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 20,501-20,600 of 21,939)

  1. Unraveling Indigenous Histories in the Upper Itajai Valley (Santa Catarina State, Brazil): Insights from Archaeological Research at the Tobias Wagner Site (2024)
  2. Unraveling Neolithic Cultures in the Taipei Basin through Pottery Technology at Tzufakung (2024)
  3. Unraveling Sociopolitical Organization using Lithic Data: a Case Study from an Agricultural Society in the American Southwest (2015)
  4. Unraveling the Political and Economic Complexities of Late Formative (600 BCE–CE 200) Cusco: A View from Muyumoqo (2024)
  5. Unraveling the Relationship between Color and Meaning of Cords in Matching and Related Inka Khipu (2016)
  6. Unraveling the Site Formation Process at Finch (47JE0902): A Multicomponent Habitation in Southeastern Wisconsin (2015)
  7. Unravelling Mummy Objectification: An Evaluation and Case Study of the History and Legacy of Mummymania (2023)
  8. Unravelling the Complexity of Magdalenian Engravings on Gönnersdorf Plaquettes: Investigating through Manual and Controlled Robotic Experiments (2024)
  9. Unravelling the Origins of Pre-Columbian Agave Domestication in Present Day Arizona (2019)
  10. Unravelling the Social Determinants of Lead Exposure in 19th Century British Royal Navy Stationed in Antigua, W.I. (2018)
  11. Unrecognized Complexity: Defining the Significance of Huaca Letrada and the Northern Gallinazo (2023)
  12. Unresolved Indivisibility: Protecting and Respecting Ainu Intangible and Tangible Heritage (2023)
  13. Unresolved Questions in the Study of *Mopa Mopa: History, Geography, and Chemistry (2021)
  14. Unroofed Great Kivas, Post-Chacoan Great Houses, and Aggregation: Kintigh's Legacy as Viewed from the Lion Mountain Community (2019)
  15. "Unsavory the qualities of that soup": Diet and Foodways at Old New-Gate Prison and Copper Mine, East Granby, Connecticut, 1790-1819 (2015)
  16. Unseen Aztalan: Preliminary Results of a Geomagnetic Survey of the Aztalan Enclosure (2018)
  17. Unsettling a Region: Archaeological Landscapes and Seascapes of Saurashtra, Western India (2017)
  18. Unsettling Infrastructure: The Feral Qualities of Water in an Archaeological Tale of Railroads and Pipelines (2023)
  19. Unsettling Infrastructures that Settle: From the Andean Hacienda to a Minnesota Railway (2023)
  20. Unsettling Settler-Colonial Archaeology: Constructing Indigenous Futurities at Puʻukoholā Heiau (2023)
  21. Unsettling the Classroom: Teaching Archaeology’s Ties with Settler-Colonialism (2023)
  22. Unstable Frontiers: Isotopic Model of Agricultural Dispersal in the Subtropical Andes (2024)
  23. Unsung Heroes of Cahokian Cuisine: The Materials and Methods for Nixtamalization in the American Bottom (2024)
  24. Untangling Activity Areas in Open Spaces: Ethnography at Jandhala, North Gujarat, India (part II (2016)
  25. Untangling Shifting Social Agendas at Colonial Achiutla, Oaxaca, Mexico (2019)
  26. Untangling the Collection: French-Associated Ceramic Assemblages at Fort St. Frédéric (2024)
  27. "Untangling the timbers": New Perspectives on Birnirk Architecture in Northwestern Alaska (2017)
  28. Untangling the Urban Morphology of medieval Angkor, Cambodia (2017)
  29. Untangling Wari Colonization, Trade, and Administration in Coastal Arequipa from the Site of Quilcapampa, Siguas Valley. (2017)
  30. Unthinkable Opportunities: Managing Mass Mortality and Transforming Society in the Context of the Second Plague Pandemic in Late Medieval Sub-Saharan Africa, ca. 1300 to 1500 AD (2018)
  31. Untold Stories from L’Anse aux Meadows: Highlights from the Wooden Collections (2024)
  32. Unusual Elements, Special Contexts: Bear Ceremonialism in Context at Feltus, Jefferson County, Mississippi (2017)
  33. Unveiling Laklãnõ-Xokleng Stories: The Southern Je Archaeological Context in the Upper Itajaí Valley (Santa Catarina State, Brazil) (2023)
  34. Unveiling Silenced Narratives: Ethical Codes and the Challenge of Knowledge Dissemination Facing Middle Eastern Archaeologists (2024)
  35. Unveiling the Artisan Secrets of the Lapidary Goods from the Great Temple of the Aztecs (2019)
  36. Unwritten Histories: The People of the Phaleron Cemetery (2018)
  37. Up in Smoke: Dating Pipe Stem Fragments from Fort St. Joseph (2024)
  38. Upano, an Anthropized Valley in the Upper Amazon (2018)
  39. An Update of the Prehistoric Native American Fishery of San Francisco Bay (2015)
  40. Update on Research at the Site of Waterfall Bluff, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa (2021)
  41. An Update on the Sonvian-Hoabinhian Controversy: Shape Analysis of Flakes and Cores from Mau A, Northern Vietnam (2021)
  42. An Update on the Unidentified Persons Project, San Bernardino, California: The Good, The Very Good, and the Ugly (2015)
  43. Updated Demographic Profile of a Commingled Assemblage from Durango, Mexico (2024)
  44. An updated GIS-based system for calculating MNE and quantifying bone surface modification frequencies and spatial location on skeletal elements in faunal assemblages (2017)
  45. Updated Perspectives on Sennacherib’s Siege at Tel Lachish (2023)
  46. An Updated Radiocarbon Chronology of the Middle to Late Woodland Transition in Southern Ontario: Regional Variation in the Dynamics of Cultural Change (2019)
