SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen B. Carmody.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this poster we present updated botanical and faunal data and interpretations from the ancient Roman harbor of Vada Volaterrana, located in the modern province of Livorno, Italy. The harbor was supported by a network of structures immediately surrounding the port at Vada's San Gaetano site. A 2015 GPR survey identified a series of rectangular...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alejandra Domic.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The squash family contains some of the most important crops cultivated worldwide. Squashes were among the first cultivated crop species, but little is known about how their domestication unfolded. We employ direct radiocarbon dating and morphological analyses of desiccated cucurbit remains from El Gigante Rockshelter, Honduras to reconstruct human...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Haynes.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Across the Southwestern United States and Mesoamerica, agave has been essential as a source of food, textile, and alcoholic/nonalcoholic beverages for millennia. This study examines a sample of 153 archaeological sites with observed presence of agave in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona. This plant does not grow naturally on the northern side...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yun Zhang.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper reviews studies of Tang and Song blue-and-white porcelains, both archaeologically and scientifically, based on published data, and compares blue-and-white with sancai which represents the earliest use of cobalt pigment in Chinese ceramics. Thirty-nine Tang blue-and-white wares and seven Song wares have been excavated from city sites, kilns, a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eikyo Chin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As East Asian archaeology has advanced, many artifacts possibly originating from the West have been unearthed in the region. These artifacts share similar characteristics with those found in the West, prompting researchers to explore the nature of East-West interactions during this period. Although these artifacts are widely believed to result from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Mather.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Concentrations of black bear (Ursus americanus) remains were examined from four Late Woodland archaeological features related to Kathio National Landmark in Minnesota, representing single ceremonial events in the history of the Dakota Nation. Archaeologically, they were superficially similar, consisting of fragmented bear cranial bone and teeth,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kurt Fredrickson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Flint Run Complex in Northern Virginia contains not one, but several Late Pleistocene open-air stratified Paleoindian sites. Thunderbird (44WR11) is the main site within the complex with evidence of human occupation in the region at around 9,990 BP. Numerous tools were recovered which fit the Clovis technocomplex and extensive analysis has been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Evan Parker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeology of value as a theoretical framework has enjoyed a rebirth in recent years, with studies ranging from a focus on commodity value and inalienability, to analyses of the nature of ritual economy and studies of “the good life.” Yet a theory of value can also play an integral role in conceptualizing how and why inequality is manifested in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marianne Sallum.

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 reflect on the interactions and networks of solidarity among Indigenous, Afro-descendant women and beyond to capture the dynamics of collaboration in the face of different forms of violence worldwide. Social movements have demonstrated the determination of women to preserve their knowledge, resisting ongoing oppressions aimed at disrupting...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brianna Auker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Areas with a high probability of pre-contact material are often fundamentally good campsites- this creates a large overlap between post-contact activities within Wilderness areas and archaeological artifacts, as humans are continually traversing these landscapes. The interpretive potential of surface archaeology is jeopardized when recreation traffic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mikaela Razo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project is a collaboration between the Texas Heritage Project (THP) and its archive at the American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions (AITSCM) and the Community Engaged Digital Scholarship Hub (CEDISH) at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) in San Antonio, Texas. We are taking a community-based archaeological approach to a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Asa Randall.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Shell miners reduced or removed shell-bearing sites across Florida in the 19th and 20th centuries. Archaeologists often work around this destruction to reconstruct how ancient landscapes emerged and were experienced in the deep past. In this poster, I focus on how these ancient places of social significance were destroyed, and outline an archaeology of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlyn Pallas.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> This paper presents the preliminary results of an archaeometric investigation of Roman concrete architecture in the Sanctuary of Venus at Pompeii. Recent fieldwork carried out by the Venus Pompeiana Project (VPP) at the site has clarified the chronology of the main temple and ancillary structures, revealing a complex sequence of occupation spanning...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brandon Yam.