SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn Kemp.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. New research suggests the utilization of a wild potato (Solanum jamesii) may have been an important resource in the arid West in general and particularly among Ancient Puebloan communities. This research tests for the role of S. jamesii in Ancient Puebloan societies by expanding upon the research goals and archaeological investigations of the Ladle House...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jay Silverstein. Sean Coughlin. Robert Littman. AbdelRahman Medhat.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2012, a salvage excavation exposed a workshop at Tell Timai, the Greco-Roman-Egyptian city of Thmouis. The workshop consisted of a parallel line of amphora bases, piping, and ovens. Adjacent to it was a hoard of coins and jewelry dating the feature to the end of the reign of Ptolemy XII and the beginning of the reign of Cleopatra VII. Thmouis was a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bethanny Prascik. Bryan Hill II. Olivia Jones.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although legacy collections are rarely discussed explicitly in research and are often portrayed as subpar due to the lack of publication or the outdated excavation methods, we argue that legacy data is an important resource in archaeology. Legacy collections provide unique datasets that are both easily accessible and readily available. The Archaeology Lab...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carol Colaninno. Emily Beahm. Carl Drexler. Shawn Lambert. Cassidy Rayburn.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The discipline of archaeology relies on the field school as a training tool to teach practical field skills to students learning to become archaeologists. Despite the discipline’s reliance on the field school as a foundational teaching tool, scholars have yet to investigate the learning processes that occur during field school instruction and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alejandra Vidal-Elgueta. Francisca Santana-Sagredo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the Atacama Desert, northern Chile, human groups settled during the Archaic and Formative periods (ca. 4000–2000 BP) in the Tiliviche and Aragon sites, located between the coast and the hinterlands. We analyzed and identified the macrobotanical and microbotanical remains from the sites of Tiliviche-1 and Aragón-1 to evaluate the ontologies among the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacob Arnzen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Multiple fluted projectile points recovered from La Prele, a Clovis-age site in Wyoming, share attributes of both Folsom and Clovis projectile point types. This raises a question of how much morphological overlap exists between these widely recognized fluted point types? In this project I explore the degree of morphological overlap between Folsom and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Curtis. Peter Cobb. Ani Avagyan. Gohar Hovakimyan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This field report recounts our newly realized collaborative children’s educational workshop at the Vedi Fortress in Armenia. In June 2022, the Ararat Plain Southeast Archaeological Project (APSAP) partnered with the National Gallery of Armenia and the Armenian Heritage Development Fund to run our first “From the Field to the Museum” Summer School. Children...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Sunell. Eleanor Fishburn. Gina Mosqueda-Lucas. Brianna Rotella.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We present the design of a sampling project at one of the three archaeological sites composing the Late/Historic village of l’akayamu on limuw (Santa Cruz Island, California). We developed our methods with two goals: first, to support effective site stabilization post-excavation; second, to recover fragile artifacts eroding from a sea cliff while...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claire Novotny. Brett A. Houk.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2019 at the ancient Maya site of Gallon Jug, in northwestern Belize, we documented several patolli boards incised into a plaster floor on a platform in an elite residential group. The patolli from Gallon Jug are in a residential context near the site center and not in monumental religious architecture or a palace, which differs from most known examples...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Elvidge. Megan Harris. Jeff Wilson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study argues that gender equity in archaeology promotes an emotionally, financially, and intellectually supported workforce, which in turn, can strengthen the overall quality of commercial archaeology. In 2021, the British Columbia Association of Professional Archaeologists conducted a survey of heritage professionals to investigate remuneration in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin Cabrera.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bioarchaeology engages with past behaviors to answer sex and gender roles that are influenced by biological and cultural components leading to social presentation of the individual. The skeletal sample for this study focuses on 55 individuals from Copan, Honduras by incorporating available mortuary data, ceramic phases, dental development, physiological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meradeth Snow. Michael Searcy. Jakob Sedig. Jose Luis Punzo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Paquimé, located in the Casas Grandes region of Northern Mexico, presents a rich cultural tradition with ties to populations to the South and North. Ancient mitochondrial DNA from Paquime’s occupants has not provided evidence of large-scale in-migration that led to the fluorescence of the site, as some scholars have hypothesized. This paper focuses on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heidi Luchsinger.