Archaeometry at SAA 75 - F, April 16

The annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology will be in St. Louis, April 14-18.

Friday Morning April 16, 2010

[105A] WORKSHOP SOIL CHEMISTRY ARCHAEOCHEMICAL WORKSHOP
Room: Landmark 1 (R)
Time: 8:00 AM–12:00 PM

[117] ELECTRONIC SYMPOSIUM THE CANVAS OF SPACE: METHOD AND THEORY OF SPATIAL INVESTIGATIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Room: 224 (AC)
Time: 8:00 AM–10:00 AM
Organizers and Chairs: Kimberly Kasper and Margaret Morris
Participants:
Eva Hulse—Jill of All Trades and Master of None?: The Challenges of Doing Soil Chemistry Analysis as an Archaeologist
Kimberly Kasper and Kevin McBride—The Spatial Significance of Plants
Quentin Lewis—Unequal Variables: GIS and Spatialities of Inequality
Brian Jones—An Exploratory Data Analysis Approach to Artifact Density Correlation
Meredith Hardy—It’s a Small World? Settlement and Interaction on St. Croix, Virgin Islands
Ezra Zubrow, Eva Hulse, Greg Korosec and Dustin Keeler—Supra-regional Issues in Archaeology
Ray Whitlow—Linking Spatial Theories and Archaeological Data with the help of Formal Ontology
Margaret Morris—Are We the Tools of our Tools? Understanding Impacts of GIS Approaches on Archaeological Research
Elizabeth Lynch—Bedrocks Metates along the Chaquaqua Drainage: Building an Conceptual Framework for Prehistoric Landscape Knowledge
Sarah Sportman—Daily Practice, Social Identity and the Organization of Domestic Space at Hammondville, NY, 1870-1900
Angele Smith—Archaeological Landscapes: Exploring Scale, Movement and the Politics of Spatiality
Christine B. Anderson—Scottish Space: A Multidisciplinary Approach

[121] POSTER SESSION ADVANCE IN EXCHANGE STUDIES THROUGH COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS
Room: Exhibit Hall 1 (AC)
Time: 9:00 AM–11:00 AM
Organizer and Chair: Laure Dussubieux
Participants:
121-a Alison Carter—LA-ICP-MS of Carnelian and Agate: Analysis of Geological Sources from Central, South, and Southeast Asia and Beads from Iron Age sites in Cambodia
121-b Rahul Oka, Chapurukha Kusimba and Vishwas Gogte—Using Chemical Analyses (LA-ICP-MS) of Ceramics to Investigate Ancient Commercial Behaviors: Trade Booms, Market Capture, and Competition in the Indian Ocean Trade
121-c Mark Golitko and John Edward Terrell—Applications of LA-ICP-MS to the Study of Holocene Social Networks on the Sepik Coast of Papua New Guinea
121-d Emily Stovel—Looking Closely at One in the Face of Many: Characterizing San Pedro de Atacama Ceramics
121-e Jennifer Zovar—LA-ICP-MS Analysis of Ceramics from Late Prehispanic Bolivia
121-f Sutee Veerawan—Technological Variation of the Production of Glazes on Khmer Ceramics from Ban Kruat, Thailand
121-g Laure Dussubieux, Richard Cox, Mark Golitko and Patrick R. Williams—ICP-MS with Adaptable Chamber Laser: Quantitative Analysis of Glass, Metal and Ceramic Artifacts in the Museum Environment
121-h Misty Brum, Ryan Williams, Abigail Levine and Charles Stanish—Basalt Sources in the Andean Altiplano
121-i Kevin Vaughn, Laure Dussubieux, Ryan Williams and Sarah Cross—Changing Political Economy in Nasca: A Pilot Compositional Analysis of Ceramics from the Kroeber Collection
121-j Sofia Chacaltana—Using LA-ICP-MS Method to Observe Imperial – Local Dynamics in the Upper Moquegua Valley during Inca Occupation
121-k Nicola Sharratt, Mark Golitko, P. Ryan Williams and Laure Dussubieux—Clay Procurement in the Middle Horizon; LA-ICP-MS Analysis of Wari and Tiwanaku Ceramics from the Moquegua Valley, Peru
121-l Mamadou Cissé, Susan McIntosh, Laure Dussubieux and Marilee Woods—Early Glass Trade at Gao Saney (Mali): 700–1000 A.D.

