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 18,401-18,500 of 19,165)

  1. Visualizing with GIS at Stanford University Archaeology Collections: Open for Interpretation (2016)
  2. Visually Linking the Ritual and the Quotidian at Tiwanaku, AD 500-1100 (2017)
  3. Visuospatial integration: perspective in cognitive archaeology (2015)
  4. The Vital Force of Underground Places and Ritual Production in Caves and Rockshelters (2018)
  5. VIVIR Y MORIR EN TIBANICA, REFLEXIONES SOBRE EL PODER Y EL ESPACIO EN UNA ALDEA MUISCA TARDÍA DE LA SABANA DE BOGOTÁ (2016)
  6. Vocablos nahuas aplicados al proceso constructivo de los edificios prehispánicos del Altiplano Central (2015)
  7. Voices in Conversation: Assessing 36 Years of Demographics in a Professional Archaeology Newsletter (2021)
  8. Volcanic ash in the ceramics of the greater Palenque Region and Usumacinta Drainage, Chiapas and Tabasco, Mexico (2015)
  9. Volcanic Glass and Iron Nails: Shifting Networks of Exchange at Postclassic and Colonial Achiutla, Oaxaca, Mexico (2016)
  10. Volcanic hazards pose by Tacaná to the Soconusco region (2015)
  11. Volcanic Tableland Rock Art: Research and Management in the Western Great Basin (2015)
  12. Volcanic winter and population replacements? Forager adaptations in Liguria during OIS 3 across the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition (2016)
  13. The Volcano That Went Boom: Payson Sheets’ Contributions to Understanding the Tierra Joven Blanca Eruption of the Ilopango Caldera, El Salvador (2016)
  14. Volcanos, Imagery, and Footpaths: Research in Costa Rica (2016)
  15. Volumetric Analysis of Neckless Jars and Bottles in Early Horizon Nepeña, Peru (2018)
  16. The Volunteer Spirit: "Archaeology Volunteer Day" at the Archaeological Research Laboratory at UT-Knoxville (2018)
  17. Voted Off the Olmec Island: Remote Sensing and Regional Reconnaissance Surrounding La Venta, Tabasco, Mexico (2017)
  18. Vows and Violence: Identities Enacted through Diet and Trauma at the Late Medieval Tintern Abbey, Ireland (2021)
  19. Voyages to Kaju Jawi: First Dated Evidence for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Asian Voyages to Northern Kimberley, Australia (2023)
  20. Vulnerabilities and Failure of Building Resilience in Norse Greenland (2015)
  21. Vulnerability and human security in the face of climate change (2015)
  22. Vulnerability and Values: Things to Consider for Site Prioritization (2021)
  23. Vínculos (in)visibles: Relationships of Power in the Colesuyo during the Inca Empire (2018)
  24. W. T. Millington and the Mexican Revolution: The Search for Battle Sites and Camps (2021)
  25. Waapushukamikw: Sacred Site and Lithic Quarry in Subarctic Quebec (2017)
  26. Wabanaki Foodways in the Protohistoric Quoddy Region: Hunter-Gatherer Continuity, Change, and Specialization in a Changing Social Seascape (2017)
  27. The WAC Origins of the New York African Burial Ground Project (2018)
  28. The Wade Site: Evidence for Long-Distance Trade Networks in the Southern Piedmont of Virginia (2019)
  29. Wadi Madamagh, Western Highlands of Jordan: Lithic Evidence from the Late Upper Paleolithic and Early Epipaleolithic Occupations (2015)
  30. Wadi Quseiba and the Shellfish-Eaters? Searching for Late Neolithic Sites in Northern Jordan and Finding an Enigmatic Yarmoukian Site (2019)
  31. Waist Deep in the Big Data: How the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) Implements Ontological and Loosely Coupled Organization around the Construct of the Archaeological Site (2017)
  32. A Wake of Change: Investigating Biocultural Interaction During the Early Colonial Period in the Central Andes, Peru (2017)
  33. Walakpa as Case Study: Rescuing Heritage and Data from a Vanishing Site (2017)
  34. A Walk Around Tsankawi Mesa: Applying Written in Rock Preservation Principles to the Pajarito Plateau Rock Art (2019)
  35. Walk with Me: Reflections on Almost a Lifetime with Dr. James Skibo (2019)
  36. The Walker Lake Landscape: Combining Geophysical Studies to Clarify Regional Change and the Archaeological Record (2021)
  37. Walking a Trail Like Reading a Book (2023)
  38. Walking before running. Late Palaeolithic regional dynamics in the Spanish Mediterranean region previous to the "last big transition" (17 - 10 ky cal BP) (2017)
  39. The Walking Dead: Osteological and isotopic indicators of mobility from Middle Bronze Age commingled human and faunal burials in Naxcivan, Azerbaijan (2015)
  40. Walking in Tiwanaku Shoes: Small Things, Quotidian Cues and Tiwanaku Identities in Diaspora (2018)
  41. Walking into the Shadows in the Iberian Ritual Caves (6th–1st Centuries BC) (2018)
  42. Walking the Footwear Landscape on the Western Plains Margin: The Implications of 3,500 Years of Footwear from Franktown Cave, Colorado (2023)
  43. Walking the Line: Settlement Patterning in Interior Southern New England as Identified by Utility Corridor Survey (2019)
  44. Walking the Migrant Trail: Mobilizing Landscape to Contest Border Enforcement Policies and Negotiate the Boundaries of Social Belonging (2019)
