SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Larios.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper summarizes the results of two seasons of excavations at Cerro Tecolote, the Early Postclassic (A.D. 750-1000) settlement at Jalieza in the southern Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. While the Valley of Oaxaca has been the focus of intensive and seminal archaeological research for over a century, the Early Postclassic is poorly understood in this region....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alanna Ossa.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Incensarios or incense burners are ritual items used in a variety of settings, some in households and some in more formal ritual contexts within Mesoamerica. I analyze residential inventories from the center of Sauce and its hinterland to describe the structure of exchange and consumption of incensarios during the Middle Postclassic period (AD 1200-1350)...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hollie Powless.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Though greatly expanded both in quantity and diversity of subject matter in recent years, literature for the middle-grade audience largely fails to include storylines featuring archaeology, particularly evident in graphic novel formats. As archaeology is not a prominent piece of traditional public education, young people may not be exposed to the field...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Garrett Toombs. Rachel Horowitz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. It is well known that heat treating chert and other cryptocrystalline silicates improves the stone’s quality for knapping. However, ethnographic texts report that Indigenous knappers from around the world evaluate a stone’s moisture content as a marker of the stones’ quality for flaked tool production. Contemporary Euro-American flintknappers make similar...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Agustina Vazquez Fiorani. Mark Schurr.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Organic residue and lipid analyses of ceramic artifacts provide important direct information on subsistence economies and foodways, pottery technology, and exchange and trade. Residue analysis needs to be enhanced by experimental data and reference libraries that provide solid frameworks to construct archaeological interpretations. Inspired by the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alex Malone. Alex Malone. Jayde Hirniak. Mary Kliejunas. Grant Snitker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In recent years, the USDA Forest Service is increasing the pace and scale of fire and fuels management to mitigate the impacts of uncharacteristically severe wildfire. Due to the consequences of global climate change, wildfires are not going away. It is vital that we understand the effects that wildfires have on our cultural resources. Multiple studies...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Whyte.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. An experiment was undertaken to explore contextual and materials taphonomy initiated at the time of hunter-gatherer base camp abandonment in the southern Appalachian highlands. Acting out a fictional ethnography inspired by southeastern ethnohistorical accounts, twelve humans, accompanied by two dogs, made stone tools, and processed subsistence items and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Wheeler. Kathryn Kamp.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Education has become an important component of archaeology in all realms, from traditional teaching arenas in universities and K-12 schools to research to government and contract work. In 2017 the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology and the University of Maine, Orono collaborated to found the Journal of Archaeology & Education...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brenna Pisanelli. Cory Atkinson. David E. Leslie.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological investigations have resulted in evidence that suggests a shift in settlement patterns occurred in Connecticut during the Late and Terminal Archaic periods from interior wetlands to large river drainages. While sites dating to the Late Archaic period are common throughout the New England region, the archaeological record concerning...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julie Solometo. Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa. Gregson Schachner. Wesley Bernardini.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent collaborative fieldwork on Hopi tribal lands is yielding a new archaeological perspective on settlement during this key time period when migration to the Hopi Mesas accelerated. Newly recorded and re-documented sites include citadel-like structures built up the sides of rocky outcrops, defensible sites atop discrete, steep-sided landforms, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yi-lin Chen. Chihhua Chiang. Yi-Chang Liu.

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 starch residues on food related pottery vessels in order to investigate the utilization of various plant foods in the late Neolithic Wansan society. Based upon preliminary identifications, most of the residue starch belongs to Panicoideae, with definite identification of foxtail millet and Job’s tears. No taro or yam have been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Torras Freixa. Ivan Briz i Godino. Virginia Ahedo. José Manuel Galán. Natalia Moragas.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Individualities have been difficult to identify in Classic Period Teotihuacan, as this multiethnic urban culture presents itself as a faceless society where inequality must be addressed with new perspectives and methodologies. In this poster, we explore whether this inequality is perceptible through biological sex differentiation in mortuary evidence,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Asia Alsgaard. Karen van Niekerk. Carin Andersson. Mimi E. Lam.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This interdisciplinary research project investigates both the emergence and defining characteristics of sustainable coastal exploitation. The southern coast of South Africa has the longest history of sustained coastal exploitation globally, despite rising and falling sea levels, changing coastal habitats, and variations in seasonality and temperature....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Buckser. Karissa Hughes. William Taylor. Fernando Villanea. Courtney Hofman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between the 16th and 17th century, Indigenous cultures of North America began utilizing domestic animals brought to the Americas by Spanish colonists, creating profound social, cultural, and ecological change. In the northern Rocky Mountains, domestic horses provided new opportunities for transport and travel—but our understanding of how new human-horse...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Victoria Soto. Consuelo Huidobro. Josefina Macari.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ethnographically, three types of hafted scrapers are found in Patagonia: northern Tehuelche, southern Tehuelche, and Selk'nam. However, due to environmental conditions, hafting materials rarely survive in the archaeological record, hindering our understanding of these tools. To address this gap, we conducted experimental research to characterize the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shannon Mascarenhas. Roxanne Pendleton.

