[Aztlan] OCTOBER ANCIENT AMERICA LECTURES AND CONFERENCES

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

October is the busiest month I have ever seen. A good indication of  
the growth of our field.

Mike Ruggeri



Monday, October 2, 7:00 PM
AIA Lecture
Heather McKillop, Louisiana State University
"Salt: White Gold of the Ancient Maya"
Arizona State University,
Room TBA
Phoenix, Ariz.
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10124&society_code=all


Tuesday, October 3, 12:00 pm
"The Maize God, Kings and the Creation Myth in Ancient Maya Art"
Gallery Talk
Gallery 100
Art Institute of Chcago
Chicago, Il.
http://www.artic.edu


October 3, 2006, 7:00 PM
"Teotihuacan – Birthplace of the Gods" - Teotihuacan, located in  
central Mexico, was Prehispanic Mesoamerica's largest ancient city.  
It was occupied by nearly 200,000 people from 100 B.C. to A.D. 750  
and its temples, tombs, and residential complexes covered several  
square miles. Teotihuacan was built on a cosmic plain and its layout  
replicated the Indian universe on a human level. The Aztecs, who came  
to central Mexico 600 years after the decline of Teotihuacan, visited  
this city for their most important ceremonies and believed that  
Teotihuacan gave birth to their deities. Recent excavations and  
archaeology at the site have revealed new cultural information that  
has led to a revision of our theories about the founding,  
development, and purpose of the site and, by extension, the cultural  
evolution of Mexico.
University of Connecticut
Avery Point campus
Marine Sciences Building,
Room 103,
1084 Shennecossett Road
Groton, CT
http:// www.averypoint.uconn.edu/


Tuesday, October 03, 7:00 PM
AIA Lecture
Heather McKillop, Louisiana State University "Underwater Maya:  
Ancient Wooden Structures Below the Sea Floor"
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10124&society_code=all


October 5, 5:30 pm
"Ground-Penetrating Radar for Three-Dimensional Mapping and Analysis  
of Deeply Buried Archaeological Sites: Examples from North and South  
America, the Middle East, and North Africa" Lawrence Conyers,  
Professor of Anthropology, Denver University
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology,
Cambridge, Mass.
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/current_events.html


Thursday, October 5, 7:00 p.m.
"Ancient Pottery of the Mesa Verde Country: Window into Another World"
UNSOLVED MYSTERY: WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ANCIENT PEOPLES OF THE FOUR  
CORNERS? SERIES
Scott Ortman, laboratory director, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
In this lecture, Ortman examines how archaeologists have recently  
realized that the masterful pottery of the Mesa Verde people not only  
had a role in ancient cuisine, economy, and society but also was an  
important symbol and source of knowledge. Archaeologists are  
reconstructing these knowledge systems to understand societies and  
histories that were very different from our own. Ortman has worked at  
Crow Canyon since 1993, when he joined the research staff as an  
intern. He is a doctoral student at Arizona State University and his  
primary research interest is the reconstruction of ancient knowledge  
systems using archaeology, linguistics, and ethnography.
Ricketson Auditorium
Series ticket: $40 Museum and Crow Canyon member, $52 nonmember.
Individual tickets: $12 Museum and Crow Canyon member, $15 nonmember
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
2001 Colorado Blvd.,
Denver, Colorado
http://www.dmns.org/main/en/General/Education/AdultProgram/Lectures/ 
Programs/ancientPottery.htm


October 6th, 7:00 PM
Pre-Columbian Society of Washington DC
"SEX POTS OF ANCIENT PERU: POST GENDER REFLECTIONS"
Joan Gero is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at American  
University in Washington, D.C.
Sumner School
1201 17th Street,
NW, Washington, DC.
The school is at 17th and M Streets, across the street from National  
Geographic.
Metro: Farragut North (on the red line) and Farragut West (on the  
Blue/Orange line).
http://www.pcswdc.org/


October 6-7, 2006
The Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposium
"Astronomers, Scribes, and Priests: Intellectual Exchange between the  
Northern Maya Lowlands and Highland Mexico in the Late Postclassic  
Period"
at the Library of Congress,
Washington D.C.
Please contact Jai Alterman pre-columbian at doaks.org for registration  
information.


