SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elysia Petras. Brandi MacDonald.

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 preliminary results of neutron activation analysis (NAA) conducted at the University of Missouri Research Reactor’s Archaeometry Lab on coarse earthenware sherds recovered archaeologically from three pre-emancipation era plantation sites on Anguilla and three on Sint Maarten. Using sourcing studies, this research investigates...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karolina Werens. John Pouncett. Christophe Snoeck. Rick Schulting. Andrzej Weber.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A new bioavailable strontium isotope (87Sr/86Sr) baseline was created for the Baikal region, covering c. 1.5 million square kilometres. With an ongoing, extensive archaeological investigation of c. 200 prehistoric cemetery sites in this vast area, there is a need for a reliable isotopic model of environmental strontium variation to contextualise human and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dakota Larrick. Charlotte Pearson. Christopher Baisan. Nicholas Kessler.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the years, several thousand archaeological wood samples have been collected across Northwest Mexico, but dating them has proven problematic because of short tree ring sequences, poor sample quality, and complex growth patterns. A majority of these originated in cliff dwelling sites, which form a central part of an inter-regional network of relatively...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Luke Pecoraro.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fieldwork at Drayton Hall has taken place since the plantation was acquired by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1974 and continued through short excavation campaigns to the present. A renewed emphasis for archaeology is currently underway, with a strategic plan to more holistically explore the landscape and the service areas within the main...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Florencio Delgado Espinoza.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Early chronicles indicate that the Manteño groups organized themselves along the coast into complex trading chiefdoms: these regional polities, controlled ports, and navigation equipment such as balsa rafts. In addition, maize agriculture combined with seafood products conformed their subsistence economy. Echoing early chronicles, some scholars indicate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fabiana María Martin. Dominique Todisco. Luis Alberto Borrero. Manuel San Roman. Victor Sierpe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The work of Junius Bird at Fell Cave played a crucial role in the acceptance of the association between early human populations and megafauna in South America. The evidence for behavioral association of cut-marked bones of american horse, camelids and ground sloth with hearths, stone and bone tools is still considered among the stronger proofs of Late...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Walsh. Shawn Graham. Alice Gorman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From January to March 2022, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) carried out the first documentation of in situ material culture from a space habitat. Since then, we have identified and marked the locations of thousands of artifacts in the 358 photographs made by the crew in six sample locations across the ISS. At the 2023 SAA Meetings,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melanie Saldana. Michele Bleuze. James Brady.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1993, a previously unknown composite material made of layers of finely woven cotton fabric saturated in ceramic slip were recovered by the Petexbatun Regional Cave Survey in the Cueva del los Quetzales, Petén, Guatemala. An analysis of the sherds was conducted by the Smithsonian Institution's Conservation Analytical Laboratory (now the Smithsonian...

DOCUMENT Citation Only WengCheong Lam. Wenli Zhou. Shengqiang Luo. Ji Zhang. Linheng Mo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Previous lead isotopic studies have noted significant shifts in the choice of ore sources for Western Han bronzes, coinciding with the expansion of the imperial network. While existing literature has highlighted the prevalence of ore sources from the Eastern Qinling region during this era, the importance of ore sources from the broader southern frontiers,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Serge Lemaitre. Caroline Polet. Caroline Tilleux. Aurore Mathys. Pauline Kirgis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Royal Museums of Art and History preserves seven complete or partial Andean mummies. Three are still surrounded by textiles in the form of funerary bundles. Four others lacked textile remains but were probably also held up by ties and fabric. For the museum and for Belgium, one of them is very important because he was made famous thanks to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michelle Young. Colin Cooke. Emily Kaplan. Gabriel Prieto. Jacob Bongers.