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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Muller.

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. Acknowledgment of the educational value of pathological conditions in human cadavers prompted scholars of anatomy and anthropology to partition bodily tissues of the dissected among their colleagues. This scientific network of shared body parts, for the purpose of specialized study, segregated the divisible body into...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Rockwell.

This is an abstract from the "American Foragers: Human-Environmental Interactions across the Continents" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists have been examining and publishing on the fluted point period for over a century. However, the northeastern United States has received comparably less attention from the professional discipline, with one colleague describing prehistoric archaeology in New England as an archaeological backwater. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia Ayala.

This is an abstract from the "Politics of Heritage Values: How Archaeologists Deal with Place, Social Memories, Identities, and Socioeconomics" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the nineteenth century, the inhabitants of the Atacama Desert have coexisted with collecting, heritage, and museum practices. Since the late twentieth century, Atacama communities have confronted archaeology and museums over the significance, ownership, and rights over...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Yoon.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Compared to most other archaeological artifacts, coins contain a large amount of information relating directly to political administration. Spatial patterns in this information should provide a way to see how processes of political power operated in practice. Using information on early medieval coin finds in the Iberian Peninsula, it can be seen that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward Knell. Erik Otárola-Castillo. Matthew Hill.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Prior univariate and multivariate morphometric analysis of Paleoindian age Lake Mohave and Silver Lake projectile points from the Mojave Desert, California, revealed these types are distinguishable 80% of the time. Building on the prior study, we use landmark-based Geometric Morphometric (LGM) analyses and complementary non-LGM variables to assess whether...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aviva Cormier. Jane Buikstra.

This is an abstract from the "The Bioarchaeology of the Phaleron Cemetery, Archaic Greece: Current Research and Insights" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Phaleron cemetery is most well-known for the archaic burials of 79 young men who had been shackled, probably violently executed, and interred in three trenches. However, there are 80 additional individuals whose mortuary contexts fall outside expected forms, now categorized as “distinctive,”...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Percy Hei Chun Ho. Kristine Richter. Ryan Kennedy. Christina Warinner.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Cervidae family has long been central to societies throughout history, whether as venison meat or raw materials, as gifts from long-distance trades, and as trophies in ceremonial acts. However, species-level cervid exploitation and management remain underexplored due to identification difficulties from other sympatric cervids and bovids. Prior research...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karin Larkin. Kaitlyn Davis.

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. Archaeological practice has benefited from including diverse stakeholders in the production of narratives around heritage, which can result in democratizing heritage creation. If done well, it can lead to a more democratic production of knowledge around heritage. Democratization heritage production involves shifting power dynamics in who...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Roberto Herrera. Francisco Corrales-Ulloa.

This is an abstract from the "Centralizing Central America: New Evidence, Fresh Perspectives, and Working on New Paradigms" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Southern Central American archaeology is a rich tapestry of variation that makes the task of discerning distinctions and commonalities a difficult one, hindered by a lack of systematic research, particularly in southern Costa Rica. This study offers initial findings from recent fieldwork...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tomos Evans.

This is an abstract from the "Taphonomy in Focus: Current Approaches to Site Formation and Social Stratigraphy" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Ìjẹ̀bú Kingdom (southern Nigeria) was for centuries involved in far-reaching trade networks – with the inland and coastal Yorùbá ìlú (city-states), European merchants from various nations, and eventually the British Lagos Colony following its establishment in 1862. During this period, the Ìjẹ̀bú...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Reid.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Eagle Nest Canyon, Texas: Papers in Honor of Jack and Wilmuth Skiles" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Skiles Collection, named for landowner Jack Skiles, consists of Indigenous, Euro-American, and Asian-American cultural material from the Lower Pecos Canyonlands Archaeological region. Beginning in the late 1930s, the Skiles Family amassed an exceptional collection of cultural material...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Hynes.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. An artifact without associated documentation has limited archaeological value. Yet the need or desire for analysts and authors to retain associated documentation beyond the deposit of artifacts commonly results in the failure to transmit this essential part of the collection to the repository where the artifacts live. With the increase of born-digital...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Jensen. Jacob Freeman.

This is an abstract from the "Global Perspectives on Human Population Dynamics, Innovation, and Ecosystem Change" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A critical question raised by 20 years of intensive archaeological research is: What processes drive the long-term expansion and rapid recession of human populations? In this poster, we test the hypothesis that variation in the violence of long-term population expansion and recession is caused by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Haylee Backs. Laura Masur.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Plantations in the Southern United States functioned on a system of power over enslaved Africans that is reflected in the material culture of daily life. Zooarchaeological analysis of the fauna from St. Inigoes plantation in St. Mary’s County Maryland provides insight into what everybody on the plantation was eating, and the work enslaved peoples performed...

