Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)

Part of: Society for American Archaeology

This collection contains the abstracts from the 2015 annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Most files in this collection contain the abstract only. The Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology provides a forum for the dissemination of knowledge and discussion. The 80th Annual Meeting was held in San Francisco, California from April 15-19, 2015.

Site Name Keywords
44CE0085 • Nevada • ontario • Gordion • Ceren • La Villa • AZ AA:7:27(ASM) • AZ T:3:86(ASM) • AZ T:4:293(ASM) • AZ AA:3:55(ASM)

Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Non-Domestic Structures • Domestic Structures • Rock Art • Settlements • Archaeological Feature • Petroglyph • Town / City • Cave • House

Other Keywords
Maya • Ceramics • Zooarchaeology • bioarchaeology • Geoarchaeology • Historical Archaeology • Gis • Rock Art • Ritual • Lithics

Culture Keywords
Historic • Ancestral Puebloan • Mogollon • Historic Native American • Spanish • Mimbres • Mississippian • Hohokam • Euroamerican • Maya

Investigation Types
Heritage Management • Data Recovery / Excavation • Collections Research • Systematic Survey • Archaeological Overview • Architectural Documentation • Ethnohistoric Research • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis • Environment Research • Ethnographic Research

Material Types
Ceramic • Macrobotanical • Building Materials • Chipped Stone • Wood • Fauna • Glass • Human Remains • Mineral • Pollen

Temporal Keywords
Civil War • Mimbres Classic period • Ancestral Puebloan / Sedentary through Classic Period • 19th Century • Postclassic • Pioneer Period • Mississippian period • Classic Period • Pueblo III Period • Pueblo IV period

Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica • North America - Southwest • South America • Europe • North America - California • AFRICA • North America - Southeast • East/Southeast Asia • North America (Continent) • North America - Midwest

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Conjunto Los Árboles: its use (2015)

Architecture and the Subjective Experience (2015)

Willfully Obscured: Figurines and Caves in the Maya Late Classic Period (2015)

The Role of the Sweatbath in Classic Maya Ritual Performance (2015)

Establishing Chemical Signatures for Cabuza Style Pottery and the Tiwanaku Tradition Using Portable X-ray Florescence (pXRF) (2015)

Post-Collapse Change and Continuity in Bolivia’s Desaguadero Valley (2015)

Transformation and Continuity: Late Tiwanaku to Post Tiwanaku traditions in the Central Valley of Cochabamba (2015)

"Tiwanaku VI" revisited: Postcolonialism and Ethnogenesis in the middle Moquegua Valley Province (2015)

Diáspora y Etnogénesis durante el Tiwanaku Terminal en el la región de Cohoni, La Paz, Bolivia (2015)

Second-Hand Spaces: abandonment and reoccupation during the final stages of a Tiwanaku provincial temple (Omo M10A) (2015)

From Dispersal to "Disappearance": AD 1000-1250 in the Upper Moquegua Valley, Peru (2015)

Tiwanaku in Arequipa (2015)

On the Absolute Chronology of Late Tiwanaku / Early Late Intermediate Period Ceramic Traditions: Case Studies from the Bolivian Altiplano and North Chile (2015)

Post-Tiwanaku Settlement Patterns in the Peaceful Coastal Osmore Valley and the Tense Upper Valleys (2015)

Cabuza y Maytas (Norte de Chile): ¿Tiwanaku, Post-Tiwanaku o No-Tiwanaku en Arica? (2015)

Feasting, exchange, sociopolitical interaction: Assessing the Tiwanaku presence in the Kallawaya region (2015)

The Archeological Dynamic Friction Cone Penetrometer (2015)

Cold plasma oxidation and "nondestructive" radiocarbon dating (2015)

NCPTT and the Growth of American Archeogeophysics (2015)

Multibeam Swath Bathymetry for Underwater Archaeological Investigations (2015)

Archaeology As The CRO Flies, 2002-2014: A Retrospective Of Twelve Years Of Powered Parachute Aerial Archaeology (2015)

Predictive Modeling of Archeological Sites in Death Valley National Park (2015)

