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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lynne Engelbert.

This is an abstract from the "Vicksburg Is the Key: Recent Archaeological Investigations and New Perspectives from the Gibraltar of the South" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Historic cemeteries do not “age” well. Many factors contribute to the degradation of cemeteries. The constant shifting of soil, rodents, vegetation, vandalism, and now we are facing an even bigger threat with climate change, including floods, fires earthquakes, mud slides,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alba Abad España.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The alimentation sphere presents a relevant context for the examination of sociopolitical dynamics within heterarchical agricultural societies of the Iberian Culture. Historically, alimentation practices have been associated with tasks primarily undertaken by women. However, there is a need to examine whether the extent of the presence of women is related...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kurt Wilson. Kenneth Vernon. Wim Cardoen. Simon Brewer.

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. Past population change is connected to significant shifts in human behavior and experience, including landscape manipulation, subsistence change, sedentism, technological change, material inequality, and more. However, population change appears to result from a complex interplay of human-environment...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Miguel Guillermo Ortiz Mestanza.

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. La forma final del sitio de Chavín de Huántar se estableció fundamentalmente en la llamada etapa Blanco y Negro definida por Kembel. Hay allí elementos de la arquitectura y del paisaje que son indicios de algún programa de reestructuración social en clave de una renovada...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Luis Sanchez.

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. Trabajos pormenorizados a nivel de forma-función para la caracterización de actividades y espacios sociales son raros en las investigaciones arqueológicas intra-sitio en el Valle Central de Costa Rica, incluyendo asentamientos complejos y con construcciones monumentales características del 750...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashleigh Rogers.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Aquaculture is the world’s fastest growing food sector and accounts for more than 50% of the world’s fish food supply. The significant growth in global aquaculture since the middle of the 20th century has been dubbed the Blue Revolution. However, it is not the first Blue Revolution to take place in human history. While historically classified as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hillary DelPrete.

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. It has become clear that current students thrive with a hands-on approach to learning. This type of engagement leads to an increase in achievement and interest among students (Erickson et al. 2020), as well as an increase of knowledge. The human remains that were unearthed as part of the Arch Street Project...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Monetti.

This is an abstract from the "The Arch Street Project: Multidisciplinary Research of a Philadelphia Cemetery" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The highly collaborative nature of the Arch Street Project allowed for hands-on learning opportunities for university students. This was an especially valuable experience at universities that traditionally rely on replica human remains for teaching as it increased student access to taphonomic conditions,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Miriam Kolar.

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. A dynamic, pervasive link between materiality and humans, sound remains an underestimated and deeply misunderstood domain for archaeological study. Archaeoacoustics fieldwork with broad community contributions at Chavín de Huántar since 2008 has enabled the development of new...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Paris. Gabriel Laló Jacinto. Roberto López Bravo.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Investigations in Chiapas, Mexico" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Current research on ancient Maya cities is radically revising our knowledge of their economies. Scholars are beginning to identify the archaeological remains of marketplaces, currencies, and other elements of extensive commercial exchange. However, the surveillance of ancient economic spaces and institutions is rarely investigated...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shelby Mohrs.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Food has an integral role in the formation of identity. Archaeobotanical techniques are an underutilized yet productive avenue through which we can understand African cuisines and identities, both past and present. This presentation will focus on the preliminary analysis of the archaeobotanical assemblage excavated from the site of Unguja Ukuu by the Urban...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabrielle Purcell. Silvia Marini. Paolo Sangriso. Cayla Schofield. Riley Caton.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We present preliminary botanical data and interpretations from the ancient Roman harbor of Vada Volaterrana, located in the modern province of Livorno, Italy. The harbor was supported by a network of structures immediately surrounding the port at Vada's San Gaetano site. A 2015 GPR survey identified a series of rectangular buildings of unknown purpose in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Smith.

This is an abstract from the "Enduring Relationships: People, Plants, and the Contributions of Karen R. Adams" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There is more than one way to gain insight about past Native American use of plants. The conventional approach is to collect archaeobotanical samples during archaeological excavations. Another perspective is to inventory the environments surrounding sites and communities to understand the foodscape that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only S. Terry Childs.

