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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Li-Ying Wang. Kuei-Chen Lin. Zhiqing Zhou.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Guijiabao is an archaeological site in southwest China that dates from the Neolithic to the historical period. Its crucial location at the interaction of the Henduan Mountains and the Sichuan Basin offers a unique opportunity to study the southward spread of new crops and species into this region. Although it is widely accepted that mixed farming of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julianne Stamer. Jessica Rothwell. Kelly Knudson. Jane Buikstra.

This is an abstract from the "The Bioarchaeology of the Phaleron Cemetery, Archaic Greece: Current Research and Insights" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cemeteries are spaces in which social and political identities are publicly negotiated between the living and the dead. Three mass graves, termed the “Esplanada,” at the Phaleron cemetery, Greece, are a clear and public statement that has captured significant attention since they were first...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ginessa Mahar. Kenneth Sassaman.

This is an abstract from the "*SE Stakes and Stones: Current Archaeological Approaches to Fish Weir Research" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The increase in frequency and intensity of storm events in the twenty-first century has inspired communities worldwide to reconsider their investment and approach to coastal infrastructure. As often is the case, modern problems serve to inspire archaeological inquiry. In this paper we explore the advantages...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adyn Hallahan. Michelle Hrivnyak.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study investigates preservation and molecular integrity of bone through an experimental study focused on variation in mortuary practices. The objective of this study examines how different mortuary rituals affect bone preservation, particularly in an area with a freeze/thaw effect, and how simulated mortuary contexts will impact the stable isotope...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Griswold. Joel Dukes. Margaret Wilkes.

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. Battlefield archaeology was conducted in the Barber Wheatfields at Saratoga National Historical Park for two seasons in 2019 and 2021. This battlefield was the catalyst for the second battle of Saratoga, colloquially known as the Battle for Bemis Heights, and ultimately led to an American victory over the British...

DOCUMENT Citation Only D. Gibson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The state of the O’Briens, at times called the Kingdom of Limerick, lasted from the mid-eleventh century until it accepted the sovereignty of Henry VIII at the end of the sixteenth century. In its features it conforms to the model of the patron-client state that William Sanders formulated to distill the similarities in organization that were apparent in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Beaupre.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Colonial Archaeological Research in the American Midcontinent" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. By the first quarter of the eighteenth century, the “blue crescent” of French land claims and settlement had spread across North America from the Acadian coast to southern Louisiana. While French colonial settlements existed contemporaneously throughout the middle of the continent, historians and archaeologists have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eponine Wong.

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. The term “democracy,” with its roots in the Greek word demokratia, originally referred to the capacity of “the people” to make collective decisions regarding wider society and to effect change in the public sphere. As republicanism emerged in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Archambault.

This is an abstract from the "At the Frontier of Big Climate, Disaster Capitalism, and Endangered Cultural Heritage in Barbuda, Lesser Antilles" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Islands like Barbuda are particularly sensitive to waste management policies and behaviours; in addition to having to manage their waste daily, they also suffer the effects of tourism and the marine litter washed up on their coasts. These challenges are certainly not new,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pei-Lin Yu. Atsushi Nobayashi.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Horticultural knowledge played an evolutionary role in the successful colonization and occupation of islands. Compared to more durable fishing and hunting tools, gardening tools are made of perishable wooden and woven materials that rarely preserve in the archaeological record. Because women perform a large proportion of gardening tasks, their technologies...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Seifert.

This is an abstract from the "Putting Archaeology to Work: Expanding Climate and Environmental Studies with the Archaeological Record" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations at Fort Pulaski’s Workers’ Village have uncovered evidence of how the fort’s builders adapted to their barrier island environment and coped with hurricanes. Past fort personnel had their own version of the National Park Service’s Resist-Accept-Direct Framework: resisting...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Seth Quintus.

This is an abstract from the "States, Confederacies, and Nations: Reenvisioning Early Large-Scale Collectives." session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Social consent was essential to promote cooperation and group identity. Because of disciplinary attention to top-down processes of power accumulation and political classification, how social notions of social consent in middle-range societies were modified and diversified is poorly understood. The societies...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Van Buren.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Failure" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mining and metallurgy are high-risk endeavors, and failure is common. In the first, the extent and nature of ore deposits are unknown, and the second is prone to mishaps due to inadequate temperature control, poor quality ore, and refractory malfunction, among other factors. Thus, failures in this industry—as measured by output—can be easily attributed to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Biwer. Gwyneth Gordon. Kelly Knudson. Beth Scaffidi.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany, Part II" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Middle Horizon (600–1000 CE) was a period of increased mobility in the south-central Peruvian Andes. Research has demonstrated that the Wari Empire facilitated the movement of people and resources, many of which traveled great distances to reach the hands of both Wari-affiliated and local communities. This paper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laure Dussubieux. Jean Milot. Virginie Renson. Spencer Seman.

