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 1,301-1,400 of 5,135)
- Documents (5,135)
- Disputes over Ancestors: Between Atacameño Discourse and Authorized Heritage (2024)
- Distance and Power in Early Medieval Coinage in Spain (2024)
- Distinct Types? A Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Paleoindian Age Mojave Desert Lake Mohave and Silver Lake Projectile Points (2024)
- Distinctive Burials of the Phaleron Cemetery, Archaic Greece: Marginalized in Life and Death (2024)
- Distinguishing Cervids and Bovids in the Americas Using Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS): Authentication and Development of New Peptide Markers (2024)
- Diverse Perspectives on Precolonial Maya Human Remains and the Foreigners who Study Them (2025)
- Diverse Technologies at the South Gap Site (20AA232): A 9,000-Year-Old Caribou Hunting Site in Lake Huron (2025)
- Diversifying Heritage: A Foundation for Democratizing Heritage Production (2024)
- Diversity in Southern Central America: Exploring Late Aguas Buenas / Early Chiriqui Period Sites in the Diquís Subregion (2024)
- The Diversity of Domestic Dogs in Highland Chiapas: Long-Distance Exchange and Specialized Morphotypes (2025)
- The Diversity of Growth in Kansas City - Connecting Archaeological and Historical Research in Kansas City's Historic Northwest Neighborhoods (2025)
- Diving into the Stone Age: Approaches to Investigating a Submerged Stone Age Megastructure in the Baltic Sea (2025)
- Do mosques define maritimity on the Swahili coast? (2025)
- Doctrines of Discard in the Ìjẹ̀bú Kingdom: Social Stratigraphies of Refuse Mound Deposition in Southern Nigeria, AD 1400–1900 (2024)
- The Documentation, Conservation, and Exhibition of the Skiles Collection (2024)
- Documentation: The "Other" Artifact (2024)
- Documenting Urbanism in an Ancient Nomadic Landscape in Mongolia through Digital Archaeological Methods (2025)
- Does it measure up? An Experimental Study of Hell Gap Ground Stone (2025)
- Does Political Organization Impact the Severity of Population Recession? (2024)
- Does the Olcott / Old Cordilleran Tool Kit of the Pacific Northwest of North America Include a Diagnostic Lithic Core Type? (2025)
- “Does this look Clovis-y to you?” Documenting the Whitewater Biface Cache, Mesa County, Colorado (2025)
- Dogs in Space: An Application of Machine-Learning Geometric Morphometric Analyses for Species Determination of Large Canids Using Mandibles (2025)
- The Dogs of Housepit 54 (2025)
- Domestic Animal Use at St. Inigoes Jesuit Plantation (2024)
- Domestic Life at Río Viejo, Oaxaca (2024)
- Domestic Space and Food Production in the Mesoamerican Neotropics During the Early Holocene (2024)
- “Domesticated Waterscapes” in the Petén Lakes Region, Petén, Guatemala (2024)
- Domesticating Earth: Rethinking the Origins of Agriculture (2024)
- Domesticating Luxury: A Comparative Study of Moche Fineware Distribution within the Moche Valley (2025)
- Domestication and its Discontents (2025)
- Domestication Rewilded: A Framework in Eight Dimensions for Parsing Domestication Concepts Across Disciplines (2025)
- Don Lathrap in the Classroom: On Gregory Bateson’s Concept of “Schismogenesis” and its Application to Culture Contact in the Archaeological Record. (2025)
- Donald Lathrap, the Ucayali River, and the Enduring Value of Archaeological Legacy Collections (2025)
- Donald Lathrap’s Archival Legacy: Insights into Iskonawa Material Culture 50 years later (2025)
- Donald Ward Lathrap y su Trabajo Con El Pueblo Shipibo Konibo (2025)
- A Dong Son Community: Connecting Communities Through a Shared Bronze Tradition (2024)
- Don’t Forget about Me: The Role of “Minor” Fortifications in the Interpretation of Military Landscapes (2025)
- Don’t Take it for Granite! Reestablishing the Geochemistry of Granite from the Maya Mountains (2025)
- Dorset Through Their Own Eyes (2024)
- Double Headed: Becoming/Transforming in Early Formative Oaxaca (2024)
- Down the Drain: Water Management in a Late Roman Urban Space (2025)
- Dr. Bruce Huckell: Geoarcheologist, Colleague and Friend (2025)
- Dr. Patricia Richards and the MCPFC Story: Narrative History and Historiography (2024)
- Drafting Residential Architecture: Changes in Zapotec Residences from Formative to Postclassic Oaxaca (2025)
- Draining Wetlands in the Willamette Valley (2024)
- Drawing from the Past to Inform the Future: Exploring 500 Years of Skagit River Salmonidae Abundance (2024)
- Drilling into the Maize Heart of Mesoamerican Jade (2025)
- Drilling into the Past: Social Bead Making for Undergrad Learning (2024)
- Drinking & Clubbing: Insights from Comparative Ethnology on “Invisible” Technologies (2025)
- Driving the Past: The Palimpsest Road (2025)
- Drought, population pressure, and inequality drive inter-group conflict in the precontact U.S. Southwest (2025)
- Drucker Revisited: Assessing the Postclassic Ceramic Assemblage at San Marcos, Veracruz, Mexico (2025)
