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 20,401-20,500 of 21,939)

  1. Understanding Section 3 of NAGPRA (2019)
  2. Understanding settlement organization through geophysical survey at the Morton Village Site, IL (2015)
  3. Understanding Site Function and Textile Production in Southwestern Iberia (3400–2000 BCE): The Loom Weights from Perdigões (Alentejo, Portugal) (2023)
  4. Understanding Sociopolitical Change through Ceramic Morphological Diversity in the Ancient Nubian Hinterlands (2016)
  5. Understanding Stylistic and Technical Variation in Middle Chalcolithic Painted Pottery Decoration—A Test from Tel Tsaf (2019)
  6. Understanding Temporal Patterns of Occupation at Small Sites: The case of early Neolithic al-Khayran, west-central Jordan (2015)
  7. Understanding Textile Production at Cividade de Bagunte (2021)
  8. Understanding the Architecture of the Virgin Branch Ancestral Puebloan Using a Digital 3D Model-Based Process (2016)
  9. Understanding the ceja de selva in relationship to the Central Andean coast and highlands during the Early Horizon (2016)
  10. Understanding the Diet of Late to Terminal Classic Period Maya Groups in the Sibun River Valley, Belize, through Food Web Reconstruction (2019)
  11. Understanding the dispersion of ceramic styles in the lower Amazon: what is Koriabo? (2017)
  12. Understanding the Emergence and Spread of Chupadero Black-on-white Ceramics through Network Analysis (2018)
  13. Understanding the Forecasted Labor Shortage: Undergraduate Views of Archaeological Careers (2024)
  14. Understanding the Health of the People of Pender Island (B.C.) Through Portable X-ray Fluorescence of Human Remains (2015)
  15. Understanding the Interplay between Domesticate Choice and the Environment: The Case of the Humble Australian Sheep (2019)
  16. Understanding the Landscape and Material Sources through Community Partnership in Abiquiú, New Mexico (2018)
  17. Understanding the local communities through the study of lithics and communication routes in the Northwestern Maya Lowlands during the Classic Maya: recent studies in the region. (2015)
  18. Understanding the Neolithic Transition: Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis of Subneolithic and Neolithic Animals and Inhabitants of the SE Baltic Coast (3200-2500 cal BC) (2016)
  19. Understanding the occupation history of oversized pit houses in the southern Brazilian highlands: Bayesian modelling and high resolution chronology of the Baggio 1 site (2016)
  20. Understanding the Organization of Built Space Using Spatial Statistics in GIS (2023)
  21. Understanding the paleogeography and Maya ditched fields along the Rio Hondo, Belize and Mexico (2015)
  22. Understanding the Production of Majiayao Painted Pottery in Gansu: New Data and New Thoughts (2015)
  23. Understanding the Relationship Between Sample Size and Variation in Ceramic Relative Chronologies at the Petrified Forest National Park (2016)
  24. Understanding the Ritual of Peri-abandonment Deposit Behavior Evidenced by Late Classic Maya Figurines at the Site of Baking Pot, Cayo District, Belize (2019)
  25. Understanding the Settlement Structure of the Middle Yangshao Period (Miaodigou Phase) based on Recent Archaeological Discoveries in the Wei River Valley (2017)
  26. Understanding the Short-term Occupations of the Lateglacial and Early Mesolithic Groups in Western Europe (2017)
  27. Understanding the Tapajó Socio-Political System through the Study of Landscapes and Material Culture (2018)
  28. Understanding the Transition to Villages: A Comparison of Maize between Basketmaker III Sites and an Early Pueblo I Village (2024)
  29. Understanding the World of the Scribe: Challenges and Opportunities of Cataloguing the Kerr Photographic Collection of Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks (2023)
  30. Understanding the “Local Scale” in Pictish Landscape Research (Northern Scotland, 300–900 CE) (2023)
