Archaeology Program Alumni, Faculty, Students, & Affiliates presenting at The SAA 89th Annual Meeting
Boston University Archaeology Program Alumni, Faculty, Students, & Affiliates Past & Present presenting The SAA 89th Annual Meeting
April 17–April 21, 2024
New Orleans, Louisiana
Program Committee Chair
David Carballo
Boston University
SAA Committee Members
Rebecca E. Bria
Stephen A. Brighton
Wade Campbell
Eleanor Harrison-Buck
Laura Heath-Stout
Justin Holcomb
Curtis Runnels
Catherine F. West
Paul Goldberg Award
Recipient: Elizabeth McCreary
Elizabeth McCreary has earned the 2024 Paul Goldberg Award to support
her thesis research that involves locating archaeological features associated
with the 1758 Friendly Fire Incident at Fort Ligonier, PA. This project will
utilize data from Human Remains Detection Dog survey in order to select
20 Program of the 89th Annual Meeting
targets for Elizabeth’s geophysical and gradiometer surveys aimed at discovering
the location of the incident and associated burials. (Indiana University
of Pennsylvania)
April 18, 2024
FORUM HOW TO WIN DEANS AND INFLUENCE STUDENTS:
“SELLING” YOUR ARCHAEOLOGY PROGRAM TO UNIVERSITY
STAKEHOLDERS
(Sponsored by Curriculum Committee)
Room: Marriott Galerie 3
Time: 8:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m.
Moderator: Alexandra McCleary
Participants:
Katrina Eichner—Discussant
[12] SYMPOSIUM ARCHAEOGASTRONOMY: GROCERY LISTS AS SEEN
FROM A MULTIDIMENSIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Room: Marriott Balcony N
Time: 8:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m.
Chairs: Clarissa Cagnato and Laura Longo
Participants:
8:30 Chantel White, Grant Bruner, Alessandra Dominguez, Jennifer Feng and
Phoenix Strouse—Assessing Plant Use in the Early Upper Paleolithic:
Macrobotanical Results from Mughr el-Hamamah, Jordan
9:00 Maria Codlin, Lisa Yeomans and Beatrice Demarchi—Identification of
Avian Bone and Eggshell to Reveal Seasonal Foods from Ancient Wetlands
[17] SYMPOSIUM WORLD-SYSTEMS AND GLOBALIZATION IN
ARCHAEOLOGY: ASSESSING MODELS OF INTERSOCIETAL
CONNECTIONS 50 YEARS SINCE WALLERSTEIN’S “THE MODERN
WORLD-SYSTEM”
Room: Marriott Galerie 4
Time: 8:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
Chairs: Claudia Chang and Paul Nick Kardulias
10:00 Thomas Tartaron—Linking Multiple Scales in Time and Space: Small
Worlds and World-Systems Analysis
[37] SYMPOSIUM ANDEAN MATERIALS AND MUSEUM RESEARCH
Room: Marriott Studio 10
Time: 10:00 a.m.–11:45 a.m.
