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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erika Blecha. Rolfe Mandel. Emily Reed. Arlene Rosen.

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. Previous studies of the northern Chihuahuan Desert and Trans-Pecos region of west Texas primarily used plant macrofossils from Neotoma sp. middens to reconstruct Holocene and late Pleistocene paleoenvironments, offering researchers a general understanding of bioclimatic change for the period of record. Given the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Delphi Huskey. Megan Perry. Robert Tykot.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The site of Tell Hisban offers a unique perspective on the history of metabolic disease among nineteenth-century Middle Eastern Bedouin populations. Compared to regional samples from the same period, Hisban has a high rate of childhood metabolic disease, including rickets. Many infants at the site died with active rickets, and analysis of interglobular...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cannon Fairbairn.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Motherhood" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. To understand the usage of breastfeeding in ancient Egyptian art and ritual it is necessary to examine and explore the ancient perspectives and beliefs which contextualized their creation. This includes the role of breastfeeding in a child’s upbringing and growth as well as the relationship between a child and its nurse (whether mother or wet-nurse) with my...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alejandra Vidal-Elgueta.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Desde el Perspectivismo amerindio se ha puesto énfasis en los mundos relacionales y las lógicas simétricas entre los humanos y no humanos. Sin embargo, desde este enfoque la arqueología ha dejado en un segundo plano la relación entre plantas y humanos. A partir del caso de estudio del sitio Aragón 1 (ca. 3000 AC-1000 DC), Desierto de Atacama, este trabajo...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Luis Muro Ynoñán. Hoover Rojas. Renata Verdun. Jhean Carlos Sánchez. Hector Barrera.

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 results of the first excavation campaign of our project (UCLAP) at the Úcupe Archaeological Complex, Zaña Valley, northern Peru. Composed of a dozen of huaca-mounds, Úcupe is an Early Moche (200-400 CE) site that extends over a plateau of 10 ha, located on the southern bank of the Zaña Valley. The site became particularly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Holly O'Neil. Mark Collard. Sabrina Higgins.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent work in the interdisciplinary field of the Cognitive Science of Religion has proposed that the in-group cooperation needed for the development of the large, complex human societies that first appeared during the Holocene was fostered by belief in the existence of supernatural beings that monitor humans and punish misbehavior. Two competing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gwendolyn Kristy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The period in American history from 1924 to the 1940s represents a pivotal time for transcontinental aviation, making it possible for mail to travel from New York City to San Francisco in 30 hours. Transcontinental aviation is a feat that had not been possible prior to the establishment of a system of lighted beacons and concrete navigational arrows. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yukiko Tonoike. Stefan L. Smith. Frank Hole.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between 1986 and 1994, the Yale University Khabur Basin Survey Project (KBP) carried out archaeological surveys of the middle Khabur region of northeastern Syria and recovered ceramic and lithic artifacts from 257 sites dating from the Palaeolithic to the Ottoman period. Following these ground investigations, in 1998, Nicholas Kouchoukos used Landsat...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley Kipp. Lindsey Cochran.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Sea level rise is a growing threat to cultural heritage resources. Popular geospatial methods to identify at-risk sites work well for large-scale areas but are often overly laborious for the non-specialist to use and challenging to apply at a site-specific scale. Here, we create a Coastal Canopy Health Model, a method used to locate cultural resources in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jesse Casana. Carolin Ferwerda. Jonathan Alperstein. Zachary Silvia. Michael Adler.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology at Picuris Pueblo: The New History" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2022, our team conducted experimental surveys at Picuris Pueblo using a new, drone-deployed lidar sensor alongside aerial thermal and color imaging to successfully map extensive remains of ancestral agricultural terraces and related archaeological features. This paper presents results of our 2023 efforts to expand on our...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brody Manquen. Thomas Garrison. Alex Knodell. Demetrios Athanasoulis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Cyclades, Greece, are islands with well-documented histories of human occupation and use. Among the larger islands in the archipelago there are many small, currently uninhabited islets with referenced land-use histories, including for agriculture and pasturage (goat islands). Despite these references, there have been few archaeological investigations...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Abbigail Reinhardt. Trey Lasater. Heather Smith.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Spring Lake forms the headwaters of the San Marcos River. The area surrounding the lake has hosted prehistoric peoples since the Paleoindian era and remains a place of cultural reverence for contemporary Indigenous communities. In the early 20th century, an amusement park, hotel, and golf course were built around the lake which brought thousands of patrons...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Grace Rinehart Macrae.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In a small French village, discussions of medieval heretics and history have become combined by modern tourists. Popular literature has only added to the issue. Since the publication of pieces like Holy Blood, Holy Grail and the Da Vinci Code, the line between fact and fiction has grown thin. In 1965, excavations in Rennes-le-Château, the village which...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Giuseppe Alva Valverde. Óscar Arias Espinoza. Mary Claudia Avila Peltroche.

