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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Don Pablo, Cha Chaak Ceremonies, and Archaeological Interpretation (2015)

Revisiting Bird Jaguar and the Sajal of the Yaxchilan Kingdom (2015)

Ideology and Power at Copán, Honduras (2015)

Seventh Century Star Wars: Reassessing the Role of Warfare in Shaping Classic Period Maya Society in the Southern Lowlands (2015)

Regional Maya Politics in the Late and Terminal Classic Northern Lowlands (2015)

Closing the Portal at Itzmal Ch’en: Termination Rituals at Mayapan (2015)

Emergence of Place: the Great Circle of Fort Center, Glades County, Florida (2015)

Broxmouth biographies: Roundhouses as mnemonic devices in Iron Age Scotland (2015)

Biographies of enclosure: an introduction (2015)

Labor, Materials, and Ritual Knowledge: Erecting and Erasing Middle Woodland Enclosures in Southern Appalachia (2015)

Palisaded Enclosures and Political Complexity in the Eastern Woodlands of North America (2015)

Debating early urbanization in temperate Europe: From Heuneburg to Bourges (2015)

History runs through it: A biography of gorges in Bokoni, South Africa (2015)

Hillforts of the Eastern Hallstatt Circle. Central places, fortified areas or something else? (2015)

Monumental Biographies: Structure and Agency in European Hillfort Construction (2015)

Places of Power and Passage: hillforts and monumental landscapes in the early Iron Age of central and south-eastern Slovenia. (2015)

Negative and "Natural" Monumental Spaces: Ditches and Sacred Groves in Pre-Colonial West Africa (2015)

The dawn of Iron Age societies: hillfort morphodynamics in the NW Mediterranean (2015)

Taking and Giving: Finding the Balance in Community Archaeology (2015)

Archaeologies by Community Mandate: Who makes the call? (2015)

Mandating Community Archaeology: Using Law to Bridge the Gap Between Public Outreach and Community Engagement (2015)

More than Mere Dots on a Map: Archaeological Sites among Venda-speaking Communities of the Soutpansberg (2015)

Archaeology?! Yadilah! Collaborative Archaeology and Lessons from the Navajo Nation (2015)

Materializing the Momentary: Community Engagement Through Ethnographic Practice (2015)

Practicing Community Archaeology and Present Communities of Practice in Archaeology: A Southwestern Perspective (2015)

The Good, the Bad, and the Awkward: The Archaeology Open House as Heritage Process (2015)

Community Entanglements: Archaeology, Heritage, and Community Partnership at the Little Bay Plantation, Montserrat, West Indies (2015)

From Consultation to Collaboration: Expanding the Scope of Archeology's Engagement with Indigenous People (2015)

Engaged Research, Management and Planning at Tolay Lake Regional Park (2015)

Evolving Histories and Changing Archaeologies on the Santa Fe National Forest (2015)

Close to Home: bringing heritage management graduate programs to descendant communities (2015)

Evaluating the Sustainability of an Angkor-Period Engineered Landscape at Koh Ker, Cambodia (2015)

Environmental Preconditions and Human Response: Subsistence Practices at Prehistoric Settlement Sites in the Liangshan Area, Southwest China (2015)

Archaeobotany in Southeast Asia: What have we learned so far (2015)

Hydraulic Nodes of Empire - Redux: Evaluating the role of artificial water tanks as indicators of territorial control in Cambodia’s medieval landscape (6th to 15th c. CE) (2015)

Sites, survey, and ceramics: a GIS-based approach to modeling early prehistoric settlement patterns in the Upper Mun River Valley, Northeast Thailand (2015)

Grounding an underground survey: Paddy fields and monumental Bronze Age shell-scapes in the Dian Basin, Yunnan, China (2015)

Early Subsistence Practices at Prehistoric Dadunzi in Yuanmou, Yunnan: New Evidence for the Origins of Early Agriculture in Southwest China (2015)

"Reconstructing" an archaeological landscape of NW Cambodia beyond the borders of the Greater Angkor using satellite imaging. (2015)

The Environmental History of Settlement at Co Loa, Vietnam: A Preliminary Pollen Sequence (2015)

Societies and environmental transformations in early modern Yunnan: A spatial analysis of written sources and oral histories (2015)

Contextual Implications: Excavating Open Air Sites Adjacent to Cache Cave (2015)

Ethnohistoric Insights Pertaining to the Emigdiano Chumash and Other Southern San Joaquin Valley Indigenous Groups (2015)

Assessing the Use of Lithic Artifacts in the Manufacture of Fiber Technolgies at Cach Cave (2015)

Signs of Authority? Symbolic media and items of personal adornment from Cache Cave (2015)

Introducing the Cache Cave Archaeological Project: Background, Aims, and Methods (2015)

