SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

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

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

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  • Modeling Hunter-Gatherer Mobility in São Paulo State, Southeastern (Brazil) (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Letícia Correa.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hunter-gatherer dispersion in São Paulo State, Southeastern (Brazil) is mainly studied based on the traditional technological and morphological analyses of artifacts, where special attention has been given to arrowheads. In addition to absolute dating, this approach constitutes the basis for making inferences about human dispersal. Although many results...

  • Modeling Oral Health in the Loretto Bioarchaeology Project (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian Soukup.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The 19<sup>th</sup> and early 20<sup>th</sup> centuries generated significant developments in dentistry as the field professionalized and new treatments and care regimes were promoted across the US. However, the extent to which the public engaged with these developments is less well-known. This project examines changes in dental health and care over...

  • Modeling Resilience: Zooarchaeological Insights into Subsistence Diversity and Land-Use Practices of the Ancient Maya in the Upper Belize River Valley (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Brett Meyer.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many models have been proposed to explain the disintegration of Classic Maya polities including those based on climate change, inter-site competition, warfare, and environmental degradation. It is now clear, however, that multiple simultaneous factors were involved, and the combination of factors varied from one region to another during the Late to...

  • Modeling the Distribution and Proportion of Obsidian among Archaeological Sites in the American Southwest Using a Multilevel Bayesian Model (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Noah Smelser.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The presence of widely-scattered and chemically-distinct obsidian sources across much of the American Southwest has allowed Archaeologists to explore obsidian movement and exchange patterns for many decades. Southwest obsidian is ideal for provenance research because it is a relatively simple cheap, and accurate process to use ED-XRF to determine the...

  • Modeling the Subsistence Matrix of the Maya Forest at El Pilar (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Tran.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The traditional Maya milpa forest garden is an asynchronous c. 20-year field-to-forest cycle based on the opening of a “milpa” field to cultivate annual plants for around four years for managing the perennial regeneration of useful mature forest. The mosaic of horizontal and vertical habitats offers the constant availability of household products...

  • Molly Crowfoot and Elizabeth Crowfoot: Pioneers in Textile Archaeology (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Beth Alpert Nakhai.

    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 Grace Mary Hood Crowfoot (Molly; 1877-1957), whose groundbreaking work was foundational in the field of textile archaeology, and on their daughter Elisabeth Grace Crowfoot (1914-2005). Wife of renowned British archaeologist John Winter Crowfoot, Molly trained as a midwife and became a self-taught ethnographer, archaeologist,...

  • The Molly Jolly Collection: Lithic Sourcing, Museum Collections, and Student Engagement in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Flannery Surette.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, Canada, occupies a geographic and cultural space between the Fraser Plateau to the northwest and the Columbia Plateau to the south. Prior research indicates that the Okanagan was a pre-contact corridor between these culture areas allowing for the movement of people and ideas. Lithic raw material sourcing studies in...

  • More Than a Pile of Iron Scraps: Understanding the Archaeology of Blacksmith Shops (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander Menaker.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper explores the archaeology of blacksmithing through examining the Tom Cook Blacksmith Shop in Texas with excavations yielding more than 25,000 artifacts. This research is part of the Bolivar Archaeological Project, a collaborative, multidisciplinary project that attends to marginalized histories to offer a model for how publicly funded cultural...

  • More than Social? A Meta-Analysis of Disability Theory in Bioarchaeology (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Mason Shrader.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Within the last decade, disability theory has been increasingly applied to archaeological studies broadly, and recently has seen a growing interest in bioarchaeology specifically. Through statistical analysis of metadata from the top international journals in bioarchaeology, this paper identifies trends in bioarchaeologists’ engagement with the literature...

  • The Motivating Factors of Different Stakeholders for Preserving Archaeological Heritage in Jordan (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Paige Kohler.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The value of archaeological heritage varies from country to country. This poster provides results from a project that used methods from socio-cultural anthropology to investigate the significance of archaeological heritage in Jordan and current preservation efforts there. Interviews were conducted with study participants at four distinct locations across...

  • Movement, Connections, and Cultural Contact between the Near East and Neighbors during Classical Antiquity through Ancient DNA (aDNA) (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Victoria Moses.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Archaeological material and historical records attest contact between the Near East and the broader Mediterranean during Classical Antiquity (c. 8<sup>th</sup> century BCE to 6<sup>th</sup> century CE), but ancient DNA (aDNA) expands our understanding of the extent and nature of these interactions. Due to scholarly focus on earlier periods and poor...

  • “Mulans” of Early China: Women Warriors in the Late Shang (Thirteenth–Eleventh Century BCE) Capital Anyang (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Rose Ting-Yi.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The widely celebrated brave warrior Mulan was only fictional, but real women warriors in ancient China have fought alongside (or in place of)men in many places and times. Although warfare was seen as masculine in the Confucian tradition, women warriors in Early China might have been a social norm. Since the discovery and decoding of relevant oracle bone...

  • Multiscalar 3D Scanning and Capture at Tibes: Integrating Land-Use Legacies, Hurricane Impacts, and Precolumbian Modeling for Future Preservation (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Cory Look.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center in Puerto Rico stands as a testament to the rich cultural heritage of the precolumbian Caribbean. Our work employs a multiscalar approach to 3D scanning and capture, aiming to document and analyze the site’s complex land-use legacies, assess the impacts of recent hurricanes, and model precolumbian landscapes. This...