Development and Applications of a Minimally Destructive Method of Sourcing Shell via LA-ICP-MS (2015)

Development of Magnetic Susceptibility Instrumentation and Applications (2015)

Incorporating Image Analysis into Ceramic Thin-section Petrography (2015)

Detecting Mounds Using Airborne LiDAR: Case Studies from Iowa and Minnesota (2015)

Native Americans and Archaeology Training Workshop: A Twenty Year Retrospective (2015)

They Build Ships There: Gold-Rush San Francisco’s Maritime Industries (2015)

Ceramic Production, Supply, and Exchange in the San Francisco Presidio Jurisdiction (2015)

Before San Francisco: The Archaeology of El Polin Spring in the Presidio of San Francisco (2015)

Assessing Archaeological Sensitivity in San Francisco (2015)

Use of Archeological Districts in San Francisco (2015)

Life on Grove Street: Victorian Households in Hayes Valley, San Francisco (2015)

A Mid-19th Century Lighter from San Francisco Bay’s Yerba Buena Cove: Context, Documentation and Conservation (2015)

GIS Model Development for Historic Census Data in San Francisco (2015)

A Freeway Through the Past: The Replacement of Doyle Drive through the Presidio of San Francisco National Historic Landmark (2015)

A Civil War Period Ossuary Pit, Point San Jose Hospital Site, San Francisco (2015)

Archaeology of San Francisco Jews (2015)

Archaeology of the Gold Rush Waterfront (2015)

Maritime Households in San Francisco (2015)

Poverty, Motherhood, and Childhood in 19th-Century San Francisco (2015)

Tokens of Travel: Material Culture of Transoceanic Journeys in San Francisco (2015)

Mutable materials and gathering worlds (2015)

The Archaeological Climate: New Materialisms and Ontologies of the Anthropocene (2015)

Things that Queer: Disorienting Intimacies in Late Nineteenth Century Jooks (2015)

‘Limestone Bars’ as Power Objects among the Ancient Maya: a Consideration of Objects as Active Participants in Ritual Practice (2015)

"Under the Volcano": Assemblages, Causality and Volcanic Matter at San Pedro Aguacatepeque, Guatemala. (2015)

Slow thinking: beyond the entangled list (2015)

Foraging for shellfish in a predictable and productive inter-tidal environment, the south coast of South Africa (2015)

Stable carbon and oxygen isotopes in faunal tooth enamel from Boomplaas and Nelson Bay Cave record Late Pleistocene/Holocene environments in the southern Cape, South Africa (2015)

Peering into the past Cape vegetation during the Last Glacial Maximum using species distribution modelling and dynamic global vegetation modelling (2015)

Marine geophysics reveals the character of the now submerged Paleo-Agulhas Plain (2015)

Long and Continuous Record of Climate and Environmental Change from Speleothems of the Cape Floral Region of Southern South Africa (2015)

A Late Pleistocene aridity and vegetation record from stable light isotope ratios of ostrich eggshell in Pinnacle Point (2015)

Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction using Fossil Phytolith Assemblages at Pinnacle Point caves 13B and 5/6 during Middle Stone Age, Mossel Bay, South Africa (2015)

Environmental implications of marine bird remains in the late Holocene of Pinnacle Point. (2015)

Wood foraging in the tree-limited environment of the Cape Floral Region of South Africa (2015)

Agent Based Models of Ache Foraging and Grouping (2015)

Cryptotephra Discovered at Pinnacle Point Site 5-6 May Correlate with the 74 ka Eruption of Toba in Indonesia: Implications for Resolving the Dating Controversy for Middle Stone Age Sites in Southern Africa. (2015)

Testing the Paleo-Agulhas Plain Migration Ecosystem hypothesis with serial isotope analysis of fossil fauna (2015)

Foraging for bulbs in the Cape Floristic Region (2015)

Paleoenvironmental implications of Stable Isotope analyses of Micromammal teeth from Pinnacle Point (Mossel Bay, South Africa) (2015)

