SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anthony Sinclair.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology as a research activity has changed dramatically over the past 70 years. Where once archaeology might have been seen as a discipline closely related to history and classics, the introduction of new techniques from other disciplines in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts has created a discipline that now thinks of itself and its research...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alyssa Bolster. Natasha Vang. Tiffiny Tung.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis is employed to assess diet in times of Wari influence in the southern hinterlands between the early (600–800 CE) and late (800–1000 CE) Middle Horizon (MH). We analyze bone collagen from 57 individuals interred at La Real, corresponding to two chronologically distinct mortuary contexts at this Majes Valley site...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandria Firenzi. Summer Hagerty. Charlie Goggin. Christopher Jazwa.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We examine dietary change on northern Santa Rosa Island, California, at the mouth of Cañada Verde, the location of the historically documented village of Silimihi, the third-largest village on the island by baptisms. There is evidence of a human presence at this location from the middle Holocene (4560–4140 95% cal BP) through the period of Spanish contact....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madisen Hvidberg. Peter Dawson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The term dissonant heritage addresses the conflicting nature of heritage when different groups or individuals attribute contested meanings to the past. Often these sites have dark histories and are associated with death, trauma, or suffering and conflict arises from a contestation over whose perspectives and experiences surrounding a heritage are most...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Giles Morrow. Jesse Spencer-Smith. Yuechen Yang. Mubarak Ganiyu.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the absence of a written language, the study of the complex narrative iconography of the Moche or Mochica culture of the North Coast of Perú (250-900CE) forms an important foundation of our understanding of the cultural dynamics and ritual traditions of this Pre-Columbian society. Fineline iconography on Moche ceramic vessels in museum and private...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris Ploetz. Amy Thompson. Richard Wood. Loa Traxler. William Fash.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent advances in lidar technologies have been profound for archaeology, amplifying the subdiscipline of digital archaeology. However, lidar units, both aerial and terrestrial, have remained cost prohibitive until recent products by Apple including the iPad and iPhone Pro series. These products are among the first consumer electronic devices with built-in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Radoslaw Palonka. Boleslaw Zych. Vincent MacMillan. Katarzyna Ciomek. Jakub Sliwa.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The sandstone multilevel architecture (including famous cliff dwellings) from the central Mesa Verde region, southwestern Colorado in the US Southwest, together with rock art represents Ancestral Pueblo occupation in the prehispanic times. This poster shows the application of various digital techniques for detailed documentation, visualization, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Zetz. Marisol Cortes-Rincon Ph.D.. Kristen Harrison. Raylene Borrego. Hannah Vizcarra.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A wealth of digital data is produced during an archaeological excavation and because so much of the fieldwork is unrepeatable, once the site is fully excavated, the digital records must be archived in a manner that best facilitates reuse. This paper presents the ongoing undertaking of digitizing data for the Dos Hombres to Gran Cacao Archaeology Project...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Lynch. Mary Lou Larson. Marcel Kornfeld.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2019, we began a three-year project to digitize the collections from the Hell Gap National Historic Landmark. The site is well-known for its archaeological integrity and preservation of some of the earliest human activities in the Plains and the Rocky Mountains. The goal of the Hell Gap Archaeological Records Digital Archive Project (HGARDA) is to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michelle Wienhold. Kelli Wathen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The work of Cultural Resource Management (CRM) requires methodical data collection, transcription, and dissemination of cultural resources. For much of the history of CRM, data collection methods have been purely analog, using paper forms and drawing maps resulting in an abundance of data that must be transcribed and digitized, taking extra time, money and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Gaddis. Ariel Gruenthal-Rankin. Marissa Ramsier. Arkadiusz Koperkiewicz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The bioarchaeological analysis of trauma in skeletal remains provides insights into the lives and lifestyles of past populations. Conventionally, such analysis has focused on military-aged males, with less attention paid to other demographic groups. The late-medieval cemetery site at Bezławki, Poland, provides an opportunity for a relatively broad analysis...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter E. Siegel. Emlen Meyers. John G. Jones.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Southeastern Bolivia is one of the least-understood regions in South American archaeology. However, it is of pivotal significance in regard to Indigenous cultural history and the dynamics of cultural interactions, especially given its location at the interface between the Andes and Amazonia. Ethnohistorically and ethnographically a large number of ethnic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Janes.