Society for American Archaeology
This collection contains the abstracts and presentations from the Society for American Archaeology annual meetings. SAA has partnered with Digital Antiquity to archive their annual conference abstracts and make the presentations available. This collection contains meeting abstracts and presentations dating from 2015 to the present.
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The Society for American Archaeology (SAA) is an international organization dedicated to the research, interpretation, and protection of the archaeological heritage of the Americas. With more than 7,000 members, the society represents professional, student, and avocational archaeologists working in a variety of settings including government agencies, colleges and universities, museums, and the private sector.
Site Name Keywords
44CE0085 •
La Quemada •
Alta Vista •
Gordion •
Ceren •
El Teúl •
Las Ventanas •
Buenavista •
El Bajío •
Pajones
Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex •
Non-Domestic Structures •
Domestic Structures •
Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features •
Archaeological Feature •
Settlements •
Rock Art •
Agricultural or Herding •
Artifact Scatter •
Town / City
Other Keywords
Other •
Historic •
Zooarchaeology •
Maya •
Ceramic Analysis •
Cultural Resources and Heritage Management •
Maya: Classic •
Landscape Archaeology •
Historical Archaeology •
Geoarchaeology
Culture Keywords
Historic •
Ancestral Puebloan •
Historic Native American •
Woodland •
Mogollon •
Spanish •
PaleoIndian •
Archaic •
Hopewell •
Euroamerican
Investigation Types
Heritage Management •
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis •
Collections Research •
Data Recovery / Excavation •
Systematic Survey •
Archaeological Overview •
Architectural Documentation •
Ethnographic Research •
Ethnohistoric Research •
Reconnaissance / Survey
Material Types
Ceramic •
Fauna •
Chipped Stone •
Macrobotanical •
Building Materials •
Wood •
Ground Stone •
Human Remains •
Metal •
Shell
Temporal Keywords
Civil War •
Mimbres Classic period •
Ancestral Puebloan / Sedentary through Classic Period •
19th Century •
Historic •
Magdalenian •
Postclassic •
Prehistoric •
Woodland •
Epiclassic
Geographic Keywords
North America (Continent) •
United States of America (Country) •
USA (Country) •
Belize (Country) •
United Mexican States (Country) •
Republic of El Salvador (Country) •
Republic of Guatemala (Country) •
Mesoamerica •
Republic of Panama (Country) •
Netherlands Antilles (Country)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 101-200 of 15,700)
- Accessing Social Geographies in Late Glacial Franco-Cantabria through Personal Ornaments (2015)
- Accessing the Inaccessible: Valuing Virtual Reality and Remote Access to Pleito Cave (2018)
- Accessing the Object Collections at the Smithsonian’s Institution National Museum of the American Indian and National Museum of Natural History (2018)
- Accidental Innovation? Using Isotopic Analysis to Test Possible Iron Production as a By-Product of Advanced Copper Smelting (2019)
- Accountability as Litmus: The Work of Partnership in Collaborative Archaeology (2019)
- An Accounting of the Dead: Historical Epidemiology and Big Data in the Arch Street Project (2018)
- Acculturation and Its Discontents: Rethinking Models of Interpopulation Interaction during the Middle-Upper Paleolithic Transition (2018)
- Accuracy and Precision of 3D Modeling in Lithic Analysis (2015)
- Accuracy of Museum Volunteer Measurements: A Study of Projectile Point Measurements at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, New Mexico (2018)
- Accuracy vs. Precision: Understanding Potential Errors from Radiocarbon Dating on African Landscapes (2015)
- Acercamiento a las Opciones Técnicas en la Elaboración de Cerámicas Tempranas del Caribe Colombiano: Estudio Tecnológico de los Sitios Puerto Hormiga y Monsú (2016)
- Acheulean Hominin Ecology: Organic Residue on Lithics as Evidence of Plant Processing (2017)
- Acheulean Hominins and Out of Africa Dispersals: Challenges and Advances (2018)
