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 2,301-2,400 of 3,720)

  1. Digital Public Archaeology Reconsidered: Lessons From Michigan State University’s Campus Archaeology Program (2015)
  2. The Transition between Epiclassic to Early Postclassic in Western Mexico. Processes involved in the Sayula Basin (Jalisco). (2015)
  3. RECONOCIMIENTO ARQUEOLÓGICO EN LAS SIERRAS NEOVOLCÁNICAS NAYARITAS: DINÁMICAS CULTURALES Y PATRÓN DE ASENTAMIENTO (2015)
  4. Possible causes for mayor cultural change between Classic and Postclassic occupations in western Mexico (2015)
  5. Preliminary Results on Regional Postclassic Aztatlán Obsidian Usage Patterns (2015)
  6. Materiality of Death at Cerro de Trincheras, Sonora: A Comparison of Ceramic Urn Funerary Practice in a Macro Regional Scale (2015)
  7. Trading, Borrowing, Stealing, Fighting, Collaborating and Sharing: Comcáac Social Interactions with their Neighbors (2015)
  8. Some Observations on Hohokam Figurines: Implictions for Early American Southwest Connections with West Mexico (2015)
  9. Copper Back Mirrors (Tezcacuitlapilli) as Objects of Political and Religious Authority in the Casas Grandes World (A.D. 1200-1450) (2015)
  10. El sitio megalítico de Ahuacatlán, ejemplo de erupciones volcánicas y de cambio cultural (2015)
  11. The sound of dancing in the desert Northwest/Southwest. Copper bells from Trincheras, and the Casas Grandes Connection. (2015)
  12. Ring the bell: A spatial comparative analysis of copper bells between the Greater Southwest and Michoacán. (2015)
  13. Selective Influence of West Mexico Cultural Traditions in the Onavas Valley, Sonora, Mexico (2015)
  14. Funerary Practices in Prehispanic Sinaloa: Assessing Aztatlán Mortuary Behavior (2015)
  15. Fedick-ian Approaches to Wetland Studies: Rock Alignments, Resilience, and the Pulse-Based Ecosystem (2015)
  16. Peopling the Landscape: Scott Fedick and his contributions to household subsistence strategies (2015)
  17. An Ethnoarchaeological Approach to Understanding the Role of Root-crops in Ancient Lowland Maya Subsistence. (2015)
  18. Preparing for the Future through Rock Mounds and Research (2015)
  19. Has anyone heard from Scott Fedick? (2015)
  20. Beyond the Death March: Scott Fedick´s Legacy as a Field School Director (2015)
  21. Debt Peonage and Free Labor: Post–Caste War Sites in Northern Quintana Roo and Western Belize (2015)
  22. Exploring the Coastal Mosaic of Northern Quintana Roo: The Proyecto Costa Escondida and Scott L. Fedick’s Continuing Legacy in the Northern Maya Lowlands (2015)
  23. Scott’s Snails: Freshwater and wetland gastropods as indicators of environmental change in the Yalahau Region, Quintana Roo, Mexico. (2015)
  24. Fedickschrift: Notes on a Prominent Historical Figure in Ethnoecology, Ethnoarchaeology, and Landscape Studies (2015)
  25. A Forgotten Facet of Fedick: Scott's Contributions to Maya Lithics Research (2015)
  26. Turkey Domestication and Utilization in an Ancestral Puebloan Community (2015)
  27. The Bluff –Twin Rocks community: Community formation, persistence and evolution in the northwestern San Juan region (2015)
  28. Stone Tools and Social Change (2015)
  29. The Art of Footwear, Footwear as Art: Thirteen Hundred Years of Twined Sandal Production in the Northern Southwest (2015)
  30. Cowboy Wash Pueblo and Community Organization on the Southern Piedmont of Sleeping Ute Mountain (2015)
  31. Intensive archaeological sampling for fine-grained resolution of human-environment relationships: fauna from the Sand Canyon Locality and the central Mesa Verde region (2015)