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For decades, archaeologists have used coring for subsurface testing and paleolandscape reconstruction, but only sporadically. Non-invasive and efficient, core extraction produces intact stratigraphic columns collected in clear plastic tubes that can be brought back to the lab for analysis. Unlike shovel testing and backhoe trenching, coring has no depth...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Baker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists working in the western Mojave Desert have long assumed that sediments in the region contain limited depth. The playas that dot the landscape are often assumed to have formed at the end of the Pleistocene, with playas having no stratigraphy and no buried cultural deposits. In the Antelope Valley, the dunes that are present are thought to be...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Renata Araujo. Mercedes Okumura. Astolfo Araujo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation contemplates the application of a method of analysis for the study of artifact shape named geometric morphometrics (GM). GM is a quantitative method originated in the biological sciences with a large application in evolutionary biology for the analysis of organismal form. Evolutionary archaeologists have been employing this approach to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Cajigas. Elliot Blair. Matthew Sanger.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Creighton Island Shell Ring (9MC87) is one of several Late Archaic shell rings, circular or “U”- shaped deposits of shell and soil, in coastal Georgia. Radiocarbon dates suggest the shell ring was constructed in at least two phases: constructed initially around 2000–1810 BC, and ceasing around 1920-1730 BC, indicating rapid construction and slightly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ronald Schirmer. Andy Brown.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A multiyear collaborative process led to the Prairie Island Indian Community acquiring 120 contiguous acres containing two major villages and more than 90 known associated burial mounds on the north side of the Cannon River, near Red Wing, Minnesota. Archeologists have known about the site complex for more than 140 years, but other than partial mound...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Tripcevich. R. Scott Byram. José Capriles. Calogero Santoro.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, dozens of Terminal Pleistocene archaeological sites have been identified in an area that previously held seasonal surface water channels and a riparian landscape. These sites shed light on the early peopling of western South America because the sites have had little disturbance or conflation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Clark. Danielle Waite. Steph Miller. Brigitte Kovacevich. Travis Stanton Traci Ardren.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents results of sourcing analysis of artifacts from Classic period Maya sites in Northern Yucatán and Quintana Roo from household contexts using handheld X-ray fluorescence (hXRF). Previous analysis by Danielle Waite sourced artifacts from Coba and Yaxuna from excavations by the Proyecto de Interacción Política del Centro de Yucatán and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Austin Schraub. Esequiel Ortiz. Amy Thompson. Manda Adam. Fred Valdez Jr..

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In order to properly characterize and speculate about an ancient group and their apparent subsistence strategies, it is imperative to understand the landscape and regional ecology in which the group inhabited. The widespread adoption of Geographic Information Systems within archaeology has generated new avenues of research surrounding ancient...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Esequiel Ortiz. Austin Schraub. Manda Adam.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. With the advent of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) technologies, GIS has allowed archaeologists to ask new questions of the archaeological record. The state of Texas has one of the richest archaeological records in North America from decades of work by professional, academic, and avocational archaeologists. Due to Texas’ rich archaeology record, ample...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Totsch.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Understanding access and distribution of resources is a key component of archaeological research. Tools such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can be instrumental for modeling and understanding resource use in the ancient world. The incredibly well-preserved remains of ancient Pompeii offer an excellent case study for modeling urban infrastructure...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Reid. Caleb Kestle. Elizabeth Goodman. John Monaghan. Keith Phillips.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over 81,500 U.S. servicemembers remain missing from America’s past conflicts extending to World War II (WWII). The great majority of this number, more than 72,000, relate to WWII alone. For the past several years, the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) has partnered with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) on the recovery of WWII personnel in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zachery Clow. Issac Ullah. Juliette Meling.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geographic information system(s), GIS, have been used in the past to visually represent a dataset, perform basic computation analysis, or compile data. In recent decades this trend has shifted to incorporate a theoretical framework for thinking spatially about data across temporal scales. This was brought up recently by Locke and Pouncett (2017) who asked,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathan Lawres. Matthew Sanger.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Ontological Turn has become thoroughly entrenched in archaeological research, providing both new avenues of topical research as well as strong influences over the discipline as a whole. It has provided a needed shift to thinking outside the traditional archaeological box, taking many steps in the right direction. Yet, in the majority of cases,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ali Livesay.