October 7, 2006
2006 Colorado Archaeology Society Annual Meeting
Fiesta Mexicana, Cortez, CO
(as of 9/13/06)

9:00  Greetings, Introductions by CAS

9:10  Archeological Research at Mesa Verde National Park
Linda A. Towle, Chief, Research & Resource Management

9:20  From Mud Stuffing to Social and Learned Behavior: The Evolution  
of Conservation Techniques within the National Park Service
Julie Bell, Acting Manager, Archeological Site Conservation Program,  
Mesa Verde NP

9:40  Three Clan Dwelling:  The History of Mesa Verde and Social  
Boundaries in Architecture
Shanna Diederichs, Field Archeologist, Mesa Verde NP

10:00  The Schulman Grove:  Natural Resource Conservation in the 13th  
Century
Kara Naber, Museum Technician, Mesa Verde NP

10:20  Murals of the Mesa Verde Region
Sally J. Cole, Department of Anthropology, Fort Lewis College, and  
Principal Investigator, Archeological Documentation and Assessment of  
Mesa Verde Rock Art (ADARA)

10:40  20 minute break

11:00  When Will the Walls Come Tumbling Down:  Engineering and its  
Role in Site Monitoring
Preston Fisher, P.E./Structural Engineer, Vanishing Treasures  
Program, National Park Service

11:20  History of Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation (BAER) Post- 
Fire Archeological Assessment, Treatment, and Monitoring Programs at  
Mesa Verde National Park
Gay Ives, Section 106 Compliance Archeologist, Mesa Verde National Park

11:40  Repatriation at Mesa Verde:  A Thirteen Year Journey
Linda A. Towle, Chief of Research & Resource Management, Mesa Verde  
National Park

12:00  90 minutes for lunch

1:30  Modeling Population Dynamics and Settlement History in the Mesa  
Verde Archaeological Region
Mark Varian, Research Director, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

1:50  Mesa Verde Voices:  Al Lancaster, Florence Lister, Art Rohn,  
Wetherill Mesa Project Lab Crew
Patti Bell, Museum Technician, Mesa Verde National Park

2:10  Sand Dunes or Bust: The PAAC Summer Training Survey at Pike's  
Stockade, Conejos County, Colorado
Kevin Black, Office of the State Archaeologist of Colorado, Colorado  
Historical Society

2:30  When Traveling in Mexico and Walking on Warachis:  A Photo  
Presentation of Places, Peoples, and Their Material Cultures  
Throughout Mexico
Andrew Owens, Western State College

2:50  Preliminary Results from the Reanalysis of a Protohistoric  
Occupation in Northern Colorado:
The Lykins Valley Site (5LR263)
Cody Newton, Colorado State University

3:10  Folks Sure were Likin' Beads at Lykins Valley
Christopher R. von Wedell, Colorado State University

3:30 Back To Lindenmeier:  2006 Work at the Folsom Camp in Larimer  
County
Jason M. LaBelle, Colorado State University

3:50  A Second Folsom Structure on the Mountaineer Site
Mark Stiger, Western State College

4:10  Papers end, CAS general meeting
http://www.coloradoarchaeology.org/2006_annual_meeting_speakers.htm


Saturday, October 7, 11:00 a.m.
"Precolumbian Masks: Expressions of Reality"
Gallery Talk Stanchion, Great Hall
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City


Tuesday, October 10, 2006, 7:00 PM
The Friends of Tijeras Pueblo Lecture
"Pottery Mound:  A Progress Report"
The site of Pottery Mound, in the Rio Puerco Valley west of Los  
Lunas, is famous for its kiva murals.
Sandia Ranger District Station on Hwy 337 (the old South 14) just  
under 1/2 mile south of the light in Tijeras, New Mexico.
http://www.friendsoftijeraspueblo.org/pages/2/index.htm


