DOCUMENT Citation Only Giancarlo Marcone. Bryan Nuñez. Nina Castillo.

This is an abstract from the "Politics of Heritage Values: How Archaeologists Deal with Place, Social Memories, Identities, and Socioeconomics" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the year 2014 as part of the Qhapaq Ñan project, a long-term intervention at the site of El Guarco in the coastal town of Cerro Azul was started. The project was thought from the beginning within the framework of collaborative archaeology and the relation with local...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Martin Gallivan.

This is an abstract from the "Building a Better Chronology for Fifteenth–Eighteenth-Century Eastern North America through Radiocarbon Dating and Collaborative Research Agendas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Constructing a chronology for the Native Chesapeake on the eve of the colonial era presents several challenges. These include a predominant focus on European settlement, fluctuations in the radiocarbon calibration curve, a scarcity of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather McClure.

This is an abstract from the "Digging through the Decades: A 90-year Retrospective on American Archaeology; Biennial Gordon Willey Session in the History of Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. It all started modestly enough. A September 1937 drive to New Orleans from Santa Fe and then passage on the United Fruit Company liner Tivives with the ultimate destinations of Quirigua and Guatemala City. This small group of ten with their leader...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alice Kehoe.

This is an abstract from the "Digging through the Decades: A 90-year Retrospective on American Archaeology; Biennial Gordon Willey Session in the History of Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. World War II disrupted archaeology, with SAA members in uniform and travel restricted. Members resuming their careers in the late 1940s faced a more egalitarian America as thousands of men from uneducated families entered colleges on the G.I. Bill....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Francisco Garrido. María Teresa Plaza. Soledad González.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The southern Atacama Desert boasts a long mining history that evolved within small-scale kinship groups. In the Cachiyuyo de Llampos mountains, most mines were consistently exploited sporadically over time, resulting in a settlement pattern characterized by scattered mining camps from the Formative period up to the 20th century. Despite the arrival of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Wardle.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Jalieza is an important archaeological site in the Valley of Oaxaca that was founded during the Early Classic (AD 200-500). It is an especially useful case study for understanding how and why the Zapotec state fragmented. Previous excavations at the earliest sector of Jalieza, a hilltop called Cerro Danilín, suggested that the site may have resisted...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberly Munro.

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 Cosma Archaeological Complex, located in north-central Peru, have revealed a potential missing link, both temporally and geographically, in understanding the origins of corporate labor and the construction of public monuments associated with the Late Preceramic period. A suite of radiometric dates at two temple mounds with Kotosh-Mito...

DOCUMENT Citation Only McKenzie Merchant.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The University of South Dakota (USD) archaeological field school in summer 2024 took place at the Soapsuds Row area of Fort Meade at the Bear Butte Creek Historic Preserve in Sturgis, South Dakota. The term “Soapsuds Row” refers to the housing originally used by laundresses employed by Fort Meade in the late AD 1800s. The 2024 archaeological work focused...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Martin Gutoski.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. I have been searching for the photographs and tracings made by J. Louis Giddings in June 1940 as reported in the American Antiquity, Vol. 7, No. 1 (July 1941) since I was an undergraduate student in anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) in 1992. When entering the program for my master’s degree in the 2000’s I had to content myself that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Efrain Ocasio.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Named the most valuable shipwreck to be recovered, the Nuestra Senora de Atocha was part of the Spanish Tierra Firme fleet bound for Spain in 1622 until a severe hurricane sank the vessel off the Florida Keys. In 1985, treasure hunter Mel Fisher and a crew of salvage divers uncovered the main hull of the Atocha along with a vast number of valuables. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carey Baxter. Anthony White.

This is an abstract from the "Application of Geophysical Techniques to Military Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The United States Army Corp of Engineers, Engineer Research Development Center, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL) is home to one of the largest cultural resources research teams in the DoD. In recent years our team has assisted the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Cemetery Administration...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacqueline Nash. Nina Neptune. Devyn Cabral. Emily Demers. Ellen Spensley Moriarty.

This is an abstract from the "Capturing and Sharing Vermont’s Past: 3D Imaging as a Tool for Undergraduate Research and Community Engagement" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 2019, the Castleton Hidden History Project has conducted excavations around Granger House, a nineteenth-century home on the campus of Vermont State University-Castleton that will become a local history museum. Ongoing interdisciplinary work centers on investigating the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elisabeth Hyde.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Photogrammetry and 3D Modeling are tools that are greatly underutilized in excavation. Yet, they are very helpful to archaeologists. There are both drawbacks and benefits to using 3D modeling. However, this study of features in southeastern Utah shows that the positives outweigh the negatives. Although they can be tricky and time consuming to generate,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Novak.

