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 • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Archaeological Feature • Domestic Structures • Settlements • Rock Art • Agricultural or Herding • Ball Court • Artifact Scatter

Other Keywords
Historic • Zooarchaeology • Cultural Resources and Heritage Management • Maya: Classic • Ceramic Analysis • Material Culture and Technology • Landscape Archaeology • Subsistence and Foodways • Historical Archaeology • Bioarchaeology/Skeletal Analysis

Culture Keywords
Historic • Ancestral Puebloan • Historic Native American • Mogollon • Woodland • Archaic • Euroamerican • Spanish • PaleoIndian • Hopewell

Investigation Types
Heritage Management • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis • Collections Research • Archaeological Overview • Data Recovery / Excavation • Systematic Survey • Architectural Documentation • Reconnaissance / Survey • Ethnographic Research • Ethnohistoric Research

Material Types
Ceramic • Fauna • Chipped Stone • Macrobotanical • Building Materials • Human Remains • Metal • Wood • Dating Sample • Ground Stone

Temporal Keywords
Civil War • Mimbres Classic period • Ancestral Puebloan / Sedentary through Classic Period • 19th Century • Historic • Magdalenian • 1880-1920 • Pueblo I and II • Postclassic • Prehistoric

Geographic Keywords
North America (Continent) • United States of America (Country) • Belize (Country) • USA (Country) • United Mexican States (Country) • Republic of Panama (Country) • Republic of El Salvador (Country) • Netherlands Antilles (Country) • Aruba (Country) • Republic of Guatemala (Country)

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86Sr/87Sr Evidence for the Role of Animals in Ritual Economies among the Ancient Maya in the Belize River Valley (2023)

9,000-year-old cereal meals: new methods for the analysis of charred food remains from Çatalhöyük East (Turkey) (2017)

A-Maize-ing: Phytolith evidence for an early introduction of maize in the Upper Great Lakes diet (2017)

Abalone in the Archaeological Record of Barkley Sound (2017)

Abandoned Cities in the Steppe: Roles and Perception of Early Modern Religious and Military Centers in Nomadic Mongolia (2021)

The Abandoned Intersection: Race and Class and the Diversification of Archaeology’s Ranks (2024)

Abandonment Processes in Manabi, Ecuador: Ethnoarchaeological Interpretations from the Cloud Forest (2018)

The Abbott Farm National Historic Landmark: A Look into the Future (2018)

Abbreviated Imagery on Cajamarca Cursive Ceramics (2018)

Abnormalies of Horse Vertebrae from Xigou Site and Shirenzigou Site in Xinjiang (2017)

Aboriginal Sociopolitical Groups in California and the Great Basin: The Rise of Orderly Anarchy (2015)

About Face: A Head-On Examination of Pre-Columbian Social Identity (2017)

About Islands and Islanders: Mobility, Connectivity, and Identity in the Balearic Islands (Mediterranean Sea) during the Bronze Age (2024)

About Peopling and Rivers: Connections and Boundaries in the Early Peopling of Eastern South America (2019)

About the Reliability of Archaeological Information (2018)

Above and Below the Waves: Advances in the Search for a Late Pleistocene Colonization of California’s Islands (2017)

The abrupt transition from Hamburgian to Federmessergruppen in southern Scandinavia – evidence for regional hunter-gatherer extinction? (2015)

The Absence (or Presence) of Footwear during the Eastern Great Basin Archaic (2023)

Absences and Abandonments in the Mississippian Midwest (2015)

Absent and Present: Contested Landscapes and Undocumented Migration at the U.S.-Mexico Border (2019)

Absent or Overlooked: Addressing the Early Athapaskan Presence in the San Juan Basin of Northwest New Mexico (2015)

The Absolute Chronology of Castillo de Huarmey (2023)

Absolute Chronology of the Early Formative Revisited: Bayesian Analysis, Radiocarbon Chronology, and the Emergence of Pottery in the Americas (2016)

Absorbed Residue Evidence of Datura Use in Mississippian Contexts (2017)

Abu Shusha: Integrating and Correlating Surface Features with Magnetic Susceptibility (2018)

