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 18,301-18,400 of 19,165)
- Vertebrate Fauna from the Grand Mound Shell Ring site (8Du1), Florida (2016)
- Vertebrate Faunal Assemblages and Bone Tool Use in the Early Agricultural Period (2015)
- Vertebrate Response to Little Ice Age Climate Change in the Ohio River Valley (2019)
- A Vertical Loess Cave Dwelling at Yangguanzhai? (2017)
- "A Very Good and Substantial Fort" or "More like a Child’s Playhouse": The History and Archaeology of Civilian Fortifications during the U.S. – Dakota War of 1862 in Minnesota (2018)
- Very Small Rocks: Exploring Specimen Size Limits in Trace-Element Analysis of Obsidian Flaked Stone with Portable XRF (2021)
- Vesicular Basalt Provenance Analysis: A Collaborative Research Effort among Southern Arizona Native American Communities and Archaeologists (2015)
- Vessels of Change: Everyday relationality in the rise and fall of Cahokia (2016)
- Vestigial Religion: The Legacy of Byzantine Christianity in Ottoman and Venetian Greece (2017)
- Vestigios de lo olmeca en la montaña. Contexto y contraste del depósito de hachas de piedra verde de Matacanela. (2019)
- The Vestments of My Mysteries: Craft Production and the Ritual Economy at Iron Age Gordion (2017)
- Veteran Archivists: The Harry S. Truman Reservoir Project (2018)
- Veterans Curation Program in the Time of Corona (2021)
- The Veterans Curation Program: Unintended Public Archaeology (2018)
- The Viability of Long-Distance Acorn Transport in Eastern California (2017)
- Vibrant Recipes: The Variability and Composition of Special Clay Linings in Mississippian Shrines from the Illinois Uplands of Greater Cahokia (2019)
- Vibrant Ruins and the Construction of Casma Ancestralized Landscapes: Preliminary Insights from the Lower Nepeña Valley (2019)
- Victims or Venerated? A Bioarchaeological Examination of Gendered Ritual Violence and Social Identity of the Possible Aqlla at Túcume, Peru (2018)
- Victorian Era Opiate Use at the Vanoli Red Light District of Ouray, Colorado (2016)
- Victorian Values: North American Archaeology at the British Museum during the Nineteenth Century (2023)
- Video Games, Virtual Reconstructions, and other Digital Avenues to Engage Children of All Ages in a Cosmopolitan Past (2016)
- The view from above: changing experiences of the built environment during the Andean Late Intermediate Period (2016)
- A View from Above: The Dynamic Human Landscapes of the East Mountains (2023)
- The View from Above: The Semi-Autonomous Elite Maya Hilltop Complex of Escalera al Cielo (2017)
- The View from Below: Plaza Spaces at Actuncan, Belize (2018)
- The View from Below: The Contemporaneous View and Role of the Rural, Marginal Areas of Anatolia during the Ottoman Period (2021)
- The View from Here: An Introduction to Nuevomexicano and Chicanx Theory for Archaeology (2019)
- The View from Mazique (22Ad502): Reconsidering the Coles Creek / Plaquemine Cultural Transition from the Perspective of the Natchez Bluffs Region of the Lower Mississippi Valley (2015)
- The view from one thousand houses: a macro-regional approach to household archaeology in the Southeastern United States: (2015)
- The View from Rapa: Behavioral Ecology and Fortifications in Polynesia (2015)
- A View from Somewhere: Mapping 19th-Century Cholera Narratives (2017)
- A View from the Bridge: The Role of Anthropological Consultation in the Twenty-First Century (2023)
- The View from the Ground: How Geochemistry Informs Our Understanding of the Regal, Ritual, and Residential Character of Actuncan (2018)
- A View from the Hinterlands: Early Colonial Objects in Mortuary Contexts in Northern Highland Ecuador (2017)
- A View from the Mountains: A Test of a Predictive Model in the Southern Wind River Range, Wyoming (2018)
- The View from the North: Topará and Early Horizon Commoner Lifeways at Jahuay, Quebrada Topará, Peru (2019)
- A View from the Past: A Reanalysis of Archaeological Collections from the Sama Valley and its Implications for Current Models and Chronologies of the Southern Andean Valleys (2017)
- A View from the Periphery. Bioarchaeology and Funerary Archaeology at Al Khiday, Central Sudan (2017)
- The View from the Trenches: Tying Paleoenvironment to Archaeology at Rimrock Draw Rockshelter (35HA3855) (2019)
- A View from the Virú: Place and Sight in the Virú Valley Project Reconsidered (2021)
- A view from the weaver’s fingertips: gesture and complexity in the South Central Andes (2016)
- A View on Late Pleistocene Megafauna Extinction in Sahul: An Emu Hunt Revisited (2015)
- A View to Wilderness – The Salmo Lookout Tower and the Salmo-Priest Wilderness Area (2018)
- Viewing Ceramic "Types," "Varieties," and "Modes" from a Practice-Based Perspective: Case Studies from the Greater Southwest (2018)
- Viewsheds and Variability: the Red Ochre Burial Complex Revisited Geographically (2015)
- Viking Age Grave Reentry within the Context of Mortuary Drama (2017)
- Viking Age Port of Trade in Gotland, Sweden: Understanding Inter- and Intra-site Logistics through Faunal Analysis (2019)