This is an abstract from the "Chavín de Huántar’s Contribution to Understanding the Central Andean Formative: Results and Perspectives" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En esta presentación expondremos sobre los análisis realizados a los objetos hallados en contextos de ofrendas, asociados a lo que hemos definido como la renovación del templo en Chavín de Huántar, practica ritual realizada durante el Periodo Formativo Tardío (900-450 aC). Los...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Haley Rebardi. Meredith Snow. Bryon Schroeder.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The subject of this study is an Indigenous pre-Colonial individual from Southwest Texas. The individual was obtained from a private collector and is dated to the Archaic. With tribal approval and support an emphasis has been made to establish an ancestral profile with the end goal of repatriation. To facilitate this, the Indigenous individuals in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirsty Escalante.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While scholars have been concerned since the 1960s about the widespread looting of Maya sites to supply the international antiquities market, countless objects have been illicitly exported over the decades from Guatemala and surrounding countries. The repatriation of looted antiquities to their countries of origin has received increased attention as source...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Giusi Sorrentino. Alessandro Lo Giudice. Mauro Veronese. Elena Badetti. Laura Longo.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeogastronomy: Grocery Lists as Seen from a Multidimensional Perspective" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Investigating plant processing in the archaeological record is challenging due to the perishable nature of plant materials and their associated technologies, which are rarely preserved. We examine tools used for grinding and pounding, providing insights into the transformation of plant organs before their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Frederic Sellet. Justin Garnett. Haley Bjorklund.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study evaluates the value of porcelain slip casting for the replication process of prehistoric end scrapers. The method when used in conjunction with 3D scanning and printing has already proven successful in making nearly exact replicas of prehistoric projectile points and their preforms. Many functionally identical copies can be made from a single...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tim Spahr. Arthur Anderson. Gabriel Hrynick. Gemm-Jayne Hundgell. Arthur Spiess.

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. In 2018, the Cape Porpoise Archaeological Alliance (CPAA) located a dugout canoe during a surface survey of the Cape Porpoise tidal flats in Kennebunkport, Maine. A sample of the canoe dated to between 1275 and 1380 cal AD making it the oldest known from the region. Professional archaeologists and volunteers excavated the canoe from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lesley Gregoricka. Jaime Ullinger.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Umm an-Nar (2700–2000 BCE) skeletons in the United Arab Emirates remain challenging to investigate due to secondary mortuary practices resulting in commingling, fragmentation, and cremation. Tombs contain multiple chambers, but little work has been done to examine whether certain skeletal elements may have been intentionally moved into particular chambers...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Travis Armstrong.

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. Research and/or stewardship? Native American cultural materials excavated or collected by archaeologists, particularly at research universities, have focused on Western-defined “scientific” and educational values of these collections. Tribal members increasingly are challenging such ideas. They...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aka Simonsen Bendtsen.

This is an abstract from the "Current Research and Challenges in Arctic and Subarctic Cultural Heritage Studies" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Western views (mindsets), practices, and methodologies have dominated all scientific enquiries, including archaeology, which is inherently colonizing because they assume that Western knowledge is superior to Indigenous knowledge (Smith 1999). Such approaches have led “scientists” to merely take knowledge...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sally Brockwell. Colin Pardoe.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Wetlands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We compare residential patterning of hunter-gatherer/forager populations along wetlands on the coastal plains of the Top End of the Northern Territory of Australia and the Riverine Plain of the Murray Darling River Basin, New South Wales. Although climates are very different in these regions, people needed to adapt to the variability, as well as the specific...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carla Lancelotti.

This is an abstract from the "Cultivating Food, Land, and Communities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The incorporation of time-tested practices, encompassing Traditional Knowledge (TK), Local Knowledge (LK), and Indigenous Knowledge (IK), into sustainable agrifood system development has gained substantial traction. These practices are designed to address challenges such as food sustainability, food sovereignty, and enhancements to agrosystems. TK...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Hoag.

This is an abstract from the "Gender in Archaeology over the Last 30+ Years" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While much has been written recently highlighting pioneering women’s contributions to archaeology, there has not been a systematic study of their roles as mothers and how they navigated their personal lives in a male-dominated field. In this paper I contextualize the role of motherhood in archaeology from an historical perspective,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alessandra Cianciosi.

