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The Society for American Archaeology (SAA) is an international organization that, since its founding in 1934, has been dedicated to research about and interpretation and protection of the archaeological heritage of the Americas. With nearly 7,000 members, SAA represents professional and avocational archaeologists, archaeology students in colleges and universities, and archaeologists working at Tribal agencies, museums, government agencies, and the private sector.

The SAA’s official records are archived at the National Anthropological Archives (NAA). The NAA finding aid serves as a guide for the contents of the collection, which consists of archives related to promoting an understanding of the history of archaeology in the Americas, the organization's accomplishments and contributions to the major debates about practice, methods, and knowledge of the field, and the history of the SAA.

SAA has partnered with Digital Antiquity to make a portion of its official archive more accessible and searchable electronically. This includes the SAA Meeting Abstracts and Presentations from 2015 to the present, and Board Books that document the work of the SAA.

For more information about the official SAA Archive and the work of the Society’s Archive Committee, please visit https://www.saa.org/quick-nav/about-saa/saa-archive.

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  • AMS Radiocarbon Dates Establish Ballcourt Site Chronologies for Toita and Llanos Tuna in Precolonial Puerto Rico (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Kracht.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study addresses the relative paucity of dated archaeological sites in Puerto Rico and expands the islands’ existing database of radiocarbon dates. Our project focuses on developing AMS radiocarbon chronologies from two ballcourt sites: Toita, located in central eastern Puerto Rico, and Llanos Tuna, located in southwestern Puerto Rico. Current...

  • Anachronology in the Study of the Precolumbian Maya: Toward a Post-Postclassic (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Panos Kratimenos.

    This is an abstract from the "Misinformation and Misrepresentation Part 2: Reconsidering “Human Sacrifice,” Religion, Slavery, Modernity, and Other European-Derived Concepts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. All Mayanists, and Mesoamericanists in general, are familiar with tripartite chronologies. The periodization of time in precolumbian Mesoamerica between a “Preclassic”/“Formative,” “Classic,” and “Postclassic” has been baked into the conceptual...

  • The Anakuakala Pictograph (Kiʻi Pakuhi) from Hawai‘i Island: A Contextual and Comparative Assessment. (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Scheffler.

    This is an abstract from the "The Value of Rock Art: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Current Rock Art Documentation, Research, and Analysis, Part I" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The 2014 eruption of Kīlauea Volcano prompted the emergency survey of a cave in the Puna District of Hawaiʻi Island. The survey recorded several kilometers of cave passage including stacked rock structures, midden, and also a distinctive feature in the form of a...

  • Analyses of metallurgical remains from Failaka, Kuwait: Exploring the Persian Gulf metals trade in the 2nd millennium BCE (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lloyd Weeks.

    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. This paper reviews the exchange of metals within the greater Persian Gulf region during the 2nd millennium BCE, considering archaeological, archaeometric and documentary evidence. The specific focus is the metallurgical assemblage from Failaka Island (Kuwait) and its implications for the continued production and...

  • Analyses of Pastes and Polychromy of Chupícuaro Pottery: A Diachronic Comparison Using a Noninvasive Approach (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlos López Puértolas. José Luis Ruvalcaba-Sil. Eliseo Padilla. Edgar Casanova-González. Véronique Darras.

    This is an abstract from the "Reassessing Chupícuaro–Cuicuilco Relationships in Light of Ceramic Production (Formative Mesoamerica)" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pottery is one of the hallmarks of the societies that emerged in the present-day Acámbaro Valley known as the Chupícuaro culture (ca. 600–100 BC). The aesthetic features of Chupícuaro ceramics range from complex forms of monochrome ware to polychrome varieties based on three main...

  • Analysis of Burned Hematite from Boxed Springs Site (41UR30) (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Georgia Zavala.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Boxed Springs (41UR30) is an Early Caddo archaeological site, known for its earthen mounds and looted cemetery. Gradiometer results from 2020 revealed multiple circular features throughout the southern area of the site, likely indicative of domestic structures. In addition to presumed structures, gradiometer results indicated several anomalies, which were...

  • Analysis of Lithic Material from Las Chachalacas (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Dillinger.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents the analysis of ground stone tools and chipped stone material from Las Chachalacas, Sonora, Mexico excavated in the winter of 2021 to 2022. Numerical dates suggest a periodic occupation from the Early Archaic period to the Early Agricultural period. The ground stone tool analysis focuses on the intensiveness of grain processing (wild...

  • Analysis of Lithic Material from the Boxed Springs Site (41UR30) (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Kressly.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While the Boxed Springs site is primarily known for the elaborate Early Caddo ceramic assemblage from cemetery contexts, lithic material is also abundant at the site. This study describes the lithic assemblage recovered from Wichita State University’s investigations in 2021 and 2022. Given the limited time frames allotted for excavations at Boxed Springs...

  • An Analysis of Maya Eccentric Forms from the Holmul Region, Petén, Guatemala (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Cynthia Hannold. Francisco Estrada-Belli.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geometric, anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and abstract forms comprise the variety of lithic silhouettes of Central America. Commonly called eccentrics, these elaborate, technically remarkable forms are often recovered from ritual offerings and elite burials. This paper addresses more than sixty eccentrics recovered in the Holmul region, primarily from the...

  • An Analysis of Middle Paleolithic Fauna from Hole Fels (Swabian Jura, Germany) (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Britt Starkovich.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The sites of the Swabian Jura preserve long sequences of hominin occupation that span the Middle and Upper Paleolithic, including the oldest known art and musical instruments, which date to the Aurignacian period. Historically, we have thought of the Middle Paleolithic occupation of the region as being relatively ephemeral and low-density as compared to...

  • Analysis of Projectile Use-Wear, Adhesive Remains, and Archery Experiment on Epipaleolithic Microliths from Tor Hamar, Southern Jordan (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jianjie Yin.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Epipaleolithic assemblages in the Levant are characterized by frequent occurrences of microliths, and their techno-morphological and chronological studies have clarified detailed cultural history and regional variations in the Levant. While functional studies of microliths recently increased, the relationship between microlith functions and their...

