SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts

DOCUMENT Citation Only Isaac Hart. Andrea Brunelle. Jennifer DeGraffenried. Daron Duke. 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. We present a novel approach to developing a unified radiocarbon-based chronology for multiple sediment cores from a location where radiocarbon dating is challenging. We used 36 radiocarbon ages from eight terminal Pleistocene and Holocene sediment cores with correlated stratigraphies. Stratigraphic correlation was accomplished using a combination of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Derek Hamilton. Kerry Sayle. Katharine Steinke.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the past 10 years sulfur isotope analysis (δ34S) has become increasingly employed to investigate the movement and mobility of prehistoric people and animals. While the questions can focus on the same type of “one-off” movements often considered when using strontium and oxygen analyses to study human migrations or pastoral economies, the combination of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allan Maca.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents the results of a statistical analysis of a large sample of the "mushroom" stones of Mesoamerica, with particular emphasis on the sample linked to provenances in Guatemala. The production of "mushroom"-shaped stones in ancient Mesoamerica spanned nearly 1000 years and numerous geographic and cultural regions. While several hundred of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Brown.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents preliminary results from excavations at the Formative (2200 BCE–200 CE) site of Muyumoqo in the Chitapampa Basin, Cusco, Peru. A systematic survey of the Cusco Basin and surrounding regions raised several questions about Muyumoqo’s role in the local economy and its relation to polities forming during the Late Formative. Results from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrea Bridges.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the passing of NAGPRA in 1990, a potential new sub-field of jobs has emerged for bioarchaeologists and archaeologists who are invested in the repatriation process of Indigenous ancestral remains and sacred belongings. It has been 32 years since the law was passed, and NAGPRA job vacancies at federally funded institutions are still widely prevalent...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laurie Rush.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As a twenty-one-year-old graduate student, I was present when an Indigenous ancestor, pipe in hand, was removed from the earth, placed in a box, and taken to storage. My encounter with this individual transformed and guided the course of my career in a field that has changed over the intervening decades and is working on recognition of human rights. I knew...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Theodore Marks. George Leader. Abi Stone. Rachel Bynoe. Dominic Stratford.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The vast Sand Sea region of the Namib desert in western Namibia has begun to yield evidence of long-term human occupations. In the past decades, several Early Stone Age (ESA) sites have been identified and described but the Middle Stone Age (MSA) human presence remains poorly understood. Here we describe in detail the newly documented site of Narabeb Pan,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Irene Martí Gil.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The goal of this project is to show the significance of language in the cultural heritage management and protection efforts. In heritage law, language is the tool that reifies morals into (looked-for) action, thus shaping behaviorism. Since legalese defines what heritage is, it affects the way that archaeologists see, understand, act on, and preserve...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Burdette.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Museums as institutions have a storied history regarding the presentation of Native American cultures and histories to the public. Much has been done to address this issue, although the topic remains difficult to explain succinctly to those without prior knowledge. Often, the interpretation of artifacts is oversimplified and leads to confusion or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachael Wedemeyer. Kenichiro Tsukamoto.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The data presented in this paper are results from the 2022 field season at the López Plaza, a small plazuela group located within the site center of El Palmar. Fieldwork included test pit excavations, shovel test pits, and geophysical prospections. Lidar images show that the López Plaza has two separate plaza spaces and approximately eight structures and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Autumn Cool.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cultural resource inventories of abandoned mine lands have traditionally been limited to surface-level surveys and archival research. This is sensible given the hazards inherent in subterranean exploration, the general lack of relevant safety training among archaeologists and historians conducting the inventories, and the practical, risk-averse attitudes...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Maloy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper is a critical appraisal of cultural resource management protocols associated with Indigenous Culturally Modified Trees, (CMTs). Living artifacts, eco-facts, or vivio-facts provide rich and powerful accounts of human interactions with a setting. These features challenge western views of what constitutes materiality of the past, a recognition,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Petr Kvetina. Sylva Drtikolova-Kaupova. Ivana Jarosova. Zdenek Tvrdy. Frantisek Trampota.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The aim of the paper is to reconstruct Middle and Late Neolithic dietary practices in Central Europe with the help of complementary evidence of stable isotope and dental microwear analysis. From a total of 171 individuals, carbon and nitrogen isotopic values were measured in bone collagen from 146 humans and 64 animals, and 113 individuals were included in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Otar Berikashvili.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. “Ortvala Cave” (Double Eye) is located in the southern part of Georgia (South Caucasus), a distance of 98 km from present day Georgian-Armenian border, and represents a multilayer cave complex, combining deposits of Mousterian culture (Lower Paleolithic), as well as the deposits of Chalcholithic, Early Bronze, and medieval periods. Archaeological and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madeline Mackie. Briana Doering. Fox Nelson. Molly Herron. Carlton Shield Chief Gover.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the first discovery of projectile points associated with mammoth remains, the iconic recreation of Clovis life has been a group of hunters stalking this multi-ton animal. However, despite nearly 100 years of research, questions remain about traditions associated with Pleistocene megafauna hunting including its frequency and importance. In the 1970s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yuko Kanezaki. Carlos Viviano. Otani Hironori. Yune Sato. Jose Onofre.

