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 •
Settlements •
Rock Art •
Agricultural or Herding •
Ball Court •
Artifact Scatter
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 •
Mogollon •
Woodland •
Archaic •
Euroamerican •
Spanish •
PaleoIndian •
Hopewell
Investigation Types
Heritage Management •
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis •
Collections Research •
Archaeological Overview •
Data Recovery / Excavation •
Systematic Survey •
Architectural Documentation •
Reconnaissance / Survey •
Ethnographic Research •
Ethnohistoric Research
Material Types
Ceramic •
Fauna •
Chipped Stone •
Macrobotanical •
Building Materials •
Dating Sample •
Human Remains •
Metal •
Wood •
Ground Stone
Temporal Keywords
Civil War •
Mimbres Classic period •
Ancestral Puebloan / Sedentary through Classic Period •
19th Century •
Historic •
Magdalenian •
1880-1920 •
Pueblo I and II •
Postclassic •
Prehistoric
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)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 201-300 of 24,297)
- Adapting to the Changing Environment in CRM Graduate Training (2023)
- Adaptive Approaches to the Thingness of Institutional Datasets: A View from North Carolina (2019)
- The Adaptive Capacity of the Water Management System of Angkor, Cambodia (2018)
- Adaptive Cycles and Resilience as explanatory templates for the formulation of coupled climate-culture models (2016)
- Adaptive Dietary Response to Long-Term Drought: Diachronic Stable Isotope Evidence from the Central Sierra Nevada, California (2017)
- Adaptive Pastoralism and Climate Change in the Irish Chalcolithic – Early Bronze Age: Adding Evidence from Termon, Co. Clare (2019)
- Adaptive Strategies of Foragers and Early Herders in Mongolia's Desert-Steppe: Implications for Understanding Social-ecological Dynamics, the Development of Food Production, and the Study of Long-Term Social Change (2021)
- Adaptive Water Management in the American West: Utah Case Studies in Technological Innovations and Community Cooperation (2024)
- Add to Cart? The Ethical Landscape of Buying Human Bone in the United States (2023)
- Adding Fuel to the Fire: An Ethnoarchaeological study of Fire amongst the Asurini of Xingu, Brazilian Amazon (2016)
- Adding Navigating Capabilities to a Deterministic Computer Model of Ocean Voyaging (2019)
- Adding to the Paleoenvironmental Framework for Early Settlement of Interior Alaska: New Perspectives on Local Changes in Vegetation and Hydrology from Plant Wax N-Alkanes (2023)
- Additional Insights into the Significance of Cave Formations: The Case of Balamkú (2023)
- Additional statistical and graphical methods for analyzing artifact orientations and site formation processes from total station proveniences (2017)
- Addressing Anthropogenic Safety Concerns in the Archeological Workplace: A Case Study (2015)
- Addressing NAGPRA, Contamination, and Policy in Museums (2024)
- Addressing Objects in Limbo: Using Digital Resources to Increase Access to Native American Material Culture (2019)
- Addressing Surface Site Palimpsests with GIS and Lithic Technology (2015)
- Addressing Taphonomic Complications in the Use of Archaeological Radiocarbon Assemblages as Population Proxies: A Case Study in the Bonneville Basin (2021)
- Addressing the Challenges of Developing a Standardized System for the Morphological and Functional Analysis of Archaeological Pottery (2015)
- Addressing the CRM Labor Crisis: A Successful Model of Archaeological Student Training in Arkansas (2025)
- Addressing the Curation Crisis through Research in University Legacy Collections (2015)
- Addressing the Inevitable: Site Preservation Efforts in the Face of Global Climate Change (2019)
- Addressing Today’s Issues with Yesterday’s Tools (2018)
