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 2,301-2,400 of 21,939)

  1. Birnirk and Thule Pottery: Analysis of Arctic Ceramics from Inuigniq (Cape Espenberg), Alaska (2019)
  2. Birnirk Expansion across Alaska during the Medieval Climate Anomaly: Causal or Coincidence? (2015)
  3. The Birnirk to Thule Transition as Viewed from Two Adjacent Houses at Cape Espenberg (2021)
  4. The Birnirk/Thule Migrations: Pushed from an Overpopulated Bering Strait Dominated by Old Bering Sea Culture (2021)
  5. The Birth of Economic Woman (2015)
  6. The Birth of Ehecatl: The Cultural Origins of the Avian Wind God OF Central Mexico (2015)
  7. Birthing Dynasties and Raising Suns: Royal Women and Preclassic Maya Ritual (2023)
  8. Bison ecology and pre-contact human land use at the Promontory Caves (2017)
  9. Bison Hunters and the Rockies: An Evolving Ontology (2016)
  10. Bison Kill Sites in South Dakota, 9,000 B.C. – A.D. 1875: A National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Listing (2019)
  11. Bison Killsites and Carnivore Utilization: A Discussion of Prehistoric Human Impacts to Scavenging Carnivores and the Implications for Conservation Management (2015)
  12. Bison, Cold Storage and Holocene Climate Change on the Snake River Plain (2016)
  13. BISON, DOG, AND DEER, OH MY!: FAUNAL ANALYSIS OF THE LOVITT SITE, WESTERN NEBRASKA (2017)
  14. Bit by bit: Olivella bead production during the Middle Period on Santa Cruz Island (2016)
  15. Bite into This: Interproximal Wear Facets in Middle-Holocene Hunter-Gatherers (2023)
  16. Bits and Pieces: A Contextual Analysis of Portable Material Culture from the Medicinal Trail Community, Belize (2023)
  17. The 'Bitter' Death of Children: Health, Welfare and the Funerary Treatment of Infants and Young Children in Christian Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries (2019)
  18. Bitumen as Stabilizer in Earthen Architecture of the Mesoamerican Gulf Coast (2021)
  19. Black and Blue, Red and Yellow: Clovis Exploitation of a Central New Mexico Lithic Source (2018)
  20. Black and White and Shades of Gray: Projectile Points and Bifaces from the Dinwiddie Site, Southwestern New Mexico (2015)
  21. Black Bear Among the St. Lawrence Iroquoians: Food, Tools, and Symbols (2017)
  22. Black Bear Use through Time in the Southern Appalachians (2017)
  23. Black Bodies and the Making of Race in Antebellum America (2024)
  24. The Black Burned Bits of Prehistory: A Celebration of Dr. Karen R. Adams (2024)
  25. Black Mesa Cultural Resources: An Update (2015)
  26. The Black Mountain Phase in the Southern Mimbres Valley: Addressing the Last “Fuzzy” Phase in the Mimbres Area Cultural Sequence (2023)
  27. Black Pitch, Carved Histories: Prehistoric wood sculpture from Trinidad’s Pitch Lake (2015)
  28. Black Rock Mortuary Cairn: A Case Study of Archaeologist–Collector Collaboration (2019)
  29. The Black Rock Site: It's Not Just Paleoindian Rock Art (2021)
  30. Black Rocks Beyond the Border: Obsidian in the Casas Grandes World (2015)
  31. The Black Sea as a Fluid Frontier: Connectivity, Integration, and Disarticulation from the Fourth to First Millennium BCE (2017)
  32. Black Studies and the Ontological Politics of Knowledge Production in African Diaspora Archaeology (2024)
  33. Black Virginians and Locally Made Ceramics in the Shenandoah Valley (2018)
  34. The Black, The Red: A Study of Two Maya Mural Pigments from the Petén Region (2017)
  35. Blackwater Draw: Turning Student Research into Public Outreach (2018)
  36. Blade production at El Sosiego locality, southern Patagonia, Argentina. (2016)
  37. Blast Caps and Other Stories of the CCC on the Gila National Forest: Imaging and Reimagining the North Star Road (2015)
  38. Blazing New Trails: Rethinking the Extent of the Ancestral Pueblo Road Network in the Northern San Juan Region (2024)
  39. Bleeding in Limbo: Health, Tasks, and Ritual in the Liminal Spaces of Prehistoric Menstruants (2024)
  40. Blending Architectural Traditions at the Edge of Cibola, New Mexico (2017)
  41. Blending Traditions: A History of Collaborative Prehistoric Research in the Carpathian Basin (2018)
  42. Blind Dates and Nervous Anticipation: Adding Temporal Context to Perishable Artifacts in Legacy Collections from eastern Utah (2019)
  43. The Blind Spot: An Early Later Stone Age perspective on the Agulhas Bank from Knysna Eastern Heads Cave 1, South Africa (2015)
  44. Blind-Testing, Post-Depositional Damage, and Lithic Microwear: Results of Qualitative and Quantitative Analyses Using Optical Microscopy and Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy (2016)
  45. Blindfolds and the Eternal Return in Late Postclassic Central Mexico (2017)
  46. Block Busters: What Systematic Replication Studies Reveal about Hypotheses on the Iron Ore Cubes (2016)
  47. Blockade to Stockade: Blockade Runners, Globalization, and Confederate Supply (2024)
  48. Blocks, Bricks, and Material Practices of Inter-Subjectification at La Venta, Mexico (2015)
  49. Blood on the Stones: Heart Sacrifice and Sacrificial Altars in the Northern Maya Lowlands and Mexico-Tenochtitlan (2021)
  50. A Bloody Mystery: Proteomic Residue Analysis of Funerary Ceramics from the Early Iron Age Heuneburg (2016)
