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. Folsom from the Continental Divide to the Plains-Woodland Border: Examining patterns in artifact distribution and lithic procurement (2015)
  2. Exploring the relationship between Folsom and Midland points in the Southern Plains (2015)
  3. Folsom on the Edge of the Plains: Occupation of the Estancia Basin, Central New Mexico (2015)
  4. Endscrapers Across the Folsom World (2015)
  5. Folsom Adaptations to Bison Hunting: a comparison of Northern and Southern Plains arroyo trap kills (2015)
  6. Folsom Toolkit Replenishment at Chispa Creek, Texas: Comparing Bifacial to Unifacial Technologies (2015)
  7. Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives on Folsom Households (2015)
  8. Beaver River Complex Contribution to Folsom Archaeology: An Update and Future Directions (2015)
  9. Making Sense of the Variation in Folsom Projectile Point Technology (2015)
  10. Izapa’s Hinterland: the use of Lidar mapping to examine the layout and spatial orientation of secondary centers in the Soconusco region, Chiapas, Mexico (2015)
  11. Izapa's Place in the Discourse on Early Hieroglyphic Writing (2015)
  12. El Triangulo del Sur: Izapa, Takalik Abaj, and El Ujuxte (2015)
  13. A History of Izapa Group B: Buildings, Burials, and Offerings (2015)
  14. Transisthmian Ties: Epi-Olmec and Izapan Interaction (2015)
  15. Defining the Izapa polity with lidar and pedestrian survey (2015)
  16. Izapa and the iconography of water and economics (2015)
  17. Izapa’s industrial hinterland: the eastern Soconusco mangrove zone during Archaic and Formative times (2015)
  18. Volcanic hazards pose by Tacaná to the Soconusco region (2015)
  19. New Discoveries in the Izapa "Protoclassic" and Early Classic Periods (2015)
  20. Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Aerial Photogrammetry on the San Diego Coastline (2015)
  21. Downpours, Storm Surges and Wildfires, Oh My! A Look at how Climate Change will Affect the Archaeological Record of San Diego County (2015)
  22. Cruising Along the Coastline: Exploring the Possibilities of using LiDAR Data to predict Climate Change Affects Along the Southern Monterey Coast (2015)
  23. Impact of Rising Sea Levels on Native American Cultural Sites in Southern California (2015)
  24. Pre-Columbian monumentalism and social structuration: geospatial modelling of relative accessibility as a proxy for emergent territoriality among the southern proto-Jê (2015)
  25. Scales and visibility of human-environment interactions in western Amazonia: the case of the geoglyph builders (2015)
  26. Plants, paths and place-making: examples from the ribeirinhos and the Xokleng/Laklãnõ in Brazil (2015)
  27. The Interrelated Establishment of Sedentary Lifestyles in Tropical Lowland South America in the Late Holocene (2015)
  28. The environmental context of Prôto-Je culture at Pinhal da Serra, RS, Brazil – insights from palaeoecology (2015)
  29. Technology, subsistence and territoriality: changing patterns in the middle to late Holocene on the Central Brazilian plateau (2015)
  30. Tha Archaeology of Lower Canoas River Valley (2015)
  31. Intra- and Inter-Site Geometrical High-Resolution Analyses of Deep Natufian Bedrock Mortars (2015)
  32. Methods for Examining and Creating a Typology of Bedrock Features in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands (2015)
  33. Groundstone Shrines of the Pueblo Southwest (2015)
  34. Ground Stone Landscapes of the Ancestral Pueblo World (2015)
  35. Shiny grooved surfaces: the case study of the Skiles rockshelter, Lower Pecos, Texas (2015)
  36. Socialized Landscapes of the Southern Plains: Bedrock Ground Stone Surfaces on the Chaquaqua Plateau, Colorado (2015)
  37. Residues of ancient food preparation in sheltered bedrock features (2015)
  38. Boulders, outcrops, caves: a proposed method for documentation of cultural landscape features demonstrated in San Diego County, California (2015)
  39. Bedrock features and cupmarks-bearing boulders: An overview of a Natufian and PPNA phenomenon (2015)
  40. Close to the Edge; 19th Century Maya refugees at Tikal, Guatemala. (2015)
  41. Potters' signatures and changes in the maiolica craft from colonial Mexico as an expression of the doctrine of blood purity (2015)
  42. Landscapes of Labor (2015)
  43. Capitalism and Material Culture of the Poor: Consumption, Reuse, and Discard of Glass Bottles at Hacienda San Pedro Cholul, Yucatan (2015)
  44. Firing Pots in Durango: Craft manufacture of glazed wares and the origins of consumption and production inequality in northern Mexico (2015)
  45. Consequences of Warfare, Reforms, and Capitalism in Late Colonial Port of Veracruz, Mexico (2015)
  46. Mahogany and Sugar for Tobacco, Booze, and Salt-Pork: Consumerism and Consumption at 19th-Century Lamanai, Belize (2015)
  47. Booms, Busts, and Changing (Anti)Market Engagement in Pacific piedmont Guatemala (2015)
  48. Landscape and the Impact of Late Colonial Industrial Agriculture on Indigenous Communities in the Tehuantepec Region of Mexico. (2015)
  49. Conspicuous Consumption in the Basin of Mexico: Chinese Porcelains as Prestige Markers in the Eastern Teotihuacan Valley (2015)
