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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 601-700 of 5,135)

  • Documents (5,135)
  1. Camelid Domestication in the Lake Titicaca Basin: Integrating Evidence from the Archaic Period (10.0-3.2 ka) (2025)
  2. Camelid Pastoralism in the Wari Empire and Its Political Implications (2024)
  3. The Camera and the Trowel: Two Approaches to Tool-Using Primates (2025)
  4. CAMP: A New Project for the Study of Pastoral Archaeological Sites (2024)
  5. Can archaeo-faunal data track site-specific occupational intensity? Case studies from the Late Pleistocene in the southern Cape of South Africa (2024)
  6. Can Chullpas Provide a Better Understanding of Territorial Organization during the Late Intermediate Period? New Perspectives through Pacajes and Lupacas Areas and Their Influences in the South-Central Andes (2024)
  7. Can We Predict Archaeological Site Location? Should We? (2024)
  8. The Canaima Complex: Uncovering New Rock Art Sites and Cultural Insights in Canaima National Park, Venezuela (2025)
  9. Canaries in the Coal Mine: How Children Reveal the Embodied Realities of Colonialism (2024)
  10. Canid Diets and Social Roles in Ancestral Maya Communities in the Eastern Maya Lowlands (2024)
  11. Canine Detection of Scattered Scent from Historic Dismembered Human Bodies (2025)
  12. Canoes, Canals, and Portages: Water Travel around the Northern Coast of the Gulf of Mexico, ca. AD 600–1800 (2024)
  13. Caohkia Style Engraved Stone Tablets (2024)
  14. Captive Baskets: Contemporary Indigenous History of California Basket Collecting and Repatriation Policy (2025)
  15. Capturing and Sharing Vermont’s Past: 3D Imaging as a Tool for Undergraduate Research and Community Engagement (2024)
  16. Capturing Experience through 3D Modeling and Archaeoacoustics in 12th Unnamed Cave, a Dark-Zone Cave Art Site in Tennessee (2025)
  17. Capturing Time: 3D Preservation of California Central Valley Rock Art for Future Generations (2024)
  18. The Carchi-Nariño’s mollusks shells aerophones of the Royal Museums of Art and History of Brussels. Analysis by CT scan. (2024)
  19. Care and Power: Craftsmanship and Wari Elites Dynamics: A Case from Castillo de Huarmey, Peru (2025)
  20. Care in Crisis, Crisis as Care: A Comparative, Multi-scalar Archaeology of Care in Periods of Sociopolitical Disruption (2025)
  21. CARE to Be FAIR: Case Studies in Accessible Digital Data Management (2025)
  22. Caring for Ancestors and Their Belongings in Museum Settings (2024)
  23. Carnelian Beads from the Site of Kish, Iraq: Differentiating Indus and Non-Indus Carnelian Beads Using Technological, Morphological, and Chemical Analysis (2024)
  24. Carved between Cartafuel and Coangue: Spatial Analysis of the Pasto Rock Art Sites of Carchi, Ecuador (2024)
  25. Casas Grandes Effigy Vessels after the Ontological Turn: A Case Study at Paquimé (2025)
  26. Casas Grandes Vecindarios: Assessing Settlement Patterns in the Carretas Valley, Chihuahua, Mexico (2025)
  27. The Cascade Phase at the Kelly Forks Work Center Site, Idaho: Exploring Regional Variability Across the Intermountain West (2024)
  28. A Case for Digging (into Big Data) (2024)
  29. The Case for Shipwreck Material Culture Studies: Identifying Sixteenth Century Spanish Provisioning Patterns Using Ceramic Analysis from the Emanuel Point II Shipwreck (2024)
  30. The Case of Cuyuxquihui: A Postclassic Site near El Tajín (2025)
  31. A Case of Looting and Alteration of Archaeological Objects: An Andean Dressed Figurine at Harvard’s Peabody Museum (2025)
