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 1,201-1,300 of 19,165)

  1. Archaeology's Digital Interfaces (2017)
  2. Archaeology, A Bone to Pick: Pitfalls of a Destructive Science (2017)
  3. Archaeology, Accessibility and 3D Imaging (2017)
  4. Archaeology, Epigraphy and the Development of Long-term Alliance at La Corona, Guatemala (2016)
  5. Archaeology, History, and Accessibility with the Eckley Miners' Village Cell Phone Tour (2023)
  6. Archaeology, History, and Ancient Political Dynamics of the Mopan River Valley (2018)
  7. Archaeology, Identity and Art: The Caranqui Murals of Ibarra, Ecuador (2015)
  8. Archaeology, Local History, and Heritage in Limpopo National Park (2021)
  9. Archaeology, Museums, and the Anthropocene (2018)
  10. Archaeology, People and Identity in Cape Verde Islands (2018)
  11. Archaeology?! Yadilah! Collaborative Archaeology and Lessons from the Navajo Nation (2015)
  12. Archaeologyin3 Minutes: Multimedia Storytelling in Public Archaeology (2017)
  13. Archaeology’s Moving Images (2015)
  14. Archaeomagnetic Dating Results of PPC Project (2018)
  15. Archaeomagnetic Directional Studies as a Tool for Understanding Feature Form and Function: A Case Study of Two Burned Rock Features in a Multicomponent Site in East Texas, USA (2023)
  16. Archaeomagnetic Studies in Xalla: Contributions to the Chronology of Teotihuacan (2021)
  17. Archaeomagnetism and Hohokam Platform Mounds: Reframing the Classic Period Chronology (2019)
  18. Archaeometallurgy and Productive Processes: Understanding Copper Smelting Production in the Prehispanic and Colonial Site of Jicalán, Michoacán, Mexico (2023)
  19. Archaeometallurgy, Environment & Landscape in Upland Laos: its impact on 'world-views' during the transition from the Bronze Age to early states in SE Asia. (2015)
  20. Archaeometric Analysis of Hunter-Gatherer Pottery from Northeast Asia (2015)
  21. Archaeometric Analysis of Mural Paintings at Pachacamac, Peru (2019)
  22. Archaeometric Characterization of the Lapidary Objects from Teopancazco and Xalla, Teotihuacan (2019)
  23. Archaeometric Studies of Rock Paintings in Colombia, South America: Geochemical and Mineralogical Characterization (2023)
  24. Archaeometry and Mural Paintings in Ancient Peru: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Apprehend the Prehispanic Artisan Painters (2015)
  25. Archaeometry and the lime kilns (2015)
  26. Archaeometry of the Lapidary of Xalla and the Identification of Teotihuacan Relics in Tenochtitlan (2021)
  27. Archaeomtric Analysis of Ceramics from Iron Age Thrace, Bulgaria (2019)
  28. Archaeothanatological Analysis of Mortuary Practices in the Prehistoric Sonoran Desert and Implications for Interpreting Sickness through Postmortem Processing (2018)
  29. Archaeozoology contributions to the studies of the anthropology of food through the study of two archaeological contexts of early Hispanic – Indigenous interaction in the northeast of Cuban. (2016)
  30. Archaic Age Bahamas? New perspectives from Long Island (2019)
  31. Archaic Age migration and settlement on Aruba (2016)
  32. Archaic Age voyaging, networks and resource mobility around the Caribbean Sea (2016)
  33. Archaic and Formative Period Obsidian Exchange on the coast of Guerrero, Mexico (2015)
  34. Archaic and Paleoindian Houses in the Southern Rocky Mountains (2019)
  35. Archaic Copper Economy and Exchange in the Western Great Lakes: A Comparative Study from Two Wisconsin Localities (2019)
  36. Archaic Era Vertebrate Faunal Remains from Cuba (2016)
  37. Archaic Estuarine Resource Use in the Lower Hudson Valley: New Information from the Old Place Neck Site, Staten Island, New York. (2015)
  38. Archaic Fishing in the Eastern Woodlands: An Examination of Social Causes and Environmental Variation (2017)
  39. Archaic Period Lifeways on the South Pacific Coast of Mexico (2018)
  40. Archaic Period MRG-6 and the Deep Culinary Roots of Oaxacan Cuisine (2019)
  41. Archaic Period Obsidian Use in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: The 48PA551 Assemblage in Regional Context (2019)
  42. Archaic Tattooing and Bundle Keeping in Tennessee, ca. 1600 BC (2018)
  43. Archaic Women in the High Country: an Ethnoarchaeological Framework (2015)
  44. The ArchaMap Data Integration Tool: A Case Study from the Roosevelt Dam Archaeological Projects, Arizona (2023)
  45. ArchaMap: A Solution for Merging and Finding Archaeological Data (2023)
  46. The Archeological Dynamic Friction Cone Penetrometer (2015)
  47. ARCHEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION IN COIXTLAHUACA, OAXACA (2015)
  48. Archeology as a Teaching Tool (2019)
  49. Archeology, Disability, Healthcare, and the Weimar Joint Sanatorium for Tuberculosis (2019)
  50. Archeomagnetic Dating of Ceramic Potsherds of the Tingambato Archeological Site (2018)
  51. Architecting the Underworld: What is a Southern Maya Lowland Chultun? (2017)
  52. Architectural Ambivalence: An Interpretation of the Nohoch Tunich Bedrock Outcrop Complex, Pacbitun, Belize (2015)
