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. Changing Taste: An Investigation into the Importance of New York Coastal Marine Shells to Albany Foodways During the 19th century (2024)
  2. Changing Technologies, Changing Practices - The Transformation of the Çatalhöyük Research Database (2017)
  3. Changing the Picture – 1000 Hectare High Resolution Magnetometry on the Protected Zone of a World Heritage Site at Avebury, UK (2019)
  4. Changing Tides and Terrain: Dr. Mary Butler's Hudson Valley Archaeological Survey (2021)
  5. Changing tides, rising waters: wetland archaeology on Georgia’s lower coastal plain (2017)
  6. Changing Tides: Tribal Engagement in Oregon's Coastal Archaeology  (2019)
  7. Changing Times, Changing Ways? Evidence for Metallurgy at the Cividade de Bagunte (2018)
  8. Changing Urban Networks in Formative Central Mexico: A View from Tlalancaleca, Puebla (2018)
  9. The Changing Use of Space in Cahokia’s Urban Epicenter: Archaeological Investigations on the Merrell Tract (2011-2016) (2017)
  10. Changing weapons in a mutable landscape: exploring the relationship between Upper Paleolithic weaponry variability and drastic environmental changes in Western Europe (2016)
  11. Changing with the times: An exploration of shifting attitudes and funerary treatment of children from the Roman to early medieval period in Britain (2016)
  12. Chanka Demographics and Diet: A Case Study In Commingled Remains from the South-Central Peruvian Andes (2016)
  13. Chankillo as a Fortification and Post-Chavín Warfare in Casma, Peru (2021)
  14. The Chapultepec Castle Chimalli: A Habsburg-repatriated Mexica feline-hide shield (2015)
  15. The Character of Carbonized Rice in Hunan Archaeological Site (2018)
  16. Characterisation of charcoal assemblages from the ceremonial center of Tibes, Puerto Rico (2016)
  17. Characteristics of an Upland Cypro-PPNB Ground Stone Assemblage (2019)
  18. Characterization of a Multiple Burial context from Pachacamac, Peru: Complementarity between Bioarchaeology and Molecular Archaeology. (2024)
  19. A Characterization of Archaeological Sites in the State of São Paulo: Some Notes (2024)
  20. Characterization of ceramics of the Lima Culture – The Villa El Salvador site (2016)
  21. Characterization of Chupícuaro and Cuicuilco Ceramics Technical Traditions: Preliminary Results (2024)
  22. Characterization of early imperial lacquerware from the Luozhuang Han tomb, China (2017)
  23. Characterization of Local and Aztec Rule at Calixtlahuaca (2017)
  24. Characterization of Mendoza and Cortezo Pigments: Communities of Practice and Ceramic Production in Precolumbian Panama (AD 1300–1500) (2024)
  25. Characterization of Minerals on Hohokam Palettes (2017)
  26. Characterization of Neolithic Jade Objects from Shimao and Xinhua, Shaanxi Province, China, Using Handheld Portable Techniques (2017)
  27. Characterization of Plant Ash Morphology Using Scanning Electron Microscopy (2015)
  28. A Characterization of Site Formation Processes at FxJj34, Northen Kenya (2019)
  29. Characterization of the Binder Used for Late Intermediate Period Ica Painted Wooden Boards (2021)
  30. Characterization of the Cerro de Oro pottery style (2015)
  31. Characterization of the Mississippian Standard Jar (2015)
  32. A characterization study of some of the earliest ceramic building materials from sites in Rome and its surrounding area (2015)
  33. Characterization Using Raman Spectroscopy of Amazonite and Turquoise of Tomb II, Tingambato, Michoacán, México (2019)
  34. Characterizing Argentinian Quartzite and Polish 'Chocolate' Flint for Sourcing Studies (2019)
  35. Characterizing Colonowares from Three Sites in the Central Virginia Piedmont (2016)
