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 601-700 of 19,165)

  1. The Ancient Lingling-O: Understanding Jade Stone Manufacture through Experimental Drilling and Scanning Electron Microscope Analysis (2019)
  2. Ancient Manganism in the Andes: A Bioarchaeological View (2023)
  3. Ancient Maya Agricultural Techniques: Investigations of Possible Terracing at the Site of Actuncan, Belize (2017)
  4. Ancient Maya Animal Use at El Mirador: Subsistence, ceremony, exchange and environmental resiliency (2017)
  5. Ancient Maya Craft Specialization in the Belize Valley (2016)
  6. Ancient Maya Dentistry: New Evidence for Therapeutic Dental Interventions and Dental Care Practices (2021)
  7. Ancient Maya Diet, Environment, Animal Use and Exchange at El Mirador: The Zooarchaeological Evidence (2018)
  8. Ancient Maya Elite Political-Economic Practices at La Milpa North, Northwestern Belize (2015)
  9. Ancient Maya Inequality and Oral Microbiome Ecologies from Classic Period Maya Contexts in Southern Belize (2023)
  10. Ancient Maya Land Use: Water Management and Agricultural Production at Actuncan, Belize (2018)
  11. Ancient Maya lithic craft specialization at Colha, Belize (2015)
  12. Ancient Maya Mobility: Hinterlands Sacbe Systems (2019)
  13. Ancient Maya Placemaking: An Isotopic Assessment of Ancestry, Memory, and Body Partibility (2023)
  14. Ancient Maya Plant Use In the Mopan River Valley, Belize (2016)
  15. Ancient Maya Quarries: Limestone, Chert and Lidar (2019)
  16. Ancient Maya Salt Making Activities as Revealed Through Underwater Excavations and Sediment Chemistry, Paynes Creek National Park, Belize (2017)
  17. The Ancient Maya Settlement of Waybil, Belize: Middle-Level and Hinterland Settlement Investigations (2018)
  18. Ancient Maya Sustainability at Caracol, Belize: Implications for Past and Future (2019)
  19. Ancient Maya Trade and Communication as Evidence by Petrographic and Iconographic Analysis of Unit-Stamped Pottery (2015)
  20. Ancient Maya Use of Fauna from the Wetlands and Beyond (2021)
  21. Ancient Maya Water Control, Wetlands, and the Fiery Pool (2019)
  22. Ancient Maya Wetland Features in the Eastern Belize Watershed (2015)
  23. Ancient Mesoamerican Rain Cloud Iconography and Early Rain Entities (2023)
  24. Ancient Metal Routs in the Tarascan Señorío: Mining, Smelting, Smiting (2017)
  25. The Ancient Methone Intensive Survey Project: New Research at a Harbor City in the North Aegean (2015)
  26. Ancient Migrations in the Aztatlán Region: aDNA Analyses (2023)
  27. An ancient mitochondrial DNA approach to explore pre-Columbian inhabitants ancestry at Paquimé, Casas Grandes (2016)
  28. Ancient mitochondrial DNA provides high-resolution timescale of the peopling of the Americas (2016)
  29. Ancient Mitogenomes from Oregon Sea Otters (Enhydra lutris): Genetic and Archaeological Contributions to the Historical Ecology of an Extirpated Population (2019)
  30. Ancient Mongolian Aurochs Genomes Reveal Connections to East Asian Cattle (2023)
  31. Ancient mtDNA: both Amazonian and Andean migrants in western Puerto Rico by late Saladoid times (2016)
  32. Ancient networks of the Caribbean: Interaction and Exchange across the Historical Divide (2017)
  33. Ancient Oaxaca beyond Zapotecs and Mixtecs (2021)
  34. Ancient Obsidian Trade in Campeche, Mexico (2023)
  35. Ancient Origins of Ethnographic Shell Bead Money in Central California (2017)
  36. Ancient Pathogen Genomes from Pre- and Early Colonial Epidemics in Mesoamerica and the Evolution of Parathyphi C (2019)
  37. Ancient plant management at ADEs on Santarem region from an archaeobotanical approach (2016)
  38. Ancient Plazas for Modern Cities: A Role for Archaeology in City Planning Today (2016)
  39. Ancient Population History in the Palenque Region: The Problem of the Selection of Population Proxies (2021)
  40. Ancient Projectile Weapons for Teaching and Public Outreach (2016)
  41. Ancient Residues Indicate Prehistoric Subsistence and Culinary Practices in the Korean Peninsula during the Middle Holocene (2017)
  42. Ancient Roads in the Territory of San Giuliano (2021)
  43. Ancient Shoreline Management on the Central California Coast (2019)
  44. Ancient Starch Research In California: Results from CA-SBA-53 (2015)
  45. Ancient Taino genome sheds new light on the peopling of the Caribbean (2016)
  46. Ancient Urbanites: The Spatial and Social Organization of Outlying Temple Groups at Ceibal, Guatemala (2017)
  47. Ancient Use of Copper in the Southeast United States (2023)
  48. Ancient Water Collection and Storage in the Elevated Interior Region of the Maya Lowlands (2016)
  49. Ancient Watercraft on Changing Landscapes (2016)
  50. Ancient woods used in a ritual context at Chenque I cemetery (Pampean region, Argentina) (2017)
