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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 501-600 of 5,135)

  • Documents (5,135)
  1. Biomolecular and zooarchaeological insights into human-turtle interactions in historical New Orleans, Louisiana (2025)
  2. Birds of a Feather: Suggestions for Best Practices in Taxonomic Identification (2025)
  3. Birds, Circles, and Landscapes Enclosed with Soil: Geoarchaeology at the Eastern Edge of Pinson Mounds, Tennessee, USA (2024)
  4. Bison Leap Lore: Layered Landscapes and Legacies - A GIS Investigation of the Owl Cave Early Holocene Bison Jump in Southern Idaho (2025)
  5. Black Bodies and the Making of Race in Antebellum America (2024)
  6. The Black Burned Bits of Prehistory: A Celebration of Dr. Karen R. Adams (2024)
  7. Black Mountain, Mountaineer, and Folsom in the Southern Rocky Mountains (2025)
  8. Black Studies and the Ontological Politics of Knowledge Production in African Diaspora Archaeology (2024)
  9. Blazing New Trails: Rethinking the Extent of the Ancestral Pueblo Road Network in the Northern San Juan Region (2024)
  10. Bleeding in Limbo: Health, Tasks, and Ritual in the Liminal Spaces of Prehistoric Menstruants (2024)
  11. BLM Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center Reinvigorating NAGPRA at BLM Canyons of the Ancients (2025)
  12. Blockade to Stockade: Blockade Runners, Globalization, and Confederate Supply (2024)
  13. The Blue Canyon Site, A Clovis Quarry and Camp in Central New Mexico (2025)
  14. The Blue Scorpion Rides Again: The Turquoise Mines of Xvshuuk Mniish (2025)
  15. Bluefish Caves I, II, III: Taphonomic Analysis of the Mammal and Bird Bone Assemblages (2024)
  16. The Blurred Line between Insider/Outsider Positionalities (2024)
  17. Bodies, settlements, and monuments: The architectural landscapes of the coast of the Atacama Desert (6500-1200 Cal BP) (2025)
  18. Body Modifications within the Southwest through Rock Art and Ceramics. (2024)
  19. Bog Butter: Experimenting with the Preservative Nature of Peat Bogs (2024)
  20. Bona Fide: Advances in Ancient Maya Bioarchaeology from Belize (2024)
  21. Bone Collectors: Personhood and Appeal in Human Remains Sales on Facebook (2024)
  22. Bone Color as a Tool to Interpret Differing Cremation Patterns in Bronze Age Eastern Hungary (2024)
  23. Bone Gut Heart Stone (2025)
  24. Bone Tool Production and Use in Southern Coastal California: Examining a Process that Demanded the Use of Large Terrestrial Mammal Tool-Quality Raw Material (2024)
  25. Bone “Awls” of the Southwest (2024)
  26. Bonfire Shelter Archaic Occupations (2024)
  27. Boom-and-Bust Population Dynamics: Climate Change, Resource Inequality, and Intergroup Conflict in the Prehistoric North American Southwest (2024)
  28. Boron Isotopes: A New Tool for Characterizing Wetland Use In The Past (2024)
  29. Botijas and the Black Pacific: Stylistic and pXRF Analysis of Amphorae produced by Enslaved Potters at Early-Modern Nasca, Peru (2024)
  30. Boundaries and Crossroads, Immigrants and Ancestors: Comparing the Post-Chavín Landscapes of the Moche and Virú Chaupiyungas (2024)
  31. Boundaries of Interdisciplinarity: Can Zooarchaeology Handle Ontological Diversity? (2024)
  32. Boundaries: Where Iron Age Archaeology Meets Medieval Art History (2024)
  33. The Bourne Identity: A Unique Middle Formative Jade Figure from Río Pesquero, Veracruz: Rubber Ball Game Player and/or Lapidary (2025)
  34. The Bow That Wasn't: On the Absence of the Bow in Aboriginal Australia (2024)
  35. A Box Labeled “Mystery. Misc. Headaches”: Inherited Problems in Collections Management (2024)
  36. Breaking Down Boundaries through Collaborative Learning Communities: Integrating Outdoor Teaching into a Year One Introductory Archaeology Course (2024)
  37. Breaking the Past to Break from the Past: Could the Construction and Placement of Contexts Containing Dismembered Natural Mummies Have Helped to Legitimize Moche Power? (2025)
  38. Bridges between the living and the dead: Landscapes of Resistance, (re)Memorialization and Alternative Narratives (2025)
  39. Bridging Borders: Exploring Heritage Management Models in Mexico and the USA through a Conversation with Terry Majewksi (2024)
  40. Bridging Disciplines: A Collaborative Approach to Human-Environment Interactions in China's Past (2025)
  41. Bridging the Divide between Industry and Educators: Preparing Future Archaeologists (2024)
  42. Bridging the Gap: Exploring Historical Human-Environment Dynamics within a Biodiversity Hotspot in the Gulf of Guinea (2024)
  43. Bridging the Gulf: Reconnecting Belizeans to Their Pre-Colonial Heritage through Enhanced Archaeological Education (2024)
  44. Bridging Voices around a Circle of Dialogue between Tupi Guarani, Tuxa, and Eastern Pequot Peoples through an Activist and Social Latin American Archaeology (2024)
  45. A Brief History and Future Prospects of the National Park Service’s Annual Archeological Prospection Workshop (2025)
  46. Bringing About Change in the Profession and Practice of Archaeology (2025)
  47. Bringing Artifacts Home: The Opportunities and Challenges of Collaborative Interpretation (2024)
  48. Bringing the Creed to the Classroom: Assassin's Creed as a Pedagogical Tool (2024)
