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 3,101-3,200 of 3,720)

  1. Primacy of the Cave at the Sun Pyramid, Teotihuacan (2015)
  2. Hallowed (under)Ground – Ancient Maya Dark Zone Use Patterns in the Subterranean Realm of Yaxcaba, Central Yucatan, Mexico (2015)
  3. Architectural Ambivalence: An Interpretation of the Nohoch Tunich Bedrock Outcrop Complex, Pacbitun, Belize (2015)
  4. Subadult human sacrifices in Midnight Terror Cave (2015)
  5. Landscape Archaeology in Northern Belize: The Need for a Critical Reassessment (2015)
  6. Some Methodological Problems with the Study of Non-Urban Caves in Northern Belize (2015)
  7. Integrative 3D visualization for spatial analysis and interpretation of rock shelters in Quintana Roo, Mexico (2015)
  8. Sinking Archaeological Teeth into the Dental Modification Issue: An Examination of Midnight Terror Cave (2015)
  9. The Sinkhole as Ch'een: A Closer Look at Ancient Maya Sacred Geography (2015)
  10. An Analysis of Lithic Production at the La Milpa Sinkhole (RB-25-A5) (2015)
  11. The Montezuma Canyon Citadel Complex: A Major Prehistoric Religious Shrine (2015)
  12. Little Finds Big Results: The Utility of Small Artifacts in the Spatial Analyses of Looted Sites (2015)
  13. A Wind from the Depths of the Earth (2015)
  14. The Ritual Reuse of Maya Cave Shrines after Abandonment (2015)
  15. The Homol’ovi Settlement Cluster (ca. A.D. 1260–1400): Reconstructing Environment and Ancient Hopi Lifeways through Charred Botanical Remains (2015)
  16. Access, Accumulation, and Action: The Relationship between Architectural and Depositional Patterns at Homol’ovi I (2015)
  17. The Multi-Kiva Site: A new perspective on the Pueblo III period occupation of the middle Little Colorado River valley (2015)
  18. Ceramics and Social Identity at RAR-2: A Pueblo III period site near Winslow, Arizona. (2015)
  19. Community Spaces at Pueblo III Pithouse Villages in Northeastern Arizona (2015)
  20. Communities of Practice and Corrugated Pottery at Chevelon Ruin (2015)
  21. Back in Time: Research at Rock Art Ranch (2015)
  22. Sharing the teapot and the science: Challenges and Contributions in shaping 21st century island heritage in Ireland (2015)
  23. The Future of the Past at Fort St. Joseph, Niles, Michigan (2015)
  24. Critical Heritage Archaeology at the W.E.B. Du Bois Homesite (2015)
  25. Local Politics and Site Ownership: Archaeology in the Age of Lawfare (2015)
  26. Bottom-Up Heritage Management in Ithaca, New York: Community Initiatives and Collaborations with University Archaeologists (2015)
  27. The New Public Archaeology: Evolving concepts in international public archaeology and interpretation (2015)
  28. Parsing ‘Public’ for Heritage Management in the Transnational Sphere (2015)
  29. A Forgotten Town on a Forgotten Road: The Archaeology of Pine Barrens Heritage at the Storied Cedar Bridge Tavern (2015)
  30. One Site, Multiple Pasts: Negotiating Identity and Archaeological Heritage along the US/Canadian Border (2015)
  31. Beyond the Four-Letter Word: Heritage Management and Public Archaeology at Fort Vancouver (2015)
  32. Slavery and memory in French Guiana: designing the commemoration of memory at the Loyola cemetery while respecting sensibilities of history (2015)
  33. The Role of Intangible Heritage Values in the Management of Places and Things (2015)
  34. Neolithic Northern China in the Context of Early Eurasian Interactions (2015)
  35. Prehistoric Painted Pottery of Xinjiang (2015)
  36. Understanding the Production of Majiayao Painted Pottery in Gansu: New Data and New Thoughts (2015)
  37. Migration, Diffusion, and Trade: Potting in Neolithic NW China (2015)
  38. Painted Pottery of the Siba Culture and Its Implications (2015)
  39. Considering a ‘Chinese Element’ in Southeast Europe before the 2nd Millennium BC (2015)
  40. The Dispersion of Early Painted Pottery in Northwest China (2015)
  41. Graphic narration  and Spatial Organization in the Grotte Chauvet-Pont d'Arc (2015)
  42. Upper Paleolithic Use of Space at Riparo Bombrini (Balzi Rossi, Italy) (2015)
  43. The Aurignacian open-air campsite of Régismont-le-Haut (Hérault, France) (2015)
  44. Palethnographic interpretation of the Gravettian site of La Picardie (Indre-et-Loire, France): a difficult path (2015)
  45. Paleoethnographic and chronostratigraphic perspectives on the Aurignacian of the Vézère Valley : Abri Castanet, Abri Blanchard, Abri Cellier (2015)
  46. Fireplace Variability in the Aurignacian: a Multiscale Analysis at the Open-air Campsite of Régismont-le-Haut (Hérault, France) (2015)
  47. The Gravettian open air site of la Vigne Brun (Loire valley, France). Shedding new light on a famous unknown site (2015)
  48. Domestic space or burial space? Interrogating the Final Gravettian at the abri Pataud (2015)
  49. Nomadism in the Magdalenian groups of Monruz and Champréveyres (Switzerland) (2015)
  50. From Palethnography to Paleohistory: following a Magdalenian group through three successive occupations at Etiolles (2015)