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Identifying spatial patterns and diachronic changes in the intensity and range of the circulation of goods can provide crucial insights into shifting economic, social, and political organization of ancient societies. As such, archaeologists interested in identifying evidence of long-distance interaction in the past have increasingly turned to geochemical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashlyn Huggard.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In Montezuma Canyon, southeastern Utah, San Juan Redware is the dominant decorated ceramic type in ceramic assemblages dating to the late 800s and 900s (A.D.). In ceramic assemblages from the site of Nancy Patterson Village (42SA2110) that date to this time period, 26% of the sherds are red ware, and several lines of evidence suggest red ware was made at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tina Czaplinska. Meradeth Snow.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. DNA acquisition from skeletal remains reveals a wealth of information that observational analysis alone does not offer. Researchers can glean an individual’s ancestry, lineage, and biological sex and review genetic diversity. However, most current methods require some form of destruction to extract genetic material, which can dissuade entities (museum...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Haley McCaig. Francois Lanoe. Joe Keeney. Joshua Reuther. Ana Jepsen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Caribou hunting has shaped the cultural landscape of the Alaska Arctic interior. In many cases, this meant intentionally altering local landscapes to the direct advantage of caribou hunters. These engineered landscapes are visible today in various forms of hunting architecture, including stone drive lines, drift fences, cairns, and hunting blinds. Despite...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brandon Lewis. Rui Mataloto. Ana Margarida Moco. Margarida Figueiredo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations at the Late Antiquity Roman Basilica of Nossa Senhora do Freixo, Portugal, provide insight into the surprising significance of this hinterland community within the southern Iberian Peninsula. Recent excavations have revealed architectural components and compositional trappings associated with a center of regional affluence. Imported utilitarian...

DOCUMENT Citation Only F. Scott Worman. Elizabeth Sobel.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The dominant historical narrative of the Ozarks characterizes the region as rural, white, and agrarian, with racial diversity and industrialization limited to modern urban contexts and nearby cities like St. Louis. Building on the work of descendant-activists and avocational historians, our research in northwest Greene County, Missouri shows that while...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Shirilla.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Around the world, rock art sites present significant preservation challenges due to their vulnerability to deterioration from natural weathering as well as human impacts. Various forms of digital recordation are frequently presented as a means to preserve rock art images at various sites. The goal is to preserve them as they are before they disappear...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claire Maass. Amanda Friend. Lesley Chesson. Gregory Berg.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists are routinely tasked with sorting and identifying osseous remains in complex assemblages. When dealing with non-diagnostic fragments or significant taphonomic alterations, a straightforward determination of human or non-human based on osteological analysis is not always feasible. This study tests the use of nitrogen isotope delta values...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madeleine Hale.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Object itineraries allow archaeologists to analyze material culture with less bias, while acknowledging both Native and archaeological perspectives, by considering the many different contexts through which an object moves in time and space. In this paper, I focus on creating a deeper understanding of European-made metal objects uncovered at Stark Farm...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edgar Carpio. Anahí Solares.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The results of the typological analysis of the sample of the collection of obsidian artifacts from the Uaxactún site for the 2010 to 2019 seasons are presented, highlighting the importance of this imported material to the inhabitants of the site, the variety of artifacts, and their possible uses.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tara Friend. Michael Pitts.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Arizona’s Verde Valley represents a significant archaeological resource and was a prehistoric cultural crossroads. Despite this, the region has been relatively understudied. Archaeological interest and excavation has historically focused on the large pueblos in the region, while smaller habitation and resource processing sites have only received cursory...