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 first identified Early Horizon monumental architectural complexes in the Monzón district, Huamalies Province, Huánuco, Peru. The Monzón River basin is a cloud forest area at an altitude of approximately 1000 m above sea. This area is on the route between Chavin de Huantar, an important highland temple site in the Early Horizon, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Milton. Sarah Meinekat. Katherine Moore. Kurt Rademaker.

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 results of 2019 excavations at Pachamachay and Panaulauca, two Early Holocene archaeological sites in the high Andes of central Peru. These classic sites, previously excavated in the 1970s and 80s, provide evidence for early and persistent use of the high-elevation (>4000 m above sea level) Andes mountains. We used a low-impact approach to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gina Buckley. Sergio Gómez Chávez. Ruben Cabrera Castro. Fred Longstaffe. Spencer Seman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The neighborhood of La Ventilla in the city of Teotihuacan was extensively excavated in the 1990s, during which the largest skeletal collection was recovered at this great urban center. However, it was not until the last several years that stable and radiogenic isotope analysis were conducted on a large-scale at this site. New strontium and oxygen isotope...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Corinne Watts.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ground stone tools can indicate important patterns in food production, craftwork, and farming practices in Neolithic and Chalcolithic Iberia due to their varied use. As Iberian communities adopted sedentary practices and social inequalities emerged, they began to create tools made from new raw materials, indicating a changing relationship with their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karime Castillo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tonalá and Tlaquepaque are the main centers of traditional glassblowing in Mexico today. While there are records of one glass furnace in the sixteenth century in Jalisco, the industry did not take root in the area until the early nineteenth century. The analysis of archaeological glass from colonial Mexico City shows that glassmakers followed the tradition...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Harris.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Chuchuwayha Research Project focuses on the past use of the Similkameen Valley in south-central British Columbia. The driving question of this research project is how have the Similkameen people used the landscape of the Similkameen Valley over time. The Chuchuwayha rock shelter provides the best lens to understand the use and occupancy in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Simon Sherman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The lithic assemblage at the middle archaic (7000–4000 BP) site called Watson Brake (16OU175) has been identified visually as coming from exclusively local raw materials that are generally small, beige-to-tan gravels. These local gravel sources are found nearby the site in underlying terrace deposits and resemble those materials used by the inhabitants of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn Frederick.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Research on storage in small-scale societies has, until recently, narrowly focused on determining the form and scale that food storage took, and its relatedness to increasing social complexity. This research, instead, looked at the purposeful decision-making behind the use of food storage as a risk management strategy in non-sedentary societies....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Annabeth Headrick.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper explores the confounding issue of female-gendered images at Teotihuacan. Figures clad in female-gendered clothing appear within Teotihuacan’s most prominent and luxurious arts. Some of the largest sculptures and most precious stone figures are female, and these sculptural images were recovered from highly symbolic, civic spaces. Similarly,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Milsy Westendorff. Dana Bardolph.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In recent years, there has been an increase in social justice movements, from Black Lives Matter to #metoo. As Maria Franklin and colleagues have stated, when these movements took center stage in our nation, they forced us to reflect on our very discipline and the inequalities present within, which in turn has led to several collaborations and research...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlyn Bailey. Jacob Fisher.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bone fat has been recognized by prehistoric and modern societies as an important source of lipids and other nutrients. Experimental and ethnoarchaeological research have provided a number of archaeological correlates for identifying the role that such nutritional resources were exploited by prehistoric peoples. To date, the bulk of such research has...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Phyllis Johnson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists studying the Maya have traditionally considered obsidian to be a luxury good that was often tightly controlled by the elite during the Classic period. Archaeological evidence from the Classic Maya capital of Tamarindito in Guatemala challenges these long-held assumptions, however. At Tamarindito, multiple lines of evidence support the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Serena Webster. Andrew Somerville. Marion Forest.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Obsidian played an important social and economic role in ancient Mesoamerica. Because obsidian is a relatively homogenous material, chemical analyses can quantify its elemental concentrations and determine source locations of individual artifacts. This study investigates sources of obsidian procurement at the ancient metropolis of Teotihuacan in central...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Isabel Guevara-Duque.