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the summer of 2022, Los Alamos National Laboratory partnered with the University of New Mexico to host a field school for the first time. This field school focused on the non-destructive side of compliance work, and sought to build foundational survey, site identification, and recording skills, that would help launch the students in their chosen...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessi Spencer. Kaleigh Best. Mark Wagner.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. St. Henry’s Catholic Cemetery (11S1742) in East St. Louis, IL, was interring largely German and Irish individuals from 1866 to 1908. As part of growing urbanization and societal sanitation concerns, the cemetery was closed and buried individuals were supposedly relocated by 1926. By 1951, the Illinois National Guard Armory was constructed on the site and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Moriarty. Joseph Kinney. Luke Kosby. Philip Williams. Noah DiStefano.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Castleton Hidden History Project was established in 2021 to highlight a diverse and inclusive history of the town of Castleton, VT through interdisciplinary historical, archaeological, and geographic research. Investigations to date have focused on Granger House, a well-preserved 19th-century home in Castleton Village and in the heart of the Castleton...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ellen Moriarty. Jaron Rochon. Samantha LaPlante. Emery Benoit. Michael Angers.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Community outreach has played a major role in the Castleton Hidden History Project, which highlights a diverse and inclusive history of the Castleton, VT area from the end of the ice age through the present day. Grounded in interdisciplinary research and public participation, current archaeological work centers around Granger House, a historically...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Summer Peltzer. Kaley Kelly. Ryan Arp. Christopher Schwartz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. To date, much of the archaeological research in the Phoenix Basin has focused on the central Phoenix area, and specifically the areas surrounding Canal Systems 1 and 2. Recent cultural resource management testing and excavation projects in the west Phoenix area have provided new insights into Hohokam daily life at the confluence of the Salt and Gila...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian Holguin. Eleanor Fishburn. Scott Sunell. Jennifer Perry. Gina Lucas.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project is a collaborative effort driven by a multi-tribal Chumash community to reawaken cultural knowledge while simultaneously generating new archaeological data about the well-preserved Chumash village of l’akayamu. Located on limuw (Santa Cruz Island, the largest of California’s Channel Islands), l’akayamu is a historical village that was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joshuah Lockett-Harris. Kathryn Reese-Taylor. Felix Kupprat. Armando Anaya-Hernandez. Deborah Walker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ancient Maya E Groups were important loci of sociopolitical continuity, sociocultural change, and social memory across millennia of lowland Maya civilization. As sustained generational foci of sociopolitical machinations and social memory, the built environment and significance of E Groups would have been continuously generationally reformulated to meet...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Parker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Following the end of the Civil War, plantation landscapes in the South Carolina Lowcountry underwent dramatic changes that broke up massive, generational landholdings and upended centuries of exploitative economic systems. Moonshining provided a means for some former plantation owners to maintain possession of core properties, while providing a narrative...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick Druggan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Maize was ubiquitous in eastern North America at the time of European contact; however, the timing and trajectory of its introduction and adoption by communities across the region remain unclear. Recent redating of collections previously reported to support Middle Woodland maize have rejected original interpretations by either yielding dates centuries...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Morgan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite many similarities, aboriginal high-altitude occupations in the middle latitudes of North and South America differ in several ways. This paper compares and contrasts the behaviors that have been reconstructed in these locales and explores the principal drivers of high-altitude intensification—population pressure, climate change, and social...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael W. Graves. Katherine Peck. Jesse Casana. Carolin Ferwerda. Jonathan Alperstein.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many archaeologists employ high-precision remote sensing to study surface remains at a landscape scale. Hawaiian archaeologists pioneered remote sensing using aerial photography in the Kohala peninsula of north Hawaiʻi Island, beginning in the 1960s, and it was the location for the first regional-scale application of lidar in Hawai‘i. In March 2022,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kalei Oliver. Rebecca Bria.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological studies of ancient hilltop constructions across Peru have revealed how ancient Andean people, often during the so-called “intermediate periods,” protected and defended their village spaces in times of interregional warfare and political balkanization. In the north-central highlands of Ancash, Peru, numerous studies have revealed that the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alan Simmons.