Chair: Henry Bacha
Participants:
10:15 Michelle Young, Colin Cooke, Emily Kaplan, Gabriel Prieto and Jacob
Bongers—No Smoking Gun: The Potential and Limitations of Isotopic
Sourcing of Archaeological Cinnabar in the Central Andean Region
[44] POSTER SESSION IT’S NOT ALL ANCIENT HISTORY: HISTORICAL
ARCHAEOLOGY PART I
Room: Marriott Grand Ballroom
Time: 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Participants:
44-c Luke Pecoraro—New Directions for Archaeology at Drayton Hall
[46] POSTER SYMPOSIUM MAKING HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY MATTER:
RETHINKING AN ENGAGED ARCHAEOLOGY OF NINETEENTH- TO
TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY RURAL COMMUNITIES OF WESTERN
IRELAND AND SOUTHERN ITALY
Room: Marriott Grand Ballroom
Time: 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Chair: Isaac Ullah
Participants:
46-a Paula Lazrus—Traditional Lifeways as Knowledge of the Past and for the
Future
46-c Isaac Ullah, Meredith Chesson, Paula Lazrus and Kostalena Michelaki—
Climate Change and Rural Livelihood in Calabria, Italy
46-f Meredith Chesson, Isaac Ullah, Paula Lazrus, Kostalena Michelaki and
Giovanni Iiriti—Sustainable Futures in Southern Calabria: Vibrant
Communities, Farming Heritage, and Loving the Rural Life
[47] POSTER SYMPOSIUM ARCHAEOLOGICAL FUTURES THROUGH A
VIRTUAL PAST
Room: Marriott Grand Ballroom
Time: 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Chairs: Craig Stevens and Julie Wesp
47-e Andreana Cunningham—3D Skeletal Digitization as a Tool for
Collaborative Artistic Commemoration
[51] SYMPOSIUM ASIAN SUBSISTENCE AND FOODWAYS
Room: Marriott Balcony N
Time: 10:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Chair: Yinzhi Cui
Participants:
10:15 Yiyi Tang, Jiajing Wang, Liu Li and Wei Chen—Local Adaptation and
Subsistence Strategy of Yangshao Migrants in Northwestern Sichuan in
Program of the 89th Annual Meeting Thursday Morning, April 18 81
Session titles beginning with *SE denote inclusion in the Southeast Session Series
China during the Middle Neolithic (5300–4700 cal BP)
[55] SYMPOSIUM ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY IN AFRICA
Room: Marriott Studio 3
Time: 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Chair: Asia Alsgaard
Participants:
10:45 Asia Alsgaard, Karen van Niekerk, Carin Andersson and Mimi Lam—
Exploring Characteristics of Sustainable Coastal Exploitation during the
Middle and Later Stone Ages in South Africa through Fish Bones and Seal
Teeth
[56] SYMPOSIUM STATES, CONFEDERACIES, AND NATIONS:
REENVISIONING EARLY LARGE-SCALE COLLECTIVES
Room: Marriott Studio 1&2
Time: 12:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Chair: Justin Jennings
2:15 Akin Ogundiran—The Oyo Empire, ca. 1570–1840: The Art of Being a
Compositional State
[64] FORUM A PRACTITIONER’S GUIDE TO PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGY:
INTENTIONAL PROGRAMMING FOR EFFECTIVE OUTREACH
(Sponsored by Public Education Committee and Public Archaeology Interest
Group)
Room: Marriott Salon C
Time: 1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Moderators: Elizabeth Reetz and A. Gwynn Henderson
Meredith Langlitz—Discussant
[67] POSTER SESSION HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEIR
ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE
Room: Marriott Grand Ballroom
Time: 1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Participants:
67-a Catherine West, Trevor Lamb and Isabel Beach—Fixed if by Ice, Loose if
by Sea? Harpoon Technology as Evidence of Hunting-Scapes in the
Neoglacial Eastern Aleutian Islands
[68] POSTER SESSION BIOARCHAEOLOGY AND MORTUARY ANALYSIS
PART I: ASIA AND EUROPE
Room: Marriott Grand Ballroom
Time: 1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
68-f Katie McGrath, Zsolt Nyárádi, Katie Zejdlik and Jonathan Bethard—
Comparing Demographic Patterns of Archaeological and Modern
Cemetery Data: A Novel Application of GPS Technology
68-i Valerie Arroyo, Jonathan Bethard, Andre Gociar, Zsolt Nyárádi and
Jennifer Mathews—How the Skeletal Remains of Romanian Reflect the
Culture and Daily Life of the Medieval Period
[81] SYMPOSIUM AFTER THE FELINE CULT: SOCIAL DYNAMICS AND
CULTURAL REINVENTION AFTER CHAVÍN
Room: Marriott Balcony M
Time: 1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Chairs: George Lau and David Chicoine
3:00 Rebecca Bria and M. Elizabeth Grávalos—Cuisine and Craft at Ancient
Hualcayán: Exploring Ceremonial Production during the Chavín to
Recuay Transition (900 BCE–1000 CE)
[82] SYMPOSIUM *SE THE STATE OF THEORY IN SOUTHEASTERN
ARCHAEOLOGY
Room: Marriott Studio 4&5
Time: 1:00 p.m.–4:15 p.m.
