is located between the modern cities of Milwaukee and Madison, Wisconsin, and is commonly identified as Mississippian, dating to about AD 1000. The site has been known since the 1800s, and many amateur and professional archaeologists have excavated there. Much of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Fry.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the early medieval period, burials across Britian included a wide variety of grave goods, which often signaling status, ethnicity, and varied by demographic factors. This study explores objects included in female graves which have been interpreted as bags worn about the hip. A functionalist interpretation may be too simplistic for understanding...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elissa Bullion. Michael Frachetti. Farhad Maksudov. Ann Merkle.

This is an abstract from the "Living and Dying in Mountain and Highland Landscapes" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Islam spread into Central Asia via the Arab invasions of the 7th century CE. According to current historical narratives, Islam’s first footholds were lowland urban centers, with Islam only slowly infiltrating the highlands. New research, presented here, challenges the idea that highland areas were a barrier to Islam. This paper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Armando Anzellini.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study presents the analysis of two fragmentary, poorly preserved burials — one adult male and one adolescent — discovered at the site of Julcuy in coastal Ecuador. These burials are tentatively dated to the Late Archaic, a period with very little osteological evidence resulting from the hostile burial environment. Due to the poor preservation,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas K. III Black.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Dawn Hadley. Elizabeth Craig-Atkins.

This is an abstract from the "The Health and Welfare of Children in the Past" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper will discuss the burials of infants and young children in the earliest Christian cemeteries in Anglo-Saxon England (10th and 11th centuries CE). While in earlier pagan periods the burials of the very youngest members of communities are conspicuous by their paucity, the earliest Christian cemeteries have a much more representative...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Mallouf. Erika Blecha.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. An unusual and highly significant Late Prehistoric mortuary feature in eastern Trans-Pecos Texas was discovered in 1992 by a group of relic collectors who carried out an uncontrolled excavation. The feature, which contained 7-9 human interments and over 500 associated objects, consisted of a circular, 6.0 m diameter stacked rock cairn on the summit of a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephanie Halmhofer.

In May 2015, a disturbed burial was uncovered in Garden Bay, British Columbia, within close proximity to the large shíshálh village site of Sexwamin (DjSa-3). Found in association with the burial were 244 intact smooth, unadorned mold-blown (SUMB) glass beads and 40 SUMB glass bead fragments. Due to their extremely fragile nature, blown glass beads are rare in archaeological contexts and the beads from Garden Bay are from one of only five sites in North America where SUMB glass beads have been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Ballester.

This is an abstract from the "Landscapes of Death: Placemaking and Postmortem Agencies" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The construction of the social landscape of the Atacama Desert coast (northern Chile) was a long and dynamic process in pre-Columbian times, involving different agencies and material strategies. Around 6500 calBP, these fisher-hunter-gatherers started building permanent settlements composed of clustered semi-subterranean...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordi Rivera Prince.

This is an abstract from the "Landscapes of Death: Placemaking and Postmortem Agencies" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bioarchaeological studies often focus on who is present in a context, how they got there, and why this might be. Votive contexts are unique because of the circumstances leading to their deposition—however, more attention is placed on the processes that resulted in these deposits, versus the places where this happened (Bradley...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pamela Stone.

This is an abstract from the "Landscapes of Death: Placemaking and Postmortem Agencies" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For many of us, the final the resting place of our ancestors can anchor us to the landscapes of our families’ histories and to our community. For victims of settler colonialism and creeping genocide, whose homelands were stolen and burial places desecrated or erased, the recovery of their ancestors can offer validation and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yan Sun.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Research on Early Chinese Borderland Cultures and Archaeological Materials" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study focuses on manipulation of bronzes of different styles, and mortuary rituals overall, during in the emergence of political power in the northeastern frontier of ancient China. Data are presented on three richly furnished burials M101 at Nanshan’gen and M8501 and M9601 at Xiaoheishigou of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Ann Levine.

