Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Carter.

This is an abstract from the "Coastal Connections: Pacific Coastal Links from Mexico to Ecuador" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For many years the shellfish, Spondylus, has been seen as a driver for long distance exchange. Overfishing of the highly sought Spondylus pushed harvesters farther and farther north, possibly as far as West Mexico, in search of the red, orange and/or purple shell and promoting interaction between distant and disparate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claudia Chang.

This is an abstract from the "Empirical Approaches to Mobile Pastoralist Households" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Iron Age agropastoralists of the Talgar region built a variety of houses including rectangular double-walled mud-walled houses, semi-subterranean pit houses, mud brick platforms, and central circular rooms with multiple plastered floors. In earlier periods of prehistory the description of transition from mobile to sedentary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nancy Williams. Miriam Belmaker. Danielle MacDonald.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As surface texture analysis has become more popular in archaeology, various materials were adapted to gather data left by use and dental-wear. Silicon-based dental impression materials, such as President® Jet by Coltène Whaledent, are used to make negative molds of wear patterns. These techniques have been applied to examining the dental microwear of teeth...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Colin Grier.

This is an abstract from the "Attention to Detail: A Pragmatic Career of Research, Mentoring, and Service, Papers in Honor of Keith Kintigh" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Southwestern precontact history appears written in migrations and dramatic shifts in settlement patterns and identity over the last two millennia. Recent data from the Northwest Coast of North America, in contrast, suggest people may have been situated in specific places and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth Tankersley.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although δ13C values obtained on Soil Organic Matter (SOM) from archaeological sites have been used as isotopic fingerprints for the identification of ancient maize agricultural fields and the evaluation of the scale of maize production, determining the quantity and rate of 13C enrichment through time largely has been ignored. The focus of this study is to use...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Szpak. Katherine Chiou.

This is an abstract from the "Challenges and Future Directions in Plant Stable Isotope Analysis in Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the key findings of early work that utilized isotopic analysis of macrobotanical remains was that charred remains seemed to produce reliable isotopic measurements, while uncharred (desiccated) remains did not. This early research contrasted charred remains from the highlands of Peru with uncharred...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diane Wallman. Heidi Miller. Douglas Armstrong.

This is an abstract from the "Zooarchaeology and Technology: Case Studies and Applications" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geochemical studies of stable isotopes on archaeological skeletal material offer information on human and animal diet, mobility and migration, exchange, and climate. Here, we apply stable isotope studies to human and animal remains recovered from archaeological excavations at Trent’s Plantation in Barbados. Trent’s Plantation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bryna Hull. Reba Fuller. Jelmer Eerkens. Eric Wohlgemuth. Carly Whelan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In stable isotope analysis of human remains, δ13C enrichment is often interpreted as a marine or C4 contribution to the diet. There are instances when neither of these interpretations is supported by the archaeological evidence, such as in the central Sierra Nevada of California. Archaeological evidence for this region suggests that pine nuts and acorns...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michelle Carpenter. Robert J. Hard. Raymond Mauldin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Previous stable isotopic studies of bone from 12 dated individuals from the site of La Playa in Northern Sonora suggest a diet dominated by C4 and CAM resources. For collagen δ13C, an average value of -8.5‰ (n=5) was recorded in the San Pedro phase (1200 BC to 800 BC) which shifted to an average value of -10.0‰ (n=7) in the Cienega phase (800 BC to AD 150)....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Milena Carvalho. Emily Lena Jones. David Meiggs. Jonathan Haws.

This is an abstract from the "Peninsular Southern Europe Refugia during the Middle Paleolithic" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans (AMH) adapted to a series of environmental changes during the Late Pleistocene and may have sought refugia in the southern reaches of Europe in response to environmental degradation. Explanatory models such as the Ebro Frontier Model propose that Neanderthals were adapted to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meagan Dennison.

This is an abstract from the "Zooarchaeology and Technology: Case Studies and Applications" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the Southeastern United States, the relationship between indigenous peoples and their domestic dogs is known to be long and complicated. Dog burials and dog skeletal remains are ubiquitous from archaeological sites in the region from as early as 7,000 years ago through the Historic Period. A previous paleopathology study of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Morrison. Victoria Ramirez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Located in Canyon de Chelly National Monument (CACH), Antelope House is one of the most recognized precontact architectural sites on the Navajo Nation, consisting of 93 rooms, 7 kivas, and 10 structures. Many of these rooms and their associated architectural features are noticeably deteriorating, made evident by masonry failures as well as significant mortar...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberlee Moran.

