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

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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.


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  1. Scraping Our Way To The Past:A Methodological Approach for Chinese Rural Work Camps (2015)
  2. Exploring Healthcare Practices of Chinese Railroad Workers in North America (2015)
  3. Plants, Animals, and Food Choice Within the Market Street Chinatown, San Jose, California (2015)
  4. Paleogenomic perspectives of archaeological human samples from Durango, Mexico. (2015)
  5. La necesidad del ritual, el movimiento y la regeneración. Interpretaciones desde la información arqueológica en la región chalchihuiteña (2015)
  6. Between life and death. The burial systems at the Guadiana valley, Durango. (2015)
  7. La minería en la Cultura Chalchihuites. (2015)
  8. Petrographic analysis of ceramics and construction materials: The dwellers of Cueva del Maguey in the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Ferreria site of the Guadiana valley in Durango, Mexico. (2015)
  9. Bioarchaeological results of the Suchil River Valley project, Zacatecas and Durango, Mexico (2015)
  10. The River Suchil Valley project, Zacatecas and Durango 10 years of its inception (2015)
  11. Seeds of Memory: A long-term study of life and plant use in the Sextin river valley of Durango, Mexico (2015)
  12. Llano Grande. ¿Un sitio chachihuiteño de explotación de la obsidiana? (2015)
  13. spike scraper an approach to lithics from Durango (2015)
  14. The CRM Archaeology Podcast: Podcasting the Profession and Educating the Public (2015)
  15. Where does your community live? The TrowelBlazers experience. (2015)
  16. Archaeological Education and Public Outreach through Social Media (2015)
  17. Levels of Public Engagement in Vermont Archaeology and Striving to Match Outreach with Outcomes (2015)
  18. Connecting Communities to Place: Public Archaeology at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site (2015)
  19. Bridging the Professional-Public Divide through Flood Recovery Compliance Archaeology at the University of Iowa (2015)
  20. A Community Approach to Data Recovery Investigations at the Dimond Knoll Site, Harris County, Texas (2015)
  21. Public Engagement and Compliance Archaeology in a Museum Setting (2015)
  22. Changing Life Styles: New lithic finding from small sites in Casas Grades, Chihuahua Mexico (2015)
  23. There And Back Again: A Geochemical Analysis of Casas Grandes Shell Procurement and Exchange (2015)
  24. Geometric Morphometric Approaches to Casas Grandes Ceramic Specialization (2015)
  25. Bunny Or Bison: A Comparative Study of Faunal Material in the Casas Grandes World (2015)
  26. Comparative Approaches to Casas Grandes Taphonomy and Violence (2015)
  27. Plainware Ceramics from the Surface of the 76 Draw Site, Luna Country, New Mexico (2015)
  28. Recent Explorations for Casas Grandes Viejo Period Settlement (2015)
  29. Results of Petrographic Analysis of Polychromes across the Casas Grandes World (2015)
  30. Paquimé and Diablo Phases at Paquimé: An Examination of Architectural Validity of Phase Declarations (2015)
  31. Exploring the Effects of Endemic Warfare and Violence on Women and Children at Casas Grandes (2015)
  32. Power before Paquimé? Hypotheses on Political Economies in Casas Grandes. (2015)
  33. Ritual Use of Fauna in the Casas Grandes Region (2015)
  34. New Perspectives on Casas Grandes Mortuary Practices: (2015)
  35. The Current State of Looting, Preservation, and Education in the Casas Grandes Region (2015)
  36. Ancient DNA prospecting in the Caribbean: preliminary findings and future perspectives (2015)
  37. Proyecto Gran Canal: El patrimonio caribeño nicaraguense (cultural y arqueológico) en peligro. (2015)
  38. Investigaciones arqueológicas en el Caribe Sur Nicaragüense (2015)
  39. Indigenous Migration, Diaspora, and Transculturation in Colonial Cuba (2015)
  40. The Contribution of Canímar Abajo, Cuba to an Understanding of Early Populations in the Greater Antilles (2015)
  41. Admixture in the pre-Columbian Caribbean (2015)
  42. Reconstructing Caribbean Paleotopography during the Holocene: Implications for Archaeology and Biogeography (2015)
  43. Bayesian probability weaning age estimates of sub-adults from Canimar Abajo, Cuba (2015)
  44. The Nicaraguan Rise and the Problem of Early Peopling of the Greater Antilles (2015)
  45. The Earliest Dated Skeletal Remains from the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua (2015)
  46. Starch in Cuba (2015)
  47. Shadows of Sand Creek: A Case Study of the Colorado War and Its Historical Legacy (2015)
  48. Dendroarchaeology of the Otero Cabin, Valles Caldera National Preserve, New Mexico (2015)
  49. In Defence of the Fence in the American West (2015)
  50. Who are the Martinez? A Report on and Examination of High Elevation Aspen Dendroglyphs in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico (2015)
  51. Give Me a Y-Beam: Architecture and Agency at Rural Chinese Woodchopping Camps, Mineral County, Nevada (2015)
