SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

DOCUMENT Citation Only Haley Borowy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Multiple archaeological and historic sites on properties part of Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary, Maryland are threatened by sea level rise and coastal erosion. Located along the Patuxent river, a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay, Emory Waters Nature Preserve and the surrounding area are of notable concern. Until now, relatively little archaeological inquiry...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aitana Piedra Soto.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological site Cerro Narrío (2000 BC - 400 AD) housed one of the societies that influenced southern Ecuador. Its settlers established significant long distance commercial relationships with diverse areas of the Septentrional Andes. In order to understand the relationship of this group with the surrounding areas, this research seek to answer the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gerad Smith.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Northern Dene culture-bearers in Alaska and Canada maintain a number of oral traditions and place names recalling landscapes and geological events evoking the Late Pleistocene. Following these traditions, the following study tested sediment associated with massive jökulhlaups from Glacial Lake Atna. Using thermoluminescence methods, we date these large...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Keri Burge.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Understanding human movement through time and space is a major goal of archaeogenetic studies. Though the field has predominantly made use of DNA from ancient human remains, dental calculus offers the possibility of indirectly tracing human movement using the commensal microbes ancient humans carried with them. Although oral bacteria are being...

DOCUMENT Citation Only George J. Micheletti.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ancient Maya Preclassic round structures without a superstructure are generally believed to have functioned as performance stages, denoting their role as social settings. However, the meager sample size of identified round structures and the limited exposure of their surroundings have led to socio-contextual and socio-cultural incongruencies, particularly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andres Saul Alcantara Salinas.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. La Fase Comala (200-600 d.C.) corresponde a un periodo de desarrollo cultural del Occidente Mesoamericano, el cual se caracterizó por el uso generalizado en toda el área geográfica de la región, del denominado sistema funerario "Tumbas de Tiro"; se trata de espacios excavados en el subsuelo, generalmente de manera circular, los cuales profundizaban los...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Unruh.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Under contract with the New Mexico Department of Transportation for a bridge replacement undertaking, Statistical Research, Inc. performed an analysis of 3,143 faunal specimens from the Early Pueblo period component at Chilili, northernmost of the recognized Salinas province pueblos. The results of the analysis suggest that Chilili does not fit neatly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jingchao Chen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research is the first of its kind to be conducted on Medieval potshards from Mongolia and China (10-14 centuries CE). It analyzes pottery vessels found at garrison sites associated with lines of walls and border demarcation that were constructed by the Liao (916-1125 CE) and Jin (1115-1234 CE) dynasties. It enables us to trace the food remains of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kyle Freund.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation focuses on the geochemistry and archaeological exploitation of fine-grained volcanic (FGV) lithic sources of the greater Great Salt Lake Desert (GSLD) in northwestern Utah. Regional volcanism during the Tertiary is responsible for recurring tectonic activity and normal faulting, and this geology holds a variety of toolstone sources that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only BrieAnna Langlie.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Around 1100 CE, a century-long drought ushered in an era of political balkanization and prolonged conflict across the highland Andes. During this time, known locally as the Late Intermediate Period (LIP; 1100-1450 CE), people built defensible hilltop settlements and refuges where very little farming is carried out today, particularly in the Colca Valley....