This is an abstract from the "Forensic Archaeology: Research & Practice" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) is a federal effort coordinated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to create standards of best practice for all disciplines within forensic science. In 2015, NIST created an OSAC subcommittee to address the lack of standards within crime scene investigation. ...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Flood. Jeremy Wilson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The late pre-Columbian period in the central Illinois River valley (CIRV) is demarcated by the development of large, oftentimes fortified Mississippian towns, farming hamlets, extensive trade networks, and shifting political alliances between AD 1050 and 1400. The fission and fusion of local polities ceased with abrupt abandonment of the CIRV by AD 1450 as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Young.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Llanos de Mojos in the Bolivian Amazon is a tropical savanna that saw increased archaeological attention beginning in the latter half of the 20th century. However, paleoethnobotanical research has been limited up until this decade despite significant results and great potential. Paleoethnobotanical inquiry in Mojos can enhance our understanding of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Angela Perri. Jeffrey Saunders. Greger Larson. Laurent Frantz. Alice Mouton.

This is an abstract from the "Human Interactions with Extinct Fauna" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dire wolves are an iconic extinct Pleistocene species in the Americas and their interactions with humans at Paleoindian sites has been largely unknown. Here we explore potential interactions between dire wolves and Paleoindians at sites in the San Pedro Valley, Arizona. We also present new radiocarbon dates and the results of our ancient DNA...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bernard Means.

This is an abstract from the "Sins of Our Ancestors (and of Ourselves): Confronting Archaeological Legacies" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. What lessons does incomplete, delayed, or lack of publishing hold for archaeologists working in the field today? During the 1930s (and after), J. Alden Mason was a curator at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia, and is possibly best known for his work during that time at the site of Piedras Negras in northwestern...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Dodson.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology as a Public Good: Why Studying Archaeology Creates Good Careers and Good Citizens" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. I offer a perspective of why archaeology should be a part of all students’ educational journey as a way to cultivate critical skills and educate well-rounded, successful members of society. As an individual in charge of assessing the effect of local, state and federal undertakings on cultural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stevy Hernandez. Wendy Teeter. Xochitl Aguinaga. Jillien Malott.

This is an abstract from the "How to Conduct Museum Research and Recent Research Findings in Museum Collections: Posters in Honor of Terry Childs" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dr. Wendy Teeter, Stevy Hernandez, and Xochitl Aguinaga from the Fowler Museum at UCLA were part of an implementation committee initiating the California Curatorial Survey which was distributed to professionals from a variety of institutions. The 2018 Society of California...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Seidemann.

This is an abstract from the "New Perspectives on Heritage Protection: Accomplishing Goals" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological site damage, destruction, and looting is nothing new. For years, the archaeological community has bemoaned the minimal protections for these resources under federal law. Little discussion has occurred regarding what protections may exist under various states’ legal regimes. This paper reviews Louisiana’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dolores Dávalos Navarro.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The site of Paquimé in Chihuahua, Mexico, is part of the debate of social organization of prehistoric pueblos. Using statistical and Geographic Information Systems this research attempts to determine the degree of status differentiation and intra-site organization of the site by revisiting published archaeological data and using a revised classification and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa Dods. Olivia Navarro-Farr. Karen Alley.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation is a large-scale comparative case study of two distinct regions to see how their use and control of water was similar given their environments but different from social, political, and cultural perspectives. Specifically, I examine the sociopolitical nature of Angkor Wat as an expression of ancient Khmer culture and the Classic Maya city of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ted Goebel. Joshua Lynch. Caitlin Doherty.

This is an abstract from the "Current Perspectives on the Western Stemmed Tradition-Clovis Debate in the Far West" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The lack of a comprehensive and sound geochronology of Paleoindian sites in the Great Basin has long been a stumbling block for explaining variability in Western Stemmed points and their relationship with Clovis. Open-air sites are often undatable or present conflicting radiocarbon dates, while...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Doyle.

This is an abstract from the "Decipherment, Digs, and Discourse: Honoring Stephen Houston's Contributions to Maya Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As a graduate student, Stephen Houston contributed references as well as two personal communications to the catalogue for The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art, including drawing Linda Schele and Mary Miller’s attention to key details of an exhibition centerpiece: the Kimbell Art...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Garrison. Andrew Scherer.

This is an abstract from the "Decipherment, Digs, and Discourse: Honoring Stephen Houston's Contributions to Maya Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Stephen Douglas Houston was drawn to archaeology and ancient scripts from a young age, fascinated by the rune stones of his mother’s native Sweden. While he is most widely seen as an epigrapher to outsiders, Mayanists recognize that he is, in fact, a world class field archaeologist that knows...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Roger Moore.