This is an abstract from the "Twenty Years of Archaeological Science at the Field Museum’s Elemental Analysis Facility" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The study of archaeological artifacts often needs to be undertaken with no or very limited damage to the objects. It is with this constraint in mind that the Elemental Analysis Facility at the Field Museum was established. The choice of laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Renee Bonzani. Bruce Manzano. Matthew Davidson. Robert Tykot.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Our study aims to investigate the movement and territorial behaviors of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus Zimmermann) and dogs (Canis familiaris Linneaus) over time, utilizing carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen isotope values derived from archaeological remains. An analysis of these isotope values extracted from tooth collagen and enamel was conducted...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Flint Dibble. Richard Madgwick.

This is an abstract from the "Integrating Isotope Analyses: The State of Play and Future Directions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Integrating textual sources, a largely qualitative dataset, with archaeological science, a largely quantitative dataset, is no easy task for archaeologists and historians. This paper reflects on the challenges and opportunities of integrating the textual and biochemical evidence for animal management in the ancient...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rick Smith. Angelina Locker. Austin Reynolds. Diane Chase. Arlen Chase.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Santa Rita Corozal, hereafter known as Chactemal, is a Maya site located in what is now northern Belize on the coast of Chetumal Bay. Chactemal was home to some of the earliest known Maya peoples in northern Belize during the Middle Preclassic (~800-300 BCE), was continuously occupied throughout all subsequent phases of Maya chronology, grew to become an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Corina Kellner. Jesse Alexander. Blythe Morrison.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As the only domesticated animal native to the North American continent, analysis of turkey husbandry in the prehistoric American Southwest is important to understand human-avian interaction, foddering techniques, and trade. Direct analysis of turkey remains provides information about their myriad functions. The Houck community of sites is located at 6,035...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allyson Pease. Matthew Wooller.

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. Salmon are considered a critical subsistence resource in the Copper River basin, Alaska both currently and traditionally. Salmon migrations typically occur during a relatively short period in the summer, and provide a reliable, abundant influx of food. The duration of their presence in the basin and history of use are not well...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jana Meyer. Keith Prufer.

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. The Early Medieval period in Central Europe was a time of pronounced socioeconomic differences, as well as sociopolitical unrest. While the former Roman infrastructure was deteriorating, the costs of importing foods and other material goods into Thuringia increased, exacerbating differences in food availability between the various sectors of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sewasew Haileselassie Assefa. Ryan M. Szymanski. Chapurukha Kusimba. Xinyi Liu.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project investigates the diet and foodways at Mtwapa, Kenya, on the East African coast during the 15th to 18th century. During this period, local East African populations negotiated Portuguese colonialism in the region. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic analyses were conducted using bone collagen from 28 individuals interred at Mtwapa, Kenya. 13C...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nodar Bakhtadze.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the south of the Kakheti region (Georgia), on the uninhabited vast territory, there is a monastic area known as Davit Gareji, which includes about 20 independent monastic complexes. According to the historical sources, the first Cristian monasteries were found here in the 6th century by the desert Fathers emerged from movement of the Syrian monasticism....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Schmader.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Warfare and conflict are almost always described in terms of male-centered actions. But it is clear in many cases, such as those during the Contact period in the Western Hemisphere, that conflict often involved entire communities thrown into struggles for their freedom and survival. This was quite evident during the first explorations of the American...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karl Hoerig. Anabel Galindo. Thomas Sheridan.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology: How Native American Knowledge Enhances Our Collective Understanding of the Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Non-indigenous anthropology and historiography of the Yaqui people has concentrated on two foci: sixteenth-century resistance to Spanish conquest followed by supposed wholehearted acceptance of Jesuit Catholicism in southern Sonora, and late nineteenth- / early twentieth-century...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Hill.

