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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gina Buckley. María Fernanda García Hurtado. Chad Rankle. Seth Roberts. Virginie Renson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Lead isotopes have successfully been used in archaeology to trace artifact provenance and, more recently, to study human paleomobility through skeletal remains in regions with traditionally temperate climates, such as Europe. However, very few environmental lead isotope baseline studies have been conducted for the Americas, where anthropogenic lead...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Humphreys. Mackenze Burkhart.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. American Veterans Archaeological Recovery (AVAR), a American 501c3 nonprofit that uses archaeological fieldwork to help military veterans transition into new lives and careers, has been participating in and directing metal detection surveys on conflict sites since the program’s inception in 2016. This was done both to increase engagement through providing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Billie Follensbee.

This is an abstract from the "The Ties That Bind: Cordage, Its Sources, and the Artifacts of Its Creation and Use" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While only small fragments of actual cordage have been recovered in Gulf Coast Olmec excavations, depictions of cordage figure prominently in Olmec and Olmec-related art. Reliefs of string, rope, and knots appear as costume components on Colossal Heads, on figures in the round, and in relief images on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Des Lauriers.

This is an abstract from the "Leveling Up: Gaming and Game Design in Archaeological Education and Outreach" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While the use of simulations in educational contexts for archaeology is not new, the ways in which this approach have been employed have not fully explored the higher-level educational benefits possible. Many simulations focus on the general concepts of archaeology, rather than viewing them as genuine...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Martin.

This is an abstract from the "Democratizing Heritage Creation: How-To and When" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Delaware Department of Transportation has a project that will have an adverse effect on two National Register-eligible bridges in south Wilmington through their demolition. This location is within a disadvantaged and predominantly Black community with proud history, as one of the bridges is named for a state legislator from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren Nowakowski. M. Kathryn Brown. Katherine Nelson. Jason Yaeger.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Scholars have sought to identify ancient Maya spaces where specialized knowledge was transferred and acquired. Several historic accounts, including that of Bishop de Landa’s in Yucatan, mention specialized residences for youths while they were being schooled. Analogous to boarding schools, housing exclusively for acolytes creates a focused environment for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Keyser.

This is an abstract from the "Painting the Past: Interpretive Approaches in Global Rock Art Research" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Plains warfare is well known for its “gamesmanship” aspect, but one of the less emphasized parts of that is the practice of leaving a “calling card” flouting your entry into an enemy’s territory and your success against him. Recent research has located more than a dozen “out of place” northern Plains rock art sites....

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Willis. Sarah MacIntosh.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology of the Virgin Branch Puebloan Region" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The landscape of archaeological research is rapidly changing in the United States which requires a paradigm shift in how we (as archaeologists) conduct our trade. This poster recounts the major successes that non-invasive survey methods have produced for researchers on the far southern Shivwits Plateau of northern Arizona. Focusing on the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Extract.

This is an abstract from the "Bringing the Past to Life, Part 1: Papers in Honor of John M. D. Pohl" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ethnoarchaeology is a critical methodology for analyzing prehispanic and early colonial codices. Drawing on the foundational work of John Pohl and Bruce Byland’s In the Realm of 8 Deer, I discuss how ethnography can help decipher, contextualize, and bring to life Indigenous pictographic documents. My...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carmen Sarjeant. Eva Hulse. Terry Ozbun.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological data and collections from the Chiawana Park site, a pre-contact village on the Columbia River in Washington State, were analyzed decades after its original excavation. Archaeological excavations conducted in 1967 produced huge assemblages of animal bones, bone tools, and stone tools. Geoarchaeological, faunal, and technological artifact...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordan Ralph. Burchell Hayes. Terry Hayes. Grant Wilson.

This is an abstract from the "Juukan Gorge: The Story of Destruction, Excavation and Rebuilding" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On the 24th of May 2020, mining company Rio Tinto destroyed significant rockshelters at Juukan Gorge, in the western Hamersley Range of Western Australia’s Pilbara Region, as part of its iron ore operations. This event had devastating consequences for the Puutu Kunti Kurrama People, who have now lost one of their most...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bram Tucker.

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. One way to view the twentieth-century history of hunter-gatherer studies is as a long attempt to evaluate Victorian notions of foragers as primitive relics with actual data from real foraging peoples. This history came to a fiery climax during the Kalahari history debate of the 1990s, when researchers argued whether...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Manuel May Castillo.