This is an abstract from the "Geoarchaeology Within the Context of Cultural Resource Management (CRM) Today (Part Two)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper examines the use of 3D modeling within an archaeological site and how this technology can enhance our understanding of the past. Two 1x1 meter units were excavated to an approximate depth of 250 centimeters at a large Southern California coastal cultural site. Unit 01 was placed on a 15%...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andreana Cunningham.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Futures through a Virtual Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Facial approximation is a salient tool in archaeology that aims to estimate the likeness of past peoples based on historic, anatomical, and artistic evidence. This project used an iterative and community-oriented approach to 2D manual facial approximation for three decedents buried at Rupert’s Valley Burial Ground in St. Helena. Rupert’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ekaterina Menkina.

This is an abstract from the "The Current State of Archaeological Research across Southeast Asia" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hoa Lu was the capital of Vietnam in the 10th century and is now the core area of the Trang An UNESCO world heritage site. In collaboration with Dr.Thuy, we focus on the visualization of Hoa Lu enclosures. Oral traditions, illustrations, and archaeological evidence of the ring-based walls provide an insight into the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Molly Carney. Naomi Scher. Shannon Tushingham.

This is an abstract from the "Cultivating Food, Land, and Communities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Food security is fundamental to strong, resilient food systems, and healthy communities. It exists when all people have consistent access to nutritious and culturally appropriate foods, gathered and distributed in socially acceptable ways. Archaeology offers a means of documenting and understanding deep time histories and legacies of food...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Killick.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeometallurgy, Eurasia and Beyond: Papers in Honor of Vince Pigott" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From about 1973 through the early 1990’s the University of Pennsylvania group of Maddin, Muhly, Pigott and Stech were among the world leaders in archaeometallurgy. In this presentation I try to situate their work within a brief history of his topic in North America. With two notable exceptions (the consultant...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steve Boles. William Iseminger. Lori Belknap.

This is an abstract from the "What’s Canoe? Recent Research on Dugouts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Guth dugout is named for the finder Matt Guth, who found the dugout on a sandbar in a meander portion of the St. Francois River in 2008. The dugout was exposed after floodwaters receded and due to the find location, Guth was determined to be the rightful owner. The dugout was over 6 m long and in remarkable shape given its age. In 2009, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirk Anderson.

This is an abstract from the "From the Underworld to the Heavens: Expanding the Study of Central Jalisco’s Past" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> <b>Abstract</b> The Magdalena Lake Basin of Jalisco, Mexico has a rich cultural history from the Early Archaic to Protohistoric Periods. A Late Formative/Early Classic cultural florescence witnessed the emergence of the Teuchitlán Culture which collapsed in the Epiclassic. We developed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Albert Gonzalez.

This is an abstract from the "Hood Archaeologies: Impacts of the School-to-Prison Pipeline on Archaeological Practice and Pedagogy" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists are quick to connect race and class in conversations about the dead. However, in our discussions of the living—especially on BIPOC archaeologists and their work—class takes a backseat to race, an outcome I call “wealth blindness.” I argue that, as professional...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Manuel Calvo Trias.

This is an abstract from the "Social Archaeologies and Islands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the Bronze Age, the archaeological record of the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea reveals a conspicuous prevalence of similarities across all the islands within the archipelago. To elucidate the mechanisms underlying this convergence phenomenon within the archaeological record, we developed a study centered on the analysis of mobility and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Lynch.

This is an abstract from the "Digitizing the Past: Studying Ancient Ground Stone Toolkits Using Modern Technology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Nine ground stone tool (GST) artifacts were recovered during the 1960s and 1990s excavations at the Hell Gap National Historic Landmark. They were found in units dating to ~10,800 - 10,000 years ago. These GST artifacts are on loan to Eastern New Mexico University digital archaeology lab from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ari Caramanica.

This is an abstract from the "Emplacement and Relational Approaches to the Ancient Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The definition of “place” in early colonial north coastal Peru, was based, in part, on Iberian concepts of what constituted ‘good’ land. Ethnohistoric analysis of archival evidence from the period reveals a friction between two distinct worldviews around land, water, ownership, labor, and likely, place. To arrive at a better...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Benfer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Living hundreds of years, ceiba trees (Ceiba pentandra) have long functioned as monuments to ancestral spirits, cosmological order, and chiefly authority among Indigenous populations throughout Central America. While these giant trees are often cosmologically charged and considered sacred or divine, there is substantial variety within Indigenous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Marla Toyne. Armando Anzellini. Miquel Pans. Josep Ribera Torró. Esteve Ribera Torró.

