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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To Wear, or Not to Wear: Symbolism and Technology of Lip-Plates in Mursi (Ethiopia) and Mebêngôkre (Brazil) (2023)

To What Extent Is the Concept of Convergence Applicable to Lithic Technology: An Overview (2023)

Todd’s Taphonomy: Addressing Questions Too Often Left Unasked (2023)

The Toltec Diaspora as Political Action (2023)

Tom Dillehay's Contributions to Agricultural Origins and Development (2023)

Tom Dillehay, Texas, and Identity (2023)

Toolstone Acquisition in the Interior of California’s South-Central Coast: Raw Material Extraction in the Mid- to Late Holocene (2023)

Total Station Archaeology: Digging the Dibble Way (2023)

Toward a Balanced Public History in the Ohio Country: Collaborative Interpretation of the Histories of the Shawnee Nations at Great Council State Park (2023)

Toward a Bayesian Epistemology of Anthropology and Archaeology (2023)

Toward a Holistic Understanding of Marine Ecosystems in the South Central Andes: An Interdisciplinary Marine Invertebrate Biodiversity/Zooarchaeological Survey (2023)

Toward a Typology of Late Postclassic Period Figurines from Tututepec, Oaxaca, Mexico (2023)

Toward an Archaeology of Indigenous Conquerors: Household Ritual Life at Tepeticpac, Tlaxcala (2023)

Towers in the Northern Periphery (2023)

Traces of Integration: A Study of Early Colonial Ware by Imagenology Methods (2023)

Traces of Prehispanic Primary Smelting in Present Traditional Copper Work from Santa Clara del Cobre, Mexico: Historical and Ethnographical Evidence (2023)

Tracing Long-Term Human-Fish Interactions in Hokkaido, Japan, through Ancient DNA Analysis of Pacific Cod (Gadus macrocephalus) Remains (2023)

Tracking Temporal and Behavioral Patterns Through the Distribution of Material Culture at the Evergreen Plantation. (2023)

Tracking the Dead: Archaeological, GIS, and Geomorphological Approaches to Recovering Caskets and Human Remains after Hurricane Ida (2023)

The Trade Bead Assemblage from the Chinook Middle Village at the Station Camp Site: Western Terminus of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Pacific County, Washington (2023)

Traditional Dishes and Culinary Improvisations: Elite Gastronomy in the Maya Area (2023)

Training Students: Collaboration across the Academic Divide (2023)

Trans-regional Agricultural Deintensification: An AI-Assisted Survey of Agricultural Infrastructure in the South-Central Andes (2023)

The Transformative Power of Boats: Seafaring and Social Complexity in Indigenous California and Hokkaido (2023)

Transplanted at the Coast: The Adaptation of Caribbean Resourcing Practices during the Late Holocene (2023)

Treating Problems of Target Nonscalability in Archaeological Projectile Experiments (2023)

The Tree Army in the Desert: Documenting Civilian Conservation Corps Sites in Petrified Forest National Park (2023)

Trends in Prehistoric Tool-Stone Use in the Upper Mojave Desert of Eastern California (2023)

Tribal Consultation Program Renewal: An Example from the Air National Guard (2023)

Tribute Lists and Bureaucrats: Understanding Classic Maya Politics (2023)

Tryon Creek (35-WA-288) Projectile Point/Base Comparisons through Strata/Levels (2023)

TThe Use of Shells as Personal Ornaments in Liguria during the Upper Paleolithic: A Review (2023)

Tubers, Grain, and Everything In Between: Mesoamerican Applications of Dolores Piperno’s Research (2023)

The Tunna’ Nosi’ Kaiva’ Gwaa Archaeological District: Prehistoric Communal Hunting and Pine Nut Harvesting (2023)

Turkey Provisioning, Exchange, and the Isotopic Zooarchaeology of Social Transformations in the Mesa Verde Region (2023)

Turnaround Archaeology: Reorienting Archaeology So Its Main Purpose Is the Pursuit of Social Good (2023)

Twisting through Time: Fremont Cordage and Modern Attempts at Replication (2023)

Two Long-Term Tom Dillehay Projects: Monte Verde, Zana, and the Processes of Archaeological Debate and Criticism (2023)

Two Millennia of Resilience: The Old Town Bandon Site on the Oregon Coast (2023)

Two Valleys Archaeology in an Environmental Humanities Context (2023)

Un basurero prehispánico en el valle intermontano de Maltrata, Veracruz (2023)

Una perspectiva sobre el empleo del barro cocido en el beneficio del cobre: Caso de Jicalán Viejo, Michoacán (2023)

Unbounding the Land: Reinterpreting Late Woodland Lenape Villages in the Upper Delaware Valley (2023)

Uncovering Nashville’s African-American Heritage: The Bass Street Community Archaeology Project (2023)

Understanding Diachronic Patterns of Feasting at the Late Classic Maya Polity of Lower Dover, Belize. (2023)

Understanding Past Human Securities, Sustainability, and Migration for a Climate-Changing World (2023)

Understanding Site Function and Textile Production in Southwestern Iberia (3400–2000 BCE): The Loom Weights from Perdigões (Alentejo, Portugal) (2023)

Understanding the Organization of Built Space Using Spatial Statistics in GIS (2023)

Understanding the World of the Scribe: Challenges and Opportunities of Cataloguing the Kerr Photographic Collection of Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks (2023)

Understanding the “Local Scale” in Pictish Landscape Research (Northern Scotland, 300–900 CE) (2023)

Understanding Vertebral Anomalies and Growth Patterns During the Late Intermediate Period (AD 1000–1470) in the Huanchaco Bay Area, Peru (2023)

The Underwater Search for the Remains of the Spanish Manila Galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos (2023)