  50. Islands in the Stream: A GIS Study of Prehistoric Ritual Landscapes Within Southern Illinois (2015)
  51. Digging deeper: The use of rock art in archaeological contexts to understand past lifeways on Murujuga, Northwest Australia. (2015)
  52. Tennessee Valley Authority Conservation and Management Initiatives at Painted Bluff, Alabama (2015)
  53. The Panther Cave Digital Documentation and Visualization Project (2015)
  54. Taming the Beast: Rock Art Data Management and Archival Strategies (2015)
  55. Cosmograms and Archetype Ancestors at the Pierson Creek & Yaremko Sites, Iowa (2015)
  56. Preserving our Legacy: Understanding Transformation Processes for Rock Art Conservation (2015)
  57. Following the Signs: Tracking Geometric Rock Art across the Landscape of Upper Paleolithic Europe (2015)
  58. A Regional Perspective on Mud Glyph Cave Art in Southeastern North America. (2015)
  59. Riders on the Stone (2015)
  60. Discovering Hidden Layers with X-Ray Vision: New Applications of pXRF to Rock Art Studies (2015)
  61. The Hunter's Revenge: Magical Use of a Petroglyph (2015)
  62. Documentation of Rock Art Complexes in the Mongolian Altai (from the unknown to World Heritage Status) (2015)
  63. Doing it the old-fashioned way: Dating Paleoindian Rock Art in Eastern South America (2015)
  64. From foragers to producers: desert gardening at the Archaic Peruvian site of Quebrada de Burros (2015)
  65. Identifying Triticeae Taxa in Soil and Ceramic Thin Sections Through Morphometric Analysis of Articulated Dendritic Phytolith Wave Patterns (2015)
  66. Does phytolith analysis of archaeological soil thin sections account for archaeobotanical data? (2015)
  67. Phytolith Processing Methods and the Affects upon Results (2015)
  68. Alliances, Coalitions, Hierarchies and Conflict in the Ancestral Pueblo World (2015)
  69. Simulating Late Holocene landscape use and the distribution of stone artefacts in arid western New South Wales, Australia (2015)
  70. Reconstructing Large-Area Ancient Transportation Networks to Support Complexity Research (2015)
  71. Changing Channels: Simulating Irrigation Management on Evolving Canal Systems for the Prehistoric Hohokam of Central Arizona (2015)
  72. Humanizing wave of advance dispersal models (2015)
  73. Complexity in space and time: spatio-temporal variability and scale in simulations of social-ecological systems (2015)
  74. Testing the Variability Selection Hypothesis on Hominin Dispersals - a Multi-agent Model Approach (2015)
  75. Climatic variability and hominin dispersal: the accumulated plasticity hypothesis (2015)
  76. Empirical Validation and Model Selection in Archaeological Simulation (2015)
  77. A spatially explicit model of lithic raw material composition in archaeological assemblages (2015)
  78. Many Roman Bazaars: exploring the need for simple computational models in the study of the Roman economy (2015)
  79. Lapita - the Australian connection (2015)
  80. The Use of a Bench-top SEM in Ceramic Characterization in Oceania (2015)
  81. From Sea to Shining Sea: The Influence of Bill Dickinson’s Pacific Island Ceramic Petrography on Caribbean Research (2015)
  82. Paleo-sea levels, Bill Dickinson, and Interpretive Modeling for the Lapita Settlement of Fanga ‘Uta Lagoon, Kingdom of Tonga (2015)
  83. Mid-sequence colonization and occupation at Nukubalavu, Vanua Levu, Fiji (2015)
  84. Clay and Technology: Micronesian ceramic tradition (2015)
  85. Assessing Island Habitability and Land Use on Polynesia’s Smallest Islands (2015)
  86. Geological subsidence and sinking Islands: the case of Manono (Samoa) (2015)
  87. Connection and Competition: some early insights gained from petrographic studies of New Caledonian Lapita pottery (2015)
  88. The Mussau Islands Lapita Exchange Network: A Review of Three Decades of Analysis (2015)
  89. "By all means let us complete the exercise ": the 50 year search for Lapita on Aneityum, southern Vanuatu comes to a conclusion. (2015)
  90. Marquesan voyaging during the East Polynesian Archaic era (2015)
  91. Petrographic and geochemical evidence reveals the local focus of interaction throughout Samoa’s prehistory (2015)
  92. Determining Geochemical Variability of Fine-Grained Basalt Sources/Quarries for Facilitating Prehistoric Interaction Studies in Polynesia (2015)
  93. Fishing and Ecological Resilience on California’s Channel Islands (2015)
  94. The Assumption of Insular Marginality: The Curious Case of Isla Cedros, Baja California (2015)
  95. Toolstone Sources off the Pacific Coast of Alta California: Implications for Evaluating the Marginality of Islands through Space and Time (2015)
  96. Defining Marginality Under Shifting Baselines: Historical Transformations of California’s Channel Island Ecosystems (2015)
  97. Making Ancient Birds Sing: Avian Archaeology on the California Channel Islands. (2015)
  98. Gathering Evidence: Terrestrial Plant Resources of California’s Islands (2015)
  99. Freshwater Availability and Prehistoric Settlement Patterns on California’s Northern Channel Islands (2015)
  100. Household Archaeology on the Northern Channel Islands of the Santa Barbara Coast, California (2015)