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. As the largest and most complex archaic period earthwork site in Eastern North America, and the center of an extensive exchange network covering a wide region of eastern and central North America, Poverty Point has been the subject of considerable research efforts. Among this body of research, Hill and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren Bussiere.

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 recent years, many leadership positions at archaeological repositories and museums have been filled by a new generation of archaeologists, collections managers, and curators. These early- and mid-career professionals’ education and training has taken place since the enactment of NAGPRA, and our...

DOCUMENT Citation Only G. Matt Basham.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Eagle Nest Canyon, Texas: Papers in Honor of Jack and Wilmuth Skiles" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The canyon edge around Eagle Nest Canyon contains the remains of numerous prehistoric earth oven features. It was also the property of Jack Skiles, who made a lifelong contribution to the study of archaeology. This paper will document the results of excavations conducted during a 2013 field school on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Perry.

This is an abstract from the "AD 1150 to the Present: Ancient Political Economy to Contemporary Materiality—Archaeological Anthropology in Honor of Jeanne E. Arnold" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In honor of Jeanne Arnold, I discuss major theoretical and methodological themes in her research on the northern California’s Channel Islands including 1) her focus on Late Holocene households as relevant units of past decision-making and current...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Sunell.

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. Jeanne’s excavations at tlaqayam̓u (CA-SCRI-330) yielded detailed information about bead-making on limuw (Santa Cruz Island, CA) in the centuries before Spanish colonization. Two of the important classes of artifacts that underpinned the conclusions she...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin Hess.

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. The US Army Corps of Engineers’ (Corps) Regulatory Program regulates work and structures within Lake Tahoe, a navigable water of the United States, under the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899. The recent lifting of a local building moratorium has resulted in a resurgence of private, commercial, and public...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erika Robles.

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. By analyzing the codices, ceramics, and pre-Hispanic sculpture, it is possible to identify different instruments employed both for the extraction of blood itself and for the sacrifice of victims. In these sources, maguey spines, bone awls, flint knives, and even the quadrangular stones where the victims...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Gillaspie. Steve Nash. Natalie Patton. Magen Hodapp. Chrissina Burke.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Jones-Miller Site, located in the eastern Colorado tri-state area, was excavated in the mid-1970s. The Hell Gap complex site has been credited as the only bison butchery site of its kind and size in Colorado, yielding 41,000 Bison antiquus bones, 200 stone tools, 11,000 pieces of debitage, and hundreds of liters of soil samples. In 2017, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Ladron De Guevara.

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. Images from Las Higueras mural paintings as well as from El Tajín bas reliefs depicting ball players and sacrifice related to the ritual will be presented and discussed. Musicians, ballplayers, and divinities seem to have specific roles. Were the losers or the winners sacrificed? Chroniquers...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Simón Sierralta Navarro. Constanza Cortés Rodríguez. Leonor Adán Alfaro. Simón Urbina Araya.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Junius and Margaret Bird's expedition to southern Patagonia is primarily renowned for its discovery of Late Pleistocene occupations within the Magellanic steppe. However, their voyage included two lesser-known stays at the northern margin of the Patagonian archipelagos. During those periods, Junius conducted the first archaeological work at the shell...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Vining. Daniel Contreras. Augusto Bazan. Kurt Wilson. Cesca Craig.

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. Abrupt climatic changes caused by El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) bring profound ecological transformations to the Andean pacific coast. Archaeological research has largely focused on the impacts (which have been shown to be largely negative) of ENSO-positive phases, or “El Niños,” on complex socioecological systems in coastal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeremy Coltman.

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. It is hard to overstate the rich intellectual benefits that iconographers and epigraphers have been given through the lens of Justin Kerr’s remarkable Maya Vase Database. It not only brought to light a world of gods, rulers, courts, and vivid bestiary but also revealed complex...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandre Tokovinine. Sandra Balanzario Granados. Dmitri Beliaev. Clara Alexander. Dana Moot.

This is an abstract from the "The Rise and Apogee of the Classic Maya Kaanu’l Hegemonic State at Dzibanche" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Re-documentation and analysis of inscribed monuments from the archaeological site of Dzibanche and its vicinity have revealed new details of the history of the Kaanu’l polity during the Classic period. The presentation centers in particular on the narratives recovered from the hieroglyphic stairways of El...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pauline Kulstad-González. Theresa Singleton.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The first Afrodescendant peoples arrived in the Americas on Spanish ships to the island of Hispaniola in 1492, and by 1502 played an integral role in the development of the colony of Spanish Santo Domingo. Both free and enslaved Afrodescendants undertook most of the labor needed to construct the urban landscapes on the island, as well as the production of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Athens.