This is an abstract from the "Building Bridges: Papers in Honor of Teresita Majewski" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. How are managing and preserving archaeological collections and volunteerism related? I have known Dr. Majewski for about 25 years. Almost all of that time has been when she volunteered to be on various Society for American Archaeology committees that I was also on, wrote articles for journal theme issues I edited, and other...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charlene Collazzi. Christopher Nicholson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The FAIR Principles for Data Stewardship asserts that data should be Findable, Accessible, and Reusable. Only by digitally preserving, efficiently curating, and ethically sharing data and information can we better understand the complex convergence of forces acting on humans and their societies across time and space. To this end, the Center for Digital...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Helena Meinecke. Diana Arano Recio. Abiud Pizá Chávez.

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. Since prehistoric times, the caves of the Yucatán Peninsula have been the locus of regular visit by animals but as well by the first humans populating the continent. Thousands of years later, the Maya culture would establish its cities around the cenotes and the few bodies of surface water. The Maya culture has developed over the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Reid Farmer. Jon Kent. Caitlin Calvert. Kayla Bellipanni.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In cooperation with the Cherokee Ranch and Castle Foundation, Metropolitan State University – Denver has conducted excavation and survey on the Foundation’s property near Sedalia, CO since 2014. Excavations have taken place at the Cherokee Mountain Rock Shelter (5DA1001) that was previously partly excavated in the 1970s. Artifacts and radiocarbon assays...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren Herckis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cultural processes extend into digital places and create archaeological sites that unfold in relationships between physical assemblages and assemblages that are not physical. Archaeological sites like these require that we translate our methods and extend our theory to understand behavior in the contemporary world. A distinction between two types of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Williams.

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. Many game players work under the assumption that all games need to be fair and balanced. Additionally, many assume that rules-based actions are at the center of gaming. This, however, is not the case when using games in the classroom. Having used games in the classroom for over 10 years, I’ve concluded that the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jose Ochatoma Cabrera. Pedro Neciosup. Evan Tamez-Galvan. Tim Trombley.

This is an abstract from the "Paisajes Arqueológicos de Pañamarca: Findings from the 2018–2023 Field Seasons" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For decades now, with the appearance of analogue photography, and more recently of digital technologies, a debate has arisen about the functionality, advantage/disadvantage between different archaeological recording techniques—considering that their main objective is to capture as accurately as possible the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katrina Burch Joosten. John Warner. Giles Morrow.

This is an abstract from the "Bridging Time, Space, and Species: Over 20 Years of Archaeological Insights from the Cañoncillo Complex, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru, Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The phenomenon of place as it is rhythmically embodied, akin to a fabric that is collectively worn and interwoven over successive generations, unfolds at the center of our presentation. We explore the intricate meshwork of place-making, applying an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Kimbell. Catherine Jalbert. Victoria Pagano.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1731, Mission Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción de Acuña (Mission Concepción) was constructed along the San Antonio River as part of a larger mission system whereby Franciscan missionaries sought to expand Spanish Colonial influence in present-day Texas through processes of cultural assimilation. Many of Mission Concepción’s associated landscape...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Bishop.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tule Lake Segregation Center (TLSC) was a place of incarceration for over 18,000 Japanese Americans, yet it remains one of the most understudied incarceration sites of the Second World War. This presentation is an addition to the thesis research “Archaeological Investigations of "Alaska" at Tule Lake Segregation Center in Northeastern California”. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Whitcher Kansa. Eric Kansa.

This is an abstract from the "Breaking the Mold: A Consideration of the Impacts and Legacies of Richard W. Redding" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although digital repositories are well established, many researchers still use informal ways to share data, such as email. This type of sharing runs a great risk of information loss because data is often not well documented or formally described. One could argue, in fact, even new data is legacy data if...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Corey Hutchings. Deirdre Elliott.

This is an abstract from the "Current Research and Challenges in Arctic and Subarctic Cultural Heritage Studies" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological research in Nunatsiavut has benefitted from past large-scale survey, testing, and excavation efforts that have served as the foundational bodies of work and knowledge upon which subsequent projects have been built. These wide-ranging projects opened up innumerable new avenues of inquiry and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adrian Badilla. Francisco Corrales.

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. The interaction between ancient societies and their natural environment was one of the topics discussed by Richard G. Cooke for southern Central America. We focus on the Diquis Delta, Costa Rica, an alluvial plain formed by the Térraba and Sierpe...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ching Yi Chan. Norman Easton. Robert Sattler.

