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 15,601-15,700 of 15,700)
- Xalla, Teotihuacan: A Multifunctional Palace for the Ruling Elite of Teotihuacan (2017)
- Xanthosoma violaceum and the Maya Diet: Root Crop Use in Ancient Maya Agriculture (2015)
- Xipe Totec and Elite Domestic Ritual in Late Classic Oaxaca, Mexico (2016)
- XRF Analysis of North Carolina Piedmont Ceramics to Locate Source of Production and Trade at Rural Plantation Sites (2018)
- An XRF Analysis of Redware Artifacts from Hanna's Town, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (2015)
- The XSX Ranch Site: Excavations of a Late Classic Mimbres to Early Post Classic Pueblo in the Upper Gila Forks, New Mexico (2018)
- Xunantunich Reloaded:Examining the Socio-Political Significance of Structure A9 (2017)
- ¿Y antes de la playa de Vicente?: Cronología de sitios prehispánicos en el Tesechoacán. (2016)
- Yama Village: Community College Students Develop an Archaeological Analysis of a Historic Transnational Japanese Community in Washington State. (2017)
- A Yard and It’s Belongin’s: Archaeological Research of Laborer Houseyards on the Morne Patat Estate, Dominica (2017)
- The YAS-1 Middle Stone Age site at Gona, Afar, Ethiopia (2016)
- The Yaxhom Valley Survey II (2019)
- Ychsma Cultural Identity in Armatambo during Inca's Occupation, Peruvian Central Coast (2018)
- Ye Olde Fishing Hole: A Late Paleolithic Fishing Camp, Wadi Kubbaniya, Egypt (2016)
- Year One of New Excavations at the Paleo Crossing (33ME274) Clovis Site, Ohio: The 2017 Field Season (2018)
- Year-round shellfish harvesting during the Middle to Late Holocene on the northwest coast Baja California (2017)
- Yes! You Can Have Access to That! Increasing and Promoting the Accessibility of Maryland’s Archaeological Collections (2016)
- Yes! You Can Still Dig, but, Please Plan Ahead. NAGPRA Section 3 New Discoveries in Land Management (2019)
- Yet Another Tale of Two Cities: Santiago en Almolonga and San Salvador in the Early Sixteenth Century (2018)
- Yikes, no comparative collection! Can 3D imaging produce robust faunal identifications? (2017)
- You Are How You Eat: Changes in Dining Style and Society at Late Bronze I Alalakh (2017)
- You are what you eat? - Did food consumption reflect status, ethnical or cultural differentiation on the island of Saba between the late 18th to the early 20th century? (2016)
- You Come from Where? Ceramics and Cultural Exchange at Palmetto Junction (2019)
- You go first. An agent-based model of mating-migration between early farming and foraging societies (2015)
- You Read It; Don't Forget It: Designing Activities That Help Students Learn (2018)
- You Sleep Alone, Away from People: Understanding the Movement of Hobos and Other Transient Laborers (ca. 1880 – 1940) (2017)
- You Spin Me Right Round: Reading Southwest Indented Corrugated Pottery for Movement and Directionality (2019)
- You're Going to Carry that Weight a Long Time (2018)
- Younger Dryas Fluted Technologies: A Comparison of Folsom, Cumberland, and Barnes Technologies (2017)
- Youthful Visions of Time and Place: Photovoice Methodology in Three Maya Communities (2019)
- You’re Building What Where?: Innovation with MOAs in the Far North (2019)
- You’re Not from Around Here, Are You? Ceramic Figurines and Interregional Interaction in the Tres Zapotes Region (2017)
- Yumbos and the construction of their cultural landscape (2017)
- Yup’ik Tool Use at Temyiq Tuyuryak—Indigenous Approaches to Artifact Analysis (2019)
- Yuzanu 36, a Late Archaic Site in the Mixteca Alta (2018)
- Yuzanu 50, An Early Paleoindian Site in the Mixteca Alta (2018)
- Zapotec Economy in Late Classic Jalieza: Through the Lens of Ceramic Annalysis (2015)
- Zapotec Funerary Tradition: A Perspective Between Bioarchaeology and Landscape Archaeology (2019)
- Zelia Nuttall and The Vexed Question: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (2015)
- Zero to Hero: Elite Burials and Hero Cults in Early Iron Age Greece and Cyprus (2018)
- Zimmerman's Influence on World Archaeology (2018)
- Zones of Refuge: Resisting Conquest in the Northern Philippine Highlands through Agricultural Practice (2017)
- Zoning Regulations and Comprehensive Plans: Bringing Historic Preservaion Home (2015)
- Zooanthropomorph Iconography in the Gran Coclé, Gran Chiriqui and Tairona areas (2018)
- Zooarch, A Statistical Package for Zooarchaeologists (2016)
- ZooaRch: General Audience Release of an R Graphical User Interface for Zooarchaeologists. (2017)
- Zooarchaeologial inferences and analogical reasoning at Chavin de Huantar (Peru) (2015)
- Zooarchaeological Analysis of a Guangala Pit at Rio Chico, Ecuador (N4C3-170) (2019)
- Zooarchaeological Analysis of a Late Pleistocene Cave Site in Northwestern Italy, Arma Veirana (2018)
- Zooarchaeological Analysis of a Late Pleistocene Interglacial-Glacial Transition at Pinnacle Point Site 5-6, South Africa (2018)
- A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Caves Branch Rockshelter and Sapodilla Rockshelter (2019)
