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 5,001-5,100 of 5,135)
- Documents (5,135)
- What 35 Students Tell Us: Re-evaluating Traditional Field School Delivery Methods (2024)
- What a Cache! Ritual Activities at the Medicinal Trail Community, a Small Rural Maya Site in Northwestern Belize (2024)
- What a Relief:How to Display an Idol in the Early Colonial Atlixco Valley (2025)
- What Faunal Remains from Wolf Scat in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Can Tell Us about Canid Presence in the past (2024)
- What Fell Through the Floorboards: Botanical Remains from Pon Yam House, Idaho City (2025)
- What Follows Is True: Graphic Novels and Nonfictions as Tools for Co-creative, Community-Engaged, and Intentional Archeological Outreach (2025)
- What Good is a Broken Cord? Beyond the Study of Complete Inka Khipus (2025)
- What Happens in the Ivory Tower: The Academic Trade of Archaeological Human Remains (2024)
- What Is CRM’s Origin Story: How Did We Get to the System We Have Now and What Does It Say about Our Future? (2024)
- “What Is Past Is Prologue”: Climate Change, Predictive Models, Data Challenges, and Protecting Virginia’s Archaeological Resources (2024)
- What Lies Beneath: The Significance of a Midden Burial in Exploring Differential Mortuary Treatment of the Maya at Palenque (2024)
- What Lies Beneath: Underwater Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of the Inundated Liebman Site, an Early Paleoindian Site in Lebanon, Connecticut. (2024)
- What Lovely Teeth You Have: An Examination of Canid Dental Anomalies and Their Use in Archaeology (2024)
- What Makes a Better Surface Elevation Model: On-the-Ground Total Station or Low Altitude Lidar? (2024)
- What Using Historical Human Remains Detection Dogs Brings to the Indigenous Community (2025)
- What's Cooking at Devils Kitchen? Context, Content, and Chronology of an Early Site on the Modern Oregon Coast (2024)
- What's with Exterior Corrugation on Bowls? Using spatial analysis in GIS to track ceramic deposition. (2024)
- What’s in That Vial? Collections Management Perspectives on Coprolite Collections (2025)
- What’s On the Menu? A Consideration of Central African Forest Forager Seasonal Dietary Patterns Through Stable Isotopic Analysis and Mixing Models (2025)
- What’s the Point? Contextualizing the Significance of the Turpin Lithic Assemblage (2024)
- What’s up with the sand? Site Formation Processes of (Undateable?) Sites in the Southeastern US (2025)
- When Is a Hinterland? Political Affiliation and Place-Making among the Prehispanic Maya (2025)
- When is a Living Shoreline Erosion Control Project Suitable to Protect a Coastal Mound Site? Establishing Preliminary Suitability Criteria Based on a Case Study, Adams Bay (16PL8) Mound 1, in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana (2024)
- When Isn’t a Va’aki? Additional New Perspectives on Ancestral O’Odham Ceremonial Architecture (2024)
- When no technology is the best technology (2025)
- When Sand Becomes a Story: Using Ground-Penetrating Radar to Reveal an Architectural Timeline at Los Moreteros, Chao, Peru (2025)
- When Studying Landscapes . . . What Actually Does “-scape” Mean? (2024)
- When Survey Is Not an Option: Comprehensive Archeological Monitoring Standards in Texas (2024)
- When the Earth Was New: Memory, Materiality, and the Numic Ritual Life Cycle (2024)
- When Tragedy Begets “Harvest”: A Comparison of the Macrobotanical Assemblages Recovered from two New England Colonial English House Sites (2025)
- When Walls Talk: Rodent-cached Botanical and Ceramic Assemblages from a 19th-century Charleston Kitchen House (2024)
- Whence Windust: Updates on the Distribution and Chronology of Square Base Stemmed Projectile Points in the Northern Great Basin (2025)
- Where are the women warriors? The evidence for gender equality on the Mongolian Steppe (2024)
- Where Are the “Interesting” Skulls? The Practice and Taphonomy of Modern Interaction with Human Remains in Open Tombs (2024)
- Where Does the Responsibility Lie? The Long-Forgotten Federal Collections and the Repositories that House Them (2024)
- Where Have All the Red Elderberries Gone? A Collaborative Macrobotanical Analysis of Settler-Colonial Impacts on a Vital Coast Salish First Food (2024)
- Where Is the Horse and the Rider? Considering the Militia Horses of the Black Hawk War through a Zooarchaeological Lens (2025)
- Where Power, Policy, and Practice Intersect: Archaeology within Block Island’s Great Salt Pond Archaeological District (2024)
- Where Should American Archaeology Be in 20 Years? (2025)
- Where There's a Weir, There's a Way (2024)
- Where Water Becomes Stone: A review and methodological considerations of speleothem sourcing via trace elements (2025)
- “Where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet”: Lessons from 40 Years in North Alaska (2025)
- Where’s the Loo? Considerations of Socioeconomic Status and Urban Refuse Management in Pompeii (2025)
- Which Stories for Which Storytelling? A Community-Based Approach to the Nineteenth- to Twentieth-Century Nunatsiavummiut Material Heritage (2024)
- White Iron and Red Gold: How to Identify Tin, Copper, and Bronze Derived from Rooiberg Mineral Deposits, South Africa (2024)
- White-tailed Deer Management in the Archaeofaunal Record of Parita Bay and the Sabana de Bogotá (2025)
- Who Died Prematurely?: A Demographic Profile of Middle and Late Period San Francisco Bay Area Juveniles (2024)
