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 2,101-2,200 of 21,939)

  1. Beyond Kinship Trees: Capturing the Social Tapestry in European Prehistory (2024)
  2. Beyond Leaky Pipelines and Glass Ceilings: Equity Issues on the Academic Track (2021)
  3. Beyond Missions: Documenting Mexican and Mexican-American Adobes in California (2016)
  4. Beyond Monumentality: Looking Past the Pyramids of Cochasquí, Ecuador (2017)
  5. Beyond Newgrange: The Late Neolithic Complex at Brú na Bóinne, Co. Meath in Light of Recent Discoveries (2019)
  6. Beyond Paleoarchaic Lithic Procurement at the Bear Creek Site (2023)
  7. Beyond Polychrome and Greenstone: FTIR and SEM-XEDS Analysis of Fine-Grained Remains from Two Ancient Maya Royal Tombs at El Perú-Waka’ (2017)
  8. Beyond Processors: Leadership, Risk, and Decision Making among Women in Anarchic Societies (2021)
  9. Beyond Projectiles: Experimental Study of Microblades as Cutting Tools (2021)
  10. Beyond Provenance: Using the chemical composition of copper-alloys to explore technology and metal flow (2015)
  11. Beyond Radiocarbon: Using AMS Samples to Assess Woody Plant Use at Tse-whit-zen (2017)
  12. Beyond Repatriation at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (2018)
  13. Beyond Research Design: Digital Resource Management for the Next Generation (2018)
  14. Beyond Reuse: Reengagement and Interdiscursivity in the Pictish Built Environment (2024)
  15. Beyond Romanization and Colonialism: Roman Influences in Ireland (2016)
  16. Beyond Seeds and Charcoal: Constructing a Past for the Future (2015)
  17. Beyond Sharks and Laser Beams: Lessons on Informatics Needs, Open Behaviors, and Analytics Practices to Achieve Archaeological Big Data, as Learned from the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) (2015)
  18. Beyond Solutionism? Digital Data and Threatened Cultural Heritage (2018)
  19. Beyond Subsistence: Food consumption in the military garrison of San Juan de Puerto Rico from the 18th to 19th centuries (2017)
  20. Beyond Sunken Courts: Jerry Moore’s Influence on Lake Titicaca Basin Archaeology (2023)
  21. Beyond Surrealism: The Anthropological Sources of Leonora Carrington's "El mundo mágico de los mayas" (1964) (2015)
  22. Beyond Teotihuacan: The Decline of Teotihuacan's Sociopolitical System (2024)
  23. Beyond the Basin: Forensic Archaeology in Tennessee (2017)
  24. Beyond the Bayon and Ta Phrom: Modeling Demography and Population Health at Angkor, Capital of Medieval Cambodia (802 – 1431 CE) (2017)
  25. Beyond the Biface: Revisiting Cobble Tool Use During the Cascade Phase at the Kelly Forks Work Center Site, Idaho (2024)
  26. Beyond the Big Bend: Julie Stein’s Geoarchaeological Legacy in the Green River of Kentucky (2019)
  27. Beyond the Big Picture: An integrative Paleogenomic study to address regional dynamics and political organization in the Peruvian Moche Culture (2019)
  28. Beyond the Big Valley: Expanding the Temporal, Spatial, and Cultural Context of Red Wing’s Silvernale Phase (2021)
  29. Beyond the Birds of Paradise: A Geoarchaeological Investigation of Large Ancient Maya Linear Wetland Features (2024)
  30. Beyond the Borders of Archaeological Taxonomy: A Ceramic Case Study from the Central Plains (2019)
  31. Beyond the Borders: Using 3D Public Archaeology to Democratize the Past at US National Parks (2023)
  32. Beyond the Boundaries: Systematic Survey of the Poverty Point Landscape (2018)
  33. Beyond the Brutality: Ritualized Violence in the Archaic Period Southeast (2021)
  34. Beyond the Cultural Pale?: Contextualizing El Morro de Tulcán within Regional Earthen Mound Development in the Northern Andes (2016)