This is an abstract from the "The Barbacoan World: Recognizing and Preserving the Unique Indigenous Cultural Developments of the Northern Andes" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The inter-Andean landscape of northern highlands Ecuador, including the western upper montaña region, is dotted with clusters of large earthen mounds, many of monumental proportions that reach over 100 m on a side, 15 m in elevation, and have long ramps extending 150 m or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Hard. John Roney.

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. In the last 30 years Early Agricultural period research has documented a series of substantial early farming settlements in four river valleys: the Santa Cruz in the Tucson Basin, the Río Boquilla at La Playa in northern Sonora, the Río Casas Grandes in northern Chihuahua, and the Upper Gila River in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Suzanne Fish.

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. Karen Adams richly deserves recognition as a premier, foundational Southwest archaeobotanist, a status personally and professionally celebrated by the organizers of today’s session in her honor and by her past term as President of the Society of Ethnobiology. Few other researchers in the field approach her...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nelda Issa Marengo Camacho. Josuhé Lozada. Gabriel Merino Andrade.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cerro Brujo is located in central Chiapas and is part of a mountain ridge that forms different karstic rock shelters, caverns, and caves. Early Zoque groups inhabited the area, took advantage of the resources, and developed symbolic activities in the interior of the cave system. Nearly a decade ago, the speleological "Grupo Jaguar" started expeditions to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Neil Norman.

This is an abstract from the "Crafting Archaeological Practice in Africa and Beyond: Celebrating the Contributions of Ann B. Stahl to Global Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Through a series of publications, boots on the ground fieldwork, and dynamic community collaboration, Ann Stahl set the pace for an engaged archaeology that centered historical processes, daily practices, scale, and dimensions of time. Although these theoretical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karina Croucher. Jo-Hannah Plug.

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. This paper explores the use of anatomical body parts—namely, skulls and crania—in the Neolithic of southwest Asia. It is clear that for many, the dead were kept close to the living, with their remains physically used by the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gayle Fritz.

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. Most crops in the Eastern Agricultural Complex were no longer members of Native American farming systems when Europeans first took note. Reasons usually proposed for the fall-off entail advantages of maize over the pre-maize cultigens, with heightened defensibility of close, compact fields being another...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maarten Jansen. Gabina Perez.

This is an abstract from the "Misinformation and Misrepresentation Part 2: Reconsidering “Human Sacrifice,” Religion, Slavery, Modernity, and Other European-Derived Concepts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Human sacrifice and cannibalism are hallmarks of colonial discourse, which was developed to justify the conquest of the Americas. Particularly Aztec worldview has been presented consistently as pivoting on human sacrifices to “bloodthirsty...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Verano.

This is an abstract from the "Ritual Violence and Human Sacrifice in the Ancient Andes: New Directions in the Field" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological and Bioarchaeological data and a rich iconographic tradition provide complementary perspectives on the taking and killing of captives by the Moche (c. AD 200-900). While these practices clearly had important ritual aspects, there continues to be debate over the source of captives and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Jennings.

This is an abstract from the "Ancient Mesoamerican and Andean Cities: Old Debates, New Perspectives" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Home to as many as 70,000 residents at its height, Huari was the largest city in the precolumbian Andes. The city’s organization, however, has long perplexed scholars. There is abundance evidence for wealth and significant social stratification, alongside displays of violence and power. Yet, researchers have yet to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Speller. Karen Milek. 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. The site of Kotið, in Skagafjörður, northern Iceland, consists of several interposed components ranging from medieval outbuildings to a small dwelling from the first period of settlement in the region (ca. 870–930 CE). To understand how the inhabitants of Kotið constructed and reconstructed the buildings...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander Symons.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, I present an analysis of Early Bronze Age (EBA) faunal remains from field investigations conducted between 1998 and 2018 in the Tsaghkahovit plain of northern Armenia by the joint Armenian-American Project for the Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies (Project ArAGATS). The vast majority of Project ArAGATS’s EBA fauna...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Savannah Duncan. Sarah Rowe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A Manteño phase (A.D. 750-1530) settlement located in the present-day community of Dos Mangas, on the coast of Ecuador, is the site of a rare hilltop water cistern, which was previously excavated by Sarah Rowe in 2009. Archaeologist Jorge Marcos first described the presence of hilltop water cisterns utilized during the Manteño phase, which collected mist...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eliseo Padilla. Karent López Guzmán.

