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)

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  1. Bayesian Models for the Occupational History of Complex Hunter-Gatherer-Fisher Communities in the Interior Pacific Northwest (2019)
  2. Bayesian Multilevel Models of Diachronic Dietary Trajectories (DDTs) from 13,000 years of Great Plains Faunal Exploitation (2023)
  3. Bayesian probability weaning age estimates of sub-adults from Canimar Abajo, Cuba (2015)
  4. A Bayesian Radiocarbon Chronology for Southern Appalachia, A.D. 700-1400 (2016)
  5. Bayesian Reconstruction of Past Demography (2018)
  6. A Bayesian Solution to the Controversy over the Identification of Bone Surface Modification in Paleoanthropology (2017)
  7. Bayesian-Based Rethink on AMS Dates from Tularosa Cave, NM (2023)
  8. BC "Rock" Stars: The Next Generation (2017)
  9. Be Our Guest: Tablescapes in Early Modern Ulster (2015)
  10. Beach Level Chronology and Paleodemography at Alarniq, Northern Foxe Basin, Arctic Canada (2018)
  11. Beach Party: A Review of Previous Relict Shoreline Surveys, and Excavations in the 2016 Field Season at McCargoe Cove, Isle Royale National Park (2017)
  12. Beach ridges, sand dunes and buried sites : Recent CRM Investigations at Inverhuron, Ontario (2015)
  13. Bead Production of the Later Stone Age in Northern Malawi (2021)
  14. The Bead Strings with Jade Huang Pendents of the Zhou Period of China: Revived Tradition or Adopted Fashion (2015)
  15. Beading a Nation, Beading a People: The Role of Métis Women’s Beadwork in Crafting Culture (2019)
  16. Beads all the way down: reassessing the economics of Shell Bead Production on Santa Cruz Island (2017)
  17. Beads and Bohr Models: Using XRF to Discuss Choctaw Identity Formation (2019)
  18. Beads Associated with Infant Jar Burials/Supine Child Burials: Evidence of Social Inequality in Early Ifugao Culture (2017)
  19. Beads, Bangles, and Glass: Historical and Ethnographic Insights into Glass Working in South India (2015)
  20. Beads, Myth, and Ritual Practice: Tracing Traditions of Ornament Use in Ceremonial Deposition and Costuming in the Northern U.S. Southwest (2017)
  21. Beans of Power: Phaseolus and Late Preclassic Rulership on the Pacific Coast (2024)
  22. Bear Creek (45KI839) Data Recovery Investigation and the Paleoarchaic Settlement of the South Salish Sea during the Late Pleistocene-Holocene Transition (2017)
  23. Bear Creek and the Pacific Northwest Western Stemmed Tradition (2017)
  24. Bear Imagery and Ritual in Midwest North America (2017)
  25. The Bear in the Footprint: Using Ethnography to Interpret Archaeological Evidence of Bear Hunting and Bear Veneration in the Northern Rockies (2017)
  26. Bear/Human Relationships in Southeastern Native North America: Creating Archaeological Models from Historical Accounts (2017)
  27. Bears and people: from the wilderness to dancing (2017)
  28. Bears Ears Archaeological Probability Models (2018)
  29. Beasts and Feasts in Late Medieval Ireland: The Case from Mcdermot’s Rock (2024)
  30. The Beat Goes On: A Continuation of J. Louis Giddings’ Research Into a Late Western Thule Drum from Cape Krusenstern, Alaska (2016)
  31. Beating Swords into Plowshares: The Role of Agricultural Colonization in Imperial Histories (2019)
  32. The Beaucoup Site: A Bison Kill in Northeastern Montana (2015)
  33. Beautiful Virgins and Male War Captives: The Role of Sex Attribution in Ancient Maya Human Sacrifice at Midnight Terror Cave, Belize (2017)
  34. Beauty and Adornment in Fertile Lands and Desert: Toiletries from burials of Han China and her Western Neighbors (2015)
  35. The Beaver of Children and the Poor: The Social Dimension of Fur-Bearing Mammal Exploitation in Central British Columbia (2017)
  36. Beaver River Complex Contribution to Folsom Archaeology: An Update and Future Directions (2015)
  37. Becan Reconsidered (2018)
  38. Becoming Avian: Amazonian featherworks from the John P. O'Neill collection (2024)
  39. Becoming Cypriot: Identity Formation, Negotiation and Renegotiation on Bronze Age Cyprus (2019)
  40. Becoming Divine: Stone Sculpture and Deity Impersonation in Classic Veracruz Visual Culture (2018)
  41. Becoming Moche in Huanchaco: the impact of Moche Politics, Economy and Religion in the Fishermen Households at Pampa la Cruz, AD 500-650 (2019)
  42. Becoming Neolithic or Being a Hunter-Gatherer? Reframing the Origins of Agriculture through a Longue Durée Perspective (2018)
  43. The Becoming of Far View House (2024)
  44. Becoming Villagers, Becoming Enslavers: Social Change in Bantu-Speaking Early Villages during the Late Holocene Arid Phase (ca. 1200 BCE. – ca. 100 BCE) (2019)
  45. Becoming Virgin in Jenny Clay: An Analysis of Settlement Evolution and Kayenta Intrusion in Southern Utah (2018)
  46. Bedrock features and cupmarks-bearing boulders: An overview of a Natufian and PPNA phenomenon (2015)
  47. Bedrock Mortars as an Indicator of Territorial Behavior in Late Holocene California (2017)
  48. Bedrock Mortars as Symbolic Features (2019)
  49. Beekeeping in the Yucatán Hacienda: The Role of the Melipona beecheii in the Nineteenth-Century Rural Landscape from an Environmental History Approach (2024)
