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. The Viking Age Settlement of Iceland: The Change from Migrant Society to Settled Society (2018)
  2. Viking Age tar production and the exploitation of the Outlands (2017)
  3. The Viking Great Army: Weighing Up Reuse (2024)
  4. The Viking Phenomenon (2017)
  5. Viking skeletal remains in northern Europe: a survey (2015)
  6. Villa, Monastery, or Vicus? The Archaeology of Monasteries and Productive Centers across the West ca. 400–1000 (2024)
  7. Village Aggregation and Early Cultural Developments on the Canadian Plateau: a case study from Keatley Creek (2017)
  8. Village Aggregation and Native Subsistence Practices at a Middle Woodland Mound Center, Gulf Coast Florida, USA (2018)
  9. Village to City: Formative Period Political Evolution in Central Mexico (2018)
  10. Villages, Horticulture, and the Narragansett: Native American Settlement and Resource Exploitation along the Southern Rhode Island Coast ca. 1300-1400 AD. (2016)
  11. Violence among the Gallinazo: New Insights from Pampa la Cruz, Moche Valley (2018)
  12. Violence and Selected Funerary Treatment: Insights from a Collective Open Tomb of the Upper Nepeña Drainage, Peru (AD 1300–1500) (2024)
  13. Violence and Veneration at the Edges: Mortuary Traditions and Social Order along the Northern and Southern Frontiers of Mesoamerica (2019)
  14. Violence as a Contested Asset and Dynamics of Warrior Ideology at State Edges: Thugs and Harmony? (2023)
  15. Violence or Funerary Ritual? Performances of Life and Death in the Middle and Late Archaic Period of North Alabama (2024)
  16. Violence, Dislocation, and Social Transformation in the Chesapeake, AD 1300–1500 (2018)
  17. Violence, Politics and Power: Iron Age and Pictish Reinventions of a Prehistoric Mortuary Landscape at the Sculptor’s Cave, NE Scotland (2017)
  18. Violent Conflict and a Ritual of Memory in the Puebloan Southwest. (2018)
  19. Violent Ritual and Inter-regional Interaction during the Early Intermediate Period and Early Middle Horizon in the Majes Valley, Arequipa, Peru (2018)
  20. Viracocha’s Vulcanism: The Cultural Biography of a Volcano (2016)
  21. Virgin Branch Puebloan Adaptations on the Colorado Plateau: Recent Excavations at Granary House (AZ A:14:46) (2021)
  22. Virgin Puebloan and Fremont Rock Art at Petroglyph Corral (2018)
  23. Virtual Anthropology in Fieldwork, Conservation, and Education in Mexico: Lessons Learned, Challenges, and Future Perspectives (2024)
  24. Virtual Archaeology, Virtual Longhouses and "envisioning the unseen" within the Archaeological Record (2016)
  25. Virtual Copan - From 3D data collection to analysis inside a web visualization tool (2015)
  26. Virtual curation as an integral part of the conservation strategy at the Camp Lawton Confederate POW site (2015)
  27. A virtual documentation of excavation through 3D modeling; is it worth the effort? (2016)
  28. Virtual Graphic Representation and Urban Analysis Architectural Grand Central Acropolis: Main Access and Structure 4D1-20 El Mirador, Petén; Guatemala (2015)
  29. Virtual Preservation and Outreach for Nake'muu Pueblo: Using Technology to Make Inaccessible Sites Accessible (2016)
  30. Virtual Reality and Archaeological Practice (2023)
  31. The virtual reconstruction of "Los Bebedores Mural" from Cholula, Puebla, México (2015)
  32. Virtual Worlds: Underwater Archaeology and Indigenous Engagement (2023)
  33. Virtualization as a Method for Heritage Preservation: A Case Study from Seyitömer Höyük, Turkey (2017)
  34. Virtualization, 3D Technologies, and the Democratization of Archaeological Research (2016)
  35. Virtually Rebuilding Çatalhöyük History Houses (2015)
  36. The Virtuous Archaeologist (2021)
  37. Viscacha or Rabbit, Peru or Mexico: Fiber Identification and Cultural Clarification in the Investigation of a 16th C. Colonial Latin American Textile (2019)
  38. Visibility and Memory on the San Giuliano Landscape (2021)
  39. Visibility Graph Analysis of Monumental Buildings in Iron Age Turkey (2015)
  40. Visible and Invisible workings of Cahokia (2024)
  41. The "Visible" Dead: Mortuary Patterns and Ceremonial Activities in the Dawn of the Bronze Age in Southern Greece (2017)
  42. Vision and Action: Suzanne Fish and Paul Fish and the Hohokam World (2017)
  43. Vision and Revision in the Use of Residential and Non-Residential Space at Middle Preclassic Maya Sites: A View from Pacbitun, Belize (2015)
  44. Visions Around and Within: A GIS-based Viewshed Analysis of Ancient Ballcourts in Northern Arizona (2024)
  45. Visions of Colonial Landscapes: Through the Eyes of African Caribbean Communities (2016)
  46. Visions of Substance in Eleventh Century Mid-America (2016)
  47. Visiting a "Villagescape": The Early Classic Period Marana Mound Site (2017)
  48. Vista Alegre: Recent excavations of an ancient Maya port site along the north coast of Quintana Roo, Mexico (2017)
  49. Vista Alegre: The Architecture of a Coastal Site in Northern Quintana Roo, México (2018)
  50. A Visual Analysis of Intersecting Identities: Nathan Harrison's Gender Performance in Southern California (2024)
  51. Visual Representations and Entanglements: Photography and Native Identity-Making in the Classroom and Museum (2015)
