SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dennis Gilpin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. After the eruption of Sunset Crater Volcano circa A.D. 1060-1090, people of the Sinagua, Cohonina, and Ancestral Pueblo archaeological traditions established an extensive settlement system in the Wupatki Basin north of Sunset Crater. Archaeological survey of Wupatki National Monument examined the core of the Wupatki settlement system, but the southern...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Miguel García Mollinedo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. La Venta, located in the Mesoamerica Gulf Coast, is the major Olmec center of the Middle Preclassic (ca. 800 - 400 BC). This site is recognized for its planned architectural layout, monumental stone sculptures, and massive greenstone offerings. The La Venta region encompasses the coastal plains of western Tabasco and the Tonalá River Basin. In this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ferran Cabrero-Miret.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Río Chico and Colina Boayacu Puyu are two archaeological sites in the upper basin of the Pastaza River, in present-day Ecuador, that help to understand how the ancient inhabitants of the Upper Amazon lived. Rio Chico is important for having unique crops in the basin since Regional Development, and for being today the oldest mountain village in this area,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Markus Reindel.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While the political structures of Mesoamerica are characterized by verticality and stratification, societies in Southern Central America exhibit a more horizontal, less hierarchical organization. However, detailed settlement pattern studies in Southern Central America that would allow a thorough investigation of this phenomenon are still very scarce. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tanya Peres.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1949, the Department of Anthropology was formed by Hale G. Smith who hired Charles Fairbanks in 1954. The original faculty members (Smith, Fairbanks, and John Griffin) were products of the University of Chicago Department of Anthropology Field School and closely associated with the development of academic and scientific archaeology in the United...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jayson Gill.

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 and compares the origins of Levallois technology and its relationship with Lower Palaeolithic bifacial production systems in the Armenian Highlands and Britain. While some argue for a single African origin for Levallois technology, increasingly support is found for a multiple origins model in which it independently evolves out of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Victoria Ingalls.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The use of marine shell tools and ornaments among Native North American peoples is well documented in coastal regions and along the Mississippi River Valley. However, rarely do we see archeological evidence of comparable tool manufacture from freshwater mussel shell at inland sites away from these major marine areas. This talk discusses a rare collection...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Ward.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Canids are essential actors in Alaskan Iñupiat societies. Recent studies have tracked the domestication of dogs in the Siberian Arctic. We also have a good understanding of human-dog interactions among late ancestral and contemporary Iñupiat. Our study provides data on the middle period, looking at canid remains associated with the Birnirk who migrated...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jon Carroll.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Assyrian siege of Tel Lachish in 701BC was immortalized in stone reliefs that once decorated the walls of Sennacherib’s palace at Nineveh. Archaeologists have long recognized the role these images played in glorifying Assyrian military and political power. The reliefs have also heavily influenced our interpretations of how the city of Tel Lachish was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ioannis Oikonomou.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Understanding the formation processes and depositional histories is fundamental for the interpretation of human behavior, regardless of the richness of the archaeological record. Although low-density sites are often associated with the scarcity of behavioral signals, the interpretative value is of equal importance. Ararat-1 Cave preserves such scarce and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Catherine Doubles.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As Bayesian modeling has taken a prominent position in the interpretation of the archaeological record, there is a growing need for the reconsideration of archaeological chronologies. The Cumberland Gap, the major natural passage across the spine of the Appalachian Mountains, has been a major bottleneck in human movement since long before European...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Weinmeister.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Historically, lithic studies have focused on formal tools, informal tools, and debitage recovered through traditional survey and excavation methods. The collection of flotation samples has resulted in heavy fraction materials that include microdebitage. Recent analyses of microdebitage in the American Southwest indicate that smaller debitage paints a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Deborah Blom.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During recent community-based reciprocal research at the site of Tiwanaku, Bolivia, we responded to requests to analyze a set of human remains removed from a museum display in 2010 after a roof collapse destroyed a display case. These remains mainly consisted of 66 crania that were collected or excavated by Carlos Ponce Sanginés and the Bolivian Institute...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kaitlyn Clingenpeel.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Embedded within any piece of pottery is the knowledge of the hands that made it and the knowledge of those who came before. This intergenerational exchange of knowledge, as manifested in the remains of pottery, can be tracked through the changes in slip, form, paste, and other identifying attributes over time using social network analysis methods of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yating Liao.