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Maughan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Utah State University conducted an investigation of a formative period site outside of Boulder Utah on private land. This field school took place on fourteen acres of unsurveyed land within close proximity to Anasazi State Park. Students learned how to properly conduct pedestrian surveys, record sites using official Utah archaeological site forms,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joyce Wing In Ho.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> While metal production technologies and exchange networks in Bronze Age Central Asia have captured much scholarly attention, the metal economy of the subsequent Final Bronze to Early Iron Age southern Central Asia in the late 2^nd millennium BC is rarely investigated. Recent excavations and surveys at Kimirek-kum-1 (KK1; ca. 1250-1050 cal....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Donald Slater.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On the night of July 10, 1666, Anne Bradstreet was startled from sleep by her family’s screams: “FIRE!! FIRE!!” While everyone escaped the blaze, the house and their belongings were destroyed. Bradstreet later lamented this fateful night in her poem “Verses upon the Burning of our House” which gave voice to her grief and cataloged what was lost, yet...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip Mink.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> On January 25, 1865, Company E of the 5^th United States Colored Calvary (USCC) was ambushed near the town of Simpsonville, Kentucky by a group of Confederate guerillas. Twenty-two of the USCC troops were killed and another eight were severely injured. The dead were hastily gathered and buried by the local residents and the wounded were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Boyd.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Bolivar Archaeological Project in Texas highlights the meaningful contributions that CRM archaeology can make to African diaspora studies and local communities of color. Tom Cook was a freedman blacksmith who lived and worked in the predominantly white community of Bolivar in north-central Texas from ca. 1871 to 1898. His blacksmithing skills enabled...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Klinton Burgio-Ericson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Primary sources have long attested to the training of Indigenous carpenters in early colonial New Mexican woodworking. By the 1620s, Spanish craftsmen began introducing techniques based in the widespread Iberoamerican Mudéjar carpentry vernacular, which Pueblo artisans learned and used in constructing Franciscan missions. These accounts have received...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Berikashvili.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The multicultural Archaeological Complex of Samshvilde, in the South Caucasus (Southern Georgia), has been intensively excavated for the last decade, with a particular focus on the Citadel and Sioni Cathedral area. However, due to the large scale of the site important questions, such as the layout of the main fortification system and the urban...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sophie Forbes.

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 seeks to understand how Indigenous and Post-Contact inhabitants of Ossabaw Island harvested a key coastal resource over 5,000 years from the earliest year-round inhabitation during the Late Archaic (ca. 3000 BCE) to the Plantation Period (ca. AD 1850). Here we present the results of incremental oxygen isotope analysis on eastern...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Frederic Sellet.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper investigates the archaeological signature of retooling at the Lindenmeier site. A series of exhausted or broken Folsom projectile points cluster spatially and identify discrete activity areas related to weaponry replacement. We analyzed the spatial distribution as well as the composition of these clusters to assess the degree of exhaustion of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gloria Hernandez-Bolio.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> For over 20 years the Proyecto Atlas de Guatemala (Atlas), has documented more than 400 sites across the many river basins and humid savannas of the southeastern Peten. Here the communities experienced rapid growth in the Early and Late Classic, developing into complex, yet mostly modestly centralized political entities. The Project’s reconnaissance...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Creese.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent debates over the merits of posthumanism in archaeology might produce a creeping sense of déjà vu. While much has changed since the 1990s, including the increasingly fragmented nature of archaeological discourse, we are again presented with seemingly stark alternatives that, on closer inspection, have much more complementarity than is often admitted...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Sobel.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Our research in the Ozarks of southwest Missouri yields insights that are at odds with national and local perceptions of the area. Archaeological, documentary, and oral history data show that late 19th and early 20th century communities were more racially diverse and economies less narrowly agrarian than assumed and, arguably, than they are today. In this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Corey Bowen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Combating pseudoarchaeology in popular discourse requires not only analyzing the rhetoric of its most vocal proponents, but understanding the misconceptions that predispose audiences to listen. Social media may permit a glimpse at those misconceptions in ways that classroom settings and traditional surveys cannot. With four million unique monthly users,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Angela Escalante Zarco.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ceramics are integral to daily life, reflecting both practical and cultural aspects of historical households. The analysis of ceramic assemblages can reveal insights into the daily practices, social status, and cultural connections of a household. This poster investigates the ceramic assemblages retrieved from the Barnabas Pond House in Clinton, New York,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Pauly.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Frame Biface Cache consists of three large bifaces found in Logan County, northeastern Colorado. The bifaces were knapped from Flattop chalcedony and are interpreted as late-stage preforms, with fairly flat faces, high width:thickness ratios, and edges that lack finishing work and use-wear. Two of them are very similar in dimensions, but one shows no...