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 401-500 of 15,700)
- Analyzing Late Woodland Pipe Fragments from the Topper Site (38AL23): Exploring the Botanical, Social, and Ritual Intersections of Smoking (2018)
- Analyzing Magdalenian social networks in their environmental context (2016)
- Analyzing Similarity of Animal Style Art in Iron Age North Central Eurasia: A New Way to Study Continental Expression of Religious Symbolism (2019)
- Analyzing Skeletal Manifestations of Pre-Columbian Tuberculosis in the Northeastern highlands of Peru (2016)
- Analyzing Stress, Discovering Cooperation: A case study of a Late Archaic sample from the Green River region of Kentucky (2019)
- Analyzing the Relationship between Peri-abandonment Deposits and the Eastern Shrine of Xunantunich, Group B (2019)
- Analyzing the Use of Inter-Structure Space at Ames, a Mississippian Town in Fayette County, Tennessee (2016)
- Analyzing the Utilization of Shell in Chickasaw Pottery Using Petrographic and Chemical Composition Techniques (2019)
- Analyzing Urban and Industrial Threats to Heritage in Turkey Using Remote Sensing and GIS (2018)
- Analyzing Wood-use Behavior at Wupatki Pueblo (2017)
- Anarchy, Archaeology, and the Decolonization of Collaborative Heritage (2015)
- Ancestor veneration in a domestic space in Panquilma. A preliminary approach based on the Ceramic Analysis. (2015)
- Ancestor Veneration or Funeral Practices? An Examination of Recuay Mortuary Variability in the Basin of Puccha (Ancash) between AD 200-900 (2019)
- Ancestor Veneration, Termination and Renewal: New Considerations of Construction Fill (2018)
- Ancestors and Ancestral Spirits: Understanding the Spirits of the Dead in Prehispanic Settlements of the American Southeast and Southwest (2015)
- Ancestors, Agency, and Formation Processes: Interpreting Problematical "Smash and Trash Deposits" at Ka’Kabish, Belize (2017)
- Ancestral Abstract Art of the Mojave Desert (2015)
- Ancestral Chickasaw Migration and the Makings of the Anthropocene in Southeastern North America (2018)
- Ancestral Landscapes of the Salish Sea: Exploring Inland Shell Middens, Social Memory and Coast Salish Narratives (2017)
- Ancestral Ohiyo Haudenosaunee Ceramic Styles and Technology (2019)
- Ancestral Pathways of Fiji: Using GIS to Analyze Landscapes of Movement and Lineages within the Sigatoka River Valley (2019)
- Ancestral Pueblo Agriculture on the Pajarito Plateau: A Geoscience Investigation of Field Terraces in the Northern Mountains of New Mexico (2018)
- Ancestral Pueblo Essentials: Evidence for Layered Social Institutions during the Basketmaker III Period in the Northern Southwest (2019)
- Ancestral Pueblo Site Distribution Data from Los Alamos National Laboratory on the Pajarito Plateau (2015)
- Ancestral Pueblo Turkey Management on the Pajarito Plateau (C.E. 1150-1600) (2019)
- The Ancestral Puebloan Community of Alkali Ridge: Investigating The "Prudden Unit" Paradigm (2018)
- Ancestral Puebloan Settlement Patterns of Redwood Llama Ranch: Analysis of GIS and Fieldwalking Survey (2019)
- Ancestral Ties During a Period of Social Upheaval, An Example from the Early Classic Period in the Tucson Basin (2017)
- Ancestry and Heritage at a South Carolina Rice Plantation (2018)
- Anchoring in the Gulf: Trans-Species Dwelling and Building in Gulf Coast Florida (2018)
- Anchoring the Absolute to the Relative: Recent Chronological Research in the Virú Valley, Peru (2015)
- Ancient Alaskan Firewood Management Strategies and the Role of Selectivity: Preliminary Results (2018)
- Ancient American Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum (2016)
- Ancient and Medieval Monuments from Romania and Spain as a Testimony of Transcontinental Links—Cultural and Scientific Aspects (2019)
- Ancient Andean Scalarity (2019)
- Ancient Biomolecules and Destructive Sampling at the National Museum of Natural History (2018)
- ANCIENT CACAO GROVES IN YUCATAN: A PALYNOLOGICAL APPROACH (2017)
- Ancient Caribbean-Mainland Plant and Animal Translocations: Cultural, Biogeographic and Biodiversity Legacy (2015)
- The Ancient City of Dos Hombres: Material Expressions of Power (2017)
- Ancient Clam Gardens and Ecological Enhancement on Northern Quadra Island, BC (2017)
- Ancient Clam Gardens of the Southern Gulf Islands (2015)
- Ancient Clam Gardens: Exploring Cultural and Ecological Mechanisms that Enhanced Clam Production (2017)
- Ancient Crops, Modern Possibilities: A Study on the Potential for Millet Agriculture in the United States (2017)
- Ancient DNA Analyses of Dental Calculus from Plains Village Collections (2018)
- Ancient DNA analysis and the Indo-European dispersal (2017)
- Ancient DNA Analysis from Micro-fractures in Bridge River Stone Tools (2018)
- Ancient DNA analysis of early Neolithic cattle from Houtaomuga site, Northern China (2017)
- Ancient DNA Analysis of Fish Remains from Charlie Lake Cave (HbRf-39), British Columbia, Canada (2017)
- Ancient DNA Analysis of Microbes Preserved in Dental Calculus: Challenges And Opportunities (2018)
- Ancient DNA Analysis of Orton Quarry (2019)