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Akrotiri Aetokremnos, a collapsed rockshelter in Cyprus, was excavated over 30 years ago. The site caused controversy for two reasons: it was the oldest site on the island, and it was associated with extinct pygmy hippopotami. The first issue has been resolved, with over 70 radiocarbon determinations centered around 10,000 cal BC, placing the site in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandria Mitchem.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The collection and transport of natural specimens during the long eighteenth century had political, intellectual, and ecological effects. Botanical gardens are key loci to examine the material histories of these processes. Bartram’s Garden, the most prominent botanical garden in North America during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Naomi Miller. Chantel White.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists periodically encounter concentrations of uncharred plant remains in standing structures. Whether excavated or never actually buried, they are a challenge for interpretation. In addition to identification, the archaeobotanical tasks include determining the agent of deposition and the source and date of the material. This paper considers how...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Cullison.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. To test the validity of portable X-Ray Fluorescence (PXRF) for chert sourcing, thirty-two chert artifacts from the Waterloo Regional Museum in southern Ontario were compared to chert source samples. The use of PXRF in archaeology has raised questions about the method’s validity. The portable versions of XRF have lower energy outputs which in turn produces...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren Jablonski.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In archaeology, sexual harassment has become a defining part of our culture and affects many professionals across all subfields. This paper is a part of ongoing research that focuses on the history of archaeology as a way to understand sexual harassment in our culture, and to find ways to change this aspect of our culture moving forward. Our field, like...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Budner. Lacey Carpenter. Hannah Lau. Colin Quinn.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the early colonial context of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the United States, understanding wellness practices include a dynamic view of what constitutes medicine, personal hygiene, and healthcare. At this time, European colonizers arrived in central New York, occupying traditional Oneida Land, and brought with them their views on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Rabinowitz. Liviu Iancu. Elijah Fleming. Patricia Neuhoff-Malorzo. Sterling Wright.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper reports on the results of the first four seasons of excavation of the Histria Multiscalar Archaeological Project (HMAP) at the Greek and Roman site of Histria, on the Black Sea coast of Romanian Dobrogea south of the Danube delta. Histria was one of the earliest Greek colonies on the Black Sea coast and played a fundamental role in cultural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Diederich.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Umatilla Chemical Weapons Depot (UMCD), a U.S. Army installation located in Boardman Oregon, opened in 1941. The Depot stored a variety of military items, including conventional and chemical weapons. Up to twelve percent of the nation’s chemical weapons were stored at UMCD. After UMCD closed as an active Army installation the facility was transferred...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lydie Dussol. Kenneth Hirth. Timothy Scheffler.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Holocene pollen sequences have highlighted several episodes of vegetation opening in Central America since the Archaic period, which have often been related to the dispersal of nomadic slash-and-burn agriculturalists from the Central Mexican Highlands. However, few archaeobotanical data from archaeological sites have been available to date to examine...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Kroot.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The shift from primarily foraging to predominantly farming economies that occurs during the early Neolithic of southwest Asia is commonly seen as a transition not merely in subsistence practices but economic relations as well. Many researchers argue that new forms of households emerge by the end of this time period, which serve as both residential and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jenny Ni.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Survey in the Rio Grande Gorge of New Mexico over the past decade has revealed a robust corpus of Plains Biographic rock art depicting the coups and accomplishments of human warriors. While horses are equally present, most of them are secondary to the narratives depicted and appear as ridden mounts or captured wealth. However, an unusual panel found in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ruth Musser-Lopez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Spatial autocorrelation software for the Moran I statistic in ArcGIS v10.6 was used to combine archaeological site location data with “intensity” or weight defined by the number of artifacts in each of the 280 loci contained within an 80-acre portion of CA-SBr-1456 along the California side of the Lower Colorado River. That data was then processed to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Molly Corr.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Starvation and malnutrition have ravaged societies for thousands of years, but the effort to leverage food insecurity has existed just as long. When faced with hunger, humans adapt and respond to the best of their abilities, which may look different according to the resources and options available to them at the time. Maya subsistence literature has a long...