  32. An Examination of Spatial Relationships using GIS data from the Basketmaker Communities Project (2015)
  33. Five Hundred Years of Plant Use in the Sand Canyon Locality, Southwestern Colorado (2015)
  34. Architectural Specialization in Basketmaker III Proto-Villages (2015)
  35. Isolated Human Remains from the Central Mesa Verde Region: Taphonomic Distribution Patterns Across Sites (2015)
  36. Radiocarbon and the Stable Isotope Chemistry of Grand Gulch Basketmaker II Burials: Age-Based Dietary Patterning and Geolocation. (2015)
  37. The Changing Scale of Integrative Pueblo Communities in the Northern San Juan Region: Basketmaker III through Pueblo III. (2015)
  38. Material Culture of Communities: Temporal and Spatial Patterns in the Material Culture of the Goodman Point Community (2015)
  39. Why moving starch? Trans-Eurasian exchange of starchy crops in prehistory (2015)
  40. Territorial Barriers in Central Asia: Investigating the "long wall" of Bukhara (Uzbekistan) (2015)
  41. Local Communities in the Northeastern Frontier of the Central Plain during the late second and early first millennium BC (2015)
  42. Into the Distance: Initial observations from the Dornod Mongol Survey (2015)
  43. The Bead Strings with Jade Huang Pendents of the Zhou Period of China: Revived Tradition or Adopted Fashion (2015)
  44. Contact and Exchange in Northern China: A Case Study on the Tomb of a Zoroastrian Priest, Kang Ye (512-571 CE) (2015)
  45. Pastoral Communities Thrived in a Rocky Valley of the Tian-Shan Mountains--New Survey Results of the Dense Pastoralist Sites in the Mohuchahan Valley of Xinjiang, China (2015)
  46. Diplomacy, Trade and Power Dressing on the Periphery of the Han Empire (2015)
  47. Beauty and Adornment in Fertile Lands and Desert: Toiletries from burials of Han China and her Western Neighbors (2015)
  48. Las manifestaciones grafico-ruprestres en las Cuevas Prehistoricas de Yagul y Mitla (WH-UNESCO) (2015)
  49. Un acercamiento al estudio de las pinturas rupestres en el Cerro Danush, Oaxaca. (2015)
  50. DEL ASENTAMIENTO PREHISPÁNICO AL PARQUE EÓLICO: LA TRANSFORMACIÓN DEL PAISAJE ARQUEOLÓGICO (2015)
  51. Registros gráfico-rupestres en Yagul, pintura rupestre en contextos urbanos (2015)
  52. Emergence of Walled Towns in the Neolithic Jianghan Plain: Warfare or Flooding Control? (2015)
  53. Identity and Specialization in the Urartian Settlement at Ayanis (2015)
  54. Life, land and labour at Yayno (AD 400-800), a Recuay fort in the north highlands of Peru (2015)
  55. The Fortified Settlement of Pujini and Implications for a Swahili Urban Landscape (2015)
  56. Fortifications in Mukaranga, northern Zimbabwe (1600-1700 AD): a socio-political perspective (2015)
  57. The Fortress Refigured: Authority and Community in the South Caucasus (ca. 1500-300 BC) (2015)
  58. Fortified Settlements as Forces of Social Change Among the Ancestral Pueblo Peoples of the Northern San Juan Region (2015)
  59. Building Community: The Heuneburg Hillfort as Monument and Metaphor (2015)
  60. Coalescence and conformity at the Ayawiri hillfort, Peru: A social experiment under duress (2015)
  61. Beyond Defense: The Political Implications of Defense in Contact-era New Guinea (2015)
  62. Research and curatorial work on the archeological collections recovered in Sonora by Dr. Richard A. Pailes (2015)
  63. Warfare, Invasion, and Ethnogenesis during the Protohistoric Period in Sonora (2015)
  64. In the Spirit of Sauer and Brand: Geographic Reflections on the RSV Project (2015)
  65. Pochtecas and Pilgrims: Models for Elite and Commoner Exchange in the Río Sonora (2015)