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 manufacturing techniques of slit rings from 1000-500 BC in the Hong Kong region, using the Pak Mong site as a case study. Ethnographic studies and experimental archaeology are combined to conduct controlled simulation experiments with jade artefacts of varying Mohs hardness. With the assistance of modern technologies and analytical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Reamer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Generally identified through differences in soil color, texture, and composition, subterranean pit features are ubiquitous across archaeological sites in the Eastern Woodlands. Despite this ubiquity, most archaeologists have not attempted to statistically analyze features to understand their function in Indigenous foodways. Rather, published...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yuan Wang.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Because of limited research and a perspective centered on the last Shang capital at Anyang, the understanding of the Loess Highland during the Late Shang period (1300-1050BC) is still at an infant stage. For a long time, the Loess Highland has always been regarded as a "periphery", with limited local population and single societies. However, new...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Faith Sabourin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster focuses on the ancient Maya hinterland settlement Hun Tun, located in Northwestern Belize. Hun Tun was occupied during the Late to Terminal Classic (CE 600 – 850). It functioned as a resource-specialized community and was integrated into a regional marketplace network. Data was collected at Hun Tun during the 2023 field season, in fulfillment...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Sullivan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper discusses the intracommunity socioeconomic dynamics of the large-scale lithic industry at Took’ Witz, a small rural community located near the ancient Maya city of El Palmar, Campeche, Mexico. Our multi-year studies revealed that people in Took’ Witz produced millions of chert bifaces, supporting nearby raised field intensive agriculture. While...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian McCray.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Intensive analyses like chaîne opératoire studies are not always feasible during preliminary ceramic assessments within larger archaeological projects. In our excavation of the late prehispanic site Wimba, in the Mendoza region of Amazonas Province, Peru, we collected a wide range of quantitative and categorical measurements from ceramic sherds, storing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Abiodun Ganiyu.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological site of Durbi Takusheyi, located in the Katsina region of northern Nigeria, was a presumed “royal” burial site which produced evidence of materials and finished goods, including silver objects, with cultures from North Africa, the Middle East, and Mediterranean through Trans-Saharan trade networks. This research aims to examine the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Watson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Understanding how hunter-gatherer groups move around the landscape is essential for answering questions about human behavioral ecology and evolution of the social landscape. Lithic raw material proveniencing sheds light on how far people in the past were traveling for toolstone and whether people from different sites were accessing the same raw materials...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tessa Nixon.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Silcrete is a hard, compact mass formed by the cementation of surface sediments with secondary silica. While rare in Europe and the USA, it is abundant in South Africa, where it preserves ancient land surfaces and provides clues about erosion rates and past climatic conditions. In the South African Middle and Later Stone Age, silcrete was widely used for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bonita Lee.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This work locates trails in Florida's Western Okeechobee. This Everglade landscape has long been viewed as an inhospitable combination of sloughs, swamps, and sawgrass. Trail networks connected communities and allowed people to travel, exchange materials, and share ideology. This work applies multiple data sources to over 11,000 km2 to find potential...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Feng.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The site of Brahmagiri in central Karnataka is significant in the history of South Indian archaeology as the type site for South Indian chronologies and ceramic sequences. First excavated by the Mysore State Archaeological Department between 1929 and 1941 and the Archaeological Survey of India under Mortimer Wheeler in 1947, more recent re-analyses...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alberto Conti.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In southwestern Idaho, pottery becomes common in archaeological contexts during the Late Archaic Period, at approximately 1,000 years ago. This pottery is generally referred to as Shoshoni Ware or Intermountain Brownware. A review of the current data indicates that sites that have ceramic vessels occur throughout upland, riverine, and non-riverine lowland...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kara Jones.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Stump Springs is a persistently utilized spring site located along the western border of southern Nevada within the Mojave Desert. Stump Springs is located adjacent to two notable trails, nestled within a dune field of spring mounds. Archaeological investigations were done at the site as part of a field school through the University of Nevada, Las Vegas...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cayden Griffith.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We use spatial syntax to construct access map models for Monks Mound, the central and largest mound at Cahokia, during the end of the Stirling phase, as this was a time of great change with respect to both architecture and religious practice. We use access analysis to measure the Depth from the Exterior (DE), the Real Relative Asymmetry (RRA), and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Teagan McIntosh.