  • Multiscalar Modeling and Quantification of Erosion Risk to Archaeological Sites in Kansas with Satellite Remote Sensing and UAV Photogrammetry (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Howland.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper describes a multi-scalar approach toward risk assessment and precise quantification of fluvial and tillage erosion at Kansas archaeological sites. These erosion risk factors, exacerbated by anthropogenic landscape modification, pose a major threat to the integrity of archaeological sites. To quantify the scope of this hazard, we have developed...

  • NAGPRA Is a Living Relationship: Addressing our Responsibilities and Growing in our Relationships with NAGPRA (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Loa Traxler.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent changes to NAGPRA press museums to revisit and update inventories, assemble documentation, and reach out to Native American communities, establishing new relationships or re-engaging with communities in more expansive consultations, all activities that demand investment in time and personnel to handle the complexity of legacy collections. Drawing...

  • Natural Processes, Human Action, and Possibilities of Interpretation in GO-Ja-02 Archaeological Site, Serranópolis, Goias, Brazil (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Rosicler Silva.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Research returned in Serranópolis in 2020 focused mainly on the geoarchaeological context, in the area of the GO-Ja-02 archaeological site. In 2021, excavations provided new informations that deepen the understanding of the dynamics of human occupation in the region. Owing to the few traces of human occupation on the surface and the sandy characteristics,...

  • Navigating Ethical Dilemmas in Modern-Day Treasure Hunting in Poland: The Intersection of Social Media, Archaeological Heritage, and Archaeological Practice (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Diana Mroczek.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2023 the Polish government has changed the law regarding protection of monuments, i.e. archaeological heritage in Poland, allowing metal detecting to be legal practice if used in now much more lenient system. This significant shift in legislation has sparked both much expected excitement from metal detecting community and many concerns among...

  • Negotiated Empire: Alliance Building during the Inca Civil War (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Georgi Kyorlenski.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Crises are critical temporal nodes which offer unique, and perhaps clearest, views of how imperial projects function, as they present acute stresses to the institutions that define them, whether these stresses are overcome or not. As the Inca Civil War shattered the largest Indigenous American empire through tremendous loss of life in battle, political...

  • Neighborhood Patterns in Maya Lowlands: A Comparison of Structures and Resource Areas (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Faizan Khan.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study examines the intricate suburban landscape of the Maya civilization, focusing on neighborhood patterns by comparing structures and resource areas. The research takes place around the ancient Maya city of La Milpa in Belize and relies on a lidar survey for identifying features (such as structures and resource areas) and subsequent analysis...

  • Networks of Exchange in Northeastern Honduras: An Archaeometric Approach (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Mike Lyons.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Northeast Honduras represents a burgeoning center of archaeological research as appreciation grows for its position as a transitional zone between three major regions in pre-Hispanic Central America: Mesoamerica, Southern Central America, and the Caribbean. As part of the Archaeological Project Guadalupe/Colón, I apply an archaeometric approach to better...

  • A New Approach to an Old Network: Modeling Lapita Interaction and Exchange in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea, Using Social Network Analysis (SNA) (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Hogg.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The study of long-distance exchange and interaction between Lapita communities dispersed over the islands of the Pacific has long been a central focus for Oceanic archaeologists. In the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea, data from the analysis of portable material culture, particularly pottery and obsidian, outlined the presence of an intricate web...

  • New Developments in the Archaeology of the Pali Aike Volcanic Field (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Fabiana María Martin.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A program of paleoecological, paleoenvironmental and archaeological studies at the Pali Aike Volcanic Field, Chile was recently initiated. The main goal is to assess the local conditions when humans arrived at the end of the Pleistocene. In addition to a suite of geomorphological, geophysical, chronological and stratigraphic studies, particularly of the...

  • New Discoveries and Research on Related Issues in the Paleolithic Investigation of Fuxin, Liaoning (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Yao Zhang.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2023, an archaeological team from Jilin University and Liaoning Institute of Cultural Releics and Archaeology conducted a Paleolithic survey in Fuxin, Liaoning, yielding a series of important discoveries. A total of 19 Paleolithic sites were uncovered, with over 1,000 stone artifacts including cores, flakes, tools, and chunks. Key sites such as...

  • New England’s Indigenous Landscape: Reevaluating Ancestral Abenaki Settlements (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Alperstein.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There is considerable academic debate surrounding the absence of Woodland Period Village sites in New England. While some scholars acknowledge the lack of village sites to a preservation bias, other scholars argue that the late adoption of Maize and other domesticates in the region is evidence that village settlements never existed in the region until the...

  • New Evidence for Mesoamerican Architecture at a Twelfth-Century Chacoan Great House (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jean Pike.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Both the nature and the extent of Chaco Canyon’s connections to Mesoamerica have long been debated. While the presence of Mesoamerican cacao, macaws, and copper bells at Pueblo Bonito has demonstrated Mesoamerican interaction, source locations for these items have not been fully determined. Aztec West is a large twelfth-century Chaco-style great house...

