Society for American Archaeology: Meeting Abstracts and Presentations

Part of: Society for American Archaeology

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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All along the Watch Tower: Surveillance, Survivance, and the Making of a Christianized Landscape in the Mangareva Islands, French Polynesia (2024)

All along the Watchtower: A Spatial Analysis of the Defensive Network of Coastal Towers in Early Modern Sicily (2025)

All for Drone and Drone for Free: A Free and/or Open-Source Workflow for UAV Imagery Collection and Analysis (2019)

All in a Day's Work? South African Rock Engravings as Bodily Practice and Skill. (2025)

All in a Day’s Work: The Health and Welfare of Children Living in 19th Century Staffordshire, UK (2019)

All in Good Time: the "New Highland Chronology" and the Sculptures of Kaminaljuyú, Guatemala (2015)

All in One Boat: How to Keep a Raiding Party Together in Bronze Age Southern Scandinavia (2023)

All in the Family: Using Archeology and Genealogy to Construct a Historical Narrative (2018)

All Is Never Lost: Examining Coalescence, Cultural Resilience, and Survivance in the Archaeology of a Protohistoric Village on the Arkansas River (2023)

All Kinds of Interesting Possibilities: Tracking the Division of Labor from the Late Pleistocene to Middle Holocene in the American Southeast (2025)

All methods, no madness: Making sense of burial orientations using GIS (2016)

All Politics Isn’t Local: The Role of Oxpemul in Classic Maya Geopolitics (2018)

All Potted Up: Exploring Seasonality at Small Late Pueblo II and Early Pueblo III Sites at Petrified Forest National Park (2015)

All Roads Lead to the Verapaz: The Northern Highlands as a Nexus of Classic Period Exchange (2019)

All That Glitters (for Now): Multi-method Approaches to Informing the Archaeological Response to Sea-Level Rise on the Golden Isles of Georgia (2024)

All that Sprouts Is Not Maize: Phytogenic Imagery in Mesoamerican Art and Narrative (2024)

All the Gods of the World: Modern Maya Agricultural and Rain Ritual in Yucatan, Mexico (2017)

All the Small Things: Reconstructing Changes in Environment and Diet at the Late Neolithic Site of Csökmő-Káposztás-domb (2025)

All the Underworld’s a Stage: Ancient Maya Ritual Stages of Xibalba (2015)

‘All things being equal’? Multiplex Material Networks of the Early Neolithic in the Near East (2018)

The Allegory of Xibalba: Confronting Shadowy Realities in the ancient Maya Underworld (2019)

Alliance Formation & Social Signaling: Village Interaction among the Monongahela (2019)

Alliances, Coalitions, Hierarchies and Conflict in the Ancestral Pueblo World (2015)

Alligators, Serpents, Pirates, and a Wedding: Ritualized Political Landscapes of the Oaxacan Pacific Coast, Mexico (2018)

Allometry, Modularity, and Integration: Applying Biological Concepts and Statistical Tests to Stone Tool Shapes (2021)

The Allure of Proboscideans: Rethinking the Effect of Large Prey Attractiveness on Human Evolution (2025)

The Alluvial Geochronology of Pharo Village and Implications for Cycles of Site Occupation and Abandonment (2015)

Ally, Client or Outpost? Examining the Relationship between Xunantunich and Naranjo in the Late Classic Period (2019)

Alm Shelter: A Preliminary Report on a Deeply Stratified Rockshelter in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming (2019)

Almenas and Architecture (2018)

(Almost) Making it in the Margins: Medieval Norse Adaptation to the Arctic Fjord Environments (2018)

Alone in the Deep Blue Sea: A comparison of Indonesian Colonial Period nutmeg plantations and New World plantations (2015)

Alpine Adaptive and Paleoenvironmental Change at Alta Toquima (central Nevada) (2015)

An Alpine Archaeological Landscape in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Wyoming (2017)

Altar Cave Ritual and Communion Sites: Evaluating a Connection Between Light and Dark Zones. (2025)

Alterations in South American Oral Health Through the Colonial Period: The Story of Ancient DNA Trapped Within Dental Calculus (2017)

Altered States: Evaluating Postmortem Modification of Dental Tissues (2019)

Altering the Walls of Domesticity: Late 19th Century Modifications to Households in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2018)

Alterity, Resistance, and Autonomy: Mortuary Archaeology and the Diversity of Indigenous Responses to Spanish Conquest in Lambayeque, Peru (2018)

Alternative Complexities in the Central Andes: An Anarchist Approach to Chancay Political Organization in the Huanangue Valley (2018)

An Alternative Explanation for a Modified Rabbit Innominate Spatulate Tool (2019)

Alternative Interpretive Lenses for Landscape at Mulch’en Witz, La Milpa, Belize (2019)

Alternative Methods for Dating Rock Varnish at Murujuga, Western Australia (2025)

Alternative Mexico: A Mobile Application for the Preservation of Mexico's Heritage (2019)

Alternative Mexico: a Mobile Application to Preserve Contemporary Heritage Values (2016)

An Alternative Pattern of Coalescence: A Study of Architecture and Organization at a Non-fortified, Pre-Inca Town in the Southern Highlands of Peru (2019)

Alternative Recipes: Exploring the Diversity of Foods Prepared in Prehistoric Earth Oven Cooking (2019)