Archaeology of Colonial Encounters: The Alienating Narrative (2015)

Archaeologies of Latinos in the United States (2015)

New Insights at the Intersection of Historical Archaeology and the Archaeology of Religion (2015)

Tracing Relationships Among Buffalo Soldiers in 19th Century Fort Davis, Texas (2015)

Marking Ainu Objects (2015)

Queer Rations: Foodways at a 19th Century Military Fort (2015)

Queering 'American': Archaeological Investigations of a 19th c. Military Fort in West Texas (2015)

Innovative Applications of Archaeological Perspectives: An Analysis of Home Front Material Culture within the Context of Individual vs. Municipal Investments in Oakland, CA (2015)

Gazing Upward: New Directions at Betty's Hope Plantation, Antigua, West Indies (2015)

Microscale Geoarchaeology in a Historic Context: Soil Micromorphology Analysis with the Fort Davis Archaeological Project (2015)

The ochre assemblage from Pinnacle Point 5-6 (2015)

Variation in butchering intensity between glacial and interglacial cycles at Pinnacle Point 5-6 (2015)

Tortoises as indicators of diet, site formation, and palaeoenvironments in the Middle Stone Age record of the Southern African coast (2015)

Micromorphology reveals changing levels of site occupation intensity at Pinnacle Point 5-6 (2015)

Patterns of Lithic Edge Damage from the Open-air Middle Stone Age Assemblages at Vleesbaai and Oyster Bay, South Africa (2015)

A high-resolution ~110,000 year Middle Stone Age lithic technological sequence from Pinnacle Point, South Africa (2015)

Rebound Hardness Results for the Raw Material In and Around Pinnacle Point, South Africa and the Implications Thereof (2015)

Building a better eggtimer: Amino acid dating of ostrich eggshell from South Africa (2015)

Pinnacle Point 5-6 and Diepkloof Rockshelter (South Africa): Testing the OSL ages and constructing a standardised MSA chronology (2015)

Late Holocene occupations at the Pinnacle Point Shell Midden Complex (2015)

A comparison of two African Mediterranean MSA adaptations: the Cape Floral Region and the Maghreb (2015)

Taphonomic evidence for human accumulation of small mammals from Pinnacle Point Site 5-6 and other MSA sites in South Africa (2015)

The P5 project archaeological reconnaissance along the Pondoland Coast, South Africa (2015)

Discovering the trick to flaking Middle Stone Age tools on quartzite (2015)

A Middle Stone Age Paleoscape near the Pinnacle Point caves, Vleesbaai, South Africa (2015)

Sacbe Construction, Agricultural Production, and Community Organization in the Classic Maya Community of Cerén, El Salvador (2015)

Within and Between: A comparative discussion of Intra-site Variability and Hinterland Complexity at the sites of Yaxché, Yucatan and Cerén, El Salvador (2015)

Digging Ceren: Rounding up the Unusual Methods in Mesoamerican Household Archaeology (2015)

Paleoethnobotanical Remains Associated with the Sacbe at the Ancient Maya Village of Cerén (2015)

Common and Lima Beans (Phaseolus spp.) from Cerén: Wild and Domesticated Germplasm (2015)

What does their Storage say about Them? An interpretation of domestic storage practices at the Classic Period Maya village of Ceren (2015)

Geostratigraphy, Volcanology, and Chronology at Ceren: Implications of Dating the Ilopango and Loma Caldera Eruptions (2015)

Xanthosoma violaceum and the Maya Diet: Root Crop Use in Ancient Maya Agriculture (2015)

Human-object relationships in Classic Maya contexts: Object technologies, political participants, and cultural infrastructures (2015)

Pilgrimage Centers, Infrastructure, and Cahokian Politics (2015)

The Infrastructure of Community: Agricultural intensification and the development of corporate groups at Hualcayán, Peru (2015)

Inter-site Causeways as Political Infrastructure in the Northern Maya Lowlands (2015)

: "My only equal [as sovereign of this land] is rice": The "technology" of rice production politically deployed and ideologically appropriated in early Merina "states" of central Madagascar. (2015)