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 21,801-21,900 of 21,939)

  1. Xipe Totec and Elite Domestic Ritual in Late Classic Oaxaca, Mexico (2016)
  2. Xmucane and Her Granddaughters: Maya Women as Creators of Time (2023)
  3. Xochicalco and Teotenango: New Approaches on Their Interactions (750–1150 CE) (2024)
  4. Xochitécatl-Cacaxtla: Una ciudad dos veces abandonada (2024)
  5. XRF Analysis of North Carolina Piedmont Ceramics to Locate Source of Production and Trade at Rural Plantation Sites (2018)
  6. An XRF Analysis of Redware Artifacts from Hanna's Town, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (2015)
  7. XRF and Raman Spectroscopic Analysis of Pigments Used in Middle Horizon Polychrome Ceramics from Cochabamba, Bolivia (2023)
  8. The XSX Ranch Site: Excavations of a Late Classic Mimbres to Early Post Classic Pueblo in the Upper Gila Forks, New Mexico (2018)
  9. Xunantunich Reloaded:Examining the Socio-Political Significance of Structure A9 (2017)
  10. x̌ʷiq̓ʷix̌ʷalqʷuʔ - Coast Salish Community-Based Participatory Archaeology in Practice (2024)
  11. The “X”-Ray Files: Preliminary Results on the Identification of Shark Species Using X-Ray Technology and Its Implications for a Better Understanding of the Economic and Symbolic Role Played by Sharks in Prehispanic Andean Societies (2024)
  12. ¿Y antes de la playa de Vicente?: Cronología de sitios prehispánicos en el Tesechoacán. (2016)
  13. Yama Village: Community College Students Develop an Archaeological Analysis of a Historic Transnational Japanese Community in Washington State. (2017)
  14. Yankwik Mexiko: Contributions of Mesoamerican People to New Mexican History (2024)
  15. A Yard and It’s Belongin’s: Archaeological Research of Laborer Houseyards on the Morne Patat Estate, Dominica (2017)
  16. The YAS-1 Middle Stone Age site at Gona, Afar, Ethiopia (2016)
  17. The Yaxhom Valley Survey II (2019)
  18. Ychsma Cultural Identity in Armatambo during Inca's Occupation, Peruvian Central Coast (2018)
  19. Ye Olde Fishing Hole: A Late Paleolithic Fishing Camp, Wadi Kubbaniya, Egypt (2016)
  20. The YEAR Centre: A Research-Driven Pedagogical Approach to Experimental Archaeology (2024)
  21. Year One of New Excavations at the Paleo Crossing (33ME274) Clovis Site, Ohio: The 2017 Field Season (2018)
  22. Year-round shellfish harvesting during the Middle to Late Holocene on the northwest coast Baja California (2017)
  23. Years to Remember: Another Look at Teotihuacan’s Calendrical Signs (2021)
  24. Yes! You Can Have Access to That! Increasing and Promoting the Accessibility of Maryland’s Archaeological Collections (2016)
  25. Yes! You Can Still Dig, but, Please Plan Ahead. NAGPRA Section 3 New Discoveries in Land Management (2019)
  26. Yes, Virginia, There Is a Nineteenth Century in Maine (2024)
  27. Yes, You Ken! A Guide to Creating Your Own Water Isotope Baseline (2024)
  28. Yet Another Tale of Two Cities: Santiago en Almolonga and San Salvador in the Early Sixteenth Century (2018)
  29. Yikes, no comparative collection! Can 3D imaging produce robust faunal identifications? (2017)
  30. You Are How You Eat: Changes in Dining Style and Society at Late Bronze I Alalakh (2017)
  31. You are what you eat? - Did food consumption reflect status, ethnical or cultural differentiation on the island of Saba between the late 18th to the early 20th century? (2016)
  32. You Better Be-Leaf It: Microbotanical Remains Found in Dental Calculus of Individuals from Actun Kabul, Belize (2024)
