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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Monica Alonso Eguiluz. Rosa Maria Albert. Michael B. Toffolo. Liv Nilsson Stutz. Aaron Stutz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The rich archaeological record of the Mughr-el Hamamah (MHM) site in Jordan is key to understanding the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition in the Levant. However, important postdepositional processes due to pastoral activities during the twentieth century have affected the archaeological deposits and need to be taken into account. The archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katharine Napora. Michael Detisch. Jessica Jenkins. Martin Gallivan. Christian Davenport.

This is an abstract from the "*SE Hope for the Future: A Message of Resiliency from Archaeological Sites in South Florida" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We present exploratory analyses of subannual environmental proxy data from a variety of freshwater, estuarine, and marine mollusk species from South Florida and the broader US Southeast. Using modern baseline specimens as well as specimens from archaeological contexts analyzed via microscopy and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Lehner.

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. How Richard Redding's identification of a hippopotamus hip bone catalyzed a rethinking of the Heit el-Ghurab site of 4th Dynasty (ca. 2500 BCE) settlement at the Giza Pyramids, and how central authorities mobilized and organized labor for building pyramids.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zuzana Hofmanová.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. I will present the ERC-sponsored project HistoGenes, an interdisciplinary project that engages archaeologists, geneticists, anthropologists, and historians in a fine-grained analysis of more than 6,000 burials in the Carpathian Basin between 400 and 900 CE in order to understand population changes, mobility, social structures, and cultural practices in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia Ochoa Castillo. Felipe Ramírez.

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. La presencia de ciertos elementos de la tradición Chupícuaro en varios sitios de la Cuenca de México, durante el Preclásico tardío y terminal, es apreciada principalmente en la cerámica y las figurillas. Entre éstos ejemplos, destaca Cuicuilco, ya que desde sus primeras excavaciones se...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claudio Wande. Diego Mayorga. Mauricio Uribe. Pablo Mendez-Quiros. Francisca Santana-Sagredo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Abordamos el fenómeno de los pukara durante los períodos Intermedio Tardío y Tardío (900-1532 dC) en la región de Tarapacá del Norte Grande de Chile, a partir del registro arquitectónico y cerámico de dos pukara ubicados en una misma localidad en la precordillera del Desierto de Atacama. Estos asentamientos muestran usos y formas de habitar con...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eunice Villasenor Iribe. Dean Blumenfeld. Christopher Morehart.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents the findings for the first season of an archaeological dissertation project investigating changing land use at the Hacienda del Rincon de Guadalupe in Apaxco, Mexico. The hacienda is located within the Sierra Tezontlapan, bordering the states of Mexico and Hidalgo. It was constructed during the late 18th century, but there is evidence...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Rich. Charles Beightol. Christy Visaggi. Justin Tweet. Vincent Santucci.

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. Vicksburg National Military Park (VICK) was established in 1899 to commemorate the 47-day siege of Vicksburg, which ended in a Confederate surrender on July 4, 1863. VICK’s significant history extends even further than the Civil War as the park contains evidence of life from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Raquel Fleskes.

This is an abstract from the "Individuals Known and Unknown: Case Studies from Two Burial Contexts at Colonial Williamsburg" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Community members, stakeholders, and congregation members expressed interest in pursuing DNA testing of the Ancestral Individuals from the Historic First Baptist Church. In collaboration with the Let Freedom Ring! Foundation, successive community engagement meetings were held to explain the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wendy Weaver.

This is an abstract from the "US Army Corps of Engineers: Current Work in CRM, Research, and Creative Mitigation" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fort Scott (9DR8) was a US Army fort constructed in 1816 on the Georgia frontier on the north bank of the Flint River during the First Seminole War. Meant to be a temporary encampment, it was located to protect white frontiersmen pushing into Creek territory. Occupied until 1821, the fort’s occupants...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bruce Bernstein.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pottery making over the long arch of Tewa history is episodic; social changes bringing small and large-scale modification and sometimes transformation to pottery forms and iconography. Pottery, or more precisely, its aesthetics and production are ritualistic, serving as a critical and material conceptual ideal of the Tewa world. And, significantly, pottery...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amalia Nuevo Delaunay. Javiera Letelier Cosmelli. Carlos Castillo Levicoy.

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. The relatively recent colonization of West Patagonia is perceived as a main component of cultural heritage by the communities of the Aisén region (Chile). Understanding colonial life makes sense in the construction of the narrative of local and regional identities. Hence, historical archaeology can play...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brett A. Houk. Elizabeth Graham. James Garber.

