SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

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

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Material Culture and Technology • Cultural Resources and Heritage Management • North America: Southwest United States • Historical Archaeology • Landscape Archaeology • Digital Archaeology: GIS • Mesoamerica: Maya Lowlands • Zooarchaeology • Bioarchaeology/Skeletal Analysis • South America: Andes

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  • Cutting into Butchering Practices: Investigating Butchery Skill at an Early Bronze Age IIIA Urban Community along the Northern Negev (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Meghan Dwan.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The rise of urban living, particularly in the Southern Levant, often reflects a shift towards market economies and removed relationships with food– the transition from direct to indirect relationships with herding domesticated livestock. However, questions remain regarding if this transition from “direct” to “indirect” translated to all aspects of food...

  • Data Recovery at 41HY6: Preliminary Site Function Analysis in a Multicomponent Site of Central Texas (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Katharine Pontillo.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 41HY6 is easily identified by a large, domed midden, containing cultural deposits spanning the Middle and Late Archaic and Late Prehistoric periods. However, beneath the midden are deeper components associated with the Paleoindian and Early Archaic periods. Evidence of chipped stone tool production is consistently found both vertically and laterally...

  • Data Recovery Investigations at Chilili, New Mexico (LA 847), Northernmost of the Salinas Villages (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Phillip Leckman.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Statistical Research, Inc. (SRI) completed data recovery excavations in the village of Chilili, New Mexico. The pre-Hispanic and Colonial period pueblo of Chilili and the later historical-period village were at the intersection of cultural and geographic areas of the Rio Grande region. Northernmost of the Salinas villages, Chilili bordered the Plains and...

  • Dating a High Plains Medicine Wheel by the Use of Comparative Lichen Growth and Optically Stimulated Luminescence (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Garner.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On the outskirts of the city of Laramie, Wyoming sits a circular stone feature known as a medicine wheel. Despite being near the University of Wyoming (UW), it remained unknown until a UW archaeologist encountered it while hiking. Those who know about this medicine wheel have assumed that it was built after the 1960s as part of the new age spiritual...

  • Dating Early Ceremonial Centers in Southern Veracruz: Preliminary Results of the Suchilapan Archaeological Project (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica MacLellan.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Suchilapan Archaeological Project investigates the relationship between the development of monumental architecture and the transition to sedentary life in Formative period Mesoamerica (c. 2000 BC - AD 300). Through excavation, radiocarbon dating, and ceramic analysis, we are building a chronology for multiple early ceremonial centers clustered along...

  • De huesos y poder: La integración de los depósitos mortuorios posclásicos en el Conjunto Norte Rancho Aserradero, Huasteca potosina (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Marilou Renard.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El asentamiento de élite del Conjunto Norte Rancho Aserradero (Huasteca potosina) ha revelado un rico conjunto mortuorio. La variedad del reclutamiento, tanto en la selección de los individuos como en los objetos asociados y el tratamiento de los difuntos, es un testigo de la integración de estos contextos a la manifestación del poder político de la élite...

  • Dead Sea Tea Party: An Analysis of Variation in Early Bronze Age IV Mortuary Practices in Bâb adh-Dhra`, Jordan (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Madeleine Kohl.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster explores mortuary practices in the Early Bronze Age IV (EB IV; 2400-2000 BCE) post-urban settlement of Bâb adh-Dhra`, Jordan through the analysis of legacy collections from 1970s excavations by the Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain led by R. Thomas Schaub and Walter E. Rast. Bâb adh-Dhra`’s cemetery offers EBA researchers an exceptional...

  • Death on the Nile: War and Peace during the African Humid Period (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Stanley Ambrose.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Terminal Pleistocene (14.6-12.8 ka) cemeteries of the Early African Humid Period (E-AHP) along the Nile in Sudan contain many skeletons with injuries (41.9% of burials) suggesting chronic intergroup warfare. During the Later AHP the Nile Valley was densely populated by hunter-gatherer-fisher communities of the Early Khartoum (EK) tradition (10.6-6...

  • Decolonization and Discovery: Indigenous-Led Research Paving the Way in North Idaho (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jyl Wheaton-Abraham.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Kootenai Tribe of Idaho has called the northern Idaho panhandle home since time immemorial. Two hundred years of colonization reduced the Tribe to 64 members by the 1970’s, and the Tribe is actively working to recover from the loss of lands, culture, and people. This effort includes collaborating with state agencies in the management of cultural...

  • DeepAndesArch: Assessing Performance of an AI Model for Satellite Imagery Survey of the Andes (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only James Zimmer-Dauphinee.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Social and political networks in the Andes operated far beyond the scale that can be captured in any individual archaeological research project, while combining archaeological data from diverse projects presents challenges in data compatibility and unsystematic sampling. Satellite imagery and deep-learning computer vision models enable such trans-regional...

  • A Deeper Look into Colonial Newport through Orphaned Collections (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Sydney Dufresne.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House is the one of the oldest surviving homes in Newport, Rhode Island. Built for Stephen Mumford in 1697 the property encapsulates the colonial era of New England and provides insight into its changing communities highlighting the lives of marginalized groups. In 1998, an excavation of the backyard of the property was conducted...