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 obsidian in the Andes is widespread and constant starting during the Formative period. Through the morphological analysis of lithic artifacts recovered during excavations in northern Manabi, Ecuador, this poster reveals the importance of obsidian in the area and how it changed throughout time. The Matapalo site, the focus of this research, shows...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Arion Mayes. Arthur Joyce. Sarah Barber.

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 a micro-scale consideration of the broader social processes under way during the Early Classic to the Postclassic periods in the Río Verde drainage basin of Oaxaca, Mexico. Through a detailed bioarchaeological analysis, we examine individuals from Río Viejo for evidence of occupational stress, with an emphasis on select individuals who...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rita Dias. Tiago Pereiro. João Hipólito. João Fonte. António Neves.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Survey is an important tool in archaeological research. It allows us to identify the location of potential archaeological sites as well as understand the main natural features of the landscape. Lately, methodological developments in the field of remote detection have significantly contributed with new applications to archaeological research. The Odyssey...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennie Deo Shaw. Joyce LeCompte.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2019, construction monitoring of a large, King County-directed levee replacement project identified a diffuse and deeply buried archaeological site on the Green River, south of Seattle, Washington. This poster presents the results of paleoethnobotanical and AMS analyses conducted on plant materials from precontact-era combustion features and pits....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicolette Edwards. Karen Lupo. Dave Schmitt.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Zooarchaeological measures of faunal diversity are commonly used to assess prehistoric diet breadth, paleoenvironmental conditions, hunting technology, and economic orientation. In addition, hunter-gatherers are usually assumed to have more diverse faunal assemblages in comparison to food producers. Ethnoarchaeological data from central African neighboring...

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

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Our understanding of hominin subsistence behavior during the Last Interglacial is limited. Le Grand Abri aux Puces (GAP), a cave in Southern France in the foothills of the Alps, can provide a closer look into subsistence behavior as most of its layers are dated to the Last Interglacial. It has been suggested that hominins living around GAP during...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Danielson. Debra Foran. Greg Braun. Stanley Klassen. Grant Ginson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2000–2001, the Tall Madaba Archaeological Project of the University of Toronto conducted an archaeological survey of the site of Khirbat al-Mukhayyat (Jordan) in anticipation of future archaeological excavation, though ultimately, no excavation of the site was conducted. With the formation of the Khirbat al-Mukhayyat Archaeological Project in 2014, an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carl Wendt. Kenneth Peters.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Within the Olmec region, resources such as basalt, asphalt, cacao, kaolin clay, and hematite pigment are available in discreet areas. This uneven distribution of raw materials has led some scholars to suggest that Olmec leaders controlled the sources of raw materials and regional trade, from which they derived their economic and political power. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Olganydia Plata Aguilera.