- Acknowledging Anonymous Artists: Examining the Painted Stucco Facade from a temple at Kiuic, Yucatan (2016)
- An Acorn in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Granary: The Effect of Decay Rates on Food Storage Preferences in Prehistoric California (2019)
- Acorn Oil Rendering in the Upper Great Lakes (2017)
- Acoustic Effects at Las Cuevas Cave (Western Belize): An Archaeoacoustic Analysis of a Maya Cave (2018)
- Acrobatic Games of Mesoamerica (2015)
- Across Boundaries: Origin of Microblade Technology in NE Asia under a Macroecological Approach (2019)
- "Across the Agua to Managua" and Beyond: Getting Past Migration in Nicaraguan Prehistory (2018)
- Across the Lake: Interregional Connections with the Tiwanaku Occupation of Copacabana (2018)
- Across the River: Romanized Barbarians and Barbarized Romans on the edge of the Empire. Bioarchaeology of Romania in Late Antiquity (300-600 CE) (2016)
- Acting, Reacting, and Entangling at the Edge of the Spanish Colony: Maya Life at Progresso Lagoon, Belize in the Context of Colonization (2018)
- The Active Materiality of Obsidian (2019)
- Activist Archaeology and Queer Feminist Critiques in Mesoamerican Archaeology (2017)
- Activity Area Analysis of Elite and Commoner Spaces in the Ancient Maya City of Actuncan, Belize (2016)
- Activity Area Analysis of Terminal Classic period Civic Architecture at Actuncan, Belize (2016)
- Activity Areas and Political Economy at Teotihuacan’s Plaza of the Columns: Investigations in Front E (2018)
- The activity of hunter gatherers in the northwest of Durango, México (2015)
- Acts of God? Causation and Agency in Disease History (2018)
- Acts of Nature and Culture: Caves, Performance, and Transformation (2018)
- Adapting Project Archaeology Curriculum in Southern New Mexico (2019)
- Adapting to Changing Resources: A Petrographic Analysis of Iron I Pottery from Tel Miqne-Ekron (2018)
- Adapting to harsh environment resulting changes in culture that led towards a new perception of the outer world: The birth of the Central European Neolithic (2017)
- Adaptive Approaches to the Thingness of Institutional Datasets: A View from North Carolina (2019)
- The Adaptive Capacity of the Water Management System of Angkor, Cambodia (2018)
- Adaptive Cycles and Resilience as explanatory templates for the formulation of coupled climate-culture models (2016)
- Adaptive Dietary Response to Long-Term Drought: Diachronic Stable Isotope Evidence from the Central Sierra Nevada, California (2017)
- Adaptive Pastoralism and Climate Change in the Irish Chalcolithic – Early Bronze Age: Adding Evidence from Termon, Co. Clare (2019)
- Adding Fuel to the Fire: An Ethnoarchaeological study of Fire amongst the Asurini of Xingu, Brazilian Amazon (2016)
- Adding Navigating Capabilities to a Deterministic Computer Model of Ocean Voyaging (2019)
- Additional statistical and graphical methods for analyzing artifact orientations and site formation processes from total station proveniences (2017)
- Addressing Anthropogenic Safety Concerns in the Archeological Workplace: A Case Study (2015)
- Addressing Objects in Limbo: Using Digital Resources to Increase Access to Native American Material Culture (2019)
- Addressing Surface Site Palimpsests with GIS and Lithic Technology (2015)
- Addressing the Challenges of Developing a Standardized System for the Morphological and Functional Analysis of Archaeological Pottery (2015)
- Addressing the Curation Crisis through Research in University Legacy Collections (2015)
- Addressing the Inevitable: Site Preservation Efforts in the Face of Global Climate Change (2019)
- Addressing Today’s Issues with Yesterday’s Tools (2018)
- Admixture in the pre-Columbian Caribbean (2015)
- Adolf Bandelier’s 1892-1894 Expedition to the Central Coast of Peru (2017)
- Adolph Bandelier’s Legacy in the Lake Titicaca Basin: Tiwanaku and Qeya Ceramic Style (2018)
- Adoption of Ceramic Technology: Case Study from Incipient Jomon of Southern Kyushu (ca. 13,500/14,000 – 12,000 cal yr BP) (2015)
- ADS 3D Viewer: an example of open 3D real-time visualization system in archaeology (2015)
