The
Society
for American Archaeology (SAA) is the largest organization of professional
archaeologists of the Americas in the
world. The Society was founded in 1934 and today has over 7000 members. Its
annual conferences have been running every year since 1935 and is a major event in an archaeologist’s calendar.
This year’s meeting is in Austin, Texas and we’ve
been asking delegates what they are most looking forward to and why they love
the SAA 2014!
“I'm
interested in historical archaeology, especially of the Caribbean. SAA is such
a great opportunity to see people. It's a gigantic conference so it's
impossible to do everything.” - Todd Ahlman, Historical Research Association
“I'm
looking forward to a session on Conflict,
Archaeology and the Press. It's a really under-discussed area and the
session will cover areas like Egypt and the Arab Spring, and various battles -
it's going to be a varied and interesting session. Interacting with the media
can be risky, archaeologists don't have control over how their comments are
conveyed. We had a module on the press when I did my degree at Newcastle but
that's pretty unusual.” - Suzie Thomas, University of Helsinki
“The Defining
Spatial Archaeometry session is one I'm really looking forward to -
I'll pick up new techniques and ideas regarding modelling. I've been coming to
SAA for about 20 years now and it's just fantastic for interacting with
professionals, meeting old friends and developing collaborations. It recharges
the inspiration batteries!” - Tad Britt, National Center for Preservation
Technology
Value of
Archaeological Collections and Research is perfect for me as
I work in this field. There's also a great poster session on interactive
interpretative technologies which is going to be really interesting. This is my
2nd SAA and I'm impressed with how much is going on. There's more historic
archaeology too this year which is great!” - Tristan Harrenstein, Florida
Public Archaeology Network
“I'm
looking forward to Saturday's session, Subsistence and
Landscape Change in Sub-Saharan Africa, which is about climate change in
the Holocene. I'm based on the United States island territory of Guam. The west
Pacific will be affected by climate change over the next 50 years with changing
sea levels - it's quite scary for a lot of people. There's lots of debate in
this area. Many islands will become uninhabitable. I'm very interested in doing
climate change research in this region.” - John Peterson, University of Guam
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