  • Analysis of Pyramidal Loom Weights: Investigating Textile Practices from Excavations at Crnobuki Gradiste, Pelagonia, North Macedonia (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Bedell.

    This is an abstract from the "A Global Perspective on Fiber and Perishable Craftways in Ancient Cultures" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents research focusing on the pyramidal loom weights uncovered at Crnobuki Gradiste in the Pelagonia region of North Macedonia. Building on previous findings that suggest significant activity at the site, our study examines the loom weights' clay composition, temper, slip, and imprints to reveal...

  • Analysis of Radiocarbon Dates on Terminal Pleistocene Horses from North America Shows Synchronous Local Extirpation and Overlap with Paleoindian Technocomplexes (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Larkin Chapman.

    This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches in Zooarchaeology: Addressing Big Questions with Ancient Animals" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Absolute dating in archaeology is dominated by radiocarbon dating, a method that is frequently conducted on zooarchaeological material, creating a large and diverse global dataset that is readily accessible. Though radiocarbon dates are certainly valuable on their own, their value extends...

  • Analysis of the Faunal Remains from Holtun, Guatemala (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Katelyn Bishop.

    This is an abstract from the "Holtun: Investigations at a Preclassic Maya Center" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The site of Holtun is a civic-ceremonial center located in the Petén region of Guatemala, occupied from the Late Middle Preclassic to the Terminal Classic period (600 BCE–900 CE). Excavations conducted between 2010 and 2017 have resulted in a mid-size vertebrate faunal assemblage and a large archaeomalacological assemblage, including...

  • Analysis of the Fenley Hunter Obsidian Flake from the Tule Springs Archaeological Site, Las Vegas, NV (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kyle Freund. Daron Duke. Erin Eichenberg. Lucas Johnson. David Thomas.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster concerns the Tule Springs Archaeological Site (79001461/26CK4) in Clark County, Nevada, and new analyses of the obsidian flake discovered there in 1933. The importance of the flake rests in its then-postulated association with the fossil remains of extinct Pleistocene megafauna and the long-term research endeavors that have happened since....

  • Analysis with Lidar of Coastal Environments on Pohnpei (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacob Comer.

    This is an abstract from the "Ancient Seashore Sites and Environments in Geoarchaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. An airborne lidar data set collected over most of the island, and the entire coast, of Pohnpei, in the Federated States of Micronesia, allows for the development of a variety of digital models of the surveyed area. These models include digital terrain models (DTMs), which represent the surface of the ground without vegetation....

  • Analyzing an Historic-Era Refuse Deposit at Crystal Cove State Park, Orange County, California (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Leiva.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the last 100 years the coastal landscape now designated as Crystal Cove State Park has seen overlapping usage by various communities. These include the Hollywood campers of the 1920s, the Japanese and Japanese-American farming communities of the 1930s, the abrupt takeover of the Coast Guard in the 1940s, and the more recent visitors and state park...

  • Analyzing Ancient Ground Stone Tool with a Modern Toolkit: A Summer Lab Project (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly Cresci-Fulmer.

    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. The discovery and archaeological excavation of the Hell Gap National Historic Landmark, north of Guernsey, Wyoming provided archaeologists with a breadth of knowledge of North American cultures, ranging from Folsom to Archaic. One set of artifacts recovered from the site is an ancient ground stone tool...

  • Analyzing Highland and Coastal Ceramic Techniques of Production in the Middle Horizon Period (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Sally Lynch.

    This is an abstract from the "Bridging Time, Space, and Species: Over 20 Years of Archaeological Insights from the Cañoncillo Complex, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru, Part 2" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The relationship between coastal and highland cultural groups during the Middle Horizon remains widely debated and still not fully understood. Scholars have argued that “Coastal Cajamarca” plates found in Moche sites on the coast are local imitations...

  • Analyzing Material Culture Correlations with Multilayer Networks in Southwestern Archaeology (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Bischoff.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Multilayer networks consist of multiple layers of connections between the same set of nodes. Rarely applied in archaeology, this framework provides an opportunity to analyze different types of material culture in one analysis. This poster describes the results of a multilayer network analysis in the Southwest United States consisting of typed projectile...

  • Analyzing Stone Fish Net Sinkers in the North Coast of Peru: Inquiring its Functional and Symbolic Aspects. (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Sophia Emmons. Gabriel Prieto.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Maritime communities flourished along the northern coast of Peru for thousands of years due to the abundance of marine life, which inspired these communities to create specialized tools to aid in the fishing process. One of these tools was cotton fishing nets of which the attached stone sinkers are more commonly found in midden deposits. This study...

  • Ancestors, Archaeology, and Ethics in Central Mexico (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Overholtzer.

    This is an abstract from the "Ethical Dilemmas in the Study and Care of Human Remains beyond North America" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While engaging in collaborative fieldwork at Xaltocan in 2009, I was surprised that descendants wished to exhibit all their excavated ancestors in the community museum. Subsequent ethnographic research with Juan Argueta showed that displaying and analyzing the dead was a crucial tool in affirming their...

  • Ancestral Pueblo rock art in the socio-cultural and environmental context: Sand & Rock Creek Canyons in the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, Colorado, USA (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Radoslaw Palonka.

    This is an abstract from the "(Re) Imagining Rock Art Research" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Castle Rock settlement community dated to the 13th century AD located in Sand Canyon and Rock Creek Canyon in the Canyons of the Ancient National Monument, in southwestern Colorado, has been investigated since 2011, among other things focusing on the studies of relations between settlement, rock art, and landscape. In 2023, basing on a few tips from...