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 faunal, ceramic, and lithic analyses of the San Antonio del Embudo midden, a refuse site for a small Hispano agropastoral community in the northern borderlands of the Spanish Empire. These analyses are informed by both archived and new translations of the last will and testaments of the original proprietors of the San...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Russell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Following a series of catastrophic forest fires in Washington’s Yacolt State Forest and the Gilford Pinchot National Forest between 1902 and 1952, the Washington Division of Forestry partnered with the Washington Department of Institutions to use inmate labor in remote locations to perform forest and fire management duties. Called Honor Camps, these labor...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peng Peng.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The “independent invention versus diffusion” argument remains undecided regarding the inception—or rather inceptions—of copper-based metallurgy in China. The intriguing course leading to the substantial rise of a distinctive metallurgical tradition that can be confidently called “Chinese” was probably too perplexing to be explained by a single theoretical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Edwards.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Food is a persistent symbol of identity, signaling both membership and distinction within communities at multiple scales. A combination of macrobotanical, zooarchaeological, isotopic, and ceramic data are used to make inferences about Oneota culinary practices. This paper examines the way that cuisines connected and divided members of Late Precontact...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amethyst Owen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The late pre-contact Oneota populations of Southwestern Wisconsin practiced a mixed economy of wild resources, in addition to a full suite of domesticated corn, beans, and squash. Analysis of floral remains from the sites prior to European contact, as well as those at the time of contact will examine the impact of external stressor on the use of wild...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fatemeh Ghaheri.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Using new microbotanical phytolith evidence, this article discusses what strategies were implemented to manage factors affecting agricultural strategies and staple food during the Late Holocene in a dry climatic condition in the Late Holocene at the Neo-Assyrian large site of Peshdar Plain located in Kurdistan, Iraq, Northern Mesopotamia. Located in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Johnson. Tanvi Honap. Cara Monroe. Marc Levine. Cecil Lewis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Disruption of the microbial community in the oral cavity, by diet, host genetics, or environmental factors, can lead to dysbiosis, promoting preferential growth of pathogenic microorganisms leading to a diseased state. The calcified matrix of dental calculus is a good source for ancient biomolecules belonging to bacterial species, allowing researchers to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bernie Taylor.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The interpretation of drawings and engravings rely on our unique ability to internally process visual information and identify recognizable patterns. This same ability processes imaginary patterns, such as animals and faces of people in geological formations, clouds, and stars. The phenomenon of identifying imaginary patterns, referred to as “pareidolia,”...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Estevan Ramirez. Jaime Awe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Previous studies in the Maya area indicate many lowland Maya site cores developed gradually with continuous construction and modifications extending back to the Preclassic era (1200 BC–AD 300). In spite of this developmental sequence, few sites exhibiting Preclassic transition phases have been intensively investigated. One example is the Belize Valley site...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Carter. Nathan Lawres. Jennifer Glaze. Deborah Wold.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As a field, it should be our responsibility to continually strive to develop engaging, approachable, and novel means to get “out of the lab” and into the general public (and help others do the same). While the Antonio J. Waring Jr. Archaeological Laboratory is primarily an archaeological repository and research facility, this philosophy has helped drive...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Banke. Christopher Jazwa. Jennifer Perry.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this poster, we synthesize the body of previous and continuing research of chert quarries on the East End and Isthmus of Santa Cruz Island, CA since 1985. Santa Cruz Island chert quarries have been integral to interpretations of craft specialization, the development of social complexity, and material conveyance among peoples on the Northern Channel...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Buckner.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The transition from the Late Archaic (1200 B.C. to A.D. 150) to the Early Ceramic (A.D. 150 – A.D. 1150) in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming is characterized by decreasing mobility, a trend reflected by the adoption of ceramic technology, limited stone architecture, and longer site occupation. Contrasted against this shift to longer occupations is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Schumacher. Miriam Belmaker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The former Danish West Indies are one of the scant examples of Scandinavian colonialism and the only example of Danish colonialism in the Americas. Although considered latecomers to the region, the Danes maintained almost continuous control of their West Indies from their initial settlement until the islands were sold to the United States in 1917. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean Stcherbinine.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations at three precontact sites adjacent to the Elwha River in western Washington State, USA, recovered about 800 bone specimens and 40,000 chipped stone artifacts. The combined artifact assemblage is characteristic of Olcott-type sites in western Washington, most notably the presence of lanceolate projectile points manufactured from fine-grained...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Crandall. Timothy Galowicz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster summarizes several years of investigations into painted rock representation and its social context within the Utcubamba Basin, Amazonas, Eastern Peru. This poster has three aims. The first, to provide an overview of the Utcubamba basin’s forms of painted rock representation. This is significant to a broader history of the region as there are...