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The recent discovery of megalithic structures on the central coast of California was accomplished by geologic analysis of mounds and stone piles on the crest of Tomales Point in the Point Reyes National Seashore. These features were generally ignored by both geologists and archaeologists because at a distance they look like bedrock outcrops. However, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Xanti Ceballos Pesina.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent work by the Middle Usumacinta Archaeological Project (MUAP) identified over 400 standardized ceremonial complexes within the Maya and Olmec areas dating to the Middle Preclassic period (1050–400 BC). According to this research, the spread and development of these centers likely resulted from intensive interregional interaction. This paper builds on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Seidemann. Christine Halling.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2010, reports surfaced of an African-American cemetery in the northwest Louisiana hamlet of Haughton having been destroyed by a white male seeking squatters’ rights on the property. Among the reported rumors were that a church and its cemetery had been bulldozed and that human remains had been dug up. Subsequent investigation of these reports by the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Youri Van Den Hurk. Sean Desjardins. Emily Ruiz Puerta. Anne Karin Hufthammer. James Barrett.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, we compare historic Atlantic walrus commercial and subsistence exploitation in Svalbard (Norway) and Foxe Basin (Arctic Canada), respectively. Data are drawn from osteometric analysis of zooarchaeological surface remains at harvest locales (examined both in situ and in museum collections). In studying harvest strategies of the same species...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael D'Aprix.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology has reached a point of critical mass in term of organizational institutionality. There are simply too many organizations, groups, committees, and subcommittees within archaeology that divide our time funding. Not only does this leave us in an unsustainable cycle of competition for funding but it also creates barriers of communication between...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Wood. Christine Wittich. Luis Tuarez. Heather Richards-Rissetto. Melvin Elisandro Garza Roldan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. At the Classic Maya city of Copán, Temple 16 is one of the most prominent structures; however, it is rapidly deteriorating along with other buried structures and archaeological tunnels. Inside Temple 16 are various structures and tombs including Rosalila, a uniquely preserved temple, as well as Oropendola, Clarinero, and Tortola, all of which cover earlier...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Loa Traxler. William L. Fash. Ricardo Agurcia Fasquelle. Amy E. Thompson. Christopher Ploetz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Investigations within the Copan Acropolis have provided an unprecedented source of data bearing on Copan’s origins as the capital of a Classic period Maya kingdom. The excavations conducted over years by multiple research programs in partnership with the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History resulted in extensive tunnel exposures of stratified...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Briggs Buchanan. Mark Collard.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The migration of Athapaskan (alternatively, Athabaskan or Na-Dene) groups from the Subarctic regions of northwestern Canada and Alaska to the American Southwest is one of the longest and best documented movements of Indigenous peoples in the Americas. The starkly different environment of the Southwest and the subsequent interactions with Southwest peoples...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hayden Bassett. Damian Koropeckyj. Kate Harrell. William Welsh. Madeleine Gunter-Bassett.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Current events have demonstrated that the archaeological sites, museums, and historic structures that compose the cultural landscape of Ukraine are suffering in the current conflict. In this poster, we summarize the recent collaborative efforts of the Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab (CHML), Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative (SCRI), and University of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Sharp. Amanda Wissler.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Growing up during periods of chronic warfare can have long-term impacts on health and well-being across the lifecourse. Public health research has demonstrated how early exposure to violence or other physical stressors contributes to increased morbidity and mortality among children and adolescents. Within bioarchaeology, investigating the lived experience...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tess Kelley.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Ainu are an indigenous group currently inhabiting the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Traditionally the group practiced a hunter-gatherer lifestyle incorporating plant cultivation and trade, yet forced assimilation into the Japanese state in 1869 significantly altered this way of life. The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of Harvard University...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Semon.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Chaco Collection at the American Museum of Natural History has more than 1,900 catalogued ceramic objects. Ceramic research in this collection tends to focus on the full-sized vessels, such as cylinder jars, pitchers, corrugated jars, and bowls, while less attention is given to the miniature vessels. In this poster, I present a breakdown of miniature...