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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ora Marek-Martinez.

This is an abstract from the "Hood Archaeologies: Impacts of the School-to-Prison Pipeline on Archaeological Practice and Pedagogy" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. “In order to know yourself and find your way in this life, you need to know where you and your People come from and understand their relationship with the land.” This insight formed critical foundational knowledge that guides my Indigenous archaeological praxis. My experience and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brea McCauley. Jayc Sedlmayr.

This is an abstract from the "Embodied Essence: Anthropological, Historical, and Archaeological Perspectives on the Use of Body Parts and Bodily Substances in Religious Beliefs and Practices" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In many societies, human bodily parts and substances have been seen as symbolically significant and imbued with spiritual power. Over the years, several scholars have recognized the importance of these bodily parts and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Puente. Sarah Kurnick. Ethan Abbe.

This is an abstract from the "Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Subterranean" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As rainwater seeps into caves over millions of years, it creates calcium carbonate formations known as speleothems. Ancient Maya peoples associated speleothems with the Earth Monster’s fangs, the Serpent Deity, and caves from which Chahk, the rain god, brings rain. As such, speleothems are animate embodiments of fertility and ritually...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Oscar Arias Espinoza. Atsushi Yamamoto. Juan Pablo Vargas Díaz.

This is an abstract from the "Beyond Borders at the End of a Millennium: Life in the Western Andes circa 500–50 BCE" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Nuestra exposición abordará la relación existente entre los sitios arqueológicos Cerro Narrio y Loma de Pinzhul durante el Periodo Formativo Final (500 aC-50 aC) de Ecuador. Proponemos que en esta sección del Cañar coexistieron ambos sitios como lugares ceremoniales que tenían relaciones de intercambio...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Bettinger.

This is an abstract from the "The Global “Impact” of Projectile Technologies: Updating Methods and Regional Overviews of the Invention and Transmission of the Spear-Thrower and the Bow and Arrow" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Environment and technology are the independent “givens” of Julian Steward’s model of cultural ecology wherein different techno-environmental combinations favor different subsistence, settlement, and organizational responses....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeannie Larmon.

This is an abstract from the "Thinking with, through, and against Archaeology’s Politics of Knowledge" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past two decades, there has been a renewed interest in the concept of Environmental Personhood, which grants particular natural entities with legal personhood with the intent of reorganizing anthropocentric hierarchies and better protecting the environment. These features, including Te Awa Tupua in New...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Genevieve Lucet.

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. The built environment expresses the social values applied during architectural design, although these criteria are not always used consciously. Thus, the buildings constructed for the elite of a community show how this group conceives its...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jason De Leon. Nicole Smith.

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. In 1994, the US Border Patrol formalized a boundary enforcement strategy known as “Prevention Through Deterrence” (PTD) that employs the natural environment as a weapon to impede the movement of undocumented border crossers. PTD has subsequently been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ileana Echauri. Christophe Helmke.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Investigations in Chiapas, Mexico" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A lo largo de tres temporadas de campo el “Proyecto Investigación Arqueológica en Yaxchilán y su entorno. Área del Meandro en el Usumacinta”, se ha centrado en realizar el reconocimiento de superficie de toda el meandro sobre la que se asienta Yaxchilán. Como parte de este proyecto, se detectaron alrededor de 20 pequeñas cuevas con...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Catherine Smith. Neill Wallis. Geoffrey Thomas. Kathryn Miyar. Sam Wilford.

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 Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida, Florida State University, and the Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research have a shared institutional history. This longstanding interconnection has resulted in intertwined holdings,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Taylor Sink.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite nearly a century of archaeological investigations in Joshua Tree National Park, a history of arbitrary and inconsistent nomenclature for lithic materials has precluded any sort of landscape-level assemblage comparisons. To address this, I have assembled a dense catalog of all visually-distinct lithic raw materials and their relative frequencies at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine France. Julianne Sarancha.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Establishing geographical provenance and life histories of North American colonial individuals is critical for understanding early population movements related to urbanization, immigration, and the changing demographics of an emerging nation. In East Coast North American archaeological studies, oxygen stable isotopes are the primary proxy for regional...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick Ryan Williams. Laure Dussubieux.

