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 1,201-1,300 of 21,939)
- Archaeology and Ethnography on Old Providence and Santa Catalina Islands (Colombia) (2021)
- Archaeology and Ethnohistory in the Sahuaripa Region of Eastern Sonora (2018)
- Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Western Papaguería: Let's Not Forget the People (2018)
- Archaeology and Experiential Learning: The Unique Impact of Learning Experientially for the Field Sciences (2016)
- Archaeology and Forestry Perspectives on the Management of Rhyolite Quarries on Pennsylvania State Forest Lands (2023)
- Archaeology and Genetics in the South Caucasus (2019)
- Archaeology and Geomorphology of Paleo-shorelines at Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming (2017)
- Archaeology and Heritage in the United States (2015)
- Archaeology and Literacy: Students Journey across the American Southwest (2019)
- Archaeology and NAGPRA in Alaska: Examples of Intentional Excavation (2019)
- Archaeology and Organic Residue Analysis: Formulations, Considerations, and Interpretations in Researching Psychoactive Substances (2023)
- Archaeology and Stable Isotope Ecology of the Passenger Pigeon: Tracing the Prehistory of an Extinct Bird (2019)
- Archaeology and TCPs (2024)
- Archaeology and the Colorado River: Environment and Cultural Management (2024)
- Archaeology and the Common Core: Bay Farm School and UC Berkeley (2015)
- Archaeology and the End of Empire in Nigeria: Learning from the History of Late Colonial Archaeology at Ile-Ife (2019)
- Archaeology and the Green Power Initiative: Reconciling Large Renewable Energy Development Projects and the Protection of Cultural Resources (2019)
- Archaeology and the Historical Construction of Community at Feltville / Glenside Park (2019)
- Archaeology and the Politics of Erasure in the Middle East (2024)
- Archaeology and the Production of Capital in the 21st Century (2016)
- Archaeology and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC): A Gendered Analysis of Federal Funding in Canada, Fiscal Years 1994-2014 (2017)
- Archaeology and Tourism in the Early 20th Century: Pompeii through a Photographic Archive (2018)
- Archaeology and Well-Being Delivered through Authentic and Meaningful Participation (2023)
- Archaeology as a Public Good: the Summer Field School Program at Clarion University of Pennsylvania (2019)
- Archaeology as Actionable Science on Climate Change: Lessons from Interdisciplinary Collaboration (2018)
- Archaeology as Activism: Cultural Heritage, Identity, and Sustainability in Transylvanian Mining Communities (2019)
- Archaeology as Anthropology: Chaîne Operatoire and the Analysis of Contemporary Technologies (2018)
- Archaeology as Heritage Resource: Foundations for Successful Archaeological Tourism, Achievements and Challenges from Petra to Angkor (2015)
- Archaeology as Meditative Practice (2017)
- Archaeology as our Urban Futures (2019)
- Archaeology as Storytelling (2017)
- Archaeology As The CRO Flies, 2002-2014: A Retrospective Of Twelve Years Of Powered Parachute Aerial Archaeology (2015)
- Archaeology AskHistorians: Public-driven Inquiry and Outreach in the Digital Age (2018)
- Archaeology at Camp Michaux: A Productive Collaboration between Dickinson College, Cumberland County Historical Society, and Governmental Agencies in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (2018)
- Archaeology at the Head of Canal System 2, Phoenix, Arizona (2015)
- Archaeology at Warren Grove Gunnery Range, Pine Barrens, Burlington County, New Jersey (2018)
- Archaeology by Experiment, Replicating the Past, and Education: The Classroom and the Waters of the Lesser Antilles (2024)
- Archaeology during the Portuguese Dictatorship: The Role of Regional Institutions (2024)
- Archaeology Education for Children: Measuring Success and Avoiding Pitfalls (2016)
- Archaeology Education for Teachers: Getting Results (2023)
- Archaeology Education in Bioarchaeology and Human Osteology: Value and Values of Experiential Service Learning (2023)
- Archaeology Fairs: Measuring Informal Learning (2017)
- Archaeology Field School at A Community College: An Outreach Opportunity (2015)
- Archaeology Field School Meets Transportation Data Recovery: An Alternative Mitigation at the James W. Hatch Site (36CE544), Centre County, Pennsylvania (2019)
- Archaeology for Many More: A Necessarily Broad Approach to the Archaeology of Evergreen Plantation (2024)
- Archaeology for the Incarcerated (2019)
- Archaeology for the Land: The Potential of Community-Based Archaeology for Land Stewardship (2024)
- Archaeology for the People: Community-Based Research, Hands-On Education, and their Place in Archaeology (2019)
