[Aztlan] Ancient America July Lectures and Conferences

[michael ruggeri]

Friday, July 7, 6:45 PM
PreColumbian Society of Washington DC Lecture
"The Two Thousand Year Evolution of the Khipu"
William J Conklin
International Monetary Fund
700 19th Street, NW,
Washington, DC,
between G and H Streets.
Metro: Foggy Bottom and Farragut West. Street parking is available  
after 6:30 pm.
Photo ID Required to check in
http://www.pcswdc.org/


July 08, 2:45 PM
"Recently Discovered Murals at Calakmul, Mexico"
Ramón Carrasco Vargas,
Director,
Calakmul archaeological project
This lecture is in Spanish and will be summarized in English directly  
afterward by archaeologist Marinés Colón González. The Grace Rainey  
Rogers Auditorium
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City


July 08, 4:00 PM
"Mayan Life and World"
Ernesto Vargas Pacheco,
archaeologist,
Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas
UNAM, Mexico.
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City


July 9, 2:00 PM
"Southwestern Colorado - An Ancestral Puebloan Homeland"
Centennial Lecture Series
Anasazi Heritage Center
Dolores, Colorado
www.co.blm.gov/ahc/spexbt.htm


Thursday, July 13
"Feathered Serpents and Scarlet Macaws; the Imagery of Casas Grandes  
Ceramics"
Price Auditorium
Art Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/aic/calendar/events?EventType=5


July 13, 11:00 AM
"Treasures of Sacred Maya Kings"
Early in the first millennium A.D., Maya kings portrayed themselves  
in the roles and costumes of divinities. This exhibition includes  
kingly regalia, depictions of the royalty's real and mythic actions,  
and objects they used in these activities. The pieces range from  
large-scale stone relief sculpture, to distinctively shaped ceramic  
vessels, to objects carved of jade, shell, bone, and pearl.
Gallery Talk Stanchion,
Great Hall
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City


July 17-26, 2006
52nd Congreso Internacional de Americanistas
Sevilla, Espaÿa
"The Role of Exchange and/or Colonization in the Pre-Tiwanaku Period  
in the South Central Andes"
"Reflecting Ancient Plurality: Art, Architecture and Archaeology in  
the Andes"
"Explaining the Civilization Origins in the Central Andes: A Regional  
and Comparative Perspective"
chevalier at berkeley.edu
http://www.52ica.com/index.html


July 19, 11:00 AM
"Treasures of Sacred Maya Kings"
Early in the first millennium A.D., Maya kings portrayed themselves  
in the roles and costumes of divinities. This exhibition includes  
kingly regalia, depictions of the royalty's real and mythic actions,  
and objects they used in these activities. The pieces range from  
large-scale stone relief sculpture, to distinctively shaped ceramic  
vessels, to objects carved of jade, shell, bone, and pearl.
Gallery Talk Stanchion,
Great Hall
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City


Thursday July 20, 7:30 to 9 p.m
"Casa Grande Ruins: The Early Years"
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's "Third Thursdays" program
At the end of the 20th century a large excavation project was  
conducted at the Grewe archaeological site, immediately east of the  
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. Grewe was the original site of  
the Hohokam community that between A.D. 550 and 1450 grew and shifted  
westward into what we now recognize as the Casa Grande Ruins. In this  
program archaeologist Doug Craig, who directed the Grewe  
Archaeological Research Project (GARP), will discuss the more than  
1,300 archaeological features that were identified and investigated  
during the GARP including 271 structures, 3 or 4 adobe compounds,  
hundreds of pits, and other features such as Hohokam canals, burials,  
and a ballcourt. Come and hear about the Hohokam world according to  
GARP, which provided a whole new slant on the overall picture of  
Hohokam cultural development.
520-798-1201 or info at oldpueblo.org.
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center,
5100 W. Ina Road Bldg. 8,
in the Marana Town Limits, Arizona
http://oldpueblo.wordpress.com/


July 26, 11:00 AM
"Treasures of Sacred Maya Kings"
Early in the first millennium A.D., Maya kings portrayed themselves  
in the roles and costumes of divinities. This exhibition includes  
kingly regalia, depictions of the royalty's real and mythic actions,  
and objects they used in these activities. The pieces range from  
large-scale stone relief sculpture, to distinctively shaped ceramic  
vessels, to objects carved of jade, shell, bone, and pearl.
Gallery Talk Stanchion,
Great Hall
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City


Wednesday, July 26, 1:15 PM
"Art and Status in Native North America"
Room 26
British Museum,
London, England
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/whatson/events/index.html


Thursday, July 27, 7:00-8:00 p.m.
"Saving the Past"
William H. Doelle, President and CEO of the Center for Desert  
Archaeology, will discuss preservation archaeology and the creation  
of the From Above exhibit.
Mesa Southwest Museum
Mesa, Arizona
http://www.cdarc.org/pages/getinvolved/events.php


Friday, July 28, 1:15 P
"From Stones to Serpents: the Making of Mexican Turquoise Mosaics"
Room 27
British Museum,
London, England
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/whatson/events/index.html


July 29, 1:00-2:00 PM
"Petroglyphs and Game Drives in Northeastern New Mexico"
Archaeologist Lawrence Loendorf has recently studied Rock cairn drive  
lines that are part of elaborate ancient game drive systems are found  
across northeastern New Mexico and southeastern Colorado. In recent  
years, archaeologists from New Mexico State University have  
discovered that many of these sites have associated rock art  
depictions of small human figures that appear to be driving animals  
toward nets or corrals. Animal drive complexes are fairly common on  
the North American Plains, but the interrelationship between rock art  
and archaeological drive sites is not found at these sites. This  
added component of rock art scenes of game drives, at the New Mexico  
and Colorado sites, is an important discovery with implications for  
understanding whether rock art was done as "hunting magic" or some  
other reason.
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Petroglyph National Monument's Las Imágenes Visitor Center
4735 Unser Blvd. NW at Western Trail. Advanced registration is  
required and limited to 25 participants.
Contact Susanna Villanueva, 505-899-0205 ext. 332 http:// 
www.abqarchaeology.org/events.shtml



Mike Ruggeri's Ancient America Museum Exhibitions, Conferences and  
Lectures
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