  51. Towards a synchronic view of Aurignacian lithic economy (2015)
  52. Put ‘em to Work! The Transition from the Classroom to the Field. (2015)
  53. The Forensics of Commodification: Examples from Louisiana of the Acquisition, Analysis, and Legal Problems Related to Trophy Skulls Seized from Illegal Sales (2015)
  54. A Missing Person Body Recovery Case: Maintaining Professionalism & Best Practices as a Forensic Archaeologist Amidst Escalated Tensions (2015)
  55. Forensic Archaeology: a ten year retrospective (2015)
  56. Forensic Archaeology: A Global Perspective (2015)
  57. Forensic Archaeology Recovery Case Studies, Finding the Unfound (2015)
  58. Forensic Archaeology and Today’s Student: Managing Expectations and Providing Rigor While Maintaining Best Practices (2015)
  59. An Update on the Unidentified Persons Project, San Bernardino, California: The Good, The Very Good, and the Ugly (2015)
  60. Investigating Drivers of Technological Richness among Contact-Period Western North American Farmers (2015)
  61. Measuring the complexity of lithic technology (2015)
  62. Using glyphic variation to infer the social and spatial scale of learning among Classic Maya scribes (2015)
  63. Is Wright-Fisher reproduction an appropriate null model for cultural transmission via objects? (2015)
  64. Analysing cultural change (2015)
  65. An Approach to Fitting Transmission Models to Seriations for Regional-Scale Analysis (2015)
  66. Why terrestrial diets in island environments? Evolutionary considerations of isotopic results from Rapa Nui (2015)
  67. Validating niche-construction theory through path analysis (2015)
  68. Cultural Evolution in Archaeology (2015)
  69. Mobility and cultural diversity in central-place foragers: Implications for the emergence of modern human behavior (2015)
  70. The Origins and Distribution of Oceanic Agricultural Techniques Revealed through Comparative Phylogenetic Analysis (2015)
  71. Population, monuments and violence in Neolithic Europe (2015)
  72. No strength in numbers after all? Demographic explanations of cumulative culture re-examined (2015)
  73. The "taskscape" and its effects on cultural diversity: A spatially explicit model of mobility and cultural transmission (2015)
  74. The evolution of farming, and the boom and bust of culture. (2015)
  75. Predatory Commerce, Elite Competition: Economic Conflict and the Downfall of Elite Communitas in the port of Mtwapa, Kenya, 1600-1750 CE. (2015)
  76. More than a Matter of Scale: Exploring Relationships Between Households and Communities (2015)
  77. Where We Live: Houses, Households, Barrios, and Towns in Postclassic Oaxaca (2015)
  78. Exploring Community Creation at the Mississippian site of Etowah (9Br1) (2015)
  79. Seeking New Metaphors for Communities and Households in the Ancestral Pueblo Southwest (2015)
  80. Urbanization and Ceramic Change: An Exploration of the Relationship (2015)
  81. Scales of Identity and Scales of Analysis in western New Mexico (2015)
  82. Household to community, community to region: A multiscalar approach to identity and interaction at two fugitive slave villages in 19th-century Kenya (2015)
  83. Discordant Relationships: Household and Community at Callar Creek, Belize (2015)
  84. Andean Irrigation Communities: A Comparative Study of Household and Society in Ancient Peru (2015)
  85. Developing a "good" website for the Tse-whit-zen Project (2015)
  86. Taphonomic and taxonomic comparisons of bird and mammal remains from Tse-whit-zen (2015)
  87. A Regional Perspective on the Etched Stones at Tse-whit-zen (2015)
  88. On the Role of Sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) in Northwest Coast Fisheries: The View from the Tse-whit-zen Site (45CA523), Coastal Washington (2015)
  89. Use of integrated faunal records from 10-liter bucket samples to explore complex human ecodynamics at Tse-whit-zen (2015)
  90. Geochronology of the Tse-whit-zen Project (2015)
  91. Conservation Biology and Archaeology: Using faunal remains of Pacific cod from the Tse-whit-zen village (2015)
  92. The whale beneath the Barnacle: Rare Taxa in the analysis of Marine Invertebrates from the Tse-Whitzen Village Site (2015)
  93. Anthropogenic Thermal Alteration of Marine Bivalves, Recrystallization, and Isotope Integrity (2015)
  94. Database development and GIS analysis at Tse-whit-zen (2015)
  95. Levels of Hierarchy in Northern Mexico: The Color of Ritual at Paquimé, Chihuahua, Mexico (2015)
  96. A Good, Old-Fashioned Patio-Group Raising: Domestic Architecture as Ritual among the Classic-Period Maya (2015)
  97. Investigating the Development of Social Inequality through Preclassic-Period Maya Household Ritual (2015)
  98. The Distribution of Articulated Animal Remains: An Analysis of Household and Community Ritual in Chaco Canyon (2015)
  99. Preclassic Maya Households and Ritual at the Karinel Group, Ceibal, Guatemala (2015)
  100. Rooting the Kiva: The Placement of Coal in Ancestral Pueblo Construction Rituals (2015)