DOCUMENT Citation Only McKenzie Alford. Douglas Mitchell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Digital databases are critical to archaeological data management, but our increasing use of them since the 1980s means that some of them have become artifacts in themselves. Cultural resource management (CRM) firms in particular rely on different databases to document mortuary features and associated funerary objects, but as many CRM collections have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Sinders. Alex Elvis Badillo. Stephen Aldrich. Brooke L. Drew.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2021, I started working on a privately funded preservation project doing 3D data curation for Old Union Cemetery of Marion County, Indiana in association with the Geospatial and Virtual Archaeology Labratory (GVALs) at Indiana State University. In this poster, I present our methods of processing the data that has been collected over the past 3 years...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Natalia Handziuk.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the Early Bronze Age (3800 – 2000 BCE) southern Levantine agricultural infrastructure developed on a region-wide scale to facilitate the accumulation of surpluses in the newly emerging urban landscape. Olive oil grew to be an important staple and luxury product. This discussion focuses on an EB IB (3300-3050 BCE) olive oil production site in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Stowe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2006, human trackways were discovered at White Sands National Park along with the trackways of giant Sloth, Dire Wolf, Camel, and Columbian Mammoth. Upon the mapping and excavation of these prints in 2018, small preserved ancient grass seeds (Ruppia cirrhosa) were revealed that provided calibrated dates of 22,860 (∓320) and 21,130 (∓250) years ago...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jamie Greenland. Shannon Boomgarden.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations were conducted from 2007 to 2013 by the University of Utah at Big Village (42EM2861) in Range Creek Canyon, Utah, to explore questions related to Fremont residential site structure and adaptations, primarily by exploring the relationships between surface features and subsurface features and artifact assemblages. Additional excavations performed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Breslawski. Annette Romero. Olivia LoGiurato. Kathryn Crater Gershtein.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bois d’Arc Creek is located at the western margin of the Caddo region, feeding into the Red River from northeastern Texas. In 2019–2021, AR Consultants, Inc. excavated six sites in the Bois d’Arc Creek watershed, yielding archaeofaunas associated with Late Woodland and Early Caddo occupations. These sites tend to be located on terraces near the creek...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zoë Shmidt. Kalina Kassadjikova. Lars Fehren-Schmitz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ancient DNA extraction protocols are inherently destructive and, therefore, are often controversial and problematic. For some communities, destructive processing of human remains could be perceived as a desecration of ancestors. For laboratory scientists, the destruction of samples limits the ability to replicate results. Harney et al. (2021) present a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Silvina Castro. ERIK MARSH. LUCIA YEBRA. VALERIA CORTEGOSO.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We present a discriminant metric study of stone projectile points (n=422) from 21 archaeological sites in the Andes of South America (16–37°S). We make a critical use of comparative datasets, which suggest that darts may have been smaller than previously thought. We assess the use-life of each point and tie them to reliable chronological sequences, in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kate Shantry.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On the Northwest Coast of North America cultural processes are intertwined with the natural environment. Five thousand six hundred years ago, a collapse on the northeast slope of Mount təqʷuʔməʔ [Rainier] caused the massive Osceola Mudflow (OM) event and transformed the landscape. In Lushootseed teachings, the Changer genre of stories distinguishes...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jesus Figueroa Alcantar.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Lago de Chapala region during the Postclassic Period (900-1520 CE) was a borderland where the P'urhépecha Empire in Michoacán expanded into the territories of the smaller, but resistant Coca, Tecuexe, and Cazcan kingdoms, and nomadic Chichimeca groups in Jalisco, Mexico. Archaeologists from the United States excavated in this region from about 1950 to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Harvey. Heather Atherton. Amy MacKinnon. Brett Rushing.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The California High-Speed Rail Authority (Authority) is responsible for planning, designing, building and operation of the nation’s first high-speed rail system. The high-speed rail system is being built through a series of design-build contracts. Construction Package 1 (CP-1) runs 32 miles from Avenue 19 in Madera County to East American Avenue in Fresno...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rafael Stabile. Verônica Wesolowski. Anne Rapp Py-Daniel.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology and ethnology have shown that the relationship between the living and the dead in Amerindian societies in Amazonia is a fundamental element for understanding their lifeways in the past and present. Archaeological research on funerary practices in the Amazon region has revealed a variety of body treatments and burial patterns over the last 2,000...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jon Lohse. Mike McBride. Sébastien Perrot-Minnot. Sergio Ayala. Victoria Pagano.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent findings have come to light from previously reported but poorly known preceramic deposits from near the village of August Pine Ridge, Belize, Central America. Years of sand quarrying have led to the recovery of hundreds of artifacts representing the entire known preceramic sequence from Central America. Present are fluted bifaces as well as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katie Richards.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Frontiers are dynamic regions of integration and exclusion where identity and culture are negotiated. The relationships between the heartlands of the North American Southwest and many of its resulting frontiers have been explored; however, it is still not clear how interaction between Fremont peoples and those in the greater Southwest influenced identity...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley Busby.