SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Harkness.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Corrugated ceramic analysis in the US Southwest primarily uses attribute analysis to identify how corrugated ceramics were made and by which potting communities. Traditionally, attribute analysis is completed with physical objects and requires extended periods of in-person work with either full vessels or sherds. In this poster, I compare two methods I...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laurianne Gauthier.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Urban developments feature monumental architecture as well as diverse engineering systems that were part of daily activities and larger landscape modifications. Some of the urban constructions in ancient Maya cities included reservoirs and canals. Reservoirs were also part of ceremonial activities to maintain good relationships between humans, deities,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jera Davis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Maypop (Passiflora incarnata), also known as passionflower, is a climbing vine native to the southeastern United States. Based on its common occurrence in precontact middens and its preference for anthropogenic habitats, maypop is identified as a weed crop cultivated since at least the Late Archaic period. Judging from ethnographic and ethnohistoric...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Gorczyk.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Texas is the fastest growing cultural resource management (CRM) market in the U.S., having recently surpassed California in the number of new compliance projects initiated. At the same time, university anthropology departments–the wellspring of talent and training for the archaeological workforce–face a crisis of enrollment and funding, jeopardizing the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Bertin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Rediscovered in the 1960s by petroleum workers in modern day Petén, Guatemala, the ancestral Maya city of El Peru-Waka’ has been the subject of archaeological investigation since 2003. Located at the crossroads of two major trade routes and with a dynasty fully engaged in the geopolitics of Classic period, Waka’ is one of the longest surviving Maya cities...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Brumbaugh.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster will begin to identify signature flavors of Ancestral Pueblo cuisine in the Mesa Verde area of the American Southwest. Many projects and undertakings include flotation samples and botanical analyses, but often little attention is paid to plants that appear in small quantities. Plants that are used as flavorings – like herbs and spices – are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fernanda Neubauer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The process of stone boiling involves heating rocks in or near a fire until they have reached an optimal temperature and then transferring them into a water-tight vessel, container, or pit containing liquid, thus cooking foods via wet heat. Unlike the direct heating of a ceramic vessel over a fire, the stone-boiling container is not placed on a heating...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Rose.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the summer of 2024 flooding of the Upper Missouri caused catastrophic damage across the region, blowing out bridges, culverts and altering stream banks along many of the streams that feed into the Missouri River and the Missouri River itself. This poster presents research that models the flood and erosional risk to archaeological sites in the Upper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cheryl Anderson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research examines the Hellenistic Period (ca. 300-100 BCE) human skeletal sample (n=31) and associated storage pit burial contexts at Kaman-Kalehöyük in central Anatolia. The aim is to test the hypothesis that the burial practices observed at the site are consistent with those at sites associated with Celtic language speaking peoples and may be...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eileen Skalky.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The enactment of the California Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (CalNAGPRA) in 2001 was ultimately engendered by a combination of rampant grave looting, public works projects, and university-based research in California’s early history. When California became a state in 1850, a war of extermination was waged on the Native...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Turley.

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 used architectural energetics to better understand the relationships between labor organization, political power, and materiality in pre-modern societies. The sixteenth-century Spanish invasion of the Andes caused unprecedented societal upheaval and, in the 1580s, the physical upheaval of people as the Toledan reducción system...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mikayla Gonzales.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Southwest archaeologists have largely overlooked historical Indigenous archaeology in favor of examining the prehispanic past. San Miguel de Carnué, located east of Albuquerque in central New Mexico, is a multicomponent site occupied intermittently from the Ancestral Puebloan to the Late Spanish Colonial period. Historic Pueblo people inhabited the site...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Percy Hei Chun Ho.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The human-deer relationship extends deep into antiquity, with many members of the Cervidae family long being utilized as raw materials, foodstuff, medicine, as well as ceremonial objects. However, few studies have emphasized species identification within the Cervidae family, largely due to morphological similarities between different Cervid species, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Jonsson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology is conducted with the hope that the artifacts unearthed through excavation will have enduring value as archaeological collections housed in institutions. However, this perceived value has been called into question as the field increasingly engages with descendant communities who often do not value Western-style museums and with the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elysia Petras.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster reports on renewed and emergent social networks developed during two field seasons of archaeological research at the Jackson Wall site on Grand Cayman. Research is sponsored by the National Trust for the Cayman Islands, supporting the first modern terrestrial excavations intentionally centering the history of slavery on Grand Cayman. