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 21,401-21,500 of 21,939)

  1. What you see is what you believe: Mortuary Ideology and transmutations in Funerary Practice at the advent of the Xiongnu Empire in Mongolia. (2015)
  2. What's a Niche Got to Do with It? Spatial Analysis of Niched Structures at Patipampa and Other Middle Horizon Sites (2018)
  3. What's Cooking at Devils Kitchen? Context, Content, and Chronology of an Early Site on the Modern Oregon Coast (2024)
  4. What's in a Hole? Memory, Knowledge, and Personhood in the Cache Pit Food Storage Features of Northern Michigan (2017)
  5. What's in a Name? Agency Coordination with ANCSA Corporations as Federally Recognized Tribes under Section 106 (2019)
  6. What's In A Seed?: An Experimental Archaeological Study of Elderberry (Sambucas sp.) Processing on the Pacific Northwest Coast (2018)
  7. What's in That Incense Burner? A Study of Residues at Balamku (2019)
  8. What's It Alder About? Paleobotanical and Zooarchaeological Analysis of Feasting Remains from the DgRv-006 Village, Galiano Island, SW British Columbia (2019)
  9. What's new in Canadian Shield Rock Art (2016)
  10. What's Up with the Ethics Bowl? Introducing a New Ethics and Responsible Research Project for Archaeology (2023)
  11. What's with Exterior Corrugation on Bowls? Using spatial analysis in GIS to track ceramic deposition. (2024)
  12. What’s an (Archaeological) Peasant? Notes on Rural Subjectivities in Atlantic Africa (2015)
  13. What’s Cooking? A Proteomic Approach to Analyse Ceramic Residues from Tell Khaiber 1 (2021)
  14. What’s For Dinner: An Examination of Animal Resources Utilized in the Okeechobee Basin Area of Florida. (2018)
  15. What’s Hot in Beringia? Cooking during the Pleistocene–Holocene Transition in Central Alaska (2023)
  16. What’s in a Dress?: An Archaeological Collection of Kapa Cloth from Nineteenth-Century Nu‘alolo Kai, Kaua‘i Island, Hawai‘i (2017)
  17. What’s in a grave?: a preliminary analysis of material culture from the Milwaukee County Institution Grounds Cemetery (2015)
  18. What’s in a Hammerstone? Insights on Core Technology at a Neolithic Quarry in Southern Germany (2021)
  19. What’s in a Label? Archaeological Taxonomies and Social Processes Past and Present (2015)
  20. What’s in a Microscopic Signature? Can We See Social Acceptance and Resistance? (2021)
  21. What’s in a Name: Caches, Offerings, and Problematic Deposits from the Medicinal Trail Hinterland Community, Belize (2023)
  22. "What’s in a Name?": Questioning the Idea of Olmec Origins for Jade Spoons (2017)
  23. What’s in a Seed?: Identifying Archaeological Chili Pepper Remains from Mesoamerica (2019)
  24. "What’s in that hole?" Engaging Subterranean Spaces in the Three Rivers Area of the Southern Maya Lowlands (2017)
  25. What’s in the Menu? Harappan Culinary Practices during the Urban Phase of the Indus Age (2019)
  26. What’s in the Oven? Specialized Processing, or Mixed Food Preparation in the Chumash Kitchen (2015)
  27. What’s in your ancient chicha?: Ethnoarchaeology and organic residue analysis (2015)
  28. What’s Really Important in the Ethnohistory of Sonora? (2018)
  29. What’s Shape Got to Do With It? Evaluating the Degree to Which Motion and Material Type Influence Edge Outline of Obsidian Flakes (2018)
  30. What’s that mound? Answers from interdisciplinary approach (2015)
  31. What’s the Deal with Corrugated Whitewares? An Analysis of the Corrugated Whitewares from the Haynie Site (2023)
  32. What’s the Point? Contextualizing the Significance of the Turpin Lithic Assemblage (2024)
  33. What’s Your Question? Theoretical Bioarchaeology in the American Southwest and Ancient Arabia (2021)
