Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)

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  • 1606: Chronology Construction in the Native Chesapeake (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Martin Gallivan.

    This is an abstract from the "Building a Better Chronology for Fifteenth–Eighteenth-Century Eastern North America through Radiocarbon Dating and Collaborative Research Agendas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Constructing a chronology for the Native Chesapeake on the eve of the colonial era presents several challenges. These include a predominant focus on European settlement, fluctuations in the radiocarbon calibration curve, a scarcity of...

  • 1938 Excavations at Tajumulco, Guatemala (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather McClure.

    This is an abstract from the "Digging through the Decades: A 90-year Retrospective on American Archaeology; Biennial Gordon Willey Session in the History of Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. It all started modestly enough. A September 1937 drive to New Orleans from Santa Fe and then passage on the United Fruit Company liner Tivives with the ultimate destinations of Quirigua and Guatemala City. This small group of ten with their leader...

  • The 1950s, Postwar Resumption and Reconsiderations (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Alice Kehoe.

    This is an abstract from the "Digging through the Decades: A 90-year Retrospective on American Archaeology; Biennial Gordon Willey Session in the History of Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. World War II disrupted archaeology, with SAA members in uniform and travel restricted. Members resuming their careers in the late 1940s faced a more egalitarian America as thousands of men from uneducated families entered colleges on the G.I. Bill....

  • 2024 Archaeological Excavations of Laundress Housing at Old Fort Meade, Sturgis, SD (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only McKenzie Merchant.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The University of South Dakota (USD) archaeological field school in summer 2024 took place at the Soapsuds Row area of Fort Meade at the Bear Butte Creek Historic Preserve in Sturgis, South Dakota. The term “Soapsuds Row” refers to the housing originally used by laundresses employed by Fort Meade in the late AD 1800s. The 2024 archaeological work focused...

  • 3D Modeling Stratigraphy: Utilizing 3D Modeling to Understand Environmental Changes in Cultural Sites. (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Novak.

    This is an abstract from the "Geoarchaeology Within the Context of Cultural Resource Management (CRM) Today (Part Two)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper examines the use of 3D modeling within an archaeological site and how this technology can enhance our understanding of the past. Two 1x1 meter units were excavated to an approximate depth of 250 centimeters at a large Southern California coastal cultural site. Unit 01 was placed on a 15%...

  • 3D Visualization of the Ancient Capital of Hoa Lu Enclosures in Northern Vietnam (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ekaterina Menkina.

    This is an abstract from the "The Current State of Archaeological Research across Southeast Asia" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hoa Lu was the capital of Vietnam in the 10th century and is now the core area of the Trang An UNESCO world heritage site. In collaboration with Dr.Thuy, we focus on the visualization of Hoa Lu enclosures. Oral traditions, illustrations, and archaeological evidence of the ring-based walls provide an insight into the...

  • 50 years of North America archaeometallurgy in 15 minutes (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only David Killick.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeometallurgy, Eurasia and Beyond: Papers in Honor of Vince Pigott" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From about 1973 through the early 1990’s the University of Pennsylvania group of Maddin, Muhly, Pigott and Stech were among the world leaders in archaeometallurgy. In this presentation I try to situate their work within a brief history of his topic in North America. With two notable exceptions (the consultant...

  • An 8000-year record of lacustrine activity in the Magdalena Lake Basin, Jalisco, Mexico and implications for cultural changes (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirk Anderson.

    This is an abstract from the "From the Underworld to the Heavens: Expanding the Study of Central Jalisco’s Past" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> <b>Abstract</b> The Magdalena Lake Basin of Jalisco, Mexico has a rich cultural history from the Early Archaic to Protohistoric Periods. A Late Formative/Early Classic cultural florescence witnessed the emergence of the Teuchitlán Culture which collapsed in the Epiclassic. We developed...

  • Abraders, Palettes, and the Unknown: Assessing Tool Use through Low-power Microscopy and 3D Modeling (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Lynch.

    This is an abstract from the "Digitizing the Past: Studying Ancient Ground Stone Toolkits Using Modern Technology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Nine ground stone tool (GST) artifacts were recovered during the 1960s and 1990s excavations at the Hell Gap National Historic Landmark. They were found in units dating to ~10,800 - 10,000 years ago. These GST artifacts are on loan to Eastern New Mexico University digital archaeology lab from the...

  • The absence of evidence: erasure of pre-Hispanic ‘place’ in early colonial north coastal Peru (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ari Caramanica.

    This is an abstract from the "Emplacement and Relational Approaches to the Ancient Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The definition of “place” in early colonial north coastal Peru, was based, in part, on Iberian concepts of what constituted ‘good’ land. Ethnohistoric analysis of archival evidence from the period reveals a friction between two distinct worldviews around land, water, ownership, labor, and likely, place. To arrive at a better...

  • The Abundant Shade of Plaza Ceibas in Late Prehispanic Central America (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Benfer.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Living hundreds of years, ceiba trees (Ceiba pentandra) have long functioned as monuments to ancestral spirits, cosmological order, and chiefly authority among Indigenous populations throughout Central America. While these giant trees are often cosmologically charged and considered sacred or divine, there is substantial variety within Indigenous...

  • Accessing the “Empty Quarter”: Tentative Steps Towards the Peopling of Doggerland (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Vincent Gaffney.

    This is an abstract from the "Hunting for Hunters, Underwater: Results and Future Directions for Submerged Ancient Sites" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. After more than thirty years of study, palaeolandscapes research in the southern North Sea, usually referred to as Doggerland, has moved from the status of niche interest to an increasingly strategic area of investigation. Drivers for such a development includes the need to develop coastal...

  • Acquiring Economic Power in Chiefdom Societies of Early Japan (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ken-ichi Sasaki.

