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 3,601-3,700 of 21,939)

  1. Clues to Cacao from the Ecuadorian Upper Amazon (2015)
  2. The Co Loa Settlement: Biography of an Anomalous Place (2017)
  3. Co-constitutive Peripheries: Settlement Landscapes of Power and Memory on Mauritius (2024)
  4. Co-Creating Digital Heritage Resources in Ghana: How Is It Going? (2019)
  5. Co-creating Knowledge about Iowa Sites and Increasing Awareness of Iowa's Descendant Tribes through Community-Engaged Archaeology (2024)
  6. Co-Creation, Applied Archaeology, and Community Engagement in Ancash, Peru (2016)
  7. Co-Interpreting the Past – Shaping the Present, Building the Future (2017)
  8. The Co-phylogeny of Earth-Diver Creation Myths and Language: Insights into Evolution Processes and Migration (2016)
  9. Co-practice amongst Non-Western Peoples: Abandoning Theory at Center Stage (2015)
  10. Co-residence in Hunter-Gatherer Groups: New Insights from the Southern Florida Interior (2019)
  11. Co-stewardship, Preservation, and Archaeology in Southern Arizona's National Park Units (2024)
  12. Co-stewardship: Positive Impacts from Meaningful Consultation (2024)
  13. Coal Bed Village: Test excavations of a major Ancestral Pueblo site in Southeast Utah (2019)
  14. Coalescence and conformity at the Ayawiri hillfort, Peru: A social experiment under duress (2015)
  15. Coalescence within the Gila River Farm Site and other Salado Settlements of the Upper Gila (2019)
  16. Coast and lowlands: zooarchaeology of La Esmeralda shell midden (Uruguayan Atlantic coast, late Holocene) (2024)
  17. The "Coastal Cajamarca" Style Did Not Come from the Coast (2016)
  18. Coastal Change and Human Dynamics: Preliminary Results of Sediment Core Analysis (2021)
  19. Coastal Continuity on the Wampanoag Landscape: Recent Analyses of the Woodland Period Occupation at the Cole’s Hill Archaeological Site (19-PL-984) in Plymouth, Massachusetts (2023)
  20. Coastal development and palaeoenvironment on the north coast of Papua New Guinea: the Paniri Creek sequence (2016)
  21. Coastal Dynamics and Site Formation: A look at the Archaeological Deposits of Coastal RI after Hurricane Sandy (2015)
  22. Coastal Erosion and Extreme Atmospheric Events: Climate Change and Coastal Cultural Heritage in Puerto Rico (2018)
  23. Coastal Erosion as an Arena for Change (2017)
  24. Coastal Erosion Management in Archaeology: Turning Challenges into Opportunities (2018)
  25. Coastal Geocatastrophes as Agents of Change on Multiple Time Scales: A Case Study from the Shetland Islands, UK (2018)
  26. Coastal Groundwater Seeps on Rapa Nui (2015)
  27. Coastal Hydrogeological Context of Potable Water Sources of the Vista Alegre Maya Port Site, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico (2018)
  28. Coastal Land Loss and the Future of Louisiana's Archaeological Record (2018)
  29. Coastal Louisiana’s Vanishing Archaeological Record: The Last Investigations at the Adams Bay Mounds Site (16PL8) (2019)
  30. Coastal marine resource exploitation during the Late Pleistocene at Contrebandiers Cave (Temara, Morocco) (2016)
  31. Coastal Occupation and Foraging During the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene at Waterfall Bluff, Eastern Pondoland, South Africa (2019)
  32. Coastal Paleoindians in the Southeastern US? Envisioning Early People on the Now-Drowned Continental Shelves (2019)
  33. Coastal politics in Cajamarca: recent research in the middle Jequetepeque Valley (2016)
  34. Coastal Predictive Modelling for Early Period Archaeological Sites in a Landscape subject to Rapidly Changing Sea Levels, Quadra Island, British Columbia (2017)
  35. Coastal resource exploitation during the late ceramic age on Bonaire, Dutch Caribbean (2016)
  36. Coastal Resource Use During the Prehistoric Times in the Amami and Okinawa Archipelagos, Japan (2019)
  37. Coastal Settlement Patterns in BC at the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition (2017)
  38. Coastal Southeast Queensland, Australia: An Historical Ecology Model of Mid- to Late Holocene Settlement and Subsistence (2019)
  39. Coastal Trade: The Ancient Maya of Belize (2024)
  40. Coastal-Highland Interaction in Early Formative Period Mesoamerica: The Ceramic Affiliations of La Consentida (2018)
  41. Coastal-Highland Interactions at the End of Moche: Investigating Vertical and Horizontal Archipelagos as Reflected in Pastoral Strategies in the Cañoncillo Region, Peru (2021)
  42. Coastlines, Mountains, Linguistic Diversity, or Subaltern Trade Networks: Hypothesizing Sources of Language Isolates in the Isthmus of Oaxaca (2024)
  43. Coba's Periphery and Rethinking Site Boundaries (2018)
  44. Coba: New Findings and Future Directions of Research (2016)
  45. Cobble Reduction and Tool Manufacturing along the Atlantic Coastal Plain: An Example from Prince George's County, Maryland (2018)
  46. Cobbling Material Memory: Kings, Gods, and Shrines in an Old Kingdom with Active Roots – Kanazi Palace, NW Tanzania (2019)
  47. Cobbling Together the Story of the Sinlahkein Valley: Prehistoric Land-Use Patterns in North Central Washington State (2019)
  48. Cochasquí in Context: The Evolution of a Monumental Center (2017)
  49. Cochasquí under the Inka: Reassessing the Inka presence in northern Ecuador (2016)