Chairs: Maureen Meyers and Sarah Baires
Participants:
4:00 Katherine Parker—Tracing Theoretical Approaches to Constructing and
Contesting Whiteness in Southeastern Archaeology
[83] SYMPOSIUM ADVENTURES IN BEEKEEPING: RECENT STUDIES IN
ECOLOGY, ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY, AND ETHNOGRAPHY IN
YUCATÁN
Room: Marriott Salon F
Time: 1:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Chairs: Hector Hernandez and Rani Alexander
1:45 Adam King, Terry Powis, Sheldon Skaggs, Christina Luke and Nilesh
Gaikwad—Balché Consumption among the Ancient Maya: Bees, Honey,
and Ritual Practice
[86] SYMPOSIUM THE ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS FACILITY AT THE FIELD
MUSEUM: CELEBRATING 20 YEARS SERVING THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL
COMMUNITY
Room: Marriott Balcony I
Time: 1:00 p.m.–4:45 p.m.
Chair: Laure Dussubieux
Participants:
1:00 Patrick Ryan Williams and Laure Dussubieux—Establishing the Elemental
Analysis Facility: Reflections on 20 Years of Research
1:15 Nicola Sharratt and Patrick Ryan Williams—Two Decades (Almost) of
Regional Clay Surveys by the EAF: Successes, Challenges, and
Opportunities
1:30 Donna Nash, Patrick Ryan Williams and Laure Dussubieux—Palace
Pottery Production on Cerro Baúl: The Particularity of Paste Recipes
[98] POSTER SESSION ETHICS, EDUCATION, AND PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGY
PART II: THE WORLD AT LARGE
Room: Marriott Grand Ballroom
Time: 4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
98-f Dru McGill, Katherine Chiou and Daulton Selke—Background and Initial
Results from a NSF Study of Archaeology Ethics Training
[110] SYMPOSIUM HYDRO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM OF THE MAYA IN PETÉN,
GUATEMALA
Room: Marriott Balcony M
Time: 6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Chair: Yuko Shiratori
7:00 Lia Kalinkos, Marc Wolf and Timothy Pugh—Architecture and Hydrology:
Defining the Sacred Landscape of the Tayasal Hinterland amid the Shores
of Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala
[113] SYMPOSIUM THE MEDITERRANEAN DIETS
Room: Marriott Balcony L
Time: 6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Chair: Daniel Fallu
6:30 Antony Brown, Andreas Lang, Francesco Ficetola, Kevin Walsh and
Daniel Fallu—Ancient and Medieval Agricultural Terraces in Italy:
Chronology, Geoarchaeology, and sedaDNA
7:00 Daniel Fallu, Andreas Lang, Leonidas Vokotopoulos, Florence Gaignerot-
Driessen and Antony Brown—Climate, Vulcanism, and Agricultural
Terrace Construction in Late Bronze Age Crete
[124] SYMPOSIUM POLITICS OF HERITAGE VALUES: HOW
ARCHAEOLOGISTS DEAL WITH PLACE, SOCIAL MEMORIES,
IDENTITIES, AND SOCIOECONOMICS
(Sponsored by Heritage Values Interest Group)
Room: Marriott Studio 4&5
Time: 6:00 p.m.–8:45 p.m.
Chair: Jessica Christie
7:45 Laura Heath-Stout—The Negative/Contested/Dark Heritage of Disability
Institutions
April 19, 2024
[155] SYMPOSIUM THEORIZING PREHISTORIC LARGE LOW-DENSITY
SETTLEMENTS BEYOND URBANISM AND OTHER CONVENTIONAL
CLASSIFICATORY CONVENTIONS
Room: Marriott Studio 4&5
Time: 8:00 a.m.–11:45 a.m.
