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 21,601-21,700 of 21,939)

  1. Why are Archaeological Collections Relevant in the 21st Century? The Caribbean Experience (2016)
  2. Why Are We Thinking “Beyond Barbarians”? Interrogating Dimensions of Military Organization in Non-State Societies (2023)
  3. Why Are You Here? What Did You Learn? Assessing Archaeology Outreach and Education in Fair and Museum Settings (2019)
  4. Why Bappir Matters: Using Experimental Archaeology of Beer in the Classroom (2024)
  5. Why Build When There Are Caves? Investigating the Construction and Use of a Stone Structure in Pleistocene France (2019)
  6. Why Choose Small Packages When There Are So Many Big Packages Around? (2019)
  7. Why Classics Needs Anthropology (2016)
  8. Why colonize? A case study of the early Neolithic Colonization of the island of Cyprus (2017)
  9. Why colonize? A case study of the early Neolithic Colonization of the island of Cyprus. (2016)
  10. Why Did Nomadic Dynasties Build Walls? (2024)
  11. Why Did Paleocoastal People Settle California’s Islands? (2015)
  12. Why did people begin to make rock art?: A study case from Central North of Chile (2017)
  13. Why did they leave? The Wari Withdrawal from Moquegua (2017)
  14. Why Do Pictures Speak? Orality in Maya Hieroglyphic Writing (2024)
  15. Why Do We Farm?: Risk Assessment of the Foraging Farming Transition in North America (2018)
  16. Why Fake it? Counterfeits, Emulation and Mimicry: Symbolic and Practical Motives for the Imitation of Crafts (2017)
  17. Why Heterarchy? A View from the Tiwanaku State’s (AD 500-1100) Labor Force. (2019)
  18. Why Is There Math in My Archaeology? The Modern Foundations of Quantitative Archaeology Written Decades Too Soon (2023)
  19. Why Is There No American Convention on the Protection of the Archaeological Heritage? (2019)
  20. Why Move Starchy Cereals? Stable isotope evidence for the spread of crops across Eurasia in prehistory (2015)
  21. Why moving starch? Trans-Eurasian exchange of starchy crops in prehistory (2015)
  22. Why Not a Bayesian Archaeology? Debunking Misconceptions about Bayesian Statistics (2021)
  23. Why Pacific Nicaragua Should Not Be Considered Mesoamerican during Prehistory (2017)
  24. Why Pilgrimage? The Ethnography and Archaeology of Journeys to the Center (2015)
  25. Why Pursue Fish in Small Quantities? The Case of Ancestral Puebloan Fishing in the PIV Middle Rio Grande (2019)
  26. Why raise Turkeys in the Mesa Verde Region? (2017)
  27. Why Screen-Size Matters for Isotopic Analysis of Archaeological Faunal Remains: A Case Study from Norton Sound, Alaska (2023)
  28. Why settlement scaling research is a good fit for archaeology (2017)
  29. Why So Blue? Color Symbolism in Ancestral Pueblo Lithics (2023)
  30. Why So Blue? The Great Island Tavern and Its Legacy (2024)
  31. Why so Low so Long? Constraints on Human Population Growth in Late Pleistocene Sahul (2019)
  32. Why Stop Smelting Here? Using the History of a Slag Concentration to Understand Variability in Angkorian Iron Production Sites in the Phnom Dek Metallurgical Landscape, Cambodia (2024)
  33. Why terrestrial diets in island environments? Evolutionary considerations of isotopic results from Rapa Nui (2015)
  34. Why the Chimu State of the Northern Coast of Peru Failed: Rapid Expansion Is Not Always Enough (2018)
  35. Why These Beads? Color Symbolism and Colonialism in the Mohawk Valley (2023)
  36. "Why those old fellas stopped using them?" Spiritual and ritual dimensions of stone-walled fish trap use amongst the Yanyuwa of northern Australia (2017)
  37. Why Wasn’t the Ceramic Arrowhead Invented? (2018)
  38. Why We Need Public Archaeology Specialists: Beyond Shards and Dinosaurs (2019)
  39. Why We Need to Succeed: Assessing the Outcomes of Community Archaeology Practices in County Galway, Ireland (2016)
  40. Why We Should Reassess How We Define Sensitive Archaeological Data and How We Share It (2019)
  41. Why We Shouldn’t Wait until a Project is Proposed (2018)
  42. Why We Study Violent Behaviors in the Past: Dr. Debra Martin’s Contributions to Research on Systems of Socially Sanctioned Warfare and Systematic Exploitation (2021)
  43. Wicked Problems in Archaeology: Applying a Social Impact Framework and Entrepreneurship Mindset to Cultural Heritage Management (2019)
  44. Wickiups as Placemaking: Contemporary Landscape Archaeology in the Mountains of Northern New Mexico (2023)
  45. “Wide-Awake Merchants” and Reform-Minded Women: Archaeology of Alexandria, Virginia’s German Jewish Community (2023)
  46. Wide-Range Regional Interaction prior to State Formation in Late Prehistoric Eastern Japan (2015)
  47. Widespread Distribution of Fossil Footprints in the Tularosa Basin: Human Trace Fossils at White Sands National Monument (2019)
  48. Wiggle-Match Dating at the Montezuma Castle Cliff Dwelling (2021)
  49. Wild and Cultivated Plant Usage of a Late Precontact Site (11S1754) in the American Bottom (2024)