  32. Case Studies Reveal Material Complexities of Reconstructing Physical Impairment, Disability, and Health-related Caregiving in the Past (2025)
  33. A Case Study of Inadvertent Discovery: Misidentification of Human Infant Remains in a Faunal Assemblage (2025)
  34. The Casma State Heartland: A Community-Centered Regional Perspective (2024)
  35. Cast Your Nets: The Island Economy and Ecology of Gotland Within the Larger Viking World (2024)
  36. Castros and Cordage: Recognizing Contextual Evidence of Iron Age Practice at São Martinho (2024)
  37. Cattle Production and Strategic Meat Distribution in Egypt and Nubia (2024)
  38. Caught Starch and Managed Hearths: Minimally Invasive and Restorative Methods in Gallina Paleoethnobotany (2024)
  39. Cave 7 and the Causes of Basketmaker II Warfare (2025)
  40. Cave du Pont and the Western Basketmaker World (2024)
  41. Cave of Souls: The Unidentified Remains of Upper Baraćeve Špilje, Croatia (2025)
  42. Cave of Wonder: A Sacred Topos of Maritime Identities on Kalymnos (2024)
  43. The Cañari Collection of the Royal Museums of Art and History of Brussels: Spotlight on a Forgotten Collection (2025)
  44. Cenotes, Caves, and Rain Gods: The Sacred Geography of Chichen Itza (2025)
  45. The Center and the Plain: Results from an Analysis of Absorbed Residues from Mississippian and Fort Ancient Pottery from the Guard Site (2025)
  46. Centering the Edge: The Preclassic Ceramics of Belize (2024)
  47. Central Wyoming Rock Art and What it Reveals about the People Who Used this Region (2025)
  48. The Centrality of Saplings: Trees and Archaeoecological Analysis (2024)
  49. Centralized Urban Planning and Economic Segregation: A Case Study Based on Wealth Inequality at Tell Asmar and Khafajah in Mesopotamia (2024)
  50. Cephasylogy and "Trophy Heads" in Fremont Culture (2025)
  51. The Ceramic Analysis of the Collier Lodge Site (12PR36) (2025)
  52. Ceramic Analysis of the Late Pithouse Component at the Black Mountain Ruin Site (LA 49) in Southwestern New Mexico (2025)
  53. Ceramic Analysis of Woodland through Mississippian Occupation at Pierce Mounds, Northwest Florida (2025)
  54. Ceramic and starch grain evidence and the social factors behind pan-Amazonian occupation processes ca. 3,500 BP (2024)
  55. Ceramic and Textile Analysis at the site of Santo Domingo, Huarmey Valley, Peru (2025)
  56. The Ceramic Chronology of Vista Alegre: An Updated Typological Assessment (2024)
  57. Ceramic Color Variation in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin, Michoacán, Mexico (2025)
  58. Ceramic Manufacture: Indigenous and Colonial Wares in Mission Life (2025)
  59. Ceramic Manufacturing Technology and Organisation of Production at Emperor Qin Shihuang’s Mausoleum Complex, China (2025)
  60. Ceramic Paste Technologies at Cerro San Isidro, Nepeña Valley, Peru (ca. 500 BCE–1470 CE) (2024)
  61. Ceramic Pastes: Refining Epiclassic and Early Postclassic Basin of Mexico Typologies and Interactions Close to Home (2024)
  62. Ceramic Petrography in Early Osogbo, ca. 1600–1750: Crafting Technology, Regional Exchanges, and Social Complexity in Central Yoruba Region (2025)
  63. Ceramic Variability at Alkali Ridge Site 13 (2024)
  64. Ceramics and Political Dynamics of the Manteño Culture on the Coast of Manabí, Ecuador (2024)
  65. Ceramics and Social Process at Holtun, Guatemala (2024)
  66. Ceramics of a Lost Age: A Typological Study of the Late Formative Assemblage of Betulia in Northeastern Honduras (2025)