  34. Wheat and barley morphometrics: a new method for quantifying ancient cereal varietals (2016)
  35. The Wheel of Conflict: Physical and Spiritual Permanence of Mississippian Violence (2017)
  36. When and Where Did They Go? More Fully Conceptualizing Fort Ancient’s Descendants (2018)
  37. When Archaeology Meets History: Documenting the Conquest and Transition Period at Pachacamac, Peru. (2017)
  38. When Charismatic Megafauna Meet: The Relationship between Archaeologists and Proboscideans in North America (2015)
  39. When Contemporary Becomes Historic: Preservation Maintenance to Mission 66 Architecture at El Morro National Monument (2019)
  40. When Did Early Migrants Reach Pohnpei? Human Migration, Interisland Networks, and Resource Use in Eastern Micronesia (2021)
  41. When Do We Eat? The Life Cycle of Indigenous Maya Food-Plants and Temporal Implications for Residential Stability (2019)
  42. When Do You Stop and Why? Site Boundary Definitions at University Indian Ruin, Pima County, Arizona (2015)
  43. When Dogs and People Were Buried Together (2018)
  44. When Good Projects Go Well: A Partnered Project in Southern Oregon between the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, a Private Land Owner, and Associated Federal Agencies (2019)
  45. When in the World? A Comparative Debitage Analysis of Single-component Sites through Time at Petrified Forest National Park (2015)
  46. When Irish Eyes View Maya Classic Period Political Systems (2018)
  47. When Is "Near" Close Enough? Old Data, New Interfaces and an Imperfect Present (2018)
  48. When is a fieldhouse? Reconsidering fieldhouses on the Pajarito Plateau using GIS modeling and excavation data (2017)
  49. When Is a Horse Not a Horse? It Depends on Your Local Ecology (2018)
  50. When is a Living Shoreline Erosion Control Project Suitable to Protect a Coastal Mound Site? Establishing Preliminary Suitability Criteria Based on a Case Study, Adams Bay (16PL8) Mound 1, in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana (2024)
  51. When is a Pithouse a Pithome?: Reconstructing a Fremont Household Underneath the Book Cliffs of Utah. (2017)
  52. When is an Artifact an 'Ethnic' Artifact? Case Studies from Ireland and Mexico (2018)
  53. When is Chert More Than Just Chert? Case studies of Elite Distribution of Utilitarian Goods in Northwestern Peten, Guatemala and Western Belize (2016)
  54. When Is Creolization? (2018)
  55. When Is Healing?: An Archaeological Case Study of the Chacoan and Post-Chacoan American Southwest (2019)
  56. When Isn’t a Va’aki? Additional New Perspectives on Ancestral O’Odham Ceremonial Architecture (2024)
  57. When It Rains Now, It Is a Disaster: Heritage Landscapes during Climate Change (2023)
  58. When Lithics Hit Bones: Evaluating the Potential of a Multifaceted Experimental Protocol to Illuminate Middle Palaeolithic Weapon Technology (2017)
  59. When Mortars Speak Volumes: Assessing the Influence of Mortar Cavity Size on Processing Efficiency (2021)
  60. When Pots Walk: Reverse Archaeology at a Chaco Outlier Site in the Central Mesa Verde Region (2017)
  61. When Provenience is Lost: Achievements and Challenges in Conserving the Historical St. John’s, Belize Skeletal Collection (2017)
  62. When Should I Stop? Discerning the Minimum Number of Lithic Artifacts Required to Accurately Characterize Mode of Reduction (2016)
  63. When Smuggling Sailors met the First Angelinos: Material Messages from Forgotten Santa Catalina Island, California (2017)
  64. When Studying Landscapes . . . What Actually Does “-scape” Mean? (2024)
  65. When Survey Is Not an Option: Comprehensive Archeological Monitoring Standards in Texas (2024)
  66. When Technological Analysis Becomes a Setback: The Case of the Points in the Interior of São Paulo State, Brazil (2023)
