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 •
Maya: Classic •
Cultural Resources and Heritage Management •
Ceramic Analysis •
Landscape Archaeology •
Material Culture and Technology •
Geoarchaeology •
Lithic Analysis •
Survey
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 •
Metal •
Wood •
Dating Sample •
Ground Stone •
Human Remains
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) •
Republic of Guatemala (Country) •
Netherlands Antilles (Country) •
Aruba (Country)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 17,801-17,900 of 19,165)
- Under Pressure: Evidence of 'La Vida Cotidiana' in Cranial Shape Typology at Jarana, an Inca Site in Southern Perú (2019)
- Under the Church Bell: Reducción and Control in Spanish Philippines (2018)
- Under the Cover of Night: The Liminal Landscape in Ancient Maya Thought (2016)
- Under the Hills: Archaeology of the Quetzaltenango Valley (2019)
- Under the Scope: Nondestructive Methods of Analyzing Perishable Artifacts in Legacy Collections (2021)
- "Under the Volcano": Assemblages, Causality and Volcanic Matter at San Pedro Aguacatepeque, Guatemala. (2015)
- Under Threat of Erosion: Late Prehistoric to Historic Contact Houses near the Native Village of Shaktoolik, Alaska (2015)
- The Under-Represented Mullet in SW Florida’s Archaeological Assemblages (2019)
- An Underground Home for Earthly Beings. Reconstructing the Archaeological Context of a Lot of Mesoamerican Mosaic Encrusted Artifacts in the National Museum of the American Indian Collections (2018)
- Understanding an Alternative Pattern of Coalescence: A Study of Architecture and Organization at a Non-fortified, Pre-Inca Town in Highland Peru (2017)
- Understanding Ancestral Wichita and French Trade at the Deer Creek (34KA3) Site (2019)
- Understanding Animal Use at the Wetland Maya Site of Chulub (2018)
- Understanding Archaeological Site Protection at the Local Level in Florida (2016)
- Understanding Archaeology in the Dunes: OSL Dating of the Tolleston Beach at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and Its Implications for Interpreting the Archaeological Record (2019)
- Understanding Changes in Lagomorph Proportions within the Homol’ovi Settlement Cluster, Northeast Arizona (2018)
- Understanding Dam Effects on Downstream Archaeological Resources: Lessons Learned from Three Decades of Research Downstream from Glen Canyon Dam, Arizona (2019)
- Understanding damage due to sea level rise in Orkney: the results of recent work (2016)
- Understanding Depositional Processes: A Contextual Analysis of Lagomorph Remains from Aztec and Salmon Ruins (2016)
- Understanding Diachronic Patterns of Feasting at the Late Classic Maya Polity of Lower Dover, Belize. (2023)
- Understanding Early Archaic Stone Tool Production Practices: A Pilot Study (2019)
- Understanding Early Societies and Investigating Early Interactions: Origin, Significance and Transmission of the Bronze Plaques from the Tianshan Beilu cemetery, Eastern Xinjiang (2019)
- Understanding Environmental Thresholds through Geoarchaeology: Case Studies from the Maya Lowlands (2016)
- Understanding Exchange in Late Pre-Hispanic Central America. Current Thinking on Culture Areas and Ethnicity (2015)
- Understanding Formation Processes of Archaeological Sites in Eolian Settings in the Petrified Forest National Park (2015)
- Understanding Gallina Pitstructures (2019)
- Understanding heterarchy: Landscape and community in the northern Calchaquí Valley, Argentina (2016)
- Understanding Infrastructural Power, Collective Action, and Urban Form: Situating Neighborhoods and Districts at Caracol, Belize (2018)
- Understanding Interactions Between Iron Age Polities in Cyprus through the Microscopic Lens (2017)
- Understanding Island Tongva Villages: Results From the Catalina Island Museum's Toyon Collection (2015)
- Understanding Manifestations of Public Ritual in Late Mississippian Pottery: A Comparison of Millstone Bluff and Dillow’s Ridge Ceramic Assemblages (2018)
- Understanding Maya Rituals of Power in the Candelaria Caves, Guatemala: A View from the Polychrome Ceramics of the Early Classic (2018)