  35. Beyond the Dates: Reconstructing the Social Histories of Southeastern Utah Cliff Dwellings with Tom Windes (2015)
  36. Beyond the Death March: Scott Fedick´s Legacy as a Field School Director (2015)
  37. Beyond the Dirt: Protecting the Council Oak (2016)
  38. Beyond the Farm: Forensic Taphonomy in East Tennessee (2018)
  39. Beyond the Fields: Lenape Domesticated Landscapes in the Minisink National Historic Landmark (2024)
  40. Beyond the Final Frontier: Time and Materiality in the Peripheralization of Bronze Age Eurasian Steppe Pastoral Societies (2018)
  41. Beyond the Four-Letter Word: Heritage Management and Public Archaeology at Fort Vancouver (2015)
  42. Beyond the Genome: Unravelling Life Processes Using Epigenomes and Ancient RNA (2019)
  43. Beyond the Grave: Regional Interaction in the Senegambian Megalith Zone (2015)
  44. Beyond the Holes of Archaeology: Paying Attention to Indigenous Academics, Artists, and Activists (2018)
  45. Beyond the Household: The Evolution of Nonresidential Organizations During the Southwest Neolithic (2019)
  46. Beyond the Kaanul: Setting Some Questions and Initial Thoughts on the Urban Layouts of Calakmul and Its Region (2024)
  47. Beyond the Knossian State: Urban Economy and Society at the East Cretan Site of Palaikastro (2024)
  48. Beyond the Marañon: A Consideration of Cajamarca's Changing Relationships with Chachapoyas societies (2016)
  49. Beyond the Mission Walls: Faunal analysis of an Alta California mission ranchería feature (2015)
  50. Beyond the Palace Walls: Household Perspectives on Living and Working in Late 3rd millennium BC Tell Asmar, Iraq (ancient Eshnunna) (2016)
  51. Beyond the Palace Walls: Daily Life and Domestic Activities during the Late Classic in the Maya Lowlands (600-875 CE) (2019)
  52. Beyond the Points: Sociocultural Complexity Revealed by Non-Hunting Artifacts from Melting Ice Patches in the High Alpine, Greater Yellowstone Area, USA (2018)
  53. Beyond the Shadow of a Desert: Illuminating Southern Africa’s Foraging Spectra (2015)
  54. Beyond the Solstice (2015)
  55. Beyond the Stereotype: Working toward a Landscape-Based Model of Study and Cross-Cultural Exchange of Fluteplayer Rock Art Imagery in Chaco Canyon (2024)
  56. Beyond the Technical Revolution: Epistemological Shifts in Archaeological XRF (or: "The World of XRF Will Never Be the Same Again") (2019)
  57. Beyond the Theme Parks: Community Archaeology in Greater Orlando (2016)
  58. Beyond the Utilitarian: Spindle Whorls from Burials and Caches in the Maya Area (2016)
  59. Beyond the Visible: Identifying Microscopic Erosion in Ceramics Used for Alcohol Fermentation. An Application of Scanning Electron Microscopy in Archaeology (2016)
  60. Beyond the Wall: Defensive Arrangements, Conflicts and Coexistence Inside an Andean Oasis during the Late Intermediate Period (1100–1450 AD) (2018)
  61. Beyond trauma and disease: Examining the growth and potential of bioarchaeological research in Iberian medieval archaeology. (2016)
  62. Beyond Wari Empire and Inka Analogy: Refining Reconstructions of Wari Power in Middle Horizon Cusco (2021)
  63. Beyond “Maritime”: New Approaches in Understanding Foodways of the Neolithic Coastal Dwellers in the Korean Peninsula during the Early-Middle Holocene (2023)
  64. Bickering over Bison Bones: Radiocarbon and Stable Isotope Analysis to Determine Number of Individuals at the Haynie Site (5MT1905) (2024)
  65. A Biface Cache from Paradise Springs, Central Mojave Desert (2015)
  66. Bifacial Technology in Central-South Patagonia: A Preliminary Insight into Hunter-Gatherer Behavior during the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition and Early Holocene in the Deseado Massif and Nearby Spaces (2021)
