Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

Part of: Society for American Archaeology

This collection contains the abstracts from the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Most files in this collection contain the abstract only. The Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology provides a forum for the dissemination of knowledge and discussion. The 88th Annual Meeting was held in Portland, Oregon from March 29 - April 2, 2023.

Site Name Keywords
United Comstock Merger Mill • American Flat Mill • Virginia City National Historic Landmark • Virginia & Truckee Railroad • Doble Lili

Site Type Keywords
Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Mine • Mine-Related Structures • Road, Trail, and Related Structures or Features • Railroad • Non-Domestic Structures • Ball Court • Structure • Historic Structure • Archaeological Feature

Other Keywords
Historic • Maya: Classic • Cultural Resources and Heritage Management • Zooarchaeology • Material Culture and Technology • Landscape Archaeology • Subsistence and Foodways • Lithic Analysis • Paleolithic • Paleoindian and Paleoamerican

Culture Keywords
Historic • Euroamerican

Investigation Types
Heritage Management • Archaeological Overview • Architectural Survey • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis • Site Evaluation / Testing • Architectural Documentation • Historic Background Research

Material Types
Chipped Stone • Dating Sample • Building Materials • Metal • architecture

Temporal Keywords
Late Postclassic • Early Holocene • 1880-1920 • Mesoamerican Colonial period (1521 - 1810 CE)

Geographic Keywords
North America (Continent) • United States of America (Country) • United Mexican States (Country) • Belize (Country) • USA (Country) • Republic of Panama (Country) • Netherlands Antilles (Country) • Aruba (Country) • Arizona (State / Territory) • Republic of El Salvador (Country)

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Secrets of Two Historic Montana Homesteads (2023)

Sediment Environmental DNA (eDNA) Analysis of Lake Ochaul (2023)

Sedimentary Ancient DNA Metabarcoding for the Recognition of Human Plant Use at Aghitu-3 Cave, Armenia (2023)

Seeing Archaeology When You Can’t See: A Pilot Project for Blind/Low-Vision Museum Visitors (2023)

Seeing Identity within a Carceral Environment: Race and Gender within sites of the Southern Convict Lease System (2023)

Semetabaj and Its Role in Commercial and Ideological Interaction in the Guatemalan Highlands and Beyond (2023)

A Serious Game: Teaching Key Archaeological Lessons with Augmented and Virtual Reality (2023)

Serious Seriation: Age-at-Death Assessment of Skeletons from Caves Branch Rockshelter, Belize (2023)

Serving Alcoholic Beverages to the Ancestors in Neolithic China (2023)

Setting the Table at the ca. 1638 Waterman House Site, Plymouth Colony (2023)

Settled in Strange Lands: Forced Relocation as a Technology of the Inka Empire (2023)

Settlement and Subsistence at the Headwaters of Silver Creek, Western Arizona (2023)

Settlement Archaeology at the “Classical” Burmese (Bama) Capital of Bagan, Myanmar (Eleventh to Fourteenth Centuries CE): Theory, Method, Application, and Preliminary Outcomes (2023)

Settlement Clusters: A Different Way of Conceptualizing Community (2023)

Settlement Density, Household Inequality, and Social Interaction in the Western Maya Lowlands (2023)

Settlement Pattern and Land Use at Holtun, Guatemala (2023)

Settlement Patterns and Land Use on the Shivwits Plateau: Insights from a Cultural Resources Inventory on the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument (2023)

Several Fallacies Handicap Thinking Regarding Pleistocene LCTs: For Example, the Victorian Pet Name “Handaxe” Has Biased Minds with Assumed Behavior for 150 Years (2023)

Sex-Biased Differences in Infant Mortality and Life Expectancy at Síi Túupentak, an Ancestral Ohlone Village in Central California (ca. 540–145 cal BP) (2023)

Shamanic Images in Rock Art in Siberia: Global Theory and Regional Peculiarities (2023)

Shell Midden Formation and Occupants during The Tamna Period (Third to Tenth Century CE) on Jeju Island (2023)

A Shell Mound in a Rockshelter? Geoarchaeological Analysis of Shell-bearing Facies at Maximiano Rockshelter, Iporanga County, São Paulo State, SE Brazil (2023)

Shellfish Variability and Its Role in the Adaptation to Fishing Economies on the California Channel Islands (2023)

