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

Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 101-200 of 3,720)

  1. "An Arson, A Wig, and a Murder": The Search for Particia Calloway (2017)
  2. Searching for Standards: Federal Efforts Regarding Crime Scene Investigation with Input from Archaeology (2017)
  3. Forensic Techniques to Investigate Museum and Archaeological Samples (2017)
  4. A Student’s Perspective on the Unidentified Persons Project, San Bernardino, California (2017)
  5. Authentication of Museum-Curated Tsantsas Utilizing Next Generation Sequencing Technology (2017)
  6. Further Defining the Role of the Forensic Archaeologist (2017)
  7. Is There Strength in Numbers? An Evaluation of the Complementary Roles of Archaeologists and Anthropologists in Forensic Contexts (2017)
  8. Variability in Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Ratios in Banana Yucca (Yucca Baccata) from Cedar Mesa, Utah: Environmental, Inter-Organ and Processing-based Effects (2015)
  9. Martu Ethnoarchaeology: Foraging, Site Structure and the Scales of Constraint on Human Behavior (2015)
  10. Lo ritual y lo doméstico: estudios químicos de suelos y paleoetnobotánicos en distintas esferas de actividad en la hacienda San Pedro Cholul, Yucatán. (2015)
  11. Evaluating a Cooperative Approach to the Management of Digital Archaeological Records (ECAMDAR): A Defense Legacy Project Assessing tDAR for the Department of Defense (2015)
  12. The application of strontium isotope analysis to historic cemetery contexts: a case study for the creation of robust individual identifications (2015)
  13. The Blind Spot: An Early Later Stone Age perspective on the Agulhas Bank from Knysna Eastern Heads Cave 1, South Africa (2015)
  14. Recent archaeological excavations at the Aklis Site, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (2015)
  15. Using computer models and art stylistic similarities to evaluate the impacts of geography and social processes on Magdalenian social networks (2015)
  16. Best Practices for Good Digital Curation (2015)
  17. Modeling Behavior in Digital Places Using Low-Level Perceptual Cues (2015)
  18. On Swiddening and Pigs: The Management of Micronesian Agroforests (2016)
  19. Understanding the Relationship Between Sample Size and Variation in Ceramic Relative Chronologies at the Petrified Forest National Park (2016)
  20. Pithouses, Pueblos, Projectile Points, Petroglyphs, and Possible Plazas: An Update on the 2015 Petrified Forest National Park Boundary Expansion Survey (2016)
  21. Three Seasons of Survey in the Painted Desert: An Update of the Petrified Forest Boundary Expansion Survey (2016)
  22. It's a Slippery Slope: The Impacts of Erosion on the Spatial Distribution of Artifacts (2016)
  23. Sourcing and Trade of Basalt and Turquoise to Petrified Forest National Park (2016)
  24. Petroglyphs of East Tank Mesa and the Mac Stod Great House: Using Rock Art to Gauge Regional Influences in Petrified Forest National Park (2016)
  25. From Ocean to Desert: Analysis of Prehistoric Shell Through Type, Use, and Trade Routes to Petrified Forest National Park (2016)
  26. Clarifying Late Archaic, Basketmaker, and Pueblo I Project Point Types at Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona (2016)
  27. Extraction of Soil Biomarkers from the Sacred Cacao Groves of the Maya (2016)
  28. Root, Fruit and Dirt: using ethnoarchaeology and archaebotany for constructing reference collections of plants in activity areas in Eastern Amazon (2016)
  29. Spatial Analysis of Domestic Structures (2016)
  30. Combining residue analysis of floors and ceramics to identify activity areas and the use of space (2016)
  31. Microarchaeology applied to foumier deposits: the use of phytoliths, spherulites and ash pseudomorphs as a tool for reconstruct livestock practices. (2016)
  32. Activity Area Analysis of Elite and Commoner Spaces in the Ancient Maya City of Actuncan, Belize (2016)
  33. Supper’s ready. Preparing and cooking food in Italian Protohistory (2016)
  34. Untangling Activity Areas in Open Spaces: Ethnography at Jandhala, North Gujarat, India (part II (2016)
  35. Lessons Learned from the Courts: Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology in Recent United States Jurisprudence (2016)
  36. Can we all get along? Bridging the divide between forensic anthropologists, forensic archaeologists, and law enforcement personnel (2016)
  37. An Examination of the Spatial Distribution of the Tissue Fragments created during an Explosive Event (2016)
  38. Being Found: A Fundamental Human Right (2016)
  39. The Value of Forensic Archaeology Training for All Law Enforcement Officers: A Case Example (2016)
  40. Life Among the Tombstones: Forensics Crosses Paths with Hoodoo (2016)
  41. To Dig or Not to Dig? A Case Study of Suspected Remains Buried under Concrete (2016)
  42. Bridging the Gap: Bringing Archaeology into the Forensic Forum (2016)
  43. Protest Graffiti at the Historic Nevada Peace Camp (2015)
  44. It Takes a (Big) Village: Preserving the Legacy of Pueblo Grande (2015)
  45. Managing 'A Mountain' of Rock Art Digital Data (2015)
  46. Synthesizing Legacy Data : Using tDAR’s Data Integration Tool (2015)
  47. Low-Cost Collection Digitization: Streamlining Photogrammetric Methodologies (2015)