This is an abstract from the "“The Center and the Edge”: How the Archaeology of Belize Is Foundational for Understanding the Ancient Maya" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We can trace the roots of historical archaeology in Belize to 1974, when David Pendergast launched a project at a site known locally as Indian Church, not surprisingly owing to the remains there of an early church. Today, the site is known as Lamanai. Identification of Spanish...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Duncan. Christopher Stojanowski.

This is an abstract from the "Human Remains in the Marketplace and Beyond: Myths and Realities of Monitoring, Grappling With, and Anthropologizing the Illicit Trade in a Post-Harvard World" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Commerce and trade in human remains involves a panoply of thorny ethical questions surrounding rights of the dead and the authority of the living to speak for them. Trafficking of human remains may be defined as unauthorized,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cristina Oliveira. Michelle LeFebvre. Isabelle Holland-Lulewicz. Victor Thompson. Michael Buckley.

This is an abstract from the "Past Human-Shark Interactions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Sharks are among the world’s most endangered vertebrate taxa, including recent estimates of approximately 71% loss in abundance over the past 50 years due to human impacts. Zooarchaeological baselines of shark diversity, distribution, and exploitation hold great promise for contributing essential historical context in the assessment of contemporary patterns...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jack Gary.

This is an abstract from the "Individuals Known and Unknown: Case Studies from Two Burial Contexts at Colonial Williamsburg" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The recent archaeological discovery of two different burial contexts within Colonial Williamsburg’s Historic Area has provided the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s Department of Archaeology opportunities to employ new strategies for the study and treatment of human remains. Methodologically...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirsten Vacca. COSWA Committee Members .

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. The Committee on the Status of Women in Archaeology (COSWA) was formed to “understand the current status of women in the profession through the gathering of data and to improve the position of women in archaeology” (SAA.org). Influences from gender and feminist theory over the years have informed the work COSWA does to address barriers faced...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Frauke Sachse. Daniel Boomhower.

This is an abstract from the "The Rollout Keepers: Papers on Maya Ceramic Texts, Scenes, and Styles in Honor of Justin and Barbara Kerr" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Kerr Archive constitutes the largest photographic collection of Maya ceramics, including rollouts and stills of more than 5,000 unique artifacts from museums, private collections, and archaeological excavations. Devising their own numbering system, Justin and Barbara Kerr...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Simon Martin.

This is an abstract from the "The Rollout Keepers: Papers on Maya Ceramic Texts, Scenes, and Styles in Honor of Justin and Barbara Kerr" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The cylinder vessel paintings assembled in the Kerr Archive cover a remarkable range of themes, with many of the best-known depicting fantastical beasts and other supernatural actors. But a not insignificant portion of the corpus features scenes of courtly performance and, as a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Harke.

This is an abstract from the "*SE Hope for the Future: A Message of Resiliency from Archaeological Sites in South Florida" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The island of Key West has a rich and fascinating history as the “southernmost point” of the continental United States. Because of its strategic and iconic location, Key West is the most heavily developed and altered island in the Florida Keys. Despite the island’s infamy and storied past,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Lekson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. "A History of the Ancient Southwest" was published 15 years ago. How would I re-write it today? After a brief review of that aging narrative, I’ll revisit several key points, threads, and themes in light of new information and understandings. I will explore the importance of continental-scale contexts, hinted but not fully developed in the book. And I...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrés Garzón-Oechsle.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A modified agricultural landscape of cultivation terraces and water retention ponds in the high elevations of the Chongón-Colonche Mountains of southern Manabí indicates a shift in agricultural practices by the Manteño civilization of coastal Ecuador (ca. 650–1700 CE). This shift must be understood through time as a societal response to a changing climate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. May. Martha Gimson. Robert Crisp.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Past documents describing the principal family residing at Holly Bend, the architecture, commerce, and social networks don’t mention an African-American component. That is until 2015 when identified colonowares were linked with African-American makers at other North Carolina plantations. Additionally, in 2017 ceramic tobacco pipe fragments were examined...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Egan. Shaun Rose. Jared Orsi.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The southern coalfield in Colorado played a significant role in the growth of the American steel industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With the availability of bituminous coal, which can be refined into coke, the region became a key producer of high-grade coal, with Starkville Mine emerging as a major player. The mine and its...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Juengst. Sergio Chavez. Stanislava Chavez.