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lindsay Johansson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the Fremont period (ca. AD 300 to 1400), individuals in the eastern Great Basin aggregated into larger and more permanent settlements, and these settlements clustered together across the landscape. Within many settlement clusters, sites exist containing structures that, on the surface, appear both architecturally and functionally distinct from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Crystal Castleberry.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For five years, the Colonial Williamsburg Department of Archaeology has been investigating Custis Square, the Williamsburg home of John Custis IV. The overarching goal for the project is to collect the evidence necessary to restore Custis’ early eighteenth-century formal gardens, but restored landscapes and buildings in Colonial Williamsburg are more than...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Carolina Zensen-Simoes.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological site of La Milpa North in Belize offers a unique opportunity for cutting-edge research in digital archaeology. Building on over a decade of excavation data (Heller 2018), this project focuses on creating an accurate digital reconstruction of the site as it appeared during the Maya Terminal Classic period (750-900 CE). Utilizing the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Lewis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Indigenous place theories are developing “gaps analyses” of archaeological and historical datasets caused by the social contexts in which existing dominant culture narratives have been written. Methodologies for researching stories of marginalized communities are less well established. We present a decolonizing approach to history implemented/utilized by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Noah Hall.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Sinking Spring Cemetery in Abingdon, VA founded in 1773, is divided into “colored” and “white” areas. The traditionally white cemetery, marked with a Virginia State Historic Marker sign, is nine acres and has easy access from the road, neatly walled family plots, walking paths, and well-preserved stones for individual burials. The African American...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth Kvamme.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A comprehensive mapping of surface lithic debris and stone tools in a remote and archaeologically rich region of western Colorado yields insights into their formation processes and spatial structure. This mapping includes over 25,000 items including formal tools, flaking debris, cores, and ground stone within 6-18 clusters (depending on cluster...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mirko De Tomassi.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Classic Maya grave goods are traditionally understood as offerings for the afterlife or signifier of religious beliefs, identity, and socioeconomic status of the deceased. The variety of interpretations underscores the complexity of these objects, whose funerary usage is influenced by multiple factors. I examine the grave goods recovered from 41 burials...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Teagan Knutson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Among the numerous funerary offerings associated with the interment of Lady K'abel, the Kaanul queen who ruled at the mid-sized Classic Maya city of Waka’, was a particularly large polychrome platter. Keith Eppich identified the platter as a Late Classic Palmar Orange polychrome and it features an array of motifs, including cormorants and circular objects...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Pelletier.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Since the late 19^th century, Chaco Canyon, Aztec, and the Middle San Juan have been some of the most intensively investigated areas of the United States Southwest. After its rediscovery by Spanish and later American expeditions, Chaco Canyon became a hub for massive excavations, beginning with the Hyde Exploring Expedition and National...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chester Liwosz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Rapid technological development has indelibly reshaped archaeological practice. We now employ technologies like GPS and UAVs to map and understand archaeological landscapes in unprecedented detail. Likewise, the computer sciences empower project managers to cross-link archaeological evidence with locations and attributes, facilitating big-data type...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sandra Lopez Varela.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. To investigate gender dynamics in the late Viceroyalty of New Spain, Salgado examined the 1814 will of Mariano Timoteo Escandón y Llera, the third Count of Sierra Gorda, who resided in present-day Morelia, Mexico. An earlier transcription of this document details the property where Don Mariano lived from 1775 to 1814, including the objects within it. By...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabrielle Marsh.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Gender archaeology came late to South American prehistory, and in particular, the Andes, where ethnographic and historical data have stressed a long history of dual, yet complementary, gender categories. Yet, given the diversity of lifeways and numerous shifts in the sociopolitical terrain of the region, gender is a crucial lens through which to examine...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Nelson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The geographic origin, evolution, and spread of treponemal diseases remain highly debated. Treponema pallidum subspecies, responsible for modern treponemal diseases, were once believed to be linked to specific clinical manifestations and environmental contexts. However, recent genomic studies have revised this perspective by providing new insights into...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gwen Olivier.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Climate and environmental changes along Chupadera Arroyo, New Mexico, could provide information to help understand the ~13,400 years of human occupation. A distribution of archaeological sites sits along a modern ephemeral arroyo dating from the Paleoindian Period to the Pueblo IV Period. This poster aims to create a map resource to prepare for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Traci Ardren.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Like many island sites with a rich archaeological record, the Florida Keys exist on the margins of mainstream research trajectories and have seen little systematic investigation. This paper presents the results of a geochemical pilot study of Ancestral/Pre-Columbian pottery from two large midden sites in the Keys. The Keys material is compared to similar...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian Jorgeson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents the results of a large-scale geochemical sourcing study of over 4000 obsidian artifacts from Coalition and Classic Period sites in the Northern Rio Grande. These obsidian artifacts, held in legacy collections at the Maxwell Museum, the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, SMU-Fort Burgwin, and the SMU Archaeology Research Collection,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christian Mesia-Montenegro.