  • Ancestral Pueblo Turkey Management at 5MT1905: Evidence for Confinement of Turkeys within a Pueblo II Roomblock in Southwest Colorado (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only R. David Satterwhite.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The human-turkey relationship is an important aspect of Ancestral Pueblo history and has been the focus of recent research in the US Southwest and Northwest Mexico. One of the most important turkey management approaches employed by Ancestral and modern Pueblo peoples involves confinement (i.e., penning or tethering). The central Mesa Verde region, located...

  • Ancient and Medieval Agricultural Terraces in Italy: Chronology, Geoarchaeology, and sedaDNA (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Antony Brown. Andreas Lang. Francesco Ficetola. Kevin Walsh. Daniel Fallu.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Agricultural terraces are ubiquitous in the Mediterranean. The pan-European TerrACE Project has been using new methods to deepen our understanding of the chronology and cultural ecology of terraces. The terraces investigated in Italy span later-prehistory to the post-medieval period. We have applied portable luminescence (pOSL/pIRSL), luminescence dating...

  • Ancient DNA Analyses and the Human Population of Western Europe during and after the Last Glacial Maximum: Major Contributions from El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain) (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lawrence Straus. Manuel Gonzalez-Morales. Igor Gutierrez-Zugasti. David Cuenca-Solana. Ana B. Marin-Arroyo.

    This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Research into the Late Pleistocene of Europe" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pioneering genomic analyses of bone and dental calculus from the 19,000-year-old Magdalenian “Red Lady” skeleton in El Mirón Cave, along with DNA from other Late Upper Paleolithic human remains provide critical information supporting the archeologically based theory of human range southward contraction and northward...

  • Ancient DNA Analyses of Mongolian Aurochs Shows Connections to Ancient East Asian Cattle (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Witt.

    This is an abstract from the "Global Perspectives on Biomolecular Approaches to Human-Animal Interactions Past and Present" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Taurine cattle were domesticated in the Fertile Crescent and introduced to East Asia over 5000 years ago. Wild aurochs, the ancestor of domesticated cattle, were also present in East Asia during the introduction of domesticated cattle. It has been suggested that East Asian aurochs show some...

  • Ancient DNA: Investigating Maya Domesticated Waterscapes (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Molly Corr.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Environmental DNA (eDNA), or the genetic material obtained from sediments, ice, or water, is a relatively new and untapped methodology in archaeology. This technique provides important insight into the biodiversity of different plant, animal, and microbial communities, positioning archaeologists to understand human-landscape interactions of the past...

  • Ancient Environmental DNA from Meadowcroft Rockshelter (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Mikkel Pedersen.

    This is an abstract from the "2025 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of David J. Meltzer Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Meadowcroft Rockshelter, located near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a significant archaeological site excavated by James Adovasio and his team from 1973 to 1978. The site contains stratified layers of artifacts and charcoal dating from the Historic period back to approximately 17,300 years ago, suggesting early...

  • Ancient Environmental DNA: A Novel Approach to Investigating an Early Classic Period Hohokam Trash Mound Context (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Molly Corr.

    This is an abstract from the "Multidisciplinary Investigations of a Transitional Early Classic Period Hohokam Trash Mound at AZ U:9:319(ASM), Mesa, Arizona" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While various ethnographic and archaeological studies have shed light on different plant use in the Southwest, the breadth of plant use remains more enigmatic within the archaeological record. Like most artifacts studied in the archaeological record, ecofacts...

  • The Ancient Environmental Genomics Initiative for Sustainability (AEGIS) (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Eske Willerslev.

    This is an abstract from the "2025 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of David J. Meltzer Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During this talk I will introduce the Ancient Environmental Genomics Initiative for Sustainability (AEGIS) aimed at accelerating and delivering new strategies for developing resilient crops and agricultural systems and hence mitigate the risk of a human food crisis in the face of climate changes. This ambitious...

  • Ancient Footprints, Modern Voices: Empowering Indigenous Communities through Technology (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only James Cawley.

    This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. James Cawley, a Cultural Technologist and Creative Director of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation, demonstrates how interactive technology and digital storytelling can empower Indigenous communities. His presentation showcases his work at the discovery site of 12,000-year-old footprints on the United States Air Force's Utah Test and...

  • Ancient Genomics Is Archaeobiology (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly Swarts.

    This is an abstract from the "Enduring Relationships: People, Plants, and the Contributions of Karen R. Adams" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeo- or paleoethnobiology is the study of how humans interact with their environment; the most extreme and intimate expression of this relationship is domestication. Domesticates are not only a biological organism, with their own unique evolutionary trajectories that they bring into domestication, but...

  • Ancient Genomics of the Peopling of the Americas (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only José Víctor Moreno Mayar.

    This is an abstract from the "2025 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of David J. Meltzer Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Americas were the last continent to be reached by anatomically modern humans. Thanks to large-scale genomic studies, archaeology, anthropology and geology we have a broad understanding of the process whereby the ancestors of present-day Indigenous Americans originated in Northeast Asia, reached the continent...

  • Ancient Landscapes of Carabamba, Peru: The 2024 Summer Field Season of the Carabamba Archaeological Research Project (CARP) (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick Mullins.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From May to August 2024, members of the Carabamba Archaeological Research Project (CARP) conducted drone surveys and surface collections at the five largest ancient settlements in the Carabamba Plateau of northern Peru (Cerro Sulcha, Cerro Shamana, Cerro Cuidista, Cerro Paredones-Amarro, and Cerro Quinga). Surface collections at these settlements produced...

  • Ancient Lifeways but Not Archaic Approaches: Theoretical and Methodological Contributions from Researching the Earliest Record of the American Southeast (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley Smallwood. Jessi Halligan. Shane Miller. Thomas Jennings. Katherine Barry.

    This is an abstract from the "*SE The State of Theory in Southeastern Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We review contributions of archaeologists studying the Pleistocene and Early Holocene records in the American Southeast. Researchers expand on a variety of theoretical approaches, including the evolutionary theories of human behavioral ecology and cultural transmission, technological organization, and gender archaeology. While still...

