SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Cummings.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Scattered evidence across North America points to the use of a common piece of refuse and a common human desire: broken pottery and playing games. A small sherd can be transformed with minimal effort into a circular disk which can be used as game pieces, counters, or toys. They were used in indigenous sports, European colonist gambling, and as playthings...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jocelyne Ponce.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Lowland Maya feasts were critical for communal cohesion but also marked social distinctions among participants through differential display of status symbols and contributions. For these reasons they provide important insight on patterns of socioeconomic inequality and integration. In this paper I present material analyses data from Late Classic period (AD...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michelle Turner. Kellam Throgmorton. Jeffrey Ferguson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Studying the sources of obsidian in the American Southwest has provided valuable insights into both resource procurement and the social and political processes that underlie it. We report on a large sourcing study from Aztec Ruins National Monument, a Chacoan community significant both for its political history and for its multiple great houses....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alba Menéndez Pereda.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Sunlight has long been curated within religious spaces to imbue them with a sense of sacredness and trigger a spiritual response among worshippers. The Coricancha was considered the most sacred temple in the Inca empire. Located in the capital of Cuzco and dedicated to the Sun, this religious center exhibited a simple design in its form and layout. A...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alan Simmons.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For years the Mediterranean islands were considered devoid of much Neolithic or earlier occupation. That no longer is the case, with Cyprus being one island where recent research has rewritten the prehistory of the Mediterranean. We now know that its colonization was not a one-time “Noah’s Ark” event, but rather that the sea was a highway instead of a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kris Primeau. Kellam Throgmorton. Ruth Van Dyke. David Witt.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent work has demonstrated that audibility between habitation sites, monumental construction, and other landscape elements was an actively managed aspect of the Ancestral Puebloan built environment both within Chaco Canyon and the Greater Chaco Landscape (GCL). GCL communities were inhabited for hundreds of years, during which the layout and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shelby Saper. Richard Rosencrance. Katelyn McDonough.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Researchers commonly use X-ray fluorescence (XRF) to source lithic tools and their associated byproducts made on obsidian and fine-grained volcanic toolstone. The results of such studies can be used to reconstruct lithic conveyance patterns, which in turn can tell us about hunter-gatherer mobility, territoriality, and/or exchange. In this study, we report...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alana Pengilley. 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. Within the Maya region, chert artifacts remain one of the most common material types recovered from archaeological excavations and are a core line of evidence when reconstructing ancient economy. However, methods for sourcing of chert through Mesoamerica have largely been underutilized. Archaeologists are often left wondering how these artifacts moved...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacob Koonce. Candace Sall. Brandi MacDonald.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Obsidian tools and flakes are commonly examined in sourcing studies in areas with abundant volcanogenic deposits. Obsidian provenance research in the central Mesoamerican region has shown extensive networks of obsidian trade during the Formative and Classic periods. In this study, we used portable XRF to analyze a previously unstudied collection of over...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin Nelson. Lindsay Bloch. Neill Wallis. Ashley Rutkoski.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Pensacola variant of the northern Gulf of Mexico Coast was well connected to interior Mississippian groups, yet Pensacola lifeways do not fit broader patterns of subsistence, settlement, and political organization commonly thought of as hallmarks of Mississippian societies. Throughout the Pensacola culture area, people created hybrid cultures by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caylee Dzurka.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Relationships form the foundation of every community archaeology project. By establishing relationships with communities whose cultural heritage is intertwined with the archaeological record, archaeologists not only ensure that their work is meaningful to all connected parties but also adhere to the ethical principles of accountability and public outreach...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin Wright.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Historic Indigenous sites are often mislabeled in archaeological literature. As some scholars have explained, a common reason for this stems from the conventional practice of labeling cultural affiliation based on traditional artifact classifications. More recently, others have discussed how past preservation ethics within the cultural resource management...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kandace Hollenbach. Catherine Herring.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The transition from the Late Archaic to the Early Woodland periods in the Southern Appalachians is visible archaeologically by the widespread adoption of pottery, associated with changes in mobility. Here we compare changes in plant use on both sides of the mountains, which suggest that Late Archaic groups in East Tennessee cultivated native crops by 4000...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian Walraven.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, alcohol was traded and consumed by both Europeans and their Native American neighbors. While historic documents relay the cultural and trade uses of alcohol, archaeological investigations have begun to compare the amount of glass found with the historical reports. The amount of olive green and dark blue...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Ulloa.