An Abundance of Data: The Opportunities and Constraints of Digital Media Utilization at Fort Snelling National Historic Landmark (2017)

Academic Freedom, Data, and Job Performance in the Panopticon (2015)

Academic Jobs in Archaeology (2018)

Academic Museums as Instruments for Increasing BIPOC Representation in CRM (2023)

Accelerating History and Bayesian Models: The Rapid Emergence of Agropastoralism and the Tiwanaku State in the Lake Titicaca Basin, South America (2017)

Accelerating the "Maddeningly Slow Work of Archaeology" in the Forested Maya Lowlands (2017)

Access to Information: The Case of Birch Island (2019)

Access, Accumulation, and Action: The Relationship between Architectural and Depositional Patterns at Homol’ovi I (2015)

Accessing and Assessing Coastal Shell Middens on Private Property in the Pacific Northwest (2015)

Accessing Social Geographies in Late Glacial Franco-Cantabria through Personal Ornaments (2015)

Accessing the Inaccessible: Late Intermediate Period Chachapoya Collective Mortuary Practices at Diablo Wasi, Peru (2024)

Accessing the Inaccessible: Valuing Virtual Reality and Remote Access to Pleito Cave (2018)

Accessing the Object Collections at the Smithsonian’s Institution National Museum of the American Indian and National Museum of Natural History (2018)

Accidental Innovation? Using Isotopic Analysis to Test Possible Iron Production as a By-Product of Advanced Copper Smelting (2019)

An Account of the Kings of Kanu’l as Recorded on the Hieroglyphic Stair of K’an II of Caracol (2021)

Accountability as Litmus: The Work of Partnership in Collaborative Archaeology (2019)

Accountability in Arctic Archaeology: A Continuing Conversation for Change (2021)

An Accounting of the Dead: Historical Epidemiology and Big Data in the Arch Street Project (2018)

Acculturation and Its Discontents: Rethinking Models of Interpopulation Interaction during the Middle-Upper Paleolithic Transition (2018)

Accuracy and Precision of 3D Modeling in Lithic Analysis (2015)

Accuracy of Museum Volunteer Measurements: A Study of Projectile Point Measurements at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, New Mexico (2018)

Accuracy vs. Precision: Understanding Potential Errors from Radiocarbon Dating on African Landscapes (2015)

Accuracy, Precision, and Efficiency: Comparing Mapping Techniques in Nixtun-Ch’ich’, Petén, Guatemala (2023)

Acercamiento a las Opciones Técnicas en la Elaboración de Cerámicas Tempranas del Caribe Colombiano: Estudio Tecnológico de los Sitios Puerto Hormiga y Monsú (2016)

Acheulean Hominin Ecology: Organic Residue on Lithics as Evidence of Plant Processing (2017)

Acheulean Hominins and Out of Africa Dispersals: Challenges and Advances (2018)

Achieving Safe Workplaces in Cultural Resources Management (2021)

Acknowledging Anonymous Artists: Examining the Painted Stucco Facade from a temple at Kiuic, Yucatan (2016)

Acknowledging Behavior and Process in Early Caribbean Stone Tools: The Case of the Ortiz Site, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico (2024)

The Acolman Cross and the Maize God (2024)

An Acorn in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Granary: The Effect of Decay Rates on Food Storage Preferences in Prehistoric California (2019)

Acorn Oil Rendering in the Upper Great Lakes (2017)

Acoustic Effects at Las Cuevas Cave (Western Belize): An Archaeoacoustic Analysis of a Maya Cave (2018)

Acquedotto Vergine: Stewardship of Ancient Water Infrastructure in the Modern Roman Periferia (2021)

“An Acre of Land to Plant or A Stick of Wood to Make a Fence or Fire”: A Heritage of Mohegan Allotment (2024)

Acrobatic Games of Mesoamerica (2015)

Across a Threshold: The Columbian Exchange in the Land of Tiguex (2024)

Across and beyond Site Boundaries: Maximizing the Legacy of Submerged Landscape Assessments (2021)

