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)

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  1. Building Community: The Heuneburg Hillfort as Monument and Metaphor (2015)
  2. Building control: architecture and the regimentation of daily life in eighteenth century Santa Cruz de Lancha, Peru (2015)
  3. Building Expectations to understand the Evolutionary Significance of Archaeological Assemblages (2019)
  4. Building Histories of Territory Formation: The Case of Southern Jê Expansion, Santa Catarina, Brazil (2019)
  5. Building Island Futures with Heritage-Based Tools: Archival Records from Inishark and Inishbofin, Co. Galway, Ireland (2024)
  6. Building Islands on the Northwest Coast: Intertwined Histories of Cultural and Geomorphological Landform Development at Garden Island, Prince Rupert Harbour, Canada (2023)
  7. Building Nature: An Analysis of Landscape Modifications in the Classic Period Maya Polity of Pacbitun, Cayo District, Belize. (2016)
  8. Building Nearest Neighbor Models of Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems Using Four Case Studies for the Northwest Coast of North America (2019)
  9. Building on an Archaeological Record: Preliminary Results of the Three-year Petrified Forest Boundary Expansion Survey (2017)
  10. Building on Basso: Ndee Place-Making as Cultural Persistence and Survivance (2024)
  11. Building on the Vertebrate Data: Invertebrate Analysis Offers New Insights on Southeast Coastal Subsistence-Settlement Systems (2016)
  12. Building Power: The Teotepec Palace as Materialized Ideology (2016)
  13. Building Relationships and Sharing Information: A Gathering of the Midwest NAGPRA Community (2024)
  14. Building resilience and sustainability through collaboration and community research (2015)
  15. Building Resilience with Traditional Knowledge in Samoa (2024)
  16. Building Resilient Cultural Resource Programs with Tribal Partners: A Department of Defense (DoD) Perspective (2023)
  17. Building Scholars and Communities of Practice in Digital Heritage and Archaeology (2017)
  18. Building Social Complexity: Differences in Bedrock Use at Early Formative Etlatongo in the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca (2019)
  19. Building Societies of Knowledge (2018)
  20. Building Statehood: Wari Architecture and Colonial Strategies in Cajamarca (2018)
  21. Building the Dawnland: Toward an Architectural History of Hunter-Gatherers on the Maritime Peninsula (2021)
  22. Building the Middle-Ground Archive: A Resource for Navigating Burial Laws, Regulations, and Guidance (2021)
  23. Building the Wall: Excavations of Cahokia's East Palisade (2017)
  24. Building Village Communities: Early Fort Ancient Villages in the Ohio Valley (2018)
  25. Building, Burying, Tearing Down: The Role of Destruction in Mississippian Mound Building (2019)
  26. Buildings from the Ground Up: Early Maya Architectural and Settlement Practices at the Belize Valley Site of Pacbitun, Belize (2018)
  27. Built Environments in the Middle and Early Upper Paleolithic (2019)
  28. Built Environments of Epipalaeolithic Southwest Asia: A Life History of Place (2019)
  29. Built on Sand: The Historical Roots of Modern Queerphobia within Christianity (2017)
  30. Built to Last: The Paleoindian Database of the Americas (PIDBA) and Openly-shared Primary Data Meet the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) (2015)
  31. Bull Creek: A Paleoindian Camp in the Oklahoma Panhandle (2017)
  32. Bundled Time: An Analysis of an Intrasite Sac-Be Assemblage at Punta Laguna, Yucatan, Mexico (2023)
  33. Bundled Transfers and Water Shrines:the big-historical implications of a pan-American phenomenon (2017)
  34. Bundles and Bloodletting: An Analysis of Women's Ceremonial Roles in Classic Maya Art (2019)
  35. "Bundling the sticks": tallies in Classic Maya inscriptions (2016)
  36. Bunny Or Bison: A Comparative Study of Faunal Material in the Casas Grandes World (2015)
  37. "A burden of one’s own choice is not felt": observing ceramic production technology, exchange and consumption in the Late Mycenaean Saronic Gulf. (2015)
  38. Bureaucratic Reforms on the Frontier: Zooarchaeological and Historical Perspectives on the 1767 Jesuit Expulsion in the Pimeria Alta (2017)
  39. The Burgess-Williams Site: An Early Euro-American Settlement on Grand Island (2019)
  40. Burial and kinship during the St. Johns: A Bioarchaeological study of the Ross Hammock site (2016)
  41. Burial and social organization in Italian Iron Age necropoleis: Testing a biodistance approach (2015)
  42. The Burial Artifacts of Epiclassic Los Mogotes, Basin of Mexico (2019)
  43. Burial at the Black Friary in Trim, Ireland: 700 Years of Friary-Town Relations (2019)
  44. Burial Distribution as a Reflection of Social Organization in Late Postclassic Tlaxcallan (2016)
  45. Burial Diversity at the Angel Site: How Many People and How Many Ways? (2016)
  46. Burial Garments of a Chimu Child Sacrifice from Pampa La Cruz, Huanchaco, Peru (2018)
  47. The Burial Ground at Otstonwakin: Native American Mortuary Practices in 18th Century Pennsylvania (2018)
  48. A Burial in the Bay: Evidence for Environment and Diet 7500 Years Ago (2015)
  49. Burial Mound as Palimpsest (2015)
