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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Morgan Smith. Shawn Joy.

This is an abstract from the "Liquid Landscapes: Recent Developments in Submerged Landscape Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Lithic technological organization (LTO) approaches are used to understand how stone tool making societies provision themselves with regards to raw material in a given environment. How societies provision themselves provides insight into their adaptive strategies for a landscape. 8JE1796, Clint’s Scallop Hole, is a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirsten Paulson.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology from Western North America" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A new study at the Cooper’s Ferry site (10IH73) located in west central Idaho focuses on the contents of pit feature 110 of Area B. Feature 110 (F110) has been dated between ~9938 ± 36 BP (11,352–11,264 cal BP) and ~9867 ± 36 BP (11,278–11,223 cal BP) and contains WST points, debitage, and faunal remains. Notably, the F110 faunal record includes a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barbara Roth. Kara Jones.

This is an abstract from the "Establishing the Science of Paleolithic Archaeology: The Legacy of Harold Dibble (1951–2018) Part I" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Harold Dibble’s focus on the multiple ways that lithics were used, modified, and transported across the landscape have been critical to Paleolithic studies but also have important applications in other areas. In this paper, we use data on lithic procurement, use, and reuse from sites in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zindy Cruz. Kepler Dimas. Mara Stumpf. Mozelle Bowers. Sara Juengst.

This is an abstract from the "Finding Community in the Past and Present through the 2022 PARCC Field School at Buen Suceso, Ecuador" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Skeletal measures of pathology and trauma can reveal lived experiences of individuals and broader patterns of health and disease within past communities. These are important lines of inquiry at both the individual and community level as they may reflect the identities held by those...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Nicolay. Miranda Fengel.

This is an abstract from the "Defining Perishables: The How, What, and Why of Perishables and Their Importance in Understanding the Past" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In “Entangled,” his landmark theoretical work on the relationship between human beings and material culture, Ian Hodder emphasized the importance of understanding how things endure differently than people. Thus longer-lived objects can bridge gaps and carry meaning between multiple...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Motta. Victoria Moses. Jason Kirk. Lael Vetter. Jay Stephens.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper discusses subsistence specialization, livestock mobility, and husbandry strategies at Gabii during the eighth–fifth centuries BCE, a time of transition to state-level, urbanized political systems. The site of Gabii is one of several emerging cities in the Lower Tiber Valley that grew along a similar trajectory, expanding from dispersed hut...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Kovacik.

This is an abstract from the "Hill People: New Research on Tijeras Canyon and the East Mountains" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Following the approval of their application for a community land grant east of Albuquerque in 1763, several New Mexico families of diverse origin ventured into the Tijeras Canyon in hopes of improving their status by managing lands in this colonial buffer zone. The constant threat of Apache raids, however, meant the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Hampson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In southeast Utah, two of the most dominant geographical features, Comb Ridge and the San Juan River, converge in dramatic fashion. Several large villages at the intersection of these features represent central places for wider communities from 500 BCE through at least 900 CE. While the three largest sites represent different time periods, each maintained...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Davenport.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pacajes pottery is commonly found throughout Qullasuyu, the southern quarter of the Inka empire. Originating in Bolivia, it saw wider distribution after Inka expansion through the region. One specific form common of this style is a shallow plate decorated with small, black stylized llamas repeating at regular intervals over a red interior. Evidence for the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrea Gonzáles Lombardi.

This is an abstract from the "Political Economies on the Andean Coast" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The peoples of the inner Piuran coast have a deep link with water management and agriculture that was consolidated around AD 1000 under the administration of local and foreign groups which densely occupied the Alto Piura (chaupiyunga) through administrative centers and irrigation systems. Using aerial photographs and RPA imagery, this research...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kai Su. Tristram Kidder.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Haimenkou is a wetland site with exceptional preservation and represents one of the earliest Neolithic occupations in Southwest China at ca. 3600 cal BP. The site is located on the margin of the alpine Jianhu Lake (ca. 2,200 m asl). A coring survey along the lakeshore reveals nearly 10 m fluctuation of the water level and complex intercalations of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Gomes.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For almost two decades, Japanese archaeology has fostered discourse on public archaeology and initiatives that involve the public in archaeological practices. This development coincides with a shift in cultural resource management policies that emphasize and expand the role of cultural properties within communities. Based on a discourse analysis of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Reno Nims.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological fishbone assemblages are the product of dynamic interactions between human fishers and fish stocks, both of which are enmeshed in broader, dynamic socioenvironmental contexts which are continually transformed and sustained by people and non-human entities. Understanding the history of fisheries therefore depends on careful consideration of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Frank Winchell.

