SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Doherty.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite its prominence in Paleoindian archaeology throughout much of North America, Clovis has long been overshadowed in the Great Basin by the potentially contemporary, and locally more prolific, Western Stemmed Tradition. Despite decades of research, the relationship between the two distinct techno-complexes remains unclear. Largely due to difficulties...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Donop. Michael Eichstaedt. Joanna Klein.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The McFall Site (1LU528) in Northwest Alabama provides a case study for the archaeology of rural consumption and consumerism during the first half of the twentieth century. The site and the surrounding land have been maintained as a farmstead by the Holland (1870-1945) and the McFall (1945-present) families, who faced numerous challenges stemming from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eleni Simoni. Olga Christakopoulou.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In Stamna, Greece, ceramic art is the focal point of investigation. This research reveals questions about the symbolism on the decorated surfaces of 709 Protogeometric funerary vessels discovered in 500 graves excavated in the 1990s. Our objective is to show how different theoretical perspectives on ceramic interpretation can be explored through both...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander Diaz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bone has been used as a medium for crafting both tools and decorative items since our earliest ancestors; however, this important component of material culture has often been overlooked, with the few published studies focusing on assemblages from either a utilitarian or burial context. The Mill Cove Complex, located along the St. Johns River near...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Taylor Greene.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Carter Robinson (44LE10) is a Mississippian mound site in use from the mid-14th century to the mid-15th century in the Appalachian Mountains of modern-day Southwest Virginia. This paper examines the roles of potential political elites within the community, first examining the artifact assemblage associated with the only excavated multi-phase structure at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ana Rincon Jaramillo. Juliana Gomez Mejia.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Four funerary urns from the archaeological site Matecaña (Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia) were analyzed to understand the cremation mortuary practice during the Early period (1000 BC–600 AD). This archaeological record does not count with direct descendants and is under the stewardship of the Universidad de Caldas, which follows adequate processes to allow a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justyna Baron.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeometric data obtained for various raw materials used by Central European communities in the Bronze Age (ca. 2300-800 BC) allow us to study technological interactions in the past realized mostly within usually small and densely settled sites. In this study, cross-craft contact zones between the selected activities are crucial. They are likely to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ellen Pacheco. Shelby M. Patrick.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Human-animal relations are inherently dynamic in nature and, in recent years, archaeologists have started to explore alternative approaches to shed light on anomalous patterns that deviate from traditional models of understanding. Archaeologists traditionally assumed that they could account for cultural differences globally by employing western divisions...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Phil Geib. Faithleigh Podzimek.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We report the findings from a study of a gourd container recovered from Old Man Cave of southeastern Utah. Strung, spire-lopped Olivella beads are visible on interior of the gourd, but sediment in and around the shells obscured the full nature of its contents. Computed tomography (CT) imagining allowed us to identify durable objects within the gourd in a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Ahlrichs.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A recent cultural resource management project located in south central Pennsylvania's Path Valley identified a series of five sites oriented around one of the waterways forming the headwaters of the Potomac River Drainage. Background research and local informants indicate that a network of small- to medium-sized pre-contact sites can be found along the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ricardo Antorcha Pedemonte. Lane F. Fargher. Alexander Correa-Metrio.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The discourse surrounding the environmental impact of humans on Earth underscores the imperative to comprehensively grasp the temporal and geographical dimensions, as well as the transformative intensity of anthropogenic changes. The Parque Estatal de Yalahau Project, a multidisciplinary endeavor encompassing archaeology, paleoecology, and historical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn Turney. Jonathan Schaefer. Aliceia Schubert. Deborah Huntley. Haley Wilkerson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent pedestrian survey in the Oak Creek-Sedona region of Central Arizona executed as part of the Red Rocks Trail Restoration Project has identified a substantial number of Formative period sites belonging to the Southern Sinagua Tradition. Represented are habitation, agricultural, resource procurement, ritual/ceremonial, and special activity sites....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steve Swanson. Kari Schmidt.