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. Cherokee-Spanish Interactions in the Middle Nolichucky Valley, Tennessee, Revealed by Geophysics and Targeted Excavations (2018)
  2. Chert at Chalcatzingo: Implications of Knapping Strategies and Technological Organization for Formative Economics (2015)
  3. Chert Characterization and Provenance in the mid-Fraser Region of British Columbia (2015)
  4. Chert Extraction and Production in Resource-Rich Regions: Chert Economies among the Late Classic Maya of Western Belize (2018)
  5. Chert Tools from the Ta’ab Nuk Na Salt Works (2024)
  6. Chert vs quartzite edge reduction using a mechanical device and its relevance to lithic raw material variability, selection and use (2017)
  7. A Chesapeake Bay Paleoindian Legacy: Marine Transgression, Shoreline Erosion, and Archaeology (2018)
  8. Cheval Bonnet: A Crow Calling Card in Blackfeet Country (2017)
  9. Chiapa de Corzo: rutas de intercambio e interacción cultural entre las regiones zoque y maya (2018)
  10. Chiasin (The Big Rock): Mementos of Identity (2018)
  11. Chibariyo! Navigating Cultural Resources Compliance on U.S. Military Installations in Japan (2016)
  12. Chibchan Enlightenment (2024)
  13. The Chicama Valley Archaeological Project (1989-2000) Revisited (2017)
  14. The Chicama Valley in Time and Space (2017)
  15. Chicanx in the Wilderness: Tree Graffiti and Perceptions of People and Place (2019)
  16. Chicanxperimental Archaeology: Inclusion and Inclusions in the Experimental Construction of Earthen Ovens (2019)
  17. Chicasa and Soto: Toward a Continuum of Disentanglement (2019)
  18. Chichen Itza 3D Atlas (2024)
  19. Chichen Itza and the Early Postclassic International Style (2018)
  20. Chichicaste Ceramics and Regional Interactions in Eastern Honduras (2016)
  21. Chichén Itzá and its maritime ports during the Terminal Classic period (2015)
  22. Chickasaw Pottery Vessel Form and Function in the Early Historic Period (2019)
  23. Chickasaws and Presbyterians: What Did It Mean To Be Civilized? (2019)
  24. Chicle and the San Pedro Maya of British Honduras (2023)
  25. Chiefs’ Regalia and Recognition: An Unusual Example of Heritage Values and Political Agendas in Zimbabwe (2016)
  26. Chien Opératoire: Dogs as Technological Systems in the Northern Great Plains (2017)
  27. Chijipata Alta: Tracing A Genealogy of Potting Practice in the Lake Titicaca Basin (2015)
  28. Child Burials and Figurines at a Terminal Classic Maya Household, Ceibal, Guatemala (2017)
  29. Child Disability and Prostheses in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2018)
  30. Childhood and Adulthood Mobility at Medieval (1240s AD) Solt-Tételhegy, Hungary Reconstructed from Stable Oxygen Isotope Analysis (2016)
  31. Childhood Diet and Foraging in Prehistoric Central California (2015)
  32. Childhood Diet, Mobility, and Weaning in the Early Medieval Kingdom of Lindissi (2024)
  33. Childhood Diets and Residential Mobility in the Late Intermediate Period, Colca Valley, Peru: A Study of Carbon and Oxygen Isotope Ratios from Dental Apatite (2017)
  34. Childhood in the Wari World: A Bioarchaeological Investigation of Dietary Patterns in a Middle Horizon (600–1000 CE) Community (2024)
  35. Childness, Humanness, and Violence among the Precolonial Maya (2024)
  36. Children and the ceramic industry in medieval England (2016)
  37. Children as social actors within the domestic group at Monte Albán, Oaxaca. Mexico (2015)
  38. Children at the Heart of Buen Suceso (2023)
  39. "Children Cry For It!" An Artifact-Centered Study of Children's Health (2024)
  40. "Children in a ragged state": Seeking a bioarchaeological narrative of childhood in Ireland during the Great Famine (1845–52) (2016)
  41. Children of Casas Grandes: A Molecular Examination of Subadults at Convento and Paquimé (2023)
  42. Children of Casas Grandes: An Osteological Examination of Subadults at Convento and Paquimé (2024)
  43. Children of Privilege: Infant Mortuary Practices at Late Postclassical Tamtoc Society (2019)
  44. Children of the Atacama Desert: The complex interactions between breastfeeding, weaning and environmental stress in one of the world’s harshest environments. (2017)
  45. The Children of the Fire (2024)
  46. Children of the Gilded Age: Juvenile Age Estimation and Fertility Approximation for the Bethel Cemetery (2023)
  47. Children of the Revolution: the rise of rickets in urban societies in 19th-century England (2016)
  48. Children's Health in Archaic Texas: A Paleopathological Analysis of Juvenile Remains (2017)
  49. Child’s Play? Exploring Archaeological Evidence for Care-Giving in the 19th and 20th Centuries (2018)
  50. "The Chilly Climate Is Not Warming as the Old Guys Leave": Identity-Based Discrimination in Archaeology, an Example from Canada (2019)
  51. A Chimera Spider at Play: Making, Creativity and Collaboration in Digital Archaeology (2015)
  52. Chimney Rock Ethnographic Partnership (2016)
  53. Chimney Rock: an Analysis of Landscape using Terrestrial LiDAR (2017)
  54. Chimú Conquest and Administration at Talambo, Jequetepeque, Perú (2016)