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 archaeological findings from a World War II prisoner of war (POW) Camp in Hearne, Texas. From 1943 to 1945, the camp held over 4800 German soldiers and about 500 Japanese soldiers. Archaeological investigations conducted between 1996 and 1997 at the site focused on the southern sections of Compounds 2 and 3, where German...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marie Hopwood.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Spinning and weaving are tasks well-attested in the archaeological record across the ancient region of Mesopotamia. Settlements along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers were formed in landscapes rich with mud and pastoral animals, fertile places for people reliant on ceramics and textiles. By the 5^th millennium BCE the community of Kenan...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vivian Lantow.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Research conducted at the University of Trujillo during July 2024 uniquely furthers our understanding of Chimú and the societal role of feathered textiles. The importance of woven textiles in the Andean is well documented. Subsequently, closely examining the materiality, compositions, techniques, and construction can tell us much about the Chimú. By...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adrienne Tremblay.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent excavations sponsored by Tucson Electric Power in at a small Early Ceramic Period habitation site along the Santa Cruz River in Tucson, Arizona confirm that cultural patterns associated with the Hohokam can be found at sites dating to the Early Ceramic Period in the Tucson Basin. The Early Ceramic Period in the Tucson Basin represents a transition...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shambri Murphy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research investigates the archaeological record of major Hohokam villages in Arizona, including sites like Snaketown, La Plaza, and Las Acequias. Our approach involves statistical analysis to identify trends in the orientation of pithouse entrances. We aim to apply this knowledge to inform future archaeological investigations by furthering our...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eduardo Portillo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Subsistence and foodways have been the focus of many archaeological studies because both are part of the most intimate of day-to-day life. Particularly, the study of meaty foods provides information about social status and differentiated access. In this sense, chemical residues are indicators that help us understand ancient diets, as well as social and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nadia Waski.

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 2023, the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) contracted with the SWCA Environmental Consultants (SWCA)’s Amherst office to assist the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians (Tribe) with after-the-fact mitigation activities. The activities were in response to a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)-funded flood disaster...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sergio Ayala.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. It is essential to investigate well-stratified residential sites containing both Clovis and pre-Clovis materials to compare technologies used in the same location under similar conditions. The Gault site, Texas, contains the entire occupational sequence in the region, spanning the Paleoindian, Archaic, and Late Prehistoric periods. The Gault Assemblage,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Keith Eppich.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The large-scale analysis of the potting traditions for the Classic Maya city-state of El Perú-Waka’ revealed a rich indigenous artistic tradition. It also highlighted a number of ceramics outside of this tradition, non-local ceramics in unique contexts, i.e. “strange vessels.” This paper examines the character and context of these “strange vessels,” aided...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Denise Axume.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Periods of political fragmentation are often, but not necessarily, associated with precarity and declines in overall health, especially among vulnerable members of affected communities. The collapse of the Tiwanaku state in southern Peru is one such context where the effects of top-down disintegration had varying impacts on provincial regions, making it...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabriella Tepley.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Andrecito Pueblo, located within a valley in the San Andres Mountains holds a special significance in the history of Migration in the North American Southwest. Andrecito Pueblo exhibits signs through its architecture and artifacts of the people who live there and their association with groups to the east, suggesting the people of the Andrecito pueblo...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elena Vories.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological study of coastal shell sites in the southeastern United States offers critical insights into the subsistence strategies, cultural practices, and architectural innovations of Indigenous communities before European contact. Among these sites is Green’s Shell Enclosure, located on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, a Mississippian shell...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Hofland.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Sugar Land 95 are victims of the convict leasing era in the United States that began after the ratification of the 13th Amendment which abolished slavery,"...except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted..." (U.S. Const. Amend 13). As a result, the Sugar Land 95 individuals were leased to sugar plantations in Sugar...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Schollmeyer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The NAN Ranch archaeological site is a Mimbres Classic and Late Pithouse period (AD 750-1130) village in the Mimbres Valley of southwestern New Mexico. This pueblo was one of the largest in the region and also one of the largest controlled excavations of a Mimbres Classic site, directed by Harry Shafer at Texas A&M University in the 1970s-1990s. One...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Orngard.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Developing a realistic understanding of the regional archaeological record and creating high-fidelity models of human land use dynamics require comprehensive documentation and integration of both underrepresented surface and the often-emphasized subsurface components. Without incorporating data from both, behavioral models risk being only marginally...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Ranney.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A survey of properties, primarily along the Vermillion River in Clay County, South Dakota, was begun in summer 2019 and continued as a University of South Dakota (USD) field school in 2021–2023. The project was initially sponsored by the Clay County Historic Preservation Commission, in conjunction with the USD Department of Anthropology. This work has...