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Collard. Jonathan Harding. Dennis Sandgathe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Clothing is ubiquitous among living humans, and there is reason to believe it has been important for hominins for tens of thousands of years. Despite this, clothing has received little attention from scientific anthropologists. Consequently, there are some important questions about clothing use that have yet to be adequately addressed. One of these is,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jaron Davidson. John Carpenter. Guadalupe Sánchez. Matthew Pailes.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent excavation at the site of Las Chachalacas in Quiriego, Sonora produced evidence for Early Agricultural period (EAP) occupation. Dating likely between the Silverbell Interval and the San Pedro phase this settlement would have been contemporaneous with other important early agricultural sites in Sonora, Chihuahua, and Arizona such as La Playa, Cerro...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Brown. Dr. Bonnie J. Clark.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The purpose of this project is to continue to expand upon the understanding of experiences of Japanese American children, specifically preschool-aged children, within The Granada Relocation Center (Amache), a WWII Japanese American internment facility located in Granada, Colorado. Through archaeological methods, GIS analysis, oral histories, and archival...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jenna Anderson. Sonia Harmand.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Middle Pleistocene (0.77-0.13 Ma) was a crucial time in the evolution of the human brain. Homo heidelbergensis cranial fossils and endocasts provide evidence of brain size increases and structural changes during this time, which resulted in brains more like our own. The analysis of Acheulean lithic assemblages provides a means of exploring how these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yiyi Tang. John M. Marston. Xiangming Fang.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study examines the macrobotanical assemblage of Anle, a middle Neolithic site in the Lower Yangtze region of China. The Lower Yangtze is thought to be the origin of domesticated rice and most studies of this region to date have focused on rice domestication and cultivation within its paleoenvironmental setting. In contrast, we highlight here diverse...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Smith.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. By the Middle Formative period (1000–500 BCE), the first permanent architecture appears along the shores of Lake Titicaca in the form of sunken, semi-subterranean courts. These were centers of important public and religious activities and are indicative of emergent forms of permanent political leadership and hierarchies. Thanks to their monumental size,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacob Holland-Lulewicz. RaeLynn Butler. Turner Hunt. Amanda Roberts Thompson. Victor Thompson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Peaches were ubiquitous across eastern North America by the mid-seventeenth century, less than 100 years after the founding of St. Augustine in 1565, the earliest possible cultivation date for peaches in what is today the United States. As such, preserved or charred peach pits at archaeological sites, each with a built-in terminus post quem of c. 1565,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia Sponholtz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Cinti Valley, Bolivia, has been occupied for at least 9,000 years, with an intensification in settlement in the Late Intermediate period. In 2004 Rivera Casanovas proposed that the sites in the Cinti Valley formed a three-tier site hierarchy, with a capital, local centers, and small villages. To study the impact of these settlement patterns on food and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Natalie Sanford.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ice margin chronology for North America provides archaeologists with discrete spatial units, much like stratigraphic units of an excavation grid, that aid in interpreting the archaeological record of colonizing populations. Treating deglaciation as an opening for a subsequent colonization event, ice recession helps contextualize Paleoindian population...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristina McDonough.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In March 2022, the site of an early twentieth-century blacksmith shop on my family’s 90-acre sheep ranch in Montour Valley of southwestern Idaho was excavated due to dilapidation and subsequent collapse of the structure. In the early twentieth century, the valley was the site of intensive agriculture and ranching, and the establishment of the railroad in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra Covert.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The effects of environmental changes can be seen through changes in archaeological site conditions. Over the past four years, archeological sites at Wupatki National Monument have been significantly affected by water erosion. Water erosion, mainly from summer monsoons, is affecting the integrity and condition of these archeological sites. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Miguel Angel Galvan Benitez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. La recolección y almacenamiento de agua pluvial es una de las prácticas más antiguas en Mesoamérica. La investigación arqueológica en diversos sitios ha permitido la identificación y documentación de sistemas de canales, depósitos subterráneos, galerías filtrantes y almacenamiento en recipientes, el sistema de desagües y el más común que son los depósitos...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andres Saul Alcantara Salinas.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. La propuesta de trabajo abordará el uso del adobe en el Occidente Mesoamericano durante el periodo comprendido entre los años 600-900 dC, el cual representó para los habitantes del Valle de Colima, un movimiento transformador que modificó de manera radical la ideología y costumbres que hasta el año 600 dC fueron utilizadas alrededor de mil años; lo cual se...