SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Krug.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent archaeological surveys and excavations recorded numerous Medio period (1200-1450 CE) mounds and settlements in the Carretas Valley, Chihuahua, Mexico. This study employed geospatial measures and rank-size analysis to characterize unexcavated mounds and excavated settlements. These results were compared to previously published settlement data from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erika Robles.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Looting is a significant issue in archaeology, particularly in the Andes, where it has led to the decontextualization of numerous archaeological artifacts. This paper presents a case study on an Andean figurine dressed in beautiful textiles that was donated to the Harvard Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in 1940. The figurine and its textiles...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Olivia Jones.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Previous bioarchaeological literature has reported that infant and perinatal human remains have been misidentified in the past, either in the field during excavation or during laboratory analysis. The misidentification of these individuals is due to a variety of reasons, including their small size, their fragility often resulting in postmortem...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dakota Buhmann.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 2015, the University of Wyoming and a team of Croatian archaeologists, have recovered human remains from Baraćeve Špilje, a cave located approximately 140 kilometers south of Zegreb, Croatia, on the boarder of Bosnia and Herzegovina. These remains were highly fragmented, intermixed with faunal elements, and predominately documented on the surface....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Valentine Wauters.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Cañari culture from the pre-Hispanic period covered a large territory in the Ecuadorian Andes (in the provinces of Cañar, Azuay and surrounding areas). The Royal Museums of Art and History of Brussels house about forty objects from this important and complex cultural group. For several months now, a spotlight has been put on this diversified...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Cook.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Guard site (12D29) has a mixture of non-local Mississippi Plain and local Fort Ancient pottery types. Mississippi Plain pottery is more concentrated in the central plaza whereas the Fort Ancient pottery is more common in residential areas. Here we report on an absorbed pottery residue analysis from a small sample for each of these pottery types to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melanie Langgle.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Collier Lodge Site (12Pr36) is on the southern edge of Porter County in Indiana in the northmost part of the Kankakee Marsh. The archaeological site is uniquely represented by its extensive ceramic assemblage that spans from 1000 BC to historic times. Despite this trove of ceramic data, the chronology of the site and Northwestern Indiana region has...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hui Xiao.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Located at the Apalachicola River mouth in northwest Florida, the Pierce Mounds site (8Fr14) is the largest ceremonial center in the region and a hub for human activity from the Early Woodland to Mississippian periods (ca. 500 BC–AD 1500). Previous research identified interesting but confusing settlement patterns, including a possible oval plaza formed by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only José L. Peña.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Santo Domingo site comprises a funerary area and a small adobe platform. This site is located on a hillside to the west of El Campanario site which was occupied during the beginning of the Late Intermediate Period. Unfortunately, most of the sites of Santo Domingo had been damaged by modern looting, and various types of archaeological artifacts,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Hirshman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Color is often a key variable to create and maintain different groupings in ceramic classification schemas. While the classification schema for ceramics for the Lake Pátzcaruo Basin and the cultural formations leading to the Late Postclassic Tarascan (P’urépecha) state and empire (Late Postclassic, ca AD 1350 to 1522) emphasizes paste, color is still an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Akin Ogundiran.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Past excavations in the Early Osogbo settlement (central Yoruba region, Nigeria) have yielded an unprecedented diversity of ceramic forms. Located at the crossroads of regional trading and political networks and in the transitional zone between the rainforest and the savanna woodland ecotypes, Early Osogbo served as a buffer zone between the Oyo Empire...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adrien Martinet.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Northeastern Honduras has long been considered an isolated region of Central America, sitting at the peripheral edge of Mesoamerica and the Isthmo-Colombian Area. This preconception was particularly strong against its Late Formative period, since no site had previously been identified between the Cuyamel (ca. 1200 – 400 BCE) and Selin (ca. 300 – 1000 CE)...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Monge.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Animal imagery is an essential component ubiquitously present in the ancient cultures of southern Central America. Despite the immense variety of local avian species in the tropics, non-native turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) feature prominently in high-quality polychrome ceramics from the Greater Nicoya area in Costa Rica. In this poster, I present an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kaeleen Stauffer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations at the Medicinal Trail Community, an Ancient Maya farming village in northwestern Belize, have revealed two Late Preclassic round structures. One structure is from Group A and has a diameter of 3 m, it is located below the surface in the center of a formal residential group. The other is over 20 m in diameter and located below the surface in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marian Hamilton.