  45. Walking through Mayapán (2018)
  46. Walking to (a)muse: exploring senses of place with Ruth (2015)
  47. Walled In: Borderlands, Frontiers, and the Future of Archaeology (2023)
  48. Walled Rock Wak’as on Inka Royal Estates in the Heartland (2021)
  49. Walled Sites beyond the Wall: Labeling Liao Towns in Archaeology and Historical Geography (2023)
  50. Walls and Pathways: GIS Analyses of Defensibility and Spatial Organization, Huamanga Province, Peru (2021)
  51. Walls Speak: Architectural "Neighborhoods" in Late Intermediate Period Peru (2015)
  52. Walls, Ditches and Spoil: Methodological Issues in the Study of Pre-Columbian Fortifications (2017)
  53. The Walter Landgraf Soapstone Quarry State Archaeological Preserve: Honoring a Man and Preserving a Site (2018)
  54. War and Peace and the Origins of Political Control in the Central Andean Coast: 3000 BC–AD 600 (2023)
  55. War and Peace in the Sixteenth-Century Southwest: Objected-Oriented Approaches to Native-European Encounters and Trajectories (2017)
  56. War Milpas: Wetlands and Institutional Agriculture during the Late Postclassic in Tlaxcallan, Mexico (2021)
  57. War of Jenkins Ear: Battle of Gully Hole Creek (2023)
  58. War related social and ritual traits in Rock Art (2015)
  59. War, Power, and History in the Mississippian Period Central Illinois Valley (2023)
  60. Warehousing the Past: Are We Doing the Right Thing? (2021)
  61. Wares in moving: people, technology and political issues in Northwest Argentina (2015)
  62. Warfare and Captive Sacrifice in the Moche World: New Data from Excavations at Pampa la Cruz, Moche Valley, Northern Coastal Peru (2023)
  63. Warfare and the Origins of Social Complexity in Southern Central America (2023)
  64. Warfare and the Polity in Early China (2023)
  65. Warfare and the Rise of Sociopolitical Complexity in Southeast Asia (2023)
  66. Warfare and Topography in the Middle Missouri (2018)
  67. Warfare in the Mississippian World: Comparing Variation in War across Small and Multi-Mound Centers (2017)
  68. The Warfare Paradox, or All Quiet on the Western Tennessee Valley Archaic (2017)
  69. Warfare, Captive-Taking, Enslavement, and the Creation of Power (2023)
  70. Warfare, Fortifications, and Archaeological Formation Processes: The Case of Mensabak, Chiapas, Mexico (2019)
  71. Warfare, Invasion, and Ethnogenesis during the Protohistoric Period in Sonora (2015)
  72. Wari and the Southern Peruvian Coast: A Reevaluation (2021)
  73. Wari Bats? An Iconographic Analysis of Some Very Curious Zoomorphic Figures on Middle Horizon Andean Pottery (2019)
  74. Wari Ceramic Production in the Heartland and Provinces (2016)
  75. Wari D-Temples: Inferring Function from Shape, Distribution, and Orientation (2023)
  76. Wari Foodways: A Comparison across Space (2019)
  77. Wari funerary contexts: An elite funerary chamber in Cerro de Oro, Cañete Valley (2015)
  78. Wari Huamani, Tiwanaku Apu, and the Political Work of Things (2018)
  79. Wari Imperial Presence in Cajamarca: A view from Yamobamba (2016)
  80. Wari State Expansion and Middle Horizon Roads in the Majes-Chuquibamba Region, Southern Peru (2019)
  81. Wari Textiles for the Everyday and the Afterlife (2018)
  82. Wari-Style Khipus from El Castillo de Huarmey (2017)
  83. Warior Regalia and Questions of Inalienable Possessions in the Aztec World (2015)
  84. Wari’s Hallowed Ground: Interpreting the Mortuary Complex of Cotocotuyoc, Cuzco, Peru (2018)
  85. Warm or Cold Season of Capture? Oyster Middens from Block Island, Rhode Island (2017)
  86. Warming to the Tempo of Change in Old Hawai`i (2017)
  87. Warren Grove Survey and Evaluation Project: A Study Of Historic Charcoal Production Within The Pine Barrens Of New Jersey. (2018)
  88. Warrior Art, Osteological Evidence of Violence, and Colonial-Era Changes in Warfare and Male Status on the Western Great Plains (2023)
  89. Warrior-Women: Strategic use of violence by women moving towards a broader understanding of the poetics of violence (2019)
  90. Warriors and Violence in the Iconography of Chichén Itzá (2018)
  91. Wars and battles as cultural phenomena in Bronze and Early Iron Age of Japan (2015)
  92. "Wars are good for the economy": Warfare and Industrialization in Sweden (2019)
  93. Wars of the Western Maya Kings: Military Conflicts in Lacandon Selva at the Turn of the Seventh to Eighth Centuries (2021)
  94. Was Acheulean Technology Genetically Transmitted? Comparing Variation in Acheulean Tools to Variation in North American Bird Nests (2018)
  95. Was Setaria Domesticated in Tehuacan? (2023)
  96. Was the Elaborate Chert Eccentric from San Andres, El Salvador, made by the Rosalila Copan "El Maestro"? (2019)
  97. Washed Away? Was Tse-whit-zen Deserted in the Aftermath of Cascadian Earthquakes? (2017)
  98. The Washington Archaeology Mentorship Program: Community Tools for Addressing Systemic Inequalities (2023)
  99. Washington Women’s Homesteading, 1862–1949: Developing a Historic Context of Women’s Homesteading Experiences (2023)
  100. Washington's Board of Public Works and the Burial of Black Georgetown (2023)