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 19,601-19,700 of 21,939)

  1. Theory and Anecdotes: A Student Retrospective of Ann F. Rameonfsky’s New Mexico Research (2019)
  2. Theory at the Waterline: Advances in Submerged Precontact Landscape Archaeology (2024)
  3. A theory on cultural inversion: resistance, resilience and agency within the archaeology of colonialism (2016)
  4. Theory, Strategies, Objectives, and Preliminary Results of Transdisciplinary Studies of Ancient Consciousness on Time and Space out of Eurasia (2024)
  5. Therapeutic Dentistry in Prehistoric Maryland—New Analyses from the Late Woodland Period Hughes (18MO1) Archeological Site. (2024)
  6. Theravada Buddhist Monastic Activity at Angkor: A Discussion of What, Where, and When (2021)
  7. There and Back Again: A Foragers-Farmers Model of Turkey Domestication (Part I) (2019)
  8. There And Back Again: A Geochemical Analysis of Casas Grandes Shell Procurement and Exchange (2015)
  9. There and Back Again: A Space Archaeology Journey (2016)
  10. There and Back Again: Dick Jefferies, Winchester Farm, and Middle Woodland Interaction Across Central Kentucky (2017)
  11. There and Back: An Evaluation of Modeling Pre-sail Seafaring Exchange Routes (2019)
  12. There Are Holes in Our Argument: Karst Landforms and Multispecies Flourishing in Northeastern Yucatan, Mexico (2023)
  13. There Are No Chiefs Here: Contrasting Questions of "Marginality" in Kaupō, Maui, and the Mauna Kea Adze Quarry, Hawaiʻi Island (2019)
  14. “There Are No Living Indians”: Exploring the Inadequacies of Education in the US Midwest Regarding Native Americans (2023)
  15. There Is Much Else that May Be Told: Lessons in Navigating Nontraditional Career Paths in Anthropology, Archaeology, and Beyond (2024)
  16. There Were Pots After All: Production and Use of Ceramic Vessels in the Upper Laurentian Region of Québec, Canada (2019)
  17. There's No App for This: The Value of Archaeology and Experiential Education in a Digital Universe (2015)
  18. There's Sand in the Sensor! EO approaches to interpreting delta-desert transitional environments (2017)
  19. There's Sugar in Them There Hills: Bio-prospecting in the 18th-century Caribbean (2018)
  20. There’s An App For That: Cost-Effectiveness of Lidar/Photogrammetry Smart Phone Applications for Virtual Osteology (2024)
  21. There’s No Place Like Otot: The Domestic Architecture of the Maya in Their Own Words (2016)
  22. Thermal Analysis as a Means to Understand Prehistoric Heat Treatment and Performance Differences in Tool Stone (2023)
  23. The Thermal and Transpirative Properties of Arctic Clothing Construction: A Women’s Adaptive Technology (2015)
  24. Thermal Curve Fracture (TCF) as a diagnostic tool for the identification of anthropogenic fire (2015)
  25. Thermal Identification of Groundwater Discharges within Saline Lagoons Surrounding Vista Alegre, Quintana Roo, Mexico (2018)
  26. Thermal Processes on Tropical Archaeological Shell: An Experimental Study (2018)
  27. Thermal Properties of Prehistoric Ceramic Vessels of the American Southeast (2018)
  28. A Thermoregulatory Perspective on the Folsom Archaeological Record (2018)
  29. THESE ARE THE FLINTKNAPPERS: A CASE STUDY CONCERNING THE ABILITY TO MEASURE FLINTKNAPPING SKILL VARIATION IN THE ANALYSIS OF DEBITAGE (2016)
  30. These are the pearls that were his eyes: interpretive frameworks for submerged Middle Archaic sites in the Big Bend of Florida and the Georgia Bight, U.S.A. (2015)
  31. These stones will destroy us (2015)
  32. "These, therefore, are our roots, our existence": Ancestral Roots as the Embodiment of Identity in K'iche' Maya Society (2024)