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Chaco Canyon was an epicenter of ancestral Puebloan activity between AD 850 and 1250. One of the most powerful ways of understanding the past comes from stable isotope analysis, which has provided insights into the ecology, mobility, resource utilization, and landscape management of Chaco Canyon for decades. Over the last five years, numerous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Deianira Morris.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Following the Gadsden Purchase of 1853, Tucson, Arizona, underwent rapid demographic and cultural change. Over an eighty-year period, the Hispanic residents of Tucson were first flooded by Euro-American settlers, and later forcibly integrated into the developing United States. As a result, the existing Hispanic and indigenous communities in Tucson came in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ruixue Yin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Changes in ceramics and prestige goods played an important role in defining historical chronologies retracing the emergence of complex societies in Ancient China. However, it remains unclear whether, and if so, to what extent, these cultural changes also affected other aspects of material culture. Here, we present the analysis of bone tools found in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Xiaozheng Shang.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ochre sensu lato is considered to be one of the earliest evidence of human cognition and culture due to its raw materials diversity, its significance in raw materials processing, and its large panel of uses. However, there are little data from central Africa on the use of ochre in cultural systems during the terminal Pleistocene and Holocene. As part of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Chenault.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists from WestLand Resources discovered portions of several prehistoric and historical canals while conducting data recovery for a proposed freeway in west Phoenix. Excavations were conducted both within the freeway corridor and in adjacent parcels. Researchers utilized a combination of methods to track the canals through the project areas...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erick Acero-Shapiama.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chavín de Huántar, ubicado en la región de Áncash, fue declarado Patrimonio Mundial por la UNESCO en 1985. Reconocido como uno de los sitios más importantes del Perú prehispánico, está actualmente bajo la gestión del Estado, a través del Ministerio de Cultura. No obstante, desde finales de la década de 1990, que el Programa de Investigación Arqueológica y...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meredith Wismer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1979 and 1980, archaeologists at Weber State University conducted excavations at the historic site of Fort Buenaventura in Ogden, Utah. Beyond a few posts, the excavations yielded few pieces of Fort Buenaventura's history but did uncover a rich archaeological legacy related to the adjacent Union Pacific railroad depot from the 1880s-1940s. Since the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alyssa Catlin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Nestled in a vibrant Miami neighborhood is the diverse and historically rich area known as Coconut Grove, or simply the "Grove." Today, visitors to this neighborhood encounter trendy restaurants and million-dollar homes at its core. Meanwhile, West Grove remains predominantly populated by descendants of Afro-Caribbean immigrants who were part of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Holli McDonald.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bioarchaeological research has played a significant role in understanding the Casas Grandes region of Northwest Mexico. Excavations at the archaeological sites of Convento and Paquimé recovered at least 652 burials dating to AD 700-1450, almost half of which were designated as subadult burials based on original site documents. This provides a robust...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jan Bemmann.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. What does the term crisis mean and what are archaeological indicators of a crisis in general? How can archaeology contribute to the ongoing debate about the Chinggissid crises (1330-1370)? The term crisis defies a precise definition and is often used as synonym for collapse, decline, disaster, dissolution, and fragility. In this analysis it is used as an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maline Werness-Rude.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chocholá style ceramics were part of a Late Classic northern Maya complex of luxury goods that identified the social status and political affiliation of their owners. Vessels in the style are distinguished by their deeply carved iconographic panels, distinctive formatting, and unique dedicatory formulae. Their recognizability—a necessary component of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick Druggan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cahokia was the largest pre-contact Indigenous population center north of Mexico, and its development and dissolution are tied in myriad ways to numerous communities across the American Southeast and Midwest. Most current scholarship emphasizes a “Big Bang” which models the emergence of Cahokia as a profound and rapid event at ca. AD 1050 characterized by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chen Wang.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study investigates lead provenance and circulation patterns in Han Dynasty (202BC-220AD) China through the analysis of lead glazed pottery. Four objects from Harvard Art Museums were studied using a combination of typological study, elemental chemistry and lead isotope ratio analysis. The results for each object were compared with databases of ‘lead...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Rose.

