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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And the Legacy Continues: Homol’ovi Looking Forward (2018)

And Then Sometimes, The Public Engages You (2015)

...and Tribes: Lessons from Our Worldview and Search for a Partner in Preservation (2025)

Andean Foodways: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Pre-Columbian and Colonial Food and Culture (2016)

Andean Hunting and Pastoralism: Measures of Animal Health, Care, and Environmental Change (2025)

Andean Indigenous Bodies: Methodological Approaches to Past Perceptions of the Body (2019)

Andean Irrigation Communities: A Comparative Study of Household and Society in Ancient Peru (2015)

The Andean Khipu and a Pre-Columbian Computer System: A Postcolonial Perspective (2024)

An Andean Mountain Shrine: The Case of Balconcillo de Avillay, Huarochiri (Lima, Peru) (2017)

Andean Ontologies: An Introduction to the Substance (2016)

Andean Past: An Open Access Journal for Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory (1987 to Present) (2025)

Andean Philosophies, Social Theory, and the Use of Analogies in the Interpretation of Andean Built Environments (2023)

Andean Population Dynamics Revealed by Genome-wide Data from the High Elevation Cuncaicha Rock Shelter (2017)

The Andean road a long trajectory of a social institution. (2016)

The Andean Urban Center of Cajamarquilla: Environmental and Occupational Dynamics (2025)

Andesite Exchange Networks from the Formative to Middle Horizon in Cusco (2025)

Andra tider, andra seder: Shifting Taskscapes of Gender, Age and Class in Early Sweden (2018)

An Android-Based System for Archaeological Survey and On-Site Stone Tool Analysis (2017)

The Angel of History and the Paradise of Progress in the Scholarship of Peter Roe (2017)

Angkor from the Outside In: Household Archaeology in Battambang, Cambodia (2019)

Angkor from the Outside In: Incorporation into the Angkorian State as Seen through the Distribution of Stoneware Ceramics (2021)

Angkorian Collapse and Aftermath: A View from the Center (2016)

Angkorian Residential Patterns: A view from the trenches (2015)

Angkorian Settlements and Interactions in the Cambodia Middle Mekong Region (2018)

Anglo-Saxon and Viking Ship Burials as Indicators of Rank and Wealth (2015)

Animal Agents in the Human Environment (2018)

Animal Architecture: Historicizing Nonhuman Material Culture (2024)

Animal as Social Actor: A Case Study of a Pre-Colonial Northern Tiwa Structure (2018)

Animal Bones from Hazor, Israel and a Cautionary Tale of Interpreting Past Ritual (2018)

Animal captivity in Tenochtitlan’s sacred precinct: Specialized diet and paleopathological analysis of golden eagles found in Offering 125 (2015)

Animal diaspora and culture change (2015)

Animal Economies and Emergent Complexity in the European Bronze Age (2021)

Animal exploitation at Castillo de Huarmey site, Northern Coast of Peru: The case of South American Camelids. (2016)

Animal Exploitation Choices in Worked Bones at a Portuguese Chalcolithic Village (2024)

Animal exploitation in the early prehistory of the Balearic Islands (2016)

Animal Fats and Ancient Pyro Technologies in the North American Arctic: Contextualized Analysis of Lipids in Archaeological Sediments, Combustion Features, and Ceramics (2017)

Animal Husbandry at Late Chalcolithic Tell Surezha (Iraqi Kurdistan) (2017)

Animal Husbandry Practices at the Musgrove Cowpens (9Ch137) (2023)

Animal Imagery and the Mythic Level of Jama-Coaque Figural Style (2017)

Animal Imagery in the Postclassic Yearbearer Pages of the Codex Borgia (2019)

An Animal Kingdom at Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico (2019)

Animal Management of the Late Classic Maya at Copán, Honduras, Using Stable Isotope Analysis (2023)

Animal Manifestations of the Creator Deities in the Maya Codices and the Popol Vuh (2019)

Animal Masters, Guardian Animals, and Masters of Animals in Eastern North American (2019)

The Animal Provisioning System for a Late Bronze Age Temple at Hazor, Israel (2024)

Animal Remains and Archaeological Context in the Mogollon Area, AD 1000–1450 (2021)

Animal Resource Use and Management by Naachtun's Elite (2016)

Animal Resources and Technology in Eastern Beringia During the Late Pleistocene (2016)

Animal Resources Utilization and Management at the Late Neolithic Dinggong Site, China: Evidences from Stable Isotope Analysis (2019)

The Animal Subsistence System of Old Kingdom of Egypt (2021)

Animal symbolism in the rock art of the Sonoran Desert (2015)

Animal Use among the Monongahela: Insights from the Analysis of the Johnston Site Faunal Assemblage (2018)

Animal Use at Nixtun-Ch'ich': Preclassic Canids, Postclassic Crocodiles, and Contact Period Cows (2016)