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

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent fieldwork has investigated the Late Classic and Postclassic occupation at the floodplain site of Río Viejo in Oaxaca, Mexico. The residential features uncovered detailed domestic life in the settlement after political decentralization. Though causal factors for the Late Classic political decline at Río Viejo are yet to be confirmed, archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Robinson. Keith Prufer. Nadia Neff. Richard George. Douglas Kennett.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeobotany of Early Peopling: Plant Experimentation and Cultural Inheritance" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Discussions on the peopling of the tropics have tended to characterize tropical forests as barriers to early human foragers due to the difficulties in obtaining sufficient nutrition from hunting and foraging activities. New research on these pioneering settlers is transforming our understanding of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Evelyn Chan. Timothy Pugh. Kevin Schwarz.

This is an abstract from the "Hydro-Ecological System of the Maya in Petén, Guatemala" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A recent lidar survey of the Petén Lakes in Petén, Guatemala, has confirmed landscape modifications suggested by previous research and revealed new evidence of water management and settlement placement. Influenced by Joel Palka’s recent work among the Lacandon Maya, we consider domesticated waterscape features such as canals and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Spengler.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Failure" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The origins of agriculture have long been depicted as one of the greatest innovations of humanity, a humanist approach that rose to prominence in archaeology during the latter half of the twentieth century. During this time, a wide range of push and pull models for the origins of agriculture were developed, all of which were formulated as responses to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Simone Tripoli. Nam Kim.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Dong Son culture (c. 700 BCE to 200 AD), at its simplest, is a collection of a group of sites and artifacts that are characteristic of a particular group or region in northern Vietnam. Their most defining characteristics are their burial practices (i.e., the boat coffins) and their sophisticated bronze tradition seen from artifacts like weapons (i.e.,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Ryan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Dorset PalaeoInuit (Tuniit in Inuit traditional knowledge) are a culturally extinct group who lived throughout much of the eastern North American Arctic between about 2500 and 700 years ago. They are best known for their art, primarily two- and three-dimensional carvings, which range from highly naturalistic to highly abstract. Ubiquitous amongst the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Blomster.

This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse II: Current Research in Oaxaca Part 2" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Figurines, as small, portable anthropomorphic and zoomorphic ceramic images, provide insights into a range of representational and symbolic concepts of the ancient Mesoamericans who created and interacted with them. Figurines have been interpreted as actively deployed in household rituals and social negotiations, as well as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Richards.

This is an abstract from the "There and Back Again: Celebrating the Career and Ongoing Contributions of Patricia B. Richards" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper illustrates how Milwaukee County institutions' relationships with commercial, social, and religious enterprises, particularly those involving the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemeteries (MCPFC), were reflected in contemporary written accounts. Further, it examines how archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Lewis.

This is an abstract from the "Cultivating Food, Land, and Communities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, I present case studies in reconstructing traditional Indigenous landscapes of the Willamette Valley, involving the removal of Indigenous stewardship, imposing settler agriculture, and draining wetlands in the valley. The environmental reconstruction of settler changes made to these land and water systems provides information about...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Jacobs. Hope Loiselle. Alexandra Fraik. Ross Salerno. Molly Carney.

This is an abstract from the "Cultivating Food, Land, and Communities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recovery plans and goals for Pacific northwest salmon, trout, and char (Oncorhynchus spp., Salmonidae) seek to conserve and restore these keystone species throughout the Salish Sea and its watersheds. Archaeological data offer a window into past Salmonidae life-histories and can provide a long-term record of the species and their relative...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Werner. Flannery Surette.

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. The first ostrich eggshell beads appeared across parts of Africa 50 ka and represent one of the earliest forms of ornamentation. Far from being uniform, research shows differences in bead diameter which cluster regionally and chronologically. These clusters are thought to represent distinct bead making traditions...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ekaterina Menkina. Scott Macrae. Vo Thi Phuong Thuy. Le Ngoc Han.

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 drone-imagery sub project uses drone based aerial photography and photogrammetry to document the water gates, walls, enclosures, canals, and shrines of Hoa Lu, supplementary to the IRAW@HoaLu settlement and survey research. Amidst the urban-landscape development, the cultural and natural features are subject to time....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michelle Slaughter.

