Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Moore.

This is an abstract from the "*SE The New Normal: Approaches to Studying, Documenting, and Mitigating Climate Change Impacts to Archaeological Sites" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Like many other areas, Virginia is becoming increasingly impacted by the effects of climate change. Over the past several years, the Virginia Department of Historic Resources has taken efforts to model these impacts to identify vulnerable areas for cultural resources...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dayanira Lopez. Lisa Johnson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The PREP: Urban Life at Palenque Project 2023 field season brought about unexpected findings regarding household mortuary practices. Two atypical burials were uncovered: (1) an isolated, articulated right arm boxed-in by large stones at the entrance of residential structure J37; and (2) a complete primary burial discovered on the south side of the same...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Leslie. Andy Fallon. Zachary Singer. John Pfeiffer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Liebman Site (71-31) is an Early Paleoindian site preserved beneath Lake Williams, a ~270-acre lake initially created by 19th century milling operations of Bartlett Brook in Lebanon, Connecticut. Originally discovered by John Parkos and excavated by John Pfeiffer in the 1990s when water levels were reduced, the site is generally inaccessible to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Martin Welker.

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches in Zooarchaeology: Addressing Big Questions with Ancient Animals" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A survey of over 200 published sources on archaeological domestic dogs in the Americas reveals that dental anomalies, particularly the absence of the first mandibular premolar, are mentioned in Native American domestic dogs with some frequency. They have even been promoted as a means of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Angela Collins. Mary De la Garza.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent excavations on two small pre-contact archaeological sites in southeast Iowa provided an opportunity to conduct drone-mounted low-altitude aerial lidar in addition to the standard total station methodology to develop ground surface elevations and contours. The drone used for the projects was the industrial grade mapping inspection drone, DJI Matrice...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zachary Newell. Loren Davis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Preliminary geoarchaeological investigations at the Devils Kitchen site (35CS9) produced a stratified archaeological record comprised of stone tools, debitage, and fire-cracked rock associated with alluvial deposition occurring between ~11,600 and 1900 14C BP (i.e., ~13,470 and 1800 cal BP). The robust Holocene-age portion of this record demonstrates that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia Coverdale.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Corrugated exterior white wares in the Ancestral Puebloan world are often thought of as a rarity. While these ceramics are not as common as gray ware corrugated or regular black-on-white ceramics, they are an important blending of pottery manufacture. Corrugated whiteware ceramics can also help us begin to understand symbolism and meaning of corrugation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Grace Conrad. Robert Cook.

This is an abstract from the "Improving and Decolonizing Precontact Legacy Collections with Fieldwork: Making Sense of Harvard’s Turpin Site Expedition (Ohio)" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A long-standing point of contention has been the degree of continuity and change between the Middle Woodland (ending AD 500) and Fort Ancient periods (beginning about AD 1000). The intermediate Late Woodland period has become a placeholder but is clearly of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian Ostahowski. Jayur Mehta. Ted Marks.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many archaeologists studying coastal archaeological sites are weighing the costs vs. benefits of implementing erosion control structures to protect sites threatened by sea level rise and/or land loss. However, little literature is available about the types and applicability of erosion control structures, such as living shorelines, as protection measures...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Travis Cureton. J. Andrew Darling.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology: How Native American Knowledge Enhances Our Collective Understanding of the Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Scholars of the Hohokam archaeological culture area have worked for decades to build a more comprehensive explanatory framework regarding the interpretation of vapaki, or ancestral O’Odham ceremonial houses. In 2023, an edited volume of the same name was published and represents a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Felipe Criado-Boado. Jadranka Verdonkschot.

This is an abstract from the "Developments and Challenges in Landscape Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper is an appeal for a structural archaeology, analogous to what used to be called structural anthropology. Or at least an appeal for a structural archaeology of landscape. Landscapes are active, performative, changing, temporal, moving, contingent, situated . . . but they are also the result of a design, whether intentional or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Dylla. Zachary Overfield.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological monitoring is generally considered a secondary investigative methodology, to be used when necessary after proactive archeological work has already occurred. However, monitoring is increasingly relied upon as a primary form of investigation within archaeological compliance, particularly in highly urban settings where proactive work is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alex Ruuska.