  • New Insights from Ceramics Legacy Collections: Identifying Cibola Communities of Practice in Northeast Arizona (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Leddy.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent NAGPRA legislation and discussions of decolonizing practices have prompted archaeologists to reshape the ways they conduct research in the Southwest United States. Using legacy collections, or previously accessioned artifact assemblages, is one way to improve these research practices. This project implemented decolonizing practices, as well as the...

  • A New Look at Old Collections: Pleistocene Horse Hunting on the Shores of Paleo-lake Lahontan in Northwest Nevada (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only William Jerrems.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The first successful colonizers of the New World should exhibit a horse-based subsistence activity similar to that of their Old World antecedents. Horses were a primary food source for much of the Middle and Upper Paleolithic in Eurasia which may well have been the case in the relatively dry colder climates of the American west, specifically the northern...

  • A New Look at the Late Archaic Period in Northwest Florida (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ted Roberts.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Late Archaic period in northwest Florida remains poorly understood and like so many regional archaeological constructs, deserves to be periodically reexamined. Archaeologists have long investigated Late Archaic archaeological “firsts” in the region, such as the earliest pottery in North America, the earliest shell midden accumulations, and the...

  • The New Mexico Department of Transportation Tribal Consultation Portal: Navigating Cultural Compliance Efforts and Empowering Tribal Input (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Evangelia Tsesmeli.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) in collaboration with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) addresses issues of environmental and cultural compliance following Federal and State laws, executive orders, rules, and regulations (especially as part of the 36 CFR 800-Section 106 regulation). NMDOT and FHWA use the Statewide...

  • A New Non-collection Methodology for Assessment of Twentieth-Century Sites: Results from S’edav Va’aki in Phoenix, Arizona (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Kroot.

    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 recognized the curation crisis within the discipline and its drivers, including economic constraints, research practices, and even ethical principles. This paper presents a new non-collection field methodology for site assessment of 20th century settlements as a means of reducing the volume of materials gathered and, therefore,...

  • A New Pipeline to Add to the Log: Denver’s Historic Pipeline Technologies and Creative Mitigation (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Mueller.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In late 2023 and early 2024, the City and County of Denver discovered a historical wooden water pipeline (5DV55493.1) during construction along Federal Boulevard (SH 287) in the historic Highlands neighborhood. Agency oversight and SHPO consultation under Section 106 for the project is provided by the Colorado Department of Transportation. Historically,...

  • New Spatial Interpretations of Rock Art: A Case Study in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ann Stephens.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project examines the influence of landscape in distinguishing rock art traditions within the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, with a focus on the Dinwoody and Outline Pecked and Incised styles. Instead of analyzing the art itself, this study investigates the spatial distribution and environmental contexts of rock art sites to discern whether cultural and...

  • Nicotine Residue in Tubular Stone Pipes from South Texas (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Alison Hadley.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. South Texas, an area that covers roughly 37,800 square miles and spans 28 counties, is known for its abundance of stone pipes. While many of these pipes lack archaeological context, those from excavated contexts range from the late Middle Archaic to the Late Prehistoric periods. We wanted to know if tobacco (Nicotiana spp) was smoked in these pipes. We...

  • Nondestructive Analyses of Museum Collections: A pXRF Analysis of Obsidian from Teotihuacan (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Cassandra Wagener.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Obsidian was an essential resource in prehispanic Mesoamerica, with a significant industry fostered in the Valley of Mexico. The importance of obsidian in Teotihuacan is evident through the presence of numerous workshops, deposits, and varying degrees of craft specialization. This research investigates the tool types as well as the sources and movement of...

  • Not All That Glitters Is Unmodelable: An Introduction to the Application of Neural Radiance Fields in the Digital Modeling of Artifacts (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Tanner Haynes.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Photogrammetry has seen increasing utilization for artifact recordation and analysis in recent years but with the rise of this representational methodology has come several challenges including inaccurate reproduction of surfaces, and difficulties processing thin, transparent, or reflective objects. Emerging free open-source machine learning technology...

  • Not Who We Thought: Reassessing “Non-forensic” Cases in Oklahoma (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kary Stackelbeck.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As of August 2024, there are 25,093 missing persons in The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), including 886 potential Missing or Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP). Most individuals (23,270) were last seen more than 2 years ago and, if found, may be represented by completely skeletonized remains. Both the Oklahoma Office of the Chief...

  • Novel Application of Paleotemperature Proxy to Archaeological Context (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin Keenan Early.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Isoprenoidal glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (iso-GDGTs) and branched GDGTs (brGDGTs) are lipid biomarkers that serve as paleotemperature proxies reflective of mean annual average temperature (MAAT) commonly used in paleoclimate reconstructions. GDGTs are found in marine and lacustrine sediments, soils, peats, speleothems and bone. In general,...

  • A Novel LC-MS Technique for Detecting Wine Molecules in Archaeological Pottery (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Gazmend Elezi.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Organic mass spectrometric applications constitute a fundamental set of tools for detecting wine residues in archaeological materials and addressing anthropological questions related to ancient trade, interregional interaction, and economy. Despite the development of high-throughput techniques and cutting-edge instrumentation, the results of chemical...