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. The Dry, an early twentieth-century Black homesteading community, offers a long-lasting example of collaborative public archaeology. Thanks to generous grant funding, we practiced inclusive teaming with the descendant population, from project conception through every stage of our work, even beyond completion of the project. The extent and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Garnett.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Perishable Weaponry Studies: Developing Perspectives from Dated Contexts to Experimental Analyses" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Changes in weapon technologies are likely to affect many social dimensions. Understanding a society’s weaponry is critical for making inferences not only about hunting but also how these groups engaged in conflict. The role of spearthrowers and darts in hunting is becoming...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra Biar.

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. In a cultural area where geography conspires against ease of exchange, Mesoamerican societies discovered technical answers adapted to their needs. At a time when the exchange of merchandise and goods relied mainly on human transport, some civilizations such as the Olmecs, Mayas, and Mexicas turned to accessible, high-performance waterways....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn Baustian. Claira Ralston. Debra Martin. Maryann Hobbs.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The definition of violence is unique to all societies. Violent behavior is thus recognized in myriad ways and observing it in past societies demands consideration of many forms of evidence. Interpreting individual roles in systems of violence requires that we look beyond weaponry, site destruction, male warrior burials, and lethal injuries. Our perception...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ioana Dumitru. Wolfgang Alders.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. With over forty percent of the global population residing within 100 kilometers of a coastline, coastal regions stand at the forefront of the climate breakdown. This paper adopts a diachronic approach to investigate how Swahili coastal communities, who inhabited the northern Tanzanian coasts from the late 6th to the 19th centuries CE, adapted to a spectrum...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diane Slocum. Patricia McAnany. Iván Batún-Alpuche.

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. The focus of archaeological work has shifted in recent decades to collaborative frameworks that allow for sharing of knowledge production among local and descendent communities. Drawing on the work of Laurajane Smith, we argue that recognizing heritage as a dynamic social process rather than exclusively an artifact or archaeological site...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jie Shen.

This is an abstract from the "Resources and Society in Ancient China" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Oracle bone divination, an ancient East Asian practice for predicting the future, originated in northwestern China during the middle Neolithic period (5000–3000 BCE) and ultimately became a prominent ritual during the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age. Its influence reached the Korean Peninsula and Japanese archipelago around 500 BC, potentially...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Black. David Kilby.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Eagle Nest Canyon, Texas: Papers in Honor of Jack and Wilmuth Skiles" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Eagle Nest Canyon joins the Rio Grande at Langtry, Texas, in the western Lower Pecos Canyonlands. Despite its relatively short length, this storied box canyon contains a dense archaeological record representing at least thirteen millennia of human activity and has seen intermittent archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Keith Prufer. Dolores Piperno. Nadia Neff. Mark Robinson. Douglas Kennett.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeobotany of Early Peopling: Plant Experimentation and Cultural Inheritance" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite a century of research into the lives and diets of the northern neotropics’ earliest populations, our understanding of food production and consumption and its impact on diet quality remains relatively impoverished. We present a first view of data generated from archaeological sites in the Maya...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aurelie Manin. Isaac Barrientos. Karine Lefebvre.

This is an abstract from the "The Columbian Exchange Revisited: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on Eurasian Domesticates in the Americas" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The massive introduction of European animals in what is today Mexico started in 1519 and historical documents attest for the rapid spread of livestock, in particular cattle, in the vast plains of the Altiplano that helped colonize the lands. Yet, there is a lack of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicole Houck.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In June 2023, archaeologists and volunteers from the Drayton Hall Preservation Trust conducted a two-day limited data recovery at a private residence along Charleston’s historic Battery. The lot, impacted by both Civil War bombardment and the 1886 earthquake, holds significance as the current house was built by a Drayton descendant in the 1880s. Located...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Martijn Van Den Bel.

This is an abstract from the "Coloring Outside the Lines: Re-situating Understandings of the Lifeways of Earliest Peoples of the Circum-Caribbean" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ancient ceramics (beyond 2000 BC) have been found in the western part of the Guianas, notably in the coastal swamp areas of Guyana from the 1950s onward (Alaka). They are also known from the Courantyne River in Suriname (Kauri) and have only recently come to light in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Taylor. Juan Bautista Belardi.

This is an abstract from the "The Columbian Exchange Revisited: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on Eurasian Domesticates in the Americas" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The introduction of domestic horses following Spanish colonization transformed Indigenous societies across the grasslands of Argentina, leading to the emergence of specialized horse cultures across the Southern Cone. However, the relatively late establishment of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Domenique Sorresso.

