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The Western Chontalpa: What’s in the Archaeological "Black Hole" of the Mesoamerican Gulf Coast? (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bradley Ensor.

The Mesoamerican Gulf Coast figures prominently in grand schemes of interregional population interactions from Olmec to contact eras. However, most models of exchange, migrations, or identities rely on samples from Southern Veracruz, the Usumacinta, and the southern Isthmus without considering the vast Chontalpa in-between. This paper synthesizes new and old data on sites, intrasite spatial organization, and material culture from the Mezcalapa Delta for a synopsis on prehispanic settlement...

Wetlands and Grasslands: Habitat Choice of Hunters and Herders across the Transition to Mobile Pastoralism in Mongolia’s Desert-Steppe (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Farquhar. Arlene Rosen. Sarantuya Dalantai. Tserendagva Yadmaa.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Wetlands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Paleoclimate studies across northeast Asia document a pronounced drying and cooling trend across desert and desert-steppe environments around 6,000 years ago, intensifying between 4500 and 4000 BP. While conditions led to the deterioration of lake and wetland habitats, past archaeological research based on museum collections and a limited number of excavated...

What Can We See from Here? Hilltop Sites Northwest of Prescott, Arizona and Their Local and Regional Connections (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tineke Van Zandt. Helen O'Brien. Timothy Watkins.

This is an abstract from the "Community Matters: Enhancing Student Learning Opportunities through the Development of Community Partnerships" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Burro Creek/Pine Creek archaeological survey northwest of Prescott, Arizona involved partnerships between Pima Community College and the BLM and private landowners in the area from 2003 to the present. When the survey began, the region was poorly known and only two sites...

“What Is Past Is Prologue”: Climate Change, Predictive Models, Data Challenges, and Protecting Virginia’s Archaeological Resources (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Moore.

This is an abstract from the "*SE The New Normal: Approaches to Studying, Documenting, and Mitigating Climate Change Impacts to Archaeological Sites" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Like many other areas, Virginia is becoming increasingly impacted by the effects of climate change. Over the past several years, the Virginia Department of Historic Resources has taken efforts to model these impacts to identify vulnerable areas for cultural resources...

When Is Creolization? (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alice Samson. Jago Cooper.

Multiple episodes of identity transformation can be seen in the archaeology of Mona island. From the emergence of "Taino-ness" (cf. R. Rodríguez) in the 12th century, to the catastrophic (after S. Mintz) eruption of colonial identities in the 16th century. We contrast the dynamics and character of creolizations from a diachronic and material perspective by looking at the archaeology of 500 years of subterranean ritual landscapes of Mona. We ask whether an expanded use of the term creolization is...

When the Saints Come Marching In: Colony, Church and Change in the Andes (1480–1615) (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin Lane.

Spanish conquest of the Andes commenced in 1532 and, for all intents and purposes, was over by 1572. Yet, this somewhat simplifies the story. Throughout the Andean region, but especially away from the early strongholds of Spanish power, such as the towns and cities, conquest was a mixture of appropriation and negotiation. Drawing on research from the Ica Highlands (South-central Peru) and the Cordillera Negra (North-central Peru) this paper examines how Spanish religious orders initially...

Where Are the Cinchecona? Mortuary Architecture and Socio-political Organization in Jauja, Peru, during the Late Intermediate Period (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Manuel Perales.

This is an abstract from the "Beyond the Round House: Spatial Logic and Settlement Organization across the Late Andean Highlands" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Late Intermediate period constitutes a time of important changes in the life of pre-colonial Andean societies, including new mechanisms for the construction of power and authority. In the case of the Yanamarca valley in Jauja, central highlands of Peru, previous investigations have...

Where to Inhabit First? Interpreting Western Stemmed Tradition Land-Use with the Ideal Free Distribution Model in Lake County, Oregon (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan McGuinness.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the Intermountain West there is mounting evidence that some Western Stemmed Tradition (WST) points are as old, if not older, than Clovis points on the Plains and in the Southwest. Given this, the distribution of WST points may hold the key to understanding how people initially populated the Far West. I use WST point and site location data in Lake County,...

Widening and Improvements To SH 33, East of Drumright, F-592(73) (1990)