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

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper aims at emphasizing the importance of soil science practice to archaeology thus adding a scientific analytical nature to the cultural nature of archaeology. This report explores this field application of pH and NPK testing in the Dos Hombres to Gran Cacao Archaeology Project area located in northwestern Belize. These types of testing are of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordan Thompson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological investigations in the 1990s defined the Clearwater River region of the southern Columbia Plateau as a unique cultural and archaeological entity, though it remains poorly understood. The Nez Perce have occupied this portion of north central Idaho since time immemorial. Excavations throughout ancestral Nez Perce country have revealed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laurene Montero. Douglas Mitchell. Zachary Rothwell. Stephanie Sherwood. Steven Rascona.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The prehistoric Hohokam village of Pueblo Grande, in the heart of Phoenix, was established as a City park and museum in 1929. The site includes one of the largest platform mounds in Arizona, a ballcourt (possibly two), thousands of features, and once contained a tower-like structure. Excavations have been conducted at Pueblo Grande since as early as 1901...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Kopperl. Eleni Petrou.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bones of the Pacific herring, abundant in many Pacific Northwest shell middens, are increasingly recognized as important indicators of past complex foodwebs and the ecosystemic role of humans. For decades, zooarchaeologists interpreted the presence of herring bones at these sites as reflecting indigenous fishing during a limited late winter-early spring...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Newton.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The goal of the project is to find and map a portion of the submerged Paleo-Suwannee River in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico. The main goals of our research are to find the Suwannee River channel offshore and map any archaeological sites encountered, and produce geological (sedimentological) and habitat (species and landscape) maps of the area at multiple...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia Furlong.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Paleoenvironmental data is an important variable to consider when investigating and assessing prehistoric cultural change. This study presents a new paleoenvironmental reconstruction from central Washington State within the Columbia Plateau cultural area. This analysis represents the first large-scale paleoenvironmental reconstruction on the main-stem...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Chitwood. Dana Bardolph.

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 preliminary analysis of paleoethnobotanical data from excavations at a Classic Taino site (AD 1000–1490) located at Cinnamon Bay on St. John, US Virgin Islands. Excavations began in 1992 when it was determined that the site was at risk of being lost to erosion. Until now, there has been no analysis of the paleoethnobotanical samples...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberly Batres. Neil A. Duncan. Lana Williams. Brigitte Kovacevich. Michael Callaghan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Among the Maya, plant-based foods were not just important for sustenance but also had ritual meaning, especially emphasized when placed in graves and caches. Food offered during ritual performances created a reciprocal relationship between living individuals, their ancestors, and the gods. This poster will present the paleoethnobotanical results from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cinthia Campos.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Trincheras Tradition thrived in the Altar Valley, Sonora, Mexico between AD 400 to 1400. The Hohokam are known for their extensive irrigation systems and reliance on agriculture. Lacking evidence of similar features, the Trincheras were interpreted as primarily hunters and gatherers, a rustic branch of the Hohokam. This characterization of Trincheras...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathalie Suarez Gonzalez. Gontran Sonet. Peter Eeckhout.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ancient DNA (aDNA) analysis can be a useful tool for sex determination, general mitochondrial lineage (haplogroup), and disease diagnosis in human remains. However, non-endogenous DNA contamination of archaeological material is a recurrent problematic, since excavation, handling, and storage usually don’t fit with the precautions recommended for aDNA...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steph Gruver.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Occupants of the southern Peruvian site of Quebrada Jaguay 280 (QJ-280) maintained consistent preferential resource procurement practices for 4,000 history, from ~12,000-8,000 cal yr BP. Site deposits demonstrated that hunter-gatherers focused on capturing two fish species and one mollusk, Mesodesma donacium. Such intense specificity conflicts with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charlotte Robinson. Neil Duncan. John Walker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In Southwestern Amazonia, the seasonally flooding, anthropogenic landscapes of Llanos de Mojos may be associated with the domestication of several important crops such as manioc (Manihot esculenta), peanuts (Arachis spp.), peach palm (Bactris gasipaes), and chili pepper (Capsicum baccatum). These landscapes, which increased the productivity of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mackenzie Cory.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Childhood play areas represent a complete departure from the landscapes that archaeologists often examine in that they exist within adults’ domestic, logistic, and/or sacred spaces yet simultaneously outside of any of these spatial ideals. The difficulty in analyzing these areas is further compounded when Indigenous ontologies are considered, especially...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris Dixon-Hundredmark. Cynthia Van Gilder.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper seeks to bring together the existing literature and extend its theoretical and methodological implications for an archaeology of parenting, particularly in the times/places where contemporary written records do not exist. While parenting and childhood may be more readily visible to researchers and the public in periods where written records...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Taylor. Sarah Lowry. Benjamin Porter.

