Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)

Part of: Society for American Archaeology

This collection contains the abstracts from the 2016 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 81st Annual Meeting was held in Orlando, Florida from April 6-10, 2016.

Site Name Keywords
La Quemada • Alta Vista • El Teúl • Las Ventanas • Buenavista • El Bajío • Pajones • Loma Flores • Pochotitan • El Piñón

Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Non-Domestic Structures • Archaeological Feature • Settlements • Domestic Structures • Agricultural or Herding • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Artifact Scatter • Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno

Other Keywords
Maya • Zooarchaeology • Ceramics • bioarchaeology • Gis • Landscape • andes • Ritual • Public Archaeology • Rock Art

Culture Keywords
Historic • Woodland • PaleoIndian • Archaic • Historic Native American • Early Archaic • Middle Archaic • Late Archaic • Hopewell • Ancestral Puebloan

Investigation Types
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis • Heritage Management • Collections Research • Archaeological Overview • Systematic Survey • Architectural Documentation • Data Recovery / Excavation • Reconnaissance / Survey • Site Evaluation / Testing • Ethnographic Research

Material Types
Fauna • Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Building Materials • Ground Stone • Human Remains • Macrobotanical • Metal • Shell • Wood

Temporal Keywords
Epiclassic • PaleoIndian • Bronze Age • Historical Period • Contemporary Period • Archaic Period (9000-3000 BP) • Upper Paleolithic • Historic • Ottoman Empire • Chacoan

Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica • South America • Europe • North America - Southeast • North America - Southwest • Caribbean • North America - Midwest • AFRICA • East/Southeast Asia • North America - Northeast

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Use-wear Analysis of Flaked Stone Tools from the Cueva Ventana Site, Arecibo, Puerto Rico (2016)

Using Adaptive Capacity to Assess the Water Management System of Koh Ker, Cambodia (2016)

Using Analytical Nodules to Assess the Integrity of Paleoindian Surface Lithic Scatters in Eastern Nevada (2016)

Using Archaeology to Pursue Social Justice at Punta Laguna, Mexico (2016)

USING BINFORD’S FRAMES OF REFERENCE TO MODEL HUNTER-GATHERER MOBILITY AND GROUP SIZE IN THE ANDEAN PUNA (2016)

Using cremain weight from a Bronze Age cemetery in Eastern Hungary as an indicator of sex (2016)

Using Environmental DNA to Examine Human-Animal Interactions on the California Channel Islands (2016)

Using GIS to Analyze the Mortuary Context and Taphonomy of the Bronze Age Commingled Tomb at Tell Abraq (2016)

Using GIS to evaluate models of late Holocene settlement patterns in Northwest Alaska (2016)

Using GIS to investigate mortuary practice and identity at the historic Spring Street Presbyterian Church, Manhattan (2016)

Using Ground-Penetrating Radar to Re-evaluate the Chetro Ketl Field Complex in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (2016)

Using Organic Compound-Specific Stable Isotope Ratios to Identify Animals in Prehistoric Foodways of Southeast Asia (2016)

Using Petrographic Analysis to Identify Pottery Production: Shoshone Pottery Making at the Ravens Nest (48SU3871) Southwestern Wyoming (2016)

Using Photogrammetry to Complement and Visualize the Paleolithic Excavation of the Arma Veirana Cave in Italy (2016)

Using Practice Theory to Infer Household Behaviors at Islamic Ashkelon (2016)

Using pXRF to test for the market exchange of obsidian at Postclassic Santa Rita Corozal, Belize. (2016)

Using Site Condition Data to Manage Heritage Sites for Climate Change Impacts (2016)

Using Species Richness To Examine Paleoenvironmental Conditions Of The Northern Everglades: A Preliminary Faunal Analysis Of Wedgworth Midden (8PB16175) And The Bryant Site (8PB46) (2016)

Using stable isotope analyses to assess the geographical origins of pork and beef products in a historical New World population center (2016)

Using Stable Isotope Analysis to Demonstrate Humans' Role in Faunal Diet Construction at the Collier Lodge Site (12PR36) (2016)

Utilizing LED and Solar Power at a Remote Field Site in the Holmul Region (2016)