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. A finales de la década de 1910 llegaban al Museo Nacional de México los primeros objetos de la cultura Chupícuaro como parte de la colección Guillermo Heredia. Posteriormente en 1926 se integraban aquellos que procedían de las excavaciones de Ramón Mena y Porfirio Aguirre, y durante los...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lilia Rivero Weber. Nelly Robles García.

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. Cueva de las Manitas is located in the municipality of Cuicatlán, in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, a place that is part of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve (RBTC). It is a rockshelter painted with anthropomorphic elements such as human bodies and hands (the reason for its name), zoomorphic and symbolic elements....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicolas Lira. Paulina Acuña. Miguel Caceres. Aymara Zegers. Sebastian Carrillo.

This is an abstract from the "Underwater and Coastal Archaeology in Latin America" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El presente trabajo informa las actividades de campo realizadas en el marco del proyecto FIC 5377 de 2018/2019 , y las metodologías utilizadas para el registro y recolección de restos óseos de cetáceos sumergidos en bahía Águila (estrecho de Magallanes, Chile) donde funcionó la planta de la Sociedad Ballenera de Magallanes entre los...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jorge Gomez Rendon.

This is an abstract from the "The Barbacoan World: Recognizing and Preserving the Unique Indigenous Cultural Developments of the Northern Andes" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. La única evidencia lingüística disponible de los idiomas que se hablaron en la Sierra norte del Ecuador en los albores de la conquista inca se encuentra en la toponimia no-kichwa ampliamente dispersa en la región. Durante la primera mitad del siglo XX investigadores como...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Omar Reyes. Manuel San Román. Carolina Belmar. Augusto Tessone. Ximena Urbina.

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. Las prospecciones arqueológicas realizadas en las áreas costeras insulares y continentales en torno a la extensa barrera biogeográfica conformada por península de Taitao y golfo de Penas (~46°-48°S) en el borde Pacífico nos revelan una importante evidencia de registros materiales de tiempos coloniales y...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erik Velásquez García. Sandra Balanzario Granados. Alexandre Tokovinine.

This is an abstract from the "The Rise and Apogee of the Classic Maya Kaanu’l Hegemonic State at Dzibanche" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En abril de 2009 los arqueólogos Enrique Nalda Henández, Sandra Balanzario Granados y Karina González Hernández excavaron una ofrenda (cache) en el interior de una subestructura del Edificio 5 de Ichkabal, megalópolis maya del Preclásico ubicada en el sur de Quintana Roo. Dicha ofrenda contenía fragmentos de...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Mabry.

This is an abstract from the "13,000 Years of Adaptation in the Sonoran Desert at La Playa, Sonora" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The origins of village lifeways foundational to more complex precontact societies in northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States can be traced back to the independent development of irrigation and associated social changes in early irrigation communities at La Playa and sites in the Sonoran Desert during the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Pailes. John Carpenter. Guadalupe Sanchez Miranda.

This is an abstract from the "13,000 Years of Adaptation in the Sonoran Desert at La Playa, Sonora" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation will situate La Playa site within a broader narrative of the development of the Early Agricultural period (EAP). We review evidence for the obvious parallels of technological development that occurred at La Playa and other EAP sites in both Northwest Mexico and the US Southwest. These changes are then...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thania Ibarra. Soledad Ortiz-Ruiz. Oscar de Lucio. Angel Góngora-Salas. Lilian García-Alonso.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En este estudio se caracterizaron pisos de cal arqueológicos de ocho sitios de la región de Ichkaantijoo, Yucatán, de distintas temporalidades (1000 a.C. - 1300 d.C.) por medio de técnicas de ciencias de materiales, a fin de identificar los procesos de la producción artesanal prehispánica y reconocer las diferencias y similitudes en tiempo y espacio. El...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robin Galloso. Taryn Johnson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since first appearing on sixteenth century Spanish exploration maps, Texas’s 5,405.8 km coastline was famous for difficult navigation. The coast’s low-lying, monotonous nature, shallow lagoons, changing river mouths, and shifting sandbars made it treacherous, especially for deep drafted vessels. Spain’s focus on internal infrastructure and mercantilism...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jillian Galle. Khadene Harris.