This is an abstract from the "Beyond Borders at the End of a Millennium: Life in the Western Andes circa 500–50 BCE" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Titicaca Basin has long been home to communities of people who navigated their highland landscape effectively. Much research has been devoted to early developments in the southern lake basin (in modern-day Bolivia) as well as later communities on the northwestern side of the lake (in modern-day...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sharlot Hart.

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. The power of breaking bread together is well documented. Adobe, or earthen architecture, is an equally documented and important structural material. Combining the two, we get hornos, Spanish for earthen outdoor oven. While the term horno is not known by many visitors to National Parks, many K–12 students in urban...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ella Assaf Shpayer.

This is an abstract from the "Embodied Essence: Anthropological, Historical, and Archaeological Perspectives on the Use of Body Parts and Bodily Substances in Religious Beliefs and Practices" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The deep bond between humans and horses is well reflected in the Paleolithic record from its earliest stages. The significant role of horses (Equus) in Paleolithic diet is evident from the presence of horse skeletal remains, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brandi Bethke. Sarah Trabert. Richard Drass.

This is an abstract from the "The Columbian Exchange Revisited: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on Eurasian Domesticates in the Americas" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In North America, the southern Plains exchange system after 1600 CE was a complicated and fiercely competitive network of fluid alliances, rival interests, and conflict in the middle of overlapping Southeastern and Southwestern cultural, economic, and physical power...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Peterson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. North America’s Native Copper Industry is one of the oldest metalworking traditions in the world, with metal use in this region dating to over 9,500 years ago. While several studies have focused on copper mining and use, few have focused on copper production. As a result, little attention has been given to the waste materials generated during the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Lucero. Adrian Chase.

This is an abstract from the "“The Center and the Edge”: How the Archaeology of Belize Is Foundational for Understanding the Ancient Maya" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The rainfall-dependency of the ancestral Maya shaped their daily and seasonal existence in homes, communities, and cities. They adapted quite well to the annual wet and dry seasonal cycles—as well as extreme weather events like hurricanes, tropical storms and severe droughts,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meagan Conway.

This is an abstract from the "Making Historical Archaeology Matter: Rethinking an Engaged Archaeology of Nineteenth- to Twenty-First-Century Rural Communities of Western Ireland and Southern Italy" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The national demographic ramifications of the Irish potato famine in the late nineteenth century are well documented; however, there is an absence of full understanding of the continuum of its social and psychological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Dietler.

This is an abstract from the "AD 1150 to the Present: Ancient Political Economy to Contemporary Materiality—Archaeological Anthropology in Honor of Jeanne E. Arnold" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over a decade of research, archaeologists working at San Gabriel Mission (active from 1771 to 1834) explored contexts outside of the mission quadrangle that revealed evidence of the numerous ways in which native residents navigated their colonial world,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lucas Johnson. Lisa Johnson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Classic period (250–900 CE) Maya economic systems were diverse with most lowland cities revealing a combination of intensive surplus crafting workshops and more domestic household crafting. Some craft production may have been centralized and occurring under the supervision of the state and others appear to be operating independently at the household level...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zachary McKeeby.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Machile River in Western Zambia formed a significant locus of Iron Age life in Zambia and served as a conduit for the localized movements of people, things, and ideas in south-central Africa for much of the last two millennia. Within this dynamic corridor, the early second millennium Kanono site represents a relatively short-lived but well-defined...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Edwards.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Structures, especially houses, are focal locations, acting as a venue for a myriad of social actions. Analyzing the size, shape, orientation, and context of houses individually and as a group allows for multiscale interpretations of past communities. This paper explores variation and organization of structures at a series of Late Precontact (ca. AD...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Sharp. Rebecca Bria. Erick Casanova Vasquez.

This is an abstract from the "Beyond the Ancestors: New Approaches to Andean "Open Sepulchers"" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the highland Andes, archaeologists often emphasize the late prehispanic era (post-1000 CE) when examining the widespread mortuary tradition of interring the deceased in above-ground tombs known as chullpas. Our understanding of this practice during the preceding centuries, however, remains limited due to the smaller...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Wood. Virginia Richards.

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. Long before colonization, coastal inhabitants in Carolina’s Lowcountry used dugout canoes for trading, fishing, and gathering oysters. When the English intruded into this watery environment in 1670, many settlers migrated from Barbados, bringing captive Africans and hopes for establishing a profitable system of slave-based, staple-crop...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barbara Anglisz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Medina of Tunis is an ancient Islamic city and a UNESCO World Heritage site. However, it is in a vulnerable state, with many historic palaces, ancient dwellings, and monuments confronting neglect, leading to an alarming rate of deterioration. In 2021, an independent ethnographic research study was conducted in the Medina of Tunis in collaboration with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Burkett.

