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.


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  1. Entangled Encounters in the Wari World: Coast-Highland Interactions during the Middle Horizon as revealed by the archaeological and bioarchaeological investigations in the Castillo de Huarmey, North-Central Coast of Peru (2015)
  2. Ideología y rituales de lluvia compartidos por los yungas del Período Cerámico Inicial (1,600 a.C.) y las poblaciones serranas del presente en la cuenca del Rímac, Costa Central del Perú. (2015)
  3. Forming bonds in the Late Intermediate Period Huaura Valley and central coast of Peru (2015)
  4. Travelers Stones. Highland and Coastal Interactions in Late Ritual Contexts at Pachacamac. (2015)
  5. Ethnic interaction and settlement composition at Huacramarca (2015)
  6. Entangled Encounters between the Chancay and Chaupiyunginos in the Huanangue Valley, Peru (2015)
  7. Expansión de la Cerámica Chancay en el valle de Checras en la Sierra Norte de Lima (2015)
  8. Ruth Tringham (2015)
  9. Remediated roads and flights of fancy, travels with Ruth from past to present (2015)
  10. Feminism and Experimentation (2015)
  11. Walking to (a)muse: exploring senses of place with Ruth (2015)
  12. Who invited the Secret Police? (2015)
  13. Archaeology’s Moving Images (2015)
  14. The Neolithic House: Ruth Tringham’s Interdisciplinary Approaches to (Re)Constructing Prehistoric Village Life in Southeast Europe and Anatolia (2015)
  15. A Chimera Spider at Play: Making, Creativity and Collaboration in Digital Archaeology (2015)
  16. From Russia with Love: Ruth Tringham and the Early Days of Microwear (2015)
  17. Out on the Ice with Ruth: Taking Chances Together (2015)
  18. Who Will Remember the Dead? Embodying the People of the Past in Novel Ways (2015)
  19. Ruth's Archaeology (2015)
  20. Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of Preceramic Sites in the Sabana de Bogotá (2015)
  21. HEALTH CONDITIONS BETWEEN THE MUISCA-TIBANICA SOCIETY: BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF PHENOMENA IN POROUS SKULL. (2015)
  22. The Archaeology of Nuestra Señora Santa María de los Remedios del Cabo de la Vela, a colonial enterprise settlement for pearl fishing in the sixteenth century. (2015)
  23. Holocene Paleoclimate Reconstruction from δ18O Isotopes of Neocyclotus Opercula a Morphometric Analysis of Variation at the Archaic Site of San Jacinto1 Colombia (2015)
  24. Prestige economy and leadership in southwestern Colombia (400 BC-800 AD) (2015)
  25. An Investigation of Dietary Histories and Skeletal Health in a Muisca Population (950-1350 AD, Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia) (2015)
  26. ALIMENTACIÓN Y SOCIEDAD. PALEODIETA DE UNA POBLACIÓN MUISCA DE LA SABANA DE BOGOTÁ, EL CASO DE TIBANICA – SOACHA (2015)
  27. Crafting Houses for the Living and the Dead: Obsidian Production, Multicrafting, and Household Identities at a Classic Maya Center, Chinikihá, Mexico (2015)
  28. Not Always Shiny and Pretty: The Darker Side of Obsidian in Symbolizing Power, Ethnicity and Inequality in Contemporary Ethiopia (2015)
  29. A Longue Durée Approach to Obsidian Consumption and Social Value in Prehistoric Sicily (Italy) (2015)
  30. The vast and secret museum of Chiriqui: Stripping the sharpness and beauty from obsidian (2015)
  31. More than a pretty face? Exploring the allure of obsidian valuables from Papua New Guinea (2015)
  32. Evocative Stones: Variable Obsidian Source Use in Northern California (2015)
  33. Exploring Hominin Cognition via Palaeolithic Obsidian Provisioning, Transport, and Technology (2015)
  34. From Raw Material to Symbol of Social Value: Obsidian Movement in the Palaeolithic (2015)
  35. More than just a shiny stone? The sources and significance of obsidian found in early state contexts in the Near East (2015)
  36. Weaving people and places: A long-term term perspective on obsidian circulation and social value in NW Argentina (2015)
  37. Morphometric analysis of Stemmed Obsidian Tools from Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) (2015)
  38. Preliminary Interpretations of the Reduction Technology and Distribution of Obsidian Cores at Caracol, Belize: Learning to Reconsider Maya "Eccentrics" and Social Relations of Ritual Objects. (2015)
  39. Negotiating social identity through practices with stone (2015)
  40. Sourcing Rapa Nui mata‘a from the collections of Bishop Museum using non-destructive pXRF (2015)
  41. Micro-Regional Approaches to Underwater Landscapes and Submerged Archaeological Sites (2015)
  42. The Montague Harbour Underwater Archaeology Project: Final Conclusions and Prospects for Future Research on the Northwest Coast (2015)
  43. Preliminary Investigations at Brownstone, an Underwater Site Adjacent to the Inundated Paleo-Suwannee River Channel, Florida (2015)
  44. Preserved Paleoindian Site Potential and Regional Geological Patterns in Florida's Karst Rivers (2015)
  45. These are the pearls that were his eyes: interpretive frameworks for submerged Middle Archaic sites in the Big Bend of Florida and the Georgia Bight, U.S.A. (2015)
  46. Finding the Needle in the Haystack: Submerged Prehistoric Archaeological Sites in Everglades National Park (2015)
  47. New England’s submerged pre-Contact history: identifying an intact Archaic site in Salem, Massachusetts (2015)
  48. Pleistocene Megafauna Finds from the Merrimack River Delta (2015)
  49. The Potential for Submerged Prehistoric Sites Beneath Pennsylvania’s Lake Erie Waters (2015)
