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 •
Archaeological Overview •
Systematic Survey •
Architectural Documentation •
Reconnaissance / Survey •
Ethnographic Research •
Ethnohistoric Research
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 201-300 of 15,700)
- An Agent-Based Disaster Model: Marginality, Decision-Making, and Novel Resource Exploitation during ENSO Flooding Events in Chicama, Peru (2019)
- The Ages of Stemmed and Fluted Points in the Northwestern Plains and Rocky Mountains (2019)
- Aging and Funerary Practices at Monte Alban, Mexico (2018)
- Aging Mandibular Bison Teeth with ArcGIS (2017)
- Agouti commensalism? An open question in the prehistoric Lesser Antilles, West Indies (2017)
- Agrarian Landscapes of coastal Croatia: a view from Nadin-Gradina (2017)
- Agricultural Diversification, Perennials and Complex Societies in Mesopotamia and the Yellow River (2017)
- Agricultural History of the Horn of Africa: New Archaeobotanical Evidence from Mezber (2017)
- An Agricultural Landscape on the Northern Mimbres Frontier, South-Central New Mexico, USA (2017)
- Agricultural Landscapes in Northern Argentina (2015)
- The Agricultural Lexicon of Western Indo-European: Crop Names (2019)
- Agricultural Niche Construction in Roman North Africa: Simulating Irrigation and Deforestation on a Desert Margin (2018)
- Agricultural Practices in the Atacama Desert (Northern Chile): New Perspectives from Stable Isotope Analysis on Archaeological Crops (2019)
- Agricultural Productivity of Four Different Physiographic Zones in the Lower Río Verde Valley, Oaxaca, Mexico: Using the Current Landscape as a Means to Facilitate an Understanding of Past Productivity (2017)
- Agricultural risk management in Mediterranean environments: a computational modeling approach (2016)
- An agricultural risk mitigation strategy using multiple water sources, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (2016)
- Agricultural Strategies and Intensification: A Study of Risk Management in the Southern Maya Lowlands (2018)
- Agricultural Wealth, Food Storage, and Commensal Politics at Azoria an Archaic City on Crete (2019)
- Agriculturas formativas del desierto tarapaqueño. (2015)
- Agriculture and Empire in the High-Altitude Atacama Desert (2015)
- Agriculture and Inter-village Space in the Ancient Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) World (2015)
- Agriculture and Landscape Change in the Tesuque Valley (2019)
- Agriculture and Resource Procurement for the Castro Settlements of NW Iberia: Examination of Floatation Samples for the Castro Site of Bagunte (2018)
- Agriculture at Las Capas: Tales Told by the Canals (2015)
- Agriculture development in the Bronze Age Hexi Corridor-archaeobtanic evidence from Xichengyi site (2017)
- Agriculture is a state of mind- the Andean potato’s unending domestication (2015)
- Agriculture Roles in Landscapes and Taskcapes: An Interdisciplinary Approach from Northwestern Argentina (2015)
- Agriculture, Land Management and Expressions of Elite Control at the Ancient Maya City of Tikal (2018)
- An Agroecological Perspective on Crop Domestication in Western Asia (2019)
- The agroecology of inequality: Novel bioarchaeological approaches to early urbanization in western Asia and Europe (2016)
- Agropastoralism in Bronze Age Transylvania: An analysis of faunal assemblages from the Geoagiu and Mureş Valleys (2015)
- Agua dulce, Agua salada. Diferenciación de actividades pesqueras en el sistema portuario de la costa este de Los Tuxtlas (2018)
- Aguada Fénix: An Early Middle Preclassic Monumental Site in the Middle Usumacinta Region (2019)
- Airway Beacons: Rehabilitation and Interpretation (2016)
- Akimel O’odham Projectile Point Design and P-MIP Archaeological Research (2015)
- Akimel O’Odham Traditional Knowledge Regarding Platform Mounds (2019)
- Aknah and the moon spiners: gender relations and rituals in caves. (2017)
- Alaskan Game Drives: An Architectural Assessment (2017)
- Alaskan Legacy Collections Outside Alaska: Challenges, Opportunities and Potential (2019)
- Albarradas, Solarés, and Classic Maya Land Tenure in Northwestern Belize (2018)
- Alepotrypa Cave and Regional Networks of Southern Greece (2016)
- Alero las Quemas, a key site for the study of human occupations of Andean forest in Patagonia (Aisén, Chile). (2015)
- Aleutian Microtechnology in Anangula Times (9000 - 4000 BP) (2015)
- Alfarería en las fronteras de La Quebrada de Humahuaca, Jujuy, Argentina (Ceramics at the borders of the Humahuaca Quebrada, Jujuy Argentina) (2015)
- Algonquian Coastal Gardens and Landscape: Interpretations from Archaeobotany (2015)
- Algonquian Landscapes and Multispecies Archaeology in the Chesapeake (2019)
- Algunas consideraciones acerca del orígen y de la organización social de los Chachapoya (2015)
- ALIMENTACIÓN Y SOCIEDAD. PALEODIETA DE UNA POBLACIÓN MUISCA DE LA SABANA DE BOGOTÁ, EL CASO DE TIBANICA – SOACHA (2015)
- All for Drone and Drone for Free: A Free and/or Open-Source Workflow for UAV Imagery Collection and Analysis (2019)