  • Ancient Maya Agriculture: The Intersection of Archaeology, Soil Science, Ethnobotany and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Fedick. Anabel Ford. Jorge Mendoza-Vega. Víctor Ku Quej. Narciso Torres.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One enduring mystery of the ancient Maya is how they managed to feed large populations in a tropical environment and land resources that have long been characterized as hostile and challenging for agriculture. The traditional academic and popular perception of Maya agriculture, both ancient and modern, was based on the cultivation of maize, beans, and...

  • Ancient Maya Marketplace Investigations at Hun Tun (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Robyn Dodge.

    This is an abstract from the "Prehispanic Maya Marketplace Investigations in the Three Rivers Region of Belize: First Results" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper discusses preliminary data related to a potential ancient Maya marketplace at the Late Classic site Hun Tun. The Hun Tun Archaeology Project operates under the larger Programme for Belize Archaeological Project and within the modern geographic boundaries of the Rio Bravo...

  • Ancient Mitochondrial DNA and Genetic Variation in Northwest Mexican Populations (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ingris Pelaez-Ballestas. Natalia Delgado-Machuca. Mariano Guardado-Estrada. Jakob William Cedió. José Luis Punzo Díaz.

    This is an abstract from the "Looking to the West: New insights into Postclassic Archaeology in Michoacán" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The development of genetic sequencing technology has allowed for the recovery of ancient DNA from bone samples belonging to individuals who lived thousands of years ago, opening a window to the past and to better understand the dynamics of ancient civilizations. This study describes the genetic variation found...

  • The Ancient Occupation of the East Terrace at Cerro San Isidro, Moro District, Peru (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Itzamara Ixta. David Chicoine.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster reports on the results of archaeological excavations carried out at the ancient human settlement of Cerro San Isidro located in the Moro region of the middle Nepeña Valley, north central coast of Peru. In particular, we expose and analyze stratigraphic, architectural, and material data recovered in the unidad de excavación 5 (UE5) at the East...

  • Ancient Oral Metagenomes from La Real: Insights into Health and Infectious Disease Across the Middle Horizon Period (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Katie McCormack. Jada Benn Torres Ph.D.. Tiffiny Tung Ph.D..

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. La Real is a site located in the Majes Valley of southern Peru associated with two chronologically distinct burial contexts dated to the early and late Middle Horizon periods. Previous analysis of these funerary assemblages has shown similarities in the demographic profiles and incidence of trauma between burials from the two periods. Documented increases...

  • Ancient Puebloan Agricultural Landscape Features, Northern San Juan Area (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Fred Nials. Winston Hurst.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The recent LiDAR-aided discovery of more than 60 mi² (155 km²) of Ancestral Puebloan agricultural features, roads, and ritual features in the Northern San Juan area brings into question many of our preconceived notions about prehistoric lifeways. Agricultural features, the focus of this discussion, are consistent in location, morphology, engineering...

  • Ancient Tula and Its Interactions with Other Areas of Mesoamerica (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Dan Healan. Blanca Paredes Gudino.

    This is an abstract from the "Interactions during the Epiclassic and Early Postclassic (AD 650–1100) in the Central Highlands: New Insights from Material and Visual Culture" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the course of time, archaeological investigations at Tula, Hidalgo, have recovered increasing evidence of systematic exchange with other areas of Mesoamerica spanning Tula’s initial growth in the Epiclassic period and its Early Postclassic...

  • ...and Tribes: Lessons from Our Worldview and Search for a Partner in Preservation (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Brunso.

    This is an abstract from the "United States Archaeology at Crossroads Part 1: The Obstacles, the Failures, and the Victories" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Indian tribes are often listed last in any preservation literature. This unfortunate placement in the language has left many tribal preservation officials feeling like the “last check box” in preservation processes, leading to many misunderstandings and hard feelings. It does not have to be...

  • Andean Hunting and Pastoralism: Measures of Animal Health, Care, and Environmental Change (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Moore.

    This is an abstract from the "Complex Human-Animal Interactions in the Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The origins of domesticated llamas and alpacas from their wild ancestors took place in arid and rugged environments. Zooarchaeological remains of camelids record the wellbeing, mobility, and longevity of individual animals. Records from several high-resolution assemblages from the central Andes show different life histories over time,...

  • The Andean Khipu and a Pre-Columbian Computer System: A Postcolonial Perspective (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Mackinley FitzPatrick.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For decades, researchers have strived to “elevate” khipus—Andean knotted cords—to the status of a writing system. However, this discourse is rooted in colonial frameworks for assessing cultural sophistication, which neglect the uniqueness of non-Western systems and obscure the richness of khipus. This paper challenges the conventional debate surrounding...

  • Andean Past: An Open Access Journal for Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory (1987 to Present) (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Dan Sandweiss.

    This is an abstract from the "Issues in Regional Journal Publishing in the Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Andean Past is a peer-reviewed, interannual publication series on Andean archaeology and ethnohistory. Founded by Dan Sandweiss at Cornell University in the mid-1980s, fourteen volumes have been published since 1987. Monica Barnes joined as co-editor for Volume 3 (1992) and became the editor from Volume 5; Dan serves as Founding...

  • The Andean Urban Center of Cajamarquilla: Environmental and Occupational Dynamics (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Rafael Segura Llanos.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Central Andes saw a long and complex development of prehistoric urban life. Although considerable progress has been made in understanding this process, our assessment is still very fragmentary due to the lack of key data on centers that appear to have been pivotal at the regional scale. In this paper, I examine Cajamarquilla, a site (> 100 ha) on the...

  • Andesite Exchange Networks from the Formative to Middle Horizon in Cusco (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Brown.

    This is an abstract from the "New Advances in Cusco Archaeology: From the Formative to the Late Horizon" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Rumiqolqa quarry is well known as the main source of stone for some of the most impressive Inka constructions, however the quarry's use prior to the Late Horizon is less understood. During her excavations at the Formative site of Marcavalle, Mohr-Chavez hypothesized that the andesite used to make flaked tools...