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The SunZia transmission line traverses 550 miles in Southeast Arizona and Southwest New Mexico, crossing through the Hohokam and Mogollon archaeological culture areas. Recently completed survey of more than 50,000 acres provides unique information on landscape-scale interactions and facilitates interregional comparisons of artifact, feature, and site...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Hopt. Daniel Pettit.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) currently manages the 1,858 acre Denman Wildlife Area, located within the Rogue Valley of southwestern Oregon. The Denman Wildlife Area contains a dynamic fluvial and cultural history that makes archaeological management and habitat restoration of the wildlife area challenging. Included within the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Giulia Saltini Semerari.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While both gender archaeology and culture contact studies have well-developed bodies of theory, the intersection between these is undertheorized, especially outside more recent and better-documented historical archaeology. This is problematic, since any process of interaction potentially implicates divergent gendered expectations and norms, and can upset...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Terry Powis. Bryan Moss. Joey Case.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cummings (9BR710) is a multi-component site with occupations dating from the Late Archaic through the Middle Mississippian periods. It is located about three kilometers northwest of the Etowah Indian Mounds in Bartow County, Georgia. The site is situated about 500 meters from the Etowah River. Over the past five years archaeological investigations have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Pfannkuche. George Vassilatos.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological objects are frequently donated by private citizens to professional organizations. These include the legacy collections of professional or avocational archaeologists, many of which date to the period when the profession of archaeology was being formalized, and objects found in the attic of a grandparent’s house. These collections range from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Neeley. Craig Lee.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Forager mobility is often linked to the organization of technology through the continuum of curated and expedient technologies. Curated technologies are expected to be associated with higher levels of mobility reflecting transport costs and longer use histories, in response to reduced access to raw materials. In contrast, expedient technologies are more...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christina Giovas. Michiel Kappers. Kelsey Lowe. Yoshi Maezumi. Claudia Kraan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2022, the Curaçao Cultural Landscape Project (CCLP) initiated a long-term field investigation on the ecological legacy of Indigenous and European colonial occupation of Curaçao, in the southern Caribbean. Excavation at a recently identified rockshelter site along the inland bay of Rif St. Marie (RSMA) identified significant archaeological deposits...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacob Comer. Douglas Comer. Adrian Borsa. Bruce Chapman. Benjamin Holt.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. With the advent of certain satellite-borne lidar instruments, the availability of free and extensive lidar data suitable for archaeological applications has become plausible. Here we use an airborne lidar data set collected over the island of Pohnpei, in the Federated States of Micronesia, as a reference to test the utility of two satellite-borne lidar...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alyssa McDowell. Cindy Hsin-yee Huang.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the Upper Paleolithic, microblade tools emerged in Siberia and northern China, representing a significant technological advancement in tool-making and tool use. It is hypothesized that microblades emerged early in Siberia as an adaptation to the cold high-altitude environments, and the intensification of forager mobility due to the harsh...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hanna Erftenbeck.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Early Bronze Age (EB IB-III, 3300–2500 BCE) in the southern Levant is marked by significant social, political, and economic changes, as people aggregated into large, often fortified settlements for the first time in the region. These new sites differ in size, environmental setting, and in the degree of social differentiation and political organization....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julieta Flores-Muñoz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Within the Mesoamerican worldview, maize is synonymous with the body and represents the primary food of the human being, accompanied by a complex planting system known as milpa. Said system, we believe, celebrates the interrelation between the diversity of species, serving, in this way, as a metaphor to understand our social construction. In this metaphor,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret Comer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation will examine several museums and heritage initiatives connected to Nazi and/or Soviet violence in and around Tallinn, Estonia, through the lens of “dark” and “contested” heritage, as well as “competitive victimhood” and “securitization of the past.” It will analyze the narratives of victimhood, perpetration, and suffering that are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa Torquato.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For over a century, the proliferation of archaeological excavations in the United States has generated a large amount of archaeological data. Much of this data is published in archaeological reports that are housed in state-run archives. These archives offer a wealth of information for scholars who explore research questions that require multi-site...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Guderjan. Alexander Parmington. Colleen Hanratty.