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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Infra-structuration of Imperial Power in Ancient Ankgor and the Andes (2015)

The Techno-politics of Water and Iron: Resource Materialities in South Indian (Pre)History (2015)

Theorizing Infrastructure (2015)

Harappan urbanites: Standardization, ratios and subjectivity (2015)

Observations Concerning Ash-Tempered Pottery from the Archaeological Site of Los Soldados (2015)

Olmec Archaeology in the Arroyo Pesquero Region (2015)

Subsurface Spatial Signatures of the Quotidian from the Olmec Heartland: Insights from Ground-penetrating Radar Surveys of the Los Soldados site, Veracruz. (2015)

A ear of corn of jade from Arroyo Pesquero, sacred offering (2015)

Las figurillas cerámicas de Los Soldados, Veracruz: Una evidencia de la relación cultural y de identidad de una comunidad Olmeca. (2015)

Patterns of Plant Use at Los Soldados and Beyond (2015)

An Olmec Cylinder Seal from Los Soldados (2015)

The Middle to Late Formative Olmec Chipped-Stone Assemblage from Los Soldados, Veracruz, Mexico (2015)

Dating of East Polynesian ceremonial sites – Cases from Rapa Nui and the Society Islands (2015)

Marae of Tahiti, Society Islands (2015)

Exploring the Spatial Distribution of Rapa Nui Ahu with Costly Signalling Theory: An Agent-Based Model (2015)

Exploring religious practices on the Polynesian atolls: a comprehensive architectural approach towards the marae complex in the Tuamotus (2015)

Towards a historical archaeology of heiau: Hawaiian traditions, colonialism, and religious transformation in the recent past (2015)

Priests' Houses and Architectures of Ideology in East Polynesia (2015)

Monumentality and the Archaic State: Heiau Distribution in Kaupo, Maui (2015)

The Archaeobotany of Kelley Cave (41VV164): A Glimpse of Prehistoric Plant Use in the Lower Pecos Region of Texas (2015)

An Extraordinary Earth Oven Facility at Kelley Cave (2015)

A Microstratigraphic Approach to Evaluating Site Formation Processes at Eagle Cave (2015)

'Bugs in Eagle Cave, Lower Pecos Canyonlands, Texas'‏ (2015)

Ongoing Geoarchaeological Investigations in Eagle Nest Canyon (2015)

Floods, Muds, and Plant Baking: ASWT Excavations at Skiles Shelter (2015)

Flooding Past and Present: Extreme Geomorphic Events in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands (2015)

Biological distance among Huastec, Veracruz, and Maya groups (2015)

LOCAL OR FOREIGN? THE TECHNOLOGICAL STYLES OF THE LAPIDARY FROM TAMTOC (2015)

Conservation of a pleistocenic Giant Sloth from Tamtoc, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. (2015)

Zoomorphic Representations of Figurines in Tamtoc, SLP, Mexico. (2015)

Burial treatment in the area of La Noria, Tamtoc, SLP, Mexico (2015)

Collaborative Pfforts to Preserve Los Angeles'History: Saving The Campo Santo (2015)

Mitigating the Sacred? Examining the Role of Native American Associative Values in Resolving Adverse Effect (2015)

Amity Pueblo: A Different Sort of Horror (2015)

Applying the Principles of MATRIX in the Real World (2015)

Caring for the Honuukvetam Pimuu've: Lessons from the Metropole Project, Avalon, Catalina Island, California (2015)

Getting Right with the Damage: Archaeological Value and Cost of Restoration and Repair Determinations Archaeological Damage Cases (2015)

Analysis of metallurgical artefacts using pXRF: Understanding metalwork during the contact period in Colombia (2015)

Interpreting Ecclesiastical Mobility: A pXRF Study of Medieval Gravestones in Ireland (2015)

Indian Creek Revisited: The Use of Portable X-ray Fluorescence (pXRF) Soil Analysis to Characterize Areas Without Artifacts (2015)

Exploration in portable X-ray Fluorescence (pXRF) applications to zooarchaeology (2015)

The Copper Trade of Hatteras Island (2015)

Ethics and In-situ Science (2015)

Trophies of Violence: The Manufacturing and Processing of Human Trophy Heads at Uraca (2015)

Spinning in the Middle Horizon: Spindle Whorls from the Site of Uraca in the Majas Valley (2015)

Variations in Cranial Vault Modification at Uraca, Majes Valley, Peru (2015)

Belt-making traditions and identity at the site of Uraca, Majes Valley, Peru (2015)

Landscapes of Violence: Trophy Head Production and Interpersonal Violence during the Wari era in the Middle Majes Valley, Arequipa, Peru (2015)

Resilience and identity: the ethnoarchaeology of the Kel Tadrart Tuareg (SW Libya) (2015)

What’s in a Label? Archaeological Taxonomies and Social Processes Past and Present (2015)

Bringing the Mountain to the Mara: The role of obsidian quarrying on Mt. Eburru in structuring early pastoralist socio-economic identities in southern Kenya. (2015)

Salvage Excavations on Greefswald: Leokwe Commoners and K2 Cattle (2015)

Boko Haram, coupeurs de route and slave-raiding: identities and violence in a Central African borderland (2015)