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A compositional analysis of pictographs of the Lower Pecos (LP) Canyonlands, located in Southwest Texas and Northern Mexico is presented. The complex systems utilized by LP artists in their painting process are examined, including symmetrical organization of forms and intentional arrangements of figures in a scene (typically a portion of the site). A...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Brock Morales.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1970 a 7.9 magnitude earthquake destroyed many towns in the Callejón de Huaylas and displaced many families. Following the earthquake, elevated monumental archaeological sites in the region, such as Chupacoto in Huaylas, were occupied by families who continue living there today. As a result of these occurrences, tensions between various stakeholders...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Veronica Waweru. Francis Kirera. Nasser Malit. Rahab Kinyanjui. Aryeh Grossman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Human origins research in the East African region has largely focused on sites within the rift basin. The story of human origins is also credited to highly educated Western nation paleoanthropologists and a few local researchers. The work presented here demonstrates the importance of high-elevation tropical sites to human evolution using the Central...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joshua Vallejos.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mapping environmental change through time can help archaeologists better understand patterns of human resource use. This poster presents the δ13C and δ18O values for bison teeth at two Paleoindian sites (Boca Negra Wash and Water Canyon) in north-central New Mexico. The δ13C and δ18O values are compared across the two sites to evaluate if there is a change...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tania Milosavljevic.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The last 40 years have seen increasing methodological sophistication providing for a relatively nuanced understanding of food technology and resource use. Paleoethnobotany is one way to observe the diversity of plant use among Langford site occupants. Using standard paleoethnobotanical practices, plant macroremains from the Robinson Reserve Site (11CK2)...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kalina Kassadjikova. Mark Horton. Cat Jarman. Lars Fehren-Schmitz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1997, human bones were discovered ashore at Rapparee Cove in North Devon, United Kingdom. Since then, much news coverage and public speculation has suggested that the remains belong either to French soldiers or enslaved African-descended rebels from St. Lucia who had drowned when the London had shipwrecked off the coast two centuries earlier in 1796. A...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mackenzie Cory.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Childhood play areas represent a complete departure from the landscapes that archaeologists often examine in that they physically exist within adult domestic, logistic, and/or sacred spaces yet simultaneously outside of any of these spatial ideals. The difficulty in analyzing these areas is further compounded when the implications of Indigenous ontologies...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Trevor Lamb.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists frequently encounter pits filled with charcoal and fire cracked rock in the archaeological record which testify to past culinary practice. However, it is challenging to determine how these pits were used to cook food from general observation alone. Here I employ paleoethnobotanical and zooarchaeological analyses to determine how pits were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bruno Moraes. Wetherbee Dorshow. Helena Lima. Kalutata Kuikuro. 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 use of cartography for land management is not new. However, the use of geotechnologies as instruments for strengthening indigenous communities, including the self-management of their territories, constitutes a new and wide-ranging possibility for the application of these tools. Participatory community mapping and territorial self-management are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diane Douglas. Jeffrey Altschul. Gerry Wait. Ibrahima Thiaw.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Initiative for Sustainable Development in Africa (ISDAf) was conceived in 2020 to raise awareness of the need to engage local indigenous and descendent (LID) communities as equal partners in Strategic Environmental and Social Assessments (SESA) and Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (ESIAs) for development and conservation projects at the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lorraine Williams-Beck. Alejandro Villalobos Pérez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While certain Northern Maya Lowland architectural characteristics remain constant for these three peninsular stylistic “entities” defined by Paul Gendrop, such as few dynastic hieroglyphic monuments, ballcourts or E-Group complexes, the past forty years have revealed many new, insular features: zoomorphic mask elements adorning massive monumental...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlos Figueroa Beltran.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The colonization process in the Baja California Peninsula began with the arrival of Hernán Cortés in Bahía de la Santa Cruz in 1535. Then, the peninsula was called Terra Ignota, a Latin term used in cartography for regions that have not been mapped or documented. Its geographical isolation from the rest of New Spain made it a territory wrapped in fantasy...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marina Di Giusto. Murilo Bastos. Veronica Wesolowski.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this study, we aim to present new evidence on the diet of pre-colonial individuals excavated in the Piaçaguera sambaqui (7,151-5,668 years cal. BP), one of the oldest shell mound found on the Brazilian coast. Previous isotopic analysis has shown that, although there is a general preference for consuming marine fish, there are regional variations in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lucas Bueno. Juliana Betarello.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The aim of this presentation is to discuss the peopling process of the Central Brazilian Plateau through the study of archaeological sites located in the Middle Valley of the Tocantins River. The Central Brazilian Plateau is the region where there are the earliest dates available for the occupation of eastern South America; therefore, it is a crucial area...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Juliana Rubinatto Serrano.