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 analysis conducted using lithic and ceramic artifacts from the Amoskeag West Bank site (27-HB-079) in Manchester New Hampshire, focusing on the evidence for a pithouse feature uncommon in the regional archaeological record. A targeted data recovery by IAC in 2022 yielded an assemblage of 961 Pre-Contact Native American...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Rainville.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Orange period (6000-3000 BP) communities in Florida have been defined by the manufacture of fiber-tempered ceramics within eastern Florida and have a well defined chronology. Orange period communities engaged physically with the landscape through shell and sand terraforming and community mobility. Contrastingly, the Archaic period in south Florida is not...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Taylor Recuero. Sara Juengst. María Ordoñez Alvarez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Heterarchical and hierarchical power distributions in a society affect the distribution of labor within that society. In a heterarchical society, the labor is generally reciprocal community labor used to maintain a cooperative relationship despite distance between lived settlements (Scaffidi 2020), whereas hierarchical societies will have labor distributed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pamela Pascali. John Dudgeon. Kateea Peterson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many tool-quality obsidian sources can be found across the Snake River Plain (SRP) in southern Idaho and adjacent geologic areas. This material was widely used in prehistory, with some artifacts discovered as far away as the Ohio River Valley. In order to better understand the selection and use of regional obsidian sources, we undertook experiments to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Natasha Fernandez-Preston.

