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. Tracking Ancient Animals to Provide an Archaeological Perspective on Wild Mammal Management, Conservation and ‘Rewilding’ (2019)
  2. Tracking Broken Pots across Paraje San Diego, New Mexico (2019)
  3. Tracking Changes in Nearshore Ecology over 2000 Years in Southern Yap, Western Caroline Islands (2018)
  4. Tracking dogs across the Pacific using ancient mitogenomes (2017)
  5. Tracking Early Human Presence in North America and Beringia during the Late Pleistocene through Bayesian Age Modeling (2019)
  6. Tracking Human Dispersals to Palau Using Ancient DNA: Results from the Chelechol ra Orrak Site (2021)
  7. Tracking Individual Raptors in the Archaeological Record Using Stable Isotope Analysis: Some Implications for the Study of Ritual Economies in New Mexico (2019)
  8. Tracking Individual Raptors in the Archaeological Record Using Stable Isotopes: Limitations, Possibilities, and Causes of Intraskeletal δ-Value Variation (2021)
  9. Tracking Kelp-like Marine Seaweed Fuel in the Archaeological Record of Atacama Desert Coast through Raman Spectroscopy: Insight from the Analysis of Macro- and Microremains of Charred Particles (2024)
  10. Tracking Luxury Craft Production across Mayapán's Physical and Social Landscapes (2015)
  11. Tracking Morphological Changes in the Domestication of Sheep and Pigs: A Comparison (2018)
  12. Tracking Paleoaridity through Multi-isotope Analyses of Ostrich Eggshells at Spitzkloof Rockshelter A, South Africa (2021)
  13. Tracking Population Movement and Interaction in Southern Appalachia: Elemental Analysis of Early Mississippian Pottery from Etowah (2024)
  14. Tracking Quartz: A Methodological Approach to an Elusive Type of Sources Using Chemical Characterization According to Their Geological Origin (2018)
  15. Tracking Temporal and Behavioral Patterns Through the Distribution of Material Culture at the Evergreen Plantation. (2023)
  16. Tracking the Dead: Archaeological, GIS, and Geomorphological Approaches to Recovering Caskets and Human Remains after Hurricane Ida (2023)
  17. Tracking the Footprints of Early Agricultural Farmers in Tucson, Arizona (2017)
  18. Tracking the Origins of Animal Management in a Neotropical Foraging-to-Farming Population using Carbon Stable Isotope Analysis of Lysine (2024)
  19. Tracking Translocations: Interdisciplinary approaches to animal translocations on the California Channel Islands (2015)
  20. The Trackway Site: Human Footprints at the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in the Great Salt Lake Desert (2024)
  21. Trade and Exchange in the Greater Mapungubwe Landscape (2019)
  22. Trade and inter-community networks around Managua, Nicaragua (2016)
  23. Trade And Production of Steatite Vessels in New England (2018)
  24. Trade and Sacrifice: Osteometry, Skeletal Part Representation, and Paleopathology of Camelid Assemblages in the Central Andes (2017)
  25. Trade and Tribute Routes among the Spanish and Pipil in Cuscatlan, El Salvador (2016)
  26. Trade as a Social Activity: Eastern Sigillata and Its Near Eastern Emulation (2021)
  27. The Trade Bead Assemblage from the Chinook Middle Village at the Station Camp Site: Western Terminus of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Pacific County, Washington (2023)
  28. Trade Diaspora in Prehistoric Eastern Taiwan (2016)
  29. Trade networks and selective cultural transmission of ceramic technologies in Neolithic southern Vietnam (2019)
  30. The Trade of Tortoiseshell between the Caribbean and Europe during the 17th–18th Centuries: An Archaeological and Biomolecular Approach (2018)
  31. Trade Routes and Contradictory Spheres of Influence: Movement of Rhyolite through the heart of the western Mojave Desert (2015)
  32. Trade Winds: A Study of Roman Ceramic Trade in the Balearic Islands (2018)