This is an abstract from the "Islands around Africa: State-of-the-Art and Future Directions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While often forgotten, there are small African islands that played a crucial role in modern history and have often forgotten stories to tell about the impact of colonialism and the diaspora of enslaved and indentured workers. Their role emerged with the emergence of epidemic diseases and the need to manage the health risks...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Li Haichao.

This is an abstract from the "Resources and Society in Ancient China" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Located in southwest China, Sanxingdui is well-known for its outstanding and unique bronzes as well as gold, jade, and other high-value artifacts. However, the origin and circulation of these precious resources have not been disclosed. The author believes that the strategic location contributed greatly to the prosperity of Sanxingdui. It was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Xiaoli Qin. Xiaohan Zhao.

This is an abstract from the "Resources and Society in Ancient China" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the Songze cultural period, there were two distinct technological pathways for the production of pottery cooking vessels, including Ding (tripod) and Yan (steamer), used in the vicinity of Lake Taihu. In areas like southern Jiangsu, Shanghai, and Jiaxing, plant debris was commonly mixed with clay to create fiber-tempered vessels. In...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Bishop. Hunter Bobbitt. Megan LeBlanc.

This is an abstract from the "In Search of Solutions: Exploring Pathways to Repatriation for NAGPRA Practitioners (Part IV): NAGPRA in Policy, Protocol, and Practice" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeology lab at Auburn University at Montgomery (AUM) has seen several changes over the last year regarding updates to their policies, protocols, and practices associated with their Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA)...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dorothy Lippert.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Indigenous cultural protocols impact consultation with museums in numerous ways. Tribal perspectives on feminine power that is most evident during menstruation can challenge non-Native ways of working with museum collections. This poster will discuss ways in which museum staff negotiate unfamiliar cultural practices during tribal consultation. Respect for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Kelvin. Lisa Rankin.

This is an abstract from the "Current Research and Challenges in Arctic and Subarctic Cultural Heritage Studies" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Settler colonialism is a disruption of Indigenous relationships. As a tool of settler colonialism, archaeology and collecting in particular have caused a disruption of relationships between Indigenous people, their land, their (in)tangible cultural heritage (Gray 2022), their Ancestors, and their pasts,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Owen Mason.

This is an abstract from the "Current Research and Challenges in Arctic and Subarctic Cultural Heritage Studies" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological discourse can remain in thrall to classificatory and theoretical constructs. “Near Ipiutak” was framed by Larsen and Rainey in 1948 within the penumbra of the hundreds of Ipiutak ruins, <1 km distant, that resulted from an aceramic, non-whaling habitus and aestheticized mortuary practice....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alberto Ortiz Brito. Arlina Morales Guillen. Daira Hernandez Bellido.

This is an abstract from the "El principio del fin, el inicio del principio: Arqueología de la transición del Formativo al Clásico en Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, México" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En esta presentación se expondrán los resultados preliminares del Proyecto Arqueológico Nestepe/Cobata (PANCO), relacionados con la reutilización de monumentos olmecas en la región de Los Tuxtlas, durante la transición del periodo Formativo al Clásico....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Javier López Camacho. Luz Evelia Campaña Valenzuela. Kenichiro Tsukamoto.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El Proyecto arqueológico Entre bajos: Ichkabal y su entorno ha realizado intervenciones arquitectónicas en siete estructuras del Grupo Principal y excavaciones extensivas en la Plaza Poniente. En el entorno se verificó la imagen LiDAR en campo. Ichkabal se encuentra en el sur de Quintana Roo, México, a 11 km al oriente de Dzibanché. Destaca la Plaza...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Sullivan. Kenichiro Tsukamoto.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents the results of a multiyear research project at the lithic production community of Took’ Witz, a hinterland group located near the ancient Maya city of El Palmar (Campeche, Mexico). Our research explored the large-scale utilitarian lithic production that occurred at the site, as well as the activities and material cultures at three...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Wagner. George Hunt. Rebecca Ramey.

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. Kaskaskia, Illinois, was established in 1702 as a Jesuit mission to the Kaskaskia. Through time it expanded into a large multi-ethnic fur trading and farming community that served as the gateway for the entrance of African slaves into Illinois. By the 1750s almost half of the town’s population consisted of African...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Tumberg.

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. The historic town-site of Agate Bay, on the north shore of Lake Superior in present-day Two Harbors, was developed in the 1880s in conjunction with and as a consequence of the opening of Minnesota’s first (Vermilion) Iron Range. Popular historic accounts claim that Agate Bay was a rough-and-tumble frontier settlement that became...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn Grossman. Tate Paulette.

