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 20,201-20,300 of 21,939)

  1. Trophies of Violence: The Manufacturing and Processing of Human Trophy Heads at Uraca (2015)
  2. A Tropical Treasure Trove: Preliminary Assessment of Archaeological Faunal Remains from Culebra Bay, Guanacaste, Costa Rica (2021)
  3. The Trouble with the Curve: Reassessing the Gulf of Mexico Sea-Level Rise Model (2018)
  4. Troubled Times in Late Prehistoric Wisconsin: Violent Skeletal Trauma Among the Winnebago Phase Oneota (2016)
  5. Troía's Three Roman Ladies: The Analysis of Three Cases of Trepanation at Necrópolis de Calderia (Setúbal, Portugal) (2016)
  6. True Facts About the Dinwiddie Site: Surprising Results from Limited Testing in a Disturbed Site (2015)
  7. True Potential: a database on osteological material in Nicaragua (2017)
  8. "A True Sign of Learning": What College Students Learn About Teaching and Learning from a Museum Docent Program (2015)
  9. Tryon Creek (35-WA-288) Projectile Point/Base Comparisons through Strata/Levels (2023)
  10. Trypillia Mega-site Networks: Understanding the Centrality of the Largest Settlement in Fourth-Millennium BC Europe (2021)
  11. Tsimshian households and trade: the view from Casey Point (2017)
  12. Ts’uul y Páalitsil: Considering the Role of Debt at Rancho Kiuic, Yucatán, México (2018)
  13. TThe Use of Shells as Personal Ornaments in Liguria during the Upper Paleolithic: A Review (2023)
  14. Tuber Cultivation and Tropes of Fragmentation in Mesoamerica (2024)
  15. Tuberculosis in Past Peruvian Populations (2017)
  16. Tuberculosis Sanatoriums: Historical Archaeology, Landscape, and Identity (2018)
  17. Tubers, Grain, and Everything In Between: Mesoamerican Applications of Dolores Piperno’s Research (2023)
  18. Tucson Platform Mounds in the Context of Classic Period Variability (2017)
  19. Tukano, Embera, and Achuar (Shiwiar) Supernatural Gamekeepers/Animal Masters: Environmental Impacts of Native Beliefs in a Changing World (2019)
  20. Tula 2014: Reexamining Ball Court 2 through Cross-Cultural Comparisons with the Yucatan (2015)
  21. TULAR: Transculturality and Social Innovation in Proto-Etruscan Areas of Pre-Roman Italy (2024)
  22. Tule Balsa Boats and the San Francisco Bay Economy. (2015)
  23. The Tumultuous Times: The Shifting Alliances of Caracol Monarchs in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries (2024)
  24. Tuners Falls Gorge Geoarchaeological Investigations: Modeling Landscape and Archaeological Developments within the Connecticut River Valley. (2019)
  25. The Tunna’ Nosi’ Kaiva’ Gwaa Archaeological District: Prehistoric Communal Hunting and Pine Nut Harvesting (2023)
  26. Tunnel Vision: Results from the 2018 Investigations of Structure A7 at Xunantunich, Belize (2019)
  27. The Tunnels in Teotihuacan: Geology and Technology to Extract Tezontle (2024)
  28. The Turbulent Archaeological History of Relations between Chupícuaro and Cuicuilco Revisited through Ceramics: An Overview (2024)
  29. Turkey Domestication and Utilization in an Ancestral Puebloan Community (2015)
  30. Turkey Husbandry at Pueblo Bonito and Its Relationship to Turkey-Human Interactions in Chaco Canyon (2018)
  31. Turkey Provisioning, Exchange, and the Isotopic Zooarchaeology of Social Transformations in the Mesa Verde Region (2023)
  32. Turkeys in the Mimbres Valley, New Mexico: Pottery Iconography, Genetics, and Diet (2021)
  33. Turnaround Archaeology: Reorienting Archaeology So Its Main Purpose Is the Pursuit of Social Good (2023)
  34. Turning "Crisis" into Opportunity: Rediscovering and Reconnecting with a Colonial Era California Collection (2015)
  35. Turning a Blind Eye: Thoughts on an Archaeology of Disability (2015)
  36. Turning a Critical Eye on the History of Maya Cave Archaeology (2019)
  37. Turning Privilege into "Common-Sense": Truth-Claims and Control of Cultural Heritage (2015)
  38. Turning the Desert Green: Reconstructing Late Paleolithic Vegetation at Wadi Kubbaniya, Upper Egypt (2017)
  39. The Turpin Project: A Tribal Perspective (2024)
  40. Turquoise mosaic skulls - understanding the creation of an object type (2017)
  41. Turquoise Ornaments and Inlays Technology in Qijia Culture -- A Comparative Study of Qijia Culture and Erlitou Culture (2015)
  42. Turquoise, Lead and Copper at Tijeras Pueblo and Environs (2019)
  43. Turtles all the Way Down: Tracing Long-Term Genetic Change in Southern Caribbean Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) Populations and Applications to Modern Conservation (2024)
  44. Turtles, Faces, and Hieroglyphs: 3D Recording of Monuments from La Tortuga and San Isidro (2024)
  45. Tut on Tour: 30-years of Demand Creation through Exhibition (2024)
  46. Tutankhamun’s Burial Assemblage: Normative or atypical mortuary practices of the Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt? (2017)
  47. Tutelo Resettlement in the Cayuga Heartland: Haudenosaunee Approach to Refugees (2019)
  48. Tweeting the Flood: Student Social Media Fieldwork and Interactive Community Building (2018)
  49. Twelve Metrics for Creating Effective and Sustainable Public Archaeology (2024)