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. The use of theory and related models that explicitly lay out the causal processes that we hypothesize operated in the past to generate patterns archaeological data is a rarity in historical archaeology. It is especially hard to find examples of research that create or use models that are then tested using archaeological data. The...

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

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many have argued that the hacienda of colonial Mexico represents the emergence of commercial enterprise through privately owned landed estates. However, these estates were not strictly economic units, but comprised a diverse social and political institution engaged in a complex interplay with the broader cultural landscape, transforming local environments...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Ahlstrom.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Earliest evidence for the widespread use of two-pole ladders and hafted stone axes in the American Southwest’s Central Pueblo area tree-ring dates to the seventh century. That evidence includes, for ladders, remains of the objects themselves, but especially ladder rests found in pithouse floors and, for axes, stone tool heads and stone-axe-cut beams. These...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Jerrems. Jerry Jerrems.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Israel Russell in 1883 suggested that the shorelines of ancient Lake Lahontan were so pristine that the lake must have been only a few hundred years old. Today it is known that this spectacular Pleistocene Lake, present in a unique environment, has been around for at least the last two million years with an extraordinarily complex history. Increasing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacqueline Cowan. Ryan Peterson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the end of the last major glaciation over 10,000 years ago, lake levels in the Lake Superior Basin have varied considerably. This variation caused the formation of relict shorelines that were left behind as water levels dropped. At around 6,600 years ago, the lake level began to rise in an event that took place over the next 700 years. This event...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Go Matsumoto. Gabriela De Los Rios.

This is an abstract from the "Ancient Landscapes and Cosmic Cities out of Eurasia: Transdisciplinary Studies with New Lidar Mapping" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Lambayeque refers to the late prehispanic archaeological culture that emerged after the political demise of the preceding Moche Culture and reached its height of prosperity during the late tenth century, centering on a large city called Sicán on the Peruvian north coast. The Lambayeque...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anisha Viswanathan.

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. Created in 1866, Vicksburg National Cemetery is perhaps most famous as being the final resting place for the 17,000 Union soldiers who participated in the Civil War. The importance of the cemetery, however, extends far beyond than its designated period of historical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Peck.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pre-1778 land use in Hawai‘i Island’s leeward Kohala uplands has been extensively documented by archaeologists, particularly those studying the ancient mauka (upland) Leeward Kohala Field System. However, “historic” (post-1778) land use – particularly in the uplands – is not as well understood. In this poster, I provide a review of the documentary and oral...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Roscoe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Not infrequently, New Guinean warriors managed in war to displace or annihilate the members of a neighboring territory, yet almost never did they then move in and occupy the territory they had won. Instead, they either left it vacant, allowed allies to take it over, or (most commonly) invited the original owners back a couple of years later. This seemingly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tomás Gallareta Negrón. Leslie Cecil. George Bey III.

This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences 2024" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2015, an archaeological rescue program was carried out in Mani, Yucatán, related to improvements in the main square with the aim of designating Mani as a “magical town.” The excavations produced 568 fragments of the “idols” destroyed during the so-called auto de fe organized by Diego de Landa in Mani (1562), punishing the Maya population for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlos Flores Manzano.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Several explorations were carried out in Cuscatlán (Amaroli 1986; Amaroli 1992; Velázquez & Hermes 1995; Barrera 2018; Arevalo 2018), where the Metropolitan Area of San Salvador (AMSS), El Salvador, now stands, including explorations resulting from archaeological rescues and projects based on the model of preventive archaeology (Bozoki-Ernyey 2007) along...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Donald Gaylord.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Like all landscapes, the one at Liberty Hall has been dramatically impacted by the people who lived here. Originally part of the Monacan Indian Nation's homeland for at least a thousand years, the hilltop site's proximity to a significant ford over the north branch of the James River and a pair of strong-flowing springs attracted first colonial farmers and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claudia Alvarado. Takeshi Inomata.

This is an abstract from the "Aguada Fénix and the Middle Usumacinta Region: Interregional Interactions and Social Transformations in the Middle Preclassic Period" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The latest archaeological evidence has shown that 10,000 years ago the landscapes of the actual Mexican territory suffered constant changes due to human activities. Fire, horticulture, species dissemination, and agriculture are among the factors that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jami Lockhart. Carl Drexler.