Unearthed Burial from Rising Sea Levels: A Collaborative Community Approach for Tackling Climate Change in the Torres Strait Islands, Australia (2023)

Unearthing a Pipeline: An Archaeological Investigation into Line 3 in Northern Minnesota (2023)

Unentangling Hotspots and Episodes in Pre-domestication Cultivation of Cereals: Examples from West and East Asia (2023)

Universal Access to Archaeological Parks and Sites: A State of the Question (2023)

Unmodified Cobbles and Boulders from the Middle Stone Age Occupation of Witberg 1, Southern Kalahari, South Africa (2023)

Unravelling Mummy Objectification: An Evaluation and Case Study of the History and Legacy of Mummymania (2023)

Unrecognized Complexity: Defining the Significance of Huaca Letrada and the Northern Gallinazo (2023)

Unresolved Indivisibility: Protecting and Respecting Ainu Intangible and Tangible Heritage (2023)

Unsettling Infrastructure: The Feral Qualities of Water in an Archaeological Tale of Railroads and Pipelines (2023)

Unsettling Infrastructures that Settle: From the Andean Hacienda to a Minnesota Railway (2023)

Unsettling Settler-Colonial Archaeology: Constructing Indigenous Futurities at Puʻukoholā Heiau (2023)

Unsettling the Classroom: Teaching Archaeology’s Ties with Settler-Colonialism (2023)

Unveiling Laklãnõ-Xokleng Stories: The Southern Je Archaeological Context in the Upper Itajaí Valley (Santa Catarina State, Brazil) (2023)

Updated Perspectives on Sennacherib’s Siege at Tel Lachish (2023)

Updating the Late Pleistocene Record of the Willamette Valley, Oregon (2023)

Upper Paleolithic Movement and Trade as Represented at the Abri Kontija 002 Rockshelter Site (2023)

Urban Archaeology at the Harrison Avenue Residences: A “Glimpse” into Immigrant Communities in Nineteenth-Century Boston, Massachusetts (2023)

Urban Commoner Households: (In)Equality and Daily Life at Aventura (2023)

Urban Life in the Distant Past: A New Approach to Early Urbanism (2023)

Urban Renewal, Historic Preservation, and Indigenous Erasure (2023)

Urbanism in Western Medieval Central Asia: Dynastic Jewels and Dynamic Networks (2023)

Urbanization and Ceramic Consumption at the Late Neolithic Settlement of Liangchengzhen (2023)

The US Army’s “Monuments Men and Women” in the Protection of Cultural Property during Natural Disaster (2023)

Use It or Lose It: How to Activate Public Stewards to Protect Archaeological Sites (2023)

The Use of Balances in Late Andean Prehistory: Merchants or Bureaucrats? (2023)

Use of Faunal Analysis to Examine Seismic Disturbance at 45WH10 in Birch Bay, Washington (2023)

Use of Human Remains Detection Dogs to Find Unmarked Precontact Human Burials in the Ohio Valley (2023)

The Use of Human Remains Detection Dogs to Locate Empty Gravesites after Cultural Exhumation Practices in a Nineteenth-Century Chinese Cemetery in Warren, Idaho (2023)

The Use of Iron Meteorites for Hopewell Beads (2023)

The Use of Marine Magnetics to Study Submerged Archaeological Deposits in Shallow Water (2023)

The Usefulness of Institutional Analysis (IAD) for Defining Focal Action Situations in Mexican Cultural Heritage: PROCEDE-INAH and CONACULTA Outcomes after 1992 Reforms (2023)

Using Compound Specific Isotope Analysis of Amino Acids to Distinguish Aquatic and Terrestrial Diets of Early Holocene Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Sweden (2023)

Using Digital Technologies to Enhance Public Interpretation and Increase Access at Booker T. Washington National Monument (2023)

Using Digitized Archaeological Literature as Big Data: Lessons from Using Open-Source Software to Text Mine Archaeological Site Numbers and Citation Information from JSTOR across the United States and Canada for the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) (2023)

Using Historic Maps to Locate Trails and Understand Trail Building Practices on the Willamette National Forest, Detroit Ranger District (2023)

Using Historical African American Scholars’ Writings to Understand the Materiality of Nineteenth-Century African America Communities in Annapolis, Maryland (2023)

Using Modern Ostrich Eggshell to Establish a Color Alteration Index and Determine the Physical and Chemical Effects of Heat Exposure (2023)

Using Predictive Modeling to Evaluate Changes in Great Basin Paleoindian Settlement Systems through Time (2023)

Using Technologically Diagnostic Debitage to Better Determine the Integrity of an Archaeological Site (2023)

Using Traditional and Nontraditional Isotopic Tracers of Diet and Mobility of Brazilian Shell Mound Populations (ca. 8000–1000 years BP) (2023)

Using Ungulate Bones to Retouch and (Re)Sharpen Middle Stone Age End-Scrapers at Bushman Rock Shelter, South Africa (2023)

Using ZooMS to Evaluate Targeted Species Harvest of Pacific Salmon (2023)

Using ZooMS to Reconstruct Neanderthal Faunal Exploitation in the Early Sequence of Crvena Stijena, Montenegro (2023)

Utilitarian Lithics as Commodities: Comparing Classic Period Specialized and Multi-craft Producers in the Maya Lowlands (2023)

VAMPing Up Stewardship in the National Parks: Preliminary Lessons from the Volunteer Archeological Monitoring Program (2023)

Variability of Clovis Lithic Assemblages from El Fin del Mundo and the San Pedro River Valley (2023)

Variations on a Theme: Expanding Site Stewardship (2023)

Victorian Values: North American Archaeology at the British Museum during the Nineteenth Century (2023)