(March 22, 2023)—Early spring here at our Tucson office means the last of the winter rains, the appearance of spring flowers (and, for me, allergy season), and lots of preparation for the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting coming up next week in Portland, Oregon. Some of our staff, volunteers, and recent Preservation Archaeology Field School students are busy finalizing their meeting papers and posters this week. For most of our students, this will be their first time presenting their own original research at a national professional conference. I can’t wait to see the final versions of their projects!
We’ve compiled a brief listing of Archaeology Southwest staff and students’ upcoming meeting presentations below, and we hope many of you will come discuss this work with us in person. If you aren’t heading to Portland, worry not—our posters will be archived on our website after the meeting for everyone to enjoy.
In addition to the presentations listed below, I’m looking forward to seeing what some of our field school students from previous years are working on now, including Jonathan Alperstein (Dartmouth College), Alex Covert (Flagstaff Area National Monuments), Maxwell Forton (SUNY Binghamton and Coronado National Forest), Johnny Schaefer (Tetra Tech), Matthew Steber (PaleoWest), and Stephen Uzzle (U of Arizona and Statistical Research, Inc.).
Thank you to the National Science Foundation (NSF REU-1851763) for supporting our presenting students’ attendance and helping the next generation of professional archaeologists.
2023 SAA Presentations
Emily Barrick, “Comparative Distribution of Kayenta Ground Stone in Hohokam and Mogollon Salado Sites” in Mogollon, Mimbres, and Salado Archaeology in Southwest New Mexico and Beyond, Saturday 4/1, 1:00–3:00 p.m.
Jorge Barceló and Allen Denoyer, “Comparison of Hafting Adhesive Strengths in Lithic Tools” in Mogollon, Mimbres, and Salado Archaeology in Southwest New Mexico and Beyond, Saturday 4/1, 1:00–3:00 p.m.
Jonah Bullen, “A Comparative Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of Geographically Disparate Salado Sites” in Mogollon, Mimbres, and Salado Archaeology in Southwest New Mexico and Beyond, Saturday 4/1, 1:00–3:00 p.m.
Aleesha Clevenger and Allen Denoyer, “Salado Projectile Point Technology at the Gila River Farm Site, Southwestern New Mexico” in Mogollon, Mimbres, and Salado Archaeology in Southwest New Mexico and Beyond, Saturday 4/1, 1:00–3:00 p.m.
Totsoni DeLuna, “Ceramic Distribution Within the Upper Gila Region” in Mogollon, Mimbres, and Salado Archaeology in Southwest New Mexico and Beyond, Saturday 4/1, 1:00–3:00 p.m.
Jonathan C. Driver and Karen Gust Schollmeyer, “Fine-Grained Chronology Reveals Human Impacts on Animal Populations in the Mesa Verde Region of the American Southwest” in Research, Education, and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Friday 3/31, 8:00–11:45 a.m.
Charles Hemphill, “Analysis of Shell Trade Patterns at Salado Sites in the Southwest” in Mogollon, Mimbres, and Salado Archaeology in Southwest New Mexico and Beyond, Saturday 4/1, 1:00–3:00 p.m.
Paul Reed, “Expanding our Approaches to American Archaeology: An Example from the Greater Chaco Landscape” in On Disciplinary Culture: Challenging Traditional Power and Knowledge Structures Within Archaeology Part I, Friday 3/31, 10:00 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Karen Gust Schollmeyer, Jeffrey Ferguson, Jacques Burlot, Joan Brenner Coltrain, and Virginie Renson, “Turkey Provisioning, Exchange, and the Isotopic Zooarchaeology of Social Transformations in the Mesa Verde Region” in Isotopic and Animal aDNA Analyses in the Southwest/Northwest, Thursday 3/30, 1:00–3:30 p.m.
Jaye Smith and Jeffery J. Clark, “Continued Work on the Ray Robinson Collection: Four Salado Sites in the Northern San Pedro Valley Region of Southeastern Arizona” in Education, Ethics, and Endless Shelves: Studies in Archaeological Collections Curation, and Museums Part II, Sunday 4/2, 8:00–9:45 a.m.
John Welch, discussant in Back to the Future: The National Historic Preservation Act and the SAA/NPS Airlie House Seminars Revisited, Thursday 3/30 8:00 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
John Welch, Emma Britton, April Oga, Brandi MacDonald, and Fred Nials, “Thriving under the Killick Critical Gaze (KCG): Toward Taphonomically Informed Forensic Sedimentology” in Archaeological Science and African Archaeology: Appreciating the Impact of David Killick, Saturday 4/1, 8:00 a.m.–noon.
Ian Youth, “Quantitatively Modeling the Relationship between Watershed Size and Site Size in 6th-10th Century Gila and Mimbres Regions, Southwestern New Mexico” in Mogollon, Mimbres, and Salado Archaeology in Southwest New Mexico and Beyond, Saturday 4/1, 1:00–3:00 p.m.