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 research is to trace food practices in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico for the last century (1919-2018) and relate them to the processes of colonial racial capitalism. Since the mid-twentieth century, Puerto Rico went from being a mostly agricultural archipelago to an archipelago where there is barely any agriculture and that imports...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jason Elder. Amelia Jansen. Scott Shirar. Justin Cramb.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Located on the shore of Etivlik Lake in the Brooks Range in Northern Alaska, the Outlet Site (XHP315) consists of numerous late Holocene pit houses. One of these house features (#74) was excavated in 2006 during a University of Alaska Fairbanks archaeological field school. Faunal analysis was undertaken by a zooarchaeology class during fall semester of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kali Long.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this poster, I report on the faunal remains recovered from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century midden deposits in San Antonio del Embudo, a small settler village in northern New Mexico. I analyze species choices, skeletal element distribution, age profiles, and processing marks (cut, burn, fragment) along with disposal patterns. These remains unveil the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Boyd Dixon. Michael Dega.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Feasting and gift-giving in the ethnography, history, and archaeology of native peoples in Southeast Asia and its islands in the Western Pacific are often given primacy in accounts of academic fieldwork. Some ethnohistoric accounts on the pre-Contact and Spanish Colonial Chamorro people indigenous to Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands of Micronesia also...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kacy Hollenback. Christopher Roos. Whitney Goodwin. Francesco Berna.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Firing is an important step in the life history of ceramic objects, or what some would refer to as a châine opératoire. The firing environment of ceramics can yield insights into changes in fuel choice and abundance, labor estimates, degree of craft specialization, and perhaps even ritual and belief. In contrast with formal firing structures, such as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Capps.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There has been a long-standing interest in the Coles Creek (A.D. 700-1000) mound centers of the Natchez Bluffs region in the Lower Mississippi Valley (LMV), however, work focused on non-mound spaces is lacking. Few Coles Creek structures that are unassociated with mounds have been excavated, which makes answering questions about everyday life and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only João Cascalheira.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In recent years, knowledge of the processes involved in the disappearance of the Neanderthals and the successful expansion of our species across Eurasia has substantially increased. Still, the spatiotemporal variability of the presumed mechanisms behind Neanderthals’ demise makes evaluating the replacement at a continental scale very challenging. Iberiaa,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Kate Mauney.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Regulator Rebellion, a fourteen-year conflict between corrupt colonial powers and backcountry residents seeking governmental regulation, has been the subject of scholarly debate, the focus of numerous books and articles, and the inspiration for famous works of fiction. Despite academic and public intrigue, research on the Regulator Rebellion has been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Desiree Quintanilla.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fire lookout towers are early 20th century structures built by the U.S. Forest Service for the purpose of early wildfire detection. As the Forest Service moves away from staffing fire lookout towers, some call for the decommissioning and tearing down these structures, including within the Malheur National Forest. However, these historic towers still serve...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Pluckhahn. Kendal Jackson. Jaime Rogers. Victor Thompson. Carey Garland.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although archaeologists commonly situate the value of our field in its capacity to identify broad-scale patterning in human societies over the long term, critiques of the essentialism and linearity of social evolution led many to abandon this goal in favor of shorter-term, local histories. Drawing from calls for a “process archaeology” that recognizes...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Klinton Burgio-Ericson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Primary sources attest to the training of Indigenous carpenters in early colonial New Mexican woodworking. By the 1620s, Spanish craftsmen began introducing techniques based in the widespread Iberoamerican Mudéjar carpentry vernacular, which Pueblo artisans learned and used in constructing Franciscan missions. These accounts have received little study nor...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Catherine F. West. Trevor Lamb. Isabel Beach.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The effect of cooling climate during the Neoglacial period (3000-5000 BP) on societies in the Eastern Aleutian Islands is contested. Some archaeologists have argued that the appearance of toggling harpoon heads by 3000 BP indicate an adaptation to hunting marine mammals in an icy environment. This conclusion is problematic because toggling harpoons were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Stewart.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On Dec. 15, 1944, a B-24 took off on a night navigation mission from Chatham Air Field in Georgia, headed to Florida. The crew of nine were training to patrol the East Coast for enemy submarines. Fifteen minutes into the flight, engine #1 caught fire. The bomber crashed less than five minutes later into swampland in the lowcountry of South Carolina. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Owen Stoker. Cynthia Hannold. Jonas Posey. Nathan Patty. Kendall Holland.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Use-wear studies have proven invaluable for understanding human interaction with lithic materials and organic materials that have not survived the archaeological record. Though recent investigations have begun to address gaps in Maya user-wear studies, archaeologists have not sufficiently explored stone tool use in the Maya area. This study includes an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea Reedy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Presidio San Sabá was the largest military outpost in the Texas region during the mid-eighteenth century. This research project is a continuation of Arlene Fradkin, and Tamra Walters’ previous faunal analysis conducted on a portion of the site’s assemblage. This inquiry will focus on comparing the areas within the interior plaza to provide insight into...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitriona Parker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the face of white settler-colonialism and objection to the forces of anti-Black racism in the eighteenth century, Nantucket’s New Guinea community formed as a racially diverse group of Africans, African Americans, Native Americans, and Pacific Islanders. Central to this community was formerly enslaved Seneca Boston and his Afro-Indigenous family....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dylan Lewis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Food surrounds politics, economics, ideology, and cosmology. Food experiences go beyond the dishes. The scale of consumption varies from small daily meals to large ritual feasts. Intoxicants are used in conjunction with eating events. These substances are often paired with foods to enhance the eating experience and are used symbolically during special...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cameron Munley.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Greater Antilles is an archipelago of islands in the Northern Caribbean (e.g., Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). These islands are host to a melting pot of unique cultural identities and ecological biodiversity. It is well known that the long-term harvest of marine fishes greatly shaped human cultures and marine...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Petr Kvetina. Thomas Rocek. Jaroslav Ridky.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We introduce the start of an international project focusing on the interpretation of prehistoric food preparation and storage in cross-cultural perspective—both different prehistoric cultures and different traditions of archaeological research. We consider archaeological patterns in Central Europe (the European temperate zone) and in US Southwest,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yue Fu. Na An. Xujing Gao. Zi Shi.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Zanthoxylum bungeanum, a vital component of ancient Chinese culinary life, has been unearthed from many tombs associated with the Chu state. As a prominent funerary offering, it is presumed to hold distinct roles and functions within the burial context. The presence of Zanthoxylum bungeanum alongside various fruit remains underscores its multifaceted...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicolette Edwards. Karen Lupo. Dave Schmitt. Michael Richards.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Stable isotopic analysis is commonly used to assess dietary patterns among prehistoric hunter-gatherers. However, although the use of this method is prolific in archaeological contexts, its application in contemporary settings is minimal. In addition, an approach that can provide more accurate assessment of what individuals actually consume, such as stable...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Genevieve Woodhead.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the mid-twentieth century, Anna Shepard discovered that much of the pottery found in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, was apparently produced in the Chuska mountain and slope area some 70 km to the west. Since then, Southwest archaeologists have studied the dynamics of Chaco–Chuska interaction and the intensity and complexity of Southwest exchange patterns. As...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Bautista.

