Society for American Archaeology: Meeting Abstracts and Presentations

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This collection contains the abstracts and presentations from the Society for American Archaeology annual meetings. SAA has partnered with Digital Antiquity to archive their annual conference abstracts and make the presentations available. This collection contains all meeting abstracts dating from 2015 to the present. Members are invited to upload their presentations and/or supporting data, as many have done, to be findable and accessible.

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The annual meeting abstracts and final program books are available on the SAA website.

Site Name Keywords
44CE0085 • La Quemada • Nevada • Alta Vista • ontario • Gordion • Ceren • El Teúl • Las Ventanas • Buenavista

Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Non-Domestic Structures • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Archaeological Feature • Domestic Structures • Artifact Scatter • Settlements • Agricultural or Herding • Rock Art • House

Other Keywords
Historic • Zooarchaeology • Cultural Resources and Heritage Management • Material Culture and Technology • Landscape Archaeology • Ceramic Analysis • Maya: Classic • Bioarchaeology/Skeletal Analysis • Lithic Analysis • Historical Archaeology

Culture Keywords
Historic • Ancestral Puebloan • Historic Native American • PaleoIndian • Archaic • Mogollon • Woodland • Euroamerican • Spanish • Middle Archaic

Investigation Types
Heritage Management • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis • Collections Research • Archaeological Overview • Data Recovery / Excavation • Systematic Survey • Architectural Documentation • Reconnaissance / Survey • Site Evaluation / Testing • Ethnographic Research

Material Types
Ceramic • Fauna • Chipped Stone • Macrobotanical • Building Materials • Wood • Dating Sample • Projectile Point • Human Remains • Metal

Temporal Keywords
Prehistoric • Civil War • Historic • Mimbres Classic period • Ancestral Puebloan / Sedentary through Classic Period • 19th Century • Magdalenian • 1880-1920 • Pueblo I and II • Postclassic

Geographic Keywords
North America (Continent) • United States of America (Country) • Belize (Country) • USA (Country) • United Mexican States (Country) • Republic of Panama (Country) • Republic of El Salvador (Country) • Netherlands Antilles (Country) • Aruba (Country) • Republic of Guatemala (Country)

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Agave Bloom Stalk Ovens in the Southern Chihuahuan Desert (2019)

Agave Roasting Pits of the Mescalero Apache (2019)

The Age and Distribution of the Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris ) in Tennessee and the Southeastern U.S. (2016)

The Age and Function of Slab-Lined Stone Features Associated with a Fremont Foraging-Farming Landscape in Cub Creek, Dinosaur National Monument, Northeastern Utah (2023)

Age and Sex Composition of Zooarchaeological Measurements via Bayesian Mixture Models (2016)

Age Estimation Using Dental Development and Long Bone Length for the Children in the Late Classic Copan Maya Civilization (2023)

Age of Heroes: elite warfare during the Eurasian Bronze Age (2016)

The Age of Social Media: The Role of Archaeologists as Educators across Platforms (2025)

Age-at-Death Estimations from Helton Mound 20 (2017)

Ageing, childhood and social identity in the early Neolithic of central Europe (2016)

Agelah and the Powershot: Digital Possibilities for Alternate Ways of Knowing in Archaeology (2017)

Agency and Pilgrimage in a Living Landscape: Contemporary Lacandon Maya Visits to Ancient Ruins (2023)

Agency of Access: Public Architecture in Mesa Verde National Park (2015)

The Agency of Flowing Water in Human Mobility and Interaction (2018)

The Agency of Monsoons in South Asia (2018)

Agency, Structure and the Neo-Liberal Turn (2017)

Agent Based Modeling (ABM) Approaches to Understanding Prehistoric Forager Ecology in Tokelau (2015)

Agent Based Modelling on the origins of the sexual division of labour (2015)

Agent Based Models of Ache Foraging and Grouping (2015)

An Agent-Based Disaster Model: Marginality, Decision-Making, and Novel Resource Exploitation during ENSO Flooding Events in Chicama, Peru (2019)

Agent-based dispersal simulations reveal multiple rapid northern routes for the second Neanderthal dispersal from Western to Eastern Eurasia: implications for Central Asia (2025)