Economies and Identities in Flux: Consequences of the Arrival of Specialized Fulani Pastoralists in Mali’s Inland Niger Delta (2015)

Material complexities in dispersed communities: archaeology of 2nd millennium CE southeastern Burkina Faso (West Africa) (2015)

Iron producers, iron users. (2015)

Opening the House: Transforming Identities at Kirikongo over the 1st and 2nd milleniums CE (Burkina Faso, West Africa) (2015)

In Death Do We Join: Community Building in Ancient Ethiopian Funerary Practices (2015)

Beyond the Grave: Regional Interaction in the Senegambian Megalith Zone (2015)

Using 3D Geographic Information Systems to Understand Settlement Decisions at Calakmul (2015)

Visualizing Prehistoric Artifacts: 3D Scanning, GIS, and Data Sharing (2015)

A THREE DIMENSIONAL VIEW OF ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING MATERIAL USE AT STRUCTURE B-4 CAHAL PECH, BELIZE C.A. (2015)

Head Motifs on Cupisnique Style Ceramics: Emblems of Cultural Identity in Early Andean Art (2015)

Visual Representations and Entanglements: Photography and Native Identity-Making in the Classroom and Museum (2015)

Phased Out: The Distinctive Identities of Late Mississippian Communities in Eastern Tennessee (2015)

Ramada Textiles from Southern Peru: Death’s Social Skins (2015)

Sacrifice and Social Identity: Untangling Identity from a Mass Burial at Matrix 101, Huaca Las Ventanas, Peru (2015)

The Expression of Human Identity on Wari Faceneck Vessels (2015)

IDENTITY, PRESENCE AND POLITICAL RELATIONSHIPS IN THE MORTUARY RITUALS OF PARACAS NECRÓPOLIS (2015)

Representing and Negotiating Moche Identity in Everyday Life (2015)

High and Low: Highland and Coastal Dress in the Andean Region, 100-800 (2015)

Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery: Gulf Coast Olmec Sex, Gender, and Dress as Reflected in the San Bartolo Murals (2015)

Cross-dressing to Complement the King: Eco-iconography of the Aztec Cihuacoatl’s Costume (2015)

Intersecting Identities in Southeastern U.S. Prehistory (2015)

Scaling the Huaca: Constructing Late Moche Identity through Architectonic Re-presentation of Place at Huaca Colorada, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru (2015)

Community and Ancestors in the Titicaca Basin during the Formative Period (2015)

Evolving Identities in Early Andean Art: Figurative Ceramics from Ancient Ecuador (2015)

Human dietary responses to the ecological instability of prehistoric Khao Wong Prachan Valley, Thailand: corroboration between paleobotany and skeletal chemistry (2015)

Stone artefacts from Southeast Sulawesi: Technology beyond the Toalean (2015)

Farming as a dominant subsistence strategy? : Organic geochemical analyses on potsherds from prehistoric Korean peninsula (2015)

Human Ecology and Lithic Technology in Late Pleistocene SE Asia: A Whole Assemblage Perspective (2015)

Forager Efficiency, Demographic Shift and Environmental Change: Re-evaluating the Broad Spectrum Revolution in Mainland Southeast Asia (2015)

​Environmental Archaeology of Spinning, Weaving and Dyeing in Ancient Thailand. (2015)

The Negotiated Wild: Khmer-Kuy Relations and the Politics of Habitat in Lowland Cambodia before 1970. (2015)

Khao Toh Chong Rockshelter, Krabi: A reflection on human behavioral adaptations driven by environmental change during prehistory (2015)

An analysis of Reptile bone from an excavation at Moh-Khiew cave, Krabi province,Thailand (2015)

Archaeometallurgy, Environment & Landscape in Upland Laos: its impact on 'world-views' during the transition from the Bronze Age to early states in SE Asia. (2015)

The Late Pleistocene Environment and Lithic Technology in South China (2015)

The Social and Ecological Characteristics of Prehistoric Cambodian Earthworks (2015)

Regional settlement responses of the Khmer Empire to environmental stress and Angkor abandonment (2015)

Humans, Fire, and Food Production: Examining the spatial and temporal patterns of changing burning practices during the transition to agriculture in the Western Mediterranean (2015)

Modeling Prehispanic Agricultural Risk Landscapes in the Cibola Region of the U.S. Southwest (2015)

Extreme weather events and 10,000 years of land-use change in the Gediz River valley (2015)

Examining Settlement Reorganization and Plant Food Use in the Greater Cibola Region A.D. 900-1400 (2015)

Considering Robustness and Vulnerability in Texas Hunter-Gatherer Social-Ecological Systems using Stable Isotope Data (2015)

The Social Opportunity Hypothesis (2015)

Toward effective cyber-infrastructure support of socio-environmental research (2015)

Hydraulic Empire Revisited: Exploring the sociopolitical vulnerabilities of the riverine socio-ecological system of Pharaonic Egypt (2015)

Unearthing Sandpoint’s Chinatown: the Archaeology of Sandpoint, Idaho’s Overseas Chinese (2015)

Getting Burned: Fire, Politics, and Cultural Landscapes in the American West (2015)