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Rainville.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Lake Okeechobee Basin in Central South Florida was intensively modified by Belle Glades (1000 BCE–1700 CE) communities. The hunter-gatherer-fisher people engaged with complex landscape interactions and alterations, including terraforming in and around wetland sinks and tree islands through pit digging, mound construction, and more, forming an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anneke Janzen. Lauren Malone. Amy Mundorf.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Identifying skeletal remains to species can be a challenge in archaeological and forensics contexts. The high rates of fragmentation and often poor preservation of bones have rendered skeletal fragments specimens unidentifiable beyond broad categories, such as “large mammal.” Identification of skeletal specimens through Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Blong. Helen Whelton. Dennis Jenkins. Ian Bull. Lisa-Marie Shillito.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The middle Holocene (9000–6000 cal BP) in the northwestern Great Basin is marked by warmer and drier conditions resulting in significant ecological change. There is archaeological evidence for population decline, highly mobile groups occupying temporary camps, and a focus on seasonally productive resources. Most sites are located on dunes or lake margins...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven Holen. Kathleen Holen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Animal bone modification by humans has long been part of the archaeological record; however, debate continues as to whether this evidence alone is sufficient to interpret human activity. This is especially true if such evidence is used in support of archaeological sites older than 16 ka in the Americas. We synthesize data representing over three decades of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ellen Pacheco.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Projects taking place in the state of Chihuahua have, in recent years, begun to expand the understanding of local lifeways. The analysis of human-animal relations is perceived to have contributed to a greater understanding of ways in which researchers can reconstruct the lifeways in the past. This paper examines prehistoric lifeway patterns indicated by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabriela Saldaña. Tia Watkins. Emma Messinger. Rosamund Fitzmaurice. Jaime Awe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Classic Maya graffiti (AD 300–800) provides a unique perspective of individual experiences, with figures etched onto plastered surfaces that were added as secondary elements within existing architecture. In the Maya lowlands, graffiti is typically found within monumental architecture, as these contexts favor preservation in tropical environments. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alison MacMillan. Eugène Morin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Toward the end of the Paleolithic, foragers have been inferred to render small amounts of fat from cancellous bone in a process known as bone grease rendering (BGR). As the goal is to extract additional energy from each animal, the technology possibly emerged in response to seasonal resource stress. BGR is presently associated with the Holocene; more...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Milena Guzman Garcia. Sintia Santisteban. Michelle Watanave. Aldo Watanave.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations at Huaca Menocucho in the Moche Valley, Peru, revealed occupation sequences from the Initial period to the Middle Horizon with large amounts of malacological remains. Quantitative, qualitative, and comparative analyses are being conducted to interpret the role of gastropods, bivalves, and other mollusks at the site. A quantitative analysis will...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diana Quintero Bisono.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The development of archaeology in the Caribbean is deeply embedded in the colonialist and imperialist history of the region. For many years, archaeologists studied the area in a contentious manner, which in turn impacted the local research capacity for fields such as archaeology. The effects of colonialist and imperialist agendas that extended into the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charlotte Ives. Colin Quinn. Lacey Carpenter. Hannah Lau.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The study of ceramics provides archaeologists with a closer look into the domestic life of people from the past. Whether it be daily wares designed for continuous use by close-knit familial groups, or ceremonial pieces used occasionally for specific audiences, ceramics play a critical role in the ritualization of meals. Despite their varying purposes,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Garrett Toombs.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Lithic artifact functions are often determined by the form of an artifact rather than by an analysis of functional characteristics. Some ways in which artifact function can be determined include experimental archaeology, use wear, and paleoethnobotanical analyses. Determining artifact function provides information about the types of tasks people performed,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sahar Monrreal.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The use of popular images containing people of color in colonial settings serve as a useful tool for archaeologists using widely circulated images like advertising for explaining or enhancing discussions regarding racial and social differences found in the historical record. However, as more than a supplement to archaeological discussion, these images can...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabrielle Perry. Raymond Mueller. Arthur Joyce. Akira Ichikawa.