An Agent-Based Model to Explore the Relationship between Archaeological Assemblages, Past Social Networks, and Cultural Dynamics (2021)

The Ages of Stemmed and Fluted Points in the Northwestern Plains and Rocky Mountains (2019)

Aggregation and Exchange Networks: The Case Study from the Central Mesa Verde Region (2025)

Aging and Funerary Practices at Monte Alban, Mexico (2018)

Aging Mandibular Bison Teeth with ArcGIS (2017)

Agitating for Good Outcomes: A New Protocol for Improved Recovery of Floral and Faunal Remains (2025)

Agouti commensalism? An open question in the prehistoric Lesser Antilles, West Indies (2017)

Agrarian Landscapes of coastal Croatia: a view from Nadin-Gradina (2017)

Agricultura ancestral y dinámica social en Quito desde el Formativo hasta la República Temprana (2021)

Agricultural Diversification, Perennials and Complex Societies in Mesopotamia and the Yellow River (2017)

Agricultural Diversity in Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala: New Ideas on Environmental Resources (2024)

The Agricultural Economy of the Iron Age Southern Levant: Contrasting Preliminary Archaeobotanical Data from Tel Abel Beth Maacah and Khirbat al-Balu’a (2023)

Agricultural History of the Horn of Africa: New Archaeobotanical Evidence from Mezber (2017)

Agricultural Intensification in Another Mesoamerican Lake Basin: Recent Evidence from Pacific Nicaragua (2025)

Agricultural Labor Organizations and Management Strategies in the Prehistoric Erdaojingzi Site, Inner Mongolia, China (2023)

The Agricultural Landscape at La Playa (2024)

An Agricultural Landscape on the Northern Mimbres Frontier, South-Central New Mexico, USA (2017)

Agricultural Landscapes in Northern Argentina (2015)

Agricultural Landscapes of the Mesopotamian-Zagros Borderlands (2021)

The Agricultural Lexicon of Western Indo-European: Crop Names (2019)

Agricultural Life and Socioeconomic Dependencies in the Western Andes of Southern Peru during the Second Half of the First Millennium BCE (2024)

Agricultural Niche Construction in Roman North Africa: Simulating Irrigation and Deforestation on a Desert Margin (2018)

Agricultural Practices in the Atacama Desert (Northern Chile): New Perspectives from Stable Isotope Analysis on Archaeological Crops (2019)

Agricultural Practices of the Qin People from the Warring States Period to the Qin Dynasty: A Case from the Matengkong Site in Guanzhong Basin, China (2023)

Agricultural Productivity of Four Different Physiographic Zones in the Lower Río Verde Valley, Oaxaca, Mexico: Using the Current Landscape as a Means to Facilitate an Understanding of Past Productivity (2017)

Agricultural risk management in Mediterranean environments: a computational modeling approach (2016)

An agricultural risk mitigation strategy using multiple water sources, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (2016)

Agricultural Strategies and Intensification: A Study of Risk Management in the Southern Maya Lowlands (2018)

Agricultural Wealth, Food Storage, and Commensal Politics at Azoria an Archaic City on Crete (2019)

Agriculturas formativas del desierto tarapaqueño. (2015)

Agriculture and Empire in the High-Altitude Atacama Desert (2015)

Agriculture and Inter-village Space in the Ancient Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) World (2015)

Agriculture and Landscape Change in the Tesuque Valley (2019)

Agriculture and Resource Procurement for the Castro Settlements of NW Iberia: Examination of Floatation Samples for the Castro Site of Bagunte (2018)

Agriculture at Las Capas: Tales Told by the Canals (2015)

Agriculture development in the Bronze Age Hexi Corridor-archaeobtanic evidence from Xichengyi site (2017)

Agriculture in the “Land of Hatti”: The Politics and Ecology of Farming in Late Bronze Age Central Anatolia (2023)

Agriculture is a state of mind- the Andean potato’s unending domestication (2015)

Agriculture Is Not Inevitable: Lessons in Foodways from Precolumbian South Florida (2024)

Agriculture Roles in Landscapes and Taskcapes: An Interdisciplinary Approach from Northwestern Argentina (2015)

