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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leonardo García Sanjuán. Francisco Sánchez Díaz.

This is an abstract from the "Theorizing Prehistoric Large Low-Density Settlements beyond Urbanism and Other Conventional Classificatory Conventions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the last two decades, mega-sites have become a defining feature in the research of Copper Age Iberia, opening up completely new avenues for the analysis of early social complexity in this region. One of the most fascinating cases is the Valencina de la...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Macdonald. Ahmad Thaher. Lisa Maher. Theresa Barket.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The multi-component Epipalaeolithic site of Kharaneh IV, located in the Azraq Basin of eastern Jordan, documents ~1,000 years of occupation by hunter-gatherer groups late in the Last Glacial Maximum. Multiple lines of geomorphological, faunal, and archaeobotanical evidence indicate that the environs around the site were well-watered, lushly vegetated, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirrily White.

This is an abstract from the "Theorizing Prehistoric Large Low-Density Settlements beyond Urbanism and Other Conventional Classificatory Conventions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Early giant settlements such as Chaco Canyon, the Tswana “towns,” and the European oppida have long seemed anomalous to scholarship because they did not ally their vast extents with characteristics of conventional urbanism. These large low-density settlements emerged...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Maher. Danielle Macdonald. AJ White. Jordan Brown.

This is an abstract from the "Water in the Desert: Human Resilience in the Azraq Basin and Eastern Desert of Jordan" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the Azraq Basin of Jordan, dramatic landscape changes from wetlands to desert resulted in shifts in settlement and land use over time suggesting that, like today, water availability was crucial for past populations. Changing environmental conditions throughout the Pleistocene and Holocene had...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Crisp.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Located in Eastern Oklahoma, Fort Gibson acted as the starting gate for America’s military expansion into the West. Founded in 1824, Fort Gibson played a role in mediating encounters between the Osage and Cherokee until 1857. The Fort reopened at the start of the American Civil War and operated until 1890. Fort Gibson serves as an excellent archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Veerle Rots. Justin Coppe.

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. The development of hunting technology is a key aspect of human behavioral evolution. Many efforts have therefore been made to identify prehistoric projectiles and propulsion modes, especially to determine when long-range...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Murray. B. Patrick Fahey. Cindy Hsin-Yee Huang.

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. The origins and evolution of projectile technology have been a major research focus in paleoanthropology because projectiles are thought to have had crucial impacts on human adaptation and dispersal in the Pleistocene....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tanner Haynes. Tristan O'Donnell. Frank Schuler.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Photogrammetry has seen increasing utilization within archaeology in recent years but with the rise of this representational methodology has come several challenges including the loss of context, inaccurate reproduction of surfaces, and difficulties processing thin objects. Emerging free open-source machine learning technology can produce novel scenes...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristen Martine. Emily Palus.

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. Federal archaeological collections acquisition and management practices are guided by decades-old law and policy, intended to uphold aspirational and perhaps unachievable expectations for preserving our nation’s heritage. The resulting “curation crises,” or, rather, the system that has become the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda Zuniga. Khori Newlander.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The farm fields of east-central Pennsylvania contain an abundance of artifacts that span much of regional prehistory. Not surprisingly, many of these artifacts have been collected by local amateurs. Here, we analyze an assemblage of projectile points collected from the Kramer Farm in Kutztown, Pennsylvania. We explore how morphometric attributes (e.g.,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Estelle Praet.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Marine plastic pollution is an issue threatening most places around the world, including the remote and unique Galapagos archipelago, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Building on how archaeology of the contemporary world can help address urgent and global environmental issues, this paper offers suggestions for an archaeology of plastic pollution in Galapagos....

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Rick. Erick Acero Shapiama. Rosa Rick.

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. In 2019 a new gallery was detected by the Programa de Investigación Arqueológico y Conservación en Chavín de Huántar in Chavin’s Building D, which was explored in 2022 and excavated in 2023. Named for a sculptural stone vessel depicting a condor left during gallery closure, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anthony DeLuca.

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. In 2023, the first study of its kind by the Video Game History Foundation determined that 87% of video games made before 2010 are critically endangered. What was once considered a fun but silly form of entertainment has grown into a multibillion-dollar global industry spawning competitive scholastic and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shalen Prado. Adrianne Lickers Xavier. Andrew Roddick. Scott Martin.