Across Boundaries: Origin of Microblade Technology in NE Asia under a Macroecological Approach (2019)

"Across the Agua to Managua" and Beyond: Getting Past Migration in Nicaraguan Prehistory (2018)

Across the Lake: Interregional Connections with the Tiwanaku Occupation of Copacabana (2018)

Across the River: Romanized Barbarians and Barbarized Romans on the edge of the Empire. Bioarchaeology of Romania in Late Antiquity (300-600 CE) (2016)

Acting, Reacting, and Entangling at the Edge of the Spanish Colony: Maya Life at Progresso Lagoon, Belize in the Context of Colonization (2018)

Activating Heritage: Introductory Remarks on Substantive and Pragmatic Archaeologies (2024)

Active Forgetting: Cemetery Abandonment and Mortuary Politics in Bronze Age Transylvania (2021)

The Active Materiality of Obsidian (2019)

Activist Archaeology and Queer Feminist Critiques in Mesoamerican Archaeology (2017)

Activity Area Analysis of Elite and Commoner Spaces in the Ancient Maya City of Actuncan, Belize (2016)

Activity Area Analysis of Terminal Classic period Civic Architecture at Actuncan, Belize (2016)

Activity Area Analysis of the Sanders Site (45KT315), 3–4 Kya Yakima Uplands, Washington (2023)

Activity Areas and Political Economy at Teotihuacan’s Plaza of the Columns: Investigations in Front E (2018)

The activity of hunter gatherers in the northwest of Durango, México (2015)

Acts of God? Causation and Agency in Disease History (2018)

Acts of Nature and Culture: Caves, Performance, and Transformation (2018)

Actualistic Experiments in Archaeology: Farming and Storing Maize in Range Creek Canyon, Utah (2021)

Acumulación de metales y procesos tecnológicos vinculados a las escorias presentes en el sitio arqueológico de Jicalán Viejo (2023)

Adapting Photogrammetry and 3D Modeling Beyond Archaeological Recordation for Use in Public Education (2024)

Adapting Project Archaeology Curriculum in Southern New Mexico (2019)

Adapting to Changing Resources: A Petrographic Analysis of Iron I Pottery from Tel Miqne-Ekron (2018)

Adapting to harsh environment resulting changes in culture that led towards a new perception of the outer world: The birth of the Central European Neolithic (2017)

Adapting to the Changing Environment in CRM Graduate Training (2023)

Adaptive Approaches to the Thingness of Institutional Datasets: A View from North Carolina (2019)

The Adaptive Capacity of the Water Management System of Angkor, Cambodia (2018)

Adaptive Cycles and Resilience as explanatory templates for the formulation of coupled climate-culture models (2016)

Adaptive Dietary Response to Long-Term Drought: Diachronic Stable Isotope Evidence from the Central Sierra Nevada, California (2017)

Adaptive Pastoralism and Climate Change in the Irish Chalcolithic – Early Bronze Age: Adding Evidence from Termon, Co. Clare (2019)

Adaptive Strategies of Foragers and Early Herders in Mongolia's Desert-Steppe: Implications for Understanding Social-ecological Dynamics, the Development of Food Production, and the Study of Long-Term Social Change (2021)

Adaptive Water Management in the American West: Utah Case Studies in Technological Innovations and Community Cooperation (2024)

Add to Cart? The Ethical Landscape of Buying Human Bone in the United States (2023)

Adding Fuel to the Fire: An Ethnoarchaeological study of Fire amongst the Asurini of Xingu, Brazilian Amazon (2016)

Adding Navigating Capabilities to a Deterministic Computer Model of Ocean Voyaging (2019)

Adding to the Paleoenvironmental Framework for Early Settlement of Interior Alaska: New Perspectives on Local Changes in Vegetation and Hydrology from Plant Wax N-Alkanes (2023)

Additional Insights into the Significance of Cave Formations: The Case of Balamkú (2023)

Additional statistical and graphical methods for analyzing artifact orientations and site formation processes from total station proveniences (2017)

Addressing Anthropogenic Safety Concerns in the Archeological Workplace: A Case Study (2015)