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Animal metaphors can express conceptualizations of humanity and attitudes about society when referring to groups of people. In Spanish colonial contexts in the Americas, these metaphors often reinforced social hierarchies and denigrated indigenous peoples. Although few, there are first-hand accounts of indigenous authors subverting these discourses to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Goldstein.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Previous studies have provided a baseline for Indigenous subsistence practices in southern New England both before and after European colonization, but there are few archaeological sites that can speak to subsistence during the early years of colonialism in the seventeenth century. This project uses zooarchaeological analysis and a comparative analytical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Johna Hutira.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For women discussing our menstruation cycles in the context of the workplace is a double-edged sword. I am a boomer. Back in the day we didn't talk about periods, or cramps, or heavy flow days because those conditions were weaponized against us by the patriarchy. Fast forward 40 years: the status of women in archaeology is amazingly good compared to other...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Russell Greaves. Alondra Neunsinger. Richard Maestas. Alexander Kurota. Dakota Pavell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Office of Contract Archeology at the University of New Mexico is performing investigations of organic artifacts from two caves and seven rockshelters in the Guadalupe Mountains of southeastern New Mexico and west Texas. These caves (Burnet Cave, LA 101435, and Hermit’s Cave, LA 4992) and rockshelters were excavated in the early twentieth century, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Luurtsema. Kara Larson. Henry Wright. Alicia Ventresca Miller.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Uruk period (4100 - 3100 BCE) was a transformative time in Southwest Asia, marked by the precursors of writing, the rise of urbanization, and an intensification in cross-cultural interactions. Subsistence strategies were shifting as well, as hunting declined relative to herding and animals such as sheep and goats became favored for both their primary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sidy Ndour.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The petrographic and chemical analysis of ceramic shards from the Senegalese Atlantic period (1400-1900) is the weak link in archaeological research in Senegal. Archaeological surveys and excavations carried out for my doctoral thesis yielded several artifacts, including local ceramics. A qualitative study of the ceramics collection was carried out...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alysha Edwards.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As one of the most significant hydrological systems in British Columbia, the Fraser River drainage basin holds socio-cultural and economic significance both presently and in the past. Archaeologically, sites located within the vicinity of the Fraser River exhibit evidence of extensive trade and social networks between cultural groups from as far north as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Broughton.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the 19th century, there was a dramatic increase in emigration out of southern China, with many moving to the United States. With the move of Chinese immigrants into the US, Chinatowns also began to develop in urban centers throughout the country. Chinese diaspora archaeology studies these communities, with a majority of the work done in the western...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zuzana Chovanec. Meredith Moreno.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Risks of flooding and damage associated with climate change can be extensive and devastating, with potential impacts covering multiple domains (health/safety, infrastructure, economic, natural and cultural resources) and extending over substantial areas. Mitigation efforts are complex, costly, and may be controversial. Historic coastal cities, with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jaelyn Stebbins.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recognized archaeologically by their distinct material culture, Oneota sites exist in many ecological zones across the Upper Midwest. Consequently, the sites are hardly homogenous. Across localities, Oneota groups are recognized as late Precontact food producers who grew Zea mays (maize), Cucurbita pepo (squash), and later Phaseolus vulgaris (bean). The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Molinares.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite nearly a hundred years of research, Hohokam Ballcourt Structures remain a conundrum for archaeologists. What they were used for, who could access the courts (or the events that occurred in them), or even if the communities that built them utilized them for activities besides ballgames all remain ambiguous. This poster elucidates a performance...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kaitlin Ahern.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation focuses on examining Preclassic and Classic period plazas at Cival and Holmul in Guatemala to provide greater insight into the role of public spaces and ceremonies in the Central Maya Lowlands. Estimated plaza capacity and population estimates are used to determine how plazas were utilized at both Cival and Holmul, for functions such as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Hughes. Tyson Hughes.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Haynie site (5MT1905) contains two of four Chaco-style great houses that make up the Lakeview Community in southwestern Colorado. Recent excavations by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center at the Haynie site have produced a large quantity of projectile points. The proportions of projectile points compared to pottery sherds can help explore the abundance...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Snyder. Elizabeth Arkush.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The nature of violence in the pre-modern past remains an enduring question in anthropological research. In this study, we investigate the potential relationship between sociopolitical organization and the frequency and type of violence experienced by adult males and females in Andean archaeological contexts. For this study we establish four broad...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ava Godhardt. SJ Casillas. Jessica Weinmeister. Troy Brown. David M. Hyde.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster provides a summary of the 2023 archaeological investigations conducted at and around Group M of the Medicinal Trail Hinterland Community, an ancient Maya site in northwestern Belize. Group M is a non-residential masonry architectural group located at the north end of the Medicinal Trail Community. It is situated on a knoll, with a sharp...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Biehl. Johannes Mueller. Carol Nash. Heather Wholey.

