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 1,101-1,200 of 19,165)

  1. Archaeology Field School Meets Transportation Data Recovery: An Alternative Mitigation at the James W. Hatch Site (36CE544), Centre County, Pennsylvania (2019)
  2. Archaeology for the Incarcerated (2019)
  3. Archaeology for the People: Community-Based Research, Hands-On Education, and their Place in Archaeology (2019)
  4. Archaeology Girls: Mentoring of Women in Archaeology and the 1960s Girl Scout Archaeological Unit (2016)
  5. Archaeology in 3D: Exploring Differences in Photogrammetric Models Created with Popular Structure-from-Motion (SfM) Archaeological Software from both Drone and Terrestrial Photography (2019)
  6. Archaeology in a Cretaceous Swamp (2015)
  7. Archaeology in a Vacuum: Obstacles to and Solutions for Developing a Real Space Archaeology (2019)
  8. Archaeology in America’s Paradise: Renewing Local and National Interests in Our Nations Parks (2016)
  9. Archaeology in and with Museums: A Case Study from Honduras (2018)
  10. Archaeology in Outer Space: The Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment (SQuARE) on the International Space Station (2023)
  11. Archaeology in Public Schools (2023)
  12. Archaeology in Puerto Rico from 1960 to 1988: A Transition from Amateur to Regulated Archaeology (2023)
  13. Archaeology in the Age of the Anthropocene: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (2018)
  14. Archaeology in the Bering Sea: Results from 25 Years of Periodic Archaeological Research on St. Matthew and Hall Islands, the Most Remote Area within Alaska (2023)
  15. Archaeology in the Big Bend of the Green River, KY (2019)
  16. Archaeology in the Plaza: Public Display of the Past in Banamichi, Sonora (2019)
  17. Archaeology in the Southern Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca: After a Century of Explorations, What Has Changed? (2021)
  18. Archaeology in the Wilderness (2016)
  19. Archaeology in your Backyard: Successes and Lessons Learned from FPAN-Led Community Archaeology Projects (2016)
  20. Archaeology Is Anthropology, but Did Zooarchaeology Really Listen? (2021)
  21. "Archaeology is just a more productive form of boring": Learning by Doing on the Kenyon-Honduras Program (2019)
  22. Archaeology Moms: Mobility, Parenting, and Privilege in Archaeology (2023)
  23. Archaeology not only for archaeologists: Examples of integration of archaeology and rural communities in Perú (2015)
  24. Archaeology of a Frontier Plantation: Collections Analysis at Woodville Plantation, Pennsylvania, c. 1780 (2018)
  25. The Archaeology of a Russian Period Alutiiq Work Camp on Kodiak Island, Alaska (2015)
  26. The Archaeology of Anthropocene Rivers: Historic Mining and Landscape Change in Australia (2017)
  27. An Archaeology of Ash? Exploring Chacoan Contexts and Practices (2018)
  28. The Archaeology of Aztec North (2017)
  29. The Archaeology of Baseball: Excavations at Warren Ballpark in Bisbee, AZ (2018)
  30. An Archaeology of Becoming (2017)
  31. Archaeology of British Military Logistics in the French and Indian War (2017)
  32. The Archaeology of Cannabis in Humboldt County (2021)
  33. The Archaeology of Citizenship: African American School Sites in Post-emancipation Tennessee (2021)
  34. The Archaeology of Clovis Landscape Use at the Mockingbird Gap site, New Mexico and Surrounding Regions (2016)
  35. The Archaeology of Collections: A History of Practice and Policy in Arizona State Museum Archaeological Collections (2023)
  36. Archaeology of Colonial Encounters: The Alienating Narrative (2015)
  37. The archaeology of colonialism and capitalism in the Southwest Pacific: the Compagnie Calédonienne Nouvelles-Hébrides (CCNH) on Malakula, Vanuatu. (2017)
  38. Archaeology of Colonialism and Ethnogenesis in Guam and the Mariana Islands (2018)
  39. The Archaeology of Color in the Southwest (2019)
  40. The Archaeology of Community at Mission Santa Clara de Asís (2015)
  41. The archaeology of conflict damaged sites: Hosn Niha in the Biqaʾ Valley, Lebanon. (2015)
  42. The Archaeology of Counterculture at the New Buffalo Commune (2023)
  43. Archaeology of Culiacán Valley: An Integral Approach (2019)
  44. Archaeology of Death across the International Border: Research among the Hohokam and Trincheras Archaeological Groups (2019)
  45. The archaeology of dogs at the precontact Yup’ik site of Nunalleq, Western Alaska (2017)
  46. The archaeology of dreams and what it tells us about climate change (2016)
  47. The Archaeology of Ecological Imperialism in Central Mexico (2017)
  48. Archaeology of Everglades Tree Islands (2016)
  49. The Archaeology of First Generation Japanese American Men at an Idaho WWII Internment Camp (2015)
  50. The Archaeology of Frontier American Judaism: Exploring the Mosaic of Jewish Domestic Religious Practice in the 19th Century (2016)
