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 3,401-3,500 of 21,939)

  1. Chronology of Ahmarian and Levantine Aurignacian occupations of Manot Cave, Israel (2015)
  2. The Chronology of Ancient Maya Cave Use in Belize (2016)
  3. The Chronology of Basketmaker Perishable Craft Traditions in Southeastern Utah and Their Potential as Cross-Dating Proxies (2024)
  4. A Chronology of Complicated Stamping in the Lower Savannah River Valley (2015)
  5. The chronology of Early Pottery in South China (2016)
  6. A chronology of generations? A site-based study from the 6-5th Mill. settlement and cemetery of Alsónyék, South Western Hungary (2015)
  7. The Chronology of Goat-Springs Pueblo (2018)
  8. Chronology of the Human Occupation of the North-western Channels of Patagonia (43°-46° S), Chile (2018)
  9. Chronology of the Post-Teotihuacan Occupations in the Teotihuacan Valley (2024)
  10. A Chronometric Study of the Peopling of the Americas (2021)
  11. Chronometry at Bear Creek, a ~12,000 Year-Old Site in Western Washington (2017)
  12. Chullpa Use in in the Ancash Region of Peru: Insights from the Discovery of Multiple Rare Developmental Conditions at Marcajirca (AD 1000–1650) (2024)
  13. Chullpas and the Political Relations with the Inside-world in the Inka Empire (2018)
  14. Chumash Watercraft, Maritime Exchange, and Sociopolitical Complexity (2024)
  15. Chupadero Black-on-white: Communities of Practice, Identity, and Memory (2017)
  16. The Church of Todos los Santos and its associated cemetery in the Spanish colony of San Salvador, Heping Dao, Taiwan (17th century) (2017)
  17. Chuu: The Use and Cultural Impact of Sweat Baths by the Ixil Community in Cotzal, Quiché, Guatemala (2023)
  18. Cincalco: Origin and Kingship in Mexica Cosmology (2016)
  19. Cinciliths: A new term describing systematic small-unretouched tool production (2016)
  20. Circa 12,000-Year-Old Fiber Technologies in the Atacama Desert (2024)
  21. Circles and Circuits: A Computational Social Science Approach to Neolithic Circular Enclosures (2017)
  22. Circling the Wagons for the Santa Fe National Historic Trail - Partnering for Preservation (2016)
  23. Circulación de Cerámica en Tiempos del Inca: Aportes del Norte de Chile (2019)
  24. Circular Worlds: Comparison and Reflections on the Earthen Architecture of Lowland South American Circular Villages (2023)
  25. Circulating Ceramics in the Eighteenth Century (2016)
  26. Circum-Atlantic Responses to the Late Antique Little Ice Age (536-660 CE) (2024)
  27. Circumstance and Scale in After-the-Fact Applications: Maximizing Fair and Equitable Compliance for Stakeholders through Mitigation (2017)
  28. The Citation Process in Archaeology (2024)
  29. Cities in the Heartland of the Mongol Empire (2019)
  30. Cities on the Cutting Edge: Urban Research in Belizean Archaeology (2024)
  31. Cities on the Move across Northwestern Mesoamerica: Contribution by Dominique Michelet (2018)
  32. Cities, Towns, and Villages in the Diverse Environments of the Indus Civilization (2021)
  33. CITiZAN’s Digital Toolkit: Citizen Scientists Recording England’s At-Risk Coastal Archaeology (2018)
  34. Citizen Science and Palaeolithic Art: Investigating the Visual Psychological Background to 15,800-year-old Engravings Online (2024)
  35. Citizen Science Archaeology at Bodie State Historic Park (2018)
  36. Citizen Science in Action: Preserving the Ray Robinson Collection from the Safford Basin, Arizona (2021)
  37. A City in Decline: Insights on the Collapse of Teotihuacan from the Southern Basin of Mexico (2016)
  38. City Nights: Archaeology of Night, Darkness, and Luminosity in Urban Environments (2019)
  39. City of (Inconvenient) Cemeteries: A Brief Synopsis of the Disturbance of Historical Burial Grounds in Philadelphia (2018)
  40. City of Miami’s Historic Preservation Challenges: Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Real Estate Trends (2023)
  41. City of the Centipede, Part 1: Context, Boundaries, Community Organization, and Land-Use at El Peru-Waka', Peten, Guatemala (2019)
  42. City of the Centipede, Part 2: Urban Development and Construction Chronologies at El Perú-Waka’, Petén Guatemala (2019)
  43. "The City’s gone—nought…remaining to disclose the site of this forgotten Babylon:" Ephemeral Architecture and Identity at Black Rock City. (Apologies to Horace Smith; "Ozymandias") (2015)
  44. Ciudad de Dios: An Analysis of Destruction Using Drone Technology (2019)
  45. Civic Society Groups, Cultural Rights, and Rights to a "Heritage" City during COVID-19 (2021)
  46. The Cividade de Bagunte and the Problems of Castro Architecture (2018)
  47. The Cividade de Bagunte Archaeological Project (2018)
  48. Cividade de Bagunte: Learning Behaviors from Reconstruction and Excavation (2021)
  49. Civil Rights Heritage Preservation and the Malcolm X House: Archaeology in the Service of a Grassroots Movement (2023)