This is an abstract from the "Subsistence Crops and Animals as a Proxy for Human Cultural Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent analyses have established the location for the origin of domesticated sorghum occurring in the far eastern Sahel of Sudan during the fourth millennium BC associated with the Late Neolithic Butana Group. For over a half century, sorghum domestication has been hypothesized as occurring somewhere in the Sahelian...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Rowe. Jennifer Pelache. Bradley Byrnes.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 5GA2312, the Lone Spruce Site, is located within the upper reaches of the Colorado River Basin in Grand County, Colorado, at 8,200 feet above sea level. The site was partially excavated in 2016 when 5,021 artifacts, 32% being identified as various types of scrapers, were recovered. Ninety-five percent of the assemblage is of Table Mountain jasper, which is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Molly Cannon. Anna Cohen.

This is an abstract from the "A Further Discussion on the Role of Archaeology in Resource and Public Land Management" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Water heritage associated with water use and management, including infrastructure like canals, irrigation ditches, and ponds, and intangible heritage like traditions, experiences, stories, and myths, reveals how past and present communities adapt to uncertain climatic and changing social conditions....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karin Larkin. Fawn-Amber Montoya. Robert Butero.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Congress: Multivocal Conversations Furthering the World Archaeological Congress Agenda" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The 1913–1914 southern Colorado coalfield strike and Ludlow Massacre had lasting impacts on labor law reforms that occurred in Colorado and the United States over the subsequent decades. The Colorado Coalfield War Archaeological Project (CCWAP) worked with the United Mine Workers of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Calogero Santoro. Paula Ugalde. Daniela Osorio. Katherine Herrrera.

This is an abstract from the "Dedication, Collaboration, and Vision, Part II: Papers in Honor of Tom D. Dillehay" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tom Dillehay appeared publicly in Chile in October 1976 during the VII Congreso Nacional de Arqueología Chilena. Since then more than 16,769 days have passed, a figure that exceeds the archaeological depth, in thousands of calibrated years, that Tom has imprinted on the human history of the Andes, in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karleen Ronsairo.

This is an abstract from the "Step by Step: Tracing World Potting Traditions through Ceramic Petrography" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Mixteca Alta Ceramic Study (MACS) in the Nochixtlán Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, aims to understand how early urbanization in the valley impacted potters’ crafting techniques over time and space. Early urbanization in the valley spanned the Yucuita and Early Ramos ceramic phases (500–100 BCE) of the Middle to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jon Krier. Christopher Ruiz. Marlene Jampolsky.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the span of more than a year from 2019 to 2020, University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History archaeologists monitored construction work for an affordable housing project in downtown Eugene, Oregon. During the monitoring, Chinese artifacts were found, which opened a window onto the poorly documented history of diasporic Chinese...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stance Hurst. Doug Cunningham. Eileen Johnson. Glenn Fernández-Céspedes. Markus Crawford.

This is an abstract from the "Fire-Cracked Rock: Research in Cooking and Noncooking Contexts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fires are an essential aspect of the grassland ecosystem across the Great Plains. Natural fires often can transform surrounding rocks to look like hearths or individual hearthstones used by prehistoric people. Several experiments, however, have demonstrated that grassland fires may not fully discolor the rocks on all sides...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chloé Andrieu. Charlotte Arnaud.

This is an abstract from the "The Movement of People and Ideas in Eastern Mesoamerica during the Ninth and Tenth Centuries CE: A Multidisciplinary Approach Part II" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Various studies have suggested that, as a consequence of the radical crises that the Maya cities underwent at the end of the Classic period, a portion of Central Lowlands population could have migrated towards the Yucatán peninsula. However, very few...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Barzilai. Jayne-Leigh Thomas.

This is an abstract from the "Advancing the Archaeology of Indigenous Agriculture in North America" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mississippian peoples (circa eleventh–fourteenth centuries CE) in the midwestern and southeastern United States have long been proven to be and defined by their maize agricultural practices. Due to the nutritional deficiencies of subsisting solely on maize as a crop when unprocessed, researchers have linked all maize...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Lipps. Erik Otarola-Castillo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Loma Oases are ecosystems unique to the arid central-western coast of South America, formed by the winter fog that accumulates on the slopes of the Andean foothills. They become seasonal homes to a unique and diverse suite of plant and animal species. Consequently, archaeologists hypothesize that Loma environments were vital to prehistoric Peruvian...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa Darby.