  • Animal Architecture: Historicizing Nonhuman Material Culture (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Newman.

    This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches in Zooarchaeology: Addressing Big Questions with Ancient Animals" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As new research continues to reveal the cognitive richness and social complexity of animal lives and as recently developed technologies expand the materials that can serve as traces of the past (as well as the information that can be gleaned from them), the range of activities and actors that...

  • Animal Exploitation Choices in Worked Bones at a Portuguese Chalcolithic Village (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jack Bishop. Roshan Paladugu. Kristine Richter. Christina Warinner.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Both hunting and agropastoralism were important to the Iberian Peninsular Chalcolithic subsistence economy. However, questions remain about the relative exploitation of wild and domestic fauna. Vila Nova de São Pedro (VNSP) is a Portuguese Chalcolithic village site, first excavated by Eugénio Jalhay and Afonso do Paço from 1936 to 1967 and by the VNSP3000...

  • The Animal Provisioning System for a Late Bronze Age Temple at Hazor, Israel (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Lev-Tov. Kevin McGeough.

    This is an abstract from the "Breaking the Mold: A Consideration of the Impacts and Legacies of Richard W. Redding" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The tel site of Hazor, Israel is one of the largest such occupational mounds in the southern Levant. Excavated in the 1950s, 1960s, and continuously since the 1990s, archaeologists have uncovered monumental public buildings. One such building, now identified as one of several Late Bronze Age temples,...

  • Animal Use in the Late Prehispanic Colca Valley–Arequipa, Peru (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly Moss.

    This is an abstract from the "Scaling New Heights: Recent Advances in Andean Zooarchaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The prehispanic Arequipa region of southern Peru was renowned for its vast camelid herds, but the exact modes of pastoral economies varied between elevations, sites, and periods. This paper examines the extent of reliance on camelids at Uyo Uyo, a significant multicomponent settlement located in the Colca Valley (Arequipa,...

  • [Animal] Skeletons in the Closet: Decolonizing Comparative Faunal Collections (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Max Schrader.

    This is an abstract from the "Reckoning with Legacy Exhibits, Data, and Collections" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Northern Arizona University, Department of Anthropology, Faunal Analysis Laboratory (NAUDAFAL) prioritizes decolonizing zooarchaeology through our work. Despite this mission, the lab’s comparative collection is stored and organized in alignment with arbitrary Euro-Western epistemologies and lacks Indigenous perspectives for...

  • Animate Pottery and Culture Phases (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only William Walker.

    This is an abstract from the "Building Bridges: Papers in Honor of Teresita Majewski" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. If pottery was animate in past cultures, does this not beg the question how would these powers, central to magical technologies, contribute to creation of archaeological phases? Archaeologists generally struggle to explain rise and fall in the popularity of artifacts. Indeed the behavioral archaeologists developed artifact...

  • An Animist Shamanism: The World behind San Rock Art (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Sam Challis. Andrew Skinner.

    This is an abstract from the "Painting the Past: Interpretive Approaches in Global Rock Art Research" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hunter-gatherer cosmology in southern Africa is very clearly multinatural; persons human and nonhuman working to behave intelligibly to each other so that relations are brokered and maintained. Until recently, however, rock art interpretations have implied a physical division between realms animal and human,...

  • Ann Stahl’s Archival Imagination (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Francois Richard.

    This is an abstract from the "Crafting Archaeological Practice in Africa and Beyond: Celebrating the Contributions of Ann B. Stahl to Global Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In *Making History in Banda*, Ann Stahl stages an encounter with Rolph Trouillot’s *Silencing the Past* to develop an inspiring discussion of sources, interdisciplinary thinking, the supplemental use of archives, and the fraught dynamics of historical production in...

  • Another Step Forward: What We Didn't See Before LiDAR (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Fred Nials.

    This is an abstract from the "Lidar Research in the US Southwest" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> A distinctive system of terrain modification consisting of large areas of near-invisible, widely-spaced, quasi-parallel linear ridges (berms) was first identified by Hurst and Willian in 2014 during archaeological survey. Despite an apparent association with a Puebloan road and great house, questions about the age and origin of the originally...

  • The Antarctic Archaeological Reconnaissance Project: Preliminary Results (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jesse Casana.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The conventional wisdom that Antarctica was untouched by humans prior to its discovery by British mariners in 1819 is not based on archaeological evidence, but instead is rooted in a tacitly racist belief that Indigenous peoples who lacked European sailing technologies were simply unable to get there. Yet just 500 miles north of the ecologically rich...

  • Anthracological Investigation of Forest Management Practices at Three Bronze Age Sites in Central Thailand (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Fabian Toro-Uribe.

    This is an abstract from the "The Social and Environmental Context for Early Metalworking in Central Thailand" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Anthracological examinations of charred wood remains associated with the excavations from the Thailand Archaeometallurgy Project (TAP) provide valuable insights into ecological management strategies in the region. Excavations at Non Pa Wai (NPW), Nil Kham Haeng (NKH) and Non Mak La (NML) have produced...

  • Anthropologist in Exile: Navigating Loss and Pursuing Justice (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Pilar Escontrias.

    This is an abstract from the "Bringing the Past to Life, Part 2: Papers in Honor of John M. D. Pohl" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Making space for us to love archaeology in its prismatic wholeness is John Pohl’s greatest contribution to the field. We first met when I was an undergraduate taking his course on precolumbian art and archaeology of Mexico. He was my only college professor who encouraged me to connect archaeology with my own family...

  • Anthropology on Social Media (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Airola.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2018, only about half of Americans (49%) agreed that “human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals,” and 38% that “the universe began with a big explosion” (Besley and Hill, 2020). These basic facts may be well understood by the scientific and academic communities, but how do we go about disseminating this sort of...

  • Anticipating Community: Slow Bioarchaeology in Legacy Anatomical Collections (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Alysha Lieurance.