  66. Batacosa, a Río Sonora or Serrana site? (2015)
  67. La Cueva de la Colmena: bioarchaeological analysis of a funerary context from the Sonora – Sinaloa Project / R. A. Pailes 1967. (2015)
  68. THE PROYECTO ARQUEOLOGICO RÍO SAHUARIPA: INTERACTION, INTEGRATION AND CULTURAL DYNAMICS IN THE SONORAN SERRANíA (2015)
  69. The Presence of Teotihuacan’s Iconography at Cacaxtla, Tlaxcala: A Reflection on Its Interpretations (2015)
  70. Teotihuacan and post-Teotihuacan Writing in the Central Highlands as seen from NW Oaxaca and Southern Puebla (2015)
  71. The Epiclassic in Oaxaca (600-900 CE) (2015)
  72. Western Mexico: Opening Act of the Mesoamerican Epiclassic (2015)
  73. Talking about Epiclassic at Teotihuacan: the urban question (2015)
  74. Women, metaphors of alterity. Expressing elites interactions at Cacaxtla-Xochitecatl (Tlaxcala) and Xochicalco (Morelos) (2015)
  75. Patterns of Elite Self-Presentation in North-Central Veracruz, Middle to Epiclassic Periods (2015)
  76. FROM TULA CHICO TO CHICHEN ITZA: IMPLICATIONS OF THE EPICLASSIC SCULPTURE OF TULA FOR THE NATURE AND TIMING OF TULA-CHICHEN CONTACT (2015)
  77. Epiclassic in Southern Mesoamerica? Tradition, Innovation, and Reaction in Pacific Guatemala (2015)
  78. Maya Wetlands: Natural and Anthropogenic (2015)
  79. A Late Holocene Environmental Reconstruction from a Wetland in the Northern Holmul Region: Preliminary Results from Laguna Ek’Naab, Peten, Guatemala (2015)
  80. Waste not, want not: A multi-proxy perspective on soil formation at Marco Gonzalez, Ambergris Caye, Belize (2015)
  81. Living Systems of Raised-Field Agriculture in Africa: What Can They Tell Us About Pre-Columbian Systems in the Neotropics? (2015)
  82. Ecological legacies of pre-Columbian raised fields and their implications for agroecosystems today (2015)
  83. Ancient Maya Wetland Features in the Eastern Belize Watershed (2015)
  84. Maya Wetland Fields from 2014 and Earlier Coring Evidence (2015)
  85. Forest islands and raised fields in the 2nd millennium BCE Amazon (2015)
  86. On the Origins of Raised-Field Farming in the Lake Titicaca Basin of the Andes (2015)
  87. Linear Features in the Bajo de Azucar, Guatemala: Multiple Origins and Uses (2015)
  88. Understanding the paleogeography and Maya ditched fields along the Rio Hondo, Belize and Mexico (2015)
  89. Demographic Analysis of a Looted Late Intermediate Period Tomb, Chincha Valley, Peru (2015)
  90. Bioarchaeology of the Chincha Kingdom: Life history patterns in a chullpa population from the Late Intermediate Period and Late Horizon mid-Chincha Valley, Peru (2015)
  91. Fine China, Flatware, and Crockery: An Archaeological Reexamination of Chincha Domestic Contexts (2015)
  92. La Ocupación Carmen En El Valle Medio De Chincha (2015)
  93. Re-Creando una Huaca: Utilizando el sitio de Cerro Gentil como una Huaca local (2015)
  94. The Treatment of the Dead in the Mid-Chincha Valley, Peru (2015)
  95. Conditional cooperation and the ritualized economy of Paracas (2015)
  96. Excavations at Huaca Soto: 2000 Years of Ritual Reuse at a Paracas Platform Mound, Chincha, Peru (2015)
  97. Chinina, Panama. First evidence of pre-hispanic raised fields in Central America (2015)
  98. Guns, Shipwrecks, and Investigations of Spanish Colonial Trade and Privateering in the 17th Century: The Chagres River Maritime Borderland, Panamá (2015)
  99. As Good as it Sounds: Archaeology of Las Delicias, Managua, Nicaragua (2015)
  100. Exchange, production and consumption of exotic and exclusive goods in the delta of Diquís, Costa Rica. (2015)