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 ongoing Cypress Street School Archaeology Project in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Cypress Street School Archaeology Project is a collaborative effort between New South Associates, Inc. (NSA) and the Melvin C. Swann Jr. Middle School (Swann). In 2020, NSA partnered with the social studies faculty at Swann to provide students...

DOCUMENT Citation Only 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. Archaeological Predictive Models (APMs) are a critical tool for archaeologists working across the globe; however, they are underutilized in continental Africa. As part of ongoing archaeological research in Djibouti, the Southeast Djibouti Regional Archaeological Project (SEDRAProject) developed an ArcGIS-based APM for pastoralist sites in the eastern Horn...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Peterson. James Bayman. Andrea Jalandoni. Maria Kottermair. Ashley Meredith.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Knowledge of navigation and island living among indigenous people of the western Pacific Ocean retain lifeways, legends, and oral history about their migrations in the region. Western enlightenment theories of Pacific migration persist in describing this migration as a wave or diffusion of peoples seeking new lands. However, among islanders, it is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dominic Pollard.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents an analysis of the long-term dynamics of settlement patterning on the Greek island of Crete, with a particular focus on the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age. Alongside - or in the absence of - other forms of archaeological data, changes in settlement patterning have been central to debates around political and economic change on the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Celeste Gagnon. Bethany Turner. Richard Sutter. Gabriel Prieto.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Exploring mobility and inter-community relationships has been an important area of research in the Precolumbian Andes since Rostworowski first argued for economic and ethnic divisions between communities of fishers and farmers on the Peruvian north coast. To address this issue in the Moche Valley, we examined Viru period (150 BC–AD 500) dental remains of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danny Zborover. Alex Badillo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. With over 1,000 individual pictorial elements, Chillihuay is among the largest and most impressive concentration of petroglyphs in southern Peru. Carved on geologically distinct rock outcrops high above the Chorunga Valley, these anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, abstract, and geometrical designs were distributed along narrow trails and hard-to-reach canyons...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Trace Fleeman Garcia.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the 1990s, spectral thematics have grown increasingly present in the humanities, stressing the persistence of memory, traces, and absences in the cultural sphere. Anthropologists likewise have contributed to this moment, as with Justin Armstrong’s spectral ethnography and Theo Kindynis’s' graffiti archaeology. This emerging methodology is promising...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jana Meyer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Merovingian society (450–751 CE) was strongly stratified with differences in social standing being written in law and affecting many aspects of life, such as occupation and access to material, nutritional, and medical resources. How did these status differences become embodied in Early Medieval Thuringia? This study explores the cumulative effect of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cherra Wyllie.

