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)

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  1. Waste Landscapes at UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Challenging the Criteria (2023)
  2. Waste not, want not: A multi-proxy perspective on soil formation at Marco Gonzalez, Ambergris Caye, Belize (2015)
  3. Waste Not, Want Not: Exploring the Archaeological Significance of a Copper Production Waste Mound at Khirbat al-Jariya, Faynan, Jordan (2016)
  4. Watch Out For Landslides and Gopher Holes! using obsidian hydration to measure post-depositional site disturbance in the VCNP (2017)
  5. Watch out for rocks: a GIS and Agent-Based Modeling approach to the rock art of Northwestern Iberia (2015)
  6. Water and Pasture Infrastructure of Mobile Pastoralists in Southeastern Turkey (2018)
  7. The Water and the Land: How the Private Sector and Government Work Together to Plan for Climate Change Impacts to Cultural Resources (2021)
  8. Water for the Keep: Hydrological Flow and Accumulation (2023)
  9. Water Management and City Founding at Yaxuná, Yucatán (2015)
  10. Water Management in the Ancient States of South India and Sri Lanka (2016)
  11. Water Management in the Land of the Terribly Hot: A Hydrological Study of the Bagan Settlement Zone (2019)
  12. Water Management on the Mesa: The Horseshoe Ridge Reservoir Community and the Occupation of Park Mesa, Colorado (2018)
  13. Water Management, Pastoralism and Settlement Shifts in the Andean Apolobamba Region (2018)
  14. Water Management, Ritual Ideology, and Environmental Change in Bronze Age Sardinia (2016)
  15. Water Mountains and Water Trails: The View from Northwest Peten (2016)
  16. Water Social Relations in Transition: Local Populations and Foreign Empires in Tension over Natural Resources in Mid and Lower Lurin Valley, Peru (2019)
  17. Water Wars: The St. Francis Dam Disaster and Resource Competition in the American West (2017)
  18. Water, Hospitality and Difference in Everyday Life (2015)
  19. Water, mines and wak’a at Belen valley in the highlands of Arica: the Inca making of a central place within the Andean transect of Arica and Parinacota (18°S) (2017)
  20. Water, Ritual, and Prosperity at the Medieval Capital of Bagan, Myanmar (11th to 14th Centuries CE): Preliminary Exploration of the Tuyin-Thetso "Water Mountain" and the Nat Yekan Sacred Water Tank (2018)
  21. Water, Water, Everywhere, but You Need to Walk to Get a Drink: The Relationship between Water Sources and Teuchitlán Culture Sites in the Tequila Valleys of Jalisco, Mexico (2023)
  22. Water, Weather and the Fallacy of the Rationalist - Romanticism dichotomy (2016)
  23. Watercraft: The Earliest Temples in Egypt (2018)
  24. Watering Tlaloc's Gardens: Ancient Irrigation in the Teotihuacan Valley (2016)
  25. Waterscapes Domestication: Ponds, Fish Weirs, and Evidence of Managed Aquatic Environments in Amazonia (2023)
  26. A Way Forward with Public and Professional Archaeology: The Exploring Joara Foundation in North Carolina. (2015)
  27. The Way Forward: Native and Non-Native Collaboration as well as Multi-disciplinary Research Strategies (2018)
  28. The Way the Wind Blows on the Steppe: The Historical Ecology of Mortuary Monuments in Mongolia (1500 BC-1400 AD) (2016)
  29. Wayfinding: Paths, Pathway Markers, and Navigational Monuments at Wari Camp and Beyond (2017)
  30. WDXRF Analyses and Understanding Variability in Time and Space: Trade in the Complex Society Island Chiefdoms (2019)
  31. We All Need to Talk about Archaeology in the CRM Power Nexus (2018)
  32. We Are Kin with the Land: The Role of Rock Art Sites in the Negotiation of Social Relations in the North Central Andes of Peru (2018)
  33. "We ask only that you come to us with an open heart and an open mind": The transformative power of an archaeology of heart. (2017)
  34. We Built This System: Hohokam Irrigation Communities as Social Networks (2016)
  35. We Can Brew It! Rethinking the Demographics of Early Oregon Breweries (2023)
  36. We Can’t Save Them All: Thoughts on Prioritization (2019)
  37. We just need a few milligrams.... (2018)
  38. We know that our people have been part of this land since the beginning of time -- A Cultural Statement for the Ancient One (2018)
  39. We Know Who We Are and What Is Needed: Achieving Healing, Harmony and Balance in Ndee Institutions (2019)
  40. "We lived there for the food": Archaeologies of Dalk Gyilakyaw, home of the Gitsm'geelm (Kitsumkalum) Tsimshian (2017)
  41. We Travel Together: A New Archeology that Blends Western Science with Native American Perspectives and Values (2017)
  42. We Want In on This: Contemporary Queer Archaeology and the Preservation of Queer Cultural History (2015)
  43. Weakness and Precariousness in Central Italian Urbanization (2019)
  44. The Weaknesses of a Colonial Mindset: A Study of Indigenous Spirituality during the Maya Caste War (2023)
  45. Wealth and Ownership of Indigenous Goods among Spanish Colonizers (2019)
  46. Wealth Building in Early Urban Mesopotamia: Strategies and Ideologies (2018)
  47. Wealth Inequality in Polynesia: A Comparison of Evidence from the Hawaiian Islands, Rapa Nui (Easter Island), and Aotearoa (New Zealand) from AD 1000–1800 (2023)