This is an abstract from the "The Elemental Analysis Facility at the Field Museum: Celebrating 20 Years Serving the Archaeological Community " session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. With funding from the National Science Foundation, the Elemental Analysis Facility at the Field Museum has advanced research projects in archaeological chemistry to study research on trade and exchange, examine craft production, and assess the nature of archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tamira Brennan. Maria Teresa Palomares. Georgia Abrams. Hannah Rucinski.

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. This paper discusses the ethical implications of using archaeological collections for education and outreach as well as the potential challenges that doing so poses to repositories and museums. We cover the benefits and burdens of accessioning donations, specifically discussing how to assess their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian Clark.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper will review the ethnoarchaeological context of ceramic production in North Wollo, Ethiopia, and trace changes to ceramic traditions influenced by sociopolitical factors, with implications for archaeological reconnaissance and research. This research is a part of the broader Solomonic-Zagwe Encounters Project and its ongoing efforts to, in part,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anaïs Pochon.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the French colonization, Louisiana and the Mississippi Valley in general, were the background of a quantity of testimonies about Native American societies that were met at the time by the French explorers. A few of these Frenchmen had lived among Native American societies for a various amount of time, the most noticeable example being probably...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlos Fitzgerald-Bernal.

This is an abstract from the "Unraveling the Mysteries of the Isthmo-Colombian Area’s Past: A Symposium in Honor of Archaeologist Richard Cooke and His Contributions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A significant, yet not fully recognized contribution of Richard Cooke’s to the understanding of Panamanian archaeology were his erudite analyses of contact time chronicles and documentation. Through systematic contrast and comparison of documents,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wesley Stoner.

This is an abstract from the "El principio del fin, el inicio del principio: Arqueología de la transición del Formativo al Clásico en Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, México" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El urbanismo, en gran parte de las tierras bajas del Golfo, exhibe un patrón de crecimiento continuo desde el período Formativo hasta el Clásico. En muchas regiones, las ciudades más antiguas del Formativo se convirtieron en las ciudades más grandes e...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn Whelton. Emily Zavodny. John Walker. Neil Duncan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Llanos de Mojos region in the Bolivian Amazon has a long history of human occupation that challenges long-held ideas about the nature of pre-Contact communities. It has a tropical savanna ecosystem with very strong seasonality, resulting in annual cycles of flooding and drought. Large, long-term sedentary populations appear to have adapted to this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Perez.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology of the Virgin Branch Puebloan Region" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Social complexity in prehispanic societies within the North American Southwest has been studied through a variety of research avenues. Among the Virgin Branch people within the Moapa Valley of southern Nevada, archaeologists have pursued this topic through the study of architecture, burials and associated grave goods, and exchange...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Mack.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Founded in 1855, the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum saw 30,000 patients pass through its doors before the institution moved to a new facility in 1935. Vital expansion of the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC), located on the former asylum property, prompted historical and archaeological investigations of the now-unmarked Asylum Hill...

DOCUMENT Citation Only R. Scott Plumlee.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Cultural Resource Management Program of the Gila River Indian Community recently surveyed over 4,000 acres of Kaibab Paiute tribal lands in northern Arizona, recording over 85 archaeological sites. The survey examined broad basins and small hills, in areas of relatively low slope, but bordered by the Vermillion Cliffs. Most of the newly recorded...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Haden Kingrey. Shannon Tushingham. John Blong.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Earthen ovens in the Southern Columbia Plateau are associated with the preparation and cooking of roots and tubers, with evidence dating back to the middle Holocene. Despite issues with the preservation of these plant elements in the archaeological record, researchers can use microbotanical analyses to identify microscopic remains that oftentimes preserve...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fumie Iizuka. Masami Izuho. Kazuki Morisaki. Junichiro Okita. Mark Aldenderfer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tanegashima Island in the southernmost region of Japan has the earliest evidence of a large quantity of ceramic production by late Pleistocene foragers of eastern Eurasia. The island is also part of the southern Kyushu region, where the pottery-bearing occupation is found under well-dated tephra dated to ca. 12,800 cal BP, termed the Incipient Jomon. In...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carly Pope.