This is an abstract from the "Posters on the Archaeology of the Southern Yukon-Alaska Borderlands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster will map out selected archaeological sites of the SY-AB and provide a table of associated radiocarbon dates calibrated to the most recent IntCal 20. Human occupation of what was then extreme southeastern Beringia begins in the Allerød interstadial (ca. 14.2 to 12.9 Kya) demonstrated at Little John and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Brock.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation discusses the regional and ethnic identity of pit cellars in Tennessee. Pit cellars are pits dug into the ground within or around historic buildings that were typically used for the storage of food or personal items. They come in multiple forms and were used by many different groups in North America. Archaeologists prize them for the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Takashi Sakaguchi.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Slate stone clubs created as prestige technologies were frequently found in shuteibo (a type of communal cemetery characterized by a circular embankments constructed in the latter half of the Late Jomon of central Hokkaido) burials suggesting that they were regalia of the dead. This paper explores sources of the stone clubs to better understanding trade...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Haws. Nuno Bicho. João Cascalheira. Mussa Raja. Milena Carvalho.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Southern Mozambique, with extensive Quaternary-aged deposits, shows great potential to inform on early modern human behavior. Despite its geographic proximity to well-known southern African hotspots of Stone Age archaeology, the area represents a major gap in our knowledge due to civil war and political instability in the late 20th century. In 2023, we...

DOCUMENT Citation Only A. Dudley Gardner.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the last twenty years extensive pedestrian surveys have been conducted along the Targavatai and Burgastai Valleys in northern Mongolia and in Weatherman Draw in south central Montana. What is clear, in both cases, is that the land surfaces of these areas have been greatly altered by changes in precipitation and soil depositional patterns. In both...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tracy Martens.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between 1892 and 1903, Adolpho Bandelier undertook an ethnographic and archaeological expedition to Peru and Bolivia, collecting materials on behalf of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). Bandelier sent four crates of materials back to the AMNH from Caleta Vitor, northern Chile including mummies, grave goods and other fiber and stone artifacts....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia Quiñonez. John Warner. Stephen Berquist.

This is an abstract from the "Bridging Time, Space, and Species: Over 20 Years of Archaeological Insights from the Cañoncillo Complex, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru, Part 2" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Canoñcillo probablemente derivó su importancia inicial de su posición a lo largo de los principales corredores de tránsito que conectaban la costa y la sierra. Su ubicación en el margen del desierto no se presta fácilmente al asentamiento. El río...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Platt.

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. 87 Church Street, now known as the Heyward-Washington House, is one of the most extensively excavated sites in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, representing a cross-section of urban life spanning the earliest decades of the eighteenth century to its reimagining as a historic house museum in 1929 on the leading edge...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberly Pyszka. Andrew McMichael.

This is an abstract from the "AI-Proof Learning: Food-Centered Experimental Archaeology in the Classroom" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the fall 2022 semester, we co-taught a Special Topics in Anthropology course entitled The Culture and History of Food and Drink. From our respective academic backgrounds as a historian and an archaeologist, we provided students with both an anthropological and a historical perspective to examine how...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth Aitchison. Keith May. James Taylor. Doug Rocks-Macqueen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent work on The Matrix project (AH/T002093/1) identified a number of issues with the way archaeological information is deposited in digital archives. There are noticeable differences in the completeness of data that get digitally archived from archaeological fieldwork undertaken by different organizations in the UK. This is particularly evident in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelton Sheridan.

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 findings from two seasons of fieldwork at Mission Espada in San Antonio as well as preliminary results from comparative analysis of the living quarters of the priests and Indigenous living quarters at the mission in the 18th century. This comparison is part of a larger multiscalar project that examines the lived experiences of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Hitchcock. Melinda Kelly.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Southern Africa has some of the world’s largest elephant (Loxodonta africana) populations. Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe all allow elephant hunting by safari company clients. Wildlife departments in the three countries engage in problem animal control (PAC) to reduce human-elephant conflict (HEC). Local indigenous community members, while not allowed to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Chavez. Teresa Rodrigues.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology: How Native American Knowledge Enhances Our Collective Understanding of the Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Perceptions of the past are culturally bound, which can inhibit research objectives and our interpretations. Taking a reflective approach in archaeology encourages researchers to consider the social and political ramifications of their work and how it may affect the communities...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shikha Misra. Bryn Sullivan.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Work by Chronicle Heritage" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A rafting expedition covering a 17-mile stretch of the Colorado River in the McInnis Canyons Recreation Area revealed an invasive takeover of cheatgrass across adjacent canyons, once filled with bunchgrass and sagebrush during a previous survey conducted in the 1970s for cattle grazing. This presentation explores the dynamic relationship...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ahmad Mohammadpour.

