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)
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- Ancient DNA Perspectives on Kinship and Racialized Labor at a 17th century Delaware Frontier Site (2018)
- Ancient DNA prospecting in the Caribbean: preliminary findings and future perspectives (2015)
- Ancient DNA Studies in Tropical Environments: A Study into the Genetics of the Pre-Columbian Indigenous Population of Puerto Rico (2017)
- Ancient DNA Studies of Domesticated Cattle in Northern China (2017)
- Ancient DNA, Zooarchaeology, and the Case for Whale Hunting on the Northern Oregon Coast (2015)
- Ancient DNA: Investigating Maya Domesticated Waterscapes (2024)
- Ancient Dog Genome Preserved in Tumor Provides Novel Insights into the Domestication of Dogs (2018)
- Ancient Dogs of the Tennessee River Valley (2017)
- The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead on Coffins: Ritual Protection and Justification of the Deceased. (2015)
- Ancient Egyptian Curses and Bog Bodies: The Role of Pseudoarchaeology in Tumblr's Subculture (2019)
- Ancient Egyptian mummy genomes suggest an increase of Sub-Saharan African ancestry in post-Roman periods (2017)
- Ancient Environmental DNA from Meadowcroft Rockshelter (2025)
- Ancient Environmental DNA: A Novel Approach to Investigating an Early Classic Period Hohokam Trash Mound Context (2025)
- The Ancient Environmental Genomics Initiative for Sustainability (AEGIS) (2025)
- Ancient explosives from Jerusalem identified on the analysis of the mysterious sphero-conical ceramic vessels using archaeological chemistry (2016)
- The Ancient Floors of Housepit 54, Bridge River site: Stratigraphy and Dating (2015)
- Ancient Footprints, Modern Voices: Empowering Indigenous Communities through Technology (2025)
- Ancient Genomics Is Archaeobiology (2024)
- Ancient Genomics of Hunter-Gatherers at Lake Baikal: Shamanka II Case Study (2023)
- Ancient genomics of Neolithic to Bronze Age Baikal hunter-gatherers (2017)
- Ancient Genomics of the Peopling of the Americas (2025)
- Ancient Glass Studies from 1st-2nd Millennium AD Africa: What Have We learned and Where Are We Going (2015)
- Ancient Greenstone Mosaic Masks from the Central Maya Lowlands of Guatemala: A Contextual and Technological Study (2017)
- Ancient Herring DNA from the Burton Acres Shell Midden (45KI437) and Pacific Herring Population Dynamics in the South Salish Sea (2019)
- Ancient Hominin Bone Proteomes: Improving our Understanding of Past Human Behavior through the Study of Ancient Bone Proteins. (2017)
- Ancient Human DNA Analysis from Central California: Interpreting the Penutian Migration through Genetics. (2017)
- Ancient Human DNA from Shum Laka (Cameroon) in the Context of African Population History (2019)
- Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans (2015)
- Ancient Human Herbivorous Diet Reflected by the Analysis of Starch Grains from the Xijincheng Site, Bo'ai county, Henan province, China (2015)
- Ancient Human-Animal Interactions in Chachapoyas Region: Isotopic Analysis of Zooarchaeological Remains from Kuelap, Peru (2018)
- Ancient Impacts on a Modern Environment: Soil Management and Intensive Agriculture in a Pre-Columbium Urban Context (2016)
- Ancient Indigenous Cuisine: Multiproxy Investigations of Food Choice and Cooking (2023)
- Ancient Inscriptions and Climate Change: A Study of Water Management at the Ancient Capital of Bagan, Myanmar (2021)
- Ancient Landscapes of Amazonia: A Study of Pre-Colonial Processes and Contemporary Use at Macurany, Brazil (2018)
- Ancient Landscapes of Carabamba, Peru: The 2024 Summer Field Season of the Carabamba Archaeological Research Project (CARP) (2025)
- The Ancient Landscapes of South Texas Initiative and Augmented Reality: An Immersive Experience in Archaeological Education and Community Engagement (2023)
- Ancient Landscapes of the Rocky Mountain Front: A View from the Billy Big Springs Site, MT (2018)
- Ancient Lifeways but Not Archaic Approaches: Theoretical and Methodological Contributions from Researching the Earliest Record of the American Southeast (2024)
- The Ancient Lingling-O: Understanding Jade Stone Manufacture through Experimental Drilling and Scanning Electron Microscope Analysis (2019)
- Ancient Manganism in the Andes: A Bioarchaeological View (2023)
- Ancient Maya Agricultural Techniques: Investigations of Possible Terracing at the Site of Actuncan, Belize (2017)
- Ancient Maya Agriculture: The Intersection of Archaeology, Soil Science, Ethnobotany and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (2024)
- Ancient Maya Animal Use at El Mirador: Subsistence, ceremony, exchange and environmental resiliency (2017)
- Ancient Maya Craft Specialization in the Belize Valley (2016)
- Ancient Maya Dentistry: New Evidence for Therapeutic Dental Interventions and Dental Care Practices (2021)