  • Novel Patterns of Localized Dental Pathology at the Medieval Cemetery of Żelewo, Poland: Implications for Habitual Activities and Lived Experience (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Marissa Ramsier.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The late medieval cemetery at Żelewo 1-3 is a lakeside site located in what was then Pomerania and is now North-Western Poland. The site is associated with a Cistercian monastery in the nearby town of Kołbacz. Remains were excavated in 2019 and then in 2023 and 2024 as part of a salvage archaeology project that coincides with the Żelewo Bioarchaeology...

  • Obsidian Conveyance into Northwest Colorado (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Wendy Parker.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geographically, Northwestern Colorado sits in the confluence of several culture areas: Rocky Mountains, Great Basin, Great Plains, and Southwestern. Prehistoric peoples from these cultures have seasonally occupied Northwest Colorado since the Paleoindian Era and brought with them their technologies and materials. As obsidian does not naturally occur in...

  • Obsidian in Missouri: Updating the Record with New Data (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Pierce.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Obsidian has been used for the production of lithics throughout the world dating as far back as the Paleolithic. Obsidian has even been noted at archaeological sites in the American Midwest for nearly two centuries, despite being over two thousand kilometers from the nearest source. In Missouri, only twenty obsidian artifacts have been documented in...

  • Obsidian Sourcing and Interaction Networks in the Tanzanian Pastoral Neolithic (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Talia Nishida.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Understanding mobility, interaction, and exchange is fundamental to reconstructing social dynamics during the early spread of food production throughout eastern Africa. Geochemical sourcing of obsidian artifacts provides one mechanism for exploring relationships among mobile pastoralists and between these groups and foragers and how those relationships...

  • Obsidian Sourcing and Lithic Assemblage Formation at the Sabino Canyon Ruin, Eastern Tucson Basin, Arizona (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jay Franklin.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's research from 1995-2001 at the Sabino Canyon Ruin, AZ BB:9:32(ASM), in the eastern Tucson Basin revealed that the Hohokam occupation of the site spanned from about 1000 to after 1325 CE. The multicomponent site features late Rincon and Tanque Verde phase structures including pithouses, four above-ground adobe and...

  • Obsidian Sourcing at Castle Creek, Washakie Wilderness Using pXRF (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Sophia Zekas.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Linking individual artifact distributions to models of past human population dynamics provides critical insights into pre-contact behaviors and guides future research. While high-elevation areas of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem show evidence of continuous occupation throughout the Holocene, key aspects such as social structure, demography, and...

  • Obsidian Sourcing at the Tom Holcomb Site (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather O'Neal.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Natural resource procurement has long served as a proxy by which archaeologists have sought to understand how prehistoric peoples utilized their landscapes. This project presents obsidian source and procurement data as a component of land use and mobility pattern research in the American Southwest and Northwest Mexico during the Late Archaic period by...

  • Obsidian Trade Networks in Late Formative (500 BC–AD 200) Cusco: Insights from Muyumoqo (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick Phang Del Pozo.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite a lengthy human occupation spanning thousands of years, much remains unknown about the peoples that inhabited the Cusco Region preceding the rise of the Inka Empire. Particularly, the Formative (1800 BC - 200 AD) is a critical period to understand the origins of increased inequality in the area as numerous sociopolitical, cultural, and economic...

  • Ochre Manufacturing at the Tanginak Springs Site (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian Cox.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Tanginak Springs site, on Sitkalidak Island, Kodiak Alaska, dates to the earliest (Ocean Bay 1) culture-historical period on the Kodiak Archipelago. As is typical of sites of the time, there are several red ochre “floors,” along with the tools used to manufacture the ochre. There appears to be a significant ochre manufacturing industry during the...

  • Odd One Out: Resisting Symmetry in the Painted Designs of Salado Polychrome Pottery (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathleen Barvick.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Salado polychromes, a suite of decorated ceramic types that became extremely popular across Arizona and New Mexico in the late 1200s through the mid-1400s, display a wide variety of painted motifs in red, black, and white. Most vessels are laid out with repeating patterns, displaying rotational symmetry in two-fold, three-fold, four-fold, or other numbers...

  • Of Musicians and Weavers: Multivalent Symbols in the Monkey Frieze from Xeste 3, Akrotiri (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Mazow.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A reanalysis of the monkey frieze in Xeste 3 suggests deciphers several enigmatic symbols and suggests room function. In the image’s center, two monkeys face-off, each wielding an object overhead. The monkey on the right holds a sword. The one on the left holds what has been interpreted as a scabbard. Two additional monkeys are on either side. One...

  • Of Rain and Maize Deities: A Series of Polychrome Reliefs from the Templo Mayor (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ángel González López.

    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 an unpublished bench formed by a set of 48 polychrome stone reliefs from the principal Mexica (Aztec) temple, Templo Mayor, in Tenochtitlan. Since it was discovered in 1980, this set has been separated with some pieces still in situ and others that have been fragmented and put in storage, resulting in some of the contextual information...