  51. Ancient Zapotec Material Culture and the Antiquities Market (2017)
  52. Ancient, Modern, and Post-Modern: Pueblo Mural Painting of the Southwestern U.S. (2015)
  53. And here’s the NEWS from Xnoha! Understanding Maya settlement and Early Anthropocene Landscape Modifications at a small Maya center. (2019)
  54. "... and his wife Sally": The Binford Legacy and Uncredited Work in Archaeology (2019)
  55. "And Make Some Other Man Our King": Mortuary Evidence for Labile Elite Power Structures in Early Iron Age Europe (2017)
  56. And the Legacy Continues: Homol’ovi Looking Forward (2018)
  57. And Then Sometimes, The Public Engages You (2015)
  58. Andean Foodways: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Pre-Columbian and Colonial Food and Culture (2016)
  59. Andean Indigenous Bodies: Methodological Approaches to Past Perceptions of the Body (2019)
  60. Andean Irrigation Communities: A Comparative Study of Household and Society in Ancient Peru (2015)
  61. An Andean Mountain Shrine: The Case of Balconcillo de Avillay, Huarochiri (Lima, Peru) (2017)
  62. Andean Ontologies: An Introduction to the Substance (2016)
  63. Andean Philosophies, Social Theory, and the Use of Analogies in the Interpretation of Andean Built Environments (2023)
  64. Andean Population Dynamics Revealed by Genome-wide Data from the High Elevation Cuncaicha Rock Shelter (2017)
  65. The Andean road a long trajectory of a social institution. (2016)
  66. Andra tider, andra seder: Shifting Taskscapes of Gender, Age and Class in Early Sweden (2018)
  67. An Android-Based System for Archaeological Survey and On-Site Stone Tool Analysis (2017)
  68. The Angel of History and the Paradise of Progress in the Scholarship of Peter Roe (2017)
  69. Angkor from the Outside In: Household Archaeology in Battambang, Cambodia (2019)
  70. Angkor from the Outside In: Incorporation into the Angkorian State as Seen through the Distribution of Stoneware Ceramics (2021)
  71. Angkorian Collapse and Aftermath: A View from the Center (2016)
  72. Angkorian Residential Patterns: A view from the trenches (2015)
  73. Angkorian Settlements and Interactions in the Cambodia Middle Mekong Region (2018)
  74. Anglo-Saxon and Viking Ship Burials as Indicators of Rank and Wealth (2015)
  75. Animal Agents in the Human Environment (2018)
  76. Animal as Social Actor: A Case Study of a Pre-Colonial Northern Tiwa Structure (2018)
  77. Animal Bones from Hazor, Israel and a Cautionary Tale of Interpreting Past Ritual (2018)
  78. Animal captivity in Tenochtitlan’s sacred precinct: Specialized diet and paleopathological analysis of golden eagles found in Offering 125 (2015)
  79. Animal diaspora and culture change (2015)
  80. Animal Economies and Emergent Complexity in the European Bronze Age (2021)
  81. Animal exploitation at Castillo de Huarmey site, Northern Coast of Peru: The case of South American Camelids. (2016)
  82. Animal exploitation in the early prehistory of the Balearic Islands (2016)
  83. Animal Fats and Ancient Pyro Technologies in the North American Arctic: Contextualized Analysis of Lipids in Archaeological Sediments, Combustion Features, and Ceramics (2017)
  84. Animal Husbandry at Late Chalcolithic Tell Surezha (Iraqi Kurdistan) (2017)
  85. Animal Husbandry Practices at the Musgrove Cowpens (9Ch137) (2023)
  86. Animal Imagery and the Mythic Level of Jama-Coaque Figural Style (2017)
  87. Animal Imagery in the Postclassic Yearbearer Pages of the Codex Borgia (2019)
  88. An Animal Kingdom at Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico (2019)
  89. Animal Management of the Late Classic Maya at Copán, Honduras, Using Stable Isotope Analysis (2023)
  90. Animal Manifestations of the Creator Deities in the Maya Codices and the Popol Vuh (2019)
  91. Animal Masters, Guardian Animals, and Masters of Animals in Eastern North American (2019)
  92. Animal Remains and Archaeological Context in the Mogollon Area, AD 1000–1450 (2021)
  93. Animal Resource Use and Management by Naachtun's Elite (2016)
  94. Animal Resources and Technology in Eastern Beringia During the Late Pleistocene (2016)
  95. Animal Resources Utilization and Management at the Late Neolithic Dinggong Site, China: Evidences from Stable Isotope Analysis (2019)
  96. The Animal Subsistence System of Old Kingdom of Egypt (2021)
  97. Animal symbolism in the rock art of the Sonoran Desert (2015)
  98. Animal Use among the Monongahela: Insights from the Analysis of the Johnston Site Faunal Assemblage (2018)
  99. Animal Use at Nixtun-Ch'ich': Preclassic Canids, Postclassic Crocodiles, and Contact Period Cows (2016)
  100. Animal Use in Ancient Maya Terminal Deposits: Examining Faunal Remains from sites in the Belize Valley to Identify Ritual Activities (2017)