  31. Understanding variability in distribution and consumption in low-wealth households from the Classic period (2016)
  32. UNDERSTANDING VARIATION: STYLISTIC ETHNOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF ROCK ART FROM THE MAKGABENG PLATEAU, LIMPOPO PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA (2015)
  33. Understanding Vertebral Anomalies and Growth Patterns During the Late Intermediate Period (AD 1000–1470) in the Huanchaco Bay Area, Peru (2023)
  34. Understandings of Household Architecture at Night in the Middle Chamelecón Drainage, Honduras (2017)
  35. Underwater and Above-Water: Archaeology and Ethnography of Underwater Gathering and Diving Practices along the Coast of Southernmost South America (2024)
  36. Underwater Archaeological And Forensic Investigations Carried Out At Großer Glasowsee, Brandenburg/Germany (2023)
  37. Underwater Archaeological Survey of Freshwater Lagoons in the Lacanja Basin, Chiapas, Mexico (2018)
  38. Underwater Archaeological Surveys in Shakan Bay, SE Alaska (2017)
  39. Underwater Archaeology at DPAA: Efforts to Address U.S. Military Loss Incidents (2019)
  40. Underwater archaeology in Lake Titicaca, Bolivia: Use of the littoral zone in the Tiwanaku period (AD 500-1150) (2017)
  41. Underwater Cultural Heritage Protection and Management in Pacific Island States (2018)
  42. Underwater Geoarchaeology of Perennial Lakes in the Great Basin (2015)
  43. Underwater Investigations of Mass Burials in Two Cenotes at Mayapán, Yucatán, Mexico (2019)
  44. The Underwater Search for the Remains of the Spanish Manila Galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos (2023)
  45. Underwater Transect Excavations, Sediment Coring, Remoting Sensing at the Paynes Creek Salt Works (2017)
  46. Underwater, terrestrial, and intertidal core extractions at the Walk Bridge, Norwalk, CT: An alternative to traditional Phase I survey (2017)
  47. The Undiscovered Country: New Insights into the Anchan Tradition of Central Arizona (2018)
  48. Undiscovered Country: Preliminary Results of Eleven New Sites Identified in the Susquetonscut Brook Valley, Eastern Connecticut, USA (2015)
  49. Undiscovered Country: The Ground Stone Tools Assemblage from Hell Gap National Historical Landmark (2024)
  50. An Undisturbed Earlier Stone Age Locality on the Southern Coast of South Africa, Exposed by Fire (2019)
  51. Unearthed Burial from Rising Sea Levels: A Collaborative Community Approach for Tackling Climate Change in the Torres Strait Islands, Australia (2023)
  52. Unearthing a Pipeline: An Archaeological Investigation into Line 3 in Northern Minnesota (2023)
  53. Unearthing a town from the sky: Kom Wasit, the bird’s eye archaeological point of view. (2015)
  54. Unearthing Difficult Histories: The Delicate Balance of Public, Community, and Campus Archaeology in West Philadelphia's Black Bottom (2024)
  55. Unearthing Earthen Architecture: A Geoarchaeological and Environmental Perspective (2024)
  56. Unearthing Holocene lowland landscapes as tool to detect archaeological sites, a case study from Lower Khuzestan (SW Iran) (2017)
  57. Unearthing Maya Rituals: The Power of Ethnographic Analogy (2024)
  58. Unearthing Potential: Using Earth Rock Ovens as a High-Impact Practice in the Undergraduate Archaeology Course (2024)
  59. Unearthing Sandpoint’s Chinatown: the Archaeology of Sandpoint, Idaho’s Overseas Chinese (2015)
  60. Unearthing the Deep Roots of the Long-term Human History and Environmental Interaction in the Atacama Desert (2017)
  61. Unearthing the History of Mokil Atoll: A Fresh Perspective through Zooarchaeological Exploration (2024)
  62. Unearthing the Material Culture of Nineteenth-Century Irish Immigrants in the "City of Homes": A Case Study from Elfreth’s Alley, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2018)
  63. Unearthing the Mysteries of the Frank Palmer Archaeology Collections (2015)