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 plants of ancient Amazonian societies is currently heavily debated. Much of such it concerns the difficulty of finding good paleobotanic evidence in archaeological contexts. Lately, old plant use strategies have been reconstructed mainly based on phytoliths, starch, and pollen evidence. However, the present study is focused on charred wood...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Walden. Antonio Beardall. Frank Tzib. Christina Warinner. Jaime Awe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Our poster presents ongoing efforts at creating a collaborative research environment between international and Belizean early career scholars at the Classic Maya center of Lower Dover, Belize. Rather than incorporating Belizean collaborators in pre-existing research projects, our current goal has been to collaborate with Belizean early career scholars to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madison McCartin. Flavia Venditti. Melanie-Larissa Ostermann. Nicholas John Conard. Sibylle Wolf.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Personal ornaments play an important role in our understanding of human cultural and behavioral change during the Upper Paleolithic. Although small, ornaments are often well-preserved, occur in large quantities, vary across space and time, and can shed light on intangible aspects of human lifeways (e.g., identity, relationships, movement, status). However,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jimmy Barrera.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Cultural Resources Division is comprised of archeologists, architectural historians, and historians. With responsibility to oversee federally funded and federally authorized projects across the United States. This presentation will provide an overview of FRA’s mission with emphasis on cultural resources...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeremy Kulisheck. Blair Mills.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent fieldwork in the southern and southeastern foothills of the San Mateo Mountains of south-central New Mexico has identified caves, rockshelters, rock art, non-standard settlements, and shrines and other ritual architecture located on hilltops. These finds reveal a landscape of rich cosmological significance to ancestral Pueblo Mimbres and Jornada...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ethan Mofidi.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Beginning in 1939, the Works Progress Association (WPA) led by David Baerreis excavated the School Land I site as a mitigation effort before the completion of the Pensacola Dam which consequently submerged the site and adjacent areas. Since that point, the materials collected by the WPA have been largely untouched for further analysis, save for the faunal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Drosos Kardulias.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Aegean island of Kalymnos was unsurprisingly transformed by conflict between Roman and Arab Caliphate forces through the early Middle Ages; atypically among its neighbors, the end of antiquity seems to have produced a more durable and connected Kalymnian community, compared to that which came before. This paper expands on earlier GIS analyses of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacob Lozano.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In modernity, sexuality manifests in a dynamic spectrum of expressions which centers on individual sexual awareness, contesting antiquated sentiments of traditional sexual hegemony. In this presentation, we will journey into ancient Mesoamerica in the attempt to conceptualize Maya and Aztec notions of sex and gender by examining various lines of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Mathews.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The earliest avocados of the Americas were so prized by the Olmec, Maya, and Aztec peoples for their rich caloric content and buttery flavor that they were portrayed in iconography on king’s tombs and used as place names for ancient cities. During the colonial period, the Spanish used the fruit as food for enslaved people on sugar plantations across their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Geraci.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Northeastern Illinois is an understudied, underappreciated region of focus in current archaeological discourse, particularly in Woodland period studies. Historically, archaeologists have concentrated on areas with the most conspicuous signs of ancient activity to the exclusion of the areas that connected them. In the Riverine-Great Lakes region most of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dane Magoon. Dale Hutchinson. John Krigbaum.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent research has highlighted the difficulties with identifying the presence of early maize in the bioarchaeological and palaeoethnobotanical records of the Eastern Woodlands. Simon et al. (2021) found that there is no hard evidence of Middle Woodland maize for the region, and the earliest verified maize is now synchronous with the chronological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Briece Edwards. Michael Lewis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Emergent Indigenous place theories are developing effective “gaps analyses” of archaeological and historical datasets caused by the social contexts in which existing dominant culture narratives have been written, interpreted, and projected. Archaeological and historical methodologies for researching and re-centering the stories of historically excluded...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claire Sammons. Dakotah Brown. Zoe Flores. Chris Junginger. Jennifer Mathews.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The modern-day campus of Trinity University is located on a nineteenth and early twentieth century municipal dump site on what was then the margins of the city of San Antonio, Texas . The land also served as a limestone rock quarry for the Alamo Cement Company (1884-1931), a community baseball diamond, and a lover’s lane. The university bought the land and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Elizabeth Ibarrola.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the inception of the field of Historical Archaeology, much has been made of the small finds interpreted as residues of African spiritual belief and ritual practice. Beads, X-marked fragments, and pierced coins, first the subject of the “search for Africanisms” which characterized American plantation archaeology, have since been examined as evidence...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alaina Wibberly.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Extractive industries such as gold, copper, and lead mining anchored settler colonial expansion in Southern Arizona through the 19th and 20th centuries, initiating survey-based cartographic practices as colonial method. These now-abandoned mining landscapes have since been incorporated into the contemporary border security landscape as U.S. Customs and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Macdonald. Ahmad Thaher. Lisa Maher. Theresa Barket.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The multi-component Epipalaeolithic site of Kharaneh IV, located in the Azraq Basin of eastern Jordan, documents ~1,000 years of occupation by hunter-gatherer groups late in the Last Glacial Maximum. Multiple lines of geomorphological, faunal, and archaeobotanical evidence indicate that the environs around the site were well-watered, lushly vegetated, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Crisp.