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 301-400 of 15,700)
- American archaeological expeditions to Cuba related with Museo Antropológico Montané (2016)
- The American Falls obsidian source: near, far, or unknown? (2015)
- American Periphery, Sonoran Heartland: Recent Archaeological Explorations of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (2019)
- American Pompeii: Old evidence on Late Classic ties between the Pacific Coast and the Antigua valley (2017)
- American Southwest, Mexican Northwest: An Examination of Ground and Chipped Stone Artifacts from Garden Canyon Village (2016)
- American Spaces, Irish Places: Assessing Three Urban Communities in 19th Century Irish-America (2019)
- Amerind Foundation Collection and Archives (2016)
- Amerindian archaeological site DEM construction and analysis from UAV flights (2015)
- Amino Acid d13C Analysis of Ancient Marine Consumers Quantifies Environmental Change in a Nearshore Ecosystem through the Late Holocene (2019)
- Amity Pueblo: A Different Sort of Horror (2015)
- Ampare y Perjuicios: Land and Legality in a Colesuyo Village during the Colonial Period (2016)
- The anahuatl pectorals from the offerings of the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan (2017)
- Analogist Ontology at Chavín de Huantár (2016)
- Analysing cultural change (2015)
- Analysis and 3D Modeling of Pithouse Architecture during the Developmental-to-Coalition period Transition in the Albuquerque Basin (2016)
- Analysis and Interpretation of the Bandelier Landfill Site: Determining the Information Potential of a Multicomponent Historic Trash Site (2019)
- Analysis of a late Archaic hearth feature at the Debra L. Friedkin Site in central Texas (2017)
- An Analysis of a Middle Holocene Faunal Assemblage from the Matcharak Peninsula Site in Alaska’s Brooks Range (2016)
- An Analysis of an Early-to-Mid Holocene Projectile Point Assemblage from Little Steamboat Point Rockshelter, Warner Valley, Oregon (2015)
- Analysis of an Obsidian Source from the Cougar Pass Region of the Absaroka Mountain Range (2017)
- Analysis of Anatomical Dissection at Point San Jose Hospital, Fort Mason, San Francisco (2018)
- Analysis of Ancient Chinese Pottery Utilizing X-Ray Fluorescence and Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (2017)
- Analysis of animal bones in Panquilma and their relation with domestic and ritual spaces (2016)
- An Analysis of Architectural Form and Function at Cahal Pech, Belize: The Case of Structure B7 (2015)
- An Analysis of Bark Beaters from the Postclassic Site of Mayapán (2018)
- An Analysis of Biscuit Ware Ceramic Standardization in the Lower Chama Watershed, New Mexico (2018)
- Analysis of bones and objects from the Viking Age site of Hrísbrú, Iceland (2017)
- An Analysis of Botanical Remains from the Site of Quilcapampa (2019)
- An Analysis of Calluna Hill (59-73): Pequot Cultural Entanglement and Complex Consumption During the Pequot War (2017)
- An Analysis of Ceramic Compositions from Canchas Uckro, Ancash, Peru: Implications for Trade in the Formative Andes (2019)
- An Analysis of Ceramic Function from the Sacred Landscape Archaeological Project, La Milpa, Belize (2016)
- An Analysis of Ceramic Imitation and Trade at the Petrified Forest National Park (2019)
- Analysis of Ceramic Sherds from Woodpecker Cave (2016)
- Analysis of color and fracture patterns on burned bones from the Békés 103 Bronze Age cemetery (2016)
- Analysis of Cuchimilcos from Coastal Peru (2019)
- Analysis of Culturally Derived Speleothem by INAA: An Analytic Approach to Sourcing (2018)
- Analysis of Culturally Derived Speleothem ny INAA: An Analytic Approach to Sourcing (2017)
- Analysis of elasmobranches from offerings 126, 141 and 165 found at the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan (2017)
- Analysis of Fatty Acids in Precontact Ceramics from Barbados, West Indies (2015)
- Analysis of Faunal Material from Sacred Spaces at Agua Lluvia and Along the Dos Hombres to Gran Cacao Archaeology Project in Northwestern Belize. (2015)
- An Analysis of Fetal Remains Discovered in a New York Privy (2019)
- Analysis of food remains in human coprolites from Furna do Estrago prehistoric site, Pernambuco State, Brazil. (2015)
- An Analysis of Funerary Food Offerings and Imagery in Theban Tombs from New Kingdom, Egypt (2017)
- An Analysis of Garbanzo Bean Remains at Mission San Luis de Talimali (2019)
- Analysis of ground stones found at a west-central Mojave Desert rock shelter site (2017)
- An Analysis of Historic Glass Containers from St. George’s Caye, Belize (2017)
- Analysis of Households in Calle de Isabel II, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1910 (2019)
- Analysis of Human Hair Bands from Old Man Cave, Utah (2017)
- Analysis of In-tact Mummy Bundles from the 2014 Field Season at Panquilma (2015)
- The Analysis of Late Antiquity (c. 4th to 6th century AD) Human Remains from Veii-Campetti, Italy (2016)