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristoffer Stein.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. EnviroSystems Management has surveyed over 30,000 acres and recorded over 1,000 sites in the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument. The company's growing geodatabase is beginning to illustrate interesting settlement pattern changes from the Late Archaic to the late Pueblo II period. While insights garnered by inquiry into geodatabases offers a high...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stefanie Wai.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Past and present-day interactions with archaeological sites raise many concerns over the disturbance and destruction of cultural heritage from urban and agricultural development, tourism, and looting. These spaces, while destroyed, are often frequented by various communities, and tell us about the diverse range of attitudes towards these monuments....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alejandro Soto Camacho.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project addresses the relationship between culture, funerary practices, and Jesuit religion at San Ignacio Church in Bogotá, Colombia through a demographic analysis of individuals interred in the crypt, a visual analysis of symbolism on the headstones, and historical research. The crypt includes approximately 485 individuals in single and common...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley Medlin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Spring Lake site, located in San Marcos, Texas, is a multicomponent site that contains artifacts dating from the Late Pleistocene to the Historic Era. Fluted points and the remains of Ice Age megafauna were discovered in the lake in the late 1970s. Since then, various institutions have conducted archaeological work around and within the lake utilizing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katie Zejdlik.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Transylvania, Romania is a historic region with a tumultuous history. Work at the Papdomb archaeological site (AD 1050-present), located in the small village of Văleni (Patakfalva in Hungarian) provides a micro-look at how Szekler-Hungarians have remained steadfast and relatively unchanged since their arrival in the Carpathian Basin (12-13th century)....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michelle Rathgaber.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The continued focus of many field schools on excavation without any emphasis or discussion of the associated long-term care of the resulting collections is one of many factors contributing to the current curation crisis. With little to no focus on the responsibilities and costs associated with long-term care of collections, we are doing a disservice to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Taylor.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper will discuss the 2023 excavations of a magazine and underground tunnel in Traverse 8 of Fort Fisher (31NH7) in New Hanover County, North Carolina. Fort Fisher was a large Confederate earthwork that was constructed, primarily by enslaved and conscripted Native American labor, in 1861 south of Wilmington, North Carolina. Fort Fisher, often called...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Courtney Buchanan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa Island, two islands in California's Channel Islands National Park, were the homes of ranching operations from the mid-nineteenth century through the close of the twentieth century. The Channel Islands were home to the Chumash and their ancestors for over 10,000 years, until Spain claimed them as part of Alta California in 1542....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jason Yaeger.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. LiDAR survey was undertaken in the Mopan Valley of Western Belize by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping in 2013 using the Gemini LiDAR sensor and again in 2022 using the newer Titan sensor. A total of 138 square kilometers were surveyed both times. A comparison of the data in the resurveyed area shows that the Titan sensor provided data with a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Sattler.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tanana Chiefs Conference is an Alaska Native regional service provider for 37 federally-recognized Tribes and five village associations in Interior Alaska. Through a self-governance compact with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the agency has developed a cultural resources program for three decades. Diverse program activities include a portfolio of field...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lila Jones.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Whiskey Flats (41MD50), located in Midland County, Texas, was situated around Mustang Pond in Mustang Draw. Two separate bone concentrations (Area 1 and Area 2) were recovered within a ~40m distance of each other. Area 1, a now dry pond, consisted of a modern bison and modern horse bonebed radiocarbon dated to ~A.D. 1750. Area 2, a terrace north of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian Kuijt.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cultural heritage has few friends in times of war. Working as part of a collaborative international team of archaeologists and filmmakers, over three 10 day visits in 2023 and 2024, we traveled through central and north-eastern Ukraine filming and documenting the destruction of cultural heritage. This presentation provides a first-hand account of travels...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Nicholson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Expanding students' educational opportunities to explore the richness of human culture is a fundamental aspect of a well-rounded university education. While several platforms that offer general online lessons on archaeology, there is a noticeable gap in educational materials that enable students to interact with real-world datasets, images, and documents...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicole Rose.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A maritime hub in the Greek colonial period, the Sinop promontory of Black Sea Turkey served as a center for the movement of goods and peoples since at least the Bronze Age. Previous work has established Sinop as one locale out of many in a Black Sea world constructed by seasonal fishers and spheres of trade and exchange alike. This poster revisits...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Collins.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For the Middle Preclassic Maya (900 to 300 BC), the category of skilled laborers we would label specialists was emergent. The process of specialization thus entailed balancing several factors, including practice, acquiring technological and resource knowledge, navigating established socio-religious customs, and making time to do so in an increasingly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zachary Silvia.