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 explores urbanism in Northern Sudan through remote sensing methods. The site of Jebel Barkal is located 400 km from Khartoum, near the Nile. The site served as the royal capital of Kush from the 8^th century BCE and remained a major urban and religious center throughout the Meroitic Period. Since 2018 the Jebel Barkal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Koch.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Low-density urbanism is ubiquitous in the industrialized world, with suburbs and sprawling urban zones like the American Northeastern Seaboard being classified as such. Due to outsized environmental impacts and perceived unsustainability, this settlement pattern is often maligned. As one of the few prominent examples of agrarian-based low-density...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Clare Randolph.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Swahili architecture is well known for its grand structures, often constructed using carved, live-harvested coral. Research has been sparse on the practices of coral harvesting despite coral’s importance for the medieval Swahili and for reef ecosystems. To clarify the potential impacts of coral harvesting, the authors collected survey data on the amount...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kaylee Spencer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper explores relationships between hieroglyphic texts and Classic period Maya ceramics, delving into how inscriptions on vessels provide insight into social, political, and ritual practices of ancient Maya culture. By examining hieroglyphic texts found on particular vessel shapes, such as plates, bowls, and cache vessels, this research seeks to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Seidemann.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Federal agencies are mandated to follow the National Historic Preservation Act’s Section 106 process when undertaking or funding projects that have the potential to impact certain historic sites or structures. These mandates have run headlong into the reality of cemetery damage from recent, increasingly devastating storms and other impacts of climate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cathy Tran.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this study, we illustrate the steep learning curve associated with learning quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), while also demonstrating its value as an effective training method for ancient DNA research. Utilizing sensitive fluorescent signals, qPCR monitors DNA amplification in real time, serving as an invaluable tool for the quantitation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kaylyn Moore.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Collaborative archaeology fosters relationships between communities and archaeologists to create new perspectives of the past. This paper examines the collaborative process between archaeologists from the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma’s Historic Preservation Office and myself, aiming to develop a curriculum focusing on Choctaw cultural heritage utilizing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peiyu Chen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Virú Valley is significant in archaeological history for being the place for the first systematic regional survey and settlement pattern study in the 1940s. Although archaeological investigations in the Virú Valley have remained relatively quiet since then, recent works in the sierra and middle valley areas have begun to change this situation. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia Ayala.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper seeks to reflect on the definitions and application of collaborative methodologies in archaeology. We highlight the contributions of collaborative and indigenous archaeologies to generate knowledge based on joint efforts, which considers local perspectives as well as having a potential to benefit processes of community interest. In the specific...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Liye Xie.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper examines the role of collective action in the emergence of social complexity in Neolithic China. By analyzing archaeological and ethnographic evidence, the study explores how communal activities such as public works, feasting, and resource management both shaped and were influenced by evolving social structures. The research highlights the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Isabella Cowan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Maillard Reaction products (MRPs) are formed during the polymerization of a sugar and amino acid in the presence of heat, most of which add desirable flavor and aroma to the food we eat such as bread, powdered milk products and other thermally treated items. MRPs have been shown to impact the composition and diversity of the human gut microbiome,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Suarez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Long-distance trade was a key factor in the development of complex Maya sociopolitical systems. Exotic goods were used for quotidian and ceremonial purposes, and controlling trade has been hypothesized as one way that elites gained and maintained their influence. While geochemical analysis of obsidian is a key method for examining its exchange, prior...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Dersam.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between 2021 and 2024, two complete fluted Clovis projectile points and eight fluted point fragments were recovered from five localities in the mountains of southwest Montana. Each of these five localities exhibits formal tools and reduction sequences consistent with Clovis lithic technology. Here we present observation on the ten fluted points...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Annmarie Delgado.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study examines the social status of children in the Ancient Middle East, focusing on a fifth-century BCE cemetery at Tell el-Mazar, Jordan. Using mortuary archaeology and bioarchaeology methods, the research aims to uncover how children were commemorated within their familial and communal contexts. Bioarchaeological methods will be employed to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Picard.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Fairchild site, located on dune land along the Lake Michigan in Sheboygan County, was the home of the Fairchild family, who moved from New York state to Sheboygan County in 1846. The family engaged in a variety of economic pursuits, notably including pound net fishing. Investigations of the site, located mere meters from the Lake Michigan shore, were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Maddox.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the Classic Period the ancient Maya ballgame has been seen as a focal point of religious and political ritual practices. These activities primarily take place in spaces where commoners are traditionally thought to have been excluded and serve to reinforce the ideology and legitimacy of elite religious beliefs. This paper will outline excavations of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Archie Robson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Engraved slate plaques are a distinctive feature of the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic of the west and south-west of the Iberian Peninsula, largely recovered from megalithic tombs, as well as diverse mortuary and non-mortuary contexts. More than a century of research has investigated their form, function, distribution, and evolution across the fourth and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Hoppes.