[123] POSTER SESSION ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE 2010: PART I
(Sponsored by Society for Archaeological Sciences)
Room: Exhibit Hall 1 (AC)
Time: 9:00 AM–11:00 AM
Organizers: Christopher Wolff, Javier Iñañez and Jeff Speakman
Chair: Andrew Boehm
Participants:
123-a William I. Woods, Laurent Verslype, Bailey K. Young, Paul Hudson and Ines Leroy—Geoarchaeological Investigations of a Medieval Castle and Outer Bailey (Walhain, Belgium)
123-b Leslie G. Cecil, Melissa Logan and Linda Scott Cummings—Ancient Maya Food Processing as Evident Through Grater Bowls
123-c William Whitehead—Using pXRF to Identify Local versus Non-local Wood Use in the Lake Titicaca Basin
123-d Christian Wells—Alkaline Earth Metals as Human Activity Markers in Archaeological Soils
123-e Sharon Hull, Mostafa Fayek and Joan Mathien—Fingerprinting Turquoise Deposits in the American Southwest
123-f Tim Riley—Coprolite Research in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands: A Record of Individual Dietary Decisions
123-g Martin Giesso, Victor Durán, Valeria Cortegoso, Lorena Sanhueza R. and Michael Glascock—Provenance of Obsidian Artifacts from Sources in Central Argentina and Central Chile
123-h Corinne Rosania—Paleozoology and North American Black Bear (Ursus americanus) Ecology
123-i Andrew Boehm, Conor Hall and Erik Otarola-Castillo—Experimental Bison Butchery: Is Marrow Extraction Worth It?
123-j Erik Gjesfjeld—Analysis of Ceramics from Kuril Islands, Russian Far East
123-k Nathan Stevens and Douglas Harro—Lithic Use-Wear Analysis using Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy
123-l Thomas Urban, Krysta Ryzewski and John Hermance—Cumberlandite: Using Residual Gravity to Delineate an Historically Important Ore Body
123-m Michael Hilton—Petrographic Thin Section Analysis of Plaster Floor Construction and Pyrotechnology from the Site of Ashkelon, Israel
123-n Kyle Freund and Robert H. Tykot—Lithic Technology and Obsidian Exchange Networks in Bronze Age Nuragic Sardinia (Italy)

[126] FORUM QUIET CRISIS IN AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY
Room: 232 (AC)
Time: 9:00 AM–11:45 AM
Organizer: Michael Gregg
Chairs: Paul Goldberg and David Killick
Participants:
Paul Goldberg—Discussant
Ofer Bar-Yosef—Discussant
Ariane Burke—Discussant
Michael Chazan—Discussant
Robert Tykot—Discussant
Charles Kolb—Discussant
Hector Neff—Discussant
Douglas Price—Discussant
John Yellen—Discussant
Anna Roosevelt—Discussant

[132] FORUM QUANTIFICATION AND PRESENTATION: EFFECTIVE MEANS OF PRESENTING PLANT EVIDENCE IN ARCHAEOLOGY
Room: 225 (AC)
Time: 10:00 AM–12:00 PM
Organizers: Christine Hastorf, Matthew Sayre and Julie-Anne Bouchard-Perron
Chair: Shanti Morell-Hart
Participants:
Chantel White—Discussant
Leo Hosoya—Discussant
Stafanie Jacomet—Discussant
Judith Field—Discussant
Deborah Pearsall—Discussant
Gyoung-Ah Lee—Discussant
Naomi Miller—Discussant
David Goldstein—Discussant

Friday Afternoon April 16, 2010

[147] SYMPOSIUM FURTHER CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS AN INTERNATIONAL INVENTORY OF PREHISTORIC MINES AND QUARRIES
(Sponsored by Prehistoric Mines and Quarries Group)
Room: 230 (AC)
Time: 1:00 PM–3:45 PM
Organizers: David Field and Peter Topping
Chair: David Field
Participants:
1:00 Dani Nadel, Sagi Filin, Danny Rosenberg and Reuma Arav—Detailed Three-dimensional Characterization of a Flint Quarrying Complex in Mt. Carmel, Israel
1:15 Christopher Noll—The Development of Lithic Extraction Areas in the Okanogan Highlands During the Late Holocene: Evidence From Curlew Lake, Washington
1:30 Neil Hauser, Wayne Wilson and Robert Wunderlich—Web-Based Lithic Source Database
1:45 Phillip Johnson—Where the Hard Stone is Found: Investigations of Pre-contact Basalt Tool Industries at Tutuila, Amerika Samoa
2:00 Paul Katz—Formal Extraction Sites on the Southern High Plains of North America
2:15 John Rissotto—Establishing an Inventory of Middle and Upper Paleolithic Chert Quarries across North-Central Spain
2:30 Adrian L. Burke and Pierre M. Desrosiers—The Naparutalik Siltstone Quarry, Nunavik, Canada
2:45 Jenneth Curtis, Pierre Desrosiers, Adrian Burke and Jamie Brake—Documenting the Ramah Chert Quarries in Torngat Mountains National Park of Canada
3:00 Ivan Gatsov and Petranka Nedelcheva—Flint Hoards form the Prehistoric Settlement at Pietrele Romania and the Problem of Raw Material Procurement
3:15 Olaf Jaime-Riveron, Dolores Tenorio, Thomas Calligaro, Oscar Neill Cruz and Ranferi Juárez—Jade quarries of Mesoamerica used by the Olmecs
3:30 Peter Topping—Discussant

