SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Egan. Shaun Rose. Jared Orsi.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The southern coalfield in Colorado played a significant role in the growth of the American steel industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With the availability of bituminous coal, which can be refined into coke, the region became a key producer of high-grade coal, with Starkville Mine emerging as a major player. The mine and its...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Peterson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. North America’s Native Copper Industry is one of the oldest metalworking traditions in the world, with metal use in this region dating to over 9,500 years ago. While several studies have focused on copper mining and use, few have focused on copper production. As a result, little attention has been given to the waste materials generated during the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lucas Johnson. Lisa Johnson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Classic period (250–900 CE) Maya economic systems were diverse with most lowland cities revealing a combination of intensive surplus crafting workshops and more domestic household crafting. Some craft production may have been centralized and occurring under the supervision of the state and others appear to be operating independently at the household level...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zachary McKeeby.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Machile River in Western Zambia formed a significant locus of Iron Age life in Zambia and served as a conduit for the localized movements of people, things, and ideas in south-central Africa for much of the last two millennia. Within this dynamic corridor, the early second millennium Kanono site represents a relatively short-lived but well-defined...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Edwards.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Structures, especially houses, are focal locations, acting as a venue for a myriad of social actions. Analyzing the size, shape, orientation, and context of houses individually and as a group allows for multiscale interpretations of past communities. This paper explores variation and organization of structures at a series of Late Precontact (ca. AD...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barbara Anglisz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Medina of Tunis is an ancient Islamic city and a UNESCO World Heritage site. However, it is in a vulnerable state, with many historic palaces, ancient dwellings, and monuments confronting neglect, leading to an alarming rate of deterioration. In 2021, an independent ethnographic research study was conducted in the Medina of Tunis in collaboration with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ethan Ortega. Rachael Lorenzo. Anne Curry. Carlyn Stewart. Adesbah Foguth.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The New Mexico State Land Office implemented a new Cultural Properties Protection (CPP) Rule on December 1, 2022. This statute mandated changes to a decades-long culture of “you break it, you buy it” regarding damage to cultural properties caused by extractive industry in the state. Implementation resulted in the identification and protection of hundreds...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Valerie Arroyo. Jonathan Bethard. Andre Gociar. Zsolt Nyárádi. Jennifer Mathews.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Medieval Romania’s history is riddled with gaps caused by destructive invasions against the Ottoman Empire, among others. With a fractured and understudied history, bioarchaeology emerges as a potent tool to unveil the concealed facets of this era, ranging from dietary habits and religious inclinations to vocational pursuits, physical traumas, and burial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Veres. Suzanne Pilaar Birch. Robert Kelly.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Alm Shelter in Wyoming lies in the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains, and its repeated use for 12,000 years provides a snapshot into human life throughout the Holocene. Moisture is a controlling factor in this (semi)arid environment. Mountains provided refuge and increased moisture access for humans, animals, and plants. This aridity also leads to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Evan Holt. Stefani Crabtree.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mongolian culture has been defined by nomadic pastoralism for nearly 5,000 years. Throughout that time, nomadic pastoralists built a specific niche in their local ecosystems. The Darkhad Depression of Northern Mongolia represents a case where traditional nomadic pastoralist lifestyles are at the forefront of the climate catastrophe despite these practices...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Corey Hoover.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The built environment is not a simple, haphazardly constructed idea. The human condition and cultural components, combined with environmental factors have undoubtedly influenced the built environment situated within landscapes. Not only are these landscapes environmental, but also social. In addition, these landscapes are not static and are subject to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lucía Yebra. Valeria Cortegoso. Erik Marsh. María Eugenia de Porras. Antonio Maldonado.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Laguna del Diamante (34°S) is a high-altitude wetland (3,000 m asl) with resources that have been attractive to human societies for the last 2,000 years. This article evaluates the variable intensity of its occupation in five temporal segments between 2030 and 440 cal BP, according to a chronology modeled from 14 radiocarbon dates excavated in stone...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erlend Johnson. Mark Rees. Matt Helmer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hurricanes Laura and Delta in 2020 caused extensive tree-fall damage to more than 100 sites throughout Kisatchie National Forest, including two large Pre-Contact sites (16VN3504 and 16VN3508). 16VN3504 and 16VN3508 are multi-component sites measuring more than 100 acres and are eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. In addition...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Victoria Khaghani. Whitney Goodwin. Marcello Canuto.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This thesis explores the relationship between iconography and material analysis of Ulúa polychromes in Honduras between 450 – 1200 CE. From a dataset of 56 ceramic pieces, first analyzed iconographically which has been the main form of analysis for these artefacts. Second, the 56 pieces were sampled for INAA and processed through a computer program. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlos Alvarez. Lynneth Lowe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The abundance of pottery stamps, variety of designs and quality of its craftsmanship during the Postclassic period, contrasts with the scarce studies regarding these special artifacts whose analysis can contribute to the knowledge of significant aspects of ancient Maya culture. These stamps were used to imprint decorative motifs on the human body, fabrics,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirsten Hawley. Claudia Johnson. Shelby Rader. Charles Beeker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geochemical studies of archaeological ceramics often assume little to no post-depositional change to the makeup of the artifact. This study uses ICP-MS trace element and lead (Pb) stable isotope analysis to investigate how a freshwater submerged depositional environment affects the geochemical signatures of archaeological ceramics. We test the null...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Faizan Khan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project focuses on identifying pathways between sites of the Gandharan Buddhist Civilization with the help of GIS technology to identify the locations of as-yet unfound Gandharan archaeological sites, which are under the threat of becoming permanently destroyed due to rapidly growing urbanism in the region. This project employed GIS principles and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Bales. Phil Kaijankoski.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists have historically studied the human-environment relationship through the lens of behavior, activity, and advancement. The study of past landscapes is focused on the human behavior response to these changes, not the effects these environmental changes have on archaeological sites. Geomorphological studies allow for understanding environmental...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joyce Wing In Ho. Ryan Kennedy. Christina Warinner. Kristine Richter.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological and historical evidence has demonstrated the sociopolitical, economic, and ritual significance of parrots, songbirds, and toucans in precontact Americas. In Mesoamerica, these birds, along with their plumages and their capabilities to sing and mimic sounds, were highly valued. However, taxonomic identification of avian fauna can be...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aja Palermo.

