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)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 19,201-19,300 of 21,939)
- Százalombatta Archaeological Expedition (SAX). Hungary: A 20-year History of Theories, Methods, and Results of an International Project in Central Hungary (2018)
- The szőlő of wrath: Hungarian vineyards and land use in the 20th century (2016)
- Sámi Boat Building in a Cultural Revitalization Context: Unifying Community and Anthropological Goals (2016)
- The S’Urachi Project: Cultural Encounters and Everyday Life around a Nuraghe in Phoenician and Punic Sardinia (2018)
- Taboo to Chew: Cultural Influences on Dog-Feeding (2021)
- Tabuchila Ceramics of the Jama River Valley, Manabí, Ecuador (2017)
- The Tabular Scraper Trade: Complexities of a Prehistoric Pastoral Trade System (2019)
- The Tacahuay Landscape: Land Use and Environmental Change on the South Coast of Peru (2024)
- The Tacahuay Legacy: Landscape Modification and Reuse on the South Coast of Peru (2023)
- Tackling Ethnicity from Anthropological, Archaeological, and Indigenous Perspectives: The Case of the St. Lawrence Iroquoians (2016)
- Tackling Hard Histories in Penn’s Woods: Exploratory Archaeology of Two Segregated CCC Camps (2023)
- Tackling the Big Challenges of Big Data: An Example from the U.S. Southwest (2017)
- Tackling the Early Holocene Record in Patagonia (2023)
- Tails from the Animal Storerooms: Case Studies on the Uses and Limitations of Natural History Collections Using Multiproxy Approaches (2024)
- Taiy Tsadlh (Six Mile Hill) Site Evaluations (2024)
- Tajahuana: New Insights into a Familiar Paracas Site (2021)
- A Tajín Deity Associated with Decapitation Sacrifice (2018)
- Take A Knap Inside: Evidence for Lithic Activities and Behaviors in Various Pit Structure Types at a Basketmaker III Settlement in Southwest Colorado (2017)
- Take Me Home Desert Roads…Stable Oxygen Isotope Analysis and Migration in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt (2015)
- Take My Heart, Take My Head: Death among Gods in the Codex Borgia (2021)
- Take shelter! The contributions of rock-shelter archaeology to understanding the socio-economic organization of Final Paleolithic/Mesolithic societies in Western France (2015)
- TAKEN TO TASK AT STAR CARR: INTEGRATING SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES TO ARTEFACTS AND THEIR ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXTS (2015)
- Taken Too Soon: The Context of Two Child Burials at the Mesolithic Shell Midden of Cabeço da Amoreira (Muge, Portugal) (2023)
- Taking a Byte out of Rattlesnake: An Overview of the Rattlesnake Canyon Project (2016)
- Taking a Closer Look: Biomolecular Insights to Foodways among the Moche of North Coastal Peru (2023)
- Taking Ancient Maya Vases off their Pedestals: A Case Study in Optical Microscopy and Ultra Violet Light Examination (2018)
- Taking and Giving: Finding the Balance in Community Archaeology (2015)
- Taking Archaeology to Heart: Reflections on Passions and Politics (2017)
- Taking CARE to Make tDAR FAIR (2023)
- Taking High Tech Back to Basics: GIS and the Three Dimensions of Archaeology (2015)
- Taking it to the Tuxtlas: How the BoM Survey Shaped Gulf Lowland Settlements (2019)
- Taking Out the Trash: Resilience and Reuse in a Late Roman Urban Space (2017)
- Taking Research into Action (2019)
- Taking Sides: Left and Right Concepts in the Enactment of Magic (2024)
- Taking Tech on the Road: Mobile Makerspaces and Archaeological Engagement (2015)
- Taking the Bull by the Horns: Why Hunt Aurochs Using Light Arrows with Microlithic Points? (2019)
- Taking the Lab to the Field: Examinations at Etzanoa, Kansas (2019)
- Taking the Palace out of Palatial Control (2023)
- Taking the temperature of the Arctic past: Extracting temperature and precipitation information from bacterial lipids deposited in faunal remains from Cape Krusenstern, Alaska (2016)
- Taking the Thumb Off the Scale: Identifying Local Production in the Middle Preclassic Maya Lowlands (2019)
- Taking Their Water for New York City: Archaeology of Reservoir Communities (2024)
- Taking Their Water for Our City: Archaeology and Water Rights in New York and Beyond (2016)
- Taking Things Apart: Reconfiguring Production Practices in South India (2019)
- The tale of a Rock: Backdirt, Backfill and Intrusive Historic Occupations of Woodpecker Cave (2017)
- Tale of a Test Pit: The Research History of a Midden Column from the Turkey Pen Site, Utah (2019)
- A Tale of Dead Kitties: Theorizing Human-Animal Companion Relationships and Social Domestication through the Anatomization of Ancient Cats (2023)
- The Tale of Rattlesnake Canyon: Ongoing Documentation of an Endangered Rock Art Site (2017)
- A Tale of Three Assemblages (2015)
- A Tale of Three Substrates: Effects of Trampling on Ostrich Eggshell and Applicability to the Archaeological Record (2019)
- A Tale of Tongan Chickens (2019)
- A Tale of Two Bombers: Forensic Recovery of WWII-era Aircraft Crash Sites in the Jungles of Papua New Guinea (2019)
- A Tale of Two Cemeteries: Learning to Listen to the Voices of African American Descendant Communities in New York and Philadelphia in the Context of Compliance Archaeology, ca. 1990 (2024)