This is an abstract from the "Beyond the Ancestors: New Approaches to Andean "Open Sepulchers"" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The complexity in mortuary traditions across the Chachapoyas region ranges from single individual interments to large, commingled mortuary caves, as well as including constructed sarcophagi and shared open chambers high on cliff faces. Variation within sites and across funerary complexes demonstrates individuality in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vincent Gaffney.

This is an abstract from the "Hunting for Hunters, Underwater: Results and Future Directions for Submerged Ancient Sites" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. After more than thirty years of study, palaeolandscapes research in the southern North Sea, usually referred to as Doggerland, has moved from the status of niche interest to an increasingly strategic area of investigation. Drivers for such a development includes the need to develop coastal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allison Sabo. Daniel Koski-Karell. William Pestle.

This is an abstract from the "Coloring Outside the Lines: Re-situating Understandings of the Lifeways of Earliest Peoples of the Circum-Caribbean" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the 1930s, scholars have examined variation in early lithic assemblages across the Caribbean archipelago. Long-held explanations for the genesis of these assemblages (and the differences among them) include cultural/stylistic factors, aspects of raw material...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Manuel Aguilar-Moreno.

This is an abstract from the "Bringing the Past to Life, Part 1: Papers in Honor of John M. D. Pohl" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The monastery of Acolman founded by the Augustinian order is located near Teotihuacan. The most astonishing tequitqui (Amerindian-Christian art of the sixteenth century) monument in Acolman is the atrial cross made in 1550. Although open-air crosses existed in Europe, the Mexican crosses have a different iconography...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ken-ichi Sasaki.

This is an abstract from the "Acquiring Status and Power in Transegalitarian and Chiefdom Societies" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Japanese chiefly polities began evolving toward states during the Kofun period (middle third to early seventh centuries CE), as evidenced by the appearance of a key material symbol of increased social complexity and control: keyhole-shaped mounded tombs. Construction of these distinctive tombs reflects several...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Craig Cipolla. James Quinn. Jay Levy.

This is an abstract from the "Activating Heritage: Encouraging Substantive Practices for a Just Future" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Allotment was a world-changing institution that forever altered the course of North American history; through this process, Indigenous lands were broken up into lots, “owned” by individuals and families rather than collectively held. Allotment placed an unprecedented amount of stress on Indigenous traditions of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Lena Jones.

This is an abstract from the "The Columbian Exchange Revisited: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on Eurasian Domesticates in the Americas" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In August 1540 Hernando de Alvarado, a member of the Coronado expedition, entered what he termed “the province of Tiguex” (today known as the Middle Rio Grande Valley of Central New Mexico), kicking off several centuries of socioeconomic transformation. As a case...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tiffany Fryer. Alexander Bauer.

This is an abstract from the "Activating Heritage: Encouraging Substantive Practices for a Just Future" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Drawing on the session co-organizers' experiences, this paper offers reflections on the state of heritage research being conducted by archaeologists, its current limitations, and its potential for greater social impact. Leaning into the notion that heritage does important work in the world, we offer thoughts on how...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Flavio Silva De La Mora.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent research in the Maya Lowlands, particularly in Chiapas and Tabasco, has shed new light on the regional patterns and social practices of Late Classic Maya society. This presentation will build upon these findings by delving into the lithic materials unearthed from archaeological work at the site of Chinikihá. The focus will be on the significance of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Pestle.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Forty-six newly documented anthropogenic shell works, stretching along 1.5 km of a paleoshoreline in the intertidal zone of southwestern Puerto Rico constitute a precontact landscape (a shellscape, if you will) without parallel on the island. Besides evidencing subsistence practices, these monumental features speak to the culturally mediated adaptive...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly Baer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The expansion of digital technology has allowed archaeologists to quickly adopt new techniques and digital tools for use in the field. From the early days of analog recording and hand-drawn maps to contemporary tools like photogrammetry and 3D modeling, the rapid evolution of technology has led to greater accuracy and efficiency when collecting and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Molly Cannon. Anna Cohen.

This is an abstract from the "The Past, Present, and Future of Water Supplies" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The western United States has experienced dramatic population growth for the past century and a half and fluctuating water resources even longer. For example, there is increasing evidence that people began diverting water from Utah’s streams and rivers during the Fremont period (ca. AD 1–1300). As early as 2,000 years ago, the Ancestral...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kate Compton-Gore.