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A recent Class III Cultural Resources Inventory of over 53 square miles Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in the central Great Basin within Pluvial Lake Newark and the Pancake Range has resulted in the documentation of over 650 archaeological sites. These include large-scale pronghorn traps, residential camps, and toolstone quarries dating from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Byron Ortiz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Esta investigación se basa en estudios y uso de caminos, en la región Noroccidental de Pichincha y la meseta de Quito, desde distintas perspectivas como: la arqueología del paisaje, memoria oral y análisis de la ruta óptima (LCP). Para empezar mi investigación se enfoca en la evolución de los caminos en la región, desde la época precolombina hasta...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peyton Foti.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A comparative analysis of brothel sites and red-light districts in three major port cities during or around the period of the American Industrial Revolution. While this paper will focus primarily on the site Storyville in New Orleans, Louisiana, both Five Points in Manhattan, New York, and Hell's Half Acre in Los Angeles, California will be used as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edgar Carpio.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The cores for the production of prismatic obsidian blades have different sizes and production techniques in each of the obsidian sources of the Mayan area. Therefore, a comparison is made to find out if these differences are related to the type of knife that is intended to be produced and also to the trade of these artifacts because the size and weight...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Picarelli-Kombert.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since arriving on Ossabaw Island ca. 5,000 years ago, Guale communities have intricately engaged with their natural environment, creating a diverse array of subsistence practices reflected in the archaeological record, most visibly the consumption and disposal of large quantities of eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica). Guale people living at the town...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven Goldstein.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Quartz is a readily available lithic raw material that formed a large portion of the stone tool economy for many ancient societies globally. Considered a lower-quality material overall, physical properties of crystalline vein quartz constrain reduction strategies, often resulting in a narrow range of tool and debitage morphologies. This leaves open...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Haley Purifoy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Household archaeology is an effective way to study past peoples, but it is only effective when a house is present for study. Throughout Paleoindian archaeology, the lack of perishable materials makes identifying house structures difficult. In central Wyoming, the La Prele Mammoth Site is a unique opportunity to study Paleoindian households. The La Prele...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allen Rutherford.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Phase III data collection excavations at two sites in Fannin County, Texas identified household contexts dating to the Early to Middle Caddo periods (AD 1000-1450). Ceramic analysis from those contexts has focused on differentiating between utilitarian and fine wares and using their ratios, in conjunction with radiocarbon dating of intact features, to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacqueline Cowan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Mogollon-Mimbres culture is well known for its production of distinctive pottery styles and the expansive cultural connections through the American Southwest and Northern Mexico. Located approximately 5 kilometers apart, the occupations of the Twin Pines Village and South Diamond Creek Pueblo sites in the Gila National Forest and Wilderness date...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Mueller.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project presents the comparison of ground stone effigies from Paquimé, Chihuahua, Mexico, to ceramic effigies and rock art of the same region. Paquimé was the center of the Medio period (AD 1200–1450) occupation of the Casas Grandes region. These effigies are small figurines ground to resemble animals. Our analysis, based on Di Peso’s (1974) report...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin Wann.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Avocados are a globally important fruit, crucial to the diets of urban and indigenous groups alike. Despite their utility, the origin of domesticated avocados is still largely a mystery. To better understand when, where, and how a wild plant species fell under domestication, geneticists must examine that species from the perspectives of commercial,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jon Lohse.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent and ongoing research at August Pine Ridge, Belize is documenting an astonishing assemblage of complex bifaces representing human occupation and social interactions that took place in Central America from approximately 13,000 to 12,000 years ago. We see technological behaviors that reflect influences from Clovis practices that are well documented in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mike McBride.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent and ongoing research at August Pine Ridge, Belize is documenting an astonishing assemblage of complex bifaces representing human occupation and social interactions that took place in Central America from approximately 13,000 to 8,000 years ago. As the Fluted Biface Horizon and the Pan-American production of such fluted bifaces ceased, we see new...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tuesday Critz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Exchange is a dynamic and fundamental practice that intersects social networks, identity, and physiographic boundaries. During the El Paso phase (AD 1275/1300 - 1450) Cottonwood Draw was an epicenter for aggregation and community coalescence. The Cottonwood Spring Pueblo complex (LA 175) is situated along this east-west trending drainage on the western...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paulina Przystupa.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Data Literacy Program (DLP) of the Alexandria Archive Institute/Open Context ran from late 2020 to 2025 with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation. This paper summarizes insights gained from the program, whose goal was to widen and diversify community engagement with cultural heritage data. The paper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Terlep.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Researchers, most recently Crown and colleagues (2016), have long highlighted the significance of polydactyly (having more than five digits on a hand or foot) within rock imagery and material culture across Mesoamerica and the American Southwest. Anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures displaying polycephaly (multiple heads) is another frequent depiction...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dakota Maas.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Maya site of Buenavista del Cayo is located in the Mopan River valley in western Belize. The polity was known as Komkom in Classic times, and archaeological and epigraphic evidence indicate that the site was subordinate to the larger kingdoms of Tikal in the Early Classic and Naranjo in the Late Classic period. Komkom’s relationship with Naranjo in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kate Greenwood.