- A Tale of Two Cities: A Comparison between Preclassic and Classic Formation of Two Maya Cities (2018)
- A Tale of Two Cities: Holtun, Holmul, and Permeable Ceramic Boundaries between Guatemala and Belize (2019)
- A Tale of Two Cities: Quelepa, El Salvador and Guayabo de Turrialba, Costa Rica (2018)
- A Tale of Two Cities: The Role of Cultural Factors in Determining Resilience to Climate Change (2016)
- A Tale of Two Cities?: Neighborhood Identity and Integration at Ventanillas (2018)
- A Tale of Two Communities: Changing Aspects of Rurality at El Lacandon, Palenque, Chiapas (2018)
- A Tale of Two Houses: Soil Chemical and Floor Assemblage Evidence of Domestic Activities at the Menoken Site, North Dakota (2015)
- A Tale of Two Landscapes: Agricultural Evidence from a Classical/Hellenistic City and a Nearby Hellenistic Farmstead, Greece (2023)
- A Tale of Two Management Plans: Comparing Visitor Impacts to Rock Art Sites on National Park Service Land vs. San Bernardino County Land (2017)
- A Tale of Two Mounds: New Chronologies of Mississippian Movements and Mound Building in Southwestern Virginia, USA (2024)
- A Tale of Two Peripheries: Recent Excavations at Fracción Mujular, Chiapas, Mexico (2018)
- A Tale of Two Places in D’Hanis, TX: Combining Linguistic Anthropology and Historical Archaeology to Study Place-Making on the Texas Frontier (2018)
- A Tale of Two Ports: A Preliminary Assessment of Ceramic and Artifactual Assemblages from Conil and Vista Alegre (2018)
- A Tale of Two Projects: Comparative Findings of the CRAS and Yalahau Projects (2015)
- A Tale of Two Projects: Geoarchaeological Investigations along the Shores of Pleistocene Lake Waring in Elko County, Nevada, and the Importance of Early Planning and Collaboration between Public Land Managers, Project Proponents, and Stakeholders (2023)
- A Tale of Two Pueblos: Varying Consumption Practices and Market Dependence Within the Margins of the Spanish Colonial Empire in Mexico (2017)
- A Tale of Two Sites: the Connections Between Poverty Point and Tick Island (2015)
- A Tale of Two Styles: A Geoarchaeological Investigation into Lima & Ychsma Construction Materials at Cajamarquilla, Peru (2015)
- A Tale of Two Tells: Variation in Neolithic Nucleated Settlements in Southeastern Europe (2015)
- A Tale of Two Tombs: the relationship between Khonsu's funerary monument and that of Userhat (2015)
- A tale of two towns: Demographic and economic change in two middle Yangzi communities (2015)
- A Tale of Two Types of Cities: The Rise and Decline of Low-Density Urbanism in Champotón, Campeche (2023)
- A Tale of Two Villages: Exploring the Role of Villages with Massive Shell Accumulations as Anthropogenic Coastline Modifications in Prince Rupert Harbour (2017)
- A Tale Told . . . Signifying Nothing (2021)
- Tales from the Hearth: An Analysis of Formal verses Informal Burning Episodes at the Cosma Complex, Nepeña Valley, Peru (2019)
- Tales from the Trench: an analysis of artifacts salvaged from two Western Thule sites in Kotzebue, Alaska (2017)
- Tales from Three Caves and a Rockshelter in Balkh Province, Northern Afghanistan (2015)
- Tales of Bronze Age People: A Transdisciplinary Look at the Mobility of Persons, Materials and Ideas in Nordic Bronze Age Denmark (2019)
- Tales of Extinction: Natives in the Narratives of Early Colonial Panama, Historical Representations, and Archaeology (2019)
- Talk to the hand: experimental research on the painted hand depictions of Cerro Azul, Colombia (2024)
- Talking about Epiclassic at Teotihuacan: the urban question (2015)
- Talking Heads of a forgotten Civilization (2015)
- Talking Stone: Cherokee Syllabary Inscriptions in Dark Zone Caves (2016)
- Talking to Our Selves? An Applied Zooarchaeology Citation Analysis (2018)
- Tallgrass Prairie Archaeological Landscapes Project: Investigating Occupational Histories within a US National Grassland through GIS (2024)
- Tambo Colorado before the Inca Administrative Center: Study of the Socio-political Developments of the Pisco Valley during the Late Intermediate Period and the Late Horizon (2019)
- Tame, Feral, and Pest Species: Plants and Animals at the edges of Domestication and Human Control (2024)
- Taming the Beast: Rock Art Data Management and Archival Strategies (2015)
- Taming the Flood: Religious Response to Climatic Crisis and the Cult of the Great Yu in Early China (2017)
- Taming the Maya Jungle: Decauville Railroads in 19th and Early 20th Century Yucatán (2018)
- Taming Wild Plants: How Hard (or Easy) Can It Be? (2017)
- Tamsagbulag: New Center of Cattle Domestication in East Asia? (2021)
- The Tamtoc Scroll Style: Assessing the Relationship Between the Huasteca and Classic Veracruz (2017)
- The “Tamtoc Venus”: An Early Huastec Sculpture and Its Connections to Gulf Coast Sculptural Traditions (2021)
- Tan Tun: The Enduring Role of Cozumel in the Maya World (2017)
- Tanana Chiefs Conference: CRM in a Tribal Consortium, Interior Alaska (2023)
- The Tangled Roots of the Anthropocene: China from the Late Neolithic to the Song Dynasty (2018)
- Tangled Web: Political Pragmatics in the Mopan River Valley (2023)