This is an abstract from the "Social Interaction and Networks at the Intersection of Central Mesa Verde and Chaco/Cibola Culture Areas in the Middle San Juan River Valley" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Sterling Site is an Ancestral Puebloan structure with related features located in the San Juan River watershed near Farmington, New Mexico. The site was excavated in the early 1970's by the Archaeological Society of New Mexico under the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Rockwell. Nathaniel Kitchel.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Red Munsungun Chert appears in Paleoindian archaeological assemblages throughout Northeastern North America. While ubiquitous, the source location for this material has only been recently discovered. The NKP quarry, in far Northern Maine, identified by the authors is located within the Munsungun Lake region. Over the past three years, the authors have been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only MaryAnne Maigret. Lori Miculka. Erin Coward.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Perched sand deposits and pocket beaches dot the shoreline at Pu'uhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park on the island of Hawai'i. Keone'ele Cove, situated along the northern boundary of the park, is a key part of the cultural landscape where Hawaii’s ruling class landed canoes and hosted gatherings, and where native Hawaiians continue these practices in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nancy Mahoney.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology Education: Building a Research Base" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper assesses the present and historical role of outreach and collaboration with collectors in Montana. Understanding the historical context of interactions between professional archaeologists, amateurs, tribes, and the public is an essential foundation for the creation of effective education programs that achieve meaningful...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Coralisse Guadalupe De Jesús.

This is an abstract from the "Primary Sources and the Design of Research Projects" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This case study focuses on the reconstruction of stories of women who worked in the clothing industry, specifically dressmakers and seamstress in the Mercado neighborhood of San Juan, Puerto Rico, between 1910-1930. The aim of this research is to demonstrate the viability of using primary sources such as maps, population census and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Tebby.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Our understanding of the Métis experience on the Canadian prairies during the latter half of the 19th-century can be considered fragmentary and is typically understood alongside a colonial narrative. Métis wintering sites were important features in the Canadian west where the role of women cannot be downplayed despite being rarely investigated. Current...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Smith.

This is an abstract from the "Wheels, Horses, Babies and Bathwaters: Celebrating the Impact of David W. Anthony on the Study of Prehistory" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In Jose Saramago’s classic "The Stone Raft", the Iberian peninsula breaks free from Europe to float unmoored into the Atlantic, etching into continental geology what David Anthony has termed a "persistent frontier": a fault line demarcating durable cultural, ethnic, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chloe Holden. Lana Ruck. Shelby S. J. Putt.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The classification of stone tool debitage features as right- or left-oriented has become an increasingly common method for assessing knapper handedness in experimental and archaeological lithic assemblages. Replication attempts using these published methodologies, however, have been unsuccessful. We tested the validity of eight flake feature categories, from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brandi Reger. Sarah Rowe. Guy Duke.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the summer of 2018, the lithic artifacts of two units of the Late Valdivia (2100 BC - 1800 BC) occupation of the Buen Suceso site were analyzed as an undergraduate research project. The Valdivia people were a settled agricultural society based on the utilization of marine, forest, and riverine resources. The people of Buen Suceso lived on the edge of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ginessa Mahar. Kenneth Sassaman.

This is an abstract from the "Complex Fisher-Hunter-Gatherers of North America" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Interventions of modern nation-states in the affairs of "underdeveloped" nations often fail for imposing standard categories on highly variable and historically situated local practices. The same might be said about scholarship on "complex" hunter-gatherers. Rather than oversimplifying by imposing order vis-à-vis state-level criteria...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian Kuijt.

This is an abstract from the "Pushing the Envelope, Chasing Stone Age Sailors and Early Agriculture: Papers in Honor of the Career of Alan H. Simmons" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists, as with historians, search for patterning, commonalities and order as we seek to explain past human settlement systems. As landscape archaeologists our attempt to reconstruct settlement systems involves connecting the remains of human behavior,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Loa Traxler.

This is an abstract from the "Partners at Work: Promoting Archaeology and Collaboration in the Chiricahua Mountains" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In collaboration with the National Park Service Southeast Arizona Group, field research by archaeologists, public historians, and students from the University of New Mexico has focused on ways to augment the interpretive programs within the Chiricahua National Monument and Fort Bowie National...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Simon Kaner.

This is an abstract from the "Current Issues in Japanese Archaeology (2019 Archaeological Research in Asia Symposium)" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper discusses the significance of the archaeology of the Shinano and Chikuma River system, the longest drainage in Japan, an area of very high environmental activity, situated on the Fossa Magna. The paper focuses on the Jomon period, when the region had the highest density of early ceramic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alejandro López.

