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.
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Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1,001-1,100 of 5,135)
- Documents (5,135)
- Contrasting Commensality in Colonial Mesoamerica and the Borderlands East (2024)
- Contribution to Rock Art Interpretation with New Decipherments of Hand Prints (2024)
- The Contributions of Belize Archaeology to Our Understanding of Ancient Maya Economies (2024)
- Contributions of Belize Cave Research to Ancient Maya Studies (2024)
- Contributions of Richard G. Cooke, PhD, MBE, to the Study of Isthmo-Colombian Iconography (2024)
- Contributions of the Kerr Corpus to Maya Paleography: Aspects of Sign Development, Regional Variation, and Idiosyncratic Style in Maya Writing (2024)
- Contributions of the Proyecto Santa Maria (PSM) to the Prehistory of Central Pacific Panama and Beyond (2024)
- Controlling Access, Channeling Water: Fortification and Hydraulic Architecture at Muralla de León (2025)
- Controlling Inherited Biases and Analytical Procedures for the Zooarchaeologist: A Case Study from the Central Anatolian site of Kaman-Kalehӧyük (2025)
- Conversion on the Periphery: Bioarchaeology of Religious Identities in Early Medieval Bohemia (2024)
- Conversion or Not Conversion: An Analysis of Puebloan Burial Patterns before and after the Introduction of Spanish Catholicism to the US Southwest (2025)
- Converting Monumental Landscapes to Human Dimensions: Ancient Community-Building Processes in Southern Honduras (2024)
- The Conveyance of Paleoindian Toolstone to Pluvial Lake Mojave, California (2025)
- Cooking according to Class: Using Faunal Remains to Investigate Social Organization in Cajamarca, Peru (2025)
- Cooking and Colonialism: Identifying Cultural Values and Identities in Consuming “Foreign” Goods in the British Atlantic World (2024)
- Cooking in Clay: A Diachronic Study of Potting and Cooking Traditions in Bronze Age Toumba Thessaloniki, Northern Greece (2024)
- Cookin’ with Cezin : Experimental Archaeology and Traditional Anishinabe-Algonquin Foodways (2024)
- Copper Production and the Evidence for Intermittent Crafting and Multicrafting at the Late Postclassic Site of Jicalán Viejo, in Michoacán, Western Mexico (2025)
- Copper-Based Metals from the Tanzanian Swahili Coast: Connections, Technologies, and Implications (2025)
- Cordage and Binding Practices: From Artifacts to Bodies to Bundles in the Paracas Necropolis Mortuary Tradition (2024)
- Cordage as Ship Fastener: The Roman-Era Northwestern Adriatic Tradition of Sewn Boats (2024)
- Cords of Restraint and Authority: Teotihuacan’s Net Jaguars and Technologies of Ensnarement (2024)
- The COREX Project: Explaining Patterns of Genetic and Cultural Diversity in Prehistoric Europe (2024)
- The Corinthian Hexamilion: New Perspectives on Greece’s Longest Barrier Wall (2025)
- Correcting Interpretive Miscues with the Cueva de Sangre (2024)
- Cosmology and Lunar Calendar of a Prehistoric Rice Farming Society in Japan: An Experimental Simulation with arcAstroVR (2024)
- “The Cottage,” a Small Viking Age Dwelling in North Iceland (2024)
- Cotton Production and Regional Distribution for Western Pueblo Cultural and Ritual Sustainability, 1150-1450 CE (2025)
- Cottonwood Spring Pueblo (LA 175): A Multi Ethnic Community, Movement of People through time and place (2024)
- Could Large Mammal Faunal Remains Provide Indirect Evidence of Precontact Landscape Management? (2024)
- Council Houses and Shifts Toward Cooperative Political Governance in the Terminal Classic Maya Lowlands (2025)
- Counter-mapping the Blackfoot landscape - in Alice's footsteps (2025)
- Counting Time: Calendar Systems in the Rock Art of Paint Rock, Texas (441CC1) (2025)
- The Cove Conundrum: Managing Culture, Nature, and Tourism in Cades Cove, Tennessee (2024)
- Cove Creek Clovis? Exploring Fluted-Point Assemblages in the Eastern Great Basin (2024)
- Cowries as Social Currency in the Iron Age Levant (2025)
- Cowry connections: an archaeology of early globalisation in the Maldives (2025)
- Cows, Clorox, and Canning: Early Twentieth Century Consumption and Consumerism in Rural Alabama (2024)
- The Cozumel Bee People, Social Ecology, and Landscape Management during the Late Maya Postclassic (2024)
- The "Cracking the Code" Project: Markers of Culture and Networks in Early Iron Age Stamna, Greece (2024)
- Crafting Bones: An Analysis of a Worked Bone Assemblage from a Mississippian Ceremonial Complex in Northeast Florida (2024)
- Crafting Collaborations: Reflections on Collaborative Archaeology with the Community of Huancas (Amazonas, Peru) (2024)
- Cranial Bowls, Broken Bones, and Precious Bodies: The Presence of Teotihuacan at Tikal (2025)
- Cranial Modification in Coastal Peru at the Site of CuzCuz, Huarmey Valley, Peru (2025)
- Cranial Modification Practices in Postclassic West Mexico: Interaction and Identity in the Aztatlán Tradition (2025)
- Crashed, Modeled, then Rescued: AI Algorithms Reduce Rescue Time for Crash Survivors (2025)
- Creating a Digital Reference Collection for the La Quemada-Malpaso Valley Archaeological Project (2024)
- Creating a Digital Twin of tumwata Village: Combining Historic Narratives and 3D Modeling (2025)
- Creating a Frontier Community: Ceremony and Political Elites in a Middle Appalachian Mississippian Village (2024)
- Creating Diasporic Scandinavian Identities in Viking Age Iceland (2024)