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Surrounding the ancient Maya site of Xnoha in northwestern Belize are residential areas with houselots delineated by Linear Stone Boundary Markers (LSBMs). Lidar from 2016 revealed hundreds of such houselots. However, until now, we had no understanding of the dates of construction of the LSBMs. In 2023, backhoe testing was undertaken to determine that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberly Johnson. Hannah Lau. Lara Fabian. Jeyhun Eminli.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The mortuary site Nәsiri Kolat in the Lerik region of Azerbaijan was occupied from the Antik through the Middle Islamic Periods (11th-16th centuries), a fact further supported when the site is considered with the midden site Şәğolhoni. Ceramic analysis from these sites permit us to better understand how people in the Lerik region interacted with more...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Bellorado.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mural decorations on buildings can be used to express shared identities and cosmologies at a variety of scales. Stylistic links between murals at sites can reveal connected networks of practice within and between regions. Most prior studies focused solely on murals from a single structure or site that are dated at a relative-scale using ceramic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Hansen. Eric Jones.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Historical and anthropological demography has long focused on the spread of infectious disease in urban spaces across time. However, few studies have examined disease in rural contexts over time. Using census records, township maps, and archaeological data to map locations and causes of death in GIS, this project examines mortality from chronic and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Snider.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study addresses the contextual importance of human skeletal remains in identifying diachronic changes and constants in mortuary practices from the Mesambria necropolis, on the banks of the Black Sea in modern Nessebar, Bulgaria. Skeletal remains are the central element of mortuary practices but are often excluded from archaeological interpretation,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Smeeks.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research advances the current theoretical agendas of warfare scholars, overcoming the limitations of earlier social evolutionary theories and examining the interrelationship between warfare and sociopolitical organization in the Huamanga Province of Peru during the Late Intermediate Period (LIP, AD 1000-1450). Only through the analysis of this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Newland. Alex DeGeorgey.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past seven years, Alta Heritage Foundation (AHF) has responded to nearly a dozen catastrophic fires on the west coast. AHF is a 501(c) non-profit that works with canine human remains recovery teams to identify cremains, the cremated remains of individuals who were cremated prior to the fire and stored in private residences, and retrieve them for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily McKenzie. Christine Hastorf.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Flotation remains one of the most important methods by which paleoethnobotanists recover botanical remains from archaeological contexts. However, logistics in the field can make supplying mechanized flotation machines with water (and subsequently powering motorized pumps) a challenge. This poster details the process by which we utilized bilge pumps,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Clark.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past few decades, lidar has been used to reveal the extent and complexity of cultural landscapes in different world areas. The Mississippi period (AD 1000–1550) is poorly understood in the Upper Central Tombigbee River Valley, especially as a broader Mississippian understanding of these settlement data come from Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mya Welch.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between 10,000 and 5,000 years ago, sea level of the Apalachee Bay, Gulf of Mexico was roughly 20m lower than today, extending the paleoshoreline nearly 75km further south and providing significantly more habitable land for prehistoric populations (Faught, 2004). Although many submerged sites along the PaleoAucilla river channel have been surveyed, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Derek Hamilton. Sophia Adams. Kerry Sayle. Katharine Steinke.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many of the central questions of archaeology engage directly with themes relating to movement, mobility, and migration. The two most common isotope systems that have been exploited for this purpose are strontium (87Sr/86Sr) and oxygen (δ18O), with sulfur isotopes (δ34S) being a much more recent addition to the isotopic arsenal for investigating residence...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin Ray. Nadia Neff. Viorel Atudorei. Keith Prufer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The agricultural-demographic transition highlights a positive correlation between increasing consumption of agricultural products and population. However, this correlation varies regionally. In Eurasia, agriculture and population growth coincide with increasing sedentism hypothesized to drive population change. In the Amazon, agriculture and sedentism...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander Smith. Amalia Pérez-Juez. Kathleen Forste.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Menorca Archaeological Project (MAP) investigates the site of Torre d’en Galmés on the Balearic Island of Menorca (Spain). While the site is primarily known for its prehistoric Iron Age remains, it was also home to a small Medieval Islamic farming community, primarily in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries AD. built atop and between the Iron Age...