  33. You Can Bet on the (Rural) Farmer: Agriculture and Urbanism at Postclassic Mayapán (2023)
  34. You Come from Where? Ceramics and Cultural Exchange at Palmetto Junction (2019)
  35. “You discover 1d4 ancient relic(s)”: Archaeological Outreach through Tabletop Roleplaying Games (2023)
  36. You go first. An agent-based model of mating-migration between early farming and foraging societies (2015)
  37. You Read It; Don't Forget It: Designing Activities That Help Students Learn (2018)
  38. You Sleep Alone, Away from People: Understanding the Movement of Hobos and Other Transient Laborers (ca. 1880 – 1940) (2017)
  39. You Spin Me Right Round: Reading Southwest Indented Corrugated Pottery for Movement and Directionality (2019)
  40. You're Going to Carry that Weight a Long Time (2018)
  41. “Young, Scrappy, and Hungry”: Social Upheaval and Changes in Food Resource Access in Colonial and Postcolonial America (2024)
  42. Younger Dryas Fluted Technologies: A Comparison of Folsom, Cumberland, and Barnes Technologies (2017)
  43. Your Horse Is a Donkey! Identifying Domesticated Equids Using ZooMS (2023)
  44. Youthful Visions of Time and Place: Photovoice Methodology in Three Maya Communities (2019)
  45. You’re Building What Where?: Innovation with MOAs in the Far North (2019)
  46. You’re Not from Around Here, Are You? Ceramic Figurines and Interregional Interaction in the Tres Zapotes Region (2017)
  47. You’ve Got Tools: Evaluating Comparability Among 3D Lithic Angle Measurement Tools (2023)
  48. Yucatec and Gulf Coast Influences in Terminal Classic Western Belize: Examining the Evidence and Processes for Change (2023)
  49. Yucatecan and Mesoamerican Influences on Taino Ceremonial Iconography (2024)
  50. Yumbos and the construction of their cultural landscape (2017)
  51. Yup’ik Tool Use at Temyiq Tuyuryak—Indigenous Approaches to Artifact Analysis (2019)
  52. Yuzanu 36, a Late Archaic Site in the Mixteca Alta (2018)
  53. Yuzanu 50, An Early Paleoindian Site in the Mixteca Alta (2018)
  54. Zapotec Economy in Late Classic Jalieza: Through the Lens of Ceramic Annalysis (2015)
  55. Zapotec Funerary Rites as Documented by Alfonso Caso: Mining Archival Materials to Understand Ancient Ritual Behavior at Monte Albán (2023)
  56. Zapotec Funerary Tradition: A Perspective Between Bioarchaeology and Landscape Archaeology (2019)
  57. Zapotitlan Earth Ovens and Their Middens: Ethnoarchaeology in Colima, Mexico (2023)
  58. Zelia Nuttall and Drake's Dream (2021)
  59. Zelia Nuttall and The Vexed Question: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (2015)
  60. Zero to Hero: Elite Burials and Hero Cults in Early Iron Age Greece and Cyprus (2018)
  61. Zimmerman's Influence on World Archaeology (2018)
  62. Zones of Refuge: Resisting Conquest in the Northern Philippine Highlands through Agricultural Practice (2017)
  63. Zoning Regulations and Comprehensive Plans: Bringing Historic Preservaion Home (2015)
  64. Zooanthropomorph Iconography in the Gran Coclé, Gran Chiriqui and Tairona areas (2018)
  65. Zooarch, A Statistical Package for Zooarchaeologists (2016)
  66. ZooaRch: General Audience Release of an R Graphical User Interface for Zooarchaeologists. (2017)
  67. Zooarchaeologial inferences and analogical reasoning at Chavin de Huantar (Peru) (2015)
  68. Zooarchaeological Analysis of a Guangala Pit at Rio Chico, Ecuador (N4C3-170) (2019)
  69. Zooarchaeological Analysis of a Late Pleistocene Cave Site in Northwestern Italy, Arma Veirana (2018)