- Understanding Multi-sited Woodland Communities of the American Southeast through Categorical Identities and Relational Connections (2021)
- Understanding Nasca ‘Trophy Head’ Individuals from the Site of Zorropata in Peru Using Isotopic and Biochemical Methods (2019)
- Understanding Oneota Stone Tool Functions: A Case Study of Precision and Accuracy in Use-Wear Analysis (2015)
- Understanding Past Human Securities, Sustainability, and Migration for a Climate-Changing World (2023)
- Understanding Patterns of Indigenous White-tailed Deer (*Odocoileus virginianus) Exploitation in the North Carolina Piedmont Using Strontium (87Sr/86Sr) Isotope Analysis (2021)
- Understanding Pleistocene and Early Holocene faunal exploitation at Barrow Island, North-west Australia (2017)
- Understanding Pottery Production at El Campanario (Huarmey-Peru) through Ceramic Paste Analysis and pXRF (2021)
- Understanding Prearchaic Mobility and Settlement Patterns: The Role of Theory, Models, and Ethnographic Analogies (2018)
- Understanding Quilcapampa (2019)
- Understanding Residential Space through Soil Chemistry in the Northern Maya Lowlands (2015)
- Understanding Section 3 of NAGPRA (2019)
- Understanding settlement organization through geophysical survey at the Morton Village Site, IL (2015)
- Understanding Site Function and Textile Production in Southwestern Iberia (3400–2000 BCE): The Loom Weights from Perdigões (Alentejo, Portugal) (2023)
- Understanding Sociopolitical Change through Ceramic Morphological Diversity in the Ancient Nubian Hinterlands (2016)
- Understanding Stylistic and Technical Variation in Middle Chalcolithic Painted Pottery Decoration—A Test from Tel Tsaf (2019)
- Understanding Temporal Patterns of Occupation at Small Sites: The case of early Neolithic al-Khayran, west-central Jordan (2015)
- Understanding Textile Production at Cividade de Bagunte (2021)
- Understanding the Architecture of the Virgin Branch Ancestral Puebloan Using a Digital 3D Model-Based Process (2016)
- Understanding the ceja de selva in relationship to the Central Andean coast and highlands during the Early Horizon (2016)
- Understanding the Diet of Late to Terminal Classic Period Maya Groups in the Sibun River Valley, Belize, through Food Web Reconstruction (2019)
- Understanding the dispersion of ceramic styles in the lower Amazon: what is Koriabo? (2017)
- Understanding the Emergence and Spread of Chupadero Black-on-white Ceramics through Network Analysis (2018)
- Understanding the Health of the People of Pender Island (B.C.) Through Portable X-ray Fluorescence of Human Remains (2015)
- Understanding the Interplay between Domesticate Choice and the Environment: The Case of the Humble Australian Sheep (2019)
- Understanding the Landscape and Material Sources through Community Partnership in Abiquiú, New Mexico (2018)
- Understanding the local communities through the study of lithics and communication routes in the Northwestern Maya Lowlands during the Classic Maya: recent studies in the region. (2015)
- Understanding the Neolithic Transition: Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis of Subneolithic and Neolithic Animals and Inhabitants of the SE Baltic Coast (3200-2500 cal BC) (2016)
- Understanding the occupation history of oversized pit houses in the southern Brazilian highlands: Bayesian modelling and high resolution chronology of the Baggio 1 site (2016)
- Understanding the Organization of Built Space Using Spatial Statistics in GIS (2023)
- Understanding the paleogeography and Maya ditched fields along the Rio Hondo, Belize and Mexico (2015)
- Understanding the Production of Majiayao Painted Pottery in Gansu: New Data and New Thoughts (2015)
- Understanding the Relationship Between Sample Size and Variation in Ceramic Relative Chronologies at the Petrified Forest National Park (2016)
- Understanding the Ritual of Peri-abandonment Deposit Behavior Evidenced by Late Classic Maya Figurines at the Site of Baking Pot, Cayo District, Belize (2019)