  50. The Cocospera Valley in the Prehistoric, Protohistoric and Missión Period: A Corridor of Cultural Exchange? (2019)
  51. Cod, Sand & Stone: Proto-Industrial Scale, Medieval, Commercial Fishing at Gufuskalar in Western Iceland (2015)
  52. Codes of ethics and archaeology in practice: "communal archaeology" and citizen science towards the advancement of the discipline (2015)
  53. Codices, Purpura, and Pirates: The Enduring Legacy of Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall (2024)
  54. The Coevolution of Niche Construction and Niche Adaptation in the Hominin Lineage: Toward Understanding Culture (2019)
  55. Coffee and captivity in the 19th century Paraíba valley (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Landscape archaeology and phenomenological recording (2015)
  56. Cognitive Archaeology and the Minimum Necessary Competence Problem (2021)
  57. Coins and Empire in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (2018)
  58. Coins of the McGhee Collection (2016)
  59. Cold Cases and Forgotten Caves: Reconstructing the Provenience of Unique Artifacts from the Greater Southwest (2019)
  60. Cold plasma oxidation and "nondestructive" radiocarbon dating (2015)
  61. Colecciones arqueológicas del Preclásico Mesoamericano en Museos Extranjeros (2016)
  62. Colha, Northern Belize: A History and Record of Research (2018)
  63. Collaborating on the Federal Level: Moving beyond Mandated Consultation in the Section 106 Process (2017)
  64. Collaborating with Descendant Communities to Explore the Biological Heritage of Enslaved People at James Madison’s Montpelier through Ancient DNA Analysis (2018)
  65. Collaboration and Indigenous Archaeology at Maluaka on the Big Island of Hawai’i (2016)
  66. Collaboration and Partnership: The Columbia Plateau Inter-Tribal Repatriation Group (2016)
  67. Collaboration Continues: Revisiting Archaeology between CRM Archaeologists and First Nations Communities in the Pacific Northwest (2017)
  68. Collaboration in Progress: FPAN Central Regional Center and the Florida Park Service. (2016)
  69. Collaboration, Accountability, and Performativity: Defining Collaboration in Northern New Mexico Archaeology (2019)
  70. Collaboration, collaborators, and conflict: ethics, engagement, and archaeological practice (2017)
  71. Collaborative and Community Archaeology: A View from Europe (2024)
  72. Collaborative and Community Archaeology: Introduction and Some Case Studies (2021)
  73. Collaborative and Community-based Archaeology (Heritage) – Introduction to the Session and Some Views on Successfully Partnering with Indigenous and Local Communities. (2015)
  74. Collaborative and Equitable Training in Archaeology (2023)
  75. Collaborative and Open Education Practices in Undergraduate Anthropology Instruction (2023)
  76. Collaborative Approaches to Ancestral Remains Protection, Recovery, and Repatriation in Oregon (2024)
  77. Collaborative Archaeological Research in Central America: A View from the Community of Mogue, Pusa Drua Area, Congreso Local de Tierras Colectivas Emberá Wounaan, Darién, Panama (2024)
  78. Collaborative Archaeologies in Transformation: Preliminary Results from a Social Network Analysis of Archaeological Practice (2015)
  79. Collaborative Archaeology and Heritage Management at the Malcolm X House, Inkster, Michigan (2024)
  80. Collaborative Archaeology in the Classroom (2023)
  81. Collaborative Archaeology in Willapa Bay, Washington: Supporting Communities through Scientific Research (2018)
  82. Collaborative curation of Kuikuro collections: the AIKAX Portal (2024)
  83. Collaborative Decolonial Approaches to Narrative in the Coastal Heritage at Risk Taskforce (2024)
  84. Collaborative Indigenous Archaeology at Mohegan (2024)
  85. Collaborative Indigenous Archaeology in Turkey: The Sardis Case (2023)
  86. Collaborative Pfforts to Preserve Los Angeles'History: Saving The Campo Santo (2015)
  87. A Collaborative Proposal for Identifying Psychoactive Drug Ingredients in Supposed Ritual Pottery and Other Implements from the Prehispanic Andes (2021)
  88. Collaborative Research as an Adaptive Strategy among New England Archaeologists (2018)
  89. Collaborative Research at the 19th-Century Settlement of La Parida, Socorro County, New Mexico (2019)
  90. Collaborative Research on Maya Ceramic Vessels at LACMA (2017)
  91. Collaborative Research, Synthesis Centers, and the Challenge of Connecting the Past to the Present (2024)
  92. Collaborative Survey of Delaware Cultural Sites in Northeastern Oklahoma (2021)
  93. "Collaborative" Archaeology: A proposed rubric-based assessment of archaeological projects with American Indian communities (2016)
  94. Collaboratively Creating a Digital Collection Database (2024)
  95. Collagen and Apatite Stable Isotope Values from Bison Bone at the Hell Gap Site (2021)
  96. Collagen Fingerprinting (ZooMS) and Caribbean Archaeological Fish Assemblages: Methodological Implications for Historical Fisheries Baselines and Conservation Applications (2023)
  97. Collagen Fingerprinting on Neolithic Fish from Lithuania (2018)
  98. Collagen Peptide Fingerprinting (ZooMS) of Archaeological Worked Bone from Southern Florida (2021)
  99. Collapse from the Outside In: A View from the Western Maya Periphery (2015)
  100. Collapse in the North American Southwest: A Comparative Study (2016)