  • Defining the Domestic at Chavín de Huántar: Learning from the La Banda Sector (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacob Roberts.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Excavations in the La Banda Sector at Chavín de Huántar have since 2003 exposed dense small-scale architecture that suggests living and working spaces of the labor force and craft specialists who were fundamental to the growth and success of this monumental center. The possible presence of walled compounds revives questions of whether urban...

  • Defining the Identity of the Gallinazo Period (200 BCE–200 CE, Peruvian North Coast): A Complex View of the Transitional Phases of the Salinar, Gallinazo, and Virú Periods through Ceramic Analysis and Burial Patterns (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Gontarski.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists have long sought to understand and identify the complexities and nuances of the Salinar (400–200 BC), Gallinazo (200 BC–AD 200) and Virú (200 BC–700 CE) cultures located on the northern coast of Peru, where there is much discussion and debate about the cultural and political identities and chronologies of each group. Based on previous work,...

  • Defining the Mississippian Community through Geophysical Survey at the Watauga Site (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Eileen Ernenwein.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Watauga, an ancestral Cherokee site in the upper Little Tennessee River Valley of southwestern North Carolina, includes a Middle Mississippian period center with remnants of two platform mounds. Noninvasive site surveys in summer 2024 examined more than three hectares with ground penetrating radar, magnetometry and UAV-based LiDAR. These combined methods...

  • Deka-In-Nin: A Pandanus Pounder from Kwajalein Atoll, RMI (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Lux.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological monitoring of environmental remediation at U.S. Army Garrison-Kwajalein Atoll/Reagan Test Site (USAG-KA/RTS) by HDR in 2018 resulted in the recovery of a coral pandanus leaf pounder (Marshallese: deka-in-nin) from Kwajalein Island in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Historical descriptions and ethnographic accounts emphasize the...

  • Dental Evidence for Structural Resilience and Vulnerability at Ancient Copan, Honduras (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Aliana Schwartz.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Late Classic Copan was a densely populated, socially complex center of ancient Maya political and economic activity. Society was structured around status, residences, and complex demonstrations of identity and lived experiences. Despite these multiplicitous variations in social positions, previous analyses have found high rates of nonspecific stress...

  • Detecting Cerritos: Automatic Identification of Stone Structures Using Multispectral Aerial Imagery in Huarochirí, Peru (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabriela Oré Menéndez.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The massification of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones) and the development of specialized cameras and sensors for industries like agriculture, public safety, power, or fossil fuel have allowed archaeologists to integrate these new technologies into their practice. While the benefits of UAVs in site mapping—including high-resolution aerial imagery,...

  • Detecting the Use of Fuel with Autofluorescent Phytoliths (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Luc Vrydaghs.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Phytoliths are often found in archaeological contexts associated with cooking and burning, and where plant material has been used as fuel. Different methods have been applied to identify whether phytoliths have been fired and/or heated: morphological alterations, changes in color and opacity, refractive index, and Raman spectroscopy. None provide...

  • Detection of Pottery Sherds Using sUAS-Based Multispectral Imagery with Rule-Based and Machine-Learning Methods: An Experimental Archaeology on Horse Island in Branford, CT (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ruoyang Tu.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From the increasing affordability and availability of commercialized drone products in the recent decade, drone imaging has wide application in various disciplines including archaeology. The full potential of multispectral drone imaging has yet to be explored for remote sensing in archaeological projects. In March 2023, the team from the Yale Ancient...

  • Determining Minimum Number of Individuals by Weight: A Case Study from Clinton County, New York (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Sascha Menn.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For any faunal osteologist MNI is key to help identify the context of burials, mass graves, archaeological sites, food processing, etc. There is great difficulty in identifying the MNI with unidentifiable bone fragments. Here we present a study of prehistoric Odocoileus virginianus (white-tailed deer) bones from SUNY Plattsburgh archaeological field...

  • Determining Site Depositional Sequences and Teasing Data out of High-Use Areas in Multiple Occupation Sites (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only A. Dudley Gardner.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Occupational sequences in rock shelters, houses, and public spaces are difficult to separate from one another when multiple occupations have occurred at the same place over time. In this presentation, we will compare the stratigraphic complexity of an historical site that was burned and then rebuilt and then demolished and ultimately became a park with...

  • Developing a High-Precision Radiocarbon Chronology to Date the Rise and Fall of the Royal Palace Complex at Baking Pot, Belize (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Julie Hoggarth.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Royal palaces in the Maya lowlands served various purposes as the primary locale of royal domestic life. Still, their architectural configurations suggest they also served as an outlet for semi-public activities as well. The architectural configuration of the royal palace at Baking Pot suggests both administrative activities in the public-facing areas, in...

  • Developing a Japanese Obsidian Database and Chemical Standards for Obsidian Provenance Analysis (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Yoshimitsu Suda.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Reliable chemical analysis and accurate obsidian collection are crucial for successful obsidian provenance analysis in archaeology. Since 2011, we have been collecting obsidian samples and conducting analyses using WDXRF in Japan. To date, over 1,000 obsidian samples have been collected, and the chemical composition of approximately 500 samples has been...

  • Developing a Methodology for the Identification of Shell Bead Money in the Archaeological Record (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Radican.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There is evidence for the use of shell bead money by hunter-gatherer communities dating back at least 2000 years, yet there has been little research done on this topic. In her recent paper, Dr. Lynn H Gamble (2020) draws from anthropological theory about money, ethnographic records, and bead morphology from Chumash sites in southern California to develop...