  52. Visual Storytelling for a Modern Age (2021)
  53. Visualizing 19th century Nipmuc Landscapes (2017)
  54. Visualizing a Wired World’s Past: Digital and Tactile Public Archaeology in the Virtual Curation Laboratory (2016)
  55. Visualizing Death: Representations of Death and Rebirth on an Early Classic Maya Mid-Level Elite Burial Vessel from Uxul, Mexico (2016)
  56. Visualizing Diaspora: Fort Ancient and Shawnee Migrations in Early America (2019)
  57. Visualizing Mayapán’s Outlying Centers and Regional Distribution (2024)
  58. Visualizing Mountain Shoshone Occupations in the Washakie Wilderness of Northwestern Wyoming (2019)
  59. Visualizing Prehistoric Artifacts: 3D Scanning, GIS, and Data Sharing (2015)
  60. Visualizing Salt Production below, above, and on the Ground in Ixtapa, Chiapas, Mexico: Insights from Ethnography, Aerial Photogrammetry, and Geochemistry (2024)
  61. Visualizing Speech: Unfolding the Narrative of the Papaloapan Stela (2023)
  62. Visualizing the Invisible: How Can We Model Roman Religious Processions? (2017)
  63. Visualizing the Origins of Monumentality: The Case of Tiwanaku, Bolivia (2024)
  64. Visualizing the Unique: Lidar and Three-Dimensional Modeling as a Preservation Tool for NHPA Compliance (2019)
  65. Visualizing the Vergennes Archaic: Using 3D Imaging to Highlight the Importance of Vermont’s Ketcham’s Island Site (2024)
  66. Visualizing with GIS at Stanford University Archaeology Collections: Open for Interpretation (2016)
  67. Visually Linking the Ritual and the Quotidian at Tiwanaku, AD 500-1100 (2017)
  68. Visuospatial integration: perspective in cognitive archaeology (2015)
  69. The Vital Force of Underground Places and Ritual Production in Caves and Rockshelters (2018)
  70. Vive la différence? Comparing American and French Approaches to Heritage (2024)
  71. VIVIR Y MORIR EN TIBANICA, REFLEXIONES SOBRE EL PODER Y EL ESPACIO EN UNA ALDEA MUISCA TARDÍA DE LA SABANA DE BOGOTÁ (2016)
  72. Vocablos nahuas aplicados al proceso constructivo de los edificios prehispánicos del Altiplano Central (2015)
  73. Voices in Conversation: Assessing 36 Years of Demographics in a Professional Archaeology Newsletter (2021)
  74. Volcanic ash in the ceramics of the greater Palenque Region and Usumacinta Drainage, Chiapas and Tabasco, Mexico (2015)
  75. Volcanic Glass and Iron Nails: Shifting Networks of Exchange at Postclassic and Colonial Achiutla, Oaxaca, Mexico (2016)
  76. Volcanic hazards pose by Tacaná to the Soconusco region (2015)
  77. Volcanic Tableland Rock Art: Research and Management in the Western Great Basin (2015)
  78. Volcanic winter and population replacements? Forager adaptations in Liguria during OIS 3 across the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition (2016)
  79. The Volcano That Went Boom: Payson Sheets’ Contributions to Understanding the Tierra Joven Blanca Eruption of the Ilopango Caldera, El Salvador (2016)
  80. Volcanos, Imagery, and Footpaths: Research in Costa Rica (2016)
  81. Volumetric Analysis of Neckless Jars and Bottles in Early Horizon Nepeña, Peru (2018)
  82. The Volunteer Spirit: "Archaeology Volunteer Day" at the Archaeological Research Laboratory at UT-Knoxville (2018)
  83. Voted Off the Olmec Island: Remote Sensing and Regional Reconnaissance Surrounding La Venta, Tabasco, Mexico (2017)
  84. Vows and Violence: Identities Enacted through Diet and Trauma at the Late Medieval Tintern Abbey, Ireland (2021)
  85. Voyages to Kaju Jawi: First Dated Evidence for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Asian Voyages to Northern Kimberley, Australia (2023)
  86. Vulnerabilities and Failure of Building Resilience in Norse Greenland (2015)
  87. Vulnerability and human security in the face of climate change (2015)
  88. Vulnerability and Values: Things to Consider for Site Prioritization (2021)
  89. Vínculos (in)visibles: Relationships of Power in the Colesuyo during the Inca Empire (2018)
  90. W. T. Millington and the Mexican Revolution: The Search for Battle Sites and Camps (2021)
  91. Waapushukamikw: Sacred Site and Lithic Quarry in Subarctic Quebec (2017)
  92. Wabanaki Foodways in the Protohistoric Quoddy Region: Hunter-Gatherer Continuity, Change, and Specialization in a Changing Social Seascape (2017)
  93. The WAC Origins of the New York African Burial Ground Project (2018)
  94. The Wade Site: Evidence for Long-Distance Trade Networks in the Southern Piedmont of Virginia (2019)
  95. Wadi Madamagh, Western Highlands of Jordan: Lithic Evidence from the Late Upper Paleolithic and Early Epipaleolithic Occupations (2015)
  96. Wadi Quseiba and the Shellfish-Eaters? Searching for Late Neolithic Sites in Northern Jordan and Finding an Enigmatic Yarmoukian Site (2019)
  97. Waist Deep in the Big Data: How the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) Implements Ontological and Loosely Coupled Organization around the Construct of the Archaeological Site (2017)
  98. A Wake of Change: Investigating Biocultural Interaction During the Early Colonial Period in the Central Andes, Peru (2017)
  99. Walakpa as Case Study: Rescuing Heritage and Data from a Vanishing Site (2017)
  100. A Walk Around Tsankawi Mesa: Applying Written in Rock Preservation Principles to the Pajarito Plateau Rock Art (2019)