  67. When the Cat’s Away: Obsidian at Rio Amarillo Before and After the Collapse of Copan, Honduras (2016)
  68. When the desert meets the sea: the annual journey of quitovaquenses to the San Jorge beach as a community of practice (2017)
  69. When the Earth Was New: Memory, Materiality, and the Numic Ritual Life Cycle (2024)
  70. When the Saints Come Marching In: Colony, Church and Change in the Andes (1480–1615) (2018)
  71. When the Small, Local Archaeology Project Goes Global – The Missoula Historic Underground Project (2016)
  72. When the Volcano Erupts: Lessons from the Archaeological Record on Human Adaptation to Catastrophic Environments (2019)
  73. When to defend? Optimal Territoriality across the Numic Homeland (2017)
  74. When to Hunt a Sea Lion, When to Hunt a Manatee: The Evolutionary Ecology of Marine Mammal Hunting in Insular Settings (2016)
  75. When Traditions Are Manufactured, Used and Broken: examples from Tupian contexts in Amazonia. (2017)
  76. When Walls Talk: Rodent-cached Botanical and Ceramic Assemblages from a 19th-century Charleston Kitchen House (2024)
  77. When Window Mesh is Worth It: Assessing the Potential of Microrefuse in Spatial Analysis of Hunter-Gatherer Sites (2018)
  78. When You’re Feeling Blue: Maya Blue Fibers in Dental Calculus of Sacrificial Victims (2021)
  79. When, Where, and Wahy: Wielding the Wahy Over Time at El Zotz (2023)
  80. Whenever the Twain Shall Meet: Merging Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Data (2018)
  81. Where and How did the Maya Practice Agriculture in the Classic Period City of Naachtun, Guatemala? (2016)
  82. Where Are All the Woodland Villages of Vermont? (2023)
  83. Where are the Boot Marks? Evaluating the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail (2018)
  84. Where Are the Brewers? Feasting and Operational Chains in Anglo-Saxon England (2018)
  85. Where are the camelids? II: contributions from the stable isotope ecology to understand mobility and exchange patterns in the South Central Andes (2017)
  86. Where are the camelids? Mobility models and caravanning during the Late Intermediate Period (ca. 1000-1400 A.D.) in the northernmost Chile, South Central Andes (2017)
  87. Where Are the Cinchecona? Mortuary Architecture and Socio-political Organization in Jauja, Peru, during the Late Intermediate Period (2019)
  88. Where are the lives? Characterising settlements from small artefactual debris (2015)
  89. Where are the women warriors? The evidence for gender equality on the Mongolian Steppe (2024)
  90. Where Are the “Interesting” Skulls? The Practice and Taphonomy of Modern Interaction with Human Remains in Open Tombs (2024)
  91. Where Are We Going? The Impact of Project Archaeology on the Profession, Past and Future (2015)
  92. Where Are You Staying? Lodging Facilities in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2018)
  93. Where condors reign: Methodological challenges in the bioarchaeology of Chachapoya cliff tombs in Peru (2017)
  94. Where Did the Fish Go? Use of Archaeological Salmonid Remains to Guide Recovery Efforts in the American West (2019)
  95. Where did the Sacrificial Subjects Live? An Oxygen Isotope Study of Individuals Sacrificed by the Aztecs during the Late Postclassic Period (2017)
  96. Where Do Data Come From? The Legacy and Future of Cultural Resource Management Bioarchaeology (2019)
  97. Where Do We Go from Here? A Review of Prehistoric Forager Mobility in Liguria (2023)
  98. Where does the Amazon end? (2016)
  99. Where Does the Responsibility Lie? The Long-Forgotten Federal Collections and the Repositories that House Them (2024)
  100. Where does your community live? The TrowelBlazers experience. (2015)