    This is an abstract from the "Acquiring Status and Power in Transegalitarian and Chiefdom Societies" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Japanese chiefly polities began evolving toward states during the Kofun period (middle third to early seventh centuries CE), as evidenced by the appearance of a key material symbol of increased social complexity and control: keyhole-shaped mounded tombs. Construction of these distinctive tombs reflects several...

  • Activity Areas and Evidence of Crafting: The Study of a Late Classic Lithic Maya Workshop at Chinikihá, Chiapas, Mexico (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Flavio Silva De La Mora.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent research in the Maya Lowlands, particularly in Chiapas and Tabasco, has shed new light on the regional patterns and social practices of Late Classic Maya society. This presentation will build upon these findings by delving into the lithic materials unearthed from archaeological work at the site of Chinikihá. The focus will be on the significance of...

  • Adapting (or Not) to Changing Seas: The Past, Present, and Future of a Southern Puerto Rican Shellscape (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only William Pestle.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Forty-six newly documented anthropogenic shell works, stretching along 1.5 km of a paleoshoreline in the intertidal zone of southwestern Puerto Rico constitute a precontact landscape (a shellscape, if you will) without parallel on the island. Besides evidencing subsistence practices, these monumental features speak to the culturally mediated adaptive...

  • Addressing the CRM Labor Crisis: A Successful Model of Archaeological Student Training in Arkansas (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Joshua Lynch.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2024, Arkansas Tech University (ATU), in partnership with the Ozark St. Francis National Forests and the WRI Research Station of the Arkansas Archaeological Survey, executed the first RPA4-certified Field School conducted on public lands in Arkansas. This four-week field school offered students and professional archaeologists the opportunity to gain...

  • Addressing Tribal Environmental Justice and Historic Preservation for Levee Infrastructure through Value-Added Geospatial Risk Analysis (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Myers.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study focuses on concerns for levees that tribal, state, and federal historic preservation staff have anecdotally observed, but have not fully quantified. It was designed in direct response Tribal Historic Preservation Officers’ concerns following flood events in the Mississippi River Valley in 2019. The research design was developed in coordination...

  • aDNA Extracted from Textile Fibers from Los Molinas, Peru (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Patience Beauchemin.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Little ancient DNA work has been done on archaeological textiles due to the difficulty of extracting sequenceable DNA from dyed materials in which the presence of various pigments often inhibit biochemical analyses. However, DNA extracted from textiles would add an additional line of evidence in regards to, for example, choices of raw materials,...

  • Advances in using oxalate-rich mineral coatings as dating tools in Australian rock art shelters (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Helen Green.

    This is an abstract from the "New approaches to the intractable problem of dating rock art" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Oxalate-rich, glaze-like mineral deposits are commonly found on low-angle surfaces in Australian rock art shelters. The synchronous growth of individual layers in these deposits across the Kimberley region of northwest Australia, suggests an environmental control, though the exact nature of this link is unclear. Some glazes,...

  • Advancing Machine Learning Approaches to Identifying Charcoal Morphologies and Fuels for Sedimentary Charcoal Analysis (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Grant Snitker.

    This is an abstract from the "Practice, Theory, and Ethics of Machine Learning in Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Differentiating between natural and anthropogenic fire in the past remains one of the principal challenges in interpreting paleo-charcoal records and has implications for contextualizing changing fire regimes in our world today. During the Holocene, cultural burning practices throughout the globe were motivated by diverse...

  • Advancing the Role of Historical Human Remains Detection Dogs: Expanding Capabilities in Archaeology and Preservation (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ronda Bowser.

    This is an abstract from the "Nondestructive Alternatives: Canine Remote Sensing (Scenting)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The use of Historical Human Remains Detection (HHRD) dogs has seen significant advancements, becoming increasingly vital in both archaeology and forensic investigations. These specially trained dogs possess an extraordinary ability to detect the scent of human remains, even those that have been buried or decomposed for...

  • Advancing the Study of Alto Piura’s Past: New Perspectives on the Archaeology of the Cerro Vicus Region (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Michele Koons.

    This is an abstract from the "Life on the Edge: Investigations in the Department of Piura, the “Extreme North” of the Central Andes, Peru" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Piura region in far northern Peru burst into the spotlight with the looting of sites that produced a dazzling new ceramic style and intricate metalwork that set the art market abuzz. These artifacts, later dubbed Vicus and Frîas, were named...

  • Aesthetics and technology: gold and silver ornaments in the Qin First Emperor’s bronze chariots (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Xiuzhen Li.

    This is an abstract from the "New materials and new insights for our understanding of the First Emperor's Mausoleum and early imperial China" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Among the most spectacular finds at the Mausoleum of China’s First Emperor (259 - 210 BC) are the Terracotta Army built to protect him in the afterlife, and the two sets of bronze chariots designed and buried to facilitate his travel in his underground kingdom. Hundreds of...

  • African American Household Change over Time at an Arkansas Plantation (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Rooney.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Hollywood and Valley Plantation, located in southeast Arkansas on the banks of Bayou Bartholomew, was home to at least four waves of migrating African Americans: two forced migrations of enslaved people of color in the 1820s and 1840s, and two voluntary migrations of Black sharecroppers in the 1870s and 1900s. Preliminary excavations at two different...

  • African Diaspora Histories in Central America: The Case of Omoa, Honduras (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Rus Sheptak.

    This is an abstract from the "Exercising Freedoms: Historical Archaeology of the African Diaspora in Latin America" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the mid-eighteenth century, Spanish colonial authorities in Central America initiated the construction of a fortress on the Honduran Caribbean Coast, at a place bearing the indigenous name of Omoa. The construction of the fort drew on the labor of a massive population of enslaved people from Africa,...

