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 801-900 of 15,700)
- Archaeological Prospecting using Remote Sensing Techniques in Quiechapa, Oaxaca, Mexico (2016)
- Archaeological Prospection at Cerro Coyotepetl, Tepeticpac, Tlaxcallan: Preliminary Results from the 2017 Field Season of the Proyecto de Arqueología Cotidiana de Tepeticpac (2018)
- Archaeological Prospection Using Aerial Thermography and Quantitative Image Processing Methods (2019)
- Archaeological Proxies of Early Modern Human Niche Construction in Northern Malawi (2019)
- Archaeological Rat Diets Reflect Settlement Density: An Isotopic Investigation of Historical Rat Bones from Urban and Rural Sites in Upper Canada (2018)
- Archaeological Re-Survey, Contemporary Bahamian Cemeteries, Lucayan Prehistory, and Heritage Management (2015)
- Archaeological Reconnaissance at Fracción Mujular: A Small Site with Big Connections (2016)
- Archaeological recovery associated with the Wanapum Dam emergency drawdown, central Washington State. (2016)
- Archaeological Repositories in British Columbia (2017)
- The Archaeological Repository of Colorado State University: Expanding Opportunities for Accessibility and Research (2019)
- Archaeological Research in the Recovery of WWII MIA's on a Pacific atoll: Tarawa (2017)
- Archaeological Research on the Ancient Iron Metallurgy in Côte d’Ivoire (2003-2016) (2019)
- Archaeological Resource Management and the National Park Service: Historical Perspective, Current, and Future Challenges (2016)
- Archaeological Resource Protection: Challenges to Federal Enforcement of Antiquity Law among Land Managing Agencies (2018)
- Archaeological Resources Located on Windward and Leeward Sand Dunes Adjacent to Playas and Ephemeral Lakes: A Limited Case Study from the Western Shoreline of the Salton Sea (2019)
- Archaeological Salvage at Pockoy, a Late Archaic Period Shell Ring Site on the Botany Bay Heritage Preserve, Charleston County, South Carolina (2019)
- Archaeological Science or Scientific Archaeology: Where Does "Science" Lie in Stone Artefact Research? (2018)
- Archaeological Shellfish Size and Later Human Evolution in Africa (2015)
- Archaeological Shoreline Monitoring in a Climate-Changing SW Florida: The Case of a Rapidly Eroding, Rare, Late-Archaic Shell Midden at Calusa Island (2018)
- Archaeological Signatures for Mechanized Threshing Operations in the Midwest and the Plains (2016)
- Archaeological Site Distribution in Relation to Soils and Geomorphic Characteristics in Dune Landscapes in Northeastern Arizona (2016)
- The archaeological site of Presa de la Luz: New Insights on the relationship between the Altos of Jalisco, the Bajio and the Mexico Basin (2015)
- Archaeological Storytelling: Narrative Construction using Virtual Reality (2018)
- The archaeological study of an Inner Asian empire: using new perspectives and methods to study the medieval Liao polity (2016)
- The archaeological study of cities in East Asia (2017)
- An archaeological study of landscape, people, and mobility in the Lakulaku River Basin in eastern Taiwan from the 18th century to the present (2016)
- Archaeological Study of Ostrich Eggshell Beads Collected from Shuidonggou (2017)
- An Archaeological Study of the Anomalous Sites aong Southern Nevada’s California Wash (2019)
- Archaeological Survey and Evaluation of the Garrett Farm Site (44CE0085), Caroline County, Virginia (2014)
- Archaeological Survey and Evaluation of the Predicted Location of the Tobacco Barn at the Garrett Farm Site (44CE0085), Caroline County, Virginia (2015)
- Archaeological Survey and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in African Archaeology: Perspectives from the Niger Valley, Benin (2018)
- Archaeological Survey in Arizona’s Upper Gila River Valley: 2014 - 2018 (2019)
- Archaeological Survey in Delimited Units: The Altépetl of Ixmiquilpan in the Sixteenth Century (2019)
- Archaeological Survey in Southeastern Arizona: Partnering with Landowners and Local Informants (2018)
- Archaeological Survey of Colonial Dominica (2017)
- Archaeological survey of mound sites in Southwestern Shandong, China: Plants and people (2017)
- Archaeological Survey through the use of Remote Sensing (LiDAR, Photogrammetry and Satelital Imagery) and GIS (2015)
- An Archaeological Test of A Settlement Pattern Shift Recorded in Tsimshian Oral Records (2017)
- Archaeological Topography: Comparing Digital Photogrammetry Taken with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) versus Standard Surveys with Total Stations (2015)
- Archaeological tourism and social values, a case study in China (2016)
- Archaeological Traces of Consumption of Colonial Goods in Eighteenth Century Gothenburg on the West Coast of Sweden (2018)
- Archaeological Use of Meta-analyses to Limit Researcher Bias: Results from El Coyote, Honduras (2018)
- The Archaeological Utility of ACTUS: An Alternative Method of Contingency Table Analysis Using Simulation (2016)
- Archaeological Visibility at Stélida, Naxos: Identifying Activity Hubs at a Palaeolithic Chert Quarry in the Cyclades (2015)