  47. Updates and New Discoveries of Early Holocene Predictive Model sites in the southern Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska (2015)
  48. Updates from the Southeastern NAGPRA Community of Practice (SNACP): Successes and Challenges (2024)
  49. Updates on Current Investigations of the 1559 Luna Fleet (2016)
  50. Updates on the Geoarchaeology of the Latest Pleistocene and Earliest Holocene at the Page-Ladson site, Florida (2024)
  51. Updating and Reevaluating Faunal Datasets from Quina Mousterian Levels at Jonzac and Pech de l'Azé IV by Incorporating Screened Materials (2021)
  52. Updating the Late Pleistocene Record of the Willamette Valley, Oregon (2023)
  53. The Upland Agricultural Revolution of the Fourteenth Century (2024)
  54. The UpNorth Project: Environment Context of Late and Final Palaeolithic Dispersals (2018)
  55. The Upper Marañón after Chavín and before the LIP: Glimpse into Poorly Documented Times (2024)
  56. Upper Mississippian Stone Tools and Community Organization (2019)
  57. The Upper Paleolithic beginnings of the domestication of the dog (2017)
  58. Upper Paleolithic Cultural Landscapes of the Selenge Tributaries, Northern Mongolia (2019)
  59. Upper Paleolithic Handprints with Missing Fingers: An Ethnological Perspective (2019)
  60. The Upper Paleolithic inhabitants of Manot Cave: the dental perspective (2017)
  61. Upper Paleolithic Movement and Trade as Represented at the Abri Kontija 002 Rockshelter Site (2023)
  62. Upper Paleolithic Use of Space at Riparo Bombrini (Balzi Rossi, Italy) (2015)
  63. Upper Republican and Apishapa Interaction on the High Plains (2016)
  64. The Upper Usumacinta Travel Corridor, A Game of Chutes and Ladders (2015)
  65. The Uprising: A Role-Playing Game as an Educational Aid in an Archaeology Seminar Course (2024)
  66. The Ups & Downs of Iron Age Animal Management on the Oxfordshire Ridgeway, Southern England (2018)
  67. The Ups and Downs of Uploading Data to the Eastern Archaic Faunal Database with the Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR) (2016)
  68. Upstairs, Downstairs: Excavations of a Throne Room and Kitchen in the Kuche Palace, Kiuic, Yucatán (2024)
  69. Upstream, Downstream, Sacred Worlds (2016)
  70. Upward Mobility Among Smallholders of the Desert North Coast of Peru (2016)
  71. Urban Agriculture within the Valley of Oaxaca: Investigations and Implications of Agricultural Terracing at Monte Albán (2015)
  72. Urban Archaeology at the Harrison Avenue Residences: A “Glimpse” into Immigrant Communities in Nineteenth-Century Boston, Massachusetts (2023)
  73. Urban Archaeology at the Hohokam Village of Pueblo Grande (2018)
  74. The Urban Archaeology Corps 2014: Rethinking Youth Employment in the National Park Service (2015)
  75. Urban Carnivores, Rural Vegetarians? Faunal discrepancies over time and space at Mayapan (2017)
  76. Urban Commoner Households: (In)Equality and Daily Life at Aventura (2023)
  77. Urban Construction as a Social Transformation Process (2016)
  78. Urban Economies and State "Peripheries": Angkorian Stoneware Ceramic Production and Distribution (2018)
  79. Urban Form and Social Dimension at the Classic Maya City of Palenque (2021)
  80. The Urban Grid: Connecting Water Management and City Organization in Nixtun-Ch'ich' (2024)
  81. Urban growth and land use at Chicoloapan, an Epiclassic town in the southern Basin of Mexico (2019)
  82. Urban Ideologies and Demographic Revolutions in Ancient Mesopotamia (2021)
  83. Urban Landscapes in Late Postclassic Western Mesoamerica: A View from Angamuco, Michoacán (2019)
  84. Urban Landscapes: Social, Cultural, and Ecological Heritage (2015)
  85. Urban Life Histories, Long-Term Angkorian Urbanism, and the Kok Phnov Site (2021)
  86. Urban Life in the Distant Past: A New Approach to Early Urbanism (2023)
  87. Urban Life Through the Lens of Glass: A Brief Analysis of Glass Tableware and Flaked Objects from the 19th Century San Jose Market Street Chinatown, California (2015)
  88. Urban Lithics -- The role of stone tools in the Indus and at Harappa (2015)
  89. An Urban Micromorphological Perspective on Neopalatial Environmental Changes at Bronze Age Palaikastro, Crete (2018)
  90. Urban micromorphology at Bronze Age Palaikastro, Crete: Evidence of transitions (2017)
  91. Urban Network Resilience and Fragility (2021)
  92. Urban Networks in Early Iron Age Europe: Nucleation and Dispersal (2021)
  93. Urban Organization and Agricultural Practices at Las Huacas, Chincha Valley (AD 1100-1570) (2024)
  94. The Urban Origins Project at Quiotepec-Oxtotitlán, Guerrero (2016)
  95. Urban Palimpsest Landscapes: Interpreting the Teotihuacan LiDAR map (2019)
  96. Urban Planning and Access to Water in Pompeii (2019)
  97. Urban Planning, Neighborhoods, and the Organization of Residential Space at the Early Horizon Center of Caylán, Coastal Ancash, Peru (2015)
  98. Urban Political Systems in the Huaxtec Region: Large-Scale Settlements and Royal Sculpture (2024)
  99. Urban Poverty in Historic New Orleans: Revisiting Magnolia/C. J. Peete (2024)
  100. Urban Renewal, Historic Preservation, and Indigenous Erasure (2023)