  70. Zooarchaeological Analysis of a Late Pleistocene Interglacial-Glacial Transition at Pinnacle Point Site 5-6, South Africa (2018)
  71. Zooarchaeological Analysis of Alaskan Goldrush Sites (2023)
  72. A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Caves Branch Rockshelter and Sapodilla Rockshelter (2019)
  73. A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Diné Hunting Traditions (2019)
  74. Zooarchaeological Analysis of Dog Pathology in the American Southwest: A Case for Interpreting Dogs as Companions as Opposed to Beasts of Burden (2017)
  75. Zooarchaeological Analysis of Fish Remains from the Thousand Spring Site (CA-SNI-11), San Nicolas Island, California (2019)
  76. Zooarchaeological Analysis of Fishing Strategies at Rio Chico, Ecuador (OMJPLP-170) (2018)
  77. A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Housepit 54 at the Bridge River Site (EeRl1), Middle Fraser B.C. (2017)
  78. The Zooarchaeological Analysis of Pre-Zhou Animal Remains from the Zaoshugounao site and the Zaolinhetan site in Central Shaanxi, China (2019)
  79. Zooarchaeological Analysis of Sar El-Jisr Faunal Assemblage (2024)
  80. Zooarchaeological Analysis of Subsistence Practices at the Lake Roberts Vista Site (LA71877), Gila National Forest, New Mexico (2021)
  81. A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Subsistence Stress at Elden Pueblo: A Final Report (2016)
  82. Zooarchaeological Analysis of Vertebrate Remains from the Santa Cruz Coast (2019)
  83. Zooarchaeological and Genetic Evidence for the Origins of Domestic Cattle in Ancient China (2017)
  84. A Zooarchaeological Application of Adaptive Cycling and Risk Mitigation at Tell el-Hesi, Israel (2023)
  85. Zooarchaeological Data as a Building Block for Knowledge Building in the Past (2019)
  86. Zooarchaeological Evidence for Early Human Subsistence Patterns During the Precontact Occupation of Amalik Bay, Alaska (2024)
  87. Zooarchaeological Evidence of Human Niche Construction at Cottonwood Spring Pueblo (LA 175) (2016)
  88. Zooarchaeological Evidence of Human Niche Construction at the Harris Site (LA 1867) (2023)
  89. Zooarchaeological Explorations at Aventura, Belize (2023)
  90. Zooarchaeological Findings and the Importance of Seascape at Weeden Island Archaeological Site (8PI1) (2016)
  91. Zooarchaeological Fish Remains and Signals of Resource Depression from Jamaica and Beyond (2015)
  92. Zooarchaeological insights into modern human mobility at Riparo Bombrini (2018)
  93. Zooarchaeological Investigation of Late Pleistocene Subsistence Adaptations in Iran (2017)
  94. Zooarchaeological Investigations at the Boarding School Site (24GL0302), Glacier County, MT (2019)
  95. Zooarchaeological Investigations of a Cultural Keystone Place at Point Conception, Southern California (2023)
  96. A Zooarchaeological Meta-analysis of Ceramic Age Marine Fish Harvesting across the Caribbean Archipelago: Generating Baselines for Assessing “Stability” (2023)
  97. A Zooarchaeological Reassessment of the Parrots of Chaco Canyon (2021)
  98. A Zooarchaeological Reconstruction of the Grand Feast of Plaza of the Columns, Teotihuacan (2024)
  99. A ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD OF ANCIENT FISHES FROM THE MAYA: EVIDENCE FROM FISH BONES IN THE STUDY OF ANCIENT FISHERIES (2015)
  100. Zooarchaeological Records and Isotopic Systematics of Bahamian Hutia (Geocapromys ingrahami): are the Bahamas a distinct isotopic province? (2016)