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 801-900 of 21,939)

  1. Annually-Resolved Environmental proxies in the Great Lakes Region, 14 ka to 10 ka BP: A Time of Paleo-Indian Hunters and Megafauna Extinction (2016)
  2. Anomalous Floor 2 Features in the Point Pueblo Great Kiva (2019)
  3. Another F-----g Basket Baper: Decorated Specimens from Huaca Prieta, Peru (2016)
  4. Another Form of Slave Ship: Local Nautical Technologies and Practices in the Persistence of the Senegambian Slave Trade (1818–1888) (2021)
  5. Another Indigenous Feminist on Settler Colonialism in Archaeology (2018)
  6. Another Pint! Beer & Soda Bottles in Victorian Philadelphia: A Spatial Analysis (2016)
  7. Anshe Ky’an’a and Zuni Traditions of Movement (2017)
  8. Answering Chronological and Regional Interaction Questions via pXRF and LA-ICP-MS Analyses in the Interior Southeast (2015)
  9. Answering Pseudoarchaeology from the Repository (2019)
  10. Answering the Grand Challenges of Archaeology (2019)
  11. Answers in the Dirt: Taphonomy, Preservation Bias, and Pastoralism at Iron Age Nichoria, Greece (2017)
  12. The antecedents to the specialized microdrill industry on Santa Cruz Island, CA (2015)
  13. Antelope Cave and Far Western Anasazi Lifeways of the Virgin River Region (2015)
  14. Anthracological Analyses of the Iron Age Shell Middens Complex at Praia da Rocha, Inhambane, Mozambique (2019)
  15. Anthropocene Amazonia, Beyond the Buzzword: Centennial-Scale Anthropogenic Influences on Southern Amazonian Forests, 1000-2000 CE (2018)
  16. The Anthropocene Divide: Obscuring our Understanding of Socio-Environmental History (2017)
  17. The Anthropocene of Madagascar: Reviewing Chronological Evidence for Madagascar’s Colonization (2017)
  18. The Anthropocene: Present Singular or Past Plural? (2018)
  19. The Anthropogenic and Geogenic Coproduction of Seismically Triggered Soft Sediment Deformation Structures (SSDS) in Helike, Greece (2023)
  20. Anthropogenic Effects on Soil Quality of the Las Capas Irrigation System (2015)
  21. Anthropogenic Fire and the Origins of Agricultural Landscapes during the Neolithic Period (7,700–4,500 cal. BP) in Eastern Spain (2018)
  22. Anthropogenic Fire Management and Changing Land-Use Strategies in the Mammoth Cave Plateau and Sinkhole Plain, Central Kentucky, USA (2015)
  23. Anthropogenic land cover change over the last 6000 years: How can we use archaeology to inform global models? (2017)
  24. Anthropogenic Landscapes in Southern New England: An Archaeological Investigation of Farming Practices on an Eighteenth Century Colonial Farmstead in Southeastern Connecticut (2017)
  25. Anthropogenic Landscapes of Amazonia: A Spatial Analysis of Landscape Modification and Settlement Organization at Macurany, Brazil (2019)
  26. Anthropogenic plant translocations in the western Indian Ocean: Archaeobotanical perspectives on the Anthropocene from Madagascar and the Comoros (2016)
  27. Anthropogenic Thermal Alteration of Marine Bivalves, Recrystallization, and Isotope Integrity (2015)
  28. The Anthropogenic Wetlands of Northwestern Belize: Decades of Research and New Horizons for Study (2023)
  29. Anthropogenically driven decline and extinction of Sapotaceae on Nuku Hiva (Marquesas Islands, East Polynesia) (2015)
  30. Anthropologist in Exile: Navigating Loss and Pursuing Justice (2024)
  31. Anthropology is Elemental: Teaching Children Using a Four-Field Approach (2018)
  32. The Anthropology of Data Design and Project Strategy (2017)
  33. Anthropology on Social Media (2023)
  34. Anthropology on Social Media (2024)
  35. Anthropology Underwater: Landscape archaeology above and below water in the Great Lakes (2018)
  36. Anthropomorphic Figures in Arabian Rock Art (2019)