This is an abstract from the "Ancient Pastoralism in a Global Perspective" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In ancient Mesopotamia, animal husbandry was intimately bound up with the process of state making. The twin institutional powers of palace and temple managed enormous herds of sheep and goats. But were these animals mere wealth-on-the-hoof, staple goods supporting a classic system of staple finance? Or were they something else, operating...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ines Sastre Prats. Brais Currás Refojos.

This is an abstract from the "In Defense of Everything! Constructive Engagements with Graeber and Wengrow’s Provocative Contribution" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For a researcher raised on a political-economy archaeological tradition, the assertion that the origin of inequality is not the relevant point in anthropological research is a shake. But after a careful reading of *The Dawn of Everything*, we are still persuaded that social relations...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aldo Foe. Elizabeth Goodman. Russel Quick. Jake Zeisel. Enis Cetin.

This is an abstract from the "Fulfilling a Nation’s Promise: The Search, Recovery, and Accounting Efforts of DPAA and Its Partners" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hazardous and difficult-to-navigate terrain often impedes investigation and recovery of missing individuals in forensic archaeological contexts. Here we discuss novel solutions at one such site, a 1,750 m high sheer limestone cliff in Southeast Asia. In addition to the difficult terrain,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joel Palka.

This is an abstract from the "The Elemental Analysis Facility at the Field Museum: Celebrating 20 Years Serving the Archaeological Community " session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology at Mensabak, Chiapas, Mexico, recovered large amounts of green obsidian from mines at Pachuca, Hidalgo, which were managed by Mexica-Aztecs in Late Postclassic times (ca. 1300–1520 CE). Excavations in coeval Maya habitation sites at Mensabak recovered obsidian...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Johnson. MinJoo Choi. Julia Sjödahl. Ryan Clasby. Jason Nesbitt.

This is an abstract from the "Ceramic Petrographers in the Americas: Recent Research and Methodological Advances" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. When Donald Lathrap excavated a series of related archaeological sites on the shores of Yarinacocha, an oxbow lake of the Central Ucayali River in the Peruvian Amazon, the elaborately decorated pottery and long-occupied sites he uncovered contradicted the prevailing narrative of the Amazon as a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kara Ren. Kendra Leishman. Aleksa Alaica. Luis Manuel González La Rosa.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations between 2010 and 2012 at the Nasca site of Cocahuischo (300-700 CE) recorded domestic and mortuary activities of a large local community composed of 130 house structures, patio preparation spaces and dozens of cist tombs. Employing zooarchaeological and bioarchaeological techniques to the human, vertebrate and invertebrate remains from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zachary Nissen.

This is an abstract from the "Reinvent, Reclaim, Redefine: Considerations of "Reuse" in Archaeological Contexts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper traces histories of reused stone and space at ancient Maya cities. Space/Place theorists have documented the ways that physical spaces have layers of meaning tied to their history of use. In the Maya area, archaeologists have documented myriad ways in which Maya individuals have engaged with and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Breiter.

This is an abstract from the "Reinvent, Reclaim, Redefine: Considerations of "Reuse" in Archaeological Contexts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper investigates the social context of timber reuse in late medieval and early modern timber-framed buildings. The data for this survey are centered around the town of Bury St. Edmunds, a market town in western Suffolk surrounded by rural farmsteads and villages. In the mid-sixteenth century there...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Natalia Martínez-Tagüeña. Guadalupe Sanchez Miranda. Claudia León. John Carpenter.

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 paper presents a reconstruction of the cultural landscape of the La Playa Site in Sonora (SON F:10:3) during the Early Agriculture period (3450–1800 BP). We employ a paleoethnobotanical approach, analyzing 150 macrobotanical samples alongside ethnobotanical investigations, ethnographic data, and oral tradition...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma Maher.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Twenty-five years of excavation at Fort St. Joseph, an eighteenth-century mission, garrison, and trading post, have uncovered a large variety of artifacts, including hundreds of ceramic sherds. These ceramic pieces can provide valuable information about individuals living at the post including their socioeconomic status and access to materials. Information...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fernando Armstrong-Fumero.

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. Laws for the preservation of tangible heritage posit historical and cultural significance as a form of intrinsic value that makes objects worth preserving. In the nineteenth century, arguments for this sort of preservation were meant to counteract vernacular practices that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Krystiana Krupa. Jayne-Leigh Thomas.

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. The national need for NAGPRA and repatriation education is widely recognized in the museum and tribal communities. In July 2023, the authors co-facilitated the first Intensive NAGPRA Summer Training & Education Program (INSTEP), funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This presentation reviews the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sadie Whitehurst. Tad Britt. Diana Greenlee.