This is an abstract from the "Painting the Past: Interpretive Approaches in Global Rock Art Research" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper explores the critical subject of indigenous oral traditions in California and the Great Basin. Using an interdisciplinary approach that considers Numic oral teachings relative to place-based data in ethnography, ethnohistory, archaeology and geology, the author interrogates traditional narratives encoding...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea Cohen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster focuses on the context of urban enslavement in the South Carolina Lowcountry, examining botanical and ceramic assemblages as mechanisms to create visibility for populations often who lived in close proximity with and are thus materially rendered less visible by their enslavers. The rodent-cached botanical and ceramic assemblage of the Nathaniel...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine Lee.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Women in pastoral nomadic steppe cultures had a higher social status and fluid gender roles than their counterparts in sedentary agricultural regions. Central Asian women (Mongol and Qidan) are historically documented to have made diplomatic, economic, and military decisions in proxy for male relatives. Mortuary evidence for women warriors is inferred from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Whittemore.

This is an abstract from the "Beyond the Ancestors: New Approaches to Andean "Open Sepulchers"" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Modern interaction with ancient human remains is near-ubiquitous in aboveground open-air tombs, used in the Andes during the late prehispanic period (ca. 1000–1532 CE). These spaces are host to a range of activities, from looting and sale of artifacts by professional huaqueros to exploration by local history enthusiasts....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jasmine Heckman.

This is an abstract from the "Ideas, Ethical Ideals, and Museum Practice in North American Archaeological Collections" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The federal government is responsible for a huge amount of archaeological collections in the United States, and yet not all of these collections are housed in federally compliant repositories, while many collections are not even known to exist by the agency. But whose problem is this—the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joyce LeCompte. Jennie Deo Shaw. Warren King George.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2019, Willamette Cultural Resources Associates identified a diffuse and deeply buried archaeological site on the Green River, south of Seattle, Washington during construction monitoring of a large levee replacement project. The site is in close proximity to ćabćabtac, or “red elderberry place.” Macrobotanical analysis indicates that the site was used...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph (Jay) Waller, Jr..

This is an abstract from the "Power to the People: Cultural Resource Investigations along Utility Lines Giving a Voice to Past and Present Communities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Block Island Wind Farm, the nation’s first offshore wind project, was the first in a series of significant renewable energy projects proposed along the southern New England coast. At only five wind turbines, the Project served as a unique pilot study that required...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melanie Mayhew.

This is an abstract from the "*SE Stakes and Stones: Current Archaeological Approaches to Fish Weir Research" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pennsylvania has over 80,000 miles of streams and rivers. A project by the author to identify V-shaped stone fish weirs in this state has yielded over 280 structures using an array of data sources. Many of these weirs occur on the Susquehanna River and its tributaries, which drain into the Chesapeake Bay....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Héloïg Barbel Le Page.

This is an abstract from the "Current Research and Challenges in Arctic and Subarctic Cultural Heritage Studies" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation discusses archaeological research that is intended to create a space for the inhabitants to reconnect with their material heritage on the land. The project took place in the Nain region (Nunatsiavut, Labrador, Canada) in 2021 and 2022. It contributed to the Nunatsiavut Government policies...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jay Stephens. David Killick. Shadreck Chirikure.

