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85th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology Preliminary Session Schedule Wednesday Evening, April 22 Sponsored Forum PRESIDENT’S FORUM: WHAT IS AT STAKE? THE IMPACTS OF INEQUITY AND HARASSMENT ON THE PRACTICE OF ARCHAEOLOGY (SAA President’s Sponsored Session) Time: 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Chairs: Amber VanDerwarker; Maureen Meyers Abstract: Research and reporting on equity and harassment in the academy and across various fields in both public and private sectors reveals the extent of chronic inequalities and significant problematic behaviors in various workplace settings. Groups most negatively affected by these inequities and often illegal behaviors are women, the LGBTQ+ community, and underrepresented racial and ethnic groups. For archaeologists, workplace settings include many locales (offices, labs, classrooms, field sites, conferences) and thus many potential sites for inequity, harassment, and assault to occur. To be clear, this is broad disciplinary issue affecting the very performance of archaeology. In addressing this looming and serious problem, this session brings together a wide range of practicing students and professionals to consider: (1) equity (e.g., gender pay gap, publication/citation practices) and (2) sexual harassment and assault (e.g., as experienced and perpetrated by different subgroups, effects on professional outcomes, effective training/ reporting, resources for survivors). Wherever possible, presenters discuss recommendations at several scales (e.g., individuals, workplaces, field settings, and conferences). We hope that highlighting these issues at the forefront of our annual meeting will make evident that inequity and harassment affects all practitioners and open a dialogue on these issues that continues throughout and beyond the conference itself. Participants: Joe Watkins; Laura Heath-Stout; Kathleen Sterling; Dana Bardolph; Maureen Meyers and Amber VanDerwarker; Lisa Hodgetts, Kisha Supernant, Natasha Lyons and John Welch; Sarah Herr and Susan Stinson Thursday Morning, April 23 Symposium THE PRECOLUMBIAN DOTTED-DIAMOND-GRID PATTERN: REFERENCES AND TECHNIQUES Time: 8:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m. Chairs: Billie Follensbee; Lois Martin Abstract: Even degraded samples, ceramic impressions, and images of precolumbian textiles may illustrate patterning. The regularity of certain designs suggests that these were specific, named patterns that were shared and meaningful; their appearance on specific garments suggests that they had links to gender, affiliation, and/or status. One familiar pattern found throughout the Americas is a crosshatched lattice with simple motifs at the center of each interstitial space. Sometimes called the "dotted diamond grid," the pattern has been interpreted variously as depicting plots of agricultural land, scutes on a tortoise shell, blossoms in a field, or the dented kernels on a ripe ear of corn. Possible variations of this pattern may include squares, zigzags, V shapes, or triangles. Technical proposals for the manufacture of these designs include weaving, beading, painting, batik, tie-dyeing, and felting with patterned bark beaters. This session considers the “dotted-diamond-grid” pattern, its manufacture, and its meaning among different indigenous American cultures, with the goal of pulling together a fuller, more thorough understanding of the design and to expand recognition of its variations. Participants: Laurie Webster and Kelley Hays-Gilpin; Billie Follensbee; Chantal Huckert; Terry Stocker; Gabrielle Vail; Lois Martin General Session HISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE SOUTHEAST UNITED STATES Time: 8:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m. Chair: Lori Lee Participants: Muriel Grubb and Charles Ewen; Kevin Wright; Matthew Rooney; Jenna Slatowski and Lori Lee; Lori Lee; Eric Prendergast General Session ARCHAEOLOGY OF LOWLAND SOUTH AMERICA Time: 8:00 a.m.–9:45 a.m. Chair: José M. Capriles Participants: Emily Rodgers; Danielle Young, Neil Duncan and John Walker; Clark Erickson and Jedidiah Dale; José M. Capriles, Sergio Calla Maldonado, Hortensia Nina Vargas and Alejandra Aramayo; Jonas Gregorio de Souza; Lucas Bond Reis; José López Mazz and Federica Moreno Poster Session COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS AND MATERIALS SOURCING Time: 8:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. Participants: Mary Davis, Lucas Martindale Johnson, Daron Duke, Elsa Carpenter and Lee Drake; Cyrus Hulen and Olivia Navarro-Farr; Spencer Wieland, Donna Nash and Emily Schach; Heather Morrison; Lauren Lazik, Robert Hard, Steven Shackley, John Roney and Paige Hayhurst; Sabrina Pike, Nathan Goodale, Alissa Nauman, Colin Quinn and Anna Prentiss; Erik Martin and Chelsea Karthauser; Danielle Waite, Travis Stanton, Traci Ardren and Brigitte Kovacevich; James McGrath, Brandi MacDonald and Curtis Marean; Holly Cruger; Rachel Whyte, Michael