  • Developing a Repository Collections Management Database (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Thornton.

    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 Wisconsin-Milwaukee Archaeological Research Laboratory Center (ARLC) curates archaeological collections, artifacts and archival records, from over 800 archaeological sites within a federally compliant (36 CFR 79) storage facility. Over several decades, collections management standards have changed regarding how the ARLC catalogs the...

  • Dietary Differences of Hunter-Gatherers and Agriculturalists: A Temporal Investigation at the La Playa Site in Sonora, Mexico (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Michelle Carpenter.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The examination of maize integration into Early Agricultural populations has resulted in a standard anthropological model to be developed concerning the expected trajectory into maize reliance. Exploring these expected changes through multiple datasets e.g. land management, stable isotope analysis, and bioarchaeological evidence at the site of La Playa in...

  • Dietary Trends through Time at the Phoenix Powerhouse Site: A Stable Isotope Perspective (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Bryna Hull.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Phoenix Powerhouse site has a 4,700-year history of use by Native peoples inhabiting the western slope of the central Sierra Nevada mountains in California. The site, currently managed by PG&E, has yielded human, faunal, and charred plant macrofossil remains during archaeological mitigation and investigation. At the request of the Tuolumne Me-Wuk and...

  • Differences in Kinship Structure between Chanka Moieties: An Ancient DNA Study (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Valda Black.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Chanka were a cultural group that lived in Andahuaylas, Peru during the Late Intermediate Period (LIP, AD 1000-1400). At the beginning of the LIP, the Chanka moved into smaller communities at higher elevations and utilized an agro-pastoral lifestyle. Similar to other groups throughout the Andes during the LIP, the Chanka experienced high degrees of...

  • Differential Effects of End-Pleistocene Climate Change and Early Humans on Megafaunal Spatial Distribution in the American Southwest (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Casey Nielsen.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The end of the Pleistocene is characterized by pronounced climate change, human arrival and dispersal, and the extinction of a variety of taxa, the majority of which were mammals. During this period, the continent experienced the loss of thirty-eight genera of mammals, over 70% of which are classified as megafauna. Historically, the cause of these...

  • Differentiating Chopping/Hacking Sharp Force Trauma Characteristics on Bone Following Burning of Remains (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly McGehee.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bioarchaeologists and forensic anthropologists are often involved in the analysis and interpretation of perimortem trauma occurring to human remains with the goal of recognizing trauma characteristics that can be utilized in understanding the tool class used to inflict the trauma. Accurate interpretation of skeletal trauma also relies on the correct...

  • Digging Armadillos: Exploring Burier Effigies of Costa Rica and Panama (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Wingfield.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Bribri of eastern Costa Rica believe shamans, pregnant women, and buriers hold the power to open the portal between the earthly realm and the land of the spirits. The last of these, buriers or "morticians" in contemporary lingo, are often associated with scavenging animals such as the armadillo, known as a digger. Ancient art, most often in clay, from...

  • Digital Reconstruction of the Structure 12, El Meco, Quintana Roo (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Tanya Carino Anaya.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Proyecto de Investigación y Conservación “El Meco”, seeks to used digital technology to preserve, and create a digital recording of the previous interventions and the new activities that were related to the site. As result of those digital recordings, we elaborate a proposal on the architectural and decorative appearance of the Structure 12 of the...

  • A Disposable Footprint: The Archaeological Legacy of A Single-Use Consumer Explosion at a Minnesota Railroad Boomtown (ca. 1890–1910) (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Zev Cossin.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The trillion dollar market for e-commerce sales has transformed the infrastructural landscape into one that delivers commodities to consumers in record time. Amazon Prime freight containers and delivery trucks have provided a ubiquitous convenience that has changed the material realities of our everyday lives in substantive ways. In this paper we explore...

  • Documenting Urbanism in an Ancient Nomadic Landscape in Mongolia through Digital Archaeological Methods (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Estevan Ramirez.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The incorporation of photogrammetric documentation methods at archaeological sites has been a growing interest in research across various regions of the world. In 2024, Statistical Research, Inc. in collaboration with the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology, initiated the first phase of a multi-year project focused on historic...

  • Does the Olcott / Old Cordilleran Tool Kit of the Pacific Northwest of North America Include a Diagnostic Lithic Core Type? (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Noll.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Olcott Phase is recognized in archaeological deposits by a relatively small variety of tool types, with the leaf-shaped “Olcott” point being among the most recognizable. Other key attributes of the Olcott toolkit include heavily relying on local toolstone and lithic reduction techniques emphasizing durability and flexibility. Unidirectional,...

  • “Does this look Clovis-y to you?” Documenting the Whitewater Biface Cache, Mesa County, Colorado (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only John Seebach.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Two hunters discovered a small cache of fifteen finely-worked bifaces near Whitewater, Colorado in 1976. As has become customary for assemblages of this type, the deposit has been considered as one of Clovis affiliation (13,050–12,750 calBP). The size, workmanship, and manufacturing details of the analyzed pieces are certainly reminiscent of artifacts...

  • Domesticating Luxury: A Comparative Study of Moche Fineware Distribution within the Moche Valley (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Annalisa Amber.

