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 601-700 of 24,297)
- Analysis with Lidar of Coastal Environments on Pohnpei (2025)
- Analytical Approaches for Identifying Ritual Contexts (2017)
- Analytical Challenges Posed by the Early Holocene / Late Paleoindian Activity Areas at the Water Canyon Site, West-Central New Mexico: How Do We Know What We Think We Know? (2017)
- Analytical Models for At-Risk Heritage Conservation and 3D GIS (2018)
- The Analytical Nexus: Multi-Technique Approaches to Ceramic Composition (2015)
- Analyzing activity areas when only one material remains: The interpretation of low density, "empty" spaces in open air Middle Paleolithic sites (2015)
- Analyzing Afro-Caribbean Ware from Fort Amsterdam (SE094) and Battery Rotterdam (SE129) on St. Eustatius, Caribbean Netherlands (2019)
- Analyzing an Historic-Era Refuse Deposit at Crystal Cove State Park, Orange County, California (2025)
- Analyzing Ancient Ground Stone Tool with a Modern Toolkit: A Summer Lab Project (2025)
- Analyzing Ancient Maya Settlement Patterns through the Geochemical Analysis of Obsidian Artifacts in Southern Belize. (2016)
- Analyzing Archaic Rock Art in Northern New Mexico through Landscape Survey (2019)
- Analyzing Highland and Coastal Ceramic Techniques of Production in the Middle Horizon Period (2024)
- Analyzing Historically Significant Archeological Sites to 1800s Survey Plats of Southeast Florida (2016)
- Analyzing Images from the Jebel Qara Environment: Preserving Painted Rock Art in the Cave Shelters of Southern Arabia (2024)
- Analyzing Late Woodland Pipe Fragments from the Topper Site (38AL23): Exploring the Botanical, Social, and Ritual Intersections of Smoking (2018)
- Analyzing Magdalenian social networks in their environmental context (2016)
- Analyzing Material Culture Correlations with Multilayer Networks in Southwestern Archaeology (2025)
- Analyzing Mimbres Pottery Designs with Confidence (2021)
- Analyzing Periphery Ritual Practice through Time to Identify Intra-polity Relationships at the Ancient Maya Center of Pacbitun (2023)
- Analyzing Prehispanic Textile Technology at the Site of Santo Domingo. Huarmey Valley, Peru (2023)
- Analyzing Similarity of Animal Style Art in Iron Age North Central Eurasia: A New Way to Study Continental Expression of Religious Symbolism (2019)
- Analyzing Skeletal Manifestations of Pre-Columbian Tuberculosis in the Northeastern highlands of Peru (2016)
- Analyzing Stone Fish Net Sinkers in the North Coast of Peru: Inquiring its Functional and Symbolic Aspects. (2024)
- Analyzing Stress, Discovering Cooperation: A case study of a Late Archaic sample from the Green River region of Kentucky (2019)
- Analyzing the Relationship between Peri-abandonment Deposits and the Eastern Shrine of Xunantunich, Group B (2019)
- Analyzing the Use of Inter-Structure Space at Ames, a Mississippian Town in Fayette County, Tennessee (2016)
- Analyzing the Utilization of Shell in Chickasaw Pottery Using Petrographic and Chemical Composition Techniques (2019)
- Analyzing Urban and Industrial Threats to Heritage in Turkey Using Remote Sensing and GIS (2018)
- Analyzing Wood-use Behavior at Wupatki Pueblo (2017)
- Anarchy in the Trenches: Perspectives on Buen Suceso (2023)
- Anarchy, Archaeology, and the Decolonization of Collaborative Heritage (2015)
- Anarchy, Heterarchy, and the Bioarchaeological Evidence of Labor in the Tiwanaku “State” (AD 500–1100) of Bolivia and Peru (2021)
- Anatomical Characteristics of the Pedal Skeleton Provide Insights into the History of Human Footwear (2023)
- Anatomy of an Arctic Archaeobotanical Analysis: Insights about Ancestral Inuvialuit Plant Use at Agvik, Banks Island, NWT (2021)
- Ancestor Shrines, Diversity, and Distributed Power in West Africa: Understanding the Strength of Flexibility and Cooperation in Sociopolitical Histories (2023)
- Ancestor veneration in a domestic space in Panquilma. A preliminary approach based on the Ceramic Analysis. (2015)
- Ancestor Veneration or Funeral Practices? An Examination of Recuay Mortuary Variability in the Basin of Puccha (Ancash) between AD 200-900 (2019)
- Ancestor Veneration, Termination and Renewal: New Considerations of Construction Fill (2018)
- Ancestors and Ancestral Spirits: Understanding the Spirits of the Dead in Prehispanic Settlements of the American Southeast and Southwest (2015)
- Ancestors and the Power of Ruins in Nejapa and Tavela, Oaxaca (2023)
- The Ancestors You Choose: The Role of Predecessors at Xunantunich, Belize Group D (2021)
- Ancestors, Agency, and Formation Processes: Interpreting Problematical "Smash and Trash Deposits" at Ka’Kabish, Belize (2017)
- Ancestors, Archaeology, and Ethics in Central Mexico (2025)
- Ancestral Abstract Art of the Mojave Desert (2015)
- Ancestral Chickasaw Migration and the Makings of the Anthropocene in Southeastern North America (2018)
- Ancestral Landscapes of the Salish Sea: Exploring Inland Shell Middens, Social Memory and Coast Salish Narratives (2017)
- Ancestral Ohiyo Haudenosaunee Ceramic Styles and Technology (2019)
- Ancestral Pathways of Fiji: Using GIS to Analyze Landscapes of Movement and Lineages within the Sigatoka River Valley (2019)