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. In this presentation, I argue that paganism-barbarism not only amalgamated colonial propaganda to portray the Maya Peoples as enemies of the crown for the sake of colonization but also served to legally disable any Maya who dared to claim their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cheyenne Lewis. Kevin Gidusko. Tommy Budd.

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. Following a landslide at Vicksburg National Cemetery in 2020, a portion of the collapsed terrace within the cemetery was subject to emergency excavations to recover burials that had fallen from the Section T terrace. In addition, the landslide covered a portion of the Section...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scotti Norman.

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. Warren Wilson College is a small school in Asheville, North Carolina that integrates work, study, and community service through the lens of experiential learning. In this talk, I will discuss some of the pedagogical choices in my Archaeology of Food and Feasting course that promoted student engagement apart from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick Livingood.

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. David Hurst Thomas (1972) described how model building and simulation can lead to serendipitous discoveries, that is findings that were not originally intended. In several projects to simulate cost distance of canoe travel in eastern North America, most of the memorable and impactful lessons have been a result of serendipity. This paper will...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Wagner. Aaron Lovejoy.

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. Excavations at the First Baptist Church in Williamsburg, VA, revealed 62 burials on the west half of the lot behind the early nineteenth-century church. While three burials were chosen by the descendant community to be excavated, they also elected to leave the remaining 59 burials undisturbed,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fumi Arakawa. Stan Berryman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although the Native Americans Grave Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) was enacted in 1990, New Mexico State University Museum (NMSU) personnel struggled to complete the required inventory of their collections for more than 15 years. Personnel changes at the museum and a complex, poorly documented collection added to the difficulties of completing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Budziszewski. José Luis Punzo Díaz. Alfonso Gastelum-Strozzi.

This is an abstract from the "Looking to the West: New insights into Postclassic Archaeology in Michoacán" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Spatial distribution and relations between the osteological material and grave and/or pyre goods within cremation funerary urns are crucial aspects of the bioarchaeological analysis of cremation burials. Through meticulous examination of material distribution, valuable insights can be gleaned regarding the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Valeria Antezana Soria.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper will present the preliminary results of an archaeological investigation, currently in progress, carried out in the ex-haciendas of Yocalla and Puna, in Potosí, Bolivia. Based on archaeological survey, surface material, architectural evidence and historical documentation from the 19th and 20th centuries, it is intended to explore the influence of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carmen Garcia Lopez. José Luis Punzo Díaz. Fernanda Lucía Navarro Sandoval.

This is an abstract from the "Looking to the West: New insights into Postclassic Archaeology in Michoacán" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the municipality of Tacámbaro, Michoacán, is located the archaeological site Malpaís de Tacámbaro, La Garita sector. It is an arm of lava spill where the presence of prehispanic structures that seem to be part of the first urban centers of the Middle Postclassic (AD 1200–1350) stands out. According to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mariana Vazquez.

This is an abstract from the "New and Emerging Perspectives on the Bajo el Laberinto Region of the Maya Lowlands, Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study introduces a method for estimating aboveground biomass (AGB) in contemporary tropical forests near archaeological sites using lidar technology. Accurate AGB estimates are crucial for assessing wood resources available to the ancient Maya for city development. We propose a lidar...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Veronica Perez Rodriguez.

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. Those of us working in the Mixteca Alta region of Oaxaca have heard the saying that the “Classic period” in the region took place earlier, in the Late Preclassic. While the Classic period (AD 300-800) was a time of urban florescence in the Valley of Oaxaca, Basin of Mexico, Puebla, and the Mixteca Baja regions, investigations into...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordi Rivera Prince.

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. On the north coast of Perú, the collapse of the Chavín Sphere of Influence ca. 500/400 cal BC had a marked impact that brought about sociopolitical changes within the Moche Valley. For many years, archaeologists have investigated structural changes (e.g., settlement patterns and architectural shifts),...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katarzyna Slusarska. Jacek Karmowski. Ariel Gruenthal-Rankin. Katherine Gaddis. Marissa Ramsier.

