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. Making the Bioarchaeology of Care Methodology Public: Understanding the Roles of Ethics, Communication and Public Engagement in a Novel Approach to Physical Impairment in the Archaeological Record. (2015)
  2. The Bioarchaeological Evidence for Elder Care in Roman Britain (2015)
  3. Electromagnetic Induction Survey at Matacanela to Detect Off-Mound Structures and Landscape Features (2015)
  4. Introduction to the Matacanela Archaeological Project: Collapse and Political Reorganization in a Lowland Mesoamerican Society (2015)
  5. The Obsidian of Matacanela (2015)
  6. Settlement at Matacanela: Preliminary Interpretations (2015)
  7. Mapping Matacanela - the complementary work of topographical survey and LiDAR. (2015)
  8. Perceptions of the Matacanela Archaeological Site by the People of Zapoapan de Cabañas (2015)
  9. Prehispanic Sculpture from Matacanela (2015)
  10. Surface Ceramic Distributions at Matacanela, Southern Veracruz, Mexico (2015)
  11. Death at Birth: Changing Mortuary Practices from the Late Ptolemaic to the Romano-Christian Period in Egypt (2015)
  12. Fragmented Bodies and Splintered Coffins: What can they tell us about Ancient Egyptian Mortuary Practices? (2015)
  13. Mortuary Practices Through Time at El Hibeh, Egypt (2015)
  14. The Human Osteology of Tell El Hibeh: Preliminary Observationis (2015)
  15. Death on the Middle Nile: Mortuary Traditions and Identity at the Top of the Great Bend (2015)
  16. Death from Above: Using Remote Sensing Data to Examine Mortuary Landscapes along the Nile 4th Cataract (2015)
  17. Variations on an Osirian Theme: Gendered Expressions of Identity in Osiris Funerary Shrouds from Roman Egypt (2015)
  18. Shaping Health: An Examination of Health, Social Identity and Burial Practices in the Egyptian Predynastic (2015)
  19. The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead on Coffins: Ritual Protection and Justification of the Deceased. (2015)
  20. Living on the Edge: Syncretism, Acculturation and the Meroitic Kingdom (2015)
  21. A Tale of Two Tombs: the relationship between Khonsu's funerary monument and that of Userhat (2015)
  22. Where's your Mummy? The Business of Mummification in Late and Roman Period Egypt (2015)
  23. Who Wants to Live Forever? The Practice of Mass Human Sacrifice During Early State Formation in the Nubian Classic Kerma Period (2015)
  24. Nahua Merchants in a Tarascan World (2015)
  25. Tracking Luxury Craft Production across Mayapán's Physical and Social Landscapes (2015)
  26. Life in the Tributary Province of Xoconochco (2015)
  27. Ceramic Emulation: Empires and Eminent Polities Seen from Afar (2015)
  28. The Birth of Ehecatl: The Cultural Origins of the Avian Wind God OF Central Mexico (2015)
  29. Templo Mayor’s Gold (2015)
  30. The Economics of Aztec Inequality or, the Inequality of the Aztec Economy (2015)
  31. Frannie Berdan and Economic Anthropology (2015)
  32. The 16th Century Merchant Community of Santa Maria Acxotla, Puebla (2015)
  33. Why Pilgrimage? The Ethnography and Archaeology of Journeys to the Center (2015)
  34. Frances F. Berdan and "Finding a Good Road:" Anthropology and the Aztec World (2015)
  35. The Explanation of Ceramic Variation in East African Prehistory: New LA-ICP-MS Results from Gogo Falls, Kenya (2015)
  36. Warior Regalia and Questions of Inalienable Possessions in the Aztec World (2015)
  37. The Chapultepec Castle Chimalli: A Habsburg-repatriated Mexica feline-hide shield (2015)
  38. The Terminal Pleistocene-Early Holocene transition and settlement discontinuities in the arid Central Andes (2015)
  39. Breckenridge Shelter, Arkansas and the Younger Dryas (2015)
  40. The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in the Tennessee and Cumberland River Valleys of the Mid-South United States (2015)
  41. By the seaside: The role of marine resources in northern Spain from the late Palaeolithic to the Neolithic (2015)
  42. Environmental Change and the Neolithization of Southeast Europe: a Bulgarian perspective (2015)
  43. The impact of the 8.2 kyr cal BP event on Late Mesolithic demography in the central Mediterranean region of Spain (2015)
  44. Correlating climate change and archaeological record in the Iron Gates Mesolithic (2015)
  45. Expansion and extinction: the Collapse of the Mammoth Steppe fauna (2015)
  46. Human response to sea-level change in the Early Holocene: examples from the continental shelf (2015)
  47. Causalities, time-scales and processes of environmental and cultural change in Italy between the Final Upper Palaeolithic and Early Neolithic (2015)
  48. Aspects of ritual and domestic life in first farming village (PPNB period) : Contribution to Tell Halula (Euphrates Valley Syria) (2015)
