UConn Anthropology Presentations at the SAA Annual Meeting

May 2, 2025

Last week, several UConn Anthropology students, faculty, affiliates, and grads presented their research at the Society for American Archaeology 90th annual meeting in Denver, Colorado. Congrats to Roxanne Lebenzon, Jayson Gill, Daniel Adler, Chelsea Betts, Sarah Sportman, Steph Scialo, Nate Acebo, David Leslie, Kate Reinhart, and Kevin McBride on their amazing work!

Roxanne Lebenzon presenting
Lebenzon, Roxanne (University of Connecticut), and Natalie Munro (University of Connecticut). [82] A Biometric Meta-study on the Origins and Spread of Caprine Management in the Northern and Southern Levant.
Chelsea presenting
Betts, Chelsea (University of Connecticut), Leore Grosman (Institute of Archaeology), and Natalie Munro (University of Connecticut). [65] A Zooarchaeological Approach to Feature Formation Histories at the Natufian Burial Cave of Hilazon Tachtit, Israel (12,000 cal BP).
Kate Reinhart presenting
Reinhart, Katharine (Archaeological & Historical Services Inc.) [337] When Tragedy Begets “Harvest”: A Comparison of the Macrobotanical Assemblages Recovered from Two New England Colonial English House Sites The Waterman (Marshfield, Massachusetts; 1638–ca. 1640s) and Sprague (Andover, Connecticut; 1705–ca. 1750s)
Adler, Daniel (University of Connecticut). [175] In the Shadow of Mountains: Our Evolving Understanding of Paleolithic Foragers in the South Caucasus and Armenian Highlands
Adler, Daniel (University of Connecticut). [175] In the Shadow of Mountains: Our Evolving Understanding of Paleolithic Foragers in the South Caucasus and Armenian Highlands.
Sarah Sportman presenting
Sportman, Sarah (Connecticut State Museum of Natural History; University of Connecticut). [365] Scored, Cut, Folded, and Rolled: Indigenous Metal-Working at the Seventeenth-Century Hollister Site, South Glastonbury, Connecticut.
Jayson Gill presenting
Gill, Jayson (Wesleyan University), Nick Ashton (British Museum), Keith Wilkinson (University of Winchester), Boris Gasparyan (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography), and Daniel Adler (University of Connecticut). [82] The Shape of Change: A Cross-Regional Exploration of Relationships between Biface and Prepared Core Technologies in Eurasia
Steph presenting
Scialo, Stephanie (University of Connecticut), and David Leslie. [217] Between Two Sources: Interpretations of the Dolly Copp and Dolly Copp II Sites in Randolph, New Hampshire
Who is more accomplished?
Who is more accomplished?

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Acebo, Nathan (University of Connecticut). [110] Reconciliation and Indigenous Archaeology: On Care for and the Futurity of Káamalam (First Peoples)

Leslie, David, and William Ouimet (University of Connecticut). [369] Good Vibrations: Vibracoring of Terrestrial and Inundated Archaeological Sites

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