  51. Archaeology of Fueguian Islands: Tierra del Fuego, Dawson and Navarino, Human Settlement and Cultural Interaction (Patagonia, Chile) (2015)
  52. The Archaeology of Gossip: Delineating the Space of Interpersonal Performance (2018)
  53. The Archaeology of Herring: A 10-Year Effort to Overcome Technical Challenges, Part 1 (2023)
  54. The Archaeology of Herring: A 10-Year Effort to Overcome Technical Challenges, Part 2 (2023)
  55. Archaeology of High-Mountain Pastoral Campsites in the High-Pyrenees (2019)
  56. The Archaeology of Historic Laurel Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland (2018)
  57. An Archaeology of Hope: How the Past Informs Indigenous Futures in the Southern Amazon’s “Arc of Deforestation" (2021)
  58. An Archaeology of Illegal Garbage Dumping in the Twenty-First Century (2017)
  59. The Archaeology of Indigenous-European Interaction at LaSoye 2, Dominica, a Sixteenth- to Eighteenth-Century Trading Settlement (2021)
  60. The Archaeology of Indigo Production in Morazán, El Salvador (2019)
  61. Archaeology of Iron in the Lingnan Region and the Imperial Strategy of the Han Dynasty in its Southern Peripheries (2017)
  62. The Archaeology of Late-19th and Early-20th Century Freedman's Towns in Dallas, Texas (2019)
  63. Archaeology of Luatele Crater: Ritual and Prestige of the Tuimanu'a, Ta'u Island, American Samoa (2021)
  64. Archaeology of Materials: An Overview of Amber Use in Prehistory (2021)
  65. The Archaeology of Mauritian Indentured Labor: Social Life and Death (2018)
  66. The Archaeology of Meaningful Places in Amazonia: the Teotônio Site (Upper Madeira Basin) (2015)
  67. The archaeology of medieval nomadism in Eastern Europe (10th-13th centuries): the current state of research (2016)
  68. Archaeology of Mining in Central Asia: Current Projects, Approaches, and Limitations (2023)
  69. The Archaeology of Nuestra Señora Santa María de los Remedios del Cabo de la Vela, a colonial enterprise settlement for pearl fishing in the sixteenth century. (2015)
  70. The Archaeology of Politics in the Highlands of Persia (2015)
  71. The Archaeology of Public Health and Food Sovereignty in the Pacific Islands (2023)
  72. The Archaeology of Rebellion and Resistance: Archaeological Investigations of the Neo-Inca State of Vilcabamba, Peru (2015)
  73. Archaeology of Religion in Nicaragua (2017)
  74. The Archaeology of Religious Conversion: Virtue and Tradition in the Indor valley, North India (2018)
  75. Archaeology of Resistance? Barbuda in the Aftermath of Hurricane Irma (2019)
  76. Archaeology of Ritual in Cherokee Towns of the Southern Appalachians (2019)
  77. Archaeology of Salmon Ceremony in the Japan Sea Coastal Regions: A Comparative Study with the Northwest Coast of North America (2017)
  78. Archaeology of San Francisco Jews (2015)
  79. The Archaeology of Schoharie Creek III Site, Schoharie County, New York (2023)
  80. The Archaeology of Shuká Káa Cave: Final Report (2023)
  81. An Archaeology of Skiing (2015)
  82. Archaeology of Smoking Behaviors on Putlic Parks of Santiago, Chile (2017)
  83. The Archaeology of Souls: A Foundation through Systematic Survey of Historic Woodland and Plains Native American Soul Concepts (2016)
  84. Archaeology of the 18th-Century French Colonial Metoyer Land Grant Site, Natchitoches, Louisiana (2015)
  85. The Archaeology of the Acari Valley and the Legacy of Francis Allen "Fritz" Riddell (2018)
  86. The Archaeology of the Archaic Age on Margarita Island within the Context of the Venezuelan Caribbean (2016)
  87. The Archaeology of the Color Pink (2019)
  88. Archaeology of the Gold Rush Waterfront (2015)
  89. Archaeology of the Nez Perce War of 1877 in Yellowstone National Park, WY. (2015)
  90. An Archaeology of the Night (2016)
  91. Archaeology of the Port des Morts Lighthouse Ruins (47DR497) – A Mid-19th Century Lighthouse Site (2017)
  92. Archaeology of the Shaw Creek Catchment, Central Alaska. (2015)
  93. The Archaeology of the Southern Belize Region in Context (2018)
  94. Archaeology of the Terminal Pleistocene McDonald Creek Site, Central Alaska (2015)
  95. Archaeology of the Town Square and the Emergence of Democracy in the Phoenician Mediterranean (2023)
  96. Archaeology of the Wetherill Trading Post in Chaco Canyon (2019)
  97. The Archaeology of Travel in Greater Nicoya (2018)
  98. Archaeology on Sheppard’s Island: Predictive Modeling and Heritage Preservation in Delaware’s Inter-Tidal Zone (2019)
  99. Archaeology on the Half Shell: Preliminary Analysis of Shellfish Consumption at Coan Hall (44NB11), Virginia (2018)
  100. Archaeology Underfoot on College Hill: Education, Outreach, and Historical Archaeology at Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) (2015)