  • The African Diaspora: Using Media Archaeology to Redefine Diasporic Connection (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ariel Gilmore.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. When thinking of the African Diaspora one cannot deny the themes of resistance, resilience, and justice that seem to unite these very distinct cultures. This project focuses on the African diaspora and interrogates what diaspora means using media archaeology. Media archaeology is defined as a field of study that seeks to understand how change over time...

  • African Humid Period Ceramics in the Turkana Basin, Kenya: New Data from Lothagam Lokam (and New Chronological Challenges) (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Grillo.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ceramics produced by fisher-hunter-gatherers during the African Humid Period (AHP) are recognized archaeologically throughout northwest Kenya’s Turkana Basin, predating the arrival/adoption of cattle-based pastoralism and “Nderit” ceramic traditions ~5,000 years ago. Some AHP ceramics in the Turkana Basin share well-documented decorative similarities with...

  • The Age of Social Media: The Role of Archaeologists as Educators across Platforms (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Chitwood.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Social media plays an important part in the dissemination of information in our world today. As we navigate the ever-changing landscapes of social media platforms, it is important to have conversations about our roles as educators online and the responsibilities we have on these platforms. As clickbait titles capture the eyes of social media users leading...

  • Agent-based dispersal simulations reveal multiple rapid northern routes for the second Neanderthal dispersal from Western to Eastern Eurasia: implications for Central Asia (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Coco.

    This is an abstract from the "Advances in Stone Age Archaeology of Central Asia" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Genetic and archaeological evidence imply a second major movement of Neanderthals from Western to Central and Eastern Eurasia sometime in the Late Pleistocene. Genetic data suggest a date of 120-80ka for the dispersal and the archaeological record provides an earliest date of arrival in the Altai by ca. 60ka. Because the number of...

  • Aggregation and Exchange Networks: The Case Study from the Central Mesa Verde Region (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Fumi Arakawa.

    This is an abstract from the "Thinking of Acronyms: a Kohler Obsession? Papers in Honor of Timothy A. Kohler (TAKO)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As population density increases throughout the Holocene, people tend to expand their mobility strategies to acquire necessary resources (e.g., food, raw materials, mating opportunities, etc.). This is a common perception of human behavior globally; however, archaeological records, particularly lithic...

  • Agitating for Good Outcomes: A New Protocol for Improved Recovery of Floral and Faunal Remains (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Allen.

    This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeobotanical recovery in environmental settings with heavy clay and gley deposits is often challenging due to the difficuty of processing such sediments by flotation or wet-sieveing. Following good results from an initial experiment to improve visibility of floral and faunal remains in a gley deposit from Late Neolithic...

  • Agricultural Intensification in Another Mesoamerican Lake Basin: Recent Evidence from Pacific Nicaragua (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Hector Neff.

    This is an abstract from the "Papers in Honor of Deborah L. Nichols" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Deborah Nichols explored the relationship between subsistence, especially agriculture, and changing modes of settlement and social organization throughout her career. For the most part, her contributions on these topics focused on the Basin of Mexico, where early inhabitants clustered along the shores of shallow lakes, taking advantage of resources...

  • Agropastoralist Subsistence Strategies in a Mongol Empire (1206–1500 CE) Household (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Aspen Greaves.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As the second largest empire of all time, the Mongols had immense impact on the political, social, and material trajectories of most of the Eurasian continent, but little is known about the lives and choices of the original pastoralist subjects of the empire. Important research on Mongol-era subsistence has come from large urban or palatial sites like...

  • The Ahaw and His Representative: A New Approach for the Reading of Stela 2 at Chichen Itza (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Santiago Sobrino.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The following paper offers a new proposal for the reading and interpretation of the Stela 2 of Chichen Itza, a flat limestone 2.11 meter tall monument discovered in the late 90s by the late Dr. Peter Schmidt. The monument presents a middle register composed by 32 glyph blocks in an advanced state of erosion, a feature that prevented most epigraphers from...

  • The Aierdi site: a roman-era mining complex in the Western Pyrenees (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Teresa Lacosta Ramírez.

    This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Basque Archaeology: Current Research and Future Directions" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the Roman Empire's interests in its provinces was the exploitation of their mineral resources. In the region of the Western Pyrenees, the Empire promoted mining activities for gold, silver, iron and copper. Notably, the mining complex in the Aierdi Ravine (Lantz, Navarra, Spain) stands out...

  • Alcohol Production and Consumption at Zhouyuan: Continuity and Change Across Dynastic Transition (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jingbo Li.

    This is an abstract from the "Technology, Production, and Social Changes in Chinese Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study investigates alcohol production and consumption practices at the Zhouyuan site during the Chinese Bronze Age. Using microfossil analysis, including starch, phytolith, and fungal identification, the research examines fermentation technology, and use of vessels associated with brewing and consumption. By...

  • Aligning Pedagogy, Compliance, and Research: A Year-One Assessment of Boise State’s Semester-Based Field School (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Mario Zimmermann.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The completion of an archaeological field school continues to be one of the main qualifying criteria for employment in the broader realm of cultural resource management. Yet costs associated with participation in either domestic or international programs keep increasing. Moreover, 4-6 week full-time field schools pose additional challenges regarding...

  • All About the Ruler's Court and Principal Palace in Precontact Texcoco in 900 Seconds (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jerome Offner.

    This is an abstract from the "The Mexica Royal Court: A Symposium in Honour of Alfredo López Austin" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Multispectral and spectroscopic analysis of key sixteenth century graphic manuscripts, especially Mapa Quinatzin and Codex Xolotl, combined with the often-confused alphabetic sources dependent on them, are presented. New methods of digital annotation of the surface of such graphic manuscripts, or on any information...