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Henry McMahon.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As the prolonged experiment of divine rulership began to lose its effectiveness across the Maya world, the Maya people began reshaping their political systems in an attempt to address the conditions through which they were living. As the shift to the Terminal Classic Period began at sites like Waka, new forms of governance began to take shape, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only April Kamp-Whittaker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Communities are increasingly interested in non-invasive archaeological methods, especially in relation to the collection, analysis, and curation of surface artifacts. This poster explores a long-term case study which uses a combination of infield analysis and the temporary collection of artifacts for detailed analysis (called “catch and release”), to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zhe Zhang.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Aurochs have generally been considered ancestors of modern domestic cattle. It is broadly accepted that aurochs have been regarded as extinct during the Pleistocene, and the domestic cattle were first introduced from the Near East to China during the Middle Neolithic period. However, aurochs were found out as the dominant species at Houtaomuga, a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Selena Bernier.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Old Copper Culture (OCC), as a general term, is an archaeological culture that has been studied for decades and still continues to be used as an identifier in American Archaeology. Throughout these studies there seems to be something crucial missing: Indigenous perspectives. I argue that Indigenous Traditional Knowledge is necessary for the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabrielle Moran-O'Dell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On a 44-acre property located at USDA-NRCS Rose Lake Plant Materials Center (PMC) in Bath, Michigan, is a site that has a rich prehistoric background dating from the Late Woodland to the Late Archaic periods. The PMC has five known archaeological sites across the landscape that have shaped how the property is viewed. Based on pedestrian survey and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vickie Clay.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Indigenous Peoples have long participated in data recovery projects in the Great Basin, primarily as passive observers (monitors); however, they are rarely involved with the initial survey and recording of cultural resources. During a recent green energy transmission corridor survey through Nevada, Tribal members including elders and young people with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christina Friberg.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Mississippian cultural phenomenon (1050–1450 CE) is marked by the near sudden emergence of population centers with regional networks along the Mississippi River and its tributary valleys in the late 11th and early 12th centuries. These societies seem to have declined as quickly as they emerged, beginning around the transition from the Medieval Climate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sissel Schroeder.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent interest in the archaeology of dugouts and dugout canoe travel has accelerated research on these unique artifacts in collections, is associated with an increase in inadvertent discoveries, has prompted searches for dugout canoes in lakes and waterways using novel methods, and expanded efforts to date and identify wood type of dugouts. With a sample...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Airola.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Gać, a village in Greater Poland, near Poznań, and Czysty Square, formerly the Cemetery of our Savior in Wrocław, are two archaeological sites in Poland dating to between the 16^th and 19^th centuries. Ancient DNA analysis has been carried out on the remains of individuals excavated from both sites’ cemeteries in order to assess...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rosa Varillas.

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 explore the intricate and varied interactions between empire and colonies. By focusing on the Inka Empire and the local coastal populations in the Chala regio (southern Peruvian Pacific coast), this research aims to examining interactions between the Inka and local groups, identifying the coastal resources utilized by both...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brenna Fennessey.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geophysical and remote surveys are well-established methods for identifying subsurface features and providing insight to site layout and land-use strategies in the archaeological record. In recent years, magnetometry has been successfully used at Pastoral Neolithic (PN, 5000-1200 BP) sites in eastern Africa, allowing for the identification of features and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Angelica Caraballo-Santiago.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The transition from the Copper to the Bronze and Iron Ages is shown through changing sociopolitical and economic organization reflected in faunal material. With ZooMS (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry), fragments unidentifiable through morphological analysis can be identified through chemical analysis. ZooMS was applied to 34 samples collected from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Ramshaw.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chavín de Huántar has been a focus of archaeological research for more than a century, but the area of densest non-monumental architecture – the La Banda Sector, the best candidate for a domestic and/or urban sector at Chavín – has only been known since 2003. In that relatively short span of time, it has been excavated by multiple projects recording data...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bridgette Degnan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Across all social ranks, ancient Maya people were connected to both long-distance and local exchange systems that provided access to necessary goods like obsidian, ceramics, salt, stone tools, and granite grinding stones. Many studies of long-distance exchange focus on obsidian because it is ubiquitous at Maya sites and can be geochemically matched to a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mallory Matsumoto.