  33. "They are one with the Tides of the Sea": Diets of Settlers and Sailors in Newfoundland during the 17th to 19th centuries (2016)
  34. “They Are Ours”: Bringing Together Past and Present Church through Burial Excavations at the First Baptist Church Site (2024)
  35. They are what they eat: A need to know more about diet through residues, hieroglyphic texts, and images of the Classic Mayas (2017)
  36. They Blinded Me with Science: Methods and Approaches at the Programme for Belize Archaeological Project (PfBAP) (2019)
  37. They Build Ships There: Gold-Rush San Francisco’s Maritime Industries (2015)
  38. "They came to loot our treasures": Indigenous, Pirates, and Indigenous-Pirates on the Mexican Pacific Coast (2019)
  39. "They Had So Many Stones to Hurl": Evidence of Inter-Indigenous Conflict on the Vázquez de Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542 (2015)
  40. “They left about the time I could begin to depend upon them”: Helen Sloan Daniels and the National Youth Administration Durango Public Library Museum Project (2021)
  41. “They Made Many Tunes”: Musical Instruments of the Pueblo Peoples of the Northern Rio Grande Valley (2021)
  42. They Sent Sandstone Across the Sea? A Preliminary Petrographic Study of Stone Bowls and Mortars (2015)
  43. They’re Alright: Late Quaternary Fossil Pocket Gopher DNA Provides Nuanced View of Climate Changes at Hall’s Cave, Texas (2023)
  44. Thieves, Stowaways, Hitchhikers, and Hangers-On: The Commensal Niche in the Prehistoric Caribbean (2018)
  45. A Thin Section Petrographic Study of Early to Late Shangshan Ceramics from Zhejiang, China (2017)
  46. Thin Section Petrography of Inka Pottery from Pachacamac, Peru (2021)
  47. Things Forgotten: The Unique of the Hell Gap Site (2018)
  48. Things People Do with XRF (2019)
  49. Things that Queer: Disorienting Intimacies in Late Nineteenth Century Jooks (2015)
  50. Think Inside the Box: Teaching Archaeological Methods and Interdisciplinary Problem Solving in the Classroom (2016)
  51. Think Locally, Act Globally: How a Local Perspective Informs the Broader Narrative of Mississippianization in the American Midwest (2018)
  52. Think Small: What charcoal fragments and tiny sites teach us about indigenous land modifications and farming around Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. (2015)
  53. Thinking about Ecotopes: Two Thousand Years of Landscape’s Continuities and Discontinuities in the North Coast of the Central Andes (2019)
  54. Thinking about Spatial Scale and Diversity in Archaeology (2019)
  55. Thinking about “The Dawn of Everything" in Black and Red (2024)
  56. THINKING AND THEORY IN THE BIOARCHAEOLOGY OF CARE (2015)
  57. Thinking Differently? How Digital Engagement, Teaching, and Research Have Influenced My Archaeological Knowledge (2017)
  58. Thinking Exponentially: Settlement Scaling and Archaeological Data (2017)
  59. Thinking Inside the Box: Research Potential of National Park Service Archeological Collections at the Museum Resource Center (2018)
  60. Thinking Locally: A Glimpse at Ceramic Production at Küllüoba, Turkey, during the Early Bronze Age (2024)
  61. Thinking of Starting a Stewardship Program? Lessons Learned from the National Site Stewardship Network Survey 2022 (2023)
  62. Thinking Outside the Excavation Unit: Lessons Learned from an Alternative Mitigation Project on the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico (2018)
  63. Thinking outside the map: Alternative approaches to data visualization (2017)
  64. Thinking Outside The Panel: Using comics to engage with multiple audiences during archaeological field schools (2016)
  65. Thinking Socially: Digital Archaeology Beyond Technological Fetishism (2017)
