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. Urban Renewal, Historical Preservation, and the Erasure of Indigenous Modernity (2024)
  2. Urban Reworking as Political Action at the Ancient Maya City of Actuncan, Belize (2018)
  3. Urban Spatial Relationships during the Early Islamic Period: Reassessing Investigations into the Market and Mosque at Sīrāf, Iran (2018)
  4. Urban-palaeoecology of Cambodia's 'Middle Period' (2018)
  5. Urbanisation and Animal Husbandry in Ancient Western Europe: How Territoriality Affects Negatively Husbandry Productivity (2016)
  6. Urbanism and Domestic Life in the Tlajinga District, Teotihuacan: New Research (2016)
  7. Urbanism and Residential Patterning in Angkor (2018)
  8. Urbanism in the Purepecha Heartland at Angamuco, Michoacan (2016)
  9. Urbanism in Western Medieval Central Asia: Dynastic Jewels and Dynamic Networks (2023)
  10. Urbanism without Cities in Ancient Amazonia (2024)
  11. Urbanization and Ceramic Change: An Exploration of the Relationship (2015)
  12. Urbanization and Ceramic Consumption at the Late Neolithic Settlement of Liangchengzhen (2023)
  13. Urbanization in Ancient Tonga: The Tongatapu Low-Density Urban System (2024)
  14. Urbanization, Minor Temple Construction, and Local Community Formation at Ceibal, Guatemala (2019)
  15. Urbanizing Forests: Paleoethnobotanical Research at the Royal Capital of Angkor, Cambodia (2016)
  16. Urns, Mounds, Pyres, and Pits: The Many Pathways of Middle Bronze Age Bodies in Transylvania (2016)
  17. Us and Them: Regional Integration and Social Differentiation during the Terminal Preclassic at Ucanha, Yucatán, Mexico (2018)
  18. The US Army’s “Monuments Men and Women” in the Protection of Cultural Property during Natural Disaster (2023)
  19. "Us the Hunters”: Evaluating Shifting Gender Dynamics of North American Paleolithic Researchers and Scholarship (2024)
  20. Us vs Them: Identity Formation in Pre-Hispanic Tlaxcala (2015)
  21. Usability of LiDAR data for archaeological survey in the Uaxactun area, North Peten, Guatemala. (2017)
  22. USACE St. Paul District Regulatory (Corps) Commitment to Open and Transparent Communication and Consultation with Tribes (2019)
  23. USACE Tulsa District Wister Lake Site Preservation Project (2024)
  24. The Usage of Levels of Detail in LiDAR Survey to Increase the Digital Applications on Maya Archaeology. (2024)
  25. The Use and Benefit of Integrated Geophysical Survey in the Study of an Irish Early Medieval Site Rath Maol (2019)
  26. The Use and Circulation of Seaweeds along the Western Coast of South America (2024)
  27. The Use and Cultural Importance of Eulachon (Thaleichthys pacificus) on the NWC: An Example from Prince Rupert Harbour. (2017)
  28. Use and Reuse of Burial Space during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in Mongolia: A Case Study from Zaraa Uul (2021)
  29. Use and Sources of Ohio Hopewell Fossil Shark Teeth (2024)
  30. Use and Symbolism of Copper Axes in Tarascan Society during the Late Post-Classic Period in modern day Michoacán, México (2017)
  31. The Use and Travels of Red Munsungun Chert: The Early Social Significance of a Northern New England Quarry (2017)
  32. Use It or Lose It: How to Activate Public Stewards to Protect Archaeological Sites (2023)
  33. The Use of 3-D GPR As An Aid in the Rediscovery of Spanish Colonial Acequias in San Antonio, Texas (2016)
  34. The Use of a Bench-top SEM in Ceramic Characterization in Oceania (2015)
  35. The Use of Aerial Drones to Map, Monitor, and Analyze Inuit Sites in Northern Labrador (2021)
  36. The Use of Ancient DNA to Investigate Change in Vole Populations during the Past 7,000 years: Implications for Past Land Management Practices (2019)
  37. Use of Aquatic and Stone Tools at Three Colombian Caribbean Sites near Canal del Dique (2016)
  38. Use of Archeological Districts in San Francisco (2015)
  39. Use of Backwards Design to Assess Public Engagement at the Archaeology Roadshow, Portland, Oregon (2019)
  40. The Use of Balances in Late Andean Prehistory: Merchants or Bureaucrats? (2023)
  41. The Use of Bayesian Allocation for the Optimization of Archaeological Survey Effort (2021)
  42. The Use of Bayesian Statistics to Increase both Precision and Accuracy in Radiocarbon Dating (2015)
  43. The use of Chenopodium plants in China (2017)
  44. The Use of Dental and Skeletal Indicators to Predict the Age of Menarche from Juvenile Human Skeletal Remains (2017)
  45. The Use of Dung in Northern Morocco: Examples from Mountain Communities (2017)
  46. Use of Faunal Analysis to Examine Seismic Disturbance at 45WH10 in Birch Bay, Washington (2023)
  47. Use of Faunal Resources as Trade Commodities During the Late Period - Evidence from a Stege Mound (CA-CCO-297) (2015)
  48. The use of fingers and hands in mark-making in caves in the indigenous Caribbean (2016)
  49. The use of fish vertebrae and otoliths for sclerochronological analysis of a Mesolithic Shell midden: advantages and limitations. (2016)
  50. The Use of Forensic Anthropology Methods in Historic Cases (2019)
  51. The use of geochemical analysis and visual methods for understanding raw material acquisition around Amud Cave, Israel (2015)