This is an abstract from the "Chicanx Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As the oldest center of Hispano/Mexicano culture in the United States, northern New Mexico offers a unique view into this culture’s presence in what is now the continental United States. Due to the centuries-long isolation of the region and the relatively dense population of Spanish speakers, northern New Mexico’s four hundred year-old Hispano/Mexicano culture...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Søren Sindbæk.

This is an abstract from the "Ephemeral Aggregated Settlements: Fluidity, Failure or Resilience?" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Maritime trading emporia were nodal points of social networks and economic interactions in Viking-age Scandinavia. Despite their social centrality, archaeology shows that such places were rather small, unassuming, and sometimes short-lived settlement. This contrasts with a wealth of evidence pointing to communities...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fabio Negrino. Stefano Bertola. Julien Riel-Salvatore.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Advances in the Prehistory of Liguria and Neighboring Regions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Liguria is an arch of land overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, with mountain areas, very rare coastal planes and steeply sloping valleys. In spite of this peculiar orography this region represented an important passageway between France and central-northern Italy, allowing the diffusion of human groups, ideas, artefacts...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nina Versaggi. Brian Grills.

This is an abstract from the "Byways to the Past: An American Highway Archaeology Symposium" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Public Archaeology Facility at Binghamton University has conducted CRM on transportation projects in New York State for over 50 years. Our archaeological investigations have discovered a full range of sites from the ubiquitous (lithic scatters, historic sheet middens) to the extraordinary (deeply stratified sites, ritual...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eden Washburn. Bebel Ibarra. Vicky Oelze. Lars Fehren-Schmitz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological site of Marcajirca, located in the Puccha River Valley, atop a steep ridge at 3800 masl, provides an interesting context in which to examine changes in human mobility patterns through time on both a regional and local scale. Extensive radiocarbon dating of both archaeological and human skeletal material place occupation of the site between...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Xue Ling. Zhouyong Sun. Liang Chen.

This is an abstract from the "From Tangible Things to Intangible Ideas: The Context of Pan-Eurasian Exchange of Crops and Objects" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The sites of ZhaiTouHe and ShiJiaHe are two neatly arranged cemeteries with complicated features. The cemeteries were both discovered in Huangling county, Shaanxi Province, are the first complete Rong people’s tombs found in northern Shaanxi, and are closely related to the Wei’s culture....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shaelyn Rice. Geoffrey McCafferty. Sharisse McCafferty.

This is an abstract from the "Reconstructing the Political Organization of Pre-Columbian Nicaragua" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Located on the shore of Lake Nicaragua, El Rayo is a unique archaeological site, enriched with a large material base and many examples of human burial practices. Dating from the Late Bagaces Period (500-800 CE) to the Sapoa Period (800-1300 CE), El Rayo’s stone architectural features cover both major timeframes,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marcel Kornfeld. Mary Lou Larson.

This is an abstract from the "Hell Gap at 60: Myth? Reality? What Has It Taught Us?" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A key question for interpreting both human behavior and the Paleoindian cultural sequence, the two pillars of significance attached to the Hell Gap site, concerns the nature of site formation. This term, however, is ambiguous. Site formation begins when people carrying on daily activities discard and lose objects. Once lost, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Donald Holly. Christopher Wolff. Stephen Hull.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The transition between the end of the Archaic and the Intermediate Indian Period in the Eastern Subarctic of North America was marked by significant changes in just about all dimensions of Amerindian life—technology, raw material use, exchange networks, social organization, architecture, burial customs, settlement patterns, and subsistence strategies. These...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Suzanne Eckert. Deborah Huntley.

This is an abstract from the "Cross-Cultural Petrographic Studies of Ceramic Traditions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There is no doubt that Spanish contact and colonization, dramatically changed certain aspects of Pueblo life, among the Ancestral Piro of south central New Mexico. In the context of Pueblo history, examining ceramic technology provides a means of recognizing cultural continuity and transformation on the social landscape and of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vincas Steponaitis. Lynne Goldstein.

This is an abstract from the "Attention to Detail: A Pragmatic Career of Research, Mentoring, and Service, Papers in Honor of Keith Kintigh" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) and other archaeological organizations struggled with a variety of public policy decisions and organizational policies that eventually resulted in major public laws on both the state and federal levels...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Roland Tremblay. Christian Gates-St-Pierre.