- Analysis of Late Rio Grande Glaze Wares from a Post-Revolt Jemez Pueblo (2019)
- An Analysis of Lithic Production at the La Milpa Sinkhole (RB-25-A5) (2015)
- Analysis of Marine Sediment by Chemical Signatures to Discover Evidence of Ancient Maya Activities at Site 74, Paynes Creek Salt Works, Belize (2019)
- Analysis of Marine Sediment of Ancient Maya Saltworks in Paynes Creek National Park, Southern Belize. (2017)
- Analysis of Marine Sediment to Explain Sea-level Rise in Paynes Creek National Park, Belize (2017)
- Analysis of metallurgical artefacts using pXRF: Understanding metalwork during the contact period in Colombia (2015)
- Analysis of Microbotanical Remains from Chavín de Huántar (2015)
- Analysis of microbotanical remains from dental calculus: a new approach for ancient diet studies. (2017)
- Analysis of Mortuary Rituals at Panquilma (2015)
- An Analysis of No Agua Obsidian (2019)
- An Analysis of Obsidian Consumption in the Postclassic Coatlan del Rio Valley (2018)
- Analysis of Obsidian Procurement from the Wurlitzer Site, Butte County, California (2019)
- Analysis of Pastoralist Settlement Patterns in Eastern Djibouti (ca. 1200–500 BP) (2019)
- Analysis of Perishable Artifacts from Conejo Shelter, Texas (2017)
- Analysis of Plant Micro-botanical Remains from the Jiahu, Peiligang and Tanghu Sites in the Upper Reaches of the Huaihe River (2015)
- Analysis of Plant Remains from the Bronze Age Site of Pecica Şanţul Mare (2015)
- Analysis of possible anatomical order in microexcavated Bronze Age funerary urn material from Hungary (2016)
- Analysis of Prehistoric Flagstaff Cultural Developments (2018)
- An Analysis of Projectile Point Agency from the South Diamond Creek Pueblo Site (2019)
- An analysis of Reptile bone from an excavation at Moh-Khiew cave, Krabi province,Thailand (2015)
- Analysis of Rio Grande Glaze Ware Glaze F Pottery from LA 20,000 Using Petrographic and Chemical Composition Techniques (2018)
- Analysis of Settlement Patterns in Albania from the Iron Age through Greek and Roman Colonization and Integration (1100 BCE–395 CE) (2019)
- Analysis of Settlement Patterns Near the Big Burro Mountains (2018)
- Analysis of Sorting Errors of Animal Remains from Shell Middens: Lessons Learned from the Čḯxwicən Project (2018)
- Analysis of spatial characteristics and traditional knowledge of freshwater springs as a foundation for predictive settlement modeling and identification of submarine groundwater discharge (2017)
- Analysis of Sturgeon Fishing Encampments from Block Island, Rhode Island (2018)
- Analysis of Surface Treatments on Weeden Island Red Vessels via LA-ICP-MS (2018)
- Analysis of the Ancient Built Environment of the Millo Complex, Vitor Valley, Peru (2018)
- An Analysis of the Archaeological Remains at Fort Halifax Park (2015)
- An Analysis of the Factors that Impact Accuracy During the Acquisition of Archaeological Geospatial Data Through the Use of GPS Units (2015)
- Analysis of the Faunal Remains at Shangjing city site, Inner Mongolia (2013 excavation) (2017)
- Analysis of the Faunal Remains at the Arch Street Cemetery Site (2018)
- An Analysis of the Industrialization of the Bourbon Industry in Kentucky: 1870s-Prohibition (2018)
- An analysis of the Jamestown diet (2017)
- Analysis of the Lithic Assemblage from Canchas Uckro (1100–800 BC), Eastern Ancash, Peru (2018)
- An Analysis of the Polvorón Phase Lithic Assemblage from the Mesa Grande Platform Mound in the Phoenix Basin (2019)
- Analysis of the state of preservation and determination of raw material of Gravettian mammoth ivory personal ornaments (Dolní Věstonice, Czech Republic) using Micro Computed Tomography (2015)
- An Analysis of the use of Quarries and Workshops by Late Prehistoric People in Western Pennsylvania (2016)
- Analysis of Trinidad Cross Artifact (2016)
- Analysis of XAD as a Pre-Treatment Method for Radiocarbon Dating Bone (2017)
- An Analysis on the Taosi Cemetery from the Late Neolithic in North-central China (2018)
- Analytical Approaches for Identifying Ritual Contexts (2017)
- Analytical Challenges Posed by the Early Holocene / Late Paleoindian Activity Areas at the Water Canyon Site, West-Central New Mexico: How Do We Know What We Think We Know? (2017)
- Analytical Models for At-Risk Heritage Conservation and 3D GIS (2018)
- The Analytical Nexus: Multi-Technique Approaches to Ceramic Composition (2015)
- Analyzing activity areas when only one material remains: The interpretation of low density, "empty" spaces in open air Middle Paleolithic sites (2015)
- Analyzing Afro-Caribbean Ware from Fort Amsterdam (SE094) and Battery Rotterdam (SE129) on St. Eustatius, Caribbean Netherlands (2019)
- Analyzing Ancient Maya Settlement Patterns through the Geochemical Analysis of Obsidian Artifacts in Southern Belize. (2016)
- Analyzing Archaic Rock Art in Northern New Mexico through Landscape Survey (2019)
- Analyzing Historically Significant Archeological Sites to 1800s Survey Plats of Southeast Florida (2016)