- Archaeology Girls: Mentoring of Women in Archaeology and the 1960s Girl Scout Archaeological Unit (2016)
- Archaeology in 3D: Exploring Differences in Photogrammetric Models Created with Popular Structure-from-Motion (SfM) Archaeological Software from both Drone and Terrestrial Photography (2019)
- Archaeology in a Cretaceous Swamp (2015)
- Archaeology in a Vacuum: Obstacles to and Solutions for Developing a Real Space Archaeology (2019)
- Archaeology in America’s Paradise: Renewing Local and National Interests in Our Nations Parks (2016)
- Archaeology in and with Museums: A Case Study from Honduras (2018)
- Archaeology in Outer Space: The Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment (SQuARE) on the International Space Station (2023)
- Archaeology in Public Schools (2023)
- Archaeology in Puerto Rico from 1960 to 1988: A Transition from Amateur to Regulated Archaeology (2023)
- Archaeology in the Age of the Anthropocene: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (2018)
- Archaeology in the Bering Sea: Results from 25 Years of Periodic Archaeological Research on St. Matthew and Hall Islands, the Most Remote Area within Alaska (2023)
- Archaeology in the Big Bend of the Green River, KY (2019)
- Archaeology in the Plaza: Public Display of the Past in Banamichi, Sonora (2019)
- Archaeology in the Southern Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca: After a Century of Explorations, What Has Changed? (2021)
- Archaeology in the Unfolding Aftermath: Creative Mitigation of Anthropogenic Disasters in New Orleans and the Mississippi River Delta (2024)
- Archaeology in the Wilderness (2016)
- Archaeology in your Backyard: Successes and Lessons Learned from FPAN-Led Community Archaeology Projects (2016)
- Archaeology Is Anthropology, but Did Zooarchaeology Really Listen? (2021)
- "Archaeology is just a more productive form of boring": Learning by Doing on the Kenyon-Honduras Program (2019)
- Archaeology Moms: Mobility, Parenting, and Privilege in Archaeology (2023)
- Archaeology not only for archaeologists: Examples of integration of archaeology and rural communities in Perú (2015)
- Archaeology of a Frontier Plantation: Collections Analysis at Woodville Plantation, Pennsylvania, c. 1780 (2018)
- The Archaeology of a Russian Period Alutiiq Work Camp on Kodiak Island, Alaska (2015)
- The Archaeology of Anthropocene Rivers: Historic Mining and Landscape Change in Australia (2017)
- An Archaeology of Ash? Exploring Chacoan Contexts and Practices (2018)
- The Archaeology of Aztec North (2017)
- The Archaeology of Baseball: Excavations at Warren Ballpark in Bisbee, AZ (2018)
- An Archaeology of Becoming (2017)
- Archaeology of British Military Logistics in the French and Indian War (2017)
- The Archaeology of Cannabis in Humboldt County (2021)
- The Archaeology of Citizenship in the Nation’s Capital: Reconsidering D.C.’s Legacy Collections (2024)
- The Archaeology of Citizenship: African American School Sites in Post-emancipation Tennessee (2021)
- The Archaeology of Clovis Landscape Use at the Mockingbird Gap site, New Mexico and Surrounding Regions (2016)
- The Archaeology of Collections: A History of Practice and Policy in Arizona State Museum Archaeological Collections (2023)
- Archaeology of Colonial Encounters: The Alienating Narrative (2015)
- The archaeology of colonialism and capitalism in the Southwest Pacific: the Compagnie Calédonienne Nouvelles-Hébrides (CCNH) on Malakula, Vanuatu. (2017)
- Archaeology of Colonialism and Ethnogenesis in Guam and the Mariana Islands (2018)
- The Archaeology of Color in the Southwest (2019)
- The Archaeology of Community at Mission Santa Clara de Asís (2015)
- The archaeology of conflict damaged sites: Hosn Niha in the Biqaʾ Valley, Lebanon. (2015)
- The Archaeology of Counterculture at the New Buffalo Commune (2023)
- Archaeology of Culiacán Valley: An Integral Approach (2019)
- Archaeology of Death across the International Border: Research among the Hohokam and Trincheras Archaeological Groups (2019)
- An Archaeology of Dictatorship in Cuba: The Escuadrón 41 of the Rural Guard in Matanzas (1958) (2024)
- The archaeology of dogs at the precontact Yup’ik site of Nunalleq, Western Alaska (2017)
- The archaeology of dreams and what it tells us about climate change (2016)
- Archaeology of Dugout Canoes in Global Perspective (2024)
- Archaeology of Early Medieval Central and Eastern Europe in the Context of “Global Middle Ages” (2024)
- The Archaeology of Ecological Imperialism in Central Mexico (2017)
- Archaeology of Everglades Tree Islands (2016)
- The Archaeology of First Generation Japanese American Men at an Idaho WWII Internment Camp (2015)
- The Archaeology of Forgetting, and the Dorset (2024)