  37. The Anthropomorphic Figurine Tradition of the Fremont Archaeological Culture (2023)
  38. Anti-Colonialism, State Development, and Araucanian Resilience in the South-Central Andes (2019)
  39. Anticipating Changing Heritage Values: Reevaluating Priority Cultural Resources Criteria in Pima County, Arizona (2021)
  40. Anticipating Ruptures: Living with Uncertainty and Undertaking Repair (2024)
  41. The Antigua Valley, Guatemala: Dating and Contexts of the Middle Preclassic Period (2015)
  42. Antiquities, drugs, guns, diamonds, wildlife: toward a theory of transnational criminal markets in illicit goods (2015)
  43. The Antiquity and Persistence of Traditional Health Beliefs and Practices in the Northern Andes (2017)
  44. The Antiquity of Hunter-Gatherers Revisited (2015)
  45. Ants for Breakfast For Everyone! The Legacy of James Skibo’s Work on the Kalinga Ethnoarchaeological Project (2019)
  46. Anura in Moche Iconography (2015)
  47. Any Port in a Storm: Identifying Port Infrastructure and Architecture in the Upper Usumacinta (2015)
  48. The Anzick Genome Proves Clovis Is First, After All (2016)
  49. Anzick Site Lithics: A Study of Concave Margin Scrapers as an Integral Part of the Clovis Tool Kit (2015)
  50. The Anzick Site: A Rocky Mountain locale featuring recurrent human utilization across the millenia. (2016)
  51. Análisis arquitectónico del conjunto Patio Hundido y sus estructuras compuestas: Edificios A y B de Monte Albán (2021)
  52. Análisis Bioarqueológico de los Restos Óseos Recuperados en "EL TROPEL," Colima (2017)
  53. Análisis calendárico de las orientaciones astronómicas de la arquitectura de Tamtoc, San Luis Potosí. La importancia de su latitud geográfica y el uso del paisaje (2017)
  54. Análisis de la arquitectura de tierra en el Edificio “P” de la Zona Arqueológica de Monte Albán (2021)
  55. Análisis de redes haplotípicas del DNA mitocondrial (parcial) de los pobladores del Valle de Toluca. (2015)
  56. Análisis de Subsistencia y Selección de Recursos en Punta de Pájaro: Un Posible Yacimiento del Formativo Temprano en la Ciénaga del Guajaro Atlántico (2016)
  57. Análisis geoespacial de la distribución de sitios arqueológicos en la Sub-Región Diquís, Región Gran Chiriquí (2018)
  58. Análisis morfológico y químico de escorias de cobre del sitio Jicalán Viejo, en el Occidente de México (2023)
  59. Apache use of a sacred site. Oral history of Apache Elders. (2015)
  60. The Apalachee in a Cultural Borderlands: A Discussion of Hybridized Ceramic Practice in the 18th century (2016)
  61. Apishapa Rock Art and Soul Capture (2017)
  62. Apishapa Structures and Subsistence Strategies in Purgatoire Canyon Colorado (2018)
  63. Aplicación de la topometría digital en conservación e investigación de los monumentos mayas (2015)
  64. Apophatic Archaeology: The Materiality, Phenomenology, and Textuality of Caves in Early Medieval Britain (2024)
  65. Aportación de las fuentes históricas para un avance de la arqueología colonial en México (2016)
  66. Aportes a la Interpretación Arqueológica de la Zona Sur en Honduras. (2018)
  67. Aportes de la prospección geofísica para entender los asentamientos en medios lacustres de la cuenca de Zacapu, Michoacán, México (2024)
  68. Apotguan Revisited: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Latte Period Burials from Guam (2019)
  69. The Apparent Resilience of the Dry Tropical Forests of the Nicaraguan Region of the Central American Dry Corridor to Extreme Variations in Climate over the Last c.1200 Years (2019)
  70. The Appearance, Use, and Production of Glass in Ancient Sub-Saharan West Africa (2019)
  71. Apples and Oranges? Positioning Regional Archaeology in a Global Perspective (2017)