- Ancient Maya Diet, Environment, Animal Use and Exchange at El Mirador: The Zooarchaeological Evidence (2018)
- Ancient Maya Elite Political-Economic Practices at La Milpa North, Northwestern Belize (2015)
- Ancient Maya Inequality and Oral Microbiome Ecologies from Classic Period Maya Contexts in Southern Belize (2023)
- Ancient Maya Land Use: Water Management and Agricultural Production at Actuncan, Belize (2018)
- Ancient Maya lithic craft specialization at Colha, Belize (2015)
- Ancient Maya Marketplace Investigations at Hun Tun (2024)
- Ancient Maya Mobility: Hinterlands Sacbe Systems (2019)
- Ancient Maya Placemaking: An Isotopic Assessment of Ancestry, Memory, and Body Partibility (2023)
- Ancient Maya Plant Use In the Mopan River Valley, Belize (2016)
- Ancient Maya Quarries: Limestone, Chert and Lidar (2019)
- Ancient Maya Salt Making Activities as Revealed Through Underwater Excavations and Sediment Chemistry, Paynes Creek National Park, Belize (2017)
- The Ancient Maya Settlement of Waybil, Belize: Middle-Level and Hinterland Settlement Investigations (2018)
- Ancient Maya Sustainability at Caracol, Belize: Implications for Past and Future (2019)
- Ancient Maya Trade and Communication as Evidence by Petrographic and Iconographic Analysis of Unit-Stamped Pottery (2015)
- Ancient Maya Use of Fauna from the Wetlands and Beyond (2021)
- Ancient Maya Water Control, Wetlands, and the Fiery Pool (2019)
- Ancient Maya Wetland Features in the Eastern Belize Watershed (2015)
- Ancient Mesoamerican Rain Cloud Iconography and Early Rain Entities (2023)
- Ancient Metal Routs in the Tarascan Señorío: Mining, Smelting, Smiting (2017)
- The Ancient Methone Intensive Survey Project: New Research at a Harbor City in the North Aegean (2015)
- Ancient Migrations in the Aztatlán Region: aDNA Analyses (2023)
- Ancient Mitochondrial DNA and Genetic Variation in Northwest Mexican Populations (2024)
- An ancient mitochondrial DNA approach to explore pre-Columbian inhabitants ancestry at Paquimé, Casas Grandes (2016)
- Ancient mitochondrial DNA provides high-resolution timescale of the peopling of the Americas (2016)
- Ancient Mitogenomes from Oregon Sea Otters (Enhydra lutris): Genetic and Archaeological Contributions to the Historical Ecology of an Extirpated Population (2019)
- Ancient Mongolian Aurochs Genomes Reveal Connections to East Asian Cattle (2023)
- Ancient mtDNA: both Amazonian and Andean migrants in western Puerto Rico by late Saladoid times (2016)
- Ancient networks of the Caribbean: Interaction and Exchange across the Historical Divide (2017)
- Ancient Oaxaca beyond Zapotecs and Mixtecs (2021)
- Ancient Obsidian Trade in Campeche, Mexico (2023)
- The Ancient Occupation of the East Terrace at Cerro San Isidro, Moro District, Peru (2024)
- Ancient Oral Metagenomes from La Real: Insights into Health and Infectious Disease Across the Middle Horizon Period (2024)
- Ancient Origins of Ethnographic Shell Bead Money in Central California (2017)
- Ancient Pathogen Genomes from Pre- and Early Colonial Epidemics in Mesoamerica and the Evolution of Parathyphi C (2019)
- Ancient plant management at ADEs on Santarem region from an archaeobotanical approach (2016)
- Ancient Plazas for Modern Cities: A Role for Archaeology in City Planning Today (2016)
- Ancient Population History in the Palenque Region: The Problem of the Selection of Population Proxies (2021)
- Ancient Projectile Weapons for Teaching and Public Outreach (2016)
- Ancient Puebloan Agricultural Landscape Features, Northern San Juan Area (2024)
- Ancient Residues Indicate Prehistoric Subsistence and Culinary Practices in the Korean Peninsula during the Middle Holocene (2017)
- Ancient Roads in the Territory of San Giuliano (2021)
- Ancient Shoreline Management on the Central California Coast (2019)
- Ancient Starch Research In California: Results from CA-SBA-53 (2015)
- Ancient Taino genome sheds new light on the peopling of the Caribbean (2016)
- Ancient Tula and Its Interactions with Other Areas of Mesoamerica (2024)
- Ancient Urbanites: The Spatial and Social Organization of Outlying Temple Groups at Ceibal, Guatemala (2017)
- Ancient Use of Copper in the Southeast United States (2023)
- Ancient Water Collection and Storage in the Elevated Interior Region of the Maya Lowlands (2016)
- Ancient Watercraft on Changing Landscapes (2016)
- Ancient woods used in a ritual context at Chenque I cemetery (Pampean region, Argentina) (2017)
- Ancient Zapotec Material Culture and the Antiquities Market (2017)
- Ancient, Modern, and Post-Modern: Pueblo Mural Painting of the Southwestern U.S. (2015)
- And here’s the NEWS from Xnoha! Understanding Maya settlement and Early Anthropocene Landscape Modifications at a small Maya center. (2019)
- "... and his wife Sally": The Binford Legacy and Uncredited Work in Archaeology (2019)
- "And Make Some Other Man Our King": Mortuary Evidence for Labile Elite Power Structures in Early Iron Age Europe (2017)