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In our research, we have identified over 113 geoglyphs in the middle Chillon Valley, located on the Andean Central Coast, with chronological spans ranging from the Formative Period (1800–100 BC) to the Inka Period (AD 1470–1532). This project utilized advanced digital technologies, including Remotely Piloted Airborne Systems (RPAS), to systematically...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elic Weitzel.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Across eastern North America, white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) were a key food resource in the diets of Native peoples. Despite heavy predation by sizeable Native American populations, there is only limited evidence that white-tailed deer were ever unsustainably hunted prior to European colonization. After colonization, however, people drove...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kellam Throgmorton.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Zuni Mountain Spotted Chert is one of the most important lithic materials in western New Mexico. It is frequently observed at Folsom sites in the valley of the Puerco of the East and Middle Rio Grande Valley. The material was imported into Chaco Canyon and is common on Chacoan great house sites in the southern San Juan Basin and Red Mesa Valley. Zuni...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Smith-Leach.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Landslides pose a significant threat to both known and undiscovered archaeological sites worldwide. Despite this risk, landslide susceptibility maps rarely incorporate factors to determine landslide threat to the archaeological record. This gap arises partly from the inherent challenges in predicting landslides and partly from the archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elena Frye.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, formerly known as the Conewago Chapel, is a Catholic church campus in Hanover, PA, near the Pennsylvania-Maryland border. Founded in the early 18^th century, the basilica was the largest Catholic church in the country at the time of its founding and the current church building is the oldest stone...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Trevor Gittelhough.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geophysical investigations of submerged landscapes have become an integral part of offshore cultural resource management projects, as well as improving scientific and academic studies in early migrations, climate change, and human adaptation. There is a growing need for researches to learn how to use geophysical surveys, and the type of data that they are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Hammerstedt.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Today, South Campus at the University of Oklahoma hosts research facilities and other administrative buildings. However, this area was once a Navy base, the Naval Air Technical Training Center (NATTC)-Norman. The NATTC was used to train enlisted naval personnel in aircraft maintenance during WWII and the Korean War. In the 1950s, the land and buildings...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karime Castillo.

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 contextualizes the production of glass in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, within the scientific developments taking place during the early 19^th-century, particularly in the field of chemistry. Glass recipes from a Mexican glass workshop reflect changes in the technology and the use of chemical compounds that radically differ from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Casandra Paiz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists have documented correlations between societal change and environmental variability in the Maya lowlands, particularly during significant events like the Terminal Classic “collapse”, which has been linked with severe drought. Water-based infrastructure played a crucial role in daily life and the sustainability of ancestral Maya communities,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cinthia Campos-Hernandez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Trincheras tradition spanned north-central Sonora and extreme southern Arizona from approximately 400 to 1450 CE. Since the 1970s, archaeologists have argued that dramatic transformations around 1300 CE impacted the Trincheras heartland. This transformation, known as the Realito phase, included the migration of Papaguerían Hohokam into the region, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bryce Pimsner.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A Cultural Resource Survey of Ancestral Pueblo Settlements and Material Culture Across 4,500 Acres of the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument

DOCUMENT Citation Only Crystal Morgan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The use of non-intrusive methods to identify unmarked graves, in or outside of a known cemetery, is not a novel pursuit, and many have been utilized to differing degrees of success. This poster will attempt to determine the effectiveness of several of these methods to identify graves at Maple Grove Cemetery (MGC) in Ashland County, WI where there are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alan Simmons.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Our understanding of the early settlement of Cyprus has changed dramatically over the past few decades. We now know that people were on the island by at least the Epipaleolithic, and that the Neolithic, when Cyprus was permanently settled, is as old as on the mainland. Interdisciplinary research at the rare upland site of Ais Giorkis has revealed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maeve Herrick.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Approximately six acres of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data were collected at the Agua Mansa Pioneer Cemetery in San Bernardino County, California to support management and rehabilitation efforts at the cemetery. At the time of the survey, 458 markers were visible on the surface, and these were mapped with RTK GNSS. Through careful processing and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mikael Voltaire.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Open halls were part of the political theatre of Maya political landscapes in the Classic and Postclassic periods. These centrally located buildings were often built on top of long raised limestone platforms and were thought to have been used as council houses or as gathering or ritual places for the elites or leaders. But how transparent were these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Anderson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology Southwest’s Hands-On Archaeology program has effectively bridged the gap between modern audiences and the rich cultures of the Southwest through immersive, experiential learning. Over the past decade, this program, led by Preservation Archaeologist Allen Denoyer, has engaged participants with ancient tools and techniques, deepening their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hirokazu Kotegawa.