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Samuelsen. Adriana Potra. Barry Shaulis. Erik Pollock.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Complications with diagenetic contamination of ancient human tooth enamel is of primary concern for Pb isotopic studies. While conducting a study of a Caddo skull-and-mandible cemetery in southwest Arkansas (in collaboration with the Caddo Nation), it became clear that many samples were contaminated by soil Pb. Additional samples from the same teeth were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ester Echenique. Francisca Gili. Paola González. Daniel Pavlovic. James Davenport.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Studies of Diaguita pottery have advanced towards the definition of decorative styles. In this regard, new studies and radiocarbon dating from the El Olivar archaeological site have significantly contributed to a new understanding of pottery traditions and chronological assignments of ceramic styles. The purpose of this work is to explore pottery...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin Thornton. Kitty Emery. Camilla Speller. Aurelie Manin. Joel C. Piñon.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the absence of morphological changes, clear genetic markers, and pen structures, the archaeological evidence for turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) husbandry and domestication in Mesoamerica relies primarily on identifying dietary shifts in ancient turkeys. As in the American Southwest, captive Mesoamerican turkeys exhibit greater consumption of maize than...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Rhode.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents a history of prehistoric plant use based on starches recovered from plant processing tools at O’Malley Shelter, Lincoln County, Nevada. O’Malley Shelter (26LN418) is an important archaeological site in the Clover Mountains near the Great Basin’s southern margin, with an 8,000-year long record of occupation. Extraction and analysis of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kuei-chen Lin. Cheng-Yi Lee. Yu Itahashi. Zhiqing Zhou. Minoru Yoneda.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The extent to which aquatic resources influenced the dietary patterns of the Chengdu Plain's inhabitants is poorly understood, despite the region's intricate network of river channels. This research examines the nitrogen isotope makeup of specific amino acids in collagen derived from human bone samples collected from three sites in Sichuan. The objective...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniela Trujillo-Hassan. Julie Wesp. Sebastián Rivas. Ethan Hyland.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study analyzes the impact of environmental stressors on dietary practices within the Muisca society at the Nueva Esperanza archaeological site in the Cundiboyacense highlands during the Late Muisca Period (1000 AD - 1600 AD). This coincides with climatic changes associated with the beginning of the period known as the "Little Ice Age,” which was a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Nagaoka. Jonathan Dombrosky. Steve Wolverton. Emily Jones. Susan Ryan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Differential recovery refers to the ways that faunal assemblages are sampled from the archaeological record. Its effects can be pernicious when interpreting data from multiple assemblages. As such, the topic is a mainstay in contemporary zooarchaeological research; however, in the U.S. Southwest differential recovery has received less attention. One reason...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Iris Puryear. Cate Garcia.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Decades of archaeological work at Flowerdew Hundred, a tobacco plantation located in the Chesapeake region of Virginia, have focused primarily on its 17th-century occupation by English elites, indentured servants, and enslaved Africans. This research perspective has obfuscated the presence and impact of the Weanock (a Late Woodland people situated in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Turley. Steven Wernke.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists have long used architectural energetics to better understand the relationships between labor organization, political power, and materiality in pre-modern societies. The 16th century Spanish invasion of the Andes caused unprecedented societal upheaval and, in the 1580s, the physical upheaval of people as the Toledan reducción system resettled...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea Gardner. Christine Johnston.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents the results of a 2021–2022 survey examining current uses of digital media and resources in teaching the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, West Asia, and North Africa. For this study, digital media were defined as mass-communication products in different digital formats (videos, podcasts, blogs, etc.), while digital resources...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alec McLellan. Cara Tremain.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Threats to ancient Maya cultural heritage sites – from modern construction, looting, agricultural intensification, and burgeoning tourism – are an ongoing challenge in Belize. This is especially true of the northwest region of Belize, in the periphery of the well-known site of Lamanai, which has been hard-hit by looting and a growing community of farmers...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Fletcher.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although field notebooks are created as a resource for future archaeologists to reference in their research, the labor required to digitize handwritten notes presents a barrier to their incorporation in state-of-the-art computational analyses. In this research, I explore if image pre-processing can improve the accuracy of text extracted from handwritten...