  • Old Methods, New Approaches: Rethinking Stone Circle Feature Recording at Hell Gap (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Mackenzie Cory.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Domestic stone circles, commonly known as tipi rings, are among the most prevalent feature types on the Northwest Plains, with hundreds of sites documented. Despite their significance in understanding the domestic lives of Indigenous communities, researchers often overlook them, recording them with minimal time investment and little further consideration....

  • Old World Pastoralisms in the Early Colonial Andes: A Reassessment of Faunal Remains from Colonial Contexts at Inka Administrative Sites in the Central Sierra (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Henry Bacha.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper pursues a reexamination of faunal remains recovered from colonial-period archaeological contexts at two major Inka administrative centers located in the central highlands of modern-day Peru: Huánuco Pampa (excavated by Craig Morris from 1971-1976); and Pumpu (excavated by Ramiro Matos from 1984-1988). Owing to their status as major centers of...

  • On Points in the Piedmont: A Consideration of the Use of Discriminant Function Analysis (DFA) in Understanding Transitions in Projectile Weapon Systems in North Carolina (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Devin Henson.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The transition between the spear thrower (atlatl) and bow in eastern North America (ENA) has long served as an important area of consideration for understanding processes of cultural change in the region, as the shift between these two technologies is theorized to have significantly impacted various aspects of the social organization of Native communities...

  • One Hundred and Fifty Shades of Projectile Points: 10,000 Years of Land Use and Early Agricultural Lithic Technology in the Far West (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only William Bryce.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We present current and on-going research on ten thousand years of land use through projectile points in the Far Western Region, defined here as the northern Grand Canyon region and the Colorado Plateau-Great Basin transitional zone. The 2023 Kane wildfire on the North Kaibab Ranger District of the Kaibab National Forest burned 2,934 acres of...

  • Online Learning and Digital Cultural Heritage in Belize (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Sasha Franklin.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although archaeology will always be a hands-on field, the future is digital. This poster reports the results of an applied research project that utilized photogrammetry and GIS software to create an archaeology education tool on ArcGIS StoryMaps. Sample lessons within the StoryMap, created in consultation with the Belize Ministry of Education and Belize...

  • Optimizing Professional Training in Anthropology Programs to Address Current Workforce Realities (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Amber-Marie Madrid.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Increased living costs, inflation, and student debt; declining enrollment in higher education; and significant changes in cultural heritage laws have radically changed archaeology as a profession in evolving ways. Exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, in California this has resulted in recent declines in training opportunities, livable wages, local...

  • Oral Histories and Zooarchaeology: Where Are the Songbirds? (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Melanie Cootsona.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this poster I demonstrate how oral histories can help fill blanks in the (zoo)archaeological record. It is well-known (and documented and tested) that not everything that happened in the past ends up in archaeologist’s test units, screens, and collections. For zooarchaeologists, presence and absence of species is used to make larger arguments about the...

  • Oral Microbiome Shifts Associated with the Expansion of the Roman Empire along the Lower Danube (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Sterling Wright.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Under Emperor Trajan, the Roman Empire encompassed 5 million square kilometers across Europe, Asia, and Africa. The empire’s vast territory was interconnected by an extensive network of roads and military conquests, yet it was also characterized by a rich diversity of cultures, languages, and populations. Despite centuries of study, many questions remain...

  • Orchard Archaeology and Legacy Lead Arsenate Contamination at Hanford and White Bluffs, Washington (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Cyler Conrad.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In March 1943, when construction began on what became known as the “Hanford Site” as part of the Manhattan Project in southeastern Washington state, the U.S. Government appropriated lands that were being actively farmed by orchardists growing apples and other tree fruit for over 40 years. Located immediately adjacent to the Columbia River, orchardists...

  • Organización del espacio doméstico y áreas de actividad en un conjunto residencial del subsector F3 de Áspero, litoral del valle de Supe, Perú (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Miguel Valqui Güimack.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Durante el Formativo Inicial (3000-1800 a.C.) en el valle de Supe, se desarrolló un complejo sistema de asentamientos dominados por construcciones monumentales, caracterizados por edificios piramidales asociados a plazas circulares hundidas. Sin embargo, estos sitios también presentaron otro tipo de construcción como residencias, espacios públicos,...

  • Organization and Production of Architectural Terracotta and Coarseware Pottery at Poggio Civitate (Murlo) (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only William Gilstrap.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The monumental architectural at Poggio Civitate (Murlo), Italy represents some of the earliest usage of ceramic roofing tile. Studies indicate that Piano del Tesoro, the area described as a large production center had a burgeoning ceramic industry that included terracotta statues, roofing tiles and other architectural implements, and pottery. Ceramics...

  • Origins of the First Japanese Kingdom (Fifth BCE to Mid-Second Century CE), Born from Outlanders and Indigenous Inhabitants (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Christina Horn.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From late 6th century BCE to the 2nd century CE, various interactions between the Mumun-era southern Korea and Jomon-era are evident. The sea was not a barrier, but a valuable tool in migration, and trade relations between the content and western regions of Japanese archipelago via Tsushima and Iki islands. Interaction routes are seen through the movement...

  • The Origins of the Milwaukee Public Museum and its European Connections (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Elisabetta Cova.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Milwaukee Public Museum, officially founded in 1882, but in fact in its early stages since 1851, was at the forefront of nineteenth-century museography at a crucial time for both the establishment of Wisconsin as a state of the Union and the institution of museums in the US. This paper investigates the historical, cultural and social context within...