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-1990s, the LSU Museum of Art received a collection of nearly 60 Andean objects as a donation from a private collector. More than half of the items donated are textiles and/or tools used in making textiles, all thought to have come from Peru. Beyond this geographic pointer, little information came with the collection, so the catalog entries for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ali Livesay.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite its remoteness and the restricted access, there are very few standing structures on the Pajarito Plateau where Los Alamos National Laboratory now resides. One notable exception is Nake’muu Pueblo which was first built during the Coalition Period (A.D. 1225-1300). Pueblo de San Ildefonso oral history describes that Nake’muu was reoccupied following...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jaime Ullinger. Julia Giblin. Györgyi Parditka. Remi Sheibley. Sarajane Smith-Escudero.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Bronze Age Körös Off-Tell Archaeology Project (BAKOTA) has excavated 84 burials from a Bronze Age cemetery (Békés 103) located in the Lower Körös Basin in Eastern Hungary. Radiocarbon dates indicate that the cemetery was used for several hundred years, with the most active phase between 1600 and 1280 cal BC, a time that has been associated with the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathleen Holen. Steven Holen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Impact notches on megafaunal limb bones can be diagnostic of marrow extraction and tool blank production behavior by hominins. Notch shape statistics have been applied to impact-fractured megafaunal limb bones from Old World Paleolithic sites to demonstrate hominin technology that begins 2.6 mya in Africa. We compare data from experimental cow femora...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Antonio Beardall.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Belize is a country rich in archaeological resources including Paleoindian, Archaic, the Ancient Maya, and colonial. Belize has been and continues to be the focus of archaeological research, largely conducted by foreign researchers that help facilitate archaeological field schools training primarily American, Canadian, and English students. While many...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Clifford White.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Thermoregulation was integral to the survival of the first and subsequent people who inhabited North America following the Last Glacial Maximum. Successive climate fluctuations necessitated the implementation of technologies that increased the probability of human survival. Previous research has examined the timing of thermoregulatory technologies in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lyla Patricia Campos Díaz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Heritage conservation has as one of its main objectives, the recovery of specific values defined on many occasions by restorers and trained professionals. However, these values might not be the same for everyone. How can restorers incorporate the different ontologies regarding heritage in their conservation treatments and policies? Through a case study of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Noah Fulmer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The proposed poster would present an overview of photogrammetry applications for archaeology both during active fieldwork and interpretive analysis. This will include case studies of photogrammetry use in the field at the Trauston Castle site excavation in Austria and at Madam John’s Legacy in New Orleans, La in which a field methodology was developed for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alvaro Montenegro.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The efficiency and safety of ocean travel is greatly dependent on along-trip environmental conditions. Agent-based simulations that optimize routes based on expected environmental conditions have been used by the shipping industry and the sailboat racing community for decades. Some recent efforts in archaeology have used the latter models. Here I describe...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Holcomb. Rolfe Mandel.

