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. A Combined Bioarchaeological and Isotopic Approach to Understanding the Regional Diversity and Population Mobility within the Holmul Region, Guatemala (2015)
  2. Combined use of different lines of evidence for the analysis of polychrome archaeological ceramics of the Quebrada de Humahuaca, Jujuy, Argentina. (2016)
  3. Combining Aerial Lidar and Deep Learning to Detect Archaeological Features in the Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia (2024)
  4. Combining Geophysics, Photogrammetry, and Archaeological Testing at the Mississippian Pile Mound Site, Upper Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee (2015)
  5. Combining GPR and Archeological Excavations at Los Morteros: Looking "Inside" a Complex Preceramic Coastal Peruvian Site (2016)
  6. Combining Proteomic Sex Determination of Archaeological Remains with Isotopic Analyses for Understanding the Development of Animal Husbandry (2024)
  7. Combining residue analysis of floors and ceramics to identify activity areas and the use of space (2016)
  8. Combining Strontium and Sulphur Isotope Analysis to Reconstruct Paleolithic Reindeer Mobility (2024)
  9. Combining Trade Good and Radiocarbon Dates Across a Calibration Curve Inversion: Middle Grant Creek (2024)
  10. Combustion as a Process of Reconfiguration of the Historical Space: The Potrero Mendieta Context in Southwestern Ecuador (~3000 BCE) (2019)
  11. Comcaac Collaborative Ethnohistory: The Importance of Objects, Places, Routes and Leaders. (2018)
  12. Come for the Harvest, Stay for the Beer: Alcohol Production in an Ubaid Household in Upper Mesopotamia (2019)
  13. Come Together Over Olcott: Recent Collaborative Investigations (2019)
  14. "Come Together, Right Now:" The Oklahoma Public Archaeology Network and Its Role in Oklahoma Public Archaeology (2017)
  15. Comercio y cultura en El Tajín de los primeros años del Epiclásico (2023)
  16. Comics, Colonialism, & Pseudoarchaeology: The Case of "La Crane de Mkwawa" (2019)
  17. Coming into Ohio: Early Paleoindian Mobility (2024)
  18. The Coming of Kings in the Belize River Valley (2015)
  19. Coming to the Islands: Strontium and Oxygen Isotope Investigation of Human Mobility in the Bahamian Archipelago (2019)
  20. Coming Together: Evidence of Ritual and Public Space as a Mechanism of Social Integration (2015)
  21. Coming-for-the-Bison, Going-to-the-Sun – Evolution and Significance of Staging Places on the Northern Rocky Mountain Front (2015)
  22. Comitan, “Place of Potters”: Evidence of Specialized Potters in the Valley of Comitan (2023)
  23. Commemorating the Preclassic Monumental Construction at Tayasal, Guatemala (2018)
  24. Commemoration and Consumption in Mid-Nineteenth Century Cemeteries of Cazenovia, New York (2023)
  25. Commemoration in the Wake of Catastrophe: A Historical Archaeology Investigation of Southern California's St. Francis Dam Disaster and its Victims (2017)
  26. Commemoration or Termination? Evaluating Early Public Ritual in Yaxuná, Yucatan, Mexico through Ethnography and Ethnohistory (2016)
  27. The Commensal animals in the Pacific – What might DNA results suggest about the animal-human relationships through time? (2017)
  28. Commensal Politics and Changing Neighborhoods: Preliminary Pottery Analyses of Cahokia’s Spring Lake Tract (2019)
  29. Commensal Politics, Intersectional Politics: Serving Ceramics at Early Colonial Achiutla, Oaxaca, Mexico (2018)
  30. A Commensal-Prey Relationship in Early Mainland Southeast Asia? The Case of the Burmese Hare (Lepus peguensis) (2018)
  31. Commerce, autarky, barter, and redistribution; the multi-tiered urban economy of El Perú-Waka’, Guatemala (2016)
  32. Commercial Activity, Trades and Professions in Barrio Ballajá, 1910 - 1940. (2019)
  33. Commercialization, Consumption, and Political-Economic Strategies in Late Postclassic Mesoamerica: A Comparative Study of Access to Projectile Points at Tlaxcallan and Santa Rita Corozal (2018)
  34. Commercializing for its People: "Pulperías" and "Ventorrillos" in the City of San Juan, 1910-1920. (2019)
  35. Commingled Stories, Embodied Inequalities: An Historical Bioarchaeology of the Huntington Irish (2019)
  36. Commingled, communal and complex: reconstructing Iberian Copper Age mortuary practices (2015)
  37. Commodification and Resource Depression of White-Tailed Deer in Seventeenth-Century New England (2023)
  38. "Commodification", Exchange, and Changes in Maya Political Economy on the Eve of the Classic Maya Collapse (2016)
  39. A Common Analytical Language: Compound-Specific Isotope Analysis as a Means for Collaboration between Archaeology and Ecology (2019)
  40. Common and Lima Beans (Phaseolus spp.) from Cerén: Wild and Domesticated Germplasm (2015)
  41. Common Goods in Uncommon Times: Water, Droughts, and the Sustainability of Ancestral Puebloan Communities in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico (AD 1100-1700) (2017)
  42. Common Meals, Noble Feasts: An Archaeological Investigation of Moche Food and Cuisine in the Jequetepeque Valley, Peru (2016)
  43. Common Pool Resourses, Collective Actions, and Landscapes: A Cross-Cultural Evaluation (2021)
  44. Common Sense and the Distribution of the Sensible in Ancient Tiwanaku, AD 500–1100 (2021)
  45. The Common Sense of Institutions and Modalities of Happiness (2015)
