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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  1. Nasca Lines, Ceramic Sherds, and Social Changes: Recent Investigation at the Nasca Pampas, Southern Coast of Peru. (2015)
  2. Building control: architecture and the regimentation of daily life in eighteenth century Santa Cruz de Lancha, Peru (2015)
  3. Ni la costa ni la sierra: The Archaeology of the Upper Nasca River Basin (2015)
  4. LA-ICP-MS Analysis of Nasca Ceramics from the Residential Sector at Cerro Tortolita, Ica, Peru (2015)
  5. A Second Room of the Posts? Ceremonialism at La Marcha during Late Nasca and the Middle Horizon (2015)
  6. The 2014 Excavations at Cerro Tortolita, an Early Intermediate Period Ceremonial Center in the Upper Ica Valley. (2015)
  7. Gift of the Nile? Climate Change and the Origins and Interconnections of Egyptian Civilization within Northeast Africa (2015)
  8. Climates of History in Ancient China: Lessons from Deep-Time and Cross-Cultural Perspectives (2015)
  9. Floods, Famines, and Fagan: Recent Research on El Niño in the Age of Andean States and Empires (2015)
  10. Shifting Human-Environmental Interactions in the Late Prehistoric Periods of Southern Caucasia (2015)
  11. Past and Present Human Response to Drought in the American West (2015)
  12. Brian Fagan, Climate Change and Us (2015)
  13. The comparative archaeology of the Channel Islands (2015)
  14. Crosscultural Archaeology and the Role of the Tropics in Informing the Present (2015)
  15. Animal captivity in Tenochtitlan’s sacred precinct: Specialized diet and paleopathological analysis of golden eagles found in Offering 125 (2015)
  16. The roseate spoonbills of Tenochtitlan’s Great Temple and their relation to deceased warriors, nobles, and kings (2015)
  17. A model of the Universe at the foot of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan. An approach to its meaning. (2015)
  18. Images of death in Offering 141 of Tenochtitlan’s Great Temple: Human sacrifice and the symbolism of effigy skulls (2015)
  19. Wooden scepters in the offerings of Tenochtitlan’s Great Temple: A symbolic interpretation (2015)
  20. The polychromy of the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan "Standard Bearers" (2015)
  21. Images represented in the dressed flint knife offerings from the plaza west of Tenochtitlan's Great Temple (2015)
  22. Marine mollusks as evidence of Mexica imperial expansion (2015)
  23. The Sun, the Xiuhcoatl and the eagle: incense burners found at the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan (2015)
  24. New 3D Map of the Templo Mayor Architecture, a Symbol of Mexica Cosmology and Political Power with Teotihuacan Tradition (2015)
  25. Peces de las ofrendas asociadas a Tlaltecuhtli (2015)
  26. Botanical analysis of sediments in offerings and fill at Tenochtitlan’s Great Temple (2015)
  27. Graphic documentation of the mural painting in the sacred precinct of Tenochtitlan (2015)
  28. Feather headdresses among the offerings at Tenochtitlan’s Great Temple (2015)
  29. An Overview of the Hoyo Negro Project and Its Findings (2015)
  30. The Late Pleistocene Fauna of Hoyo Negro (2015)
  31. Reconstructing Water Levels and Access to Hoyo Negro (2015)
  32. Calcite Rafts as a Proxy for Reconstructing Holocene Surface Water Conditions of Hoyo Negro: A Phreatic Coastal Karst Basin in Quintana Roo, Mexico (2015)
  33. General Taphonomy and Diagenesis of a Submerged Pleistocene Skeleton from the Cenote of Hoyo Negro, Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico: Preliminary Results (2015)
  34. Histomorphology and Metabolic History of a Submerged Pleistocene Skeleton from the Cenote of Hoyo Negro, Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico (2015)
  35. The Development of Techniques and Methods Used to Record Hoyo Negro: A Submerged Cave Site on the Yucatan Peninsula (2015)
  36. Some Suggestions for Archaeologists who have Glass at their Site. (2015)
  37. Glass Bracelets from the Medieval Settlement of Hisn al-Tinat, in southern Turkey (2015)
  38. Ancient Glass Studies from 1st-2nd Millennium AD Africa: What Have We learned and Where Are We Going (2015)
  39. Hyperspectral X-Ray Fluorescence of the Luni glasses (2015)
  40. Curating Ancient Glass in the 21st Century Museum: The Case of the Yale University Art Gallery (2015)
  41. Got Swag? Investigating Beads and Bead Trade in Scotland during the First Millennium AD (2015)
  42. Glass at the Crossroads: Production and Emulation at Phrygian Gordion (2015)
  43. Beads, Bangles, and Glass: Historical and Ethnographic Insights into Glass Working in South India (2015)
  44. Raise a Glass: The Late Hellenistic Origins of Domestic Glass Tableware (2015)
  45. Raw Materials, Reuse, and Refuse: A multi-disciplinary study of Karanis glass (2015)
  46. Understanding Exchange in Late Pre-Hispanic Central America. Current Thinking on Culture Areas and Ethnicity (2015)
  47. Interregional Exchange and the Rise of Inequality in the Intermediate Area (2015)
  48. West Mexico, the Missing Link with South America (2015)
  49. The Best of All Worlds: Exploring exchange and interaction with Nicoyan, Caribbean Costa Rican and Panamanian societies at the Southern Costa Rican site of El Cholo. (2015)
  50. Ethnic Identities in Central Nicaragua: Perspectives from a Habitational Site (2015)