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El color rojo fue muy importante en distintas civilizaciones antiguas a lo largo del tiempo y espacio para los seres humanos. En la costa sur del Golfo de México se encuentran la sociedad Olmeca y la otra posterior llamada Villa Alta por su fase cronológica de la región. Desde la sociedad Olmeca, el uso de pigmento rojo, hematita, es común como la...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Staniuk.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Early Iron Age (800-600 BCE) of present-day north-central Poland was a time of rapid population aggregation in lakeshore settlements. Named after the eponymous site - Biskupin - these settlements were characterized by a common set of architectural traits: gates, ramparts, breakwaters, wooden streets, and row houses. These aggregations represent a unique,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Rhode.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Large-scale prehistoric hunting complexes are well known from the Rocky Mountains, the Great Basin, and other high montane regions in western North America. Here I describe a set of large-scale hunting drive complexes from the Wilson Creek Range in southeastern Nevada. Lineaments of stone piles, cairns, and blinds, some more than a kilometer long, were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristina Doyle.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project aims to document the material evidence of historic exploration of Wind Cave in South Dakota, which occurred during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Since the cave maintains a consistent dry climate and cool temperatures, items such as newspapers clippings, notes from early visitors, and candle remains can be found completely or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jose Marrero Rosado.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, we present a rescue project at the Cementerio Santa Maria Magdalena de Pazzi, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Our project seeks to recover the human remains found on a public trail, initially associated with a 19th-century epidemic mass grave. Following initial surveys and excavations, a complex multi used history of the site has emerged. Here,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Stockton.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During Hamtramck, Michigan’s heyday, the city had more saloons per capita than any city in the United States. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, places like the Gass Saloon were central to daily life for residents of the industrial city, serving as hubs for business, entertainment, political discourse, and community growth. Archival records from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maxwell Forton.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the summer of 2024, Archaeology Southwest's Preservation Archaeology Field School surveyed the historic NAN Ranch in southwestern New Mexico in conjunction with the University of Arizona and Western New Mexico University. Located in the Mimbres River Valley, NAN Ranch is famous for the extensive collection of Classic Mimbres (C.E. 1000-1130) ceramic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Uzzle.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Horses were reintroduced in the Americas in the early 16^th century by Spanish colonizers and adopted to varying extents by Native people over the following century. Evidence for Indigenous uses of horses in what is now the United States comes from written and oral histories, illustrations and depictions in rock imagery and other media,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maryam Harahsheh.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Introductory courses give prospective undergraduate students their first glimpse into the field of anthropology. Thus, the impression those courses make is crucial in enculturating anthropologists to disciplinary norms. This project, “Past for the Future”, surveys introductory archaeology and biological anthropology courses, examines the pedagogies...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth Aitchison.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Commercial archaeology - CRM - has been recognized as being a billion dollar industry in the United States for some years now. But archaeological services are just one small part of the wider architecture / engineering / construction and environment & sustainability consulting milieus. This paper will review the scale of CRM in the United States and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam King.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The history of chocolate consumption in South and Central America is well know and is captured nicely in archaeological data, Indigenous imagery and text, and in European historical accounts. The possibility that it was consumed in what is now the US has long seemed remote because cacao trees only grow in tropical settings. That changed with Crown et...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Isabelle Adnson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> From conception to disposal the life of archaeological data follows a cycle, like anything in nature, where its value depends on survival. The advent of technologies in the 20^th century marked a shift from analog data practices to digital practices. As the ease of data capture has created an analogous proliferation in digital data sets,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Pfannkuche.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Legacy donations can be a collections nightmare for repositories, CRM firms, and museums. Prior to the professionalization of archaeological collection management, donations often arrived without documentation, funding, or even a clear intent to study them. Beginning in 2022, the Illinois State Archaeological Survey (ISAS) initiated a plan to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joshua J. Wells.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper illustrates the application of systematic review software to conduct meta-analyses of archaeological research articles. With an eye toward the practice of meta-analyses in archaeology and other sciences, we will explore the utility of systematic review software tools to accomplish meta-analytical tasks regarding subjects best addressed at the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Morgan Clark.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Scholars of Maya epigraphy have been aware of quotatives in Maya hieroglyphs since Nikolai Grube’s 1998 paper arguing for a reading of cheheen as “he/she/it says.” However, there continues to be a lack of consensus about how to interpret the word’s grammatical properties. I explore these and discuss how quotatives are defined (and how they are distinct...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Siofra Lynch.