This is an abstract from the "Dating Iroquoia: Advancing Radiocarbon Chronologies in Northeastern North America" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2016, construction work on Sherbrooke street in downtown Montréal has led to the discovery of late St. Lawrence Iroquoian remains that are part of the Dawson site, an Iroquoian village first discovered in 1859. Two years of excavations, in 2016 and 2017, provided new data representing a welcome addition...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Tipton. Nikki Mills.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Because of private land and genuine human curiosity, members of the public often hold considerable archaeological knowledge and cultural resources that professionals in the field have historically overlooked. When these collectors are "responsible, responsive stewards", language set forth by the SAA Archaeologist-Collector Collaboration Interest Group, they...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Youngbae Ji.

This is an abstract from the "New Thoughts on Current Research in East Asian Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Analysis was conducted on 88 tombs on the southern coast of the Korean. Human remains in these tombs have traces of malnutrition and repetitive work. The burials have a small numbers of burial goods but show differences in the number of grave artifacts. I grouped the number of burial artifacts and tomb construction behavior into...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marjorie Burge.

This is an abstract from the "Current Issues in Japanese Archaeology (2019 Archaeological Research in Asia Symposium)" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Traditional understandings of the history of writing in Japan have been both greatly enriched and substantially challenged by materials recovered from archaeological excavations. In particular, the continued recovery from archaeological contexts of the inscribed wooden documents known as mokkan has...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shanshan Wei.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Research on Early Chinese Borderland Cultures and Archaeological Materials" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The flexed burial is a distinct burial style that has prevailed in various regions of China since ancient time. Scholarly interest in flexed burials in the Central Lake region (Lake Dian and adjacent lands) of Yunnan began after discovery of a grave in 1955 during the excavation of the ancient necropolis...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kent Lightfoot. Valentin Lopez. Mark Hylkema. Roberta Jewett. Peter Nelson.

This is an abstract from the "Current Insights into Pyrodiversity and Seascape Management on the Central California Coast" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper synthesizes the results of our recent investigation of indigenous landscape and seascape management practices in Central California in ancient and historical times. The project involves a collaborative team of scholars from the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, Amah Mutsun Land Trust,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Brown. Veronique Belisle.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While most research on emerging inequalities in prehistoric societies has focused on the elaboration of inequality in villages and polities on the periphery of large states, less attention has been placed on settlements existing outside influential regional centers. In this paper, we present the case of the Andean Middle Horizon (600-1000 C.E.) site of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kazuaki Yoshimura.

This is an abstract from the "Current Issues in Japanese Archaeology (2019 Archaeological Research in Asia Symposium)" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Possessing complex three-dimensional structures, and created using the most advanced technologies, including technologies introduced from the Korean Peninsula, the armor of the Kofun Period in Japan represents the finest iron technology of that period. It is commonly accepted that armor was produced...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chao Zhao. Qingchuan Bao. Xiaonong Hu.

This is an abstract from the "New Thoughts on Current Research in East Asian Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mongolia steppe is widely thought as a marginal zone for agriculture, yet the recent excavations of two inhabit sites and a survey with more than 1000m2 in Ulanqab, central Inner Mongolia have found evidences that people made efforts to do food production during Neolithic period. By studying site structures and the form,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Everhart.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Woodland societies of the Central Scioto River Valley in Ohio, most notably the Hopewell, have garnered much archaeological distinction from two elements of their ceremonialism: the construction of large, sometimes geometric ditch and embankment enclosures and the production of ornate art, often of exotic materials, utilized in funerary practices. It has...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brenton Willhite.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The sudden emergence of Tabira Black-on-white and Tabira Polychrome pottery during the late 16th to early 17th century in the southern portion of Salinas Province, central New Mexico after hundreds of years of production of Chupadero Black-on-white has been the topic of archaeological inquiry for decades. Competing models for the relationship between the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eleanor Howell. Paul Nick Kardulias.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study examines stylistic and thematic variation as seen in a sample of P51 type Viking Age (approx. AD 700-1100) oval brooches excavated mostly from burial contexts in central Sweden. As examples of applied art heavily reproduced through casting and imitation, paired oval brooches have the potential to reveal a great deal about how artisans perceived...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kyle Waller. Adrianne Offenbecker. Gordon Rakita.

This is an abstract from the "25 Years in the Casas Grandes Region: Celebrating Mexico–U.S. Collaboration in the Gran Chichimeca" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Patterns of growth attainment are sensitive bioarchaeological indicators of sub-adult health. Growth velocity can be used to identify periods of stunting, and corresponding periods of rapid catch-up growth. In this study, we use femoral length to examine sub-adult growth at the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephanie Whittlesey. Jefferson Reid.