This is an abstract from the "Ceramic Petrographers in the Americas: Recent Research and Methodological Advances" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the southeastern United States, the genesis of Mississippian societies circa AD 1000 is often referred as Mississippianization, or the process whereby regions were incorporating general Mississippian traits. This process involved the spread of a broad cultural horizon that influenced many aspects of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jesse Tune. Sonya McGruire.

This is an abstract from the "American Foragers: Human-Environmental Interactions across the Continents" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The timing and process of initial human colonization of the Americas has been at the forefront of archaeological inquiry for more than a century. Today we have moved beyond simply asking “when?” and “from where?” did the first Americans arrive and are now able to investigate more nuanced questions about what life...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Francis Allard.

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. Well before the establishment—during the last two centuries BCE—of a “Maritime Silk Route” linking China to maritime lands to its south, archaeological evidence indicates the existence of wide-ranging links between coastal regions of the South China Sea. By the fifth century BCE, different types of goods moved along...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jason Ur.

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. The “early states” of ancient Mesopotamia are factoids and straw men. Mesopotamia appears in textbooks as the prime example of the world’s earliest pristine states, and the flourishing of recent scholarship on the variability of other centralized large polities has often been via the juxtaposition of that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenichiro Tsukamoto. Octavio Esparza Olguín. Daniel Salazar Lama. Luz Evelia Campaña Valenzuela. Adriana Velázquez Morlet.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El Palmar has garnered considerable attention from researchers, primarily due to its numerous carved monuments. In 1936, Sir Eric Thompson’s exploration initially reported 44 stelae and several altars at its Main Group. However, despite sporadic studies conducted by Tatiana Proskouriakoff and others in subsequent decades, systematic research was lacking,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Reniel Rodriguez Ramos.

This is an abstract from the "Coloring Outside the Lines: Re-situating Understandings of the Lifeways of Earliest Peoples of the Circum-Caribbean" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent excavations conducted in three cave sites in north-central Puerto Rico have revealed that human occupation of the mountainous interior of the island took place much earlier than previously thought. The available evidence, recovered from Cueva del Abono, Cueva Matos,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Dersam. Sari Dersam.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The use of high-elevation ecosystems by Early Paleoindian cultures using a Clovis-Techno complex has been known for decades. The earliest uses of North American mountain ecosystems have been hypothesized as transient forays by small groups focused on raw material acquisition and limited supplemental hunting. Between 2021 and 2023, the BEAAR Project...

DOCUMENT Citation Only S. Anna Florin. Andrew Fairbairn. May Nango. Djaykuk Djandjomerr. Chris Clarkson.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeobotany of Early Peopling: Plant Experimentation and Cultural Inheritance" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A broad spectrum diet, including the exploitation of a variety of wild plant foods, has historically been considered a pre-cursor to the origins of agriculture. However, increasing evidence globally points to the use of a range of plant foods, including seeds and underground storage organs, by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vasiliki Koutrafouri. Scott Van Keuren. Jonah Steinberg.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Roma people, whose ancestors and language come from India, form a major community in all countries of Europe and are often referred to as “Europe’s largest minority.” Greece is distinctly central in Romani history, as Greek profoundly impacted the Romani language, and it was in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries that settlements in the Peloponnese,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine A. Hastorf. Maria Bruno. Alejandra Domic. José Capriles.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeobotany of Early Peopling: Plant Experimentation and Cultural Inheritance" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture initiated fundamental changes in the way people interacted with plant communities in areas beyond their places of origin. The South American Andes is one domestication center that provided two of the world’s most important crops: potatoes and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sonia Archila Montanez. Martha Mejía Cano.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeobotany of Early Peopling: Plant Experimentation and Cultural Inheritance" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper we discuss the importance of high-altitude tubers to early peopling of northern Andean area of South America and their role in the colonization of environments like Bogota plain that resulted in different ways of inhabiting and transforming the region during the early and middle Holocene....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Koenig.

This is an abstract from the "Experimental Pedagogies: Teaching through Experimental Archaeology Part II" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The durable remains of earth oven construction—namely, fire-cracked rock (FCR)—lack the same tactile connection to the past as lithic or ceramic artifacts. However, constructing experimental earth ovens provides an immersive experience where students, researchers, and the general public can gain a better...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sadie Weber.

