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. To and From Hopi: Negotiating Identity through Migration, Coalescence, and Closure at the Homol'ovi Settlement Cluster (2017)
  2. To Be of Use: Re-examining Army Corps of Engineer's Collections (2018)
  3. To Be or Not to Be Attributed to Specific Plants? The Integration of Phytolith Analysis and Soil and Sediment Micromorphology (2024)
  4. ‘To be or not to be…’ A Taphonomic Perspective on Pseudoartifacts (2018)
  5. To Build a Mountain and Raise a People: Making and Inhabiting an Inka God’s House (Wanakawre, Cuzco, Peru) (2023)
  6. To Build or Not To Build: An Historical Archaeological Examination of Fort Louise Augusta and the Role of Sovereign Perceptions and Interests in the Construction and Maintenance of Danish West Indian Fortifications (2024)
  7. To Burn like the Sun: Rituals of Fire and Death among the Classic Maya (2015)
  8. To Collect or Not to Collect: That is the Question ...But Where is the Point? (2019)
  9. To Curate or Not to Curate: Legal, Ethical, and Practical Considerations at the Arizona State Museum (2019)
  10. To Dig or Not to Dig? A Case Study of Suspected Remains Buried under Concrete (2016)
  11. To Eat, Discard, or Venerate: Faunal Remains as Proxy for Human Behaviors in Lowland Maya Terminal or Problematic Deposits (2018)
  12. To Feed the Miner and to Feed the Mine: Some Thoughts on the Macrobotanical Assemblage from Mina Primavera, Nasca Region, Peru (2015)
  13. To Fight or Not to Fight: Comparing Evidence of Violence on Human Skeletal Remains at Sites in and around Chaco Canyon and the Mimbres Region (2023)
  14. To Guard or Not to Guard? Variations in Territoriality Within Hunter-Gatherer Societies (2017)
  15. “​​To Have Expertise Be Recognized”: Black Women Archaeologists, Obligation, and Archaeological Expertise (2023)
  16. “To Kill” or “To Sacrifice?” Sahagún and the Translation of Mortal Violence (2024)
  17. "To leave a part of who you are here:" Reusing and Reimagining the Archaeological Record on the Pamunkey Indian Reservation (2018)
  18. To Live and Die in the City: Investigations of Health at the Huacas de Moche (2015)
  19. To Live in a Longhouse: A Case Study from Iroquoian Village Sites in Southern Quebec (2021)
  20. To Love and to Leave or to Never Have Loved at All?: Abandonment Deposits within the Late Classic Maya Palace at Actuncan, Belize (2018)
  21. To move mountains: cycles of indigenous mobility and resettlement in highland Mexico (2016)
  22. To Retest or Not To Retest: A Case Study at Wide Ruins (2015)
  23. To Screen or to Float?: Methodological Considerations for Archaeobotanists in Coastal Peru (2015)
  24. To Snatch the Baby from Its Mother’s Lap: Infant Mortality and Maternal Health at Tell el-Kerkh, Syria (2015)
  25. To Spin and Whorl: Functional and Symbolic Associations of Chancay Weaving Tools (2019)
  26. To the Caribbean and Beyond: Complete Mitogenomes of Ancient Guinea Pigs (Cavia porcellus) as a Proxy for Human Interaction in the Late Ceramic Age (2018)
  27. To the East of the Titicaca Basin: The Yunga-Kallawayas and the Inka Frontier (2018)
  28. To the Four Winds – Identities and Destinies on New Spain’s Far Northern Frontier: the Piro and Tiwa Provinces of New Mexico, c. 1540-1740. (2016)
  29. To the Mountain: Heritage preservation through archaeological literacy in San Jose Succotz, Belize. (2017)
  30. To walk in order to remember… and to dominate: Inca Roads and Hegemonic Processes in Jauja, Central Highlands of Peru (2018)
  31. To Wear or to Trade: Analyzing Bone Pendant Artifacts from the Peruvian Montaña (2019)
