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 •
Nevada •
Alta Vista •
ontario •
Gordion •
Ceren •
El Teúl •
Las Ventanas •
Buenavista
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 •
Petroglyph
Other Keywords
Historic •
Zooarchaeology •
Ceramic Analysis •
Maya: Classic •
Cultural Resources and Heritage Management •
Maya •
Landscape Archaeology •
Geoarchaeology •
Historical Archaeology •
Survey
Culture Keywords
Historic •
Ancestral Puebloan •
Historic Native American •
Mogollon •
Woodland •
Spanish •
PaleoIndian •
Archaic •
Hopewell •
Hohokam
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 •
Pueblo I and II •
Postclassic •
Prehistoric •
Woodland
Geographic Keywords
North America (Continent) •
United States of America (Country) •
Belize (Country) •
USA (Country) •
United Mexican States (Country) •
Republic of El Salvador (Country) •
Republic of Panama (Country) •
Republic of Guatemala (Country) •
Netherlands Antilles (Country) •
Aruba (Country)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 401-500 of 17,057)
- 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)
- Analysis of the Built Environment of the Group B Acropolis at Baking Pot: Results of the 2019 Field Season (2021)
- 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 Distribution at the Weed Lake Ditch site (35HA341), Southeastern Oregon (2021)
- 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)
- 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 Mimbres Pottery Designs with Confidence (2021)
- 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)
- Anarchy, Heterarchy, and the Bioarchaeological Evidence of Labor in the Tiwanaku “State” (AD 500–1100) of Bolivia and Peru (2021)
- Anatomy of an Arctic Archaeobotanical Analysis: Insights about Ancestral Inuvialuit Plant Use at Agvik, Banks Island, NWT (2021)
- 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)
- The Ancestors You Choose: The Role of Predecessors at Xunantunich, Belize Group D (2021)
- 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 Demography in Northwest Yucatán, Mexico (2021)
- 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 Campeche, Mexico, Reveals a Socially Segregated Population in the First Two Centuries after Hispanic Contact (2021)
- Ancient DNA from Etruscan Tombs and Beyond: A Case Study from San Giuliano (2021)
- 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)