This is an abstract from the "Materials in Movement in the Isthmo-Colombian Area" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Isla Colon, the largest island in the Bocas del Toro archipelago on Panama’s northwest coast, has a unique density of archaeological features in the region. Sitio Drago, the largest site yet found on the island, includes ceremonial and settlement mounds and a diverse and sizable assemblage of subsistence remains and cultural materials....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katharine Kolpan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation will highlight the evidence for trade networks and the distribution of goods at the ancient port city of Apollonia Pontica along Bulgaria’s Black Sea Coast. Founded in the 7th century BC by Milesians from western Ionia fleeing an incursion by their Lydian neighbors, Apollonia -- with its two excellent ports and easy access to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Hernandez. Josue de Jesús Gómez Vázquez.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Investigations in Chiapas, Mexico" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Evidence of precolumbian Maya metallurgy is increasingly coming to light with numerous finds occurring in the Guatemalan highlands and the northern part of the Yucatan peninsula. In this paper, we present new evidence of Maya metallurgy from the Mensabak region of Chiapas, Mexico, that dates to the Late Postclassic / early Spanish...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonah Jankovik.

This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences 2024" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation discusses the findings of a project investigating ceramic production in a hinterland of the Mimbres region, from a diachronic view across painted ware types. The Sapillo Creek Valley is a volcanic upland in southwestern New Mexico between the Mimbres and Gila River Valley culture-centers. The painted pottery recovered in 1995...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ximena Power. Claudia Silva. Rodrigo Díaz-Plá. Valentina Hernández. César Borie.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeophycology: New (Ethno)Archaeological Approaches to Understand the Contribution of Seaweed to the Subsistence and Social Life of Coastal Populations" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Seaweeds have been part of the daily life of coastal populations worldwide. Despite the wide range of species and human uses, seaweeds have been under-researched in the human sciences and historical ecology compared to other marine...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Deborah Pearsall. Philip Riris. Peter Siegel.

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. Except for Jamaica, the earliest human occupations in the Greater Antilles date to ca. 6000 cal yr BP. Contrary to older ideas, the view taking shape now is that survival strategies incorporated a range of plant domesticates along with wild resources obtained through...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberlee Moran.

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. In late 2016, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that human remains were uncovered at a local construction site, 218 Arch Street, formerly the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia (FBCP) cemetery. Over the course of 2017 three phases of excavation ranging from extreme salvage to controlled CRM excavation took...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Teresa Palomares.

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. The study of the Zapotec temple, its origins and evolution, has significant implications to understanding the social complexity in early societies. This paper follows the proposal of the one-room temple as the origin of the two-room temple, also called Zapotec temple, and exposes its evolution showing the characteristics of those...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bruce Phillips. Erik Steinbach. Travis Cureton. Craig Fertlemes.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hohokam irrigation canals were first excavated in the lower Salt River Valley in the early Pioneer Period (A.D. 1-700), possibly as early as A.D. 200 at Las Acequias in east Tempe. In the area, substantial expansion occurred in the Sedentary Period (A.D. 900-1150) and continued into the Classic Period (A.D. 1150-1450). During this time, Canal Tempe was a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Helen Litavec.

This is an abstract from the "Continued Advances in Method and Theory for Commingled Remains" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study builds on previous research that incorporated deviation analyses into sorting commingled human remains. This presentation will analyze a relatively untested joint surface, the atlantoaxial joint, to exclude potential commingled joint pairs. Virtual models were created at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samuel Hemsley. Caitlin Stewart.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Virgin Anasazi Region of the Southwestern United States of America is a relatively unrepresented region in archaeological literature. In the past, the undeveloped nature of the region combined with the regions remoteness have resulted in a dearth of unconsolidated literature on the archaeology of the region. Recent archaeological investigations by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Savoy. Ari Au.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The purpose of this study is to explore the social status and daily lives of Mongol era (twelfth to fourteenth centuries CE) “common elites.” Common elite is a general term used in this region to describe a group of high-status people that were not in the immediate lineage of Chinggis Khan. We investigated whether cultural activities such as food...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Murphy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Great Oasis is a Late Terminal Woodland culture, dating between AD 900 and 1100, that has produced the earliest evidence for Mississippian contact in Iowa. Great Oasis peoples built unfortified farming villages throughout western and central Iowa, southwest Minnesota, and eastern Nebraska and South Dakota. Several excavated village sites typically have an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Fiore. Hannah Lau. Lara Fabian. Jeyhun Eminli. Susannah Fishman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research examines manufacturing technology and origin of production of ceramics from the necropolis at Piboz Tepe and site at Yoladoy Bin in the Lerik region of Azerbaijan through utilization of ceramic petrography and surface treatment analysis. Data obtained through petrography analysis indicates whether ceramics were locally produced or imported...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Seltzer-Rogers.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Work by Chronicle Heritage" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chronicle Heritage recently excavated part of a moderately sized, multicomponent site, LA135004, in advance of development near Taos in northern New Mexico. The prehispanic component, dating AD 1050–1300, consists of at least one room block with features, extramural cooking pits, and thousands of ceramics, flaked and ground stone, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Masami Izuho. Nicolas Zwyns. Katsuhiro Sano. Gunchinsuren Byambaa.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While early modern human dispersals occurred in Northern Eurasia around ~45–40ka ago, a cultural phenomenon often labeled as the Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) is identified in Central and Eastern Europe, but also in West, Central, and Northeast Asia. Despite significant progress in our understanding of the timing and routes of these population movements,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Summer Peltzer. Christopher Schwartz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent discussions surrounding cultural resource management in the Phoenix Basin have highlighted the importance of synthesis across firms, projects, and cultural resources. This poster examines archaeological investigations at AZ T:12:220(ASM), colloquially known as Las Cremaciones, with the purpose of compiling data available from past excavations to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melina García Hernández. Takeshi Inomata. Daniela Triadan.

