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. Ceramic Paste Distribution and Market Exchange in the Tlacolula Valley, Oaxaca, Mexico. (2015)
  2. Ceramic Paste Technologies at Cerro San Isidro, Nepeña Valley, Peru (ca. 500 BCE–1470 CE) (2024)
  3. Ceramic Pastes: Refining Epiclassic and Early Postclassic Basin of Mexico Typologies and Interactions Close to Home (2024)
  4. Ceramic Petrographers in the Americas: An Introduction to our Mission and Goals (2018)
  5. Ceramic Petrography and Early Intermediate Period Interaction in the Moche Valley, Peru: Current Understanding and Future Research (2015)
  6. Ceramic Petrography and Woodland Period Social Interactions in Florida and the Southeastern United States (2015)
  7. Ceramic Petrography as a Service for CRM Firms and Beyond (2019)
  8. Ceramic Petrography of Woodland Period Swift Creek Complicated Stamped Pottery in Florida and the Lower Southeastern United States (2018)
  9. Ceramic petrography, historical linguistics and the Bantu expansion: tracking the arrival of the first pottery-using peoples in northern Botswana (2015)
  10. Ceramic Production and Community Formation in the Middle Little Colorado River Valley, Northern Arizona (2017)
  11. Ceramic Production and Distribution in Classic Period Monte Albán, El Trapiche and Lambityeco (2015)
  12. Ceramic Production and Exchange among the Virgin Anasazi, 30 Years Later (2018)
  13. Ceramic Production at the Stone-Walled Citadel of Shimao: Initial Results of Petrographic Analysis (2021)
  14. Ceramic Production during the Terminal Classic at Holtun, Guatemala (2021)
  15. Ceramic production for Castillo de Huarmey, Peru: multiple productions and buzzing potters (2017)
  16. Ceramic Production in Epiclassic Central Mexico: Strategies for Assessing Regional Variation with INAA, Paste Recipes, and Stylistic Choices (2023)
  17. Ceramic Production in Postclassic West Mexico (2023)
  18. Ceramic Production in the Colonial Moquegua Valley (2016)
  19. Ceramic Production, Supply, and Exchange in the San Francisco Presidio Jurisdiction (2015)
  20. Ceramic Resource Selection and Social Violence in the Gallina Area of the American Southwest (2019)
  21. Ceramic Sociology Revisited: Ceramic Design Analysis in the Sand Canyon Locality (2017)
  22. Ceramic Technological and Stylistic Boundaries on the Indus Frontier of Gujarat (2018)
  23. Ceramic Technological Trends in the Three Rivers Region: A Late Classic Maya Overview (2019)
  24. Ceramic Technologies and Technologies of Remembrance - an Iroquoian Case Study (2017)
  25. Ceramic Technology beyond the Rim: Reconstructing (and Firing) a Late Neolithic Chinese Kiln (2023)
  26. Ceramic Use and Production at Iron Age Bashtepe, Uzbekistan: A Preliminary Petrographic Study (2023)
  27. Ceramic variability and social interaction in the Middle Orinoco: On multi ethnic communities and ceramic traditions in the Late occupation period (500-1500 AD) (2017)
  28. Ceramic Variability at Alkali Ridge Site 13 (2024)
  29. Ceramic Variability in the Ocmulgee River Big Bend Region of Georgia, Post 1540 (2015)
  30. Ceramic variation and ritual behavior at Altar de Sacrificios, Petén, Guatemala (2017)
  31. Ceramic Variation between Two Caribbean Islands (2019)
  32. Ceramic ware as an expression of art, ritual, and cultural identity: The case of the Cerro de Oro bowl (2016)
  33. Ceramic, Lithic, and Settlement Variability of the Incipient Jomon Sites on Tanegashima Island, Japan (2019)
  34. The Ceramics and Chronology of the Ucareo-Zinapécuaro Obsidian Source Area, Michoacán, Mexico (2018)
  35. Ceramics and Community: A Yucuita Phase Ceramic Cache at Etlatongo (2018)
  36. Ceramics and Political Dynamics of the Manteño Culture on the Coast of Manabí, Ecuador (2024)
  37. Ceramics and Polity at Motul de San José and its Periphery (2017)
  38. Ceramics and Social Identity at RAR-2: A Pueblo III period site near Winslow, Arizona. (2015)
  39. Ceramics and Social Process at Holtun, Guatemala (2024)
  40. Ceramics and Society within the Late Classic Motul de San José Polity: A Multidisciplinary Perspective (2017)
  41. Ceramics and the Indigenous Histories of Southeastern Amazonia (2016)
  42. Ceramics Crossing Temporal and Cultural Boundaries in the Moquegua Valley (2023)
  43. Ceramics from a Presidio: Preliminary Results from Presidio San Carlos, Chihuahua (2021)
  44. Ceramics from Q’umarkaj: Heritage Collection and Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (2019)
  45. Ceramics from Zorropata, a Middle Horizon Las Trancas Habitation Site in Nasca, Peru (2023)
  46. Ceramics Inside and Out: Food, Style, and Identity in Coastal Northeastern Honduras during the Selin Period (AD 300–1000) (2018)
  47. The Ceramics of Balis: Toward the Recovery of Lost Heritage (2021)
  48. The Ceramics of Cihuatan, El Salvador: Between Two Worlds (2024)
  49. Ceramics of La Florida-Namaan: a Preliminary Report (2017)
  50. The Ceramics of San Antonio, a Site on the Pacific Coastal Plain of Chinandega, Nicaragua (2016)
