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 3,701-3,800 of 21,939)

  1. Collapse, or Drastic Socio-cultural Transformation?: Some Cases from Japanese Prehistory (2019)
  2. Collecting Colonialism: Disembodied Culture at the Temple Anthropology Laboratory and Museum (2024)
  3. Collecting Copper and Systematic Archaeological Analysis (2017)
  4. Collecting Costa Rican and Nicaraguan Art: On the Case of Enrique Vargas Alfaro, Dealer (2017)
  5. Collecting, Caching, and Cooking: The Agency of Women in Hunting-Gathering Societies (2024)
  6. Collection of crustaceans and echinoderms during the Middle Holocene on the West End of San Nicolas Island, California (2017)
  7. Collections and Conveyor Belts: A New Way to Look at Artifacts (2016)
  8. Collections as a Teaching Resource: A Case Study (2016)
  9. Collections Care and Preventive Conservation in the Archaeological Repository (2018)
  10. Collections Care as Care Work: Examining the Gendered Nature of Museum Work in Archaeology (2024)
  11. Collections Rescue in Washington , D.C.: “Can we have our garage back?” (2024)
  12. Collections-Based Pedagogy: Where Pasts Meet Futures (2024)
  13. Collections-Based Research at Poverty Point World Heritage Site (2016)
  14. CollectionSpace at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology: A Strategic Information Platform for Cultural Heritage Collections (2018)
  15. Collective Action in Iron Age Europe: Public Assemblies as Arenas for Participatory Government (2017)
  16. Collective Action in State Building, Past and Present (2017)
  17. Collective Action, Households, Neighborhoods, and Urban Landscapes: A Multiscalar Perspective on Late Postclassic Urbanism at Tlaxcallan (2021)
  18. Collective Action, Transport Costs, Watercraft Technologies, and the Engineered Ancestral Landscapes of Southern Florida (2023)
  19. Collective Biographies: Ancient Maya Objects in Collections, Past and Present (2018)
  20. Collective Intelligence in Cultural Environment: Predictive Models, preservation and valorization of Cultural Identity in a Brazilian context (2017)
  21. Collective Labor, Communal Lives: Social Dynamics of 19th-Century Rural Life in Northwest Co. Mayo, Ireland (2018)
  22. Collective Memory and the Mycenaeans: The Argolid, Messenia, and the Mani Compared (2016)
  23. Collectors, Public Archaeology, and Regional Surveys: Contributions of Stuart Struever (2024)
  24. Colonial and Caste War Continuities in the Beneficios Altos Province of Yucatán (2019)
  25. Colonial Archaeology and Deep Time Media: A Case Study from Hokkaido, Japan (2024)
  26. Colonial Borderlands and Conflicting Landscapes in Colonial Chile (2019)
  27. Colonial Cuba: From Indian to Creole (2018)
  28. Colonial Demography and Bioarchaeology (2018)
  29. Colonial developments in a global context- complex connectivity in the Western Zhou world (2015)
  30. Colonial enclaves of coastal Colesuyo during the Inca influence (2016)
  31. Colonial Encounters in Lucayan Contexts (2017)
  32. Colonial Encounters in the Southern Lesser Antilles (2017)
  33. Colonial Funerary Rituals at the Templo San Ignacio in Bogotá, Colombia (2018)
  34. Colonial Glass Production in Mexico City: A Study on Technology Transfer and Adaptation (2019)
  35. Colonial Households and Homes: Changes in Kalaallit Architecture, 1750–1900 (2023)
  36. Colonial Ideology and the Organization of Spanish Missions in Nuevo México and the Pimería Alta (2019)
  37. Colonial Negotiation in the Frontier Province of Beneficios Altos (2017)
  38. Colonial Period Occupations and Historical Archaeology on Barbuda (2024)
  39. The Colonial Peten: An Ethnohistory of Indigenous Sovereignty and a Failed Spanish Colonial Project (2019)
  40. Colonial Practices in the Imperial Heartland: The Inca Conquest and Transformation of the Lucre Basin, Cuzco, Peru (2016)
  41. Colonial process in the Portuguese America: Tupi settlement at the Brazilian Southern shore (2016)
  42. A Colonial Space in the Camata-Carijana Valley: A Review of the Tambo, Maukallajta (2018)
  43. Colonialidad y negociación de imaginarios: Una mirada a las relaciones williche-español desde el lago Ranco, Sur de Chile, siglos XVI-XVII (2024)
  44. Colonialism and Cuisine: Change and Continuity in Soapstone Consumption during the Contact Period in Alta, California (2017)
  45. Colonialism and Tupi Persistence on the South shore of São Paulo state - Brazil (2017)
  46. Colonialism, nationalism and the appropriation of new landscapes: Consuming Old and New Worlds in historical Quebec City (Canada) (2015)
  47. Colonialism, Waterways, and Relationships in the Late Eighteenth-Century Fur Trade (2024)
  48. Colonialist Biases in Historical Markers in Detroit (2024)
  49. Colonization as Imperial Strategy: the Wari Settlement of Moquegua, Peru (2016)
  50. Colonization Models of Iceland: new Archaeological and Environmental Data (2015)
  51. Colonization of Northern North America: a view from Eastern Beringia (2016)
