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 501-600 of 15,700)
- The Ancient Methone Intensive Survey Project: New Research at a Harbor City in the North Aegean (2015)
- An ancient mitochondrial DNA approach to explore pre-Columbian inhabitants ancestry at Paquimé, Casas Grandes (2016)
- Ancient mitochondrial DNA provides high-resolution timescale of the peopling of the Americas (2016)
- Ancient Mitogenomes from Oregon Sea Otters (Enhydra lutris): Genetic and Archaeological Contributions to the Historical Ecology of an Extirpated Population (2019)
- Ancient mtDNA: both Amazonian and Andean migrants in western Puerto Rico by late Saladoid times (2016)
- Ancient networks of the Caribbean: Interaction and Exchange across the Historical Divide (2017)
- Ancient Origins of Ethnographic Shell Bead Money in Central California (2017)
- Ancient Pathogen Genomes from Pre- and Early Colonial Epidemics in Mesoamerica and the Evolution of Parathyphi C (2019)
- Ancient plant management at ADEs on Santarem region from an archaeobotanical approach (2016)
- Ancient Plazas for Modern Cities: A Role for Archaeology in City Planning Today (2016)
- Ancient Projectile Weapons for Teaching and Public Outreach (2016)
- Ancient Residues Indicate Prehistoric Subsistence and Culinary Practices in the Korean Peninsula during the Middle Holocene (2017)
- Ancient Shoreline Management on the Central California Coast (2019)
- Ancient Starch Research In California: Results from CA-SBA-53 (2015)
- Ancient Taino genome sheds new light on the peopling of the Caribbean (2016)
- Ancient Urbanites: The Spatial and Social Organization of Outlying Temple Groups at Ceibal, Guatemala (2017)
- Ancient Water Collection and Storage in the Elevated Interior Region of the Maya Lowlands (2016)
- Ancient Watercraft on Changing Landscapes (2016)
- Ancient woods used in a ritual context at Chenque I cemetery (Pampean region, Argentina) (2017)
- Ancient Zapotec Material Culture and the Antiquities Market (2017)
- Ancient, Modern, and Post-Modern: Pueblo Mural Painting of the Southwestern U.S. (2015)
- And here’s the NEWS from Xnoha! Understanding Maya settlement and Early Anthropocene Landscape Modifications at a small Maya center. (2019)
- "... and his wife Sally": The Binford Legacy and Uncredited Work in Archaeology (2019)
- "And Make Some Other Man Our King": Mortuary Evidence for Labile Elite Power Structures in Early Iron Age Europe (2017)
- And the Legacy Continues: Homol’ovi Looking Forward (2018)
- And Then Sometimes, The Public Engages You (2015)
- Andean Foodways: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Pre-Columbian and Colonial Food and Culture (2016)
- Andean Indigenous Bodies: Methodological Approaches to Past Perceptions of the Body (2019)
- Andean Irrigation Communities: A Comparative Study of Household and Society in Ancient Peru (2015)
- An Andean Mountain Shrine: The Case of Balconcillo de Avillay, Huarochiri (Lima, Peru) (2017)
- Andean Ontologies: An Introduction to the Substance (2016)
- Andean Population Dynamics Revealed by Genome-wide Data from the High Elevation Cuncaicha Rock Shelter (2017)
- The Andean road a long trajectory of a social institution. (2016)
- Andra tider, andra seder: Shifting Taskscapes of Gender, Age and Class in Early Sweden (2018)
- An Android-Based System for Archaeological Survey and On-Site Stone Tool Analysis (2017)
- The Angel of History and the Paradise of Progress in the Scholarship of Peter Roe (2017)
- Angkor from the Outside In: Household Archaeology in Battambang, Cambodia (2019)
- Angkorian Collapse and Aftermath: A View from the Center (2016)
- Angkorian Residential Patterns: A view from the trenches (2015)
- Angkorian Settlements and Interactions in the Cambodia Middle Mekong Region (2018)
- Anglo-Saxon and Viking Ship Burials as Indicators of Rank and Wealth (2015)
- Animal Agents in the Human Environment (2018)
- Animal as Social Actor: A Case Study of a Pre-Colonial Northern Tiwa Structure (2018)
- Animal Bones from Hazor, Israel and a Cautionary Tale of Interpreting Past Ritual (2018)
- Animal captivity in Tenochtitlan’s sacred precinct: Specialized diet and paleopathological analysis of golden eagles found in Offering 125 (2015)
- Animal diaspora and culture change (2015)
- Animal exploitation at Castillo de Huarmey site, Northern Coast of Peru: The case of South American Camelids. (2016)
- Animal exploitation in the early prehistory of the Balearic Islands (2016)
- Animal Fats and Ancient Pyro Technologies in the North American Arctic: Contextualized Analysis of Lipids in Archaeological Sediments, Combustion Features, and Ceramics (2017)
- Animal Husbandry at Late Chalcolithic Tell Surezha (Iraqi Kurdistan) (2017)
- Animal Imagery and the Mythic Level of Jama-Coaque Figural Style (2017)
- Animal Imagery in the Postclassic Yearbearer Pages of the Codex Borgia (2019)