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Architecture made up an important part of the built environment of Albert Porter Pueblo (5MT123), an ancestral village in southwestern Colorado and most intensively occupied during Pueblo II–Pueblo III (950–1300 CE). In my study, I conduct spatial-syntax analyses of collective belongings and individual belongings, or proxies for past activities in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marcela Demyan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The UGA Laboratory of Archaeology is on year three of an NPS Saving America’s Treasures grant to rehabilitate archaeological material and associated documentation and media collected within Georgia’s five coastal counties. This includes over 1,500 boxes from more than 300 cultural sites, over 50 different investigations and represents in some cases, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cassie Vogt.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From September 1881 to April 1883, Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotake) and approximately 160 followers were imprisoned at Fort Randall, Dakota Territory, following Sitting Bull’s highly publicized defeat of Lt. General Custer at the Battle of Greasy Grass (Little Bighorn) in 1876, their defiant sojourn in Canada, and the group’s surrender to the US government....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Kowalewski.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> This project integrates, curates, and makes widely accessible the raw data from eight systematic regional surveys (1971–2011) covering 5775 km², including 6000 sites and over 10,000 components, in Oaxaca, Mexico. Materials consist of field notes, site and artifact forms, coded data, sketches, maps, air photos, photographs, and project...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brett Parbus.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This aspect of the Oaxaca Survey project focuses on the construction of a macroregional GIS database for the more than 10,000 archaeological site components and structures from eight systematic regional surveys (1971-2011). Component data originally recorded in the field on aerial photographs and later published as 4km grid square component maps were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Autumn Myerscough.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Through conducting a microwear analysis, I argue that the use-wear of the bone tools examined will determine their functional use. The collection of bone tools for this study are from Chacoan (AD 850-1250) and various Mimbres (AD 200-1130) sites (located in the North American Southwest). Traditionally many bone artifacts with narrow, pointed distal ends...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aurora Montúfar López.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Este trabajo informa de la arqueología, historia y etnografía de las principales plantas rituales cuyas estructuras: semillas, frutos, hojas, fibras (textiles) y resinas, fueron recuperadas en contextos de oblación y también en muestras sedimentológicas culturales de los sustratos del subsuelo del Recinto Ceremonial de México-Tenochtitlan, como parte de...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Mathiowetz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In late 2024, the Getty in partnership with museums and scientific institutions across southern California launched the initiative “PST ART: Art & Science Collide” as part of their landmark Pacific Standard Time (PST) series. The program’s goal is to investigate the intersection of art and science in collaborative projects that address questions on human...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren Jones.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Managing excess soil, sediment, and geological (SG) samples is a challenge faced by many collections management professionals. These types of samples are often over-represented and relatively disorganized in collections facilities, leading to issues of sample preservation and space allocation. Here, we address the challenge of managing excess SG samples...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Clifford White.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. High-resolution data detailing artifact distributions within the Folsom Cultural component of Hell Gap (48GO305) Locality I (HGI) are instrumental in investigating the lifeways of Paleoindian groups during the Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene. Analyzing artifact distributions at HGI allows researchers to identify and interpret discrete activity areas...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wen Yin (Elaine) Cheng.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bronze vessels in ancient China are a significant topic of interest in understanding the ancient elites, writing, religion, and culture. However, learning about the casting of bronze vessels speaks to the artisans who produced these artifacts. The various foundries discovered at the Anyang site are not only the location where the bronze vessels were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ava Godhardt.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the 2024 field season, excavations at Group M of the Medicinal Trail Hinterland Community, an ancient Maya village in northwestern Belize, revealed a concentration of over 1000 ceramic sherds against the western wall of Structure M-3. Group M is a non-residential architectural group located at the northern terminus of the community, situated on a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Wake.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ongoing analysis of rich and diverse samples of vertebrate bone from Sitio Drago (SD), Bocas del Toro, Panama illustrates the importance of fine-grained sampling in understanding past subsistence strategies at the site. The analysis of charred macro- and micro-plant remains recovered from 30 x 30 x 10 cm column samples provide crucial information...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meagan O'Brien.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Various resources are typically consulted to determine soil characteristics prior to and during archaeological excavations, such as USDA’s Web Soil Survey, California Soil Resource Lab’s SoilWeb, and the Munsell Color System. The determination of soil color and texture are often impacted by the education level, work experience, geographic familiarity, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Brown.