This is an abstract from the "Chavín de Huántar’s Contribution to Understanding the Central Andean Formative: Results and Perspectives" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents the cumulative findings, to date, of ongoing microbotanical analyses carried with the aim of interpreting internal and external interactions from diverse contexts at Chavín de Huántar. Since microbotanical analysis offers us a view into the production and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Briggs. Heather Lapham.

This is an abstract from the "The Columbian Exchange Revisited: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on Eurasian Domesticates in the Americas" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There is no one way that European domesticates were understood by Indigenous groups throughout North America. In the American Southeast, Spanish explorers and colonists introduced peaches, watermelons, and pigs during the sixteenth century, yet only peaches and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Krish Seetah.

This is an abstract from the "Islands around Africa: State-of-the-Art and Future Directions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The colonization of Mauritius exemplifies the role played by humans in altering the ecosystems of remote islands. Previously uninhabited, it now has the highest population density of any African nation, and despite scant natural resources, also has one of the continent’s highest GDPs. Mauritius serves as an ideal case study...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nysa Loudon.

This is an abstract from the "The Ties That Bind: Cordage, Its Sources, and the Artifacts of Its Creation and Use" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Within the last 30 years of ancient textile and cordage research, new and revisited archaeological evidence and ethnographic studies have shown that prehistoric people in Europe were using a wider range of plant species to produce cordage, netting, mats, and textiles than previously thought. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maureen Meyers.

This is an abstract from the "*SE The State of Theory in Southeastern Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although studies of household economies in archaeology are abundant one area that has not been examined is the economic use of materials, space, and labor and how this affects household economy and organization. Understanding how culture define thrift and waste would help us understand household economies more precisely. Related, many...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Belcher. LuAnn Wandsnider. Ella Axelrod. Gargi Jani. Koel Mukherjee.

This is an abstract from the "Fulfilling a Nation’s Promise: The Search, Recovery, and Accounting Efforts of DPAA and Its Partners" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Stratigraphy is an important part of understanding the history and land use of any archaeological site, but it is exceptionally important in understanding sites associated with US missing service personnel. Understanding the stratigraphy and pedogenic processes of a recovery site/scene...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marieka Brouwer Burg. Rachel Horowitz.

This is an abstract from the "Gender in Archaeology over the Last 30+ Years" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While more women than men are getting PhDs in archaeology today, female lithicists continue to be outnumbered by their male counterparts. This is in part a result of outdated gendered conceptions about who can do certain types of archaeological field and laboratory work, and also related to deeply seated, western notions of male versus...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Randy Haas. Jennifer Chen. Tammy Buonasera. Jelmer Eerkens.

This is an abstract from the "American Foragers: Human-Environmental Interactions across the Continents" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The extent to which subsistence labor was divided among archaeological forager populations of the Americas is currently debated. This analysis uses bone isotope chemistry and Bayesian mixing models to examine trophic variation between female and male individuals from North and South American forager populations....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Reed Coil.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Numerous extrinsic hypotheses explaining Out of Africa I, like faunal turnover and hominins following fauna, have been rejected based on paleoecological models. Others have explored the importance of the hominin intrusion into the carnivore guild. Here, I build on this hypothesis by proposing a complementary hypothesis; the scavenging corridor hypothesis...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Plekhov.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Geoarchaeology and Environmental Archaeology Perspectives on Earthen-Built Constructions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Earthen agricultural terraces are prevalent worldwide and have continued to be built and used for millennia. Yet relative to their stone-faced counterparts, earthen terraces are often characterized as less intensive and productive, requiring less time, labor, and material resources to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eduardo Corona-M. Ivonne Giles Flores.

This is an abstract from the "The Columbian Exchange Revisited: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on Eurasian Domesticates in the Americas" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The introduction of European domestic fauna during the Spanish conquest represents a major change in the cultural use of animals, influencing both how they acquired and processed. Although this point has been recognized, in fact it has been poorly documented. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tristan O'Donnell. Meagan O'Brien.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Stone walls serve as indicators of both contemporary and historic property boundaries as well as significant features such as farms, roadways, and internal property routes. The northeastern United States, particularly New England, boasts an estimated 193,121 km (120,000 mi) of stone walls. In Cultural Resource Management (CRM), it is not uncommon for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only José Echeverría-Almeida.