- Advanced AMS 14C Dating of Contaminated Bones Associated with North American Clovis and Pre-Clovis Butchering Sites (2018)
- Advanced GIS applications for bioarchaeology: methods and case studies (2016)
- Advanced Imaging of Saudi Arabian Petroglyphs: How Science Informs Art. (2017)
- Advanced Spatial Documentation of Cultural Resources at Southern Arizona National Parks (2015)
- Advances and changes in the surveying and mapping of Guatemalan archaeology aided by new information technologies (2015)
- Advances and Prospects in the Archaeological Sciences on the 40th Anniversary of the Society for Archaeological Sciences (II) (2018)
- Advances in Mineral Characterization of the Late Horizon Pottery from Incahuasi, Cañete (2019)
- Advances in the Study Archaeological Ceramics of the Epiclassic-Early Postclassic Basin of Mexico (2019)
- Advances in Viking Archaeology: Aligning Data, Theory, and the Interdisciplinary Perspective (2016)
- Advancing the analysis of complex stratigraphy and house life histories at Keatley Creek on the Northwestern Canadian Plateau (2017)
- Adventures of the Mountain Hare: An Ancient DNA Study (2019)
- Advertising the Empire: Purépecha Strategies in the Imperial Heartland at Angamuco, Michoacán (2017)
- Advocating for the Morrow Jones Cabin: Archaeological Investigations at a Historic Homestead (2017)
- Aeolian Geoforming at a Preceramic Mound in Coastal Peru (2017)
- Aerial Imaging Using UAVs (Drones) in Chihuahua and Nayarit, Mexico, to Map and Archive Archaeological Sites (2018)
- The Aferlife of Archaeometry; the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Database Project (2015)
- Affording Archaeology: How the Cost of Field School Keeps Archaeology Exclusive (2019)
- The Afghanistan Cultural Heritage Education Program: A Collaborative, International Education Model (2018)
- African Ancestry or Neanderthal-Human Genetic Admixture in Eurasians? African Diversity Matters. (2017)
- The African Humid Period: Paleolimnological and Paleoecological Evidence (2018)
- African Power Plays: Inland Beads, Shells, and Shell Beads in Tanzania, AD 700-1350 (2016)
- The African-Caribbean Landscape of Wallblake Estate, Anguilla (2018)
- Afrocolonial Archaeology in Panama: La Villa de Santiago del Principe, the first free African peoples of the Americas (2015)
- After 3,000 years, the enduring site of Potrero Mendieta is still overlooking the Jubones River Basin (2016)
- After Dark: The Nocturnal Urban Landscape of Great Zimbabwe (2019)
- After the Dissolution: The Second Life of Monastic Stones (2016)
- After the Ice Age in the Ozarks (2019)
- After the War: An Analysis of the Mortality of American Soldiers from the Last Century (2017)
- The Afterlife in Exile: Butterfly Imagery on Teotihuacan-style Censers from the Pacific Coast of Guatemala (2017)
- The Afterlife of the Charnel Chapel at Rothwell (Northamptonshire, UK) (2017)
- The Afterlife of the Discovery of a Lifetime: Preservation of the Maya Murals of San Bartolo, Guatemala (2019)
- Agave Bloom Stalk Ovens in the Southern Chihuahuan Desert (2019)
- Agave Roasting Pits of the Mescalero Apache (2019)
- The Age and Distribution of the Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris ) in Tennessee and the Southeastern U.S. (2016)
- Age and Sex Composition of Zooarchaeological Measurements via Bayesian Mixture Models (2016)
- Age of Heroes: elite warfare during the Eurasian Bronze Age (2016)
- Age-at-Death Estimations from Helton Mound 20 (2017)
- Ageing, childhood and social identity in the early Neolithic of central Europe (2016)
- Agelah and the Powershot: Digital Possibilities for Alternate Ways of Knowing in Archaeology (2017)
- Agency of Access: Public Architecture in Mesa Verde National Park (2015)
- The Agency of Flowing Water in Human Mobility and Interaction (2018)
- The Agency of Monsoons in South Asia (2018)
- Agency, Structure and the Neo-Liberal Turn (2017)
- Agent Based Modeling (ABM) Approaches to Understanding Prehistoric Forager Ecology in Tokelau (2015)
- Agent Based Modelling on the origins of the sexual division of labour (2015)
- Agent Based Models of Ache Foraging and Grouping (2015)