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 three decades, archaeological research in Antigua has undergone significant transformation. This paper provides an overview of the evolution in methodologies and research questions that helped shape our understanding of Antigua's rich pre-historic and historic cultural heritage. Initially focused on traditional excavation and analysis...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberly Spurr.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cold War Era (1945-1991) uranium prospecting and mining profoundly affected the Colorado Plateau of North America, where uranium deposits are naturally concentrated. Recent archaeological inventory in Canyonlands National Park and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area focused on 21 historic uranium mines along with associated prospecting roads and camps....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Dunham.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The Auburn Joss House Chinese History Museum is one of the few remaining structures from the mid-19^th to 20^th-century Chinatown in Auburn, California — a prominent gold rush town. A man named Charles Yue opened it as the Ling Ying Association building in the 1920s to be used as a temple, boardinghouse, Chinese language and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristin Corl.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Harris Site (LA 1867) is a Late Pithouse-period (A.D. 550-1000) agricultural village located along the upper Mimbres River Valley in New Mexico. Faunal remains recovered from the Harris site indicate that inhabitants continued to depend on a wide variety of wild resources even as they transitioned into a more sedentary agricultural subsistence...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andy D'Agostino.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The McKendry Site is a multi-component pre-contact Indigenous and post-contact Euro-American site located in Chautauqua County, Western New York. Archaeological excavations involving public participation have been carried out since 1989. Throughout the site’s thirty-five excavation seasons, the past eighteen have been directed by students from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emanuela Rudnicka.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although Peruvian basketry remains unexplored, recent investigations at Castillo de Huarmey offer insights into this ancient craft. Dating back to the Middle Horizon (600-1000 AD), the site served as a multifaceted locus, encompassing administrative, religious, and funerary functions for Wari culture. In 2012, the site yielded the burials of numerous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Wyatt.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 2017, the Bass Street Community Archaeology Project has been conducting excavations at the site of one of the earliest African American neighborhoods in post-emancipation Nashville. The Bass Street Community was located on the north side of Saint Cloud Hill, the site of Fort Negley, a Civil War era fort constructed by the Union forces in Nashville....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Simon Martin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The extraordinary wall paintings of Cacaxtla, Tlaxcala, Mexico, have been the focus of much analysis and debate since their rediscovery in 1975. The hybridity of the images, in terms of both content and style, clearly demonstrates long-distance contact with the Maya Region during the Epiclassic Period (800-1000 CE), but the nature and meaning of that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yasmine Flynn-Arajdal.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the critical processes in the shaping of identity in any society is the breast feeding and early childhood food consumption practices that help define stages of infancy, age, gender, regional, and cultural senses of self. An important rite of passage in childhood is weaning, a process that includes the gradual removal of the mother’s milk as well...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Fry.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the early medieval period, burials across Britian included a wide variety of grave goods, which often signaling status, ethnicity, and varied by demographic factors. This study explores objects included in female graves which have been interpreted as bags worn about the hip. A functionalist interpretation may be too simplistic for understanding...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robin Cordero.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The establishment of the City of Santa Fe as a premier destination for tourism and New Mexico as a territory rich in resources and prime for investment is often traced to one singular historical event, the peculiarly named Santa Fe Tertio-Millennial Celebration and Exposition, held for 45 days in the summer of 1883. Devised by wealthy Santa Fe businessmen...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eunice Villasenor Iribe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Terraced landscapes are the remains of landscape management decision making that was shaped by the constant changes in social, economic, and ecological conditions of the surrounding regions. Within Mexico, terracing has been used extensively both spatially and temporally. Utilizing terracing, many groups were able to expand settlement and land use into...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jose Vivero Miranda.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Guasave region in Northwest Mexico embodies a contested zone between Mesoamerica and the US Southwest. By AD 1100, the presence of the Aztatlan tradition —interpreted as the expansion of Mesoamerica into the NW, undeniably marks a period of social transformation and a dynamic phase of pan-regional reorganization. Models explaining the Aztatlan...