This is an abstract from the "Aguada Fénix and the Middle Usumacinta Region: Interregional Interactions and Social Transformations in the Middle Preclassic Period" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Aguada Fénix is a major ceremonial complex from the Middle Formative Usumacinta (MFU) assemblage that was discovered in Tabasco, Mexico, through lidar technology. The construction of this complex indicates the importance of communal labor, and there is no...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Larios.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper summarizes the results of two seasons of excavations at Cerro Tecolote, the Early Postclassic (A.D. 750-1000) settlement at Jalieza in the southern Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. While the Valley of Oaxaca has been the focus of intensive and seminal archaeological research for over a century, the Early Postclassic is poorly understood in this region....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alanna Ossa.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Incensarios or incense burners are ritual items used in a variety of settings, some in households and some in more formal ritual contexts within Mesoamerica. I analyze residential inventories from the center of Sauce and its hinterland to describe the structure of exchange and consumption of incensarios during the Middle Postclassic period (AD 1200-1350)...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hollie Powless.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Though greatly expanded both in quantity and diversity of subject matter in recent years, literature for the middle-grade audience largely fails to include storylines featuring archaeology, particularly evident in graphic novel formats. As archaeology is not a prominent piece of traditional public education, young people may not be exposed to the field...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Rowe. Guy Duke.

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 Valdivia tradition of coastal Ecuador (ca. 3800–1450 BC) was one of the first sedentary, agricultural, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jane Peterson.

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. In the early 1990s when I began my explorations of changing divisions of labor associated with agricultural transitions in the Levant, archaeology was grappling with the tip of the biocultural iceberg that was “gender” (sensu Fausto-Sterling 2000). During the intervening three decades, discussions of gender in archaeology have broadened....

DOCUMENT Citation Only César Méndez. Amalia Nuevo-Delaunay. Catalina Contreras. María Paz Quercia. Bayron Soto.

This is an abstract from the "Expedient Technological Behavior: Global Perspectives and Future Directions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The study of toolstone procurement in Patagonia is biased in favor of high-quality exotic materials—chiefly obsidian—often transported over large distances as heavily curated artifacts. Lesser-quality sources however may be important in the technological behavior at smaller scales (e.g., basin, subregion). The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Manuel Alcaraz-Castaño. José-Javier Alcolea. Luis Luque. Samuel Castillo-Jiménez. Felipe Cuartero.

This is an abstract from the "Expedient Technological Behavior: Global Perspectives and Future Directions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Terminal Gravettian, first defined in Central Portugal, is a relative outlier concerning the exploitation of lithic raw materials during the Upper Paleolithic of southwest Europe, as especially shown by an intensive use of quartz. Although Terminal Gravettian assemblages often include the production of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Armando Falcucci. Adriana Moroni.

This is an abstract from the "Expedient Technological Behavior: Global Perspectives and Future Directions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The role of expedient behaviors in the Upper Paleolithic has often been overshadowed by the study of more elaborate technologies to produce bladelets. This disparity in research focus is particularly evident in the Aurignacian context. Little discussion exists surrounding the use of cost-effective methods to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Éloïse St-Pierre. Jacques Chabot.

