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 2,401-2,500 of 21,939)

  1. Bone Marrow as Part of the Local Cuisine at Fort St. Joseph, a French Fur Trade Post in Southwest Michigan (2017)
  2. Bone Modification by the American Cockroach (2018)
  3. Bone Modification Pattern Produced by the South American Carnivore Lesser Grison (*Galictis cuja) (2021)
  4. Bone Preservation, Specimen Identifiability, and Outcrop Shape – A Preliminary Investigation of Early Pleistocene Taphonomy at Koobi Fora, Kenya (2018)
  5. Bone Remodeling Behavior Across the Surfaces of the Skeleton as Biographical Windows (2017)
  6. The Bone Tool Assemblage from Housepit 54 at Bridge River (2017)
  7. Bone Tool Production and Use in Southern Coastal California: Examining a Process that Demanded the Use of Large Terrestrial Mammal Tool-Quality Raw Material (2024)
  8. Bone Tool Production and Use in the Interior of Southern Florida (2016)
  9. Bone Tool Technology in West Africa: Contributions from the Diallowali Site System, Senegal (2019)
  10. Bone Tools of the Rat Islands: Aleut Identity, Subsistence, and Interaction with Landscape and Seascape (2016)
  11. Bone versus Stone Arrows and the Movement of the St. Lawence Iroquoians (2016)
  12. Bone “Awls” of the Southwest (2024)
  13. Bones and Ritual among the Ancient Maya of Calakmul and Champotón, Campeche: Celebrating the Legacy of Dr. William Folan (1931–2022) (2023)
  14. Bones at the End of River Street: A Graphic Ethnography of a Bridge in Lansing, Michigan (2018)
  15. Bones Left Behind: Living Spaces at a Residential Compound at Cerro la Virgen, a Rural Chimu LIP Settlement (2018)
  16. The Bones of a Community: Mortuary Contexts over Time at Waywaka (Andahuaylas, Peru) (2021)
  17. Bones of Contention: Further Investigation into the Online Trade in Archaeological and Ethnographic Human Remains (2015)
  18. Bones of the Lucayans: Radiocarbon dating of human remains from the Bahamian Archipelago (2019)
  19. Bones to Herds, and Back Again: An Investigation into Age-at-Death Models Used in the Analysis of Sheep (*Ovis aries) and Goat (*Capra hircus) Remains (2021)
  20. Bones, Beads, and Birds: Determining cultural affiliation of skeletal remains and artifacts from Casuarina Mound, Brevard County, FL (2017)
  21. Bonfire Shelter Archaic Occupations (2024)
  22. Bonfire Shelter: A Zooarchaeological Reevaluation of Bone Bed 2 (2021)
  23. Bonin Site: a circular village on Southern Brazilian Highlands? (2017)
  24. Bonita Canyon: A Chronology of Prehistoric Occupation and Predictive Analysis of Archaic Sites (2019)
  25. Bonito Phase Architectural Syntax and Social Change (2021)
  26. The Bonneville Basin and Snake River Plain Connection: Early Archaic Lithic Technology, Geochronology, and Obsidian Procurement at Bonneville Estates and Veratic Rockshelters (2016)
  27. The Book Antler on the Sea and Community Perspectives from Sireniki, Anna’s Home Village in Chukotka, Russia (2019)
  28. Boom-and-Bust Population Dynamics: Climate Change, Resource Inequality, and Intergroup Conflict in the Prehistoric North American Southwest (2024)
  29. Booms, Busts, and Changing (Anti)Market Engagement in Pacific piedmont Guatemala (2015)
  30. Boots on the Ground and Planes in the Air: Assessing Damage to Archaeological Sites Caused by the 2011 Missouri River Floods (2015)
  31. Booze or Food? Experimental Archaeology of Low-Fired Pottery to Examine Tribochemical Processes (2016)
  32. Borderland Processes and the Question of BMAC in NE Iran (2018)
  33. Borderlands in the Amazon forest: can we draw boundaries? (2015)
