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 1,101-1,200 of 21,939)
- Archaeological Pedagogy, Gentrification and the City: Community-Engaged Scholarship in San Francisco (2017)
- An Archaeological Perspective on Oral Traditions, Regarding Migration, of the Northern Caddoan Speaking Tribes (2018)
- An Archaeological Pilot Study on Manihiki and Rakahanga, Two Remote Atolls in East Polynesia. (2016)
- Archaeological Plant Remains from the Lower Xingu (2021)
- Archaeological Preservation (2015)
- Archaeological Project Amacuzac, Morelos and Guerrero Mexico. (2015)
- The Archaeological Project of the Ceremonial Center of Tibes: Summary and Recent Discoveries (2016)
- Archaeological Project pipeline Chihuahua -Durango " (preliminary results) (2016)
- ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROPERTY "BIENES MUEBLES" REGISTRY IN PARTICULAR CUSTODY SUCH AS HERITAGE CULTURAL PROTECTION MECHANISM. (2017)
- Archaeological Prospecting using Remote Sensing Techniques in Quiechapa, Oaxaca, Mexico (2016)
- Archaeological Prospection at Cerro Coyotepetl, Tepeticpac, Tlaxcallan: Preliminary Results from the 2017 Field Season of the Proyecto de Arqueología Cotidiana de Tepeticpac (2018)
- Archaeological Prospection Using Aerial Thermography and Quantitative Image Processing Methods (2019)
- Archaeological Proxies of Early Modern Human Niche Construction in Northern Malawi (2019)
- Archaeological Rat Diets Reflect Settlement Density: An Isotopic Investigation of Historical Rat Bones from Urban and Rural Sites in Upper Canada (2018)
- Archaeological Re-Survey, Contemporary Bahamian Cemeteries, Lucayan Prehistory, and Heritage Management (2015)
- Archaeological Reconnaissance and Excavations at El Encanto (Petén, Guatemala) in 2018 (2021)
- Archaeological Reconnaissance at Fracción Mujular: A Small Site with Big Connections (2016)
- Archaeological Reconnaissance Survey of the Bluffs of St. Teresa, Franklin County, Florida (2023)
- Archaeological recovery associated with the Wanapum Dam emergency drawdown, central Washington State. (2016)
- Archaeological Recovery of Late Pleistocene Hair and Environmental DNA from Interior Alaska (2023)
- Archaeological Relocation of Five Historic Cemeteries in North-Central Tennessee (2023)
- Archaeological Remote Sensing at Damariscove Island and Colonial Pemaquid, Coastal Maine (2023)
- Archaeological Repositories in British Columbia (2017)
- The Archaeological Repository of Colorado State University: Expanding Opportunities for Accessibility and Research (2019)
- Archaeological Research in the Historical Center of Xochimilco (2021)
- Archaeological Research in the Recovery of WWII MIA's on a Pacific atoll: Tarawa (2017)
- Archaeological Research on the Ancient Iron Metallurgy in Côte d’Ivoire (2003-2016) (2019)
- Archaeological Research Trends in Nunatsiavut (2024)
- Archaeological Resource Management and the National Park Service: Historical Perspective, Current, and Future Challenges (2016)
- Archaeological Resource Protection: Challenges to Federal Enforcement of Antiquity Law among Land Managing Agencies (2018)
- Archaeological Resources Located on Windward and Leeward Sand Dunes Adjacent to Playas and Ephemeral Lakes: A Limited Case Study from the Western Shoreline of the Salton Sea (2019)
- Archaeological Salvage at Pockoy, a Late Archaic Period Shell Ring Site on the Botany Bay Heritage Preserve, Charleston County, South Carolina (2019)
- Archaeological Science and COVID-19 (2023)
- Archaeological Science in Southern and Eastern Africa (2023)
- Archaeological Science or Scientific Archaeology: Where Does "Science" Lie in Stone Artefact Research? (2018)
- Archaeological Shellfish Size and Later Human Evolution in Africa (2015)
- Archaeological Shoreline Monitoring in a Climate-Changing SW Florida: The Case of a Rapidly Eroding, Rare, Late-Archaic Shell Midden at Calusa Island (2018)
- Archaeological Signatures for Mechanized Threshing Operations in the Midwest and the Plains (2016)
- Archaeological Site Distribution in Relation to Soils and Geomorphic Characteristics in Dune Landscapes in Northeastern Arizona (2016)
- The archaeological site of Presa de la Luz: New Insights on the relationship between the Altos of Jalisco, the Bajio and the Mexico Basin (2015)
- Archaeological Sites and Flooding in the Diquís Delta, Southeastern Costa Rica (2024)
- Archaeological Sites of the Southern Yukon-Alaska Borderlands: Distribution, Chronology, and Dineh Place Names (2024)
- Archaeological Storytelling: Narrative Construction using Virtual Reality (2018)
- The archaeological study of an Inner Asian empire: using new perspectives and methods to study the medieval Liao polity (2016)
- The archaeological study of cities in East Asia (2017)
- An archaeological study of landscape, people, and mobility in the Lakulaku River Basin in eastern Taiwan from the 18th century to the present (2016)
- Archaeological Study of Ostrich Eggshell Beads Collected from Shuidonggou (2017)
