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 2,001-2,100 of 21,939)

  1. Belizean Jade: Why Such a Rich Periphery? (2016)
  2. Bell-shaped Pits in the American Southwest (2017)
  3. Bell-shaped Storage Pits and Social Evolution in the Yuanqu Basin, North China (2015)
  4. Belle Glade Circular Earthworks: A New Interpretation (2016)
  5. Belle Glade Monumental Construction Examined (2016)
  6. Bellicose Relations between Cacaxtla and Xochicalo in the Epiclassic Period (2015)
  7. Bells, Blades and Bodegas: The Pervasive Influences of Payson Sheets (2016)
  8. Belonging and Exclusion in Early Colonial Huamanga (Ayacucho), Peru: An Isotopic, Religious and Archival View (2018)
  9. Belonging, Not Belongings: Thinking beyond the "White Possessive" in the Identification of 19th Century Indigenous Landscapes in New England (2019)
  10. Belongings as Archives: An Abundant Approach to Sugpiaq Archaeology (2024)
  11. Belt-making traditions and identity at the site of Uraca, Majes Valley, Peru (2015)
  12. Bench Please: A Comparative Analysis of Bench Features in Mesoamerica (2018)
  13. Bending the Urban narrative: Cyclic Cities in Ancient Greece (2024)
  14. Beneath the Blue-Green Trees: Understanding the Built Environment of Yaxox through Lidar Analysis (2017)
  15. Beneath the Field of Battle: A Summary of Previous Archaeological Investigations at Vicksburg National Military Park (2024)
  16. Beneath the Surface: A Ground-Penetrating Radar Study at the Mary Rinn Site (36IN29) (2019)
  17. Beneath the Surface: Analyzing the Significance of Maya Cave Taphonomy in the Preservation of a Commingled, Fragmentary, Skeletal Assemblage (2024)
  18. Beneath the Surface: Steps toward Resolving Gallinazo-Mochica Debates in Peru’s Northern North Coast (2018)
  19. The Benefits and Challenges of Active Excavations as Tools for Interpretation and Public Outreach: Examples from Blackwater Draw Locality 1 (2019)
  20. The Benefits of B Corps for Building Sustainable Social Enterprises in Archaeology (2017)
  21. Benefits of CT-Scanning in Study of Post-Medieval Funerary Items (2018)
  22. The Benefits of Short-Wave Infrared Imagery for Archaeological Landscape Analysis: A Case Study from Easter Island, Chile (2017)
  23. Benefits of Time Travel, the McMaster Ancient DNA Centre (2017)
  24. The Benefits of Virtual Offices for a 21st Century Cultural Resource Management Consulting Firm (2015)
  25. The Benefits, Challenges, and Student Outcomes of an Academic-Governmental Collaboration for Local Undergraduate Field Training in Archaeology (2024)
  26. Beothuk Housepits in Virtual Environments (2021)
  27. Beringia is not the sole source of people in the New World (2016)
  28. Beringia Underwater: The Search for New Archaeological Sites on the Pacific Northwest Coast (2021)
  29. Beringian Landscapes and Human Responses in the Middle Tanana Valley, Alaska (2018)
  30. The Berkeley Schools of Geography and Andean Studies (2018)
  31. "The Best Conference I’ve Ever Been to": A Case Study in Science Communication Training (2017)
  32. The Best Days at FPAN are Out of Sight: Public Archaeology Airwaves of Unearthing Florida and the DARC Geotrail (2016)
  33. The Best Days at FPAN are Shared with Others: The Various Partnerships FPAN had Developed Over the Years (2016)
  34. The Best Days at FPAN are Under Water: The SSEAS and HADS Programs for Sport Divers and Diving Leadership (2016)
  35. The Best Defense is a Good Offense: Culturally Affiliating the Ancient One by Following the Law (2018)
  36. Best Foot Forward: The Social Significance of Cattle Forelegs in South African San Rock Art (2024)
  37. The Best Gifts come in Small Packages? Coring Volcanic Landscapes in New Britain (2019)
  38. The Best of All Worlds: Exploring exchange and interaction with Nicoyan, Caribbean Costa Rican and Panamanian societies at the Southern Costa Rican site of El Cholo. (2015)
  39. Best Practice Recommendations for the Treatment of “Discovered” Human Remains Lacking Provenance (2024)
  40. Best Practices and Community Engagement for Reinternment of CA-LAn-270 (Los Altos Village) Cultural Materials on a National Registry Listed Site (2015)
  41. Best Practices for Good Digital Curation (2015)
  42. Best Strategies for Field-based Training in Data Recording and Management (2019)
  43. Beta Testing a New Gunflint Database Using Citizen Scientists in the Time of COVID (2021)
  44. Bethel Cemetery Reburial, Agency, and Stakeholder Coordination (2023)
  45. The Bethel Cemetery Relocation Project: Academic Collaboration, Archaeological Science, and CRM (2019)
  46. Bethel Cemetery: Photogrammetric Field Methods in Burial Excavation (2019)
  47. A Better Understanding of Ancient Farming through Hydrology (2015)
  48. Between a Rock and a Coastal Place: Analysis of Archaic Raw Material Use at Stock Cove, Newfoundland (2019)
  49. Between a Rock and a Hard Spot: Museum Collections and Mesoamerican Archaeology (2023)
  50. Between Alexandria and Rome: World-Systems Analysis, Globalization, and Processes of Social Change in Hellenistic and Roman Cyprus (2024)
  51. Between Angkor and Champa: Political Economy of the Buffer Zone (2019)
  52. Between Archaeology and Texts: Early Jewish Ritual Law as a Test Case (2019)