- The Dry Creek Crossroad: Traditional Knowledge and Petroglyphs (2025)
- The Dry: A Case Study of Collaboration between Archaeologists and One Descendant Community (2024)
- Dryland Foraging and Resilience in the Archaic Period at San Esteban Rockshelter, SW Texas: Phytolith Perspectives (2025)
- Dual Frontier Feminism: Using Feminist Archaeology to Explore Expressions of Feminism at Early Twentieth-Century Reno Divorce Ranches (2025)
- Dueling with Basketmaker II Spearthrowers: What Can We Learn from Mock Combat? (2024)
- Dugout Canoe: A Solution for Bulk Transport in Mesoamerica (2024)
- Dung Microremains as Archaeological Evidence of Pastoral Practices: Exploring Low Impact Methodology to Understand Early Navajo Sheepherding in Northwest New Mexico (2025)
- Duty of Care: Challenges facing Tribal Historic Preservation Offices following the 2024 Revisions to the NAGPRA Implementing Regulations (2025)
- Dynamic and Diverse Roles and Identities of Women in Ancient Southwest Systems of Violence (2024)
- Dynamic Coasts and Landscapes of Resilience: Archaeological and Environmental Hotspot Modelling on the Swahili Coast (6th – 19th century CE) (2024)
- Dynamic Heritage as a Path to Collaborative Knowledge Production in Tahcabo, Yucatán, Mexico (2024)
- Dynamic Island Environments: Melinda Allen's Contributions to the Study of Coastal Geomorphology and Pacific Island Colonization and Settlement (2025)
- Dynamic Landscape Use at Kotið, North Iceland at the Millennial Scale (2025)
- Dynamic Landscapes on the Margins: Changes in Settlement and Resource Management Practices in the Mountains of Southwestern Europe (16th-20th Centuries) (2025)
- The Dynamic World of Ritual: Oracle Bone Divination Practices in East Asia (2024)
- The dynamics of crop spectra in the highlands of Odisha: an ethnoarchaeobotanical perspective (2025)
- Eagle Nest Canyon and the Ancient Southwest Texas Project (2024)
- The Earliest Maya of Western and Northern Belize: Evidence for Cultural Diversity and Regionalism (2025)
- The earliest phases of occupation at Klasies River Main Site, southern Cape coast, South Africa (2025)
- The Early Agricultural Period in the Northern Tonto Basin, Arizona (2025)
- Early Agriculture and Community on the Southwestern Colorado Plateau (2025)
- Early and Middle Holocene Food Choices, Farming, and Diet Quality in the Neotropical Maya Area (2024)
- Early Animal Use in Rural New Spain: Comparing Trends and Practices in Sixteenth- to Seventeenth-Century Indigenous and Spanish Settlements from Michoacán, Northwestern Mexico (2024)
- Early Ceramics in Charleston's Tidal Region (2024)
- Early Ceramics in the Coastal Guianas (2024)
- Early Domestic Horse Exploitation in Southern Patagonia: Archaeozoological and Biomolecular Evidence from Chorrillo Grande 1, Argentina (2024)
- Early evidence of post-mortem fetal extrusion in equids: A case from the Western Zhou period site of Yaoheyuan in northwestern China (2025)
- Early Evidence of the “Mississippianization” of Late Woodland Communities from the Upper Tombigbee River Drainage, Mississippi (2024)
- Early Forager Responses to Ecological Changes in Southeastern North America (2024)
- Early greenstone objects from Aguada Fénix, Tabasco, Mexico (2025)
- Early human settlers of the south-central Andean highlands during the Terminal Pleistocene: the megapatch model. (2025)
- Early iron metallurgy in the eastern Mediterranean and beyond (2025)
- Early Maya Archaeological Exploration, Looting, and the Unintended Consequences of the Global Chewing Gum Economy (2025)
- Early Mesopotamian Urban Societies Were Not States (2024)
- Early Middle Preclassic Occupations: Insights into the initial settlement in the Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin (2025)
- Early Monuments at the Maya Archaeological site of El Palmar, Campeche, Mexico (2024)
- Early Occupants of Cyprus: Coastal Arrivals and Inland Explorations (2025)
- Early Occupations of the Mountainous Interior of Puerto Rico (2024)
- Early Paleoindian Mountain Use: Initial Reports from Ongoing Investigations at High-Elevation Clovis Sites in the Beartooth Mountains, Montana (2024)
- Early peopling of the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert, 18 years later (2025)
- Early Plant Food Use and Processing: Insights from Madjedbebe Rockshelter, Northern Australia (2024)
- Early Romani Archaeologies (2024)
- Early Social Life of Andean Tuber and Seed Domestication (2024)
- Early Upper Palaeolithic Technical Behaviour at Apidima (Peloponnese, Greece): Technological Analysis of the Lithic Assemblage from Cave C (2025)
- Early Use of High-Altitude Tubers in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia (2024)
- Earth Oven Experiments in Texas and Wyoming (2024)
- Eastern Oneota Ecology at the Dawn of History: Stable Isotope Perspectives (2025)
- Eastern Washington Faunal Database Project (2025)