- The Viking Age Settlement of Iceland: The Change from Migrant Society to Settled Society (2018)
- Viking Age tar production and the exploitation of the Outlands (2017)
- The Viking Phenomenon (2017)
- Viking skeletal remains in northern Europe: a survey (2015)
- Village Aggregation and Early Cultural Developments on the Canadian Plateau: a case study from Keatley Creek (2017)
- Village Aggregation and Native Subsistence Practices at a Middle Woodland Mound Center, Gulf Coast Florida, USA (2018)
- Village to City: Formative Period Political Evolution in Central Mexico (2018)
- Villages, Horticulture, and the Narragansett: Native American Settlement and Resource Exploitation along the Southern Rhode Island Coast ca. 1300-1400 AD. (2016)
- Violence among the Gallinazo: New Insights from Pampa la Cruz, Moche Valley (2018)
- Violence and Veneration at the Edges: Mortuary Traditions and Social Order along the Northern and Southern Frontiers of Mesoamerica (2019)
- Violence as a Contested Asset and Dynamics of Warrior Ideology at State Edges: Thugs and Harmony? (2023)
- Violence, Dislocation, and Social Transformation in the Chesapeake, AD 1300–1500 (2018)
- Violence, Politics and Power: Iron Age and Pictish Reinventions of a Prehistoric Mortuary Landscape at the Sculptor’s Cave, NE Scotland (2017)
- Violent Conflict and a Ritual of Memory in the Puebloan Southwest. (2018)
- Violent Ritual and Inter-regional Interaction during the Early Intermediate Period and Early Middle Horizon in the Majes Valley, Arequipa, Peru (2018)
- Viracocha’s Vulcanism: The Cultural Biography of a Volcano (2016)
- Virgin Branch Puebloan Adaptations on the Colorado Plateau: Recent Excavations at Granary House (AZ A:14:46) (2021)
- Virgin Puebloan and Fremont Rock Art at Petroglyph Corral (2018)
- Virtual Archaeology, Virtual Longhouses and "envisioning the unseen" within the Archaeological Record (2016)
- Virtual Copan - From 3D data collection to analysis inside a web visualization tool (2015)
- Virtual curation as an integral part of the conservation strategy at the Camp Lawton Confederate POW site (2015)
- A virtual documentation of excavation through 3D modeling; is it worth the effort? (2016)
- Virtual Graphic Representation and Urban Analysis Architectural Grand Central Acropolis: Main Access and Structure 4D1-20 El Mirador, Petén; Guatemala (2015)
- Virtual Preservation and Outreach for Nake'muu Pueblo: Using Technology to Make Inaccessible Sites Accessible (2016)
- Virtual Reality and Archaeological Practice (2023)
- The virtual reconstruction of "Los Bebedores Mural" from Cholula, Puebla, México (2015)
- Virtual Worlds: Underwater Archaeology and Indigenous Engagement (2023)
- Virtualization as a Method for Heritage Preservation: A Case Study from Seyitömer Höyük, Turkey (2017)
- Virtualization, 3D Technologies, and the Democratization of Archaeological Research (2016)
- Virtually Rebuilding Çatalhöyük History Houses (2015)
- The Virtuous Archaeologist (2021)
- Viscacha or Rabbit, Peru or Mexico: Fiber Identification and Cultural Clarification in the Investigation of a 16th C. Colonial Latin American Textile (2019)
- Visibility and Memory on the San Giuliano Landscape (2021)
- Visibility Graph Analysis of Monumental Buildings in Iron Age Turkey (2015)
- The "Visible" Dead: Mortuary Patterns and Ceremonial Activities in the Dawn of the Bronze Age in Southern Greece (2017)
- Vision and Action: Suzanne Fish and Paul Fish and the Hohokam World (2017)
- Vision and Revision in the Use of Residential and Non-Residential Space at Middle Preclassic Maya Sites: A View from Pacbitun, Belize (2015)
- Visions of Colonial Landscapes: Through the Eyes of African Caribbean Communities (2016)
- Visions of Substance in Eleventh Century Mid-America (2016)
- Visiting a "Villagescape": The Early Classic Period Marana Mound Site (2017)
- Vista Alegre: Recent excavations of an ancient Maya port site along the north coast of Quintana Roo, Mexico (2017)
- Vista Alegre: The Architecture of a Coastal Site in Northern Quintana Roo, México (2018)
- Visual Representations and Entanglements: Photography and Native Identity-Making in the Classroom and Museum (2015)
- Visual Storytelling for a Modern Age (2021)
- Visualizing 19th century Nipmuc Landscapes (2017)
- Visualizing a Wired World’s Past: Digital and Tactile Public Archaeology in the Virtual Curation Laboratory (2016)
- Visualizing Death: Representations of Death and Rebirth on an Early Classic Maya Mid-Level Elite Burial Vessel from Uxul, Mexico (2016)
- Visualizing Diaspora: Fort Ancient and Shawnee Migrations in Early America (2019)
- Visualizing Mountain Shoshone Occupations in the Washakie Wilderness of Northwestern Wyoming (2019)
- Visualizing Prehistoric Artifacts: 3D Scanning, GIS, and Data Sharing (2015)
- Visualizing Speech: Unfolding the Narrative of the Papaloapan Stela (2023)
- Visualizing the Invisible: How Can We Model Roman Religious Processions? (2017)
- Visualizing the Unique: Lidar and Three-Dimensional Modeling as a Preservation Tool for NHPA Compliance (2019)