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christian Mesia-Montenegro. Angel Sanchez-Borjas.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations at La Seductora identified a circular structure with a central hearth and an underground ventilation shaft. We argue that the structure belongs to the Kotosh Religious Tradition. The KRT tradition dominated the Andean landscape, permeating not only religious interactions but also political and economic ones during the Late Archaic and Formative...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vanessa Sullivan. Chelsea Colwell-Pasch.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Preliminary archaeological surveys are dynamic and site specific; by definition, they are an archaeologist’s first exposure to an environment being assessed for archaeological potential. In New Brunswick, Canada, areas in and around rivers hold the highest potential for yielding precontact and early historic material. Despite this, river bottoms and water...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mario Millones.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The critical role of emotions in any social framework is a problematic element to address from the archaeological record. The nuances of nonverbal communication preceded articulated language and the production of any other communication record in the human species. Behavioral studies, supported by neuroanatomical registration, allow the detailed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anthony Graesch. Makena Lurie.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. North American houses are among the largest in the world and, for the better part of a century, their occupants have been accumulating and storing possessions at a rate and volume unlike any other period in human history. These lifelong-amassed assemblages are rarely kept or valued by descendants, and at the conclusion of homeowners’ lives, the bulk of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea Colwell-Pasch. Vanessa Sullivan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Traditional systematic subsurface testing has been common practice in CRM since the 1970s, when archaeological survey methods were utilized to rescue material culture from a boom in land development projects across North America. Conventional test pits are hand-dug; however, innovations that emerged from an industry partnership between Colbr Consulting...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Victoria Nuccio. Danielle Riebe. Attila Gyucha.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the Körös region of the Great Hungarian Plain, the Late Neolithic (ca. 5000–4500 BC) tell site of Csökmő-Káposztás-domb features an ancient paleomeander that weaves through the site. Magnetometry and systematic surface collection have identified a contemporaneous Late Neolithic settlement surrounding the tell, spanning almost 130 ha. Many Late Neolithic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hunter Vaughan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological, heritage, and museum practice are increasingly inundated with the machineries and practices of digital technology, yet the costs and risks of these technologies remain outside disciplinary discourse. LiDAR drones survey stratigraphic materials; tablet-based tours provide educational tools and immersive museum experiences; augmented reality...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabriela Oré Menéndez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster addresses the lack of equity present in archaeological practice, focusing on the use of high-end technological methods, like image analysis and multispectral satellite remote sensing (MSRS) in particular. The use of these advanced computational tools allows for a new type of regional- and even inter-regional scale research and expands and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Gerard. Mark A. Tveskov. Scott M. Fitzpatrick.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fort Point (35-CU-11) is a pre-contact midden located on a marine terrace overlooking an important natural and historical feature known as Battle Rock along the southern Oregon Coast. Field investigation that took place in 2019 along the main promontory of the site revealed dense midden deposits that provide useful data on subsistence and residential...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Briggs. Xinyuan Zheng. John Berini.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Indigenous perspectives of cultural affiliation center on shared relationships with the land (Bruchac 2005); thus, establishing cultural affiliation under NAGPRA is more meaningful if it can reassociate an ancestor based on their region of origin. Biological relatedness has been used to establish cultural affiliation, but this approach prioritizes a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Russell Greaves. Karen Kramer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We investigate the pro-sociality of frequent cultural dances among a group of South American hunter-gatherers living in an impoverished environment. Savanna Pumé foragers of the llanos of Venezuela hold 11-hr night dances 36% of all nights sampled during 30 months of ethnoarcheological fieldwork. The Savanna Pumé live in a hyperseasonal environment with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Makanani Bell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists hold tremendous power and voice through producing knowledge about people who came before. Our interpretations of the past affect societies today and future generations. Involving non-archaeologists in the research process, through community engagement, amplifies this potential. Heritage management and archaeology have long espoused the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joshua Vallejos. Katherine Peck.