  48. Wealth Inequality in the Late Classic Valley of Oaxaca: A Domestic Perspective (2016)
  49. Wealth on the Hoof: Cajamarca Culture Camelid Pastoralism (2021)
  50. Wealth, Status, and Agricultural Production at a Mid-Nineteenth-Century Farmstead in Upstate New York (2023)
  51. Weapon or Weaving Swords and the Complexities of Gender Construction (2016)
  52. Weaponry Standardization and the Potential for Sharing at the Agate Basin Site (2017)
  53. Weapons of a Spanish Colonial Road: An Analysis of Arms Found at Paraje San Diego, New Mexico (2017)
  54. The Weapons of the Mixton War (1541-1542) (2019)
  55. Weapons of the Sun: Centipedes and Fire Serpents in the Art and Symbolism of Ancient Mesoamerica (2018)
  56. Wear traces from some experimental chipped stone extractive tools (2017)
  57. Weasels, seals, bears: Late Dorset miniature carvings as indicators of individual hunter/prey relationships (2017)
  58. Weathering of Surficial Lithic Assemblages in the Hyperarid Core of the Atacama Desert, Chile (2018)
  59. Weathering the Tropics: The Problem of Archaeological Data Collection and Understanding Settlement Systems, Socio-Ecological Dynamics, Human-Thing Entanglements, and the Resiliency of Tropical Societies (2017)
  60. A Weaver’s Work: The Concurrent Advancement of Tribal Sovereignty and Archaeological Practice in Southern California (2019)
  61. Weaving Ancestors into Everyday Objects: Basketmaker II Use of Human Hair (2023)
  62. Weaving and Spinning Technologies from the Northern Southwest: Recent Research by the Cedar Mesa Perishables Project (2019)
  63. Weaving Identities (2015)
  64. Weaving Kin Studies and Multispecies Frameworks into Collaborative Paleoethnobotanical Research (2023)
  65. Weaving Meaning into Mississippian Ritual (2017)
  66. Weaving Our Life: The Economy and Ideology of Cotton in Postclassic West Mexico (2016)
  67. Weaving people and places: A long-term term perspective on obsidian circulation and social value in NW Argentina (2015)
  68. Weaving Technologies and Textile Production: A Case Study from the Northern Maya Lowlands (2016)
  69. Weaving the Cosmic House: Chibchan Myth and Nicaraguan Spindle Whorls (2023)
  70. Weaving the Fabric of Society at Çatalhöyük: A Socio-Material Network Approach to the Study of Early Agricultural Settled Life, Social Structure and Differentiation (2017)
  71. Weaving the Strands of Evidence: Multifaceted Confirmation of Textile Production and Use at Mission Santa Clara de Asis (2017)
  72. Weber fractions, standardisation, and variation in artefact form (2017)
  73. Wedded to Privilege? Archaeology and Academic Capital (2017)
  74. Weeden Island Shell Rings from the Bottom-Up: The View from Old Creek (2018)
  75. Weediness: Modern, Historic, and Prehistoric Plants at Poverty Point, LA (2015)
  76. Weeds, Seeds, and Other Maya Needs (2016)
  77. A Week in the Life of the Mousterian Cows Hunter A Mousterian Hunting Location on the Banks of the Paleo-Hula Lake (2017)
  78. Weichselian Climatic Fluctuations and Neanderthals’ Technical Behaviors in Central Europe (2023)
  79. A WEIRd Tale: 2,500 Years of Fishing in an Everglades Slough (2016)
  80. Welcome to Goblin Town: Using Role-Playing Games for Education and Science Communication (2023)
  81. Welcome to My Nightmare - Ancient DNA from Pacific Islands (2016)
  82. Welcome to the Machine: New Techniques in Predictive Modeling for Improving Data Quality in Zooarchaeology (2023)
  83. Well, Well, Well: A look into the varieties and distribution of wells in colonial St. Augustine, FL (2016)
  84. A Well-Travelled Route: 7,500 Years of Occupation along the Missisquoi River, Northwestern Vermont—The Vermont Agency of Transportation Route 78 Project (2019)
  85. Wemyss Caves 4D: a review of a community 3D digital documentation project at a challenging heritage site in Scotland. (2016)
  86. Wenner-Gren Foundation Funding for Archaeology (2017)
  87. Were Hutia Domesticated in the Caribbean? (2017)
  88. Were Large Mammal Limb Bones Processed to Extract Marrow and Render Grease at the Danielson Ranch site (CA-VEN-395)? (2019)
  89. Were Neandertals the Original Snowbirds? Zooarchaeological Evidence from Greece (2019)
  90. Were Neolithic and Late Prehistoric Fortifications a Deterrent to Escalating Conflicts in Early Agricultural Societies in Temperate Europe and Eastern North America? (2019)
  91. Were the Lucayans a Creole Society? (2018)
  92. Were the Wichita Using Ilex Vomitoria While Living Along the Arkansas River In Kansas (2015)
  93. Were Turkeys Domesticated by Prehistoric Farmers in Oklahoma? (2019)
  94. Were-Jaguars, Birdmen, and Community Performance in the Rain Petition Ceremonies in the Caves of the Upper Balsas River, Eastern Guerrero, Mexico (2018)
  95. West Mancos Survey and Site Preservation Project, Southwest Colorado (2017)
  96. West Mexico, the Missing Link with South America (2015)
  97. West to east - the spread of wheat and barley cultivation across Eurasia (2015)
  98. Western Canadian pXRF Obsidian Sourcing (2016)
  99. The Western Chontalpa: What’s in the Archaeological "Black Hole" of the Mesoamerican Gulf Coast? (2018)
  100. The Western Connection: Using Comparative NAA Data to Source Glaze Wares from Tijeras Pueblo (2019)