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jose Nuñez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The relationship between the Inkas and the Amazonia was complex. Although the Inka elite often depicted the Amazonian peoples as “savages”, many of the resources necesary in their ritual and social life actually originated in the Amazon. This fact, coupled with an expansionist ideology, led to numerous military campaigns eastward. These campaigns...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephanie Scialo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the 2023 field season, Heritage Consultants, LLC conducted Phase IB and II survey excavations at the Dolly Copp and Dolly Copp II sites, located above the Moose River in the White Mountains in Randolph, New Hampshire. Lithic artifacts recovered from both locations included large preforms, unifacial tools, wedges, overshot flakes, and channel...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ahana Ghosh.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The presentation will elucidate the kind of product(s) processed inside the potteries and their potential cultural uses within select Harappan habitational sites from Western and North-Western India. The pottery samples were sourced from the habitational sites of Dholavira, Shikarpur, Bagasra, Karanpura, and Ropar. One of the notable findings of this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only L. Antonio Curet.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Undoubtedly, one of the most important developments in human history is the invention pottery. In archaeology alone, it is difficult to imagine how much the discipline would have learned without it. Thanks to pottery we have been able to advance studies in diet, production, chronology, religion, long and short distance interaction, aspects of identity,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Luurtsema.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Late 19th-century Philadelphia was a landscape of urbanization and industrial growth. Feature 89, a large pit in the rear of a dwelling in central Philadelphia, offers a glimpse into the city’s complex foodways during this transformative time. Faunal remains recovered from Feature 89 represented the discards of pig, cattle, chicken, turkey, sheep, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Isabel Guevara-Duque.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation showcases results from research on the metallurgical traditions of the Yaguachi chiefdom, a regional polity within the Milagro-Quevedo society that thrived in the Guayas Basin, Ecuador, between 400 and 1400 CE. Despite the region's apparent lack of local metal sources, the presence of copper alloys and other metals in burial sites...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Hughes.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. It has been noted that the western exteriors of Chaco Great Houses in the Northern San Juan Region exhibit evidence of substantial prehistoric activities. Recent excavations at the West Great House at 5MT1905 indicate complex stratigraphic deposition at the exterior of the westernmost extent of the structure. Initial findings indicate that the location...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Genesis Torres Morales.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Chimú (AD 900-1470) at Huacas de Moche (HDM) on the northern coast of Peru offer a unique opportunity to study growth patterns due to the presence of individuals who lived long enough for stress indicators to become apparent in their bones. This is crucial for examining the long-term impacts of environmental and social stressors on skeletal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Armando Anzellini.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study presents the analysis of two fragmentary, poorly preserved burials — one adult male and one adolescent — discovered at the site of Julcuy in coastal Ecuador. These burials are tentatively dated to the Late Archaic, a period with very little osteological evidence resulting from the hostile burial environment. Due to the poor preservation,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniela Wolin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Mongol Empire of the thirteenth to fourteenth centuries was a time of great interconnectedness, characterized by the widespread movement of people, goods, technologies, and practices across Eurasia. Our knowledge of this period comes from a variety of sources, including texts, a rich array of material culture, and archaeological investigations of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Efrain Arroyo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Tumi de Oro, a gold ceremonial knife with an anthropomorphic figure created by the Middle Sicán culture (AD 900–1100) of northern Peru, is an emblematic artifact of prehispanic Peru and a national symbol of contemporary Peru, a symbol of pride and identity, representing peruanidad. The Tumi de Oro is a ubiquitous symbol, permeating Peru, from art to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Roxanne Lebenzon.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recently, explanatory models for plant and animal domestication have shifted from single-origin explanations to multiregional frameworks. Despite this, the timing and origins of caprine management across the Fertile Crescent remain the subject of debate, particularly for the southern Levantine region. Here, we compile an extensive database of published...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ariel Taivalkoski.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Avian bones from archaeological sites have traditionally been overlooked in zooarchaeological analyses in favor of domesticates or larger animals. While an increased number of archaeological avian bone analyses have been conducted in the past 20 years, taxonomic identification methods often vary between researchers. Identification methods can skew...