Chairs: Roland Fletcher and Daniel Rodriguez Osorio
11:30 Patricia McAnany—Discussant
[157] SYMPOSIUM CENTRALIZING CENTRAL AMERICA: NEW EVIDENCE,
FRESH PERSPECTIVES, AND WORKING ON NEW PARADIGMS
Room: Marriott Studio 7
Time: 8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Chairs: Sharisse McCafferty, Yajaira Nunez-Cortes and Roberto
Herrera
11:30 Jason Paling and Justin Lowry—Overland Travel Routes and Exchange
Spheres of Pacific Nicaragua Using Obsidian and Ceramic Data from
Chiquilistagua
[159] SYMPOSIUM THE RISE AND APOGEE OF THE CLASSIC MAYA
KAANU’L HEGEMONIC STATE AT DZIBANCHE
Room: Marriott Salon G-H
Time: 9:00 a.m.–11:45 a.m.
Chairs: Francisco Estrada-Belli and Sandra Balanzario Granados
Participants:
9:00 Francisco Estrada-Belli and Sandra Balanzario Granados—Classic Maya
Urbanism at Dzibanche Revealed by Airborne Lidar Mapping
[164] SYMPOSIUM MESOAMERICAN LITHICS
Room: Marriott Bonaparte
Time: 9:45 a.m.–11:45 a.m.
Chair: Geoffrey Braswell
10:15 Cynthia Hannold and Francisco Estrada-Belli—An Analysis of Maya
Eccentric Forms from the Holmul Region, Petén, Guatemala
[168] SYMPOSIUM ARCTIC ARCHAEOLOGY
Room: Marriott Regent
Time: 10:00 a.m.–11:45 a.m.
Chair: Donald Holly
10:45 Trevor Lamb—Parsing the Pits: Cooking Techniques in the Kachemak
Period Kodiak Archipelago
[169] SYMPOSIUM BRONZE AND IRON AGE SOUTHWEST ASIA
Room: Marriott Iberville
Time: 10:00 a.m.–11:45 a.m.
Chair: Yoko Nishimura
11:30 Sarah Richardson, Timothy Matney, Britt Hartenberger, Mary
Shepperson and Tina Greenfield—The Sebittu Project: A Report on the
2023 Pilot Season
[179] ELECTRONIC SYMPOSIUM THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF FOOD AND
FOODWAYS: EMERGING TRENDS AND NEW PERSPECTIVES
Room: Marriott Salon E
Time: 10:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Chairs: Shanti Morell-Hart and Shinya Shoda
Participants:
Kathleen Forste, Amalia Pérez-Juez, Alexander Smith, Helena Kirchner and Guillem Alcolea—From Terrace to Tray: Agriculture and Foodways at a Thirteenth-Century Alqueria
[180] FORUM HOW AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGISTS CAN HELP COMBAT
LOOTING
Room: Marriott Salon D
Time: 10:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Moderator: Helena Arose
Terressa Davis—Discussant
[184] SYMPOSIUM EDUCATION AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL CAREERS
Room: Marriott Galerie 4
Time: 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Chair: Danielle Raad
Participants:
11:00 Mark Warner, Katrina Eichner and Renae Campbell—What 35 Students
Tell Us: Reevaluating Traditional Field School Delivery Methods
[185] SYMPOSIUM BEYOND THE ANCESTORS: NEW APPROACHES TO
ANDEAN “OPEN SEPULCHERS”
Room: Marriott Balcony N
Time: 12:00 p.m.–3:45 p.m.
Chairs: Amandine Flammang and Margot Serra
1:45 Emily Sharp, Rebecca Bria and Erick Casanova Vásquez—Housing the
Dead, Assembling Kin: The Construction and Use of Chullpa Tombs
during the Middle Horizon in the Callejón de Huaylas Valley, Peru
[191] SYMPOSIUM ISLAND AND COASTAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Room: Marriott Balcony L
Time: 1:00 p.m.–2:45 p.m.