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Located in Eastern Oklahoma, Fort Gibson acted as the starting gate for America’s military expansion into the West. Founded in 1824, Fort Gibson played a role in mediating encounters between the Osage and Cherokee until 1857. The Fort reopened at the start of the American Civil War and operated until 1890. Fort Gibson serves as an excellent archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tanner Haynes. Tristan O'Donnell. Frank Schuler.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Photogrammetry has seen increasing utilization within archaeology in recent years but with the rise of this representational methodology has come several challenges including the loss of context, inaccurate reproduction of surfaces, and difficulties processing thin objects. Emerging free open-source machine learning technology can produce novel scenes...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda Zuniga. Khori Newlander.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The farm fields of east-central Pennsylvania contain an abundance of artifacts that span much of regional prehistory. Not surprisingly, many of these artifacts have been collected by local amateurs. Here, we analyze an assemblage of projectile points collected from the Kramer Farm in Kutztown, Pennsylvania. We explore how morphometric attributes (e.g.,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Estelle Praet.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Marine plastic pollution is an issue threatening most places around the world, including the remote and unique Galapagos archipelago, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Building on how archaeology of the contemporary world can help address urgent and global environmental issues, this paper offers suggestions for an archaeology of plastic pollution in Galapagos....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dale Croes. Ed Carriere.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ed Carriere, Suquamish Elder and Master Basketmaker and I published on how ancient Salish Sea basketry styles statistically linked through 4,000+ years in style to the basketry Ed learned from his Great Grandmother Julia Jacobs (born 1874) who raised him from infancy. Ed helped me analyze 2,000-year-old wet archaeological basketry from his traditional...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Socha.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. WR-1 and Brown Hole are two submerged archaeological sites in the West Run of the Aucilla River. This thesis utilizes a geoarchaeological approach to evaluate the depositional sequences of these sites as well as their potential for further archaeological investigation. The sedimentary histories of the sites represent adjacent depositional facies within a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caroline Graham. Lia Kitteringham. Edward R. Henry.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pinson Mounds, located along the South Fork of the Forked Deer River (SFFDR) in West Tennessee, is considered the largest Middle Woodland (ca. 200 BCE – CE 500) ceremonial center in the Southeast. Containing at least 13 earthworks, the site provides important opportunities to examine complex social and environmental interactions among societies across the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chloe Stevens.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Florida State’s 2022 field school excavated into Page-Ladson’s stratigraphic unit (SU) 5, a stratum that spans the terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene with Bolen period occupation, and exposed a sediment feature. It was unclear if the feature was cultural or natural. The soil transition was diffuse but there was an increase in charcoal and faunal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leila Joyce Seals. Rolfe Mandel.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Central Plains of North America have yielded fewer stratified Paleoindian archaeological sites than other regions of the Great Plains. The dearth of recorded early sites is due to geologic filtering of the archaeological record; processes of erosion and deposition have removed or deeply buried early sites, respectively. At the Coffey site in the Big...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heidi Luchsinger. Juan Bautista Belardi. Luis Alberto Borrero. Flavia Carballo Marina.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geoarchaeological investigations in the Mack Aike Canyon were conducted in March 2023. Located in southernmost Patagonia, Mack Aike is ca. 13 miles (21 km) long and was repeatedly occupied by hunter-gatherer populations for at least 3,300 years BP. Alluvial deposits and complex sequences of wetland and eolian deposits within the canyon boundaries were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elliot Helmer. Andrew Frierson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From the impressive buttes and craters where it can be quarried to the shining black flakes speckled across vast sagebrush plains, obsidian and its procurement, use, and discard has defined the human experience of eastern Oregon’s landscape since time immemorial. Cultural resource management (CRM) practitioners must be proactive about documenting the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth McCreary.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fort Ligonier, constructed in 1758, was the advance post and the last in the line of supply forts constructed for Brigadier-General John Forbes’ Expedition to take Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian War. A young George Washington was a Colonel stationed at Fort Ligonier. On November 12, 1758, there was a small skirmish between a British Virginia...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Ramirez. Sarah Rowe. Guy Duke. Edward González-Tennant.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Photogrammetry, the science of converting two-dimensional images into immersive 3D models, traditionally adheres to a strict set of guidelines and specialized tools. However, this poster explores the spirited realm of photogrammetry with rule bending and limits to achieve success in Dos Mangas, Ecuador. In this resource-constrained setting, innovators...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Isabelle Maurice-Hammond. Darcy Mathews.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Estuarine root gardens are poorly understood and under-researched sites of Indigenous plant cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America. Combining archaeology, ecology and pedology, and drawing from research conducted on 'Namgis and Ahousaht First Nations territories in British Columbia, Canada, this research proposes a novel method to aid in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Victoria Schwarz. Emily Milton.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological survey began in the central Peruvian Andes in the mid-1960s through the 1970s but was brought to a halt in the 1980s due to political unrest. Investigations into some of the early highland sites continued in the 2000s; however, there are still areas that have yet to be systematically surveyed. Digitization of the existing field survey data...