- A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Diné Hunting Traditions (2019)
- Zooarchaeological Analysis of Dog Pathology in the American Southwest: A Case for Interpreting Dogs as Companions as Opposed to Beasts of Burden (2017)
- Zooarchaeological Analysis of Fish Remains from the Thousand Spring Site (CA-SNI-11), San Nicolas Island, California (2019)
- Zooarchaeological Analysis of Fishing Strategies at Rio Chico, Ecuador (OMJPLP-170) (2018)
- A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Housepit 54 at the Bridge River Site (EeRl1), Middle Fraser B.C. (2017)
- The Zooarchaeological Analysis of Pre-Zhou Animal Remains from the Zaoshugounao site and the Zaolinhetan site in Central Shaanxi, China (2019)
- A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Subsistence Stress at Elden Pueblo: A Final Report (2016)
- Zooarchaeological Analysis of Vertebrate Remains from the Santa Cruz Coast (2019)
- Zooarchaeological and Genetic Evidence for the Origins of Domestic Cattle in Ancient China (2017)
- Zooarchaeological Data as a Building Block for Knowledge Building in the Past (2019)
- Zooarchaeological Evidence of Human Niche Construction at Cottonwood Spring Pueblo (LA 175) (2016)
- Zooarchaeological Findings and the Importance of Seascape at Weeden Island Archaeological Site (8PI1) (2016)
- Zooarchaeological Fish Remains and Signals of Resource Depression from Jamaica and Beyond (2015)
- Zooarchaeological insights into modern human mobility at Riparo Bombrini (2018)
- Zooarchaeological Investigation of Late Pleistocene Subsistence Adaptations in Iran (2017)
- Zooarchaeological Investigations at the Boarding School Site (24GL0302), Glacier County, MT (2019)
- A ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD OF ANCIENT FISHES FROM THE MAYA: EVIDENCE FROM FISH BONES IN THE STUDY OF ANCIENT FISHERIES (2015)
- Zooarchaeological Records and Isotopic Systematics of Bahamian Hutia (Geocapromys ingrahami): are the Bahamas a distinct isotopic province? (2016)
- Zooarchaeological Remains and Their Impact on Land Management Decisions: An Example from Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico (2019)
- Zooarchaeological Research at Pueblo Grande: Preclassic and Classic Period Hohokam Hunting and Fishing Patterns (2019)
- Zooarchaeological Research of Oracle Bones from Lower Xiajiadian Culture (2017)
- Zooarchaeological Survivorship Models using Ordered Logistic Regression (2018)
- Zooarchaeology and Bioarchaeology: Ceremonial Feasts and Human Caches at Plaza of the Columns Complex, Teotihuacan (2018)
- zooarchaeology and historical archaeology: a case study of the leland stanford mansion (2015)
- The Zooarchaeology and Isotopic Ecology of the Bahamian Hutia (Geocapromys ingrahami) (2017)
- Zooarchaeology and Spatial Analysis at Tepe Farukhabad: New Life for Legacy Data (2018)
- Zooarchaeology and Taphonomy of Unit III in the Middle Paleolithic Site of Nesher Ramla (2019)
- Zooarchaeology and the Study of Human-Animal Relationships in Pre and Early Historic South India (2017)
- Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) and rethinking a definition of NISP (2017)
- Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) and the emergence of nomadic herding in eastern Central Asia (2018)
- Zooarchaeology in the Southwest: Ritual Consumption and Faunal Resources at Ridge Ruin Pueblo (2015)
- Zooarchaeology of Domestic Activities at a Weeden Island Shell Ring in the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge (2018)
- The Zooarchaeology of Households at Las Peñas, a Late Intermediate Period site in the upper Torata Valley, Peru (2019)
- The Zooarchaeology of LA 20,000 (2018)
- The Zooarchaeology of La Corona: Sustenance and Symbol (2018)
- Zooarchaeology of Marginality: An Investigation of Site Abandonment in Hegranes, North Iceland (2018)
- The Zooarchaeology of Problematic Deposits: Ancient Maya Use of Fauna in Ritual Contexts at Group B, Xunantunich (2018)
- Zooarchaeology of the Late Intermediate Period in Minaspata, Cuzco, Peru (2015)
- Zooarchaeology of the Vertebrate Fauna of Tibes: Uniformity in Transition (2016)
- Zooarchaeology of Three PreHispanic Sites in the Southern Georgia Bight: Evidence for Cultural and Ecological Continuity, Flexibility and Resilience (2016)
- Zooarchaeology, Shifting Baselines and a Rapidly Changing Climate (2018)
- Zooarcheological Contributions to the Smithsonian’s National Taphonomic Reference Collection (2018)
- ZooaRchGUI: A User-Friendly Graphical User Interface with the R-Programming Language for Archaeologists (2018)
- ZooaRchGUI: Novel Implementations to the Statistical Package for Archaeologists in the R Programming Language (2019)
- ZooArchNet: Linking Zooarchaeology Data to Archaeological and Biodiversity Information for Big-Data Archaeological Research (2018)
- Zoomorphic Representations of Figurines in Tamtoc, SLP, Mexico. (2015)
- Zoomorphs in Caribbean Rock Art (2016)
- ZooMS species identification and its compatibility with other bioarchaeological methods (2016)
- Zuni Perspectives on Historic Preservation (2019)