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Rowe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Thirty-five years ago, the turquoise mines of the Xvshuuk Mniish (Blue Scorpion) site in southern Arizona, were recorded for the first time. This Hohokam turquoise mining and processing site was operated for approximately 300 years before being abruptly abandoned. After 35 years we return for a fresh look at the site to reexamine the spatial layout of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Wiewel.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 1991, the National Park Service has offered a week-long series of lectures and field exercises aimed at promoting the use of ground-based geophysical, aerial, and other remote sensing methods within archeology. The workshop was originally created to address the lack of formal training opportunities in archeological remote sensing. Over time, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Kerns.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. It is well known that archaeology is done in the present with the future in mind, something archaeologists can sometimes easily forget. We care about the remnants of the past and put an extraordinary amount of effort into studying, preserving and protecting them because they tell a story about the people and places that matter to us, today, in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Savanna Agardy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In April 2024, the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI), Belizean non-profit Friends for Conservation and Development, and the Institute of Archaeology conducted a technical visit to the vast and remote Chiquibul Cave System (CCS). Located in Cayo District of Belize, the CCS totals approximately 65 kilometers and contains not only outstanding karstic geology...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marta Alfonso-Durruty.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hunter-gatherer (HG) groups show high levels of cooperation expressed through practices like food sharing. Although an egalitarian ethos has been identified in many HG, their social structures are not only variable but can intentionally and repeatedly alternate between different levels of hierarchy. The origin of inequality among HG has been attributed to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only K. Carter.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study sets out to determine the applicability of using fecal spherulites and coprophilous fungal spores (CFS) as tracers for bison dung fuel use within the archaeological record. Modern bison dung and surrounding sediments were collected from the Konza Prairie Biological Reserve (KPBS) and analyzed for fecal spherulites and CFS. Following collection,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Colin Quinn.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cremation is a process of fiery transformation. In a few short hours, a body is changed into a new substance – cremains – that people collect from the cooled pyre, and which can be split apart or reassembled, moved or kept, circulated or buried. By analyzing cremains, we can reconstruct multi-stage secondary mortuary practices and address questions of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Harper Wall.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bog butter is an intentionally submerged artifact found in sphagnum peat bogs. Due to the acidic and anaerobic nature of peat environments, the bog butter containers and their contents have been uniquely preserved. The butter has been deposited in bogs dating from the early bronze age to the early modern period in modern-day Ireland and Scotland. Although...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley McCuistion.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The curriculum of the Williamsburg Bray School is discussed in several correspondences between the school’s trustees and sponsors, and inventories of the textbooks provided to the school offer additional insight into what the students were learning. While these resources clearly indicate the purpose of the school was to indoctrinate Black children into...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meredith Carlson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Primate archaeology is a burgeoning area of inquiry that sheds light on the technological aspects of primate behavior and its implications for human evolution. However, primate archaeology also offers opportunities for the validation of archaeological proxies through actualistic study. Among living primates, behavior and site formation can be observed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alaura Hopper.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The vast majority of baskets in Californian collections were woven in the past 150 years and yet they are often displayed as separate from their contemporary histories; posed as ahistorical relics of a static imagined past. Rather, basket collections as social beings contain a contemporary past that is fraught with the realities of settler colonialism,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Al Densmore.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Massive amounts of data are produced during archaeological investigations, yet they are often siloed away by individual researchers and institutions or only made accessible through paywalled publications. This widespread inaccessibility makes it difficult to justify the destruction of the non-renewable resource that is the archaeological record. Digital...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samuel Jensen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Various studies into the Medio Period (approximately 1200-1450 CE) of the Casas Grandes archaeological culture have emphasized the importance of interpreting iconographic representations on ceramic artifacts to understand the cosmological and social organization of area. These studies have relied on a variety of theoretical approaches to interpret these...