Alternative Strategies in Confronting Looting and Trafficking in Defense of Peruvian Portable Heritage. (2015)

Altica and the Role of Middlemen in Formative Obsidian Exchange (2017)

Altica ceramics and figurines: Stylistic and chronological analyses (2017)

The Altica Project: Reframing the Formative Basin of Mexico (2017)

Alutiiq Use of Birds during the Ocean Bay Period at Rice Ridge (49-KOD-363), Kodiak Island (2021)

Always Changed But Never Gone: A Century of Farming in Southeastern Massachusetts. (2019)

Always facing east…except when they’re not: Preliminary analysis of mortuary trends at Cahal Pech, Cayo, Belize (2015)

Always Halfway There: Keeping Up with Digital Archaeological Data in Virginia (2018)

Amacuzac archaeological project. (2016)

Amateur and Professional Archaeologists: Who’s Who? (2016)

An Amazing Deposit of Obsidian Blades in a Sector of Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala (2023)

Amazonia as a Perpetual Elsewhere: The Possible and the Permissible in "Natural" Landscapes (2019)

An Amazonian Crossroads: Results from Pilot Fieldwork on the Xingu-Amazon Confluence, Brazil (2016)

Amazonian Landscapes: the characteristics of anthropic landscapes in the Middle Xingu River (Pará, Brazil) from pre-colonial to Contemporary times (2016)

Amazonian mounds. When Human sciences met Earth sciences (2016)

Amazonian Palm and Tree Fruits Fed Residents during the Pleistocene–Holocene Transition (2023)

Amazonian Wetland Domestication: a spatial analysis of Pre-Columbian zigzag features in Lowland Bolivia (2024)

Amber Runs through It: The Centralization of Wealth and Power in Late Prehistoric Lika, Croatia (2019)

Ambiguous Archaeology: Eating and Ceramic Styles in the Early Modern Caribbean (2024)

Ambiguous beings: the ontological autonomy of Inuit dogs (2016)

Ambiguous Iconography: Queering the Shell Game (2015)

Ambivalence and Apostasy at the Sixteenth century Visita Town of Hunacti, Yucatan (2024)

The ambivalence of caves and rockshelters in medieval Norway (2017)

Ambrose Bierce’s Indian Inscriptions: Biographic Art Along the Bozeman Trail (2019)

American archaeological expeditions to Cuba related with Museo Antropológico Montané (2016)

The American Falls obsidian source: near, far, or unknown? (2015)

American Periphery, Sonoran Heartland: Recent Archaeological Explorations of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (2019)

American Pompeii: Old evidence on Late Classic ties between the Pacific Coast and the Antigua valley (2017)

American Southwest, Mexican Northwest: An Examination of Ground and Chipped Stone Artifacts from Garden Canyon Village (2016)

American Spaces, Irish Places: Assessing Three Urban Communities in 19th Century Irish-America (2019)

The American Upper Paleolithic and Its Origins (2025)

America’s Most Studied Battle: Twenty Years of Systematic Metal Detector Surveys at Pea Ridge National Military Park, Arkansas (2024)

Amerind Foundation Collection and Archives (2016)

Amerindian archaeological site DEM construction and analysis from UAV flights (2015)

AMFOrA: Computer Vision for Macroscopic Ceramic Fabric Analysis (2024)

Amino Acid d13C Analysis of Ancient Marine Consumers Quantifies Environmental Change in a Nearshore Ecosystem through the Late Holocene (2019)

Amity Pueblo: A Different Sort of Horror (2015)

Ampare y Perjuicios: Land and Legality in a Colesuyo Village during the Colonial Period (2016)

AMS Radiocarbon Dates Establish Ballcourt Site Chronologies for Toita and Llanos Tuna in Precolonial Puerto Rico (2025)

Anachronology in the Study of the Precolumbian Maya: Toward a Post-Postclassic (2024)

The anahuatl pectorals from the offerings of the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan (2017)

The Anakuakala Pictograph (Kiʻi Pakuhi) from Hawai‘i Island: A Contextual and Comparative Assessment. (2025)

Analogist Ontology at Chavín de Huantár (2016)

Analyses of metallurgical remains from Failaka, Kuwait: Exploring the Persian Gulf metals trade in the 2nd millennium BCE (2025)

Analyses of Pastes and Polychromy of Chupícuaro Pottery: A Diachronic Comparison Using a Noninvasive Approach (2024)

Analysing cultural change (2015)

Analysis and 3D Modeling of Pithouse Architecture during the Developmental-to-Coalition period Transition in the Albuquerque Basin (2016)

Analysis and Comparison of the Paleo-ecological Reconstruction of Simpson Springs to the Archaeological Record of Camels Back Cave in the Bonneville Basin of Utah (2023)

Analysis and Implications of Post-Depositional Bias in the Basin of Mexico (BOM) Surveys: A Preliminary Case Study of the Texcoco Survey Region (2021)

Analysis and Interpretation of the Bandelier Landfill Site: Determining the Information Potential of a Multicomponent Historic Trash Site (2019)

An Analysis of 3D Mapping Methods of Historic Burials at Bethel Cemetery (2023)

Analysis of a Bayesian Network Methodology for Site Similarity Assessment (2023)

Analysis of a Jun/Wasi Nut Cracking Stone from Western Ngamiland, Botswana: Implications for the Origins of Hominin Technology (2021)