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. As a discipline initially tasked with understanding non-Western histories and heritage, archaeology has functioned mainly as a technology of forgetting rather than remembering when it came to indigenous material cultures. The role of archaeology in colonizing African and South American cultures is widely explored,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter E. Siegel. Benoît Bérard.

This is an abstract from the "Experimental Pedagogies: Teaching through Experimental Archaeology Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As most archaeologists would agree, we can never know with certainty what really happened in the past given (1) the fragmentary nature of the archaeological record and (2) the intangible aspects of human behavior that may have factored in forming the archaeological record. By integrating emic and etic perspectives...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Beatriz Barros.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Portugal's authoritarian regime, the conservative and nationalist Estado Novo (1933–1974), attempted to create a nationwide network of commissions dedicated to the supervision of archaeological, historical, and artistic monuments. The Municipal Commissions for Art and Archaeology (MCAAs, Comissões Municipais de Arte e Arqueologia, in the original) were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jayur Mehta. Tara Skipton.

This is an abstract from the "*SE New Orleans and Its Environs: Historical Archaeology and Environmental Precarity" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Evergreen Plantation Archaeological Survey (EPAS) focuses on understanding Black life during contexts of enslavement and post-Emancipation on Evergreen Plantation within Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. In Summer 2023, EPAS hosted its first interdisciplinary field school in which students not only learned...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sydney James.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. When archaeologists are community focused and projects are community oriented, archaeology possesses the capability to go beyond data collection for the sake of academic research. Successful community-based participatory archaeological research has yielded a range of results—from raising public awareness of local history, to implementing outreach...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Rees. Ryan Gray.

This is an abstract from the "Equity in the Archaeology of Disaster, Past, Present, and Future" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Louisiana has been called a state of disaster. The flooding of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 drew national attention to the effects of social inequalities, unpreparedness, and key vulnerabilities. Five years later, a catastrophic explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig produced the largest...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicole Grigg.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As the United States redeveloped restrictions on birthright and naturalized citizenship over the late nineteenth century, Washington, DC, served as a testing ground even though none of its residents held full citizenship because they lived in the city. Depending on the issue at stake, definitions of good citizenship increasingly integrated private...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Odlanyer Hernandez-de-Lara. Logel Lorenzo Hernandez. Esteban Grau. Judith Rodríguez Reyes.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeology of dictatorships in Latin America has had a significant development in the last decades, especially focusing on the south and central continental experiences. However, there is a lack of attention to the dictatorial processes in the Caribbean from an archaeological perspective. Cuba is not the exception. After the military coup of March...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Rodning. Sissel Schroeder.

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. Dugout canoes, typically made by felling trees then hollowing out logs by burning and chipping, are a widespread form of watercraft throughout the world, and one with great antiquity. There are archaeologically known dugouts from Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas, as well as from Australia and Oceania. Early examples of dugouts date to as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hajnalka Herold.

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 intent behind the notion of “Global Middle Ages” has generally been to broaden the scope, especially geographically, that we examine when discussing the Middle Ages. An important component of this has been widening the field of view beyond western Europe and the Mediterranean. However, a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Donald Holly.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Forgetting, an attendant to culture change, is the stuff of history. When cultural innovations, exchange, and adoption occur, previous customs, knowledge, technology, and other dimensions of culture are lost—they are forgotten. This paper considers the phenomenon of forgetting and its permutations—the passive forgetting that is more or less an accepted...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John White. Jeffrey Rasic. Mike Loso.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of the Southern Yukon-Alaska Borderlands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The multicomponent hunter-gatherer site Nataeł Na’ represents the first evidence of Pleistocene-aged human occupation in the Copper River basin. One occupation dates to the Allerød interstadial and another to the late Younger Dryas climate reversal. To date, the Allerød occupation has been identified only by a small assemblage of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Garcia-Casas.