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Las Canopas (AZ T:12:137[ASM]) is a large prehistoric Hohokam village located on the south side of the Salt River with the site being occupied from the Estrella phase of the Pioneer period (AD 650–675) to the Civano phase of the Classic period (AD 1300–1450). During recent Phase II excavations at the site by Chronicle Heritage, a total of 285 mortuary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Reese Cook.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. When comparing the volume of studies conducted concerning precontact ceramics in the eastern Snake River Plain of Idaho to its neighboring regions, it is evident that the underwhelming amount of information is due to the lack of samples and the provincial reliability of the samples. Many past studies have been limited to garnering research data from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Angelina Perrotti. D. Shane Miller. Morgan F. Smith.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Research into the timing and process of human migration to North America at the end of the Pleistocene relies heavily on accurate paleoenvironmental reconstruction to understand habitable locations at the time. However, Pleistocene-aged archaeological sites in North America are rare, and specific paleoenvironmental information for these sites is often...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cayla Colclasure. Zoe Schwandt.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, authors Cayla Colclasure (she/her) and Zoe Schwandt (they/she) consider the phenomenon of paranormal tourism and related media as one way various publics engage with historic sites of confinement in the American South and attempt to bridge the epistemological divide between these forms of engagement with the past and the discipline of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tatiana Zelenetskaya Young.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A spindle whorl was an integral tool in textile production, it had social, religious, political, and economic significance for the ancient Maya. The spindle whorls carried many roles such as functional tools, symbolic displays, gender, and status representations while interconnecting traditions, mastery, and the artistic expression of a weaver.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren Bridgeman. M. Nieves Zedeño. François Lanoë. Lucas Bond Reis. Robert Bowman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Pius X Mission School, founded in 1918 in Skagway, Alaska, lies at the center of the archaeological investigation discussed in this presentation. Researchers at the University of Arizona, Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology aided in the assessment of cultural significance of the Pius X Mission Boarding School. Researchers collaborated directly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Isabel Hermsmeyer. Hung-Lin Chiu. Ying-Hsuan Kuo. Madeline Tribbett. Andrew Somerville.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Taiwan has a unique cultural and dietary history within Asia. This is in large part due to the local indigenous Austronesian populations, recent mass migration and colonization from peoples across China, as well as colonial occupations by the Netherlands, Spain, and Japan over the last 400 years alone. However, this recent history and its impact on dietary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paula Ugalde. Rafael Labarca Encina. Jay Quade. Calogero Santoro. Eugenia Gayó.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We examine the stable isotopic signature of camelid and rodent remains from PaleoIndigenous sites of the Pampa del Tamarugal (PdT), Atacama Desert (12,800 – 11,200 cal yrs BP; 800 – 1,200 masl). 𝛿13C and 𝛿15N values suggest two groups of animals: 1) with higher 𝛿15N signal and increased C4 diet and, 2) with lower 𝛿15N values and a C3-predominant diet....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrea Jalandoni.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Rock art is under constant threat from natural and anthropogenic deterioration and one of the challenges for archaeologists is to document and study this invaluable heritage before it disappears. Digital archaeology, the use of information technology and digital media for archaeological research, is essential for recording, analyzing and envisioning rock...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Johann Begel. Cédric Becquey.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mayan stelae and altars are a key epigraphic and iconographic source for understanding the political history of the Classic period (250-900 AD). Tikal produced a particularly large number of these monuments in a variety of architectural contexts: Twin Pyramids Groups, Plazas, Great Temples, residential groups and even remote areas, probably corresponding...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sally Reynolds. Matthew Bennett. Kathleen Springer. Jeff Pagati. Davis Bustos.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Prehistoric footprints indicate presence, behaviour, and the interactions between different animal species. The discovery of footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico has shown how tracks can transform our understanding of American prehistory and crucially the history of its first indigenous inhabitants. In September 2021 we announced...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ron Adams.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Stone remains a prominent feature of the natural and cultural landscape of Tana Toraja, Indonesia, where outcropping basalt and limestone karst formations create a dramatic backdrop. In this context, the manipulation of stone is an important aspect of ancient cultural traditions that persist to the present day, but which has received relatively little...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Lagos.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. LiDAR has revolutionized the way we survey for surface-visible archaeological features. Our ability to relatively quickly capture and assess large landscapes for features enables us to understand human activity across large spatial scales with significantly less time and financial investment than pedestrian or other forms of remote survey alone. As these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sophie Reilly.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. How does colonialism impact local food strategies? This paper considers this question at Purun Llaqta del Maino (PLM), Chachapoyas, Peru; a site with continuous occupation from the Late Intermediate Period (LIP; 1000-1450 AD), the Late Horizon (1450-1535), and the Early Spanish Colonial Period (1535-1700). Like many Andean regions, Chachapoyas was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brigid Ogden. Elizabeth Tarulis. Taylor Bowden-Gray.