Animal Use in Ancient Maya Terminal Deposits: Examining Faunal Remains from sites in the Belize Valley to Identify Ritual Activities (2017)

Animal Use in the Last Maya Kingdom (2018)

Animal Use in the Late Prehispanic Colca Valley–Arequipa, Peru (2025)

Animal utilization and animal rituals of the Okhotsk culture: with special reference to their period and regional differences (2017)

Animal, Human, and Crafted Bone from the S-Sector of Piedras Negras (2018)

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? The Characterization of “Resins” Binding Composite Artifacts from the Northern Colorado Plateau (2021)

[Animal] Skeletons in the Closet: Decolonizing Comparative Faunal Collections (2025)

Animals and urbanization in northern Mesopotamia:Late Chalcolithic faunal remains from Hamoukar, Syria (2017)

Animals at Spiro Mounds: Patterns from Faunal Specimens and Engraved Shells (2019)

Animals at the Periphery: Investigating Urban Subsistence at Iron Age Sam’al (Zincirli Höyük, Turkey) (2021)

Animals Do Speak but Are We Listening? Perspectivism, Slow Zooarchaeology, and Contemplating Animal Domestication (2023)

Animals for the Ancestors: Comparing Animal Use in Funerary Rites at Ancient Hualcayán, Peru (AD 1–1000) (2019)

The Animals of Pueblo Ritual: Faunal Analysis of a Kiva from Pot Creek Pueblo, NM (2017)

Animate landscapes and the transference of authority: resistance to hierarchy among hunter-gatherers of the Eastern Woodlands (2015)

Animate Pottery and Culture Phases (2024)

Animated ships (2017)

Animating Sacred Landscapes through Making Rock Art (2016)

Animism and Agency in the Amazonian Landscape: A Consideration of the Ontological Turn Utilizing Perspectives from Modern Runa Communities (2018)

An Animist Shamanism: The World behind San Rock Art (2024)

Ann Stahl’s Archival Imagination (2024)

Anna and the Sea: Reflections on Anna Kerttula's Influence on a Generation of North Pacific Archaeology (2019)

Annually-Resolved Environmental proxies in the Great Lakes Region, 14 ka to 10 ka BP: A Time of Paleo-Indian Hunters and Megafauna Extinction (2016)

Anomalous Floor 2 Features in the Point Pueblo Great Kiva (2019)

Another F-----g Basket Baper: Decorated Specimens from Huaca Prieta, Peru (2016)

Another Form of Slave Ship: Local Nautical Technologies and Practices in the Persistence of the Senegambian Slave Trade (1818–1888) (2021)

Another Indigenous Feminist on Settler Colonialism in Archaeology (2018)

Another Pint! Beer & Soda Bottles in Victorian Philadelphia: A Spatial Analysis (2016)

Another Step Forward: What We Didn't See Before LiDAR (2025)

Anshe Ky’an’a and Zuni Traditions of Movement (2017)

Answering Chronological and Regional Interaction Questions via pXRF and LA-ICP-MS Analyses in the Interior Southeast (2015)

Answering Pseudoarchaeology from the Repository (2019)

Answering the Grand Challenges of Archaeology (2019)

Answers in the Dirt: Taphonomy, Preservation Bias, and Pastoralism at Iron Age Nichoria, Greece (2017)

The Antarctic Archaeological Reconnaissance Project: Preliminary Results (2025)

The antecedents to the specialized microdrill industry on Santa Cruz Island, CA (2015)

Antelope Cave and Far Western Anasazi Lifeways of the Virgin River Region (2015)

Anthracological Analyses of the Iron Age Shell Middens Complex at Praia da Rocha, Inhambane, Mozambique (2019)

Anthracological Investigation of Forest Management Practices at Three Bronze Age Sites in Central Thailand (2025)

Anthropocene Amazonia, Beyond the Buzzword: Centennial-Scale Anthropogenic Influences on Southern Amazonian Forests, 1000-2000 CE (2018)

The Anthropocene Divide: Obscuring our Understanding of Socio-Environmental History (2017)

The Anthropocene of Madagascar: Reviewing Chronological Evidence for Madagascar’s Colonization (2017)

The Anthropocene: Present Singular or Past Plural? (2018)

The Anthropogenic and Geogenic Coproduction of Seismically Triggered Soft Sediment Deformation Structures (SSDS) in Helike, Greece (2023)

Anthropogenic Effects on Soil Quality of the Las Capas Irrigation System (2015)

Anthropogenic Fire and the Origins of Agricultural Landscapes during the Neolithic Period (7,700–4,500 cal. BP) in Eastern Spain (2018)

Anthropogenic Fire Management and Changing Land-Use Strategies in the Mammoth Cave Plateau and Sinkhole Plain, Central Kentucky, USA (2015)

Anthropogenic land cover change over the last 6000 years: How can we use archaeology to inform global models? (2017)