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.

Presenters can access and upload their presentations for FREE. If you would like to upload your presentation, please click here to find out more.

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)

Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 501-600 of 21,939)


Analysis of Microbotanical Remains from Chavín de Huántar (2015)

Analysis of microbotanical remains from dental calculus: a new approach for ancient diet studies. (2017)

An Analysis of Mimbres Ornament Assemblages from the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology and the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (2023)

Analysis of Mortuary Rituals at Panquilma (2015)

An Analysis of No Agua Obsidian (2019)

An Analysis of Obsidian Consumption in the Postclassic Coatlan del Rio Valley (2018)

Analysis of Obsidian Procurement from the Wurlitzer Site, Butte County, California (2019)

Analysis of Pastoralist Settlement Patterns in Eastern Djibouti (ca. 1200–500 BP) (2019)

Analysis of Perishable Artifacts from Conejo Shelter, Texas (2017)

Analysis of Physical Activity Pattern of Women from the Castillo de Huarmey Mausoleum, Peru (2023)

Analysis of Plant Micro-botanical Remains from the Jiahu, Peiligang and Tanghu Sites in the Upper Reaches of the Huaihe River (2015)

Analysis of Plant Remains from Aventura, an Ancient Maya Site in Northern Belize (2023)

Analysis of Plant Remains from the Bronze Age Site of Pecica Şanţul Mare (2015)

Analysis of possible anatomical order in microexcavated Bronze Age funerary urn material from Hungary (2016)

Analysis of Prehistoric Flagstaff Cultural Developments (2018)

An Analysis of Projectile Point Agency from the South Diamond Creek Pueblo Site (2019)

Analysis of Radiocarbon Dates on Terminal Pleistocene Horses from North America Shows Synchronous Local Extirpation and Overlap with Paleoindian Technocomplexes (2024)

Analysis of Recovered Hull Elements from the Manila Galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos of 1693 (2023)

An analysis of Reptile bone from an excavation at Moh-Khiew cave, Krabi province,Thailand (2015)

Analysis of Rio Grande Glaze Ware Glaze F Pottery from LA 20,000 Using Petrographic and Chemical Composition Techniques (2018)

Analysis of Settlement Patterns in Albania from the Iron Age through Greek and Roman Colonization and Integration (1100 BCE–395 CE) (2019)

Analysis of Settlement Patterns Near the Big Burro Mountains (2018)

Analysis of Shell Trade Patterns at Salado Sites in the Southwest (2023)

Analysis of Sorting Errors of Animal Remains from Shell Middens: Lessons Learned from the Čḯxwicən Project (2018)

Analysis of spatial characteristics and traditional knowledge of freshwater springs as a foundation for predictive settlement modeling and identification of submarine groundwater discharge (2017)

Analysis of Sturgeon Fishing Encampments from Block Island, Rhode Island (2018)

Analysis of Surface Treatments on Weeden Island Red Vessels via LA-ICP-MS (2018)

Analysis of the Ancient Built Environment of the Millo Complex, Vitor Valley, Peru (2018)

An Analysis of the Archaeological Remains at Fort Halifax Park (2015)

Analysis of the Built Environment of the Group B Acropolis at Baking Pot: Results of the 2019 Field Season (2021)

An Analysis of the Factors that Impact Accuracy During the Acquisition of Archaeological Geospatial Data Through the Use of GPS Units (2015)

Analysis of the Faunal Distribution at the Weed Lake Ditch site (35HA341), Southeastern Oregon (2021)

Analysis of the Faunal Remains at Shangjing city site, Inner Mongolia (2013 excavation) (2017)

Analysis of the Faunal Remains at the Arch Street Cemetery Site (2018)

Analysis of the Faunal Remains from Holtun, Guatemala (2024)

Analysis of the Fenley Hunter Obsidian Flake from the Tule Springs Archaeological Site, Las Vegas, NV (2024)

An Analysis of the Industrialization of the Bourbon Industry in Kentucky: 1870s-Prohibition (2018)

An analysis of the Jamestown diet (2017)

Analysis of the Lithic Assemblage from Canchas Uckro (1100–800 BC), Eastern Ancash, Peru (2018)

An Analysis of the Polvorón Phase Lithic Assemblage from the Mesa Grande Platform Mound in the Phoenix Basin (2019)

Analysis of the state of preservation and determination of raw material of Gravettian mammoth ivory personal ornaments (Dolní Věstonice, Czech Republic) using Micro Computed Tomography (2015)

An Analysis of the use of Quarries and Workshops by Late Prehistoric People in Western Pennsylvania (2016)

Analysis of the Vertebral Pathologies among Individuals from Fourteenth- to Eighteenth-Century Polish Cemeteries: Comparison between the Village and Town Inhabitants in Greater Poland (2023)

Analysis of Trinidad Cross Artifact (2016)

Analysis of Western Stemmed Tradition Stone Tool Patterns and Faunal Remains from Pit Feature 95 at the Cooper’s Ferry Site (10IH73), Idaho (2023)

Analysis of XAD as a Pre-Treatment Method for Radiocarbon Dating Bone (2017)

An Analysis on the Taosi Cemetery from the Late Neolithic in North-central China (2018)

Analytical Approaches for Identifying Ritual Contexts (2017)

Analytical Challenges Posed by the Early Holocene / Late Paleoindian Activity Areas at the Water Canyon Site, West-Central New Mexico: How Do We Know What We Think We Know? (2017)

Analytical Models for At-Risk Heritage Conservation and 3D GIS (2018)

The Analytical Nexus: Multi-Technique Approaches to Ceramic Composition (2015)

Analyzing activity areas when only one material remains: The interpretation of low density, "empty" spaces in open air Middle Paleolithic sites (2015)