  66. Thinking through Dogs in the Arctic (2015)
  67. Thinking Through Mountains: A Perspective from the ancient Near East (2015)
  68. Thinking Through Zooarchaeological Approaches to Empire and Environment (2017)
  69. Thinking Transition: The Processes of Ethnogenesis (2021)
  70. Thirst for Knowledge: Teaching Typology and Social Organization through the Stylistic Attributes of Water Bottles (2016)
  71. Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Redstone Pipes and Social Change on the Central Great Plains (2024)
  72. Thirteenth-Century Villages and the Depopulation of the Northern San Juan Region by Pueblo Peoples (2023)
  73. Thirty Years After La Mojarra: Epi-Olmec Writing Revisited (2017)
  74. Thirty Years Later. Revisiting the Tarascan City of Las Milpillas and Its Environment, Malpaís de Zacapu, Michoacán (2018)
  75. Thirty Years On, Considering Kelly’s 1988 "Three Sides of A Biface", and Why It Matters for Great Basin Archaeology (2018)
  76. Thirty-Eight Years a Mentor: Bob Kelly’s Steady Guidance, Abundant Kindness, and Thoughtful Insights (2024)
  77. The Thirty-Three Year History of Cultural Resource Management at the Mashantucket Pequot Reservation (2016)
  78. This concoction is hot, but my hand is not!: A possible function of annular rings on p’uku-like vessels in the Central Coast of Peru during the Late Intermediate period and a conjectural link to Andean traditional medicine (2016)
  79. “. . . this distant and isolated post:” Fort Tombecbé and Frontier Community (2024)
  80. “This is the true history of the people of Chajul”: Selected Aspects of the Narratives and Music of the Tz’unun Dance (2023)
  81. This Is the Way: Moving Toward Best Practices in Collection and Data Submission to Archaeological Repositories (2023)
  82. This Way to the Sacrificial Table: The Mystification of the Mundane in the Archaeological Record (2017)
  83. The Thorny Problem of Spondylus Sourcing in the Ancient Andes (2018)
  84. Those Flowering Waters: Reconstructing 1,200 Years of Human Adaptation to Hydroclimatic Changes in Central Nicaragua (2024)
  85. Those Who Came Before: Investigating Diet, Health and Mobility in the Moche Valley, 1800 BC – AD 200 (2016)
  86. Though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death: Co-Burials and Identity in Pre-Modern Northern Finland (2018)
  87. Thoughts on the Most Recent Katun of Archaeological Heritage Management in Belize (2024)
  88. "A Thousand Beads to Each Nation:" A social interpretation of glass trade bead distribution in the Upper Great Lakes region of North America (2015)
  89. A Thousand Years after the Volcano Erupted: TBJ Deposits and Use at Ciudad Vieja, El Salvador (2016)
  90. A Thousand Years of Bone-Tool Production at Shaktoolik, Alaska (2017)
  91. A Thousand Years of Wetland Management at Hacienda Zuleta in the Ecuadorian Andes (2023)
  92. The Thousand-Year Shrine: Ancient Roots of a Modern Holy Place in Afghanistan’s Desert (2023)
  93. Thread production in Late Postclassic Tepeticpac, Tlaxcala: a technological and experimental study of archaeological spindle whorls. (2017)
  94. Thread Production in Ocotelulco, Tlaxcallan, Mexico (2019)
  95. Threads from the Present and the Past Come Together in Smithsonian Collections (2018)
  96. Three Case Studies of Andean Metalworking (2018)
  97. Three Cities in the Heartland of the Khitan Liao Empire (2017)
  98. Three Dimensional Aggregate Flake Scar Analysis on Experimental Lithics, and Archaeological Lithics from Tabun Cave, Israel (2017)
  99. Three Dimensional Modeling in Archaeological Interpretation: A Case Study from the Pacific Northwest (2015)
  100. A Three Dimensional Reconstruction of the Pueblo Bonito Mounds (2017)