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 preliminary results of systematic aerial and geophysical survey in the Kyzylkum Desert, west of the Bukhara Oasis (Uzbekistan) from 2023-24. Our work utilizes a combined approach of magnetometry, ground penetrating radar, traditional panchromatic aerial photography, and aerial thermography to document land use patterns of relict...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lydia Kiernicki.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Cape Canaveral Archaeological Mitigation Project (CCAMP) is an ongoing collaboration between archaeology faculty and students at the University of Central Florida and personnel at Space Launch Delta 45 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Phase II excavations at the Penny Site (8BR158) of late precolonial contexts provides the opportunity for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephanie Lozano.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Tlaloc glyph has been considered a symbol which refers to the Teotihuacan Tlaloc and appears in the diverse cultural material of the grand metropolis. Examples of the Teotihuacan Tlaloc glyph also appear outside the Central Mexican highlands such as within the Maya area. Two examples of this emblematic glyph appear on the Tikal Marcador. The Tikal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Pailes.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents survey data from recent research in the Sierra Pinacate of far Northwest Sonora, Mexico. This region was occupied by O’odham peoples that followed a predominantly hunter and gatherer way of life. Remoteness, extreme aridity, and legal protection as a Reserva de la Biosfera result in exceptional preservation in this region. These...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Isabella Bernstein.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Philippine archaeology has largely been shaped by colonial interaction, particularly by American missionaries, military members, and scholars. This imperial gaze, despite the Philippines gaining independence in 1946, has created a legacy of artifact extractivism and human objectification. During the Martial Law period (1972-1986) enacted by Ferdinand...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alex Garcia-Putnam.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. How antemortem long bone fractures are treated following injury can dramatically impact the lived experience of an individual. Unset fractures can lead to infection, degenerative joint disease, and even death without proper medical intervention. Here, the authors explore fracture severity and healing from skeletal samples derived from two New Orleans...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Annabelle Lewis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geospatial analysis has much to offer historic cemetery archaeology. Recognizing the lived-in landscapes past people moved within through geospatial analysis allows us to visualize historic cemeteries more holistically and recognize their important roles as sites for social and economic interactions at multiple scales. This paper follows the author’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marie Matsuda.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Palmer Divide is a geologic region east of the Front Range of Colorado that separates the South Platte River Basin to the north and Arkansas River Basin to the south. The region is an ecological island with a rich history dating from the Late Paleoindian to the Middle Ceramic. Numerous sites have been documented and excavated in the region, providing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Calistri.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Disert– meaning a hermitage or a place apart– is a multi-phase early ecclesiastical site that has served as a sacred place to the surrounding communities of County Donegal, Ireland, since at least the early medieval period. Today, it remains a site for spiritual pilgrimage or turas. With the support of the local community, four seasons of excavation by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Smith.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Alcohols in the ancient world have been the subject of increased study as methods for analysis grow in sophistication, but despite progress made in the field of chemical identification, identifying the presence/absence of alcohols in the archaeological record remains somewhat mixed. I present preliminary work on the use-alteration patterns attributed to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Blackwood.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As advances in and incorporation of new technologies in archaeological research and discourse becomes the new norm, archaeologists have the opportunity to revisit the ethical parameters involved with such implementations. When and how and from whom is permission sought? Who has the right to make these decisions? Existing guidelines for creating and using...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Tamburro.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. What were the spatial patterns of Classic Maya touch? A recent study in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences analyzed “social touch” across several European cultures and concluded that emotional closeness to an individual affects the bodily zones where touch is permitted, playing a key role in developing social cohesion. However, these findings may not...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elise Laugier.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dryland regions—arid to sub-humid environments—are where the needs of the past, present, and future intersect, creating tensions between intensifying agricultural practices and cultural heritage protection. Currently, drylands support 18.5% of global agriculture and nearly 2 billion people, while facing challenges from growing urban populations,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dale Earl.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent research into diet change in the Maya Mountains of Belize has pointed to environmental change as a critical factor. These shifts in diet were argued to have occurred as a lead up to the shift of populations in the Maya Mountains from archaeological patterns that characterize the Archaic in the region from those of the Pre-Classic Maya communities....