- An Animal Kingdom at Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico (2019)
- Animal Manifestations of the Creator Deities in the Maya Codices and the Popol Vuh (2019)
- Animal Masters, Guardian Animals, and Masters of Animals in Eastern North American (2019)
- Animal Resource Use and Management by Naachtun's Elite (2016)
- Animal Resources and Technology in Eastern Beringia During the Late Pleistocene (2016)
- Animal Resources Utilization and Management at the Late Neolithic Dinggong Site, China: Evidences from Stable Isotope Analysis (2019)
- Animal symbolism in the rock art of the Sonoran Desert (2015)
- Animal Use among the Monongahela: Insights from the Analysis of the Johnston Site Faunal Assemblage (2018)
- Animal Use at Nixtun-Ch'ich': Preclassic Canids, Postclassic Crocodiles, and Contact Period Cows (2016)
- Animal Use in Ancient Maya Terminal Deposits: Examining Faunal Remains from sites in the Belize Valley to Identify Ritual Activities (2017)
- Animal Use in the Last Maya Kingdom (2018)
- Animal utilization and animal rituals of the Okhotsk culture: with special reference to their period and regional differences (2017)
- Animal, Human, and Crafted Bone from the S-Sector of Piedras Negras (2018)
- Animals and urbanization in northern Mesopotamia:Late Chalcolithic faunal remains from Hamoukar, Syria (2017)
- Animals at Spiro Mounds: Patterns from Faunal Specimens and Engraved Shells (2019)
- Animals for the Ancestors: Comparing Animal Use in Funerary Rites at Ancient Hualcayán, Peru (AD 1–1000) (2019)
- The Animals of Pueblo Ritual: Faunal Analysis of a Kiva from Pot Creek Pueblo, NM (2017)
- Animate landscapes and the transference of authority: resistance to hierarchy among hunter-gatherers of the Eastern Woodlands (2015)
- Animated ships (2017)
- Animating Sacred Landscapes through Making Rock Art (2016)
- Animism and Agency in the Amazonian Landscape: A Consideration of the Ontological Turn Utilizing Perspectives from Modern Runa Communities (2018)
- Anna and the Sea: Reflections on Anna Kerttula's Influence on a Generation of North Pacific Archaeology (2019)
- Annually-Resolved Environmental proxies in the Great Lakes Region, 14 ka to 10 ka BP: A Time of Paleo-Indian Hunters and Megafauna Extinction (2016)
- Anomalous Floor 2 Features in the Point Pueblo Great Kiva (2019)
- Another F-----g Basket Baper: Decorated Specimens from Huaca Prieta, Peru (2016)
- Another Indigenous Feminist on Settler Colonialism in Archaeology (2018)
- Another Pint! Beer & Soda Bottles in Victorian Philadelphia: A Spatial Analysis (2016)
- Anshe Ky’an’a and Zuni Traditions of Movement (2017)
- Answering Chronological and Regional Interaction Questions via pXRF and LA-ICP-MS Analyses in the Interior Southeast (2015)
- Answering Pseudoarchaeology from the Repository (2019)
- Answering the Grand Challenges of Archaeology (2019)
- Answers in the Dirt: Taphonomy, Preservation Bias, and Pastoralism at Iron Age Nichoria, Greece (2017)
- The antecedents to the specialized microdrill industry on Santa Cruz Island, CA (2015)
- Antelope Cave and Far Western Anasazi Lifeways of the Virgin River Region (2015)
- Anthracological Analyses of the Iron Age Shell Middens Complex at Praia da Rocha, Inhambane, Mozambique (2019)
- Anthropocene Amazonia, Beyond the Buzzword: Centennial-Scale Anthropogenic Influences on Southern Amazonian Forests, 1000-2000 CE (2018)
- The Anthropocene Divide: Obscuring our Understanding of Socio-Environmental History (2017)
- The Anthropocene of Madagascar: Reviewing Chronological Evidence for Madagascar’s Colonization (2017)
- The Anthropocene: Present Singular or Past Plural? (2018)
- Anthropogenic Effects on Soil Quality of the Las Capas Irrigation System (2015)
- Anthropogenic Fire and the Origins of Agricultural Landscapes during the Neolithic Period (7,700–4,500 cal. BP) in Eastern Spain (2018)
- Anthropogenic Fire Management and Changing Land-Use Strategies in the Mammoth Cave Plateau and Sinkhole Plain, Central Kentucky, USA (2015)
- Anthropogenic land cover change over the last 6000 years: How can we use archaeology to inform global models? (2017)
- Anthropogenic Landscapes in Southern New England: An Archaeological Investigation of Farming Practices on an Eighteenth Century Colonial Farmstead in Southeastern Connecticut (2017)
- Anthropogenic Landscapes of Amazonia: A Spatial Analysis of Landscape Modification and Settlement Organization at Macurany, Brazil (2019)
- Anthropogenic plant translocations in the western Indian Ocean: Archaeobotanical perspectives on the Anthropocene from Madagascar and the Comoros (2016)
- Anthropogenic Thermal Alteration of Marine Bivalves, Recrystallization, and Isotope Integrity (2015)
- Anthropogenically driven decline and extinction of Sapotaceae on Nuku Hiva (Marquesas Islands, East Polynesia) (2015)