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Classic Maya (250–900 CE) lowlands of Mesoamerica were occupied by dozens of interconnected polities whose elites shared a common intellectual and material culture, as well as sociopolitical institutions like divine kingship and the role of ritual performance in legitimating dynastic rule. This paper suggests that an important context for maintaining...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin Nolan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. With an FY-22/23 Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) grant through the Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology (DHPA) the Applied Anthropology Laboratories (AAL) conducted a Phase Ia archaeological investigation of an upland ridge known as Wolfpen Ridge in Harrison-Crawford State Forest (HCSF) with the assistance of 18 student employees....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jack Gary.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Colonial Williamsburg’s Department of Archaeology will conclude five years of excavation on the garden of John Custis IV, a 4-acre space regarded as one of the most ornate early eighteenth-century gardens in Virginia. Filled with topiaries, experimental plantings, and classical statuary, the garden itself was created and maintained by African American...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Burnett.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We compare archaeological probability models developed for the Shoshone National Forest with wildlife migration data derived from GPS collars to explore correlations between past human activity and wildlife movement. By using the same environmental parameters for both archaeological and wildlife models, we identify overlapping and diverging patterns over...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lucia Bryan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Kafue River Floodplain is a critical freshwater resource in Zambia for local fisheries and communities. The Bantu-Mobility Project has worked on archaeological sites in this region that chronicle the settlement and movement of the Bantu-speaking communities and their trade routes during the 6th to 16th centuries. Our contribution to this project is to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laurianne Bruneau.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The authors advocate for the adoption of a standardized method for rock art recording since it is a reproducible archaeological record. As in any other field, standardization strengthens the reliability of data, facilitates comparative studies and enhances collaboration. The method relies primarily on a multiscale approach to rock art (country, region,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Seiji Kadowaki.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) is a chrono-cultural concept that is widely used in the Levant, Central–Southeastern Europe and Central–North Asia to characterize unique cultural changes at the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic. The IUP remains have been recognized as key cultural records that can be related to paleoanthropological and genetic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tristan O'Donnell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. New England is crisscrossed with historic stone walls and they remain an integral part of the landscape, but how many miles of historic stone walls still stand today? In 2004, Robert Thorson wrote that ‘there were approximately 240,000 miles of stone walls in New England in 1939, according to an 1897 report of fences in the region.’ But with modern...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aidan Lee.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project presents a comparative analysis of macrobotanical remains derived from excavations at a colonial site from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire and an Archaic and Late Woodland site in Newbury, Vermont. The arrival of Europeans into New England presented a stark dichotomy in lifestyle between them and the local pre-contact Indigenous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Phillips.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Climate change is causing alpine ice patches to retreat, revealing rare archaeological and paleoecological materials. In the Absaroka Mountains of northwestern Wyoming, two bows were first recovered from two ice patches in 2015. Both bows date to the Late Prehistoric period. Bow GL7-3, made of spruce (Picea) and recovered at 3,431 masl, dated to 625...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Olivia Olson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Birds represent a culturally significant, yet understudied clade within Northeast archaeology. In Wabanaki homeland, now known as Maine, USA, ethnohistoric records indicate the importance of birds in influencing seasonal human migration along the coast, the use of feathers in decoration and ceremony, and prominence in oral histories. Despite this,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dustin Contenti.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Roasting pits have been investigated extensively in the southwest region of the United States, but the southwest Great Basin has evidence of many roasting pits in the region with minimal research done. This poster will investigate the expansion of roasting pits into the Great Basin region, focusing on roasting pits located around Gold Butte National Park,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Xanti Ceballos.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Aguada Fénix was located through a LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) survey in 2017 by the Middle Usumacinta Archeological Project (MUAP) in Tabasco, México. Since its discovery, a research team has carried out archaeological excavations in the main platform and peripheral groups to understand the social dynamics during the Middle Formative in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mackenzie DePlata-Peterson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Across North America, there have been more than 75 proboscidean bonebeds with proposed evidence of human predation or scavenging (Grayson and Meltzer 2015). Only 14 of these sites are uncontested with strong evidence contributing to a collective agreement that these sites are indeed culturally associated (Grayson and Meltzer 2015). This leaves the vast...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Devin Pettigrew.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The effort to distinguish weapon systems from scanty remains is an ongoing challenge for archaeologists. Advancements in weapon technology remains an important component of debates and theories in topics related to human evolution, human ecology, the rise of modern behavior and complex social organization. Because most elements of preindustrial weapons...