This is an abstract from the "Cultivating Food, Land, and Communities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. How can archaeological data contribute to Indigenous food sovereignty efforts and biocultural restoration of Indigenous landscapes? We present two projects from northern Turtle Island from vastly different ecologies (Saskatchewan and Ontario), where paleoethnobotanical research has been effective for connecting archaeologists, Indigenous scholars,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Evan Tudor Elliott.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Work by Chronicle Heritage" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Too often the identified biological sex of precontact human remains are assumed to represent the lived gender experience of the individual. At the same time, concepts of the gendered division of labor influence the association of classes of artifacts with genders. This paper reexamines data from excavations of burials in the San Francisco...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caroline Donovan. Jennifer Kahn.

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. My research examines ongoing issues of gender disparity in male-dominated academic professions like archaeology. Here, I investigate the link between gender and publishing of archaeological research in Oceania amongst a broad cross-section of archaeologists. Similar research conducted on North American archaeologists has found significant...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aaron Comstock. Robert Cook.

This is an abstract from the "Improving and Decolonizing Precontact Legacy Collections with Fieldwork: Making Sense of Harvard’s Turpin Site Expedition (Ohio)" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the span of a few winter months in the mid-1880s, Harvard University conducted excavations on the property of Philip Turpin in Hamilton County, Ohio. Under the direction of Charles Metz, a local physician, a small team excavated areas throughout the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dale Croes. Ed Carriere.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ed Carriere, Suquamish Elder and Master Basketmaker and I published on how ancient Salish Sea basketry styles statistically linked through 4,000+ years in style to the basketry Ed learned from his Great Grandmother Julia Jacobs (born 1874) who raised him from infancy. Ed helped me analyze 2,000-year-old wet archaeological basketry from his traditional...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carolyn Freiwald. John Walden. Rick Smith.

This is an abstract from the "“The Center and the Edge”: How the Archaeology of Belize Is Foundational for Understanding the Ancient Maya, Part II" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Emerging genomic and isotopic approaches have opened new doors to reconstructing diet, mobility, kinship, demography, and identity in the past and have the potential to transform our understanding of the ancient Maya world. These methods offer ways to reconstruct where...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Stone. Reniel Rodriguez Ramos. William Pestle. Maria Nieves-Colón.

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. In the Caribbean, archaeological and linguistic research have contributed a wealth of knowledge to our understanding of human settlement, yet many issues surrounding dispersal trajectories, adaptation to island environments, and population dynamics over time are still...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Socha.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. WR-1 and Brown Hole are two submerged archaeological sites in the West Run of the Aucilla River. This thesis utilizes a geoarchaeological approach to evaluate the depositional sequences of these sites as well as their potential for further archaeological investigation. The sedimentary histories of the sites represent adjacent depositional facies within a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley Eyeington.

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. Bonfire Shelter is a large prehistoric rockshelter site situated at the northern end of Mile Canyon in southwest Texas. Early investigators determined the site to be the location of multiple bison jump events; however subsequent investigations have disputed this interpretation. My research focuses on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caroline Graham. Lia Kitteringham. Edward R. Henry.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pinson Mounds, located along the South Fork of the Forked Deer River (SFFDR) in West Tennessee, is considered the largest Middle Woodland (ca. 200 BCE – CE 500) ceremonial center in the Southeast. Containing at least 13 earthworks, the site provides important opportunities to examine complex social and environmental interactions among societies across the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chloe Stevens.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Florida State’s 2022 field school excavated into Page-Ladson’s stratigraphic unit (SU) 5, a stratum that spans the terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene with Bolen period occupation, and exposed a sediment feature. It was unclear if the feature was cultural or natural. The soil transition was diffuse but there was an increase in charcoal and faunal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rolfe Mandel.

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 Magic Mountain site (5JF223) in Golden, Colorado, has long been recognized as one the most important stratified archaeological sites on the Front Range of the Southern Rocky Mountains. Although Archaic artifacts have been recorded there, the site’s richest and most extensive cultural deposits represent...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Grooms.