This is an abstract from the "In Search of Solutions: Exploring Pathways to Repatriation for NAGPRA Practitioners (Part I)" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Under NAGPRA, a museum must inform recipients of repatriation of any known contaminants such as preservatives, pesticides, or other treatments that may present a potential hazard to the persons handling the item. However, NAGPRA does not require museums to test for contaminants, and historically...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joshua Lynch.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2024, Arkansas Tech University (ATU), in partnership with the Ozark St. Francis National Forests and the WRI Research Station of the Arkansas Archaeological Survey, executed the first RPA4-certified Field School conducted on public lands in Arkansas. This four-week field school offered students and professional archaeologists the opportunity to gain...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Myers.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study focuses on concerns for levees that tribal, state, and federal historic preservation staff have anecdotally observed, but have not fully quantified. It was designed in direct response Tribal Historic Preservation Officers’ concerns following flood events in the Mississippi River Valley in 2019. The research design was developed in coordination...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kara Fox.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Salmon were a critical resource in the Indigenous economies of the Pacific Northwest. There are five Pacific Salmon species that spawn within the Fraser River and its tributaries: sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka), Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch), pink (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) and chum (Oncorhynchus keta). Since each species...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patience Beauchemin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Little ancient DNA work has been done on archaeological textiles due to the difficulty of extracting sequenceable DNA from dyed materials in which the presence of various pigments often inhibit biochemical analyses. However, DNA extracted from textiles would add an additional line of evidence in regards to, for example, choices of raw materials,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Forest Allen. Adam Wiewel.

This is an abstract from the "New and Emerging Geophysical and Geospatial Research in the National Parks" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between 2021 and 2023 archeologists at the Midwest Archeological Center conducted a multi-instrument geophysical survey at Fort Larned National Historic Site in Kansas. The survey sought to expand on previous archeological investigations and to provide baseline documentation of archeological resources across...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Jankiewicz. Jennifer Abplanalp. Conner Wiktorowicz. Alison Rubio. Ilaria Harrach Harcourt.

This is an abstract from the "MARS General Military CRM Poster Session" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Argonne National Laboratory supports the Air Force Civil Engineer Center in implementing comprehensive cultural resources management at several Department of the Air Force installations in the southeastern United States. The Southeast is experiencing extreme weather events more frequently, presenting opportunities for improved methodologies and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven Rospopo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent investigations at the LA8619 Point Great House Community Great Kiva, have documented a ceramic offering cache of six hundred artifacts. Two previous caches were documented in 2016 and 2021, also associated with the Southern cardinal direction in the Great Kiva. Drawing on ethnographic analogy evidence, an economies of destruction political economy...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Helen Green.

This is an abstract from the "New approaches to the intractable problem of dating rock art" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Oxalate-rich, glaze-like mineral deposits are commonly found on low-angle surfaces in Australian rock art shelters. The synchronous growth of individual layers in these deposits across the Kimberley region of northwest Australia, suggests an environmental control, though the exact nature of this link is unclear. Some glazes,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Jimenez.

This is an abstract from the "World-Systems and Globalization in Archaeology: Assessing Models of Intersocietal Connections 50 Years since Wallerstein’s “The Modern World-System”" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. With the refinement of world-systems analysis into the nested network model (i.e., bulk goods, political/military, prestige goods, and information), Chase-Dunn and Hall (1997) have proposed a research strategy that is applicable to ancient...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Grant Snitker.

This is an abstract from the "Practice, Theory, and Ethics of Machine Learning in Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Differentiating between natural and anthropogenic fire in the past remains one of the principal challenges in interpreting paleo-charcoal records and has implications for contextualizing changing fire regimes in our world today. During the Holocene, cultural burning practices throughout the globe were motivated by diverse...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ronda Bowser.

This is an abstract from the "Nondestructive Alternatives: Canine Remote Sensing (Scenting)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The use of Historical Human Remains Detection (HHRD) dogs has seen significant advancements, becoming increasingly vital in both archaeology and forensic investigations. These specially trained dogs possess an extraordinary ability to detect the scent of human remains, even those that have been buried or decomposed for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michele Koons.