  50. A Civil War Period Ossuary Pit, Point San Jose Hospital Site, San Francisco (2015)
  51. Civilian Conservation Corps Archaeology and Preservation Near Castle Rock, Colorado (2019)
  52. The Civilian Conservation Corps in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (2015)
  53. CLAASP: A Public Archaeology Initiative To Preserve Archaeological Information In Central Florida (2016)
  54. Clam Gardens as Coastal Landscape Agents: The Case of Shingle Point, Valdes Island, British Columbia (2023)
  55. Clam Gardens: Ancient and Living Landscapes in the Salish Sea (2017)
  56. Clarifying Late Archaic, Basketmaker, and Pueblo I Project Point Types at Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona (2016)
  57. Clarifying Perceptions of Rock: Prehistoric Use of Common Toolstone in Tangle Lakes, Alaska (2018)
  58. The Clash of Stories at Sacred Sites: Reframing the Task of Protecting Indigenous Sites (2015)
  59. Class and reproductive control: birth control access and hygiene among prostitutes in turn of the century northern Idaho (2017)
  60. A Class III Cultural Resource Inventory of Travel Routes on Island Mesa in Montrose and San Miguel Counties, Colorado (2023)
  61. Classic Maya Agriculture and Traditional Milpa-Cycle Practices in the Upper Belize River Valley (2023)
  62. Classic Maya Architectural Form, Function, and Urban Context in the Chenes Region, Campeche (2017)
  63. Classic Maya Cache Vessel Texts and the Stories They Tell (2023)
  64. Classic Maya Food Systems and the Sociality of Diet in the Usumacinta Region (2019)
  65. Classic Maya Household Inequality in Southern Belize (2021)
  66. Classic Maya Housholds in Northern Peten, Guatemala: An Overview (2015)
  67. Classic Maya Politics and the Spirit of Place: Controlling Architectural Discourse at Uxul, Campeche, Mexico (2017)
  68. Classic Maya Population Densities as Seen from Río Bec, Campeche, Mexico (2021)
  69. Classic Maya Textiles and the Crafting of Communities (2017)
  70. Classic Maya Urban Settlement Dynamics: Planning and Mobility Introduced (2018)
  71. Classic Maya Urbanism at Dzibanche Revealed by Airborne Lidar Mapping (2024)
  72. Classic Maya Wahys: What, Who, Where, and Why? (2024)
  73. Classic Mimbres Period Aviculture at Elk Ridge, New Mexico (2024)
  74. Classic Mimbres Phase Archaeology: A Contrastive Study of Two Sites at the Headwaters of the Upper Gila River (2018)
  75. Classic Period Architectural Variation and Interregional Interaction: A View from the Tres Zapotes Hinterland (2017)
  76. Classic Period Dune Settlement in the Eastern Lower Papaloapan Basin (ELPB), Southern Veracruz, Mexico (2016)
  77. Classic Period Integration at Yaxnohcah: A “Bottom-Up” Perspective from Ximbal Che (2024)
  78. Classic Period Projectile Point Traditions in Southeastern Arizona (2019)
  79. Classic Period Settlement Patterns along the Middle Gila River (2017)
  80. Classic Picuris: Reassessing the Discoveries of Herbert Dick’s Early Excavations (2024)
  81. Classic through Postclassic in El Salvador (2021)
  82. Classic Veracruz Mural Painting (2015)
  83. Classic Veracruz Sculptures and Bodies in Fragments (2021)
  84. Classic Veracruz Tuxtlas Polychrome Ceramics (2019)
  85. Classical Nahuatl or Language of the Aztecs: Historical Appropriation and the Enduring Legacies of (Neo)Colonialism (2024)
  86. Classification of Fremont Ceramics Using a Neural Network (2023)
  87. A classification of Middle Formative (1200 – 800 BCE) ceramics from Chavin de Huantar (2015)
  88. Classifying Classic Period Ceramics from Azcapotzalco: A Comparison of INAA and Petrography (2016)
  89. Classifying Soapstone Cooking Pots in the Santa Barbara Channel Region (2016)
  90. Classroom to Camp: Implementation and Assessment of Archaeology K12 Curriculum at a Girl Scouts Camp in Southeastern Utah (2019)
  91. Classroom to Careers in Anthropology at the University of Texas at San Antonio (2023)
  92. Clay and Technology: Micronesian ceramic tradition (2015)
  93. Clay from the Coast: Petrographic Investigations of Xiajiaoshan's Coastal Hunter-Gatherer Pottery Production in Southern China (2024)
  94. Clay Matters: Pottery Changes at C4-084B, a Manteño Site in the Cloud Forest of El Pital, Coastal Ecuador (2016)
  95. Clay Reconnaissance and Suitability Testing within Petrified Forest National Park (2015)
  96. Clay Resource Variability and Stallings Pottery Provenance along the Savannah and Ogeechee Rivers (2018)
  97. Clay, Culture, and Chains: Unearthing Underrepresented History through Pottery Production on St. Croix, USVI (2024)
  98. A Clean Break: A Departure from Standard Typologies through an Investigation of Pottery Temper at Joshua Tree National Park (2023)
  99. "Clean Up Your Mess, Chino": Contested Space, Boredom, and Vulnerability among Central American Migrants Crossing Southern Mexico. (2016)
  100. Cleaning Up a Stinky Ghost Town: Developing the Townsite of Sulphur, Nevada, into a Cultural Interpretive Site (2023)