This is an abstract from the "Coloring the World: People and Colors in Southwestern Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Subjective color is a well-known phenomenon in the psychology of perception. It results when certain patterns of dark and light are spun at a particular speed, which the viewer perceives as solid colors or rainbow effects. Experiments indicate that this phenomenon occurs when Mimbres Black-on-white vessels of certain...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Evans. Richard Weinstein. August Costa. Louise Tizzard. Ramie Gougeon.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The northwestern Gulf of Mexico outer continental shelf (OCS) includes approximately 38,660,700 acres of submerged land under federal permitting authority, which are in turn subject to Section 106-compliant archaeological survey. Both historic and prehistoric resources must be identified. While historic shipwrecks can occur in any water depth, sea-level curve...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Smith. Karen Adams.

This is an abstract from the "Adopting the Pueblo Fettle: The Breadth and Depth of the Basketmaker III Cultural Horizon" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Large archaeobotanical datasets concentrated in a specific region are rare, especially those representing multiple sites excavated over several years. The Basketmaker Communities Project is one such rare research program that resulted in the analysis of hundreds of macrobotanical, flotation, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine Bergmann.

This is an abstract from the "From the Paracas Culture to the Inca Empire: Recent Archaeological Research in the Chincha Valley, Peru" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Chincha Valley was one of the most productive regions on the southern coast of Peru, yet little is known about the subsistence practices of the pre-Inca communities that existed in the inland valley of Chincha during the Late Intermediate Period (AD 1000-1476). The Chinchas formed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Asia Alsgaard. Erin Ray. Keith M. Prufer. Seth Newsome.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Interdisciplinary Isotopic Research" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The impact of the agricultural transition in the Maya region is little understood. Excavations at two rockshelters in southern Belize, Mayahak Cab Pek and Saki Tzul, have uncovered intact deposits dating from Cal.12,000 to 1,100 BP with a continuous record of both human and fauna remains. Using carbon and nitrogen bulk tissue and carbon...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bryan Hockett.

This is an abstract from the "Current Perspectives on the Western Stemmed Tradition-Clovis Debate in the Far West" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We have learned more about Western Stemmed subsistence patterns in the Intermountain West over the past decade than we learned during the previous half century. Remarkable subsistence assemblages recovered from sites such as Bonneville Estates Rockshelter, Paisley Cave 2, Weed Lake Ditch, Little...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Geun Tae Park. Chang Hwa Kang. Jae Won Ko.

This is an abstract from the "New Evidence, Methods, Theories, and Challenges to Understanding Prehistoric Economies in Korea" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The subsistence economy of the Neolithic Period in Korea mainly consisted of hunting, fishing, gathering, and farming. However, there are also regional and chronological variations, which can be understood through the detailed study of lithic and bone tools and the analysis of archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Seungki Kwak.

This is an abstract from the "New Evidence, Methods, Theories, and Challenges to Understanding Prehistoric Economies in Korea" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the main topics of Korean archaeology is understanding of prehistoric subsistence throughout the Neolithic. However, due to the high acidity of sediments that do not favor long-term preservation of organic remains, we still lack critical information related to the subsistence of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Perez.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology of the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological investigations pertaining to the upland zone of the Virgin Branch Puebloan region—namely, the Colorado Plateaus—have historically been limited in both number and scope. Recent expeditions to various sites on the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, however, have helped expand the archaeological record of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura McAtackney.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological studies of institutions have had varying degrees of success in moving beyond the intentions of their builders - and their often-imposed material culture - to understand how the inhabitants lived in and experienced them. Our overarching interest in analyzing, recording and interpreting material remains can sometimes prevent us from moving beyond...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Hasenstab.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Sugartown Earthwork, situated in Cattaraugus County, NY, is one of a series of late prehistoric hilltop earthen enclosures in the upper Allegheny River valley of southwestern New York and northwestern Pennsylvania. It was the subject of a previous SUNY Buffalo Archaeological Field School and is revisited here. Limited testing revealed evidence of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hollis Miller.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Russian colonial expansion into Alaska dramatically altered indigenous communities and landscapes. Motivated by valuable pelts and the desire to compete with other European powers, Russian fur traders crossed the North Pacific, constructing their first American settlement in 1784 near the modern village of Old Harbor on the Kodiak archipelago. Lacking the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Trista Schiele. Judson Finley. Erick Robinson.