- An Archaeological Study of Pit Cellars in Tennessee (2024)
- Archaeological Study of Sources of Slate Stone Clubs From the Late to Final Jomon of Central Hokkaido (2024)
- An Archaeological Study of the Anomalous Sites aong Southern Nevada’s California Wash (2019)
- Archaeological Survey and Evaluation of the Garrett Farm Site (44CE0085), Caroline County, Virginia (2014)
- Archaeological Survey and Evaluation of the Predicted Location of the Tobacco Barn at the Garrett Farm Site (44CE0085), Caroline County, Virginia (2015)
- Archaeological Survey and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in African Archaeology: Perspectives from the Niger Valley, Benin (2018)
- Archaeological Survey Feasibility of Postharvest Units within the Coast Range (2023)
- Archaeological Survey in Arizona’s Upper Gila River Valley: 2014 - 2018 (2019)
- Archaeological Survey in Delimited Units: The Altépetl of Ixmiquilpan in the Sixteenth Century (2019)
- Archaeological Survey in Southeastern Arizona: Partnering with Landowners and Local Informants (2018)
- Archaeological Survey in the Lower Save River Valley, Southern Mozambique (2024)
- Archaeological Survey of Colonial Dominica (2017)
- Archaeological survey of mound sites in Southwestern Shandong, China: Plants and people (2017)
- Archaeological Survey through the use of Remote Sensing (LiDAR, Photogrammetry and Satelital Imagery) and GIS (2015)
- Archaeological Surveys and Environmental Change: Mongolia and Montana Comparisons (2024)
- Archaeological Synthesis and CRM: An Odd Couple? (2021)
- An Archaeological Test of A Settlement Pattern Shift Recorded in Tsimshian Oral Records (2017)
- Archaeological Textiles in the American Museum of Natural History's Bandelier Collection (2024)
- Archaeological Topography: Comparing Digital Photogrammetry Taken with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) versus Standard Surveys with Total Stations (2015)
- Archaeological tourism and social values, a case study in China (2016)
- Archaeological Traces of Consumption of Colonial Goods in Eighteenth Century Gothenburg on the West Coast of Sweden (2018)
- Archaeological Use of Meta-analyses to Limit Researcher Bias: Results from El Coyote, Honduras (2018)
- The Archaeological Utility of ACTUS: An Alternative Method of Contingency Table Analysis Using Simulation (2016)
- Archaeological Visibility at Stélida, Naxos: Identifying Activity Hubs at a Palaeolithic Chert Quarry in the Cyclades (2015)
- Archaeological, Paleoenvironmental, and Geoarchaeological Investigations of Hall’s Cave, Texas (2019)
- Archaeologies by Community Mandate: Who makes the call? (2015)
- Archaeologies of Flow in the Southern Jequetepeque: The Organization of Infrastructure, Irrigation, and Roads (2024)
- Archaeologies of Latinos in the United States (2015)
- Archaeologies of Legacy: Southern Memory and the Archaeological Archive at 87 Church Street, Charleston (2024)
- Archaeologies of the Heart (2017)
- Archaeologies of the Norman Conquest (2019)
- An Archaeologist Amongst Geneticists: Overview of My Experiences as an Archaeologist in an Ancient DNA Laboratory (2018)
- An Archaeologist and a Historian Walk Into A Classroom . . . (2024)
- The Archaeologist's Guide to Visual Communications (2017)
- Archaeologist-Collector Collaborations in the San Luis Valley: A Case Study (2019)
- Archaeologists and the Pedagogy of Heritage: Preparing Scholar-Practitioners for Complex and Changing Heritage Work (2016)
- Archaeologists as Early Adopters and Critical Remediators at UC Berkeley’s MACTiA (2019)
- Archaeologists as Indian Advocates? Lessons from Skinner, the Little-Weasel, and Moorehead, the Indian Commissioner (2019)
- Archaeologists for Autism: 5 Years and Counting of Bringing Archaeology to Children and Young Adults on the Autism Spectrum (2019)
- The Archaeologists Role in Looting: Commodity Fetishism and the Tragedy of the Commons (2017)
- Archaeologists’ Role in New Approaches to Heritage Studies and Heritage Protection (2019)
- The Archaeologist’s Guide To Good Practice: a Handbook for Post-Excavation Analysis of Stratigraphic and Chronological Data (2024)
- Archaeology & Community Engagement at Mission Espada, San Antonio TX. (2024)
- The Archaeology and Ancient Genomics of Early Horse Domestication: Not as Simple as Once Thought! (2019)
- The Archaeology and Anthropology of Megafauna Exploitation in the Kalahari Desert of Southern Africa (2024)
- Archaeology and augmented reality: applications and advice (2017)
- Archaeology and Behavioral Ecology of Maritime Hunter-gatherers of the Northeast Pacific Rim (2019)
- Archaeology and Comics: Cons, Concerns, and Creativity (2019)
- Archaeology and Community Development: A Perspective from Within (2015)
- Archaeology and Contemporary Capitalism (2019)
- Archaeology and cultural preservation: a perspective from a Yup’ik village (2015)
- Archaeology and Economic Development (2016)
- Archaeology and Ethnobiology of Late Holocene Bird Remains from the Northern Oregon Coast (2021)