This is an abstract from the "Pacific Maritime History: Ships and Shipwrecks" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1579 Francis Drake and his crew likely careened the Golden Hind in a “fair and good bay” somewhere on the Northwest Coast, rather than the often-cited California shore. This paper will explore and discuss some of the ethnographic evidence, the strong manuscript evidence, and a few artifacts found in the region that may have been from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jocelyne Ponce. Marcello Canuto. Tomás Barrientos.

This is an abstract from the "A Celebration and Critical Assessment of "The Maya Scribe and His World" on its Fiftieth Anniversary" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over two dozen hieroglyphic panels looted in the 1960s from the site of La Corona, formerly known as “Site Q,” ended up in private collections around the globe. Some of these panels are featured in the Grolier Catalog. While the monuments have provided extensive information on the role...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marijke Stoll.

This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse: Current Research in Oaxaca Part II" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. People living in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains still travel largely on foot, especially where cars are impossible or when they are moving their livestock from one place to another. Prior to the widespread ownership of cars today, travel by foot was even more common and was the only mode of transportation in the prehispanic era....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emiliano Gallaga.

This is an abstract from the "Dynamic Frontiers in the Archaeology of Chiapas" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological community of the Zoque is still under development in the state of Chiapas. Most of the archaeological research focuses on the Maya and some on the Soconusco Coastal region, but very little research on the Zoque themselves. We know that the Zoque had a very complex long-distance regional trade network from where they...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alondra Trejo Ordoz. Oswaldo Camarillo Sánchez.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Puebla/Tlaxcala Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Los cráneos decorados de nueve hombres y una mujer del México Antiguo atestiguan una compleja red social y cultural que trasciende hasta nuestros días. Al no contar con un registro arqueológico de su hallazgo, los análisis óseos, dentales, gráficos, de manufactura, tafonómicos y arqueométricos, son valiosos puentes de conocimiento que permiten...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emmanuel Posselt Santoyo.

This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse: Current Research in Oaxaca Part I" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Los sitios arqueológicos han sido vistos comúnmente como un conjunto de elementos arquitectónicos, generando una visión estática del espacio. Sin embargo, en esta presentación los entenderé también como espacios caminables, es decir, sitios que eran transitados por personas en tiempos precoloniales. Durante los recorridos...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Xóchitl Martínez Martínez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El tablero doble escapulario es un elemento arquitectónico común en varias regiones de Mesoamérica (Centro de México, área maya y Oaxaca), en este último, se puede apreciar muy claramente en sitios arqueológicos como Monte Albán y Mitla, y recientemente, gracias a los aportes realizados por el Proyecto Arqueológico del Conjunto Monumental de Atzompa...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Itzel Chagoya Ayala.

This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse: Current Research in Oaxaca Part I" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Al temazcal o baño de vapor de tradición prehispánica se le ha asignado connotaciones religiosas y medicinales, en algunos sitios mesoamericanos ha sido localizado en centros ceremoniales asociados a juegos de pelota, basados en construcciones significativas y representaciones pictográficas que dan muestra de su forma y uso. Pero...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Rothwell. Anna Alexandropoulou. Jane Buikstra.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While discussions of kinship in Ancient Greece have largely been limited to the elite and their families, the Archaic cemetery of Phaleron (700–480 BC) provides a unique opportunity to investigate kinship relationships among people of lower socioeconomic status. This is especially true of interments of children, which can be interpreted not only as a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jason LaBelle. Kelton Meyer.

This is an abstract from the "A Tribute to the Contributions of Lawrence C. Todd to World Prehistory" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past 10 years, survey crews from CSU’s Center for Mountain and Plains Archaeology examined the alpine ecosystem of the Colorado Front Range, recording a variety of sites such as game drives, lithic and ceramic scatters, and ice patches within Rocky Mountain National Park and adjacent wilderness areas. We...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jill Onken. Jessica Munson. Andrés G. Mejía Ramón. Lorena Paiz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Proximity to aquatic resources, rich soils, and transportation corridors can make riverine landscapes attractive settings for human occupation. Floodplains, however, are dynamic environments subject to flooding, erosion, and channel migration, which can dramatically transform the surrounding landscapes and create challenges for sedentary communities. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Teresa Wriston. Christina Neudorf. Gary Haynes.