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 stable isotope analysis of a membrane condom from the colonial Oxon Hill Manor Site (18PR175) in Maryland to shed light on the geographic origins of the artifact. Previous analysis using Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) identified the condom as having been made from a sheep. The addition of stable carbon and nitrogen...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Walter Dodd.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Sixteen years of ethnoarchaeological observation and collection has resulted in the creation of a massive data set relating to ongoing drug sales in an urban context. Hundreds of thousands of “trash” items have been gathered for study. They display strong repetitive patterning in their content and testify to the organized complexity of everyday dealing. A...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard George. Douglas Kennett. Stanley Serafin. Marilyn Masson. John Krigbaum.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We examine the process of migration using strontium isotope ratios from human enamel to shed light on the organization of the Mayapán polity during the formation (1200–1250 CE), apogee (1250–1400 CE), and decline (1400–1500 CE) of the city (N = 58). Our results support consistent local aggregation within the Chicxulub Basin and immigration from across the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrea Crider. Kevin Schwarz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation provides an overview of recent discoveries and excavations at the State Line site on the Ohio-Indiana border near Cincinnati, Ohio. The State Line Site is primarily a Middle Fort Ancient Anderson Phase village (ca. AD 1050-AD 1275), with earlier components. ASC Group, Inc. has led ongoing investigations at this site as part of a Section...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dewei Shen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Research on ancient city sites in Chinese archaeology tends to focus on remains within the city walls, while paying limited attention to the city periphery as a distinct and research-worthy spatial unit. The present paper challenges this prevailing approach by investigating the southern suburban area of the Chu capital in South China. It explores the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Annabelle Lewis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the nineteenth century, residents of the Towns of Cazenovia, Fenner, and Nelson, NY were able to purchase a variety of necessary goods at general stores. These establishments provided items from furniture, to mourning wear, to ceramics, to coffins, and many things in between. Today, the idea of buying dinner plates alongside grave goods seems almost...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stefanie Bautista. Justin Jennings. Willy Yepez Alvarez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Globally, the earliest cultural ecumene are associated with monumental centers that spurred greater local and interregional interaction. Atimpampa, located in the Arequipa region of Peru, is one such monumental center that has remained largely unstudied. This poster presents the preliminary results of our 2020 archaeological survey at Antimpampa, which...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan LeBlanc.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Tacahuay Quebrada on the far southern coast of Peru was shaped by a combination of human and environmental forces. Within its watershed, there is a system of channels that have provided resources for humans and other living beings throughout its anthropogenic history. Excavations within these channels revealed use of the Tacahuay landscape between 1000...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Catherine Doubles. Brandon Ritchison. Maureen Meyers.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mississippian expansions through the Cumberland Gap into the region has been explained as the seeking of new opportunities for elite lineages with roots to the west, particularly through the development and control of craft production and related exchange relationships on either side of the Appalachian Mountains. However, new chronologies for two primary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barbara Oosterwijk. Linda Hurcombe. José Iriarte.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Experimental research holds great potential for answering questions about the materiality of rock art, revealing insights into the practice of creating images and what it can tell us about the people who produced them. At Cerro Azul in Amazonian Colombia, multi-disciplinary documentation methods revealed that hand depictions were created using a variety of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Silverman. William A. Parkinson. Jamie Kelly. Mitch Hendrickson. Joe Wheeler.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Tallgrass Prairie Archaeological Landscapes Project (TPALP) was established to identify the dynamic settlement lifeways within the current boundaries of the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in Will County, Illinois. Previous CRM-based projects identified 214 sites spanning the Archaic to Historic periods across 18,094 acres (73.22 km2) of this US...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Hull.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We love to think that we are firmly in charge of our domestic spaces, and we love sharply delineated definitions. The designations of “wild” and “domestic” species speak to this; we define domestic species as those who have changed irrevocably under the reproductive control of humans. However, there are still species who exist in the spaces in-between:...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Raad.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Collection-based pedagogies present an exciting platform for active, inquiry-based learning and advancing the goals of equitable teaching. They engage interactive, critical, reflective, creative, affective, and other approaches that anchor learning and build community in the tangible, physical presence of objects. This presentation is about teaching with,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Flavia Morello Repetto. Manuel San Roman. Fabiana Martin. Luis Borrero. Marta Alfonso-Durruty.

