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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  1. A View from Above: The Dynamic Human Landscapes of the East Mountains (2023)
  2. A View from the Bridge: The Role of Anthropological Consultation in the Twenty-First Century (2023)
  3. Violence as a Contested Asset and Dynamics of Warrior Ideology at State Edges: Thugs and Harmony? (2023)
  4. Virtual Reality and Archaeological Practice (2023)
  5. Virtual Worlds: Underwater Archaeology and Indigenous Engagement (2023)
  6. Visualizing Speech: Unfolding the Narrative of the Papaloapan Stela (2023)
  7. Voyages to Kaju Jawi: First Dated Evidence for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Asian Voyages to Northern Kimberley, Australia (2023)
  8. Walking a Trail Like Reading a Book (2023)
  9. Walking the Footwear Landscape on the Western Plains Margin: The Implications of 3,500 Years of Footwear from Franktown Cave, Colorado (2023)
  10. Walled In: Borderlands, Frontiers, and the Future of Archaeology (2023)
  11. Walled Sites beyond the Wall: Labeling Liao Towns in Archaeology and Historical Geography (2023)
  12. War and Peace and the Origins of Political Control in the Central Andean Coast: 3000 BC–AD 600 (2023)
  13. War of Jenkins Ear: Battle of Gully Hole Creek (2023)
  14. War, Power, and History in the Mississippian Period Central Illinois Valley (2023)
  15. Warfare and Captive Sacrifice in the Moche World: New Data from Excavations at Pampa la Cruz, Moche Valley, Northern Coastal Peru (2023)
  16. Warfare and the Origins of Social Complexity in Southern Central America (2023)
  17. Warfare and the Polity in Early China (2023)
  18. Warfare and the Rise of Sociopolitical Complexity in Southeast Asia (2023)
  19. Warfare, Captive-Taking, Enslavement, and the Creation of Power (2023)
  20. Wari D-Temples: Inferring Function from Shape, Distribution, and Orientation (2023)
  21. Warrior Art, Osteological Evidence of Violence, and Colonial-Era Changes in Warfare and Male Status on the Western Great Plains (2023)
  22. Was Setaria Domesticated in Tehuacan? (2023)
  23. The Washington Archaeology Mentorship Program: Community Tools for Addressing Systemic Inequalities (2023)
  24. Washington Women’s Homesteading, 1862–1949: Developing a Historic Context of Women’s Homesteading Experiences (2023)
  25. Washington's Board of Public Works and the Burial of Black Georgetown (2023)
  26. Waste Landscapes at UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Challenging the Criteria (2023)
  27. Water for the Keep: Hydrological Flow and Accumulation (2023)
  28. Water, Creation, and Celestial Phenomena at La Casa de las Golondrinas, Guatemala (2024)
  29. Water, Water, Everywhere, but You Need to Walk to Get a Drink: The Relationship between Water Sources and Teuchitlán Culture Sites in the Tequila Valleys of Jalisco, Mexico (2023)
  30. Waterscapes Domestication: Ponds, Fish Weirs, and Evidence of Managed Aquatic Environments in Amazonia (2023)
  31. We Can Brew It! Rethinking the Demographics of Early Oregon Breweries (2023)
  32. The Weaknesses of a Colonial Mindset: A Study of Indigenous Spirituality during the Maya Caste War (2023)
  33. Wealth Inequality in Polynesia: A Comparison of Evidence from the Hawaiian Islands, Rapa Nui (Easter Island), and Aotearoa (New Zealand) from AD 1000–1800 (2023)
  34. Wealth, Status, and Agricultural Production at a Mid-Nineteenth-Century Farmstead in Upstate New York (2023)
  35. Weaving Ancestors into Everyday Objects: Basketmaker II Use of Human Hair (2023)
  36. Weaving Kin Studies and Multispecies Frameworks into Collaborative Paleoethnobotanical Research (2023)
  37. Weaving the Cosmic House: Chibchan Myth and Nicaraguan Spindle Whorls (2023)
  38. Weeksville Pictographs, Western Montana: The Importance of Location (2024)
  39. Weichselian Climatic Fluctuations and Neanderthals’ Technical Behaviors in Central Europe (2023)
  40. Welcome to Goblin Town: Using Role-Playing Games for Education and Science Communication (2023)
  41. Welcome to the Machine: New Techniques in Predictive Modeling for Improving Data Quality in Zooarchaeology (2023)
  42. Wet-Preserved Living Spaces : Measuring Social Inequality from Circum-alpine and Central European Pile and Bog Dwellings (2023)
  43. Wetland Maize Farming by 6000 BP Gave Way to Upland Farming with the Rise of Ancient Maya Settlements and Political Centers (2023)
  44. What Can We Learn from Nearly 50 Years of Accumulated Data on the Kcal Return Rates Achieved by Hunters Encountering Terrestrial Game? (2023)
  45. What Drives the Variability in MSA Lithic Assemblages from Sibhudu Cave, South Africa (2023)
  46. What Happened on Monte Albán’s Main Plaza? Insights from a Socio-Spatial-Sensory Analysis (2023)
  47. What Is Going On with the Younger Dryas in Florida? Late Pleistocene Perspectives from the Aucilla Basin (2023)
  48. What the Old Ones Have to Teach Us (2023)
  49. What the Shells Tell: Interdisciplinary Malocoarchaeology and Holocene Paleoclimate in Coastal Peru (2023)
  50. “What Was Our Ancestors’ Pottery Like?” Exploring Ceramic Heritage with the Shawnee Tribe (2023)
