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 •
Maya: Classic •
Cultural Resources and Heritage Management •
Ceramic Analysis •
Landscape Archaeology •
Material Culture and Technology •
Geoarchaeology •
Lithic Analysis •
Survey
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 •
Metal •
Wood •
Dating Sample •
Ground Stone •
Human Remains
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) •
Republic of Guatemala (Country) •
Netherlands Antilles (Country) •
Aruba (Country)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 18,601-18,700 of 19,165)
Wetland Maize Farming by 6000 BP Gave Way to Upland Farming with the Rise of Ancient Maya Settlements and Political Centers (2023)
We’ve Gotta Get Out of this Place: Formation and Resettlement of a Pre-Classic Hohokam Village (2015)
What Ancient DNA Can Reveal about the Ubiquitous Fish of the Northwest Coast: Salmon, Herring, and Rockfish (2019)
What big teeth they have: Rethinking mandibular tooth crowding in domestic dogs and wolves using landmark-based metric analysis (2017)
What Can Hogup Cave Starches Tell Us about Diet That We don’t already Know? Context, Preservation, and the Comparison of Archaeobotanical Analyses. (2015)
What Do Archaeological Networks Reveal? Comparing New Guinean Material Culture with Ethnographic Network Structure (2021)
What Does the "Cruz Pata" Style Look Like?: Redefining an Enigmatic EIP Ceramic Style of the Ayacucho Valley (2018)
What Does ‘Collapse’ Look Like for Hinterland Sites: Site Distribution and Settlement Pattern in the Valley of Puebla Tlaxcala during the Classic-Postclassic Transition (2017)
What Happened at Joara, Cuenca, and Fort San Juan: Archaeological Finds from the Berry Site in Western North Carolina (2019)
What Have We Done, What Are We Doing, and Where Are We Going with Overseas Chinese Archaeology? (2015)
What Have We Here?: Demonstrating the Opportunities for Heritage Preservation to Local Governments (2016)
What Lies Beneath: The Application of 3D Image Enhancements to Explore Relationships between Rock Art and Rock Surfaces (2019)
What Lies between the Dots: Exploring the Archaeology of the Broader Basin of Mexico Landscape (2019)
What Once Was Lost, Now Is Found: Investigating the Relationships of Lower Dover in the Belize River Valley (2019)
What the Shell? Taphonomic and Cultural Modifications of Freshwater and Marine Shell from the Upper Belize River Valley (2019)
What to Do with All Those Digital Data: Examples from the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS) (2018)
What We See, What We Don’t See: Spatial Data Quality in Large Digital Archaeological Collections (2019)
What's a Niche Got to Do with It? Spatial Analysis of Niched Structures at Patipampa and Other Middle Horizon Sites (2018)
What's in a Hole? Memory, Knowledge, and Personhood in the Cache Pit Food Storage Features of Northern Michigan (2017)