  • All along the Watchtower: A Spatial Analysis of the Defensive Network of Coastal Towers in Early Modern Sicily (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Kirk.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Sicily holds a strategic position between the eastern and western Mediterranean. Fortified coastal towers have served as a component of coastal defenses since the establishment of the earliest Greek colonies on the island. During the Late Medieval period (fourteenth–sixteenth centuries), fortified coastal towers took on an intensified role as the Spanish...

  • All in a Day's Work? South African Rock Engravings as Bodily Practice and Skill. (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Silvia Tomaskova.

    This is an abstract from the "(Re) Imagining Rock Art Research" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study of rock engravings at Wildebeest Kuil, South Africa focuses on bodies, strength, skills and practice necessary to produce the carved images. Rather than ask "what do these images mean?", the project examines the material evidence for labor, effort, skill, strength and repetitive action that would have been only possible through extended...

  • All Kinds of Interesting Possibilities: Tracking the Division of Labor from the Late Pleistocene to Middle Holocene in the American Southeast (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only D. Shane Miller.

    This is an abstract from the "The Far-Reaching Influence of Steven L. Kuhn" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Kuhn and Stiner (2006) argued that an overlooked, but salient difference between Neanderthals and modern humans was their approaches to dividing labor. Kuhn and Stiner contend that modern humans were “diverse specialists” that may have aided in their ability to adapt to novel and changing environments and outcompete generalists. Here, we...

  • All the Small Things: Reconstructing Changes in Environment and Diet at the Late Neolithic Site of Csökmő-Káposztás-domb (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Riebe.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past 6 years, the Prehistoric Interactions on the Plain Project (PIPP) has carried out intensive and extensive archaeological investigations at the Late Neolithic site of Csökmő-Káposztás-domb located on the Great Hungarian Plain. Across the 105-hectare tell-centered settlement complex, a total of 20 test units and larger excavation blocks have...

  • The Allure of Proboscideans: Rethinking the Effect of Large Prey Attractiveness on Human Evolution (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Miki Ben-Dor.

    This is an abstract from the "Elephant Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ubiquity of Proboscidean remains in early archaeological sites across the Old and New World underscores their significance in human prehistory. However, ethnography-based estimates of Proboscidean hunting returns have consistently undervalued their exceptional attractiveness as prey during the Paleolithic period. This study presents a critical reevaluation of...

  • Altar Cave Ritual and Communion Sites: Evaluating a Connection Between Light and Dark Zones. (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Ratcliffe.

    This is an abstract from the "The Subterranean in MesoAmerican Sacred Landscapes: A Multidisciplinary Assessment" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ritual cave use is a popular subject in Maya archaeology, but whether proximate sites had linked use is unknown. Recent discoveries in Monkey Bay National Park- a protected area situated in the Maya Forest Corridor in central Belize- have led to new evidence of various ritual activities that took place...

  • Alternative Methods for Dating Rock Varnish at Murujuga, Western Australia (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ying-Li Wu.

    This is an abstract from the "New approaches to the intractable problem of dating rock art" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Placing robust age constraints on the production of rock art is difficult because the lack of suitable material for sampling. This is especially true in the case of petroglyphs where ‘paints’ are unavailable. The ARC-funded project ‘Dating Murujuga’s Dreaming’ faces this challenge by trying to identify a chronology for rock...

  • The American Upper Paleolithic and Its Origins (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Loren Davis.

    This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Late Pleistocene Archaeology of the Northern Pacific Rim" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A number of North American sites predating ~14.5 ka, well before an ice-free corridor became available, have relatively large stone tool assemblages that allow some assessment of the underlying characteristics of the lithic tradition they share. These assemblages have a broad technological...

  • AMS Radiocarbon Dates Establish Ballcourt Site Chronologies for Toita and Llanos Tuna in Precolonial Puerto Rico (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Kracht.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study addresses the relative paucity of dated archaeological sites in Puerto Rico and expands the islands’ existing database of radiocarbon dates. Our project focuses on developing AMS radiocarbon chronologies from two ballcourt sites: Toita, located in central eastern Puerto Rico, and Llanos Tuna, located in southwestern Puerto Rico. Current...

  • The Anakuakala Pictograph (Kiʻi Pakuhi) from Hawai‘i Island: A Contextual and Comparative Assessment. (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Scheffler.

    This is an abstract from the "The Value of Rock Art: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Current Rock Art Documentation, Research, and Analysis, Part I" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The 2014 eruption of Kīlauea Volcano prompted the emergency survey of a cave in the Puna District of Hawaiʻi Island. The survey recorded several kilometers of cave passage including stacked rock structures, midden, and also a distinctive feature in the form of a...

  • Analyses of metallurgical remains from Failaka, Kuwait: Exploring the Persian Gulf metals trade in the 2nd millennium BCE (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lloyd Weeks.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeometallurgy, Eurasia and Beyond: Papers in Honor of Vince Pigott" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper reviews the exchange of metals within the greater Persian Gulf region during the 2nd millennium BCE, considering archaeological, archaeometric and documentary evidence. The specific focus is the metallurgical assemblage from Failaka Island (Kuwait) and its implications for the continued production and...

  • Analysis of Lithic Material from Las Chachalacas (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Dillinger.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents the analysis of ground stone tools and chipped stone material from Las Chachalacas, Sonora, Mexico excavated in the winter of 2021 to 2022. Numerical dates suggest a periodic occupation from the Early Archaic period to the Early Agricultural period. The ground stone tool analysis focuses on the intensiveness of grain processing (wild...

