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 1,701-1,800 of 21,939)

  1. Assyrian Landscape Planning in the Core of the Empire (ca. 900-600 BC) (2016)
  2. Assyrians at the Gate: Rethinking the Siege at Tel Lachish (2018)
  3. Astronomical Meanings in Hearths from the Middle Preceramic villages of Paloma and the Late Preceramic site of Buena Vista in Central, Coastal Perú (2019)
  4. Asturias Across Time and Space: An Exploration of Medieval and Early Modern Spain using Stable Isotopes (2015)
  5. Asymmetry of Cranial Surface in Relation to Social Stratification in Great Moravia (Early Medieval Period, Mikulčice, Czech Republic, 9th–10th Century) (2019)
  6. At a Crossroads: 300 years of Pottery Production and Exchange at Goat Spring Pueblo, NM (2018)
  7. At Risk Cultural Heritage and the Power of Communities (2018)
  8. At the Continent’s Edge: A View of Flaked-Stone Crescents from Sonoma County, California (2015)
  9. At the Dusk of Chavín: Social, Economic, Political, and Ideological Implications as Viewed from a Fishing Settlement in the North Coast of Peru (2021)
  10. At the Edge: Jamaican Amerindians and the Colonial Encounter. (2015)
  11. At the Gates of Xibalba: The Chultunob of El Mirador, Guatemala (2021)
  12. At the Gateway to Vermont: Recent Investigations at the Galick Site, West Haven, VT (2018)
  13. At the Heart of the Ikaahuk Archaeology Project (2017)
  14. At the Heart of the Serpent: Archaeology, Epigraphy, and Iconography at Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico (2016)
  15. At the Intersection of Academia and Activism: Using the Historical Ecology Framework Toward the Conservation and Restoration of Natural and Cultural Heritage (2018)
  16. At the Intersection: Destabilizing White Creole Masculinity at the 18th-Century Little Bay Plantation, Montserrat, West Indies (2017)
  17. At the Intersection: Jicarilla Apache Values and Heritage Management (2024)
  18. At the Margin of a World System: Cultural Histories between the Eurasian Steppe and Northwest China (2017)
  19. At the Periphery II: Reconsidering Early Monuments in the Environs of Tikal (2019)
  20. At Water’s Edge: Ritual Maya Animal Use in Aquatic Contexts at Cancuen (2015)
  21. At What Expense? An Expended Utility Study of Bolen Projectile Points in Northern Florida (2019)
  22. At Yaxuna X Marks the Spot: Centering across in a Middle Formative Maya Landscape (2015)
  23. At-Risk World Heritage and the Digital Humanities – An Overview of the UC Office of the President’s Research Catalyst Project (2018)
  24. Çatalhöyük and Localized Universality: the challenge of sustaining heritage post-UNESCO (2015)
  25. Athapaskans on the Plains: A Glimpse of Dismal River Lithic Technology (2019)
  26. Athens-Oaxaca y puntos intermedios: Steve Kowalewski´s influence in local archaeologists. (2015)
  27. Atlantis and the Hall of the Ancients (2015)
  28. Atlatl Dating and Violence in Rock Art in the American Southwest (2024)
  29. The Atlatl Motif in Rock Art (2021)
  30. Atributos y función de las deidades del Clásico en el Centro de Veracruz: una propuesta metodológica (2018)
  31. Attaining Goals Together: Collaborative Heritage Resource Stewardship and the Forest Service (2019)
  32. An Attempt at Digitally Associating Skeletal Elements: A Study of Photogrammetry and Articular Surface Area (2017)
  33. Attempt of Modelization of the First Settlements in America at Pleistocene Based on the New Archaeological Sequences in Piaui (Brazil) (2017)
  34. Attimoni (ah-jee-MOOUHN) – The Stories We Have to Tell: relationships among the Meskwaki Nation, tribes with historic ties to Iowa, and the Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist (2016)
  35. Attractive Salt: What the magnetic susceptibility and stratigraphy of the Witz Naab and Killer Bee mounds reveal about ancient Maya salt production and economy. (2017)
  36. An Attribute Approach to Differentiating Artifacts from Geofacts (2015)
  37. Audience and Ritual Context Associated with Painted Capstone and Codical Texts from the Northern Maya Lowlands (2016)
  38. Auditory Exostoses as Indicators of Mobility and Sexual Divisions of Labor in the Green River Valley, Kentucky (2016)
  39. Auditory Exostosis: A Marker of Occupational Stress in Pre-Contact Populations from the San Francisco Bay Region of California (2015)
  40. Augmented Curiosities: Virtual Play in African Pasts and Futures (2024)
  41. Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Applications in Archaeology (2021)
  42. Aural Experiences in the Performative Spaces of the Past (2021)
  43. The Aurignacian lithic industry from Area E (2017)
  44. The Aurignacian open-air campsite of Régismont-le-Haut (Hérault, France) (2015)
  45. Aurignacian Projectile Points Do Not Represent a Proxy for the Initial Dispersal of Homo sapiens into Europe: Insights from Geometric Morphometrics (2018)
  46. Aurignacian(s) in the Mas d'Azil Cave (Ariège, Pyrénées, France) (2015)
  47. Authentically Inauthentic and Real Fakes: An Archaeology of Contemporary Stonehenge Replicas (2019)
  48. Authentication of Museum-Curated Tsantsas Utilizing Next Generation Sequencing Technology (2017)