  51. Obsidian Trade from the Perspective of Chiquilistagua, Managua, Nicaragua (2015)
  52. 'Out of Mexico' 25 Years Later: A Reconsideration of Migration into Greater Nicoya (2015)
  53. Traveling and trading in Ancient Costa Rica (2015)
  54. Asking New Questions to Central Nicaraguan Pottery (2015)
  55. The Mystery of Managua Polychrome Part II (2015)
  56. Navigating Pre-Hispanic Central America: Discerning Aquatic Transportation Routes and Technologies (2015)
  57. Seeking Isla Palenques's Deeper Meaning (2015)
  58. The Quest for Gold: An Examination of Socioeconomic Exchange and Autonomy in the Parita River Valley, Panama (2015)
  59. Obsidian Exchange Patterns among the Coastal Plains of Northwest Nicaragua (2015)
  60. Inclusions and Innovations in Late Neolithic Pottery from the Southern Levant (2015)
  61. Does practice make perfect? Is it possible to read technological development in the actions and outputs of individual or group practitioners (2015)
  62. Teeth as tools: Paramasticatory dental modifications reflecting habitual behavior in the Danube Gorges, Serbia (9500 - 5500 B.C.) (2015)
  63. Behavioral Metallurgy of the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, and Neo-Punic Peoples (2015)
  64. Microanalytical Perspectives on the Evolution of Glass-making Technologies (2015)
  65. Techniques, senses and emotions: polishing in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean (2015)
  66. Non-ferrous casting molds and technical logic: What can the technical differences between the Bronze Age and Iron Age molds tell us about the technological development of metalworking? (2015)
  67. Chemical analyses and copy-errors: technological control and artistic behaviour in the making of China’s Terracotta Army (2015)
  68. On the transmission of pottery recipes at the dawn of the Metal Age: a case study from Pločnik and Belovode (2015)
  69. Immanence, configuration and the bloomery ironmaking process: identifying behavioural opportunities from physical constraints (2015)
  70. Paint It Black: the rise of metallurgy in the Balkans (2015)
  71. Archaeometric Analysis of Hunter-Gatherer Pottery from Northeast Asia (2015)
  72. Lives as Lived in the Archaic: A Human Agency Perspective (2015)
  73. Lithic Variation and Tool Technology at the East Pasture Site, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts (2015)
  74. Small Stemmed in the Northeast: Technology and Cultural Continuity in the Late Archaic (2015)
  75. Community Connections from Archaic to Present in Southeastern Massachusetts: Insights from Halls Swamp and Beyond (2015)
  76. Herring, Rattlesnakes and More: Recent Research on the Late Archaic in Southwestern New Hampshire (2015)
  77. Coastal Dynamics and Site Formation: A look at the Archaeological Deposits of Coastal RI after Hurricane Sandy (2015)
  78. A Snook Kill Phase Site in Marshfield, Massachusetts (2015)
  79. Archaic Estuarine Resource Use in the Lower Hudson Valley: New Information from the Old Place Neck Site, Staten Island, New York. (2015)
  80. Undiscovered Country: Preliminary Results of Eleven New Sites Identified in the Susquetonscut Brook Valley, Eastern Connecticut, USA (2015)
  81. Evaluating Archaic Period Settlement and Subsistence Patterns in Relation to Ecosystem Dynamics in New England (2015)
  82. Harnessing Mountain Power in Ancient Anatolia (2015)
  83. Mental topographies of ancient Mesopotamia: textual perspectives on learned and lived highland-lowland interactions (2015)
  84. Thinking Through Mountains: A Perspective from the ancient Near East (2015)
  85. Perpetually on the move from the lowlands to the highlands in Northern Greece (2015)
  86. "The fear guards the sacred". The Sacred Natural Sites of Epirus, NW Greece (2015)
  87. Connecting the highlands and lowlands of Bhutan through pilgrimage to sacred sites (2015)
  88. Current approaches to landscape characterisation as tools for the understanding of highlands-lowlands interactions (2015)
  89. Synchronizing highland and lowland rhythms of material exchange (2015)
  90. Mobile Pastoralists and Lowland-Highland Interconnectivity in Southeastern Turkey (2015)
  91. The role of highland-lowland interaction in political development: a view from the hilltop fort site Ayawiri, in the Andean highlands of Peru. (2015)
  92. The Practice of Play in the Sport of Life and Death: Exploring Regional Variation in Ballgame Material Culture and Ideology (2015)
  93. The Queen of Heaven in Iron Age Greece: Analyzing Religious Ideology and Symbolism on Multiple Scales (2015)
  94. What you see is what you believe: Mortuary Ideology and transmutations in Funerary Practice at the advent of the Xiongnu Empire in Mongolia. (2015)
  95. An archaeological investigation of gender on the late prehistoric steppe (2015)
  96. Some "muse"ings on past and recent encounters with lutins, naiads and non-anthropomorphic forces: Reconsidering vocabulary and questions concerning "religion" and "belief" in face of ethno-archaeological experiences in Madagascar. (2015)
  97. Religious and Ritualized Landscapes of Iron Age Central Eurasia (2015)
  98. In the trail of dancing lions: iconography and community on early Crete (2015)
  99. Bring on the Boreal: Site formation processes and archaeological interpretation in northern Alberta, Canada (2015)
  100. Environmental Processes and the Archaeological Record along the Louisiana Coast (2015)