  • An Analysis of Middle Paleolithic Fauna from Hole Fels (Swabian Jura, Germany) (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Britt Starkovich.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The sites of the Swabian Jura preserve long sequences of hominin occupation that span the Middle and Upper Paleolithic, including the oldest known art and musical instruments, which date to the Aurignacian period. Historically, we have thought of the Middle Paleolithic occupation of the region as being relatively ephemeral and low-density as compared to...

  • Analysis of Projectile Use-Wear, Adhesive Remains, and Archery Experiment on Epipaleolithic Microliths from Tor Hamar, Southern Jordan (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jianjie Yin.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Epipaleolithic assemblages in the Levant are characterized by frequent occurrences of microliths, and their techno-morphological and chronological studies have clarified detailed cultural history and regional variations in the Levant. While functional studies of microliths recently increased, the relationship between microlith functions and their...

  • Analysis of Pyramidal Loom Weights: Investigating Textile Practices from Excavations at Crnobuki Gradiste, Pelagonia, North Macedonia (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Bedell.

    This is an abstract from the "A Global Perspective on Fiber and Perishable Craftways in Ancient Cultures" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents research focusing on the pyramidal loom weights uncovered at Crnobuki Gradiste in the Pelagonia region of North Macedonia. Building on previous findings that suggest significant activity at the site, our study examines the loom weights' clay composition, temper, slip, and imprints to reveal...

  • Analysis with Lidar of Coastal Environments on Pohnpei (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacob Comer.

    This is an abstract from the "Ancient Seashore Sites and Environments in Geoarchaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. An airborne lidar data set collected over most of the island, and the entire coast, of Pohnpei, in the Federated States of Micronesia, allows for the development of a variety of digital models of the surveyed area. These models include digital terrain models (DTMs), which represent the surface of the ground without vegetation....

  • Analyzing an Historic-Era Refuse Deposit at Crystal Cove State Park, Orange County, California (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Leiva.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the last 100 years the coastal landscape now designated as Crystal Cove State Park has seen overlapping usage by various communities. These include the Hollywood campers of the 1920s, the Japanese and Japanese-American farming communities of the 1930s, the abrupt takeover of the Coast Guard in the 1940s, and the more recent visitors and state park...

  • Analyzing Ancient Ground Stone Tool with a Modern Toolkit: A Summer Lab Project (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly Cresci-Fulmer.

    This is an abstract from the "Digitizing the Past: Studying Ancient Ground Stone Toolkits Using Modern Technology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The discovery and archaeological excavation of the Hell Gap National Historic Landmark, north of Guernsey, Wyoming provided archaeologists with a breadth of knowledge of North American cultures, ranging from Folsom to Archaic. One set of artifacts recovered from the site is an ancient ground stone tool...

  • Analyzing Material Culture Correlations with Multilayer Networks in Southwestern Archaeology (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Bischoff.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Multilayer networks consist of multiple layers of connections between the same set of nodes. Rarely applied in archaeology, this framework provides an opportunity to analyze different types of material culture in one analysis. This poster describes the results of a multilayer network analysis in the Southwest United States consisting of typed projectile...

  • Ancestors, Archaeology, and Ethics in Central Mexico (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Overholtzer.

    This is an abstract from the "Ethical Dilemmas in the Study and Care of Human Remains beyond North America" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While engaging in collaborative fieldwork at Xaltocan in 2009, I was surprised that descendants wished to exhibit all their excavated ancestors in the community museum. Subsequent ethnographic research with Juan Argueta showed that displaying and analyzing the dead was a crucial tool in affirming their...

  • 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)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Radoslaw Palonka.

    This is an abstract from the "(Re) Imagining Rock Art Research" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Castle Rock settlement community dated to the 13th century AD located in Sand Canyon and Rock Creek Canyon in the Canyons of the Ancient National Monument, in southwestern Colorado, has been investigated since 2011, among other things focusing on the studies of relations between settlement, rock art, and landscape. In 2023, basing on a few tips from...

  • Ancestral Pueblo Turkey Management at 5MT1905: Evidence for Confinement of Turkeys within a Pueblo II Roomblock in Southwest Colorado (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only R. David Satterwhite.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The human-turkey relationship is an important aspect of Ancestral Pueblo history and has been the focus of recent research in the US Southwest and Northwest Mexico. One of the most important turkey management approaches employed by Ancestral and modern Pueblo peoples involves confinement (i.e., penning or tethering). The central Mesa Verde region, located...

  • Ancient DNA Analyses of Mongolian Aurochs Shows Connections to Ancient East Asian Cattle (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Witt.

    This is an abstract from the "Global Perspectives on Biomolecular Approaches to Human-Animal Interactions Past and Present" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Taurine cattle were domesticated in the Fertile Crescent and introduced to East Asia over 5000 years ago. Wild aurochs, the ancestor of domesticated cattle, were also present in East Asia during the introduction of domesticated cattle. It has been suggested that East Asian aurochs show some...

  • Ancient Environmental DNA from Meadowcroft Rockshelter (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Mikkel Pedersen.

    This is an abstract from the "2025 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of David J. Meltzer Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Meadowcroft Rockshelter, located near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a significant archaeological site excavated by James Adovasio and his team from 1973 to 1978. The site contains stratified layers of artifacts and charcoal dating from the Historic period back to approximately 17,300 years ago, suggesting early...

  • Ancient Environmental DNA: A Novel Approach to Investigating an Early Classic Period Hohokam Trash Mound Context (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Molly Corr.

    This is an abstract from the "Multidisciplinary Investigations of a Transitional Early Classic Period Hohokam Trash Mound at AZ U:9:319(ASM), Mesa, Arizona" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While various ethnographic and archaeological studies have shed light on different plant use in the Southwest, the breadth of plant use remains more enigmatic within the archaeological record. Like most artifacts studied in the archaeological record, ecofacts...