Chair: Alvaro Montenegro
Participants:
1:15 Alexander Smith, Amalia Pérez-Juez and Kathleen Forste—Diachronic
Domestic Spaces at Torre d’en Galmés: Results from the 2022–2023
Seasons of the Menorca Archaeological Project
[198] POSTER SESSION DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGY: SIMULATION AND
MODELING
Room: Marriott Grand Ballroom
Time: 1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
198-f Maria Torras Freixa, Ivan Briz i Godino, Virginia Ahedo, José Manuel
Galán and Natalia Moragas—Exploring Biological Sex Inequality through
Mortuary Practices at Teotihuacan: A Machine Learning Approach
[215] SYMPOSIUM ANCIENT PASTORALISM IN A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
(Sponsored by Zooarchaeology Interest Group)
Room: Marriott Bonaparte
Time: 1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Chairs: Taylor Hermes and Weronika Tomczyk
2:30 Ahna Feldstein—Untangling the Ecological Impacts of Equestrianism: An
Integrated Isotopic and Archaeobotanical Analysis
[218] SYMPOSIUM 2024 FRYXELL AWARD SYMPOSIUM: PAPERS IN
HONOR OF LUIS BARBA
(Sponsored by Fryxell Committee)
Room: Marriott Salon E
Time: 1:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Chairs: Robert Sternberg and Alessandra Pecci
1:15 David Carballo, Daniela Hernández Sariñana, Agustín Ortiz and Jorge
Blancas—Interdisciplinary Investigations in Teotihuacan’s Tlajinga District:
Disentangling Public and Private Uses of Space
[222] SYMPOSIUM UNRAVELING THE MYSTERIES OF THE ISTHMOCOLOMBIAN
AREA’S PAST: A SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF
ARCHAEOLOGIST RICHARD COOKE AND HIS CONTRIBUTIONS
Room: Marriott Balcony I
Time: 1:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Chairs: Ilean Isaza, Diana Carvajal Contreras and Ashley Sharpe
1:30 Ashley Sharpe, Nicole Smith-Guzmán, Luis Sánchez Herrera, Diana
Carvajal Contreras and Ilean Isaza—Panama Archaeology’s Paradigm Shift:
A History of Cerro Juan Díaz, Its Excavations, and Ongoing Research
1:45 Ilean Isaza and Diana Carvajal Contreras—Between Fishing and Rites of
Passage at Death: Recent Developments from Excavations at Jicarita
Island, Coiba, Panama
3:00 Kitty Emery and Ashley Sharpe—Trajectories of Zooarchaeological
Research across Central America: The Influences and Interests of Richard
Cooke
3:45 Jonathan Cybulski, Nicole Smith-Guzmán, Luis Sánchez Herrera, Kelton
McMahon and Ashley Sharpe—Investigating Human Subsistence Strategies
in Panama during the Late Holocene
4:00 Yajaira Nunez-Cortes, Ashley Sharpe, Nicole Smith-Guzmán and Geissel
Vargas—Diet and Mobility in the Diverse Geographies of the Lower
Central American Land Bridge
[223] SYMPOSIUM THE ANDEAN LATE HORIZON AND HISTORIC PERIODS
Room: Marriott Studio 6
Time: 3:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Chair: Samantha Turley
4:15 Sophie Reilly—Strategizing Food Security under Colonial Rule at Purun
Llaqta del Maino, Chachapoyas, Peru
April 20, 2024
[241] SYMPOSIUM THE BIOARCHAEOLOGY OF THE PHALERON CEMETERY,
ARCHAIC GREECE: CURRENT RESEARCH AND INSIGHTS
Room: Marriott Studio 10
Time: 8:00 a.m.–10:15 a.m.