This is an abstract from the "Global Perspectives on Climate-Human Population Dynamics During the Late Holocene" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent work in Utah’s northern Uinta Basin shows close relationships between precipitation variability and population dynamics during the Fremont period, AD 300-1350. In this study, we evaluate the role that changes in the suitability of local dry-farming conditions had on observed regional settlement...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Brown.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Research in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, Northern New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For many years archaeologists working in the northern Rio Grande of New Mexico and southern Colorado have encountered a very fine-grained, dark gray or black material that has been identified as dacite. Dacite has previously been recognized as occurring in the Taos Plateau Volcanic Field at San Antonio...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hitoshi Yamada.

This is an abstract from the "Supernatural Gamekeepers and Animal Masters: A Cross-Cultural Perspective" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Supernatural gamekeepers of the Ainu appear in yukar divine songs. Mainly as master of deer (yuk kor kamuy) or master of salmon (cep kor kamuy), they have controlled the main suppliers of animal protein. On the one hand, they were believed to keep the animals in a storehouse or a bag, or to multiply them from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares. Victoria Reyes-García.

This is an abstract from the "Supernatural Gamekeepers and Animal Masters: A Cross-Cultural Perspective" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We examine the traditional beliefs on supernatural gamekeepers by the Tsimane’ hunter-gatherers of Bolivian Amazonia. As other Amazonian Indigenous groups, the Tsimane’ believe in the existence of supernatural spirits (known as a’mo in Tsimane’ language) who own much of the natural world, including wildlife and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alison Bruin.

This is an abstract from the "First Floridians to La Florida: Recent FSU Investigations" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Colonoware is a type of ceramic frequently recovered from Spanish Colonial period sites in North America. Often colonoware is considered evidence of technological acculturation and Spanish- Native American interactions on the Spanish colonial frontier. The demand for ceramics outpaced the available supply and thus local...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Colin Ferriman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Environmental studies associated with the Dead Horse Lateral Pipeline project of Grand County Utah afforded archaeologists from Cultural Resource Analysts Inc. an opportunity to intensively study the cultural resources within and around the pipeline corridor. This multifaceted research examined both micro analyses associated with individual sites, artifacts,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Juan Sereno-Uribe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent surveying and excavation works on the coast of the state of Guerrero and Oaxaca has shown that this is a region with ample archaeological potential. Dr. Román Piña Chan who made several visits during the sixties in that area, already indicated that the systematic study of the coast, would allow us to understand the development of various groups located...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick Cruz.

This is an abstract from the "From Collaboration to Partnership in Pojoaque, New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The area surrounding the current village of Pojoaque Pueblo has been inhabited in a series of population surges and wanings since at least the Developmental period. During this history the immediate area has been occupied by at least 4 Pueblo villages (including the modern village of Pojoaque Pueblo) all in close proximity to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris Shaw. Jason Millet.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents the results of an archaeological survey near Laguna Jacquez in the Cuba region of Santa Fe National Forest, which was performed in advance of a prescribed burn to mitigate damage to archaeological resources. An inventory of newly-discovered Gallina phase sites is described in the context of contemporary issues in Gallina archaeology,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen West. Michael Graves. Katherine Peck.

This is an abstract from the "Geospatial Studies in the Archaeology of Oceania" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project is a demonstration of GIS methods for identifying irrigated agricultural complexes in the heavily vegetated drainage of Halawa Gulch, windward Kohala. Through use of GIS tools on a LiDAR data set I created slope interpolation and elevational profile graphs of potential agricultural sites. In some cases these could be verified...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth Wintch. Deanne Matheny. Ray Matheny.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Research in Montezuma Canyon, San Juan County, Utah" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents the history of archaeological surveys by Brigham Young University in upper and middle Montezuma Canyon during the latter half of the 20th Century. The sequence, methods, context and goals of those various inventories are briefly presented, followed by a brief discussion of salient results and patterns...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karin Larkin. Michelle Slaughter.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology Education: Building a Research Base" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cultural Resource Management (CRM) professionals lament that they felt unprepared upon graduation for entering the field of compliance archaeology and recent graduates often complain that they are not qualified for CRM jobs as posted. This anecdotal information raises the question of whether field schools and undergraduate programs...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justine Shaw.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Following the widespread Terminal Classic florescence that saw booming occupations at every site in the Cochuah region of west-central Quintana Roo, Mexico, many settlements were entirely abandoned. However, some sites possessed late Terminal Classic populations, living in novel architecture yet continuing other Classic Maya material practices. One such round...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsi Slotten.