This is an abstract from the "The Barbacoan World: Recognizing and Preserving the Unique Indigenous Cultural Developments of the Northern Andes" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En la sierra norte del Ecuador, la cosmovisión andina, la geografía con su mosaico de nichos ecológicos, diversidad de recursos, y la necesidad de una seguridad social y alimentaria, exigió un sistema de gobierno práctico y muy visible, para resolver los problemas ecológicos...

DOCUMENT Citation Only G. Van Kollias.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Investigations in Chiapas, Mexico" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The borders and frontiers of ancient communities provide a rich opportunity to examine the effects of social and political change. These interstitial spaces are often conceptualized as part of a polity body but may be better understood as spaces of continual change and reorganization, positioning these communities as active rather...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yamile Lira-Lopez.

This is an abstract from the "Los Rituales del Juego de Pelota en la Costa del Golfo / Ballgame Rituals in the Gulf Lowlands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El juego de pelota es un tema que ha llamado la atención a numerosos investigadores, algunos se han centrado en el estudio arquitectónico, otros desarrollan enfoques iconográficos o propuestas de rituales basados en evidencias como en el Tajín. En otros lugares, solo se distinguen las...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kim Richter. Irad Flores García.

This is an abstract from the "Los Rituales del Juego de Pelota en la Costa del Golfo / Ballgame Rituals in the Gulf Lowlands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. No es una revelación nueva que exista evidencia arqueológica para el Juego de Pelota en la Huasteca, una región que forma el límite septentrional de Mesoamérica y de la costa del Golfo. Se han documentado canchas de pelota en sitios arqueológicos y figurillas de barro que llevan indumentaria...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip Arnold.

This is an abstract from the "Los Rituales del Juego de Pelota en la Costa del Golfo / Ballgame Rituals in the Gulf Lowlands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Aunque se considera un pilar del periodo clásico de Veracruz, el juego de pelota mesoamericano está poco documentado en la Sierra de los Tuxtlas del sur de Veracruz, México. Si bien se han identificado las canchas del juego, el conjunto de actividades que se organizan en esos lugares aún no se...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Virginia Arieta Baizabal. Judith Zurita Noguera. Stacey Symonds.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Los trabajos de Ann Cyphers (1950-2023) sobre los olmecas son uno de los legados de la arqueología olmeca, de Mesoamérica y del mundo. A raíz de su fallecimiento, es necesario un recuento de su producción académica. Esta ponencia analiza la obra de Cyphers respecto a sus principales temas, influencias, aportaciones y retos en más de tres décadas de trabajo...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alessandra Pecci.

This is an abstract from the "2024 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Luis Barba" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Las técnicas de análisis de residuos químicos desarrolladas en el Laboratorio de Prospección Arqueológica de la UNAM se han aplicado también en contextos europeos y principalmente del Mediterráneo Occidental, favoreciendo un acercamiento interdisciplinario al estudio del uso del espacio y de los contenidos de los recipientes...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marta Herrera. Juan Camilo Niño.

This is an abstract from the "The Barbacoan World: Recognizing and Preserving the Unique Indigenous Cultural Developments of the Northern Andes" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En la literatura sobre los Sindagua producida en los siglos XX y XXI es un lugar común hablar sobre su exterminio a principios del siglo XVII. Sin embargo, es difícil sustentar esta aproximación al analizar las cifras que figuran en visitas y cuentas de tributarios de la...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jose Vivero Miranda.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Guasave, Sinaloa, has historically been identified as representing the northern Mesoamerican frontier based on the presence of Aztatlán culture tradition materials dating to circa AD 1150. To explain the purported Mesoamerican affiliation, researchers in the region have deployed hypotheses focusing on economic and ideological connections between the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julio Cesar Hoil Gutiérrez.

This is an abstract from the "Adventures in Beekeeping: Recent Studies in Ecology, Archaeology, History, and Ethnography in Yucatán" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. La meliponicultura yucateca actual experimenta dos realidades contrastantes: por un lado, enfrenta un escenario crítico que poco tiene que ver con el auge del que gozó en el pasado, y por el por el otro, es objeto de algunos esfuerzos por rescatarlo y preservarlo con el fin de evitar su...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Corey Herrmann.

This is an abstract from the "Cuando los senderos divergen: Reconsiderando las interacciones entre los Andes Septentrionales y los Andes Centrales durante el 1ro y 2do milenio AEC / When Paths Diverge: Reconsidering Interactions between the Northern and Central Andes, First–Second Millennium BCE" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Precolumbian societies of the Ecuadorian coast have long attracted the interest of archaeologists studying regional...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert McCullough. Andrew White.

