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DOCUMENT Citation Only JD Lancaster. Teresa Wriston. Molly Casperson. Loren Davis. Jillian Maloney.

This is an abstract from the "Future Directions for Archaeology and Heritage Research in the Willamette Valley, Oregon" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The rivers of the Upper Willamette Valley and Western Cascades have drawn people to their resource rich banks since the Late Pleistocene with evidence of human habitation variably preserved as the watersheds evolved. Since the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) constructed the Willamette Valley...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gwen Olivier.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Climate and environmental changes along Chupadera Arroyo, New Mexico, could provide information to help understand the ~13,400 years of human occupation. A distribution of archaeological sites sits along a modern ephemeral arroyo dating from the Paleoindian Period to the Pueblo IV Period. This poster aims to create a map resource to prepare for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shari Silverman.

Lwalb Old Channel One, a shell midden, spans both sides of an oxbow within the historic Duwamish River floodplain. The oxbow is buried under the streets of the South Park neighborhood, Seattle, Washington. Also called 45KI815, the site’s shell component is light. Therefore, the midden does not mask contemporaneous geomorphological features of the oxbow and surrounding wetland. Visible soil features include the channel; vegetation effects on soil movement; midden migration; possible liquefaction...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Baker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists working in the western Mojave Desert have long assumed that sediments in the region contain limited depth. The playas that dot the landscape are often assumed to have formed at the end of the Pleistocene, with playas having no stratigraphy and no buried cultural deposits. In the Antelope Valley, the dunes that are present are thought to be...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heidi Luchsinger. Juan Bautista Belardi. Luis Alberto Borrero. Flavia Carballo Marina.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geoarchaeological investigations in the Mack Aike Canyon were conducted in March 2023. Located in southernmost Patagonia, Mack Aike is ca. 13 miles (21 km) long and was repeatedly occupied by hunter-gatherer populations for at least 3,300 years BP. Alluvial deposits and complex sequences of wetland and eolian deposits within the canyon boundaries were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Angela Gore.

This is an abstract from the "McDonald Creek and Blair Lakes: Late Pleistocene-Holocene Human Activity in the Tanana Flats of Central Alaska" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Around 14,000 years ago, modern humans dispersed into eastern Beringia. McDonald Creek, located in the Tanana Valley, central Alaska, is a significant part of characterizing this dispersal as one of the earliest known sites in eastern Beringia. This site posesses three cultural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christian Mesia-Montenegro.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In our research, we have identified over 113 geoglyphs in the middle Chillon Valley, located on the Andean Central Coast, with chronological spans ranging from the Formative Period (1800–100 BC) to the Inka Period (AD 1470–1532). This project utilized advanced digital technologies, including Remotely Piloted Airborne Systems (RPAS), to systematically...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elodie Treffel.

This is an abstract from the "Heat, Steam, and Health: The Archaeology of the Mesoamerican Pib Naah (Sweat Baths)" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Por medio de esta presentación, intentamos entender y considerar la importancia ritual y simbólica de un temascal Preclásico ubicado en la ciudad de Naranjo, Petén, Guatemala. Trataremos este tema a partir de la ubicación del temazcal dentro del paisaje sagrado del epicentro monumental de Naranjo y de...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniela Balanzategui. Barbarita Lara. Genesis Delgado.

This is an abstract from the "Unsettling Infrastructure: Theorizing Infrastructure and Bio-Political Ecologies in a More-Than-Human World" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Construction of the colonial landscape and its legacies that guide the agendas of neoliberal governments have permitted a series of effects that define that north-central Andes under a historical geography created by the hacienda system and its confluence of human exploitation,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Ewonus.

This paper examines past foodways within the southern Strait of Georgia, Pacific Northwest Coast at a number of geographic scales. It also addresses the extent and nature of temporal shifts in the social landscape of the region. Seasonal use of the landscape is revealed through an understanding of place in the Salish Sea. Zooarchaeological analysis of a regional sample of thirty sites suggests that while extensive variation was characteristic of southern Strait of Georgia settlement from 3200 BC...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kellam Throgmorton.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Zuni Mountain Spotted Chert is one of the most important lithic materials in western New Mexico. It is frequently observed at Folsom sites in the valley of the Puerco of the East and Middle Rio Grande Valley. The material was imported into Chaco Canyon and is common on Chacoan great house sites in the southern San Juan Basin and Red Mesa Valley. Zuni...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elliot Helmer. Andrew Frierson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From the impressive buttes and craters where it can be quarried to the shining black flakes speckled across vast sagebrush plains, obsidian and its procurement, use, and discard has defined the human experience of eastern Oregon’s landscape since time immemorial. Cultural resource management (CRM) practitioners must be proactive about documenting the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only César Parcero-Oubiña.

