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 2,501-2,600 of 21,939)

  1. Bridging the Gap: Understanding the empty Medieval landscape of post-Roman Aquitaine (2015)
  2. Bridging the Gap: Bringing Archaeology into the Forensic Forum (2016)
  3. Bridging the Gap: Exploring Historical Human-Environment Dynamics within a Biodiversity Hotspot in the Gulf of Guinea (2024)
  4. Bridging the Gap: Spectral and Structural Analysis of Archaeological Settlement in El Zotz, Guatemala (2018)
  5. Bridging the Great Cultural Tourism Divide: Working with the Tourism Industry (2015)
  6. Bridging the Gulf: Reconnecting Belizeans to Their Pre-Colonial Heritage through Enhanced Archaeological Education (2024)
  7. Bridging the Long Tenth Century: From Villages to Great Houses in the Central Mesa Verde Region (2023)
  8. Bridging the Professional-Public Divide through Flood Recovery Compliance Archaeology at the University of Iowa (2015)
  9. Bridging Voices around a Circle of Dialogue between Tupi Guarani, Tuxa, and Eastern Pequot Peoples through an Activist and Social Latin American Archaeology (2024)
  10. A brief analysis of the evolution of bird design in ancient Chinese head-ware (2017)
  11. A Brief and True History of SAA's Involvement with NAGPRA (2016)
  12. A Brief History of Apache Occupation at Chiricahua National Monument (2019)
  13. A Brief History of Archaeology Studies in Maryland with Biographical Sketches of Notable Maryland Archaeologists and Avocational Archaeologists, 1870 to 2018 (2018)
  14. A Brief History of Mississippian Period Art Styles in the American Southeast (2021)
  15. A Brief Introduction to the Sonoran Desert Fish (2017)
  16. A Brief Review of the Work of Paul Goldberg in SW France (2015)
  17. Bright Light in the Big City: The Aztec New Fire Ceremony and the Drama of Darkness (2019)
  18. Bright Spots in a Drab Landscape: Color Use and Symbolism in the Jornada Region (2019)
  19. Bring on the Boreal: Site formation processes and archaeological interpretation in northern Alberta, Canada (2015)
  20. Bring Out Your Dead: Pondering Passenger Pigeons (and Projectile Points) While Building Digital Type Collections at the Virtual Curation Laboratory (2015)
  21. Bringing Archaeology to You: Insights from the Roving Exhibit and Archeology Laboratory (2023)
  22. Bringing Artifacts Home: The Opportunities and Challenges of Collaborative Interpretation (2024)
  23. Bringing the Creed to the Classroom: Assassin's Creed as a Pedagogical Tool (2024)
  24. Bringing the Landscape Home: The Materiality of Placemaking and Pilgrimage in Jornada Mogollon Settlement (2019)
  25. Bringing the Mountain to the Mara: The role of obsidian quarrying on Mt. Eburru in structuring early pastoralist socio-economic identities in southern Kenya. (2015)
  26. Bringing Together Accounts of the Pueblo of Pojoaque (2019)
  27. Bringing Two Halves Together: Combining Modern Phylogenetics and Zooarchaeological Analysis to Understand Past and Present Trends of Freshwater Mussels (Unionidae) in Mesoamerica (2018)
  28. Bringing Visitors to State Historic Sites: Remote Sensing and Hands-on Research (2015)
  29. British Era Trade in the Midwest (2016)
  30. British Iron Age settlement chronologies: a view from Danebury hillfort (2015)
  31. British Peasant Ideologies and Technological Approaches to Marginal Caribbean Landscapes (2017)
  32. "British", "Irish" and "Continentish": Practising Comparative in the Later Prehistory of North-Western Europe (2018)
  33. Broader Impact of Archaeological Science Methods in Forensic Science Investigations (2024)
  34. Broadscale Machine Learning Model for Archaeological Feature Detection in the Maya Area (2023)
  35. Broken and Crazed: Quantifying FCR Beyond the Descriptive (2023)
  36. Broken Bones: Taphonomy vs Cultural Modification in North and Central Texas (2018)
  37. Broken Edges: Investigating Jewelry Damage by Violence and Fatigue (2019)
  38. Broken Minarets and Lamassu: The Propogandization of Heritage on the Front Line of the War in Northern Iraq (2018)
  39. Broken Molds, Burned Wealth, and Scattered Monuments: Defining the Terminal Classic Period at Pacbitun (2018)
  40. Bronze Age Crucibles in China: A Unique Technological Tradition and its Cultural Implications (2019)
  41. Bronze Age Economic Transitions in Western Mongolia (2024)
  42. Bronze Age Economy and Rituals at Krasnosamarskoe in the Russian Steppes (2017)
  43. Bronze Age Mobility in Montane Ecosystems of eastern Kazakhstan: a preliminary isotopic investigation (2015)
  44. Bronze Age to Early Iron Age Pastoralist settlements in Xinjiang, China (2016)
  45. Bronze Age Transitions in Their Own Words: Central Asian Interfaces (2023)
  46. The “Bronze Age” of Southern Africa: Insights from Isotopes and Trace Elements (2023)
  47. The Bronze and Iron Age Sites Saridjar and Karim Berdy, Tajikistan (2017)
  48. Bronze and Iron Age Urban Ecology in the Galilee (2024)
  49. Bronzes, Mortuary Ritual and the Rise of Political Power in the NE Frontier of Ancient China: A case study of Upper Xiajiadian Burials (2019)
  50. Bronzeville’s Backyards: Red-Line Realities in a Vibrant Community (2021)
  51. Brother Bear: The Role of Ursus americanus in Cherokee Society (2017)
