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. A Western Stemmed Younger Dryas-Aged Sewing Camp at the Connley Caves, Oregon (2021)
  2. Wet-Preserved Living Spaces : Measuring Social Inequality from Circum-alpine and Central European Pile and Bog Dwellings (2023)
  3. Wetland Maize Farming by 6000 BP Gave Way to Upland Farming with the Rise of Ancient Maya Settlements and Political Centers (2023)
  4. Wetland Soils and Ancestral Menominee Maize Agriculture in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (2024)
  5. Wetlands and Grasslands: Habitat Choice of Hunters and Herders across the Transition to Mobile Pastoralism in Mongolia’s Desert-Steppe (2024)
  6. Wetlands and Woodland Period Settlement on the Florida Gulf Coast (2024)
  7. We’ve Gotta Get Out of this Place: Formation and Resettlement of a Pre-Classic Hohokam Village (2015)
  8. “We’ve never been allowed to fail before!” Undergraduate Experimental Archaeology Courses at the Crossroads of History and Archaeology (2024)
  9. The whale beneath the Barnacle: Rare Taxa in the analysis of Marine Invertebrates from the Tse-Whitzen Village Site (2015)
  10. Whales, Chiefs, and Seal Stomachs: Understanding Ceramic Adoption in the Kodiak Archipelago (2024)
  11. Whales, Whaling Amulets, and Human–Animal Relations in Northwest Alaska (2017)
  12. What 35 Students Tell Us: Re-evaluating Traditional Field School Delivery Methods (2024)
  13. What a Cache! Ritual Activities at the Medicinal Trail Community, a Small Rural Maya Site in Northwestern Belize (2024)
  14. What a Pain in the Ash….Traveling that Bumpy Road (2018)
  15. What Ancient DNA Can Reveal about the Ubiquitous Fish of the Northwest Coast: Salmon, Herring, and Rockfish (2019)
  16. What Archaeologists Can’t See: contrasting ethnohistorical and archaeological data in Talamanca, Costa Rica in the 16th century (2018)
  17. What Are the Chances? Estimating the Probability of Coincidental Artifact Association with Megafauna Remains (2018)
  18. What big teeth they have: Rethinking mandibular tooth crowding in domestic dogs and wolves using landmark-based metric analysis (2017)
  19. What can archaeobotanical remains from exceptionally well preserved contexts tell us about past arctic life-ways? (2015)
  20. What Can Archaeology Tell Us about Refugees and Forced Immigration? (2019)
  21. What Can Artifacts Do: A Case Study of Miniaturized Architectural Models in Early China Tombs (2018)
  22. What Can Hogup Cave Starches Tell Us about Diet That We don’t already Know? Context, Preservation, and the Comparison of Archaeobotanical Analyses. (2015)
  23. What Can We Learn by Digging a Trench through a Hohokam Ballcourt? (2019)
  24. What Can We Learn from Nearly 50 Years of Accumulated Data on the Kcal Return Rates Achieved by Hunters Encountering Terrestrial Game? (2023)
  25. What Can We See from Here? Hilltop Sites Northwest of Prescott, Arizona and Their Local and Regional Connections (2019)
  26. What Could Archaeology’s Impact Be On Education? (2015)
  27. What Did the Sacrificed Subjects Eat? A Stable Isotope Study of Individuals Sacrificed by the Aztecs during the Late Postclassic period (2016)
  28. What Did We Learn? SAA’s Discovering the Archaeologists of the Americas Pilot Project (2018)
  29. What did you have for dinner last night? Revealing diet, mobility, and movement of people within Middle Iron Age British society through multi-isotopic analysis (2016)
  30. What Do Archaeological Networks Reveal? Comparing New Guinean Material Culture with Ethnographic Network Structure (2021)
  31. What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Precolonial Sites in Chontales, Central Nicaragua? (2017)
  32. What Does a Fire Giant Eat? A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Surtshellir's Burnt Faunal Remains (2021)