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, we discuss studies of the early lithic materials from Fell Cave and Cueva del Medio (c. 13.000 cal BP) in comparison with Holocene industries from Punta Santa Ana 1, Marazzi 1, Cabo Monmouth 20, Pizzulic 2. Three main axes are assessed: first, transport and interactions related to non-local raw materials; second, elaborated core reduction...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alice R. Kelley. Allen Gontz. Daniel Sandweiss. Henry Tantaleán. Christine Bergman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Pozuelo site, one of the oldest in the region, is composed of four Formative Period mounds (circa cal yr 1230 BCE) in southern, coastal Peru. Archaeological excavations at the site exposed both mound and pre-mound stratigraphy. Sediments beneath the mound showed a sharp transition from alluvial fan/eolian sediments to a thick (approx. 1 m) clay...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shay Bar.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tel Esur is situated in Israel’s Sharon Plain, near Nahal ‘Iron (Wadi 'Arah), 10 km southwest of Megiddo. I will present the results from the main excavation areas and insights into our community project: Area B: Middle Bronze Age (henceforth MBA) IIa fortification system with a 3-m-thick city wall and a pyramidal tower. Abutting the wall were storage...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Colin Quinn.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Middle Bronze Age in Transylvania was a time of rapid population growth and centralization, the emergence of shared regional identities mediated through mortuary practices, and the institutionalization of large-scale trade and exchange networks that moved metal and salt from this resource-rich area across the Carpathian Mountains and Basin. Communities...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joshua J. Wells. David Anderson. Eric Kansa. Sarah Whitcher Kansa. Kelsey Noack Myers.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On November 13, 2013, the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) published its first set of completely free and open scientific and cultural data for about 86,000 archaeological sites. Ten years later, DINAA provides information for almost one million archaeological sites. This includes vast holdings of primary scientific and cultural data,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Annabeth Headrick.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Teotihuacan exhibits a broad trend of shared wealth, exhibited by numerous luxurious apartment compounds whose residents accessed considerable quantities of valuables, as reflected by portraiture of richly clad mid-elites and the mass production of costume elements. Chichen Itza similarly eschewed royal portraiture in favor of works portraying group...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Citlali Rosas Jiménez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Desde hace varios años se desarrolla un estado de riesgo de pérdida parcial patrimonial en Teotihuacán. Si bien existe un marco normativo en materia de protección de patrimonio cultural arqueológico para Teotihuacán, este se encuentra desarraigado socialmente, derivado de acciones que muestran principalmente la falta de identidad, apreciación y...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Antonio Martínez Tuñón.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper explores the different strategies used by a small polity to gain influence in long distance communication routes and access to resources and their changes through time. The research is based on spatial models and an archaeological survey conducted in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. The survey was performed in an area in between two major...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allison Sherman. Aaron Comstock.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Turpin site (33Ha19) reflects the remains of an early Fort Ancient (ca. AD 1000-1300) village located near the confluence of the Little Miami and Ohio Rivers on the east side of modern-day Cincinnati, Ohio. Recent excavations at Turpin revealed evidence of habitation, midden, and possible special purpose contexts. One large pit (Feature 100) dated...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris Stantis. Lesley Chesson. Kirsten Verostick. Gregory Berg. Gabriel Bowen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Carbon and oxygen isotope ratios of human tooth enamel carbonate are frequently used to reconstruct past diet, movement, and environmental conditions. Despite a long legacy of research, samples are prepared and analyzed using a remarkably broad range of protocols, and this methodological heterogeneity raises questions about the comparability of isotopic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dana Kollmann. John Nase.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Late Woodland period human remains were recovered from the Hughes site (18MO1) in the Maryland Piedmont during the 1930’s. Among the remains are two mandibles and a maxillary right dental quadrant that contain carious teeth suspected of having undergone antemortem dental modification. Affected teeth representing two adult females and a child were analyzed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Esteban Rangel. Heather Edgar.