This is an abstract from the "Geological and Technological Contributions to the Interpretation of Radiogenic Isotope Data" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tin and copper ores around Rooiberg, South Africa, were exploited from 1000–1300 CE until about 1840. Geologists estimated that around 1,000 tons of the tin mineral cassiterite, equivalent to 792 tons of metallic tin, were mined there. Archaeological survey showed only a small amount of evidence...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nichole Fournier. Jelmer Eerkens. Tammy Buonasera. Glendon Parker. Monica Arellano.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study explores the demographic profile of a Middle and Late Period juvenile burial assemblage from a San Francisco Bay Area site, CA-ALA-329 (bearing the Muwekma Ohlone name of Mánni Muwékma Kúksú Hóowok Yatiš Túnnešte-tka, or Place Where the People of the Kúksú (Bighead) Pendants are Buried). Sex-ratio was established using a proteomics...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Green.

This is an abstract from the "States, Confederacies, and Nations: Reenvisioning Early Large-Scale Collectives." session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. By 2600 BC, the first cities had emerged in South Asia. Expansive and dynamic, the Indus civilization prompted the growth of massive settlements like Mohenjo-daro in Pakistan and Rakhigarhi in India. Both cities were part of a prosperous agropastoral economy that supported the invention of writing,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Angela Neller.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Sovereign nations have cultural edicts that they expect of participants when it comes to matters of repatriation. This poster explores paths taken to manage cultural requests of practitioners in the repatriation process. We will provide scenarios experienced by ourselves and how we respectfully implement tribal cultural requests.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julie Lierenz. Robert Cook. Aaron Comstock. Arvind Nair. Sara Polk.

This is an abstract from the "Improving and Decolonizing Precontact Legacy Collections with Fieldwork: Making Sense of Harvard’s Turpin Site Expedition (Ohio)" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many early professional archaeological investigations in the Ohio River Valley resulted in legacy collections lacking in a variety of ways. The Turpin site, excavated by Harvard University in the late nineteenth century, is an early Fort Ancient village...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Thompson. Adrian Chase.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Property Regimes" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The role that governance and property regimes play in the everyday life of citizens is something we grapple with, actively or passively, every day. In the archaeological record, these topics often prove challenging to evaluate without written records. However, using robust survey data from settlements and civic-ceremonial/administrative architecture...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberly Redman. David Guilfoyle.

This is an abstract from the "Democratizing Heritage Creation: How-To and When" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Within CRM, completing public outreach as part of a mitigation program is common practice. Public outreach is an important mechanism to engage the public, but generally centers on archaeologists educating the mainstream public through books, fliers, signs, and videos. For the CDOT 550/160 Interchange Project, the consulting parties agreed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marie Hopwood.

This is an abstract from the "Experimental Pedagogies: Teaching through Experimental Archaeology Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As a unique category of socially charged material culture, beer has origins stretching back to people’s first obsession with wild grain. The deep time prehistory of beer coupled with the unique role of its psychoactive properties makes it a compelling bridge between academic archaeology and the public, allowing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gideon Shelach-Lavi.

This is an abstract from the "Steppe by Steppe: Advances in the Archaeology of Eastern Eurasia" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We report on the work done in Eastern Mongolia on walls, linear barriers contracted between the tenth and thirteenth centuries AD. Our project includes remote sensing, surveys, and excavations.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Morgan Clark.

This is an abstract from the "The Rollout Keepers: Papers on Maya Ceramic Texts, Scenes, and Styles in Honor of Justin and Barbara Kerr" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper investigates the relationship between Classic Maya text, imagery, and genre when quoted speech is introduced. Quotes can be attributed to speakers through “speech scrolls,” the quotative evidential particle, or the verb meaning “say.” When the latter two are used, they...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hayley Malloy. Alicia Paresi.

This is an abstract from the "Storeroom Taphonomies: Site Formation in the Archaeological Archive" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological collections and their perpetual care allow archaeologists an opportunity to right wrongs and revisit interpretations of site formation and identity. Looking at past methodologies through our twenty-first-century professional standards allows for a more objective review of both field and post-field...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mitch Hendrickson. Quan Hua. Stépanie Leroy. Shuhui Cai. Emmanuelle Delque-Kolic.