  34. Borderlands, Continuances and Violence: A Social Nexus at Black Star Canyon, San Juan Capistrano California (2015)
  35. The borders of space and time: Biological continuity at Campovalano (2016)
  36. Born and Bred on the Columbia Plateau: The Ancient One in Time and Place (2018)
  37. Born into Captivity: Bioarchaeological Perspectives toward Enslaved Children and Childhood in Colonial Peru (2021)
  38. Born on the Columbia Plateau: Cultural Affiliation for the Ancient One (2019)
  39. Born This Way, Becoming That Way: Difference, Disability and Sickness in Inka Society (2019)
  40. Borneo rainforest as a social artefact: insights from integrated methodologies in archaeology, ethnography, and environmental science (2016)
  41. Boron Isotopes: A New Tool for Characterizing Wetland Use In The Past (2024)
  42. Borrowing and Inheritance: Testing Cultural Transmission Hypotheses in the Bridge River Housepit Village (2017)
  43. Bosutswe Landscapes: Defining African Complexity through Spatial Archaeometry (2015)
  44. Botanical analysis of sediments in offerings and fill at Tenochtitlan’s Great Temple (2015)
  45. Botanical and aDNA Analysis of the Dietary Contents of Human Paleofeces from Turkey Pen Ruin, Utah (2016)
  46. Botanical Resources in Ancient Costa Rican Cloud Forests (2023)
  47. Both Secular and Sacred: Kiva Function at Two Sites in the Mesa Verde Region of the American Southwest (2019)
  48. Botijas and the Black Pacific: Stylistic and pXRF Analysis of Amphorae produced by Enslaved Potters at Early-Modern Nasca, Peru (2024)
  49. Bottles and Beads: Glass Objects at Fort Mose (2021)
  50. Bottles, Blue Jeans, and a Boat: Material Traces of Contemporary Migration in Western Sicily (2019)
  51. A Bottom-Up Approach to Understanding Changes in Social Complexity during the Prehistoric Bronze Age on Cyprus (2015)
  52. Bottom-Up Data on Sociopolitical Complexity in Ancient Samoa (2023)
  53. Bottom-Up Heritage Management in Ithaca, New York: Community Initiatives and Collaborations with University Archaeologists (2015)
  54. The Boulder Glyphs: An Analysis of Prehistoric Conflict and Historic Ranching Lifeways along the Big Bend of the Rio Grande (2021)
  55. Boulders, outcrops, caves: a proposed method for documentation of cultural landscape features demonstrated in San Diego County, California (2015)
  56. Bound to the Western Waters: Searching for Lewis and Clark at Ft. Kaskaskia, Illinois (2018)
  57. Boundaries and Crossroads, Immigrants and Ancestors: Comparing the Post-Chavín Landscapes of the Moche and Virú Chaupiyungas (2024)
  58. Boundaries and Networks on the 19th Century Bras d’Eau Sugar Estate (2015)
  59. Boundaries of Interdisciplinarity: Can Zooarchaeology Handle Ontological Diversity? (2024)
  60. Boundaries of the Past as Viewed through the Fences of Today: Shifting Methods of Archaeological Inquiry in the Southern Maya Lowlands (2019)
  61. Boundaries: Where Iron Age Archaeology Meets Medieval Art History (2024)
  62. Boundary Dynamics between Chichen Itza and Ek Balam (2018)
  63. Boundary traits in archaeological settlements of the Bolonchen district, Yucatán, México. (2016)
  64. Bounding Uncertainty and Ignorance: Archaeology and Human Paleoecology in Washakie Wilderness, Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming (2018)
  65. The Bow That Wasn't: On the Absence of the Bow in Aboriginal Australia (2024)
  66. A Box Labeled “Mystery. Misc. Headaches”: Inherited Problems in Collections Management (2024)
  67. Boxes and Boxes of Guilt: Guilt Mail from the Canyon de Chelly National Monument (2016)
  68. Braiding Knowledge: Opportunities and Challenges for Collaborative Approaches to Archaeological Heritage and Conservation (2019)