  48. A Portable Photogrammetry Rig for the Reliable Creation of High-Quality 3D Artifact Models in the Field (2015)
  49. New radiocarbon dates confirm late Pleistocene human occupation in the Pampas of Argentina at c. 12,170 14C yrs BP: evidence from extinct horse at the Arroyo Seco 2 site (2015)
  50. Stephen Kowalewski, su vida y obra: a life of regional survey and looking at the big picture (2015)
  51. Cerro Jazmin and its changing regional context: building upon regional survey data (2015)
  52. Research on a Dog Burial from Rio Muerto, Peru (2015)
  53. On the Precision and Accuracy of Radiocarbon Dating (2015)
  54. "Left Behind": The Transition of a Farming Community Into Camp Atterbury (2015)
  55. The Sinagua and the Western Pueblo Tradition: Perspectives from Bioarchaeology (2015)
  56. Delazian: An Open-Air Upper Paleolithic Site in Central Iran (2015)
  57. Prospects for Detection of Ephemeral Historic Sod Structures Using Geophysical Techniques in Custer County, Nebraska (2015)
  58. Spruce Tree House: The Social History of a Thirteenth-Century Cliff Dwelling (2015)
  59. Developing New Interpretations from Old Data at Montezuma Castle National Monument, Arizona (2015)
  60. Ruins and Restoration on the Colorado Plateau: Earl Morris and the PWA (Public Works Administration) (2015)
  61. Stone Tool-making at Two Sixteenth Century Cayuga Sites (2015)
  62. Sacred vs Secular: Pre-Hispanic Village Landscapes in Southwest New Mexico (2015)
  63. Fields of Resistance: Reflections on Archaeology and Anarchist Praxis (2015)
  64. Bioarchaeological analysis of an ancient Maya ancestral context at Cahal Pech, San Ignacio, Belize (2015)
  65. Determining village extent and layout utilizing geophysical survey and excavation at the Mississippian site of Cane River, North Carolina (2015)
  66. From Stone to Screen: Squeezing into the World of Digital Archaeology (2015)
  67. Pithouses and Placemaking on the Southern Colorado Plateau (2015)
  68. Through a Smoke Cloud Darkly: The Possible Social Significance of Candeleros in Terminal Classic Naco Valley Society (2015)
  69. Social Diversity and Public Interaction Space in Classic and Postclassic Mimbres (2015)
  70. And Then Sometimes, The Public Engages You (2015)
  71. Chronological Changes in Pottery Production in the Phoenix Basin: Evidence from La Villa (2015)
  72. Archaeological Ceramics for Beginners: A Hands-On Activity for Introductory Classes
  73. Connecting Tijeras Pueblo: Identifying Utility Ware Communities of Practice (2015)
  74. Anthropogenically driven decline and extinction of Sapotaceae on Nuku Hiva (Marquesas Islands, East Polynesia) (2015)
  75. Fashioning Meaning through Ceramic Candeleros in the Terminal Classic Naco Valley, Northwestern Honduras (2015)
  76. Understanding Formation Processes of Archaeological Sites in Eolian Settings in the Petrified Forest National Park (2015)
  77. A Variety of Cerendipitous Discoveries (2015)
  78. Mimbres Games, Gambling and Gods (2015)
  79. Putting Archaeobotany Under the Microscope: A Case Study for Increased Use of Starch-Grain and Residue Analyses on the North Coast of Peru (2015)
  80. Putting Archaeobotany Under the Microscope: A Case Study for Increased Use of Starch-Grain and Residue Analyses on the North Coast of Peru
  81. (Poster) Unlocking the data behind the Chora of Metaponto publication series: "on-the-fly" solutions for sharing and archiving an evolving collection (2015)
  82. Rethinking Deodoro Roca Rockshelter (Ongamira, Córdoba, Argentina). Seventy years of archaeological ideas (2015)
  83. Learning heritage while teaching archaeology at Tahcabo, Yucatán: archaeologists’ perspectives on the opportunities and risks of local community engagement (2015)
  84. Unlocking the data behind the Chora of Metaponto publication series: "on-the-fly" solutions for sharing and archiving an evolving collection
  85. Archaeological Ceramics for Beginners: A Hands-On Activity for Introductory Classes (2015)
  86. Beyond Seeds and Charcoal: Constructing a Past for the Future (2015)
  87. Reevaluating Mimbres Late Pithouse to Classic Period Transformations of the Upper Gila (2015)
  88. Rock Art Resonance: preliminary results of an experimental acoustic study (2015)
  89. Demographic Fluctuation in Jomon Period of Japan (2015)
  90. The Capture of John Wilkes Booth (2015)
  91. In the Land of Lava: Petrographic and Chemical Analysis of Pottery from El Malpais National Monument (2015)
  92. Ceramic Molds for Mixtec Gold: New Insights into Lost Wax-Casting traditions of Late Postclassic Oaxaca (2015)
  93. Farmers’ Responses to Resource Stress and Climate Change in the Prehistoric US Southwest (2015)
  94. Finding the Balance: Case Studies in Collaboration and Community Engagement from the American Southwest (2015)
  95. Black and White and Shades of Gray: Projectile Points and Bifaces from the Dinwiddie Site, Southwestern New Mexico (2015)
  96. THE JEWELERS OF THE PALACE CRAFTING FOR THE GODS: THE LAPIDARY OBJECTS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE IMPERIAL TECHNOLOGICAL STYLE (2015)
  97. Investigating Diet Variability at Early Fortifications in the American Colonies (2015)
  98. Subsistence and Site Function in Historic Contexts (2015)
  99. Archaeological Survey and Evaluation of the Garrett Farm Site (44CE0085), Caroline County, Virginia (2014)
  100. The Garrett Farm Site (44CE0085), Caroline County, Virginia