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. Is it a Priestess? Preliminary analysis of the excavations of a Late Moche Chamber Tomb from San Jose de Moro, North Coast of Peru (2015)
  2. Mugs of the Mesa and Old Chocolate: Evidence of Prehistoric Cacao Use in the Mesa Verde Region of the North American Southwest (2015)
  3. Standardization and Variability of Decorated and Undecorated Pottery Vessels from Angel Mounds, Indiana (2015)
  4. Differing Methodologies in Computing for Smith's Mean Measure of Divergence Between Chinese and Western Literature (2015)
  5. Mountain Shoshone Landscape Occupation of Caldwell Basin, Fremont County, Wyoming (2015)
  6. Pueblos, Palenques, and Dual Organization in Sixteenth Century Costa Rica (2015)
  7. Experimental Replication of Stone Tools used For Agave and Similar Plant Harvesting and Processing (2015)
  8. Potential 1.5 million year old phantom hearth at FxJj20 AB, Koobi Fora, Kenya (2015)
  9. Modeling Soil Moisture of Farmland near Mesa Verde Villages at Goodman Point, Southwestern Colorado (2015)
  10. Interpretation of Midden Formation Processes at Three Farms in Skagafjörður, Northern Iceland using Thin Section Micromorphology and pXRF Chemostratigraphy (2015)
  11. Recent Investigations of Subsistence at the Garden Patch Site (8DI4): A Study of Faunal Remains from a Platform Mound and Adjacent Midden (2015)
  12. The Expression of Ideology in Levantine Submission Scenes: The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III as Feasting in a Neo-Assyrian Context (2015)
  13. Human Agency and Materiality: An Exploration of Historic Fort Lauderdale Through Glass Bottles (2015)
  14. Examining variability and provenance through ceramic petrography at Chavín de Huántar (2015)
  15. Ancestors and Ancestral Spirits: Understanding the Spirits of the Dead in Prehispanic Settlements of the American Southeast and Southwest (2015)
  16. A Paleoindian Heavy Stone Analysis at Shawnee-Minisink (2015)
  17. I Can See Clearly Now!: Successfully Implementing Visual Analysis into Cultural Resource Management Projects (2015)
  18. Fremont Farming at the Margins: Assessing Horticultural Potential in Jones Hole Canyon, Utah (2015)
  19. Laying the Foundations: A Unique Inka Construction Technique in the Northern Ecuadorian Highlands (2015)
  20. Household Shrines, Caches, and Burials: The Role of Ritual in Domestic Economy at Dos Hombres, Northwestern Belize (2015)
  21. Ecological Baselines, Long-Term Population Histories, and the Zooarchaeological Record (2015)
  22. Archaeological Collaboration in North America: Are "Benefits" to American Indian Communities truly being maximized? (2015)
  23. Metal Projectile Points of the Interior West: A Synthetic Overview (2015)
  24. Sedimentary evidence of increasing river discharge from Namu Lake, B.C. during a period of fluctuation in the staple pink salmon fishery (2015)
  25. Morphology and Culture among the Middle and Late Intermediate Period inhabitants of Catarpe (San Pedro de Atacama, Chile) (2015)
  26. Depositional Practice and Ancestral Presence at Edye Point (2015)
  27. Shedding New Light on the Past: The Potential for Short Wave Ultraviolet Photography in Archaeology (2015)
  28. Timing the Introduction of Arrow Technologies in the Salish Sea (2015)
  29. Free or Despotic? The Distribution of Hunter-Gatherer Ethnolinguistic Groups in California (2015)
  30. Exploring fire use at Sibudu Cave using the kernel density tool in ArcGIS (2015)
  31. Shell mounds from southern and southeastern Brazil (2015)
  32. The Emergence and Distribution of Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) in the Upper Tennessee River Valley (2015)
  33. Leporids and Landscapes: Stable Isotope Ratios of Rabbit and Hare Bones Reflect Local Environmental Conditions at Modern and Archaeological Sites (2015)
  34. Using GIS to Explore the Strategic Location of Ancient Maya Centers Within the Vaca Plateau of Western Belize (2015)
  35. A Bottom-Up Approach to Understanding Changes in Social Complexity during the Prehistoric Bronze Age on Cyprus (2015)
  36. zooarchaeology and historical archaeology: a case study of the leland stanford mansion (2015)
  37. Lithic technological organization and social networks during the LGM in Southwestern Iberia (2015)
  38. Worked Bone Harpoon Technological Persistance and Variation Through Time and Geography (Turkana/Omo Basin, Kenya/Ethiopia) (2015)
  39. Geospatial Analysis of Cedar Mesa Settlement Patterns (2015)
  40. No Big Dudes Here: Bioarchaeology of Social Control at Aztec Ruins ( (2015)
  41. 3D Modeling of Archaeological Collections: A Case Study in Archaeometry (2015)
  42. A Seedy Affair: An Archaeobotanical Study of the Johnston Site (36In2) (2015)
  43. Negative Results, Positive Contributions: Selection biases and the necessities of looking to the spaces between… (2015)
  44. Ancient DNA, Zooarchaeology, and the Case for Whale Hunting on the Northern Oregon Coast (2015)
  45. Eighteenth-Century Choctaw Pottery from Fort Tombecbe (2015)
  46. Biography and Symbolism of Sicán Painted Textiles: First Approximation (2015)
  47. Landscape archaeology and political ecology in Anatolia: Yalburt Yaylasi Project 2014 Season (2015)
  48. Analysis of Microbotanical Remains from Chavín de Huántar (2015)
  49. Intersite Difference in Distant Interactions, Hohokam Canal System 2, Phoenix Basin, Arizona (2015)