This is an abstract from the "Magic, Spirits, Shamanism, and Trance" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Anthropology and archaeology strive not only to reconstruct the physical characteristics of the past world but to understand how past people thought about the world around them. The way people think gets encoded in magical frameworks in both physical objects like monuments and dwellings, as well as in less permanent expressions, like music,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anabella Coronado.

This is an abstract from the "Ideas, Ethical Ideals, and Museum Practice in North American Archaeological Collections" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The history and everyday lives of the Comcaac (Seri) people are intrinsically linked to their ancestral landscape on the central coast of the Sonoran Desert and the Gulf of California. The community’s powerful and complex oral tradition, language, and the continuous occupancy of their originally...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ethan Ortega. Rachael Lorenzo. Anne Curry. Carlyn Stewart. Adesbah Foguth.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The New Mexico State Land Office implemented a new Cultural Properties Protection (CPP) Rule on December 1, 2022. This statute mandated changes to a decades-long culture of “you break it, you buy it” regarding damage to cultural properties caused by extractive industry in the state. Implementation resulted in the identification and protection of hundreds...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Summer Kiker. Douglas Bolender. Kathryn Catlin.

This is an abstract from the "Small Dwellings on the Viking Frontier: New Research from Kotið, North Iceland" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Icelandic Viking Age archaeological assemblages are notorious for their paucity and limited range of material types. Kotið, a small dwelling dating to the original Viking Age settlement of Iceland, is no exception. In two seasons of excavation, only a handful of artifacts have been recovered; however, three...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Valerie Arroyo. Jonathan Bethard. Andre Gociar. Zsolt Nyárádi. Jennifer Mathews.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Medieval Romania’s history is riddled with gaps caused by destructive invasions against the Ottoman Empire, among others. With a fractured and understudied history, bioarchaeology emerges as a potent tool to unveil the concealed facets of this era, ranging from dietary habits and religious inclinations to vocational pursuits, physical traumas, and burial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mikael Fauvelle.

This is an abstract from the "In Defense of Everything! Constructive Engagements with Graeber and Wengrow’s Provocative Contribution" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Precolonial California was home to some of the highest degrees of linguistic and cultural diversity seen in human history. This rich variability provides an excellent example for scholars to compare historical trajectories to understand how different societies developed along different...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Natasha Singh. Ewa Dutkiewicz. Sibylle Wolf. Nicholas Conard.

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. Researchers have often called the Swabian Aurignacian the Ivory Age, and in fact, this term is entirely fitting due to the great number and diversity of ivory artifacts. These artifacts include a wide variety of both tools and symbolic artifacts including beads, figurines and flutes. Here we...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thibault Saintenoy. Marcos Llobera. Cesar González-García. Cristian González.

This is an abstract from the "Developments and Challenges in Landscape Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Beyond geomorphology, mountains are complex cultural entities. In Inca culture, they embodied powerful social agents, wak’as, and constituted meaningful places in the territories that composed the empire. Early colonial chronicles, as well as ethnological heritages, offer abundant data and analogies on mountains' cultural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mauricio Murillo-Herrera.

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. Recent literature on comparative archaeology has pointed out the need for systematic comparisons of trajectories of social change that use primary quantitative data and standardized variables. This type of comparison has the potential to discover and explore the diversity and complexity in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Xin Su.

This is an abstract from the "Resources and Society in Ancient China" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Numerous previous archaeological discoveries and studies have shown that rulers from the Central Plains during the Shang Dynasty (ca. 1600–1050 BC) were motivated to systematically construct settlements and operate in the Jianghan Area of the Middle Yangtze River drainage at least in part in order to control metal resources in the middle and lower...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Chicoine.

This is an abstract from the "After the Feline Cult: Social Dynamics and Cultural Reinvention after Chavín" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the Moro region of the middle Nepeña Valley, on the western slopes of the north-central Peruvian Andes, the fifth century BCE marked a major social crisis, perhaps best seen in endemic armed conflicts, unfinished monumental buildings, and the demise of Chavín-related artistic programs. In this balkanized...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Veres. Suzanne Pilaar Birch. Robert Kelly.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Alm Shelter in Wyoming lies in the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains, and its repeated use for 12,000 years provides a snapshot into human life throughout the Holocene. Moisture is a controlling factor in this (semi)arid environment. Mountains provided refuge and increased moisture access for humans, animals, and plants. This aridity also leads to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia Gresky. Lee Clare.

