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 1,301-1,400 of 21,939)
- The Archaeology of Frontier American Judaism: Exploring the Mosaic of Jewish Domestic Religious Practice in the 19th Century (2016)
- Archaeology of Fueguian Islands: Tierra del Fuego, Dawson and Navarino, Human Settlement and Cultural Interaction (Patagonia, Chile) (2015)
- The Archaeology of Gossip: Delineating the Space of Interpersonal Performance (2018)
- The Archaeology of Herring: A 10-Year Effort to Overcome Technical Challenges, Part 1 (2023)
- The Archaeology of Herring: A 10-Year Effort to Overcome Technical Challenges, Part 2 (2023)
- Archaeology of High-Mountain Pastoral Campsites in the High-Pyrenees (2019)
- The Archaeology of Historic Laurel Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland (2018)
- An Archaeology of Hope: How the Past Informs Indigenous Futures in the Southern Amazon’s “Arc of Deforestation" (2021)
- An Archaeology of Illegal Garbage Dumping in the Twenty-First Century (2017)
- The Archaeology of Indigenous-European Interaction at LaSoye 2, Dominica, a Sixteenth- to Eighteenth-Century Trading Settlement (2021)
- The Archaeology of Indigo Production in Morazán, El Salvador (2019)
- Archaeology of Iron in the Lingnan Region and the Imperial Strategy of the Han Dynasty in its Southern Peripheries (2017)
- The Archaeology of Late-19th and Early-20th Century Freedman's Towns in Dallas, Texas (2019)
- Archaeology of Luatele Crater: Ritual and Prestige of the Tuimanu'a, Ta'u Island, American Samoa (2021)
- Archaeology of Materials: An Overview of Amber Use in Prehistory (2021)
- The Archaeology of Mauritian Indentured Labor: Social Life and Death (2018)
- The Archaeology of Meaningful Places in Amazonia: the Teotônio Site (Upper Madeira Basin) (2015)
- The archaeology of medieval nomadism in Eastern Europe (10th-13th centuries): the current state of research (2016)
- Archaeology of Mining in Central Asia: Current Projects, Approaches, and Limitations (2023)
- The Archaeology of Nataeł Na’ and Its Implications for Landscape and Resource Use by Pleistocene Peoples in the Yukon-Alaska Borderlands (2024)
- The Archaeology of Nuestra Señora Santa María de los Remedios del Cabo de la Vela, a colonial enterprise settlement for pearl fishing in the sixteenth century. (2015)
- The Archaeology of Pastoral Landscapes in Mountain Areas of the Central Pyrenees and North of Spain (2024)
- The Archaeology of Politics in the Highlands of Persia (2015)
- The Archaeology of Public Health and Food Sovereignty in the Pacific Islands (2023)
- The Archaeology of Rebellion and Resistance: Archaeological Investigations of the Neo-Inca State of Vilcabamba, Peru (2015)
- Archaeology of Religion in Nicaragua (2017)
- The Archaeology of Religious Conversion: Virtue and Tradition in the Indor valley, North India (2018)
- Archaeology of Resistance? Barbuda in the Aftermath of Hurricane Irma (2019)
- An Archaeology of Return?: African Diaspora Heritage in the Wake of the Slave Trade (2024)
- Archaeology of Ritual in Cherokee Towns of the Southern Appalachians (2019)
- Archaeology of Salmon Ceremony in the Japan Sea Coastal Regions: A Comparative Study with the Northwest Coast of North America (2017)
- Archaeology of San Francisco Jews (2015)
- The Archaeology of Schoharie Creek III Site, Schoharie County, New York (2023)
- The Archaeology of Shuká Káa Cave: Final Report (2023)
- An Archaeology of Skiing (2015)
- The Archaeology of Skiles Shelter (41VV165) (2024)
- Archaeology of Smoking Behaviors on Putlic Parks of Santiago, Chile (2017)
- The Archaeology of Souls: A Foundation through Systematic Survey of Historic Woodland and Plains Native American Soul Concepts (2016)
- Archaeology of the 18th-Century French Colonial Metoyer Land Grant Site, Natchitoches, Louisiana (2015)
- The Archaeology of the Acari Valley and the Legacy of Francis Allen "Fritz" Riddell (2018)
- Archaeology of the Apalachicola-Lower Chattachoochee Valley (2024)
- The Archaeology of the Archaic Age on Margarita Island within the Context of the Venezuelan Caribbean (2016)
- The Archaeology of the Color Pink (2019)
- Archaeology of the Eastern Oyster: Collection and Curation Practices by North American Practitioners (2024)
- Archaeology of the Gold Rush Waterfront (2015)
- The Archaeology of the Jennings Site, Saratoga Couny, New York (2024)
- Archaeology of the Nez Perce War of 1877 in Yellowstone National Park, WY. (2015)
- An Archaeology of the Night (2016)
- Archaeology of the Nucor Steel Project, Meade County, Kentucky (2024)
- Archaeology of the Past, Present, and Future: Insights From Youth Engagement in Old Harbor, Alaska (2024)