This is an abstract from the "A Tribute to the Contributions of Lawrence C. Todd to World Prehistory" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists often accept optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) ages with less critical review than those derived from the more commonly used radiocarbon dating methods. This is largely because of an incomplete understanding of optical dating techniques and the modeling assumptions used to calculate these ages....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Reese. Sean Field. Robert Weiner.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The United States Geologic Survey is intermittently releasing publicly available 1-meter resolution lidar of the contiguous United States through the 3-Dimensional Elevation Project. Over the past several years, large sections of lidar across southeast Utah, southwest Colorado, New Mexico, and small portions of Arizona have been released—creating an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristopher Montgomery.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Metarhyolite from the South Mountain Section of Pennsylvania has been utilized by indigenous groups in the Middle Atlantic Region since the Archaic Period. The resource has been the focus of widespread quarrying activities, spurring an entire Native American complex of quarries, which are restricted to a relatively confined geographic region where...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Dober. Rachel Cajigas. Alexandre Tokovinine. Aura Barrientos. Francisco Estrada-Belli.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Shallow geophysical prospecting methods have been underutilized in the Lowland Mayan regions due, in part, to the densely forested environment. Recent research at La Sufricaya, a Classic Maya site in the Homul region, has produced promising results using magnetic gradiometry to identify features buried below the plaza surface. Despite copious foliage and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Miguel Vallebueno-Estrada. Krisztian Nemeth. Bruce Benz. Michael Blake. Kelly Swarts.

This is an abstract from the "Subsistence Crops and Animals as a Proxy for Human Cultural Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. All organisms must contend with rapidly changing environments in the face of climate change in order to ensure the survival of the population (Hoffmann and Sgrò 2011). Domesticated plants, with a 10,000 year history of adapting to new environments, provide an excellent model for understanding genetic responses to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas J. Kennett. Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra.

This is an abstract from the "Fryxell Symposium in Honor of Dolores Piperno" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dolores Piperno’s work during the last four decades transformed our understanding of maize domestication and dispersal in the Americas. To honor this legacy we synthesize current genetic, paleoecological, and archaeological data regarding the early development of this globally important staple crop. Genetic evidence indicates initial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephanie Sperling.

This is an abstract from the "Public Lands, Public Sites: Research, Engagement, and Collaboration" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Thousands of people are employed by Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC), Department of Parks and Recreation, Prince George’s County, but only two of them are full-time archaeologists. These professionals are supported by a small part-time staff and are responsible for the stewardship of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Rachel Fernandez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. With the call from the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to make federally-funded research openly and immediately available, many archaeologists, archivists, and CRM professionals in the U.S. are left wondering how this affects their research and ability to preserve and protect their data. Most affected by this governance are state and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Splitstoser. Jon Clindaniel.

This is an abstract from the "Cordage, Yarn, and Associated Paraphernalia" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While Andean khipus—indigenous knot-and-cord recording devices—have been extensively studied over the past hundred years in their final, completed form, relatively little attention has been paid to the process by which they were made. As such, the level of agency that khipu makers, called khipukamayuqs, had in producing khipus is not fully...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Genevieve Woodhead.

This is an abstract from the "Step by Step: Tracing World Potting Traditions through Ceramic Petrography" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study addresses both the geochemical composition and the decorative content of ceramic sherds recovered from the Box B Site (LA 16660), New Mexico. Thorough and successful ceramic analyses by Barbara Mills, Hayward Franklin, and Elizabeth Garrett took place in the 1980s. This current project reexamines white...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Agbe-Davies.

This is an abstract from the "Deepening Archaeology's Engagement with Black Studies" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One powerful reason to integrate Black Studies and archaeology is to align archaeological analysis of sites occupied by Black people with the aims, imperatives, and perspectives that their descendants and other stakeholders might find relevant. This paper follows the lead of researchers like Brittney Cooper who encourage us to see...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin Malloy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent discoveries of substantial offshore oil and gas reserves and large-scale international development projects highlight the need to identify and preserve Guyana’s poorly documented cultural heritage. At particular risk of destruction are some of Guyana’s Silk Cotton (Ceiba pentandra) trees, which serve as tangible markers of one aspect of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Witt. Catherine Landis. Neil Patterson, Jr..

This is an abstract from the "Living Landscapes: Disaster, Memory, and Change in Dynamic Environments " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological landscapes embody shifting conceptualizations of the individuals who live, work, and play at those locations, both in the past and present. While other papers in this session address such changes in the context of the archaeological past, we bring the discussion to the present. We explore these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leobardo Pacheco Arias.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster has the objective of showing the management strategies in the site "Prehistoric Caves of Yagul and Mitla in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico," inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 2010. In this site the participation of the Zapotec communities has been key for its administration, monitoring, conservation, and promotion. Some...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alma Marroquín. Anna Bishop.