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Plains archaeologists have previously miscategorized stone awls as pipe-making implements, when awls should actually be considered hide-processing tools. In order to properly study women’s hide-processing tools, it is imperative that those artifacts are not confused for separate men’s tools. This project utilized morphometric analysis to study Great Bend...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Wai.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There is a public fascination with the roleplay of an archaeologist. Just as fantasy games feature hyperfictionalized medieval warriors or detectives and superheroes in fiction are vigilantes, so too is there an idea of a hyperfictional archaeologist without its mundanities. While archaeologists have critiqued the problematic nature of archaeology in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Derek Hamilton.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Many of the central questions of archaeology engage directly with themes relating to movement, mobility, and migration. The two most common isotope systems that have been exploited for this purpose are strontium (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr) and oxygen (δ¹⁸O), with sulfur isotopes (δ³⁴S) being a much most recent addition to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steph Gruver.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Throughout the Early to Late Intermediate Periods (200 BCE-1476CE), the north coast of Peru witnessed the rise and fall of powerful sociocultural groups. People of the Moche religious tradition and the Chimu state experienced multiple flooding events related to the El Niño phenomenon that tested their strengths and engineering. At ~600 CE, the Moche...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jaron Davidson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Few strontium (Sr) isotope studies have focused on the eastern Great Basin of North America, and because Sr ratios vary regionally and stratigraphically, establishing an isotopic baseline is often the first step in being able to interpret Sr values in their archaeological context. Such isotope baselines can help in determining local vs nonlocal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Kooiman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Wild rice (manoomin, Zizania spp.) is closely linked to past and present Indigenous cultures in the North American Great Lakes region. However, wild rice is difficult to detect in lake sediments and archaeological contexts using traditional methods, such as pollen and macroremains, so both the ecological and cultural histories of this plant are poorly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Monica Warner.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Stable oxygen isotope (δ¹⁸O) analysis of the carbonate fraction in human tooth and bone hydroxyapatite is well-established in archaeology. Researchers use δ¹⁸O values in human bone and tooth bioapatite to reconstruct migration, climate, and water sources. Bioavailable stable oxygen isotopes of carbonates and phosphates...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Terry Jones.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The largest abalone in the world, red abalone (Haliotis rufescens) today are found in the intertidal between Point Conception, California and Oregon. Long-studied archaeological “red abalone middens” on the Northern Channel Islands, suggest intervals when extremely large red abalones were abundant and regularly exploited by Indigenous people. Red abalone...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Arland Wallace.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ethnohistoric record from the American Great Plains has indicated that dried pumpkin (Cucurbita spp.) strips were frequently woven into mats as a type of food storage. This type of food storage was likely developed over extended geographical areas and deep in time, but archaeological methods being employed for identification regarding their use and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma Chong.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cerion uva (commonly known as Peanut snails) are found in archaeological context on the Caribbean island of Curaçao. Ethnohistorical data suggests C. uva snails were consumed by Curaçao's Indigenous peoples. However, there has been no archaeological data to confirm nor deny this claim. Past archaeological studies in Curaçao's are mostly restricted to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Camille Dubois-Francoeur.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The excavations carried out in 2018 and 2019 at Ucanal, a site located in the Maya Lowlands of Guatemala, unearthed the remains of a bone tool workshop dating to the Late Classic period (AD 600-900). It was primarily composed of production waste in which a large proportion of the worked bones were human (up to 40 %). Human bones, along with the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Harris.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chenopodium, commonly known as goosefoot, is a genus of perennial and annual herbaceous plants. This genus is an abundant seed recovered from paleoethnobotanical assemblages in the Fraser and Columbia Plateaus of North America. While prevalent in the paleobotanical record, they are often discounted as incidental environmental inclusions. A growing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madison Westfall.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Lubbock Lake Landmark hosts two summer youth programs in the Conservation Academy series for students aged 11 to 12. Digging Deeper is a hands-on program where students are introduced to conservation principles and concepts and engage in conservation activities. During the two-week course, students participate in creating and excavating pedestals and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Casey Black.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The use of stable isotope analysis allows for archaeologists to better understand diet in prehistory and the relationship between humans and animals. Nitrogen isotopes are frequently used to indicate an organism’s trophic level, since δ¹⁵N values generally increase as trophic levels increase. Despite being herbivores, mammoths possess...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Flavia Morello Repetto.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The long-distance transport of obsidian is a characteristic feature of the early maritime hunter-gatherer societies that inhabited Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. Their presence in the archaeological record is assessed in relation to the development of specialized maritime lifeways that extended along the western archipelago of the Southern Cone of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Lau.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Burial practices are often considered to be among the most conservative practices within cultural traditions, and changes in burial practices are often interpreted as indicators of major cultural shifts. One example of this is the adoption of jar burial practices in the first centuries CE in the South Caucasus and Iranian plateau, which is often explained...