  46. Commoner Agency, Hinterland Complexity, and Evidence for a Late Classic Commoner Marketplace in the Rio Bravo Basin, Northwestern Belize (2024)
  47. Commoner Landscape, Ritual, and Symbolism in the Shadow of Dos Hombres: Recent Investigations at the Site of Chawak But’o’ob. (2017)
  48. Commoner-Elite Interactions: Evidence Subroyal Elite Housemound Excavations at Uxul, Campeche, Mexico (2015)
  49. A Commons Approach to Violence and Inequity: Public goods, Enchaining, and the Reconstitution of the Shang Kingdom under Wu Ding (2024)
  50. Communal Before Domestic? Preceramic Contexts of Exotic Food Adoption in North Peru (2023)
  51. Communal Food Processing and Culture Contact: An Analysis of Plant Foods and Architecture in the Protohistoric North Carolina Piedmont (2015)
  52. Communal Hunting and Teasing Out Signs of Cooperation in the Past (2017)
  53. Communal Hunting Facilities as a Record of Human Cooperation (2017)
  54. Communal Ritual, Communal Feasting, and the Creation of Community in Colonial-Era Los Angeles (2015)
  55. Communal Spaces and Ideas of Belonging in a WWII Japanese Incarceration Center (2019)
  56. Communal Trapping and Pinyon Exploitation in the Wovoka Wilderness (2018)
  57. The Communalities of Pastoralist Life: Perspectives on Household Organization at the Pastoral Neolithic site of Luxmanda, Tanzania (2019)
  58. Communicating in Three Dimensions: Questions of Audience and Reuse in 3D Excavation Documentation Practice (2018)
  59. Communicating Objects and Cultural Preservation Among Contemporary Tz’utujil Ritual Practitioners (2016)
  60. Communing with the Gods: The Paleoethnobotany of Fire Rituals (2018)
  61. Communities in the Campo: Household Excavations at a Tiwanaku Frontier Settlement in the Middle Locumba Valley, Peru (ca. AD 500–1100) (2021)
  62. Communities of Archaeological Inquiry: Documenting a German Neolithic Landscape in Cooperation with Avocational Archaeologists (2015)
  63. Communities of Art Practices on the Lower Columbia River: Technical Photography Using Infrared, UV, and Visible Light (2019)
  64. Communities of Engaged Performance: Investigating Soundscapes and the Sonorous Past (2018)
  65. Communities of Practice and Ancient Andean Houses (2021)
  66. Communities of Practice and Corrugated Pottery at Chevelon Ruin (2015)
  67. Communities of Practice and Panamanian Majolica Production (2023)
  68. Communities of Practice and Sequencing from Older Caribbean Collections in the NMAI and NMNH (2018)
  69. Communities of Practice and Sound-related Archaeological Collections (2017)
  70. Communities of practice and variability/standardization of the ceramic assemblages: the indigenous people Asurini do Xingu (2017)
  71. Communities of Practice of Metal Craftspeople on the North Coast of Peru, First Millennium CE (2021)
  72. Communities, Violence and Fortification: A Study of Longshan Landscapes (2018)
  73. Community action at sites threatened by natural processes (2017)
  74. Community and Agency in the early Neolithic of SW Asia (2015)
  75. Community and Ancestors in the Titicaca Basin during the Formative Period (2015)
  76. Community and Collaboration at Aventura (2023)
  77. Community and the Contours of Empire: The Hacienda System in the Northern Highlands of Ecuador (2017)
  78. A Community Approach to Data Recovery Investigations at the Dimond Knoll Site, Harris County, Texas (2015)
  79. Community Archaeology and (Post)Colonial Identities in Northernmost Belize (2019)
  80. Community Archaeology and Ancient Ceramics: Developing an Inclusive Research Design in San Jose Succotz, Belize (2017)
  81. Community archaeology and emergency responses to heritage in crisis (2015)
  82. Community Archaeology and the Nuniaq Culture Camp: Undergraduate Perspectives on Practicing Community-Based Archaeology in Old Harbor, Alaska (2024)
  83. Community Archaeology and the Production of Space at Punta Laguna, Yucatan, Mexico (2019)
  84. Community Archaeology at Magic Mountain, Golden, Colorado (2019)
  85. Community Archaeology at the Heart Mountain Relocation Camp, Park County, Wyoming (2017)
  86. Community Archaeology at the St. John's River Site, Grenada (2016)
  87. Community Archaeology at the Trowel’s Edge (2019)
  88. Community Archaeology in Belize (2024)
  89. Community Archaeology in Coastal Ecuador: Balancing Interests (2019)
  90. Community Archaeology in Practice: Great Bay Archaeological Survey (2019)
  91. Community Archaeology in the Jemez (2024)
  92. Community archaeology on the south west coast of Alaska:TAPP (2016)
  93. Community Archaeology Starting Young: Local High School Engagement in Tucson, Arizona (2018)
  94. Community Archeology with Descendants of the Enslaved at an Arkansas Plantation (2024)
  95. The Community at the Crossroads: Insights into Connectivity from the Tijeras Pueblo Fauna (2019)
  96. Community Building and Engagement through Maya Archaeology: Challenges, Successes, and Future Goals for the Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance (BVAR) Project (2021)
  97. Community Caretaking, Collective Parenting, and Othermothering: Diasporic Family Building in the Western American Military (2023)
  98. Community Complexity and Collapse: A Settlement Analysis of the Ancient Maya Site Contreras Valley, Belize (2018)
  99. Community Connections from Archaic to Present in Southeastern Massachusetts: Insights from Halls Swamp and Beyond (2015)
  100. Community Engaged Bioarchaeology: Decolonizing Research (2024)