  53. Between Casas Grandes and Salado: The Establishment of an Indigenous Borderland in the Ancient American Southwest/Mexican Northwest (2023)
  54. Between Control and Influence - Early Globalization processes in Bronze Age China (2017)
  55. Between earth and sky: the social and political construction of ancient lowland Maya territories (2015)
  56. Between Enlightenment and Structuralism: Bororo and Kadiwéu Collections outside Brazil, 1791–1938 (2018)
  57. Between farming and hunting: animal explotation in the Zacapu Basin, Michoacán, Mexico (100-1450 AD) (2017)
  58. Between Fishing and Rites of Passage at Death: Recent Developments from Excavations at Jicarita Island, Coiba, Panama (2024)
  59. Between Government and Grassroots: Archaeologists and Social Justice in International Contexts (2018)
  60. Between House and Site: Considering Intermediate Units in Classic Maya Lowlands Settlements (2015)
  61. Between life and death. The burial systems at the Guadiana valley, Durango. (2015)
  62. Between Lunahuanas and Incas: Imperial Landscape in the Middle Cañete Valley, Peru (2024)
  63. Between Manufacturing and Disposal: The Lives of the Pots in the Neolithic and Metal Age Settlements of Southern Vietnam (2015)
  64. Between Party Lines: A Bipartisan Reevaluation of the Early Paleoindian Zooarchaeological Record (2015)
  65. Between radicalism and tolerance: Characterising the rule of a militarised Christian theocracy in the medieval Baltic (2016)
  66. Between Research and Archéologie préventive: The State of/in the Field of Medieval Monastic Archaeology (2024)
  67. BETWEEN SERI, CAHITA AND TEPIMA: PALEOETHNOBOTANICAL RESEARCH ON THE CENTRAL COAST OF SONORA, MEXICO (2017)
  68. Between the Nile and the Desert: the Middle Stone Age of Kerma Region, Northern Sudan (2024)
  69. Between the puna and the valley: an approximation to local communities-Inca state interactions through road network analysis in Jauja, central Peru (2017)
  70. Between the Shores and the Hills: Precontact Boundaries and Behavior along the Housatonic River in Southwestern Connecticut (2024)
  71. Between Two Empires: Conflict and Community during the Epiclassic Period in the Northern Basin of Mexico (2019)
  72. Betwixt and between the long and short of it: the Pequop projectile point type site in Goshute Valley, Northeastern Nevada, and implications for the Long and Short Chronology debate in the Great Basin (2017)
  73. Betwixt and Between: Negotiating Hispanic Identity from Past to Present (2019)
  74. Betwixt and Between: Petroglyph Boulders on Liminal Locations in the Southeastern Mountains (2016)
  75. Beyond "Document and Destroy" Mitigation: Fill in the Blank (2017)
  76. Beyond a Record of Environmental Change: The Influence of Variability in Peat Composition on the Archaeological Record in Viking Age Iceland (2018)
  77. Beyond a Stone’s Throw from the Lithic Source: New Investigations of the Paleoindian Component at the Templeton Site in Western Connecticut (2018)
  78. Beyond Activity Areas, Beyond Burial Spaces: Islands as a Monumental Place for Coastal Foragers (2017)
  79. Beyond Archiving: Synthesizing Data with tDAR (2016)
  80. Beyond Binaries: Queering the Archaeological Record of the Western Canadian Arctic (2019)
  81. Beyond Boiling and Baking? Cooking Plant Foods in the Early US Midsouth (2023)
  82. Beyond bones: Non-faunal evidence for the role of dogs in Anglo-Saxon society (2015)
  83. Beyond Boundaries: A Discussion of "out-of'place" Yokuts and Chumash Motifs (2015)
  84. Beyond Broken Bones: The Value of Creating an Osteobiography when Analyzing Violence in the Past (2017)
  85. Beyond Ceramic Provenience: Interdisciplinary Research into Social Practices at LIRAC (2017)
  86. Beyond Clickbait: Contextualizing Our Shared Heritage in Divisive Times (2023)
  87. Beyond Coarse Correlations: Climate, Chronology, and Culture in Chicama, Peru (2023)
  88. Beyond Consumption: Evidence for Animal Bone Use in Music, Art, and Ritual in Texas (2024)
  89. Beyond Counting Sheep: An Interdisciplinary Review of Faunal Assemblages in the British Pastoral Landscape (2019)
  90. Beyond Defense: The Political Implications of Defense in Contact-era New Guinea (2015)
  91. Beyond Ethical, Legal and Practical Considerations: Unprovenienced Archaeological Items at Descendant Tribal Heritage Centers and Museums (2019)
  92. Beyond Ethnicity: Compositional Analysis and the Manufacture and Trade of Colonoware. (2016)
  93. Beyond Excavation and Laboratory Work: New Directions in Crow Canyon Archaeological Center’s College Field School Curricula (2016)
  94. Beyond First Encounters: Mechanisms of Social Transformation at the Colonial Port of Veracruz (2019)
  95. Beyond Fort Walls: Geophysical and Archaeological Investigations of Fort Haldimand, Carleton Island, New York (2016)
  96. Beyond Good Grey Culture: Rethinking Early Woodland Origins in the Lower Mississippi Valley (2018)
  97. Beyond Hopewell: ceremonial centers and their cosmologies (2016)
  98. Beyond House Floors: The Logistics of Northwest Coast Plank-house Villages (2017)
  99. Beyond Impressions: Systematizing sherd identification using the Yale Khabur Basin Project collection (2017)
  100. Beyond Iron Age ‘towns’: Examining oppida as examples of mega-sites and low-density urbanism (2017)