  51. Bloody Sharp Rocks: Optimization of aDNA Extraction from Experimental Lithic Artifacts (2021)
  52. The Blown Glass Beads of Garden Bay, British Columbia (2018)
  53. Blue Birds and Black Glass: Traditions and Communities of Practice during the Coalition to Classic Period Transition on the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico (2016)
  54. Blue Canyon, a Clovis Quarry/Workshop and Camp in Central New Mexico (2023)
  55. The Blue Creek rejollada revisited: transitional imprints on sedimentological records (2016)
  56. Blue on Clay: Indigo as a Colorant in Andean Post-Fired Ceramic Paints (2021)
  57. THE BLUE STONES FROM CHIAPA DE CORZO: MINERALOGICAL IDENTIFICATION AND MANUFACTURE (2016)
  58. Blue Tunics and Royal Lions: Colonial Period Changes in Clothing and Changing Conceptions of Indigeneity in the Spanish Colonial Americas (2019)
  59. Blue-green stone mosaics in the U. S. Southwest and Northwestern Mexico: origins, spatio-temporal distribution and potential meanings (2017)
  60. Bluefish Caves I, II, III: Taphonomic Analysis of the Mammal and Bird Bone Assemblages (2024)
  61. Bluefish Caves Revisited: Testing a Potential Pre-Clovis Site in Eastern Beringia (2023)
  62. The Bluff –Twin Rocks community: Community formation, persistence and evolution in the northwestern San Juan region (2015)
  63. Blunt Impact: The Role of War Clubs in Prehistoric Californian Warfare (2016)
  64. The Blurred Line between Insider/Outsider Positionalities (2024)
  65. Blurring Historical Lines: Cultural Divisions in the Lesser Antilles (2021)
  66. Board Games, Gamification, and the Cultural Transmission of History: Constructing Narratives of the Past in Orthogonal (2023)
  67. Boat Engravings and Maritime Technologies in the Megalithic Ages 4700–2500 cal BC (2023)
  68. Boca Negra Wash: Investigating Activity Organization at a Shallowly Buried Folsom Camp in the Middle Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico (2017)
  69. Bodiam Castle: Lived Experience and Political Ecology (2019)
  70. BODIES AMONG FRAGMENTS: NON-NORMATIVE INHUMATIONS AMONG THE PRECLASSIC AND CLASSIC PERIOD HOHOKAM IN THE TUCSON BASIN (2016)
  71. Bodies Apart: Dissection and Embodied Structural Violence in a Historic Skeletal Assemblage from San Francisco (2019)
  72. Bodies of Evidence: Indications of Non-Western Ontologies at Paquimé, Chihuahua (2019)
  73. Bodies of Power: The Bioarchaeology of Cooperation (2019)
  74. Bodies of Technology: Dress in Colonial Peru (2015)
  75. Bodies Shaping Bodies: Using Butchery to Trace Human-Animal Relationships (2019)
  76. Bodies, Bowls, and Burial: New Perspectives on the Bab adh-Dhra’ Mortuary Assemblage (2017)
  77. THE BODY AND THE ANCESTOR: COMPARING EVIDENCE OF INDIVIDUAL BIOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL REPRESENTATION AT PARACAS NECROPOLIS (2015)
  78. The Body as Machine, the Body as Commodity, and the Body as a Temple: Treatments of Enslaved African Laborers on Buena Muerte Sugar Estates in Cañete, Peru (2017)
  79. The Body at the Washtub: A Bioarchaeological Reconstruction of Identity from a Purported 1849ers Oregon Trails Burial at Camp Guernsey, WY (2019)
  80. Body Histories, Historical Bodies: Adornment, Culture and Identity through Time (2019)
  81. Body Mass Estimates of Dogs in North America by Geography, Time, and Human Cultural Associations (2023)
  82. Body Modifications among San Hunter-Gatherers: A Relational Practice and Subsistence Strategy (2023)
  83. Body Modifications in the Collections of the Musée de l’Homme (Paris) (2023)
  84. Body Modifications within the Southwest through Rock Art and Ceramics. (2024)
  85. The Body Poetic: Violence, Body Processing, and Identity Formation in the Past (2021)
  86. The Body, the Regalia, the Weapons, and the Mortuary Bundle: Forms, Materials, and Uses of Cordage at the Paracas Site (2023)
  87. Bog Butter: Experimenting with the Preservative Nature of Peat Bogs (2024)
  88. Boko Haram, coupeurs de route and slave-raiding: identities and violence in a Central African borderland (2015)
  89. Bold Line Geometric: Revisiting a Lesser-Known Rock Art Style in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas (2019)
  90. Bona Fide: Advances in Ancient Maya Bioarchaeology from Belize (2024)
  91. Bonampak Will Never Be Finished: Some Remarks in Honor of Steve Houston (2019)
  92. Bonding Pots: Ceramics from the Midi Toulousain (Southwest France) and their Transatlantic Journeys to New France (17th-18th c.) (2017)
  93. The Bonds that Bind Us: The Analysis of Terminus Groups in the Belize River Valley (2018)
  94. Bone and Antler Organic Pressure Flakers (2023)
  95. Bone Artifacts from Summer Bay, Unalaska (2018)
  96. Bone calcination of different age groups in cremations from Bronze Age Hungary (2017)
  97. Bone Carbonate Derived Stable Isotope Data and Aleut Diet Change (2015)
  98. Bone Collectors: Personhood and Appeal in Human Remains Sales on Facebook (2024)
  99. Bone Color as a Tool to Interpret Differing Cremation Patterns in Bronze Age Eastern Hungary (2024)
  100. Bone Craft Product and Economies in the Late Shang Period at Anyang, China (2016)