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 18,901-19,000 of 19,165)
- Why the Chimu State of the Northern Coast of Peru Failed: Rapid Expansion Is Not Always Enough (2018)
- Why These Beads? Color Symbolism and Colonialism in the Mohawk Valley (2023)
- "Why those old fellas stopped using them?" Spiritual and ritual dimensions of stone-walled fish trap use amongst the Yanyuwa of northern Australia (2017)
- Why Wasn’t the Ceramic Arrowhead Invented? (2018)
- Why We Need Public Archaeology Specialists: Beyond Shards and Dinosaurs (2019)
- Why We Need to Succeed: Assessing the Outcomes of Community Archaeology Practices in County Galway, Ireland (2016)
- Why We Should Reassess How We Define Sensitive Archaeological Data and How We Share It (2019)
- Why We Shouldn’t Wait until a Project is Proposed (2018)
- Why We Study Violent Behaviors in the Past: Dr. Debra Martin’s Contributions to Research on Systems of Socially Sanctioned Warfare and Systematic Exploitation (2021)
- Wicked Problems in Archaeology: Applying a Social Impact Framework and Entrepreneurship Mindset to Cultural Heritage Management (2019)
- Wickiups as Placemaking: Contemporary Landscape Archaeology in the Mountains of Northern New Mexico (2023)
- “Wide-Awake Merchants” and Reform-Minded Women: Archaeology of Alexandria, Virginia’s German Jewish Community (2023)
- Wide-Range Regional Interaction prior to State Formation in Late Prehistoric Eastern Japan (2015)
- Widespread Distribution of Fossil Footprints in the Tularosa Basin: Human Trace Fossils at White Sands National Monument (2019)
- Wiggle-Match Dating at the Montezuma Castle Cliff Dwelling (2021)
- Wild Animals in Cities: A View from South Asia’s Early Historic Period Using a Zooarchaeological and Textual Approach (2021)
- Wild Cane Cay, Southern Belize: Major Classic to Postclassic Maya Trading Port (2015)
- Wild capuchin monkey archaeology (2016)
- Wild Fruits and Connective Linkages in Precolumbian South Florida (2023)
- Wild Meets Domestic at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey (2017)
- Wild Plant Fiber Processing and Technological Organization: Holocene Perishable Artifact Production in the Bonneville Basin (2017)
- Wild Resource use in Early Colonial New Spain (2016)
- Wild resources and domestic plants in the South American farmer’s frontier (2016)
- The wild side of Cyprus: an integration of archaeobotany and zooarchaeology (2016)
- Wilderness, Wildlife, and Management Misconceptions: Archaeology in Washakie Wilderness NW Wyoming (2023)
- Wildfires and Human Communities in Bronze and Iron Age, Armenia: A Macro-Charcoal and Paleo-Temperature (brGDGT) Reconstruction (2021)
- Wildfires, Forests, and the Archaeological Record: Investigating Complex and Persistent Human-Landscape Legacies (2017)
- Will Summing of Radiocarbon Dates Unlock Scales of Socio-environmental Transformations? (2021)
- Will your childhood years kill you earlier? A study exploring the relationship between height, stress and age at death. (2017)
- Willamette Valley Project: Recreating the Landscape of the Willamette Valley through GIS Mapping of Historic Documents (2019)
- Willfully Obscured: Figurines and Caves in the Maya Late Classic Period (2015)
- William J. Folan and the Climate Fascination (2023)
- William J. Folan's Canadian Contributions to Archaeology and Ethnohistory (2023)
- A Wind from the Depths of the Earth (2015)
- Windes Matters (2015)
- Windes Was Here (2015)
- Window of Opportunity: Administering Hurricane Sandy Archaeology in Rhode Island (2018)
- Winds of Change – Funerary practices at the dawn of Late Bronze Age in Southeast Hungary (2017)
- Wine or Wax?: Organic Residue Analysis on pottery from the Early Bronze I at Nahal Tillah (2015)
- "Winged Worldviews": Human-Bird Entanglements in Northern Venezuela, A.D. 1000–1500 (2017)
- A Winter at Akulivik: Faunal Analysis of a Thulean House at the site of Kangiakallak-1 (Nunavik, Québec) (2015)
- Winter Garden Hunting along the Rio Grande Flyway: A Case Study in the Procurement of Migratory Birds by Puebloans along the Rio Grande (2021)
- Winter Is Coming: Is ‘Fortification’ Always Fortification? (2018)
- "The Wisconsin Idea" and the Production of Archaeological Knowledge during the Progressive Era, ca. 1900-1930 (2016)
- Witches and Aliens: How an Archaeologist Inspired Two New Religious Movements (2017)
- The Witching Hour: Demonization of Female Bodies and the (mis)Construction of Gender during the Spanish Evangelization of Huarochirí (Lima, Peru) (2019)
- With Beauty Around: The Canyon del Muerto Rock Art Documentation Project (2019)
- With Precision Comes Variability: Complications in High-Resolution 14C Chronology in the East Mediterranean-Middle East (2021)
- With Turkeys on Spears and Maize on Arrows: Defining and Defending the Province of Chetumal (2015)
- Within and Between: A comparative discussion of Intra-site Variability and Hinterland Complexity at the sites of Yaxché, Yucatan and Cerén, El Salvador (2015)