- Ancestral Pueblo Agriculture on the Pajarito Plateau: A Geoscience Investigation of Field Terraces in the Northern Mountains of New Mexico (2018)
- Ancestral Pueblo Essentials: Evidence for Layered Social Institutions during the Basketmaker III Period in the Northern Southwest (2019)
- Ancestral Pueblo Fishing Associated with Mixed Foraging Goals and Environmental Stability in the Middle Rio Grande of New Mexico (2023)
- Ancestral Pueblo rock art in the socio-cultural and environmental context: Sand & Rock Creek Canyons in the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, Colorado, USA (2025)
- Ancestral Pueblo Site Distribution Data from Los Alamos National Laboratory on the Pajarito Plateau (2015)
- Ancestral Pueblo Turkey Management at 5MT1905: Evidence for Confinement of Turkeys within a Pueblo II Roomblock in Southwest Colorado (2025)
- Ancestral Pueblo Turkey Management on the Pajarito Plateau (C.E. 1150-1600) (2019)
- The Ancestral Puebloan Community of Alkali Ridge: Investigating The "Prudden Unit" Paradigm (2018)
- Ancestral Puebloan Running and Walking Biomechanics (2023)
- Ancestral Puebloan Settlement Patterns of Redwood Llama Ranch: Analysis of GIS and Fieldwalking Survey (2019)
- The Ancestral Remains of the Cheslatta T'en: A Rare Burial Site from the Middle Holocene in Central British Columbia (2023)
- Ancestral Ties During a Period of Social Upheaval, An Example from the Early Classic Period in the Tucson Basin (2017)
- Ancestry and Heritage at a South Carolina Rice Plantation (2018)
- Anchoring in the Gulf: Trans-Species Dwelling and Building in Gulf Coast Florida (2018)
- Anchoring the Absolute to the Relative: Recent Chronological Research in the Virú Valley, Peru (2015)
- Ancient Alaskan Firewood Management Strategies and the Role of Selectivity: Preliminary Results (2018)
- Ancient American Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum (2016)
- Ancient and Contemporary Maya Ruins as Living Landscapes (2023)
- Ancient and Historic Glass Production in India: Preliminary Results of Raw Material Analyses (2023)
- Ancient and Medieval Agricultural Terraces in Italy: Chronology, Geoarchaeology, and sedaDNA (2024)
- Ancient and Medieval Monuments from Romania and Spain as a Testimony of Transcontinental Links—Cultural and Scientific Aspects (2019)
- Ancient Andean Scalarity (2019)
- Ancient Beads from Southeast Asia at the Corning Museum of Glass (2023)
- Ancient Biomolecules and Destructive Sampling at the National Museum of Natural History (2018)
- ANCIENT CACAO GROVES IN YUCATAN: A PALYNOLOGICAL APPROACH (2017)
- Ancient Caribbean-Mainland Plant and Animal Translocations: Cultural, Biogeographic and Biodiversity Legacy (2015)
- Ancient Ceremonial Landscapes in Northern Arizona (2023)
- The Ancient City of Dos Hombres: Material Expressions of Power (2017)
- Ancient Clam Gardens and Ecological Enhancement on Northern Quadra Island, BC (2017)
- Ancient Clam Gardens of the Southern Gulf Islands (2015)
- Ancient Clam Gardens: Exploring Cultural and Ecological Mechanisms that Enhanced Clam Production (2017)
- Ancient Crops, Modern Possibilities: A Study on the Potential for Millet Agriculture in the United States (2017)
- Ancient Demography in Northwest Yucatán, Mexico (2021)
- Ancient DNA Analyses and the Human Population of Western Europe during and after the Last Glacial Maximum: Major Contributions from El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain) (2024)
- Ancient DNA Analyses of Dental Calculus from Plains Village Collections (2018)
- Ancient DNA Analyses of Mongolian Aurochs Shows Connections to Ancient East Asian Cattle (2025)
- Ancient DNA analysis and the Indo-European dispersal (2017)
- Ancient DNA Analysis from Micro-fractures in Bridge River Stone Tools (2018)
- Ancient DNA analysis of early Neolithic cattle from Houtaomuga site, Northern China (2017)
- Ancient DNA Analysis of Fish Remains from Charlie Lake Cave (HbRf-39), British Columbia, Canada (2017)
- Ancient DNA Analysis of Microbes Preserved in Dental Calculus: Challenges And Opportunities (2018)
- Ancient DNA Analysis of Orton Quarry (2019)
- Ancient DNA analysis to investigate the history of malaria and malaria genetic adaptations in Europe (2016)
- Ancient DNA and Cranial Morphometric Analysis into Ancestry of Five Burials from Colonial Delaware (2015)
- Ancient DNA and Historical Ecology: An Innovative Approach to Environmental Conservation (2017)
- Ancient DNA from Campeche, Mexico, Reveals a Socially Segregated Population in the First Two Centuries after Hispanic Contact (2021)
- Ancient DNA from Etruscan Tombs and Beyond: A Case Study from San Giuliano (2021)
- Ancient DNA from Stone Tools (2017)
- Ancient DNA in archaeological bone tools from La Ventilla, Teotihuacan: sex determination and genetic structure. (2016)
- Ancient DNA Investigations of Possible Casas Grandes – Chalchihuites Interactions (2018)
- Ancient DNA of a nomadic population provides evidence of the genetic structure of the royal ancient Mongols (2017)
- Ancient DNA of Camelids from Far Southern Peru: Whole Genome Enrichment Methods Reveal Breeding History at Tiwanaku and Inca Sites (2023)