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Previous geomorphological data from the upper drainage basin of the Río Verde suggest that demographic and land-use changes, perhaps coupled with climate change, during the Classic period collapse (ca. 800 CE) increased erosion and sediment entering the drainage system. Recent geomorphological research in the lower reaches of the Río Verde in the Pacific...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin Patterson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ancient Maya settlement patterns and density have come into focus thanks to site survey and, more recently, extensive lidar mapping. Settlement density zones suggested by recent investigations in northwest Petén, Guatemala, allow for interpretation of areas of higher and lesser settlement density and the comparison of those groups between sites of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John High. Jesse Casana.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. With this research, I hope to digitally reproduce the high-resolution U-2 photographs by specially processing my photographs of the imagery using photogrammetic methods, such as Agisoft Metashape to produce 3D surface models. With these models, I will deduce what implications the structures and features visible in the imagery and models have in association...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffery Burton.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There were ten War Relocation Centers established during World War II to incarcerate over 120,000 Japanese American citizens and immigrants, but only one had an orphanage. Manzanar's “Children’s Village” housed 101 orphans, from newborns to teenagers. The entire mass incarceration was unconstitutional, tragic, costly, and unnecessary, but imprisoning...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cheryl Pouley. Michael Lewis. Chris Bailey. Briece Edwards. Greg Archuleta.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In Cultural Resource Management (CRM) reports, pre-contact sites are often listed as potentially eligible for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), only under Criterion D (data potential), while post-contact sites are routinely listed under all four criteria. As a result, sites representing relatively minor activities of European settler...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Schneider.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Florida Keys present a unique ecological and archaeological setting in the United States, but one which has traditionally been discounted as too marginal of an environment to support year-round occupation by Indigenous communities prior to colonization. Anecdotal accounts of “Spanish Wells” reliably employed for freshwater during the colonial and early...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Liv Winnicki.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Commonly across the Puebloan Southwest, incised lines are observed adjacent to petroglyph panels. Often, these features are simply labeled as “axe sharpening grooves.” Many archaeologists label them in their site forms as such, tally them, and tend to not interpret them further. In this experimental research, I push back on this over simplified...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Phillip Daily. Virginia Butler.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Threats to cultural resources have pushed archaeologists, land managers, and Indigenous peoples to identify at-risk resources, determine their condition, and provide prioritization recommendations for future preservation. Our project is an example of this process in the form of a case study in cultural resources risk assessment, along the 34 km long...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Torres.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. NAGPRA empowered tribes to repatriate the remains and sacred objects of their ancestors. As a result, a movement developed and Indigenous archaeology was born. It has been with us for nearly 30 years now and some important benefits have resulted, especially in terms of interpreting archaeological data through an Indigenous lens. An amendment to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Borsodi. Lydia Luncz. David Braun. Jonathan Reeves.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Little is known about behaviors associated with the percussive technology of the Early Stone Age (ESA). Primatology provides a rare opportunity to observe how percussive behaviors produce damage patterns on stone tools. Although primate behavior provides a framework for inferring behaviors associated with ESA percussive tools, the distinction between...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa Ritchey.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. When crops are spread into new landscapes, communities, and their associated subsistence practices and culinary preferences, the crops undergo substantial selective pressure. This pressure can come in the form of new environmental constraints, such as a different growing season, or cultural pressure from differences in preferred taste, productivity, or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tiffany Fryer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The last half of the nineteenth century was for Yucatan, like much of the Atlantic World, a time of extreme tumult. Having recently gained its independence from Spain, the fledgling nation found itself plunged into numerous violent, political conflicts. None had so lasting an impact as what has become commonly known as the Caste War of Yucatan. Arguably...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacqueline Correa. Ester Echenique. Calogero Santoro.