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 601-700 of 21,939)
- Ancestry and Heritage at a South Carolina Rice Plantation (2018)
- Anchoring in the Gulf: Trans-Species Dwelling and Building in Gulf Coast Florida (2018)
- Anchoring the Absolute to the Relative: Recent Chronological Research in the Virú Valley, Peru (2015)
- Ancient Alaskan Firewood Management Strategies and the Role of Selectivity: Preliminary Results (2018)
- Ancient American Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum (2016)
- Ancient and Contemporary Maya Ruins as Living Landscapes (2023)
- Ancient and Historic Glass Production in India: Preliminary Results of Raw Material Analyses (2023)
- Ancient and Medieval Agricultural Terraces in Italy: Chronology, Geoarchaeology, and sedaDNA (2024)
- Ancient and Medieval Monuments from Romania and Spain as a Testimony of Transcontinental Links—Cultural and Scientific Aspects (2019)
- Ancient Andean Scalarity (2019)
- Ancient Beads from Southeast Asia at the Corning Museum of Glass (2023)
- Ancient Biomolecules and Destructive Sampling at the National Museum of Natural History (2018)
- ANCIENT CACAO GROVES IN YUCATAN: A PALYNOLOGICAL APPROACH (2017)
- Ancient Caribbean-Mainland Plant and Animal Translocations: Cultural, Biogeographic and Biodiversity Legacy (2015)
- Ancient Ceremonial Landscapes in Northern Arizona (2023)
- The Ancient City of Dos Hombres: Material Expressions of Power (2017)
- Ancient Clam Gardens and Ecological Enhancement on Northern Quadra Island, BC (2017)
- Ancient Clam Gardens of the Southern Gulf Islands (2015)
- Ancient Clam Gardens: Exploring Cultural and Ecological Mechanisms that Enhanced Clam Production (2017)
- Ancient Crops, Modern Possibilities: A Study on the Potential for Millet Agriculture in the United States (2017)
- Ancient Demography in Northwest Yucatán, Mexico (2021)
- Ancient DNA Analyses and the Human Population of Western Europe during and after the Last Glacial Maximum: Major Contributions from El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain) (2024)
- Ancient DNA Analyses of Dental Calculus from Plains Village Collections (2018)
- Ancient DNA analysis and the Indo-European dispersal (2017)
- Ancient DNA Analysis from Micro-fractures in Bridge River Stone Tools (2018)
- Ancient DNA analysis of early Neolithic cattle from Houtaomuga site, Northern China (2017)
- Ancient DNA Analysis of Fish Remains from Charlie Lake Cave (HbRf-39), British Columbia, Canada (2017)
- Ancient DNA Analysis of Microbes Preserved in Dental Calculus: Challenges And Opportunities (2018)
- Ancient DNA Analysis of Orton Quarry (2019)
- Ancient DNA analysis to investigate the history of malaria and malaria genetic adaptations in Europe (2016)
- Ancient DNA and Cranial Morphometric Analysis into Ancestry of Five Burials from Colonial Delaware (2015)
- Ancient DNA and Historical Ecology: An Innovative Approach to Environmental Conservation (2017)
- Ancient DNA from Campeche, Mexico, Reveals a Socially Segregated Population in the First Two Centuries after Hispanic Contact (2021)
- Ancient DNA from Etruscan Tombs and Beyond: A Case Study from San Giuliano (2021)
- Ancient DNA from Stone Tools (2017)
- Ancient DNA in archaeological bone tools from La Ventilla, Teotihuacan: sex determination and genetic structure. (2016)
- Ancient DNA Investigations of Possible Casas Grandes – Chalchihuites Interactions (2018)
- Ancient DNA of a nomadic population provides evidence of the genetic structure of the royal ancient Mongols (2017)
- Ancient DNA of Camelids from Far Southern Peru: Whole Genome Enrichment Methods Reveal Breeding History at Tiwanaku and Inca Sites (2023)
- Ancient DNA Perspectives on Kinship and Racialized Labor at a 17th century Delaware Frontier Site (2018)
- Ancient DNA prospecting in the Caribbean: preliminary findings and future perspectives (2015)
- Ancient DNA Studies in Tropical Environments: A Study into the Genetics of the Pre-Columbian Indigenous Population of Puerto Rico (2017)
- Ancient DNA Studies of Domesticated Cattle in Northern China (2017)
- Ancient DNA, Zooarchaeology, and the Case for Whale Hunting on the Northern Oregon Coast (2015)
- Ancient DNA: Investigating Maya Domesticated Waterscapes (2024)
- Ancient Dog Genome Preserved in Tumor Provides Novel Insights into the Domestication of Dogs (2018)
- Ancient Dogs of the Tennessee River Valley (2017)
- The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead on Coffins: Ritual Protection and Justification of the Deceased. (2015)
- Ancient Egyptian Curses and Bog Bodies: The Role of Pseudoarchaeology in Tumblr's Subculture (2019)
- Ancient Egyptian mummy genomes suggest an increase of Sub-Saharan African ancestry in post-Roman periods (2017)
- Ancient explosives from Jerusalem identified on the analysis of the mysterious sphero-conical ceramic vessels using archaeological chemistry (2016)