- Ancient DNA analysis to investigate the history of malaria and malaria genetic adaptations in Europe (2016)
- Ancient DNA and Cranial Morphometric Analysis into Ancestry of Five Burials from Colonial Delaware (2015)
- Ancient DNA and Historical Ecology: An Innovative Approach to Environmental Conservation (2017)
- Ancient DNA from Stone Tools (2017)
- Ancient DNA in archaeological bone tools from La Ventilla, Teotihuacan: sex determination and genetic structure. (2016)
- Ancient DNA Investigations of Possible Casas Grandes – Chalchihuites Interactions (2018)
- Ancient DNA of a nomadic population provides evidence of the genetic structure of the royal ancient Mongols (2017)
- Ancient DNA Perspectives on Kinship and Racialized Labor at a 17th century Delaware Frontier Site (2018)
- Ancient DNA prospecting in the Caribbean: preliminary findings and future perspectives (2015)
- Ancient DNA Studies in Tropical Environments: A Study into the Genetics of the Pre-Columbian Indigenous Population of Puerto Rico (2017)
- Ancient DNA Studies of Domesticated Cattle in Northern China (2017)
- Ancient DNA, Zooarchaeology, and the Case for Whale Hunting on the Northern Oregon Coast (2015)
- Ancient Dog Genome Preserved in Tumor Provides Novel Insights into the Domestication of Dogs (2018)
- Ancient Dogs of the Tennessee River Valley (2017)
- The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead on Coffins: Ritual Protection and Justification of the Deceased. (2015)
- Ancient Egyptian Curses and Bog Bodies: The Role of Pseudoarchaeology in Tumblr's Subculture (2019)
- Ancient Egyptian mummy genomes suggest an increase of Sub-Saharan African ancestry in post-Roman periods (2017)
- Ancient explosives from Jerusalem identified on the analysis of the mysterious sphero-conical ceramic vessels using archaeological chemistry (2016)
- The Ancient Floors of Housepit 54, Bridge River site: Stratigraphy and Dating (2015)
- Ancient genomics of Neolithic to Bronze Age Baikal hunter-gatherers (2017)
- Ancient Glass Studies from 1st-2nd Millennium AD Africa: What Have We learned and Where Are We Going (2015)
- Ancient Greenstone Mosaic Masks from the Central Maya Lowlands of Guatemala: A Contextual and Technological Study (2017)
- Ancient Herring DNA from the Burton Acres Shell Midden (45KI437) and Pacific Herring Population Dynamics in the South Salish Sea (2019)
- Ancient Hominin Bone Proteomes: Improving our Understanding of Past Human Behavior through the Study of Ancient Bone Proteins. (2017)
- Ancient Human DNA Analysis from Central California: Interpreting the Penutian Migration through Genetics. (2017)
- Ancient Human DNA from Shum Laka (Cameroon) in the Context of African Population History (2019)
- Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans (2015)
- Ancient Human Herbivorous Diet Reflected by the Analysis of Starch Grains from the Xijincheng Site, Bo'ai county, Henan province, China (2015)
- Ancient Human-Animal Interactions in Chachapoyas Region: Isotopic Analysis of Zooarchaeological Remains from Kuelap, Peru (2018)
- Ancient Impacts on a Modern Environment: Soil Management and Intensive Agriculture in a Pre-Columbium Urban Context (2016)
- Ancient Landscapes of Amazonia: A Study of Pre-Colonial Processes and Contemporary Use at Macurany, Brazil (2018)
- Ancient Landscapes of the Rocky Mountain Front: A View from the Billy Big Springs Site, MT (2018)
- The Ancient Lingling-O: Understanding Jade Stone Manufacture through Experimental Drilling and Scanning Electron Microscope Analysis (2019)
- Ancient Maya Agricultural Techniques: Investigations of Possible Terracing at the Site of Actuncan, Belize (2017)
- Ancient Maya Animal Use at El Mirador: Subsistence, ceremony, exchange and environmental resiliency (2017)
- Ancient Maya Craft Specialization in the Belize Valley (2016)
- Ancient Maya Diet, Environment, Animal Use and Exchange at El Mirador: The Zooarchaeological Evidence (2018)
- Ancient Maya Elite Political-Economic Practices at La Milpa North, Northwestern Belize (2015)
- Ancient Maya Land Use: Water Management and Agricultural Production at Actuncan, Belize (2018)
- Ancient Maya lithic craft specialization at Colha, Belize (2015)
- Ancient Maya Mobility: Hinterlands Sacbe Systems (2019)
- Ancient Maya Plant Use In the Mopan River Valley, Belize (2016)
- Ancient Maya Quarries: Limestone, Chert and Lidar (2019)
- Ancient Maya Salt Making Activities as Revealed Through Underwater Excavations and Sediment Chemistry, Paynes Creek National Park, Belize (2017)
- The Ancient Maya Settlement of Waybil, Belize: Middle-Level and Hinterland Settlement Investigations (2018)
- Ancient Maya Sustainability at Caracol, Belize: Implications for Past and Future (2019)
- Ancient Maya Trade and Communication as Evidence by Petrographic and Iconographic Analysis of Unit-Stamped Pottery (2015)
- Ancient Maya Water Control, Wetlands, and the Fiery Pool (2019)
- Ancient Maya Wetland Features in the Eastern Belize Watershed (2015)
- Ancient Metal Routs in the Tarascan Señorío: Mining, Smelting, Smiting (2017)