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological field research can be expensive for a student or a small cultural resource management (CRM) firm. This poster proposes inexpensive and efficient methods for students conducting field research and CRM companies with limited startup resources. We discuss the results of field testing our digital workflow, which utilizes Avenza Maps Pro, a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chad Rankle. Hector Neff. Gina Buckley. Andrea Cucina. Virginie Renson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Strontium isotopes are increasingly used to infer migration amongst ancient populations. The 87Sr/86Sr ratio in tooth enamel is primarily influenced by the underlying geology of the region where an individual resided during tooth formation in childhood or adolescence. Older geological formations tend to present a higher 87Sr/86Sr ratio, while lower ratios...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Victoria Newhall. Amber VanDerwarker. Christopher Pool.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tres Zapotes is an important site in the broader discussion of Olmec cultural continuity and Formative period political economy with an archaeological record that spans the two millennia between 1000 BC and AD 1000. It is a key site for understanding the emergence of Classic period civilization from ancient Olmec roots in Mexico’s southern Gulf Coast...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Noll.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Beginning with the introduction of the concept of an Old Cordilleran Culture, research related to early Holocene tool production in northwestern North America appears to assume commonalities of tool production throughout a huge geographic area. This assumption persists despite the recognition of unique cultural traditions, namely Olcott and Cascade....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Perez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Social complexity in pre-Hispanic societies within the North American Southwest has been studied through a variety of research avenues. Among the Virgin Branch people within the Moapa Valley of southern Nevada, archaeologists have pursued this topic through the study of architecture, burials and associated grave goods, and exchange networks. Among Virgin...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Ridge.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Prior to the surge in radiocarbon dating over the last 15 years, the culture chronologies of Southeastern Europe were organized neatly in sequential centuries-long blocks for the fifth and fourth millennia. Recent research, however, has completely upended the traditional chronologies. With increased research and scholarship on the Copper Age / Chalcolithic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cheryl Mack.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The southwestern flanks of Mt. Adams, Washington, contain numerous lava tube caves. These lava tubes can be quite complex, containing narrow passages on multiple levels. In the course of exploring these lava tubes, modern cavers have inadvertently discovered a total of sixteen projectile points and a flake tool, within twelve different lava tubes. These...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allison Densel.

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 Gaza Gray Ware (GGW) represents an important opportunity for understanding lifeways in Ottoman-era Palestine. Chiefly produced in Gaza, this ceramic industry was present during the 400 years of Ottoman occupation in the Southern Levant, continuing to a lesser extent into modern times. Favored for their high quality, these vessels were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelton Sheridan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper will present preliminary data from excavations and collections analysis at the Mission Espada in San Antonio, Texas. This is part of a larger multiscalar project that examines the lived experiences of Indigenous neophytes at Mission Espada and its associated ranch, Rancho de las Cabras, in eighteenth-century San Antonio. Exploring the daily...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cady Rutherford. Marisol Cortes-Rincon.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Economic integration of households outside of site cores has often been under theorized in Maya scholarship. In this paper I explore the evidence of craft production and spatial relationships in several of these residential groups as well as the implications for connections with social, political, and economic institutions. These groups make decisions...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Swett.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1949, a master’s student at the University of Arizona, Barton Wright, undertook the first salvage excavation project at Catclaw Cave in anticipation of the construction of Davis Dam. The assemblage recovered by Wright and his team remains one of the best persevered dry shelter collections recovered from the region. This poster represents the results of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only A. Dudley Gardner.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We were commissioned to restore a granary constructed circa 900 AD south of the White River in Northwest Colorado. Restoration involved removing cliff fall debris, excavating the granary, and then restoring the walls that had collapsed. In the process of excavating, we learned how the granary was built, what went into its construction, and how it was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Terry Powis. Tristen Griffin. Riley James. Devlin McElrone. John Tomko.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent investigations by Kennesaw State University Field Schools completely excavated a 13th century residential structure at the Cummings site, a small community two kilometers downriver from the Etowah site. Dating to the Early Wilbanks phase (AD 1250-1325), that newly established community was part of the return of people to Etowah and the site’s ascent...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dana Evaschuk. Keli Watson. Mike Robertson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations of natural geological kettle formations are uncommon in Cultural Resource Management projects in British Columbia. Discovery of a large cache of processed red ochre is even more rare with only one similar ochre cache known to exist on the Canadian Plateau. Ochre is an iron oxide prevalent in the Rainbow Mountain Range, part of the Anahim...