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 present research findings of a PhD project conducted in a collaborative partnership with Jagera Daran (Indigenous Traditional Owners) research partners. In Australian archaeology there has been a relative absence of research linking bark/wooden material culture to culturally modified trees. This paper argues that understanding the form of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren Lippiello.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper provides a detailed interpretation of the rock art site Khor Abu Subeira South 1 (KASS1), Egypt during a transitional stage in the political and social development of ancient Egypt. The various thematic programs in use at the site indicate that the site transforms from its initial use as a hunting ground to a location used for ritual...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Rodríguez-Delgado.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Throughout Caribbean prehistory, the construction of public architecture in ceremonial contexts is linked to expressions of status and power over local communities and resources. The appearance of these features such as mounds and ballcourts (bateyes) are largely associated with the Early to Late Ceramic Period – broadly defined by long-distance cultural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marie Holmer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Associated with canal construction on the Powell Tract of the Big Lost River Irrigation (Carey Act) Project, a network of work camps is situated entirely within the bounds of the present-day Idaho National Laboratory (INL) in southeastern Idaho. The largest of these work camps are characterized by a large artifact assemblage and the presence of at least...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Rapson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Thirteen AMS bone dates based on MNI from 9 hearth and dump features at the Bugas-Holding site establish the contemporaneity of all deposits within the main block area (mean = A.D. 1658). This chronological framework provides an opportunity to evaluate high-resolution behavioral models of social organization and land use at multiple analytical scales,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Balco.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological investigations of the Kohler Dunes and Swales site (47SB0713) situated in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, identified overwhelming evidence of precontact occupation and land use by Archaic, Early Woodland, Middle Woodland, Late Woodland, and Oneota populations. This paper parses the more than 1,000 features, 75 cultural strata, and 11...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Desiree Smith.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2012, the tomb of a royal woman was discovered in a buried subphase of a central ceremonial building in the heart of ancient El Perú-Waka' (henceforth Waka’). The interred is Lady K’abel, the site’s most significant Snake Dynast whose Calakmul origins and title of Ix K’aloomte positioned her as superior in rank to her spouse, Waka’ ruler K’inich Bahlam...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Angelina Perrotti.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study uses pollen, fungal spores, charcoal, and human demographic models to investigate vegetation change from an iconic 61,000 year record at Lake Tulane, Florida. The pollen record shows oscillations between pine and oak-dominated vegetation, with Heinrich events aligning with peaks in pine, indicating warm, wet climates in central Florida during...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Saunders.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Visualization of artifacts is a key element of archaeology and the dissemination of information. Although technology has improved exponentially in the past few decades, the ethical use of such visual depictions of artifacts have not caught up to the degree of information these images have the potential to convey. Here, I examine recent trends in the use...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Coburn.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Migration and integration has always been a key link between the continent and the Japanese archipelago. This is especially significant during the later stage of the Jomon period throughout the Kofun period. This is seen in a number of different ways, from ceramic production and development through metal working. Recently, there has been a bigger push to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jaye Smith.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Investigations continue into the Ray Robinson Collection by Archaeology Southwest’s team of volunteer researchers in partnership with the Arizona State Museum. This paper will focus on the extensive perishable assemblage from the renowned Bonita Creek Cave Cache (W:14:1 ASM) north of Safford, Arizona and two sites near Hackberry Ranch southeast of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kim Hwajung.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the last few decades in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on the Korean peninsula, there has been a gradual transformation of associated meanings and memories from conflict and trauma to peace and reconciliation. Amid the ongoing conflict and tension between the two Koreas, this change is actively promoted by tours that visit destroyed buildings and war...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah MacIntosh.