    This is an abstract from the "Communities of Engagement: Incorporating Deep Time and Slow Science into Community Based Research Projects" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent publications outlining ethical guidelines for the handling of human skeletal remains stress the necessity of obtaining informed consent from donors, lineal descendants, descendant communities, and/or communities of care before conducting research. However, when consent...

  • Anticipating Ruptures: Living with Uncertainty and Undertaking Repair (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Rus Sheptak. Rosemary Joyce.

    This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Failure" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Drawing on archaeological research on the longue durée of ancestral Lenca society in Honduras, we argue that centuries of resilience provided the tools people needed to understand and respond to periodic interruptions in the normal progress of seasons, lives, and relationships, “failures” of specific forms of social relations most dramatically visible as...

  • “…Any man who pits his intelligence against a fish…”: What a diverse set of fishing tools and strategies tells us about the Earliest Known fishing communities of Baja California. (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Claritsa Duarte.

    This is an abstract from the "Fishing Technologies: Exploring Manufacturing Techniques and Styles, Traditions, Exchange, Migration and More" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The recovery of several dozen single-piece shell fishhooks, fishing weights, indirect evidence for the use of small-gauge nets and harpoons from Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene contexts on Isla Cedros Baja California provides the earliest definitive evidence for a fully...

  • Análisis comparativo de Machuqolqa y Yunkaray en el periodo pre-inca y inca temprano del Cusco (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kylie Quave.

    This is an abstract from the "New Advances in Cusco Archaeology: From the Formative to the Late Horizon" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Presentamos una comparación de dos sitios de la región al noroeste de Cusco, capital eventual del imperio Inca. El sitio de Yunkaray por la pampa de Maras y el sitio de Machuqolqa cerca a Chinchero fueron ocupados durante los siglos XIV a XV durante el supuesto periodo de desarrollo imperial de los Incas en la...

  • Análisis de la cerámica del Periodo Intermedio Tardío del sitio Isqomoqo (Yanahuara, Urubamba) (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only E. Williams Franco Chávez.

    This is an abstract from the "New Advances in Cusco Archaeology: From the Formative to the Late Horizon" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Presentamos los resultados de los trabajos de prospección y análisis de cerámica del Periodo Intermedio Tardío, desarrollados en el sitio Isqomoqo, ubicado en la parte oeste del Valle Sagrado. Este periodo es asociado al estilo decorativo Killke y a menudo los investigadores han identificado este estilo en...

  • Análisis osteológico de entierros y depósitos rituales del Proyecto Dzibanché. (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Dana Gutiérrez Ortega.

    This is an abstract from the "Nuevos datos de la dinastía Kaanu’l en el Clasico Temprano de la tierras bajas mayas: Proyecto Promeza Dzibanche/Kaanu’l 2023-2024." session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Desde la década de los 90's la Zona Arqueológica de Dzibanché, localizada en el Estado mexicano de Quintana Roo, ha registrado una amplia variedad de entierros humanos prehispánicos mayas en distintos contextos: desde espacios domésticos, entierros de...

  • Apophatic Archaeology: The Materiality, Phenomenology, and Textuality of Caves in Early Medieval Britain (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander D'Alisera.

    This is an abstract from the "New Work in Medieval Archaeology, Part 2: Crossing Boundaries, Materialities, and Identities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although most discussions surrounding humans and caves in Britain begin in prehistory and end with the Roman period, archaeologists have uncovered evidence for early medieval activity across the island. Still, early medieval historians face a methodological problem in which—compared to the...

  • Aportes de la prospección geofísica para entender los asentamientos en medios lacustres de la cuenca de Zacapu, Michoacán, México (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Gregory Pereira. Jorge Blancas. Agustin Ortiz.

    This is an abstract from the "2024 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Luis Barba" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hace más de tres décadas, Luis Barba y su equipo del laboratorio de prospección arqueológica del IIA, UNAM iniciaron una colaboración fructífera con investigadores del CEMCA en la cuenca de Zacapu (Michoacán) que continúa hasta nuestros días con instituciones francesas como el CNRS y la Universidad Paris 1/Panthéon-Sorbonne. En...

  • Aportes del estilo cerámico de Matagua-Wanakauri: Una lectura de la cerámica del origen de los incas (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Yanet Villacorta Oviedo.

    This is an abstract from the "New Advances in Cusco Archaeology: From the Formative to the Late Horizon" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Las sociedades anteriores a los incas tuvieron conocimiento en la producción cerámica, cada cual con un estilo particular, siendo el caso del estilo cerámico de Matagua. Arqueológicamente se tiene la presencia de los estilos Killke, Lucre, Colcha. Los rasgos de diseño y morfología son similares y varían en...

  • The appearance of bifacial technology in the Middle Stone Age of Bizmoune Cave, Morocco (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven Kuhn.

    This is an abstract from the "Early human adaptation on the African coasts: Comparing northwest Morocco and the Cape of South Africa" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The Middle Stone Age Aterian of North Africa shows a high level of continuity in artifact forms and modes of reduction. This continuity probably reflects stable environments in near-coastal parts of North Africa, combined with the notable adaptability of Homo sapiens. However,...

  • Appearance of the bifacial stemmed points in Paleo-Sakhalin Hokkaido Kurile Peninsula (PSHK) (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Masami Izuho.

    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. The precise locations and mechanisms of the emergence of ancient North American populations, which developed from a mix of East Eurasian and Ancient North Eurasian groups around 25,000 years ago, followed by a period of isolation and subsequent migration to the Americas after approximately...

  • Apples to Oranges: Measuring the Efficacy of Apple’s Object Capture Photogrammetry API for 3D Modeling in Archaeology (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren Franklin.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The creation of 3D models using photogrammetry has become an increasingly important aspect of archaeological investigation and outreach, allowing researchers to ask deeper quantitative questions and reach wider audiences. As technological advancements continue, it is crucial to assess how effectively photogrammetry applications are producing...

