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 1,601-1,700 of 21,939)

  1. Assessing Archaeological Applications of Curated Sediment Samples: A Case Study at Mesa Portales (2019)
  2. Assessing Archaeological Sensitivity in San Francisco (2015)
  3. Assessing Biface Reduction and the Ideal Use-life of Fluted Bifaces (2018)
  4. Assessing Botanical Diversity of Late-to-Terminal Classic Households at Xunantunich, Belize (2018)
  5. Assessing Ceramic Production and Exchange in the Early Monte Albán State (Oaxaca, Mexico) (2015)
  6. Assessing Change over Time at Kharaneh IV through the Chaîne Opératoire (2023)
  7. Assessing Chronology, Spatial Setting, and Architectural Planning at Pampa de Llamas-Moxeke, Casma Valley (2018)
  8. Assessing Classic Maya Intermediate Elite Political Strategies through Multivariate Statistical Manipulation of Settlement Pattern Data (2019)
  9. Assessing Complexity through Architectural Analysis at Angel Mounds (2021)
  10. Assessing Connections between the Spoked Wheel and Bronze Age Elite Social Identities (2019)
  11. Assessing Continuity and Change in Paleoindian Landscape use through Time in Indiana: Implications for site Predictive Modeling (2019)
  12. Assessing Cortex at the Beaucoup Site (24PH188/189) in Northern Montana (2018)
  13. Assessing Defensibility: Geospatial Analyses of Preclassic to Colonial Highland Maya Settlement Patterns (2017)
  14. Assessing Destruction Risk of Cultural Resources: Primary and Secondary Impacts of Climate Change on the Archaeological Record (2018)
  15. Assessing Dietary Variability at Gillman Mound, South Australia using Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopes (2015)
  16. Assessing differential fragmentation of mammal bone: a new proxy (2017)
  17. Assessing Diversity in the Society for American Archaeology Journals (2021)
  18. Assessing Earth Oven Intensification in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Southwest Texas (2019)
  19. Assessing Edge Damage in MSA Lithic Assemblages: Experimental Proxies for the Analysis of Use and Post-Depositional Damage (2017)
  20. Assessing Evidence of Hunting as Subsistence Specialization at an Early Classic Period Hohokam Farmstead (2019)
  21. Assessing Fishtail projectile point distribution in the Southern Cone (2016)
  22. Assessing Food-Based Trade and Mobility in the Chincha Valley (Peru) Using Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (2018)
  23. Assessing Hominin Cognitive Evolution through Problem-Solution Distance Modeling: A Case Study Based on Acheulean Technology at Olduvai Gorge (Northern Tanzania) (2024)
  24. Assessing hominin involvement with the faunal assemblages from Bundu Farm and Pniel 6, Northern Cape, South Africa (2015)
  25. Assessing Human-Animal Interactions in Mesoamerica: Ancient Maya Use of the Black-Throated Bobwhite (Colinus nigrogularis) (2017)
  26. Assessing hunter-gatherer mobility in Australia's Western Desert using historic aerial imagery from the 1950s (2017)
  27. Assessing Impacts of European Contact on Beothuk Projectile Point Technology (2019)
  28. Assessing Impacts of Late Holocene Environmental Variability on the Demography of Prehispanic Societies in Northern Chile (18°-29°S) (2018)
  29. Assessing Inequality At Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Anatolia (2019)
  30. Assessing Inter-Site Variability in Southwestern Idaho Pottery Sites (2024)
  31. Assessing Interobserver Variation in Lithic Analyses of Resharpening (2024)
  32. Assessing Island Habitability and Land Use on Polynesia’s Smallest Islands (2015)
  33. Assessing Knowledge of Native American Tribes and Their Heritage: An interactive Poster (2021)
  34. Assessing Malaria Risk in 19th Century Tucson, Arizona (2018)
  35. Assessing Mobility Among the Medieval Makurian Individuals Interred in Crypts 1–3 on Kom H at Old Dongola, Sudan (2024)