This is an abstract from the "Exploring Long-Term Pastoral Dynamics: Methods, Theories, Stories" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Seasonal pastoralism is a livestock strategy which shaped Mediterranean landscapes since ancient times. The recent development of archaeological research in mountain chains of south-west Europe has provided us with new data and interpretative models to study the livestock practices starting from their pre-historic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Reilly.

This is an abstract from the "Activating Heritage: Encouraging Substantive Practices for a Just Future" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Analytical vectors of the African Diaspora have traditionally run east-to-west, charting the journeys of captive Africans from Sub-Saharan homelands to spaces and systems of racial violence in the Americas. Historical archaeology continues to shed light on the realities of such experiences across the spectrum of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bryan Heisinger.

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. Skiles Shelter (41VV165) is a small south-facing rockshelter near the mouth of Eagle Nest Canyon. While the site lacks the extensive organic preservation typical of dry rockshelters in the region, it is notable for its Pecos River style rock art, diversity of bedrock milling features, and prominent...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nancy White.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological synthesis in this neglected region (in northwest Florida, southeast Alabama, and southwest Georgia) provides alternative models of cultural adaptations over the last ca. 14,000 years. Paleo-Indian evidence is densest in the tributary Chipola River but extends to the coast. As post-Pleistocene sea-level rise pushed the river eastward, Archaic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Green. Nicole Fuller. Michelle J. LeFebvre. Neill J. Wallis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Oysters have long served as both ecological and cultural keystone species. Across many coastal regions of the world, oyster-dominated shell middens and mounds are common features of the archaeological record. Oyster deposits serve as time capsules containing evidence of past environmental conditions, harvest patterns, and subsistence economies. Due to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christina Rieth.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Jennings site is located in the Town of Ballston, Saratoga County, New York. The site contains several different occupations that correspond with local and regional shifts in production, participation in local and regional markets, and changes in the organization of the household during the late eighteenth and first part of the nineteenth centuries....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Kullen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Nucor Steel Corporation planned and built a major steel recycling facility on the south bank of Ohio River at a location that turned out to be loaded with prehistoric and historic archaeological sites. From 2019 through 2023, Burns & McDonnell undertook archaeological investigations there in the form of survey, test excavation, and site mitigation. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Darren Heigel. Amanda Schmidt. Lucille Katzman-Tranah. Hollis K. Miller. Ben Fitzhugh.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This past summer, we traveled to Kodiak, Alaska to conduct archaeological fieldwork as part of the Old Harbor Archaeological History Project (OHAHP). This year, OHAHP partnered with Old Harbor community organizations to co-facilitate a cultural camp for local Indigenous youth. Serving as counselors, we aimed to expose Indigenous youth to archaeology by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Sattler. Christian Thomas. Angela Younie. Thomas Gillispie. Jeffry Rasic.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of the Southern Yukon-Alaska Borderlands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Upper Yukon River Canyon traverses the international border between Alaska and the Yukon Territory. We consolidate over 60 radiocarbon dates among numerous sites and develop a first-approximation model spanning the Chindadn to Dene Traditions in Eastern Beringia. The radiocarbon date series is ordered temporally in ten...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Conolly. Michael Obie. Ana Aristizabal Henao. Dylan Morningstar. Becca Scott.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Wetlands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. I provide an overview of the relationship between Archaic through Middle Woodland peoples and the ecologically heterogenous wetlands and waterways of the Kawartha Lakes region of south-central Ontario. I focus on our research group's survey of submerged shorelines which has revealed a substantial underwater archaeological record that demonstrates a longer...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alice Kehoe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the Cold War of the twentieth century, the coterie of scientists at Los Alamos who had developed nuclear bombs continued their dominance through creating the National Science Foundation and the Santa Fe Institute. NSF science is laboratory-based physical sciences, manipulating "the tiny" as Derek Turner says. Its extreme form would be Hempel's...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Terrell.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Applications of Network Analysis" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For archaeologists, finding something from the past is more than its own reward. When what they have “recovered” can be interpreted as playing plausible roles in convincing historical narratives, they have reason to believe they are doing something extraordinary: fleshing out our ignorance of history with factual evidence of what may have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kofi Nutor.