  50. Right Place, Right Time: Paleoindian Landscapes on the Gulf of Mexico, Outer Continental Shelf (2015)
  51. Paleoshorelines and Archaeology of the Discovery Islands on the West Coast of Canada (2015)
  52. Survey for stone wall fish weirs on the continental shelf near Haida Gwaii, British Columbia using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). (2015)
  53. Identification and Assessment of Subsided and Drowned Prehistoric Archaeological Sites, Lakes Borgne and Pontchartrain, Southeastern Louisiana (2015)
  54. Survey for Submerged Archeological Sites on the Continental Shelf of SE Alaska: Proof of Concept (2015)
  55. Faunal evidence for the Neolithic colonization of Franchthi Cave, Greece (ca. 7000-6500 cal BC) (2015)
  56. Human responses to Late Pleistocene environmental change in South-Western France (2015)
  57. Intensification of Aquatic Resource Exploitation at the Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene Boundary? (2015)
  58. A Lacustrine Revolution: Adaptive Shifts in the Late- and Postglacial of South Central Europe (2015)
  59. Terminal Pleistocene Foraging Societies in the Nile Valley (2015)
  60. The impact of the 9.3 cooling event on the human environment in the southern North Sea basin (2015)
  61. The Late Natufian culture dynamics during the Younger Dryas event (2015)
  62. Early Holocene aridity and the first farmers of Europe (2015)
  63. Using oral health indicators as evidence of environmental instability and subsistence shifts in the Late Upper Paleolithic of Western Eurasia (2015)
  64. Levantine foragers during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene (2015)
  65. The abrupt transition from Hamburgian to Federmessergruppen in southern Scandinavia – evidence for regional hunter-gatherer extinction? (2015)
  66. Culture-Environment Relationships and Heinrich Stadial 1 in Western Europe: Are Ecological Niche Shifts Implicated? (2015)
  67. The Spore Conundrum: Does a Dung Fungus Decline Signal Humans’ Arrival in the Eastern US? (2015)
  68. Three Phases of Initial Human Colonization in Southern Alaska (2015)
  69. Scenes of spectacular feasts: Gravettian hunters’ sites in Central Europe. (2015)
  70. Towards a Multivariate Model for Accurately Identifying Cutmarks (2015)
  71. Humans on the Siberian Mammoth Steppe (2015)
  72. Bison Killsites and Carnivore Utilization: A Discussion of Prehistoric Human Impacts to Scavenging Carnivores and the Implications for Conservation Management (2015)
  73. Environmental Conditions of Northwestern Zimbabwe during the Transition from Foraging to Farming: Using Isotopes, Sediments, and Soils to Reconstruct Late Holocene Climate Change in Hwange National Park (2015)
  74. Assessing hominin involvement with the faunal assemblages from Bundu Farm and Pniel 6, Northern Cape, South Africa (2015)
  75. A Twist on Taphonomy: Catlow Twine Basketry in Archaeological Contexts (2015)
  76. When Charismatic Megafauna Meet: The Relationship between Archaeologists and Proboscideans in North America (2015)
  77. Taphonomy and actualistic studies of carnivores: applications to understanding Sima de los Huesos (Atapuerca) and other Pleistocene sites in Spain. (2015)
  78. Sinodonty and/or Sundadonty: Revisiting the Three-Wave Model for the Peopling of the Americas (2015)
  79. Re-evaluating the evidence for systematic exploitation of mammoth during the European Middle Palaeolithic. (2015)
  80. The Fossil Signature of Late Pleistocene Patagonian Carnivores (2015)
  81. The Millennium before Clovis in Alaska (2015)
  82. Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis of Copper Trace Element Composition: A Methodological Pilot Study (2015)
  83. Hunter-Gatherer Mobility Strategies: A Late Woodland Example from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (2015)
  84. Lithic Technological Organization on Grand Island, Michigan, During the Late Archaic Period (2015)
  85. Pottery Function, Cooking, and Subsistence in the Upper Great Lakes: A View from the Middle Woodland Winter Site in Northern Michigan (2015)
  86. A Proto-Historic Site in the Western Great Lakes (2015)
  87. Where the Hunters Hunted: Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the submerged archaeological landscapes of the Alpena-Amberley Ridge, Lake Huron (2015)
  88. Late Prehistoric Food Choices in the Upper Great Lakes Region: Evidence from 20OT283 and 20OT3 in the Lower Grand River Valley of Michigan (2015)
  89. Prehistoric Subsistence Adaptation in the Upper Great Lakes: A Perspective from Butternut-Franklin Lakes (2015)
  90. Shifting Baselines: Tales of the unexpected (2015)
  91. Signatures of human occupation in Amazonian soils (2015)
  92. Tracing Zea mays through the Americas using Maize Cob Phytoliths (2015)
  93. Contributions of Archaeological Research in Panama to the Early Human History of the American Tropics (2015)
  94. Early Holocene Foraging Strategies in the Eastern United States: A View from Koster (2015)
  95. From Frontier to Forefront: Microbotanical Evidence of Early Holocene Horticulture in the Middle Cauca Valley, Colombia (2015)
  96. Phytoliths and the Development of Agriculture (2015)
  97. Lessons from the Tello Obelisk- domestication and plant use at Chavin de Huantar, Peru (2015)
  98. "Human and Natural Processes Affecting Starch Grain Morphology in Archaeological Contexts". (2015)
  99. The trajectory of early rice intensification and cultural change in the Lower Yangtze Valley revealed by an ecological analysis of archaeological phytoliths. (2015)
  100. Clues to Cacao from the Ecuadorian Upper Amazon (2015)