This is an abstract from the "Expedient Technological Behavior: Global Perspectives and Future Directions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In almost every culture of the world, expedient tools are present. They are “tools of the moment.” These flakes were crafted quickly with semi-improvised techniques, then used for a short period of time and discarded. The use of flakes as tools may not only indicate reuse or recycling of debitage waste, but also...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danny Sosa Aguilar. Felicia De Peña.

This is an abstract from the "Leveling Up: Gaming and Game Design in Archaeological Education and Outreach" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. When teaching about archaeological concepts on trade and exchange, typically, theoretical models dominate the classroom lecture and discussions. Traditional theoretical discussions limit explanations to biological, social, environmental, or religious reasons. Although lectures and discussions are useful, they...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Garrett Toombs. Rachel Horowitz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. It is well known that heat treating chert and other cryptocrystalline silicates improves the stone’s quality for knapping. However, ethnographic texts report that Indigenous knappers from around the world evaluate a stone’s moisture content as a marker of the stones’ quality for flaked tool production. Contemporary Euro-American flintknappers make similar...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Stull.

This is an abstract from the "New Work in Medieval Archaeology, Part 2: Crossing Boundaries, Materialities, and Identities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The theoretical foundation of experimental archaeology is often left implicit. Some argue that the primary value of experimental archaeology lies in scientific experiments to investigate specific and non-theoretical questions about ancient technology. This paper will address the experiential...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Blank.

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. Archaeological content in high schools appears in the social studies curriculum as historical narrative rather than as part of the process of active information production. Surveys of students indicated that they do not see value in archaeological content beyond the classroom and that they perceive their role in a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jenna Foster. Shannon Boomgarden. Ian Farrell.

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. Archaeological evidence in Range Creek Canyon, Utah, shows a heavy reliance on maize farming during the Fremont occupation, 900–1200 CE. Evidence includes numerous corn cobs, ground stone tools, and food storage sites. Since 2013, researchers at the field station have used actualistic maize farming experiments to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Agustina Vazquez Fiorani. Mark Schurr.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Organic residue and lipid analyses of ceramic artifacts provide important direct information on subsistence economies and foodways, pottery technology, and exchange and trade. Residue analysis needs to be enhanced by experimental data and reference libraries that provide solid frameworks to construct archaeological interpretations. Inspired by the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Spencer Lodge.

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. Beginning in 2018, I have been working with the Southern Paiute to host annual agave bakes using experimental earth ovens at the Desert National Wildlife Refuge in southern Nevada. Our events have gradually grown as we experiment with various aspects of earth oven cooking, including the use and quantity of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian Farrell. Shannon Boomgarden. Jenna Foster.

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. Food storage is a key component of many human subsistence patterns and has been a topic of interest for decades. In arid environments, agricultural surplus can be critical to survival. Having stored surplus available when needed is a benefit likely well worth the costs. In Range Creek Canyon (RCC), prehistoric...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alex Malone. Alex Malone. Jayde Hirniak. Mary Kliejunas. Grant Snitker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In recent years, the USDA Forest Service is increasing the pace and scale of fire and fuels management to mitigate the impacts of uncharacteristically severe wildfire. Due to the consequences of global climate change, wildfires are not going away. It is vital that we understand the effects that wildfires have on our cultural resources. Multiple studies...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Whyte.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. An experiment was undertaken to explore contextual and materials taphonomy initiated at the time of hunter-gatherer base camp abandonment in the southern Appalachian highlands. Acting out a fictional ethnography inspired by southeastern ethnohistorical accounts, twelve humans, accompanied by two dogs, made stone tools, and processed subsistence items and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pangyu Kim. Jennifer Bates. Vikas Kumar Singh. Ravindra Nath Singh.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological studies can uncover various foods associated with different cultures, where species selection holds ecological importance and preparation/consumption bear cultural significance. Regrettably, there is a shortage of research on food-related behaviors. This is especially true in the India Gangetic Early to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Berrey.

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. The early complex societies of Central America and northern South America were once widely recognized for their organizational and cultural diversity. Since that time, greater emphasis has been placed on their shared cultural traits, as revealed through genetic and linguistic data and patterns...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Wheeler. Kathryn Kamp.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Education has become an important component of archaeology in all realms, from traditional teaching arenas in universities and K-12 schools to research to government and contract work. In 2017 the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology and the University of Maine, Orono collaborated to found the Journal of Archaeology & Education...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Catherine Villella.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Work by Chronicle Heritage" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster will delve into the findings from an ambiguous ash pit discovered during Chronicle Heritage’s recent excavations at AZ T:12:137(ASM)/Las Canopas, a prehistoric habitation site broadly occupied between AD 650 and 1450 in Phoenix, Arizona. The artifact assemblage, temporal and cultural affiliation, and discrepancies in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Fitzpatrick.