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 Little John Site (KdVo-6), Yukon Territory, Canada, contains the presence of both Chindadn/Nenana and Denali artifacts in unique stratified contexts. The site contains loess/paleosol stratigraphic sequences spanning the past 14,000 years. Sediment and soil, XRD, INAA/ICP-MS, and thin section analysis have illuminated the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leila Joyce Seals. Rolfe Mandel.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Central Plains of North America have yielded fewer stratified Paleoindian archaeological sites than other regions of the Great Plains. The dearth of recorded early sites is due to geologic filtering of the archaeological record; processes of erosion and deposition have removed or deeply buried early sites, respectively. At the Coffey site in the Big...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heidi Luchsinger. Juan Bautista Belardi. Luis Alberto Borrero. Flavia Carballo Marina.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geoarchaeological investigations in the Mack Aike Canyon were conducted in March 2023. Located in southernmost Patagonia, Mack Aike is ca. 13 miles (21 km) long and was repeatedly occupied by hunter-gatherer populations for at least 3,300 years BP. Alluvial deposits and complex sequences of wetland and eolian deposits within the canyon boundaries were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Boulanger. Brandi MacDonald.

This is an abstract from the "*SE Not Your Father’s Poverty Point: Rewriting Old Narratives through New Research" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We present results of a geochemical study on baked-clay balls (Poverty Point Objects; PPOs) obtained from the Poverty Point archaeological site. We compare our data with PPOs obtained at other sites to evaluate the proposition that PPOs were traded or exchanged among Poverty Point-related cultures in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra Jonassen.

This is an abstract from the "Expanding Our Understanding of the Mojave Desert: Emerging Research and New Perspectives on Old Data" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study geochemically documents the conveyance of felsite from quarries in the Soda Mountains adjacent to pluvial Lake Mojave, California to the archaeological sites along its terminal Pleistocene-Early Holocene (TP/EH) shorelines. Prior research suggests Paleoindians conveyed tool...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Bair. Richard Terry.

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. Ancient markets are difficult to identify as most utilitarian items and consumables were perishable. Our objective was to use geochemical analyses of extractable phosphorus and metallic residues in soils to distinguish the unique geochemical patterns of market plazas from other types of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anthony Farace. Neill Wallis. Michelle LeFebvre. Charles Cobb. Victor Thompson.

This is an abstract from the "Ceramic Petrographers in the Americas: Recent Research and Methodological Advances" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Estero Island site (8LL4) is located on a shell ridge in what is now Fort Myers Beach in southwestern Florida. A portion of the site, Mound House, consists of a historic house built on top of a Calusa shell mound which was occupied from ca. AD 500–1000. Conservation efforts at Mound House to preserve...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fanny Alloteau. Ayed Ben Amara. Nadia Cantin. Alejandra Castañeda. Véronique Darras.

This is an abstract from the "Reassessing Chupícuaro–Cuicuilco Relationships in Light of Ceramic Production (Formative Mesoamerica)" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the framework of the CHUPICERAM project, we perform geochemical analyses to investigate the chemical composition of the pastes and the decorations of ceramic wares excavated from two different archaeological sites (TR6 / JR24) and assigned to two different periods (Chupícuaro /...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alejandro Figueroa. Whitney Goodwin. Brigitte Kovacevich. Michael Callaghan. Christopher Roos.

This is an abstract from the "Holtun: Investigations at a Preclassic Maya Center" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper we present the results of an exploratory program aimed at providing multi-component soil sampling and analysis of plaster floor surfaces at the Maya site of Holtun, Guatemala. Our research sampled three different plaza settings at the site: the monumental E-Group plaza, an elite residential patio adjacent to the E-Group...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Orr. Peregrine Gerard-Little. Konnie Wescott.

This is an abstract from the "MARS General Military CRM Poster Session" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Situated on 7,484 ha (18,494 acres) at the foothills of the Rampart Range in Colorado, the main campus of the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) has experienced human activity across the precolonial, historic, and military eras, as well as natural disturbance from water courses and soil slumping along steep slopes. Both natural and cultural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marta Sánchez De La Torre. Manuel Alcaraz-Castaño. Xavier Mangado. Samuel Castillo-Jiménez. Bernard Gratuze.

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. The Solutrean of southwest Europe (∼25,000–20,000 cal BP) is an outstanding case for studying human mobility and social networks within harsh environmental conditions, given its coincidence with the Last Glacial Maximum. However, little is known about these topics in the inland territories of the Iberian Peninsula....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jan Simek. Jordan Schaefer. Alan Cressler. Jeremy Price.