This is an abstract from the "La Cuernavilla, Guatemala: A Maya Fortress and Its Environs" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. La Cuernavilla’s palace complex is made up of 14 elongated structures around two internal patios seated on a wide raised platform. Its location at the foot of the escarpment in the extreme northeast of the Lower East Group protects and restricts its access from the surrounding Buenavista Valley. Causeways into the escarpment...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma Holm.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Ohanapecosh Area of Mount Rainier National Park contains diverse historic properties associated with multiple types and periods of Significance. The managerial requirements for the cultural resources are, consequently, equally diverse. The resources are archaeological, ethnographic, and structural in nature, and they are associated with the heritages...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elie Pinta. Claudia Baittinger.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During medieval times, Norse Greenlanders relied heavily on wood for making household items, as a construction material, and as a fuel source. Although the quantity and quality of timber available in local woodlands were limited, Norse craftspeople also had access to driftwood and imported materials. Most studies in the North Atlantic use taxonomic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carola Flores-Fernandez. Gabriela Covarrubias. Felipe Rivera.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fishhooks on Choromytilus chorus shells (mussel) can be found along the northern coast Chile (18° to 30° Lat. S) and were manufactured between 7500 and 4000 yrs cal BP. Manufacture marks on these artefacts are prominent features to observed, describe, and compare. In this way, the study of shell fishhooks’ manufacture techniques allows us not only to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Weronika Tomczyk. Claire Ebert.

This is an abstract from the "Dogs in the Archaeological Record" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The widespread perception of the dog as humans’ closest companion species allows their remains to be used as proxies for human diet and mobility patterns. But these highly social animals held their own variable social and economic roles. Therefore, dog remains can provide information on the organization of animal management systems in past complex...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Whitley.

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Rock Art Documentation, Research, and Analysis" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Certain current rock art debates involve methodological rather than empirical issues (as incorrectly but commonly assumed), reflecting researchers’ unfamiliarity with principles of symbolic analysis and the resulting functions and meanings of rock art sites. One key error concerns the fact that symbols are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jason Kennedy. Sergio Chavez. Stanislava Chavez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Copacabana Peninsula of Lake Titicaca, in modern Bolivia and Peru, is a landscape that has been heavily modified through the construction of stone terraces on the slopes facing the shores of Lake Titicaca and the intermontane valley systems. Previous research by the Yaya-Mama Archaeological Project has demonstrated that terrace construction began...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip De Barros.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Science and African Archaeology: Appreciating the Impact of David Killick" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2013 and 2017 three major smithing sites in the Bitchabe zone of the Bassar region of northern Togo were mapped with GPS: former Bitchabe, Upper Bidjomambe, and Old Bitchobebe, covering 20.3, 14.5, and 5.4 ha, respectively. The sites were variously occupied from the late seventeenth to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melanie Cootsona.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster explores resilience and survivance of important animal-human economic, spiritual, and cultural traditions through the geospatial lens by mapping and describing ethnographic and archaeological interactions with Bison bison and Picuris Pueblo in the long term. In the Puebloan world, bison-human interactions are constrained by geographic and later...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marsha Small. Jarrod Burks.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Indian boarding school cemeteries are a controversial issue in North America, and each comes with unique challenges. As part of the senior author’s doctoral research, we recently applied, during various seasons, a range of geophysical survey and mapping techniques to the Chemawa Indian Boarding School cemetery in Salem, Oregon. Chemawa was founded in 1880...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordan Davis.

This is an abstract from the "Seeking Freedom in the Borderlands: Archaeological Perspectives on Maroon Societies in Florida" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Following investigations at the early nineteenth-century African/Black Seminole settlement of Pilaklikaha (“Abraham’s Old Town”), Florida has emerged as a key space for examining the complex intersections between archaeologies of marronage and Afro-Indigenous relationality. Beginning with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Clay.

This is an abstract from the "Adventures in Spatial Archaeometry: A Survey of Recent High-Resolution Survey and Measurement Applications" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the nineteenth century, captive Africans in Guyane, a French colony and overseas territory in northeastern South America, increasingly sought their own freedom leading up to definitive abolition in 1848. Colonial administrators recognized the practice as a problem and began...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Greer Jarrett.