  36. Characterizing Cut Marks: A Comparison of Cooper and Badger Hole Butchery Patterns (2016)
  37. Characterizing Eighteenth Century Technological Changes in Pawnee Pottery (2015)
  38. Characterizing Ephemeral Paleolithic Occupations at Arma Veirana (Liguria, Italy) (2017)
  39. Characterizing Hunter-Gatherer Ground Stone Bedrock Features in the Northeastern Chihuahuan Desert (2017)
  40. Characterizing Lithic Networks during the Archaic Period in the Lower Mississippi River Valley (2024)
  41. Characterizing Micaceous Vessels on the Central High Plains (2016)
  42. Characterizing Paleoindian Landscapes of Southeastern Utah (2019)
  43. Characterizing Pottery Fabrics Using Digital Image Analysis: An Investigation of the Socio-economy of the Late Postclassic Maya of Northern Yucatan (2019)
  44. Characterizing Purépecha Urbanism (2018)
  45. Characterizing Spatial Variability of Chert to Inform Sampling Strategies (2021)
  46. Characterizing the mortuary practices in Hualcayán, Ancash, Perú: Analysis of the content and distribution of artifacts in funerary contexts (2016)
  47. Characterizing the Relationship Between Two Early States of the Andes: The Moche, The Wari and the Product of their Contact. An Archaeological and Archaeometric Perspective (2015)
  48. Characterizing Weathered Protein Residues from an Intra-Annual Cooking Experiment: A Mass Spectrometry Approach (2015)
  49. CHARATERIZATION OF CERAMICS UNCOVERED IN THE PAROTA RIVER BASIN AND LAKE SIRAHUEN BASIN, MICHOACÁN, MEXICO: FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS IN ULTRA-VIOLET LIGHT AND PETROGRAPHY IN THIN SHEETS (2017)
  50. Charcoal analyses unraveling Cabeço da Amoreira Muge shell midden (Portugal) (2016)
  51. Charcoal Analysis to Reconstruct the Ancient Wood Economy of Naachtun (2016)
  52. Charcoal Identification as Means of Central California Landscape Reconstruction (2015)
  53. Charcoal, Pollen, and Statistics: Spatio-Temporal Occupation of the Black Rock Desert Basin (2021)
  54. Charismatic and Religious Aspects of Maya Rulership: An Interpretation of the Coronitas Temple Complex of La Corona (2018)
  55. Charki and Red Currant Jam: Provisioning Extractive Industries in Republican Highland Peru (2017)
  56. Charles Conrad Abbott and the Evolution of Humankind (2016)
  57. Charleston, South Carolina (USA): A Case Study in Using Fish as Evidence of Social Status (2016)
  58. Charmstones, Pendants, and other Special Objects from San Clemente Island, CA (2016)
  59. Charred Organic Matter in the Middle and Later Stone Record in South Africa: Exploring Multiple Anthropogenic Processes and Origins (2019)
  60. Charting Late Pleistocene Social Networking in Southern Africa Using Strontium Isotope Geochemistry (2019)
  61. Charting Long-Term Social Stability in the Tres Zapotes Region: Theory, Method, and Settlement Patterns (2017)
  62. Charting Science Communication with Geoarchaeology (2024)
  63. Chasing Red Herrings Down the Kelp Highway: Paleoindian Migration via the Pacific Coast is Unproven and Improbable (2018)
  64. Chasing the Cure: The Archaeology of Alternative Health Practices at a Tuberculosis Sanatorium (2018)
  65. Chasing Tlaloc and Dragonflies in the Mimbres Valley: An Analysis of Ceramic Distribution and Style (2017)
  66. Chasing Trail: Documentation and Management of Precontact Trails within Lake Mead NRA (2023)
  67. The Chatelaine, Gender, and Diagnostic Artifact Use (2024)
  68. The Chaupiyunga as an Eco-cultural Frontier: Inter-zonal exchange and negotiation in the Huanangue Valley during the Late Intermediate Period (1100-1470 CE) (2016)