Preliminary Insights from the Cache Cave Textile Assemblage (2015)

Cave sticks? An investigation in to the use and purpose of bifurcated sticks found in cache caves. (2015)

Cache Cave: Site Structure and Chronology (2015)

Cache Cave in Context: 3D Scanning Complex Cave Environments for Mapping and In-Situ Documentation of Artifacts (2015)

Serrated scapular tools from Cache Cave (2015)

Weaving Identities (2015)

Environment and Identity in the Viking Age North Atlantic (2015)

Long distances/ local dynamics: overcoming ‘culture history’ (2015)

Female mobility in the Viking Worlds (2015)

Craft and Identity in the Viking World (2015)

Identities in a Viking winter camp (2015)

Diasporas and Identities in the Viking Age (2015)

Identity, self-image and cultural expression in Viking Age Sweden (2015)

Archaeology and Community Development: A Perspective from Within (2015)

Building resilience and sustainability through collaboration and community research (2015)

Breaking the untold rule: community archaeology a bond of people and information (2015)

Codes of ethics and archaeology in practice: "communal archaeology" and citizen science towards the advancement of the discipline (2015)

Into the mind of an undergrad: personal experience, training and archaeology (2015)

Una experiencia personal en el descubrimiento de la arqueología: mi voz como ciudadano (2015)

Digging the Past- Creating New Pathways for the Future: Graduate Student Perspective from the Field (2015)

From Theory to Real Life applications: Citizen Science in Heritage and Sustainability in Barbuda (2015)

La erosión costera como agente de cambio geomorfológico y pérdida de contexto arqueológico (2015)

La arqueología latente: educación informal como inspiración para preparación profesional (2015)

Redefining Subsistence Practices and Strategies at the Local and Micro-regional Scales in the Context of Late Prehistoric Trans-Eurasian Food Globalization (2015)

Prospects and Challenges toward Globalization for Crops in the Eastern Agricultural Complex of North America (2015)

A climatic imperative? Testing the connection between climate and crop adoption in the Indus and the Hexi corridor (2015)

Social aspects of the diffusion of agricultural products and practices (2015)

Earliest direct evidence of crop consumption in the central Tian Shan (Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan) (2015)

The use of inner bark as food in prehistory: a case study based on roll carbonized remains unearthed from Hulija site, Qinghai province, western China (2015)

Why Move Starchy Cereals? Stable isotope evidence for the spread of crops across Eurasia in prehistory (2015)

Human dispersal or environmental selection? Using genetics to decode diversity in millet landraces across Eurasia (2015)

The introduction and early utilization of barley and wheat in Gansu and Qinghai provinces, northwest China (2015)

West to east - the spread of wheat and barley cultivation across Eurasia (2015)

The view from one thousand houses: a macro-regional approach to household archaeology in the Southeastern United States: (2015)

ARCHEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION IN COIXTLAHUACA, OAXACA (2015)

Early Village Societies in the American South and Beyond (2015)

Long-term data versus Contemporary Crisis: Anthropological Archaeology in the U.S. / Mexico Borderlands (2015)

The landscape and regional integration of the Guan River Valley in the Eastern Zhou Period (770-221 B.C) (2015)

I don´t do mountains: regional survey in the Tequila valleys of Jalisco (2015)

Making Communities Work: Organizational Diversity in the Eastern Woodlands of North America (2015)

Cumulative Survey: Defining Coalescent Communities in the American Southwest (2015)

Athens-Oaxaca y puntos intermedios: Steve Kowalewski´s influence in local archaeologists. (2015)

Origins of the Templo Mayor Skull Masks (2015)

Clothing for the mexica gods: shell garments from the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan (2015)

Spheres of Production of the Lapidary Objects at the Sacred Precinct of Tenochtitlan: The Legitimacy and Extent of the Power of the Aztec Empire (2015)

Fabricating Political Constituencies, Artistic Production at the Templo Mayor (2015)

TEMPLO Y PALACIO, LO HUMANO Y LO DIVINO EN LA PRODUCCIÓN DE TENOCHTITLAN (2015)

Copper bells from the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan - imports or local production? (2015)

Copal Offering Objects: Manufactured in Tenochtitlan (2015)

The Technology of Aztec Featherworking: Glyphic Clues in the Florentine Codex (2015)

A new classification of masks from Guerrero discovered in the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan (2015)

THE ART OF PRESERVING SKINS IN THE GREAT TEMPLE OF TENOCHTITLAN (2015)

CRAFTING THE TENOCHCA IMPERIAL IDENTITY THROUGH MANUFACTURING SHELL OBJECTS (2015)

Centers of power and ritual: discussing the archaeological remains from two large Zhangzhung-Period Settlements on the Tibetan Plateau (2015)