    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 188 vessels from the Moche Valley in northern Peru from the Museo Larco online collection, to determine the distribution of Moche bulk luxury items from urban centers to surrounding towns and rural communities. For this study, the term "bulk luxury" refers to the widespread availability of elite goods produced in large quantities that...

  • Don’t Forget about Me: The Role of “Minor” Fortifications in the Interpretation of Military Landscapes (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Schumacher.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Military sites and spaces are of great interest to archaeologists, historians, and the public. They are significant for interpreting past events and understanding the lives of those who lived and labored there. The larger and grandiose military sites often become the primary focus of conservation and research efforts for their monumentality and their...

  • Down the Drain: Water Management in a Late Roman Urban Space (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa Morison.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents analyses of Late Roman ceramics from the hydraulic systems of the Gymnasium complex at ancient Corinth, Greece. Ceramic objects from well-stratified deposits in multiple drains, used successively from the late first through late sixth centuries CE, provide evidence for patterns of community resilience and adaptive capacity over a...

  • The Dry Creek Crossroad: Traditional Knowledge and Petroglyphs (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Tuite.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Dry Creek Site is a multi-panel, multi-component rock art site containing both historic Ute and Ancestral Puebloan motifs as well as historical and modern Euro-American images, located in a natural drainage corridor in the San Luis Valley of the Upper Rio Grande River Basin. These corridors were frequently used to ascend and descend the steep...

  • Dual Frontier Feminism: Using Feminist Archaeology to Explore Expressions of Feminism at Early Twentieth-Century Reno Divorce Ranches (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Audrey Andrews.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the early twentieth century, women from around the world traveled to Reno, Nevada to dissolve their marriages. Required to reside in the state for six weeks, many divorce seekers spent their tenure at an accommodation unique to Nevada: the Reno divorce ranch. Divorce ranches were liminal spaces where women pushed the boundaries of gender and embraced...

  • Early Maya Archaeological Exploration, Looting, and the Unintended Consequences of the Global Chewing Gum Economy (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirsty Escalante.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The trajectory of Maya archaeology is inextricably linked to the chewing gum industry. Since the earliest archaeological expeditions to Maya sites in Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize, archaeologists have relied on workers extracting the gum of sapodilla trees to aid in their investigations—from hiring chicleros as forest guides and excavators, to offering...

  • Eastern Oneota Ecology at the Dawn of History: Stable Isotope Perspectives (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Schurr.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Indigenous Eastern Oneota groups inhabited the Prairie Peninsula region of Midwestern North American for several centuries. It is widely known they used maize and wild resources from a variety of different ecosystems. The ecosystems they used are usually inferred through site-catchment analysis or the presence of faunal and floral remains from different...

  • Eastern Washington Faunal Database Project (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick Lubinski.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We have created a database of faunal assemblages from the eastern half of Washington state, compiled from reports through ~2023, with taxonomic identifications, age estimates, and locations. So far there are 482 archaeological assemblages with reported genus or species NISP, from 329 discrete sites, with a total of 66,502 NISP. Some 298 assemblages have...

  • Eating Cats and Dogs: Understanding the Collapse of an Early Urban Settlement in the Northern Negev Desert from a Faunal Perspective (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kara Larson.

    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 Tell el-Hesi was an Early Bronze Age III (2900-2500 B.C.E.) urban community located in the peripheral region of the Northern Negev Desert in the Southern Levant. Notably, the occupation was short-lived (ca. 100-150 years) and rapidly abandoned before the end of the EB III period, demarcated by drier environmental conditions. Unlike most urban...

  • Echoes of Paleoindians: Analyzing Faunal Remains from the Jones-Miller site in Wray, Colorado (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Monica Eckels.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Jones Miller site is a Bison antiquus kill site in Northeast Colorado near the town of Wray. The site was discovered by Robert Jones, Jr. in 1972, and excavated by Dennis Stanford at the Smithsonian Museum. The site is a thick, very large (approximately 36m by 40m) bone bed located in a former draw off the Arikaree River basin. The site dates to...

  • Echoes of Who Once Lived Here: The People of the Classic Maya Site of Joya de Cerén, El Salvador (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris Dixon-Hundredmark.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Classic Period Maya farming community at Cerén, El Salvador is world renown for the extraordinary preservation of living surfaces, buildings, an earthen road, and agricultural fields covered by multiple meters of volcanic ash. Through decades of careful archaeological research, we have gleaned important insights into communal organization, political...

  • The Ecological Context of Modern Human Evolution in Central Rift Valley, Kenya, during the Late Quaternary (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only James Munene.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Tracking the processes by which Homo sapiens acquired our broad ecological niche is key to understanding the evolution of modern human behavior. Modern behaviors include enhanced adaptive technological flexibility, expansion of social interaction and exchange networks, and intensification of symbolic behavior. This project seeks to improve our...

  • The Effect of Postdepositional Fragmentation on Archaeological Oyster Shell Metrics (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Neill Wallis.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) is an ecological and cultural keystone species that has been exploited by humans for millennia. Oyster size is a good proxy for population health, and researchers frequently use valve height and length measurements from archaeological and paleontological contexts that provide baselines for assessing past human...