This is an abstract from the "Painting the Past: Interpretive Approaches in Global Rock Art Research" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In recent years, a large number of precontact Native American rock art sites, including caves and open shelter localities, have been recorded in the southern Cumberland Plateau. Cave sites contain pictographs, petroglyphs, and mud glyphs. Most open sites are pictographs or petroglyphs painted or engraved into upland...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elliot Helmer. Andrew Frierson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From the impressive buttes and craters where it can be quarried to the shining black flakes speckled across vast sagebrush plains, obsidian and its procurement, use, and discard has defined the human experience of eastern Oregon’s landscape since time immemorial. Cultural resource management (CRM) practitioners must be proactive about documenting the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only César Parcero-Oubiña.

This is an abstract from the "Developments and Challenges in Landscape Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geographic information technologies already have a long history of use in archaeology. In fact, archaeology has perhaps been the field of humanities where these technologies have reached the most widespread development, in many cases becoming part of the “standard package” of work for any archaeologist. To what extent is this true, or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Evans. Louise Tizzard. Megan Metcalfe.

This is an abstract from the "Submerged Paleolandscape Investigations in the Gulf of Mexico" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The authors acquired parametric subbottom and conventional chirp subbottom data over potential submerged and buried landscapes features in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico. The purpose of the study was two-fold: to map out potential preserved features for geotechnical sampling and also to directly compare the efficacy of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rene Chavez. Maria Encarnacion Camara. Andres Tejero. Luis Barba. Linda Manzanilla.

This is an abstract from the "What Happened after the Fall of Teotihuacan?" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A geophysical study was carried out on the eastern flank of the Pyramid of the Sun to define the continuation of a tunnel discovered in 1974 under the western entrance of the pyramid. The investigation was carried out in the vicinity of Las Varillas cave, a structure excavated by settlers to obtain construction materials employed to build the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacob Moody. Adam Wiewel.

This is an abstract from the "New and Emerging Geophysical and Geospatial Research in the National Parks" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Midwest Archeological Center carried out multi-instrument geophysical surveys at four properties managed by Ste. Geneviève National Historical Park in 2022 to better understand archeological resources within them. Ste. Geneviève is a French colonial town in southeast Missouri with vernacular architecture...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rory Becker. Danny Walker. Carolyn Buff.

This is an abstract from the "New and Emerging Geophysical and Geospatial Research in the National Parks" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A multi-instrument survey of the Fort Union National Monument was conducted during the 2014 field season. The survey covered approximately 13.4 ha (33 acres) and was funded through a CESU grant with the National Park Service. The multi-instrument survey detailed evidence of intact, subsurface structural elements...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth McCreary.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fort Ligonier, constructed in 1758, was the advance post and the last in the line of supply forts constructed for Brigadier-General John Forbes’ Expedition to take Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian War. A young George Washington was a Colonel stationed at Fort Ligonier. On November 12, 1758, there was a small skirmish between a British Virginia...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kara Jones.

This is an abstract from the "Expanding Our Understanding of the Mojave Desert: Emerging Research and New Perspectives on Old Data" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ivanpah Dry Lake is an overlooked Holocene and paleolake located in the eastern Mojave Desert. Much of the archaeological work done in the area has centered around industry and development with data available in gray literature site reports and records. This research is a component of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Kahn.

This is an abstract from the "Entangled Legacies: Human, Forest, and Tree Dynamics" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological, anthropological, and historical sources speak to the importance of particular tree species for ceremonial and quotidian use in precontact Polynesian chiefdoms. Archaeological studies have largely discussed the spatial association of trees and archaeological sites in an ad hoc manner, thus more refined spatial analyses...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lola Tydgadt. Veerle Rots.

This is an abstract from the "Examining Spatial-Temporal Variation in the Lithic Technology of the Early Upper Paleolithic" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In Paleolithic Europe, the Aurignacian period marks the beginnings of the production of a multitude of formal tools, each with specific typologies that sometimes have been attributed to one or several functions and actions. Functional studies have shown that morphology does not suffice to infer...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Ramirez. Sarah Rowe. Guy Duke. Edward González-Tennant.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Photogrammetry, the science of converting two-dimensional images into immersive 3D models, traditionally adheres to a strict set of guidelines and specialized tools. However, this poster explores the spirited realm of photogrammetry with rule bending and limits to achieve success in Dos Mangas, Ecuador. In this resource-constrained setting, innovators...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Isabelle Maurice-Hammond. Darcy Mathews.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Estuarine root gardens are poorly understood and under-researched sites of Indigenous plant cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America. Combining archaeology, ecology and pedology, and drawing from research conducted on 'Namgis and Ahousaht First Nations territories in British Columbia, Canada, this research proposes a novel method to aid in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher La Roche.