This is an abstract from the "The Current State of Archaeological Research across Southeast Asia" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Phnom Dek metallurgical landscape represents the single largest iron smelting region in mainland Southeast Asia. Located 100 km east of Angkor in central Cambodia, our surveys have identified over 20 production sites and a total of 150 individual slag mounds active between the sixth and twentieth centuries. Iron...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christina Youngpeter. Erin Benson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Stemler Site (11S1754), a small Mississippian settlement in the American Bottom, was occupied during the Late Stirling and Early Moorehead Phases (ca. AD 1150-1275), as the population at Cahokia and the broader region was decreasing. It has been theorized that an over-reliance upon maize (Zea mays) led to the dispersal of people from and collapse at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Teresa Wriston. JD Lancaster. Jillian Maloney. James Futty Jr.. Loren Davis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) manages the Willamette Valley Project, a system of thirteen dams and associated reservoirs in the Willamette River Basin, Oregon. Environmental settings of these thirteen project areas vary by elevation, substrate, vegetation, and other characteristics, but all are located along major rivers draining into the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sissel Schroeder. Tamara Thomsen.

This is an abstract from the "What’s Canoe? Recent Research on Dugouts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Efforts to trace 80 dugout canoes reported from Wisconsin resulted in the identification and documentation of more than 66 and the recognition that six had been destroyed or lost. Wisconsin dugouts range in age from 4,000 years old to the early twentieth century. Dugouts were made from a variety of types of wood and those that date to the last...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Ridge. Danielle Riebe. Attila Gyucha. William Parkinson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The expanded availability and use of radiocarbon dating by archaeologists has significantly reshaped the understanding of longstanding prehistoric narratives. These advances have also challenged the cultural-historic notion of archaeological cultures that have dominated research for over a century. In this paper, we examine recently collected radiocarbon...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jaime Donta. F. Timothy Barker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Anthony Farmstead (SOM.HA.4) in Somerset, Bristol County, Massachusetts, was established in 1757 and passed father-to-son through multiple generations of a prosperous New England Yankee family until the mid-nineteenth century, when the property was rented out to tenants. The longest tenant occupation of the property was by a young Irish immigrant...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Watson.

This is an abstract from the "Underwater Maya: Analytical Approaches for Interpreting Ancient Maya Activities at the Paynes Creek Salt Works, Belize" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Witz Naab and Killer Bee mounds are some of the few remaining onshore remnants of the Paynes Creek salt works. In this presentation, we will reexamine the interpretations of two salt mounds at the Paynes Creek Salt works. These excavations are part of a larger NSF...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ángel Sánchez Gamboa. Esther Parpal Cabanes.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Investigations in Chiapas, Mexico" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. New hieroglyphic and iconographic evidence allows us to preliminary reconstruct women’s political hierarchy inside Tonina’s royal court during the Late Classic period. As it is well known, parentage statements are very scarce in the inscriptions of Tonina and limited to maternal ancestry. Aside from the importance of local female...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Nassaney. Erika Hartley.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Colonial Archaeological Research in the American Midcontinent" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Forts and fur trading posts conjure images of intrepid soldiers and jovial voyageurs engaged in masculine activities that implicated material objects like firearms, ammunition, smoking pipes, alcohol containers, and trade goods. Male colonial ambitions also structured many of the accounts that persist into the present....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sandra Hollimon.