  51. What's Up with the Ethics Bowl? Introducing a New Ethics and Responsible Research Project for Archaeology (2023)
  52. What’s Hot in Beringia? Cooking during the Pleistocene–Holocene Transition in Central Alaska (2023)
  53. What’s in a Name: Caches, Offerings, and Problematic Deposits from the Medicinal Trail Hinterland Community, Belize (2023)
  54. What’s the Deal with Corrugated Whitewares? An Analysis of the Corrugated Whitewares from the Haynie Site (2023)
  55. When It Rains Now, It Is a Disaster: Heritage Landscapes during Climate Change (2023)
  56. When Technological Analysis Becomes a Setback: The Case of the Points in the Interior of São Paulo State, Brazil (2023)
  57. When, Where, and Wahy: Wielding the Wahy Over Time at El Zotz (2023)
  58. Where Are All the Woodland Villages of Vermont? (2023)
  59. Where Do We Go from Here? A Review of Prehistoric Forager Mobility in Liguria (2023)
  60. Where Have All of the Artifacts Gone: Examining the Impact of Structural and Environmental Racism on Site Preservation (2023)
  61. Where Have All the Women in Archaeology Gone: Gender (In)Equity in Tenure-Track / Tenured Academic Jobs (2023)
  62. Where Is the Chief? A Reevaluation of the Concepts of Chiefdoms and Cacicazgos in Caribbean Archaeology (2023)
  63. Where the Temple Meets the Road: Salvage Burial Excavation in San Ignacio, Cayo District, Belize (2023)
  64. Where You Least Expect It: A Preliminary Report on Excavations at 26EK16689 (2023)
  65. White Hot Polymorphs of Quartz Minerals in Archaeological and Experimental Heating Contexts (2023)
  66. Whiteness in Relation: Black Studies and the Racializing Assemblages of the Antebellum South (2023)
  67. Who Makes the List: An Examination of Inclusion and Representation in the Society for American Archaeology’s Annual Meetings (2023)
  68. Who Owns the Past? The Murder of James Wakasa and His Memorial Stone (2023)
  69. Whole Assemblage Behavioral Indicators: Examining Pattern in the Late Pleistocene of the Wadi al-Hasa, Jordan (2023)
  70. Whose Lime Is It Anyway? Burnt Lime as Commodity in the Classic Period Northern Lowlands (2023)
  71. Why Are We Thinking “Beyond Barbarians”? Interrogating Dimensions of Military Organization in Non-State Societies (2023)
  72. Why Is There Math in My Archaeology? The Modern Foundations of Quantitative Archaeology Written Decades Too Soon (2023)
  73. Why Screen-Size Matters for Isotopic Analysis of Archaeological Faunal Remains: A Case Study from Norton Sound, Alaska (2023)
  74. Why So Blue? Color Symbolism in Ancestral Pueblo Lithics (2023)
  75. Why These Beads? Color Symbolism and Colonialism in the Mohawk Valley (2023)
  76. Wickiups as Placemaking: Contemporary Landscape Archaeology in the Mountains of Northern New Mexico (2023)
  77. “Wide-Awake Merchants” and Reform-Minded Women: Archaeology of Alexandria, Virginia’s German Jewish Community (2023)
  78. Wild Fruits and Connective Linkages in Precolumbian South Florida (2023)
  79. Wilderness, Wildlife, and Management Misconceptions: Archaeology in Washakie Wilderness NW Wyoming (2023)
  80. William J. Folan and the Climate Fascination (2023)
  81. William J. Folan's Canadian Contributions to Archaeology and Ethnohistory (2023)
  82. Women and Ritual at Teotihuacan, Mexico (2023)
  83. Women as Actors in Systems of Violence: Their Roles and Identities in the Precolonial US Southwest (2023)
  84. Women Bleed Red: Rendering Women’s Spaces Visible in the Archaeological Record (2023)
  85. Women in the Nexus of State Power in the Oyo Empire (2023)
  86. Women’s Dress in Ritual and Non-ritual Contexts (2023)
  87. The Wooden Club: The Oldest Weapon or Myth? (2023)
  88. Word Path: Connecting People to the Landscape and Traditional Indigenous Land Use through Language Preservation: A Collaborative Journey between the Kalispel Tribe of Indians and the Colville National Forest (2023)
  89. Working Together for the Past: Maine's Casco Bay Islands Public Archaeology (2023)
  90. Woven Traces: Evidence of Basketry from Masis Blur (Armenia) (2023)
  91. Xibalba in Technicolor: The Popol Wuj and the Interpretation of Ancient Maya Art (2023)
  92. Xmucane and Her Granddaughters: Maya Women as Creators of Time (2023)
  93. XRF and Raman Spectroscopic Analysis of Pigments Used in Middle Horizon Polychrome Ceramics from Cochabamba, Bolivia (2023)
  94. You Can Bet on the (Rural) Farmer: Agriculture and Urbanism at Postclassic Mayapán (2023)
  95. “You discover 1d4 ancient relic(s)”: Archaeological Outreach through Tabletop Roleplaying Games (2023)
  96. Your Horse Is a Donkey! Identifying Domesticated Equids Using ZooMS (2023)
  97. You’ve Got Tools: Evaluating Comparability Among 3D Lithic Angle Measurement Tools (2023)
  98. Yucatec and Gulf Coast Influences in Terminal Classic Western Belize: Examining the Evidence and Processes for Change (2023)
  99. Zapotec Funerary Rites as Documented by Alfonso Caso: Mining Archival Materials to Understand Ancient Ritual Behavior at Monte Albán (2023)
  100. Zapotitlan Earth Ovens and Their Middens: Ethnoarchaeology in Colima, Mexico (2023)