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Donald Holly. Christopher Wolff. Amanda Samuels.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Inspector Island is a large, multi-component site located in Notre Dame Bay, on the island of Newfoundland, Canada. The site was first discovered and excavated by Ralph Pastore of Memorial University in the 1980s, and then revisited and re-excavated this past summer by the two lead authors. Excavations indicate a large Maritime Archaic habitation site...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Reed.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. American archaeology has been in the midst of a transition for many years. Long-suppressed and ignored viewpoints are finally seeing light and interpretations are broadening. In particular, archaeologists are working with Indigenous peoples with new and innovative approaches to understanding the past. As a result, archaeology is changing, although the pace...

DOCUMENT Citation Only India Pruette.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mortaria are vessels associated with kitchen pottery, particularly in the Persian period (approx. 550–330 BCE), and are often overlooked for flashier finds. In the 1970s, during excavations of Israeli site Tell el-Hesi, questions regarding vessel construction arose about recovered fragments of mortaria: namely that they were not wheel-made. At Hesi in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caelie Butler. Tammy Buonasera. Shelby Anderson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ceramic vessels from the Norton (2800–1500 BP) and Thule (1350–250 BP) traditions often differ in wall thickness and the proportion and type of temper, suggesting they may have performed differently for cooking. This experimental study explores how technological choices (wall thickness, temper, and surface treatments) affected physical characteristics...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Savoy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In South Korea, the Baekje Kingdom (18 BCE – 660 CE) is well-known for maritime trade with Japan and China. Despite ample historical texts and archaeological data, the subsistence economies of the local groups within the Baekje Kingdom are relatively unknown. The region’s highly acidic soil is a major impediment to archaeological research because it...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Esteban Rangel. Susan Kuzminsky.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Intentional cranial vault modification (CVM) has long been considered to be a permanent marker of social identity widely practiced among ancient Andean communities. CVM styles are broadly categorized into annular and tabular types among ancient Andean communities, yet there is substantial variability of among them. In this study, we use three-dimensional...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sasha Buckser. William Taylor. Karissa Hughes. Fernando Villanea. Courtney Hoffman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Relationships among people, dogs, and wild canid taxa played important cultural and functional roles in the early Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. However, the complexity of human-canid relationships in precolonial America and morphological similarities among wild and domestic canids make tracing human-canid interaction through the archaeological record...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joanne Gallagher.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Museum studies and Archaeology have had an interrelationship in pursuits of knowledge and perceptions of visitors. Different interpretations of Indigenous peoples have also evolved in these two fields, and within the last few decades these representations have affected Indigenous Peoples, Museum institutions and visitors. For museum studies, there has been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Grant Snitker. Sean Bergin. Jonathan Paige. Anna Jansson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Precontact archaeology in Washington State’s Central Cascades is not well studied due to the region’s remote location and perception as a marginal area separating cultural centers in the western and eastern portions of the state. Recent research in the adjacent North and South Cascades (i.e., North Cascades National Park and Mt. Rainier National Park) has...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gerad Smith.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Pickupsticks site in the Shaw Creek Flats of the Middle Tanana Valley region of interior Alaska represents a short-term ceremonial occupation site of the early Dene tradition (~930 rcybp). In 2010, the remains of a large structural feature were identified there. Intermittent excavations over the following decade confirmed the structural remains were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Haynes. 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. Mortuary placement is one form of ritual action that communities undertake to remember the dead. The location of the dead is important for considering social memory, a source of collective knowledge and experiences that shapes social group identity. This allows anthropologists to ask questions about how human social relationships transform living...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Angela Gore.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Beringian record is critical to understanding human dispersals and adaptive behaviors of the earliest peoples in the Americas. Late Pleistocene and Holocene peoples subsisted on a dynamic and changing landscape that undoubtedly influenced technological organization, including toolstone procurement and selection patterns. The interior Alaskan record is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin Wann.