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 late medieval cemetery in Żelewo is in northwestern Poland, near Miedwie Lake, on the moraine hill named Catherina’s Hill. Excavations began in 2019 and continued in 2023 as a salvage archaeology project. The site is part of the Kołbacz Monastery’s estate—founded in 1173—the oldest Cistercian monastery in Pomerania. The cemetery is related...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adelle Bricking. Oliver Davis. 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. The Iron Age in Wales is understudied compared to other regions in Britain largely due to the lack of osteological evidence. A study by Rowan Whimster in 1981 found only eight burial records in the entire country, leading to the assumption that Iron Age peoples in Wales conducted "archaeologically invisible" funerary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shintaro Suzuki. Fernando Gutiérrez.

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. We explore a Middle Preclassic skeleton from the site of Aguada Fénix, Tabasco. It is one of the scarce cases of the early temporality in the Maya area. We first describe in detail its archaeological context and osteological sex and age-at-death and infer...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Almi Cabanzo. Mozelle Bowers. Sara Juengst.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Infant burials during the Ecuadorian Formative (3800 BC - 1450 BC) took several forms, including as offering deposits at ritual locations, as burials accompanying adults, and as primary burials in cemetery contexts.This variation may reflect important differences in the status of these infants, their life experiences, and/or how Formative peoples viewed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Witt. Gabriel Prieto. John Verano. Luis Flores.

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. Human sacrifice is a form of ritual theater staged by emerging empires to articulate new power asymmetries and legitimize imperial enterprises. The culmination of the event is the death of the victim because ritual homicide transforms the body into an efficacious offering while generating vivid images...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tamara Whitley. Kristina Doyle.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Carrizo Plain National Monument (CPNM) contains a large number of structures and features associated with historical agriculture on the Carrizo Plain. This largely intact cultural landscape spans a period of significance from the Homestead Act through industrial scale dryland farming. Historical and archaeological contexts have been developed for the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Natalie Mueller. Elizabeth Horton.

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. Throughout the western hemisphere, historical ecologists working with Indigenous experts have made profound discoveries about the ways in which seemingly pristine ecosystems were shaped by Indigenous knowledge and practice over the course of thousands of years. Key methodologies include surveys of biodiversity and ecosystem structure...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eleanor Harrison-Buck. Marieka Brouwer Burg. Samantha Krause.

This is an abstract from the "“The Center and the Edge”: How the Archaeology of Belize Is Foundational for Understanding the Ancient Maya, Part II" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the early years of Maya archaeology, Belize was considered peripheral, and the wetlands were at the far edge of this pseudo-backwater. It was not until Turner and Harrison’s seminal study of Pulltrouser Swamp in the 1970s that Belizean wetlands moved from the edge to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dianna Doucette.

This is an abstract from the "Power to the People: Cultural Resource Investigations along Utility Lines Giving a Voice to Past and Present Communities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Several large-scale cultural resource management surveys conducted ahead of utility line construction in Massachusetts have shed new light on the history of Native American subsistence procurement practices and settlement patterning along two of the most significant...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordan Riccio. Erin A. Steinwachs.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster will present the field methods, analyses, and results of recent Phase II archaeological investigations of a precontact-period site located on Sicily Island (36LA69) within the Pennsylvania side of the Lower Susquehanna River. A discussion of research themes – including lithic sourcing and technology, chronology, settlement patterns, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Hopwood. Emily Munroe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Kenan Tepe, Turkey, is a multi-period archaeological site that was occupied during the Ubaid period (5000–4000 BCE), the Late Chalcolithic (3360–3020 BCE), and early Bronze Age (3000–2800 BCE) (Parker and Cobb 2012). During each of these periods residents of Kenan Tepe conducted distinct burial practices. These burials included the remains of individuals...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lilian Tejeda-Barillas. Jaime J. Awe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Life, Death, and Renewal: Examining the Significance of Lowland Maya Sweat Baths in the Belize River Valley. Lilian Tejeda Barillas and Jaime J. Awe Although sweat baths were an integral form of architecture in ancient Maya communities, these special architectural features have received limited attention from Maya scholars. In this poster, we address...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lindi Masur. Giles Morrow.

This is an abstract from the "Bridging Time, Space, and Species: Over 20 Years of Archaeological Insights from the Cañoncillo Complex, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru, Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Sector B, the principal monumental area of Huaca Colorada, has long been understood as the locus of rites of social and cosmic rebirth, ancestor veneration, and genealogical continuity. Excavation has revealed a ritual canon that included the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander Jurado.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tlalancaleca is located in the western reaches of the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley in Central Mexico and was one of the region's largest urban centers during its apogee in the Terminal Formative period (100 BC - AD 250). The pathway to this urban apogee is less well understood but a promising area of inquiry lies in the process of population aggregation that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan deFrance.