  64. Unearthing the Past at Shiloh Mound, Tennessee: Collaborative Insights from Partnering with David G. Anderson (2024)
  65. Unearthing the past: Tracing Settlement Continuity in Dutsen Kura Hill, Central Nigeria. (2024)
  66. Unearthing the Truth: Exhumation of a Catholic priest to establish paternity (2019)
  67. Unentangling Hotspots and Episodes in Pre-domestication Cultivation of Cereals: Examples from West and East Asia (2023)
  68. Unexpected Discoveries and Partnerships: A Revolutionary War Discovery in Coastal Georgia (2024)
  69. Unexpected Expertise: Archaeological Science and the Creative Skills of Indus Craftspeople (2018)
  70. The Unexpected Fauna of Pleistocene Saudi Arabia and the Earliest Evidence of Hominin Butchery Activity (2018)
  71. Unexpected Social Complexity in the mid-Zaña Valley, North Coast, Peru (2016)
  72. Unfreezing Archaeological Palimpsests: A View from the Iberian Peninsula during the Third and Second Millennia BCE (2024)
  73. Ungendering Sex in Moche Ceramics (2019)
  74. Ungulate Bone Fat Exploitation at the Adoption of Horticulture in Western Iowa (2017)
  75. Unidentified Oddity of the Petrous Portion of the Temporal Bone: A Case Study from a Historic Cemetery in Louisiana (2021)
  76. Uniform Probability Density Analysis and Population History in the Tewa Basin, New Mexico (2015)
  77. Unique Ecologies of British Columbia (2017)
  78. Unit-Stamped Red Jars in the Southern Lowlands: New Insights into Ceramic Production and Exchange (2015)
  79. A United Europe of Things: Similarities and Differences in Small Finds across Later Medieval Europe (2024)
  80. united in blood! Rituals of violence and warfare in Iron Age britain (2017)
  81. “United with Them in Good Feeling and Friendship”? Material Insights into 17th century Onöndowa'ga:' Hodinöhsö:ni' Incorporations (2024)
  82. Uniting the archaeological body: the bioarchaeological investigation of human remains and mortuary behaviors (2019)
  83. Universal Access to Archaeological Parks and Sites: A State of the Question (2023)
  84. Universal Access to Archaeological Parks and Sites: A State of the Question Part II (2024)
  85. The universe of ritual manifestations at Tak’alik Ab’aj (2015)
  86. The University of Iowa American Indian Concerns Archaeological Field School—Putting the Zimmerman Vision to Work (2018)
  87. University of Maryland Forensic Aviation Archaeology Field School (2021)
  88. Unleashing the Beast: Exploring Peri-abandonment Deposits in the Maya Lowlands (2019)
  89. Unleashing the Beast: New Methodologies in Exploring Peri-Abandonment Deposits in the Maya Lowlands (2018)
  90. Unlikely Allies: Modern Wolves and the Diets of Pre-contact Domestic Dogs (2019)
  91. Unlocking the data behind the Chora of Metaponto publication series: "on-the-fly" solutions for sharing and archiving an evolving collection
  92. Unlocking the Secrets of Maya Writing: Justin Kerr and the Decipherment of Maya Script (2024)
  93. Unmanned Aerial Systems in Federal Cultural Resource Management (2018)
  94. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Archaeological Survey: Results from Portugal and Mozambique (2015)
  95. Unmodified Cobbles and Boulders from the Middle Stone Age Occupation of Witberg 1, Southern Kalahari, South Africa (2023)
  96. Unpacking the Dishes: The Agency of (mis)Translation in the Hybrid Ceramics of Seventeenth-Century New Mexico (2019)
  97. Unpacking the Geoarchaeologist’s Geospatial Tool Bag: A Case Study Using Predictive Modeling on the Central Coast, Pismo Beach, California (2021)
  98. Unprecedented Times Lead to New Internship Strategies (2021)
  99. Unraveling a Neanderthal Palimpsest from a Zooarcheological and Lithic Perspective: Abrigo de la Quebrada level IV (Valencia, Spain) (2017)
  100. Unraveling Global and Local Ceramic Production Networks: An LA-ICP-MS Analysis of Ceramics from Barbados, Jamaica, and Great Britain (2017)