  • The Ancient Environmental Genomics Initiative for Sustainability (AEGIS) (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Eske Willerslev.

    This is an abstract from the "2025 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of David J. Meltzer Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During this talk I will introduce the Ancient Environmental Genomics Initiative for Sustainability (AEGIS) aimed at accelerating and delivering new strategies for developing resilient crops and agricultural systems and hence mitigate the risk of a human food crisis in the face of climate changes. This ambitious...

  • Ancient Footprints, Modern Voices: Empowering Indigenous Communities through Technology (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only James Cawley.

    This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. James Cawley, a Cultural Technologist and Creative Director of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation, demonstrates how interactive technology and digital storytelling can empower Indigenous communities. His presentation showcases his work at the discovery site of 12,000-year-old footprints on the United States Air Force's Utah Test and...

  • Ancient Genomics of the Peopling of the Americas (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only José Víctor Moreno Mayar.

    This is an abstract from the "2025 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of David J. Meltzer Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Americas were the last continent to be reached by anatomically modern humans. Thanks to large-scale genomic studies, archaeology, anthropology and geology we have a broad understanding of the process whereby the ancestors of present-day Indigenous Americans originated in Northeast Asia, reached the continent...

  • Ancient Landscapes of Carabamba, Peru: The 2024 Summer Field Season of the Carabamba Archaeological Research Project (CARP) (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick Mullins.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From May to August 2024, members of the Carabamba Archaeological Research Project (CARP) conducted drone surveys and surface collections at the five largest ancient settlements in the Carabamba Plateau of northern Peru (Cerro Sulcha, Cerro Shamana, Cerro Cuidista, Cerro Paredones-Amarro, and Cerro Quinga). Surface collections at these settlements produced...

  • ...and Tribes: Lessons from Our Worldview and Search for a Partner in Preservation (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Brunso.

    This is an abstract from the "United States Archaeology at Crossroads Part 1: The Obstacles, the Failures, and the Victories" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Indian tribes are often listed last in any preservation literature. This unfortunate placement in the language has left many tribal preservation officials feeling like the “last check box” in preservation processes, leading to many misunderstandings and hard feelings. It does not have to be...

  • Andean Hunting and Pastoralism: Measures of Animal Health, Care, and Environmental Change (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Moore.

    This is an abstract from the "Complex Human-Animal Interactions in the Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The origins of domesticated llamas and alpacas from their wild ancestors took place in arid and rugged environments. Zooarchaeological remains of camelids record the wellbeing, mobility, and longevity of individual animals. Records from several high-resolution assemblages from the central Andes show different life histories over time,...

  • Andean Past: An Open Access Journal for Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory (1987 to Present) (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Dan Sandweiss.

    This is an abstract from the "Issues in Regional Journal Publishing in the Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Andean Past is a peer-reviewed, interannual publication series on Andean archaeology and ethnohistory. Founded by Dan Sandweiss at Cornell University in the mid-1980s, fourteen volumes have been published since 1987. Monica Barnes joined as co-editor for Volume 3 (1992) and became the editor from Volume 5; Dan serves as Founding...

  • The Andean Urban Center of Cajamarquilla: Environmental and Occupational Dynamics (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Rafael Segura Llanos.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Central Andes saw a long and complex development of prehistoric urban life. Although considerable progress has been made in understanding this process, our assessment is still very fragmentary due to the lack of key data on centers that appear to have been pivotal at the regional scale. In this paper, I examine Cajamarquilla, a site (> 100 ha) on the...

  • Andesite Exchange Networks from the Formative to Middle Horizon in Cusco (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Brown.

    This is an abstract from the "New Advances in Cusco Archaeology: From the Formative to the Late Horizon" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Rumiqolqa quarry is well known as the main source of stone for some of the most impressive Inka constructions, however the quarry's use prior to the Late Horizon is less understood. During her excavations at the Formative site of Marcavalle, Mohr-Chavez hypothesized that the andesite used to make flaked tools...

  • Animal Use in the Late Prehispanic Colca Valley–Arequipa, Peru (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly Moss.

    This is an abstract from the "Scaling New Heights: Recent Advances in Andean Zooarchaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The prehispanic Arequipa region of southern Peru was renowned for its vast camelid herds, but the exact modes of pastoral economies varied between elevations, sites, and periods. This paper examines the extent of reliance on camelids at Uyo Uyo, a significant multicomponent settlement located in the Colca Valley (Arequipa,...

  • [Animal] Skeletons in the Closet: Decolonizing Comparative Faunal Collections (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Max Schrader.

    This is an abstract from the "Reckoning with Legacy Exhibits, Data, and Collections" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Northern Arizona University, Department of Anthropology, Faunal Analysis Laboratory (NAUDAFAL) prioritizes decolonizing zooarchaeology through our work. Despite this mission, the lab’s comparative collection is stored and organized in alignment with arbitrary Euro-Western epistemologies and lacks Indigenous perspectives for...

  • Another Step Forward: What We Didn't See Before LiDAR (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Fred Nials.

    This is an abstract from the "Lidar Research in the US Southwest" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> A distinctive system of terrain modification consisting of large areas of near-invisible, widely-spaced, quasi-parallel linear ridges (berms) was first identified by Hurst and Willian in 2014 during archaeological survey. Despite an apparent association with a Puebloan road and great house, questions about the age and origin of the originally...

  • The Antarctic Archaeological Reconnaissance Project: Preliminary Results (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jesse Casana.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The conventional wisdom that Antarctica was untouched by humans prior to its discovery by British mariners in 1819 is not based on archaeological evidence, but instead is rooted in a tacitly racist belief that Indigenous peoples who lacked European sailing technologies were simply unable to get there. Yet just 500 miles north of the ecologically rich...

