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Welcome to the Society for American Archaeology’s tDAR home page.

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.

Other Keywords
Historic • Zooarchaeology • Material Culture and Technology • North America • Cultural Resources and Heritage Management • Bioarchaeology/Skeletal Analysis • Landscape Archaeology • Worldwide • Lithic Analysis • Ceramic Analysis

Culture Keywords
Historic

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Reconnaissance / Survey • Site Evaluation / Testing • Site Stewardship Monitoring • Heritage Management

Material Types
Chipped Stone • Dating Sample • Human Remains

Geographic Keywords
North America (Continent) • United States of America (Country) • USA (Country) • United Mexican States (Country) • Belize (Country) • Republic of Panama (Country) • Netherlands Antilles (Country) • Aruba (Country) • South America (Continent) • Republic of El Salvador (Country)

Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 401-500 of 5,135)

  • Documents (5,135)
  1. Ballplayers, Captives, Kings, and Queens: Examining the Identity of Key Players in Veracruz Ballgame Rituals (2024)
  2. Baobabs, Caves, and Towns: An Alternative View of Island Urbanism in Precolonial Zanzibar (2024)
  3. Bappir: The Ancient Mesopotamian Brewer's Best Friend (2024)
  4. Basement Curation: Adopting an Orphaned Collection from Montserrat (2024)
  5. Basket Pedagogies and Other Object Lessons (2024)
  6. Basketry for the Dead: The Technology of Wari Cane Boxes (2025)
  7. Basque Tree Carvings in the American West (2025)
  8. Basque Whaling and Inuit Contacts on the Quebec Lower North Shore (2025)
  9. The Bass Street Community Archaeology Project: Digging Deeper into African American Heritage in Nashville (2025)
  10. The Battle Mural at Cacaxtla Revisited: Ethnicity and Historicity in Epiclassic Central Mexico (2025)
  11. A Bayesian Approach to the Emergence and Decline of Cahokia (2024)
  12. Bayesian Demographic Reconstruction in the US Southwest: “Playing” with Priors (2024)
  13. A Bayesian Neural Network for Indirect Dating (2025)
  14. Beans of Power: Phaseolus and Late Preclassic Rulership on the Pacific Coast (2024)
  15. The Bears Ears Digital Cultural Heritage Initiative (BEDCHI): A Collaborative Project Bridging Ethnography, Archaeology, Stewardship, and Tribal Perspectives in Southeastern Utah (2025)
  16. Beasts and Feasts in Late Medieval Ireland: The Case from Mcdermot’s Rock (2024)
  17. Becoming Avian: Amazonian featherworks from the John P. O'Neill collection (2024)
  18. Becoming Maya: Identity Production through Weaning and Early Childhood Food Consumption at the Archaeological Site of Ucanal, Petén, Guatemala (2025)
  19. The Becoming of Far View House (2024)
  20. Bedlam, Bags, and Burial Rites: Female Hip Assemblages in Early Medieval Britain (2025)
  21. Beef, Beer, Lamb, and Liquor—A Glimpse into the 1883 Santa Fe Tertio-Millennial Expo: Monitoring of Refuse Deposits at the El Castillo / La Secoya Retirement Community, City of Santa Fe, New Mexico (2025)
  22. Beekeeping in the Yucatán Hacienda: The Role of the Melipona beecheii in the Nineteenth-Century Rural Landscape from an Environmental History Approach (2024)
  23. Beekeeping, Ancestral Knowledge, and Interspecies Relationships: Exploring Place-Based Heritage in Yucatán (2024)
  24. Before and After the Carnegie Era: On the Financial and Logistical Standardization of US Archaeology (2025)
  25. Before the Aurora of Hegemony: How the La Corona Community Brooked the Kaanul Dynasty (2024)
  26. Before the Cults of the Condor and Catequil: The Pre-Recuay Occupation at Pashash, Ancash, Peru (ca. 500 BCE–100 CE) (2024)
  27. Before the Dig: The "Archaeologizing" of Peruvian Heritage Sites Prior to Formal Research (2024)
  28. Before There Were Ceramics in Belize (2024)
  29. Behemoths of the Bajo el Laberinto: The Development of Urban Reservoirs at Yaxnocah and Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico (2024)