  67. The Ceramics of Cihuatan, El Salvador: Between Two Worlds (2024)
  68. Ceramics of the Middle Usumacinta Region: Relationships over Time (2024)
  69. The Ceramics of the PRV24, a Petrographic Approach (2025)
  70. Ceremonial Fauna from the Holmul Region (2025)
  71. Ceremonial Fowl: An Iconographic Analysis of Turkey Effigy Vessels from Greater Nicoya, Costa Rica (2025)
  72. Ceremony and Ritual: Preclassic Maya Round Structures from the Medicinal Trail Community (2025)
  73. Cerro Colorado and the Necropolis of Wari Kayan: Changes in the significance of the individual, the cemetery and the landscape (2025)
  74. Cerro Malabrigo y el Resurgimiento de la Monumentalidad Prehispánica en Chicama, Costa Norte del Perú (2024)
  75. Chaco and Cahokia in Continental Contexts (2025)
  76. The Chaco-topes Database: Presenting an Integrated, Interactive Stable Isotope Database of Chaco Canyon Research (2025)
  77. Chacoan Roads and Landscape Archaeology in the Eastern Red Mesa Valley, New Mexico (2024)
  78. The Chains that Grind: An Experimental Archaeological Study Ancient Maya Granite Ground Stone Tool Production (2025)
  79. The Challenge of Regionality to Global Archaeological Publishing (2025)
  80. Challenges in Assisting Removal Tribes in the Reburial Stage of the NAGPRA Process (2024)
  81. Challenges in Dating Maroon Contexts in the Great Dismal Swamp (2024)
  82. Challenges of Community-Based Heritage Work: Rights Holders, Stakeholders, and the Palimpsest Nature of the Archaeological Record (2024)
  83. Challenges of Managing Navajo Reservoir (2025)
  84. Challenges on the Road from 9th Avenue to Professional Archaeology (2024)
  85. Challenges to Chiefdoms: Māori Leaders in Aotearoa/New Zealand (2025)
  86. Challenging Colonial Biases in Archaeological Site Chronologies with Tree-Ring Radiocarbon Dating (2025)
  87. Challenging Current Perspectives on Late Pleistocene Stone Toolkits across Beringia through Use-Wear Analysis (2024)
  88. Challenging the tales of extinction: Natives in historical representations and the analysis of Panama Viejo ceramic collections (2025)
  89. Change Detection Modeling at Eagle Nest Canyon (2024)
  90. A Change in Living: Transforming Cultural Identities and Domestic Architecture in Historic Tucson (2025)
  91. Changes and Consistencies in Bone Technologies as a Sign of Cultural Transition about 4,000 Years Ago in Eastern China: Insights from the Dinggong Site, Shandong, China (2025)
  92. Changes and Continuities on Recent Past Human Occupations in Continental Southern Patagonia (2024)
  93. Changes and Innovations in Yucatecan Beekeeping Production on Ranchos and Haciendas in the Early Twentieth Century (2024)
  94. Changes in Arrow Point Morphology in the San Antonio Missions: What is it Telling Us? (2025)
  95. Changes in Decoration Through Time: An Analysis of Salinar Pottery found in Huanchaco, Moche Valley, North Coast of Peru (2024)
  96. Changes in Obsidian Procurement and Use from the Preclassic to the Classic Periods at Holtun, Guatemala (2024)
  97. Changes in the Size and Organization of Storage in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of the Southern Levant (2024)
  98. Changing and Exchanging Social Values of Metals: The Integration of Tumbaga and Iron Objects in Indigenous Graves in the Colombia’s Caribbean Region (2024)
  99. Changing Attitudes at Chavin de Huantar (Peru): Archaeology, Heritage, and Landslides (2024)
  100. Changing coastlines and persisting links: human / littoral interactions during the Late Glacial around the Mediterranean basin (2025)