This is an abstract from the "Embodied Essence: Anthropological, Historical, and Archaeological Perspectives on the Use of Body Parts and Bodily Substances in Religious Beliefs and Practices" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In recent years, the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (ca. 9500–8000 BC) site of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey has seen the emergence of some major hypotheses based on results from ongoing fieldwork. Perhaps the most significant new insight...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jasmine Kidwell. Julie Hoggarth.

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. The vast region of far west Texas remains understudied in terms of its cultural, climatic, and environmental past. Current paleoclimatological and environmental proxy data sets are few and inconsistent in time, resolution, and scope. Here, we summarize key proxy data while contextualizing human...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christophe Delaere. Sergio Durán Chacón. Maureen Le Doare. Romuald Housse.

This is an abstract from the "Water Management in the Andes: Past, Present, and Future" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ALTI-plano research project (Archaeological Lake Titicaca Inventory-Mapping) aims, in particular, to provide a complete map of archaeological sites along the eastern shores of Lake Titicaca. Our focus lies primarily on refining our grasp of local chronologies, human settlement patterns, and the environmental change effects on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven Kuhn. Dušan Mihailovic. Bojana Mihailovic. Tamara Dogandžic. Senka Plavšic.

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Research into the Late Pleistocene of Europe" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), or Marine Isotope Stage 2, produced some of the most extraordinary environmental challenges faced by Homo sapiens during the Pleistocene. Large parts of temperate and subarctic Eurasia were depopulated, as humans retreated to areas with relatively favorable conditions. Although the Balkans...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Evan Holt. Stefani Crabtree.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mongolian culture has been defined by nomadic pastoralism for nearly 5,000 years. Throughout that time, nomadic pastoralists built a specific niche in their local ecosystems. The Darkhad Depression of Northern Mongolia represents a case where traditional nomadic pastoralist lifestyles are at the forefront of the climate catastrophe despite these practices...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alejandro Enriquez.

This is an abstract from the "Misinformation and Misrepresentation Part 1: Reconsidering “Human Sacrifice,” Religion, Slavery, Modernity, and Other European-Derived Concepts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation examines the 1562 confessions of Maya ritual murder (“Procesos contra los indios idólatras de Sotuta, . . .” “Processes against the idolatrous Indians of Sotuta, . . .”) obtained during the Idolatry Trials led by Friar Diego de...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Ames. April Nowell.

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. The Azraq Basin is a 12,000 km2 internal drainage system at the eastern margin of the Levant. The center of the basin, which we refer to as the Greater Azraq Oasis Area (GAOA), is characterized by a mudflat flanked by two historical wetlands. Desiccation of these wetlands in the early 1990s and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Corey Hoover.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The built environment is not a simple, haphazardly constructed idea. The human condition and cultural components, combined with environmental factors have undoubtedly influenced the built environment situated within landscapes. Not only are these landscapes environmental, but also social. In addition, these landscapes are not static and are subject to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Ryan.

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. Initiated by Dr. William Lipe and Ian (Sandy) Thompson in the late 1980s, the goals of the Environmental Archaeology Program at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center are to study the effects of human occupations on the natural environment, how people socially mediate environmental change, and to contribute...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anthony Graesch.

This is an abstract from the "AD 1150 to the Present: Ancient Political Economy to Contemporary Materiality—Archaeological Anthropology in Honor of Jeanne E. Arnold" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. After decades of aspirational spending, and in houses brimming with tens to hundreds of thousands of objects, North Americans have amassed inventories of belongings that are extraordinary for their scale and complexity. In a process largely devoid of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Betts.

This is an abstract from the "Past Human-Shark Interactions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In a previous article, Betts et al. (2012) explored the spiritual relationship between sharks and humans in the Atlantic Northeast. For peoples with relational ontologies, using, wearing, and trading shark teeth not only signaled a sacred relationship with the shark but also an identity embodied by this conspecific; namely, a way of life connected to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Cowie.

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. Teresita Majewski has influenced archaeology and heritage management in extensive and diverse ways. To my mind, her contributions all have one idea in common: humanizing the field. Here I present three examples of her influence on my own work, especially regarding ceramic analysis and work with stakeholders, research partners, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katharine Bender. Joseph Jones. David Sevestre. Michael Blakey. Jack Gary.