DOCUMENT Citation Only QinQin Lu.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Islamic plant-ash glass was extensively traded along the Silk Roads, offering insights into inter-regional connectivity and local material culture development in medieval Eurasia. Research on plant-ash glass has largely focused on evidence from the Near East, while the role of plant-ash glasses in the eastern Silk Road societies, including Iran, Central...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jean-Paul Rojas.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Approximately 70 km from Nicaragua’s southern Caribbean Coast lie the Corn Islands—a 13 km² volcanic archipelago remembered by both the ethnohistoric record and contemporary Afro-Indigenous oral tradition to have been home to the Misumalpan-speaking Kukra tribe at the point of European contact. The Kukra, who have historically inhabited both the mainland...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Egan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. What do we, as archaeologists, do when a potential antiquity is discovered for sale? What are our ethical and moral obligations? How is its authenticity determined? Building on the 2024 news story “She thrifted this vase for $4. It turned out to be an ancient Mayan artifact” published by Emma Bowman, NPR, this paper covers my own journey of finding a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madeline Colley.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project builds on the still burgeoning discussion surrounding curation and repository management. Initially, the Cochise College Archaeological Repository (CCAR) was characterized by a lack of comprehensive documentation, inadequate storage conditions, and an absence of standardized curation protocols. Our priority was to move the collection out of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cyndal Groskopf.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The State Industrial School in Golden, Colorado was established in 1881 to rehabilitate criminalized young boys. The boys here experienced building relationships with one another, the faculty, and the city of Golden under the isolating and ritualized methodology of institutionalization. Use of direct sources such as a daily newspaper produced by the boys,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Whitney Cox.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Following the talk by Kim Cox, this talk will further detail the importance of the calendar systems preserved in the rock art and its solar interactions at Paint Rock in the Lower Pecos, Texas. By creating rock art panels that intersect with the natural landscape and continue to mark events in time with solar motion, the artists effectively instilled life...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Ranlett.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Yale University Prehistoric Expedition to Nubia (YUPEN) was mounted in the 1960s in response to UNESCO’s 'Call to Save the Monuments of Nubia' in advance of flooding in Egypt and Sudan caused by the construction of the Aswan High Dam. YUPEN collected several tons of material from over 350 (primarily) Pleistocene and Early Holocene archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia Coverdale.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pottery firing is one of the final and most important steps in the process of ceramic manufacturing. This paper will explore what archaeologists understand about the process of ceramic firing in the Four Corners region, specifically focusing on the Pueblo II (C.E. 900-1150) and Pueblo III (C.E. 1150-1300) time periods. Archaeological evidence, or lack...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Flint Dibble.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the last few decades, pseudoarchaeology has dramatically increased in popularity. While it might seem easy to laugh off and ignore, as these claims are widely divorced from the reality of our lived experience as archaeologists, the savvy tactics used by pseudoscientist influencers means that misinformation has a real cost on the field of archaeology...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Lyons.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Based on pollen data from Ozegahara, archaeologists have long understood Japan’s protohistoric Kofun period as colder and wetter than the previous Yayoi period and subsequent Asuka and Nara historic periods. Though it is not yet widely incorporated into synthetic research on the period, recent higher resolution data is beginning to overturn this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Larra Diboyan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Old Jugha, located in the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhichevan, was once a prosperous ancient Armenian city with its famous cemetery filled with Khachkars in the borderlands between two adversarial empires, the Ottoman and Persian. Jugha suffered three periods of destruction over three centuries, which have been supported and supplemented through the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ana Luisa Izquierdo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En la cosmovisión maya y en general en el pensamiento mesoamericano las mujeres eran parte de un todo, como se observaba en la naturaleza. De ahí que las mujeres llegaran a ser supremas gobernantes K´uhul Ajaw, pero hay varias pruebas de que no solo se daba este hecho en ausencia de un sucesor masculino de linaje divino, pero también había mujeres...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Josef Iwanicki.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Camp Au Train, located in Michigan’s Hiawatha National Forest, was a Civilian Conservation Corp camp that was later reused to house German prisoners during WWII. Historians and archaeologists have produced an extensive literature on CCC and POW camps, but they are typically discussed in isolation and separated from larger capitalist economic structures....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shayleen Ottman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Exploring a collaborative approach to land and resource management, this presentation showcases a distinctive and ongoing project at Fishers Peak State Park (the Park), one of Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s (CPW) newest state parks. In 2019, the Park, assisted by ERO Resources Corporation (ERO), initiated voluntary tribal engagement with tribal nations...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Purcell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (GLCA) manages 1,229 acres of land on the southern rim of Cedar Mesa in San Juan County, Utah. Northern Arizona University surveyed 160 of those acres in 1987 and Museum of Northern Arizona inventoried the remaining 1,069 acres during three projects in 2020-2024. Including rock art sites recorded by GLCA in 1994, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sydney Roland.