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 1-100 of 15,700)
$1.87 Each, Four Feet Long and Over; $0.87 Each, Less than Four Feet: A Spatial Analysis of Coffin Type and Coffin Hardware from the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery. (2017)
100 Years Later: Georeferencing Early Maps and Present Day Field Work at the Site of Nuri, Sudan (2019)
13,000 Years of History in 990 Square Feet: Recent Undertakings in Public Archaeology at Petrified Forest National Park. (2015)
19th Century Mining Life in Michigan's Upper Peninsula - The American West on the Wrong Side of the 100th Meridian (2015)
A 2000-Year-Old Family: Interpreting Site Structure and Human Behaviors at the Swan Point Site, Interior Alaska (2019)
The 2016 Season at El Rayo, Nicaragua: Civic-Ceremonial Structures, Tombs, and Feasting from the Bagaces to Sapoa Transition (2017)
The 20th Century Archaeology of the High Mountains: State Projects and the Forces Resisting Them (2018)
3D Cyber-Archaeology Dissemination through Scientific Visualization - Personal and Large-Scale Virtual Reality Platforms (2018)
3D Geometric Morphometry of Western Stemmed Projectile Points from the Columbia River Plateau (2016)
3D Visualization and Soundscape Applications that Speak to Community Organizational Change on Luzon, Philippines during Spanish Contact (2016)
9,000-year-old cereal meals: new methods for the analysis of charred food remains from Çatalhöyük East (Turkey) (2017)
Aboriginal Sociopolitical Groups in California and the Great Basin: The Rise of Orderly Anarchy (2015)
Above and Below the Waves: Advances in the Search for a Late Pleistocene Colonization of California’s Islands (2017)
Absent or Overlooked: Addressing the Early Athapaskan Presence in the San Juan Basin of Northwest New Mexico (2015)