  52. Borderlands, Continuances and Violence: A Social Nexus at Black Star Canyon, San Juan Capistrano California (2015)
  53. 19th Century Mining Life in Michigan's Upper Peninsula - The American West on the Wrong Side of the 100th Meridian (2015)
  54. Making Ends Meet in Frontier New Mexico (2015)
  55. Teaching Archaeology from a Sustainability Perspective (2015)
  56. Teaching Archaeology through Games: Bringing Interactive Lessons into the Classroom (2015)
  57. The Integration of Archaeology and its Principles into the Core Curriculum (2015)
  58. Digging without Dirt: An Excavation Simulation (2015)
  59. Simulating Engagement: Teaching Students about Stakeholders (2015)
  60. Teaching Archaeology with Campus Trash (2015)
  61. La vida alrededor del Río Holmul: Patrón de Asentamiento de Cival y la Región de Holmul (2015)
  62. Classic Maya Housholds in Northern Peten, Guatemala: An Overview (2015)
  63. Between House and Site: Considering Intermediate Units in Classic Maya Lowlands Settlements (2015)
  64. Quien ocupo mi casa? (2015)
  65. Entorno a la sal y el agua: Los conjuntos residenciales en el sitio Salinas de los Nueve Cerros, Guatemala (2015)
  66. Entre ollas y metates: exploraciones en la cocina real de Kabah, Yucatán (2015)
  67. Understanding Residential Space through Soil Chemistry in the Northern Maya Lowlands (2015)
  68. Elite residences of the K'iche at Q'umarkaj, El Quiche’, Guatemala (2015)
  69. Censer fragmentation and life history: rural domestic settlement enchainment and accumulation activities and the Classic-Postclassic transition of the Petén Lakes region, Guatemala. (2015)
  70. Residential Architecture at Caracol, Belize: Conjoined Buildings and Distributed Space (2015)
  71. ‘The pivotal house: individual, community, and environment context at Cancuen, Verapaz, Guatemala’ (2015)
  72. Overland Trade in the Central Maya Lowlands: the View from Trinidad de Nosotros, El Petén, Guatemala (2015)
  73. Inland ports in Northwestern Peten, Guatemala, a preliminary assessment (2015)
  74. Transformations in Political Economy and Routes of Exchange on the Eve of the Classic Maya Collapse: New Evidence from the Port Kingdom of Cancuen and the Classic Maya Frontier (2015)
  75. Ixlú: A Postclassic Entrepôt on Lake Petén Itzá (2015)
  76. EL COMERCIO EN EL NORTE DE LA PENÍNSULA DE YUCATÁN VISTO A TRAVÉS DEL SITIO CLÁSICO DE XCAMBÓ, YUCATÁN (2015)
  77. Population Movements, Trading, and Identity along the East Coast of Postclassic Yucatan. Dental morphology, isotopic provenience analyses and body modifications in human series from El Meco, El Rey, and Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico (2015)
  78. From Coast to Coast: Trade Routes and Commerce of Northwest Yucatán’s Mayapán (2015)
  79. Prospering in Place: Cerro Maya and the Late Preclassic Exchange Networks (2015)
  80. Riverine and Maritime trade routes on Caribbean side of the Yucatan Peninsula. (2015)
  81. Ancient Maya Trade and Communication as Evidence by Petrographic and Iconographic Analysis of Unit-Stamped Pottery (2015)
  82. Shifting Tides along the North Coast of Quintana Roo: Recent Research at Conil and Vista Alegre (2015)
  83. Balance of Trade, Balance of Power: Marine and riverine networks in Belize (2015)
  84. An Intracoastal Waterway and Port System in Classic Period Northwest Yucatán, Mexico (2015)
  85. Wild Cane Cay, Southern Belize: Major Classic to Postclassic Maya Trading Port (2015)
  86. Chichén Itzá and its maritime ports during the Terminal Classic period (2015)
  87. Zapotec Economy in Late Classic Jalieza: Through the Lens of Ceramic Annalysis (2015)
  88. Ceramic Paste Distribution and Market Exchange in the Tlacolula Valley, Oaxaca, Mexico. (2015)
  89. Rural Craft Production and Market Participation in Late Classic Oaxaca: A Case Study from Yaasuchi (2015)
  90. From Clay Survey to Ceramic Provenance: Establishing a Ceramic Geography for the Late Classic Valley of Oaxaca (2015)
  91. Ceramic Production and Distribution in Classic Period Monte Albán, El Trapiche and Lambityeco (2015)
  92. THE BODY AND THE ANCESTOR: COMPARING EVIDENCE OF INDIVIDUAL BIOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL REPRESENTATION AT PARACAS NECROPOLIS (2015)
  93. Un nuevo patrón arquitectónico de la cultura Paracas en la sierra sur del Perú (2015)
  94. INVESTIGATIONS AT THE MOUTH OF THE RÍO ICA, PERU: A PRECERAMIC RECORD OF RICH SEAS, FOG-MEADOWS, INCIPIENT AGRICULTURE AND SHIFTING SHORELINES (2015)
  95. Early Maize on the South Coast? (2015)
  96. Compositional Analysis of Ceramics from the Las Trancas Valley, Nasca, Perú. (2015)
  97. Connecting the Pre-Columbian Past to the Present in South Coastal Peru: The Archaeology of the Colonial and Republican Haciendas of Nasca (2015)
  98. Towards an understanding of the transition from Paracas to Nasca from a household perspective: Interpreting changes in ceramic consumption at Uchuchuma (2015)
  99. Investigations of Nasca-Wari Interaction and Imperial Expansion during the Middle Horizon: A View from the Las Trancas Valley, Nasca, Peru. (2015)
  100. The Human/Animal Continuum in Nasca Sculptural Ceramics (c. 1-450) (2015)