  • The Effects of Climate and Culture on Andean Altiplano Diets, 9–1 Ka (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Chen.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ancient Andes is one of the few regions in the world where gathering and hunting intensified to result in the domestication of a variety of food products that would ultimately achieve global importance. This outcome is remarkable given the harsh, semi-arid, and hypobaric environment, and the driving dynamics remain unclear. Here, I present an analysis...

  • El Cerro y la Cruz: La transición inca a colonial en el valle alto de Cañete, provincia de Yauyos, Lima, Perú (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Adolfo Aranibar Bazan.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Los incas emplazaron su administración estatal en asentamientos preexistentes estratégicamente ubicados en rutas sacralizadas, comerciales y de control territorial de ecologías productivas que edificaron de sentido al paisaje de la cuenca alta de Cañete (Lima-Perú). Durante los primeros años de contacto, los españoles, desplazaron sus estrategias de...

  • El sitio de Orozas: Interacción, arte rupestre y caminos prehispánicos en los valles interandinos de Tarija, Bolivia (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Mirtha Gomez-Saavedra.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El sitio arqueológico de Orozas, ubicado en los valles interandinos del sur de Bolivia, es conocido por sus petroglifos grabados en lugares estratégicos cerca de la orilla del río. Además del arte rupestre, el sitio incluye un asentamiento elevado y está asociado a una red de rutas prehispánicas que conectaban la región de piedemonte chaqueño de Tariquía...

  • El Tintal Revisited: 10 Years of Archaeological Research in North-Central Petén, Guatemala (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlos Chiriboga.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Until a decade ago, the site of El Tintal had been sporadically investigated by researchers working in the Central Karstic Uplands of Northcentral Petén. Most research in the immediate region focused on the emerging complexity identified at Nakbé and the imposing Late Preclassic monumentality of El Mirador. However, beginning in 2014, over ten years of...

  • Electrical Resistivity Tomography in Archaeological Applications (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Rory Becker.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) produces 2D depth profiles similar to a single ground penetrating radar (GPR) slice. While earth resistance is a technique commonly employed during broad area archaeological prospection surveys, the tomography method is generally utilized to model sediment depths or delineate subsurface archaeological features....

  • Embracing the Neglected Histories of Reservation Towns (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin Lyons.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Small and comparatively late to “the game” the Kalispel Indian Reservation marked its 110<sup>th</sup> anniversary last year. Nestled against its small western boarder are the two dairy and timber towns of Cusick and Usk, Washington. Certainly, places of commerce and uneasy compromise, these reservation towns began to languish in the late...

  • Engendering Archeology at the Grandad Site: An Attempt to Differentiate Women’s and Men’s Space Based on Archeological Data (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only John Pryor.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Grandad site is located in the Sierra Foothills of California. CSU-Fresno has conducted a field school there for over 25 years. Since 2006 we have focused on two areas, a Chief's House (male area) and a Chaw'se or BRM (female area). One of the recent theoretical approaches in archeology has been Engendering Archeology. Having taught this theory in my...

  • An Engineered Ancient Water System: Water Delivery to a Pompeii House (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Wayne Lorenz.

    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 wonders of the Ancient Roman civilization is that the engineered water systems were so “modern”. The access of the general public to fresh water, no doubt, resulted in improved public health and a flourishing civilization. A remarkable aspect of Pompeii is that portions of the public water system have been preserved due to the eruption of Mt....

  • Engineering Resilience: Excavation of Ancient Maya Agricultural Terraces in the San Bartolo-Xultun Territory (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Herndon.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The excavation of ancient Maya agricultural terraces in the San Bartolo-Xultun Territory in the Peten Region of Guatemala offers insights into the engineering and construction of sustainable land management systems throughout the tropics. These terrace systems were critical for maximizing arable land, managing water flow, and preventing soil erosion in a...

  • Enhancing Archaeological Classification with Machine Learning: The Lincoln Pottery Works Collection (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Effie Athanassopoulos.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A significant challenge that many archaeological projects face is how to consistently and efficiently identify and classify artifacts, while processing a large corpus of data amassed through fieldwork. This is particularly poignant in smaller institutions that may lack the resources to utilize new and powerful machine learning techniques. In this poster,...

  • Entre la vida cotidiana y el poder: Exploraciones en una terraza domésticas de la primera capital olmeca de San Lorenzo, Veracruz (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Virginia Arieta Baizabal.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Los trabajos pioneros de investigadores como Matthew Stirling y Michael Coe, y, más recientemente, las exhaustivas investigaciones del Proyecto Arqueológico San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán (PASLT) bajo la dirección de Ann Cyphers, consolidaron el reconocimiento de San Lorenzo, Veracruz como la primera capital olmeca. Esta ponencia presenta una nueva fase en la...

  • Environmental Attributes that Influence Transtemporal Settlement Patterning in the Historic Southeastern United States (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lindsey Cochran.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Environmental resources in the historical period in the southeastern United States were targeted differently than in any other preceding time period. While regional connections have been made between natural resource and historic settlement locations, few cross-cultural and cross-temporal synthesis exist. In this paper, we seek to articulate the major...

  • Epigenetic Age Estimation on Hard Tissues for Forensic Skeletal Identification (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna-Marie David.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ability to narrow the age-at-death estimation using epigenetic markers from DNA extracted from skeletal remains is showing great promise, narrowing the range from 20+ years to just +/-2 years. But, when utilizing skeletal remains, different skeletal elements experience bone turnover rates at very different points. Therefore, certain elements will...