  • Osteobiography of Skeletal Remains from the Archaeological Site of Pella, Jordan (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Michail Protopapadakis.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Pella at Wooster Project is an ongoing effort to catalogue and digitally publicize an archaeological collection from the site of Pella, Jordan, near modern day Tabqet Fahel. The College of Wooster excavated in Pella between 1967 and 1985, and brought a collection of artifacts to the United States. This poster showcases the analysis of a series of...

  • Our Sustainers: Haudenosaunee Three Sisters Garden as a Pedagogical Device in New York State (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Taylor Hummel.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Haudenosaunee Three Sisters agriculture involves the intercropping of corn, beans, and squash. In this system, each crop supports and reinforces the other. This poster demonstrates how Three Sisters gardens on university campuses across New York state serve as a pedagogical tool, fostering a more inclusive and holistic perspective on past and present...

  • The Outcomes of Repeated Hearth Use on Ostrich Eggshell (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Keller.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Human activities can post-depositionally modify accumulations of material, including ostrich eggshell (OES). While research has demonstrated that heat modifies OES appearances and surfaces, it is unclear how multiple ignition events and the repeated heating/cooling cycle may have a cumulative effect. Identifying how repeated use of hearths or sites...

  • Outlining the Production of Place at Two Adjacent Middle Woodland Era Earthen Enclosures in Central Kentucky, USA (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward Henry.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geometric earthen enclosures are emblematic of Middle Woodland era (ca. 200 BCE-500 CE) built environments in eastern North America. They symbolize places within the landscape that drew Indigenous people together–sometimes for more than a thousand years. Despite research on large and small enclosures growing in quantity and quality, there are several...

  • Over the River: Initial Investigations into the Clarissa Falls Site (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma Angell.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 2001, members of the Actuncan Archaeological Project have driven down the Callar Creek road and glanced with only partial attention at mounds in the surrounding cow pastures of Clarissa Falls ranch. The project had long had its eyes and trowels across the river, at the major Preclassic Maya ceremonial center of Actuncan, Belize. Informal...

  • Overkill in Bronze Age Warfare: An Update on Violence at the Mogou Site, China (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Berger.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bioarchaeological investigations of skeletons from the Mogou cemetery in Gansu Province, China (1750-1100 BCE) have found 11.1% of adults suffered from violent cranial trauma (40/360). This is a very high incidence for the region and time period. Injuries were most frequently observed on the skull and both males and females were affected. Blunt- and...

  • An Overthrow of the Past: Tomb Reentry and Political Turmoil at the Classic Maya Site of Nim li Punit (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Mario Borrero.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Terminal Classic (approximately AD 790-900) marked a time of significant social and political upheaval for Maya society. The site of Nim li Punit, located in southern Belize, experienced significant changes during the Terminal Classic period, ultimately leading to its abandonment by around AD 830. While we can note the overall effects of these major...

  • An Overview and Analysis of the 2024 NAGPRA Revisions (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Owens.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Section 11 of the National Museum of the American Indian Act (NMAIA) was added to public law in 1989. This required the Smithsonian Museum to repatriate any human remains or funerary objects associated with Native American Ancestry back to their Tribes. In 1990, The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) was added to federal...

  • Oxygen Stable Isotopes as Geographic Residence Indicators in the Colonial Period Basin of Mexico: El Japón, Xochimilco, Mexico (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Edgar Alarcón Tinajero.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Sixteenth-century Spanish colonization of Mesoamerica caused demographic decline, epidemics, and large-scale political conflict leading to geographic relocation of communities by force, coercion, or as strategies of survival. Stable isotopic methods in recent decades examine narratives of population movement previously known from historical records....

  • Paleoecology of 'Ubeidiya: Deer Dental Microwear Patterns and Implications for Out of Africa I (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Nancy Williams.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recreating past environments is a useful tool in understanding the adaptation and behaviors of human ancestors. To reconstruct the palo-environment of ‘Ubeidiya, a site for migrating hominins during out of Africa I, environmental proxies were examined. Specifically, the vegetation of the site was reconstructed using the dental remains of ungulates and...

  • Paleoindian Period Materials from Kennebec County, Maine (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jaime Donta.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Site 38.99 was initially recorded in 2008 in the course of site locational testing within an existing electrical transmission corridor in Windsor, Kennebec County, Maine. Additional testing in 2009 established the site’s affiliation with the PaleoIndian period, dated in Maine to approximately 10-12,000 years ago. Site 38.99, which sits on a terrace...

  • Paleopathologies Represented in the Iconography of Ancient Coastal Societies of Ecuador (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Rivas Alava.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Typically, paleopathology diagnoses ancient diseases by examining human skeletal remains through gross or histological analysis, radiography, and CT imaging. However, in recent years, iconography has increasingly enabled the identification of genetic-hereditary and congenital conditions that might otherwise only be detected in well-preserved skeletal...