  • Application of archaeometric methods to forensic anthropology casework to resolve medicolegal significance (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Alina Tichinin. Eric Bartelink.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Human remains cases processed through the medicolegal system come from a variety of different circumstances. Protohistoric and prehistoric human remains are often submitted to law enforcement, and these remains often lack burial context and provenience. This presents a problem not only for law enforcement, who curate the remains as an unresolved case, but...

  • Application of Dietary Isotopes to Questions of Medicolegal Significance (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Damon Tarrant. Laura Yazedjian. Michael Richards.

    This is an abstract from the "The Intersection of Archaeological Science and Forensic Science" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Isotopic analysis of human remains has been used in archaeological and forensic contexts to examine diets, mobility, and the geographical origin of individuals (Bartelink and Chesson 2019). We applied dietary isotope analysis, a method more commonly applied in archaeological science research, to 30 unidentified human...

  • The Application of Fragranced Corpse Ointments and Pigments in Southern Lowland Maya Funerary Traditions during the Classic Period (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Zazueta.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ancient Maya used to prepare the body of their deceased family members for its proper cycling according to long-standing family traditions and more collective ideas, anchored in Indigenous beliefs of the sublime vivifying qualities of colors and fragrant matter in communicating with the anecumene of the divine. Such an entity was the itz sap, a sacred...

  • The Application of Lidar in the Documentation and Protection of Chacoan Great Houses (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Shanna Diederichs.

    This is an abstract from the "Lidar Research in the US Southwest" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chacoan great houses, dating to the tenth and eleventh centuries AD, are one of the most impressive and enigmatic categories of Ancestral Pueblo architecture in the Southwest. Affordable and convenient lidar scanning applications now allow us to generate extraordinary images and scaled interactive models of these structures. Lidar products can...

  • Application of Metric Sex Estimation Standards at Tell Abraq: A Study of the Humerus (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Nichols. Anna Osterholtz. D. Shane Miller.

    This is an abstract from the "Continued Advances in Method and Theory for Commingled Remains" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Estimating sex in commingled assemblages may have an increased reliance on metric methods. These metric methods are often based on known collections that differ in geographical location and historical time period from the commingled collections to which they may be applied. In this presentation, we detail the testing of...

  • Application of Plant Wax n-alkane and GDGT-based Paleoenvironmental Proxies Derived from Archaeological Cave Sediments: A Case Study from the Middle Stone Age site of Bizmoune, Morocco (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kayla Worthey. Jessica Tierney. Steven Kuhn. Abdeljalil Bouzouggar.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Lipid biomarkers derived from plant waxes (n-alkanes) and the cell membranes of bacteria and archaea (GDGTs) are potentially powerful paleoenvironmental proxies in the field of archaeology given their durability and ubiquity in terrestrial sediments. We use the distributions of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (GDGT) and plant wax n-alkane structural...

  • The Application of Soil and Sediment Micromorphology in First Americans Research (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Holcomb.

    This is an abstract from the "Geoarchaeology in First Americans Research, Part 1" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past several decades, the application of soil and sediment micromorphology in geoarchaeology has flourished, especially outside of the Americas. Despite the widespread acceptance and use of this approach by our European counterparts, a similar effect has yet to occur among geoarchaeologists focused on the early archaeological...

  • Applications of Black Feminist Theory to Archaeobotanical Analysis: A Case Study of Belle Grove’s Enslaved Quarters (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda Seminario.

    This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The contributions of enslaved African Americans to local formal economies have often gone unrecognized in previous historical and archaeological research; this is especially true concerning the actions of enslaved women. Black Feminist Theory allows researchers to consider the ways that Black women viewed and affected the...

  • Applications of Isotope Analysis to Conflict Archaeology: A Case Study from the Northern Iberian Peninsula (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrea Zurek-Ost.

    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. Isotopic approaches to investigate geographic area of origin, mobility, and dietary practices have long been applied to archaeological and forensic contexts. Isotopic ratios from human bones and teeth can be used to derive information about cultural, geographic, and demographic group membership....

  • An Applied Ceramic Typology and Architectural Analysis that Refines the Occupation Sequence of the LA 8619 Point Great House Community in San Juan County, New Mexico (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven Rospopo.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ancestral Puebloan researchers in the US Southwest have considered the Middle San Juan Region transitional to the Chaco-Cibola cultural tradition to the south and the Northern San Juan-Mesa Verde traditions to the north. Analyses of twenty-four years of ceramic artifacts from Middle San Juan River basin sites suggests that the region should be considered...

  • Applied Geometric Morphometrics in Analysis of Alaska Native Ground Slate Projectile Points (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander Smith.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Indigenous Alaskan ground slate projectile points present an interesting opportunity to apply geometric morphometrics for shape analysis of a unique and relatively understudied lithic tradition. Here I present a method for the purpose of classifying and corroborating presumed tribal affiliations of Proto-Historic ground slate projectile points from...

  • Applied Systems Engineering Can Help See Into Non-Contiguous Debris Zones With New Eyes (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lawrence Smith.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Finding the lost ships of Tristan de Luna’s fleet is a high-priority historical challenge. Florida archaeologists discovered three of the lost ships in Pensacola Bay. Applied systems engineering can help see into non-contiguous debris zones with new eyes. A 1559 hurricane destroyed ships associated with Pensacola’s first settlement. Three ships were found...

  • Applying Behavioral Ecology to Help Restore Indigenous Socioenvironmental Systems in the Bear River Basin (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian Codding.

    This is an abstract from the "*Behavioral Ecology in the Mountain West" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Indigenous land-use decisions influenced plants and animals across North America for thousands of years. These dynamics were disrupted by settler-colonial invasions, leading to declines in ecosystem function and health. Restoring Indigenous socioenvironmental systems and the cultural keystone species they support requires first identifying how...