This is an abstract from the "Application of Geophysical Techniques to Military Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Near-surface electromagnetic induction (EMI) instruments can complement gradiometry and other geophysical instruments for archaeological research and management. We discuss the Geonics EM38-MK2, an instrument that introduces a magnetic field into the ground and measures the electrical and magnetic responses of sub-surface...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabrielle DiEmma. Jillian Conte. Kimberlee Moran. Karen Scott.

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. This case study focused on two individuals, a child (G-009) and an adult female (G-033), recovered with intact hair masses from the former First Baptist Church of Philadelphia (FBCP) cemetery. Hair samples from both individuals were studied visually using light microscopy and chemically using inductively...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Burnett. Kristin Barker. Lawrence Todd.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 2009, we have been modeling archaeological probability in the Shoshone National Forest. These have been continually refined as new data become available. Now, using newly available elk collar data, we compare patterns in the archaeological record with those of elk movements to evaluate correlations. We compare elk locations with archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Harkness.

This is an abstract from the "Emerging Voices in Mogollon Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between 1250 and 1450 CE, the cultural landscape of the US Southwest transformed as diverse communities migrated from their homelands into areas with long-established local populations. The processes behind this new shared multicultural identity were complex and required individuals from both migrant and local Mogollon communities to negotiate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erik Moore. Mike Meade.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For the past two summers, the Anthropology Librarian and the Digital Imaging Coordinator from the University of New Brunswick Libraries have embedded as experts and co-researchers in field schools led by archaeologists in the Department of Anthropology at UNB. The goals of this project are for those library specialists: (1) to gain deeper understanding of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Genesis Torres Morales. Celeste Marie Gagnon. Feren Castillo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the late 1970’s to early 2000’s archaeologists studying the Chimú of the northern coast of Peru created a foundation in the archaeological literature. This research helped us understand Chimú chronology, general functionality of the empire, and technological advancements made by the society. While these contributions to the Chimú literature are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Bertman.

This is an abstract from the "Expanding Our Understanding of the Mojave Desert: Emerging Research and New Perspectives on Old Data" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For over 40 years, the orphaned archaeological collections excavated by Antelope Valley College (AVC) have remained underutilized and underreported—an untapped resource and oversight to archaeological investigations in the western Mojave Desert. Orphaned collections can be revisited...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Takeshi Inomata.

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. The site of Aguada Fénix features an artificial plateau, which measures 1,400 × 400 m horizontally and 10–15 m vertically. Nine causeways and corridors radiate from the plateau. These monumental constructions were built between 1050 and 750 BC. This building, discovered in 2017, turned out to be the largest...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peiyu Chen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. “Why did people begin to use pottery vessels?” is one of the most compelling questions to archaeologists. As a site witnesses the transition from the Late Preceramic to the Initial Period occupation in the Virú Valley, north coast of Peru, Huaca Negra constitutes an ideal case study to investigate the utilitarian function, cultural traits, and possible...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Suárez Calderón.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The settlement of Java is a Precolumbian socioceremonial center located on a hilltop in the Coto Brus Valley, in Southern Costa Rica. An intensive survey of the site revealed that the main occupation of the site occurred several centuries earlier than previously thought. Java is one of the largest settlements from the Aguas Buenas period, with an area of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yuji Seki. Juan Pablo Villanueva. Daniel Morales.

This is an abstract from the "Cuando los senderos divergen: Reconsiderando las interacciones entre los Andes Septentrionales y los Andes Centrales durante el 1ro y 2do milenio AEC / When Paths Diverge: Reconsidering Interactions between the Northern and Central Andes, First–Second Millennium BCE" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El objetivo de esta presentación es analizar la relación entre la sierra norte del Perú y la región ecuatoriana en el...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gerardo Jiménez Delgado. Javier López Mejía.

This is an abstract from the "New and Emerging Perspectives on the Bajo el Laberinto Region of the Maya Lowlands, Part 2" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological site of Calakmul has a long history of archaeological research and documentation, from the initial sketches and hand-drawn plans to those created using precise topographical instruments, to the recording of the different architectural spaces. Nowadays, the use of innovative...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Horvey Palacios. Delaney Cooley. Bonnie Pitblado.