  50. Burial Plots: Finding Theatre in the Thanatology of Colonial North Coast Peru. (2018)
  51. Burial Practices of the Teuchitlán Tradition and Changes Through Time: A taphonomic Approach (2016)
  52. Burial treatment in the area of La Noria, Tamtoc, SLP, Mexico (2015)
  53. Burials and Society at Teotihuacan: Examining Inequality Through Burial Offerings in Residential Contexts (2021)
  54. The burials of Tibes, reconsidered (2016)
  55. Buried Archaeological Sensitivity Modeling in the Pacific Northwest (2017)
  56. Buried in the Sand: Investigations at Ucheliungs Cave, Palau, Micronesia (2017)
  57. Buried Landscapes: GIS 3D Modeling of Geoarchaeological Data (2019)
  58. Buried Lives: An Archaeological Investigation of a Louisiana Plantation Midden (2024)
  59. Buried Middle Archaic Period Occupations on the James River at 39BE122 (2015)
  60. Buried Museum Textiles from the Prehistoric Americas (2016)
  61. Buried Sites in the Chincha Valley Floodplain (2019)
  62. Buried Soils and Human-Environment Interactions within the Three Rivers Region of Northwest Belize (2023)
  63. Burned Earth Without Cooking Stones- Cultural or Natural? Feature Deposition, Ethnobotany, and Analysis in Upland Puget Sound, Western Washington (2017)
  64. Burning as Ritual in the Jornada Mogollon (2015)
  65. Burning Down the House: A Project that Is an Intersection of Tribal and Academic Interests (2021)
  66. Burning Down the House: Evidence for Controlled and Uncontrolled Structure Fires among the Late Woodland and Mississippian Settlements at the Orendorf Site in Fulton County, Illinois (2018)
  67. Burning Forests of the Past in Eastern Tigrai (2017)
  68. Burning Libraries and Drowning Archives: Shell Middens on the Maine Coast (2018)
  69. Burning questions about preservation: an investigation of cremated bone crystallinity in a Bronze Age cemetery (2017)
  70. Burning Questions: An Anthracological Approach to Culture, Ecology, and Imperial Expansion at Angkor, Cambodia (2017)
  71. Burning Questions: The Ogata Archaeological Site and Kofun Period Ironworking (2024)
  72. Burning the House: The Importance of Excavation Methods in the Study of Space and Place in the Neolithic Household. A Case Study from Neolithic Bulgaria (6500–600 BC) (2018)
  73. Burning the Record in Order to Save It: Cultural Fire as Archaeological Survey Method (2024)
  74. Burning Water: Time and Creation in the Rock Art of the Lower Pecos (2017)
  75. Burt Lime Production in the Eastern Puuc Region (2024)
  76. Bury Me with Beads (2019)
  77. The Business of 'Becoming': Community Formation and Greek Colonization in the Northwestern Mediterranean (2017)
  78. But Did They Eat Their Greens? Evidence of Plants in the Pottery of Northern Plains Bison Hunters and their Neighbors (2017)
  79. "But We Are Not Broken": Practices of Home in San Francisco Bay Area Homeless Encampments (2019)
  80. The Butana Group in Comparison with the Predynastic and Late Neolithic Groups in the Nile Valley and Adjacent Areas of the Sahel and Sahara: A Look at How Ceramics Can be Used to Differentiate Socioeconomic, Ethnic, and Political Differences (2015)
  81. BUTCHERING PATTERNS & SEASONALITY OF THE CERTAIN SITE, WESTERN OKLAHOMA (2016)
  82. The Butchering Patterns Present at the Bull Creek Camp: A Late Paleoindian Site in Oklahoma (2018)
  83. Butchering practices at the Vore Buffalo Jump (48CK302): investigating organization with the nearest neighbor test (2017)
  84. Butterfly Imagery among the Classic Period Zapotecs of the Valley of Oaxaca (2017)
  85. The Butterfly-Solar Complex in West Mexico: Information Transmittal and Design Structure (2017)
  86. The Buttermilk Creek Ranch Sites 41BL1431 and 41WM1498: Examining Land-Use at Two Prehistoric Lithic Resource Areas in Bell and Williamson Counties, Texas (2024)
  87. Buy One, Get One: The Legal and Sociocultural Context of “Gifting” within the Australian Human Remains Trade (2024)
  88. Buying Into It: A Study of Economic Engagement on the Eastern Pequot Reservation (2019)
  89. "By all means let us complete the exercise ": the 50 year search for Lapita on Aneityum, southern Vanuatu comes to a conclusion. (2015)
  90. By the Sea Shore: Examining the Prehistoric Shell Industry of the Rio Grande Delta (2019)
  91. By the seaside: The role of marine resources in northern Spain from the late Palaeolithic to the Neolithic (2015)
  92. By Themselves They Celebrated His Feast Day: Regional Variation in Postclassic Central Mexican Domestic Ritual (2016)
  93. Bye Bye Bye: Vanishing Shorelines and Cultural Resource Management along the Oregon Coast (2023)
  94. Byzantine Archaeologies (2016)
  95. CA-ALA-11: A Middle Period Site and Cemetery on the Oakland Estuary (2023)
  96. Cabaceira Pequena Archaeological Site: Initial Data and Interpretations (2021)
  97. Cabuza y Maytas (Norte de Chile): ¿Tiwanaku, Post-Tiwanaku o No-Tiwanaku en Arica? (2015)
  98. Cacaxtla en el devenir histórico mesoamericano: una propuesta desde sus expresiones plásticas. (2016)
  99. Cache and Trash: Variability in Storage Pits found at the Bridge River Site, Middle Fraser B.C. (2016)
  100. Cache Cave in Context: 3D Scanning Complex Cave Environments for Mapping and In-Situ Documentation of Artifacts (2015)