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Lapita Cultural Complex’s (LCC) beginnings can be traced back to 3000 BP and connected to the Bismarck Archipelago. These material cultural practices can be seen spread throughout the Pacific Islands throughout time and with this dispersal came modifications and variations in the decoration and stylings of pottery. The pottery of the LCC can be...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brenna Pisanelli.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Late and Terminal Archaic periods in southern New England represent a shift in preferences from interior wetlands to large river drainages. Over several field seasons, Heritage Consultants, LLC has excavated a series of sites situated within the Ten Mile River Drainage in western Connecticut. Diagnostic artifacts and radiocarbon dates confirm that the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gustavo Martinez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The coastal archaeology of the eastern Pampa-Patagonia transition (Argentina) reveals human occupations since the Middle Holocene. In Bahía San Blas, near the mouth of the Río Negro River, the Pozzobón archaeological locality is spatially distributed along 300 meters besides the coastal strip, at only ca. 50 meters from the seashore. Here, we concentrate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Milena Carvalho.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Identifying variability in Neanderthal behavior through time during the Late Pleistocene is critical for understanding the processes which culminated in the disappearance of Neanderthals on local and regional scales. One region, Portuguese Estremadura (central Portugal), has a growing Middle Paleolithic archaeological record with several key sites...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine Halling.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. U.S. laws governing collecting and trafficking human remains versus flora and fauna (living or dead, incorporated into heritage items or art) vary but generally do not overlap. Flora and fauna trading is more explicitly regulated and enforceable than human remains. While both federal and state governments have multifold flora and fauna trafficking laws,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julio RuizDiaz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Legacy and orphaned collections are increasingly recognized as valuable resources for archaeologists and are gaining attention in scholarly discussions. These collections, often overlooked in the day-to-day practice of archaeology, hold significant cultural and historical value, particularly in institutions like the Museo Etnográfico Doctor Andrés Barbero...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ali Livesay.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While most people associate Los Alamos National Laboratory with the Manhattan Project (1943-1947) era of U.S. history, there are earlier cultural resources that date to historical events significant at both the state and national levels. One such resource is a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp that was used to temporarily house laborers. The CCC camp...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marcello Canuto.

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 outline of the first project to systematically train members of various community-based forestry concessions in the Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR) to conduct archeological resource management using modern technology. We plan to train community members to use lidar data, digital maps, and advanced survey methods to record archaeological sites...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elijah Fleming.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent advances in molecular archaeology have complicated osteological methods of determining biological sex from human skeletal remains. Genetic and proteomic approaches are increasingly applied in bioarchaeology, and comparative studies suggest that these approaches are more accurate than osteological analyses. They can also identify biological sex in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachele Bianchi.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The socio-economic impact of pastoralism, particularly sheep grazing, is one of the more thoroughly investigated themes in contemporary ethnohistoric and archaeological landscape studies for Central Asia, particularly in relation to practices of vertical and horizontal transhumance. However, the cultural implications of pastoralist practices in relation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fanxiu Meng.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Blackwater Draw Locality No.1, the Clovis type site located in eastern New Mexico, is one of the most important Paleoindian kill and camp sites in North America. Several episodes of archaeological investigations have occurred at the site, but analyses of cultural materials and dissemination of results remain in varied stages of completion.For example, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren Pratt.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Among the most durable of archaeological remains, stone tools and associated waste are often used as key indicators of technology, economies, subsistence, and human movement; it is therefore vital to understand how the quality, abundance, and distribution of raw lithic materials on the landscape affects human behaviors. In this paper, I explore how, from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sue McCarty.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1994 students from Washington and Lee University excavated a complete horse at the Longdale Mining Complex, an early industrial mining furnace and associated domestic structures in Allegheny County, Virginia in use from 1871-1911. Although we tend to focus on the technologies of automation that slowly replaced some facets of human labor in the early...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alia Moran.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The goal of this project is to document the Thai American immigrant experience, in order to empower Thai American teens today through participation in oral history collection and to educate the public about Thai American culture and language through a moving museum and learning curriculum. To this end, we have conducted ethnographic field work, literature...