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. Since its founding, New Orleans has required infrastructure to collect and move water from its below-sea-level terrain. The urban development of the city required drainage ditches and canals that connected to bayous, the Mississippi River, or Lake Pontchartrain. Although there was trash collection in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carter Clinton.

This is an abstract from the "Community Engaged Bioarchaeology: Centering Descendants" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation focuses on redefining ethical frameworks in bioarchaeology and anthropological genetics, particularly when working with African American communities. Utilizing a “shared authority” approach, the talk argues for the community’s role as not merely subjects but active collaborators and decision-makers. Case studies...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jaime Awe. Arlen Chase. Diane 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. For more than a century, archaeological research in Belize has been at the vanguard of Maya Studies, contributing disproportionately to our knowledge of ancient Maya civilization. Yet, Belize’s archaeological contributions to the field are often overlooked in many current...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Prout.

This is an abstract from the "Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Subterranean" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Cueva de los Quetzales was initially reported in 1991 by the Petexbatun Regional Cave Survey and more intensively investigated in 1993 in conjunction with the Altas Arquqológico de Guatemala’s excavation of the surface site of Las Pacayas. The site is located 12 km south of Dos Pilas and 7.5 km east of Aguateca. The cave is noteworthy...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Moore.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There has been an abundance of research on the Nasca culture and linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) separately. However, there is no literature specifically on Nasca and LEH analysis comparing the Early Intermediate Period (EIP) and the Middle Horizon period (MH). The research detailed here shows there are evident disparities in LEH between Nasca individuals...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Birge. Thibault Saintenoy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Carangas, primarily located in modern day Bolivia, were a Late Intermediate Period (LIP) group often associated with highland pastoralism and broader LIP traditions. They are also known for a series of colored adobe chullpas in the Rio Lauca basin and a network of linear geoglyphs called the Sajama lines which cover over 20,000 square kilometers. They...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Torrico-Ávila.

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. This paper examines the insurgent practices of the people of Atacama who seek to teach Ckunza, a language that is extinct according to experts and the Chilean state. The Atacameños created the academy of the Ckunza language and teach the language in the community. Thus, they revive Ckunza, decolonizing the episteme imposed by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Tartaron.

This is an abstract from the "World-Systems and Globalization in Archaeology: Assessing Models of Intersocietal Connections 50 Years since Wallerstein’s “The Modern World-System”" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This contribution proposes that world-systems analysis could benefit from greater consideration of a local-scale, or “small world,” perspective. These maritime and terrestrial small worlds, defined by face-to-face interaction and often...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hilda Torres.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Attribute analyses are common in the field of archaeology for categorizing and analyzing artifacts. In this study, the Later Stone Age end scrapers and backed blades from Blydefontein Rock Shelter in South Africa undergo an attribute analysis using an objective attribute guide. The guide combines common terms from previous studies along with new terms for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Lassen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. AmaTerra Environmental, an ERG Company, initially recorded site 41CR61 during a survey of a proposed highway expansion for the Texas Department of Transportation in 2019. The site was situated on a stabilized sand dune, and the presence of a buried dark earth anthrosol bearing multiple cooking features prompted data recovery excavations. During those...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bethany Potter. Kelly Graf. Rolfe Mandel.

This is an abstract from the "American Foragers: Human-Environmental Interactions across the Continents" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents results of an analysis of lithic artifacts from the Kanorado Locality in the High Plains of Western Kansas. The Kanorado Locality is a stratified Clovis-age and Folsom/Midland occupation along Middle Beaver Creek. The Clovis adaptation in the Great Plains is well-documented, but not as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anthony Krus. Charles Cobb. Brad Lieb. Edmond Boudreaux III.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Mississippian presence in the Upper Tombigbee River (UTR) drainage is represented by dispersed communities and single-mound centers with modest-sized occupations. The artifact sequence for the UTR closely mirrors that of the neighboring Moundville polity and the UTR traditionally has been viewed as having occupations that extended throughout the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Heilen. Shelby Manney.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As more and more data are born digital, archaeologists increasingly focus on operationalizing and refining data models, workflows, and practices. Important considerations include not only whether data will be useable for their intended purpose but also whether data generated by archaeological projects will be findable, accessible, interoperable, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julie Nasser.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The village of Mesilla in southern New Mexico endured a tumultuous nineteenth century. Between 1845 and 1855, Mesilla shifted back and forth between Mexican to United States territorial control. During the U.S. Civil War, the Union-controlled town was conquered by Confederates and briefly became the capital of the Confederate state of Arizona until it was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Colleen Zori. Davide Zori.