  50. Cut Marks and Fragments: Piecing together possible explanations for variation of processed human remains amongst neighboring villages in pre-contact Southwest (2015)
  51. Play, learning, games, and chaos: ethnoarchaeology of children’s contributions to archaeological site formation (2015)
  52. Mound Summit Archaeology at the Carson site, Coahoma County, Mississippi (2015)
  53. A Geospatial Analysis of Landscape Modification in Relation to Burials and Social Control (2015)
  54. Categorical Imperatives: Re-imagining the classificatory schema for Mayan ceramic vessels (2015)
  55. Isotopic Analysis of Dietary Variation in Formative Period Chile (2015)
  56. Predict and Confirm: Survey and Excavation at Three Candidate Sites in Wadi Quseiba, Jordan in search of Late Neolithic Occupation (2015)
  57. Depositional Circumstances of Three Paleoindian Sites Along Lima Reservoir, Montana (2015)
  58. Hanna’s Town Unbuttoned: An Archaeological Study of Clothing Adornment & Fasteners (2015)
  59. Mumun Period Households and the Rise of Inequality in Korea (2015)
  60. Lines and Legacies: Ceramic Assemblages from the Weeden Island Site (8PI1) (2015)
  61. A Novel Method of Stature Estimation for Fragmentary Femora (2015)
  62. New Investigations into a Late Paleoindian Bison Kill and Terminal Pleistocene Environmental Change at Blackwater Draw Locality 1 (2015)
  63. Using GIS in Archaeological Research: A New Look at Hunting Rock Art Sites (2015)
  64. Exploration of Wind as an Environmental Consideration for Campsite Selection at Holocene Dunes (2015)
  65. Earth Oven Facilities of the Sheep Range in Southern Nevada (2015)
  66. ENSO and the rabbits of Baja California (2015)
  67. Between Party Lines: A Bipartisan Reevaluation of the Early Paleoindian Zooarchaeological Record (2015)
  68. Geochemical Analysis of Construction Materials in the Cave at Las Cuevas, Belize: An Intrasite Analysis (2015)
  69. Identifying Ground Stone Production at Bolsa Chica through Hammerstone Analysis (2015)
  70. Cuts to the Bone: Using Scalping Evidence to Examine the Relationship Between Warfare and Gender in Pre- and Proto-Historic North America (2015)
  71. Distribution Patterns and Production Technology of Ancient Maya Ceramics in the Three Rivers Region (2015)
  72. An Indication of Hunting Activities from Southern Nevada rock art (2015)
  73. High School Students, Archaeology, and Public Outreach (2015)
  74. Obsidian Access and Territoriality at the Upper Paleolithic Shimaki Site, Hokkaido, Japan (2015)
  75. Bioarchaeology, Barbados, Eastern Caribbean: Isotopic Analyses of Teeth and Bone from Human Remains (2015)
  76. Always facing east…except when they’re not: Preliminary analysis of mortuary trends at Cahal Pech, Cayo, Belize (2015)
  77. Too Loud a Solitude: Landfills in the Landscape (2015)
  78. Shared Ritual Ideologies: Long Spouted Vessels on the Iranian Plateau in the Third and Second Millennium BCE (2015)
  79. Anura in Moche Iconography (2015)
  80. Exploring the relationship between coastal geomorphic processes and archaeological site distributions in central Puget Sound of Washington State (2015)
  81. The rise and fall of Lake Lahontan and the climactic implications for Paleoindian inhabitants of the Great Basin (2015)
  82. Sweep Widths in the Evaluation of Coverage by Archaeological Surveys in Jordan and Cyprus (2015)
  83. Stratigraphic integrity and large game hunting at Hogup Cave, Utah. (2015)
  84. Quad Maps: Integration of Archaeological Data in GIS (2015)
  85. DEVELOPMENT AND INTEGRATION OF CULTURAL RESOURCE DATA IN A GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM FROM NUVAKWEWTAQA, CHAVEZ PASS, ARIZONA: A MODEL FOR SPATIAL DATA MANAGEMENT (2015)
  86. Getting into the Groove: Replicating the Southern California Cogged Stone (2015)
  87. Variability in northern and southern Preceramic lomas sites of coastal Peru (2015)
  88. Stone Geometrics: An Inclusive Typology Matrix for Californian and Chilean Cogged Stones (2015)
  89. Rockshelters and caves of Central-Northern Mexico: archaeological potential and limitations, sources for paradigms and landscape markers (2015)
  90. Problems of Archaeological Site Preservation and Identification in the Highland Mountains of Ethiopia (2015)
  91. The late Pleistocene transmission of fluted-point technology across a continent: A morphological investigation. (2015)
  92. A Peircean Analysis of Bucrania at Catalhoyuk (2015)
  93. Armchair Archaeothanatology: Post-Excavation Archaeothanatology in the Caribbean (2015)
  94. Independent Women: A Story of Gender and Agency in the Colorado Rockies (2015)
  95. Emergent Spirituality: The Anthropomorphic and Zoomorphic Ossuaries of Peqi’in (Upper Galilee, Israel) (2015)
  96. What Can Hogup Cave Starches Tell Us about Diet That We don’t already Know? Context, Preservation, and the Comparison of Archaeobotanical Analyses. (2015)
  97. Insights into the Context, Mode, and Timing of Potato Domestication through Microfossil and Ground Stone Analyses at Jiskairumoko in the Western Titicaca Basin (2015)
  98. No Better Angels Here: Bioarchaeology of Non-Lethal Head Wounds in the Greater Southwest (AD 900-1350) (2015)
  99. Exploration of Exchange Networks in Nineteenth Century Guinea (2015)
  100. Ground-penetrating Radar at edh-Deir, Petra, Jordan (2015)