  30. The Belize Archaic Project: New Survey and Excavation Results (2025)
  31. Belongings as Archives: An Abundant Approach to Sugpiaq Archaeology (2024)
  32. Bending the Urban narrative: Cyclic Cities in Ancient Greece (2024)
  33. Beneath the Field of Battle: A Summary of Previous Archaeological Investigations at Vicksburg National Military Park (2024)
  34. Beneath the Surface: Analyzing the Significance of Maya Cave Taphonomy in the Preservation of a Commingled, Fragmentary, Skeletal Assemblage (2024)
  35. The Benefits, Challenges, and Student Outcomes of an Academic-Governmental Collaboration for Local Undergraduate Field Training in Archaeology (2024)
  36. The Best Defense is a Good Terrace Defense; Comparing Terraced Hilltop Sites in Northern and Central Mexico (2025)
  37. Best Foot Forward: The Social Significance of Cattle Forelegs in South African San Rock Art (2024)
  38. Best Practice Recommendations for the Treatment of “Discovered” Human Remains Lacking Provenance (2024)
  39. Between Alexandria and Rome: World-Systems Analysis, Globalization, and Processes of Social Change in Hellenistic and Roman Cyprus (2024)
  40. Between class and ethnicity: the experience of women in the archaeology of the Central Andes (2025)
  41. Between domestic trash and intentional deposits at La Banda, Chavin de Huantar, Peru. (2025)
  42. Between Fishing and Rites of Passage at Death: Recent Developments from Excavations at Jicarita Island, Coiba, Panama (2024)
  43. Between Identification and Tradition: Toward a Folk Biology of Pre-Hispanic Andean Pastoralism (2025)
  44. Between Lunahuanas and Incas: Imperial Landscape in the Middle Cañete Valley, Peru (2024)
  45. Between Mesoamerica and the US Southwest: Social Dynamics in the Guasave Region (2025)
  46. Between Research and Archéologie préventive: The State of/in the Field of Medieval Monastic Archaeology (2024)
  47. Between the Altiplano and the Amazonia: Strategies of Inka Control in Carabaya Mountains (2025)
  48. Between the Nile and the Desert: the Middle Stone Age of Kerma Region, Northern Sudan (2024)
  49. Between the Shores and the Hills: Precontact Boundaries and Behavior along the Housatonic River in Southwestern Connecticut (2024)
  50. Between Two Sources: Interpretations of the Dolly Copp and Dolly Copp II Sites in Randolph, New Hampshire (2025)
  51. Beyond (and including) academia in zooarchaeological research in Britain: the ‘Rewilding’ later prehistory project (2025)
  52. Beyond age determinations: Building theoretically informed contextualised understandings of deep time rock art in Sunda and Sahul (2025)
  53. Beyond Caves: Exploring the Diversity and Adaptation of Early Human Settlement Patterns in East-Central Europe (2025)
  54. Beyond Consumption: Evidence for Animal Bone Use in Music, Art, and Ritual in Texas (2024)
  55. Beyond Geographical Correlation in Ritual Landscape Studies: Archaeological Test of an Ethnographic Model Based on Ontological Beliefs About Landscape (2025)
  56. Beyond Hearth and Pots: Understanding Food Processing and Pottery Functions in the Harappan Culture (2025)
  57. Beyond Hillshade: Raster Methods for Distinguishing Chacoan, Historic, and Modern Era Roads Signatures in LiDAR, Cedar Mesa, Bears Ears N.M., Utah (2025)
  58. Beyond Kinship Trees: Capturing the Social Tapestry in European Prehistory (2024)
  59. Beyond Perry Mesa: The Archaeology of the Greater West Verde Region, Arizona (2025)
  60. Beyond Reuse: Reengagement and Interdiscursivity in the Pictish Built Environment (2024)
  61. Beyond Styles and Modes: Taking a Closer Look at Ceramic Changes in the Greater Antilles (2025)
  62. Beyond Teotihuacan: The Decline of Teotihuacan's Sociopolitical System (2024)
  63. Beyond the Biface: Revisiting Cobble Tool Use During the Cascade Phase at the Kelly Forks Work Center Site, Idaho (2024)