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin Kislan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Living history is sometimes considered a non-archaeological form of experimental archaeology. One form of experimental archaeology is the manufacture of replicas or reproductions of an object or structure using historically accurate technologies and methods of a given time period in the reconstruction. Living historic sites have certain methods that are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Damien Marken.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the first descriptions of their jungle-covered ruins by European explorers, scholars have wondered how the artistically and architecturally vibrant centers of the Preclassic and Classic Maya (ca. 500 BCE – 900 CE) flourished in what is often characterized as a difficult tropical environment, with one vital and difficult resource being water....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Attila Gyucha.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> In this paper, we adopt a historical ecological perspective and employ a multidisciplinary methodological approach to explore how various environmental factors and their transformations influenced settlement decisions from prehistoric to recent historic times in extremely flat active alluvial landscapes. Our focus is on a 100 km²...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlos Alvarez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Las excavaciones arqueológicas realizadas en el sitio Cimientos de la Independencia han proporcionado valiosa información acerca de las relaciones de intercambio e interacción cultural establecidas entre la región tojolabal y otras áreas del sur de Mesoamérica. La presencia de materiales importados, de alto valor simbólico o utilitario, como sería el caso...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meghan Dudley.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Willey and Phillips (1958:2) famously once said that “American archaeology is anthropology or it is nothing” – and in the 21^st century, we got the memo. As archaeologists increasingly embrace a community-engaged archaeology like our cultural anthropological colleagues, many of us are considering ways our collaboratively created work can...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Harper Dine.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Food practices are fundamentally emplaced, occurring in spaces such as gardens, kitchens, house lots, farming plots, markets, or underground ovens. At the same time, the relationships and memories cultivated with and amidst particular foodstuffs, necessarily somewhere, contribute to the meaningful existence of those very places. In this paper I present...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacob Baldino.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although fish-hooks are a global technological phenomenon over 20,000 years old, bone and shell fish-hooks are under-researched experimentally. In this study we assess whether differences in material and form produce significant differences in hook durability. Consensus artifact models representing averages of Late Pleistocene fish-hook assemblages from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Linn.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Heritage West is an ongoing community archaeology project co-created by academic archaeologists, museum professionals, community organizations, and descendent populations. Focused on a historically Black neighborhood razed in the late 1960s by the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, Heritage West aims to add material weight to oral historical evidence...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jack Bishop.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Video games have become the largest entertainment industry in the world, outstripping film and music combined in revenue. As a medium that requires direct participation by the player, it can be a powerful tool for public engagement. The use of the archaeological gaze can be found in titles from major publishers such as Halo and Mass Effect and games from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anne-Julie Robitaille.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent excavations at the Late Neolithic site of Shimao (2300-1800 BCE), Shaanxi Province, have revealed the oldest specimens of mouth harps, a lamellar mouth-resonated musical instrument. Fashioned from cattle ribs, they represent the most comprehensive collection of mouth harps from a single site, pushing back the historical origins of the instrument...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Kate Kelly.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The ancient Maya recorded their history on carved and painted hieroglyphic inscriptions, many of which are preserved in the archaeological record. While recent decipherments have made much of this history known to the scholarly community, modern Maya peoples are often excluded from rewriting this history from their invaluable perspective. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kasey Corey.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Late Classic period (AD 600-900) in the Maya lowlands saw the rise of a multitude of smaller Maya kingdoms. Some polities were founded by larger hegemonic powers, while others represented local level developments. One important way of discerning between these two possibilities rests on identifying the role migration played in the formation of these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Dennis Baldwin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Ancient Maya founded a civilization that endured for thousands of years in the tropical environment of southern Mesoamerica. A century of research in this region has revealed complex water management systems near urban centers designed to capture and store vast quantities of water and possibly provided aquaculture. Over the last decade with growing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexei Vranich.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The monumental walls of Sacsayhuaman, an Inca ceremonial complex in Cusco, Peru, represent one of the most enigmatic examples of megalithic architecture. Despite their iconic status, the construction methods, technologies, and materials used to create these colossal stone structures remain subjects of ongoing debate. This paper combines archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robin Meyer-Lorey.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tulare Lake was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi; the 700-square-mile inland sea was the most populous region in California prior to contact with Europeans. Now, the Tulare Lake basin contains some of the most intensely modified land in the world, served by the largest irrigation system in the world as part of the most productive...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Van Buren.

