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 19,301-19,400 of 21,939)
- Tanks of Vermont: Using 3D Imaging of Oversized Artifacts and Oral Histories to Build Community Engagement (2024)
- Tapajó Group Routes Networks, Santarém and Belterra Region, Lower Amazon, Brazil (2018)
- Taphonomic analysis of the small mammal assemblage of Hayonim E:implications for paleoecology of the southern Levant during MIS 6 (2017)
- Taphonomic Analysis with Multisite Big Data in the Central Mesa Verde Region (2024)
- Taphonomic and geological approaches to the identification of in situ versus ex situ archaeological material: a case study from BK East, Bed II, Olduvai Gorge (2017)
- Taphonomic and taxonomic comparisons of bird and mammal remains from Tse-whit-zen (2015)
- A Taphonomic Comparison of Two Late Pleistocene Zooarchaeological Assemblages in Northwest Italy and South Africa (2021)
- Taphonomic Comparisons of Stone Tool Transport: Surface vs. Excavated Collections (2018)
- Taphonomic evidence for human accumulation of small mammals from Pinnacle Point Site 5-6 and other MSA sites in South Africa (2015)
- Taphonomic Examination of the Skeletal Collection from Etlatongoa, Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca (2018)
- The Taphonomic Study of Small Fauna Gruta da Nova Columbeira (Portugal) (2015)
- Taphonomy and actualistic studies of carnivores: applications to understanding Sima de los Huesos (Atapuerca) and other Pleistocene sites in Spain. (2015)
- Taphonomy and Chronology of Mounds A and B at the Quapaw Village of Osotouy (Menard-Hodges Site; 3AR4) (2019)
- Taphonomy and Negative Results: An Integrated Approach to Residue Analysis (2015)
- Taphonomy and the Death Course: Materializing Value in an Anatomical Collection (2024)
- Taphonomy of a modern landscape bone assemblage in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania (2017)
- The Tarascan Landscapes of the City of Tzintzuntzan: Dwelling in the Hillsides and in the Lakes (2021)
- Tarascan Presence in Central South Michoacan. New Researches (2018)
- Target Capture for Ancient DNA: Temperature, Time, and Tiling Density (2016)
- Targeting Coastal Plains Chert in the Wacissa Quarry Cluster, Northwest Florida, USA: A LIDAR-Based Geomorphic Model for Locating Chert Quarries (2019)
- Task, Activity, and Context: Integrated Approaches to Use-wear Analysis (2017)
- The "taskscape" and its effects on cultural diversity: A spatially explicit model of mobility and cultural transmission (2015)
- Taskscapes and Social Sustainability: Archaeobotanical and Ethnohistorical Interpretations from the Chesapeake (2021)
- Taskscapes of Reindeer Herding: Changes in the Land-Use Dynamics and Campsite Organization of the Sámi Pastoralists of Northern Fennoscandia c. 700–1800 AD (2019)
- Taste for Color in Basque Land during the Paleolithic: New Approach for Description of Social Organization during the Gravettian (2023)
- A Taste for Fish among the Saint Lawrence Iroquoians of the Montreal Region (2018)
- A Taste for Tubers: The Circulation of the Familiar through the Ancient Titicaca Basin (2021)
- Tastes of Home: Food Cultures of Roman Britain Auxiliary Soldiers (2018)
- Taught or Copied? Using 2-Mode Network Visualization to Distinguish between the Two (2018)
- Taxonomic and Tissue Specific Dietary Proteins in Pottery Residues (2017)
- Taxonomical Identification by Cytochrome b: A Patagonian Case (2016)
- Taxonomy and Taphonomy of Beringian Flora and Fauna from the Southern Yukon-Alaska Borderlands with Reference to the Little John Site (KdVo-6), Yukon, Canada (2024)
- tDAR (the Digital Archaeological Record): A Domain Repository for Archaeology (2016)
- Teaching and Learning Climate Change through Global Change Archaeology (2024)
- Teaching Archaeological Epistemology through Tabletop Gaming (2024)
- Teaching Archaeology from a Sustainability Perspective (2015)
- Teaching Archaeology in the Age of Disinformation (2023)
- Teaching Archaeology in Virtual Reality: Project Ambrosia (2019)
- Teaching Archaeology through Games: Bringing Interactive Lessons into the Classroom (2015)
- Teaching Archaeology to Change the Status Quo (2024)
- Teaching Archaeology to Veterans: Case Studies from the Veterans Curation Program (2018)
- Teaching Archaeology with Campus Trash (2015)
- Teaching Atlanta: Using local projects to bring digital heritage into the classroom (2017)
- Teaching Bones from my Garden (2016)
- Teaching Climate Change in Red States (2018)
- Teaching Cultural Complexity through Experimental Archaeology of Composite Artifacts (2024)
- Teaching Curation: Using Collections to Foster Disciplinary Reflection and Research Opportunities among Undergraduates (2024)
- Teaching Digital Archaeology as Public Anthropology: Models for Using Social Media & Technology to Move Beyond the Classroom (2017)
- Teaching from the Trenches: Graduate Student Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Archaeology Classroom (2023)
- Teaching History with Digital Historical Games (2019)
- Teaching on the Down-Low: presenting queer theory to a broad audience (2015)