This is an abstract from the "Developments and Challenges in Landscape Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geographic information technologies already have a long history of use in archaeology. In fact, archaeology has perhaps been the field of humanities where these technologies have reached the most widespread development, in many cases becoming part of the “standard package” of work for any archaeologist. To what extent is this true, or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Smith-Leach.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Landslides pose a significant threat to both known and undiscovered archaeological sites worldwide. Despite this risk, landslide susceptibility maps rarely incorporate factors to determine landslide threat to the archaeological record. This gap arises partly from the inherent challenges in predicting landslides and partly from the archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Regnier. Scott Hammerstedt. Marc Levine.

During the summer of 2017, the Proyecto Geofísico de Monte Albán (PGMA) carried out a large-scale geophysical survey of the site’s Main Plaza. The survey utilized three instruments, a gradiometer, an electrical resistance meter, and a ground-penetrating radar array and achieved nearly 100 percent coverage of the plaza. Covering more than 35,000 m2, the PGMA represents the most extensive geophysical survey ever carried out in Oaxaca. This paper details the methods of the survey, examines which...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Horsley.

This is an abstract from the "The Chengdu Plain Archaeology Survey (2004–2011): Highlights from the Final Report" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents a sample of the results of geophysical investigations conducted as part of the Chengdu Plain Archaeological Survey. Magnetometer surveys were undertaken at more than 20 locations to augment the results of surface collection survey and augering, helping to locate buried features as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kara Jones.

This is an abstract from the "Expanding Our Understanding of the Mojave Desert: Emerging Research and New Perspectives on Old Data" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ivanpah Dry Lake is an overlooked Holocene and paleolake located in the eastern Mojave Desert. Much of the archaeological work done in the area has centered around industry and development with data available in gray literature site reports and records. This research is a component of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Renner. Ralph Hartley. William Hunt.

In 2013 an intensive archaeological survey of a portion of northern Baranof Island in southeast Alaska, focusing on the slope and crest of Cross Peak Mountain, resulted in the discovery and documentation of fifty loose rock "cairns" estimated to have been constructed 500 – 1500ypb. These prehistoric alpine features, overlooking the intersection of Hoonah Sound and Peril Strait, are often associated with stories and narrative referencing the "Flood" by Tlingit people from both Sitka and Hoonah...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paige Paulsen.

The tumulus fields – landscapes heavily modified by monumental burial mounds – of Central Anatolia provide an opening to investigate how the tumuli reflect and create places of collective memory, territorial identity, and the social order. This project takes the Iron Age tumuli of the Kanak Su Basin in Yozgat, Turkey as a case study and uses a GIS approach based on available evidence: their location from archaeological surveys, and a small number of excavated mounds. This paper investigates the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lindsey Cochran.

This project uses geospatial landscape theory to explore how enslaved people living in settlements on the Sapelo Plantation signaled their African and Caribbean roots through overt and covert materials and landscape patterns in Bush Camp Field and Behavior settlements. Enslaved people at the Sapelo Plantation were likely granted higher levels of relative independence, resulting in a different relationship with the landscape than enslaved people at contemporaneous lowcountry plantations. I...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Rainville. Asa Randall.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The landscape of the Silver Glen Springs Archaeological Complex has been extensively modified for at least 9000 years, including the construction of shell mounds and wooden post structures. The focus of previous research at this complex on reconstructing the massive Shell mounds and monuments along the spring run has left the non-mounded areas...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Birge.

This is an abstract from the "Living Landscapes: Disaster, Memory, and Change in Dynamic Environments " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Landscapes are haunted, cyborg stories. They are haunted by pasts that could have been and emergent futures. They are cyborgs as they are assemblages of human and nonhuman entities in emplaced relationships. They are stories because we curate and present a version of a landscape where certain places, voices, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Marquardt. Jana Valesca Meyer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Lithic scatters are by far the most common precontact archaeological site in the Blue Mountains of northeast Oregon and southeast Washington. These sites are frequently situated in open, flat areas adjacent to a reliable source of water and are broadly interpreted as being related to the seasonal round of resource gathering practiced by indigenous peoples of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marisol Cortes-Rincon. Kristen Harrison. Amanda Zetz. Raylene Borrego. Hannah Vizcarra.

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. Besides using lidar data, the application of various methods (e.g., documentation by total station, aerial photographs, modern/historical maps, and archaeological data) helps to assure a more precise identification and interpretation process of the archaeological features. In addition, the geographical information...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sydney James. Husna Mashaka. Sarah Mollel. Julius Ogutu. Kathryn Ranhorn.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Advances in Material Sourcing and Provenience Studies in Africa" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Studies of obsidian transport during the Late Pleistocene of eastern Africa have been largely productive for reconstructing raw material procurement patterns and movement across landscapes. Due to a limited sample, however, these studies are often descriptive of particular sites and related explicitly to material...