Analyzing Afro-Caribbean Ware from Fort Amsterdam (SE094) and Battery Rotterdam (SE129) on St. Eustatius, Caribbean Netherlands (2019)

Analyzing Ancient Maya Settlement Patterns through the Geochemical Analysis of Obsidian Artifacts in Southern Belize. (2016)

Analyzing Archaic Rock Art in Northern New Mexico through Landscape Survey (2019)

Analyzing Highland and Coastal Ceramic Techniques of Production in the Middle Horizon Period (2024)

Analyzing Historically Significant Archeological Sites to 1800s Survey Plats of Southeast Florida (2016)

Analyzing Images from the Jebel Qara Environment: Preserving Painted Rock Art in the Cave Shelters of Southern Arabia (2024)

Analyzing Late Woodland Pipe Fragments from the Topper Site (38AL23): Exploring the Botanical, Social, and Ritual Intersections of Smoking (2018)
Analyzing Magdalenian social networks in their environmental context
Analyzing Magdalenian social networks in their environmental context (2016)

Analyzing Mimbres Pottery Designs with Confidence (2021)

Analyzing Periphery Ritual Practice through Time to Identify Intra-polity Relationships at the Ancient Maya Center of Pacbitun (2023)

Analyzing Prehispanic Textile Technology at the Site of Santo Domingo. Huarmey Valley, Peru (2023)

Analyzing Similarity of Animal Style Art in Iron Age North Central Eurasia: A New Way to Study Continental Expression of Religious Symbolism (2019)

Analyzing Skeletal Manifestations of Pre-Columbian Tuberculosis in the Northeastern highlands of Peru (2016)

Analyzing Stone Fish Net Sinkers in the North Coast of Peru: Inquiring its Functional and Symbolic Aspects. (2024)

Analyzing Stress, Discovering Cooperation: A case study of a Late Archaic sample from the Green River region of Kentucky (2019)

Analyzing the Relationship between Peri-abandonment Deposits and the Eastern Shrine of Xunantunich, Group B (2019)

Analyzing the Use of Inter-Structure Space at Ames, a Mississippian Town in Fayette County, Tennessee (2016)

Analyzing the Utilization of Shell in Chickasaw Pottery Using Petrographic and Chemical Composition Techniques (2019)

Analyzing Urban and Industrial Threats to Heritage in Turkey Using Remote Sensing and GIS (2018)

Analyzing Wood-use Behavior at Wupatki Pueblo (2017)

Anarchy in the Trenches: Perspectives on Buen Suceso (2023)

Anarchy, Archaeology, and the Decolonization of Collaborative Heritage (2015)

Anarchy, Heterarchy, and the Bioarchaeological Evidence of Labor in the Tiwanaku “State” (AD 500–1100) of Bolivia and Peru (2021)

Anatomical Characteristics of the Pedal Skeleton Provide Insights into the History of Human Footwear (2023)

Anatomy of an Arctic Archaeobotanical Analysis: Insights about Ancestral Inuvialuit Plant Use at Agvik, Banks Island, NWT (2021)

Ancestor Shrines, Diversity, and Distributed Power in West Africa: Understanding the Strength of Flexibility and Cooperation in Sociopolitical Histories (2023)

Ancestor veneration in a domestic space in Panquilma. A preliminary approach based on the Ceramic Analysis. (2015)

Ancestor Veneration or Funeral Practices? An Examination of Recuay Mortuary Variability in the Basin of Puccha (Ancash) between AD 200-900 (2019)

Ancestor Veneration, Termination and Renewal: New Considerations of Construction Fill (2018)

Ancestors and Ancestral Spirits: Understanding the Spirits of the Dead in Prehispanic Settlements of the American Southeast and Southwest (2015)

Ancestors and the Power of Ruins in Nejapa and Tavela, Oaxaca (2023)

The Ancestors You Choose: The Role of Predecessors at Xunantunich, Belize Group D (2021)

Ancestors, Agency, and Formation Processes: Interpreting Problematical "Smash and Trash Deposits" at Ka’Kabish, Belize (2017)

Ancestral Abstract Art of the Mojave Desert (2015)

Ancestral Chickasaw Migration and the Makings of the Anthropocene in Southeastern North America (2018)

Ancestral Landscapes of the Salish Sea: Exploring Inland Shell Middens, Social Memory and Coast Salish Narratives (2017)

Ancestral Ohiyo Haudenosaunee Ceramic Styles and Technology (2019)

Ancestral Pathways of Fiji: Using GIS to Analyze Landscapes of Movement and Lineages within the Sigatoka River Valley (2019)

Ancestral Pueblo Agriculture on the Pajarito Plateau: A Geoscience Investigation of Field Terraces in the Northern Mountains of New Mexico (2018)

Ancestral Pueblo Essentials: Evidence for Layered Social Institutions during the Basketmaker III Period in the Northern Southwest (2019)

Ancestral Pueblo Fishing Associated with Mixed Foraging Goals and Environmental Stability in the Middle Rio Grande of New Mexico (2023)

Ancestral Pueblo Site Distribution Data from Los Alamos National Laboratory on the Pajarito Plateau (2015)

Ancestral Pueblo Turkey Management on the Pajarito Plateau (C.E. 1150-1600) (2019)

The Ancestral Puebloan Community of Alkali Ridge: Investigating The "Prudden Unit" Paradigm (2018)

Ancestral Puebloan Running and Walking Biomechanics (2023)

Ancestral Puebloan Settlement Patterns of Redwood Llama Ranch: Analysis of GIS and Fieldwalking Survey (2019)

The Ancestral Remains of the Cheslatta T'en: A Rare Burial Site from the Middle Holocene in Central British Columbia (2023)

Ancestral Ties During a Period of Social Upheaval, An Example from the Early Classic Period in the Tucson Basin (2017)