  32. To Wear, or Not to Wear: Symbolism and Technology of Lip-Plates in Mursi (Ethiopia) and Mebêngôkre (Brazil) (2023)
  33. To What Extent Is the Concept of Convergence Applicable to Lithic Technology: An Overview (2023)
  34. A Toast to the Gods and Ancestors: The Role of Beverages in Classic Maya Elite Cave Ritual in West Central Belize (2017)
  35. Tobacco Related Imagery in Montana and Wyoming (2017)
  36. Tobacco Smoking in Northwestern North America: Synthesizing the Results of Organic Chemical Residue Analyses (2019)
  37. Tochak-McGrath Discovery: Three precontact individuals from the Upper Kuskokwim River, Alaska (2017)
  38. “Toda la Gente”: Advocating an Intersectional Approach to Heritage Production (2024)
  39. *Todas las cremas: Shifting Landscapes of Mobility on the Far Southern Coast of Peru (AD 1000–1920) (2021)
  40. Todd’s Taphonomy: Addressing Questions Too Often Left Unasked (2023)
  41. Togiak Archaeological and Paleoecological Project: Exploring Relationships and Ecology at the Old Togiak Village (2017)
  42. Tokens of Oppression: Coinage at a Nineteenth-Century Galapagos Sugar Plantation (2017)
  43. Tokens of Travel: Material Culture of Transoceanic Journeys in San Francisco (2015)
  44. “Tola Boayacu Puyu” (Upper Pastaza, Ecuador) in the understanding of the Amazonian urbanism and food consumption (2024)
  45. The Toltec Diaspora as Political Action (2023)
  46. Tom Dillehay's Contributions to Agricultural Origins and Development (2023)
  47. Tom Dillehay, Texas, and Identity (2023)
  48. Tom Windes and Southwestern Dendroarchaeology (2015)
  49. Tom Windes: Celebrating 40 Years of Innovative Research on the Colorado Plateau. (2015)
  50. Tomb of the Goblets: Revisiting a Middle Bronze Burial from Pella in Jordan (2015)
  51. The Tomb of the Known Unknown Soldier: Identifying the Remains of Confederate Soldiers Buried near the Williamsburg Powder Magazine (2024)
  52. The Tombigbee Historic Townsites Project: A New Look at a Previously Excavated Collection (2018)
  53. Tombs as Evidence for Religious Diversity in the Late Prehispanic Sacred Valley, Peru (ca. 1000–1532 CE) (2024)
  54. Tomography and Photography Studies of Funerary Urns from South Central Michoacán México (2018)
  55. Tongva Ritual Practice on San Clemente Island: Reanalysis of Religious Dynamics during the Colonial Period (2016)
  56. “Too Hood for This”: Navigating the Profession of Archaeology and Finding My Place (2024)
  57. Too Loud a Solitude: Landfills in the Landscape (2015)
  58. Too Much Common Sense,Not Enough Critical Reflection (2015)
  59. Tool Fragments from the Late Lower Paleolithic of Tabun Cave, Israel (2019)
  60. Tool manufacture and bone breakage patterns at a Haudenosaunee site in New York (2016)
  61. TOOL PRODUCTION, SUBSISTENCE, OR PRACTICE: AN INVESTIGATION OF HUMAN MODIFIED BISON PHALANGES PRESENT AT THE BULL CREEK AND CLARY RANCH SITES (2015)
  62. Tool use across space in the Middle Pleistocene: Novel Techniques of Edge Damage Analysis at Elandsfontein, South Africa. (2017)
  63. Tool-kits, Subsistence, and Land-use Patterns: The Neanderthal Ecology Revisited across a Dense Cultural Sequence in the Alpine chain (2017)
  64. Tools Fit for a Queen: Interdisciplinary Study of a Set of Ancient Maya Weaving Implements (2019)
  65. Tools for Change: Food Preparation Techniques during State Formation at the Tilcajete Sites (2019)
  66. Tools for Quantitative Archaeology: Spreading Numeracy to a Generation of Southwestern Archaeologists (2019)
  67. Tools for Transparency and Replicability of Simulation in Archaeology (2015)
  68. Tools of the Trade: An Analysis of Lithic Biface Variability in South Central Ontario (2019)