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 discusses the creative use of indigenous and conventional archives and archaeological data in unearthing the history of Atlantic slavery in Peki. This frontier Ewe community in present-day Ghana led the pan-Ewe Krepi state out of Akwamu and Asante...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tony Chamoun.

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. Social historians demonstrate the historical contingency of sectarianism, which may be defined as a process and discourse that entwines religious sects and identities with political ones, on the ground and in state arrangements (Makdisi 2000). Despite this contingency, academic, government, and public circles...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Harold Kelly. Corinne Hofman.

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. Archaic groups worldwide are often categorized as less technically and culturally developed. However, their deep understanding of nature and their environment and ability to translate this knowledge to adapt to new circumstances proves otherwise. Paleoclimatic research in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Hannigan. Jane Buikstra. Eric Bartelink. Paraskevi Tritsaroli. Hannah Liedl.

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. While the Archaic (700–480 BCE) was a transformative and tumultuous period in ancient Greece, there is a considerable lack of paleodietary studies for this time. The recent excavation (2012–2016) of ~1,500 individuals from the Archaic period Phaleron cemetery in Athens provides a means of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nancy Asch Sidell. David Asch.

This is an abstract from the "The Village, the Region, and Beyond: Stuart Struever (1931–2022) and the Lower Illinois River Valley Research Program" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1960 Stuart Struever initiated an “Illinois Valley Archaeological Program” and devoted his research over the next decade to study of Middle Western Hopewell manifestations. He set out to test a hypothesis that the adoption of a simple mudflat agriculture conducted on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Bryce. Gavin Wisner. Sidney Rempel.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Teaming with the Navajo Division of Transportation, Dibble Engineering, and the Navajo Nation Heritage & Historic Preservation Department, Logan Simpson recently completed data recovery for the Dennehotso Loop Road Improvement Project on the Navajo Nation in northeastern Arizona. Within the area of potential effects data recovery resolved adverse effects...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Van Alstyne.

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. During the summer of 2019, members of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, excavated two rooms within Pete’s Pocket, a Virgin Branch Puebloan site located on the Shivwits Plateau, Arizona. The rooms, located about 300 m from the north rim of the Grand Canyon, were contiguous and circular, forming an almost Figure 8 shape. An unusually...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lia Kalinkos. Marc Wolf. Timothy Pugh.

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. Recent lidar survey of the Tayasal Peninsula in the Petén region of Guatemala revealed a collection of residence groups, situated on ridges of higher ground and separated by possible waterways of lower elevation. These suburb-like communities stand 2 km from Tayasal's urban core. They include structure compounds arranged into a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Wolff.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The influence of fear on our interactions with each other and the world around us is ubiquitous. Despite this, it can be challenging to recognize its effects in the archaeological and historical record. However, built environments create enduring physical evidence and their elements reflect the cultural fears of their makers. This evidence is multiscalar,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Maxwell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. ARCH 100 is a “breadth” course, providing a social sciences credit for students from across Simon Frazier University. Fall Semester 2022, I taught sections of this course as both online asynchronous (OLA) and traditional in-class lectures. Both sections offered identical lectures and readings while employing identical multiple-choice exam formats, both...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Pauketat. Carrie Wilson.

This is an abstract from the "*SE Big Data and Bigger Questions: Papers in Honor of David G. Anderson" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From the mouth of the St. Francois River in eastern Arkansas, up along the Ohio River, and northeast to the Varney-culture inhabitants of greater Cahokia, ancestral Quapaw people defined the archaeology of both the central Mississippi River valley and David G. Anderson. Understanding a vast swath of precolonial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabriela Montero.

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. A lo largo de los años, la práctica arqueológica se ha dedicado a estudiar el cambio desde diversos enfoques, incluyendo procesos adaptativos, resiliencia, entre otros temas que guían nuestras investigaciones para comprender cómo vivieron las sociedades...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Simón Urbina. Leonor Adán. Simón Sierralta. Diego Carabias. Carolina Belmar.