  50. Beekeeping, Ancestral Knowledge, and Interspecies Relationships: Exploring Place-Based Heritage in Yucatán (2024)
  51. Beer and Feasts in the Highlands of Southern Ethiopia: Ethnoarchaeological and Archaeological Perspectives (2021)
  52. Beer and the Politics of Affect in Mesopotamia (2023)
  53. Beer in the Desert: Archaeological, Ethnohistoric, and Experimental Perspectives on Early Beer Brewing in the Central Namib Desert, Namibia (2018)
  54. Beer, Bologna, and Beaux-Esprits: A Legacy of John R. White (2018)
  55. Beer, Porridges, and Feasting in the Gamo Region of southern Ethiopia (2017)
  56. Beer, Pots, and Caste: A Tale of Two Sites in the Gamo Highlands of Southwestern Ethiopia (2023)
  57. Beers with Lawrence and Insights into Magdalenian Visual Display at El Mirón Cave (2016)
  58. Beetle, lice and flea sub-fossils as evidence for resource exploitation, the use of space and ecological conditions at the pre-contact Eskimo site of Nunalleq, south-western Alaska (2015)
  59. Before and After (and After): Alteration, Abandonment, and Re-use of Industrial Plantation Housing (2023)
  60. Before and After Mazama at the Billy Big Spring Site: Landscape Evolution during Altithermal Times and Reoccupation after the Eruption (2017)
  61. Before Calchaquí. The Formative Period and Middle Horizon ceramics in Northwest Argentina (2015)
  62. Before San Francisco: The Archaeology of El Polin Spring in the Presidio of San Francisco (2015)
  63. Before Teotihuacan: The Origins of Complex Society in the Northeast Basin of Mexico (2016)
  64. Before the Aurora of Hegemony: How the La Corona Community Brooked the Kaanul Dynasty (2024)
  65. Before the Cults of the Condor and Catequil: The Pre-Recuay Occupation at Pashash, Ancash, Peru (ca. 500 BCE–100 CE) (2024)
  66. Before the Dig: The "Archaeologizing" of Peruvian Heritage Sites Prior to Formal Research (2024)
  67. Before There Were Ceramics in Belize (2024)
  68. The (beginning and) end of the world as we know it: The multiple makings and un-makings of the indigenous past in Huarochirí, Peru (2015)
  69. The Beginning of a New Epoch: The Transition to Post-dynastic Life in Río Amarillo, Copán Valley, Honduras (2019)
  70. Beginning of Agriculture and Immigrants from the Korean Peninsula in Prehistoric Japan (2015)
  71. Beginning of Camelid breeding during the Formative period at the Pacopampa site, Peru. (2017)
  72. The Beginning of the Bow (2023)
  73. The beginning use of iron in ancient China and the Early Silk Road (2017)
  74. The Beginnings of Archaeological Administration and Labor at El Tajín, Veracruz, 1900-1938 (2019)
  75. Behavior Change in Hunter-Gatherers of the Namib: A Re-Analysis of the Terminal Pleistocene Lithic Technology at the Mirabib Hill Rockshelter, Western Namibia (2017)
  76. Behavior from Spatial Structure in Archaeological Sites: A Working Model Based on Dukha Ethnography (2018)
  77. Behavioral Cosmology and Fictive Kin: James M. Skibo (The Behavioral Golden Child) (2019)
  78. Behavioral Ecology and Evolutionary Approaches to Human-Environment Dynamics on Southwest Madagascar (2023)
  79. Behavioral Ecology and the Emergence of Sedentism and Agriculture (2023)
  80. Behavioral ecology of Neolithic transformations in Taiwan: Ceramics and settlements (2017)
  81. Behavioral Inferences from Early Stone Age Sites: A View from the Koobi Fora Formation (2017)
  82. Behavioral Metallurgy of the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, and Neo-Punic Peoples (2015)
  83. Behavioral Modernity (or Lack Thereof) and Its Reflection in Lithic Assemblages (2018)
  84. Beheading Bugs and Spearing Stags: Depictions of Animal Sacrifice in Mesoamerica (2019)
  85. Behemoths of the Bajo el Laberinto: The Development of Urban Reservoirs at Yaxnocah and Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico (2024)
  86. Behind the Bear's Ears: Climate and Culture in the Early Pueblo Era on Elk Ridge, Southeast Utah (2017)
  87. Behind the Creation of Archaeogames: Character Art (2023)
  88. Behind the Man of "Pro and Profit:" Weaving a Colonial City from the Obraje de San Marcos de Chincheros (2021)
  89. Behind the Walls: LIP Architecture and Settlement Organization across the Peruvian Titicaca Basin (2019)
  90. Being 'Post-Indian' in 19th Century New England (2018)
  91. Being a Woman in Roman Gaul: Gendered Votive Offerings in a Colonial Context (2017)
  92. Being an Expert Witness in Mexico’s Heritage Management Process: Requirements and Issues (2023)
  93. Being and Becoming in Huron-Wendat Worlds (2016)
  94. Being and Becoming: Learning, Skill, and Cognition as Exhibited on Painted White Ware Pottery at Sand Canyon Pueblo (5MT765), a Pueblo III Era Community Center in Southwestern Colorado (2023)
  95. Being Found: A Fundamental Human Right (2016)
  96. Being Male in al-Andalus. A Comparative Osteobiographical Approach to Reconstructing Islamic Identities in Medieval Spain. (2017)
  97. Being Matlatzinca: Ethnicity and Household Activity at Aztec Calixtlahuaca (2018)
  98. Beings from the Third Dimension: Imaging Weeden Island Effigies (2015)
  99. Believers in the Highlands: Burying the Muslim Dead at the Qarakhanid Site of Tashbulak (2019)
  100. Believing is Seeing (2015)