This is an abstract from the "Emerging Voices in Mogollon Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology Southwest and the University of Arizona’s Upper Gila Preservation Archaeology (UGPA) Field School has conducted excavations for six field seasons (2016–2019; 2021–2022) at the Gila River Farm Site. This paper evaluates intrasite coalescence between a small migrant community with ancestry linked to the Kayenta-Tusayan area and local...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Victoria Schwarz. Emily Milton.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological survey began in the central Peruvian Andes in the mid-1960s through the 1970s but was brought to a halt in the 1980s due to political unrest. Investigations into some of the early highland sites continued in the 2000s; however, there are still areas that have yet to be systematically surveyed. Digitization of the existing field survey data...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elliot Blair. Dennis Blanton. Laure Dussubieux.

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. Despite being the center of European glass bead production during the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries CE, very few elemental analyses have ever been conducted on glass beads recovered from known production sites in Murano/Venice. Here we present LA-ICP-MS data on sixteenth-century Nueva Cadiz...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karime Castillo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. After arriving in Mexico in the 16th century, glass, and the technology to make it, slowly found their way into the everyday life of colonial populations in Mexico City, Puebla, and other areas of New Spain. While glass routinely appears in archaeological excavations of colonial and 19th-century contexts in Mexico, it is not as deeply studied as other...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Fenn.

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. Advances in both analytical techniques used to examine archaeological materials and in our understanding of various isotope systems have led to an efflorescence of research that applies isotopic analyses to questions of provenance in ancient glass materials. While initial isotopic studies of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allison Sterrett-Krause. Laure Dussubieux.

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. Excavations at the site Bir el Knissia in Carthage from 1990 to 1992 recovered large glass assemblages from the site of an early Byzantine cemetery basilica, constructed by the mid-sixth century CE and destroyed by fire in the mid-seventh century. These artifacts include vessels (especially lamps,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Rose. Sabine Klein. Katrin Westner. Yiu-Kang Hsu.

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. Lead isotope data are an important tool for the reconstruction of raw material provenances of non-ferrous archaeological materials. The quality of the provenance reconstruction depends, among other factors, on the comprehensiveness of the reference data the archaeological samples can be compared...

DOCUMENT Citation Only R. J. Sinensky. Sarah Oas.

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. For over three decades Dr. Karen R. Adams has been at the forefront of research on the origins and long-term evolution of maize (Zea mays subsp. mays) in the US Southwest and northwestern Mexico. Dr. Adams has approached untangling the complex and oft convoluted histories of maize in a collaborative and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Watt. Adam Wiewel. Steven De Vore. Jon Garcia.

This is an abstract from the "New and Emerging Geophysical and Geospatial Research in the National Parks" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists with the Midwest Archeological Center (MWAC), local volunteers, and Wilson's Creek National Battlefield (WICR) staff conducted a systematic metal detector and magnetometry survey of the proposed location of the Guinn Farmstead. The site of an ambush during the Union Army's retreat in the August...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Belcher. Christina L. Youngpeter. Natalie G. Mueller. Alleen Betzenhauser.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In precontact eastern North America, Indigenous peoples domesticated a unique crop system called the Eastern Agricultural Complex (EAC) before the arrival of maize (Zea mays). The EAC likely sustained past Indigenous populations beginning around 3900 B.P., to approximately 600 B.P. The EAC fell out of cultivation prior to European contact, so their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Whitridge.

This is an abstract from the "Rethinking Persistent Places: Relationships, Atmospheres, and Affects" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although simple tags are liable to appear anywhere, contemporary graffiti thrives in places that are marginal to everyday traffic, such as alleyways, rooftops, overpasses and vacant or abandoned structures. Even in these places graffiti is usually impermanent; other writers will eventually go over it or the wall will...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yufeng Sun. Melissa Ritchey. Xinyi Liu.

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. Over the past 15 years, research into prehistoric food globalization has shed light on the timelines, routes, and tempos of crop diffusion across the Old World. This diffusion not only involved the spread of plants but also the reproduction and transformation of cultures, technologies, and ideologies associated...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin Guthrie.