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 several decades, the application of soil and sediment micromorphology in geoarchaeology has flourished, especially outside of the Americas. Despite widespread acceptance and use of various micromorphological techniques by our European counterparts, a similar fluorescence has yet to occur among geoarchaeologists who are focused on the early...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristin Hoppa.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Channel Islands National Park has been steadily increasing tribal involvement into all aspects of archeological field work through a series of cooperative agreements, funding collaborative survey work, monitoring of vulnerable sites, hands-on treatment and stabilization, and broader efforts related to access and traditional use. This paper shares lessons...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather McClure.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The New Mexico History Museum is digitizing and making publicly available the manuscript and photograph collections of Edgar L. Hewett (1865-1946) thanks to a major grant from the National Historical Publications & Records Commission. An inescapable presence in early 20th century Southwestern cultural life, Hewett earned his nickname of “El Toro”. Among...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tamara Uldall. Caitlin Limberg. Trevor Payne. Jennifer Ferris.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Following non-native settlement in Grays Harbor County, Washington on the Pacific coast, the Harbor and adjacent rivers became integral to the growth and prosperity of the region’s growing timber-focused economy during the early-twentieth century. Native shorelines were transformed as piling-supported trestles, log booms, timber mills, and commercial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Olga Gabelmann. Karoline Noack.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. After expansion from Cuzco, the Inca introduced a statecraft model based principally on the mobilization of numerous population groups across longer and shorter distances. In this sense, the Inca Empire can be conceptualized as a “mobile state” that was to last for only 80 to 100 years (1445-1538 AD). Inca influence in the area of Bolivia was moderate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rodrigo Areche Espinola.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Inka Road system was a critical infrastructure for expanding and consolidating the Inka empire in the Andes. From the traditional view, the existence of the Inka Road across diverse regions was seen as an indicator of how the Inkas integrated and controlled the mobility of subject communities. Other recent perspectives have emphasized the mobility of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madeleine Mant. Zoe Alker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Skin and Bone examines the embodied experience of injury, accidents, and interpersonal violence of over 65,000 Londoners during the Industrial Revolution (1760–1901). Osteoarchaeological datasets from the Museum of London Centre for Human Bioarchaeology in combination with contemporary hospital (Middlesex, Royal London, Guy’s, St. Thomas’) and criminal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Grogan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Glass is a common find on early medieval Irish sites, having been found in association with native Irish settlement-enclosures, monastic centers, and Viking towns. Evidence for secondary production (the recycling and reworking of existing glass to form new objects) has been identified for each of these site types. No evidence for primary production (making...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jorge Rios Allier.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In Mexico, archaeological sites are located on private, communal, ejido, federal or vacant land. The exercise of land ownership rights determines the type of technical and legal protection, which is usually assumed by the Mexican State. Generally, to mitigate risks, official archaeologists must carefully collaborate with public, private or common-pool...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cassidy Heller. Hannah Hoover.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Late Archaic (3000-1000 BCE) to Early Woodland (1000 – 500 BCE) transition of the South Atlantic Bight is characterized by vast sociotechnical changes. Research of these periods has been dominated in recent decades by the study of large shell rings and their likely attendant ceremonial happenings, in part because coastal erosion has necessitated...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Brian McCray. Jesse Stephen. Christopher Nicholson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite advances made in open access publishing, significant archaeological information remains confined to the grey literature or to unpublished, internal reports in the possession of institutions. For at least twenty years, archaeologists have realized that digital archiving could make this material more accessible at a larger scale, but the tools to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Remi Mereuze. Julien Hiquet. Hemmamuthé Goudiaby.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological research in the Maya lowlands is marked by its rich cultural heritage and challenging landscapes. Conducting surveys amidst dense vegetation presents unique difficulties, which have been exacerbated by remote sensing during fieldwork preparation. To improve our survey methodology, we integrated GIS and QField, an open-source mobile mapping...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Lewis. Regan Crider.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Across the southeastern United States, the Woodland Period is marked as a time by processes of increased cultural distinction known as regionalism. In Eastern Oklahoma, the Fourche Maline archaeological culture (ca. 2300 – 1100 cal. BP) demonstrates a strategy of limited mobility and high intensities of regionalism prior to the Woodland Period. These...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Casey Black.