  69. A Braiding, Not Abrasive, Approach to Indigenous Cultural Heritage and Archaeology: The Eastern Pequot Example (2019)
  70. Branching Out: Cerro Maya as a Strategic Link in a Preclassic Maya Exchange Network (2015)
  71. Branding the Mediterranean: Naturally-sourced products and their containers in Greece and Rome (2017)
  72. The bravery and beauty within: Skeletal analysis of the ancient Chachapoya people at Kuelap (2015)
  73. BREACHING SPIRITUAL BORDERS: How Indigenous Religious Ontologies Colonized Christianity (2016)
  74. Bread (nut) Pit? Determining the function of San Bartolo chultúns (2016)
  75. Bread, Apples, and Cereal Grains: Analyzing a Collection of Carbonized Food from Robenhausen, Switzerland (2019)
  76. Bread, Beer, and Beef: Diet of Seventeenth-Century Harvard College (2023)
  77. Breadth of Fresh Air: A Continued Examination of the Reversed "Crab-Shell Dichotomy" in Grenada’s Pre-History (2018)
  78. Breaking and Making Identities: Transformations of Ceramic Repertoires in Early Colonial Hispaniola (2017)
  79. The Breaking and Making of Ceramics in the Pre-Columbian Caribbean: A Technological Approach to Grog Identification (2015)
  80. Breaking Down Boundaries through Collaborative Learning Communities: Integrating Outdoor Teaching into a Year One Introductory Archaeology Course (2024)
  81. Breaking Down the East-West Dichotomy: Toward an Understanding of Intercultural Interactions in the Saipurú Region under the Inkas (2015)
  82. Breaking New Ground: Archaeology of Domestic Life at the Weedon Island Site, Florida (2016)
  83. Breaking the Site Museum Mold: Designing the Dos Mangas Community Museum (2019)
  84. Breaking the untold rule: community archaeology a bond of people and information (2015)
  85. Breaking with Tradition: Late Formative Pukara in the Northern Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru (2016)
  86. Breaking with Tradition? Terminal Classic and Postclassic Developments Across the Guatemala – Belize Border (2019)
  87. Breastfeeding, weaning and childhood diet in cave and megalithic populations of Late Neolithic north-central Spain (2017)
  88. Breathless in the Underworld: The Effects of Low Oxygen, High Carbon Dioxide, and High Carbon Monoxide on Cave Ritual (2019)
  89. Breathtaking Landscapes, Big Questions, and Fabulous Feasts: Celebrating the Contributions of Dr. Charles Stanish (2023)
  90. Breckenridge Shelter, Arkansas and the Younger Dryas (2015)
  91. Brian Fagan, Climate Change and Us (2015)
  92. Bricks and Mortar: The Concealed Politicization of Fired Clay Adobe at Comalcalco, Tabasco (2018)
  93. Bridal Veil Lumbering Company: A Glimpse into an Intact Early Logging System in the Columbia River Gorge (2019)
  94. The Bridal Veil Lumbering Company: Indications of Advancing Technologies and Improved Residential Conditions at Camp A (2023)
  95. The Bridge River Dogs: A Comprehensive interpretation of aDNA and stable isotopes analysis obtained from dog remains (2016)
  96. Bridging Borders: Exploring Heritage Management Models in Mexico and the USA through a Conversation with Terry Majewksi (2024)
  97. Bridging the "Kansyore gap": Continuous Occupation and Changing Subsistence Strategies at Namundiri A, Eastern Uganda (2018)
  98. Bridging the Divide between Industry and Educators: Preparing Future Archaeologists (2024)
  99. Bridging the Divide: A Study of Fourteenth- to Eighteenth-Century Native Settlements in the Middle Chesapeake (2021)
  100. Bridging the Divides at Azoria: Environmental Archaeology at an Archaic Greek City (2018)