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. In response to stagnated repatriation efforts in the 32 years since the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA, 43 CFR 10) became law, a new proposed rule to revise implementation regulations was entered into the federal register...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean Devlin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological interpretations of household organization have long recognized its role in the construction of social identities and in the furtherance of social goals. While much of the historical archaeology of Jamaica, and indeed the Caribbean more broadly, has focused on exploring spatial and consumption choices of enslaved Africans and African...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jack Rossen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper discusses recent investigations at a hunter-gatherer base camp in northwest Arkansas. Excavations at the Greathouse Springs site (3WA569), near Fayetteville in Washington County produced unusual remains of Archaic structures. Included are two elongated rectangular structures, interpreted as communal cookhouses, and at least four smaller...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Ringle. Melissa Galvan. Kenneth Seligson. Gabriel Tun Ayora.

This is an abstract from the "The Bolonchen Regional Archaeological Project: 25 Years of Research in the Puuc" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. It has long been recognized that the two principal physiographic subdivisions of the Puuc are the wedge-shaped Valle de Sta. Elena, just south of the Puuc escarpment, and to its south, the Bolonchen Hill District. One goal of the PARB project was to explore the eastern manifestations of these two regions for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma Lashley.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Laurel Hill Settlement was a small, mountaintop African American settlement that was located in what is now Laurel Ridge State Park west of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The settlement was formed sometime before 1825 and may date back as far as the late 1700s. It is unclear how large the settlement was and how many families lived there at any given time...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ran Chen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Burial practices provide important evidence for understanding the social and symbolic connections between the dead and the living. The presentation of artifacts in burials and their functions can provide crucial information of meanings in ritual practices. In this study, I apply use-wear analysis and residue analysis to a sample of grinding stones,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Francisco Pugliese. John Krigbaum. Kenneth Sassaman. Luis Cayón. Michael Heckenberger.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Gruta do Gentio II is an iconic site in the archaeology of Central Brazil because of its early occupation and rich excavation history. Situated in the interfluvial region of the Central Plateau, renewed investigation (after 35 years) offers new perspectives for the site. Data produced during the 1970s and 1980s revealed a wide variety of remains dating...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Longo. Clarissa Cagnato. Elena Badetti. Giusi Sorrentino. Antonio Marcomini.

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 surfaces of lithic artifacts, namely of ground stone tools (GSTs), are a rich repository of structured use-related biogenic residues (SU-RBR) such as starch, revealing the mechanical processing of starch-rich organs, naturally biodegradable and therefore vulnerable. The recovery of SU-RBR on the surfaces of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeremy Pye.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The analysis and historical study of burial container hardware and other mortuary artifacts is crucial in establishing a useful discourse between the multiple lines of evidence recorded and recovered in historical cemetery investigations. Exact identification of types and styles of burial container hardware is vital in defining the chronology of burial,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barbara Stark. Wesley Stoner.

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 south-central Veracruz, higher-level centers during the Classic period had ballcourts. The prevailing “low-density urbanism” and a distributed urban network pose challenges for sociopolitical integration. How well did the ballgame accommodate at least nearby populations and contribute to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fernanda Navarro Sandoval. José Luis Punzo Díaz.

This is an abstract from the "Ways to Do, Ways to Inhabit, Ways to Interact: An Archaeological View of Communities and Daily Life" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Como parte del proyecto “Prospección Arqueológica de Tzintzuntzan, Antigua Ciudad de Michoacán”, se analizó el paisaje norte de la cuenca del lago de Pátzcuaro para identificar la extensión de las modificaciones hechas en las laderas de los cerros, mediante la construcción de terrazas. A...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Francesca Fernandini.

This is an abstract from the "Arqueología colaborativa en los Andes: Casos de estudios y reflexiones" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El sitio arqueológico Cerro de Oro (Cañete), al igual que miles de sitios en Perú, fue considerado por la comunidad que lo rodea como un espacio abandonado. Fue huaqueado, usado como vivienda, espacio agrícola, y sus paredes y restos afectados por diferentes tipos de actividades. En el 2012, el Proyecto Arqueológico...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Sportman. David Leslie. Kevin McBride.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2023, the Connecticut Office of State Archaeology directed a new archaeological investigation of the 1781 Rochambeau Camp #5, in Bolton, Connecticut, as part of the Connecticut State Library’s Digging into History Program for high school students. Camp #5 is one of several stops along the route taken by French forces under the command of Jean-Baptiste...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michele Koons. J. Antonio Ochatoma Cabrera. Amy Gillaspie. Alex Clavo Cruz. Jessica Ortiz Zevallos.