  69. Tools of the Trade: An Analysis of Tools at Historic Hanna's Town (2016)
  70. Tools Present and Tools Absent in Textile-intensive Mortuary Contexts: the Paracas Case (2019)
  71. Toolstone Acquisition in the Interior of California’s South-Central Coast: Raw Material Extraction in the Mid- to Late Holocene (2023)
  72. Toolstone Sources off the Pacific Coast of Alta California: Implications for Evaluating the Marginality of Islands through Space and Time (2015)
  73. The Tooth About Pastoralism: Oral Health, Physiological Stress and Diet in a 19th Century Mobile Pastoralist Population from Mongolia (2015)
  74. Tooth Tales from Lima: Pre-Columbian Dental Health along the Central Coast of Peru. (2016)
  75. Topographic Morphometrics: Utilizing 3D Scans of Lithic Projectile Points to Look for Similarities and Differences in Flake Scar Patterning (2019)
  76. Topography and Territoriality in the Virginia Uplands (2016)
  77. Toponymical indices to the past landscape and resource extraction along the Wolastoq and its environs (2017)
  78. Torbulok - a sanctuary in the Hellenistic Far East (2017)
  79. Tornadoes as an Impetus of Social Change in the Eastern United States (2024)
  80. Tortoises as indicators of diet, site formation, and palaeoenvironments in the Middle Stone Age record of the Southern African coast (2015)
  81. Tortuga - Haiti's Ile de la Tortue - Prehistoric and Buccaneer Archaeology (2019)
  82. Tossed Cigarettes, Illegal Dumps, and Soiled Cardboard: An Archaeology of Illicit, Invisible, and Seldom-Studied Discard Phenomena in the Twenty-First Century (2019)
  83. Total Station Archaeology: Digging the Dibble Way (2023)
  84. ‘Totem’ owls, otters and pelicans: 14C dating central Florida’s prehistoric sculptures (2016)
  85. Touching the Colors of the Past: Ochre Painting Workshops at the Origins Centre Museum, South Africa (2024)
  86. Touching the Past in Museums: issues of authenticity and identity for crafted replicas and 3D print facsimiles of rare, perishable and iconic artefacts (2015)
  87. Tough Love - The Permian Basin Programmatic Agreement Research Program in Southeastern New Mexico (2018)
  88. Tourist Trinket, Religious Object, Human Remains, or Something Else: Kapalas in the Online Market (2024)
  89. Toward a Balanced Public History in the Ohio Country: Collaborative Interpretation of the Histories of the Shawnee Nations at Great Council State Park (2023)
  90. Toward a Bayesian Epistemology of Anthropology and Archaeology (2023)
  91. Toward a Bioarchaeology of Social Change: Moving Beyond the Myth of Scientific Neutrality (2019)
  92. Toward a Comparative Approach: Postclassic (AD 900-1521) Ceramics from the Pátzcuaro and Zacapu Basins, Michoacán, Mexico (2015)
  93. Toward a Decolonized CRM: Challenges in Archaeological Stewardship and Interpretation for Virginia Tribes (2021)
  94. Toward a Dynamic Geospatial Model of Shifting Hydrologic Regimes and Agricultural Potential at Chaco Canyon: Report from the Field (2017)
  95. Toward a Holistic Understanding of Marine Ecosystems in the South Central Andes: An Interdisciplinary Marine Invertebrate Biodiversity/Zooarchaeological Survey (2023)
  96. Toward a Household Archaeology of the Onöndowa'ga:' (Seneca Iroquois) White Springs Site, circa 1688-1715 CE (2019)
  97. Toward a Miwok Archeology of Yosemite California (2024)
  98. Toward a Multispecies Perspective on Human-Animal Networks in Early Urban Societies of Upper Mesopotamia (2024)
  99. Toward a Nim (Mono) Archeology (2019)
  100. Toward a Reconstruction of Early Settlements in Metal Age Yunnan (2015)