This is an abstract from the "New and Emerging Geophysical and Geospatial Research in the National Parks" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The National Park Service’s Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT) facilitated a workshop for archaeologists in May 2023 at the Poverty Point National Historic Landmark/World Heritage Site as part of an ongoing effort to research human remains detection (HRD) dogs for nondestructive...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mauricio Uribe. Pablo Méndez-Quirós. Alejandra Vidal. Francisca Santana. Simón 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. En el siglo XIX aparecen referencias escritas sobre Pisagua Viejo y la existencia de una aldea con iglesia cristiana en plena costa desértica entre Arica e Iquique, la que se describe como “Antiguo puerto donde se hizo el primer embarque de salitre en 1836”. Sin embargo, hacia 1880, el sitio constituía...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Tutak. Kara Larson. Alicia Ventresca-Miller.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Comparative analyses have long helped archaeologists identify characteristics of artifacts including origins, social life, and use. However, this tool becomes problematic when broad conclusions are drawn without evidence beyond similar characteristics between types of artifacts. One example of this are Early Bronze-Age bone tubes. Decorated bone tubes are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Pargeter. Adela Cebeiro. Saul Shukman.

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. Bipolar reduction is a central strategy in Pleistocene archaeology, recognized as an archetypal “expedient” technology. It entails hammer and anvil flake production, suitable for stabilizing smaller cores during miniaturized flake production. Despite its widespread occurrence and decades of study, debates...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erik Jurado. Carolina Meza Rodriguez. Mario Cordova Tello. Gerardo Gutierrez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. San Ignacio is located in the Amatzinac Valley of Morelos, approximately 10 kilometers south of the Formative site of Chalcatzingo, where it was the regional center and largest site in Eastern Morelos during the Classic period (300 - 600 CE). Previous studies argued based on regional settlement data that San Ignacio was a possible Teotihuacan...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paulo Bava De Camargo.

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. The presentation discusses the results of the author’s PhD dissertation on nineteenth- and twentieth-century harbor sites in Cananéia, São Paulo State, Brazil, a period when the capitalist economy was introduced in the region. From the mid-nineteenth century until 1950, the harbors experienced a subtle but significant transformation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabriela Saldaña. Elizabeth Graham.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A significant assemblage of Late to Terminal Classic stucco was discovered at the archaeological site of Lamanai in northern Belize. Originally forming a frieze adorning the upper facade of the palatial Structure N10-28, the stucco fragments are remarkable for their overall preservation and their extensive polychromatic pigmentation. In 2023 a new phase of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only August Costa. Amanda Evans. Leslie Bush. Richard Weinstein.

This is an abstract from the "Submerged Paleolandscape Investigations in the Gulf of Mexico" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over 40 years ago Coastal Environments Inc. pioneered a phased approach to identify prehistoric occupations on the now submerged outer continental shelf of the Gulf of Mexico. This work homed in on a target in the Paleo-Sabine Valley and identified one of the first in situ, submerged prehistoric sites known in the Americas....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Geoffrey Smith. Richard Rosencrance. Katelyn McDonough.

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. Last Supper Cave (LSC) is located in the rugged High Rock Country of northwestern Nevada. Thomas Layton excavated the cave in 1973–1974 under the auspices of the Nevada State Museum. He recovered a diverse assemblage of lithic, fiber, and wooden objects including a number of Western Stemmed Tradition (WST) points. Radiocarbon...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dolores Piperno.

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. This paper discusses Richard Cooke’s career in the context of my professional and personal relationships with him. Over a more than 40-year period beginning with my first trip to Panama in 1979 as a graduate student I enjoyed the benefits of his...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Magdalena Garcia. Luca Sitzia. Adrian Oyaneder. Manuel Prieto.

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. Distintos factores han llevado a conceptualizar el altiplano como un espacio hostil y deshumanizado, y el pastoreo de camélidos como una forma única de subsistencia en este ambiente “extremo”. Desde esta óptica, se ha promovido que los pastores andinos aprovechan los pastos que crecen aquí naturalmente sin intervenir en su...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Misha Miller-Sisson.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Work by Chronicle Heritage" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. When looking at the cultural landscape archaeological surveys often only consider the direct effects that construction projects have on observed cultural resources. Secondary effects such as erosion from construction activity, building usage, and waste deposition are often ignored. Disturbances to the seven aspects of site integrity often...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sharisse McCafferty. Jorge Zambrana.