Callaghan and Brigitte Kovacevich; April Johnson and Deborah Nichols; Rachel Johnson and Jason Nesbitt; Brandi MacDonald, Izumi Shimada, Marco Fernandez, Michael Glascock and Ursula Wagner Poster Session LITHIC STUDIES IN NORTH AMERICA Time: 8:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. Participants: Manek Kolhatkar; Kevin Gilmore, Jonathan Hedlund and Bonnie Clark; Dylan Person and Barbara Roth; Lauren Pratt and Anna Guengerich; Donald Blakeslee; Juan Gonzalez, Roseann Bacha- Garza, Christopher Miller and Russell Skowronek; Michael Jeu Poster Session DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGY IN MESOAMERICA Time: 8:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. Participants: Alexandra Jonassen and Kenichiro Tsukamoto; Marina Lemly, Amy Thompson and Keith Prufer; Eric Fries; Michael McDermott, Jeremy McFarland and Marisol Cortes-Rincon; Sherman Horn, Anabel Ford and Paulino Morales; Anne Sherfield; Dean Blumenfeld; Mikayla Gonzales, Amy Thompson and Keith Prufer; Estevan Ramirez and Kenichiro Tsukamoto; Bailey Gemberling Poster Session GEOARCHAEOLOGY Time: 8:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. Participants: Heather Landazuri and Daniel Sandweiss; Victoria Tew-Todd, Connor Mayhack, Liliana Marin and Steven Forman; Nicholas Bentley; Sarah Rice, D. Craig Young and Daron Duke; Richard Niquette, Bryon Schroeder and Rolfe Mandel; Bryan Kendall and William Whittaker; James Brown, Douglas McFarland, Zach Allen and Steven Hackenberger; Crystal Dozier, Angelina Perrotti and Elayne Rye; Fernando Casal, Timothy Beach and Colin Doyle; Joseph Ferraro, Gary Stinchcomb, William Lukens, Katie Binetti and Steven Forman; Tamara Whitley, David Whitley and Johannes Loubser; Megan LeBlanc Sponsored Poster Session BEYOND TRIAGE: PRIORITIZING REPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESOURCES (Sponsored by Committee on Climate Change Strategies for Archaeological Resources) Time: 8:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. Chairs: Heather Wholey; Carole Nash Abstract: Environmental impacts associated with climate change threaten archaeological resources— documented and undocumented—in all types of settings. Accelerated loss is documented for coastal and interior regions around the world so that archaeologists and preservation planners are now in a position of making difficult decisions about the types of resources and settings that should be prioritized for study. Ideally, this work should be proactive and collaborative, involving a range of stakeholders who can make informed decisions that encompass not only known resources but areas with the potential to yield new 85th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology Preliminary Session Schedule 2 information. This session addresses approaches to prioritization in the face of limited funding and time. Participants: Heather Wholey, Daria Nikitina, Katherin Dowling and Michael Powers; Scott Seibel and Matthew Harris; Carole Nash; Anne Jensen; Tad Britt, David Watt, Kory Konsoer, Mark Rees and Samuel Huey; Chris McDaid, Patrick Barry, Courtney Birkett and Scott Seibel; Alice Kelley, Arthur Spiess and Bonnie Newsom; Anastasia Steffen, Nicholas Jarman and Stephanie Bergman Symposium THE PALACE OF XALLA AT TEOTIHUACAN Time: 8:00 a.m.–10:15 a.m. Chair: Linda Manzanilla Abstract: The Xalla palace is located 235 m to the north of the Pyramid of the Sun. Since 1997, I have directed the “Teotihuacan: Elite and Rulership: Excavations at Xalla and Teopancazco Project." This multifunctional palace may have been one of the seats of power for ancient Teotihuacan: it has an unusually large size in the context of the city, with a surface of approximately 55,000 m2. Also, it is not located along the Street of the Dead, but 235 m east from this avenue, providing a sense of privacy; it is isolated by a double wall about 3 m wide that would have allowed watchmen to walk around it. This symposium will deal with the first results of the extensive excavations by Linda Manzanilla from 2000 to 2020; the possible functional sectors; the results of different analyses: archaeomagnetic and radiocarbon dating; lapidary objects, pigments, mica, marine shells, faunal remains, figurines, and ancient DNA. Participants: Linda Manzanilla; Ana Soler-Arechalde, Laura Beramendi-Orosco and Galia González- Hernández; Laura Beramendi-Orosco, Ana Soler-Arechalde, Galia González-Hernández and Linda Manzanilla; Adrian Velazquez, Belem Zúñiga and Norma Valentín; Edgar Rosales; Emiliano Melgar and Reyna Solís; Carlos Puértolas, Maria Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual and Linda Manzanilla; Rocío Jiménez González Discussant: Takeshi Inomata Symposium FROM VELD TO COAST: DIVERSE LANDSCAPE USE BY HUNTER-GATHERERS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA FROM THE LATE PLEISTOCENE TO THE HOLOCENE Time: 8:00 a.m.–10:15 a.m. Chair: Benjamin Collins Abstract: Coastal-focused narratives have dominated our understanding of the behavioral diversity seen in the Late Pleistocene