- The Ancient Floors of Housepit 54, Bridge River site: Stratigraphy and Dating (2015)
- Ancient Genomics Is Archaeobiology (2024)
- Ancient Genomics of Hunter-Gatherers at Lake Baikal: Shamanka II Case Study (2023)
- Ancient genomics of Neolithic to Bronze Age Baikal hunter-gatherers (2017)
- Ancient Glass Studies from 1st-2nd Millennium AD Africa: What Have We learned and Where Are We Going (2015)
- Ancient Greenstone Mosaic Masks from the Central Maya Lowlands of Guatemala: A Contextual and Technological Study (2017)
- Ancient Herring DNA from the Burton Acres Shell Midden (45KI437) and Pacific Herring Population Dynamics in the South Salish Sea (2019)
- Ancient Hominin Bone Proteomes: Improving our Understanding of Past Human Behavior through the Study of Ancient Bone Proteins. (2017)
- Ancient Human DNA Analysis from Central California: Interpreting the Penutian Migration through Genetics. (2017)
- Ancient Human DNA from Shum Laka (Cameroon) in the Context of African Population History (2019)
- Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans (2015)
- Ancient Human Herbivorous Diet Reflected by the Analysis of Starch Grains from the Xijincheng Site, Bo'ai county, Henan province, China (2015)
- Ancient Human-Animal Interactions in Chachapoyas Region: Isotopic Analysis of Zooarchaeological Remains from Kuelap, Peru (2018)
- Ancient Impacts on a Modern Environment: Soil Management and Intensive Agriculture in a Pre-Columbium Urban Context (2016)
- Ancient Indigenous Cuisine: Multiproxy Investigations of Food Choice and Cooking (2023)
- Ancient Inscriptions and Climate Change: A Study of Water Management at the Ancient Capital of Bagan, Myanmar (2021)
- Ancient Landscapes of Amazonia: A Study of Pre-Colonial Processes and Contemporary Use at Macurany, Brazil (2018)
- The Ancient Landscapes of South Texas Initiative and Augmented Reality: An Immersive Experience in Archaeological Education and Community Engagement (2023)
- Ancient Landscapes of the Rocky Mountain Front: A View from the Billy Big Springs Site, MT (2018)
- Ancient Lifeways but Not Archaic Approaches: Theoretical and Methodological Contributions from Researching the Earliest Record of the American Southeast (2024)
- The Ancient Lingling-O: Understanding Jade Stone Manufacture through Experimental Drilling and Scanning Electron Microscope Analysis (2019)
- Ancient Manganism in the Andes: A Bioarchaeological View (2023)
- Ancient Maya Agricultural Techniques: Investigations of Possible Terracing at the Site of Actuncan, Belize (2017)
- Ancient Maya Agriculture: The Intersection of Archaeology, Soil Science, Ethnobotany and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (2024)
- Ancient Maya Animal Use at El Mirador: Subsistence, ceremony, exchange and environmental resiliency (2017)
- Ancient Maya Craft Specialization in the Belize Valley (2016)
- Ancient Maya Dentistry: New Evidence for Therapeutic Dental Interventions and Dental Care Practices (2021)
- Ancient Maya Diet, Environment, Animal Use and Exchange at El Mirador: The Zooarchaeological Evidence (2018)
- Ancient Maya Elite Political-Economic Practices at La Milpa North, Northwestern Belize (2015)
- Ancient Maya Inequality and Oral Microbiome Ecologies from Classic Period Maya Contexts in Southern Belize (2023)
- Ancient Maya Land Use: Water Management and Agricultural Production at Actuncan, Belize (2018)
- Ancient Maya lithic craft specialization at Colha, Belize (2015)
- Ancient Maya Marketplace Investigations at Hun Tun (2024)
- Ancient Maya Mobility: Hinterlands Sacbe Systems (2019)
- Ancient Maya Placemaking: An Isotopic Assessment of Ancestry, Memory, and Body Partibility (2023)
- Ancient Maya Plant Use In the Mopan River Valley, Belize (2016)
- Ancient Maya Quarries: Limestone, Chert and Lidar (2019)
- Ancient Maya Salt Making Activities as Revealed Through Underwater Excavations and Sediment Chemistry, Paynes Creek National Park, Belize (2017)
- The Ancient Maya Settlement of Waybil, Belize: Middle-Level and Hinterland Settlement Investigations (2018)
- Ancient Maya Sustainability at Caracol, Belize: Implications for Past and Future (2019)
- Ancient Maya Trade and Communication as Evidence by Petrographic and Iconographic Analysis of Unit-Stamped Pottery (2015)
- Ancient Maya Use of Fauna from the Wetlands and Beyond (2021)
- Ancient Maya Water Control, Wetlands, and the Fiery Pool (2019)
- Ancient Maya Wetland Features in the Eastern Belize Watershed (2015)
- Ancient Mesoamerican Rain Cloud Iconography and Early Rain Entities (2023)
- Ancient Metal Routs in the Tarascan Señorío: Mining, Smelting, Smiting (2017)
- The Ancient Methone Intensive Survey Project: New Research at a Harbor City in the North Aegean (2015)
- Ancient Migrations in the Aztatlán Region: aDNA Analyses (2023)
- Ancient Mitochondrial DNA and Genetic Variation in Northwest Mexican Populations (2024)