This is an abstract from the "Centralizing Central America: New Evidence, Fresh Perspectives, and Working on New Paradigms" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite over 150 years of research, the archaeology of Nicaragua remains in its infancy. Projects have conducted settlement pattern surveys and rescue projects have recovered information from endangered sites, but very little problem-oriented research has ever been conducted. Consequently, “big...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claire Ebert. M. Kathryn Brown. Lauren Sullivan. Jaime Awe.

This is an abstract from the "“The Center and the Edge”: How the Archaeology of Belize Is Foundational for Understanding the Ancient Maya" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Preclassic period (1200/1100 BC–AD 300) represents one of the most significant cultural transitions for lowland Maya societies. Over the course of ~1,500 years, communities settled permanently on the landscape, committed to agriculture, and began building monumental...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nerissa Russell.

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. Sebastian Payne made a lasting impact on zooarchaeology, especially in the Old World, with his 1973 paper outlining age and sex mortality profiles that characterize the prioritization of meat, milk, or wool. Richard Redding was the first scholar not only to suggest that these optimizing models might not...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Callaghan. Brigitte Kovacevich.

This is an abstract from the "Holtun: Investigations at a Preclassic Maya Center" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper we present data from investigations of Group F, or the E-group complex at Holtun, Guatemala. Named for the group at Uaxactun where this specific architectural compound was first identified, the Holtun E-group contains a large pyramidal structure to the west and a range structure to the east. First believed to be celestial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kalei Oliver. Erick Casanova Vásquez. Rebecca Bria.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Usacorral is a 10 hectare mixed-use and long-occupied ceremonial, habitation, and agropastoral complex situated at 3,625 masl in the north-central highlands of Ancash, Peru. Preliminary fieldwork at Usacorral employed test excavations, mapping, spatial analysis, and community-based research methods to understand the site’s occupational history and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Angelica Romero Padilla.

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 will examine the significance of ritual cave use in the emergence and development of Classic Maya polities. Caves are critical settings to understand the diversity of ritual practices and the involvement of such contexts within socio-political systems. My work in caves in the Middle Usumacinta Valley will further our understanding of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Donald Blakeslee. Norman Conley.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The National Park Service held its Remote Sensing Workshop at Etzanoa in May, 2023, and Wichita State University followed with a field school in June. The results of both suggest that the area investigated was the site of a variety of ritual activities. Remote sensing there has included thermal imaging from a drone, magnetometry, resistivity,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mikayla Fletcher.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Lower Mississippi Valley (LMV) has a long history of monumentality, with early examples of monumental earthworks confidently dated to the Middle Archaic (6000 – 3000 BC) and Late Archaic (3000 – 1000 BC) periods, and other mounds dating to Woodland (after 1000 BC) and Mississippi (after AD 1200) periods. The Middle Woodland-period Marksville mound site...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Brzezinski. Guy Hepp.

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. A hallmark of ancient Mesoamerican art and religion is the ability of powerful ritual practitioners, sometimes referred to as “shamans,” to transform themselves. The Olmec were-jaguar is probably the best-known example of the phenomenon. However, artifacts from different regions of Mesoamerica demonstrate that this was a diverse...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gibránn Becerra.

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. Trabajos de investigación sobre arquitectura dañada del Juego de Pelota realizados en el Complejo Monumental de Tlalixcoyan, Centro de Veracruz, permitieron documentar ofrendas de dedicación y múltiples etapas constructivas durante el Clásico. En una de las etapas iniciales, los constructores...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Clayton. Angela Huster.

This is an abstract from the "Interactions during the Epiclassic and Early Postclassic (AD 650–1100) in the Central Highlands: New Insights from Material and Visual Culture" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Central Mexico’s Epiclassic period (550–850 CE) was a time of significant social change, marked by the breakdown of the Teotihuacan state, political fragmentation, the migration of large numbers of people, and the adoption of new practices and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Munson. Matthew Looper. Jonathan Scholnick.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Applications of Network Analysis" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ritual and performance play important integrative functions in the creation, maintenance, and negotiation of social ties that bind communities together. The shared experience of these public displays establishes strong bonds between individuals, defining their membership in certain social groups while reinforcing cultural norms and values....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pamela Lara Tufiño.

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. El análisis del contexto arqueológico sumergido, Media Luna, localizado en San Luis Potosí, México, ha permitido profundizar en los ritos mortuorios y en los actos de oblación que las comunidades de Río Verde realizaban en torno al agua durante el periodo Clásico y Posclásico Temprano...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Buckner.