  • Escaping Aesthetics, Embracing Storytelling: How Indigenous Artifacts in University Museums Can Remediate Problems in the AP History Curriculum (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Travis Chai Andrade.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2022, 34.6% of US high schoolers took an AP test, US History being among the most popular subjects. Yet, despite heightened sensitivity toward indigenous cultures and their histories, the AP Historical curriculum still displays shortcomings in this regard. Moreover, in college, many students encounter indigenous cultures through one discipline only:...

  • Establishing a Baseline: New Archaeological Research in Lake Michigan Building Community and Indigenous Connections (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Mya Welch.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The variation in water levels of the Great Lakes over the past 15,000 years has resulted in portions of formerly dry land and unique environments becoming inundated. Although underwater archaeology in the cold, fresh waters of the Great Lakes has often focused on shipwrecks, older archaeological evidence of indigenous peoples is preserved. This project...

  • Establishing a Bioethos in Ancient DNA: Situating Knowledges in Praxis and Engagement (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Horvey Palacios.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ancient DNA (aDNA) has evolved into a multidisciplinary endeavor, with geneticists, archaeologists, and social scientists contributing to the compendium of research on degraded biomolecules. Over the past decade, the interplay between these diverse disciplinary perspectives has subsequently placed aDNA in a liminal space, simultaneously enriching and...

  • Estimation of Sex by Discriminant Function Analysis for Maya Skeletal Remains (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa Teja.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The poor preservation of skeletal remains in the Maya region creates a pressing need for alternative approaches to determine skeletal sex, especially when the pelvic and cranial morphoscopic features traditionally used to determine skeletal sex are fragmentary or absent. Discriminant functions are statistical tools that utilize measurements of skeletal...

  • Eternal Embers: Using Charcoal Analysis to Explore Ancient Maya Tree Use from Chan Chich, Belize (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kaitlin Murphy.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research project used Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) to identify tree species of 33 charcoal samples from funerary and non-funerary contexts at the ancient Maya site of Chan Chich, Belize. To identify species, we compared SEM images of the plant structures in the charcoal to images from databases and other studies. We were able to identify over...

  • Ethics and Stelae Repatriation in Guatemala: A Study of the Life History and a Proposed Restitution Plan for Stela 34 from El Perú-Waka’ (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Sydney Berenson.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This work aspires to contribute to the ongoing discourse on cultural heritage and enhance practices surrounding the restitution of significant artifacts by focusing on Stela 34, a pivotal monument from El Perú-Waka’ (henceforth Waka’). Attention is paid to its historical journey and the ethical implications of its acquisition and repatriation....

  • Ethics in the Classroom: How Prevalent are Ethics-Focused Course Offerings in US Anthropology Undergraduate Programs? (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ezra Kucur.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology is a discipline highly concerned with ethics. On March 7, 2024, the SAA adopted a new set of ethics principles prompting a critical question: are higher-education anthropology programs in the United States effectively teaching the diverse range of ethical facets described in these newest principles? In this student-faculty co-creative poster,...

  • Ethnicity and the San Pedro, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake Railroad in Nevada (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean McMurry.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On January 30, 1905 in an inauspicious, unmarked location in the Nevada desert, a momentous event occurred: the San Pedro, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake Railroad crews completed the “Salt Lake Route” between Salt Lake City, Utah, and Los Angeles, California. The railroad’s construction, controversial largely because of competition between two rival...

  • Ethnography as a Methodological Alternative for Heritage Understanding in the Maya Highlands (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lyla Patricia Campos Díaz.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Heritage conservation and restoration practices focus primarily on the physical intervention of the object. Changes in the fabric are associated with a loss of information and knowledge that break a tangible link with the past; thus, restorers focus on stopping those changes from happening and maintaining the physical and chemical stability of the object...

  • An Ethnography of Looting: Constructing Alternative Archaeologies in Modern Cyprus (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Derek Counts.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent shifts in archaeology have brought nuanced perspectives to undocumented digging and looting, acknowledging social justice issues tied to subsistence digging and expanding the definition of archaeology to embrace alternative and indigenous understandings of cultural heritage. Our project examines local, unscientific ways of understanding the past,...

  • Evaluating a “Restorative History” Framework for Archaeological Research and Field Schools (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Noelle Vasquez.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Restorative History is an approach that deploys Public History as a practical tool for justice by confronting root causes of harm and their ongoing legacies today. Drawing on threads of Restorative Justice, institutions like the Center for Restorative History at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History have developed this framework as a tool...

  • Evaluating Changing Governmental/State Support for US-Based Archaeological Research: Cases from Guatemala (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Maura Ellenberger.

    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 archaeological projects in the 20th and 21st centuries were often shaped, consciously or unconsciously, by the political motivations of involved parties. I evaluate this premise through the examination of archival records and interviews pertaining to two archaeological projects, each established in Guatemala but in distinct periods...

  • Evaluating Desktop 3D Laser Scanning Technology for Digital Replication of Faunal Bones (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jared Divido.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presentation highlights the feasibility of using desktop 3D laser scanning technology for digital curation and creating accurate digital replicas of faunal bones for comparative and educational purposes. It compares the performance of two different desktop scanners, focusing on their ability to replicate the humeri, carinae, and coracoids of...