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean Begg.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mongolian hunter-gatherers underwent a widespread transition to pastoralism during the Late Bronze Age (3.4-2.3 ka). As early herders left little material trace, not much is known about their population distribution or land use patterns, especially in climatic context. Late Bronze Age pastoralists would have been vulnerable to summer droughts and extreme...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin Pugh.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent research in collaboration with Picuris Pueblo has led to the documentation of an immense Developmental Period village, composed of dense pit houses and artifacts scatters extending for three kilometers along a mesa edge just south of the contemporary pueblo. Known as the Eagle Pile Site, the village was an important part of Picuris oral history...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Tykot.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Nearly 400 obsidian artifacts from a dozen sites in southwestern Ethiopia were analyzed to address source selection for ritual activities. This involved the Gamo ethnic group at historic sites dating to the seventeenth– nineteenth centuries, where men are hide-workers of all materials. Another site, the Mota Cave, dates back to 4500 BP and provides a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only D. Gibson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Thanks to the chance survival of a rich corpus of historical documentation for County Clare, Ireland, and the early land survey work by Irish-speaking scholars in the nineteenth century, the territorial organization of Irish complex chiefdoms in Thomond can be reconstructed with a high degree of confidence. What may be reconstructed includes the internal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madelynn Green.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology and Folklore have long had a tense relationship, but in an era of archaeology focusing more and more on the current and descendant communities it is imperative for archaeologists to begin engage folklore traditions in their work. By engaging archaeology and folkloric methods both fields can benefit. In the case of this study, I have used the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Kingery.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Before Trinity University, a small liberal arts campus of approximately 2700 students, moved to its present location in San Antonio, Texas, the land was used as a limestone quarry, a low-income informal housing site, and a municipal trash dump site in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. When the university purchased the land in the 1940s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Luke Stroth.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper we describe the animal resources targeted by the ancient Maya of southern Belize and identify changes in species composition through time, as aligned to our recently published ceramic chronology. For the ancient Maya, animal proteins complemented a diet largely based on cultivated plant resources. Large mammals were hunted and often eaten in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Isabella Thomson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Human skeletal remains, divorced from their original context, may be rendered “oddities” and collectible items by individuals wishing to possess human bones for sale, trade, or personal curation. This phenomenon contributes to the continued dehumanization and necroviolence against unidentified and unclaimed individuals. These themes are interrogated...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bailey Raab.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent investigations at the Turpin site, a Fort Ancient village site dating from 1000-1300 CE in southwest Ohio, have sought to determine the extent of excavations conducted at the site by Harvard University’s Peabody Museum in 1885. In addition to shedding light on past disturbances of the site, these excavations have allowed for further research into...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Macayla Sauser.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Located in the lower Aucilla River in northwest Florida, the Lady Bug site (8JE795) is a late Pleistocene archaeological site which contains more than two meters of stratified faunal bearing sedimentary deposits. A diachronic zooarchaeological analysis will be performed on faunal material from these strata to better understand the environmental changes...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eliane Chim.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The chronology of initial human occupation in the Americas is highly debated. While most scholars accept only post-Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) occupations, others advocate for a much earlier arrival of humans on the continent, with estimates ranging from 130,000 to 24,000 years ago. Rock art has played a significant role in this debate, with examples in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Coon.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Historically, paleoanthropology has been largely separated from other anthropological disciplines. However, the history of the discipline overlaps with the birth of both archaeology and biological anthropology, often sharing paradigms and scientific toolkits. These disciplines emerged from the desire to better understand and define humanity and the human...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Ramey.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Kaskaskia, Illinois was founded in 1706 as a French Jesuit missionary, cradled between two major water sources: Kaskaskia and Mississippi Rivers. It was home to momentous events for the frontier, including the Revolutionary War. In 1818, it became the first capital of Illinois. Disaster struck in the 1880s, when the Mississippi River cut into the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tera Stocking.