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. Science communicators are in an unprecedented time of digital innovation and global connectivity that has given rise to accessible and engaging projects, including podcasts, TikToks, apps, and interactive websites. These platforms have demonstrated how the power to create and disseminate narratives can shift from a select few to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zoe Schwandt.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, I explore the way gender is conjured at an early twentieth century North Carolina Asylum through its organization of space and patients’ movement in this space. I consider the way that gender is maintained, reified, and produced through archival research on the Raleigh State Asylum of North Carolina. The built landscape of the Raleigh State...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Meierhoff. Sergio López-Garzona.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the latter half of the nineteenth century the ruins of Tikal were briefly reoccupied. Refugees fleeing the Caste War of Yucatan cohabited with Lacandon Maya from the surrounding jungles and heavily Hispanized Itza Maya from the lakes of central Petén, Guatemala, to form a small multi-ethnic hamlet amongst the hulking ruins of the ancient Maya city....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Meyer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2013 while conducting an archaeological survey for proposed interstate improvements, archaeologists with the Missouri Department of Transportation identified the remnants of an 18th-century French-style house. The identification of several post-in-earth wall trenches and a handful of period artifacts was monumental and changed the entire direction of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mara Stumpf. Sara Juengst.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dental modification has been well-documented from the coast of Ecuador, with practices including elaborate dental inlays and incisions. However, few examples come from recently excavated or well-provenienced sites, making the antiquity and changing significance of dental modification unclear. Additionally, it is unclear whether this practice originated in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eleni Hasaki.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Scholars have long debated the size of workforce in a niche industry of decorated ceramics in ancient Athens (600-400 BC) by using a variety of proxies mostly relying on the finished products themselves. In this paper I offer a bottom-up approach by calculating the time investment involved in potting and painting decorated wares. Far from a sprint race,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claira Ralston. Pamela Stone. Debra Martin. Samuel Sisneros.

This is an abstract from the "Community Engaged Bioarchaeology: Centering Descendants" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. An engaged bioarchaeological project includes the Indigenous or descendant community from the beginning of the project, centers their questions, and brings forward their knowledge of the past to create more nuanced conversations about their ancestors. Shifting the focus from solely the goals of the anthropologist to a shared vision...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Soren Frykholm.

This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse II, Current Research in Oaxaca Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the 1930s, the community of Monte Negro has played an integral role in the research projects carried out at its namesake archaeological site. Beyond participating in the investigations of visiting scholars, community members have themselves initiated projects to collect and disseminate local knowledge pertaining to their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Adeyemo.

This is an abstract from the "Crafting Archaeological Practice in Africa and Beyond: Celebrating the Contributions of Ann B. Stahl to Global Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the study of craft production in antiquity. It combines theoretical and methodological toolkits from archaeology, material science, studies of craft production, and ancient economies to investigate the organization...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Schwalenberg.

This is an abstract from the "In Search of Solutions: Exploring Pathways to Repatriation for NAGPRA Practitioners (Part IV): NAGPRA in Policy, Protocol, and Practice" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Veterans Curation Program (VCP) is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) funded program with a dual mission to rehabilitate USACE administered artifact and document collections and provide temporary employment and vocational training to veterans....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meghan Howey. Alyssa Moreau. Amy Michael.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Great Bay Archaeological Survey (GBAS) explores one of the most unique estuaries along the Atlantic Ocean and a place that formed an important early frontier in 17th century colonial ‘New England’. GBAS’s research is revealing unexpected dynamism in the lived experiences of early colonialism for both settler colonists and regional Indigenous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley Rutkoski. Nicolas Gauthier. Neill Wallis. Andrea Torvinen. Ann Cordell.

This is an abstract from the "Ceramic Petrographers in the Americas: Recent Research and Methodological Advances" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Clay recipes reveal information about the local geology and the inclusion of different additives that make up a vessel, which in turn reflects the social, environmental, and technological context of ceramic manufacture. Ceramic petrography has long been instrumental in shedding light on key manufacturing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only RaeLynn Butler. LeeAnne Wendt.

This is an abstract from the "*SE The State of Theory in Southeastern Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Theoretical approaches are used primarily by archaeologists in the southeastern United States to supplement the analyses on their studies of the past. However, most of these theories are missing a decidedly critical component, indigenous cultural knowledge, within their framework. Indigenous cultural knowledge incorporates the beliefs,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Martini. Dennis Nicolas Lorenzo.

This is an abstract from the "Cuando los senderos divergen: Reconsiderando las interacciones entre los Andes Septentrionales y los Andes Centrales durante el 1ro y 2do milenio AEC / When Paths Diverge: Reconsidering Interactions between the Northern and Central Andes, First–Second Millennium BCE" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The department of Piura includes a significant portion of the modern national border between Ecuador and Peru and remains...