This is an abstract from the "Social Archaeologies and Islands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. More than 3,000 years ago peoples ventured into Remote Oceania using a combination of sophisticated watercraft, wayfinding techniques—including a celestial compass—and sailing strategies passed down orally through rote learning across generations. Over the course of 2,000+ years, different groups settled islands in Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brenna Pisanelli. Cory Atkinson. David E. Leslie.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological investigations have resulted in evidence that suggests a shift in settlement patterns occurred in Connecticut during the Late and Terminal Archaic periods from interior wetlands to large river drainages. While sites dating to the Late Archaic period are common throughout the New England region, the archaeological record concerning...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricio De Souza. Isabel Cartajena. Lautaro Núñez.

This is an abstract from the "The Global “Impact” of Projectile Technologies: Updating Methods and Regional Overviews of the Invention and Transmission of the Spear-Thrower and the Bow and Arrow" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We present an analysis of the functional design of a collection of 353 projectile points from archaeological sites in the Puna de Atacama (21.9°–24.7° S) that belong to the cultural sequence dating from 12,500 to 2400 years...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julie Solometo. Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa. Gregson Schachner. Wesley Bernardini.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent collaborative fieldwork on Hopi tribal lands is yielding a new archaeological perspective on settlement during this key time period when migration to the Hopi Mesas accelerated. Newly recorded and re-documented sites include citadel-like structures built up the sides of rocky outcrops, defensible sites atop discrete, steep-sided landforms, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yi-lin Chen. Chihhua Chiang. Yi-Chang Liu.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research examines starch residues on food related pottery vessels in order to investigate the utilization of various plant foods in the late Neolithic Wansan society. Based upon preliminary identifications, most of the residue starch belongs to Panicoideae, with definite identification of foxtail millet and Job’s tears. No taro or yam have been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Arianna Garvin Suero. Aleksalía Isla Alayo.

This is an abstract from the "Cultivating Food, Land, and Communities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We embrace community archaeology to explore ancient subsistence strategies and societal resilience to El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events at Puerto Malabrigo, Chicama Valley, Peru. Since the Middle Holocene, Andean societies have experienced ENSOs that, when most powerful, prompt heavy rainfall and flooding in some locations and severe...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicole Smith-Guzmán. Jeny Smid Núñez. Jonathan Cybulski. Luis Sánchez Herrera.

This is an abstract from the "Unraveling the Mysteries of the Isthmo-Colombian Area’s Past: A Symposium in Honor of Archaeologist Richard Cooke and His Contributions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Burial space reuse and prolonged interaction with the dead were common practices in the Isthmo-Colombian Area, dating back to at least the Early Ceramic period. However, it is unknown whether the individuals interred in disturbed, multiple burial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Torras Freixa. Ivan Briz i Godino. Virginia Ahedo. José Manuel Galán. Natalia Moragas.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Individualities have been difficult to identify in Classic Period Teotihuacan, as this multiethnic urban culture presents itself as a faceless society where inequality must be addressed with new perspectives and methodologies. In this poster, we explore whether this inequality is perceptible through biological sex differentiation in mortuary evidence,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Eklund. Jargalan Burentogtokh. William Gardner.

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. For mobile pastoralists, monuments are places of permanence and stability in a landscape inhabited and perceived through movement. It is within these monumental spaces that dispersed peoples gather as a community, and through secular and ritual activities, organize and reaffirm social bonds and institutions, and maintain...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Asia Alsgaard. Karen van Niekerk. Carin Andersson. Mimi E. Lam.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This interdisciplinary research project investigates both the emergence and defining characteristics of sustainable coastal exploitation. The southern coast of South Africa has the longest history of sustained coastal exploitation globally, despite rising and falling sea levels, changing coastal habitats, and variations in seasonality and temperature....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erika Hartley. Terrance Martin.