  • Anthracological Investigation of Forest Management Practices at Three Bronze Age Sites in Central Thailand (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Fabian Toro-Uribe.

    This is an abstract from the "The Social and Environmental Context for Early Metalworking in Central Thailand" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Anthracological examinations of charred wood remains associated with the excavations from the Thailand Archaeometallurgy Project (TAP) provide valuable insights into ecological management strategies in the region. Excavations at Non Pa Wai (NPW), Nil Kham Haeng (NKH) and Non Mak La (NML) have produced...

  • Anticipating Community: Slow Bioarchaeology in Legacy Anatomical Collections (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Alysha Lieurance.

    This is an abstract from the "Communities of Engagement: Incorporating Deep Time and Slow Science into Community Based Research Projects" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent publications outlining ethical guidelines for the handling of human skeletal remains stress the necessity of obtaining informed consent from donors, lineal descendants, descendant communities, and/or communities of care before conducting research. However, when consent...

  • “…Any man who pits his intelligence against a fish…”: What a diverse set of fishing tools and strategies tells us about the Earliest Known fishing communities of Baja California. (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Claritsa Duarte.

    This is an abstract from the "Fishing Technologies: Exploring Manufacturing Techniques and Styles, Traditions, Exchange, Migration and More" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The recovery of several dozen single-piece shell fishhooks, fishing weights, indirect evidence for the use of small-gauge nets and harpoons from Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene contexts on Isla Cedros Baja California provides the earliest definitive evidence for a fully...

  • Análisis comparativo de Machuqolqa y Yunkaray en el periodo pre-inca y inca temprano del Cusco (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kylie Quave.

    This is an abstract from the "New Advances in Cusco Archaeology: From the Formative to the Late Horizon" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Presentamos una comparación de dos sitios de la región al noroeste de Cusco, capital eventual del imperio Inca. El sitio de Yunkaray por la pampa de Maras y el sitio de Machuqolqa cerca a Chinchero fueron ocupados durante los siglos XIV a XV durante el supuesto periodo de desarrollo imperial de los Incas en la...

  • Análisis de la cerámica del Periodo Intermedio Tardío del sitio Isqomoqo (Yanahuara, Urubamba) (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only E. Williams Franco Chávez.

    This is an abstract from the "New Advances in Cusco Archaeology: From the Formative to the Late Horizon" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Presentamos los resultados de los trabajos de prospección y análisis de cerámica del Periodo Intermedio Tardío, desarrollados en el sitio Isqomoqo, ubicado en la parte oeste del Valle Sagrado. Este periodo es asociado al estilo decorativo Killke y a menudo los investigadores han identificado este estilo en...

  • Análisis osteológico de entierros y depósitos rituales del Proyecto Dzibanché. (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Dana Gutiérrez Ortega.

    This is an abstract from the "Nuevos datos de la dinastía Kaanu’l en el Clasico Temprano de la tierras bajas mayas: Proyecto Promeza Dzibanche/Kaanu’l 2023-2024." session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Desde la década de los 90's la Zona Arqueológica de Dzibanché, localizada en el Estado mexicano de Quintana Roo, ha registrado una amplia variedad de entierros humanos prehispánicos mayas en distintos contextos: desde espacios domésticos, entierros de...

  • Aportes del estilo cerámico de Matagua-Wanakauri: Una lectura de la cerámica del origen de los incas (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Yanet Villacorta Oviedo.

    This is an abstract from the "New Advances in Cusco Archaeology: From the Formative to the Late Horizon" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Las sociedades anteriores a los incas tuvieron conocimiento en la producción cerámica, cada cual con un estilo particular, siendo el caso del estilo cerámico de Matagua. Arqueológicamente se tiene la presencia de los estilos Killke, Lucre, Colcha. Los rasgos de diseño y morfología son similares y varían en...

  • The appearance of bifacial technology in the Middle Stone Age of Bizmoune Cave, Morocco (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven Kuhn.

    This is an abstract from the "Early human adaptation on the African coasts: Comparing northwest Morocco and the Cape of South Africa" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The Middle Stone Age Aterian of North Africa shows a high level of continuity in artifact forms and modes of reduction. This continuity probably reflects stable environments in near-coastal parts of North Africa, combined with the notable adaptability of Homo sapiens. However,...

  • Appearance of the bifacial stemmed points in Paleo-Sakhalin Hokkaido Kurile Peninsula (PSHK) (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Masami Izuho.

    This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Late Pleistocene Archaeology of the Northern Pacific Rim" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The precise locations and mechanisms of the emergence of ancient North American populations, which developed from a mix of East Eurasian and Ancient North Eurasian groups around 25,000 years ago, followed by a period of isolation and subsequent migration to the Americas after approximately...

  • Apples to Oranges: Measuring the Efficacy of Apple’s Object Capture Photogrammetry API for 3D Modeling in Archaeology (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren Franklin.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The creation of 3D models using photogrammetry has become an increasingly important aspect of archaeological investigation and outreach, allowing researchers to ask deeper quantitative questions and reach wider audiences. As technological advancements continue, it is crucial to assess how effectively photogrammetry applications are producing...

  • The Application of Fragranced Corpse Ointments and Pigments in Southern Lowland Maya Funerary Traditions during the Classic Period (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Zazueta.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ancient Maya used to prepare the body of their deceased family members for its proper cycling according to long-standing family traditions and more collective ideas, anchored in Indigenous beliefs of the sublime vivifying qualities of colors and fragrant matter in communicating with the anecumene of the divine. Such an entity was the itz sap, a sacred...

  • The Application of Lidar in the Documentation and Protection of Chacoan Great Houses (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Shanna Diederichs.