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. HDR’s recent investigations in Vicksburg National Military Park (VNMP) identified multiple precontact sites composed of extensive ceramic scatters. A typological analysis of nearly 300 sherds suggests these occupations are associated with the transitional Coles Creek culture...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristin Oliver. Talon Pascal. Bill Angelbeck.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents the results of the most recent field season of the Líl’wat Villages Project. In its near decade of work our project has continued to employ a multidisciplinary approach to the archaeology heritage within Líl’wat territory. Our investigations aim to deepen the understandings of their oral histories about their villages and other sites....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Riebe. Attila Gyucha. Balázs Nagy.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Wetlands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. People are intricately connected to the land around them, and throughout time, people have manipulated their surroundings to better fit their immediate social, cultural, economic, or subsistence needs with little to no thought about long-term environmental consequences. The Great Hungarian Plain is no exception, and during different periods in the past,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tomas Arce Buitargo. Irene Torreggiani. Alexander Geurds. Marta Arzarello. Gabriele Berruti.

This is an abstract from the "Centralizing Central America: New Evidence, Fresh Perspectives, and Working on New Paradigms" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. “El Agua es Vida, si no hay Agua, no hay Vida” (“Water is Life”) says Doña Francisca (community of Huehuestepe, Mayales River Valley [MRV], Nicaragua). Today more than ever this sentence holds true, given water’s increasing significance in the global climatic debate. Rivers are essential to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Veronica Williams. Kevin Lane. Cecilia Castellanos.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mobility defines human behavior; roads make that mobility possible. We study human mobility along route networks in an area of the Middle Calchaquí Valley, Salta Province, Argentina called La Hoyada Quebrada, a natural connection route to the puna. Archaeological research highlights the fundamental role of high ravines and valleys for communication between...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Fitzhugh. Richard Kortum.

This is an abstract from the "Steppe by Steppe: Advances in the Archaeology of Eastern Eurasia" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Petroglyph research and archaeology provide different avenues into the past. Commonly viewed as distinct disciplines, they have looked ill-suited to integration (Jacobson 2023). This specific task, however, was a focus of a National Endowment for the Humanities-supported field project conducted by East Tennessee State...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Kortum. William Fitzhugh.

This is an abstract from the "Steppe by Steppe: Advances in the Archaeology of Eastern Eurasia" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ongoing Khoton Lake project documents several hundred archaeological sites and environmental conditions spanning the past 8,000 years. Forty excavated sites ranging from pre-Neolithic to the Bronze, Iron, Turkic, and medieval periods occur as dwellings, ritual, mortuary, ceremonial, and special-purpose places. In many...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret Conkey.

This is an abstract from the "Painting the Past: Interpretive Approaches in Global Rock Art Research" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, I will suggest that rock art research is an excellent example of how we can advance many of the goals of the slow science movement, despite continued practices by some rock art researchers that promote "the scoop" and other problems that slow science advocates are trying to work against. As rock art...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Roxanne Tsang.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Rock art and its ethnographic study provide important insights to understand people’s connection to place. In this research, formal and informed methods were used to analyze four stenciled rock art sites in Auwim village, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG). One thousand and seventy-seven rock art motifs were identified while the ethnographic data...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michele Hayward. Jonathan Hanna. Michael Jessamy. Donald Smith. Michael Cinquino.

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Rock Art Documentation, Research, and Analysis" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Rock art locations in the Caribbean are well known and include caves, waterways, coasts, inland rock formations, and ceremonial enclosures. Mythological (caves as centers of origin and fertility) and practical considerations (guardians of fresh water sources) have been offered as general explanations for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sally May. Joakim Goldhahn. Gabriel Maralngurra.

This is an abstract from the "Painting the Past: Interpretive Approaches in Global Rock Art Research" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In recent decades, studies of contact rock art have significantly contributed to rock art research globally. A key reason for this is that such artworks can represent a reverse gaze across cross-cultural encounters. Another reason is that contact rock art affords us neatly chronological points of time, before and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Radoslaw Palonka. Aaron Wright. Katarzyna Ciomek.

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. How we frame the study of rock imagery (i.e., petroglyphs and pictographs) conditions the types of questions we ask, the types of data we employ, and ultimately the types of conclusions we draw. In the North American Southwest, the study of rock imagery has long focused on the images, less so on the rocks, and only...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shawn Graham. Damien Huffer.

This is an abstract from the "Human Remains in the Marketplace and Beyond: Myths and Realities of Monitoring, Grappling With, and Anthropologizing the Illicit Trade in a Post-Harvard World" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Human remains are traded openly across social media and the wider web. The posts that accompany these texts are sometimes graphic, often disrespectful, and normally afford no dignity to the dead. The imagery can similarly show no...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shannon Boomgarden. Ian Farrell. Jenna Foster. Duncan Metcalfe.