Shellscapes and Kinscapes: A Social Network Analysis of the Southern Northwest Coast (2023)

Shifting Regimes at La Corona: Political Resilience of Classic Maya “Secondary” Center (2023)

A Short Historiography of David Killick (2023)

Sicán Political Economy: Converting Regional Productivity to Interregional Prestige Economy and Religious Eminence (2023)

Sight Formation Processes: Archaeology of Cultural and Sociohistorical Extromission and “Seeing Together” (2023)

Signage and Protection: The Effect of Moral and Threat Appeals at Reducing Depreciative Behaviors at Rock Art Sites (2023)

The Signs of the Dead: Theorizing Ancestrality via Semiotics (2023)

Silcrete Heat Treatment Technology during the MIS 5/4 Transition at Pinnacle Point 5-6 and Vleesbaai, South Africa (2023)

A Silver Lining at the Failed Hardin City Mine: An Opportunity for Public Land Stewardship through Archaeology (2023)

Simulated Archaeological Site Development for Education and Outreach: A Case Study from Kazakhstan (2023)

Simulating Lithic Assemblage Composition and Its Relationship to Mobility (2023)

A Simulation Approach to Developing Field Standards in Spatial Data Acquisition (2023)

Site Formation and Karst Processes during the Last Glacial Cycle at Lapa Do Picareiro, Portugal (2023)

Site Hierarchy and Ceramic Display: Regional Variation in Bronze Age Ceramic Assemblages in the Eastern Carpathian Basin (2023)

Site Stratigraphy and Radiocarbon Dating at the Shég’ Xdaltth’í’ Site in Central Alaska (2023)

Sixty Years of Research at the Donnelly Ridge Site (2023)

Skeletons in the Closet: Ethical, Moral, Pedagogical, and Intellectual Issues in Managing Unprovenanced Osteological Legacy Collections (2023)

Slam Dunk: 3D Imaging in Belizean Cave Sites Using Hovermap System (2023)

Slow Archaeology, Community Engagement, and Collaborative Knowledge Production in the Maya World (2023)

Small Islands and Constructed Landscapes: A Bayesian Cultural Chronology of the Manuʻa Group (2023)

Small Things Brought Together: Analyzing the Microdebitage of Experimental Lithic Assemblages (2023)

Small-Scale Agriculture and Localized Food Processing: Overview of a Post-Emancipation Communal Sugar (and Mango) Processing Platform on Providencia Island, Colombia (2023)

Smith Creek Cave Revisited: An Analysis of Western Stemmed Tradition Raw-Material Procurement Strategies and Lithic Technological Organization in the Bonneville Basin (2023)

Social and Physical Landscape Changes at Buen Suceso (2023)

Social Inequalities by Diet in Archaeology: The Contribution of Isotopes (2023)

Social Inequality and Polity Organization in Prehispanic Southern Andean Populations (Argentina and Bolivia, 500 BCE–1500 CE) (2023)

Social Inequality in the Middle-Late Neolithic? Stable Isotope Analysis of the Individuals from Beli Manastir-Popova Zemlja (Slavonia, Croatia) (2023)

Social Interactions along Korea’s Southern Coastline: The Legacy of the Protohistoric Port of Neukdo (ca. Second Century BCE to First Century CE) (2023)

Social Memory and Sustainability in Dynamic Landscapes (2023)

Social Network Structure and New England Gravestone Style (2023)

The Social Transformation of the Terminal Classic Maya to Postclassic Maya in Northern Belize (2023)

Social, Material, and Symbolic Transformations of Value at the Margins of Colonization: A View from the Seventeenth-Century Metallurgical Terraces at Paa-ko (LA 162), NM (2023)

Societal Boundaries and Material Production: Stylistic and Spatial Analyses of Ceramics from Late Intermediate Sites in the Huamanga Province of Peru (2023)

Society Against the State in Prehistoric Cyprus? Exploring the Politics of Village Life (2023)

Society’s Cutting-Edge Crafters: Lithic Commodity Production at Cotzumalhuapa (2023)

Sociopolitical Change and Its Effect on the Biology of a Medieval Polish Population through Isotopic Analysis (2023)

Soil Carbon Persistence and Influence in the Early Anthropocene of the Maya Lowlands (2023)

Soil Conservation Past and Present: A Study of Archaeological Raised Fields in North Coastal Peru (2023)

Some Remarks on Early Social Complexity in the Central Andes (2023)