  67. Big (Pre)History in North America:a view from the Southwest (2017)
  68. Big Changes in Little Places: An Examination of the Political Strategies of Leaders at Late Postclassic Xaltocan, Mexico (2017)
  69. Big Data and Diplomacy: Aerial Images and U.S. Department of State Cultural Property Bilateral Agreements (2019)
  70. Big Data and Late Pleistocene / Early Holocene Landscape Use in the American Southeast (2024)
  71. Big Data and Possibilities for New Urban Comparisons at and Around Cahokia Mounds, USA (2024)
  72. Big Data and the Berry Site: Colonial Archaeology in the Carolina Foothills (2024)
  73. Big Data for Late Mississippian Depopulation: A View of Vacant Quarter Chronologies from the Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database (2023)
  74. Big Data Investigation of Persistence in Ethnically Homogenous and Heterogeneous Communities on the Late Nineteenth-Century Central Great Plains (2024)
  75. Big Data, Big Challenges: The Preliminary Results of the Moche Valley Ancient Settlement Survey (MVASS) on the North Coast of Peru (2019)
  76. Big Data, Heritage Management, and the EAMENA Project (2019)
  77. Big Data/Big Picture Research: DINAA (The Digital Index of North American Archaeology) and the Things Half a Million Sites Can Tell Us (2015)
  78. Big House on the Prairie?: Signal Quality across Multi-ethnic Homesteading Contexts in the Central Plains (USA) (2015)
  79. Big Ideas on Big Migration(s): Paleoindian Colonization of the Americas, Revisited (2024)
  80. A Big Look at Small Tools: An Analysis of the Emergence and Dispersal of Microliths in Eurasia (2024)
  81. Big Meat Feasting in the Pisgah Phase of Western North Carolina. (2017)
  82. Big Picture History in North America: Integrating Narratives of Our Continent’s Past (2017)
  83. Big Picture, Little Picture: Reconstructing Rock Art and Context in Both the Virtual and Physical Word (2018)
  84. Big Pictures, Broad Questions, and Archaeological Knowledge along the Steppe and the Forest in the Southern Argentinean Patagonia (2019)
  85. Big Plans for Small Pots: Development of an Organic Residue Analysis Protocol for Ancient Wari Miniature Wares (2017)
  86. Big reasons to eat small fishes: Nutritional composition and subsistence decisions along California’s Central Coast (2015)
  87. Big Trash, Little Trash: A Comparison of a Late Classic Maya Feasting Deposit and a Household Midden (2016)
  88. Big, Bigger, Biggest: Investigating Aguadas 1–3 at Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico (2024)
  89. Big, Slow, and Linked: Toward Distributed and Scalable Data Practices in Archaeology (2017)
  90. The Biggest Losers: Gambling and Enslavement in Native North America (2015)
  91. The Biggest Party of All? Zooarchaeological Analysis of an Oversized Late Inca Banquet at Pachacamac (2023)
  92. Bighorn Sheep Bone Caches in the Lava Tube Caves of El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico (2021)
  93. Bighorn Sheep Processing in the White Mountains, California (2015)
  94. Billions of Dollars: Calculating the Size of the Heritage Compliance Sector (2023)
  95. Binaries, Landforms, and Clam Gardens on the Northwest Coast of North America (2023)
  96. Binghamton University and the NYSDOT: A Focus on Research and Outreach (2016)
  97. Bio-cultural exchange and human health - past and present (2016)
  98. Bioarchaeological Analysis of a Historic North Carolina Family Cemetery (2019)
  99. A Bioarchaeological Analysis of a Skeletal Population from Elmina, Ghana during the Period of the Transatlantic Trade: 1482–1873 (2021)
  100. Bioarchaeological analysis of an ancient Maya ancestral context at Cahal Pech, San Ignacio, Belize (2015)