This is an abstract from the "AD 1150 to the Present: Ancient Political Economy to Contemporary Materiality—Archaeological Anthropology in Honor of Jeanne E. Arnold" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Employing theoretical and interpretive frameworks influenced by the research of Jeanne E. Arnold, I examine the roles of women in the ritual organizations of these two Native California cultures. I address the antiquity of these ritual systems and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sigrid Arnott. David Maki.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Colonial Archaeological Research in the American Midcontinent" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dakota and then Anishinaabeg women were central figures in water-based travel cycles in an annual round directed by plant, animal, and river relations within the Woodland Tradition. Portages, including Women's Portages, are material records of Indigenous women's labor before, during, and after the Fur Trade in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Catherine Jalbert. John Hall.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Jicarilla Apache Nation (JAN) reservation was established in Northern New Mexico in 1887 with additional lands added to the southern boundary in 1907-08. Today, the reservation comprises approximately 879,917-acres of pinyon-juniper uplands and sagebrush flats in lower elevations. Prior to the establishment of the JAN reservation, these lands comprised...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Neill Wallis. James Dunbar.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Civic-ceremonial centers first emerged in the American Southeast near the Gulf of Mexico ca. AD 200–400 and served a dual purpose as home to resident villagers and as a place of ceremonial gatherings featuring feasts, mortuary rituals, and mound construction. Over the past decade, archaeologists have learned that some of these sites began as “vacant”...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madeleine Fyles.

This is an abstract from the "Bridging Time, Space, and Species: Over 20 Years of Archaeological Insights from the Cañoncillo Complex, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru, Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Wooden posts have been a critical element of Andean architecture within the Jequetepeque valley on the north coast of Peru, particularly in the Moche site of Huaca Colorada (AD 650–850). However, wooden posts have frequently been interpreted in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Alperstein. Jesse Casana. Carolin Ferwerda. Madeleine McLeester. Nathaniel Kitchel.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The general absence of Woodland village sites within New England’s archaeological record has generated considerable debate and varied interpretations of past Indigenous subsistence-settlement strategies. In Northern New England, scholarship suggests this area was dominated by hunter-gatherers until the arrival of Europeans, indicating sedentary villages...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlos Silva Carvalho. Cameron Ashford Privette. Lauren Reinman. Katie Zejdlik. Zsolt Nyárádi.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Parker-Pearson’s (1999) oft cited phrase, “the dead do not bury themselves,” has led to decades of broad investigation surrounding the created social perception of an individual in different contexts and at different scales (family, military, celebrity). However, little research exists on the last individual to physically place the dead. Gravediggers have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marcos Llobera.

This is an abstract from the "Developments and Challenges in Landscape Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation focuses on an ongoing project aimed at the development a new set of methods (in the way of a python package) that will enable the analysis of 3D Scenes. This open source package will provide the tools to be able to render and combine digital terrain models (DTM) with 3D objects generated through photogrammetry or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yifan Wang.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The interactions among organisms along with environmental factors in non-Western cultures, require to be re-examined since Western humanity-nature binary explanations fail to take into account indigenous ontologies. In the title, I prioritize environment among these three objects because I want to demonstrate that it is a prerequisite, helping shape the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only María Nieves Zedeño. Francois Lanoe.

This is an abstract from the "Magic, Spirits, Shamanism, and Trance" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We combine archaeology, oral history, and ethnography to argue for the epistemological power of visions and their complementary role—along with ontology and ordering schemes—in the fabric of Native American philosophies and practices. Waking visions and dreams are central to the long-term cultural history of Plains people. Among the Blackfoot, for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fernando Astudillo. Martina Almeida. Juan Camilo Argoti.

This is an abstract from the "Social Archaeologies and Islands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the early years of World War II, the US government began actions to protect one of its most important investments in America, the Panama Canal. During the late 1930s, the US Navy and Army built several military bases along the Pacific coast of Central and South America to defend the canal zone. The Galápagos Islands were selected to build a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lewis Borck.

This is an abstract from the "In Defense of Everything! Constructive Engagements with Graeber and Wengrow’s Provocative Contribution" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For many, *The Dawn of Everything* emerges as a watershed moment in their perception of a new history, how that history impacts the present, and the implications these cast on the future. For others, it is a brazenly biased distortion of history. For still more, the book creates waves...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Liam Neill. Michael Slack.