The multinational village of Otstonwakin was a key nexus of colonial and indigenous interaction where colonial identities were expressed as well as constituted through material remains. The sacred landscape that was used by the residents of Otstonwakin to bury their dead was disturbed by road construction projects in both the late 1800s and early 1900s. While the full extent of the cemetery associated with Otstonwakin is unknown, the burial ground is represented by four documented graves and a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Lobato.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many archaeologists think that Teotihuacan was a relatively equalitarian society. Prior research on economic inequity has focused on factors such as the size of houses and the remains of murals in residential complexes. The Burials and Society project approaches the question of inequality at Teotihuacan from a new angle, that of burial data. The project has...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marta Alfonso-Durruty.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hunter-gatherer (HG) groups show high levels of cooperation expressed through practices like food sharing. Although an egalitarian ethos has been identified in many HG, their social structures are not only variable but can intentionally and repeatedly alternate between different levels of hierarchy. The origin of inequality among HG has been attributed to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Colin Quinn.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cremation is a process of fiery transformation. In a few short hours, a body is changed into a new substance – cremains – that people collect from the cooled pyre, and which can be split apart or reassembled, moved or kept, circulated or buried. By analyzing cremains, we can reconstruct multi-stage secondary mortuary practices and address questions of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Harris.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ground stone disk beads represented a tangible signal of wealth within the Salish Sea archaeological record; they appeared continuously from 7,000 – 500 BP across the region in scattered frequencies to massive caches. The massive caches were often observed in a burial context, despite non-burial contexts being more frequent and wide-spread. The differences in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sheldon Skaggs. Peter Cherico.

Recent investigations in a large, enclosed courtyard on the southwest corner of the ancient Maya site of Pacbitun, Belize, revealed evidence of successive emplacements of ritually important deposits. Initial analysis of the ceramic material suggests that the entire courtyard plaza has only one or two floors, with construction and use only during the Late to Terminal Classic period (600 – 900 CE). Five caches and two cyst graves were related directly to the plaza floor. The caches consisted...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shawn Patch.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Lewis and Elmwood cemeteries are the final resting places of enslaved individuals from two antebellum plantations in Granville County, North Carolina. Archaeological investigations show both cemeteries share many of the characteristics typical of Black cemeteries beginning in the antebellum era and continuing into the postbellum period. In much of North...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ann Peters.

This is an abstract from the "Landscapes of Death: Placemaking and Postmortem Agencies" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Paracas site, on the bay and peninsula of that name, has deep history as a fishing center where ritual linked the Paracas ceramic tradition to the Early Horizon. On Cerro Colorado, Tello and colleagues excavated womb-like, crowded shaft tombs of the Paracas Cavernas mortuary tradition (450 – 250 BCE). On the steep slope of...

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 Jo Osborn. Brittany Hundman. Camille Weinberg. Kelita Perez.

This is an abstract from the "From the Paracas Culture to the Inca Empire: Recent Archaeological Research in the Chincha Valley, Peru" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The site of Jahuay, located 20 km north of the Chincha Valley, was first occupied during the Early Horizon as a commoner fishing community. In later eras, it was reoccupied by the Chincha and Inka, possibly as a tambo. During the 2017 and 2018 field seasons, the Proyecto de...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlos Wester.

Las investigaciones en Chotuna Chornancap – Lambayeque – Perú, pusieron a la luz el hallazgo de contextos funerarios de personajes de élite, uno de ellos correspondiente a una "Gobernante y Sacerdotisa" de la fase Tardía de la cultura Lambayeque (XII-XIIId.C). El fardo funerario de la gobernante/sacerdotisa enterrado con ocho acompañantes, ornamentos de alto rango, poder y autoridad, han permitido documentar una de las más conspicuas autoridades políticas y religiosas de la cultura Lambayeque....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robin James.

This is an abstract from the "*In the Shadow of the Rockies: Historical Bioarchaeology and Mortuary Archaeology in Colorado" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Nineteenth-century Coloradans had many beliefs about the ways that their environment influenced their health, both physical and mental. Most well-known, those suffering from tuberculosis came to Colorado seeking a cure via the clean, dry air. Less well-known is the connection between...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexis Boutin.

This is an abstract from the "Landscapes of Death: Placemaking and Postmortem Agencies" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Sonoma Developmental Center served thousands of residents who would today be described as disabled, mentally ill, or deviating from social norms. Many of the ~2000 residents buried in its cemetery from 1892-1960 were placed in the SDC as children. Their gravemarkers featured only their initials and registration number, and...