The Value of all that Glitters: Beads in the Tombs around Pylos, Greece (2016)

The Value of Colonialism as a Model for Anglo-Caribbean Material Practices at Emancipation (2016)

The Value of Forensic Archaeology Training for All Law Enforcement Officers: A Case Example (2016)

Variability in Large-Area Magnetic Surveys at Hopewell Earthworks and the Challenges of Big Data (2016)

Variability in the Middle Stone Age of the Horn of Africa: a technical tradition of southeastern Ethiopia (2016)

Variation in Site Use through Time: Find distribution at Knysna Eastern Heads Cave 1, (Western Cape, South Africa), from Marine Isotope Stage 3 through the Last Glacial Maximum (2016)

Variation in the Architectural Morphology of Ancient Maya Palaces (2016)

Variations in Connectivity: Mapping Long-distance interaction in the Prehistoric U.S Southwest (2016)

Variations in Initial Period Ceremonial Architecture at the Caballo Muerto Complex (2016)

Variety of Rain Forest Subsistence Strategies. A Comparative Overview (2016)

Vertebral Wedging: A potential tool for the determination of parity in archaeological samples? (2016)

Vertebrate Fauna from the Grand Mound Shell Ring site (8Du1), Florida (2016)

Vessels of Change: Everyday relationality in the rise and fall of Cahokia (2016)

Victorian Era Opiate Use at the Vanoli Red Light District of Ouray, Colorado (2016)

Video Games, Virtual Reconstructions, and other Digital Avenues to Engage Children of All Ages in a Cosmopolitan Past (2016)

The view from above: changing experiences of the built environment during the Andean Late Intermediate Period (2016)

A view from the weaver’s fingertips: gesture and complexity in the South Central Andes (2016)

Villages, Horticulture, and the Narragansett: Native American Settlement and Resource Exploitation along the Southern Rhode Island Coast ca. 1300-1400 AD. (2016)

Viracocha’s Vulcanism: The Cultural Biography of a Volcano (2016)

Virtual Archaeology, Virtual Longhouses and "envisioning the unseen" within the Archaeological Record (2016)

A virtual documentation of excavation through 3D modeling; is it worth the effort? (2016)

Virtual Preservation and Outreach for Nake'muu Pueblo: Using Technology to Make Inaccessible Sites Accessible (2016)

Virtualization, 3D Technologies, and the Democratization of Archaeological Research (2016)

Visions of Colonial Landscapes: Through the Eyes of African Caribbean Communities (2016)

Visions of Substance in Eleventh Century Mid-America (2016)

Visualizing a Wired World’s Past: Digital and Tactile Public Archaeology in the Virtual Curation Laboratory (2016)

Visualizing Death: Representations of Death and Rebirth on an Early Classic Maya Mid-Level Elite Burial Vessel from Uxul, Mexico (2016)

Visualizing with GIS at Stanford University Archaeology Collections: Open for Interpretation (2016)

VIVIR Y MORIR EN TIBANICA, REFLEXIONES SOBRE EL PODER Y EL ESPACIO EN UNA ALDEA MUISCA TARDÍA DE LA SABANA DE BOGOTÁ (2016)

Volcanic Glass and Iron Nails: Shifting Networks of Exchange at Postclassic and Colonial Achiutla, Oaxaca, Mexico (2016)

Volcanic winter and population replacements? Forager adaptations in Liguria during OIS 3 across the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition (2016)

The Volcano That Went Boom: Payson Sheets’ Contributions to Understanding the Tierra Joven Blanca Eruption of the Ilopango Caldera, El Salvador (2016)

Volcanos, Imagery, and Footpaths: Research in Costa Rica (2016)

Wari Ceramic Production in the Heartland and Provinces (2016)

Wari Imperial Presence in Cajamarca: A view from Yamobamba (2016)

Waste Not, Want Not: Exploring the Archaeological Significance of a Copper Production Waste Mound at Khirbat al-Jariya, Faynan, Jordan (2016)

Water Management in the Ancient States of South India and Sri Lanka (2016)

Water Management, Ritual Ideology, and Environmental Change in Bronze Age Sardinia (2016)