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karime Castillo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. After arriving in Mexico in the 16th century, glass, and the technology to make it, slowly found their way into the everyday life of colonial populations in Mexico City, Puebla, and other areas of New Spain. While glass routinely appears in archaeological excavations of colonial and 19th-century contexts in Mexico, it is not as deeply studied as other...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Belcher. Christina L. Youngpeter. Natalie G. Mueller. Alleen Betzenhauser.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In precontact eastern North America, Indigenous peoples domesticated a unique crop system called the Eastern Agricultural Complex (EAC) before the arrival of maize (Zea mays). The EAC likely sustained past Indigenous populations beginning around 3900 B.P., to approximately 600 B.P. The EAC fell out of cultivation prior to European contact, so their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean Devlin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological interpretations of household organization have long recognized its role in the construction of social identities and in the furtherance of social goals. While much of the historical archaeology of Jamaica, and indeed the Caribbean more broadly, has focused on exploring spatial and consumption choices of enslaved Africans and African...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jack Rossen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper discusses recent investigations at a hunter-gatherer base camp in northwest Arkansas. Excavations at the Greathouse Springs site (3WA569), near Fayetteville in Washington County produced unusual remains of Archaic structures. Included are two elongated rectangular structures, interpreted as communal cookhouses, and at least four smaller...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma Lashley.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Laurel Hill Settlement was a small, mountaintop African American settlement that was located in what is now Laurel Ridge State Park west of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The settlement was formed sometime before 1825 and may date back as far as the late 1700s. It is unclear how large the settlement was and how many families lived there at any given time...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ran Chen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Burial practices provide important evidence for understanding the social and symbolic connections between the dead and the living. The presentation of artifacts in burials and their functions can provide crucial information of meanings in ritual practices. In this study, I apply use-wear analysis and residue analysis to a sample of grinding stones,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Francisco Pugliese. John Krigbaum. Kenneth Sassaman. Luis Cayón. Michael Heckenberger.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Gruta do Gentio II is an iconic site in the archaeology of Central Brazil because of its early occupation and rich excavation history. Situated in the interfluvial region of the Central Plateau, renewed investigation (after 35 years) offers new perspectives for the site. Data produced during the 1970s and 1980s revealed a wide variety of remains dating...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeremy Pye.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The analysis and historical study of burial container hardware and other mortuary artifacts is crucial in establishing a useful discourse between the multiple lines of evidence recorded and recovered in historical cemetery investigations. Exact identification of types and styles of burial container hardware is vital in defining the chronology of burial,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Sportman. David Leslie. Kevin McBride.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2023, the Connecticut Office of State Archaeology directed a new archaeological investigation of the 1781 Rochambeau Camp #5, in Bolton, Connecticut, as part of the Connecticut State Library’s Digging into History Program for high school students. Camp #5 is one of several stops along the route taken by French forces under the command of Jean-Baptiste...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dan Trepal.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Hamtramck Historic Spatial Archaeology Project, launched in 2021, is an active digital, web-based public collaborative deep mapping project for the city of Hamtramck, an industrialized city completely surrounded by Detroit. The primary focus of the project is to create and launch a digital, web-based, publicly accessible deep map linking information...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rosario Cordero-Fernández.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. It seems that the primary function of painted hand imprints on rock shelters in the Middle Ibáñez River Valley (Chile) may have been to assist in promoting social cohesion within and between hunter-gatherer groups. Hand imprints possess the quality of replicating the hand that created them, thus becoming a personal statement. These imprints have been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Smith-Leach.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hawai'i is a dynamic landscape with a unique archaeological record. The archipelago's relatively short physical history has been subject to various disasters, including sea level rise, tsunami, wildfire, and drought. Predictions indicate that anthropogenic drivers of climate change will increase the frequency and severity of disasters in the Pacific. In...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Ward. 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. The Ecuadorian Formative Period (3800-300 BC) is known for the creation of ceramics, a transition towards agriculture, and the development of sedentary settlements along the Pacific coast. These social and economic changes were often associated with declines in health, as people ate less varied agricultural diets and increasingly encountered pathogens...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Jones. Sharon DeWitte. Catherine Livingston.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We examine the relationship between farm production and strategy and the health and mortality patterns of farm families during the late nineteenth century in upstate New York. This was a time when farmers were transitioning from subsistence to commercial farming and when dairy farming was becoming the preferred strategy to increase profits. Here, we focus...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claudia Celia. Heather Rockwell. Nathaniel Kitchel.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Red chert from the Munsungun Lake formation in northern Maine is found in late Pleistocene Fluted-Point period archaeological sites across northeastern North America. Despite its prevalence, there is no literature detailing the effects of heat alteration on red Munsungun chert. Here we report the effects of experimental heat alteration on red Munsungun...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Siyun Guo. Yu Dong. Alice Yao.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper combines isotope analysis from collagen and hydroxyapatite patterns from the Bronze Age to imperial periods in the humid sub-tropical highlands of southwestern China. We sampled and analyzed 28 faunal bones and 4 teeth from two occupation sites in the Lake Dian basin that are associated with the Dian polity (ca. 700 – 100 BC) and span into the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephanie Franklin (Mack).