This is an abstract from the "Negotiating Watery Worlds: Impacts and Implications of the Use of Watercraft in Small-Scale Societies" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project aims to reconstruct the mental geographies and sailing routes used by Viking Age communities along the Atlantic façade by combining experimental archaeology and critical cartography. This session will present some of the results of recent fieldwork conducted in Norway and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Grace Stanford. Briana Doering.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Few archaeological sites from the late Holocene Dene/Athabascan tradition have been extensively studied, leaving researchers with many questions about everyday practices. Specifically, the function and spatial distribution of thermal features has yet to be extensively evaluated. Despite the ubiquity of cooking in daily life and cooking features in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hope Loiselle. Logan Kistler. Michael McGowen. Mike Etnier. Ben Fitzhugh.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. People have inhabited the NW Pacific Kuril Islands for millennia, supported by the productive marine and coastal environments. Here, we build upon previous faunal analyses that examined biogeographical patterns in faunal exploitation by conducting a chronological analysis, grouped by cultural period (Epi-Jomon, Okhotsk, Ainu and Historic). Specifically, we...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Longstaffe. Kathryn Reese-Taylor. Armando Anaya Hernández. Felix Kupprat.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents new data from excavations at Ximbal Che’, an intermediate-elite residential group at the ancient Maya city of Yaxnohcah, located in southern Campeche, Mexico. Households have for decades been recognized as important loci for production, consumption, and social reproduction in ancient Maya societies. In recent years, studies of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Uzi Baram.

This is an abstract from the "Seeking Freedom in the Borderlands: Archaeological Perspectives on Maroon Societies in Florida" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Nearly erased from history, the early nineteenth-century marronage of Angola on the Manatee River is now established as part of the Network to Freedom in Florida. Recent excavations provide a view of daily life for the freedom-seeking people. Allied with British filibusters, connected to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Simeonoff. Marie Matsuda. Breeanna Charolla.

This is an abstract from the "Beyond Leaky Pipelines: Exploring Gender Inequalities in Archaeological Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many studies of women in the field of archaeology focus on academic institutions; however, more archaeologists are employed by the public and private sectors. In this paper, we examine the place of women holding positions in cultural resource management. By examining first-hand experiences of women in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacob Haffner. Keith Prufer. Hannah Mattson. Cecil Lewis. Colleagues et al..

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Organic residue analysis in archaeology using mass spectrometry (MS) is a robust technique to detect and explore ancient biomolecules for reconstructing past cultural behavior, such as diet composition and even specific recipes. Studies often involve targeted MS analyses of known or suspected substances, while untargeted analyses characterizing broad...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Schmidt. Megan Hoffman. Grace Holmes.

This is an abstract from the "The Bethel Cemetery Relocation Project: Historical, Osteological, and Material Culture Analyses of a Nineteenth-Century Indiana Cemetery" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Elizabeth Poland was a member of one of the prominent families interred at the Bethel Cemetery, located in Indianapolis, IN; she died in 1896 at the age of 76. Her skeleton indicated several pathological conditions including pedal arthritis, vertebral...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lorraine Williams-Beck.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Rampant idolatry and Mayan resistance to the religious conquest, narrated in Early Viceregal Yucatan documents, bespeaks an underlying visual component for continuing traditional religious practices. Franciscan rural chapels, churches, and convents interior mural paintings and architectural facade sculptural details provide the material signatures to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eleanor Harrison-Buck.

This is an abstract from the "The Movement of People and Ideas in Eastern Mesoamerica during the Ninth and Tenth Centuries CE: A Multidisciplinary Approach Part I" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Across the Maya Lowlands, circular shrines have been reported that resemble smaller versions of the Caracol building at Chichen Itza. According to Ringle and colleagues (1998), Chichen Itza was one of many centers in a shrine network extending along the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Luke Auld-Thomas. Marcello Canuto.

This is an abstract from the "Provisioning Ancient Maya Cities: Modeling Food Production and Land Use in Tropical Urban Environments" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Researchers assess sustainability using spatial bounds, be they for a single community or the entire planet. But the specific boundaries we use matter greatly, because practices (and populations) that are unsustainable at one scale may be sustainable at another depending on a host of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katarzyna Radnicka-Dominiak.

This is an abstract from the "The Maya Wall Paintings of Chajul (Guatemala)" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The revealing of Chajul mural paintings has opened a completely new chapter in the history of colonial art of Latin America. Most of today’s known examples of colonial art are located in churches or other buildings related to religious spheres, while Chajul murals cover walls of private houses of Ixil Maya families. Not only the location of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yeonju Shin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Research into ancient Mayan murals in San Bartolo, Bonampak, and Rio Azul demonstrates that the Mayans used paintings to educate people and to portray religious beliefs. The intricacy of their painting technique and the use of natural pigments elicit a durable, complex representation of the Mayan culture rooted in their cosmology of mystic deities called...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Mora-Marin.