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 1980s studies of prostitution, a key component of red-light districts, have focused almost exclusively on female sex workers. While an important corrective to the omission of women from historical accounts of the West, red-light districts were constructed, worked at, experienced and destroyed by people of different genders, classes, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sylvia Cheever.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Santa Bárbara mine in Huancavelica, Peru was exploited by Spanish colonizers from the 16th through the early 19th century. Cinnabar (HgS), formed from mercury and sulfur, is the most common source-ore for the extraction of mercury. Mercury is highly toxic, and while cinnabar is relatively stable, there is great potential for mercury absorption in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Liv Winnicki.

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 a thought experiment relating to the numerous mermaid figurines found on a 1950s Diné homestead in Crownpoint, NM, employing methodologies traditionally used in the study of Venus figurines from the Upper Paleolithic period. By juxtaposing these mermaid figurines with Venus figurines, prehistoric with modern contexts, I work to explore...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madison Drew.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Shell bracelets are a prevalent form of bodily adornment throughout the North American Southwest, appearing as material culture in the Ancestral Pueblo, Hohokam, Casas Grandes, and Sinagua cultures. Though these ornaments typically appear as jewelry objects, they are also present within the ceramic iconography of the Classic Period (1000 – 1130 CE)...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Travis Cureton.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We present recent research on a lithic landscape in the middle Little Colorado River Valley in Northern Arizona. The landscape hosted millennia of lithic procurement behavior distributed across a patchwork of activity areas. The vastly strewn secondary raw material sources within which the activity areas occur are crucial as they document cognitive...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordan Dalton.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Occupations of the Chincha Valley are well-known during the Formative Period (1800 BC – AD 200) when the valley was home to the Paracas people, and the late Prehispanic periods (AD 1200-1532) when it was home to the Chincha Kingdom, but research is just beginning to address the thousand years between these two cultural groups. In this paper, I will...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mae Goder-Goldberger.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Debates concerning the appearance and spread of the Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) techno-complex are intertwined with discussions regarding the spread of modern humans across Eurasia. As a result, there is an ongoing transformation in the use of the term IUP and its embedded association with the dispersal of modern humans. This outlook overshadows the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only G. Logan Miller.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chipped stone bifaces with macroscopically visible glossy polish have been reported from Middle Woodland period sites across the Eastern Woodlands for decades. These are typically referred to as adzes or hoes but have also been classified as celts, gouges, and chisels. Yet few formal studies have been applied to examine the nature of this gloss and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Terry Powis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent archaeological investigations have taken place at two pre-contact villages located across the Etowah River from the Leake site located in Bartow County, Georgia. Excavations at Lower Dabbs and Cummings have yielded substantial cultural deposits from excavations carried out over the past decade. Leake is regarded as the pre-eminent site in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Humphreys.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. An increasing body of literature, including peer-reviewed research, suggests that participation in archaeological fieldwork, labwork, and conservation benefits military veterans. Data now demonstrates conclusively that most military veterans will receive at least short-term mental health benefits from participation in tailored archaeological fieldwork....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirie Stromberg.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper re-evaluates the major size increase and shift from use of stone molds to clay molds in dōtaku (bronze bell) production in the Late Middle Yayoi. Over 500 dōtaku bronze bells traditionally dated to the middle through late Yayoi (ca. 200 BCE–250 CE) have been passed down or excavated, predominantly from the Kinki region of Honshu. They became...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma Zoiss.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The world has always been connected through the movement of people, exchange of goods, and sharing of cultural traits; thus, evidence of such can be found within the genomes of individuals, as well as the archaeological sites they leave behind. Despite attempts at systematic research, we are still missing critical information about pre-Hispanic...