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 three-dimensional (3D) models for skeletal analysis has become common practice for osteological research. However, current methods for obtaining the 3D models are either too costly, such as computer tomography (CT), or require time-consuming post-processing such as scanners or cameras. Recent advances in technology have resulted in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Bamforth. Kristen Carlson. Matt Reed.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Redstone elbow pipes, often made from catlinite from the Pipestone quarries in Minnesota, play essential roles in many Pawnee ceremonies, including the Hako ceremony, and in the calumet ceremony that was widespread in eastern North America. They appeared first during the thirteenth century in Central Plains tradition communities in eastern Nebraska. ...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Maria Saari.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Characterized by hydrological variation and shifting shorelines, rivers, wetlands and coastal areas of the Plata Basin have historically formed interactive cultural landscapes, dynamic resource and communications geographies and globally vital ecosystems. Using fluctuating contact zones with water as a theoretical and methodological point of departure, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachele Bianchi.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Periodization and the establishment of chronological sequences are integral parts of archaeological discourse. Not only do we use them to diachronically investigate patterns and changes in material culture, but we rely on presumed contemporaneity to discuss interaction and exchange. However, archaeological reconstructions of the past and established...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Schumacher. Miriam Belmaker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Colonies, as discontinuous frontiers, may be more or less integrated into the homeland, resulting in distinct fortification patterns across time. The former Danish West Indies (DWI) was one such discontinuous frontier, separated from Copenhagen by more than 7,500 km yet a key part of the Danish economy. By examining changes and continuities in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ferran Cabrero-Miret.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the last fifty years, from Amazonian Archaeology there has been a remarkable and growing debate about the origin and dispersion of the cultures of the area, their carrying capacity, population number and density, political structure, and links with the adjacent geographical areas, as the Andes to its western border. More recently, carrying capacity and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Williams.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mississippian and related sedentary settlements in the eastern United States often appear unstable in the archaeological record. The eastern US is also in the most tornadically active area on earth. Tornadoes have been an impetus of settlement and social change in both the historic and modern era. Using 50 years of data collected by the National Weather...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tammy Hodgskiss.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ochre is a colorful thread that meanders through our human story. This iron-rich pigmentous rock became habitually used by Homo sapiens during the Late Pleistocene in Africa. It was later used in the creation of rock art paints, and is still used around the world in various ways. Ochre painting workshops are offered at Origins Centre Museum in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Pryor. Waylon Coats.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While there is a long history of archeological work in Yosemite National Park, this work is grounded in Western European traditions of archeology that does not take into consideration perspectives of the people who produced much of the record this archeology sets out to understand. These people had their own sense of time, space, and values that effected...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Damon Mullen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Peopling of the Americas remains a provocative topic in both North and South American Archaeology. Speculation about who the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas were, where they came from, and how they got here, began the moment European explorers first encountered them. Current archaeological data and theory indicate humans had reached the landmass...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica MacLellan. Daniela Triadan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We analyze 253 Late and Terminal Classic (c. AD 600-950) Maya ceramic figurine whistles (ocarinas) and fragments excavated at Ceibal, Guatemala, as materials of socialization. The figurines are mold-made and represent repeating characters. Based on mortuary contexts and other evidence, we argue they were used in household performances and associated with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mario Zimmermann. Anna Berim. Korey Brownstein. Barry Hewlett. Philippe Charlier.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Today, marijuana consumption is becoming decriminalized across the Western world. This legal change is often followed by increased research activity, specifically regarding crop ‘improvement’ and the concentration of the plant’s psychoactive compounds. This situation resembles the process characterizing the commodification of tobacco during the Colonial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren Collins.