- Archaeological, Paleoenvironmental, and Geoarchaeological Investigations of Hall’s Cave, Texas (2019)
- Archaeologies by Community Mandate: Who makes the call? (2015)
- Archaeologies of Latinos in the United States (2015)
- Archaeologies of the Heart (2017)
- Archaeologies of the Norman Conquest (2019)
- An Archaeologist Amongst Geneticists: Overview of My Experiences as an Archaeologist in an Ancient DNA Laboratory (2018)
- The Archaeologist's Guide to Visual Communications (2017)
- Archaeologist-Collector Collaborations in the San Luis Valley: A Case Study (2019)
- Archaeologists and the Pedagogy of Heritage: Preparing Scholar-Practitioners for Complex and Changing Heritage Work (2016)
- Archaeologists as Early Adopters and Critical Remediators at UC Berkeley’s MACTiA (2019)
- Archaeologists as Indian Advocates? Lessons from Skinner, the Little-Weasel, and Moorehead, the Indian Commissioner (2019)
- Archaeologists for Autism: 5 Years and Counting of Bringing Archaeology to Children and Young Adults on the Autism Spectrum (2019)
- The Archaeologists Role in Looting: Commodity Fetishism and the Tragedy of the Commons (2017)
- Archaeologists’ Role in New Approaches to Heritage Studies and Heritage Protection (2019)
- The Archaeology and Ancient Genomics of Early Horse Domestication: Not as Simple as Once Thought! (2019)
- Archaeology and augmented reality: applications and advice (2017)
- Archaeology and Behavioral Ecology of Maritime Hunter-gatherers of the Northeast Pacific Rim (2019)
- Archaeology and Comics: Cons, Concerns, and Creativity (2019)
- Archaeology and Community Development: A Perspective from Within (2015)
- Archaeology and Contemporary Capitalism (2019)
- Archaeology and cultural preservation: a perspective from a Yup’ik village (2015)
- Archaeology and Economic Development (2016)
- Archaeology and Ethnohistory in the Sahuaripa Region of Eastern Sonora (2018)
- Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Western Papaguería: Let's Not Forget the People (2018)
- Archaeology and Experiential Learning: The Unique Impact of Learning Experientially for the Field Sciences (2016)
- Archaeology and Genetics in the South Caucasus (2019)
- Archaeology and Geomorphology of Paleo-shorelines at Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming (2017)
- Archaeology and Heritage in the United States (2015)
- Archaeology and Literacy: Students Journey across the American Southwest (2019)
- Archaeology and NAGPRA in Alaska: Examples of Intentional Excavation (2019)
- Archaeology and Stable Isotope Ecology of the Passenger Pigeon: Tracing the Prehistory of an Extinct Bird (2019)
- Archaeology and the Common Core: Bay Farm School and UC Berkeley (2015)
- Archaeology and the End of Empire in Nigeria: Learning from the History of Late Colonial Archaeology at Ile-Ife (2019)
- Archaeology and the Green Power Initiative: Reconciling Large Renewable Energy Development Projects and the Protection of Cultural Resources (2019)
- Archaeology and the Historical Construction of Community at Feltville / Glenside Park (2019)
- Archaeology and the Production of Capital in the 21st Century (2016)
- Archaeology and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC): A Gendered Analysis of Federal Funding in Canada, Fiscal Years 1994-2014 (2017)
- Archaeology and Tourism in the Early 20th Century: Pompeii through a Photographic Archive (2018)
- Archaeology as a Public Good: the Summer Field School Program at Clarion University of Pennsylvania (2019)
- Archaeology as Actionable Science on Climate Change: Lessons from Interdisciplinary Collaboration (2018)
- Archaeology as Activism: Cultural Heritage, Identity, and Sustainability in Transylvanian Mining Communities (2019)
- Archaeology as Anthropology: Chaîne Operatoire and the Analysis of Contemporary Technologies (2018)
- Archaeology as Heritage Resource: Foundations for Successful Archaeological Tourism, Achievements and Challenges from Petra to Angkor (2015)
- Archaeology as Meditative Practice (2017)
- Archaeology as our Urban Futures (2019)
- Archaeology as Storytelling (2017)
- Archaeology As The CRO Flies, 2002-2014: A Retrospective Of Twelve Years Of Powered Parachute Aerial Archaeology (2015)
- Archaeology AskHistorians: Public-driven Inquiry and Outreach in the Digital Age (2018)
- Archaeology at Camp Michaux: A Productive Collaboration between Dickinson College, Cumberland County Historical Society, and Governmental Agencies in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (2018)
- Archaeology at the Head of Canal System 2, Phoenix, Arizona (2015)
- Archaeology at Warren Grove Gunnery Range, Pine Barrens, Burlington County, New Jersey (2018)
- Archaeology Education for Children: Measuring Success and Avoiding Pitfalls (2016)
- Archaeology Fairs: Measuring Informal Learning (2017)
- Archaeology Field School at A Community College: An Outreach Opportunity (2015)
- Archaeology Field School Meets Transportation Data Recovery: An Alternative Mitigation at the James W. Hatch Site (36CE544), Centre County, Pennsylvania (2019)
- Archaeology for the Incarcerated (2019)