This is an abstract from the "Juukan Gorge: The Story of Destruction, Excavation and Rebuilding" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 2022 a team of archaeologists in collaboration with the PKK People has been re-excavating the Juukan 2 site. Under the rubble of the blast, we have found an in situ cultural deposit with largely intact material culture. This paper describes the process and methodology we have used to find this delicate sedimentary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vaughn Ortner. Marie-Claude Boileau.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For decades, scientific approaches have acted as a cornerstone to the processes used by archaeologists to answer questions about past societies. However, just under a century ago, the integration of archaeological science into the wider discipline was undergoing its early steps. One formative series of research projects during this period included those...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Seth Mallios. Shannon Farnsworth.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. When U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt formed the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 by as part of the New Deal, his goal of rescuing the United States from the Great Depression was predicated on the creation of a flurry of new jobs that resulted in extensive public infrastructure as well as providing money for those skilled in the arts. One...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carmen Ramos Osnaya. Emma Bardi. Bruno García González. José Luis Punzo Díaz.

This is an abstract from the "Looking to the West: New insights into Postclassic Archaeology in Michoacán" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the prehispanic city of Tzintzuntzan there are architectural elements that form the main ceremonial center of the last capital of the Tarascan Empire. The best known are the yácatas, monumental pyramids of a mixed plan built on the Great Platform, characteristics of the Purhépecha culture. Used by the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Juliette Testard. Claudia Alvarado Leon.

This is an abstract from the "Interactions during the Epiclassic and Early Postclassic (AD 650–1100) in the Central Highlands: New Insights from Material and Visual Culture" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the 1950s, Xochicalco (Morelos) and Teotenango (state of Mexico) have been constantly compared and assumed as two Epiclassic cities. The hypothesis of their contemporaneity and interaction is derived from their similarities in terms of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mari Carmen Serra Puche.

This is an abstract from the "Ancient Mesoamerican and Andean Cities: Old Debates, New Perspectives" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El tema del abandono de las ciudades arqueológicas, se ha tratado en muchos estudios, pero en este caso la particularidad es el “retorno”, en Xochitecatl-Cacaxtla se identifican dos periodos de ocupación, el primero de 800 aC a 200 dC, y el segundo del año 650 dC al 950 dC. La causa del primer abandono fue la erupción...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jerald Ek. Sam Barr. Beatrice Franke. Tayna Greene. Kerry Lyste.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The x̌ʷiq̓ʷix̌ʷalqʷuʔ project is a partnership between the Stillaguamish Tribe Cultural Resources Department and the Department of Anthropology at Western Washington University designed to reorient archaeological practice to address the concerns of Indigenous communities. Implementing a community-based participatory framework, the program seeks to decenter...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel A. Ponciano Diaz. Gabriel Prieto.

This is an abstract from the "Past Human-Shark Interactions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Shark fisheries were an important economic activity carried out by small-scale maritime communities in the prehispanic Andean coast since at least the second millennium BC. New evidence found in Huanchaco, north coast of Peru, suggests that during the fifth and seventh centuries of our era, sharks became an essential source of proteins in the daily diet and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kurly Tlapoyawa.

This is an abstract from the "Bringing the Past to Life, Part 2: Papers in Honor of John M. D. Pohl" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mesoamerican contributions to the state of New Mexico are often overlooked within mainstream “hispano” historical narratives. What little information is shared is usually relegated to trade routes and modes of exchange during the prehistoric period. The European invasion and subsequent colonization of New Mexico saw...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aimée Little. Andy Needham. Gareth Perry. Jessica Bates. Andrew Langley.

This is an abstract from the "Experimental Pedagogies: Teaching through Experimental Archaeology Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In recent years, since the development of our outdoor experimental archaeology “lab” (York Experimental Archaeological Research “YEAR” Centre, University of York) we have designed a series of modules that place experiential learning at the center of pedagogical practice. Such is the success of these modules we now...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathleen Wheeler.