  64. Beyond the Birds of Paradise: A Geoarchaeological Investigation of Large Ancient Maya Linear Wetland Features (2024)
  65. Beyond the Butcher’s Block: Culinary Choices and Meat Utility in a Late Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia Residence (2025)
  66. Beyond the Fields: Lenape Domesticated Landscapes in the Minisink National Historic Landmark (2024)
  67. Beyond the Green: Characterizing Copper Artifacts from the Yaguachi Chiefdom, Guayas, Ecuador (2025)
  68. Beyond the Kaanul: Setting Some Questions and Initial Thoughts on the Urban Layouts of Calakmul and Its Region (2024)
  69. Beyond the Knossian State: Urban Economy and Society at the East Cretan Site of Palaikastro (2024)
  70. Beyond the Shell Ring: Examining the Impact of Sea Level Change during the Late Archaic/Early Woodland transition on Creighton Island, GA, U.S.A. (2025)
  71. Beyond the Stereotype: Working to a Landscape-Based Model of Study and Cross-Cultural Exchange, Fluteplayer Rock Art Imagery in Chaco Canyon—Concluding Research Results (2025)
  72. Beyond the West Wall (2025)
  73. Bickering over Bison Bones: Radiocarbon and Stable Isotope Analysis to Determine Number of Individuals at the Haynie Site (5MT1905) (2024)
  74. Bifaces to Go (Again): Building on Huckell’s Experimental Archaeology Legacy (2025)
  75. Big Bangs, Cosmic Connections, and other Pauketatian Perspectives on Illinois Valley Archaeology (2025)
  76. Big Data and Late Pleistocene / Early Holocene Landscape Use in the American Southeast (2024)
  77. Big Data and Possibilities for New Urban Comparisons at and Around Cahokia Mounds, USA (2024)
  78. Big Data and the Berry Site: Colonial Archaeology in the Carolina Foothills (2024)
  79. Big Data Investigation of Persistence in Ethnically Homogenous and Heterogeneous Communities on the Late Nineteenth-Century Central Great Plains (2024)
  80. Big Ideas on Big Migration(s): Paleoindian Colonization of the Americas, Revisited (2024)
  81. A Big Look at Small Tools: An Analysis of the Emergence and Dispersal of Microliths in Eurasia (2024)
  82. Big, Bigger, Biggest: Investigating Aguadas 1–3 at Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico (2024)
  83. Bigote & Birkenstocks: A Mentor for the Ages (2025)
  84. A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Antemortem Post-cranial Trauma Patterns within the Archaic Greek Cemetery of Phaleron (2024)
  85. A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Developmental Growth among the Chimúes of the North Coastal Peru (AD 900–1470) (2025)
  86. Bioarchaeological Analysis of Fragmentary Burials from the Site of Julcuy, a Late Archaic Site in Coastal Ecuador (2025)
  87. Bioarchaeological and Genetic Analysis of the Tzintzuntzan Ossuary (2024)
  88. Bioarchaeological Evidence of Occupational Stress and Specialized Task Activity at Spiro Mounds, Oklahoma (2024)
  89. The Bioarchaeology of a Ceremonial Depository in the Petexbatun Area of Guatemala (2025)
  90. Bioarchaeology of the Coastal Maya (2025)
  91. Bioarchaeology of the Mongol Empire (2025)
  92. Bioarqueología del cuidado en Maltrata, Veracruz, México: El caso de las enfermedades treponémicas en la infancia. (2025)
  93. Biodistance Studies of Riverine Shell-Mound Builders from Ribeira de Iguape Valley (São Paulo and Paraná, Brazil) (2024)
  94. Biogeography of Hunter-Gatherer Diet (2024)
  95. Biographic Rock Art on the Southern Plains and Politics through Equestrian Imagery (2025)
  96. The Biography of the Tumi de Oro in Peru (2025)
  97. A Biography of the Yumbos (2024)
  98. The Biological Baseline in Zooarchaeology: Unpacking the Domestication of South American Camelids (2024)
  99. Biological History of the lower Río Verde Valley, Oaxaca, Mexico: An Investigation into Infectious Disease During the Classic-Post Classic Transition at Río Viejo (2025)
  100. A Biometric Meta-study on the Origins and Spread of Caprine Management in the Northern and Southern Levant (2025)