- Who Gets to Be Called a Professional: Gatekeeping and Discrimination in US Archaeology (2025)
- Who Makes the Rules in Egalitarian Cities? A View from Bronze Age South Asia (2024)
- Who Ordered the Shellfish? A Social and Dietary Examination of Mollusk Consumption in Highland Chiapas, Mexico (2025)
- Who's Gonna Know? Resolving Personal Privacy While Respecting Cultural Edicts in Repatriation (2024)
- Who's That Figure?: Eastern and Western Basketmakers in the Uinta Basin through the lens of Rock Imagery (2025)
- Whole Pots and Harvard Drops: Understanding the Pottery from Turpin (2024)
- Whose Land? Governance of Land Tenure, Property, and Inequality in the Maya Lowlands (2024)
- Whose worlds anyway? Multispecies and non-anthropocentric approaches to Caribbean histories (2025)
- Who’s “Public”? Whose “Outreach”? (2024)
- Why Are Women Always Such a Surprise? The TrowelBlazers Perspective on the Never-Ending Cycle of Feminist Histories of Archaeology (2025)
- Why Bappir Matters: Using Experimental Archaeology of Beer in the Classroom (2024)
- Why Did Nomadic Dynasties Build Walls? (2024)
- Why Do Pictures Speak? Orality in Maya Hieroglyphic Writing (2024)
- Why So Blue? The Great Island Tavern and Its Legacy (2024)
- Wild and Cultivated Plant Usage of a Late Precontact Site (11S1754) in the American Bottom (2024)
- The Wilemantown Farm Site and the Historic Settlement of the Hudson River Valley (2025)
- Willamette Valley Project Overview: Using Subbottom Profiling, Coring, Augering, Geomorphic Mapping, and Regional Archaeological Data to Inform Sensitivity Modeling and Archaeological Research Design in the Willamette Basin, Oregon (2024)
- William J. Folan, Engineer of Walter W. Taylor’s Vision of a Conjunctive Archaeology (2025)
- Windows on Middle Sicán Identity and Politics: Mortuary Patterns, Bioarchaeology, and Intersectional Identities at Huaca Las Ventanas (900-1050 CE, North Coast of Peru) (2025)
- Windy Ridge: Quartzite Quarry Research in the Colorado High Country (2025)
- The Wisconsin Dugout Canoe Survey Project (2024)
- Wishful Thinking: Crystal, Coin, or Cache: Interpreting the Evidence at Williamsburg’s First Baptist Church (2025)
- With a Little Help from my Friends: New Radiocarbon Dates from the Great Hungarian Plain (2024)
- With or Without You: Manatees and People in Precolonial Florida (2025)
- With the Best In the House: Ceramic Analysis of a Nineteenth-Century Irish-American Household (2024)
- Witness Them: Traditional Coast Salish Oral History and Fact-Checking Implications for Today (2025)
- Witz Naab and Killer Bee Revisited: New Interpretations of Two Salt Mounds in Paynes Creek National Park, Belize (2024)
- Women and Menarche Lodges: Archaeological Evidence of Coming-of-Age Structures on the Columbia-Fraser Plateau (2025)
- Women Elites in the Royal Court of Tonina, Chiapas (2024)
- Women in the Monumental Sculpture of Tula: Are They Deities or Rulers? Is the Answer “Yes?” (2025)
- The Women of Fort St. Joseph, a French Colonial Settlement on the North American Frontier (2024)
- Women Who Shaped Archaeology in Australia (2025)
- Women's Historical Patterns of Land Utilization on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation (2025)
- Women's Leadership and Ritual Specialization in Coast Miwok and Kashia Pomo Cultures (2024)
- Women's Portages: Colonial Encounters, Gender, and Indigenous Worldview in the Great Lakes (2024)
- Women’s Gardens, Long-Term Ecological Knowledge, and Deep Historical Insights in the Upper Amazon (2025)
- Women’s Health and Patent Medicine at the Lucas Museum Site, Los Angeles (2025)
- Wondrous Was This Wall-Stone, Till Fates Wrecked It: the Citadel of Plan de las Mesas, Copan (2025)
- Wooden Features on the Jicarilla Apache Nation: An Analysis of Navajo and Apache Land Use (2024)
- Wooden Post Architecture and the Origins of Woodland Civic-Ceremonial Centers: New Evidence from the Spring Warrior Complex, Florida (2024)
- Wooden Posts and an Ontology of “Treeness” (2024)
- Woodland Villages in the Upper Connecticut River Valley: Landscape-scale geophysics as evidence for large sedentary settlements in Northern New England (2024)
- Worked Bone Technology in Prehistorical Sedentary Lives in China (2025)
- Working for His Majesty? Reconstructing the Regional Pottery Networks of the First Walled Center of Liangzhu during the Third Millennium BCE in the Yangtze River Delta, China (2025)
- Working for the Dead: The Role of Gravediggers and Their Impact on Burial Practices as Evidence in Transylvanian, Hungarian-Szekler Communities (AD 1050–1800) (2024)
- Working with Clients to Ensure Best Practices in Tribal Consultation: A Consultant’s Experiences (2025)
- Working with Legacy Data to Identify Activity Areas at the Bronze Age / Medieval Settlement of Agroal (Ourém, Portugal) (2025)
- The World around Us: Challenges in the Analysis of 3D Scenes (2024)
- "The World is a Garden": Human-Animal Relations and Sustainability Comparative Studies of Classic Maya and Early China (2024)
- World Visions: Plains Vision Questing as Epistemology (2024)
- World War II Archaeology in the Galápagos Islands: The Soldiers and Convicts at the Wall of Tears (1940–1959) (2024)
- Worlds of Many People: Following Amazonian Indigenous People towards Archaeologies Beyond Humanity (2025)
- Worlds Prefigured: Settler-Colonialism, Anarchism, Indigeneity, and the Dawn of Everything (2024)