This is an abstract from the "Individuals Known and Unknown: Case Studies from Two Burial Contexts at Colonial Williamsburg" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We present the results of osteological analysis of human remains excavated at the original site of the historic First Baptist Church of Williamsburg, Virginia. The goals and parameters of our analysis were defined through a process of public engagement evolved from the ethical framework of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lucía Yebra. Valeria Cortegoso. Erik Marsh. María Eugenia de Porras. Antonio Maldonado.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Laguna del Diamante (34°S) is a high-altitude wetland (3,000 m asl) with resources that have been attractive to human societies for the last 2,000 years. This article evaluates the variable intensity of its occupation in five temporal segments between 2030 and 440 cal BP, according to a chronology modeled from 14 radiocarbon dates excavated in stone...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erlend Johnson. Mark Rees. Matt Helmer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hurricanes Laura and Delta in 2020 caused extensive tree-fall damage to more than 100 sites throughout Kisatchie National Forest, including two large Pre-Contact sites (16VN3504 and 16VN3508). 16VN3504 and 16VN3508 are multi-component sites measuring more than 100 acres and are eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. In addition...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Bracken.

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. Premodern landscape modification at the northeast corner of Lake Macanché, surrounding the site of Muralla de León, predominantly consists of small hilltop settlements and hydraulic channels. These channels interact with the lake itself, as well as the juleques (pond-sized water-filled sinkholes) that cluster in the vicinity. Two...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kacey Grauer.

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. This paper presents legacies of water supplies at the Maya site of Aventura, in northern Belize. During its ancient occupation, Aventura was a city with ample water resources integrated into its settlement. Access to this water was not restricted by economic status as local political ecology was organized heterarchically. In 1848, refugees...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Judson Finley. Erick Robinson. R. Justin DeRose.

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. Developing a unified theory of human population growth requires a multiscalar perspective on the evolution of human social-ecological systems over space and time. This requires iteration between macro-level theory and micro-scale events captured in the archaeological record. This poster begins to develop...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William White.

This is an abstract from the "Hood Archaeologies: Impacts of the School-to-Prison Pipeline on Archaeological Practice and Pedagogy" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The monoraciality of archaeology perpetuates systems where many European American archaeologists assume archaeologists who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) have arrived because of affirmative action. Our presence is considered the result of traumatic lives that led to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna-Kaisa Salmi. Päivi Soppela. Sanna-Mari Kynkäänniemi. Henri Wallén.

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. In recent years, ethnoarchaeological research combining archaeological evidence and traditional knowledge of reindeer herders has added considerably to our understanding of cultural meanings of various reindeer herding practices traceable through the archaeological record. One important aspect brought forward by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Stevens.

This is an abstract from the "*SE The State of Theory in Southeastern Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Framed within Eurocentric materialism, economic theory of the deep past has largely formed a world of ‘natural resources’ ready for extraction, exploitation, and management. Conversely, Indigenous-based economies of North America-Turtle Island widely see an animate universe in which all creations have agency and tradition all their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gregory Lattanzi.

This is an abstract from the "In Search of Solutions: Exploring Pathways to Repatriation for NAGPRA Practitioners (Part I)" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In April 2023, one of the largest and most complex NAGPRA repatriations occurred in the northeastern United States. The Abbott Farm NHL repatriation included major museums, three federally recognized tribes, and the reburial of around 200 ancestors and over 10,000 associated funerary objects. As...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Craig Lee. Erick Robertson. Kathryn Puseman.

This is an abstract from the "Three Sides of a Career: Papers in Honor of Robert L. Kelly" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The release of cultural and biological materials from melting snow and ice is the foundation for the field of ice patch archeology, a sub-field of cryospheric archaeology—the archaeology of the frozen world. To better understand the nature and potential of the ice patch record in the mid-latitude Rocky Mountains, ice patches in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark McCoy. Mehrdad Aghagholizadeh. Nicos Makris. Mara Mulrooney. Britton Shepardson.

This is an abstract from the "Social Archaeologies and Islands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Monuments are a critical window into people’s values, beliefs, and social memories. The destruction of monuments is especially important since it can shed light on how these aspects of societies change over time. We describe new research aimed at understanding the destruction of moai (statues) on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Our first goal is to build a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Victoria Khaghani. Whitney Goodwin. Marcello Canuto.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This thesis explores the relationship between iconography and material analysis of Ulúa polychromes in Honduras between 450 – 1200 CE. From a dataset of 56 ceramic pieces, first analyzed iconographically which has been the main form of analysis for these artefacts. Second, the 56 pieces were sampled for INAA and processed through a computer program. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cathy Costin.