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Liv Winnicki.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Kin Ya'a (towering house) is a prominent Chacoan great house that was the center of large community in the 11th and 12th centuries. This area has been utilized by the Navajo (Diné) over the course of two or more centuries. Nevertheless, there has been a shortage of research done on the Diné occupation of this particular region. According to oral histories...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Crystal Dozier.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The impending growth of the cultural resource management field (Altschul and Klein 2022) has brought the demand for well-trained archaeology graduates in the United States into sharp focus. In this qualitative study, we explored the relationships and disconnects between archaeology practitioners’ stated needs and desires in new graduates to the resources...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Korrin Lovett. Abbey Churney.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As small as they are, beads can create a window into past cultures. Their many uses demonstrate the intricacies of people’s personal preferences, socioeconomic status, religious practices, and much more. There has been no shortage of beads found at Fort St. Joseph, an eighteenth-century mission, garrison, and trading post. Made of glass, ceramic, or bone,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Noah Place.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Human treponemal diseases (yaws, endemic syphilis, and venereal syphilis) have a long and storied past in the North American Desert West, with the earliest case dating back roughly 1,500 years. The identification of lesions associated with treponemal disease at two Cienega phase (400 BCE–50 CE) sites in southern Arizona and northern Sonora, however, move...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Yoon.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Compared to most other archaeological artifacts, coins contain a large amount of information relating directly to political administration. Spatial patterns in this information should provide a way to see how processes of political power operated in practice. Using information on early medieval coin finds in the Iberian Peninsula, it can be seen that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward Knell. Erik Otárola-Castillo. Matthew Hill.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Prior univariate and multivariate morphometric analysis of Paleoindian age Lake Mohave and Silver Lake projectile points from the Mojave Desert, California, revealed these types are distinguishable 80% of the time. Building on the prior study, we use landmark-based Geometric Morphometric (LGM) analyses and complementary non-LGM variables to assess whether...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Percy Hei Chun Ho. Kristine Richter. Ryan Kennedy. Christina Warinner.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Cervidae family has long been central to societies throughout history, whether as venison meat or raw materials, as gifts from long-distance trades, and as trophies in ceremonial acts. However, species-level cervid exploitation and management remain underexplored due to identification difficulties from other sympatric cervids and bovids. Prior research...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Hynes.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. An artifact without associated documentation has limited archaeological value. Yet the need or desire for analysts and authors to retain associated documentation beyond the deposit of artifacts commonly results in the failure to transmit this essential part of the collection to the repository where the artifacts live. With the increase of born-digital...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Haylee Backs. Laura Masur.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Plantations in the Southern United States functioned on a system of power over enslaved Africans that is reflected in the material culture of daily life. Zooarchaeological analysis of the fauna from St. Inigoes plantation in St. Mary’s County Maryland provides insight into what everybody on the plantation was eating, and the work enslaved peoples performed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabrielle Perry. Arthur Joyce. Akira Ichikawa.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent fieldwork has investigated the Late Classic and Postclassic occupation at the floodplain site of Río Viejo in Oaxaca, Mexico. The residential features uncovered detailed domestic life in the settlement after political decentralization. Though causal factors for the Late Classic political decline at Río Viejo are yet to be confirmed, archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Simone Tripoli. Nam Kim.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Dong Son culture (c. 700 BCE to 200 AD), at its simplest, is a collection of a group of sites and artifacts that are characteristic of a particular group or region in northern Vietnam. Their most defining characteristics are their burial practices (i.e., the boat coffins) and their sophisticated bronze tradition seen from artifacts like weapons (i.e.,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Ryan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Dorset PalaeoInuit (Tuniit in Inuit traditional knowledge) are a culturally extinct group who lived throughout much of the eastern North American Arctic between about 2500 and 700 years ago. They are best known for their art, primarily two- and three-dimensional carvings, which range from highly naturalistic to highly abstract. Ubiquitous amongst the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn Baustian. Claira Ralston. Debra Martin. Maryann Hobbs.