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Standardized Inka tunics or unku were created under the Inka State auspices as symbolic expressions of their expansionist power. To ensure these textiles acquired the status of effective insignias of territorial control, the Inka imposed technical and aesthetic canons on highly skilled weavers. These conventions were adapted relative to the traditions and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrea Shiverdecker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. How do we ethically correct whitewashed historical interpretations and understandings of federal landscapes? By utilizing noninvasive community archaeological practices, a new understanding of the diversity and intersectionality of a turn-of-the-century Montana mining boom town is unveiled. The Garnet Ghost Town Community Archaeology Project is a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Nick Kardulias. Drosos N. Kardulias.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Studies of the shifts following the Arab defeat of the seventh-century Roman Empire generally pass over the Aegean islands that bear the marks of warfare and societal upheaval in their landscapes. The island of Kalymnos has untapped potential to inform an understanding of Roman-Arab warfare in the periphery. This report discusses the several phases of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick Mullins. Brendon Murray. William Feltz. Matthew Ballance. Brian Billman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents the results of 5 seasons (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022) of aerial kite and drone imagery from the Moche Valley and the integration of these data into the Moche Valley Settlement Database (MVSD). The MVSD is a collaborative initiative that is synthesizing Prehistoric (~10,000 BCE – 1500s CE) and Viceroyalty Era (1500s – 1800s CE)...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anne Sherfield. Alicia Fritz. Ruth Brenton. Thomas Lobato. Michael Smith.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chemical and osteological research comparing burials from different apartment compounds has found that people interred within Mazapa, Xolalpan, and La Ventilla apartment compounds have similar genetic history while people buried in Tlailotlacan held distinctly different genetic history. In this poster, we expand on this research through an analysis of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alyssa Bader. Aimée Carbaugh. Lauren Hosek. Krystiana Krupa.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Conceptions of “care” are increasingly a topic of interest in anthropological archaeology, and often sit at the intersection of discussions around ethics, best practices, and archaeological research, teaching/training, and curation involving the physical remains of human Ancestors. Care may be perceived as related to preserving the physical integrity of an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Jenkins. Martin Gallivan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2021, an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists, marine biologists, and geologists was formed to answer the question: is it possible to infer which part of the estuary an oyster was harvested from based on morphology and bioindicators observed on archaeological shell? In the Lower Chesapeake Bay, there are three “zones” conducive to oyster growth—the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Harley Biggs. Steven Hackenberger. Karisa Terry.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Biggs analyzed data collected by Hackenberger and others in 1986 during an archaeological rescue on the Goddard Site, Barbados, West Indies. For this study, students redeveloped ceramic and shell spatial datasets, compiled site maps, and rendered new computer maps of house features and artifact distributions. The semi-circular house (with hearths and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Monica Warner. Nicholas Herrmann.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Eastern Honduras was and is a culturally diverse region on the southern periphery of Mesoamerica. Limited research has been conducted in this region, especially when compared to the Maya in western Honduras. We present isotopic data from individuals interred at two sites, Cueva del Río Talgua and Cueva de las Arañas, which were primarily used during the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Savanna Agardy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The public interpretation of archaeological sites is crucial to the understanding, appreciation, stewardship, and preservation of archaeology by the public. Significant archaeological sites, such as the privately-owned Spotten Cave, a prehistoric rockshelter site in Utah County, should be interpreted to the public even if they have an uncertain future....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yuan Fang. Gyoung-Ah Lee.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The s-shaped curve in the social network context is a model proposed to reveal dynamic changes over time among members in a network when accepting a new idea/product. The s-shaped curve has been mainly used in social sciences to model the diffusion of objects or ideas using current empirical data. However, it is rarely applied to archaeology because such...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jou-chun Lu.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the eighth–eleventh centuries CE, Chinese ceramics were imported to Japan and showed limited distribution in specific sites. Historical documents, along with their geographic distribution and both fine and coarse ceramic assemblages, suggest these sites shared political connections. Past studies on trade ceramics in China have typically directly applied...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alice Kehoe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. “Decolonization” is now frequently used as the term for repatriating human remains and artifacts housed in institutions of the dominant European-derived societies of the Americas. The term does not fit a postcolonial position. “Decolonization” implies, as a derivative from an action verb, an agent performing an act, i.e., an agent of the dominant society’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gelenia Trinidad-Rivera.