October 12-14
"Celebrating 70 Years of Mogollon Archaeology"
The conference and banquet will be held at the Arizona Historical  
Society,
949 E. 2nd St., Tucson.
Registration for the conference is $25 in advance and $30 at the  
conference. To register in advance, please make a check payable to  
Statistical Research, Inc., and note "Mogollon Conference  
Registration" on the "For" line (sorry, we cannot take credit cards  
or cash). Send your check to Stephanie Whittlesey, SRI, P.O. Box  
31865, Tucson, AZ 85751. We will mail you a receipt. Conference  
packets for advance registration may be picked up at the reception  
(see below). You also may register at the reception. Late arrivals  
may register and pick up their conference packets at the Arizona  
Historical Society.
Mogollon Conference Schedule
Thursday Afternoon, October 12. Statistical Research, Inc.
4:00 - 7:00 P. M. Registration and Reception. Open House and Book Sale
Friday Morning, October 13. Arizona Historical Society
8:30 - 9:00. Stephanie M. Whittlesey. Welcome and general information
General Session: Mimbres Archaeology. Patricia A. Gilman, Chair.
9:00 - 9:15. Karen Gust Schollmeyer and Joan Brenner Coltrain.  
Settlement Reorganization and Large-Mammal Use in the Eastern Mimbres  
Area
9:15 - 9:30. Darrell Creel. Pruitt Ranch and Baca: Classic Sites in  
the Lower Mimbres Valley
9:30 - 9:45. Patricia A. Gilman. Substantial Structures but Few  
People: Early Mimbres Villages in the North American Southwest
9:45 - 10:00. Janna Gruber. Mimbres Skeletal Biology during the Pit-  
Structure-to-Pueblo Transition
10:00 - 10:30. Break
10:30 - 10:45. Matthew Taliaferro. Black Mountain Phase Household  
Organization
10:45 - 11:00. Robert J. Stokes. A Resurgence of Vandalism at Mimbres  
Sites on Private and Federal Lands in Southwestern New Mexico
11:00 - 11:15. Thomas E. Gruber. The Regional Diversity of Painted  
Designs on Mimbres Boldface (Style I) Bowls
11:15 - 11:30. Marc Thompson, Jason Jurgena, and Lora Jackson.  
Mimbres Rock Art: Metaphors and Myths
Lunch: 11:30 - 1:00
Friday Afternoon, October 13. Arizona Historical Society
General Session: Archaeology of East-Central Arizona. Joseph A. Ezzo,  
Chair.
1:00 - 1:15. Penny Minturn. The Biogeography of Tonto Basin in  
Central Arizona: The Search for Kin
1:15 - 1:30. John McClelland. Detecting Subpopulations at Grasshopper  
Pueblo through Dental Morphology
1:30 - 1:45. Joseph A. Ezzo. A Place to Come To: A Bioarchaeological  
Analysis of Settlement Dynamics at Grasshopper Pueblo Based on  
Strontium Isotope Analysis
1:45 - 2:00. John W. Hohmann. Painted Stones of the Mogollon Region:  
Functional and Cultural Implications
2:00 - 2:15. Christopher I. Roos. Human-Modified Fire Regimes of the  
Forestdale Valley Since A. D. 1150
2:15 - 2:45. Break
General Session: Southeastern Arizona Archaeology. Annick Lascaux,  
Chair.
2:45 - 3:00. Anna A. Neuzil. An Ancient Cultural Melting Pot:  
Evidence for Multiple Migrations to the Safford Valley, A.D. 1000 - 1450
3:00 - 3:15. Marie-Blanche Roudaut and Gary Funkhouser. Flaked Stone  