  55. Chimú-Era (AD 1000–1450) Child Sacrifices from Pampa la Cruz-Monticulo 1, Episode 3, and Pampa la Cruz-Monticulo 2: Biodistance Comparisions with Other Chimú Sacrifices and Regional Skeletal Populations (2024)
  56. Chimú-Inka Ceramics: Quantifying differences between Colonial forms and their influences (2015)
  57. Chincha Farmers: Understanding Inca expansion, strategies, and motivations at Las Huacas, Chincha Valley (2016)
  58. Chincha Mercantilism: A Preliminary Investigation into Chincha Valley Economic Organization during the Late Intermediate Period and Late Horizon (2019)
  59. The Chincha Valley, Peru: Analyzing Its Settlement Patterns and Urban Centers (2019)
  60. Chincha-Inka Joint Rule: Exploring the Role of Local Elites in the Transformations of Complex N1 at Las Huacas (2021)
  61. Chincha-Inka Mortuary Traditions at Jahuay, Quebrada de Topará (2019)
  62. Chinese Mining in the Snake River Canyon of Southern Idaho (2024)
  63. Chinese Railroad Workers in Wyoming and Mongolia, 1890-1955 (2015)
  64. The Chinese Trade Diasporas in Spanish Manila (2016)
  65. Chinigchinich Ritual Practice among the Tongva: Exploring Patterns of Colonial Consumption and Revitalization (2017)
  66. Chinina, Panama. First evidence of pre-hispanic raised fields in Central America (2015)
  67. The Chip-a-Canoe Project: Stone Tools, 40 Volunteers, Over 400 Hours of Labor . . . and It Floats! (2024)
  68. Chipped Stone and Hot Rock Technology: A Late Archaic Example from the Upper Great Lakes (2016)
  69. Chipped Stone Production, Scavenging, and Trade in Spanish Colonial New Mexico: New Evidence From San Antonio del Embudo (2024)
  70. Chipped Stone Results from Four Lowland Virgin Branch Puebloan Sites (2016)
  71. Chipped Tool Production and Exchange in Late Postclassic Tlaxcallan: Integrating Specialized Production with the Political Economy of a Collective State (2017)
  72. Chipping Away through Space and Time: A Macroevolutionary Approach to Household Spatial Organization (2018)
  73. The Chiquihuite Cave in Zacatecas, Mexico: Cultural Components, Lithic Industry and the Role of This Pleistocene Site in the Peopling of America (2018)
  74. Chirping Birds, Barking Dogs, and Singing Men: Ancient Ceramic Effigy Vessel Flutes from Tala, Jalisco, West Mexico (2017)
  75. The Chitimacha Migration to the Eastern Atchafalaya Basin (2024)
  76. Chitons and Clams, Cash and Carry: an archaeological exploration of the impact of enslaved children’s foraging strategies on 18th-century enslaved households in Jamaica (2016)
  77. Chochkitam: A Classic Maya Kingdom on the Kaanu’l Path to Tikal—An Update (2023)
  78. The Chocholá Style: Expanding the Corpus, Part 2 (2023)
  79. Chocolate, Manioc, and Maize: Kante’t’u’ul and Chachaklu’um in Motul de San José’s Realm (2021)
  80. Cholla Bud Roasting in St. George, Utah during the Early Pueblo II Period (2019)
  81. The Chonos archipelago: from hunting-gathering to industrial productivity in the western Patagonian channels (43°50’ - 46°50’ S), Chile. (2017)
  82. Choose Your Weapon: Material Selection for Middle Pleistocene Spears (2024)
  83. Choosing Building Materials: Multi-scalar Construction of Identities and Heritage Following Disaster (2018)
  84. Choosing Nomadism: On Northern Tiwa Flights to the Southern Plains (2017)
  85. Chornancap: Palacio y Mausoleo de la Gobernante y de la Cultura Lambayeque, Perú (2018)
  86. Christian Life in Medieval Nubia at el-Kurru, Sudan (2017)
  87. Chronic Care in the Archaic Midwest: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Healthcare Provisioning and Chronic Illness at Carrier Mills, IL (6000–3000 BC) (2021)
  88. A Chronological and Functional Analysis of Pottery from the HO-Bar Site: A Mogollon Early Pithouse Period Site in West-Central New Mexico (2015)
  89. The Chronological and Liturgical Context of Charnel Practice in Medieval England: Manipulations of the Skeletonized Body at Rothwell Charnel Chapel, Northamptonshire (2017)
  90. The Chronological Ceramic Sequence of Naranjo, Guatemala: A Revision and Relationship to Kaminaljuyu (2015)
  91. Chronological Changes in Pottery Production in the Phoenix Basin: Evidence from La Villa (2015)
  92. Chronological Composition Variation of White Glass Beads from Plains and Midwest Sites (2019)
  93. Chronological Evidence of Material and Landscape Changes Associated with a Shift in Colonial Control at the Morne Patate Plantation, Dominica (2017)
  94. Chronological Investigations at Coastal Shell Mounds, Southeastern Brazil (2018)
  95. Chronological Modeling of Early Settlement on Yap, Western Micronesia (2021)
  96. A Chronological Multisite Analysis of Shellfish Gathering Strategies in the King Range National Conservation Area, Northwest California (2023)
  97. Chronological Perspectives on the Spread of Agriculture in Southeastern Europe (2021)
  98. Chronologies of Paleoindian Site Distributions and Raw Material Use in Indiana: An Analysis of State-level Data (2018)
  99. Chronology and Social Process in Bronze Age Spain (2017)
  100. Chronology of a Fortified Mississippian Village in the Central Illinois River Valley (2019)