This is an abstract from the "Life on the Edge: Investigations in the Department of Piura, the “Extreme North” of the Central Andes, Peru" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Piura region in far northern Peru burst into the spotlight with the looting of sites that produced a dazzling new ceramic style and intricate metalwork that set the art market abuzz. These artifacts, later dubbed Vicus and Frîas, were named...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claire Novotny. E. Christian Wells. Anna C. Novotny.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. At La Sierra, in the Naco Valley, the crania of five individuals were discovered in a niche at the front of a Late Classic (AD 600-950) house. Each skull was sitting on its own plate surrounded by obsidian blades. Sixteen kilometers to the southwest, at the site of El Coyote, an ossuary containing two interment episodes of at least fourteen individuals...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lucy Noah.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geometric morphometrics (GM) is a method of digitizing objects in a way that controls for variables, such as size and scale so that the shape of objects can be compared to determine differences and similarities. This method has become increasingly abundant in archaeological investigations of lithic tool assemblages. In studies regarding prehistoric...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward Swenson.

This is an abstract from the "Ancient Mesoamerican and Andean Cities: Old Debates, New Perspectives" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Social scientists have stressed the invisibility of modern infrastructures, whether roads, irrigation systems, or hidden electrical wires and plumbing. They have argued in turn that as a system of interconnected substrates, infrastructures recede to the background and become the subject of conscious reckoning...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Xiuzhen Li.

This is an abstract from the "New materials and new insights for our understanding of the First Emperor's Mausoleum and early imperial China" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Among the most spectacular finds at the Mausoleum of China’s First Emperor (259 - 210 BC) are the Terracotta Army built to protect him in the afterlife, and the two sets of bronze chariots designed and buried to facilitate his travel in his underground kingdom. Hundreds of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Taylor Hermes.

This is an abstract from the "Steppe by Steppe: Advances in the Archaeology of Eastern Eurasia" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Afanasievo culture in the Altai Mountains (ca. 3300–2800 BCE) has long captured our attention as the first pastoralists to spread to Inner Asia. Known almost exclusively through osteological remains and material culture from mortuary contexts, settlement data have remained scarce for characterizing the subsistence...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher McDaid.

This is an abstract from the "MARS General Military CRM Poster Session" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1918 the US Army purchased all 3,238 ha (8,000 acres) of Mulberry Island, Virginia to create Camp Eustis, now the Fort Eustis portion of Joint Base Langley-Eustis. English colonizers and enslaved African laborers had occupied Mulberry Island since the seventeenth century. At the time of the Army’s purchase, a significant African American...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Rooney.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Hollywood and Valley Plantation, located in southeast Arkansas on the banks of Bayou Bartholomew, was home to at least four waves of migrating African Americans: two forced migrations of enslaved people of color in the 1820s and 1840s, and two voluntary migrations of Black sharecroppers in the 1870s and 1900s. Preliminary excavations at two different...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rus Sheptak.

This is an abstract from the "Exercising Freedoms: Historical Archaeology of the African Diaspora in Latin America" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the mid-eighteenth century, Spanish colonial authorities in Central America initiated the construction of a fortress on the Honduran Caribbean Coast, at a place bearing the indigenous name of Omoa. The construction of the fort drew on the labor of a massive population of enslaved people from Africa,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ariel Gilmore.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. When thinking of the African Diaspora one cannot deny the themes of resistance, resilience, and justice that seem to unite these very distinct cultures. This project focuses on the African diaspora and interrogates what diaspora means using media archaeology. Media archaeology is defined as a field of study that seeks to understand how change over time...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Grillo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ceramics produced by fisher-hunter-gatherers during the African Humid Period (AHP) are recognized archaeologically throughout northwest Kenya’s Turkana Basin, predating the arrival/adoption of cattle-based pastoralism and “Nderit” ceramic traditions ~5,000 years ago. Some AHP ceramics in the Turkana Basin share well-documented decorative similarities with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yuichi Matsumoto. Yuri Cavero Palomino.

This is an abstract from the "Beyond Borders at the End of a Millennium: Life in the Western Andes circa 500–50 BCE" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Campanayuq Rumi, located in the Peruvian south-central highlands, flourished as a major ceremonial center during the late Initial period and early Early Horizon (ca. 1000–500 BCE). While it ceased to function as a Chavín-related center and an important node of interregional interaction around 500 BCE,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian Jones.

This is an abstract from the "New Work in Medieval Archaeology, Part 1: Landscapes, Food, and Health" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From 1992 to 2002, the Humayma Excavation Project investigated a fairly modest palatial structure dubbed Field F103 at the site of al-Ḥumayma in southern Jordan. Early on, the excavators recognized that this structure should be identified as the qasr and mosque complex described in Arabic historical sources as having...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Taylor Callaway.