Agriculture, Alcohol, and Urban Economies in Late Neolithic North China: A Case Study from the Shimao Site (2021)

Agriculture, Group Size, and Resource Richness (2023)

Agriculture, Land Management and Expressions of Elite Control at the Ancient Maya City of Tikal (2018)

An Agroecological Perspective on Crop Domestication in Western Asia (2019)

The agroecology of inequality: Novel bioarchaeological approaches to early urbanization in western Asia and Europe (2016)

Agropastoral Resource Management in the Negev Heartland toward the Close of Late Antiquity (2021)

Agropastoralism in Bronze Age Transylvania: An analysis of faunal assemblages from the Geoagiu and Mureş Valleys (2015)

Agropastoralist Subsistence Strategies in a Mongol Empire (1206–1500 CE) Household (2025)

Agua dulce, Agua salada. Diferenciación de actividades pesqueras en el sistema portuario de la costa este de Los Tuxtlas (2018)

Aguada Fénix and the Middle Usumacinta Region: An Introduction (2024)

Aguada Fénix and the Middle Usumacinta Region: Interregional Interactions and Social Transformations in the Middle Preclassic Period (2024)

Aguada Fénix: An Early Middle Preclassic Monumental Site in the Middle Usumacinta Region (2019)

Aguadas of the Bajo el Laberinto Region: Form, Distribution, and Biocultural Importance (2024)

The Ahaw and His Representative: A New Approach for the Reading of Stela 2 at Chichen Itza (2025)

The Ahistorical Shell Middens at the Northern Tip of South America (2023)

The Aierdi site: a roman-era mining complex in the Western Pyrenees (2025)

An Aircraft Search and Recovery Mission in Southern England: A Case Study in Rehabilitation Archaeology (2021)

Airway Beacons: Rehabilitation and Interpretation (2016)

Akimel O’odham Projectile Point Design and P-MIP Archaeological Research (2015)

Akimel O’Odham Traditional Knowledge Regarding Platform Mounds (2019)

Aknah and the moon spiners: gender relations and rituals in caves. (2017)

Alaskan Game Drives: An Architectural Assessment (2017)

Alaskan Legacy Collections Outside Alaska: Challenges, Opportunities and Potential (2019)

Albarradas, Solarés, and Classic Maya Land Tenure in Northwestern Belize (2018)

Alcohol in Complex Society in Northwest China : A case study from the Mogou site (1800-1200BC) (2024)

Alcohol Production and Consumption at Zhouyuan: Continuity and Change Across Dynastic Transition (2025)

Alcohol Use and Archaeological Practice (2024)

Alcohol, Rituals, and Spirits at the Late Shang Center: Residue Analysis of Ceramic Vessels in Anyang (2023)

Alepotrypa Cave and Regional Networks of Southern Greece (2016)

Alero las Quemas, a key site for the study of human occupations of Andean forest in Patagonia (Aisén, Chile). (2015)

Aleutian Microtechnology in Anangula Times (9000 - 4000 BP) (2015)

Alfarería en las fronteras de La Quebrada de Humahuaca, Jujuy, Argentina (Ceramics at the borders of the Humahuaca Quebrada, Jujuy Argentina) (2015)

Algonquian Coastal Gardens and Landscape: Interpretations from Archaeobotany (2015)

Algonquian Landscapes and Multispecies Archaeology in the Chesapeake (2019)

Algunas consideraciones acerca del orígen y de la organización social de los Chachapoya (2015)

Aligning Pedagogy, Compliance, and Research: A Year-One Assessment of Boise State’s Semester-Based Field School (2025)

ALIMENTACIÓN Y SOCIEDAD. PALEODIETA DE UNA POBLACIÓN MUISCA DE LA SABANA DE BOGOTÁ, EL CASO DE TIBANICA – SOACHA (2015)

Alimento para las deidades: Nuevas prácticas sacrificiales y post sacrificiales en los centros mesoamericanos del Epiclásico y Posclásico inicial (2023)

All About the Ruler's Court and Principal Palace in Precontact Texcoco in 900 Seconds (2025)