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Craft production is essential in understanding the past through material culture; it is imbedded in the socioeconomic and political systems of past societies. Understanding the division of labor among crafters is therefore valuable in analyzing social systems and should not be taken for granted but further explored. However, certain craft industries, such...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elaine Marhefka.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological artifacts and primary documents carry a tangible historical and cultural significance that K-12 educators need to illustrate, and substantiate, often overlooked narratives in their communities to their students and colleagues. Political and social backlash against teachers, resources, and learning about minoritized lived experiences is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peri Johnson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 2012, the Turkish government has implemented regulations fostering the sustainable development of metropolitan cities as drivers of a globalizing economy. Coupled with these regulatory reforms are robust policies on the preservation of historical heritage within cities and the identification and inventory of immovable heritage such as archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kyle Farquharson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper we provide a re-evaluation of the relationships between Calakmul and surrounding subsidiary centers, offering a novel approach in understanding Calakmul’s role within the region during the Late Classic period (AD 650-850). This study is based on new lidar and survey data from southern Campeche, Mexico, which enhances our understanding of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leah Larsen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Understanding past landscape use in Peru can provide important insights into human social organization. This research takes systematic regional survey data and maps likely settlements and patterns of travel using Geographic Information System. Specifically, the transition to agropastoral village life in the Cusco region during the Late Formative (600...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allyson Ropp.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Underwater archaeology sits at a critical juncture between spade and spade-free archaeology. While many underwater archaeological projects have utilized traditional excavation methods to illuminate our sunken history, recent efforts have turned toward spare-free, in situ and/or virtual reality methodologies to investigate these sites, work toward their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Citlali Tierney.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Biocultural investigations of sex-based differences in social roles of ancient societies of the Maya Lowlands from the early Holocene foragers to late Holocene farmers have been constrained by major gaps in the archaeological record, primarily due to the absence of preserved human remains from the earliest periods in this region. The exceptional...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cynthia Bello-Hernandez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The discovery of two cremation burials at the Maya site of Ucanal, Guatemala in 2019 and 2022 is significant as this practice remains extremely rare during the Classic period (250–950 CE) in the Southern Maya Lowlands. One of the burials, Burial 20-1, was unusual in that it contained four individuals, exhibiting varying degrees of thermal exposure that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniela Fuenmayor.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hundreds of textile fragments were collected during excavations in 2012 of aboveground funerary structures in the Colca Valley, Peru. These fragments were scattered and impossible to relate to specific individuals because of the pervasive looting of these accessible tombs as well as subsequent disturbance and exposure to the elements. Despite these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caroline Boerger.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cultural Resource Management professionals are no strangers to the challenges that accompany legacy data stewardship. Past collection methods, outdated site definitions, and the digitization of existing data often lead to inaccurate, overlapping, and missing data. Highly dense cultural landscapes that have been carved into discrete archaeological sites in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Briana Houghton.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the early 1960’s excavations commenced at multiple localities at Hell Gap (48GO305) north of Guernsey Wyoming. Locality II yielded evidence of Agate Basin aged post molds alongside lithic materials and faunal remains. Archaeologically, evidence of structures this old are often difficult to identify due to the organic nature of construction materials....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sonia Pujals Blanch.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cartagena de Indias, in present-day Colombia, was a crucial port connecting the Americas to Spain. Initially a hub for resources taken from indigenous groups, between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries AD, it evolved into a colonial trade center where different cultural entities coexisted. The study of ceramics from Cartagena provides valuable...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Renata Araujo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geometric Morphometric Methods (GMM) stand as a robust analytical approach originating from evolutionary biology, designed to quantify and assess variations in the shapes of biological specimens. Over the past fifteen years, archaeologists have increasingly employed GMM to scrutinize the shape diversity of archaeological artefacts. Particularly prevalent...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lua Salomon Velasco.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project involves a methodological proposal for analyzing the color palette of the Jama Valley, using ceramic materials discovered in this region as the primary source. For the preliminary results based on the methodological porpose, the analysis initially focuses on the Jama-Coaque culture, with plans to expand the research to materials from other...