  • Evaluating the Potential Role of Itinerant Artisans in Obsidian Distribution in Prehispanic Puebla-Tlaxcala (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only A. Gabriel Vicencio.

    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 data from multiple excavation projects to examine the procurement and production strategies of obsidian artifacts in Mexico’s Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley, focusing on the socioeconomic dynamics between different groups from the Middle Formative (900–500 BC) to the Late Postclassic (AD 1250–1519) periods. Geochemical and spatial analyses reveal...

  • Evidence for Early Cacao Use at the Valdivia Site of Buen Suceso, Ecuador (3710–3034 cal BC) (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Guy Duke.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent microbotanical and aDNA analyses of materials from Buen Suceso have found the presence of a wild ancestor of Theobroma cacao aDNA as well as methylxanthines (theobromine, caffeine, and/or theophylline) in residues on materials recovered from some of the deepest and oldest contexts as yet excavated at the site (3710-3034 cal BC) (see Lanaud et al....

  • Evidence of Fragmentation and Decapitation Practices in the Funerary Treatment of the Dead in Western Roman Britain (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Shaheen Christie.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent studies using bioarchaeological data and evidence of mortuary treatment practices associated with decapitation burials have concluded there were regional and more nuanced site-by-site variations during the Late Roman period (3rd – 5th century A.D.) in western Roman Britain. This research presents the bioarchaeological and mortuary analysis results...

  • The Evolution of Osseous Technology during the Neolithization Process in Liguria, Italy (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Agathe Cadieux.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Liguria, Italy, offers an ideal setting to study how hunter-gatherers adapted to the climatic, social and political changes of the transition to the Neolithic. Additionally, Liguria is an interesting region to study this question since it was one of the first regions of the Western Mediterranean to be colonized by Neolithic agriculturalists and thus...

  • The Evolution of Public Archaeology in Pensacola (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ellie Minette.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pensacola has been invested in public archaeology since the 1980s when Dr. Judith Bense began the Hawkshaw Project. Since then, archaeologists have continued to prioritize and promote public engagement, education, and stewardship through books, exhibitions, presentations, field trips, and a variety of other methods. This research examines the evolution of...

  • The Examination of A Brownware Assemblage: An Overview of the Sanchez Site Ceramics (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Amber Hefner.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Sanchez site (AZ CC: 2: 452 (ASM)) has a brownware assemblage (ca A.D. 100 to 500) dating to the period when ceramics were first manufactured in the American Southwest. This site is a cerro de trincheras settlement or hilltop site near Safford, Arizona on the upper Gila River between the Mogollon and Hohokam cultural regions. It was primarily occupied...

  • Examination of Multigeneration Use of the Rooms in the “Zip Code Site,” a Large Virgin Branch Puebloan Site at the Mt. Trumbull Area in the Arizona Strip (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Sachiko Sakai.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The objective of this study is to better understand the settlement patterns of the Virgin Branch Puebloans, small-scale farmers who inhabited the marginal environment of the Mt. Trumbull area in the Arizona Strip. The Zip Code Site (131BLM) is a large site with multiple pueblo structures, extending at least 200 meters in length. From 2018 to 2023, several...

  • Examining Collapse, Fragility, and Mycenaean Greece (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Stryder Hellewell.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Late Bronze Age (LBA) Greece, c. 1200 B.C.E. was a period of fiery transformation. During this final phase of the Bronze Age, the Mycenaean civilization was at its height. Greece was comprised of highly stratified palace-states and city-states, each with its own government structure. To understand the nature of the political decline experienced widely...

  • Examining Preservation in Rockshelters: The Reanalysis of Woodruff Cave (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Reed.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Woodruff Cave, located near Lake Waramaug in New Preston, Connecticut, is a multi-component Native American site that exhibits exceptional preservation of faunal remains. Researchers with the Institute for American Indian Studies (IAIS) have been reanalyzing this collection since 2021 to shed new light on the assemblage and reassess previous...

  • Examining the Colonial Timber Extraction Economy through Archaeological Survey, Metal Detection, and Local History at Dover Camp, Belize (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Cody Sprock.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological investigations in modern-day Belize have primarily focused on understanding the ancient Maya polities which once dominated the landscape. Comparatively little archaeological investigation has focused on colonial timber extraction economy during the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. Following the devaluation of the primary timber export,...

  • Examining the Commercial District of Aurora, Nevada (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Alex Howard.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The discovery of precious metals in the American West generated unparalleled interest in the extractive industry during the mid to late nineteenth century. The allure of possible riches, or at least a way to provide for oneself and family, brought diverse peoples to the mining towns of the West. Mining town populations predominantly were men of varied...

  • Excavations at Arpiri, an Early Horizon (800–200 BCE) site in Huancasancos, Ayacucho, Peru (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia Sjodahl.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Huancasancos region in the south-central highlands of Ayacucho, Peru, is an archaeologically rich yet relatively understudied area. This poster will detail the results of excavation and material analysis from the Early Horizon (800-200 BCE) site of Arpiri, and the identification of a contemporaneous site, Qallopampa. The presence of Paracas and Nazca...