This is an abstract from the "Coffee, Clever T-Shirts, and Papers in Honor of John S. Justeson" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper deals with the topic that inspired me to study with John Justeson: it traces the major spelling practices of Mayan writing from the Late Preclassic through the Late Classic periods. It employs the evidence from Late Preclassic and Early Classic inscriptions, some of which I have documented myself, as well as the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. M. Adovasio.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The year 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of initiation of excavations at Meadowcroft Rockshelter in southwestern Pennsylvania. Meadowcroft was the first serious challenge to the Clovis-first peopling model that had dominated American archaeological thought for decades. Generations of students have passed through graduate schools since the early excavations...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Waxman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As industrial economies developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the push for ever increasing profits reshaped the social and economic landscapes of America. The landscape of the American Southwest in particular was marked by industrial towns that experienced great boom and bust cycles following the flow of capital. This poster presents the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elena Endarova.

This is an abstract from the "Variability: A Reassessment of Its Meaning, Afforded Range, and the Relation to Process" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bone artifacts from the past are indicators of increased diversity in human behavior and culture. Determining the bone tool type can provide information about past technology, cultural provenience, symbolic expressions, and the type of exploited fauna that inhabited different geographical regions....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Reed.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Jicarita Peak, a looming shoulder of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in northern New Mexico, is a convergence of disparate peoples, cosmologies, and politics. The mountain is a crucial part of a vast watershed that extends from its 12,000′ slopes down to the Rio Grande and is home to Picuris Pueblo, North America’s oldest continually inhabited settlement....

DOCUMENT Citation Only R. J. Sinensky. Alan Farahani.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent computational advances in the accessibility of robust statistical techniques used to estimate the biological richness and diversity of ecological communities using observational data provide a strong foundation for archaeological assessments of botanical richness and diversity using archaeobotanical data. While there is broad consensus amongst...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gilbert Tostevin.

This is an abstract from the "Establishing the Science of Paleolithic Archaeology: The Legacy of Harold Dibble (1951–2018) Part II" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Harold Dibble’s contributions to Paleolithic archaeology are numerous. Of the two contributions that I feel had the largest impact, the first is the intensity of energy Dibble brought to every endeavor, particularly to broadening the application of rigorous empiricism to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Braun. Benjamin Davies. Matthew Douglass. Sam Lin. Jonathan Reeves.

This is an abstract from the "Establishing the Science of Paleolithic Archaeology: The Legacy of Harold Dibble (1951–2018) Part I" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The identification of the “Frison Effect” on Middle Paleolithic scraper variability has had numerous subsequent implications. The initial influence revolved around our understanding of the then-prevailing use of typological distinctions in the Middle Paleolithic. However, the quantitative...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Stone. Loren Davis.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology from Western North America" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Advances in technology such as 3D digital scanning and spatial analysis software have provided archaeologists with novel data. Specifically, these methods increase the researcher’s ability to measure artifact morphology and past networks of cultural transmission, to potentially track the movement of past peoples and ideas through space and time....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Armando Falcucci. Diego Lombao.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Reduction intensity analysis plays a key role in understanding the formation of lithic assemblages and the occupation patterns of Paleolithic sites. Furthermore, technological variability and core classifications can be better understood if the diachronic component of the reduction is taken into consideration. The Volumetric Reconstruction Method (VRM),...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Earley.

This is an abstract from the "A Celebration and Critical Assessment of "The Maya Scribe and His World" on its Fiftieth Anniversary" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Among Michael Coe’s many contributions to Maya studies with his landmark show and publication “The Maya Scribe and His World” was the observation that imagery on Classic Maya ceramics is different from imagery on carved stone monuments. Coe notes this gap between ceramic and stone...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Smetana. Christopher Lynn. Marco Samadelli.

This is an abstract from the "Body Modification: Examples and Explanations" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As the popularity of tattooing has surged worldwide, so too have studies of tattooing as a cultural and psychological practice, though research on the biological impacts of tattooing have lagged. In its basic form, tattooing is a purposeful wound on the body that leaves behind pigment and permanent meaning. Part of that meaning is the health...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma Barbacini.

This is an abstract from the "Digitizing Archaeological Practice: Education and Outreach in the Archaeogaming Subdiscipline" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Archaeogaming Team at SASA turns games into the backdrop of history; this project loops full circle, turning history into a game. Born as support material to an AEM that explores the history of medieval medicine, this game is meant to familiarize the players with relevant vocabulary and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Taylor. Isaac Hart. Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan. Tumurbaatar Tuvshinjargal. Nicholas Jarman.

This is an abstract from the "From the Altai to the Arctic: New Results and New Directions in the Archaeology of North and Inner Asia" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Around the globe, a rapidly warming climate is exposing organic materials preserved in permanent snow and ice features. In western Mongolia, artifacts melting from ice features in the Altai mountains demonstrate a millennia-long record of the use of high-altitude zones for hunting of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only S. Margaret Spivey-Faulkner.