Artifacts from the Early Agricultural Period at the Clark Site (AZ  
CC: 8:16 [ASM]), Duncan, Arizona
3:15 - 3:30. Annick Lascaux. The Early Agriculutral and Early Pit  
House Period Occupations of the Upper Gila River Valley, Duncan, Arizona
3:30 - 3:45. E. Gene Riggs. A Mogollon Cultural Presence in the San  
Bernardino Valley of Southeastern Arizona
Friday Evening, October 13. Arizona Historical Society
7:00 - 10:00. Banquet and Special Presentation: "Personality and  
Power in Prehistory: Emil Haury and the Mogollon Controversy,"  
presented by J. Jefferson Reid
Saturday Morning, October 14. Arizona Historical Society
General Session: Jornada Mogollon and Mogollon Frontiers. Andrew I.  
Duff, Chair.
9:00 - 9:15. Myles R. Miller. Ritual and Abandonment at a Jornada  
Mogollon Pueblo in South-Central New Mexico
9:15 - 9:30. Nancy A. Kenmotsu. La Junta de los Rios, Presidio, Texas  
and Ojinaga, Mexico: The Jornada Mogollon after A.D. 1450
9:30 - 9:45. Andrew I. Duff. Two Greathouse Communities on Chaco's  
Southern Frontier
9:45 - 10:00. Melissa A. Elkins, Andrew I. Duff, and Aaron M. Wright.  
Ethnicity and Ceramic Technology on the Mogollon-Anasazi Frontier
10:00 - 10:30. Break
General Session: Mixed Bag. Robert A. Heckman, Chair.
10:30 - 10:45. Nicholas H. Beale. Late Archaic Group Identification  
Based on Projectile Points in the Tucson Basin and San Simon Drainage
10:45 - 11:00 Robert A. Heckman, Resha Shenandoah, and Elizabeth  
Hora. Ceramic Form and Function in Relation to Cultural Affiliation
11:00 - 11:15. David H. Greenwald and Christopher D. Adams. Attribute  
Analysis and Temporal Implications of Ring-Midden Morphology:  
Historical vs. Prehistoric
11:15 - 11:30. Kara Naber. The Unicorn in the Grove: Secrets of the  
Schulman Grove at Mesa Verde
Lunch: 11:30 - 1:00
Saturday Afternoon, October 14. Arizona Historical Society
Organized Symposium: Transition from Prehistory in the Mogollon Area:  
An Emphasis on Mobile Groups. Deni J. Seymour, Organizer and Chair.
1:00 - 1:15. Deni J. Seymour. Current Research in the Study of  
Protohistoric Mobile Groups: An Introductory Statement
1:15 - 1:30. J. Jefferson Reid. The Western Apache in Mogollon  
Archaeology
1:30 - 1:45. Meade F. Kemrer. Late Pueblo Occupation in the Southern  
San Andres Mountains, South-Central New Mexico
1:45 - 2:00. John D. Speth. Plains-Pueblo Interaction in Southeastern  
New Mexico: The View from Roswell
2:00 - 2:15. David V. Hill. Theoretical and Methodological Approaches  
to the Study of the Ceramics of Protohistoric Hunter-Gatherers
2:15 - 2:45. Break
2:45 - 3:00. Mark E. Harlan. Protohistoric Arrowhead Variability in  
the Greater Southwest
3:00 - 3:15. Stephanie M. Whittlesey. Meaning, Mobility, and  
Technological Style: Ceramics of Protohistoric and Historical-Period  
Peoples
3:15 - 3:30. Anthony K. Webster. Southern Athabaskan Quotative  
Evidentials: A Discursive Areal Typology
3:30 - 3:45. Jeremy Haines and Deni J. Seymour. Addressing the  
Mogollon Rim Hiatus, A.D. 1380 - 1700
3:45 - 4:15. Stephanie M. Whittlesey. Concluding remarks, discussion  
of publication, and 2008 venue
http://www.sricrm.com/news/