  36. Assessing Mobility and Social Interactions through Integrated Analyses of Complicated Stamped Pottery in the American Southeast (2015)
  37. Assessing Our Impact: An Examination of the Role of Historic Preservation in the Gentrification of Urban Centers in the Midwestern United States (2019)
  38. Assessing Plant Use in the Early Upper Paleolithic: Macrobotanical Results From Mughr el-Hamamah, Jordan (2024)
  39. Assessing Population Dynamics in the Central Salish Sea, Pacific Northwest Coast of North America (2024)
  40. Assessing Predictability of Dam Effects at Archaeological Sites Using Long-Term Repeat Lidar Surveys (2023)
  41. Assessing predictability of dam effects at archaeological sites using long-term repeat lidar surveys (2024)
  42. Assessing prehistoric herding strategies through stable isotope analysis: a case study from the Dry Puna of Argentina (2017)
  43. Assessing Production Components of the Pre-Still Bay Lithic Assemblage from Sibhudu Cave, South Africa. (2024)
  44. Assessing Response of Tse-whit-zen's Large-bodied Fish to Environmental Change using Sampling to Redundancy (2017)
  45. Assessing Settlement Dynamics in the San Juan Islands and Northwestern Washington, a Bayesian Approach (2021)
  46. Assessing Shellfish Discard for Discerning between Field Processing or Residential Relocation in the Subtropical Pacific Coast of South America (2019)
  47. Assessing Stable Isotope Data from Archaeological White-tailed Deer Remains as a Palaeoenvironmental Proxy at the Site of La Joyanca, Northwestern Peten, Yucatan Peninsula (2017)
  48. Assessing Systemic Stress from Archaeological Hormones Recovered from Hair of Human Sacrifices at Huanchaquito Las Llamas, Peru (~1450 CE) (2023)
  49. Assessing Testing Programs and Strategies for Section 106 Determinations of Eligibility: U.S. Army Yakima Training Center, WA. (2016)
  50. Assessing the accuracy and precision of OSL dating against well vetted radiocarbon ages (2015)
  51. Assessing the Chronological Variation Within the Western Stemmed Tradition (2019)
  52. Assessing the Correlation between Bone Artifacts and Body Part Profiles: A Case Study from the Central Anatolian Site of Kaman-Kalehöyük (2018)
  53. Assessing the Distribution of Limestone Temper in Southern Ohio (2018)
  54. Assessing the Effectiveness of Various Scanning Technologies in Digitally Capturing Fingerprints on Corrugated Wares (2018)
  55. Assessing the effectiveness of XAD-2 resin as pre-treatment method for AMS 14C dating (2016)
  56. Assessing the Efficacy of Lesson Modules as a Public Education and Outreach Strategy for Archaeology (2015)
  57. Assessing the genetic diversity in the extant Chachapoya population from northeastern Peru using uniparental DNA markers (mtDNA and Y-chromosome) (2015)
  58. Assessing the Impacts of the Atlantic Slave Trade and American Crops on African Agriculture (2019)
  59. Assessing the La Playa Projectile Point Assemblage (2024)
  60. Assessing the Nature and Pace of Platform Mound Construction in Cahokia's Ramey Field (2024)
  61. Assessing the Origin of Wares from Sardis through Sr-Pb Isotopic Analysis (2024)
  62. Assessing the Patterns and Variation of a Common Pecos River Style Motif (2019)
  63. Assessing the Population History of the Atacama Desert using 3D Geometric Morphometric Methods (2017)
  64. Assessing the Potential for a Late Pleistocene–Early Holocene Occupation at the Tahkenitch Landing Site (35DO130), Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area (2023)
  65. Assessing the Potential for ED-XRF in Archaeometric Studies: A Focus on Data Sharing and Bulk Chemical Analysis (2019)
  66. Assessing the Potential for Raw Material Profiling Studies in Modelling Neanderthal Behavioural Complexity (2018)