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The avocado has a complicated evolutionary history resulting from landscape-level management and domestication practices. Cultivars of the species are well-documented and categorized into three botanical races based on genetic differentiation, morphology, and adapted environment. However, we have very little knowledge of the avocado’s genetic variation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kim Ruf.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Using Costa Rican precolumbian jade, jadeite, and greenstone artifacts from the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, this study aims to amplify and widen the range of research carried out on the Isthmo-Colombian Area. It particularly seeks to examine and discuss the role of those objects as indicators of rank and prestige as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only F. Scott Worman. Elizabeth Sobel.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For more than a century, books, movies, and other media have portrayed the Ozarks region of the U.S. as historically isolated, rural, backwards, and overwhelmingly white. However, recent studies have begun to reveal a more complex and nuanced picture of life in the Ozarks during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Our investigations of a company town...

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Christopher Gillam. Nicolas Zwyns. Masami Izuho. Byambaa Gunchinsuren. Brent Woodfill.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper will discuss the use of high-resolution aerial drone mapping to better understand the cultural landscape, complex geomorphology, and site formation processes in the northern Mongolia’s mountainous forest-steppe environment. In recent years, pedestrian surveys of the Tolbor River (Ikh Tulberiin Gol) and neighboring tributaries (Naryn Tulberiin,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leslie Sesler.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Sometimes, archaeologists make up stories to help explain what the archaeological record is telling them. These stories are sometimes whispered to trusted colleagues when no one important is listening. Occasionally, these stories are made more public, and, if a person has sufficient academic capital, they might even get published. This is a “just-so” story...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Schurr. Madeleine McLeester. Terrance Martin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Late Prehistoric Oneota subsistence in the North American Upper Mississippi River Valley has been described using many different and sometimes incompatible perspectives. For example, Oneota maize agriculture could be less intensive than Middle Mississippian agriculture, or more intensive. In a similar fashion, the use of wild resources, especially aquatic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren Kohut.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Late Intermediate period (1100–1450 CE) in the highland Andes of South America has long been characterized by warfare and climate stress. These conditions almost certainly had profound impacts on ancient farmers. It has been suggested that climate changes compelled farmers to diversify by cultivating crops in a greater range of ecological zones or by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Victoria Greening. Ludovic Slimack. Jason Lewis. Svenya Drees.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The origins of hominins using animal pelts as body covering, i.e. clothing, is an important adaptation to reconstruct. Throughout history, our hominin ancestors have adapted to living in temperate and glacial climates, as well as expanding into novel environments, like the Neanderthals in Europe over the past 300,000 years. However, there is currently no...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kalyan Sekhar Chakraborty. Andrew Roddick. Martin Scott. Adrianne Lickers Xavier.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological analysis of Indigenous food systems in Southern Ontario has primarily focused on production and adaptation. Scholars tend to use models that focus on population, environment, and technology to predict and explain general changes in subsistence through time. This work, however, does not always include a partnership with Indigenous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Blake Georgouses.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The area within Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve is one of the most important and interesting historic sites in San Diego County, containing 68 recorded archaeological sites. The location, which represents a small portion of the original Mexican land grant given to Francisco Maria Ruiz in 1823, has been the focus for numerous archaeological and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hailin Yi. Peter Rowley-Conwy. Mike Church. Quanfa Cai.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Zhenghan Gucheng (郑韩故城) site is a well-preserved ancient capital city of Zheng and Han states during Eastern Zhou. It is located at the joining of River Shuangji (Ancient river Wei) and the Yellow River (Ancient river Qin), lying beneath modern Xinzheng city, Henan province, China. Within this city site, well-developed area division and function...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Evan Parker. Kenneth E. Seligson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Proyecto Arqueológico de Sitios de Pesqueña Escala en el Puuc Oriental (PASPEPO) recently completed an intensive mapping and surface collection program at three small-scale sites in the eastern Puuc Region of the northern Maya lowlands. Using lidar-derived digital terrain models (DTMs) as a baseline for settlement pattern identification, we identified...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tyler Baley. Cameron Blumhardt. Kate Shantry. Glen Kirkpatrick. Colin Grier.