  50. Twentieth Century Geoglyphs - Military Training Targets of World War II (2015)
  51. Twentieth century settlement patterns in the Basin of Mexico: In search of Pre-Colombian roots for regional demography and land use (2019)
  52. Twenty Years of Historical Archaeology in the Yalahau and Costa Escondida Regions (2017)
  53. Twenty Years of Interpretations from the Late Formative period Site of Jatanca (JE-1023), Jequetepeque Valley, Peru (2024)
  54. Twenty Years of Mesoamerican Obsidian Research at the EAF (2024)
  55. Twenty Years of Studying the Salado (2015)
  56. Twenty-First-Century Archeological Geophysics in the National Park Service (2021)
  57. Twentynine Wash Excavations and Collaboration AZ BB: 5:127 (ASM) (2019)
  58. Twin Pines: Looking Beyond Mimbres Valley (2015)
  59. A Twist on Taphonomy: Catlow Twine Basketry in Archaeological Contexts (2015)
  60. Twisting through Time: Fremont Cordage and Modern Attempts at Replication (2023)
  61. A Twitch or a Wink: A Search for Meaning in Coins, Cuffs, and Pottery from a Rural Virginia Assemblage (2018)
  62. Two archaeologies? Costly signaling and human behavioral ecology in archaeology (2015)
  63. Two Balades in the Same Landscape: Perspectives of Oral History and Archaeological Survey on the Cultural Landscapes of the Dog Island Region, Nunatsiavut (2024)
  64. A Two Decade Assessment of Maya Cave Archaeology (2024)
  65. Two Decades (Almost) of Regional Clay Surveys by the EAF: Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities (2024)
  66. Two episodes of ritual turkey and dog burials in southwestern Colorado; a case study (2017)
  67. Two Examples of Recent O’odham Participation in Archaeological Projects in Southwestern Arizona (2024)
  68. Two Figurines and a Conquest: Toltec and Aztec Warriors in the Sierra Sur of Oaxaca? (2017)
  69. Two Houses, Both Alike in Dignity: Visibility, Material Culture, and Contrasting Histories at Two Chaco Halo Communities (2016)
  70. Two Independent Methods for Dating Rock Art: Age Determination of Paint and Oxalate Layers at Eagle Cave, TX (2016)
  71. Two Individuals, One Urn Burial from La Real, Peru: A Bioarchaeological Investigation of Urn Burial Practices (2018)
  72. Two Long-Term Tom Dillehay Projects: Monte Verde, Zana, and the Processes of Archaeological Debate and Criticism (2023)
  73. Two Millennia of Resilience: The Old Town Bandon Site on the Oregon Coast (2023)
  74. Two Mould Types for All the Vessels: Correlating Casting Mould Forms to the Vessel Forms Produced during the Shang Dynasty (2018)
  75. Two Newly Discovered Maya Chert Tool Workshops in the Belize Valley: Results of the 2014 Surface Reconnaissance (2015)
  76. Two Paleoarchaic Sites along Wind Creek in Riley County, Kansas (2016)
  77. The Two Pillars of the Kingdom of Bagan, Myanmar: How Royalty and Religion Shaped the Settlement Patterns of an Empire (2018)
  78. Two Pioneering California Women Archaeologists, 1940s–1960s: Agnes Bierman Babcock and Freddie Curtis (2021)
  79. Two Recently-Discovered Early Historic Examples of Chili (Capsicum annuum) from Arizona (2019)
  80. Two Rockshelters in the Namib: Land use, site use, and risk over the Middle to Later Stone Age transition in Southwestern Africa. (2015)
  81. Two Thousand Years of Pot-Making: Exploring Neolithic Ceramic Traditions in SW Calabria, Italy (2018)
  82. Two Valleys Archaeology in an Environmental Humanities Context (2023)
  83. Two-Spirits or Changing Gender Roles? An Investigation of Mortuary Remains in Southern New England (2017)
  84. Tying Sacred Places to the Landscape in Jalisco, Mexico (2019)
  85. Typological and Archaeometrical (pXRF) Study of Final Bronze Age Ceramics of Cuccuruzzu, Corsica (2017)
  86. A Typology of Late Archaic Ceramic Evidence from Okeechobee Basin to Determine Regional Interactions (2018)
  87. The Tzimin Jades of Paso del Macho: Description and Analysis of a Middle Preclassic Maya Plaza Offering (2019)
  88. Tzintzuntzan Archaeological Site: An Approximation to Its Astronomical Orientations (2024)
  89. The Tzotzopaztli as a Sacrificial Instrument in Religious Ceremonies of Prehispanic Nahuas (2024)
  90. Tz’ite and Sib’aq: The Wrong Materials to Create People in the Popol Wuj (2024)
  91. Tz’utujil Maya Ritual Practitioners, Embodied Objects and the Night (2017)
  92. Técnica y secuencia constructiva de la arquitectura prehispánica de Matacanela, Los Tuxtlas, Ver. (2019)
  93. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Section 106 – A Discussion of our Authority (2019)
  94. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Emergency Response Adaptive Management (2019)
  95. The U.S. Navy and Cultural Resources Overseas (2024)
  96. UAS Vehicles (Drones) and the Documentation Rock Art Effigies on the Great Plains (2016)
  97. UAV Lidar Mapping Sand Canyon Pueblo: Technical Collaboration for Site Visualization and Reassessment (2021)
  98. UAV-based 3D Modeling of Excavations in Mayapán’s Periphery (2017)
  99. A UAV-based approach for a cost-efficient documentation of agrarian structures in the arid Atacama area (N. Chile) (2015)
  100. UAV-based Mapping and 3D Modeling of Maya Sites in the Northern Yucatán (2017)