[151] SYMPOSIUM ISSUES AND METHODS IN ARCHAEOBOTANY
Room: 106 (AC)
Time: 1:00 PM–4:00 PM
Organizers: Jade D Alpoim Guedes and Christina Warinner
Chairs: Christina Warinner and Jade D'Alpoim Guedes
Participants:
1:00 Shanti Morell-Hart—Practical Re-imagining of Ancient Plant Use
1:15 John Marston—Identifying Agricultural Risk Management Using Paleoethnobotanical Remains
1:30 Ksenija Borojevic—Investigating Modes of Arrival of Charred Seeds at tel Kedesh, Upper Galilee
1:45 Kristie Martin—The Missing Sister: Assessing Variability in Fort Ancient Subsistence Systems
2:00 Dana Bardolph—Finding Food in Features: A Spatial Analysis of the Lamb Site
2:15 Christine Sievers—Experiments with Fire and Carbonization of Buried Seeds
2:30 Leo Aoi Hosoya—Processed Food in Neolithic: Experiments and Ethnography on Wild Food Plant Processing for reconstruction of Prehistoric Subsistence Strategies in East Asia
2:45 Jade D'Alpoim Guedes and Ming Jiang—Going back to Baodun: Challenges for Archaeobotanical sampling in the Chengdu Plain
3:00 Amanda Henry, Timothy Rose, Alison Brooks and Dolores Piperno—Assessing Dental Calculus as a Source of Archeological Plant Microfossils Using ESEM/EDS
3:15 Rebecca Mountain and Ksenija Borojevic—Preliminary Analysis of Fiber Source from Ancient Cordage
3:30 Gary Crawford—Discussant
3:45 Patti Wright—Discussant

[161] POSTER SESSION ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE 2010: PART II
(Sponsored by Society for Archaeological Sciences)
Room: Exhibit Hall 1 (AC)
Time: 3:00 PM–5:00 PM
Organizers: Javier Iñañez, Christopher Wolff and Robert Speakman
Participants:
161-a Michael D. Glascock, Martin Giesso, Victor Duran, Adolfo Gil and Gustavo
Neme—Trace-Element Characterization of Obsidian Sources in Central Argentina and Central Chile Using XRF and INAA
161-b Javier Inanez, Jeremy Bellucci, Richard Ash, William F. McDonough and Robert J. Speakman—Pb Isotope Characterization of Majolica Pottery from Spain and the Americas
161-c Suzanne Eckert and William D. James—Using LA-ICP-MS to Determine Production Provenance for Basalt Tempered
161-d Robert Speakman, Christine France, Paul Sheppard, Nadia Jimenez Cano and Nicole Little—Stable Isotopic and Chemical Indicators of Volcanic Eruptions in Tree Rings from Parícutin, Mexico—Implications for Dating Prehistoric Eruptions
161-e Carl Lipo, Jelmer Eerkens and Sachiko Sakai—Ceramic technology diffusion among prehistoric mobile populations of the California deserts
161-f Christopher Wolff, William Fitzhugh and Robert Speakman—The Utility of pXRF in the Assessment of Slate Procurement and Exchange by the Maritime Archaic of Newfoundland and Labrador
161-g Christopher Crews—Obsidian Procurement in the Piedra Lumbre Valley: 130 Obsidian bifaces from GR-2
161-h Julie A. Woods, Matthew T. Boulanger, Elizabeth S. Chilton, David V. Hill and Michael D. Glascock—Giving Voice to Choice: Integrating Scientific, Ethnographic and Historical Analysis to Understand 17th Century Native Pottery from Western New England
161-i Eric Bartelink and Phillip Johnson—Paleodietary Patterns on Tutuila Island,
American Samoa: Evidence from Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis
161-j Destiny Crider—Pottery Paints and Technological Traditions: PIXE Characterization of Central Mexican Epiclassic and Early Postclassic Pottery
161-k Joel Blickstein , Stephanie Chen, Hirzi Amirkhanov, Bonnie A.B. Blackwell and Anne R. Skinner—ESR Dating an Oldowan Site in Dagestan, Southern Russia
161-l James Daniels and Mark Becker—Geophysical Investigation and Archaeological Excavation of a Late Prehistoric Site
161-m Daniel Welch—Dispersal of Volcanic Glass Resources in Ceramic-Period Samoa: Resource Control and Long-Distance Trade
161-n Julie Boreham—Hidden Worlds made Visible
161-o Emily McClung de Tapia—Stable Carbon Isotopes applied to Landscape Reconstruction: Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico

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