This is an abstract from the "Taphonomy in Focus: Current Approaches to Site Formation and Social Stratigraphy" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, I consider the Middle Woodland period (500 BC-AD 900), a time in which forager-fishers moved across the central Atlantic seaboard in seasonal rounds, regularly returning to particular locales for large-scale feasting events. By analyzing the ceramic characteristics and feature distributions...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stefanie Wai. Christopher Wai. Mel Campbell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Site destruction from looting, climate change, agricultural activities, and urban development threatens the preservation of cultural heritage more than ever before, particularly due to a lack of site monitoring in some regions during the pandemic. This has long been the case in the North Coast region of Peru since the Spanish Conquest. A significant amount...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Chitwood.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Social media plays an important part in the dissemination of information in our world today. As we navigate the ever-changing landscapes of social media platforms, it is important to have conversations about our roles as educators online and the responsibilities we have on these platforms. As clickbait titles capture the eyes of social media users leading...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Coco.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Stone Age Archaeology of Central Asia" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Genetic and archaeological evidence imply a second major movement of Neanderthals from Western to Central and Eastern Eurasia sometime in the Late Pleistocene. Genetic data suggest a date of 120-80ka for the dispersal and the archaeological record provides an earliest date of arrival in the Altai by ca. 60ka. Because the number of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fumi Arakawa.

This is an abstract from the "Thinking of Acronyms: a Kohler Obsession? Papers in Honor of Timothy A. Kohler (TAKO)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As population density increases throughout the Holocene, people tend to expand their mobility strategies to acquire necessary resources (e.g., food, raw materials, mating opportunities, etc.). This is a common perception of human behavior globally; however, archaeological records, particularly lithic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Allen.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeobotanical recovery in environmental settings with heavy clay and gley deposits is often challenging due to the difficuty of processing such sediments by flotation or wet-sieveing. Following good results from an initial experiment to improve visibility of floral and faunal remains in a gley deposit from Late Neolithic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barbara Arroyo. Felipe Trabanino. Eleanora Reber. David Lentz.

This is an abstract from the "Beyond Maize and Cacao: Reflections on Visual and Textual Representation and Archaeological Evidence of Other Plants in Precolumbian Mesoamerica" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Investigations carried out in recent years in various sectors of the Kaminaljuyu site have revealed relevant aspects of the use of local plants, their control, and distribution. Analysis of residues in ceramics allows us to know some data....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hector Neff.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Honor of Deborah L. Nichols" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Deborah Nichols explored the relationship between subsistence, especially agriculture, and changing modes of settlement and social organization throughout her career. For the most part, her contributions on these topics focused on the Basin of Mexico, where early inhabitants clustered along the shores of shallow lakes, taking advantage of resources...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Cajigas.

This is an abstract from the "13,000 Years of Adaptation in the Sonoran Desert at La Playa, Sonora" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The La Playa site is a compelling example of large-scale anthropogenic modification within a landscape of change through deep time. The development of irrigation technology and agricultural intensification in the Sonoran Desert was deeply entwined with changing climatic and geomorphic conditions. As the largest...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christian Mader. Markus Reindel. Johny Isla. Julia Meister.

This is an abstract from the "Beyond Borders at the End of a Millennium: Life in the Western Andes circa 500–50 BCE" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Formative Paracas archaeological culture has long been considered a coastal phenomenon in the southern Peruvian Andes. In this paper, we change this perspective and examine two Late Paracas and Initial Nasca (370 BCE–CE 90) highland settlements: Collanco (1,630 m asl) and Cutamalla (3,300 m asl) in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Traci Ardren. Scott Fitzpatrick. Victor Thompson.

This is an abstract from the "*SE Hope for the Future: A Message of Resiliency from Archaeological Sites in South Florida" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Some scholars have argued that the adoption of agriculture is inevitable and that Holocene climate changes forced complex societies around the world to domesticate plants and animals. But the complex cultures of precolumbian south Florida provide a rare example of persistent reliance on wild...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aspen Greaves.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As the second largest empire of all time, the Mongols had immense impact on the political, social, and material trajectories of most of the Eurasian continent, but little is known about the lives and choices of the original pastoralist subjects of the empire. Important research on Mongol-era subsistence has come from large urban or palatial sites like...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Belen Mendez Bauer. Verónica Vázquez López. Takeshi Inomata. Daniela Triadan.

This is an abstract from the "Aguada Fénix and the Middle Usumacinta Region: Interregional Interactions and Social Transformations in the Middle Preclassic Period" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Among the many Middle Preclassic sites in the Middle Usumacinta region, Aguada Fénix is, by far, the largest and possibly one of the oldest. A large, rectangular platform was built at its center, measuring 1,400 × 400 m. The construction of this artificial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniela Triadan. Takeshi Inomata.