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2022, Washington State University archaeologists working in conjunction with the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation and the National Parks Service conducted a ground penetrating radar (GPR) survey of the famous Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Site— Fort Clatsop, Oregon— in a fresh attempt to locate the remains of the fort. Evidence associated with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jon Ross. Itzick Shai. Kent Fowler. Chris McKinny.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The identity of producers is a perennial question in the anthropological and archaeological study of craft production. Who made the vessels and figurines used for ritual practice and feasting in the Canaanite cultic enclosure at Tel Burna? Our project attempts to answer this question by determining the age and sex of fingerprints preserved on a selection...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pierre Desrosiers. Doug Odjick. Merv Sarazin. Ian Badgley. Lyle Anderson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The first Anishinabe archaeological field school took place in Ottawa, Canada in 2021. It was triggered by the recovery of a pre-contact stone knife during an excavation in 2019 at the Centre Block on Parliament Hill. Funded by Indigenous Services Canada’s Strategic Partnership Initiative, the project was led by the Algonquins of Pikwàkanagàn First Nation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aldo Watanave. Michelle Watanave. Elvis Monzón. Sintia Santisteban.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, the authors will present the results of their first excavation season at Huaca Menocucho, in the Moche Valley on the north coast of Peru, exposing the political, religious, and economic activities carried out by the people who lived at the site. This excavation revealed the site was first occupied during the Initial period (1800–500 BC),...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kara Jones.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Mojave Desert is a host of many now desiccated Holocene lakes. Fishing features are rare along these lakeshores, but they do occur. Recent investigations at Ivanpah Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert along the California/Nevada border have revealed a complex of fishing features including fishing platforms and fishing circles, connecting this area to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matt O'Mansky. David Parker. Ronald Madeline. Caleb Self. Samuel Witham.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. SS-5, the Dim Bay site, is a prehistoric Lucayan site on the east side of San Salvador Island, Bahamas. Ongoing research reveals intricate stratigraphy in comparison to other sites on the island. While most sites on San Salvador are in protected locations on the leeward sides of dunes, SS-5 is on a low transverse dune by the beach between the ocean and an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kyle Freund. Daron Duke. Jennifer DeGraffenried. Nate Nelson. D. Craig Young.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster contextualizes archaeological sites with fluted point components and related finds on the Old River Bed (ORB) delta in western Utah. Between ~13,000 and 9500 cal BP the ORB delta endured as a large distributary-fed wetland in what is now the dry and forbidding Great Salt Lake Desert. This vast wetland is widely recognized for its Western...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Dresser-Kluchman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Growing, collecting, preparing, storing, and using food and fuel are practices that illustrate environmental, community, and interpersonal relationships at the smallest and largest archaeological scales. This paper explores the plant landscape of the Gallina region and phase within the Ancestral Puebloan world. As understandings of this period and its...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea Reedy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Presidio San Sabá was the largest military outpost in the Texas region during the mid-eighteenth century. This research project is a continuation of Dr. Fradkin and Dr. Walters’s previous faunal analysis conducted on a portion of the site’s assemblage. This inquiry will focus on comparing the areas within the interior plaza to provide insight into dietary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabriela Ruiz Vélez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project studies food establishments that were commercially registered between 1897 and 1899 and the role that women played as business owners in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. I analyzed primary sources, which included state-issued permits for local merchants, as well as diverse secondary sources to gain a clearer scope of the socioeconomic dynamics of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Trevor Lamb.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On Kodiak Island, Alaska many aspects of life changed during the Koniag Phase (650–200 BP): houses became larger and side-rooms were built to store food, social status and labret wearing intensified, community buildings known as qasgit ("men's houses") were built, and people began to use pottery. Zooarchaeological evidence demonstrates that marine mammals,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tara Skipton. Jordan Davis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeology of maroon societies and marronage has provided crucial insight for broader studies of the African Diaspora around the world. However, few comparative approaches have addressed the southeastern United States, where marronage manifested across a multitude of environmental, historical, and sociopolitical contexts. In part, this is due to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karisa Terry.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Some of the earliest ceramic vessels worldwide were used by foraging communities in NE Asia (i.e., Japan, Russian Far East) by roughly 16,000 years ago (i.e., Iizuka 2018). Subsequently, in the Transbaikal region of eastern Siberia the earliest adoption of ceramics by 15,000 or 7000 cal BP (see Hommel 2017; Iizuka 2019; Terry 2022) is thought to have...