- Creating Frames of Reference for Seaweed Consumption in the Americas: A Cross-Cultural Approach (2024)
- Creating Histories through Collections: Native American Women and Museum Spaces (2025)
- Creating La Buena Vista? Heritage Preservation and the Changing Nature of Archaeological Practice in Tihosuco, Mexico (2025)
- Creating Machine Learning Models Using Historical Maps to Identify the Places In-Between (2024)
- Creating Ties: Co-responsibility between Government and Community for the Safeguarding of the Prehistoric Caves in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, a World Heritage Site in Mexico (2024)
- The Creation and Curation of Archaeological Data (2024)
- Creation in Termination at Early Formative Etlatongo, Oaxaca: Maize, Sacrifice, and Olmec Imagery (2025)
- Creation of a Macrobotanical and Phytolith Reference Collection for Archaeobotanical Investigation in Tarvagatai Valley, Mongolia (2025)
- The Creation, Racialization, and Perpetuation of Aztec and Maya Human Sacrifice Mythology (with a Case Study from Yucatán) (2024)
- Creative Clearance: Caring for an Important Place (2024)
- Creative Mitigation: Historic Preservation Strategies from the Water Heritage Anthropological Project (2025)
- Creatures of Care: Assembling Livestock Worlds within Archaeofaunal Datasets (2025)
- Cremation during the Early period (1000 BC – 600 AD) in the archaeological site Matecaña (Pereira) (2024)
- Cremation Mortuary Practices at Phaleron during the Archaic Period (2024)
- Cremation Mortuary Practices of Hunter-Gatherers from Belize during the Late Pleistocene and the Late Holocene (2025)
- Criss-Crossing Paths with Fred: Settlement and Subsistence from Colha to Maax Na (2025)
- The Critical and Chronological Evolution of Donald Lathrap's Archaeological Worldview (2025)
- Critical Thinking in Texas Rock Art Research: Were Pecos River Style Pictograph Sites Produced in a Single Event? (2025)
- The Crop Fields of the Ramaditas: A Formative Site in the Atacama Desert (2024)
- The Cross in the North: Pictish Christianization in Light of the Northern European Experience (2024)
- Cross-Craft Interactions in the Central European Bronze Age (2024)
- A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Man’s Best Friend: Insights from Casas Grandes and the North American Arctic (2024)
- Cross-Cutting Zooarchaeology: Butchery Analysis through Indigenous Methodologies (2025)
- Cross-referencing proxies to refine the Aurignacian socio-cultural geographies (2025)
- Crossing Boundaries: A Look at Ceramic Distribution at Prehistoric Sites along New Mexico Highways 90, 180, and 12. (2025)
- Crossing the Nature-Culture Divide in Academia to Enhance Land and Resource Management (2025)
- Crossing the Watery Threshold: Multidisciplinary Investigation of Funerary Cenote Use Among the Postclassic Maya of Mayapán (2025)
- Crowds and Pedestrian Movement in Residential Urban Plazas at Angamuco, Michoacán (2025)
- Crucibles in the Antebellum Assemblage and Imagination: Unique Finds from a French Quarter Archaeological Investigation (2024)
- CT Imaging and Radiocarbon Dating of a Gourd Container with Vertically Strung Olivella Shells: a Pueblo I Cache from Old Man Cave, Utah (2024)
- Cueva de las Pirámides: New evidence of early occupation in the Upper Amazon (2025)
- Cui Bono Est Patria Potestas? Sex, Death and Patriarchy on the Roman Danube (2025)
- Cui Bono: Working towards more reciprocal community and volunteer relationships in archeological collections work (2025)
- Cuisine and Craft at Ancient Hualcayán: Exploring Ceremonial Production during the Chavín to Recuay Transition (900 BCE–1000 CE) (2024)
- Culinary Arts and Plant Residues of the Ancient Maya Lowlands: Botanical Ingredients beyond Maize and Cacao (2024)
- Cultivating Inclusivity: Mentorship, Diversity and Career Development in Archaeology (2025)
- Cultivation to Agricultural landscapes in the Bolivian Amazon (2025)
- Cultural and Social Identity in Tamtoc, San Luis Potosí: An Approach through Anthropomorphic Figurines Study (2025)
- Cultural Change and Continuity on Chapin Mesa Redux (2025)
- Cultural Collaborations among Ritual, Economy, and Social Organization: Recent Investigations at the Site of Dos Hombres, Belize (2024)
- Cultural Continuity and Persistence in Upland Ecologies: Insights from a Field School in Indigenous Collaboration, Landscapes, and Heritage Management (2024)
- Cultural Continuity and Ritual Significance: Apu Illaorco (Iscoconga) and Apu Rumitiana (Santa Apolonia) in Focus (2024)
- Cultural Continuity in Southeastern New England: The Cultural Landscape of the Pokonoket Sites (2024)
- Cultural Corridors in South Central Pennsylvania (2024)
- Cultural Evidence Indicates the Late Arrival of Modern Humans in Southern China during the Upper Pleistocene (2025)
- Cultural Evolution in the First Settlements of South America (2025)
- Cultural Evolution in the Paleo-SHK and Pacific Rim: A New Approach to Human Dispersal in Northeast Asia and Eastern Beringia (2025)
- Cultural Footprints Unearthed: Exploring Settlement Patterns and the Constructed Landscape of Yalahau, Yucatan (2024)
- Cultural Heritage Management on Alaska’s North Slope: Navigating without a Map in a Time of Rapid Change (2024)
- The Cultural Heritage of Dolores (Petén, Guatemala) from the Perspective of Its Grassroots Archaeological Community (2025)