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Florida stands as a unique case study due to being one of the few states to include Africans who were enslaved in the mortality schedules during the 1800s. The historical backdrop of Northern Florida’s settlement and its deep rooted ties to the institution of slavery sets the stage for a rich examination of pre- and post-emancipation treatment of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aubrey Roemer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the rediscovery and canonization of Paleolithic and precontact cave art, researchers have grappled with different ways to document and reproduce sites containing ancient artwork. Early methods utilized hand drawing in situ and, soon after, cave art reproduction included film photography. Later, digital photography became the primary mode of capturing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marina González-Varas. Antonio Pérez-Balarezo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent archaeological findings in the neotropical region of South America are central to understanding the early adaptations of Paleoamerican populations to diverse ecosystems, especially tropical areas, between 14,000 and 9,000 BP — a period marked by significant paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic shifts. This study focuses on the critical role of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Watts Malouchos. Brandon "Everett" Bandy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Bradley Off-Site Remediation Project remediates deep tilling that occurred during a Natural Resources Conservation Service project at the late precontact Bradley site (3CT7) in Crittendon County, Arkansas. The Bradley Project supports collections-based research important to the Quapaw Nation by exploring connections between the Mississippian Angel...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nadia Neff. Keith M Prufer. Geraldine Busquest-Vass. Erin Ray. Seth Newsome.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The middle-late Holocene in southern Belize saw shifts in subsistence strategies, including the introduction of managed plants and animals. Botanical and stable isotope data have been used to track the introduction of agricultural products into human diets, with maize first consumed before 7,000 cal. BP. However, the timing of the introduction of managed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dylan Davis. Kristina Douglass.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The environmental impacts of human societies are generally assumed to correlate with factors such as population size, whether they are industrialized, and the intensity of their landscape modifications (e.g., agriculture, urban development, etc.). As a result, small-scale communities with subsistence economies are often not the focus of long-term studies...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yawei You. Dorian Fuller.

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 the influence of climate change on the distribution and adaptation of wild soybeans and how it impacted ancient gathering/farming practices related to soybeans. Through quantitative pollen-based reconstruction and ecological niche modeling, it traces the effects of climate change on soybean domestication and post-domestication...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Suanna Crowley.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Most professionals in archaeology emerge from educational centers hosted within departments of Anthropology, where the four field approach has dominated training. Market forces and preference for the STEM fields are now constraining educational opportunities for the humanities and social sciences. Declines in post-secondary enrollment, programs unable or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sam Holley-Kline.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Discussions of knowledge production and working conditions in archaeology increasingly draw scholarly attention to labor, as represented in recent work by Allison Mickel, Paul Everill, and others. For the most part, discussions of labor focus on the interpretative losses spurred by colonial relations of knowledge production and unfair working conditions,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Faux-Campbell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On October 6, 2021, California's Governor Newsom signed in law AB 417 - Rising Scholars Network: Justice-Involved Students. The purpose of this bill was to expand higher educational opportunities for and reduce equity gaps among Rising Scholars (students who have formerly experienced incarceration or are currently incarcerated). At Palo Verde College,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine Conlan. Dongya Yang. Camilla Speller. Claudia Kraan. Christina Giovas.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Caribbean sea turtle histories are deeply intertwined with past human activities. While modern DNA offers insight into impacts of recent stressors, to fully support sea turtle recovery we must account for activities acting on populations prior to modern baselines. Ancient DNA (aDNA) research offers a novel method for identifying timing and rate of change...