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. Excavations in 2023 revealed a previously unexcavated structure in the southern corner of the Moche plaza at Pañamarca. Here we present our findings related to this building, which contains large, well-preserved pillars with anthropomorphized snakes on all facades and the life-sized painting of a Moche...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Olga Dec.

This is an abstract from the "Life and Death in Medieval Central Europe" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Slavic “deviant” funerary practices and dealings with certain dead—including decapitations, mutilations, or crushing cadavers with stones—have been of interest for mortuary archaeologists for many years. The explanation that researchers turned to most often was the one describing these practices as apotropaic in nature, as means of subduing the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dan Trepal.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Hamtramck Historic Spatial Archaeology Project, launched in 2021, is an active digital, web-based public collaborative deep mapping project for the city of Hamtramck, an industrialized city completely surrounded by Detroit. The primary focus of the project is to create and launch a digital, web-based, publicly accessible deep map linking information...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rosario Cordero-Fernández.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. It seems that the primary function of painted hand imprints on rock shelters in the Middle Ibáñez River Valley (Chile) may have been to assist in promoting social cohesion within and between hunter-gatherer groups. Hand imprints possess the quality of replicating the hand that created them, thus becoming a personal statement. These imprints have been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vera Tiesler. Guilhem Olivier.

This is an abstract from the "Sacrificial and Autosacrifice Instruments in Mesoamerica: Symbolism and Technology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this talk, we shall analyze sacrificial knives in Mesoamerica’s (bio) archaeological record, among written sources, and iconography. Our survey emphasizes the diversity of cutting weaponry through time and cultural spheres. By combining forensic evidence with the material study of sacrificial knives,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Todd VanPool. Christine VanPool. Brandon Massullo.

This is an abstract from the "Magic, Spirits, Shamanism, and Trance" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Human cognition both enables and limits the ways humans can interact with spirits and forces that are typically unseen or that otherwise transcend the physical world. Research in psychology, anthropology, and related fields indicates that social and physical contexts are central to activating the cognitive frameworks that facilitate spirit-human...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Smith-Leach.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hawai'i is a dynamic landscape with a unique archaeological record. The archipelago's relatively short physical history has been subject to various disasters, including sea level rise, tsunami, wildfire, and drought. Predictions indicate that anthropogenic drivers of climate change will increase the frequency and severity of disasters in the Pacific. In...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Ward. Mara Stumpf. Sara Juengst.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Ecuadorian Formative Period (3800-300 BC) is known for the creation of ceramics, a transition towards agriculture, and the development of sedentary settlements along the Pacific coast. These social and economic changes were often associated with declines in health, as people ate less varied agricultural diets and increasingly encountered pathogens...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Jones. Sharon DeWitte. Catherine Livingston.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We examine the relationship between farm production and strategy and the health and mortality patterns of farm families during the late nineteenth century in upstate New York. This was a time when farmers were transitioning from subsistence to commercial farming and when dairy farming was becoming the preferred strategy to increase profits. Here, we focus...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joanna Wysocka. Beata Drupka. Paige Lynch. Marcin Krzepkowski.

This is an abstract from the "Life and Death in Medieval Central Europe" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Studying living conditions of any population in the past using indirect indicators such as skeletal lesions is challenging, as their occurrence can be connected and influenced by different factors such as individuals’ immune systems. However, porous skeletal lesions (porotic hyperostosis, cribra orbitalia), and linear enamel hypoplasias (LEH),...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alicia Ventresca-Miller. Julia Clark. Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan. Peter Hommel. Sosorbaram Khurelsukh.

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. Until recently there were only a few examples of deeply stratified habitation sites in Mongolia. During survey, we located an erosional gully with several hearths, an ash lens, and cultural materials. Initial radiocarbon dates indicate that the site was occupied from 1000 to 1400 CE, spanning the pre-Mongol through Yuan...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claudia Celia. Heather Rockwell. Nathaniel Kitchel.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Red chert from the Munsungun Lake formation in northern Maine is found in late Pleistocene Fluted-Point period archaeological sites across northeastern North America. Despite its prevalence, there is no literature detailing the effects of heat alteration on red Munsungun chert. Here we report the effects of experimental heat alteration on red Munsungun...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Siyun Guo. Yu Dong. Alice Yao.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper combines isotope analysis from collagen and hydroxyapatite patterns from the Bronze Age to imperial periods in the humid sub-tropical highlands of southwestern China. We sampled and analyzed 28 faunal bones and 4 teeth from two occupation sites in the Lake Dian basin that are associated with the Dian polity (ca. 700 – 100 BC) and span into the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carla Jaimes Betancourt. Patricia Ayala.