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In December 2019, the University of Puerto Rico's Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte, received as a donation the Waiwai Ethnographic Collection (CRGW), which has survived multiple natural disasters. The CRGW was created by the Centro de Investigaciones Indígenas de Puerto Rico (CIIPR) as the result of an ethnographic expedition undertaken in 1985 in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fiona Koehnen. Kelly R Bush.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Introducing younger students to CRM through the fun of archaeological method we are reclaiming the narrative around CRM as a great career choice and we are starting early. Five to fourteen year olds are particularly good at engaging with the hands on nature of the study of material culture. Supporting existing curriculum goals including the Since Time...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mikaela Razo. Marissa Muñoz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, outreach within archaeology is changing to meet the needs of its communities, including the methods used by archaeologists to disseminate information and engage diverse age groups. “Legacy: Hands on the Past” is an archaeological outreach program based out of the Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Texas at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hernando Giraldo Tenorio. Víctor González-Fernández.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El Morro Tulcán es una colina de forma piramidal de 5 ha, modificada antrópicamente, que representa la estructura monumental prehispánica más grande del suroccidente colombiano. Las excavaciones arqueológicas realizadas hace 50 años en el sitio evidenciaron que se dispusieron centenares de adobes y rellenos de tierra de manera ordenada en un área mayor a 2...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Landvatter. Brandon Olson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 2008, the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project (PKAP) has been excavating the site of Pyla-Vigla, located on a small plateau near Larnaca, Cyprus. Early small-scale excavations (2008, 2009, 2012, 2018) revealed what appears to be an early Hellenistic (330-250 BCE) fortification. In the early Hellenistic period, Cyprus was undergoing a massive...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Pytleski. Eileen Murphy. J. Marla Toyne.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mobility is the movement of people across distances, often within cultural or political boundaries, and is influenced by economic, religious, and social processes including individual identities. Anthropologists evaluate mobility of past peoples through oxygen stable isotopes, a biochemical measure to assess long-term water consumption influenced by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jill Zuckerman. Tristan O'Donnell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Intact Native American pottery is rarely recovered from archaeological sites throughout New England. When it is observed, sherds tend to be small and lack integrity. During excavations along a power line corridor for a Cultural Resource Management survey, over 25 sherds of intact Native American pottery were recovered. New England, specifically Rhode...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Maisel. Katherine Dunning. Jonathan Bethard.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. According to Buikstra and Ubelaker (1994), there are seven primary categories for the age estimation of osteological remains. However, other age categorization schemes exist which differ slightly in their strategies. Moreover, life stages over 50 years of age are poorly represented among most categorization schemes. It was observed that comparative...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Britannia Barbour.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. History is imprinted in our landscapes, and the creation of bog deathscapes indicates the agency of wetland environments to the mortuary customs of European Iron Age and North American Archaic Age communities. The functionality and ideological value of bog landscapes vary spatially and temporally, yet there is a unilateral use of bogs as unique burial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Neil Hauser. Teri Hauser.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. An investigation of over 300 images of contracting stem points from Nevada, Utah, and western Colorado was carried out using geometric morphometrics (GMM) techniques. The GMM analysis used over 150 landmarks on each of the 2D images. Examination of the principal components and landmarks with respect to geographic occurrence indicate these points changed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Suzan Granados.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper provides evidence of the presence of maize in southeastern New Mexico radiocarbon dated to 1,000 years prior to any in a dataset of 30 known southeastern New Mexico “Old Maize” sites. The oldest maize site is Keystone Dam radiocarbon dated to 3540 cal BP. Site LA 112766 radiocarbon dates to 4825–4575 BP. An investigation of the macrobotanical,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick Lubinski. Karisa Terry. James Feathers. Karl Lillquist. Patrick McCutcheon.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Wenas Creek Mammoth Site was excavated 2005-2010 near Selah, Washington, USA, yielding bones of mammoth and bison dating ~17 ka, and two lithics resembling chipped stone debitage. Prior publications have reported on some aspects of the project and this poster summarizes those as well as subsequent analyses. The bones were disarticulated and scattered...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jess Beck. Horia Ciugudean. Colin Quinn. Claes Uhnér.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Southwestern Transylvania houses a rich prehistoric archaeological record, as well as abundant natural resources, including salt, tin, and some of the richest copper and gold deposits in Europe. The Mureș River, which connected prehistoric communities in Eastern and Central Europe, also flows through the region. Despite its status as an economic and...