This is an abstract from the "Multispecies Frameworks in Archaeological Interpretation: Human-Nonhuman Interactions in the Past, Part II" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological evidence at the Fort Center archaeological site in south Florida indicates that rooftop statuary depicting animals were treated as members of the community. This evidence is found in the watery interment of these sculptures alongside human community members over...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Brock Morales.

This is an abstract from the "Living Landscapes: Disaster, Memory, and Change in Dynamic Environments " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1970, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake destroyed numerous towns and displaced many families throughout the Callejon de Huaylas, Peru. In the search for new land and new lives, many of the displaced families began to settle on elevated archaeological sites of monumental architecture located in alluvial plains and near...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Olivia Navarro-Farr. Rachel Horowitz. Keith Eppich.

This is an abstract from the "The Vibrancy of Ruins: Ruination Studies in Ancient Mesoamerica" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Long-term research at Waka’s City temple (Structure M13-1) demonstrates it was an important locale for ritual commemoration by local people as well and those from afar. Extensive and diversely constituted deposits throughout the building’s surface demonstrate it was venerated publicly by non-elites throughout Waka’s final...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Ballance.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. “El Lazarillo de Ciegos Caminantes” (1775) describes the colonial highway from Buenos Aires to Lima. Authored by a Spanish official, Alonso Carrió de la Vandera, the document records a uniquely elite experience of travel. The author describes a journey taken from Buenos Aires to Lima structured by the posta, a colonial system of lodging and transport...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Whitney Goodwin. Hector Neff. Daniel Pierce. Michael Glascock.

This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the nearly 35 years since the Archaeometry Laboratory at the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR) was founded, the Mesoamerican Ceramic NAA database has grown to almost 30,000 entries spanning Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and beyond. This paper presents the history of how the database came together,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jean Pike.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Architecture is one of the most common yet least understood of archaeological remains in the US Southwest. At Chaco Canyon, New Mexico unique and monumental building forms emerged and proliferated during the 9th – 12th centuries AD and questions still remain as to their origin. Lekson identified a formal typology for Chaco Canyon’s great houses which in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Duffy. Kitty Emery. Antonia Foias.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Research in the Petén Lakes Region, Petén, Guatemala" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The subject of ancient Maya cuisine continues to fascinate researchers, but little is known about the “recipes” that may have been used by different people at different times across the Maya world. This study takes a metabolomic approach to residue analysis to compare flavors and preparation methods during the occupation of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick Jolicoeur.

This is an abstract from the "From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal: Metal Tool Production and Use by Indigenous Hunter-Gatherers in North America" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The earliest metal use in the Eastern North American Arctic comes from the Pre-Dorset period (ca. 5000–2500 cal BP). However, evidence for the material being used regularly and outside its immediate source regions emerges millennia later in the Late Dorset period (ca. 1500–700...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hans Roskamp.

This is an abstract from the "Technological Transitions in Prehispanic and Colonial Metallurgy: Recent and Ongoing Research at the Archaeological Site of Jicalán Viejo, in Central Michoacán, West Mexico" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A thorough exploration of the available historical documents from the colonial period demonstrates that Jicalán was one of many prehispanic settlements inhabited by copper mining, smelting, and smithing specialists...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Owen Mason.

This is an abstract from the "From the Altai to the Arctic: New Results and New Directions in the Archaeology of North and Inner Asia" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Late Holocene Bering Strait acted as a filter, marked by intermittent material and technological cross-strait transfers; first of obsidian, ca. 3000 BCE, storage or serving ceramics adopted ca. 1000 BCE, of metallurgic iron ca. 200 CE, rare cast-bronze objects ca. 1150 CE, armor...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Dinkel.

This is an abstract from the "Coffee, Clever T-Shirts, and Papers in Honor of John S. Justeson" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. John Justeson is well-known for contributions to the documentation of Mesoamerican indigenous languages and writing systems. Justeson’s work on metaphor has received less attention, given that work on metaphor in precolumbian Mesoamerica is just now gaining traction. Justeson’s work stands out as being the first to adopt a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alex Morrison. Timothy Rieth. Anthony Dosseto.

This is an abstract from the "Supporting Practical Inquiry: The Past, Present, and Future Contributions of Thomas Dye" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this presentation we build on Tom Dye’s pioneering approach to modeling the temporal parameters of Hawaiian architecture with an example from Kekaha Kai, North Kona, where he conducted archaeological investigations nearly two decades ago. We report a suite of uranium-thorium dates acquired from...