This is an abstract from the "Aguada Fénix and the Middle Usumacinta Region: Interregional Interactions and Social Transformations in the Middle Preclassic Period" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The recently discovered site of Aguada Fenix in eastern Tabasco, Mexico is one of the largest monumental constructions in Mesoamerica. It was built in a standardized architectural pattern that we call the Middle Formative Usumacinta Pattern (MFU). Its...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alberto Flores-Colin. Demián Hinojosa-Garro.

This is an abstract from the "New and Emerging Perspectives on the Bajo el Laberinto Region of the Maya Lowlands, Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Aguadas are permanent or temporary water reservoirs distributed throughout the Elevated Interior Region (EIR). These wetlands have formed complex ecosystems that are essential for the survival of many species and are sometimes the only source of fresh water for animal and human communities in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Santiago Sobrino.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The following paper offers a new proposal for the reading and interpretation of the Stela 2 of Chichen Itza, a flat limestone 2.11 meter tall monument discovered in the late 90s by the late Dr. Peter Schmidt. The monument presents a middle register composed by 32 glyph blocks in an advanced state of erosion, a feature that prevented most epigraphers from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Teresa Lacosta Ramírez.

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Basque Archaeology: Current Research and Future Directions" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the Roman Empire's interests in its provinces was the exploitation of their mineral resources. In the region of the Western Pyrenees, the Empire promoted mining activities for gold, silver, iron and copper. Notably, the mining complex in the Aierdi Ravine (Lantz, Navarra, Spain) stands out...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yinzhi Cui. Li Liu. Honghai Chen. Ruilin Mao.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Research in recent years has substantiated the prevalent presence and utilization of cereal-based fermented beverages in prehistoric China. In this study, residue analysis was applied to pottery artifacts excavated from the Mogou site, which dates to approximately between 1800 BC and 1200 BC in Gansu Province, northwest China. By comparing these ancient...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jingbo Li.

This is an abstract from the "Technology, Production, and Social Changes in Chinese Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study investigates alcohol production and consumption practices at the Zhouyuan site during the Chinese Bronze Age. Using microfossil analysis, including starch, phytolith, and fungal identification, the research examines fermentation technology, and use of vessels associated with brewing and consumption. By...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ted Roberts.

This is an abstract from the "Transformations in Professional Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The role of alcohol in the practice and culture of American archaeology has rarely been critically investigated. Although most practicing archaeologists agree a link between alcohol use and archaeology exists, the nature of that dynamic is often left unexamined. There is little doubt that the consumption of alcohol serves some function or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mario Zimmermann.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The completion of an archaeological field school continues to be one of the main qualifying criteria for employment in the broader realm of cultural resource management. Yet costs associated with participation in either domestic or international programs keep increasing. Moreover, 4-6 week full-time field schools pose additional challenges regarding...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jerome Offner.

This is an abstract from the "The Mexica Royal Court: A Symposium in Honour of Alfredo López Austin" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Multispectral and spectroscopic analysis of key sixteenth century graphic manuscripts, especially Mapa Quinatzin and Codex Xolotl, combined with the often-confused alphabetic sources dependent on them, are presented. New methods of digital annotation of the surface of such graphic manuscripts, or on any information...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Flexner.

This is an abstract from the "Social Archaeologies and Islands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The transformation of island environments and settlement patterns resulting from missionisation and Christian conversion is a well-developed theme in the historical archaeology of Oceania. The Mangareva Islands in French Polynesia provide an exemplary case study, featuring dozens of stone structures built by the Catholic Pères des Sacrés Cœurs beginning...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Kirk.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Sicily holds a strategic position between the eastern and western Mediterranean. Fortified coastal towers have served as a component of coastal defenses since the establishment of the earliest Greek colonies on the island. During the Late Medieval period (fourteenth–sixteenth centuries), fortified coastal towers took on an intensified role as the Spanish...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Silvia Tomaskova.

This is an abstract from the "(Re) Imagining Rock Art Research" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study of rock engravings at Wildebeest Kuil, South Africa focuses on bodies, strength, skills and practice necessary to produce the carved images. Rather than ask "what do these images mean?", the project examines the material evidence for labor, effort, skill, strength and repetitive action that would have been only possible through extended...

DOCUMENT Citation Only D. Shane Miller.