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In June of 2023 the Comanche Wildfire began by a lightning strike on the El Rito District of the Carson National Forest in Northern New Mexico. Due to the rains and cool temperatures this fire was burning low to moderate allowing the Forest to use the fire beneficially; however, this posed a problem for cultural resources. Cultural resource management...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Weinmeister.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While forgotten settlements are a common discovery in the jungles of Central America where dense canopies conceal all traces of prehistory, they are a much less common phenomenon in the American Southwest. However, recent research demonstrates that a poorly known Ancestral Pueblo site on private property in southwest Colorado is one of the most important...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacob Tumelaire. Audrey Waterman.

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 targeted data recovery conducted at the Amoskeag West Bank site (27-HB-079) in Manchester, New Hampshire. First identified in 1933, a 2022 archaeological investigation established that the site encompasses a large but as-yet-undefined Native American cultural resource in the heart of New Hampshire’s largest city. IAC’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andreas Nymark. Amir Beshkani. Peter Bye-Jensen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Intensification of fieldwork in the Zagros Mountains over the past two decades have provided crucial new insights into the region, revealing a much more complex patchwork of MP lithic industrial variability than hitherto appreciated. We present a series of new case studies on the high-altitude MP rockshelter of Houmian in the Iranian Zagros. Posited to be...

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

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zuzana Hofmanová.

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

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

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

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

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bruce Bernstein.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Lekson.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrés Garzón-Oechsle.

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

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

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