This is an abstract from the "New Work in Medieval Archaeology, Part 2: Crossing Boundaries, Materialities, and Identities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavation and analysis of material culture is one way that scholars in the present endeavor to understand the people of the past. At the same time, we must consider that these people had encounters with their own archaeological history, made manifest in material objects, tombs, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yiyi Tang. Jiajing Wang. Liu Li. Wei Chen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Migration is a frequent phenomenon in human history. Previous studies mainly used migration as a general term to explain any cultural changes observed in migrant communities. Recent studies, however, have recognized that migration is embedded in both environmental and social contexts, thus making it necessary to study the consequence of migration on a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Anderson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Tiwanaku state has been shown to have had varied methods for interacting with and influencing its peripheries. This poster presents a synthesis of multi-year excavations at the site of Pinami in the Central Valley of Cochabamba that provides both diachronic depth from the Late Formative, Middle Horizon and Early Intermediate and a wide range of data...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Arturo De Lombera-Hermida. Tania Mosquera Castro. Xose Rodríguez-Álvarez.

This is an abstract from the "Local and/or Exotic Interactions: Symbols, Materials, and Societies" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The NW of the Iberian Peninsula is defined by the scarcity of flint and the predominance of acid soils that prevent the preservation of organic remains. These are the main handicaps affecting Paleolithic research. The lithic assemblages of the Galician Upper Paleolithic sites are defined by the hegemonic use of local...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joana Belmiro. Jovan Galfi. Xavier Terradas. Nuno Bicho. João Cascalheira.

This is an abstract from the "Local and/or Exotic Interactions: Symbols, Materials, and Societies" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hunter-gatherers relied strongly on lithic raw materials, making them essential to characterize mobility and land-use, raw material provisioning, technology, social organization, exchange, and the functioning of social networks. As such, the characterization of hunter-gatherer lifeways is often the result of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Lau. Alan Farahani. Sarah Whitcher Kansa. Benjamin Porter.

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. One of the many intellectual legacies of Richard Redding’s work is his exploration of how local communities made provisioning decisions to meet both their own local needs and demands by political authorities. This paper examines these themes among inhabitants of ancient Dhiban, Jordan during the Late...

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

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. In recent years, several archaeological investigations have been conducted in northern Peru and southern Ecuador, which...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yuko Shiratori. Brent Woodfill. Josuhé Lozada Toledo. Rubén Núñez Ocampo. Socorro Jiménez Alvarez.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Investigations in Chiapas, Mexico" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. According to the ethnohistorical sources, the Lakandon Ch’ol managed to maintain their independence from Spanish colonialism for over a century somewhere in the forest, after the Spanish seizure of their capital in 1586. They founded a new center called Sak B’alam, which was finally conquered by the Spaniards in 1695. Sak B’alam...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rossana May. Tomás Gallareta Negrón. William Ringle.

This is an abstract from the "The Bolonchen Regional Archaeological Project: 25 Years of Research in the Puuc" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Domestic architecture in the Puuc Hills shows an unusually high incidence of vaulted buildings, often considered to be the residences of higher status community members. The factors guiding their placement within communities are understudied, however. This is unfortunate since the siting of such expensive...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlos Mayo. Julia Mayo. Alfredo Campos. Eliecer Ching. Hannah Fernández.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A group of translucent green stones have recently been found in the archaeological site of El Caño, Panama. It is not the first time that these types of stones have been found in the region. Stones with similar characteristics were found at Sitio Conte in the 1930s. The analyses carried out with pXRF in combination with spectroscopic techniques (FTIR,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Tykot. Nicoletta Violante. Gaia Mustone.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Obsidian tools and flakes are regularly found at prehistoric sites in Tuscany, indicating long-distance trade and distribution during the Neolithic through Bronze Age periods (ca. 6000-1000 BC). Some 436 artifacts from six archaeological sites in Florence, Siena, and Grosseto, some 300 km from the nearest geological obsidian source, were tested with a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hugo Ikehara Tsukayama. Marco Pfeiffer Jakob. Josefina Concha O'Ryan. Michele Koons. Lisa Trever.