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. Archaeological investigations spanning 25 years at the historic site of Fort St. Joseph (20BE23) have uncovered over 320,000 artifacts and several telling features, allowing us to learn more about the daily lives and identities of those who once occupied this eighteenth-century mission, garrison, and trading post in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Buckser. Karissa Hughes. William Taylor. Fernando Villanea. Courtney Hofman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between the 16th and 17th century, Indigenous cultures of North America began utilizing domestic animals brought to the Americas by Spanish colonists, creating profound social, cultural, and ecological change. In the northern Rocky Mountains, domestic horses provided new opportunities for transport and travel—but our understanding of how new human-horse...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marijke Stoll.

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. Much like their ancestors did in the past, people in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains still travel largely on foot to reach places, such as milpas or grazing land, that are completely inaccessible by car. These trips can take hours, following trails that easily cover 500 – 1000 km of vertical movement over rugged terrain....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Tarry. Reagan Hoehl. Erlend Johnson.

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. This poster presents the findings and analysis of artifacts from a 2 × 2 m excavation unit at site 16VN3416 in the Calcasieu Ranger District of Kisatchie National Forest. A large number of diagnostic lithic artifacts were recovered from this unit, spanning the millennia...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Victoria Soto. Consuelo Huidobro. Josefina Macari.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ethnographically, three types of hafted scrapers are found in Patagonia: northern Tehuelche, southern Tehuelche, and Selk'nam. However, due to environmental conditions, hafting materials rarely survive in the archaeological record, hindering our understanding of these tools. To address this gap, we conducted experimental research to characterize the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yahui He.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Food and Foodways: Emerging Trends and New Perspectives" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the late Neolithic period in the Yellow River region (ca. 5000–4000 cal BP), a significant wave of urbanization unfolded, marked by the rapid development of settlement hierarchies, social stratification, and interregional interactions, which laid the foundation for the emergence of early state-level...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Loren Davis. Masami Izuho. Alexander Nyers. Fumie Iizuka. David Madsen.

This is an abstract from the "The Global “Impact” of Projectile Technologies: Updating Methods and Regional Overviews of the Invention and Transmission of the Spear-Thrower and the Bow and Arrow" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While paleogenetic studies indicate that the majority of the genomic heredity of indigenous peoples of the Americas can be traced to late Pleistocene human populations in far eastern Asia, we do not yet understand whether a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shannon Mascarenhas. Roxanne Pendleton.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents the results of analysis conducted using lithic and ceramic artifacts from the Amoskeag West Bank site (27-HB-079) in Manchester New Hampshire, focusing on the evidence for a pithouse feature uncommon in the regional archaeological record. A targeted data recovery by IAC in 2022 yielded an assemblage of 961 Pre-Contact Native American...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eleanor King. John Cross. Michael Brennan. Christine Taylor. Darcie Flanagan.

This is an abstract from the "Prehispanic Maya Marketplace Investigations in the Three Rivers Region of Belize: First Results" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The 2023–2024 field seasons witnessed the beginning of an ambitious NSF-funded project to investigate the possible existence of marketplaces in the Three Rivers Region of northwestern Belize. This project is innovative in leveraging information from long-running, independent research...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Arturo Rivera I.. Sarah Baitzel. Laure Dussubieux. Nicola Sharratt.

This is an abstract from the "Twenty Years of Archaeological Science at the Field Museum’s Elemental Analysis Facility" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The dispersal of Tiwanaku-affiliated populations before and after the collapse of the eponymous state took on distinct cultural expressions throughout the western south-central Andean valleys. The proliferation of diverse Tiwanaku-derived ceramic substyles in the region signaled the emergence of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Javiera Letelier Cosmelli.

This is an abstract from the "Current Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Archaeology of the Southern Cone" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research aims to carry out an archaeological analysis of the current Dr. José Horwitz Barak Psychiatric Institute in Santiago de Chile, a place historically considered a total institution. Since its creation in 1858, this hospital has served as the main psychiatric center in Chile. The present...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leïa Mion. Hongjiao Ma. Peter Guest. Angela Lamb. Richard Madgwick.

This is an abstract from the "Integrating Isotope Analyses: The State of Play and Future Directions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. How did the Roman Empire supply its very large frontier garrisons? Maintaining provision was key to the success of Roman imperialism, but we still know remarkably little about how Romans soldiers on the frontiers were supplied and the impact this had on the provincial countryside and its population. This paper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Madgwick. Carmen Esposito. Angela Lamb.

This is an abstract from the "Integrating Isotope Analyses: The State of Play and Future Directions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age (ca. 800–400 BC) was a time of great transition in various parts of Europe, largely relating to climatic deterioration and the breakdown of networks surrounding the production and trade of Bronze. In southern Britain this saw the rise of a new site type, commonly termed a midden....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ray Corbett.