This is an abstract from the "Experimental Pedagogies: Teaching through Experimental Archaeology Part II" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ten years ago, the archaeological field school at the Range Creek Field Station explicitly embarked on a new direction of research. Students continue to receive training in excavation and survey techniques but actualistic experiments were added to the curriculum. The experiments are designed to calculate the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Manuel De Cespedes. Karen Harry. Liam Frink. Brian Hedlund.

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. This study explores the role of limestone as a potential element in hide working among the Virgin Puebloan Branch people who inhabited the Shivwits Plateau, Arizona, in precontact times (~ 300 BC–AD 1200). Hide working is generally a female related activity that is lacking research in archaeology. This study demonstrates the importance of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mitchell Allen. John Whitney. Silvio Pezzopane.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists have leaned heavily on fluctuations in the channels of the Helmand River to explain the rise of Shahr-i Sokhta and the Helmand Civilization during the third millennium in the Sistan basin between Afghanistan and Iran, the subsequent abandonment of the region, and the return of complex settlement in the mid-first millennium BCE. Recent...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Reckin.

This is an abstract from the "Three Sides of a Career: Papers in Honor of Robert L. Kelly" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The study of high elevation archaeology in the Rocky Mountains continues to enhance our understanding of the seasonal rounds of precontact hunter-gatherers in the region. Yet the specific seasonality and quantity of time Indigenous people spent at high elevations each year is unclear. Ethnographically, we know that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn Catlin. Douglas Bolender.

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. Historical accounts of the Viking Age settlement of Iceland largely focus on the lives of elite colonists and landowners. Although these texts are clear that non-elite and enslaved individuals were present and played a critical role in the settlement of the island, archaeological researchers...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Simon Davies.

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Research into the Late Pleistocene of Europe" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper will evaluate the role of transferable techniques in Paleolithic technical innovations. I shall consider the interlocking technical aspects of mastic, ceramic, ground food, and pigment production, together with the technical overlaps in working wood and osseous materials. In addition, I shall consider the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Doyle.

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. While Justin Kerr might be best known for pioneering the rollout photographic technique specific to three-dimensional drinking cups and serving vessels, some of his still photographs of painted plates also proved pivotal to the understanding of Classic Maya religion and history....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Detlef Wilke. Aika Katharina Diesch. Joachim Lorenz.

This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences 2024" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As part of an extended ceramic settlement analysis with ten medieval find complexes in the lower Main depression, we studied Roman and late medieval to early modern pottery from Dieburg (district of Darmstadt), which is the only site with workshop wasters in the larger region. The Dieburg wares exhibit a characteristic anomaly of Ti, Nb, and Zr,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julien Riel-Salvatore. Claudine Gravel-Miguel. Vitale Stefano Sparacello. Fabio Negrino.

This is an abstract from the "The Marking and Making of Social Persons: Embodied Understandings in the Archaeologies of Childhood and Adolescence" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents a synthesis of recent research that illuminates the reality of forager childhoods at several sites dated to the terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene in the region of Liguria (NW Italy). Indeed, recently published data from the sites of Arma di...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benoît Baconnet.

This is an abstract from the "New and Emerging Perspectives on the Bajo el Laberinto Region of the Maya Lowlands, Part 2" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Located on the border between the central and northern lowlands, the Río Bec region developed a singular architecture and iconography from the sixth century. In the eighth century, the Central Lowlands underwent major sociopolitical transformations, such as the gradual fall of the Kaan dynasty and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bethany Turner.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the 14th-16th centuries, the Inka Empire transformed Peru’s Urubamba Valley, located in the piedmont foothills of the eastern Andes, into an integrated landscape that was both economically productive and spiritually sacred. Extensive surveys have identified a shift whereby the Inka appear to have relocated settlements at higher elevations to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin Sears.

This is an abstract from the "Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Subterranean" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. An accidental discovery by bulldozer of an ancient Maya ceramic workshop has created a post-civil war chapter of exploration in central Alta Verapaz. The site of Aragón lies at the base of a mountain, near the headwaters of what becomes the Usumacinta drainage. Its Late Classic-Terminal figural contents represent a range of ritual and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yumi Park Huntington. John Warner.

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. How does architectural construction relate to the surrounding landscape and a broader cosmological framework? This paper discusses the relationship among architecture, geography, and cosmology at the site of Jequetepeque-Jatanca in the Jequetepeque...