  49. Interrogating "Property" at Neolithic Çatalhöyük (2015)
  50. Radical Neolithic? (2015)
  51. Evidences for Social Structure and Ritual Practices from Körtik Tepe at the Beginning of Settled Life (2015)
  52. Long-term Memory, the Individual and the Community in the later Prehistory of the Levant (2015)
  53. Virtually Rebuilding Çatalhöyük History Houses (2015)
  54. Establishing identities in the Protoneolithic: History making at Göbekli Tepe in the late 10th millennium calBC (2015)
  55. Ritual Consumption? Exploring the Staging of Ritual Acts through the Deposition of Ground Stone Tools in Building 77 at Neolithic Çatalhöyük (2015)
  56. The ordering of space at Boncuklu, central Anatolia (8500-7500 cal BC); household and community. (2015)
  57. Reevaluating Vijayanagara Imperial Collapse (2015)
  58. People without Collapse: An Introduction (2015)
  59. Collapse from the Outside In: A View from the Western Maya Periphery (2015)
  60. Comparing World-Systems: Empire Upsweeps and Non-core marcher states Since the Bronze Age (2015)
  61. In-Visible Periphery of Old World "Collapse": Recognizing choice and circumstance in the archaeological record of mobile pastoralists (2015)
  62. On the Periphery of Collapse: An Archaeobotanical View from the Mycenaean Hinterland at Tsoungiza (2015)
  63. Ingenuity from the Periphery: Contributions to Old World Transformations from the Aral Sea deltas (2015)
  64. The Invisibility of Reactive Foragers and its Implications for Traditional Ecological Knowledge (2015)
  65. Liberty on the periphery: How Actuncan, Belize escaped the Classic Maya collapse (for a time) (2015)
  66. Medieval Warmth: Did the Medieval Warm Period Sink the Maya but Make the Mongols? (2015)
  67. Climate instability and the origin of farming in Southwest Asia (2015)
  68. Early cultivation practices and plant domestication in New Guinea and Island Southeast Asia (2015)
  69. Niche construction of agricultural communities in the Yiluo and Guanzhong regions of northern China in the Mid-Holocene (2015)
  70. The Nile vs. the Rift: Exploring contrasts in the spread of food production in Africa ~4200 bp (2015)
  71. Transport animals and distinctive pathways to domestication (2015)
  72. Niche Construction and Early Agriculture in Northeastern North America (2015)
  73. Exploring the multiple pathways towards agriculture within China, the case for rice and millets. (2015)
  74. Feast or Famine: The Broad Spectrum Revolution Revisited (2015)
  75. De-centering the Fertile Crescent: Multiple Pathways to Food Production (2015)
  76. From wild rice harvesting to domestic rice agriculture in South Asia. (2015)
  77. Pastoral pathways to plant domestication: current evidence for African pearl millet and sorghum in comparative perspective (2015)
  78. Agriculture is a state of mind- the Andean potato’s unending domestication (2015)
  79. Fallow Management and the Origins of Swidden Agriculture in the Tropics (2015)
  80. Un-entangling Pulse Domestication in South Asia (2015)
  81. Contextualizing the theory of archaeological theorization (2015)
  82. Empirical Imperialism and the Development of Indigenous Archaeologies (2015)
  83. Instigating Technological Knowledge through an African Ontology (2015)
  84. Healing Archaeology (2015)
  85. Introduction: Evidence-based practice versus Ivory Tower careers (2015)
  86. Empirical honesty and the ethical role of archaeologists in divided societies (2015)
  87. "Knowledge Without Action…": Shifting Frames of Reference in Archaeology Theory and Practice (2015)
  88. Silence and Noise in the Archaeological Record: are archaeological understandings always underdetermined? (2015)
  89. Whose Ancestors, les Gaulois? (2015)
  90. Conserving the Buddhist stupas and religious nationalism in Sri Lanka (2015)
  91. Co-practice amongst Non-Western Peoples: Abandoning Theory at Center Stage (2015)
  92. Pre-Conflict Planning for Cultural Property Protection in the Event of Armed Conflict (2015)
  93. The archaeology of conflict damaged sites: Hosn Niha in the Biqaʾ Valley, Lebanon. (2015)
  94. Economic differentiation in Hongshan core zone communities: A geochemical perspective (2015)
  95. A Geoarchaeological Investigation of Ancient Agricultural Fields at Sanyangzhuang Site, Henan Province, China (2015)
  96. Craft production and domestic economies of the prehistoric Chengdu Plain, southwest China (2015)
  97. Backgrounds of emergence of the early states in central and northern China (2015)
  98. Modeling a rapid transition in subsistence regimes in highland western China (2015)
  99. A tale of two towns: Demographic and economic change in two middle Yangzi communities (2015)
  100. Local and Regional Economics in Northeast China (2015)