  50. Wild Animals in Cities: A View from South Asia’s Early Historic Period Using a Zooarchaeological and Textual Approach (2021)
  51. Wild Cane Cay, Southern Belize: Major Classic to Postclassic Maya Trading Port (2015)
  52. Wild capuchin monkey archaeology (2016)
  53. Wild Fruits and Connective Linkages in Precolumbian South Florida (2023)
  54. Wild Meets Domestic at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey (2017)
  55. Wild Plant Fiber Processing and Technological Organization: Holocene Perishable Artifact Production in the Bonneville Basin (2017)
  56. Wild Resource use in Early Colonial New Spain (2016)
  57. Wild resources and domestic plants in the South American farmer’s frontier (2016)
  58. The wild side of Cyprus: an integration of archaeobotany and zooarchaeology (2016)
  59. Wilderness, Wildlife, and Management Misconceptions: Archaeology in Washakie Wilderness NW Wyoming (2023)
  60. Wildfires and Human Communities in Bronze and Iron Age, Armenia: A Macro-Charcoal and Paleo-Temperature (brGDGT) Reconstruction (2021)
  61. Wildfires, Forests, and the Archaeological Record: Investigating Complex and Persistent Human-Landscape Legacies (2017)
  62. Will Summing of Radiocarbon Dates Unlock Scales of Socio-environmental Transformations? (2021)
  63. Will your childhood years kill you earlier? A study exploring the relationship between height, stress and age at death. (2017)
  64. Willamette Valley Project Overview: Using Subbottom Profiling, Coring, Augering, Geomorphic Mapping, and Regional Archaeological Data to Inform Sensitivity Modeling and Archaeological Research Design in the Willamette Basin, Oregon (2024)
  65. Willamette Valley Project: Recreating the Landscape of the Willamette Valley through GIS Mapping of Historic Documents (2019)
  66. Willfully Obscured: Figurines and Caves in the Maya Late Classic Period (2015)
  67. William J. Folan and the Climate Fascination (2023)
  68. William J. Folan's Canadian Contributions to Archaeology and Ethnohistory (2023)
  69. A Wind from the Depths of the Earth (2015)
  70. Windes Matters (2015)
  71. Windes Was Here (2015)
  72. Window of Opportunity: Administering Hurricane Sandy Archaeology in Rhode Island (2018)
  73. Winds of Change – Funerary practices at the dawn of Late Bronze Age in Southeast Hungary (2017)
  74. Wine or Wax?: Organic Residue Analysis on pottery from the Early Bronze I at Nahal Tillah (2015)
  75. "Winged Worldviews": Human-Bird Entanglements in Northern Venezuela, A.D. 1000–1500 (2017)
  76. A Winter at Akulivik: Faunal Analysis of a Thulean House at the site of Kangiakallak-1 (Nunavik, Québec) (2015)
  77. Winter Garden Hunting along the Rio Grande Flyway: A Case Study in the Procurement of Migratory Birds by Puebloans along the Rio Grande (2021)
  78. Winter Is Coming: Is ‘Fortification’ Always Fortification? (2018)
  79. The Wisconsin Dugout Canoe Survey Project (2024)
  80. "The Wisconsin Idea" and the Production of Archaeological Knowledge during the Progressive Era, ca. 1900-1930 (2016)
  81. Witches and Aliens: How an Archaeologist Inspired Two New Religious Movements (2017)
  82. The Witching Hour: Demonization of Female Bodies and the (mis)Construction of Gender during the Spanish Evangelization of Huarochirí (Lima, Peru) (2019)
  83. With a Little Help from my Friends: New Radiocarbon Dates from the Great Hungarian Plain (2024)
  84. With Beauty Around: The Canyon del Muerto Rock Art Documentation Project (2019)
  85. With Precision Comes Variability: Complications in High-Resolution 14C Chronology in the East Mediterranean-Middle East (2021)
  86. With the Best In the House: Ceramic Analysis of a Nineteenth-Century Irish-American Household (2024)
  87. With Turkeys on Spears and Maize on Arrows: Defining and Defending the Province of Chetumal (2015)
  88. Within and Between: A comparative discussion of Intra-site Variability and Hinterland Complexity at the sites of Yaxché, Yucatan and Cerén, El Salvador (2015)
  89. Witz Naab and Killer Bee Revisited: New Interpretations of Two Salt Mounds in Paynes Creek National Park, Belize (2024)
  90. Wizards, Dragons and Giants: Creating Motte Castles in an English Landscape (2017)
  91. Wm. Jerald Kennedy’s Legacy of Archaeology in Palm Beach County, Florida (2016)
  92. The Wolf Under the Plaza: Pastoralism and Predation in Spanish New Mexico (2018)
  93. A Woman’s Retouch: Lithic Recycling at the Strow’s Folly Site (Locus 3), Wareham, Massachusetts (2018)
  94. Women and Ritual at Teotihuacan, Mexico (2023)
  95. Women as Actors in Systems of Violence: Their Roles and Identities in the Precolonial US Southwest (2023)
  96. Women Bleed Red: Rendering Women’s Spaces Visible in the Archaeological Record (2023)
  97. Women Elites in the Royal Court of Tonina, Chiapas (2024)
  98. Women in Antiquity: An Analysis of Submissions, Peer Review, Editorial Decisions, and COVID-19 (2021)
  99. Women in small-scale societies: how demographic archaeology can contribute to gender archaeology (2017)
  100. Women in the Nexus of State Power in the Oyo Empire (2023)