  • Excavations of Structure S21-1 at El Palmar, Campeche, Mexico (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenichiro Tsukamoto.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents the result of excavations at the palace of El Palmar, Campeche, Mexico. During the 2022 field season, we conducted horizontal and stratigraphic excavations at Structure S21-2, which closes the south end of the palace. With four other range structures, Structure S21-1 forms Plaza G, the most restricted gathering space at the site. The...

  • Excremental Gains: Seabird Guano Fertilization in Prehispanic Chincha, Peru (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jo Osborn.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Did the Chincha kingdom employ seabird guano from the nearby Chincha Islands to feed its growing population and increase its political power? Written sources emphasize the importance the Inca placed on seabird excrement as a fertilizer, particularly in maize cultivation. The Chincha Islands are noted for their abundant high-quality guano, to the...

  • Exhibiting Knowledge: Archaeology in a Museum (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean Devlin.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeology department of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is committed to the practice of public-facing archaeology. This work takes many forms from community and descendant partnerships to public programming at sites of active research excavation. The fall of 2024 saw the first time this work was extended to include an exhibition solely of...

  • Expanding Obsidian Procurement Studies in West-Central New Mexico: New Data from Early and Late Sites in the Lion Mountain Area (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Ferguson.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Obsidian procurement studies in West-Central New Mexico have proven valuable in characterizing changes in social connections over time. Previous research into the obsidian procurement patterns in the Lion Mountain area focused on the Pueblo II through Pueblo III periods represented by the majority of archaeological sites in the area. Recent in-field XRF...

  • Experience and Experiment: Undergraduate Experimental Archaeology at Southern Utah University (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Dean.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In Fall 2024 Southern Utah University, a regional, teaching focused, public university, offered its first ever undergraduate course on Experimental Archaeology. Experimental Archaeology has long been recognized as a particularly effective and impactful educational approach, at both the public and the student level (c.f. Clarkson 2015, Outram 2008,...

  • An Experimental Evaluation of Pile Burning and Its Impacts on Archaeological Surface Assemblages (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Alex Fetterhoff.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On public lands, archaeological resources are regularly taken into consideration in wildland fire operations and post-fire monitoring, however less attention is given to impacts on archeological materials during fuel treatments, such as pile burning. Decades of field and laboratory experiments coupled with the experience and insight from fireline...

  • Experimental Methodologies: An Analysis of Ancient Bronze Crossbow Bolt Production (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Simone Tripoli.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This pilot research replicates the production of Dong Son trilobate bronze crossbow bolts using sandstone molds. The Dong Son site of Co Loa, located near Hanoi, Vietnam, is associated with the production of crossbow technology, as several thousand bronze bolts have been recovered archaeologically. However, there has been very little research done on...

  • Experimental Shooting Experiments with Backed Pieces: Functional Differences in Hafting Configurations and Implications for the Use of the Tip Cross-Sectional Area (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Gerrit Dusseldorp.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A variety of technocomplexes across the world has produced semi-circular backed pieces, including the South African Howiesons Poort technocomplex (65-60 ka). These pieces have been interpreted to have functioned as arrowheads based on use-trace evidence, yet their exact hafting configuration is not yet clear. We produced experimental arrows, with...

  • Exploring Landscapes Dynamics: Integrating Multidimensional Regional Datasets from the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristin Barker.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Incorporating interpretations about the dynamics of past movements into the static archaeological record presents significant challenges. Opportunities to explore the connections between movement, landscape, and the physical evidence of changing locations are rare. Since 2002, the GRSLE project has focused on high elevations (generally above 2500 m) in...

  • Exploring Monumental Landscapes: Geophysical and Geochemical Insights into Bronze Age Mobile Pastoralist Monuments in Mongolia (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Eklund.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Monument construction has long been associated with the rise of early civilizations and states. Recent trends in anthropological archaeology have also identified the crucial role of monuments in processes of social integration among small, mobile populations. This poster will present results from a detailed geophysical and geochemical study of these...

  • Exploring Nontraditional Methods of Heritage Preservation: A Focus on Community Engagement (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jasmine Saxon.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Explore the spirit of preservation with Community Connections LLC, a women-owned archaeological consulting firm committed to advancing community-informed outcomes and non-traditional cultural resources practices. We'll examine case studies such as Guardians of Historic Lakewood and International Archaeology Day to unravel the complex dynamics between...

  • Exploring Personal Ornamentation at Kharaneh IV: An Aesthetic Analysis of the Shell Bead Assemblage (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Anastasia Matveeva.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. About 20,000 cal. BP, the presently arid desert environment at Kharaneh IV, Jordan, is thought to have been a resource-rich wetland, yet only 12% of the examined shell bead assemblage is associated with terrestrial/freshwater species---the remaining 88% is attributed to marine species sourced from either the Mediterranean or Red Sea, both over 200 km...

  • Exploring Remote Sensing for Lithic Source Geolocation in the Southern Atacama Desert, Chile (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Allison Sabo.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Starkly juxtaposed resource distribution presented a notable challenge to the prehistoric inhabitants of the southern Atacama Desert. While the Pacific coast yielded a reliable abundance of food resources and materials (shell, bone, animal hide) for subsistence and certain types of manufacture, other raw materials had to be sought from discrete locales...