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 discuss the need to popularise the archaeology of climate change beyond our professional networks to the general public via museums and education as well as the media. We will discuss ways to translate the archaeology of climate change into actionable science to inform decision making within a global framework of climate change action in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Todd Ahlman. Ashley McKeown.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Emancipation brought many changes to the lives of the formerly enslaved in the British Caribbean. On the British Caribbean island of St. Christopher (St. Kitts), true emancipation came in 1838 following a 4-year apprenticeship period, which was really enslavement in just another name. Freedom meant Kittitians often could choose where they lived, the house...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Manda Adam. Fred Valdez, Jr.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Ancient Maya Postclassic period (1000-1500 CE) is one of the least understood periods of Ancient Maya cultural history. Essential questions about the Postclassic remained unanswered due to a focus on the preceding period the Classic Maya Collapse (800-1000 CE). While the collapse is well studied and understood, what happens after the collapse is not....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia Williams. Miriam Belmaker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Poultry remains are often found in archaeological excavations and while the species can usually be identified, there has been little research on breed identification or purpose (egg production vs. meat production). This research aims to determine if differences exist between the long bone measurements of modern chicken breeds which can be useful for the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeremy Beller. Kaia Carr-Meehan. Maysoon al-Nahar. Mark Collard.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Interest in the possibility that refugia have played an important role in human evolution has grown in recent years. A refugium is a relatively small area in which a population may be able to survive during a period of unfavorable conditions. Here, we report preliminary results of a study that is seeking to identify refugia in the Levant that were occupied...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tamas Polanyi. Shelby Manney.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Simultaneous innovations in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and geophysical technologies present the possibility of a potentially groundbreaking approach to archaeological geophysics: airborne geophysical survey. As part of an ongoing effort on behalf of the Environmental Management Office of the Arizona Army National Guard to integrate conventional and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Ortman. Kaitlyn Davis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Most studies of Colonial Period Tewa pottery have focused on complete vessels collected in recent times. Between 2016-2019 a team of students and volunteers at the University of Colorado Boulder had the opportunity to study excavated potsherd collections from 1952 excavations by Florence Hawley Ellis at two sites within the Pueblo of Pojoaque. The Garcia...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Itaci Correa Girrulat. Valentina Cadena. Claudia Montero. Javier Arévalo. Javiera Giberto.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Inter-nodal archaeological studies show how pottery, among other functions, is part of the offerings found in ceremonial contexts associated with journeys through the Atacama Desert. Focusing on ethnohistorically recognized processional pathways, with the Licancabur volcano as a ceremonial node, our investigation centers on Sutar Conti, a site renowned for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shari Tiedens.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster explores the concept of parallel gender hierarchies as applied to the Hohokam culture of the American Southwest. Bioarchaeological work in regions adjacent to the Hohokam area has revealed evidence of sexual inequality within multiple sites, presenting as poor health and less elaborate burial treatment for females compared to males. More...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Zaia.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. People continue to migrate to digital/online spaces and communities, especially during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. This migration often entails constructing digital habitats and habitations as well as its own material culture and evidence of online settlement, use, and abandonment. This session presents several case studies featuring the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Asli Erem.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Throughout thousands of years, various civilizations and groups have depicted their beliefs on objects and architecture. Maya rulers are an example in how architecture, extravagant costumes, jewelry, weaponry, ceramics were used to emphasize their title as ajaw.Ajaw, the title for a ruler which represents the king’s massive authority for their people...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Chenault. Ron Ryden. Michael Stubbing.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists working in west Phoenix discovered a complex of prehistoric Hohokam agricultural features consisting of a lateral canal and associated turnouts, sluice gates, field canals, and agricultural field cells in the southeastern portion of AZ T:12:206(ASM) (Site 206). The field cells appear to have dated mainly to the Sacaton phase (AD 950–1150)....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Makayla Williams. Phyllis Johnson. Kristen Carlson.

