[Aztlan] June Ancient America Conferences and Lectures

Tue May 30 02:06:40 CDT 2006

June 1, 7:00 PM
"Rock Art"
Sally Cole, Rock Art Specialist
Centennial Lecture Series
San Juan College Little Theater
Farmington, New Mexico

Friday June 2, 7:00 pm
"Moche Art, Artists, and the Expression of Ideology"
Precolumbian Society of Washington DC
Sumner School,
1201 17th Street, NW,
Washington, DC.
http://www.pcswdc.org/

Monday, June 5, 6:00 pm
"Ritual Use of Caves  in the Southwest"
Southwest Seminars Presents
Ancient Sites and Ancient Stories II
Chuck Wallace
Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
www.SouthwestSeminars.org

June 7, 1:15 pm
"Ancient Mesoamerica and the Natural World; Rituals and Resources"
Room 27
British Museum
London, England
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/whatson/events/index.html

June 8,, 7:30 pm
"The Mojaves and the Exchange of Coastal California Shell Beads to  
the Southwest"
Pacific Coast Archaological Society
David Earle will present recent research on long-distance exchange  
between the southern California coast and the Southwest, particularly  
Oraibi, by way of the Mojave villages on the Colorado River.  
Eighteenth and nineteenth century ethnohistorical sources,  
ethnographic notes, and archaeological data have shed light on the  
role of Mojave long-distance travelers in linking the coast,  
including the Chumash area, with the Southwest, where textile goods  
were produced that were exchanged westward. The impact of the Spanish  
conquest of California on Chumash bead production is also discussed,  
and the continuation of bead exchange into the early nineteenth  
century will be outlined. The political relations of the Mojaves with  
other groups in the region will also be discussed in the context of  
conflict and warfare in the lower Colorado River region.
Irvine Ranch Water District,
15600 Sand Canyon Avenue
(between the I-5 and I-405, next to the Post Office) in Irvine,
http://www.pcas.org/meetings.html

June 8, 6:00 PM
"Authority and Artistry in Casas Grandes Ceramic Painting"
Fullerton Hall
Art Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/aic/calendar/events?EventType=5

June 10, 3:00 p.m.
"A Precolumbian Bestiary: Animal Imagery in the Ancient Americas"
Gallery Talk Stanchion, Great Hall
Lauren Ebin
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City

Monday, June 12, 6:00 PM
"Anasazi and Hohokam: Two Halves of the Whole?"
Southwest Seminars Presents
Ancient Sites and Ancient Stories II
Dr. Steve Lekson
Author, Chaco Meridian: Centers of Political Power in the Ancient  
Southwest;
Salado Archaeology of the Upper Gila, New Mexico; In press:  
Archaeology of the Mimbres Region; The Archaeology of Chaco Canyon;
Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
www.SouthwestSeminars.org

June 13-16, 2006
Fourth International Conference - "Hierarchy and Power in the History  
of Civilizations"
Theme: Panel 10: "Power and Ideology in the Northern Maya Lowlands"
Russian State University for the Humanities main campus,
Moscow, Russia

JUNE 13 - Panel Participants:

Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico: Development and Decline in the Northern  
Peten: 1000 B.C. to A.D.1600

Political Organization System and Social Complexity in the Maya Río  
Bec Archaeological Zone: From a Micro Regional Settlement Pattern  
Perspective to Intensive Excavations in Río Bec Group

The Nature of Power, Legitimacy, and Authority within a Maya City

Forms and Foundations of Power in the Puuc Region

Contribution of Stone Sculptures to the Understanding of Power in the  
Puuc Region

A Revision of the Cultural History of the Northern Maya Lowlands

Ideology, World View, Practice, and Power: Investigations into the  
Built Environment in the Yalahau Region, Quintana Roo

JUNE 14 - Panel Participants:

Power and Ideology Evidenced in Settlement Pattern Shifts in the  
Cochuah Region

Hierarchical Structure of the Settlement Pattern in the Ejido of  
Sacalaca, Quintana Roo

Kings Rule NOT: Changes in Ancient Maya Religion in the Cochuah Region

Virtual Ideology Among Actual Materialities at Ichmul

The Christ of Ichmul: Religious Syncretism with a New Faith

"Mother Names" of the Yucatan Maya on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest

Russian State University for the Humanities main campus,
Moscow, Russia
Email: civ-reg at inafr.ru
or
Prof. Justine M.Shaw
justine-shaw at redwoods.edu
http://www.civreg.ru/english/conf/hierarch

June 18, 2006
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sunday at the Met series
In conjunction with the Special Exhibition of "Treasures of Sacred  
Maya Kings"
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium,
NY
10:45 a.m.
Popol Vuh: Creation Myth of the Maya (60 min.) Directed by Patricia  
Amlin, 1986. This film uses animated images derived primarily from  
8th-century Maya depictions on ceramic vessels to chronicle the much  
older epic story of the dawn of life in the Maya world. Introduction  
and postscreening commentary by Justin Kerr, independent scholar, New  
York.
1:30 p.m.
The First Maya Kings: The Emergence and Expression of Their Sacred  
Power Virginia Fields, curator of pre-Columbian art, Los Angeles  
County Museum of Art
2:15 p.m.
The Blood of Sacrifice, the Lord of Creation: Maya Art, Myth, and  
Power in San Bartolo, Guatemala William A. Saturno, assistant  
professor of anthropology, University of New Hampshire
3:00 p.m.
The Rosalila Temple, Heart of the Acropolis and Sacred Precinct of  
Early Classic Rulership at Copán Ricardo F. Agurcia, executive  
director, Copan Association
3:45 p.m.
The Search for K'inich Yax K'uk Mo: Archaeology and Dynastic Origins  
at Copán, Honduras Robert J. Sharer, Sally and Alvin Shoemaker  
Professor in Anthropology and curator in charge, American Section,  
University of Pennsylvania Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
New York, New York 10028-0198
Phone: (212) 535-7710
http://www.metmuseum.org/

June 18-26, 2006.
Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Research Seminar
"Comparative Archaeologies: The American Southwest (AD 900-1600) and  
the Iberian Peninsula (3000-1500 BC)."
University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA
http://www.uiowa.edu/obermann/comparativearchaeologies

Wednesday, June 21, 8:00 PM
"The Crystal Skull of Lubaantun"
The most famous crystal skull is the Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull  
allegedly discovered by a 17-year old Anna Mitchell-Hedges in 1927  
while accompanying her adoptive father on an excavation of the  
ancient Mayan city of Lubaantun in Belize. Dr. Anne Stewart has the  
whole story, truth or fiction, about this and other crystal skulls.
Institute of Maya Studies,
Miami Museum of Science,
3280 South Miami Avenue, across from Vizcaya.
Small donations requested for nonmembers.
http://www.mayastudies.org/html/meetings.html

Saturday, June 24, 1:15 pm
"Architecture and Architectural Maquettes in Ancient Mexico"
Room 27
British Museum
London, England
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/whatson/events/index.html

Wednesday, June 28, 8:00 PM
"The Tarahumara of Copper Canyon"
Beth and Vic Wiggert share what they have learned about a culture  
that still survives in the canyons and plateaus of the Sierra Madres  
in state of Chihuahua. They are the most primitive of all the Indian  
tribes in Mexico and the least influenced by modern society.  
Institute of Maya Studies, Miami Museum of Science,
3280 South Miami Avenue, across from Vizcaya.
Small donations requested for nonmembers.
http://www.mayastudies.org/html/meetings.html

Wednesday, June 28, 8:00 PM
"The Tarahumara of Copper Canyon"
Beth and Vic Wiggert share what they have learned about a culture  
that still survives in the canyons and plateaus of the Sierra Madres  
in state of Chihuahua. They are the most primitive of all the Indian  
tribes in Mexico and the least influenced by modern society.
Institute of Maya Studies,
Miami Museum of Science,
3280 South Miami Avenue, across from Vizcaya.
Small donations requested for nonmembers.
http://www.mayastudies.org/html/meetings.html

June 28,11:00 a.m.
"Treasures of Sacred Maya Kings"
Gallery Talk Stanchion, Great Hall
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient America Museum Exhibitions, Conferences and  
Lectures
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmerica/index.html