  52. The Use of Geographic Information Systems in the Analysis of Prehistoric Social Dynamics (2017)
  53. The Use of Geophysics to Image Structures at Broyhill Mound (31CW8) (2019)
  54. The Use of Geospatial Technology to Identify Patterns in the Distribution of Artifacts at the Ancient Maya Site of Pacbitun, Belize (2019)
  55. Use of Human Remains Detection Dogs to Find Unmarked Precontact Human Burials in the Ohio Valley (2023)
  56. The Use of Human Remains Detection Dogs to Locate Empty Gravesites after Cultural Exhumation Practices in a Nineteenth-Century Chinese Cemetery in Warren, Idaho (2023)
  57. The use of inner bark as food in prehistory: a case study based on roll carbonized remains unearthed from Hulija site, Qinghai province, western China (2015)
  58. Use of integrated faunal records from 10-liter bucket samples to explore complex human ecodynamics at Tse-whit-zen (2015)
  59. Use of Introduced and Native Plants by Early Humans in the Japanese Archipelago (2024)
  60. The Use of Iron Meteorites for Hopewell Beads (2023)
  61. The Use of Legacy Collections as Education Opportunities for Undergraduate Student Internships (2024)
  62. The Use of Marine Magnetics to Study Submerged Archaeological Deposits in Shallow Water (2023)
  63. Use of Old Photos in Rock Art Recording and Analysis: The Adams Collection of Central Wyoming (2016)
  64. Use of Plants by Enslaved Laborers at Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage Plantation (2019)
  65. The Use of Primary Sources in Plantation Archaeology: the Case Study of Hacienda La Esperanza. (2019)
  66. Use of Proteomic Methods for Biological Age Estimation at Death (2021)
  67. The Use of R Shiny and Other Open-Source Interactive Platforms in Increasing Engagement with Archaeological Research Results (2021)
  68. Use of Raw Energy Data in the Estimation of the 'Cost' of Building Iron Age Brochs in Scotland (2016)
  69. The Use of Shell Ornaments at Early Agricultural Period Sites in the Tucson Basin (2019)
  70. The Use of Shell Ornaments at Las Capas, an Early Agricultrual Site in Southern Arizona (2015)
  71. The Use of Space: Settlement Pattern during the Late Prehistory in the Lake of Small Prespa (Southeast Albania) (2016)
  72. Use of Ultraviolet Imaging to Enhance Analysis of Incised Stone Artifacts (2017)
  73. Use of X-Ray Fluorescence for Elemental Analysis and Resolution of Commingled Remains with the Arch Street Project (2024)
  74. Use Wear and Breakage Patterns on Cow and Elephant Limb Bone Produced from Anvil Contact During Breakage Experiments (2017)
  75. The Use-Life of Spanish Colonial Metal Artifacts from Carnué, New Mexico (2024)
  76. Use-wear Analysis and Obsidian Tool Functions Before and After Teotihuacan (2016)
  77. Use-wear Analysis of Flaked Stone Tools from the Cueva Ventana Site, Arecibo, Puerto Rico (2016)
  78. Use-wear Analysis of the Ground Stone Tools from the Jiahu Site (2015)
  79. Use-Wear Analysis of the Middle Horizon (2019)
  80. Use-wear analysis of the stone tools at the Wansan site, a Neolithic site in Taiwan (2015)
  81. Use-Wear Analysis on Cooking Vessels of the Longshan Culture: Case Studies on the Tonglin Site (2017)
  82. Use-wear Analysis on Quartzite Artifacts Using Replication Studies and A Comprehensive Application of High and Low Power Methods (2015)
  83. Use-Wear Analysis on Shell Artifacts (2024)
  84. Use-wear Analysis on the Stone Tools from the Dongshancun Site (2015)
  85. Use-wear and Standardization Analysis of Pottery from Dibaping, A Banshan Period Cemetery in Southern Gansu Province, China (2017)
  86. Use-Wear Insight into the Chipped Stone Plant-Processing Toolkit in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands (2024)
  87. The Usefulness of Institutional Analysis (IAD) for Defining Focal Action Situations in Mexican Cultural Heritage: PROCEDE-INAH and CONACULTA Outcomes after 1992 Reforms (2023)
  88. Uses and Limitations of the "Sangoan" for Understanding Hominin Mobility and Dispersals: An Example from Northeastern Zambia (2018)
  89. Uses of Different Species of Animals from Vista Alegre: A Zooarchaeological Analysis (2018)
  90. The Uses of Photomicroscopy for Specimens in Museums (2017)
  91. The Uses of Platform-Mound Summits at a Coles Creek Site in Southwest Mississippi (2015)
  92. The Uses of Stylistic Analysis in Rock Art Studies (2019)
  93. The UseWear Analysis of the Blue Lake Museum Lithic Collection (2015)
  94. Usewear and Assemblage Composition: The Role of Endscrapers in Paleoindian Technological Organization (2017)
  95. Using 3D Geographic Information Systems to Understand Settlement Decisions at Calakmul (2015)
  96. Using 3D Laser and 3D Sonar as Tools for Mapping, Analyzing Site Formation Processes, and Long Term Monitoring of Shipwrecks (2015)
  97. Using a Sexualized Ritual Landscape to Ontographically Examine Hohokam Gender Stereotypes (2017)
  98. Using a specimen-scale approach and butchery traces on the elbow to refine paleoecological interpretations of Early Stone Age carnivory (2015)
  99. Using A.I. Tools in ArcGIS to Identify Mining Features in Northern Georgia (2024)
  100. Using ABM to Evaluate the Impact of Topography and Climate Change on Social Networks (2017)