This is an abstract from the "Politics of Heritage Values: How Archaeologists Deal with Place, Social Memories, Identities, and Socioeconomics" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Preliminary results of the collaborative methodologies applied in two years of intense fieldwork in the Bolivian Amazon will be presented, and we will reflect on the different roles played by archaeological and sacred sites in the Tsimane, Mosetén, and Tacana indigenous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Fennelly.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology to Transform and Disrupt: Teaching, Learning, and the Pedagogies of the Future" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Heritage is a multidisciplinary field. Students of heritage come to the subject from a broad array of backgrounds, nationalities, and languages. The word heritage has many meanings depending on context and understanding the multiple meanings of the word itself is the first “translation” I task...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Agbe-Davies.

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. Rather than argue that heritage does things, this paper explores what might happen when archaeologists (to borrow a phrase from J L Austin) “do things with heritage.” Specifically, I use the points raised by Patricia Hill Collins in her weaving together of pragmatics and intersectionality to frame a discussion of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kasey Diserens Morgan.

This is an abstract from the "Democratizing Heritage Creation: How-To and When" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The process of heritage preservation and the production of knowledge in indigenous communities regularly seem at odds in terms of their overarching goals and outcomes. Relationships to the study and use of heritage are often fraught, and can become political quickly. This paper outlines the practical and methodological aspects of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephanie Franklin (Mack).

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In June of 2023 the Comanche Wildfire began by a lightning strike on the El Rito District of the Carson National Forest in Northern New Mexico. Due to the rains and cool temperatures this fire was burning low to moderate allowing the Forest to use the fire beneficially; however, this posed a problem for cultural resources. Cultural resource management...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Steere.

This is an abstract from the "Politics of Heritage Values: How Archaeologists Deal with Place, Social Memories, Identities, and Socioeconomics" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Noquisiyi or Nikwasi Mound, a monumental earthen platform mound located in the town of Franklin, North Carolina, was first constructed during the Mississippian period (AD 1000–1600) and marks the location of an important Cherokee mother town. In this paper I consider the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Deirdre Elliott. Corey Hutchings.

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. The heritage landscape in Nunatsiavut, and in the north more generally, is changing rapidly and in ways that demand changes in how we approach heritage management. Nunatsiavut holds 7,000 years of human history, and the importance of protecting and promoting this history is attested to in the Labrador...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Annalisa Bolin.

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. “Decolonization is not a metaphor,” Tuck and Yang remind us (2012). What does this call to action mean for heritage studies? This paper explores attempts at decolonizing cultural heritage management and research. First, tracing the ways coloniality has continued to influence management practices in Rwanda, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Mrozowski.

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. Over the past 20 years, I have worked with the Hassanamisco Nipmuc of Massachusetts with the express goal of seeing how archaeology can aid the Nipmuc with their own heritage initiatives. In all these efforts, the centrality of pragmatic philosophy has been paramount. Given that North American pragmatic philosophy...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Weinmeister.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While forgotten settlements are a common discovery in the jungles of Central America where dense canopies conceal all traces of prehistory, they are a much less common phenomenon in the American Southwest. However, recent research demonstrates that a poorly known Ancestral Pueblo site on private property in southwest Colorado is one of the most important...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nadine Moeller.

This is an abstract from the "Theorizing Prehistoric Large Low-Density Settlements beyond Urbanism and Other Conventional Classificatory Conventions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Much attention has been drawn to the discovery of unusually large agglomerations, so-called “anomalous giants,” that appeared out of nothing at different times and in many parts of the world, suddenly and without any signs for a noticeable long-term trend that would...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacob Tumelaire. Audrey Waterman.

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 a targeted data recovery conducted at the Amoskeag West Bank site (27-HB-079) in Manchester, New Hampshire. First identified in 1933, a 2022 archaeological investigation established that the site encompasses a large but as-yet-undefined Native American cultural resource in the heart of New Hampshire’s largest city. IAC’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andreas Nymark. Amir Beshkani. Peter Bye-Jensen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Intensification of fieldwork in the Zagros Mountains over the past two decades have provided crucial new insights into the region, revealing a much more complex patchwork of MP lithic industrial variability than hitherto appreciated. We present a series of new case studies on the high-altitude MP rockshelter of Houmian in the Iranian Zagros. Posited to be...