  52. Colonization of Paradise: Historical Ecology and Archaeology of El Progreso Plantation, Galápagos (1870–1904) (2017)
  53. Colonization of the Land of Stone Money: Resolving the Unclear Origins of Early Settlements of Yap, Western Caroline Islands (2017)
  54. The Colonization of the Southern Ryukyu islands, Japan (2017)
  55. Colonization of the Southern Tip of the World (2019)
  56. Colonization or Migration? Applying colonial theory to Post-Roman Britain (2016)
  57. Colonization, Transformation and Continuities in the Indigenous Caribbean (2018)
  58. Colonizing the Colonial: Viewing Influence through the Lens of Coarse Earthenware at the Dutch East India Company Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (2016)
  59. Colonizing the Edge: The Maritime Archaic Settlement and Occupation of Eastern Newfoundland (2018)
  60. Colonizing Yourself: The British colonization of Britain (2016)
  61. Colonoware Alongside Imported Ceramics: Overview of Post-Self-Emancipation Local Pottery Production on Providencia Island, Colombia (2024)
  62. Colonoware as Cottage Industry: Household Production and the Internal Economy at Dean Hall Plantation, South Carolina (2016)
  63. Colonowares of the Apalachee Province of La Florida (2016)
  64. The Colony of a Colony? The Establishment of Plantations in Dominica, c. 1730-1763 (2017)
  65. Color and Q'iwa: Expecting the Unexpected in Andean Textile Design (2016)
  66. Color and Technology: A Legacy of Painted Burial Objects at Nuvakwewtaqa (Chavez Pass, Northern Arizona) (2015)
  67. Color by Design on Hohokam Pottery (2018)
  68. Color in Wari and Inka Khipus (2016)
  69. Color Lines, Material Culture, and the Negotiation of Social Space in the Sugar Plantation Fazenda do Colégio, Campos dos Goytacazes, Brazil (2021)
  70. Color Matters: The Selection and Use of Lithic Raw Materials in Viking Age and Medieval Iceland (2015)
  71. Color Me Red: A Preliminary Examination of Pigments in the Moquegua Valley, Peru (2019)
  72. The Color of Personal Ornaments in Prehistoric Periods of the Levant (2019)
  73. Color patterns and aspects of significance in the Paracas Necropolis (2016)
  74. Color Symbolism of U.S. Southwest Jewelry (2015)
  75. A "Color" Test: Subsistence Practices among Racially Integrated Communities between 1839 and 1890 in the Midwest Region (2017)
  76. Color, Structure, and Meaning in Middle Horizon Khipus (2016)
  77. Color, Structure, and Society in the Tiwanaku State (2016)
  78. Colorful Collaboration in Colorado: Recent Work by the Project Archaeology Colorado Chapter (2015)
  79. Colorful material connections: Non-invasive analyses of Mesoamerican pictorial manuscripts and their cultural-historical implications (2017)
  80. A colorful past: assessing motivations for the acquisition of turquoise in the ancient U.S. Southwest (2017)
  81. Colorful pictures: Understanding the material of the Mesoamerican precolonial codices (2015)
  82. Colorimetric Analysis of the PP5-6 Ochre (2019)
  83. Colors and Chants of the Flower World: The Use of Organic Colors in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican Codex Painting Traditions. (2019)
  84. Colors in the Chupicuaro Ceramic Tradition: A Diachronic Perspective during the Late Formative (2021)
  85. The Colors of the Coya's Robes (2016)
  86. Colors of the Inka Khipu: Demonstrating a Link to Textile Production (2019)
  87. The colossal hats (pukao) of monumental statues: an analysis of shape variability among the pukao of Rapa Nui (2015)
  88. Colour signature analysis: A new refitting method (2015)
  89. The Columbian Exchange in Mesoamerica: Early Colonial Documents and Zooarchaeology in Guatemala (2017)
  90. The Columbian Exchange in the Maya/Spanish Borderlands: A Zooarchaeological and Isotopic Tale of Resistance and Repurposing (2024)
  91. Columbian Mammoth Remains (Proboscidea, *Mammuthus columbi) from Unit UE1, Tocuila Archaeo-Paleontological Site, Mexico (2021)
  92. Columns and Ideology-Building in the Northern Maya Lowlands (2015)
  93. Combating Researcher Bias in Archaeological Investigations of Identity (2015)
  94. Combating the Curation Crisis Through Dissertation Research: An Argument for Disciplinary Valorization and Financial Support of Legacy Collection Rehabilitation (2019)
  95. Combating the Ongoing Erasure of Native Americans from Late Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Archaeological Landscapes (2023)
  96. Combatting the Curation Crisis in North Carolina (2015)
  97. Combatting the Erosion Menace: The Enduring Legacy of the CCC Within the Silver City Watershed (2015)
  98. A combination of ethnoarchaeology, experimental archaeology and use-wear analysis as a mean to recover testimonies of past human activities in Southeast Asian rainforests. (2016)
  99. A Combined 87Sr/86Sr and δ18O Isoscape of Minnesota for Estimating Geographic Origins – A Case Study (2024)
  100. A Combined Bayesian and Zooarchaeological Approach to Understanding Local Histories of Socio-Ecological Adaptation in Southwestern Florida, USA (2019)