  33. What Does Fremont Mean Anyway? Finding a Useful and Constructive Way to Conceptualize a Regional System (2016)
  34. What does GIS + 3D equal for Landscape archaeology? (2016)
  35. What Does the "Cruz Pata" Style Look Like?: Redefining an Enigmatic EIP Ceramic Style of the Ayacucho Valley (2018)
  36. What does the Paleolithic record of Southeast Arabia tell us about hominin dispersals out of Africa? (2016)
  37. What does their Storage say about Them? An interpretation of domestic storage practices at the Classic Period Maya village of Ceren (2015)
  38. What Does ‘Collapse’ Look Like for Hinterland Sites: Site Distribution and Settlement Pattern in the Valley of Puebla Tlaxcala during the Classic-Postclassic Transition (2017)
  39. What Doña Ana Phase and Modern Jackrabbits (Lepus californicus) Can Tell Us About Climate Change in the Southeastern Southwest (2017)
  40. What Drives the Variability in MSA Lithic Assemblages from Sibhudu Cave, South Africa (2023)
  41. What Faunal Remains from Wolf Scat in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Can Tell Us about Canid Presence in the past (2024)
  42. What Goes Up Must Come Down: The Contribution of Upland Archaeology in Connecticut's Trap-Rock Ridges to Late Archaic Cultural Prehistory (2015)
  43. What Happened at Joara, Cuenca, and Fort San Juan: Archaeological Finds from the Berry Site in Western North Carolina (2019)
  44. What Happened on Monte Albán’s Main Plaza? Insights from a Socio-Spatial-Sensory Analysis (2023)
  45. What Happened to the Victims? Constructing a Model of Care for Cranial Trauma from Non-lethal Violence at Carrier Mills, Illinois (8000 – 2500 BP) (2019)
  46. What Happens in the Ivory Tower: The Academic Trade of Archaeological Human Remains (2024)
  47. What Happens When Objects Become Artifacts? (2021)
  48. What Have We Done, What Are We Doing, and Where Are We Going with Overseas Chinese Archaeology? (2015)
  49. What Have We Here?: Demonstrating the Opportunities for Heritage Preservation to Local Governments (2016)
  50. What if children lived here? Asking new questions of the material culture from old Anglo-Saxon settlement excavations. (2016)
  51. What if the restaurant isn’t at the end of the universe but in a much nicer place? (2015)
  52. What is a Hill of Beans Really Worth?: Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of Urban Huari Foodways (2019)
  53. What Is at Stake in Archaeological Knowledge Production (2021)
  54. What Is CRM’s Origin Story: How Did We Get to the System We Have Now and What Does It Say about Our Future? (2024)
  55. What Is Going On with the Younger Dryas in Florida? Late Pleistocene Perspectives from the Aucilla Basin (2023)
  56. What Is Good to Eat Is Good to Translocate: The Intangible Dimension of Non-Native Animal Introduction and Consumption in the Pre-Columbian Caribbean (2019)
  57. What is It? Doing Bioarchaeology with Matter (2019)
  58. What is Oxtotitlán Cave Communicating? (2016)
  59. “What Is Past Is Prologue”: Climate Change, Predictive Models, Data Challenges, and Protecting Virginia’s Archaeological Resources (2024)
  60. What Is ‘Good Hair’? – Personhood, Ritual, and Resurgence of Bodily Adornment among the Equestrian Blackfoot (2019)
  61. What Late Formative Period and Modern Jackrabbits (*Lepus californicus) Tell Us about Climate Change in the Southeastern Southwest (2021)
  62. What Lies Beneath: The Application of 3D Image Enhancements to Explore Relationships between Rock Art and Rock Surfaces (2019)
  63. What Lies Beneath: The Significance of a Midden Burial in Exploring Differential Mortuary Treatment of the Maya at Palenque (2024)