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 eight decades, numerous ritually interred figurines and skeletal remains have been found in Classic Veracruz architecture. These caches contain tableaus of small, medium, and large-scale ceramic sculpture in conjunction with primary and secondary burials, and deposits of dismembered human bones. Ceramic figures enact scenes depicting...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean Desjardins. Scott Rufolo. Shyong En Pan. Jelke Take.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Across Inuit Nunangat (the traditional Inuit territories of what is now Canada), the Little Ice Age (LIA) climate change episode likely resulted in significant changes in seasonal sea-ice abundance, thereby affecting relatively delicate coastal food webs. In this paper, we present the results-to-date of recent survey and excavation at Uglit (NfHd-1), a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tomás Gallareta Cervera. Anna Novotny. Brett Houk.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Funerary customs and monumental architecture in the Maya Region are viewed by archaeologists as markers of social status and complexity. The intersection of mortuary rituals and the built environment gives us a window through which to understand the development of social complexity. Excavations at Chan Chich, a medium-sized city located in northwest...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Rhode.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bonneville Estates Rockshelter is a stratified multicomponent site located on the former highstand of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville in the eastern Great Basin. It contains well-dated and well-preserved record of human occupation through the last 13,000 years. Here I report on dietary plant remains retrieved from nearly 140 dated archaeological features...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Jerrems.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There is a long history of horse exploitation throughout Eurasia; for instance, the Boxgrove site, England (500 kya), the Schöningen site, Germany (350 kya), and numerous Late Pleistocene sites spread across Eurasia (from the Aurignacian thru the Magdalenian 45 kya–15 kya). The evidence suggests that horses were only second in line of importance to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allison Sabo. Daniel Koski-Karell. William Pestle.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent analysis of the lithic assemblage from the Ortiz site, an early (2340 cal BC–cal AD 310) habitation site in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, has revealed the persistent parallel manufacture of blade and expedient flake technologies, with an average of 16.1% of the flaked stone assemblage consisting of blades. While other early Puerto Rican lithic assemblages...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathan Klembara.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology has long occupied a fruitful and yet uneasy position within academia in the United States. Anthropological archaeology has long drawn methods and theories from the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities, which in many ways has expanded the interpretive and analytical possibilities of the discipline. However, it has also caused...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Lorenz. Ana Margarida Moço. Rachel Holland. Rui Mataloto. Brandon Lewis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Freixo Archaeology Project was initiated in 2015 to investigate the nature of Roman Imperial occupation in the Iberian Peninsula with an interest in the symbolic and ideological reuse of sacred space. Freixo is located within the Municipality of Redondo in southeastern Portugal, where a sixteenth-century Christian church overlays an ancient Roman...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Klervia Jaouen. Pauline Méjean. Benjamin, T. Fuller. Jéssica Mendes Cardoso. Zineb Moubtahij.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There is currently a growing body of evidence that Zn isotope ratios (δ66Zn) are a useful tool to assess the trophic level of past humans and animals from archaeological sites. However, the isotopic variability which has been previously measured in herbivorous species remains unexplained. In this contribution, we explore and attempt to explain the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danny Sosa Aguilar. Felicia De Peña.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Practical approaches to Indigenous Archaeology in Cultural Resource Management (CRM) can have real impacts on United States archaeology. This paper discusses the broader theoretical approaches and “high-level” changes that are being made (or could/should) be made in CRM. What types of changes can field techs/archaeologists make that work towards a more...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Autumn Rose. Kitty Emery. Robert Guralnick.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Human-caused environmental changes and their effects on the Classic Maya continue to be topics of vital research importance. Zooarchaeological data can provide valuable inferences about ancient Maya environments but must be assessed with care. In the Maya area, habitat fidelity models use high predator abundances to indicate the local presence of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Wake.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The pre-European population of the Bocas Del Toro Archipelago was more numerous and diverse than previously thought. Fish were a primary source of vertebrate protein throughout the region. Recent findings illustrate that the inhabitants of Sitio Drago consumed both maize and beans, not just root and tree crops as previously assumed. This presentation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Damon Mullen. Karl Reinhard. Alvaro Montenegro. John Hawdon.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Humans brought many things with them when they came to the Americas. This study focuses on hookworms and domesticated dogs to revise, constrain, or enhance theoretical models of when and how humans first came to the Americas. The hookworm life cycle is critically dependent upon the environmental conditions and proximity to suitable hosts. Its eggs leave...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Reid.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Spring Lake Site (41HY160) in San Marcos, Texas, has been referred to by archaeologists as one of the longest, most continuously inhabited sites in North America. The diversity of hydrological, biological, and geological resources has made Spring Lake an attractive locale for human groups from the late Pleistocene to today. Archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Golitko. Mirko Uy. Melissa Berke.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological interest in environmental and human impacts on society and ecosystems has intensified, with mounting evidence of global anthropogenic climate change and landscape modification. Tropical lowland forests, once believed to represent pristine ecologies only marginally impacted by human activity, are now understood to reflect millennia of human...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Jazwa. Amira Ainis. Ryan Anderson. Karim Bulhusen Muñoz. Harumi Fujita.