This is an abstract from the "Magic, Spirits, Shamanism, and Trance" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although a shamanic component has long been recognized in Andean Formative cultures, recent research on Cupisnique (ca. 1200–900 BCE) ceramic iconography yields evidence for more varied, more prevalent, and much more far-reaching use of therapeutic and entheogenic substances during the early phases of Andean prehistory than has been previously...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlos Alvarez. Lynneth Lowe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The abundance of pottery stamps, variety of designs and quality of its craftsmanship during the Postclassic period, contrasts with the scarce studies regarding these special artifacts whose analysis can contribute to the knowledge of significant aspects of ancient Maya culture. These stamps were used to imprint decorative motifs on the human body, fabrics,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirsten Hawley. Claudia Johnson. Shelby Rader. Charles Beeker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geochemical studies of archaeological ceramics often assume little to no post-depositional change to the makeup of the artifact. This study uses ICP-MS trace element and lead (Pb) stable isotope analysis to investigate how a freshwater submerged depositional environment affects the geochemical signatures of archaeological ceramics. We test the null...

DOCUMENT Citation Only V. Camille Westmont.

This is an abstract from the "*SE The State of Theory in Southeastern Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Convict leasing was an exploitative, capitalist-driven system that successfully replaced race-based chattel slavery with class-based rented forced labor in the American South. The system sits at the intersections of race, masculinity, labor, economics, and modernity. It reveals the ways that widely condemned historical practices, such...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Codlin. Lisa Yeomans. Beatrice Demarchi.

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. Wetlands provide a huge abundance and diversity of foods from aquatic plants and animals, many of which don't survive archaeologically. Those that do, such as the bones and eggs of aquatic birds, are often underutilized in archaeological interpretations due to the difficulty of their recovery and taxonomic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Faizan Khan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project focuses on identifying pathways between sites of the Gandharan Buddhist Civilization with the help of GIS technology to identify the locations of as-yet unfound Gandharan archaeological sites, which are under the threat of becoming permanently destroyed due to rapidly growing urbanism in the region. This project employed GIS principles and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Bales. Phil Kaijankoski.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists have historically studied the human-environment relationship through the lens of behavior, activity, and advancement. The study of past landscapes is focused on the human behavior response to these changes, not the effects these environmental changes have on archaeological sites. Geomorphological studies allow for understanding environmental...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Osterholtz. D. Shane Miller.

This is an abstract from the "Continued Advances in Method and Theory for Commingled Remains" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Site of Sacred Ridge has the earliest identified Extreme Processing assemblage in the four corners region, with over 14,000 fragments of human bone (representing at least 33 individuals) deposited in two pit structures around AD 810. During excavation, over 9,000 point locations were taken with a total station. During...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joyce Wing In Ho. Ryan Kennedy. Christina Warinner. Kristine Richter.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological and historical evidence has demonstrated the sociopolitical, economic, and ritual significance of parrots, songbirds, and toucans in precontact Americas. In Mesoamerica, these birds, along with their plumages and their capabilities to sing and mimic sounds, were highly valued. However, taxonomic identification of avian fauna can be...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Conte. Jennifer Bates. Jangsuk Kim.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Neolithic (ca. 6000–1500 BCE) is a formative period of Korea’s prehistory that sees the beginning of plant cultivation. Although archaeobotanical research on Korea’s Neolithic began more than two decades ago, rapid development coupled with an almost total reliance on rushed rescue excavations has resulted in major...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian Watts.

This is an abstract from the "Embodied Essence: Anthropological, Historical, and Archaeological Perspectives on the Use of Body Parts and Bodily Substances in Religious Beliefs and Practices" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. At ~160ka, roughly at the end of our African speciation, archaeologists identify a change from sporadic to habitual use of red ochre. This has been interpreted as primarily a pigment for decorating performers’ bodies during...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aja Palermo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the mid-1990s, the LSU Museum of Art received a collection of nearly 60 Andean objects as a donation from a private collector. More than half of the items donated are textiles and/or tools used in making textiles, all thought to have come from Peru. Beyond this geographic pointer, little information came with the collection, so the catalog entries for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ali Livesay.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite its remoteness and the restricted access, there are very few standing structures on the Pajarito Plateau where Los Alamos National Laboratory now resides. One notable exception is Nake’muu Pueblo which was first built during the Coalition Period (A.D. 1225-1300). Pueblo de San Ildefonso oral history describes that Nake’muu was reoccupied following...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Benden.