This is an abstract from the "Paisajes Arqueológicos de Pañamarca: Findings from the 2018–2023 Field Seasons" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this presentation, we discuss the results of the geomorphological survey carried out parallel to the archaeological fieldwork in 2018 and 2019. The analysis of geological profiles at alluvial terraces, satellite imagery, and radiocarbon dating produced a 9,000-year sequence showing the high dynamism of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Oula Seitsonen. Markus Fjellström.

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. Reindeer hunting, reindeer husbandry, and nomadic pastoralism form a significant part of the history of Sápmi, and the whole northern Fennoscandia from the late Iron Age to modern times. Sápmi, situated on the northern shore of Europe, is the transnational homeland of Sámi people, Europe’s only indigenous group. Recent...

DOCUMENT Citation Only María Martínez-Polanco. Nawa Sugiyama. Christine France.

This is an abstract from the "Unraveling the Mysteries of the Isthmo-Colombian Area’s Past: A Symposium in Honor of Archaeologist Richard Cooke and His Contributions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A long history of human groups interacting with white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) can be traced to Parita Bay in Panama. Archaeological evidence supports deer consumption since the Middle Holocene, and modern deer are continuously abundant on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Kassabaum. Alexandria Mitchem.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The role of non-food plants in human history is a growing area of research for paleoethnobotanists. In this paper, we develop and present a multi-pronged method for exploring non-subsistence human-plant interactions in the archaeological record, using a case study from the American Southeast. The archaeological record of the Lower Mississippi Valley...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ibis Mery.

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. El tema zooarqueológico en el Ecuador sobre los camélidos es muy escaso especialmente en la región, solo algunos sitios reportan dicha especie, especialmente en la Sierra Norte, donde su presencia no es significativa, se presenta como un elemento especial o escaso. Nuestra...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lourdes Budar.

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. En esta presentación se darán a conocer los resultados de las investigaciones realizadas acerca los Complejos Arquitectónicos para el Juego de Pelota que han sido registrados en la Costa de Los Tuxtlas.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Raúl Valadez Azúa. Bernardo Rodríguez Galicia.

This is an abstract from the "What Happened after the Fall of Teotihuacan?" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Derivado del proyecto arqueológico “Estudio de túneles y Cuevas en Teotihuacan” es una colección de 455 cánidos que fueron estudiados para conocer su diversidad y la forma como interactuaron estos animales con los hombres en las diversas épocas (siglos VII-XX). En la colección fueron reconocidos perros comunes, xoloitzcuintles, híbridos de...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amelia Sánchez Mosquera.

This is an abstract from the "Unraveling the Mysteries of the Isthmo-Colombian Area’s Past: A Symposium in Honor of Archaeologist Richard Cooke and His Contributions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En 1989 el Smitnsonian Tropical Research Institute de Panamá, liderado por Ricard Cooke, organizó un curso de formación en estudios neotropicales para arqueólogos del américa latina, participamos profesionales de Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Panamá,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Liana Jiménez Osorio.

This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse II: Current Research in Oaxaca Part 2" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Una manera de conocer los santuarios de la época precolonial es a partir de la evidencia arqueológica, sin embargo, debido al tiempo que ha transcurrido y, principalmente, a su destrucción durante la colonización en 1521, la evidencia material con que se cuenta es escasa y fragmentaria, siendo necesario recurrir a otras fuentes....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles McGimsey.

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. Louisiana has 31 dugout and plank canoes spanning the last 2,000 years recorded in the archaeological site files. The collection reflects a diversity of shapes and sizes in both Indigenous and Euroamerican assemblages, suggesting that beyond the required linear shape, individual preference and intended function significantly influenced form. This...

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

This is an abstract from the "Expedient Technological Behavior: Global Perspectives and Future Directions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Centripetal lithic technology, including various forms of Levallois technique, is very common in the African MSA. This technology is commonly identified by prepared core technology, where striking platforms are fully prepared to produce a variety of blanks. In Mozambique, both Levallois and prepared discoidal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mel Miller. Danielle Macdonald.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. To reconstruct the life history of an artifact one must understand how the tool was made, used, but also what happened to the artifact after it was discarded. For stone tool analysis, evaluating lithic artifact condition helps reconstruct this life history through insight into site exposure, assemblage integrity, and post-depositional processes. Multiple...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tim Messner.