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 analysis of blades derived from Bijou Hills quartzite, also known as Ogallala orthoquartzite, recovered from site 21RK82, a newly-identified multicompent site located within Lone Tree Heritage Farm in Rock County, MN. This study aimed to identify the geological attributes, function, and chronology of these artifacts...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin Wann. Logan Kistler. Heather Thakar. Courtney Hofman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The avocado is one of the most popular fruits exported worldwide and was originally domesticated in three independent episodes that resulted in the three main horticultural varieties we see today. One region of origin spans from the highlands of southern Mexico to the highlands of Honduras. The El Gigante Rockshelter is a site in the Southern highlands...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda Seminario. Brenna Pisanelli. David Leslie.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the Section 106 process, Heritage Consultants, LLC, personnel identified the Quinebaug Falls Site along the Quinebaug River in Preston, Connecticut. Phase II investigations of the site yielded diagnostic cultural materials indicating the presence of Middle and Late Woodland occupations, including a Fox Creek and potential Jack’s Reef component. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Collins.

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, Coxcatlan Cave has drawn renewed attention for its early regional chronology and centralized location as a nexus point for interregional exchange. However, its importance for understanding shifting patterns of exchange and resource acquisition within the Valley of Tehuacan has yet to be explored. This research draws upon the data gathered...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ana Goeller.

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 a preliminary faunal analysis from the deserted medieval village site in Ballintober, Co. Roscommon, in Ireland. Studies on faunal materials from medieval villages during the Anglo-Norman conquest and colonialism of Ireland are currently few, but they are crucial to better understand human-animal interaction in this period of social and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia Mayo Torné.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The study presented below aims to determine whether the mirrors of pyrite tesserae and iron ore tesserae not associated with bases, found at El Caño, are of local production or, on the contrary, came from Mesoamerica given their formal and material resemblance to those from that area. In order to achieve this objective, firstly, a formal typological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Holly Long. Jose Pena.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological study of funerary practices provides important data concerning cultural traditions, belief systems, social inequalities, and sociopolitical alignment. The excavations conducted at a pre-Hispanic cemetery at the site of CuzCuz highlights funerary practices used by coastal Andean groups during the Late Intermediate Period (LIP; 1000-1400...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rosa Varillas.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Located 800 km from Cuzco, the Inka capital, Puerto Inka served as a crucial junction, linking the coastal Inka road with a transversal route to Cuzco. However, this region had remained underexplored in previous studies. By conducting excavations and surveys at Puerto Inka and its surrounding area, this research aimed to shed light on the Inka Empire's...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick Pedersen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In Southwest Asia ground stone tools used in food processing, like mortars and querns, started proliferating at the end of the Paleolithic. Recently these tools have received increased attention with researchers attempting to establish what food these tools were used to process through microscopic use-wear and residue analysis. However, there is an aspect...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Wilcox. Christopher Wolff.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. People’s fears can have an impact on decision making, how people interact with their surroundings, and how they design structures. This is something important to consider when analyzing the archaeological record. The current study contributes to understanding how people’s fears impact construction and maintenance of architecture by examining Cold War...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shambri Murphy.