DOCUMENT Citation Only F. Barker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological documentation of the nineteenth-century Oak Hill Pond Millrace site in North Kingstown, RI, examined a 30 m section of the existing millrace structure threatened by upgrades to an electric transmission corridor. The recordation incorporated representative elevation and cross-section views, scale photography and employed photogrammetric and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Conlogue.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> In the years prior to the annexation of New Mexico as a US territory, social life in many traditional Nuevomexicano villages revolved around Catholic spaces and events. Throughout the 19^th century and the first half of the 20^th century, a lay Catholic order known as Los Hermanos Penitentes played a critical role in holding...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Gutierrez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We present the results of actualistic taphonomic observations on modern guanaco deaths in the Coyle-Gallegos Interfluve steppe (Santa Cruz province, Argentina) and their implications for interpreting the archaeological record. We recorded massive deaths due to winter stress that occurred in the years 2020 and 2023. In addition, we also documented guanacos...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Belcher.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Charred seeds often present obstacles for paleoethnobotanists interpreting their data. Seed size continues to be an important variable in characterizing paleoethnobotanical assemblages, and the effects of charring and carbonization on ancient seeds is well studied for some species but not for others. It is important to understand these effects since...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Thacker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Published scholarship of the Upper Paleolithic foregrounds the archaeology of cave deposits, larger archaeological sites, and unusual discoveries, an overrepresentation that biases the regional analysis of Late Pleistocene settlement systems. This presentation demonstrates the analytical necessity of systematically sampling and characterizing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dougless Skinner.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation outlines the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) effort to consult, investigate, and evaluated traditional cultural places (TCP) for the Ambler Access Project. The Ambler Access Project is a proposed 211-mile industrial access road from the Dalton Highway to the Ambler Mining District in interior Alaska. The road is proposed to traverse...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marcela Poirier.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between June 14th and June 28th, 2023 we conducted an educational archaeology workshop near the Huaca del Loro archaeological site, located in Nasca, Peru. This workshop was intended for elementary school children (ages 6 to 11) from the small towns of Copara and Las Trancas villages located at a walking distance from the archaeological site. The main...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chunxue Wang.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Lop Nur region, in the east part of Tarim Basin, was an important transportation junction between west and east,north and south Eurasia. However, previous studies on prehistoric human activity have concentrated mostly on the Bronze Age,whereas that during the Stone Age remains largely unresearched. Archaeological team has discovered 20 new sites and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia McNeill.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Understanding a population’s mobility patterns is key to reconstructing how a group gains resources and adapts to changing contexts. Strontium isotope (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr) analysis is a powerful tool in archaeology to investigate past movements of humans and animals in relation to bioavailable ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr maps...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rocío López Cabral.

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 new data intended to review and re-think the human environment interaction and social processes of mound complexes in the highlands of East of Uruguay. A combination of Practice questions revolving around the effects of practices have in the people themselves and in the landscape with a methodologically geoarchaeological approach is an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wendi Coleman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The colonization of Greenland in the 18^th century led to the development of various regions of increasing cultural interaction between the Kalaallit, Danish traders and colonists, and German Moravian missionaries. The Alluitsoq project in Southern Greenland attempts to address the various aspects of these interactions at Alluitsoq and its...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Masato Hirose.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study analyzes faunal remains from the Tenjinyama site in Central Japan to discuss the subsistence of the hunting-gathering economy in a small peninsula in the Initial Jomon period. The site is located on a hilltop in the tip of the Chita Peninsula, which separates Ise Bay and Mikawa Bay. The excavation was conducted in 1956 by Nagoya University....