- Teaching Scientific Anthropology in the Age of Trump: Towards a Pedagogy of Science Literacy and Advocacy (2018)
- Teaching the Possibilities and Politics of Digital Artifact Representations using Virtual Reality and 3D Printing (2018)
- Teaching Tree Rings: Dendroarchaeology for Outreach and Education (2023)
- Teaching with Beer: An Archaeology of Beer in and outside of the Classroom (2021)
- Teaching With Collections: The Power of Object-Based Pedagogies (2024)
- The Team for the New Age: Naranjo and Holmul under Kaanul’s Sway (2021)
- Team-Based Learning in AN 101: Introduction to Archaeology & Biological Anthropology (2018)
- Tecapa: Segmentary Organization as Sociopolitical Technology in the Transitional Period (AD 800–1000 AD) (2024)
- Technical Analysis and Replication of Corinthian Polychrome Slips, 8th - 6th Centuries BCE (2015)
- Technical Analysis of Hohokam Stone Palettes from Pueblo Grande Museum (2016)
- A Technical Attribute Analysis of Textile Band Production at Uraca, Peru (2016)
- Technical Examination of Mural Painting Fragments from Plaza of the Columns Complex of Teotihuacan: A Comparative Study (2018)
- Technical Knowledge, Metal Artisans, and Moche Visual Culture: A View from Piura, Peru (2019)
- A Technical Study of Casting and Inlay on Chinese Ceremonial Weapons at the Harvard Art Museums (2015)
- A Technical Study of Post-Fire Painted Paracas Ceramics: Regional Exchange and Material Culture (2018)
- The Technical Study of Two 16th Century Mexican Pictographic Documents in the NMAI Collection (2019)
- Technical, Political and Social Issues in Archaeological Collections Data Management (2018)
- Technique and Style in textiles from the Cerro de Oro site (2015)
- Techniques, senses and emotions: polishing in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean (2015)
- Techno-economic Approach to Early Lithic Industries of Fuego-Patagonia, Discussing Interactions Among Culture, Society, and the Environment (50º-56º South Latitude) (2024)
- A Techno-morphological Analysis of Gravettian Stone Tools from Four Sites, Dordogne, France (2019)
- A Techno-morphological Analysis of Gravettian Stone Tools from La Grotte Seize and La Ferrassie, Dordogne, France (2016)
- Techno-Morphological Approach to the Stoneware Production in Angkor (2018)
- The Techno-politics of Water and Iron: Resource Materialities in South Indian (Pre)History (2015)
- Technological adaptation and the emergence of Levallois in Central Europe: new insight from Markkleeberg and Zwockau open-air sites (2016)
- Technological Advances in the Field? Using a Tablet in a Remote Field Setting (2023)
- Technological analysis of bone bloodletting instruments from the offerings of The Great Temple of Tenochtitlan (2017)
- A Technological Analysis of Daub from a Middle Mississippian Period Site in Bartow County, Georgia (2023)
- Technological and Archaeometric Analysis of Obsidian from Cerro Magoni (2017)
- Technological and Functional Characteristics of Ceramics and Their Distribution along the Southern California Coast (2016)
- Technological and Methodological Developments in Approaches to Species Identification: Advancements in Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) (2019)
- Technological approach of Obsidian sources in North Patagonian: Comparative studies between plain and highlands sources (2015)
- A Technological Approach of Textile Production in Late Postclassic Tlaxcallan (2018)
- Technological Approach to Fire Cracked Rock (2017)
- Technological Changes in Patagonia: Debitage Analysis at Chorrillo Malo 2 Site (Upper Santa Cruz River Basin) (2023)
- Technological Choice and Human-Animal Relationships: A Bird's Eye View (2018)
- Technological choice or environmental constraints? Fuel use at Boncuklu and Çatalhöyük (2015)
- Technological Complexities of the Peopling of Eastern Beringia (2017)
- Technological Investment and Subsistence Strategy Flexibility within the Uinta Basin Fremont (2019)
- Technological Know-how and Lithic Production in the mid-Hudson Valley: Observations from the Terminal Archaic (2018)
- Technological Knowledge, Migrations and Ancestral Puebloan Communities of Practice in The Northern Rio Grande of New Mexico (2018)
- Technological Organization Approaches to Lithic Analysis: Case Studies from the Late Classic Maya and Magdalenian Spain (2017)
- Technological Organization of Two Prearchaic Sites in Grass Valley, Nevada (2018)
- Technological Organization on the Paleo-Agulhas Plain: Robberg Lithic Technology from Knysna Eastern Heads Cave 1 (2021)
- Technological Organization Strategies during the East African Late Stone Age: Blade Production and the Evolution of Standardized Technology (2015)
- Technological Origins of the Denali Complex (2023)
- A Technological Reconstruction of Preindustrial Copper Smelting in Central Michoacan, Mexico (2023)
- The Technological Sequence of Heuningneskrans (Limpopo, South Africa) around the Time of the Last Glacial Maximum (2021)
- Technological Studies of Blade and Bladelet Production in the Aurignacian at Geißenklösterle Cave (SW Germany) (2024)