  • A Paleopathology Report on the Animals in Ur during the Early Second Millennium BCE (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Svenya Drees.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mesopotamian cuneiform texts document animals who showed clear signs of disease, and even mention animal doctors. These records provide only glimpses into the world of Mesopotamian animals, however, and archaeological evidence of animal pathologies is as of yet extraordinarily sparse. Excavations in 2015-19 at the southern Iraqi site of Tell al-Muqayyar...

  • “Peaching” Together the Puzzle: Relocating and Reexcavating the Peach Orchard Site, Hamilton County, Ohio (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Grace Conrad.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fieldnotes, hand drawn maps, personal communication, and some door-knocking: these are the pieces of the puzzle that allowed us to relocate a Fort Ancient site located near Cincinnati, Ohio. The Peach Orchard site sits atop a prominent hill, overlooking the more well-known Turpin site and the floodplain of the Little Miami River. It was first...

  • Pedagogical Approaches to Postdepositional Processes on the Santa Susana Archaeological Project, Portugal (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma Ljung.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. How can a site where postdepositional processes problematize analysis even for a trained professional be used to teach field archaeological methods to beginners? This paper presents an overview of the pedagogical innovations and approaches taken on the Santa Susana Archaeological Project in the central Alentejo, Portugal. There, a Roman villa has seen...

  • The Pendleton Ruin Site Revisited: Results from a Complete Reanalysis of the Ceramic Artifacts from the Pendleton Ruin Site, Southwestern New Mexico (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Thatcher Seltzer-Rogers.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological investigations in the International Four Corners area (where the modern states of Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora, and Chihuahua meet) have long identified markers of northwest Chihuahuan influence north of the border, primarily through the presence of Casas Grandes polychrome types on late prehispanic sites which many argue to be in a past...

  • Penetration Efficiency of Bone Projectile Points: Experimental Analysis Based on Late Pleistocene Artifacts from Sheriden Cave, Ohio (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Savannah Hough.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This experimental study assesses the penetration efficiency of bone projectile points. Based on the well-preserved Late Pleistocene artifacts from Sheriden Cave, Ohio, it investigates how well this particular style of tool functions as a projectile tip. A total of 120 bone points were recreated from bovine femurs based on original casts of the artifacts....

  • Peoples and High-Elevation Wilderness in the American West: Addressing Misconceptions (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Zachary Downey.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since their inception, federally protected lands have inspired adventure and recreation for hunters, fishermen, backpackers, and nature enthusiasts. However, a widespread and harmful misconception persists: that these lands were historically uninhabited or marginally inhabited by humans and exist solely as pristine natural environments. The Shoshone...

  • Perforated Disks as Indicators of Magdalenian Social Networks (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Schwendler.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the Middle and Upper Magdalenian (ca. 18,000 to 14,000 cal BP), people across western and central Europe created and circulated perforated disks made largely of bone and stone. Averaging ca. 4 centimeters in diameter, the disks were one of many portable decorated items produced during the Magdalenian in the context of rapid population expansions...

  • Permanent Body Modification: Archaeological and Early Historical Evidence (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Brea McCauley.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Today, permanent body modification (PBM) is very popular. Studies suggest that billions of people have experienced one or more types of PBM. But what is the history of PBM? When did the different types originate? Were they invented recently, or do they have a long history? Did they appear simultaneously or at different times? In this presentation, we shed...

  • Persistent People, Persistent Places: The Archaeology of the Belrose Farmstead in the Lower Fox River Valley of Northeastern Illinois (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Geraci.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent volunteer investigations of a historic farmstead located in the lower Fox River Valley in northeastern Illinois have identified several new sites that have the potential to bring insight into the complicated history of the region. Analysis of the material culture shows that people have continually used this portion of the lower Fox River Valley...

  • Pest Management in Western Anatolia in the Bronze Age: Rodent Infestations and the Role of Cats and Dogs in Protecting Food Stores (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Tugce Yalcin.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study examines the pest control strategies at the largest citadel in western Anatolia in the Bronze Age, the citadel of Kaymakçı, by analyzing rodent, cat, and dog faunal remains. Rodents such as Mus musculus (house mouse) and Rattus rattus (black rat), which thrive in human settlements by consuming stored agricultural products, were identified among...

  • Photogrammetry of Shell Deposits at the Musgrove Shell Ring (9LI2169) on St. Catherines Island, Georgia (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Semon.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Late Archaic shell rings in the southeastern United States have unique depositional histories and site formations. One way to explore these shell deposits is to conduct photogrammetric analysis on shell stratigraphy. In this poster, I present the photogrammetry methods and preliminary results conducted on shell wall profiles at the Musgrove Shell Ring on...

  • Photographs Found from 1940 Pictograph Site in Fairbanks, Alaska (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Martin Gutoski.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. I have been searching for the photographs and tracings made by J. Louis Giddings in June 1940 as reported in American Antiquity, Vol. 7, No. 1 (July 1941), at pp. 69-70 since I was an undergraduate in anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) in 1992. When entering the program for my masters degree in the 2000's I had to content myself that...

  • Phylogenetic Analysis of Tupiguarani Pottery in Sao Paulo: Revealing Cultural Transmission through Archaeological Record (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Glauco Constantino Perez.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Several pottery-producing groups have been documented in the Brazilian state of São Paulo through archaeological field research. Archaeological sites of the Tupiguarani Tradition are the most widespread, but the nature of pre-colonial relationships between the Tupiguarani and other indigenous groups remains unclear. This paper employs phylogenetic methods...