  49. The Authentication of the Codex Maya of Mexico, Previously Known as the Grolier, through Scientific Analysis (2019)
  50. ‘Authenticity, Repurposed’: Mason Jars, Archaeology, and Contemporary Narratives (2015)
  51. Authority via Mobility: Interpreting Yamasee Ceramics (2018)
  52. Authorship and Practice in Guatemalan Archaeology through an Intersectional Lens (2023)
  53. Automated archaeological feature extraction from LiDAR. (2017)
  54. Automated Detection of Gridded Canal Networks in Veracruz, Mexico (2019)
  55. Automated Identification of Archaeological Features in a Regional Lidar Dataset from Southeastern New Mexico (2021)
  56. Automated Qanat Detection: Examining the Application of Deep-Learning in Archaeological Remote Sensing (2018)
  57. Automatic Classification of Digital Images of Archaeological Arrowheads (2018)
  58. Automatic Classification of Mimbres Pottery Styles through Convolutional Neural Networks (2021)
  59. Automatic Identification of Shipwrecks Using Digital Elevation Data and Deep Learning (2021)
  60. Automating Archaeological Feature Detection: Unsupervised Classification and Feature Extraction from Satellite Imagery (2023)
  61. Automation of Bayesian Chronology Construction Using a Graph Theoretic Approach (2021)
  62. Autonomous Landscapes at Fort Mose (2023)
  63. Avances del proyecto de salvamento arqueológico en el nuevo Aeropuerto Internacional Felipe Ángeles (2021)
  64. Avances en el estudio de la organización sociopolítica prehispánica en la región del Río Tampaón, S.L.P., México (2017)
  65. Avances y perspectivas de la arqueología del Centro de Veracruz. Región de las Grandes Montañas. (2016)
  66. Avances y perspectivas de la conservación de edificios monumentales en Uxmal (2019)
  67. Aventura: An Introduction (2023)
  68. Aventura: Understanding Sustainable Cities (2019)
  69. Aventura’s Households from Commoners to Elites (2023)
  70. Aventura’s Watery Landscape: Communities of People, Water, Houses, and Ancestors (2023)
  71. Avian Iconography at Spiro Mounds (2021)
  72. Avian Imagery on Preclumbian Ceramics from Pacific Nicaragua (2024)
  73. Avian Remains from the Late Pre-colonial Amerindian Sites on the Islands of the Venezuelan Caribbean (2016)
  74. Avian Skeletal Part Representation at 49-KIS-050 (2016)
  75. Avifauna of the Bonneville Basin: Past Variation and Future Conservation (2021)
  76. Avifaunal Remains from Crvena Stijena (Petrovići, Montenegro, Eastern Europe) (2023)
  77. Avifaunal Remains from the Palmrose Site (35CT47): Establishing Seasonality and Investigating Endangered Species (2018)
  78. The Avocational Atelier: a portrait of lithic collection practice (2017)
  79. Avvajja (Abverdjar) Revisited: Reconstructing Tuniit (Dorset Paleo-Inuit) and Recent-Historic Inuit Life at an Iconic Site in Northern Foxe Basin, Nunavut, Canada (2021)
  80. Awanyus, Kachinas and Birds, oh my: Exploring Changes in Iconography in the Contact Era Rio Grande Pueblo World (2017)
  81. Awash in Meaning: Exploring the symbolic and ritual functions of the Iron Age bathing structures of the Iberian northwest. (2016)
  82. Awl Mighty Tools: Comparing Experimentally Created Animal Bone Tools to Archaeological Examples (2023)
  83. Axe-Monies in the Smithsonian Collections (2019)
  84. The Axis Connecting Classic Maya Economy and Ritual at Xunantunich, Belize (2018)
  85. Ayllu There in the Upper Marañón? Founding Ancestors and Political Dynamics in the Rapayán Region of Ancash/Huánuco during the LIP (2018)
  86. AZ BB:13:70 A Buried Middle Archaic Occupation in the Tucson Basin, Southeastern Arizona (2018)
  87. Aztalan from the Perspective of Institutions of Social Relatedness (2019)
  88. The Aztatlán-Huasteca Network: A Model for the Acquisition and Dissemination of Scarlet Macaws from Mesoamerica to the US Southwest/Mexican Northwest (2024)
  89. Aztec Aesthetics: Historical Reconstructions and Contemporary Cultural Recovery Movements (2017)
  90. Aztec at the End of Days: Great House to Crossroads (2017)
  91. Aztec Imperial Strategies in Guerrero, Mexico: Evaluating the Greengo Collection from the Burke Museum, Seattle (2016)
  92. The Aztec Palace: Heart of an Empire's Rise and Fall (2021)
  93. Aztec Ruins, 2.0 (2015)
  94. Aztec Ruins, Architecture and Augmented Reality (2018)
  95. Aztec Twin-Temple Pyramids as Evidence for State Religion through Shared Architecture and Symbology (2019)
  96. Aztecs in the Empire City: The Rise and Fall of Ancient American Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1877–1914 (2018)
  97. Aztec’s Textiles, Baskets, and Other Perishable Traditions: Contributions of Recent Perishables Research to a New Understanding of the West Ruin (2017)
  98. A’tzi-em and Po-ya-o-na: archaeological and historical insights into the native-Spanish encounter in New Mexico’s Piro province, 1581-1681 (2015)
  99. The Baalche’ Group: An Investigation of a Preclassic Maya Palace at Yaxnohcah, Campeche, Mexico (2017)
  100. The baazar side of the Indus Valley: a framework for understanding the merchant economy of the Indus Valley culture. (2016)