  51. Ceramics of Sterling Site and Cultural Interaction along the Middle San Juan River, New Mexico (2019)
  52. The Ceramics of the El Mirador Region: An Update (2015)
  53. Ceramics of the Middle Usumacinta Region: Relationships over Time (2024)
  54. Ceramics production and trade across the Great Hungarian Plain: Chemical analysis of Bronze Age ceramics from Békés 103 in Eastern Hungary (2016)
  55. Ceramics production and trade in Western Anatolia: A reexamination of the ceramic mould-making process at Seyitömer Höyük in Kütahya, Turkey (2017)
  56. Ceramics provenience: chemical analysis of ceramics and clays in Eastern Hungary via LA-ICP-MS (2017)
  57. Ceramics, Categorical Identification, and the Changing Social Structure of the Spanish American Colonies (2021)
  58. Ceramics, Ground Stone and Miscellanea at the Zaragoza-Oyameles Obsidian Quarry in Puebla, Mexico (2018)
  59. Ceramics, Migrations and Ethnic Identity at the site of Cosmapa Oriental, Department of Chinandega, Nicaragua (2016)
  60. Cereal cultivation shift during Qijia culture period in Gansu and Qinghai Province, NW China: Archaeobotanic evidence (2015)
  61. Cereals and agricultural risk management in northern Sudan, past and present (2016)
  62. Cereals and Ceramics: Another Look at the Late Neolithic Development of the Butana Group in Eastern Sudan during the 4th Millennium BC (2016)
  63. Cereals in Southeast Asian Prehistory (2017)
  64. Ceremonial and Psychotropic Plants of the Tiwanaku (AD 500-1000): New Evidence for Erythroxylum Coca and Anadenanthera Colubrina from the Omo Temple in Moquegua, Peru. (2017)
  65. Ceremonial Artifact Breakage in the Archaic Period of Eastern North America (2017)
  66. Ceremonial Center and Domestic Rituals: The Case of Campanayuq Rumi, South-Central Highlands of Peru (2016)
  67. Ceremonial Depictions of Bighorn Sheep Anthropomorphs in the Jornada Mogollon Region (2019)
  68. Ceremonial Practices, Feasts, and Persistent Places: A Ritually Mounded Landscape Constructed by Hunter-gatherers in Southern California (2017)
  69. Ceremonial Spaces and Public Events at the Preclassic Maya Centers of Ceibal, Guatemala, and Aguada Fénix, Mexico (2023)
  70. Ceremonial Waterscapes: The Desaguadero River Valley in Antiquity (2018)
  71. Ceremonially and Ritually Associated Archaeofaunal Remains from Two Sites Near Wide Ruins, Arizona (2015)
  72. The Cerrito Site Monitoring Study: Adaptive Management of Recreation within a Significant Archaeological Site (2019)
  73. Cerro Coroban: A Contact Period Lenca Site in Eastern El Salvador (2021)
  74. Cerro Cumbray: A Chimu Frontier Outpost (2019)
  75. Cerro de En medio, a Hidden Epiclassic Site in the Northern Frontier of Mesoamerica (2019)
  76. Cerro de las Mesas Monument 2 (2021)
  77. Cerro de Oro and the Year A.D. 600: Changing Settlement Patterns in the Lower Cañete Valley (2017)
  78. Cerro de Oro Funerary Practices: Continuity and Change in two funerary bundles from the south coast of Peru (2016)
  79. Cerro Jazmin and its changing regional context: building upon regional survey data (2015)
  80. Cerro Jazmín and its urbanism in context (2016)
  81. Cerro Magoni: A Link Between Epiclassic Tula and the Bajío? (2015)
  82. Cerro Malabrigo y el Resurgimiento de la Monumentalidad Prehispánica en Chicama, Costa Norte del Perú (2024)
  83. Cerro Mejía: A Wari Community Divided? (2018)
  84. Cerros, Keros, Cuerpos, y Mas! 37 Years of Programa Contisuyo Research in Southern Peru (2019)
  85. Certainty about Uncertainty: Lessons Learned from Modeling Human Land Use and Decision Making (2018)
  86. CERÁMICA ATOYAC INCISO DE LA CUENCA DE SAYULA, JALISCO. APROXIMACIONES A SU ICONOGRAFÍA (2016)
  87. Cerámica mayólica en un sitio posclásico del Valle intermontano de Maltrata, Veracruz (2017)
  88. Cetacean Exploitation in the Medieval London (2017)
  89. Cetacean Hunting on the northern Oregon Coast: Evidence from the Par-Tee Site (35CLT20) (2017)
  90. The Ch'ulel of Architecture of Power: Preclassic Ritual Behavior in the Northern Maya Lowlands (2018)
  91. Chachapoya domestic architecture: identity and interaction within, across, and beyond regional boundaries (2015)
  92. Chacmool or Not Chacmool? Was a Mesoamerican Monumental Stone Sculptural Tradition Adopted in Eastern Costa Rica? (2018)
  93. Chaco and Hopewell: Redefining Interaction Spheres through Multiscalar Network Approaches (2016)
  94. Chaco Canyon: Dispersed Settlement, Dialectical Tension, and the Rise of an Ancient Polity in the Southwest U.S. (2017)
  95. Chaco Connections to Mesa Verde: An Engagement with Interregional Landscape Relationships (2018)
  96. Chaco Legacy Studies: Archival Research, Archeomagnetic Dating, and the Role of Turkeys (2015)
  97. Chacoan Complexities (2019)
  98. Chacoan Heights at Aztec Ruins (2016)
  99. Chacoan Outlier Depopulation and 12th Century Arroyo Cutting near Zuni Salt Lake, New Mexico (2018)
  100. Chacoan Roads and Landscape Archaeology in the Eastern Red Mesa Valley, New Mexico (2024)