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The paradigm of Human Behavioral Ecology (HBE) utilizes behavioral ecological models to understand the adaptive relationship between human behavior and the environment in which people reside. The introduction of intentional sustainability to HBE models benefits this paradigm by diversifying the factors that influence human behavior and developing a greater...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Debra Foran. Andrew Danielson. Gregory Braun. Grant Ginson. Rose Campbell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Khirbat al-Mukhayyat is located approximately 6 km northwest of the city of Madaba and has long been associated with the ancient town of Nebo. The Khirbat al-Mukhayyat Archaeological Project (KMAP) was established to investigate the economic and ritual importance of the site across multiple periods and its connection to contemporary sites in the region....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Johnny Taira.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. La presente investigación es el resultado de una prospección en el valle medio del río Mala en Perú, desde el anexo de Checas hasta el anexo de Minay; durante la cual se identificó un total de 10 sitios arqueológicos, muchos de los cuales no presentaban un registro en la literatura arqueológica. En el presente trabajo se discute la interacción...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kassandra Dutro. Briana Doering. Casey Black.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Women within hunter-gatherer societies have had deep interactions with fire through their cultural and gender roles for thousands of years. I aim to explore the intersections among Indigenous women of Dene speakers, fire, and material culture throughout the recent and more distant past. My focus is centered around women’s/girls’ interactions with their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bria Brooks.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the 19th century, a fort and independent settlement of enslavement escapees and their descendants emerged along the Apalachicola River. Prospect Bluff, which eventually became to be known as “Negro Fort”, was a place where Maroons resisted the institutions of slavery. Prospect Bluff hosted a vibrant community of Maroons. At its peak it was home to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jahleen Sefton. Ian Freestone. Laura Adlington.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. By the time of the Roman invasion of Britain in AD 43, the Roman glass industry had reached its height, largely due to the development of a glass-blowing technique which allowed glass vessels to be produced in greater quantities and variety of shapes contributing to its wider use. Antimony, a decolorizer used in the glass industry of Egypt produced the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlyn Stewart.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The New Mexico State Land Office (NMSLO) manages over 9 million acres of land that was stolen from the Indigenous and Hispano peoples as a condition of U.S. statehood. This land was allocated to New Mexico under the Ferguson Act of 1898 and the Enabling Act of 1910 in order to generate funding for schools and hospitals. While acknowledging this history,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ezra Kucur. Hayden Denby. Samuel Lee. Sarah Kennedy. Kylie Quave.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. When we teach archaeology, we are actively creating the discipline and its norms that students may carry with them beyond the course. In this student-faculty co-creative poster we present ongoing results of a collaborative effort to ask questions about the nature and impact of teaching choices in archaeology courses and broader program curricula. Through...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nóra Nic Aoidh.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite roads and railways around the world being based on the widths of their bodies, non-human animals are now systematically excluded from much of modern western life. In some of the most human-populated areas, animals are forbidden from indoor spaces and from many private outdoor spaces. However, these carefully curated and restrictive relationships we...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Suarez. Claire Ebert. John Walden. Julie Hoggarth. Jaime Awe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Studies of ancient Maya commodities have focused on elite control of economic institutions, yet goods were mobilized at different levels of the social hierarchy to support the growth of broader economic institutions. Here we present the results of portable x-ray fluorescence (pXRF) analyses of over 4000 obsidian artifacts from Preclassic to Terminal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathan Shelley. Kelly Graf. Julie Esdale. Ted Goebel. Bryan Hockett.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Shég’ Xdaltth’í’ is an archaeological site (FAI-2043) located about 30 miles south of Fairbanks, Alaska in the Tanana Flats. Results of archaeological testing and excavations between 2013 and 2022 identified three distinct archaeological components, components 1, 2, and 3, dating to about 13,800 cal BP, 12,700 cal BP, and 5,000 cal BP, respectively. While...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Frank Tzib. John Walden. James Mesh. 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. New archaeological aDNA approaches have the potential to dramatically change our understanding of the ancient Maya but it is important that living Maya people are aware of the research, provide their thoughts and input, and give their consent given the involvement of ancestral human remains. This poster presents the ongoing interview based consultation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lucia Diaz. Sarah I. Baitzel. Arturo F. Rivera Infante. Xinyi Liu.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pastoral practices shape the responses of herders to environmental and sociopolitical changes. This paper uses stable isotope analysis to examine camelid herding strategies from pastoral settlements in the south-central Andes during a period characterized by climatic and political changes (8th-15th century CE). Samples from archaeological sites in Peru and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aidan Choi.