  67. Assessing the Quality of CRM Data for Field Planning, “Big Data” Analyses, and Heritage Decisions: The Role of Sweep Widths (2021)
  68. Assessing the Spatial Patterning of Middle Paleolithic Human Settlement in Westernmost Iberia (2019)
  69. Assessing the Strength of Prehistoric Glues (2017)
  70. Assessing the Suitability of Southern Africa for Archaeological Provenance Studies with Lead Isotopes (2018)
  71. Assessing the Taphonomic Alterations of 29 Human Anatomical Specimens Confiscated in Louisiana (2021)
  72. Assessing the use and lethality of simple wooden spears in the Middle Pleistocene: methods and results of human performance trials and actualistic studies (2015)
  73. Assessing the Use of Lithic Artifacts in the Manufacture of Fiber Technolgies at Cach Cave (2015)
  74. Assessing the Utility of Large Excavators and other Heavy Equipment for Archaeological Excavation (2023)
  75. Assessing the Validity of pXRF for Sourcing Cherts in the North American Great Basin (2015)
  76. Assessing the Variability and Chronology of Red Linear Style Pictographs of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas: Final Results (2023)
  77. Assessing the Viability of Limited Collection and in Field Analysis Strategies for Ceramic investigations at S’eḏav Va’aki, Arizona (2024)
  78. Assessing the Viability of Shallow Geophysical Surveying to Identify Post-Removal Homesteads in Choctaw Nation (2023)
  79. Assessing Threats to Coastal Sites: A Trial Run on St Croix, USVI (2018)
  80. Assessing Typology of Pre-Mazama Corner-Notched Points in the Great Basin (2023)
  81. Assessing Variability in Refitted Lithic Reduction Sequences at Boker Tachtit (Israel) (2024)
  82. Assessing Variability in Toolkit Functionality: Differential Wear Patterns on Projectile Technologies from Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Interior Alaska (2018)
  83. Assessment and Evaluation of Florida’s Citizen-Science Program to Address Climate Change: Heritage Monitoring Scouts of Florida (HMS Florida) (2018)
  84. An Assessment of Archaeological Bison Remains in the American Southwest and the Wildlife Management Implications for the Grand Canyon National Park Bison Herd (2016)
  85. An Assessment of Central Plains Tradition Ceramic Variation in the Flint Hills Region of the Eastern Plains, USA (2019)
  86. Assessment of Late Quaternary Bison Diminution Using Linear Discriminant Analysis (2019)
  87. Assessment of lateral edge grinding on hafting performance using experimental Clovis points (2017)
  88. Assessment of past subsistence strategy and environmental impacts using novel geochemical analyses of mollusk shells (2016)
  89. Assessment of Pilgrimage Activity through Ritual Material Culture in the Anuradhapura Hinterland, Sri Lanka (2023)
  90. An Assessment of Prehistory at Historic Hanna's Town (2017)
  91. Assessment of projectile use at Aduma (Middle Awash, Ethiopia) (2015)
  92. An Assessment of small game exploitation at Gruta Nova da Columbeira in the Middle Paleolithic (Portugal) (2017)
  93. Assessment of the Archaeological Record for the Tanana Valley, Alaska, and a New Cultural Synthesis (2023)
  94. Assessment of the Boxed Springs (41UR30) Ceramic Assemblage (2024)
  95. ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECTS OF AN OIL SPILL ON THE DISASTER ARCHAEOLOGY OF LOUISIANA’S GULF COAST (2017)
  96. An Assessment of the Intrinsic Water Content to Understanding Obsidian Hydration: A Case Study of Paleolithic Obsidian from the Shirataki Region in Hokkaido, Japan (2019)
  97. An Assessment of Water Resources at Chichen Itza (2019)
  98. Assimilation, Acculturation, and Individual Agency in a Coastal Gabrielino Village (2024)
  99. The Associations Model for use of Hemphill-Style Engraved Pottery at Moundville (2015)
  100. The Assumption of Insular Marginality: The Curious Case of Isla Cedros, Baja California (2015)