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Summer Austin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study is a multidisciplinary investigation into factors that create, enhance, and normalize demand for collecting antiquities. Using the original blockbuster, Treasures of Tutankhamun, as the case study, this doctoral research investigates the correlating antiquities markets' reaction to Tut blockbusters by gathering, quantifying, and contextualizing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Breanna Henderson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology is the study, and by extension, the story of cultures, and everyone deserves access to their stories and those of their ancestors. The better one’s understanding of archaeology, culture, and history, the better understanding of themselves and those around them. This research seeks to answer what approaches are needed to create sustainable and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexis Ohman. Katharine Nusbaum. Bruce Larson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. NAVFAC Atlantic (LANT) is a government agency within the Department of Defense (DoD) that acts as a quasi-headquarters providing support both within the United States and overseas. As a Navy engineering facility, accounting for environmental concerns in the planning process also requires cultural resources assessments. LANT archaeologists are the DoD’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stacey Camp. Ben Akey. Levi Webb. Duane Quates.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In May 2023, Michigan State University (MSU) construction workers installing hammock poles hit what they believed was a foundation or rock. They immediately contacted MSU's Campus Archaeology Program (CAP), directed by Dr. Stacey Camp. Ben Akey, the Campus Archaeologist at the time, examined historic maps and aerials, which revealed that the first...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Isabella Garcia.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Advances in archaeological microwear analysis provide new tools to examine bone “objects” created and used by past peoples. Non-destructive microscopy techniques can be employed to study bone objects, preserving the integrity of archaeological materials and minding stakeholder concerns regarding destructive analyses. This poster presents preliminary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Céline Erauw.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In recent decades, zooarchaeological studies have been increasing in South America. Nevertheless, combining the methods used to understand some questions related to animal and human interactions in ancient Peru seems crucial. In this paper, we will present the first results of an ongoing multidisciplinary project focused on the central coast of Peru during...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fatemeh Ghaheri.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The semi-arid region of Northern Mesopotamia has consistently encountered significant climatic variations. Therefore, human societies in the region developed innovations in environmental management and agricultural strategies, given the crucial role of agriculture in economy, trade, and politics all throughout history and in our modern world. Among all the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Clark Sturdevant. Carol Colaninno.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There is a projected dearth of qualified archaeological professionals in the coming decade. As such, it becomes essential to discover the underlying causes of a lack of interest in pursuing a career in archaeology among individuals otherwise interested in the field. Social cognitive career theory posits that self-efficacy, expected outcomes, and goal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma Ashby.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Comparative morphological and other analysis on maize samples informs us of crucial nutritionary changes in key Ancestral Puebloan cultural stages. The transition of the Basketmaker III (500-750 CE) period to the Pueblo I (750-950 CE) period in the Southwestern Utah archeological record is marked by distinct technological changes and larger, more densely...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Lynch. Marcel Kornfeld.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the most complete records of human activity on the North American Plains, between 13,000 and 8500 years ago, is found at the Hell Gap National Historic Landmark in Wyoming. The area was inhabited continuously during this period as evidenced by the five main site localities. While we know a good deal about the activities on site from chipped stone...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Smit. Megan Kassabaum. Sarah Linn. Latiaynna Tabb.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper discusses the conception, implementation, and ongoing results of Heritage West, an archaeology project co-developed by academic archaeologists at the University of Pennsylvania and community stakeholders. Heritage West delves into the intertwined narratives of migration and urban renewal in the Black Bottom—a historically Black neighborhood...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philippa Jorissen. Michelle Lefebvre. Scott Fitzpatrick.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There has been a dearth of research on atolls in the central-eastern part of the Caroline Islands, especially from a zooarchaeological perspective. We present the first zooarchaeological analysis for Mokil atoll, which has been continuously inhabited since 1700-1500 cal. BP. The material was excavated in 2013 on the islet of Kahlap. The majority of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chiamaka Mangut. Kristina Douglass.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper reports the possibility of the settlement continuity from the Later Stone Age (LSA) to the present in Dutsen Kura on the Jos Plateau, Central Nigeria. Archaeological survey and preliminary excavation at Dutsen Kura reveal fascinating results that suggest a continuous Later Stone Age occupation and a transition from stone working population to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dusti Bridges.