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 preliminary report on the investigation of ceramic standardization at Bombon Church in Camarines Sur, Philippines, spanning different time periods. Bicol is recognized as one of the few regions in the Philippines where year-round, extensive wet-rice agriculture was practiced even before the pre-Hispanic era. While agricultural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Marquardt.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hopi oral histories have a long tradition of migration and movement across the Greater Southwest and Mesoamerica. Archaeological evidence of the movement of Hopi people is well attested across the Middle Rio Grande Valley. Pottery Mound (LA 416) in the Lower Rio Puerco Valley has long been known to have connections with ancestral Hopi people through both...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jill Eubanks.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mule deer were important resources for the Ancestral Ohlone populations in the California San Francisco Bay area. Researchers typically use artiodactyl abundance information derived from archaeological assemblages to understand past hunting and land use behavior. Building upon previous models (diet breadth, costly signaling, climate change, and resource...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anne-Julie Bilodeau. Taché Karine.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent archaeological evidence suggests that shell rings are not only potential origin points for pottery in North America, but also places where people lived and feasted. Techniques borrowed from analytical chemistry now allow archaeologists to test these hypotheses. Lipid analysis was conducted on 60 potsherds and 20 baked clay objects, the latter...

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

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adyn Hallahan. Michelle Hrivnyak.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only D. Gibson.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pei-Lin Yu. Atsushi Nobayashi.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nodar Bakhtadze.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Schmader.

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

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

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

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

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pauline Kulstad-González. Theresa Singleton.

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

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

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander Symons.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Savannah Duncan. Sarah Rowe.

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

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

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robin Galloso. Taryn Johnson.

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

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

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Ahlstrom.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Jerrems. Jerry Jerrems.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacqueline Cowan. Ryan Peterson.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Peck.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Roscoe.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlos Flores Manzano.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Donald Gaylord.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sylvia Cheever. Michelle Young.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Victoria Gum.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Bentley.

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

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

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

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

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Humphreys. Mackenze Burkhart.

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

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

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

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

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fumi Arakawa. Stan Berryman.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Valeria Antezana Soria.

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

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

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tamara Whitley. Kristina Doyle.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordan Riccio. Erin A. Steinwachs.

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