    This is an abstract from the "Lidar Research in the US Southwest" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chacoan great houses, dating to the tenth and eleventh centuries AD, are one of the most impressive and enigmatic categories of Ancestral Pueblo architecture in the Southwest. Affordable and convenient lidar scanning applications now allow us to generate extraordinary images and scaled interactive models of these structures. Lidar products can...

  • The Application of Soil and Sediment Micromorphology in First Americans Research (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Holcomb.

    This is an abstract from the "Geoarchaeology in First Americans Research, Part 1" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past several decades, the application of soil and sediment micromorphology in geoarchaeology has flourished, especially outside of the Americas. Despite the widespread acceptance and use of this approach by our European counterparts, a similar effect has yet to occur among geoarchaeologists focused on the early archaeological...

  • Applications of Black Feminist Theory to Archaeobotanical Analysis: A Case Study of Belle Grove’s Enslaved Quarters (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda Seminario.

    This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The contributions of enslaved African Americans to local formal economies have often gone unrecognized in previous historical and archaeological research; this is especially true concerning the actions of enslaved women. Black Feminist Theory allows researchers to consider the ways that Black women viewed and affected the...

  • Applications of Isotope Analysis to Conflict Archaeology: A Case Study from the Northern Iberian Peninsula (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrea Zurek-Ost.

    This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Basque Archaeology: Current Research and Future Directions" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Isotopic approaches to investigate geographic area of origin, mobility, and dietary practices have long been applied to archaeological and forensic contexts. Isotopic ratios from human bones and teeth can be used to derive information about cultural, geographic, and demographic group membership....

  • An Applied Ceramic Typology and Architectural Analysis that Refines the Occupation Sequence of the LA 8619 Point Great House Community in San Juan County, New Mexico (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven Rospopo.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ancestral Puebloan researchers in the US Southwest have considered the Middle San Juan Region transitional to the Chaco-Cibola cultural tradition to the south and the Northern San Juan-Mesa Verde traditions to the north. Analyses of twenty-four years of ceramic artifacts from Middle San Juan River basin sites suggests that the region should be considered...

  • Applied Geometric Morphometrics in Analysis of Alaska Native Ground Slate Projectile Points (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander Smith.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Indigenous Alaskan ground slate projectile points present an interesting opportunity to apply geometric morphometrics for shape analysis of a unique and relatively understudied lithic tradition. Here I present a method for the purpose of classifying and corroborating presumed tribal affiliations of Proto-Historic ground slate projectile points from...

  • Applying Behavioral Ecology to Help Restore Indigenous Socioenvironmental Systems in the Bear River Basin (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian Codding.

    This is an abstract from the "*Behavioral Ecology in the Mountain West" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Indigenous land-use decisions influenced plants and animals across North America for thousands of years. These dynamics were disrupted by settler-colonial invasions, leading to declines in ecosystem function and health. Restoring Indigenous socioenvironmental systems and the cultural keystone species they support requires first identifying how...

  • Applying Digital Archaeology to Education and Heritage Management at Cahal Pech, Belize (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Summer Kiker.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the early 2000s, the Belize Institute of Archaeology has been expending considerable effort to enhance the tourism potential of its archaeological sites, to contribute to heritage education in rural areas of the country, and to provide information that can be used by tourism stakeholders. To assist these Belizean initiatives, archaeologists from...

  • Applying Late Pleistocene Archaeological Discovery Models in Southern Alaska: Shorelines, Paleoenvironments, and Predictions from Hinchinbrook Island, Prince William Sound (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only John White.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The origins of the First Americans have been debated by archaeologists for decades. As increasing evidence emerges supporting the Coastal Migration Theory, greater interest has been directed at the sparse and enigmatic Late Glacial archaeological record of the Northwest Coast. Recent discoveries have demonstrated that, contrary to long-held belief, the...

  • Applying Slow Science and the Ethics of Community Engagement: An Eastern Woodland case study of indigenous incorporation with the acquisition of archaeological knowledge (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Phillip Mendenhall.

    This is an abstract from the "Communities of Engagement: Incorporating Deep Time and Slow Science into Community Based Research Projects" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation explores the implementation of the ‘slow science’ method, termed to incorporate meaningful indigenous community involvement into archaeological research. Recent initiatives involving descendant indigenous communities through land acknowledgement and explanatory...

  • Applying Structural Vulnerability (SVP) to a Juvenile Archaeological Population from Copan, Honduras (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ahalisharaeyli Barreiro Castro.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster reports on the application of the Structure Vulnerability Profile (SVP) from the UWF Biocultural Lab to a Mesoamerican bioarchaeological sample. The SVP is a method to add to traditional bioanthropological skeletal profiles but considering “biomarkers” that reflect embodied inequality. The juvenile archaeological sample from Late Classic Copan...

  • Applying the Theory of Heart-Centered Archaeology to Issues of Exclusion in Archaeology (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Madeline Jennings.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper will work to explore not only the basis and creation of the theory of Heart-Centered Archaeology, but the way that it can be used to overcome the various issues of exclusion in archaeology that persist to this day. It will be compared to other theoretical approaches and broken down into the merits and drawbacks of Archaeology of the Heart...

  • Approaching the Big History from an upland valley in the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain): Transhumance systems and global processes during the last 500 years (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only David González-Álvarez.

    This is an abstract from the "On Both Sides of the Atlantic: Historical Archaeology of Rural Modernization from the American and European Traditions" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Cantabrian Mountains in northwestern Spain have been exploited by pastoralist groups since Late Prehistory (ca. 6000 BP), thereby shaping these landscapes in the longue durée. The anthropogenic pressure on the environment resulted in the transformation of upland...