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Zooarchaeologists have tackled numerous questions to reveal human-animal interactions in time and space. In addition to depending on animals for their primary products, that is meat, and secondary products such as milk, muscle-power, and wool, humans have used animals to establish and legitimize status and power, and to represent ideologies, identities,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Brewer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Spanish colonization in the seventeenth century of what is now the U.S. Southwest changed the social, political, and religious landscape of the area. One of the stated purposes of the Spanish for colonizing new territories was to spread the word of God as deemed by the Catholic Church. Therefore, with Spanish colonists into what became Nuevo Mexico came...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra Jonassen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study uses pXRF technology to delineate the conveyance of terminal Pleistocene-Early Holocene obsidian and fine-grained volcanic (FGV) toolstone and artifacts to pluvial Lake Mojave, California. Prior preliminary research indicates Paleoindians conveyed nonlocal Coso Volcanic Field (CVF) obsidian and Goldstone dacite to Lake Mojave from the northwest...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra Huiras.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. People are what they eat, and in more ways than one. What someone eats can be an indicator of their identity, class, and social status. This cultural aspect to food means that archaeologists can use food remains to better understand the social organization of past societies. Here I consider faunal remains to investigate the possibility of social...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Fenn.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Examining non-ferrous metals from the Tanzanian Swahili Coast, many imported and reworked locally, can serve as proxy to understanding the impact of Indian Ocean trade on local economies, particularly with regard to the consumption of semi-exotic materials and finished goods. Copper-based metals (and even lead metals) were relatively commonly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kim Cox.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The site of Paint Rock, Texas (41CC1) is a 300 m. broken limestone bluff along the Concho River that contains dozens of spectacular solar interactions with rock art that was placed there over the course of two millennia. Through five years of observation, the members of the Paint Rock Project have recorded over fifty solar interactions that mark specific...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> For shell to be considered a means of payment, they should fulfill several requirements: They must be portable, durable, divisible and recognizable. Historic and ethnographic evidence support the use of cowries as money with the earliest archaeological evidence for extensive use of cowries from Mongolia and China between 2200-220 BCE during the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Holly Long.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cultural cranial modification is practiced in many cultures and has been interpreted to signify different facets of identity. In 2022, a surface collection from Sector A of the pre-Hispanic cemetery of CuzCuz revealed 12 complete adult crania with cultural cranial modification. These crania were discovered out of context—looted from their original...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Darlington.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Artificial cranial modification is a social identity marker that was practiced throughout Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, including in the Postclassic Aztatlán tradition of West Mexico. Modified human crania from Tizapán el Alto (Jalisco) and Amapa (Nayarit) are assessed to identify cranial modification trends that may indicate a shared ideology at Aztatlán...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeremy Johnson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tumwata Village, located at Oregon City, Oregon, holds a complex archaeological record of thousands of years of Indigenous lifeways, overlain by nineteenth-century settler and commercial expansion, and twentieth-century industrial domination. The resulting complexity presents a challenge for archaeologists attempting to understand both this complicated...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kasey Diserens Morgan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Government interventions and local restoration work on historic era buildings in the rural town of Tihosuco, Quintana Roo, Mexico have changed the nature of the relationship between the buildings and the community, and subsequently the community and their history. These structures are still occupied by local residents, which changes the ways in which...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Blomster.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The emergence of sedentary and socio-politically complex societies represents a fundamental transformation in Mesoamerica. At the highland site of Etlatongo, in the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca, Mexico, recent excavations have explored later Early Formative (1400 -1000 cal BCE) public space, a ballcourt, recovering a large assemblage of macrobotanical, faunal,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kyr Goyette.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Limited ethno- and archaeobotanical studies have been conducted on the forest-steppe ecological zone of northern Mongolia. This project focuses on the creation of a macrobotanical and phytolith reference collection of flowering plants in this region as part of ongoing archaeobotanical research with the Tarvagatai Valley Project, particularly in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Cerezo-Román.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We examine cremation mortuary practices from Saki Tzul and Mayahak Cab Pek, two rock shelters located in the Maya Mountains of southern Belize. The sites date from 12,000-3700 cal B.P. spanning the Late Pleistocene to the Late Holocene. We build on performance theory and issues of identities to look at the life course of the individuals and the different...