This is an abstract from the "The Far-Reaching Influence of Steven L. Kuhn" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Kuhn and Stiner (2006) argued that an overlooked, but salient difference between Neanderthals and modern humans was their approaches to dividing labor. Kuhn and Stiner contend that modern humans were “diverse specialists” that may have aided in their ability to adapt to novel and changing environments and outcompete generalists. Here, we...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brandon Ritchison. Lindsey Cochran. Matt Howland. Brett Parbus.

This is an abstract from the "*SE The New Normal: Approaches to Studying, Documenting, and Mitigating Climate Change Impacts to Archaeological Sites" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The immense and unprecedented challenge posed by sea-level rise will require archaeologists to combine efforts and expertise in multiple disciplines and realms of practice. Whether from the perspective of salvage, mitigation, preservation, or triage, cultural heritage...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Carrasco.

This is an abstract from the "Beyond Maize and Cacao: Reflections on Visual and Textual Representation and Archaeological Evidence of Other Plants in Precolumbian Mesoamerica" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Interpretations of sprouting imagery and phytomorphic deities in Mesoamerican iconography have often turned to maize. Although maize informs Maya art and is personified as the Maya Maize God, imagery from elsewhere in Mesoamerica is often less...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Riebe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past 6 years, the Prehistoric Interactions on the Plain Project (PIPP) has carried out intensive and extensive archaeological investigations at the Late Neolithic site of Csökmő-Káposztás-domb located on the Great Hungarian Plain. Across the 105-hectare tell-centered settlement complex, a total of 20 test units and larger excavation blocks have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Miki Ben-Dor.

This is an abstract from the "Elephant Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ubiquity of Proboscidean remains in early archaeological sites across the Old and New World underscores their significance in human prehistory. However, ethnography-based estimates of Proboscidean hunting returns have consistently undervalued their exceptional attractiveness as prey during the Paleolithic period. This study presents a critical reevaluation of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Ratcliffe.

This is an abstract from the "The Subterranean in MesoAmerican Sacred Landscapes: A Multidisciplinary Assessment" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ritual cave use is a popular subject in Maya archaeology, but whether proximate sites had linked use is unknown. Recent discoveries in Monkey Bay National Park- a protected area situated in the Maya Forest Corridor in central Belize- have led to new evidence of various ritual activities that took place...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ying-Li Wu.

This is an abstract from the "New approaches to the intractable problem of dating rock art" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Placing robust age constraints on the production of rock art is difficult because the lack of suitable material for sampling. This is especially true in the case of petroglyphs where ‘paints’ are unavailable. The ARC-funded project ‘Dating Murujuga’s Dreaming’ faces this challenge by trying to identify a chronology for rock...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charlotte Robinson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent archaeological studies show that pre-Columbian communities began modifying Southwestern Amazonia approximately 3,500 years ago. Previous research within lowland Bolivia has primarily focused on the fields and forest islands that populations built to elevate themselves and their crops from seasonal flooding. However, a series of zigzag earthworks...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kia Taylor Riccio.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper underscores “ambiguity” and duality as pervasive factors in archaeological research through a case study of coarse earthenware from La Soye, Dominica. Within this framework, I concentrate my approach on syncretic foodways and ceramic productions, which blend, confound, and subvert straight-forward interpretations. Using the material culture as a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marilyn Masson. Carlos Peraza Lope. Bradley Russell. Timothy Hare.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological investigations of three Maya elite houses and a visita church at Hunacti reveal the mixed material signatures expected of a community deeply ambivalent to Spanish rule, strongly attracted to and at the same time repulsed by Spaniard house styles, Christian doctrine, and European goods. In a rural location at a distance from Franciscan...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Loren Davis.

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Late Pleistocene Archaeology of the Northern Pacific Rim" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A number of North American sites predating ~14.5 ka, well before an ice-free corridor became available, have relatively large stone tool assemblages that allow some assessment of the underlying characteristics of the lithic tradition they share. These assemblages have a broad technological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carl Drexler. Jami Lockhart.

This is an abstract from the "New and Emerging Geophysical and Geospatial Research in the National Parks" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pea Ridge National Military Park commemorates the March of 1862 battle that was the most important engagement fought west of the Mississippi River. Since the early 2000s, archaeologists from the National Park Service, Arkansas Archeological Survey, the Arkansas Archeological Society, and the NPS Volunteers in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alec Iacobucci.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The prospect of using computer vision to aid or automate the production of archaeological data is not new to archaeology. Computer vision offers a number of advantages compared to traditional approaches to quantifying archaeological data, including replicability, precision without fatigue, and the ability to expand the size of datasets analyzed. The...