  33. Trade, Exchange, Production and Consumption at Sitio Drago, Bocas del Toro, Panama (2015)
  34. Trade, migration and movement at Cerro de Trincheras, Sonora, Mexico (2015)
  35. Trade, Professions and Education: Women in Puerta de Tierra, Puerto Rico, 1910 (2019)
  36. Trade, Technology, and Identity: Current Approaches to Pottery Studies in Late Antique and Early Medieval Europe (2016)
  37. Trade, Tradition, and Rivalry: Late Pre-Columbian Craft and Exchange on the Central Peninsular Gulf Coast of Florida (2019)
  38. Tradición regional e impacto cultural foráneo: Los logros y tareas a través de las tres temporadas de campo por el Proyecto Arqueológico Estero Rabón (2016)
  39. Trading around the Saguenay River (16th and 17th centuries): new insights from trade glass beads typology and chemical analysis (2017)
  40. Trading Culture: An analysis of Woodlands Clothing from the late 1700s (2015)
  41. Trading In Children (2018)
  42. A Trading Post or Craftspeople’s Village? A Ceramic Perspective of the Blihun Hanben Site in Eastern Taiwan (2024)
  43. Trading, Borrowing, Stealing, Fighting, Collaborating and Sharing: Comcáac Social Interactions with their Neighbors (2015)
  44. Tradition and Transformation during the Middle Horizon to LIP Transition: Visual and Compositional Analyses of Tumilaca and Estuquiña Pottery in the Moquegua Valley, Peru (2018)
  45. Tradition in Transition: New Data and New Insights on Mississippianization from the Audrey-North Site (2019)
  46. A Traditional Approach to Analyzing Stunted Femoral Growth in Peruvian Highlands (2018)
  47. Traditional Cultural Practices in America’s Last Frontier: Conceptualizing Traditional Cultural Properties in Alaska (2018)
  48. Traditional Dena’ina Land Use at the Cottonwood Creek Village Site, Southcentral Alaska (2017)
  49. Traditional Dishes and Culinary Improvisations: Elite Gastronomy in the Maya Area (2023)
  50. Traditional Dishes and Culinary Improvisations: Elite Gastronomy in the Maya Area (2024)
  51. Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Coral Reef Small Islands: A History of Human Adaptation in the Florida Keys (2016)
  52. Traditional Knowledge and Lithic Sources in Northeastern North America (2017)
  53. Traditional Lifeways as Knowledge of the Past and for the Future (2024)
  54. Traditional Native American Raw Material Sources in the Yellowstone Region (2017)
  55. The Traditional Nutrition Project: A Collaborative Study of Plant Foods to Understand Indigenous Foodways and Health in the Northern Great Basin (2024)
  56. Traditional practices that inform cultural competency in archaeological studies and cultural safety for First Nation communities. (2017)
  57. Traditional Resource Management in the Sierra Nevada of California (2016)
  58. Traditional Sports in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona (2024)
  59. Traditional Subsistence Economies on Southwest Madagascar have Long-term Impacts on Ecological Productivity (2024)
  60. Traditional Wooden Structures on an Ancient Quartzite Quarry Site, Manitoulin Island, Canada (2017)
  61. Traditions and Community: Hornos and Communal Feasting among the Hohokam (2019)
  62. Traditions and Transformations in the Southwestern Maya Highlands: Ceramic and Settlement Evidence from the Southwest Lake Atitlan Basin, Solola, Guatemala (2016)
  63. Traditions of Tomb Construction during the Late Intermediate and Inka Periods (ca. 900–1532 CE) in the Vilcanota Valley, Peru (2021)
  64. Trailing Lewis & Clark: Inventorying Prehistory at the Point of Contact (2018)
  65. Trails, Trees, and Transmission Lines – A Holistic Cultural Resource Study Involving the Jocko Wilderness Area (2018)
  66. Training Students: Collaboration across the Academic Divide (2023)
  67. Trajectories of Zooarchaeological Research across Central America: The Influences and Interests of Richard Cooke (2024)