  • Applying Digital Archaeology to Education and Heritage Management at Cahal Pech, Belize (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Summer Kiker.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the early 2000s, the Belize Institute of Archaeology has been expending considerable effort to enhance the tourism potential of its archaeological sites, to contribute to heritage education in rural areas of the country, and to provide information that can be used by tourism stakeholders. To assist these Belizean initiatives, archaeologists from...

  • Applying Glass Bead Chemistry to Examine Wendat Village Intrasite Organization (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Alicia Hawkins. Heather Walder.

    This is an abstract from the "The Elemental Analysis Facility at the Field Museum: Celebrating 20 Years Serving the Archaeological Community " session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Glass bead compositions and typologies from late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Wendat villages in Ontario have been used to examine chronological differences and regional exchange networks; these artifacts may also be useful for investigating patterns of interaction and...

  • Applying Indigenous Methodologies to Create an Indigenous Research Agenda Model (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Larea Lewis.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Indigenous methodologies are methods of research that are guided by Indigenous knowledge systems and worldviews. Indigenous methodologies include: (1) doing research for, by or with indigenous communities, (2) incorporating indigenous worldviews, (3) incorporating traditional knowledge, (4) incorporating tribal ethics & protocols, (5) applying decolonizing...

  • Applying Late Pleistocene Archaeological Discovery Models in Southern Alaska: Shorelines, Paleoenvironments, and Predictions from Hinchinbrook Island, Prince William Sound (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only John White.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The origins of the First Americans have been debated by archaeologists for decades. As increasing evidence emerges supporting the Coastal Migration Theory, greater interest has been directed at the sparse and enigmatic Late Glacial archaeological record of the Northwest Coast. Recent discoveries have demonstrated that, contrary to long-held belief, the...

  • Applying Slow Science and the Ethics of Community Engagement: An Eastern Woodland case study of indigenous incorporation with the acquisition of archaeological knowledge (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Phillip Mendenhall.

    This is an abstract from the "Communities of Engagement: Incorporating Deep Time and Slow Science into Community Based Research Projects" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation explores the implementation of the ‘slow science’ method, termed to incorporate meaningful indigenous community involvement into archaeological research. Recent initiatives involving descendant indigenous communities through land acknowledgement and explanatory...

  • Applying Structural Vulnerability (SVP) to a Juvenile Archaeological Population from Copan, Honduras (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ahalisharaeyli Barreiro Castro.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster reports on the application of the Structure Vulnerability Profile (SVP) from the UWF Biocultural Lab to a Mesoamerican bioarchaeological sample. The SVP is a method to add to traditional bioanthropological skeletal profiles but considering “biomarkers” that reflect embodied inequality. The juvenile archaeological sample from Late Classic Copan...

  • Applying the Index of Care to Antemortem Cranial Trauma at Bab adh-Dhra’ (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia Johnston. Keri Porter. Susan Sheridan.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Early Bronze Age II-III (EBA) at Bab adh-Dhra’ represents a period of significant social change partially marked by the establishment of a fortified town at the site. This research examines the individual and community-wide implications of antemortem cranial depression fractures (CDFs) during this shift in socio-economic lifestyles and population...

  • Applying the Theory of Heart-Centered Archaeology to Issues of Exclusion in Archaeology (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Madeline Jennings.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper will work to explore not only the basis and creation of the theory of Heart-Centered Archaeology, but the way that it can be used to overcome the various issues of exclusion in archaeology that persist to this day. It will be compared to other theoretical approaches and broken down into the merits and drawbacks of Archaeology of the Heart...

  • An Appraisal of the Middle Preclassic Pyrite Mirrors from Tomb 1 of Chiapa de Corzo (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lynneth Lowe. Emiliano Gallaga. Emiliano Melgar Tísoc.

    This is an abstract from the "And They Look into the Mirror for Answers: Mirror Analysis to Understand Its Holder" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Smith and Kidder were among the first to highlight pyrite prehispanic mirrors as “marvels of painstaking craftsmanship” (1951: 44). These mirrors presented a reflective surface consisting of 20–50 pyrite tesserae with beveled edges, perfectly cut, and average 2 mm in thickness. The first known examples...

  • Approaches to Scale in Highly Commingled Contexts: A Case Study from Roncesvalles (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma Bonthorne.

    This is an abstract from the "Continued Advances in Method and Theory for Commingled Remains" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations at the ossuary of El Silo de Carlomagno, located in Roncesvalles (Navarre, Spain), have generated more than 680,000 human bones dating from the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries CE. The subject of ongoing archaeological research, the site represents one of the largest commingled assemblages ever studied, with a...

  • Approaching Extensive Damage at Historic Cemeteries Using Canine Detectors (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lynne Engelbert.

    This is an abstract from the "Vicksburg Is the Key: Recent Archaeological Investigations and New Perspectives from the Gibraltar of the South" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Historic cemeteries do not “age” well. Many factors contribute to the degradation of cemeteries. The constant shifting of soil, rodents, vegetation, vandalism, and now we are facing an even bigger threat with climate change, including floods, fires earthquakes, mud slides,...

  • Approaching Identity and Gender Roles through the Alimentation Sphere in the Iberian Culture (5th - 1st century BC) (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Alba Abad España.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The alimentation sphere presents a relevant context for the examination of sociopolitical dynamics within heterarchical agricultural societies of the Iberian Culture. Historically, alimentation practices have been associated with tasks primarily undertaken by women. However, there is a need to examine whether the extent of the presence of women is related...

  • Approaching the Big History from an upland valley in the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain): Transhumance systems and global processes during the last 500 years (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only David González-Álvarez.

    This is an abstract from the "On Both Sides of the Atlantic: Historical Archaeology of Rural Modernization from the American and European Traditions" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Cantabrian Mountains in northwestern Spain have been exploited by pastoralist groups since Late Prehistory (ca. 6000 BP), thereby shaping these landscapes in the longue durée. The anthropogenic pressure on the environment resulted in the transformation of upland...