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. Los principales núcleos urbanos y fortificaciones en Chiloé coexistieron con un centenar de asentamientos, llamados pueblos de indios, desde la fundación de Santiago de Castro en 1567. Desde ese momento, la dinámica de relaciones interétnicas habría incidido en la conformación del sistema colonial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ricardo Leonel Cruz Jimenez. Sarah Clayton.

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. Se presenta una investigación colaborativa que examina la organización espacial y dinámica sociopolítica de Chicoloapan, un asentamiento en la Cuenca de México, que creció durante el periodo Epiclásico (550-850 dC), después del declive de Teotihuacan. Este proyecto combina métodos arqueológicos y geofísicos para investigar una...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kim Cox.

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Rock Art Documentation, Research, and Analysis" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological site of Paint Rock, Texas (41CC1) at over 300 m in length is the largest continuous rock art site in Texas. Many of its older pictographs have been scheduled to spectacularly interact with the sun on the equinoxes and solstices and apparently also on the cross-quarter days. The older rock...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Mady.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Motherhood" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The AUB Museum collection of motherhood encompasses amulets, infant feeding bottles, and figurines. All these items are connected to the maternal body and specifically to motherhood. However, finding and identifying such artifacts is challenging as they might resemble ordinary objects: Infant feeding bottles could have been used as oil lamp fillers, droppers,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Pugh. Evelyn Chan Nieto. Jemima Georges. Gabriela Zygadlo.

This is an abstract from the "The Past, Present, and Future of Water Supplies" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent work at Nixtun-Ch’ich’, Petén, Guatemala has revealed several artificial ponds. Many of the pools occurred naturally but were enhanced through the construction of floors and walls and the manipulation of groundwater flow. Some of the pools contained large ritual deposits, including ceramic sherds, animal bones, greenstone objects,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Virginia Ochoa-Winemiller.

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. This paper discusses the role that two distinctive artisan communities from Eastern Honduras, El Chichicaste and Dos Quebradas, played as producers of pottery and obsidian blades within local and interregional exchange networks. Analysis of pottery, obsidian, and settlement patterns from both...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tania Mosquera Castro. André Santos. Ramón Fábregas Valcarce. Arturo De Lombera-Hermida. Xose Rodríguez-Álvarez.

This is an abstract from the "Local and/or Exotic Interactions: Symbols, Materials, and Societies" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Traditionally, the distribution of Paleolithic art was limited to the so-called “Franco-Cantabrian area,” but the distribution of this graphic phenomenon has enlarged with the identification of new sites in different parts of the Iberian Peninsula. Previously, the northwest of Iberia, roughly delimited by the valleys of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Cranford. Chris Southerly. Kim Kenyon. Stephen Atkinson.

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. Recent discoveries of dugout canoes from North Carolina and elsewhere have renewed public interest in these types of artifacts as well as interest from several local Indigenous communities, while also highlighting the increasing threats to this type of cultural heritage. North Carolina’s abundance of coastal lakes and rivers have yielded a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carmen Martin-Ramos.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Stone tool making has proven to be essential in human evolution and evolutionary cognitive archaeology studies (Herzlinger et al. 2017; Martín-Ramos 2022; Martín-Ramos and Steele 2023). In the case of the Acheulean technocomplex, concepts such as innovation, imposition of arbitrary form, and artifact variability have been linked to cognitive traits such as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alberto Conti.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ethnographic record for southern Idaho indicates that pottery was primarily utilized for camas processing in the uplands and occasionally as stewpots. However, recent investigations reveal that Late Archaic ceramics occur beyond just riverine and upland locations, suggesting a broader use of pottery. This study aims to delve deeper into these findings...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Perkins. Ian Beggen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Interobserver variation is a known phenomenon within macroscopic and microscopic lithic analyses. Thus far, many researchers have conducted extensive studies of variation between experts and novices in lithic analyses, and these studies have shown the importance of careful supervision and repetition of measurements. Here, we present findings from a study...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Stark. Robert Mahler. Artur Obluski.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As the capital of the medieval Kingdom of Makuria, in what is today Sudan, Old Dongola was a central location of administration and culture; Old Dongola was also the seat of a bishopric. Such factors would have made Old Dongola a key location for mobility, with various pull factors from economic, social, and religious, including monastic. Numerous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chantel White. Grant Bruner. Alessandra Dominguez. Jennifer Feng. Phoenix Strouse.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeogastronomy: Grocery Lists as Seen from a Multidimensional Perspective" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Mughr el-Hamamah (MHM) cave site, located on the Jordan Valley’s eastern flanks, contains a prehistoric layer associated with Early Ahmarian artifacts. AMS 14C dates bracket the Early Upper Paleolithic (EUP) occupation between ca. 45 and 39 ka cal BP and are comparable in age to Ahmarian-associated layers...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Rorabaugh.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent developments in radiocarbon dating have enabled archaeologists to re-examine the question of population dynamism in the Salish Sea. This study expands on prior studies using Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) and an expanded data set of 538 radiocarbon dates from academic and cultural resource management literature. The expanded sample suggests a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Helen Fairley. Joel Sankey. Joshua Caster.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Repeat lidar surveys conducted over multiple years are a means of monitoring physical changes at archaeological sites with methods that are objective, replicable, accurate, and relatively low impact. These monitoring data can also be useful for testing assumptions about how archaeological site condition may change in response to changes in upstream dam...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rosa Moll. Lyn Wadley.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. At Sibhudu Cave, the Still Bay technocomplex is found ~71,000 years ago and its formal tool component is dominated by bifacial points, while the deposit below, which Wadley (2012) called the pre-Still Bay, has a low density of bifacial points. The Pre-Still Bay has many flakes with few bifacial points, and it dates to between about 74,000 and 80,000 years...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Guadalupe Sanchez Miranda. Alejandra Abrego. John Carpenter. Astrid Aviles. Elisa Villalpando.