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Onöndowa'ga:' (Seneca) Hodinöhsö:ni' (Six Nations Iroquois) communities in what we now call New York State incorporated a number of other Indigenous peoples, both individuals and large groups, throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. Other settler scholars have interpreted the status of these incorporees as akin to enslavement—particularly for the Wendat...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anne Comer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For whom does “access” address and do current laws, nationally based, regarding accessible design foster enough guidance for effective site updates – if not, what can we as heritage professionals do to foster a more inclusive visitor experience, and how can we support archaeological park managers to create more inclusive programming? This session explores...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lucas Bond Reis. Thiago Umberto Pereira. Walderes Cocta Priprá. Fabiana Teerhag Merencio. Gabriela Oppitz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Upper Itajai Valley, nestled within Santa Catarina, Brazil, has stood as the enduring homeland of the Laklãnõ-Xokleng people for centuries—a testament to their remarkable resilience despite persistent struggles for land and social rights. Against this backdrop, we present new archaeological findings from the Tobias Wagner site, which comprises 18...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Che-Hsien Tsai.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Taipei Basin holds archaeological significance, particularly in illuminating the Neolithic era in Taiwan. The sites of Yuanshan and Botanical Garden each represent distinct Neolithic cultural phases. However, the coexistence, contemporaneity, or transition between Neolithic cultures has been a subject of debate. The nationwide site survey,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jerome Robitaille. Lisa-Elen Meyering. Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser. Olaf Jöris. Paul Pettitt.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Our AHRC/DFG-funded Household Art project explores the content and wider context of the 15,800-year-old Gönnersdorf/Andernach Upper Palaeolithic engraved plaquettes (portable schist) curated at MONREPOS, Neuwied (Germany). We use state-of-the-art 3D scanning microscopic and use-wear technologies in MONREPOS’S TraCEr laboratory and visual psychological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gustavo Neme. Adolfo Gil. Eva Peralta. Fernando Franchetti.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The south of Mendoza province, Argentina, has been characterized as the southernmost limit of pre-Hispanic agricultural dispersion in South America. This limit, originally defined by the presence of macrobotanical remains, was re-discussed in light of the stable isotope data of δ13C and δ15N obtained on collagen and apatite from human remains. These...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alleen Betzenhauser. Madeleine Evans.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. People who rely on corn for significant portions of their diets must process it to improve its nutritional quality, or risk severe malnutrition. A common method historically employed throughout Mesoamerica and North America consisted of soaking corn kernels in an alkaline solution created from wood ash or burned limestone, a technique referred to as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew O'Leary.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper details preliminary analysis of a selection of the R.W. Robbins collection excavated at the Crown Point State Historic Site, New York in the 1960s. It leverages differential trends in ceramics from mid-eighteenth century French and British military occupations to better interpret the practices of the French fort community at Fort St. Frédéric....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessi Halligan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Page-Ladson site in the Aucilla River basin in northwestern Florida, a drowned terrestrial locality, contains strata with well-preserved organic materials in archaeological contexts, allowing us to create absolute cultural chronologies, recreate paleoenvironments, and discuss human subsistence strategies. For the past several years, we have been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordan Dalton. Alexis Rodríguez Yábar. Irving Aragonéz Sarmiento. Tiffiny Tung. Nessel Jurado.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In modern times the Chincha Valley is one of the most productive agricultural valleys of Peru, and its offshore islands were rich in guano — bird excrement that is a potent fertilizer — that was exploited by foreigners from the Colonial into the Republican Periods (AD 1523-1879). While the importance of the valley’s agriculture and resources is well known...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia Rubertone.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Indigenous people’s urban experiences represent some of latest chapters in their stories of survivance. Yet they remain largely invisible archaeologically because of urban renewal, historic preservation practices, and the myth that U.S. cities do not have modern Indigenous histories. Geographies of race and class underwriting mid-twentieth century urban...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Baker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1975, 41 sites surrounding the USACE Wister Lake, located in Latimer and LeFlore counties in Oklahoma, were designated as part of a National Register Historic District. Unfortunately, due to extreme local looting and fluvial action, less than 21 of these sites are still present today. USACE Tulsa District is beginning a site preservation project...