  • Physiological Stress in Industrial London: The Catholic Experience (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Nora Rose Thornton.

    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 relationship between socioeconomic status, religious affiliation, and physiological stress in Industrial London. Two sites were used. The first site, St. Marylebone Paddington Street North, was a high-status Anglican cemetery active from 1772 - 1853. The second site, St. Mary and St. Michaels, was a low-status Catholic cemetery...

  • Pilgrimage, Trade, and Empire: A GIS Investigation of Roads in the Ocona Valley, South Peru (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Geri Evilla.

    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 Inca Imperial expansion into the Ocoña and Chorunga Valleys, through an investigation of precolonial roads and trails. It focuses on the Middle to Late Horizons (700 BCE-1534), with specific attention to the last 100 years, during which time the region was occupied by the Inca state and experienced a rapid increase in population and...

  • Pipeline Walkers: Excavating into Pipeline Surveillance along the Line 3 Pipeline in Northern Minnesota (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Rybka.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Resistance to the construction of crude oil pipelines on Indigenous sovereign lands has become recognized locally and globally as a decolonial practice that also addresses the realities of climate change. Braided together closely with Indigenous-led resistance movements to petroleum infrastructure are the many communities, stakeholders, and accompanying...

  • A Place for Specialized Learning: Ongoing Excavations at Group C, Xunantunich (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren Nowakowski.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ongoing excavations at Xunantunich aim to deepen our understanding of Group C as a center for specialized knowledge and training. Previous research revealed large, vaulted range structures, C-2 and C-3, featuring high benches, incised Patolli boards, and outward-facing doorways. Proximity and architectural connections suggest these atypical residential...

  • Placemaking, Resistance, and Transformation in the Upper Itajaí Valley, Brazil: Indigenous Histories across Temporal Divides (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lucas Bond Reis.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper integrates 28 novel radiocarbon dates to contextualize Indigenous place-making practices in the Upper Itajaí Valley, spanning from the present to the middle Holocene (~3,000 BCE). The Laklãnõ-Xokleng, Kaingang, and Guarani communities have endured various forms of colonial violence since the European invasion, continually preserving and...

  • A Plant-Based Diet Predominated among the Earliest Complex Societies in the Titicaca Basin, 5.3–3.0 cal Ka (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Luis Flores-Blanco.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Current evidence from the Terminal Archaic and Early Formative Periods of the Andean Altiplano indicates the use of a variety of resources within human subsistence economies, including plants, terrestrial animals, and lake resources. This period is significant in comprehending the origins of the neolithization process in the Andean Altiplano,...

  • Pleistocene-Holocene Climate Change and Early Human Occupation of the Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Valentina Alekseitseva.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Early human occupation of high-elevation mountains is a much debated yet understudied topic in contemporary archaeological science. One of these regions where a large number of archaeological sites have been found is the Eastern Pamir, Tajikistan. The average elevation of the region is 3000-4500 m a.s.l., and the modern climate is dry with sparse...

  • Plenty Has Been Excavated, but Not All Has Been Studied: Using Archaeological Deposits for Academic Research (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Roberto Munoz Pando.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While digging is an important part of archaeological research, deposits and archives have a very high investigative potential. In general, excavations have focused on a particular set of research questions put forth by the lead archaeologists. These questions, while valid, may not be all that the archaeological site has to offer. Archaeological deposits...

  • The Pocumtuc, Core Areas, and Woodland Period Archaeology of the Connecticut River Valley (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Donta.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the central questions facing anthropologists within the Algonquian culture area is to understand how the Connecticut River groups differed from others such as the Nipmuc, Abenaki, and Mohican. What did it mean to be Pocumtuc in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries? Archaeological information gathered from the late nineteenth through early...

  • Pollen Analysis Exposes a Dynamic Environmental History at Pozuelo, Peru (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine Bergmann.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pozuelo (PV.57-52) is located on the south coast of Peru in the lower Chincha Valley, approximately 200 km south of Lima. Pozuelo is one of the earliest known U-shaped mound complexes on the south coast of Peru, dating to the Initial Period (approximately 1200 BCE). The site also represents the earliest occupied region in the Chincha Valley, as evidenced...

  • Population Dynamics in Interior Alaska and Yukon: Demographic Reconstruction with a Regional Taphonomic Correction (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Anastasia Jepsen.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Northern Dene Athabascan areas of interior Alaska and Yukon Territory have some of the oldest evidence for human occupation in North America spanning up to 14,000 years ago. It is still unclear exactly what drives population fluctuation in this region as there were many environmental changes happening throughout time. This research uses radiocarbon dates...

  • Population Movement and Intermarriage during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Bronze Age China: A Case Study of Dahan Cemetery (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Xinyi Huang.

    This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Eastern Zhou Dynasty was a transformative period in Chinese history, marked by frequent warfares, cultural exchange, and population movements, with intensified interactions between states. The Dahan cemetery in southern Shandong Province, located at the intersection of several states, serves as a vital site for studying the era's social and cultural...