- Archaeology of the Port des Morts Lighthouse Ruins (47DR497) – A Mid-19th Century Lighthouse Site (2017)
- Archaeology of the Shaw Creek Catchment, Central Alaska. (2015)
- The Archaeology of the Southern Belize Region in Context (2018)
- Archaeology of the Terminal Pleistocene McDonald Creek Site, Central Alaska (2015)
- Archaeology of the Town Square and the Emergence of Democracy in the Phoenician Mediterranean (2023)
- Archaeology of the Upper Yukon River Canyon Riparian Zone: Alaska and Yukon Territory (2024)
- Archaeology of the Wetherill Trading Post in Chaco Canyon (2019)
- The Archaeology of Travel in Greater Nicoya (2018)
- The Archaeology of Wetlands, Weirs, and Waterways in the Kawartha Lakes Region, Ontario (2024)
- Archaeology on Sheppard’s Island: Predictive Modeling and Heritage Preservation in Delaware’s Inter-Tidal Zone (2019)
- Archaeology on the Half Shell: Preliminary Analysis of Shellfish Consumption at Coan Hall (44NB11), Virginia (2018)
- Archaeology Underfoot on College Hill: Education, Outreach, and Historical Archaeology at Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) (2015)
- Archaeology's Digital Interfaces (2017)
- Archaeology, A Bone to Pick: Pitfalls of a Destructive Science (2017)
- Archaeology, a Historical Science of Multiplicities (2024)
- Archaeology, Accessibility and 3D Imaging (2017)
- Archaeology, Epigraphy and the Development of Long-term Alliance at La Corona, Guatemala (2016)
- Archaeology, History, and Accessibility with the Eckley Miners' Village Cell Phone Tour (2023)
- Archaeology, History, and Ancient Political Dynamics of the Mopan River Valley (2018)
- Archaeology, History, and Modeling the Past: Neglected Assumptions (2024)
- Archaeology, Identity and Art: The Caranqui Murals of Ibarra, Ecuador (2015)
- Archaeology, Indigenous Archiving Practices, and the African Past: Researching the History of Atlantic Slavery in Peki, Ghana (2024)
- Archaeology, Local History, and Heritage in Limpopo National Park (2021)
- Archaeology, Museums, and the Anthropocene (2018)
- Archaeology, People and Identity in Cape Verde Islands (2018)
- Archaeology?! Yadilah! Collaborative Archaeology and Lessons from the Navajo Nation (2015)
- Archaeologyin3 Minutes: Multimedia Storytelling in Public Archaeology (2017)
- Archaeology’s Empire of Sectarianism (2024)
- Archaeology’s Moving Images (2015)
- Archaeomagnetic Dating Results of PPC Project (2018)
- Archaeomagnetic Directional Studies as a Tool for Understanding Feature Form and Function: A Case Study of Two Burned Rock Features in a Multicomponent Site in East Texas, USA (2023)
- Archaeomagnetic Studies in Xalla: Contributions to the Chronology of Teotihuacan (2021)
- Archaeomagnetism and Hohokam Platform Mounds: Reframing the Classic Period Chronology (2019)
- Archaeometallurgy and Productive Processes: Understanding Copper Smelting Production in the Prehispanic and Colonial Site of Jicalán, Michoacán, Mexico (2023)
- Archaeometallurgy, Environment & Landscape in Upland Laos: its impact on 'world-views' during the transition from the Bronze Age to early states in SE Asia. (2015)
- Archaeometric Analysis of Hunter-Gatherer Pottery from Northeast Asia (2015)
- Archaeometric Analysis of Mural Paintings at Pachacamac, Peru (2019)
- Archaeometric Characterization of the Lapidary Objects from Teopancazco and Xalla, Teotihuacan (2019)
- Archaeometric Studies of Rock Paintings in Colombia, South America: Geochemical and Mineralogical Characterization (2023)
- Archaeometry and Mural Paintings in Ancient Peru: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Apprehend the Prehispanic Artisan Painters (2015)
- Archaeometry and the lime kilns (2015)
- Archaeometry of the Lapidary of Xalla and the Identification of Teotihuacan Relics in Tenochtitlan (2021)
- Archaeomtric Analysis of Ceramics from Iron Age Thrace, Bulgaria (2019)
- Archaeothanatological Analysis of Mortuary Practices in the Prehistoric Sonoran Desert and Implications for Interpreting Sickness through Postmortem Processing (2018)
- Archaeozoology contributions to the studies of the anthropology of food through the study of two archaeological contexts of early Hispanic – Indigenous interaction in the northeast of Cuban. (2016)
- Archaic Age Bahamas? New perspectives from Long Island (2019)
- Archaic Age migration and settlement on Aruba (2016)
- Archaic Age voyaging, networks and resource mobility around the Caribbean Sea (2016)
- Archaic and Formative Period Obsidian Exchange on the coast of Guerrero, Mexico (2015)
- Archaic and Paleoindian Houses in the Southern Rocky Mountains (2019)