- Addressing Tribal Environmental Justice and Historic Preservation for Levee Infrastructure through Value-Added Geospatial Risk Analysis (2025)
- Admixture in the pre-Columbian Caribbean (2015)
- aDNA analysis of prehistoric salmon remains at Housepit54 (2024)
- aDNA Extracted from Textile Fibers from Los Molinas, Peru (2025)
- Adobe and Sod: Recent Results from a Multi-instrument Geophysical Survey at Fort Larned National Historic Site, Kansas (2024)
- Adolf Bandelier’s 1892-1894 Expedition to the Central Coast of Peru (2017)
- Adolph Bandelier’s Legacy in the Lake Titicaca Basin: Tiwanaku and Qeya Ceramic Style (2018)
- The Adoption of Agriculture in the Tehuacan Valley, Mexico: Stable Isotope Data for 10,000 Years of Environmental and Dietary Change (2023)
- Adoption of Ceramic Technology: Case Study from Incipient Jomon of Southern Kyushu (ca. 13,500/14,000 – 12,000 cal yr BP) (2015)
- Adorning Localities: An Investigation of Shell Beads in Holocene Southwestern Madagascar (2023)
- ADS 3D Viewer: an example of open 3D real-time visualization system in archaeology (2015)
- Advanced AMS 14C Dating of Contaminated Bones Associated with North American Clovis and Pre-Clovis Butchering Sites (2018)
- Advanced GIS applications for bioarchaeology: methods and case studies (2016)
- Advanced Imaging of Saudi Arabian Petroglyphs: How Science Informs Art. (2017)
- Advanced Spatial Documentation of Cultural Resources at Southern Arizona National Parks (2015)
- Advances and changes in the surveying and mapping of Guatemalan archaeology aided by new information technologies (2015)
- Advances and Prospects in the Archaeological Sciences on the 40th Anniversary of the Society for Archaeological Sciences (II) (2018)
- Advances in Mineral Characterization of the Late Horizon Pottery from Incahuasi, Cañete (2019)
- Advances in Strategic Cultural Resources Support from the Air Force Civil Engineer Center and Argonne National Laboratory (2024)
- Advances in Technological Studies of Northern Chile Ceramics: Petrography and Geochemistry of Fabrics and Paintings (Iluga Túmulos, Tarapacá) (2023)
- Advances in the Study Archaeological Ceramics of the Epiclassic-Early Postclassic Basin of Mexico (2019)
- Advances in the Understanding and Interpretation of Ceramic Offering Caches in Great Kiva Contexts (2024)
- Advances in using oxalate-rich mineral coatings as dating tools in Australian rock art shelters (2025)
- Advances in Viking Archaeology: Aligning Data, Theory, and the Interdisciplinary Perspective (2016)
- Advances in World-Systems Analysis in Mesoamerica (2024)
- Advancing Machine Learning Approaches to Identifying Charcoal Morphologies and Fuels for Sedimentary Charcoal Analysis (2025)
- Advancing the Role of Historical Human Remains Detection Dogs: Expanding Capabilities in Archaeology and Preservation (2025)
- Advancing the Study of Alto Piura’s Past: New Perspectives on the Archaeology of the Cerro Vicus Region (2025)
- The Advantages of Landscape-Scale Cultural Assessments for Public Land Management (2023)
- Adventures of the Mountain Hare: An Ancient DNA Study (2019)
- Adversaries and Ancestors: A Comparison of Two Skull Caches from Northwest Honduras (2024)
- Advertising the Empire: Purépecha Strategies in the Imperial Heartland at Angamuco, Michoacán (2017)
- Advocacy for Archaeology: How Does a 35-Year Effort End Up in Failure and What to Do about It? (2023)
- Advocating for the Morrow Jones Cabin: Archaeological Investigations at a Historic Homestead (2017)
- Adzes in Focus: A 2D vs. 3D Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Dalton Artifacts. (2024)
- Aeolian Geoforming at a Preceramic Mound in Coastal Peru (2017)
- Aerial Drone Photogrammetry of Aboveground Mortuary Architecture in the Amazonian Andes (2023)