- Understanding the Settlement Structure of the Middle Yangshao Period (Miaodigou Phase) based on Recent Archaeological Discoveries in the Wei River Valley (2017)
- Understanding the Short-term Occupations of the Lateglacial and Early Mesolithic Groups in Western Europe (2017)
- Understanding the Tapajó Socio-Political System through the Study of Landscapes and Material Culture (2018)
- Understanding the World of the Scribe: Challenges and Opportunities of Cataloguing the Kerr Photographic Collection of Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks (2023)
- Understanding the “Local Scale” in Pictish Landscape Research (Northern Scotland, 300–900 CE) (2023)
- Understanding variability in distribution and consumption in low-wealth households from the Classic period (2016)
- UNDERSTANDING VARIATION: STYLISTIC ETHNOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF ROCK ART FROM THE MAKGABENG PLATEAU, LIMPOPO PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA (2015)
- Understanding Vertebral Anomalies and Growth Patterns During the Late Intermediate Period (AD 1000–1470) in the Huanchaco Bay Area, Peru (2023)
- Understandings of Household Architecture at Night in the Middle Chamelecón Drainage, Honduras (2017)
- Underwater Archaeological And Forensic Investigations Carried Out At Großer Glasowsee, Brandenburg/Germany (2023)
- Underwater Archaeological Survey of Freshwater Lagoons in the Lacanja Basin, Chiapas, Mexico (2018)
- Underwater Archaeological Surveys in Shakan Bay, SE Alaska (2017)
- Underwater Archaeology at DPAA: Efforts to Address U.S. Military Loss Incidents (2019)
- Underwater archaeology in Lake Titicaca, Bolivia: Use of the littoral zone in the Tiwanaku period (AD 500-1150) (2017)
- Underwater Cultural Heritage Protection and Management in Pacific Island States (2018)
- Underwater Geoarchaeology of Perennial Lakes in the Great Basin (2015)
- Underwater Investigations of Mass Burials in Two Cenotes at Mayapán, Yucatán, Mexico (2019)
- The Underwater Search for the Remains of the Spanish Manila Galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos (2023)
- Underwater Transect Excavations, Sediment Coring, Remoting Sensing at the Paynes Creek Salt Works (2017)
- Underwater, terrestrial, and intertidal core extractions at the Walk Bridge, Norwalk, CT: An alternative to traditional Phase I survey (2017)
- The Undiscovered Country: New Insights into the Anchan Tradition of Central Arizona (2018)
- Undiscovered Country: Preliminary Results of Eleven New Sites Identified in the Susquetonscut Brook Valley, Eastern Connecticut, USA (2015)
- An Undisturbed Earlier Stone Age Locality on the Southern Coast of South Africa, Exposed by Fire (2019)
- Unearthed Burial from Rising Sea Levels: A Collaborative Community Approach for Tackling Climate Change in the Torres Strait Islands, Australia (2023)
- Unearthing a Pipeline: An Archaeological Investigation into Line 3 in Northern Minnesota (2023)
- Unearthing a town from the sky: Kom Wasit, the bird’s eye archaeological point of view. (2015)
- Unearthing Holocene lowland landscapes as tool to detect archaeological sites, a case study from Lower Khuzestan (SW Iran) (2017)
- Unearthing Sandpoint’s Chinatown: the Archaeology of Sandpoint, Idaho’s Overseas Chinese (2015)
- Unearthing the Deep Roots of the Long-term Human History and Environmental Interaction in the Atacama Desert (2017)
- Unearthing the Material Culture of Nineteenth-Century Irish Immigrants in the "City of Homes": A Case Study from Elfreth’s Alley, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2018)
- Unearthing the Mysteries of the Frank Palmer Archaeology Collections (2015)
- Unearthing the Truth: Exhumation of a Catholic priest to establish paternity (2019)
- Unentangling Hotspots and Episodes in Pre-domestication Cultivation of Cereals: Examples from West and East Asia (2023)
- Unexpected Expertise: Archaeological Science and the Creative Skills of Indus Craftspeople (2018)
- The Unexpected Fauna of Pleistocene Saudi Arabia and the Earliest Evidence of Hominin Butchery Activity (2018)
- Unexpected Social Complexity in the mid-Zaña Valley, North Coast, Peru (2016)