This is an abstract from the "Systems of Care in Times of Violence" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Viking Era has been characterized as a time of great violence in both modern and historical accounts, however, little work has been done to analyze the cultural norms and practical considerations surrounding healthcare during the Viking Age. If Viking Age society was as violent as purported, it would have needed to have well-honed systems of care...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allison Ham. Haagen Klaus. Daniel Temple. David Hunt.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A consideration of periosteal lesion activity and its effect on the likelihood of survival can communicate a deeper understanding of major cultural-ecological transitions by elucidating the effect of heterogeneous frailty on the formation of a skeletal assemblage. This study tests the effects of Spanish contact on the association between survivorship and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Tainter.

This is an abstract from the "Advancing Public Perceptions of Sustainability through Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The processes that make a society sustainable not evolve over periods of decades, generations, and centuries. These processes are commonly not perceivable in a single lifetime. Sustainability must therefore be a historical science, and archaeology is well placed to contribute to understanding sustainability. Yet factors...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anabel Ford. Cynthia Ellis Topsey.

This is an abstract from the "Advancing Public Perceptions of Sustainability through Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Globally, the Mesoamerican and Maya Milpa is gravely misunderstood as primitive, called shifting cultivation by the sole focus on annual crops combined with the fallacy of fallow, accurately defined as an unseeded plowed field. The attention to the annuals ignores the intentional and patient development of perennials,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kara Davis. Jeneva Wright.

This is an abstract from the "A Multidimensional Mission: Crossing Conflicts, Synthesizing Sites, and Adapting Approaches to Find Missing Personnel" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fielding new capabilities and leveraging untapped resources for the acceleration of operational mission tempo has become a central imperative for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency's (DPAA) fullest possible accounting mission. Since 2015, DPAA's Partnerships and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Veronica Perez Rodriguez.

This is an abstract from the "Advancing Public Perceptions of Sustainability through Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Researchers that study pre-Hispanic urbanism in the Mixteca Alta often remark that the region today is eroded and sparsely populated. Places that in the past supported urban populations in the tens of thousands today seem to struggle to sustain a few hundred. Some have called this the Mixtec paradox. Research on the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gyoung-Ah Lee.

This is an abstract from the "New Evidence, Methods, Theories, and Challenges to Understanding Prehistoric Economies in Korea" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research examines agricultural management, particularly raised field farming from the Mumun/Bronze to early historical periods (3400–1600 cal. BP) along the Nam River in south-central Korea. The study of settlements on alluvial flatlands provides crucial information on early agricultural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diego Salazar. Carola Flores-Fernandez.

This is an abstract from the "Human Behavioral Ecology at the Coastal Margins: Global Perspectives on Coastal & Maritime Adaptations" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since around 8500 years BP, the archaeological record on the Southern Coast of the Atacama Desert shows evidence of growing population density and low residential mobility. A maritime specialization process is also evident by a rich set of specialized tools, and a pronounced increase...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Chamberlin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper considers whether processes of symbolic conflict propel change in the spatiality of social groups from ethnographic and archaeological vantage points, particularly with respect to the mobility of agents positioned differently within and at the edges of nascent communities such as small villages. Of special interest is the interaction between...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Ruhl.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Effective water management was key to settle in the Maya Lowlands, where scarce surface water is found. While numerous investigations have showed how complex systems had been organized in Maya sites, implying a great deal of attraction to them, new data, available through LidAR for example, indicates a much more decentralized reality, where household-scale...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David McCormick. Zachary Hruby. Olivia Navarro-Farr. Michelle Rich. Keith Eppich.

This is an abstract from the "Ceremonial Lithics of Mesoamerica: New Understandings of Technology, Distribution, and Symbolism of Eccentrics and Ritual Caches in the Maya World and Beyond" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Obsidian blades and related debitage from four elite tombs recently excavated at El Peru-Waka have the potential to answer the question of why and how the ancient Maya placed this material above, around, and sometimes within the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Baquedano.

This is an abstract from the "Animal Symbolism in Postclassic Mesoamerica: Papers in Honor of Cecelia Klein" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Frogs and toads were important animals in Mesoamerica with several species of Mexican frogs. They were especially associated with the rainy season. Some species of frogs are active above ground only in the reproductive period while some species of toads spend part of the year underground. These batrachians are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret Nelson. Thomas McGovern.

This is an abstract from the "Celebrating Anna Kerttula's Contributions to Northern Research" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Anna Kerttula had the vision and commitment to support an experiment: two interdisciplinary research teams working in dramatically different settings, striving to find valuable insights from cross-region, cross-case studies. One team from the North Atlantic islands (NABO) and another from the US Southwest (LTVTP) combined...