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Macrae.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper briefly outlines the arguments and evidence for both the synchronic and diachronic production of Pecos River Style pictograph panels. New studies claim that Pecos River Style rock art sites are synchronically produced murals, painted in color order, composed in a single production episode. Conversely, my own research spanning two-decades has...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Natalie Chouinard.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Zooarchaeological research often relies heavily on quantitative data analyses and positivist interpretations that are statistically significant. Typically we study human and animal interactions by characterizing animal processing, butchery, and consumption, including cut mark location on the bone, shape, size, quantity, and directionality. Here in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cash Ficke.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2024, SWCA Environmental Consultants conducted a pedestrian survey along New Mexico highways 90, 180, and 12. Running from Lordsburg, NM to north of Reserve, NM, the survey corridor encompassed NMDOT, Forest Service, BLM, and private lands adjacent to the roadways. Numerous previously recorded sites were updated, and 50+ newly found prehistoric sites...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Perry.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Western ideologies that reinforce nature-culture divides are deeply entrenched in American mindsets and approaches to land and resource management. Resulting disciplinary divides can influence environmental determinations and decisions in ways that ignore or negatively impact cultural heritage. In contrast, archaeological and indigenous communities...

DOCUMENT Citation Only C. Scott Speal.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ancient Rome is arguably the quintessential patriarchal society in the western historical tradition, in which the male head of household had the very power of life and death over his wife and children. Cross-culturally, anthropologists have found that those in a position of hierarchical authority generally manipulate socio-political systems to their own...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Camille Simon.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The study of anthropomorphic ceramic figurines from Tamtoc in the Huasteca potosina provides information on the social identity of its population, through various ways of distinguishing and individualizing figures. The typology of headdresses and headgear offers a broad and plural panorama of the social attributes of identity. The iconographic diversity...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine McAllister.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Nearly 50 years ago, Art Rohn (1977) published “Cultural Change and Continuity on Chapin Mesa”. It was a landmark study focused on using the archaeological record to assess cultural change in relation to continuity of Pueblo communities on Chapin Mesa on the Mesa Verde cuesta. Since that time not only has there been nine major survey projects producing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Dolores Slow Archaeology Program (DSAP) is involving the grassroots archaeological community of Dolores (Petén, Guatemala) in designing a sustainable, community-driven archaeological project. The first, three-year phase of this project is entirely ethnographical, or ethno-archaeological. We have now led interviews with 36 archaeological professionals...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Welch.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Advocacy for holistic approaches to managing major community and economic development, coupled with global trends in heritage conservation policy, have brought cultural landscapes into focus as manifestations of co-developed human and ecological systems. International and United States policies support the conservation of cultural landscapes in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Montana Martin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The work from home requirements related to COVID-19 exposed some large gaps in processes for the conducting archaeological research and surveys. Data was often stored through paper copies and local servers that could not be accessed remotely. This was an issue at the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Tulsa District and reduced the ability to comply with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Troy Lovata.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation examines culturally modified trees from the mountains of Northern New Mexico in order to understand historic and contemporary culture. New Mexico is home to the southern Rocky Mountains as well as host to numerous other mountain ranges and verticality and elevation begets a relative abundance of trees in it’s semi-arid climate. Yet,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rilee Rodgers.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The "Curation Crisis" refers to problems associated with the neglect of long-term care and management of archaeological collections. U.S. repositories in charge of caring for archaeological collections are underfunded, understaffed, and overcrowded, leaving them unable to properly care for collections. Despite the magnitude of this problem, most...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sophia Marques.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster gives an update on current archaeological research in the Valle de Mairana, Boliva. On the eastern piedmont of the Andes, this tropical area was once the frontier of the Inka empire. Current research seeks to learn about the lived experience of pre-Columbian residents before and during the social upheavals often associated with Inka...