  72. The Applicability of Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS): A Case Study of Sourcing Ceramics in the Northern Mimbres Area (2017)
  73. Applicability of Maxent Predictive Modeling in Locating Pre-Hispanic Quarries in the Callejón de Huaylas, Peru (2019)
  74. Application of a Novel Machine Learning Methodology to the Study of Dipodomys spp. Response to El Niño Southern Oscillation events Throughout the Holocene (2019)
  75. Application of archaeometric methods to forensic anthropology casework to resolve medicolegal significance (2024)
  76. Application of Architectural Energetics Models to the Iron Age Tumuli of Bin Tepe in Lydia, Western Turkey (2016)
  77. Application of Compound-specific Radiocarbon Dating of Hydroxyproline from Bone Collagen (2015)
  78. Application of Dietary Isotopes to Estimate Temporal Context of Unidentified Remains in British Columbia Canada (2023)
  79. Application of Dietary Isotopes to Questions of Medicolegal Significance (2024)
  80. Application of end-member mixing analysis (EMMA) of grain-size distributions to characterize site formation processes of Rimrock Draw Rockshelter (35HA3855), Harney Basin, Eastern Oregon (2015)
  81. An Application of Geospatial Technology to the Collection and Analysis of Human Skeletal Remains (2017)
  82. Application of Heritage Value in Museum Engagement (2016)
  83. An Application of Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling to Upper Paleolithic Archaeological Cultures in France between 32 and 21 cal ka BP (2021)
  84. Application of LIDAR in New Site Discoveries, Susitna Valley, Alaska (2015)
  85. Application of Metric Sex Estimation Standards at Tell Abraq: A Study of the Humerus (2024)
  86. Application of Multi-Isotopic Analysis (δ13C, δ15N, and δ34S) to Examine Mobility and Movement of People and Animals within an Iron Age British Society (2018)
  87. Application of Object-based Image Analysis of High Resolution Imagery to Identify Archaeological Features on Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) (2015)
  88. An application of obsidian hydration dating to prehistoric sites in Japan (2015)
  89. Application of Photogrammetric Methods to Archaeological Site Documentation: Archaeological and Experimental Case Studies (2017)
  90. Application of Plant Wax n-alkane and GDGT-based Paleoenvironmental Proxies Derived from Archaeological Cave Sediments: A Case Study from the Middle Stone Age site of Bizmoune, Morocco (2024)
  91. Application of Protein Mass Spectrometry to Zooarchaeological Bone (2015)
  92. Application of Stable Isotope Analysis to Questions of Status Formation and Dietary Disparities at Chalcatzingo, Morelos, Mexico (2016)
  93. The application of strontium isotope analysis to historic cemetery contexts: a case study for the creation of robust individual identifications (2015)
  94. The Application of Strontium Isotopes in Tracking Holocene Bison in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (2023)
  95. An Application of Surovell’s Behavioral Ecology Models of Site Occupation Length in the Peruvian Andes (2019)
  96. Application of the Canine Surrogacy Approach to Holocene and Iron Age Sites in Siberia (2017)
  97. Application of the Canonical Theory to Origin and Development of Social Complexity at Tak'alik Ab'aj, Guatemala (2017)
  98. Application of the Geospatial Method to On-Floor Assemblages: A Case Study from the Classic Maya City of El Palmar, Mexico (2021)
  99. The Application of X-Ray Diffraction to the Characterization of Clay Samples from the Tuxtla Mountains, México (2015)
  100. Applications of Behavioral Economics: Understanding the Effects of Roman Conquest on Late Iron Age Castro Culture Ceramic Production (2019)