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. Conservación de la pintura mural de una tumba Zapoteca de la Sierra Norte de Oaxaca (2023)
  2. Conservation and Preservation Issues Post Fire (2017)
  3. Conservation Biology and Archaeology: Using faunal remains of Pacific cod from the Tse-whit-zen village (2015)
  4. Conservation of a pleistocenic Giant Sloth from Tamtoc, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. (2015)
  5. Conservation of sawfish rostra in the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan (2017)
  6. Conservation Recommendations for Human Skeletal Remains Excavated from Desert Oases, Cave Shelters, and Permafrost, in China and Mongolia (2017)
  7. Conserving a Castle: The Connection between Archeology and Preservation in Making History Accessible (2019)
  8. Conserving the Buddhist stupas and religious nationalism in Sri Lanka (2015)
  9. A Consideration of Totemism in Late-Latest Jomon Age Based upon Archaeological Records (2017)
  10. Considerations for Your Stewardship Journey: The Indigenous Collections Care Guide as a Resource (2024)
  11. Considerations of Depositional Context for the Commingled, Fragmentary Skeletal Assemblage from the Cave Environment at Cueva de Sangre, Guatemala (2024)
  12. Considerations Regarding the Sculptures Commonly Called "Standard-Bearers" (2019)
  13. Considering a ‘Chinese Element’ in Southeast Europe before the 2nd Millennium BC (2015)
  14. Considering Communities of Practice throughout the Data Lifecycle (2018)
  15. Considering Form and Meaning in Maya Mural Painting (2016)
  16. Considering Pb Mixing in Lead Isotope Analysis (LIA) of Tin Artifacts (2024)
  17. Considering Robustness and Vulnerability in Texas Hunter-Gatherer Social-Ecological Systems using Stable Isotope Data (2015)
  18. Considering Seascapes, Waterscapes and the Relational (2018)
  19. Considering the Role of Mammoth and Other Megafauna in Food Systems across North America (2024)
  20. Considering Women's Tech Choices: Grinding Efficiency and Performance Characteristics of Hunter-Gatherer Milling Tools (2021)
  21. Conspicuous Consumption in the Basin of Mexico: Chinese Porcelains as Prestige Markers in the Eastern Teotihuacan Valley (2015)
  22. "Conspicuous Consumption" in Ancient Costa Rica and Panama (2015)
  23. Conspicuous Knowledge Transmission through Amazonian Cave Art (2018)
  24. Constituting the Divine: Coastal Cuisine and Public Places in the Formative-period Lower Río Verde Valley (2019)
  25. "Constraint and Freedom" in the Era of Big Data (2017)
  26. The constraints and conditions of water chemistry for human use of Maya tropical wetland fields (2016)
  27. Constructed Landscapes: Late Intermediate Period Architecture and Spatial Organization in the Huamanga Province of Peru (2019)
  28. Constructed Spaces and Managed Species: Niche Construction Theory and "Wild" Turkey Management during the Mississippian Period in the Southeastern United States (2017)
  29. The Constructed Subterranean Confronts Archaeology: Reviewing a Half Century of Ambivalence (2021)
  30. Constructing a Colony: Investigating Stress from Endogenous Cortisol in Archaeological Hair from a Lupaqa Colony at Estuquiña (2018)
  31. Constructing Archaeological Knowledge: Interpretating Hopewell in the Illinois Valley (2017)
  32. Constructing Collapse: A Technological Analysis of Early-Middle Bronze Age Domestic Architecture in Mainland Greece and its Social Implications (2016)
  33. Constructing Communities: A New Magnetometry Survey at the John Chapman Site (2018)
  34. Constructing Difference: Defense, Sensory Experience, and Social Difference at a Late Prehispanic Hillfort (Arequipa, Peru) (2019)
  35. Constructing Heritage along the Eastern Escarpment of the Southern High Plains Northwest Texas (2019)
  36. Constructing Identity in the Swabian Aurignacian (2019)
  37. Constructing Local Identities in the Central-South Coast. The Coayllos in the Asia Valley (2018)
  38. Constructing Narratives: archaeology's relationship with the ontological turn at Cahokia (2016)
  39. Constructing Perspectives for the Application of Wood Charcoal Analysis in Kiuic, Yucatán, Mexico (2024)
  40. Constructing Rural Complexity: Intra-household Relations of Community and Inequality at Chunhuayum, Yucatán, Mexico. (2017)
  41. Constructing Social Memory: Inca Politics and Sacred Landscape in the Lurin Valley (2017)
  42. Constructing Space and Community within Landscapes of Slavery in Early 19th c. Jamaica (2016)
  43. Constructing Space: An Imperial Launched Settlement System in the Core Area of the Mongol Empire (2023)
  44. Constructing Stories from Archaeological Evidence and Documentary Sources (2017)
  45. Constructing Technical Identity among Past and Present Potters’ Communities in the Talina Valley, Southern Bolivia (2023)
  46. Constructing the Herd: Critically Considering the Temporality of Human-Animal Relations in Archaeological Analysis (2023)
  47. Constructing the Social Fabric of a Community: Household Service Relationships to the Ceren Village (2018)
  48. The Construction and Activation of Place at the Maya Port of Isla Cerritos (2021)
  49. Construction of a Mule Deer General Utility Index (2016)
  50. The construction of archaeological practice: Sex/gender and sexuality on the fringe (2017)
  51. Construction of Pleistocene Geochronologies in Central Africa: Luminescence Dating in Northern Malawi (2019)