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. This presentation highlights GIS and remote sensing components of a four-year project completed by the Arkansas Archeological Survey as part of a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESU) program with Pea Ridge National Military Park and the National Park Service’s Midwest Archeological Center. The research was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cristian Gonzalez Rodriguez. Bill Sillar. Thibault Saintenoy.

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. The Carangas region, named after a late prehispanic and early colonial chiefdom in Qollasuyu (south-central Andes), preserves over 600 chullpa mausoleums associated with walled hilltops, administrative centers (tambos), and regional movement routes. Carangas’s chullpas exhibit a great diversity of architecture, as well as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aleks Pluskowski. Guillermo García-Contreras. Michelle Alexander. Rowena Banerjea.

This is an abstract from the "New Work in Medieval Archaeology, Part 1: Landscapes, Food, and Health" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents the highlights of the Landscapes of (Re)Conquest project (2018–2023), which has investigated the impact of conquest, migration and cultural transformation in the frontier societies of medieval Iberia and Pyrenean Occitania. Focusing on specific regional case studies, it considers how the creation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sylvia Cheever. Michelle Young.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Late Intermediate Period (1000-1400 CE) in the Central Andean highlands is characterized by balkanization and warfare, a pattern that is materialized through the construction of hilltop forts (pukaras) and skeletal trauma observed from Ancash to the Titicaca Basin. After a decades-long hiatus in academic research in Huancavelica, Peru, which was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Victoria Gum.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent excavations at the First Baptist Church on Nassau Street in Williamsburg, Virginia, have illuminated significant information about the site, most notably the presence of over 60 burials. However, the First Baptist site also provides an opportunity to literally excavate the history of our own discipline. Following the concept of an “anthropology of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick Cruz.

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. Landscapes are entangled with social meaning. Societies that live upon a landscape imbue it with both cultural meaning and use them as mnemonic devices in order to preserve their histories. In turn, these culturally constructed meanings and mnemonics act in a feedback loop as both formulation and preservation of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rafael Millán-Pascual.

This is an abstract from the "Developments and Challenges in Landscape Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this contribution we combine landscape archaeology and the archaeology of the contemporary past to critically rethink the material, social, and ideological effects of the industrial forestry developed by the dictatorship in Spain. This case is a particularly relevant example to reflect on how the transformation of the landscape is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniela Rodriguez Obregon. Emiliano Melgar Tísoc.

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. Within of the daily activities of a population, there were the events of the death of community members. These practices led the population to look for certain objects that needed to be placed next to the deceased people in the burial process with different functions and meanings. But...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Schürch. 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. The Aurignacian marks the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic in southern Germany. During this time blade and bladelet production became the central focus of the stone knapping. Lithic technology of the Swabian Aurignacian is nowhere better documented than at Vogelherd. Here Riek’s original...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adolfo Lopez. Daniel Shelley.

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. El Monumento Natural Cabo Samaná, situado en la provincia de Samaná, en la República Dominicana, atesora una serie de importantes sitios arqueológicos de época arcaica en las cuevas y abrigos que jalonan el farallón rocoso. El equipo de arqueólogos de Guahayona Institute...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anthony Villar Quintana.

This is an abstract from the "Cuando los senderos divergen: Reconsiderando las interacciones entre los Andes Septentrionales y los Andes Centrales durante el 1ro y 2do milenio AEC / When Paths Diverge: Reconsidering Interactions between the Northern and Central Andes, First–Second Millennium BCE" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Las excavaciones arqueológicas sistemáticas realizadas en Shoymal (Amazona-Perú) nos permitieron identificar un edificio...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Minneth Medina. James Callaghane. Rafael Lopez.

This is an abstract from the "Adventures in Beekeeping: Recent Studies in Ecology, Archaeology, History, and Ethnography in Yucatán" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El códice maya de Madrid, muestra aspectos de la vida cotidiana de los mayas, uno de ellos la meliponicultura, producción de las abejas sin aguijón. En el Puuc, la meliponicultura es una práctica desarrollada de manera secundaria después de la milpa maya, complementando el ingreso...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Martínez Donado.