This is an abstract from the "Building Bridges: Papers in Honor of Teresita Majewski" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Northern New England has a rich and lengthy postcontact occupation history. New England archaeologists, historians, and SHPOs long focused on the “First” periods of settlement, such as seventeenth-century forts and eighteenth-century maritime sites, while nineteenth-century resources were dismissed. As Terry’s first PhD student, I...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Milton.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. How many water samples are Kenough? If you are Ken-fused about how to make your own, robust isotopic reference dataset for archaeological questions, this poster is for you. My job is baseline. At the beach, in the mountains––and everything in between. This poster reflects seven years of Ken-curious environmental isotopic sampling in the western Central...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aubree Marshall.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dental calculus (DC), the mineralized plaque or tartar on a tooth’s surface, is formed and fossilized during life. Foodstuffs and medicinal plants that people interact with in life can be caught in the DC matrix. Because DC fossilizes during life, researchers can decalcify DC and analyze the microbotanicals, proteins, and aDNA trapped inside....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara McGuire. Christine France. Jared Beatrice.

This is an abstract from the "The Arch Street Project: Multidisciplinary Research of a Philadelphia Cemetery" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Revolutionary War was a crucial turning point in American history, as the thirteen British colonies broke with England and established themselves as an independent nation. This research takes a biocultural approach to explore the impact of these dynamic changes at the individual scale in terms of resource...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jesse Dalton. F. Kent Reilly III.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The iconographic corpus of the Taino cultures has been the focus of recent scholarship, yet as a whole remains understudied within Caribbean archaeology. Scholars in the past attempted to demonstrably link the Taino to the Late Postclassic Maya with limited success. However, Yucatecan influences are evident within the spatial layout of Taino ceremonial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Mogauro. Hannah Lau. Daniel Cusimano. Alexis Boutin. Benjamin Porter.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project analyzes zooarchaeological remains from the late third to early second millennium mortuary complex at Sar El-Jisr, Bahrain. The assemblage is a legacy collection and its analysis will expand on previous research of the Dilmun burial complex, and furthers our understanding of Dilmun as a sociopolitical entity. These implications are relevant at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madeline Jennings. Miriam Belmaker. Laura Stelson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Limited research has been done concerning the zooarchaeological evidence for specific subsistence patterns of Amalik Bay, Alaska. Excavation and survey of the Amalik Bay, Alaska, conducted in 2008, 2021, and 2022 recovered faunal remains associated with cultural materials from sites XMK-00020, XMK-00028, and XMK-00001 thought to have origins in the Takli...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nawa Sugiyama. Yen-Shin T. Hsu. Edsel Rafael Robles Martínez.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeogastronomy: Grocery Lists as Seen from a Multidimensional Perspective" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Offering D1 represents the residue of an extravagant feast, involving a plethora of artifacts, over 25,000 ceramic fragments, and more than 50,000 animal bones ceremoniously “killed” and discarded in a pit excavated in an old plaza floor. We present the zooarchaeological report of this assemblage, focusing on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jocelyn Valadez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. I present an analysis of zooarchaeological remains recovered from the 2022 New Mexico State University Archaeological Field School directed by Dr. Kelly Jenks and a 1946 University of New Mexico Archaeological Field School directed by Dr. Paul Reiter at the ancestral frontier settlement of San Miguel de Carnué, occupied AD 1763-1771 in Tijeras Canyon, east...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen B. Carmody. Lydia Carmody. Simonetta Menchelli. Ellie Shields. Madisen James.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ancient Roman harbor of Vada Volaterrana was supported by a network of structures immediately surrounding the port at Vada's San Gaetano site. A 2015 GPR survey identified a series of rectangular buildings of unknown purpose in the southern sector of this site whose subsequent excavation produced several botanical and faunal remains. In 2019, a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian Roa. Ashley Sharpe. Claire Ebert. Julie Hoggarth.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Animals played a fundamental role in mythology and religion among the ancestral Maya. Iconography often depicts animals, including humans dressed as animals, taking part in feasts and ceremonial performances. Archaeologically, the remains of these important animals are recovered from ritual contexts such as burials, altars, caches, and other special...