- All in a Day’s Work: The Health and Welfare of Children Living in 19th Century Staffordshire, UK (2019)
- All in Good Time: the "New Highland Chronology" and the Sculptures of Kaminaljuyú, Guatemala (2015)
- All in the Family: Using Archeology and Genealogy to Construct a Historical Narrative (2018)
- All methods, no madness: Making sense of burial orientations using GIS (2016)
- All Politics Isn’t Local: The Role of Oxpemul in Classic Maya Geopolitics (2018)
- All Potted Up: Exploring Seasonality at Small Late Pueblo II and Early Pueblo III Sites at Petrified Forest National Park (2015)
- All Roads Lead to the Verapaz: The Northern Highlands as a Nexus of Classic Period Exchange (2019)
- All the Gods of the World: Modern Maya Agricultural and Rain Ritual in Yucatan, Mexico (2017)
- All the Underworld’s a Stage: Ancient Maya Ritual Stages of Xibalba (2015)
- ‘All things being equal’? Multiplex Material Networks of the Early Neolithic in the Near East (2018)
- The Allegory of Xibalba: Confronting Shadowy Realities in the ancient Maya Underworld (2019)
- Alliance Formation & Social Signaling: Village Interaction among the Monongahela (2019)
- Alliances, Coalitions, Hierarchies and Conflict in the Ancestral Pueblo World (2015)
- Alligators, Serpents, Pirates, and a Wedding: Ritualized Political Landscapes of the Oaxacan Pacific Coast, Mexico (2018)
- The Alluvial Geochronology of Pharo Village and Implications for Cycles of Site Occupation and Abandonment (2015)
- Ally, Client or Outpost? Examining the Relationship between Xunantunich and Naranjo in the Late Classic Period (2019)
- Alm Shelter: A Preliminary Report on a Deeply Stratified Rockshelter in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming (2019)
- Almenas and Architecture (2018)
- (Almost) Making it in the Margins: Medieval Norse Adaptation to the Arctic Fjord Environments (2018)
- Alone in the Deep Blue Sea: A comparison of Indonesian Colonial Period nutmeg plantations and New World plantations (2015)
- Alpine Adaptive and Paleoenvironmental Change at Alta Toquima (central Nevada) (2015)
- An Alpine Archaeological Landscape in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Wyoming (2017)
- Alterations in South American Oral Health Through the Colonial Period: The Story of Ancient DNA Trapped Within Dental Calculus (2017)
- Altered States: Evaluating Postmortem Modification of Dental Tissues (2019)
- Altering the Walls of Domesticity: Late 19th Century Modifications to Households in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2018)
- Alterity, Resistance, and Autonomy: Mortuary Archaeology and the Diversity of Indigenous Responses to Spanish Conquest in Lambayeque, Peru (2018)
- Alternative Complexities in the Central Andes: An Anarchist Approach to Chancay Political Organization in the Huanangue Valley (2018)
- An Alternative Explanation for a Modified Rabbit Innominate Spatulate Tool (2019)
- Alternative Interpretive Lenses for Landscape at Mulch’en Witz, La Milpa, Belize (2019)
- Alternative Mexico: A Mobile Application for the Preservation of Mexico's Heritage (2019)
- Alternative Mexico: a Mobile Application to Preserve Contemporary Heritage Values (2016)
- An Alternative Pattern of Coalescence: A Study of Architecture and Organization at a Non-fortified, Pre-Inca Town in the Southern Highlands of Peru (2019)
- Alternative Recipes: Exploring the Diversity of Foods Prepared in Prehistoric Earth Oven Cooking (2019)
- Alternative Strategies in Confronting Looting and Trafficking in Defense of Peruvian Portable Heritage. (2015)
- Altica and the Role of Middlemen in Formative Obsidian Exchange (2017)
- Altica ceramics and figurines: Stylistic and chronological analyses (2017)
- The Altica Project: Reframing the Formative Basin of Mexico (2017)
- Always Changed But Never Gone: A Century of Farming in Southeastern Massachusetts. (2019)
- Always facing east…except when they’re not: Preliminary analysis of mortuary trends at Cahal Pech, Cayo, Belize (2015)
- Always Halfway There: Keeping Up with Digital Archaeological Data in Virginia (2018)
- Amacuzac archaeological project. (2016)
- Amateur and Professional Archaeologists: Who’s Who? (2016)
- Amazonia as a Perpetual Elsewhere: The Possible and the Permissible in "Natural" Landscapes (2019)
- An Amazonian Crossroads: Results from Pilot Fieldwork on the Xingu-Amazon Confluence, Brazil (2016)
- Amazonian Landscapes: the characteristics of anthropic landscapes in the Middle Xingu River (Pará, Brazil) from pre-colonial to Contemporary times (2016)
- Amazonian mounds. When Human sciences met Earth sciences (2016)
- Amber Runs through It: The Centralization of Wealth and Power in Late Prehistoric Lika, Croatia (2019)
- Ambiguous beings: the ontological autonomy of Inuit dogs (2016)
- Ambiguous Iconography: Queering the Shell Game (2015)
- The ambivalence of caves and rockshelters in medieval Norway (2017)
- Ambrose Bierce’s Indian Inscriptions: Biographic Art Along the Bozeman Trail (2019)