  52. Brothers of Invention: Comparing Trends in Innovation in the New World Formative (2016)
  53. Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park: Archaeological Investigations and Geophysical Survey (2024)
  54. Broxmouth biographies: Roundhouses as mnemonic devices in Iron Age Scotland (2015)
  55. Brushstrokes of the Past: Unraveling Pecos River Style Murals with Harris Matrix Composer (2024)
  56. The Bryant Site: Five Prehistoric Loci in the Esopus Creek Drainage (2018)
  57. Buck Lake, Archaeological Research, and Subsistence and Settlement Patterns at Mount Rainier National Park (2019)
  58. Buck-ing the Trend: surprising species identifications of archaeological bone points using ZooMS in deer-dominated faunal assemblages (2017)
  59. Buenos Aires Estuary Waterfront: The Zen City Wreck and Coastal Urban Archaeology (2024)
  60. The Buffalo Creek Site: Animal and Human Rock Art Diversity in Northern Wyoming (2023)
  61. The Buffalo Hill Quarries Site: Investigations of an Ancestral Maya Quarryscape in the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve, Belize (2024)
  62. 'Bugs in Eagle Cave, Lower Pecos Canyonlands, Texas'‏ (2015)
  63. The build environment on Late Postclassic terraces in Tlaxcallan (2016)
  64. Building a better eggtimer: Amino acid dating of ostrich eggshell from South Africa (2015)
  65. Building a Case for Resilience: A Call to Action (2024)
  66. Building a Community: Late Classic and Postclassic Residential Structures at Rio Amarillo, Copan, Honduras (2015)
  67. Building a Database to Understand the Architecture of Arctic Wooden House Remains (2018)
  68. Building a Deeper Understanding of the Archaeology of Food through Photographs and Critical Reflection (2024)
  69. Building a dendrochronology for the coast of Peru: high-precision 14C dating results from Chankillo, Casma (2016)
  70. Building a Façade: When Political Involvement Changes the Narrative, Fabric, and Value of Historic Sites (2019)
  71. Building a Frontier? Preliminary Investigations into a Late Preclassic Maya Triadic Temple Group (2019)
  72. Building a Global 14C Database (2017)
  73. Building a High-Resolution Chronology: A Case from the Maya Archaeological Site of El Palmar, Mexico (2018)
  74. Building a Long-Term Underwater Economy Advancing Technology, Ecology, and Cultural Resources (BLUE TEC) (2023)
  75. Building a Meaningful First Americans Radiocarbon Chronology (2015)
  76. Building a More Precise Understanding of the Past by Merging Techniques from Archaeology and Ancient DNA Analysis (2019)
  77. Building a Network: Territorialisation and Deterritorialisation in 13th Century northern South Africa (2017)
  78. Building a Novel Archaeobotanical Framework to Investigate the History of Plant Foods in Aboriginal Australia (2024)
  79. Building a Public Archaeology Effort Finding the Best Foundation Somewhere between Bedrock and Shifting Sands: Public Archaeology Efforts at Pandenarium (36ME253) (2018)
  80. Building a selection-based model to explain the spatial and temporal distribution of obsidian artifacts in the northern Great Basin (2024)
  81. Building a Statistical Model to Evaluate the Sexes of Ancient Greek Fingerprints (2018)
  82. Building a Stronger Network: assessing and reconfiguring a national archaeology curricula delivery program (2019)
  83. Building a Typology: The Formative Period Figurine Assemblage from Cahal Pech, Cayo, Belize (2016)
  84. Building a Virtual Bridge Connecting Indian Himalayan Archaeology with a Virginia University and the World (2017)
  85. Building Alliances, Return to Origins, and Monumental Failure: Huascar's Royal Estate at Kañaraqay and the Inca Civil War (1528–1532) (2023)
  86. Building an Archaeological Record of Over Three Centuries of Turtle Use Across the Chesapeake Bay Region (2024)
  87. Building an Empire: Spanish Colonial Encounters with Maya Houses and Housebuilding (2018)
  88. Building and Breaking Primordial Space at the Río Viejo Acropolis (2024)
  89. Building and Debating National Identity: Three Case Studies of the Ownership of Ancient Artifacts (2015)
  90. Building at Bac: Chronological Challenges in Conservation at Mission San Xavier (2017)
  91. Building Back Past Diné Communities: Ricos, Pobres, and Naat’aanii Status in Pericolonial New Mexico (2024)
  92. Building Below the Surface: Earth Moving and Caching at Cahokia’s CABB Tract (2017)
  93. Building Bridges: Federal, State, and Tribal Collaboration on the US 101 Elwha River Bridge Replacement Project, Washington State (2019)
  94. Building Bronze Age Populations of the South Caucasus: Preliminary Bioarchaeological Results from the Kasakh Valley Archaeological Survey (2019)
  95. Building Capacity and Communities of Practice in Digital Heritage and Archaeology (2019)
  96. Building Capacity: Educating and Training Submerged Terrestrial Archaeologists (2024)
  97. Building Charlieu: Chronology and Asset Flow over Time at Saint Fortunatus Monastery, 872-1120 C.E. (2016)
  98. Building Collapse: Hierarchy and an Anarchic Social Movement in the Hohokam Classic Period (2019)
  99. Building Community in the Northeast (2024)
  100. Building Community Ties Using Archaeology in Tlajinga, Teotihuacan (2019)