Water Mountains and Water Trails: The View from Northwest Peten (2016)

Water, Weather and the Fallacy of the Rationalist - Romanticism dichotomy (2016)

Watering Tlaloc's Gardens: Ancient Irrigation in the Teotihuacan Valley (2016)

The Way the Wind Blows on the Steppe: The Historical Ecology of Mortuary Monuments in Mongolia (1500 BC-1400 AD) (2016)

We Built This System: Hohokam Irrigation Communities as Social Networks (2016)

Wealth Inequality in the Late Classic Valley of Oaxaca: A Domestic Perspective (2016)

Weapon or Weaving Swords and the Complexities of Gender Construction (2016)

Weaving Our Life: The Economy and Ideology of Cotton in Postclassic West Mexico (2016)

Weaving Technologies and Textile Production: A Case Study from the Northern Maya Lowlands (2016)

Weeds, Seeds, and Other Maya Needs (2016)

A WEIRd Tale: 2,500 Years of Fishing in an Everglades Slough (2016)

Welcome to My Nightmare - Ancient DNA from Pacific Islands (2016)

Well, Well, Well: A look into the varieties and distribution of wells in colonial St. Augustine, FL (2016)

Wemyss Caves 4D: a review of a community 3D digital documentation project at a challenging heritage site in Scotland. (2016)

Western Canadian pXRF Obsidian Sourcing (2016)

Western Patagonia subsistence strategies: zooarchaeological studies of marine hunter-fisher-gatherers of the Chonos Archipelago, Chile (2016)

What Did the Sacrificed Subjects Eat? A Stable Isotope Study of Individuals Sacrificed by the Aztecs during the Late Postclassic period (2016)

What did you have for dinner last night? Revealing diet, mobility, and movement of people within Middle Iron Age British society through multi-isotopic analysis (2016)

What Does Fremont Mean Anyway? Finding a Useful and Constructive Way to Conceptualize a Regional System (2016)

What does GIS + 3D equal for Landscape archaeology? (2016)

What does the Paleolithic record of Southeast Arabia tell us about hominin dispersals out of Africa? (2016)

What Have We Here?: Demonstrating the Opportunities for Heritage Preservation to Local Governments (2016)

What if children lived here? Asking new questions of the material culture from old Anglo-Saxon settlement excavations. (2016)

What is Oxtotitlán Cave Communicating? (2016)

What plants existed in the Lesser Antilles just prior to 1492 and could they have been exploited by the island inhabitants? - new data from archaeological excavations at Anse Trabaud, Martinique (2016)

What Remains: Using LiDAR to examine the effects of plowing on memories and mounds in Illinois (2016)

What the "Teuchitlan Tradition" is, and What the "Teuchitlan Tradition" is Not (2016)

What's new in Canadian Shield Rock Art (2016)

Wheat and barley morphometrics: a new method for quantifying ancient cereal varietals (2016)

When is Chert More Than Just Chert? Case studies of Elite Distribution of Utilitarian Goods in Northwestern Peten, Guatemala and Western Belize (2016)

When Should I Stop? Discerning the Minimum Number of Lithic Artifacts Required to Accurately Characterize Mode of Reduction (2016)

When the Cat’s Away: Obsidian at Rio Amarillo Before and After the Collapse of Copan, Honduras (2016)

When the Small, Local Archaeology Project Goes Global – The Missoula Historic Underground Project (2016)

When to Hunt a Sea Lion, When to Hunt a Manatee: The Evolutionary Ecology of Marine Mammal Hunting in Insular Settings (2016)

Where and How did the Maya Practice Agriculture in the Classic Period City of Naachtun, Guatemala? (2016)

Where does the Amazon end? (2016)

Where is the evidence for selection? (2016)

Where Men Get Their Meat: Predicting Jump Locations at the Grapevine Creek Buffalo Jump Complex (2016)

Where the Buffalo Groan: Topographic Variables Governing the Placement and Spatial Organization of Wold Bison Jump, Wyoming (2016)

Where the Conventional and Unconventional Meet: Marrying Tradition and Innovation in Lithic Use-wear Analysis (2016)

Where was the forest in the Upper and Norwest Amazon before the arrival of the Europeans? (2016)