- Wizards, Dragons and Giants: Creating Motte Castles in an English Landscape (2017)
- Wm. Jerald Kennedy’s Legacy of Archaeology in Palm Beach County, Florida (2016)
- The Wolf Under the Plaza: Pastoralism and Predation in Spanish New Mexico (2018)
- A Woman’s Retouch: Lithic Recycling at the Strow’s Folly Site (Locus 3), Wareham, Massachusetts (2018)
- Women and Ritual at Teotihuacan, Mexico (2023)
- Women as Actors in Systems of Violence: Their Roles and Identities in the Precolonial US Southwest (2023)
- Women Bleed Red: Rendering Women’s Spaces Visible in the Archaeological Record (2023)
- Women in Antiquity: An Analysis of Submissions, Peer Review, Editorial Decisions, and COVID-19 (2021)
- Women in small-scale societies: how demographic archaeology can contribute to gender archaeology (2017)
- Women in the Nexus of State Power in the Oyo Empire (2023)
- Women Warriors among Central California Hunter-Gatherers: Egalitarians to the Last Arrow (2019)
- Women weaving individual and collective identities in Kosrae, Micronesia (1824-1924) (2017)
- Women Who Create and Feed the Gods: Female Priestly Work in Mesoamerica and the Andean Area (2021)
- Women's Mobility and Inter-Pueblo Exchange in the Salinas area, AD 1100–1300 (2017)
- Women's Networks and the Foundations of Mississippian Politics (2019)
- Women, metaphors of alterity. Expressing elites interactions at Cacaxtla-Xochitecatl (Tlaxcala) and Xochicalco (Morelos) (2015)
- Women, Reproduction, and Fertility: How "Common-Sense" Assumptions of the Present Filter into the Mesoamerican Past (2015)
- Women, Sex and Sacrifice in Moche Iconography (2018)
- Women’s Dress in Ritual and Non-ritual Contexts (2023)
- Women’s Hands in the Rock Art of Mensabak Lake, Chiapas, Mexico: An Approach from the Agency Theory (2021)
- Women’s Labor and Scholarship Production in Archaeology: Celebrating the Mentorship of Rita P. Wright (2018)
- Women’s Power and Prestige in the Pre-Hispanic and Early Colonial Andes (2018)
- Women’s Territorialities within Indigenous Societies in Brazil: Past Discourses, Present Relations (2019)
- Women’s Time Allocation Trade-Offs in an Intensive Foraging Economy Led to Future Discounting Reproductive Behavior (2021)
- Wonderful Things: Using Legacy Archaeological Collections for Research (2018)
- "A Wondrously Fertile Country": Agricultural Diversity and Landscape Change in French Guiana (2018)
- Wood foraging in the tree-limited environment of the Cape Floral Region of South Africa (2015)
- Wood Identification of Trees and Shrubs in the Great Basin and Snake River Plain (2015)
- Wood Preservation Dilemmas of Florida's Prehistoric Saltwater Sites: Famous Key Marco and Recent Weedon Island (2016)
- The Wooden Club: The Oldest Weapon or Myth? (2023)
- Wooden scepters in the offerings of Tenochtitlan’s Great Temple: A symbolic interpretation (2015)
- Woodhenges in Northwest Europe (2019)
- Woodland and Late Precontact Interaction along the Saint Croix River Corridor in Minnesota and Wisconsin (2021)
- Woodland Period Occupations Along the Savannah River: An Update of the Late Prehistoric Investigations at the Topper Site (38AL23), Allendale, SC (2017)
- Woodland Period Settlement Patterns at Letchworth Mounds (8JE337), Jefferson County, Florida (2016)
- Woodland Subsistence in Upper East Tennessee (2018)
- Woodland Systematics and Monumentality: A Preliminary Discussion of the Re-discovery of the Caldwell Mound (2017)
- Woodland Tradition Plant Use and Foodways in the Western Great Lakes: A View from Southeastern Wisconsin (2021)
- Woodrats Rule! Climbing and Coring in Southeast Utah Cliff Dwellings (2015)
- Woot There It Is: Ground-Truthing LiDAR Survey Results at El Peru-Waka’, Petén, Guatemala (2019)
- Word Path: Connecting People to the Landscape and Traditional Indigenous Land Use through Language Preservation: A Collaborative Journey between the Kalispel Tribe of Indians and the Colville National Forest (2023)
- Words for domestic animals used as metaphors in coastal naming (2017)
- Work and Models of Efficiency in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Sugar Factories: A Caribbean Case Study. (2015)
- Work and Specialization in the Epiclassic Period (650-950 CE) at Xochitecatl-Cacaxtla, Tlaxcala (2017)
- Work Is the Curse of the Drinking Class: Beer, Labor, and Class in the Ancient Near East (2021)
- The Work of Feline Bones and Feline Imagery at Early Horizon Etlatongo, Oaxaca, Mexico (2021)
- Worked Bone Harpoon Technological Persistance and Variation Through Time and Geography (Turkana/Omo Basin, Kenya/Ethiopia) (2015)
- Working at Our Edges: Managing Traditional Cultural Properties in the Desert Southwest (2018)
- Working for the Palace, Working for the House:how households became a neighborhood in late 3rd Millennium BC Tell Asmar (ancient Eshnunna), Iraq (2017)
- Working Like Dogs: a systematic evaluation of spinal pathologies as indicators of dog transport in the archaeological record (2017)