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. In 2021, caretakers and users of archaeological collections participated in a Wenner-Gren funded workshop that considered the social lives of archaeological repositories. The goal was to understand the repository as a site of social relations among and between stakeholders. Together, collections...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alex Garcia-Putnam. Guy Tasa. Jackie Berger.

This is an abstract from the "Human Remains in the Marketplace and Beyond: Myths and Realities of Monitoring, Grappling With, and Anthropologizing the Illicit Trade in a Post-Harvard World" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Washington State has one of the most progressive sets of laws in the United States governing jurisdiction and process surrounding the discovery and investigation of human skeletal remains. The law dictates how human skeletal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jaime Ullinger. Julia Giblin. Györgyi Parditka. Remi Sheibley. Sarajane Smith-Escudero.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Bronze Age Körös Off-Tell Archaeology Project (BAKOTA) has excavated 84 burials from a Bronze Age cemetery (Békés 103) located in the Lower Körös Basin in Eastern Hungary. Radiocarbon dates indicate that the cemetery was used for several hundred years, with the most active phase between 1600 and 1280 cal BC, a time that has been associated with the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Denis Sharapov.

This is an abstract from the "Steppe by Steppe: Advances in the Archaeology of Eastern Eurasia" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Due to the heavy influence of sixteenth- to nineteenth-century ethnography, many researchers still consider the Late Bronze Age (LBA) (2100–1300 BC) populations of the Trans-Ural steppe/forest-steppe to be nomadic pastoralists—a situation where most or all of human population is involved in periodic movements between...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hilary Leathem.

This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse II, Current Research in Oaxaca Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper is a call to expand our definitions of sustainability, troubling what has become the bedrock of community archaeology and heritage projects. In Oaxaca, the question of sustainability is pursued alongside a fixed imagining of how an ideal heritage site operates. A “successful heritage project,” institutional actors...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Evie Vaughn. Kathryn Catlin. Douglas Bolender.

This is an abstract from the "Small Dwellings on the Viking Frontier: New Research from Kotið, North Iceland" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster offers an artistic visualization of the Viking Age dwelling at Kotið, North Iceland. Based on geospatial data and photogrammetry collected in 2022 and 2023, the rendering demonstrates how this structure differs from previously excavated turf dwellings in Viking Age Iceland. Its small size,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathleen Holen. Steven Holen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Impact notches on megafaunal limb bones can be diagnostic of marrow extraction and tool blank production behavior by hominins. Notch shape statistics have been applied to impact-fractured megafaunal limb bones from Old World Paleolithic sites to demonstrate hominin technology that begins 2.6 mya in Africa. We compare data from experimental cow femora...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Antonio Beardall.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Belize is a country rich in archaeological resources including Paleoindian, Archaic, the Ancient Maya, and colonial. Belize has been and continues to be the focus of archaeological research, largely conducted by foreign researchers that help facilitate archaeological field schools training primarily American, Canadian, and English students. While many...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Kennedy. Susan deFrance. Brittany Bingham. Eric Guiry. Brian Kemp.

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. This paper examines fish supply in late nineteenth-century New Orleans to understand how new fishing and transportation technologies transformed fish trade networks in the Gulf of Mexico and beyond. Previous research has demonstrated temporal and geographic shifts in the city’s fish supply, and we...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marianne Moen.

This is an abstract from the "The Marking and Making of Social Persons: Embodied Understandings in the Archaeologies of Childhood and Adolescence" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Childhood as a part of social and cultural frameworks is varied and fluid, and the space afforded to and occupied by children will vary in multiple ways according to intersecting lines of social identity. The Viking Age is generally recognized as a period of profound...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kari Schleher. Suzanne Eckert. Matthew Schmader.

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. Between late 1540 and early 1541, the Vázquez de Coronado expedition laid siege to the Southern Tiwa ancestral community of Piedras Marcadas and fought the Pueblo’s residents. Eventually, the Coronado expedition left the Rio Grande valley and moved north and east to the Plains. Piedras Marcadas was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Goran Djurdjevich.

This is an abstract from the "And They Look into the Mirror for Answers: Mirror Analysis to Understand Its Holder" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Roman Empire and Qin-Han China were two of the most significant and powerful states and empires in antiquity. Building upon recent research findings, and drawing inspiration from the numerous archaeological discoveries of mirrors in the both empires, this proposed paper aims to demonstrate how...