  69. Chavín and Its Galleries: An Inside View of the Andean Formative Period (2024)
  70. Chavín de Huántar and the Chronology of the Andean Formative Period in Lima (2024)
  71. The Chaíne Opératoire of Late Archaic through Mesilla Phase Assemblages from the Placitas Arroyo Site Complex, Lower Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico (2019)
  72. Chaîne Opératoire in Jade Study (2019)
  73. The Chaîne Opératoire Meets Colonial Transformations: A GIS Network Analysis of Quicklime Production in the Colca Valley, Peru (2023)
  74. Chaîne Opératoires and Technical Identity in Aguada Portezuelo Pottery: an Approach through Ceramic Petrography (Catamarca, Argentina) (2019)
  75. Cheap Beer and Generic Weenies vs. Craft Brews and Artisan Sausages – The Archaeology of Tailgating at Penn State University (2018)
  76. Chemehuevi Sites in the Western Mojave Desert in the Late Nineteenth Century: Continuation of Desert Adaptations by Chemehuevi Migrants in the Ranching Era (2024)
  77. Chemical Analyses and Activity Areas at Cerro de en Medio: A Multidisciplinary Approach (2024)
  78. Chemical analyses and copy-errors: technological control and artistic behaviour in the making of China’s Terracotta Army (2015)
  79. Chemical Analyses at Hell Gap: Preliminary Results from Blood Residue and Stable Isotopes (2019)
  80. Chemical Analyses of Activity Areas at Cueva de las Varillas in Teotihuacan (2024)
  81. Chemical Analyses of Obsidian from Classic Maya Paynes Creek Salt Works, Belize (2019)
  82. Chemical Analysis of Chinese and other Lead Glass Beads from Songo Mnara, Tanzania (2015)
  83. Chemical Analysis of Fatty Acid Residues on Archaeological Pottery of Pastoralist Communities in Northern Tanzania (2016)
  84. Chemical and Mineralogical Characterization of Ceramic Traditions on the Precolonial Colombian Middle Orinoco Archaeological Sites (2024)
  85. Chemical and Radiocarbon Analyses of Paint Samples from Oxtotitlán (2016)
  86. Chemical and Standardization Analysis Results on Fremont Snake Valley Black-on-gray Pottery (2019)
  87. Chemical Characterization and Source Identification of Obsidian Projectile Points in the Southern Southwest (2017)
  88. Chemical Composition of Maya Slips: Analysis and Interpretation of Preclassic Sherds from Holtun, Guatemala Using pXRF Technology (2018)
  89. Chemical Diagenesis of Charcoal and Charred Organic Material in South African Middle Stone Age Rockshelter Sites (2019)
  90. Chemical Indices as a Key to Context: The Use of pXRF to Reassemble Maya Mural Fragments from San Bartolo, Guatemala (2019)
  91. Chemical Residue Analysis, Foodways, and Ceramic Consumption in Tlajinga, Teotihuacan (2023)
  92. Chemical residue and microbotanical analyses in the Royal Kitchen at Kabah, Yucatan. (2015)
  93. Chemical Residues Analysis and Infrared Spectroscopy to Determine a Kiln´s Function from a Henequen Hacienda in Yucatan, Mexico (2017)
  94. Chemical residues as anthropic activity markers. Food production and consumption (2015)
  95. Chemical residues in ceramic household containers of Santa Cruz Atizapan site in the valley of Toluca, Mexico (2017)
  96. Chemostratigraphic Analysis of Alluvial Sediments in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (2017)
  97. Cheng and the Question of Large Walled Settlements in Neolithic China (2024)
  98. Chengdu Plain Archaeological Survey Culture Distributions: Integration and Interpretation of the CPAS Data (2023)
  99. Chenopod data in two countries of South America: Advances in knowledge about the use of Chenopodium in Argentina and Chile from Early Holocene (9000-11000 BP) to Historical Times (250 BP). (2017)
  100. Cherokee Participation in the Southern Slave Society (2017)