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 results of our preliminary analysis of the archaeological resources in Cabo Pulmo National Park (CPNP), Baja California Sur, Mexico. Since 1995, CPNP has yielded evidence for ecological recovery of marine resources, although long-term prospects are still in question. As important are the cultural resources in the park and surrounding area,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brett Parbus. Victor Thompson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research project examines the history of human-environment interaction on Ossabaw Island, Georgia. Archaeological collections for Woodland (ca. 1000 BC–AD 1000) and Mississippian period (ca. AD 1000–1700) occupations of the island are combined with environmental data synthesized from the analysis of sediment cores taken from five freshwater ponds on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Hansen. Greg Pratt. Steven Gilbert. Dmitry Voyakin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Ilibalyk (Usharal) site in southeastern Kazakhstan is the location of an ongoing excavation of a medieval (13th-14th centuries CE) Christian cemetery and settlement. Ilibalyk was located along the trans-continental trade networks often called the Silk Roads. Many trade goods from across Eurasia have been found in association with burials at Ilibalyk....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rocío López.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A preliminary analysis of the geoarchaeology of the “Colina Da Monte” mound complex is presented here, a site located in the northern sector of the Sierra de los Ajos, Department of Rocha, Eastern Uruguay. Little is known about this sector of the Sierra, as past research focused largely on environmental conditions that possibly directly influenced cultural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian Beggen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Central Western Patagonia is an area characterized by climatic and landscape contrasts, with a variety of ecotones within a defined area. This region is naturally divided into different river valleys, separated by steep, ice-capped mountains. One such valley, the Ibáñez River Valley, has been investigated archaeologically since the early 1970s. The Ibáñez...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jiaqi Wang. Xuewei Zhang. Chunxue Wang. Lishuang Sheng.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Taiziling locality, buried in the second terrace near the Prince Mausoleum of the Qing Dynasty is located in the Sungezhuang village, Jizhou County, Tianjin City, which was discovered in 2005 and excavated in October 2021, covering an area of 50m2. In this excavation, over 100 artifacts were unearthed. The lithic assemblage includes cores, flakes,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Regnier. Scott Hammerstedt. Patrick Livingood.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster will provide an overview of the 2022 excavations at Spiro by the University of Oklahoma field school, which involved work at two areas of the site. The poster will discuss the geophysics results that lead to excavating these areas, the preliminary results from the 2022 excavations, our preliminary interpretations that the two areas represent...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Sullivan. Kenichiro Tsukamoto.

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 present new research on the lithic production community of Took’ Witz, a hinterland group near the ancient Maya polity of El Palmar in Campeche, Mexico. While previous research at Took’ Witz focused on large-scale utilitarian lithic production, recent investigations provide insight into people’s daily lives. Through excavations at three...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Haefner. Steven Sarich. Benjamin Johnson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On behalf of the Texas Historical Commission and the Fort Lancaster State Historic Site (FLSHS), archaeologists from TRC Environmental Corporation conducted a systematic metal detector survey of an 11.4 acre parcel expansion of the current FLSHS boundaries, with funding provided by the National Park Service. In addition, TRC archaeologists were tasked...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shannon Monroe. Sören Stark. Sirodj Mirzaakhmedov.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bukhara (in modern Uzbekistan) was a center of learning, power, and innovation during the “Lost Enlightenment” of the late first and early second millennium CE in Central Asia. At the same time, the metropolis faced crises familiar to city-dwellers today, such as controversial land use policies and outbreaks of infectious disease. In the summer of 2022,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Spencer Lambert.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists approach the topic of ancient foodways in two major ways: by focusing on ‘diet’ and adaptation to local environments, or more recently, by focusing on ‘cuisine,’ through culturally specific rules about how food is acquired, prepared, consumed, and discarded. Few, however, have attempted to consider how changes in diet and cuisine have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rosa María Varillas.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Puerto Inka, also known as Quebrada de la Vaca, which lies on the Pacific shore in southern Peru, near the modern town of Chala, was connected to the Inka capital of Cuzco (over 800 km away) by the Royal Inca Road network, now known as the Qhapaq Ñan. Because of its preservation, its distinct administrative structures, its unique geographic position, and...