  64. What Lies Beneath: Underwater Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of the Inundated Liebman Site, an Early Paleoindian Site in Lebanon, Connecticut. (2024)
  65. What Lies between the Dots: Exploring the Archaeology of the Broader Basin of Mexico Landscape (2019)
  66. What Lies Between Two Regions: Settlement and Landscape Archaeology at the Aguacate Sites, Belize (2017)
  67. What Lovely Teeth You Have: An Examination of Canid Dental Anomalies and Their Use in Archaeology (2024)
  68. What Makes a Better Surface Elevation Model: On-the-Ground Total Station or Low Altitude Lidar? (2024)
  69. What Makes a Forager Turn Coastal? An Agent-Based Approach to Coastal Foraging on the Dynamic South African Paleoscape (2019)
  70. What Makes a Home? Searching for Wetus in Archaic New England (2017)
  71. What makes us beat? Toward a heart-centered practice in archaeological research (2017)
  72. What moral and ethical considerations should inform bioarchaeology of care analysis? (2015)
  73. What More Can We Learn about Complex Prehistoric Phenomena from an Aged, Simple Model? (2019)
  74. What Next? The Pivotal Role of Archaeological Science in Heritage Management (2019)
  75. What Once Was Lost, Now Is Found: Investigating the Relationships of Lower Dover in the Belize River Valley (2019)
  76. What Once Was…: Taphonomical processes and their implications for understanding Tiwanaku funerary practices and social identities (2015)
  77. What plants existed in the Lesser Antilles just prior to 1492 and could they have been exploited by the island inhabitants? - new data from archaeological excavations at Anse Trabaud, Martinique (2016)
  78. What Predicts Cut Mark Frequency and Intensity? (2017)
  79. What Remains: Using LiDAR to examine the effects of plowing on memories and mounds in Illinois (2016)
  80. What Should We Call the Rocks in Living California Landscapes? (2018)
  81. What the "Teuchitlan Tradition" is, and What the "Teuchitlan Tradition" is Not (2016)
  82. What the Ceramics Tell Us About the Inhabitants of the Steve Perkins Site (2018)
  83. What the Imagery Offers: Rock Art in the Study of Ancient Chacoan Culture (2015)
  84. What the Old Ones Have to Teach Us (2023)
  85. What the Shell: the Zooarchaeology of Cerro San Isidro, Peru (2021)
  86. What the Shell? Taphonomic and Cultural Modifications of Freshwater and Marine Shell from the Upper Belize River Valley (2019)
  87. What the Shells Tell: Interdisciplinary Malocoarchaeology and Holocene Paleoclimate in Coastal Peru (2023)
  88. What the Spanish Brought with Them: Phenetic Complexity of the Spanish Population at Contact (2019)
  89. What To Do about Avayalik Island 1: A Remote Central Place in the Paleoeskimo World (2017)
  90. What to Do with All Those Digital Data: Examples from the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS) (2018)
  91. What Unit Is a Degree? (2019)
  92. What Was Angkorian Theravada? New Analyses and Findings from "Buddhist Terraces" and Other Monastic Structures at Angkor Thom, Cambodia (2019)
  93. What was Erlitou? Social Transformations from the Longshan Period to the Erlitou Period in a Network Perspective (2015)
  94. “What Was Our Ancestors’ Pottery Like?” Exploring Ceramic Heritage with the Shawnee Tribe (2023)
  95. What Was Tiwanaku, Really? (2021)
  96. What We Choose to Model and How We Think the World Works (2017)
  97. What We Know and What We Wished We Knew about Hohokam Platform Mounds (2019)
  98. What We See, What We Don’t See: Spatial Data Quality in Large Digital Archaeological Collections (2019)
  99. What were they thinking? Using electroencephalogram (EEG) to map brain activations during stone tool manufacture. (2015)
  100. What Would Larry Do: Archaeological Practice with, by, and for Native American Communities (2018)