  68. The trajectory of early rice intensification and cultural change in the Lower Yangtze Valley revealed by an ecological analysis of archaeological phytoliths. (2015)
  69. Tranquilla site (PTF MLP 13): a critical evaluation of the Early Ceramic Tradition life style in the Choapa Valley (IVth Region, Chile) (2016)
  70. (Trans)Formation, Centralization, and the Making of a Mesa Verde Village (2017)
  71. Trans-continental cultural exchange in Hexi Corridor, northwest China during Bronze Age (2017)
  72. Trans-cultural interaction in China’s Shang Period: an archaeo-metallurgical perspective (2017)
  73. Trans-egalitarian Society in the Transitional Archaic (2016)
  74. Trans-Himalayan Material Culture of India: Special Reference to Steatite Bead (2018)
  75. Trans-Holocene Human Impacts on Endangered California Black Abalone (Haliotis cracherodii) Population Structures: Historical Ecological Management Implications from the Northern Channel Islands (2019)
  76. Trans-regional Agricultural Deintensification: An AI-Assisted Survey of Agricultural Infrastructure in the South-Central Andes (2023)
  77. Trans-species Archaeologies and Ritual Bone Deposits: Respecting the Animal Ancestral Dead (2024)
  78. Transcending Borders: A New Approach to Prehistoric Contexts in North Carolina (2018)
  79. Transcending Boundaries and Exploring Pasts: Conservation Efforts on Public Lands near the Borderlands (2019)
  80. Transcending the Niche of a Wild Progenitor: An Ecological Niche Perspective on the Spread of Archaeological Soybeans in China (2024)
  81. Transcending Transects: Research Contexts for a Landscape View of Highway Corridor Archaeology in California. (2019)
  82. Transdisciplinary Analysis of Marine Mammal Use in the Norse North Atlantic and Subarctic (2019)
  83. Transdisciplinary Approaches to Norse Use of Marine Mammals: History, Archaeology and aDNA (2017)
  84. The Transect Survey at 30-something (2015)
  85. Transects, Trowels, and Technology: Recreating the Ancient Landscape at Pacbitun, Belize (2016)
  86. Transferable Skills: Crafts and Knowledge Transmission in the Ancient Caribbean (2019)
  87. Transferring Technological Knowledge: Becoming Craft Specialists and Craft Items through Ritual Reproduction (2019)
  88. Transferring Technological Styles: an Ethnoarchaeological Study of Marginalized Pottery Production in Tigray, Northern Highland Ethiopia. (2017)
  89. Transformaciones e historia entre Michoacán y Guanajuato a partir de las plantas hidroeléctricas en el siglo XX (2015)
  90. Transformation and Continuity: Late Tiwanaku to Post Tiwanaku traditions in the Central Valley of Cochabamba (2015)
  91. Transformation by fire: Human cremation, metalworking, and the transmogrification of bodies by flame in the Late Archaic American Southeast (2015)
  92. The Transformation from Complex Village Society to Local Urbanism in the Southern Levant:new observations in light of evidence from the Central Jordan Valley in the Early Bronze Age I-II (2017)
  93. Transformation in Daily Activity at Tsama Pueblo, New Mexico (2015)
  94. The Transformation of Long-Term Anthropological and Archaeological Engagements in Communities: Cases from Southern Manabi Province (2019)
  95. Transformation of the Gods: Symmetry and the Construction of Mesoamerican Deity Systems in the Middle Formative (2018)
  96. Transformation of the Jomon-era Ritual System: A Case Study of the Jomon / Yayoi transition in the 1st millennia BC in the Tohoku Region of the Japanese Archipelago (2017)
  97. The Transformational Properties of Water and Rock Art (2018)
  98. Transformations in Native and European Trade Networks Across Northern Iroquoia (2016)
  99. Transformations in Political Economy and Routes of Exchange on the Eve of the Classic Maya Collapse: New Evidence from the Port Kingdom of Cancuen and the Classic Maya Frontier (2015)
  100. Transformations in Professional Archaeology (2024)