Something Different or More of the Same? Lowland Maya Polities and Regimes as Viewed from El Perú-Waka’, Guatemala (2023)

The Sonorous Univers of the Jama-Coaque Culture: A Historical-Ecological Approach to Past Soundscapes (2023)

The Soundscape inside the Ancient Ceren Sweat Bath (2023)

Sourcing of Grave Stones in the Late Jomon of Central Hokkaido (2023)

The South Gap Site: A 9,000-Year-Old Submerged Hunting Site in Lake Huron with Far Reaching Connections (2023)

The Southern Neighborhood Center at the Tlajinga District, Teotihuacan (2023)

Sowing the Seeds of Curiosity One Visitor at a Thyme: The UWG Interpretive Anthropology Garden Exhibit (2023)

Sowing the Seeds of Empire: New Insights into Xiongnu Agriculture and Agronomy (2023)

Space, Time, and Climate in the North American Midcontinent: Settlement Patterns and Paleoclimatic Variability through the Mid- to Late Holocene (2023)

The Spanish Conquest in the Petatlan, Sinaloa: Cultural Change and Social Reorganization (2023)

Spanish Empire Dynamics, Early Globalization, and Copper Production in Early Colonial Mexico (1522–1648) (2023)

Spatial Analysis and Community Organization at Iglesia Gentil (San Pedro Teozacoalco), Oaxaca (2023)

Spatial Dynamics of Urbanization at the Onset of the First Turk Empire (2023)

Spatial Sampling and Interpretation of Building Sites at Liberty Hall (2023)

Spatiotemporal Modeling of the Archaeological Landscape in the Shoshone National Forest (2023)

Specialized Pottery Production in Antiquity in the Southwestern United States (2023)

Spindle Whorls and World Creation at Balankanche' Caverns, Yucatan (2023)

The Spirit from the Seed: New Microfossil Evidence of Wild Rice in the Upper Great Lakes (2023)

The Spiro Panoply: An Examination, Structural Analysis, and Hypothetical Re-creation of Middle Mississippian Defensive Equipment and Weapon Systems (2023)

Spoiler Alert: Bioarchaeological Study of Cremation Funerary Urns with an Application of Computer Tomography (2023)

Spontaneous Ability to Impose Form by Knapping-Naïve Humans (2023)

Spread of Maize into Temperate North America (2023)

Square Knots: A Case Study of Quipus AS55 and AS56 and Evidence for Square Root Calculation and Land Redistribution in the Andes (2023)

Stable Isotope Analysis (δ13C/δ15N) of Archaeological Feathers from Corral Redondo, Arequipa, Peru (2023)

Stable Isotope Analysis of Dental Serial Sections Suggests Delayed Weaning among Archaic Foragers of the Andean Altiplano (2023)

Stable Isotope Analysis of the Early Agriculture Period at La Playa (SON:F:10:3), Sonora, Mexico (2023)

Stable Isotope Measurements of Weaning Age and Early Childhood Diet in the Ancient Andes: Variation in Early Life Experiences in Tiwanaku Society (2023)

Stable Isotope Signatures in Modern Elk Teeth and Their Relevance for Paleoclimate Reconstruction (2023)

A Stable Isotopic Investigation into Diet and Mobility at the Medieval Cemetery at Sutton Road, Milton, Oxfordshire (2023)

Stalking the Bison: Changing Perspectives in the Zooarchaeology of Big Game Hunters of the Great Plains (2023)

Starch Grain Analysis of Late Pleistocene–Early Holocene Coprolites and Ground Stone from Two Northern Great Basin Rockshelters (2023)

Starch Remains from Human Teeth Reveal the Bronze and Early Iron Ages Vegetal Diet of Xinjiang, Northwest China (2023)

State Agency Public Outreach in the Age of COVID (2023)

State Control of Production and Distribution of Inka-Style Pottery in the Southern Border of Tawantinsuyu (Inka State) (2023)

State Formation and Economic Integration: New Perspectives from Ceramic Sourcing in the Oaxaca Valley, Mexico (2023)

State of Site Stewardship (or Lack Thereof) in Colorado (2023)

Statecraft, Politics, and Kingship in the Northern Maya Lowlands, with a Focus on the Puuc Region (2023)

Statistical Comparison of Vegetation Trends from Pollen Records in the US Southeast (2023)