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 investigate the presence of ash wood (Fraxinus sp.) in the context of burned pit houses of the Hohokam culture by comparing the botanical remains in burned pit houses to remains from unburned pit houses from previous data recovery projects in Arizona. To further understand the purpose of Fraxinus in burned pithouses, previous ethnobotanical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephanie Lozano.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Previous studies have illustrated the continuing relationship between the Maya area and the Basin of Mexico, especially with the presence of Maya iconography at the site of Teotihuacan. Maya imagery can be seen in diverse cultural materials such as ceramics and stucco-painted murals. For example, researchers have argued that the stucco-painted murals at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tomas Barrientos. Ernesto Arredondo Leiva. Julia Guernsey. Diego López García.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The sculptural style known as potbelly (“barrigón”) has been widely documented in archaeological sites in the southern Maya region, from Chiapas to El Salvador, with a few examples in the Lowlands and other areas of Mesoamerica. However, most of these monuments are concentrated in sites occupied during the Late Preclassic period on the Guatemalan Pacific...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tiffany Lindley. Pamela Jary Rosser.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology and conservation might appear to be contradictory disciplines. Archaeological methods are inherently destructive, and conservation strives to prevent loss. However, at some historic sites archaeology and conservation collaborate as integral partners to preserve the physical structures and cultural heritage, as well as recovering new data...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Nadel. Everardo Tapia Mendoza.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although cochineal has played an important role in Mesoamerican societies, a lack of suitable methods has hampered its investigation by archaeologists. Luckily, recent developments in organic residue analysis suggest the possibility that cochineal production may be identified in the archaeological record through identification of carminic acid, its primary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julie Julison. Randy Haas.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ethnography demonstrates entomophagy, or consumption of insects, to be a relatively common practice around the world. Despite such prevalence, insect foods are discussed rarely in the archaeological literature, presumably due to Western biases, which may acknowledge the presence of edible insects but refrains from considering them a viable food resource....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Cullison.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The popularity of pseudoarchaeological content on the internet reveals an issue in the way academics approach the public. To measure how quickly an individual with an interest in archeology can be influenced by pseudoarchaeology, I conducted a preliminary study on the app TikTok. The content that is presented to the users of the app is determined by a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eiryn Sheades.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The legacy of memory, and who is entitled to it, is an important conversation within post-Contact archaeology. This research examines the local narrative of segregation within Amityville Cemetery, located in the demographically separated Amityville, New York. While white individuals predominately live in the Village of Amityville, the hamlet of North...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stefan Brannan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Project management is an extremely important but critically underutilized body of knowledge in our discipline. Many of the activities that archaeologists engage in fit the definition of a project, that is a temporary effort that creates value through a unique product, service, or result. Despite that, many of us were never introduced to effective project...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ellie Minette.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. With the increasing accessibility of digital technologies, photogrammetry and digital modeling have grown in popularity and applicability as archaeological tools. Recently, archaeologists have used digital models of sites and artifacts for various teaching and research purposes, with specific emphasis on 3D-printed replicas and augmented-reality content....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Recklies. Loren Davis. Daniel Bean. Alexander Nyers.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Caches of stone tools offer unique opportunities to study lithic technology crafting at extremely short temporal scales. We created digital 3D models of 378 obsidian bifaces from a cache located in central Oregon (35DS751) and submitted them for x-ray fluorescence and geometric lithic morphometric research (GLiMR) analyses. The raw materials from this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bridget Bey. Sarah I. Baitzel.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As a temporally bounded bio-social process, puberty offers a compelling topic to explore the lived experiences of past people. The onset and pace of pubertal development are shaped by nutritional, environmental, and social factors that reflect long and short-term childhood experiences. We investigate puberty as a flexible process shaped by multiple...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrea Kruse.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Layser Cave is one of the older sites within the Cascades, this precontact site is also one of the few open to the public and accessible within the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. It is a multicomponent precontact site with a range of lithic materials, fauna remains, marine shell, non local materials, and burned huckleberries. Results from the excavations...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristen Francis. Michael Terlep.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fire archaeologists in the U.S. Southwest are at a challenging intersection of increased wildfire severity with dense fuels, high site densities, and often limited cultural resource inventory. The archaeological sites most vulnerable to wildfire effects are those that are unknown and undocumented. This presentation details the applicability of lidar data...