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The definition of violence is unique to all societies. Violent behavior is thus recognized in myriad ways and observing it in past societies demands consideration of many forms of evidence. Interpreting individual roles in systems of violence requires that we look beyond weaponry, site destruction, male warrior burials, and lethal injuries. Our perception...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ioana Dumitru. Wolfgang Alders.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. With over forty percent of the global population residing within 100 kilometers of a coastline, coastal regions stand at the forefront of the climate breakdown. This paper adopts a diachronic approach to investigate how Swahili coastal communities, who inhabited the northern Tanzanian coasts from the late 6th to the 19th centuries CE, adapted to a spectrum...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicole Houck.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In June 2023, archaeologists and volunteers from the Drayton Hall Preservation Trust conducted a two-day limited data recovery at a private residence along Charleston’s historic Battery. The lot, impacted by both Civil War bombardment and the 1886 earthquake, holds significance as the current house was built by a Drayton descendant in the 1880s. Located...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenichiro Tsukamoto. Octavio Esparza Olguín. Daniel Salazar Lama. Luz Evelia Campaña Valenzuela. Adriana Velázquez Morlet.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El Palmar has garnered considerable attention from researchers, primarily due to its numerous carved monuments. In 1936, Sir Eric Thompson’s exploration initially reported 44 stelae and several altars at its Main Group. However, despite sporadic studies conducted by Tatiana Proskouriakoff and others in subsequent decades, systematic research was lacking,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Dersam. Sari Dersam.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The use of high-elevation ecosystems by Early Paleoindian cultures using a Clovis-Techno complex has been known for decades. The earliest uses of North American mountain ecosystems have been hypothesized as transient forays by small groups focused on raw material acquisition and limited supplemental hunting. Between 2021 and 2023, the BEAAR Project...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vasiliki Koutrafouri. Scott Van Keuren. Jonah Steinberg.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Roma people, whose ancestors and language come from India, form a major community in all countries of Europe and are often referred to as “Europe’s largest minority.” Greece is distinctly central in Romani history, as Greek profoundly impacted the Romani language, and it was in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries that settlements in the Peloponnese,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Reed Coil.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Numerous extrinsic hypotheses explaining Out of Africa I, like faunal turnover and hominins following fauna, have been rejected based on paleoecological models. Others have explored the importance of the hominin intrusion into the carnivore guild. Here, I build on this hypothesis by proposing a complementary hypothesis; the scavenging corridor hypothesis...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tristan O'Donnell. Meagan O'Brien.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Stone walls serve as indicators of both contemporary and historic property boundaries as well as significant features such as farms, roadways, and internal property routes. The northeastern United States, particularly New England, boasts an estimated 193,121 km (120,000 mi) of stone walls. In Cultural Resource Management (CRM), it is not uncommon for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Virginia Arieta Baizabal. Judith Zurita Noguera. Stacey Symonds.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Los trabajos de Ann Cyphers (1950-2023) sobre los olmecas son uno de los legados de la arqueología olmeca, de Mesoamérica y del mundo. A raíz de su fallecimiento, es necesario un recuento de su producción académica. Esta ponencia analiza la obra de Cyphers respecto a sus principales temas, influencias, aportaciones y retos en más de tres décadas de trabajo...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jose Vivero Miranda.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Guasave, Sinaloa, has historically been identified as representing the northern Mesoamerican frontier based on the presence of Aztatlán culture tradition materials dating to circa AD 1150. To explain the purported Mesoamerican affiliation, researchers in the region have deployed hypotheses focusing on economic and ideological connections between the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Burnett. Kristin Barker. Lawrence Todd.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 2009, we have been modeling archaeological probability in the Shoshone National Forest. These have been continually refined as new data become available. Now, using newly available elk collar data, we compare patterns in the archaeological record with those of elk movements to evaluate correlations. We compare elk locations with archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erik Moore. Mike Meade.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For the past two summers, the Anthropology Librarian and the Digital Imaging Coordinator from the University of New Brunswick Libraries have embedded as experts and co-researchers in field schools led by archaeologists in the Department of Anthropology at UNB. The goals of this project are for those library specialists: (1) to gain deeper understanding of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Genesis Torres Morales. Celeste Marie Gagnon. Feren Castillo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the late 1970’s to early 2000’s archaeologists studying the Chimú of the northern coast of Peru created a foundation in the archaeological literature. This research helped us understand Chimú chronology, general functionality of the empire, and technological advancements made by the society. While these contributions to the Chimú literature are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peiyu Chen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. “Why did people begin to use pottery vessels?” is one of the most compelling questions to archaeologists. As a site witnesses the transition from the Late Preceramic to the Initial Period occupation in the Virú Valley, north coast of Peru, Huaca Negra constitutes an ideal case study to investigate the utilitarian function, cultural traits, and possible...