This is an abstract from the "13,000 Years of Adaptation in the Sonoran Desert at La Playa, Sonora" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. More than 300 projectile points have been collected from the La Playa site. The vast majority were found on the surface without archaeological contexts. The site begins to be used continuously from the middle Holocene (ca. 7,000 years) by Archaic hunter-gatherer/forager groups as a locality included in their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Stauffer.

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. First detected by Charles Bareis in 1969 in Cahokia’s Ramey Field tract, Mound 17 (the Bareis Mound) was partially exposed beneath artificially mixed plaza fills, immediately west of the palisade wall that bounds the eastern extremity of the site core. Following an analysis of Bareis’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Czujko. Virginie Renson. Michael Glascock. Maria Verde. Marcus Rautman.

This is an abstract from the "Geological and Technological Contributions to the Interpretation of Radiogenic Isotope Data" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents the results of isotopic analysis of ceramic sherds and locally sourced soils that contribute to our understanding of the origin of ancient Sardis’s ceramic corpus and help clarify the site’s role within the larger interaction network of western Anatolia. A previous study...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chiara Umbriano. Matt Peeples. Matthew Kroot.

This is an abstract from the "Training a New Generation of Heritage Professionals in the Valley of the Sun: The ASU Field School at S’eḏav Va’aki" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the primary goals of the Arizona State University field school at S’eḏav Va’aki was to use minimally disturbing methods to accurately characterize the nature, spatial extent, and chronological placement of features within the project area. This goal was developed in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Anne Melton.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Distinguishing cultural relatedness from independent convergence in lithic technological behavior requires high-resolution behavioral data. Arguably, the best source of such high-resolution data comes from refitted reduction sequences because these sequences illustrate the procedural steps taken by individuals to produce stone tools. But much remains to be...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robbyn McKellop.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Located in the east Texas Pineywoods, Boxed Springs (41UR30) is a lesser-known Early Caddo mound center characterized by a diverse and distinctive archaeological assemblage. Recently, Wichita State University has been granted permission to access the eastern portion of the site which was previously restricted. Excavation findings during the 2021 and 2022...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Ciolek-Torello. Donn Grenda. Patrick Stanton.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ethnohistoric accounts suggest that the Gabrielino were a complex hunter-gatherer society similar to their Chumash neighbors. They had a rich and elaborate material culture and a ranked society with a chiefly class. Building upon previous research on Chumash burial grounds, we report the results of an intensive multi-year study of a Gabrielino village and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Jonsson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the 1970s, tribal archaeology programs and Tribal Historic Preservation Offices (THPOs) have served a significant and positive role in supporting tribal sovereignty in heritage management. The increasing application of Indigenous and collaborative archaeologies has contributed towards both this goal and deepening our knowledge of past and present...