  49. Broader Impact of Archaeological Science Methods in Forensic Science Investigations (2024)
  50. Bronze Age Economic Transitions in Western Mongolia (2024)
  51. Bronze and Iron Age Urban Ecology in the Galilee (2024)
  52. Bronze Technology and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Sanxingdui Culture (ca. 1300-1000 BC, Southwest China) (2025)
  53. Bronzization and the formation of Sanxingdui Culture (2025)
  54. Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park: Archaeological Investigations and Geophysical Survey (2024)
  55. Bruce Huckell and the Paleoindian Record of the West Mesa, NM (2025)
  56. Bruce Huckell, the Early Agricultural Period and Recent Work in the Upper Gila River, Southeastern Arizona (2025)
  57. Buenos Aires Estuary Waterfront: The Zen City Wreck and Coastal Urban Archaeology (2024)
  58. The Buffalo Hill Quarries Site: Investigations of an Ancestral Maya Quarryscape in the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve, Belize (2024)
  59. Buffalo's Little Brother Hill: A Little Ice Bison Jump in Southern Idaho (2025)
  60. Buffer Zones and Ecological Models of War: Theoretical and Archaeological Considerations (2025)
  61. Building a Case for Resilience: A Call to Action (2024)
  62. Building a Deeper Understanding of the Archaeology of Food through Photographs and Critical Reflection (2024)
  63. Building a Novel Archaeobotanical Framework to Investigate the History of Plant Foods in Aboriginal Australia (2024)
  64. Building a Portal to the Past: Practicing Archaeology in the Present for the Future (2025)
  65. Building a selection-based model to explain the spatial and temporal distribution of obsidian artifacts in the northern Great Basin (2024)
  66. Building an Archaeological Record of Over Three Centuries of Turtle Use Across the Chesapeake Bay Region (2024)
  67. Building and Breaking Primordial Space at the Río Viejo Acropolis (2024)
  68. Building Back Past Diné Communities: Ricos, Pobres, and Naat’aanii Status in Pericolonial New Mexico (2024)
  69. Building Capacity: Educating and Training Submerged Terrestrial Archaeologists (2024)
  70. Building Community in the Northeast (2024)
  71. Building Island Futures with Heritage-Based Tools: Archival Records from Inishark and Inishbofin, Co. Galway, Ireland (2024)
  72. Building on Basso: Ndee Place-Making as Cultural Persistence and Survivance (2024)
  73. Building Partnerships and a Jungle Expedition: Archaeological and Mapping Efforts of the Chiquibul Cave System, Cayo District, Belize (2025)
  74. Building Relationships and Sharing Information: A Gathering of the Midwest NAGPRA Community (2024)
  75. Building Resilience with Traditional Knowledge in Samoa (2024)
  76. Building the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor: Preliminary Patterns from Building Elements in Four Ancillary Pits (2025)
  77. THE BUILT SPACE, ITS INTERPRETIVE DIMENSION AND A CODED MESSAGE: THE TRIADIC ENSEMBLE OF THE BALAM GROUP OF THE GREAT CENTRAL ACROPOLIS, PETEN GUATEMALA. (2025)
  78. Bundles and the Maize God (2025)
  79. A Burden to Others? Burial 39-C from Iximche’, Guatemala (2025)
  80. Burial Practice at Mission San Antonio de Valero, Bexar County, Texas, USA (2025)
  81. Burial Recovery Excavations at the Vicksburg National Military Park (VICK) in Vicksburg, Mississippi (2025)
  82. Burial rituals and customs: A study of the horse remains from chariot-horse pit No.2 at the site of Yaoheyuan (2025)
  83. Burials, Diets, and Sex Equality among the Hunter-Fisher-Gatherers of Punta Teatinos, Chile (6000–2000 cal BP) (2025)
  84. Buried Lives: An Archaeological Investigation of a Louisiana Plantation Midden (2024)
  85. The Burning Question: A Study in Bison Dung Fuel Representation (2025)
  86. Burning Questions and Smoldering Answers: Cremation Burial Practices in Middle Balsas Region during Postclassic Period (2025)
  87. Burning Questions: The Bronze Age Cremation Cemetery at Galda de Jos, Romania (2025)
  88. Burning Questions: The Ogata Archaeological Site and Kofun Period Ironworking (2024)
  89. Burning the Record in Order to Save It: Cultural Fire as Archaeological Survey Method (2024)
  90. Burt Lime Production in the Eastern Puuc Region (2024)
  91. Burying Buildings: Ritual Closure as Mortuary Practice (or not) in the Ancient Andes? (2025)
  92. Burying Houses as a Ritual of Closure and Renewal. Two Cases from Bohemia (2025)
  93. The Butter in the Bogs: Experimental Archeological Research into the Context of Bog Butter (2025)
  94. The Buttermilk Creek Ranch Sites 41BL1431 and 41WM1498: Examining Land-Use at Two Prehistoric Lithic Resource Areas in Bell and Williamson Counties, Texas (2024)
  95. Buy One, Get One: The Legal and Sociocultural Context of “Gifting” within the Australian Human Remains Trade (2024)
  96. “By Some Little Compositions of Their Own”: The Archaeology of Literacy at the Williamsburg Bray School (2025)
  97. The "Cable Boom": Public Transportation and the Cityscape of 1880s Los Angeles (2025)
  98. Caches, Chultuns, and Stelae at the Preclassic Maya Center of Cival (2025)
  99. Cajon Project Archaeobotany and the Era of New Possibilities (2025)
  100. The Calamitous Fourteenth Century and Its Influence on the People: A Case Study from Ypres, Belgium (2024)