Chair: Aviva Cormier
8:45 Leigh Hayes, Elizabeth Hannigan, Paige Schmitt, Paraskevi Tritsaroli and
Anna Karligkioti—A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Antemortem Postcranial
Trauma Patterns within the Archaic Greek Cemetery of Phaleron
9:15 Elizabeth Hannigan, Jane Buikstra, Eric Bartelink, Paraskevi Tritsaroli and
Hannah Liedl—The Archaic Period Diet: Preliminary Isotope Results for
Adult Individuals from the Phaleron Cemetery
9:45 Aviva Cormier and Jane Buikstra—Distinctive Burials of the Phaleron
Cemetery, Archaic Greece: Marginalized in Life and Death
[242] SYMPOSIUM WATER MANAGEMENT IN THE ANDES: PAST, PRESENT,
AND FUTURE
Room: Marriott Balcony I
Time: 8:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
Chairs: Alexander Herrera Wassilowsky and Kevin Lane
10:00 Benjamin Vining, Daniel Contreras, Augusto Bazan, Kurt Wilson and
Cesca Craig—Just Add Water: ENSO-Driven Ephemeral Agricultural
Systems in the Arid Chaupiyungas of Peru’s North Coast
[248] SYMPOSIUM ANCIENT MESOAMERICAN AND ANDEAN CITIES: OLD
DEBATES, NEW PERSPECTIVES
Room: Marriott Galerie 1
Time: 8:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
Chairs: Kayla Golay Lausanne and A. Gabriel Vicencio
10:30 Daniela Hernández Sariñana, A. Gabriel Vicencio and Ryohei
Takatsuchi—Understanding Food Production in Teotihuacan: New
Approaches
11:00 Rebecca Bria—Discussant
[250] SYMPOSIUM CRAFTING ARCHAEOLOGICAL PRACTICE IN AFRICA
AND BEYOND: CELEBRATING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF ANN B.
STAHL TO GLOBAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Room: Marriott Galerie 6
Time: 8:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
Chairs: Amanda Logan and Akin Ogundiran
10:45 Akin Ogundiran—Discussant
[254] SYMPOSIUM DEMOCRATIZING HERITAGE CREATION: HOW-TO AND WHEN
(Sponsored by Heritage Values Interest Group)
Room: Marriott Galerie 3
Time: 8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Chairs: Karin Larkin and Kaitlyn Davis
10:30 Krysta Ryzewski, Tareq Ramadan and Aaron Sims—Collaborative
Archaeology and Heritage Management at the Malcolm X House, Inkster,
Michigan
[256] SYMPOSIUM ADVANCES IN MACROBOTANICAL AND
MICROBOTANICAL ARCHAEOBOTANY PART 1
(Sponsored by Archaeobotany Interest Group)
Room: Marriott Studio 7
Time: 8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Chair: John Marston
10:15 Monica Ramsey and John Marston—Starch Spherulites: What We Know
and What Is Next for This Promising New Method of Paleoethnobotanical Analysis
[268] POSTER SESSION WHAT’S ON THE MENU? PART III: FAUNAL
ANALYSIS AND OTHER ANIMAL PRODUCTS
Room: Marriott Grand Ballroom
Time: 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
268-i Haylee Backs and Laura Masur—Domestic Animal Use at St. Inigoes
Jesuit Plantation
[276] SYMPOSIUM MESOAMERICAN CERAMICS
Room: Marriott Iberville
Time: 1:00 p.m.–2:45 p.m.