This is an abstract from the "Experimental Pedagogies: Teaching through Experimental Archaeology Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For several million years our ancestors used tools to shape their world, and themselves. Some argue we have lost our way, as artificial intelligence and machine learning has reshaped the fabric of society. Our post-industrial, capitalist mode of production resulted in a nearly complete detachment from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa Gomez. Peter Sinelli.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Lucayan Taino of the Bahama archipelago actively bred and managed the hutia rodent (genus Geocapromys) for centuries before the arrival of Europeans. Seven field seasons of excavations at the pre-Columbian Lucayan site of Palmetto Junction on Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands have produced exponentially more hutia skeletal material than has been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Sternberg. Alessandra Pecci.

This is an abstract from the "2024 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Luis Barba" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Luis Barba is the 2024 Fryxell Award honoree, in recognition of his excellence in interdisciplinary research contributing significantly to American archaeology. Luis started his career with academic degrees in chemical engineering, geology, and anthropology. His research interests and over 200 publications focus on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leobardo Pacheco Arias. Andrés Tejero Andrade. Denisse Argote Espino. Gerardo Cifuentes Nava. Martín Cárdenas Soto.

This is an abstract from the "Bringing the Past to Life, Part 1: Papers in Honor of John M. D. Pohl" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents the methodology employed, as well as the results obtained from the geophysical research conducted in the archaeological site of Mitla, Oaxaca, during the 2022 season of the Lyobaa Project. In this project, noninvasive geophysical techniques, such as ground-penetrating radar (GPR), electrical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nick Angeloff. Mark Castro. Marisol Cortez-Rincon. Engin Nasuh.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cal Poly Humboldt and the Museum Bitola initiated a long term research project in the Pelagonia region of North Macedonia, this paper presents the results of the initial field season. Our expectations were that the site was the location of a remote Macedonian garrison defending against Roman incursions. We conducted excavations, remote sensing and in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Valda Black. Erin Thornton.

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 site of Sondor in the south-central Peruvian Andes is famously known as an Inca ceremonial center in Andahuaylas, Peru. Prior to Inca presence, Sondor was occupied by cultures from the Formative period to the Late Intermediate period (LIP), with the largest occupation by the Chanka during the LIP (AD 1000–1400)....

DOCUMENT Citation Only C. Michael Barton. Alfredo Cortell-Nicolau. Agustín Diez-Castillo. Javier Fernández-López-de-Pablo. Salvador Pardo-Gordó.

This is an abstract from the "Big Ideas to Match Our Future: Big Data and Macroarchaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chronlogical control is essential for regional-scale research in order to establish contemporaneity or temporal sequences among spatially distributed assemblages. Archaeology has benefitted from advances in radiometric dating methods, as well as statistical protocols for combining dates to achive greater precision age...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Sherwood.

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. Poverty Point’s concentric ridges have long been assumed to be residential areas despite an absence of archaeological evidence for houses. In 1991, a field school excavation was initiated based on a core that suggested a possible clay floor buried ~60 cm below the surface. Sixteen 2 × 2 units were opened,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia Mathu. Katie Chiou.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project looks at plant remains from an archaeological site, Moundville (1Tu500), in the Black Warrior River Valley of west central Alabama. Over centuries of occupation (AD 1020-1650), the people of the Black Warrior River Valley experienced profound changes in population size and social organization. Signatures of past peoples co-mediating...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Szymanski. Sewasew Assefa.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the last several decades, excavations at numerous Swahili period sites along the East African coast have yielded a wide variety of data on economic and cultural practices during the last millennium BP. The results of intensive flotation recovery of macrobotanical remains from pit latrine sediments at housing structures are presented, providing direct...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Leone.

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. While it was initially assumed that the residents of Poverty Point relied on an agricultural subsistence base, it soon became apparent that there was no macrobotanical evidence supporting such an assumption. Instead, subsistence remains were found to be generally consistent with a Late Archaic hunting,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kohei Tamura.

This is an abstract from the "Big Ideas to Match Our Future: Big Data and Macroarchaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Comparative studies using archaeological data on a broad spatiotemporal scale can provide an overview for investigating significant questions in human history and can promote discussions among scholars from different disciplines. This talk will present the results of a quantitative analysis of lithic technologies from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paulina Meléndez Olivera.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In post-medieval England (1500s–1800s), the rise in industrialization and urbanization provides an opportunity to analyze a potential glimpse of how adult male individuals lived daily life in England. This study looks at the potential etiological factors, types of trauma observed and found in the three selected dataset cemeteries of the Chichester Skeletal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Owen Edgcomb. Luigi Travaglini. Sam Angelini.