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. Ethnographic and ethnohistoric evidence indicate that certain ceremonial objects were exclusively associated with 'Antap ritual specialists and were used in multi-community Chumash religious ceremonies. Analyses of the evolution of the form of these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ruth Van Dyke.

This is an abstract from the "Developments and Challenges in Landscape Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Chaco Canyon, in the North American Southwest, is well-known for its monumental architecture and carefully choreographed landscape. Chaco Canyon lies at the heart of a 60,000 square mile area that contains some 200 additional major great house communities, as well as features such as roads,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Carr. Nicolaus Seefeld. Nicholas Dunning. Shane Montgomery.

This is an abstract from the "New and Emerging Perspectives on the Bajo el Laberinto Region of the Maya Lowlands, Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Investigations over the past decades have shown that the Classic Maya conducted monumental landscape modifications in order to both avoid inundations of settlement areas and to capture and store rainfall. In the initial stages, these modifications involved the sealing of reservoirs, which...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian Kuijt. Meredith Chesson. Grainne Malone.

This is an abstract from the "Making Historical Archaeology Matter: Rethinking an Engaged Archaeology of Nineteenth- to Twenty-First-Century Rural Communities of Western Ireland and Southern Italy" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. How do historical archaeologists reconstruct the life-history of residential buildings, and to what extent can archaeology, ethnography, and oral history be combined to generate a life history? The concept of house and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Rainville.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Orange period (6000-3000 BP) communities in Florida have been defined by the manufacture of fiber-tempered ceramics within eastern Florida and have a well defined chronology. Orange period communities engaged physically with the landscape through shell and sand terraforming and community mobility. Contrastingly, the Archaic period in south Florida is not...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Abby Baka. K. Blake Vernon. Madeline Mackie. Jerry Spangler. Alexandra Greenwald.

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 Pleistocene-Holocene transition (PHT) archaeological record on the Colorado Plateau is notably sparse, especially when compared to the surrounding Great Basin, Rocky Mountain, and Plains regions. Whether this dearth is due to low human populations in the region during the PHT, or due to insufficient fieldwork...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Taylor Recuero. Sara Juengst. María Ordoñez Alvarez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Heterarchical and hierarchical power distributions in a society affect the distribution of labor within that society. In a heterarchical society, the labor is generally reciprocal community labor used to maintain a cooperative relationship despite distance between lived settlements (Scaffidi 2020), whereas hierarchical societies will have labor distributed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only José Capriles. Velia Mendoza España. Daniela Velasco Arzabe. Christophe Delaere.

This is an abstract from the "Underwater and Coastal Archaeology in Latin America" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Lake Titicaca is one of the centers of early cultural development in the ancient Andes. Because of its sensitivity to climate change, the surface of the lake has fluctuated considerably over time, which in turn has influenced the development of ecological systems and cultural development. This paper focuses on the archaeofaunal remains...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marcie Venter. Lourdes Budar Jimenez. 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. In this presentation, we consider the accumulated evidence for ballgame ritual participation throughout the Classic period center, Matacanela, located in the south-central Tuxtla Mountains. We also account for related symbols from settlements in the immediate outskirts and incorporate them...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Kozuch.

This is an abstract from the "Past Human-Shark Interactions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cahokia is one of the most important archaeological sites in North America and was populated from AD 1000 to 1300. It was mound-building center with exotic lithics, ceramics, marine shell beads, and shark teeth. Here, I present information on 21 Greater Cahokia extant shark teeth along with contextual and chronological information. None of the teeth are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeanne Binning.

This is an abstract from the "The Global “Impact” of Projectile Technologies: Updating Methods and Regional Overviews of the Invention and Transmission of the Spear-Thrower and the Bow and Arrow" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There is a large literature that discusses the prehistoric introduction of the bow and arrow into the various regions of North America. The dates of the introduction vary greatly. Erroneously, it is sometimes assumed that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ariel Texis Muñoz. Nawa Sugiyama. Saburo Sugiyama.

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. In this presentation, we will explore the density patterns of ceramics in the Teotihuacan Valley, from the Patlachique phase to the Mexica occupation. Our research is based on an initial ceramic analysis conducted using a recent lidar-based surface survey. To manage and visualize the density maps more efficiently, we...