Chair: Astrid Runggaldier
2:00 Astrid Runggaldier—Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Small Finds in the
Collections of Maya Archaeological Assemblages of the BREA Project in
Belize
[281] POSTER SESSION ROCK AND ROLL (AND SOIL): GEOARCHAEOLOGY
Room: Marriott Grand Ballroom
Time: 1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
281-h John Blong, Justin Holcomb, Jordan Thompson and Sonya Sobel—The
Cascade Phase at the Kelly Forks Work Center Site, Idaho: Exploring
Regional Variability across the Intermountain West
281-i Justin Holcomb and Rolfe Mandel—Incorporating Soil Micromorphology
into First American Research: A Tale of Two Sites
[282] POSTER SESSION EXPERIMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Room: Marriott Grand Ballroom
Time: 1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
282-c Samantha Nadel and Everardo Tapia Mendoza—Preservation,
Degradation, and Contamination: The Chemical Identification of
Cochineal in Archaeological Environments
[284] POSTER SESSION CERAMICS ANALYSIS PART I: TRADE, SOCIAL
ORGANIZATION, AND IDENTITY FORMATION
Room: Marriott Grand Ballroom
Time: 1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
284-b Kalei Oliver, Erick Casanova Vásquez and Rebecca Bria—Ritual and
Domestic Life at Usacorral: Preliminary Investigations and Community-
Based Research at a Long-Occupied Community Site in the Northern
Callejón de Huaylas, Peru
[285] POSTER SESSION CERAMICS ANALYSIS PART II: PRODUCTION, USE,
AND METHODS OF ANALYSIS
Room: Marriott Grand Ballroom
Time: 1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
285-k Jessica MacLellan and Daniela Triadan—Toying with Classic Maya Society:
Ceramic Figurine Whistles and Children’s Socialization at Ceibal, Guatemala
285-l Kacy Hollenback, Christopher Roos, Whitney Goodwin and Francesco
Berna—Finding Fire: Techniques for Identifying Ephemeral Ceramic Firing
Features in the Archaeological Record
[288] SYMPOSIUM ADVANCES IN MACROBOTANICAL AND
MICROBOTANICAL ARCHAEOBOTANY, PART II
(Sponsored by Archaeobotany Interest Group)
Room: Marriott Studio 7
Time: 1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Chair: Chantel White
[291] SYMPOSIUM MOUNTAINS, RAIN, AND TECHNIQUES OF
GOVERNANCE IN MESOAMERICA
Room: Marriott Studio 8
Time: 1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Chairs: Zachary Hruby and Cameron McNeil
2:00 Marc Wolf and Elisandro Garza—Rain Born of the Mountains: Hydrology,
Vistas, and Political Control
2:15 Elisandro Garza and Marc Wolf—In the Realm of Three Hills: Civic-
Religious Architecture at Llano Grande, Copan, during the Late Classic
Period (ca. AD 650–850)
[295] SYMPOSIUM “THE CENTER AND THE EDGE”: HOW THE
ARCHAEOLOGY OF BELIZE IS FOUNDATIONAL FOR UNDERSTANDING
THE ANCIENT MAYA, PART II
Room: Marriott Studio 1&2
Time: 1:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Chair: Diane Chase
2:00 Eleanor Harrison-Buck, Marieka Brouwer Burg and Samantha Krause—
Life on the Edge: Fifty Years of Belize Wetland Archaeology
[301] SYMPOSIUM THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF PROPERTY REGIMES
Room: Marriott Studio 9
Time: 1:00 p.m.–4:15 p.m.
Chairs: Jacob Holland-Lulewicz and Isabelle Holland-Lulewicz
1:45 Wade Campbell—Building Back Past Diné Communities: Ricos, Pobres,
and Naat’aanii Status in Pericolonial New Mexico
[318] SYMPOSIUM HUMAN-ANIMAL RELATIONS
Room: Marriott Studio 8
Time: 8:00 a.m.–9:45 a.m.
Chair: Yifan Wang
8:30 Ian Roa, Ashley Sharpe, Claire Ebert and Julie Hoggarth—A Zoontological
Approach for Examining the Role of Animals in Ancestral Maya Ritual and
Society
[331] SYMPOSIUM RETHINKING PERSISTENT PLACES: RELATIONSHIPS,
ATMOSPHERES, AND AFFECTS
Room: Marriott Galerie 2
Time: 8:00 a.m.–11:15 a.m.
Chairs: Caitlyn Antoniuk and Jacob Skousen
9:45 Maia Dedrick, Patricia McAnany and Adolfo Batun-Alpuche—Climate
Adaptations in Persistent Places: Relational Solutions in Yucatán, Mexico
10:00 Asa Randall—Intervening Impersistence on the St. Johns River, Florida