- Aerial Imaging Using UAVs (Drones) in Chihuahua and Nayarit, Mexico, to Map and Archive Archaeological Sites (2018)
- Aerial Mapping Approaches for Long-Term Monitoring of Heritage Landscapes Impacted by Climate Change (2023)
- The Aesthetics and Poetics of Infrastructures in Ancient Andean Urbanism (2024)
- Aesthetics and technology: gold and silver ornaments in the Qin First Emperor’s bronze chariots (2025)
- Afanasievo Settlement Archaeology in the Altai Republic (2024)
- The Aferlife of Archaeometry; the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Database Project (2015)
- Affective Foundations: The Dissolution of Human Sacrifice under the Western Zhou, 1046-771 BC (2021)
- Affectual Ecosystems of Color: Pigments and the Co-creation of Power in the Chaco World (2023)
- Affording Archaeology: How the Cost of Field School Keeps Archaeology Exclusive (2019)
- The Afghanistan Cultural Heritage Education Program: A Collaborative, International Education Model (2018)
- African American Community Building on Mulberry Island, Virginia during the “Jim Crow” Era (2024)
- African American Household Change over Time at an Arkansas Plantation (2025)
- African Ancestry or Neanderthal-Human Genetic Admixture in Eurasians? African Diversity Matters. (2017)
- African and Afro-Caribbean Cultural Identity, Vessel Function, and Inter-island Connectedness in Eighteenth- to Nineteenth-Century St. Croix, US Virgin Islands (2021)
- African Archaeology and the Ancestral Maya World (2023)
- African Diaspora Histories in Central America: The Case of Omoa, Honduras (2025)
- The African Diaspora: Using Media Archaeology to Redefine Diasporic Connection (2025)
- African Humid Period Ceramics in the Turkana Basin, Kenya: New Data from Lothagam Lokam (and New Chronological Challenges) (2025)
- The African Humid Period: Paleolimnological and Paleoecological Evidence (2018)
- African Power Plays: Inland Beads, Shells, and Shell Beads in Tanzania, AD 700-1350 (2016)
- The African-Caribbean Landscape of Wallblake Estate, Anguilla (2018)
- Afro-Caribbean Ceramics of St. Croix: The Intersection of Clay Sourcing Analyses and Afro-Crucian Heritage (2023)
- Afrocolonial Archaeology in Panama: La Villa de Santiago del Principe, the first free African peoples of the Americas (2015)
- After 3,000 years, the enduring site of Potrero Mendieta is still overlooking the Jubones River Basin (2016)
- After Dark: The Nocturnal Urban Landscape of Great Zimbabwe (2019)
- After Monumentality: The Late Paracas Component at the Site of Campanayuq Rumi in the Peruvian South-Central Highlands (2024)
- After the Crisis: Epigraphic Data on Political and Cultural Developments in the Maya Lowlands 800–1000 CE (2023)
- After the Dissolution: The Second Life of Monastic Stones (2016)
- After the Ice Age in the Ozarks (2019)
- After the War: An Analysis of the Mortality of American Soldiers from the Last Century (2017)
- The Afterlife in Exile: Butterfly Imagery on Teotihuacan-style Censers from the Pacific Coast of Guatemala (2017)
- The Afterlife of a Desert Estate: The Qasr Complex at al-Ḥumayma, Southern Jordan at the Turn of the Second Millennium AD (2024)
- The Afterlife of Feasts: Feasting and Ritualized Deposition in the Middle Woodland Tidewater (2024)
- The Afterlife of Pacatnamu: From Looting to Curanderismo (2024)
- The Afterlife of the Charnel Chapel at Rothwell (Northamptonshire, UK) (2017)
- The Afterlife of the Discovery of a Lifetime: Preservation of the Maya Murals of San Bartolo, Guatemala (2019)
- The Aftermath of Colonization: Wichita Subsistence Change in the Southern Plains (2021)
- Against the Alienability of Archaeology (2023)
- An Agate Basin Point from Michoacán, Mexico (2023)