The Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis will be active at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting in New Orleans next week.
CfAS Open Meeting—Thursday, April 18, 2024, 10-12PM—We have reserved the Sheraton Oak Alley room for an open discussion regarding the concept of archaeological synthesis. Although the conference program states this is an invitation-only meeting, it is in fact open to all who are interested.
CfAS Social—Friday, April 19, 2024, 6-9PM—We are hosting an informal get together at Tujague’s Restaurant, 429 Decatur Street, for CfAS Partners, Associates, and others interested in learning more about CfAS. Please spread the word and if you are planning to attend, please RSVP for your party here if you have not already done so.
In addition, here is a list of presentations submitted by CfAS partners and associates. Check them out to learn more about current work in archaeological synthesis!
| Author(s) | Title | Session | Day | Time | Room |
| Guevara-Duque, Maria Isabel; Dussubieux, Laure; Feinman, Gary | From Jalisco, Mexico, to Quimistán, Honduras: Analyzing Mesoamerican Metals from the Field Museum | [50] POSTER SYMPOSIUM TWENTY YEARS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE AT THE FIELD MUSEUM’S ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS FACILITY | Thursday | 10:00- 12:00 | Marriott Grand Ballroom |
| Jones, Eric; DeWitte, Sharon; Livingston, Catherine | Health and Mortality during the Transition to Commercial Dairy Farming in Nineteenth-Century Upstate New York | [44] POSTER SESSION IT’S NOT ALL ANCIENT HISTORY: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY PART I | Thursday | 10:00- 12:00 | Marriott Grand Ballroom |
| DeWitte Sharon; Beaumont Julia; Montgomery Janet; and Redfern Rebecca | Migrant Health in the Past: Assessment of Differential Growth Conditions Between Locals and Non-locals to Medieval London | [22] SYMPOSIUM: NEW WORK IN MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY, PART 1: LANDSCAPES, FOOD, AND HEALTH | Thursday | 10:30- 10:45 | Marriott Balcony K |
| Feinman, Gary | Discussant | SYMPOSIUM STATES, CONFEDERACIES, AND NATIONS: REENVISIONING EARLY LARGE-SCALE COLLECTIVES | Thursday | 12:30- 4:30 | Marriott Studio 1&2 |
| Mills, Barbara; and Hanson, Kelsey | Networks of Power in the Chaco World: Practices, Institutions, and Ideologies of Collective Action | [56] States, Confederacies, and Nations: Reenvisioning Early Large-Scale Collectives | Thursday | 12:45- 1:00 | Marriott Studio 1&2 |
| Aitchison, Kenneth | Moderator | [63] CONTROLLED VOCABULARIES IN ARCHAEOLOGY | Thursday | 1.00- 3.00 | Marriott Bonaparte |
| Ortman, Scott | Discussant | [63] CONTROLLED VOCABULARIES IN ARCHAEOLOGY | Thursday | 1.00- 3.00 | Marriott Bonaparte |
| Richards, Julian | What’s in a name? Controlled vocabularies in the ARIADNE RI | [63] CONTROLLED VOCABULARIES IN ARCHAEOLOGY | Thursday | 1.00- 3.00 | Marriott Bonaparte |
| Meyers, Maureen | Economy of Production: A Theory of Household Labor Organization and Material Reuse. | [82] The State of Theory in Southeastern Archaeology | Thursday | 1:00- 4:15 | Marriott Studio 4&5 |
| Golitko, Mark; Feinman, Gary; Nicholas, Linda | Twenty Years of Mesoamerican Obsidian Research at the EAF | SYMPOSIUM THE ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS FACILITY AT THE FIELD MUSEUM: CELEBRATING 20 YEARS SERVING THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL COMMUNITY | Thursday | 1:00- 4:45 | Marriott Balcony I |
| Adam Green | Who Makes the Rules in Egalitarian Cities? A View from Bronze Age South Asia | STATES, CONFEDERACIES, AND NATIONS: REENVISIONING EARLY LARGE-SCALE COLLECTIVES | Thursday | 2:45- 3:00 | Marriott Studio 1&2 |
| Smith, J. Gregory; Rizvi, Uzma; Green, Adam | Decolonizing Mohenjo Daro: A Participatory Approach to Archaeology in Pakistan | [150] COLLABORATIVE AND COMMUNITY ARCHAEOLOGY | Friday | 8:30- 8:45 | Marriott Studio 9 |
| Aitchison, Kenneth; May, Keith; Taylor, James; Rocks-Macqueen, Doug | The Archaeologist’s Guide to Good Practice: A Handbook for Post-excavation Analysis of Stratigraphic and Chronological Data | [141] SYMPOSIUM PUBLIC AND COMMUNITY ARCHAEOLOGY IN EUROPE AND BEYOND | Friday | 9.15-9.30 | Marriott Bacchus |
| Manney, Shelby; Heilen, Michael | An Integrated Data Life Cycle Approach for Archaeological Field Data Collection | [137] MANAGING ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA AND COLLECTIONS | Friday | 9:30- 9:45 | Marriott Salon A |
| Aitchison, Kenneth | Discussant | [196] FORUM IS ANYONE LISTENING? ETHICAL ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE SAA | Friday | 1.00- 3.00 | Marriott Galerie 2 |
| Levin, Maureece; Miles,Aimee; Hillyard, Emily; Davis, Skyler | On Taro, Tridacna, and Turtles: Using a Multiproxy Method to Explore Food, Fishing, and Agriculture on Pingelap, a Micronesian Atoll | [179] The Archaeology of Food and Foodways: Emerging Trends and New Perspectives (Electronic Symposium) | Friday | 1:00- 4:15 | Marriott Salon E |
| Heilen, Michael; Manney, Shelby | Living Data: A Digital Data Collection and Management System for Landscape Archaeology | [173] BIG DATA IN ARCHAEOLOGY: DATA COLLECTION, MANAGEMENT, AND ANALYTICS | Friday | 10:00- 12:00 | Marriott Grand Ballroom |
| Ciolek-Torello, Richard; Grenda, Donn; Stanton, Patrick | Assimilation, Acculturation, and Individual Agency in a Coastal Gabrielino Village | [272] SYMPOSIUM, MORTUARY ANALYSIS | Saturday | 10:30- 10:45 | Marriott Galerie 2 |
| Feinman, Gary | Discussant | SYMPOSIUM THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF PROPERTY REGIMES | Saturday | 1:00- 4:15 | Marriott Studio 9 |
| Crumley, Carole | Discussant | [298] In Defense of Everything! Constructive Engagements with Graeber and Wengrow’s Provocative Contribution | Saturday | 1:00- 4:15 | Marriott Salon D |
| Altschul, Jeff | Collaborative Research, Synthesis Centers, and the Challenge of Connecting the Past to the Present | 308 – BIG IDEAS TO MATCH OUR FUTURE: BIG DATA AND MACROARCHAEOLOGY | Saturday | 3:30-3:45 | Marriott Salon G-H |
| Vernon, Kenneth; Ortman, Scott | The Socioecological Determinants of Community Centers | 323 – Archaeological Applications of Network Analysis | Sunday | 8:45- 9:00 | Marriott Balcony L |