This is an abstract from the "Capturing and Sharing Vermont’s Past: 3D Imaging as a Tool for Undergraduate Research and Community Engagement" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Vermont has a rich and deep historical connection to the marble industry of the 19th and 20th centuries. Virtually synonymous with this legacy is the Vermont Marble Company (VMC), headquartered in Proctor Vermont. As one of the largest producers of marble in the world, VMC...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Freidel. Juan Carlos Melendez.

This is an abstract from the "Magic, Spirits, Shamanism, and Trance" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Classic Maya (CE 250–800) texts include a phrase k’a’ay u sak nikte’, faded his white flower, as a reference to the ending of the sweet breath of rulers and as a metaphor of their death. The breath—allegory of white flower—is evidently an allusion to soul force. Scholars identified on Tikal Stela 5 a reference for a White Flower Soul Container,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dennis Blanton.

This is an abstract from the "Magic, Spirits, Shamanism, and Trance" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Religious traditions follow historical trajectories. Within the archaeological record, processes of cosmological reorientation may be signaled by patterned change in attendant ritual paraphernalia. This kind of evolutionary process may be tracked in the American Southeast among certain late prehistoric, Mississippian societies, specifically in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward Bever.

This is an abstract from the "Magic, Spirits, Shamanism, and Trance" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the most common forms of divination in early modern Europe was magical treasure hunting. In an era before banks, locks, and police were common, people often buried or hid valuables, and sometimes knowledge of the location was lost. Some people later stumbled upon these caches accidentally, but others sought them out. Some treasure hunters...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alyssa Bolster.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Within the last 40 years, stable isotope analysis has revolutionized bioarchaeology, particularly in the study of human diets in the past. Thousands of studies have analyzed human and animal bone collagen and apatite, tooth enamel, dentin, and hair, but results have rarely been aggregated and studied at large scale. For this investigation, I will compile...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Ure. Jake Hubbert.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Snow Farm site, located on private farmland within the contemporary town of Payson, Utah, was inhabited by the Fremont people from approximately A.D. 700 to 1100 and is believed to have been a part of a larger village complex known as the Payson Mounds. The site is rich in Fremont artifacts and features, including three burials, some of which have been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Robinson.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Surveillance: Seeing and Power in the Material World" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The early Chinese empires, the Qin and Han, governed their lands and peoples using an army of bureaucrats who were responsible for, among other things, creating a vast quantity of administrative documents. Of particular interest to the state was the population—the governments kept population registries, updated...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lynn Dodd. Sabina Zonno. Lauren Malkoun.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cultural repositories struggle with competing missions of wide access and preservation. To release this tension, we created the Virtual Reality Global Library (VRGL), a shareable, immersive VR headset experience that provokes presence through real-time virtual reading of ancient manuscripts with parchment simulation. Informed by experts and experimental...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren Jelinek. Kelly Jenks.

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. Mentorship plays a critical role in preparing new archaeologists for their future careers. Often dismissed as trivial compared to other roles such as project management or program development, it constitutes a long-term investment in the future of the individual, their specialty, their organization, and the profession as a whole....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meredith Ellis.

This is an abstract from the "Storeroom Taphonomies: Site Formation in the Archaeological Archive" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In traditional bioarchaeological practice, the first scientific identities fixed to skeletal remains are the labels given to them when they are excavated. From there, the basic information about the remains is built from those first identifying features associated with the site. But what happens if the remains are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Abbott. Christopher Caseldine.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On a sparse prehistoric landscape where little precipitation fell, Hohokam farmers dug vast canal networks across tens of thousands of acres of xeric desert soils on the banks of the Salt River. Their large-scale hydraulics, without managerial centralization, mark the Hohokam infrastructure as a theoretical anomaly. Cross-culturally, as irrigation scales...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jenna Domeischel. Pemina Yellow Bird.

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. A significant challenge to successful repatriation is an inability for federal agencies and museums to identify who has stewardship and compliance responsibility for collections. This occurs for various reasons: universities and CRM agencies may have conducted contract work for federal agencies,...