Geoarchaeology Research

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Geoarchaeology Research" at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This poster symposium focuses on geoarchaeological research. It provides a broad overview of natural and anthropogenic formation processes that have affected the distribution of artifacts and features in the archaeological record. Posters may identify and/or interpret natural formation processes and agents of postdepositional disturbance, and describe how they contribute to our conceptualization of past human behavior. Together these posters highlight research related to theoretical and practical foundations in geoarchaeology, and illustrate the dynamic relationship between a site’s context and wide-ranging physical and biological processes. Posters may be specific to methodological or landscape archaeology approaches, or related to sediments, stratigraphy, or chronology.

Other Keywords
Geoarchaeology • Gis • daily life • Quantitative and Spatial Analysis • Frontiers and Borderlands

Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) • United States of America (Country) • Utah (State / Territory) • Nevada (State / Territory) • California (State / Territory) • North America (Continent) • Republic of the Sudan (Country) • Ash Shamaliyah (State / Territory) • Ash Sharqiyah (State / Territory) • Al Khartum (State / Territory)

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  • Micromorphological Approaches to Daily Life and Cultural Interaction at Uronarti Fortress, Sudan (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Miriam Rothenberg. Laurel Bestock. Christian Knoblauch.

    This is an abstract from the "Geoarchaeology Research" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 2012, the Uronarti Regional Archaeological Project has investigated cultural interactions and daily life along the Egypt-Kush border in the Middle Kingdom (ca. 2050–1650 BCE). In January 2019, eight micromorphological samples were collected from intact floor sequences and mudbrick walls from within the island fortress on Uronarti. These samples span the two...

  • Unpacking the Geoarchaeologist’s Geospatial Tool Bag: A Case Study Using Predictive Modeling on the Central Coast, Pismo Beach, California (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jasmine Kidwell.

    This is an abstract from the "Geoarchaeology Research" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While geographic information system (GIS) based modeling applications are not new to archaeological practice, they offer a suite of tools and techniques for building a robust geoarchaeological dataset when used judiciously. Such models utilize geologic unit and age, soils, slope, aspect, distance to water, distance to known resource procurement areas, or other...