  53. Architectural and Functional Characterization of Sector 2 at Cerro Chepén (2015)
  54. The Architectural and Urban Design Principles of Tenochtitlan (2018)
  55. Architectural Caves and Glyphic Stepped Platforms (2015)
  56. Architectural Communities of Practice: Identifying Kiva Production Groups in the Northern Southwest (2017)
  57. Architectural Conformity vs. Slave Identity: An Example in Late Antebellum Georgia (2018)
  58. Architectural Conservation at Cuetlajuchitlán, an Archaeological Site in Northern Guerrero, Mexico (2023)
  59. Architectural Contexts in Quilcapampa (2019)
  60. Architectural Discourse and Sociocultural Structure at Los Guachimontones, Jalisco (2016)
  61. Architectural Documentation at the Montezuma Castle and Casa Grande Ruins National Monuments (2019)
  62. An architectural energetics analysis of ceremonial architecture from the shaft tomb culture of the highland lakes region of Jalisco, Mexico (2016)
  63. Architectural Features versus Historic Maps of Fort St. Pierre, 1719-1729, Vicksburg, Mississippi. (2015)
  64. Architectural Planning and Shared Political Traditions in the Belize River Valley (2016)
  65. Architectural Specialization in Basketmaker III Proto-Villages (2015)
  66. Architectural Style and Urban Organization at the Patipampa sector of Huari (2018)
  67. Architectural Variation in the Tres Zapotes Region (2016)
  68. Architectural Visibility Analysis: Understanding Domestic Space in Roman Pompeii, Italy (2021)
  69. Architectural Wood Use in Chaco Kivas (2015)
  70. Architecture and Conservation Works at Chajul (2023)
  71. Architecture and Figurine art in Central Veracruz (2017)
  72. Architecture and Human Behavior at a Folsom Period Residential Camp (2019)
  73. Architecture and human sacrifice: political and ideological significance of the ritual deposits in monumental earthen architecture in South-Central Veracruz (2016)
  74. Architecture and Its Reflection of State Organization and Settlement Pattern in the Cochuah Region during the Terminal Classic Period (2015)
  75. Architecture and monuments as territorial markers among the hunter-gatherers of the Pacific coast, Atacama Desert (Northern Chile) (2016)
  76. Architecture and Ritual Abandonment Sequences at the BaahKu Archaeological Site, Taos Valley, NM (2019)
  77. Architecture and Spatial Organization of Urban Cercaduras at the Early Horizon Center of Caylán, Nepeña Valley, Peru (2017)
  78. Architecture and the Subjective Experience (2015)
  79. Architecture and Urban Planning of Inka Cusco (2023)
  80. Architecture and Urban Transformation in Formative Central Mexico: New Findings from the Tlalancaleca Archaeological Project, Puebla (2017)
  81. Architecture as an Expression of Maya Political Organization in the Cochuah Region, Quintana Roo during the Early Terminal Classic: The Perspective from Non-primary Sites (2018)
  82. Architecture in Negative: Mapping Social Space at Carrizales, Peru Using Low Altitude Aerial Photography and Photogrammetry (2015)
  83. Architecture of Pre-Columbian Northeast Honduras (2018)
  84. The Architecture of the Classic Maya Regal Palace of La Corona, Guatemala (2018)
  85. Architecture of the late Pueblo in southern Southwest and Northwest Mexico. (2016)
  86. The Architecture of the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project (2019)
  87. Archival Oral Histories, Intellectual Property, and the Indigenous Community: The Legacy of Mary Kiona, “Grand Matriarch” of the Upper Cowlitz (2023)
  88. *Archival Photogrammetry: Repurposing Excavation Photographs to 3-D Model Previous Excavations in Faynan, Jordan (2021)
  89. ArchMatNet: An Agent-Based Model to Investigate the Validity of Social Networks in Archaeology (2023)
  90. Arctic Ceramic Traditions and Late Holocene Social Interaction; Revisiting Giddings’ Arctic Woodland Culture (2016)
  91. Arctic Heterotopias: Qariyit as Queer Spaces In Precontact Inuit Communities (2018)
  92. Arctic Horizons: Forging Priorities for Arctic Social Sciences and NSF Funding (2019)
  93. #Arctic: Social Media and the Communication of Arctic Archaeological Knowledge (2021)
  94. Are "Coastal Cajamarca" vessels local imitations? Petrographic analysis of ceramic vessels from the Late Moche (AD 600 – 850) settlement "Huaca Colorada" in the Jequetepeque Valley, Peru (2016)
  95. Are Changes in Rates of Technological Change Robust to Error? A Paired Bayesian and Simulation Approach to Assessing the Pleistocene Record (2023)
  96. Are Inka Khipu Knots Anything More than Numbers?: A Computational Investigation (2018)
  97. Are Lithics and Fauna a Match made in Prehistoric Heaven? (2017)
  98. Are the Calusa Unique? Environmental Stewardship and Historical Contingency in the Pacific Northwest and Southwest Florida (2019)
  99. Are the Tohono O'odham Descendent from the Hohokam and Their Predecessors? A Rock Art Test of Occupation Continuity in Southern Arizona (2019)
  100. Are Two Heads Still Better than One? Considering a Unified Origin for American Social Complexity (2016)