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Suárez Calderón.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The settlement of Java is a Precolumbian socioceremonial center located on a hilltop in the Coto Brus Valley, in Southern Costa Rica. An intensive survey of the site revealed that the main occupation of the site occurred several centuries earlier than previously thought. Java is one of the largest settlements from the Aguas Buenas period, with an area of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zoe Schwandt.

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 explore the way gender is conjured at an early twentieth century North Carolina Asylum through its organization of space and patients’ movement in this space. I consider the way that gender is maintained, reified, and produced through archival research on the Raleigh State Asylum of North Carolina. The built landscape of the Raleigh State...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Meierhoff. Sergio López-Garzona.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the latter half of the nineteenth century the ruins of Tikal were briefly reoccupied. Refugees fleeing the Caste War of Yucatan cohabited with Lacandon Maya from the surrounding jungles and heavily Hispanized Itza Maya from the lakes of central Petén, Guatemala, to form a small multi-ethnic hamlet amongst the hulking ruins of the ancient Maya city....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Meyer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2013 while conducting an archaeological survey for proposed interstate improvements, archaeologists with the Missouri Department of Transportation identified the remnants of an 18th-century French-style house. The identification of several post-in-earth wall trenches and a handful of period artifacts was monumental and changed the entire direction of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mara Stumpf. Sara Juengst.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dental modification has been well-documented from the coast of Ecuador, with practices including elaborate dental inlays and incisions. However, few examples come from recently excavated or well-provenienced sites, making the antiquity and changing significance of dental modification unclear. Additionally, it is unclear whether this practice originated in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eleni Hasaki.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Scholars have long debated the size of workforce in a niche industry of decorated ceramics in ancient Athens (600-400 BC) by using a variety of proxies mostly relying on the finished products themselves. In this paper I offer a bottom-up approach by calculating the time investment involved in potting and painting decorated wares. Far from a sprint race,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meghan Howey. Alyssa Moreau. Amy Michael.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Great Bay Archaeological Survey (GBAS) explores one of the most unique estuaries along the Atlantic Ocean and a place that formed an important early frontier in 17th century colonial ‘New England’. GBAS’s research is revealing unexpected dynamism in the lived experiences of early colonialism for both settler colonists and regional Indigenous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Taylor Sink.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite nearly a century of archaeological investigations in Joshua Tree National Park, a history of arbitrary and inconsistent nomenclature for lithic materials has precluded any sort of landscape-level assemblage comparisons. To address this, I have assembled a dense catalog of all visually-distinct lithic raw materials and their relative frequencies at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine France. Julianne Sarancha.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Establishing geographical provenance and life histories of North American colonial individuals is critical for understanding early population movements related to urbanization, immigration, and the changing demographics of an emerging nation. In East Coast North American archaeological studies, oxygen stable isotopes are the primary proxy for regional...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian Clark.

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 review the ethnoarchaeological context of ceramic production in North Wollo, Ethiopia, and trace changes to ceramic traditions influenced by sociopolitical factors, with implications for archaeological reconnaissance and research. This research is a part of the broader Solomonic-Zagwe Encounters Project and its ongoing efforts to, in part,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anaïs Pochon.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the French colonization, Louisiana and the Mississippi Valley in general, were the background of a quantity of testimonies about Native American societies that were met at the time by the French explorers. A few of these Frenchmen had lived among Native American societies for a various amount of time, the most noticeable example being probably...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn Whelton. Emily Zavodny. John Walker. Neil Duncan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Llanos de Mojos region in the Bolivian Amazon has a long history of human occupation that challenges long-held ideas about the nature of pre-Contact communities. It has a tropical savanna ecosystem with very strong seasonality, resulting in annual cycles of flooding and drought. Large, long-term sedentary populations appear to have adapted to this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Mack.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Founded in 1855, the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum saw 30,000 patients pass through its doors before the institution moved to a new facility in 1935. Vital expansion of the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC), located on the former asylum property, prompted historical and archaeological investigations of the now-unmarked Asylum Hill...