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. El ser humano a través del tiempo, ha creado maneras de conmemorar la muerte y rememorar a sus antepasados, algunos mediante rituales elaborados y otros por medio de la fabricación de bienes muebles que permiten el tratamiento mortuorio de los individuos. En el caso de la región nor...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Dawson. Rémi Méreuze. Max Friesen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological research at the Kuukpak site in the Mackenzie Delta represents a compelling case study in the face of climate change-induced coastal erosion. We offer an in-depth analysis of the innovative use of laser scanning technology in the excavation and preservation of the Kuukpak A3H5 semi-subterranean house. Our study focuses on the comparison of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren Sullivan. Eleanor King. Whitney Goodwin.

This is an abstract from the "Prehispanic Maya Marketplace Investigations in the Three Rivers Region of Belize: First Results" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The understanding of Maya marketplaces has long been hindered by the lack of archaeological data to support their identification. The ceramic data presented here serves as one aspect of an overarching project that uses a configurational approach and a set of cross-cultural marketplace...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Sullivan. Ronald L. Bishop. Elizabeth H. Paris.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Late Classic through Postclassic transition in Central Chiapas, c. 750-900 AD, was a time of dynamic change in population, social, and political organization, some of which was incurred by the entry of the Chiapanec people into the Central Depression. The Spanish Conquistadors, arriving in the area some six centuries later, described the Chiapanec as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Torben Rick. Natasha Vokhshoori. Todd Braje. Christine France. Matthew McCarthy.

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. Understanding the social, political, and economic dynamics of coastal hunter-gatherer-fishers was a hallmark of Jeanne Arnold’s multi-decade archaeological research. Arnold integrated marine climate records and archaeological data to develop hypotheses...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yorke Rowan. Gary Rollefson. Alexander Wasse. Chad Hill. Morag Kersel.

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. Spanning the early–mid-Holocene and the global climate event at 8200 BP (“8.2 event”), the Late Neolithic (ca. 7000–5000 BCE) is a crucial time for understanding cultural trajectories in southwest Asia. In hyperarid deserts such as that in the Black Desert of eastern Jordan, questions remain about the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Astolfo Araujo. Letícia Correa.

This is an abstract from the "“The South Also Exists”: The Current State of Prehistoric Archaeology in Brazil: Dialogues across Different Theoretical Approaches and Research Agendas" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Tietê River is historically known as one of the main human displacement axes between the eastern portion of SE Brazil and the inner portions of the continent, being navigable for most of its course. The use of this waterway back to a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Genevieve Dewar. Elizabeth Niespolo. Mike Morley. Judith Sealy. Brian Stewart.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations at Spitzkloof A Rockshelter, northern Namaqualand, South Africa, identified a deep stratified sequence with pulsed occupation dating to the Last Glacial Maximum (23–17 kcal. BP) and Marine Isotope Stage 3 (>51 ka BP), while the lowest layers are candidates for U-series dating. Importantly, this period encompasses a time of marked climate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Bentley.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For more than four decades the lower Aucilla River in northwest Florida has been recognized for its impressive late Pleistocene archaeological site preservation and its potential to further our understanding of Americas earliest indigenous inhabitants. Within the mid-channel collapse sinkholes of this river, dozens of late Pleistocene archaeological sites...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marcia Hattori.

This is an abstract from the "Weaving Epistemes: Community-Based Research in Latin America" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A Latin American choreography: entanglements of solidarity and collaboration for a forensic archaeology Latin America was and still is one of the most prominent areas for the development of forensic archaeology and anthropology. It is a common sense between researchers of the field that this latin america perspective started...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Iyaxel Cojti-Ren.

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. In Guatemala, the Law for the Protection of the Cultural Heritage of the Nation establishes that archaeological sites are the property of the nation and are under the exclusive protection of the state. From the point of view of Indigenous Peoples, this law is racist,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Hargrave. R. Berle Clay. Rinita Dalan. Diana Greenlee.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Questions persist about the layout and building sequence of Poverty Point’s landscape features, and the planning and rapidity of overall site construction. A research program using geophysics, stratigraphic coring, lidar, and targeted excavation that began in 2006 continues to yield new data and interpretations about the ridges, timber circles, plaza, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Haecker. Virginie Renson. Jay Stephens.

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. Pecos was one of the major Puebloan communities in New Mexico from circa AD 1450 until the 1790s. As the nexus of an interregional-intercultural network, this pueblo became a dominant economic force in Pueblo-Plains-Hispanic interactions throughout most of the Spanish colonial period. A metal...