  52. The Construction of Prehispanic Landscapes in the Santiago Bayacora Basin, Durango (2016)
  53. Constructive Monitoring: Finding Successful Solutions for Environmental, Engineering, Cultural Resources, and Public Relations Challenges in the Constructed Landscape of the Presidio of San Francisco, California (2015)
  54. Construyendo Estatus. El urbanismo emergente visto desde una unidad doméstica de élite. (2016)
  55. Consultants Are People Too: Meaningful Consultation and Archaeology (2015)
  56. Consultation and Beyond: NAGPRA as a Gateway to Collaboration (2016)
  57. Consulting on Reburial Efforts (2024)
  58. Consumer Agency beyond Identity: Indigenous Demand and Euro-American Wampum Production between New Jersey and the Plains (2019)
  59. Consumer Culture at the 19th century Maya refugee site at Tikal, Guatemala (2017)
  60. CONSUMER-GRADE DRONE MAPPING AND CENTIMETER-LEVEL INTERTIDAL GEOMORPHIC CHANGES AT THE SEABROOK MARSH SITE, HAMPTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE (2017)
  61. Consuming Community: Cuisine, Community, and Resilience in Late Colonial New Mexico (2023)
  62. Consuming in Empire: The Materiality of Household Consumption at Postclassic and Colonial Xaltocan, Mexico (2015)
  63. Consuming Our Pasts: Food as Nature and Culture (2021)
  64. Consuming the French New World (2015)
  65. Consumo de bienes de prestigio y estrategias políticas: una propuesta diacrónica para el noroeste de Yucatán en el Preclásico (2017)
  66. Consumo de plantas psicoactivas en Chavín de Huántar: Primeras evidencias directas en tubos de hueso en contexto de la Galería 3 (2024)
  67. Consumption and Construction: Art, Sacra, and the Place of Empire in Postclassic Mexico (2017)
  68. Consumption Patterns of a Pre-World War II-Era Japanese American Community on Terminal Island (2017)
  69. Consumption Practice and the Authenticity of "Irishness": Everyday Material Life on the Islands of Inishark and Inishbofin, Co. Galway, Ireland (2018)
  70. Consumption Preferences at the Collapse of Empire: The Case of New Kingdom Jaffa (2017)
  71. Contact and Colonial Impact in Jamaica: Comparative Material Culture and Diet at Sevilla la Nueva and the Taino Village of Maima (2017)
  72. Contact and Exchange in Northern China: A Case Study on the Tomb of a Zoroastrian Priest, Kang Ye (512-571 CE) (2015)
  73. Contact, Colonialism, and the Intricacies of Ethnogenesis: Portugal, Spain and the Iberian Moment (2018)
  74. Contact, Exchange, and Identity Revisited: A Closer Look at Michigan's Garden Peninsula Archipelago (2018)
  75. Contact-Era Tuberculosis at Kanamarka, Peru (2023)
  76. Contact-Period Settlement Changes in Eastern North America: A Test of the Ideal Free and Ideal Despotic Distribution Models (2017)
  77. Contacts before "Contact". Comments about the interaction between nomads and sedentary societies in Northern Mexico desert Highlands (2019)
  78. Contacts between Chinese Regional Cultures and Northern Grasslands during the Early Bronze Age: a case study of turquoise-inlaid ornaments (2017)
  79. Containing Archaeology: Categorization, Hidden Labor, and the Social Lives of Archaeological Ephemera (2023)
  80. Contaminated Consumption: An Archaeological Examination of the Consequences of Adaptation in Industrial and Illicit Alcohol Production in the Southeastern United States (2024)
  81. Contemplating Disjoint Change in the Tuxtlas Formative-Classic Transition (2024)
  82. Contemplating Trade Corridors: Cost and Pathway Analysis Around Managua, Nicaragua (2017)
  83. Contemporaneity of Humans and Horses in the Southwest during the Pleistocene/Holocene Transition? New Radiocarbon Dates from Two Sites in Southern Arizona (2023)
  84. Contemporary Archaeology in Indigenous Communities? (2018)
  85. Contemporary archaeology of Haitian vodou caching (2016)
  86. The Contemporary Archaeology of Old Cities: State Heritage and its Production in Rhodes and Acre (2019)
  87. Contemporary Archaeology of the Recent Soufrière Hills Volcanic Eruptions on Montserrat (2019)
  88. Contemporary human uses of forested watersheds and riparian corridors: hazard mitigation as an ecosystem service, with examples from Panama, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela (2016)
  89. Contemporary Views on Clovis Learning and Colonization (2018)
  90. Contemporary Wickiups in the Mountains of Northern New Mexico (2021)
  91. The Contents, Roles and Meanings of "Tribute" among the Classic Maya (2016)
  92. Contested Cartographies: Landscapes of power, adaptation, and persistence on the Rosebud Reservation (2019)
  93. Contested Images: Rock Art Heritage on and off the Rocks (2016)
  94. Contested Landscapes in the Caribbean: Revisiting Colonial Representations of Indigenous Political Hierarchy, Borders and Movement (2019)
  95. The Contested Mosaic: Landscape and Livelihood in the Lacandon Rainforest (2021)
  96. Contesting Dispossession. Marronage´s Mobility and the Emergence of a Landscape, 17th and 18th Century, Colombia. (2019)
  97. Contesting Landscapes. Hidden Histories vs. Memorialised Spaces in Cyprus (2018)
  98. Contesting Social Memory in Tres Zapotes and Its Hinterland during the Epi-Olmec Period: Preliminary Results of the Proyecto Arqueologico Nestepe-Rancho Cobata (2023)
  99. Context and Age of Early Maize (Zea mays) in the Central Plains (2019)
  100. Context and Collaboration: The Maxwell's Repatriation to Jemez Pueblo (2016)