DOCUMENT Citation Only R. Scott Plumlee.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Cultural Resource Management Program of the Gila River Indian Community recently surveyed over 4,000 acres of Kaibab Paiute tribal lands in northern Arizona, recording over 85 archaeological sites. The survey examined broad basins and small hills, in areas of relatively low slope, but bordered by the Vermillion Cliffs. Most of the newly recorded...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Haden Kingrey. Shannon Tushingham. John Blong.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Earthen ovens in the Southern Columbia Plateau are associated with the preparation and cooking of roots and tubers, with evidence dating back to the middle Holocene. Despite issues with the preservation of these plant elements in the archaeological record, researchers can use microbotanical analyses to identify microscopic remains that oftentimes preserve...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fumie Iizuka. Masami Izuho. Kazuki Morisaki. Junichiro Okita. Mark Aldenderfer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tanegashima Island in the southernmost region of Japan has the earliest evidence of a large quantity of ceramic production by late Pleistocene foragers of eastern Eurasia. The island is also part of the southern Kyushu region, where the pottery-bearing occupation is found under well-dated tephra dated to ca. 12,800 cal BP, termed the Incipient Jomon. In...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katharine Kolpan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation will highlight the evidence for trade networks and the distribution of goods at the ancient port city of Apollonia Pontica along Bulgaria’s Black Sea Coast. Founded in the 7th century BC by Milesians from western Ionia fleeing an incursion by their Lydian neighbors, Apollonia -- with its two excellent ports and easy access to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bruce Phillips. Erik Steinbach. Travis Cureton. Craig Fertlemes.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hohokam irrigation canals were first excavated in the lower Salt River Valley in the early Pioneer Period (A.D. 1-700), possibly as early as A.D. 200 at Las Acequias in east Tempe. In the area, substantial expansion occurred in the Sedentary Period (A.D. 900-1150) and continued into the Classic Period (A.D. 1150-1450). During this time, Canal Tempe was a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samuel Hemsley. Caitlin Stewart.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Virgin Anasazi Region of the Southwestern United States of America is a relatively unrepresented region in archaeological literature. In the past, the undeveloped nature of the region combined with the regions remoteness have resulted in a dearth of unconsolidated literature on the archaeology of the region. Recent archaeological investigations by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Savoy. Ari Au.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The purpose of this study is to explore the social status and daily lives of Mongol era (twelfth to fourteenth centuries CE) “common elites.” Common elite is a general term used in this region to describe a group of high-status people that were not in the immediate lineage of Chinggis Khan. We investigated whether cultural activities such as food...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Murphy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Great Oasis is a Late Terminal Woodland culture, dating between AD 900 and 1100, that has produced the earliest evidence for Mississippian contact in Iowa. Great Oasis peoples built unfortified farming villages throughout western and central Iowa, southwest Minnesota, and eastern Nebraska and South Dakota. Several excavated village sites typically have an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Fiore. Hannah Lau. Lara Fabian. Jeyhun Eminli. Susannah Fishman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research examines manufacturing technology and origin of production of ceramics from the necropolis at Piboz Tepe and site at Yoladoy Bin in the Lerik region of Azerbaijan through utilization of ceramic petrography and surface treatment analysis. Data obtained through petrography analysis indicates whether ceramics were locally produced or imported...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Masami Izuho. Nicolas Zwyns. Katsuhiro Sano. Gunchinsuren Byambaa.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While early modern human dispersals occurred in Northern Eurasia around ~45–40ka ago, a cultural phenomenon often labeled as the Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) is identified in Central and Eastern Europe, but also in West, Central, and Northeast Asia. Despite significant progress in our understanding of the timing and routes of these population movements,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Summer Peltzer. Christopher Schwartz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent discussions surrounding cultural resource management in the Phoenix Basin have highlighted the importance of synthesis across firms, projects, and cultural resources. This poster examines archaeological investigations at AZ T:12:220(ASM), colloquially known as Las Cremaciones, with the purpose of compiling data available from past excavations to...