October 12, 7:30 PM
Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Lecture
Formative Period Household Archaeology at Pisagua, Northern Chilean  
Coast
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


Thursday, October 12, 7:00 PM
Indian Peaks Chapter,
Colorado Archaeological Society
"Kennewick Man Research Review"
University of Colorado Museum,
Dinosaur Room
Boulder, Colorado
http://www.indianpeaksarchaeology.org/IPCAS/Events03.htm


October 13, 5:30 pm
Lecture and Reception
"Moving Up: Maya Buildings, Maya Stairways"
Stephen D. Houston,
Professor of Anthropology,
Brown University
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology,
Cambridge, Mass.
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/Americas%20Weekend.html


October 13-15, 2006
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology - Weekend of the Americas
"Stairways to Immortality: Ancestors, Heroes, and Warriors"
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology,
Cambridge, MA
The ancient Maya of Mexico and Central America often used public art  
to glorify their ancestors, heroes, and warriors. Powerful Classic  
Maya cities created temple-pyramids with elaborately decorated  
staircases, embellished with records of their rulers and military  
victories. The Hieroglyphic Stairway of Copán, Honduras, the  
preeminent example of these monuments, bears the lengthiest  
hieroglyphic text of the Pre-Columbian Americas. Since its  
rediscovery and excavation by Peabody Museum expeditions in the  
1890s, the fallen, unordered blocks of the stairway have constituted  
one of the ancient world's greatest jigsaw puzzles. Join us for a  
discussion of the detective and decipherment work on reconstructing  
this famous monument and learn what it reveals about the history,  
religion, and iconography of power in the ancient Americas.
Moving Up: Maya Buildings, Maya Stairways Stephen D. Houston,  
Professor of Anthropology, Brown University
Walking Through a Glass Plate: The Recovery of an Ancient Maya Text  
Barbara Fash, Director, Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions,  
Peabody Museum
Digging into Maya History: Hidden Truths and Contextual Clues about  
the Hieroglyphic Stairway William L. Fash,
Charles P. Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican  
Archaeology, Harvard University, and Director, Peabody Museum of  
Archaeology and Ethnology
The Story on the Steps: Reconstructing the Text of Copán's  
Hieroglyphic Stairway David Stuart, Linda and David Schele Professor  
of the Art and Writing of Mesoamerica, University of Texas, Austin
The Esmeralda Stairway: Current Research at Copán Molly Fierer- 
Donaldson, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard  
University
Rhetorical Devices: Monuments and the Making of Ancient Maya History  
Simon Martin, Research Specialist in Maya Epigraphy, University of  
Pennsylvania Museum
Experiential Warrior Art on the North American Plains
I. Castle McLaughlin, Associate Curator of North American  
Ethnography, Peabody Museum
Commentary and Discussion
Patricia McAnany, Associate Professor of Archaeology, Boston University
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Harvard University
11 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
Catherine Linardos at (617) 495-2269
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/Americas%20Weekend.html


October 14, 1:30 PM
Dr. Susan Evans: Pennsylvania State University:
"Unraveling the Net Jaguar, An Enigmatic Motif at Teotihuacan's  
International House"
Teotihuacan was the New World's first great city, yet there is still  
much about it that remains mysterious.  We know that the city  
influenced other Mesoamerican cultures distant from the Highlands of  
Central Mexico, and hosted people from afar, but the nature of these  
ties is not well understood.  We also know that the city underwent an  
internal reorganization that seems to have amounted to a revolution,  
resulting in the construction of several thousand apartment compounds  
on a gridded plan, and giving rise to new kinds of iconography:  the  
jaguar becomes an essential player in the Teotihuacan cosmos.   
Jaguars are common in Teotihuacan's mural art, and in the art of many  
Mesoamerican cultures, but only at Teotihuacan do we see a jaguar  
whose body is a net.  Dr Evan's talk will explore this image, looking  
into the context of the Tetitla compound, Teotihuacan's  
"International House", to understand what message the net jaguar  
figure was trying to convey.
Susan Toby Evans received her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State  
University with a dissertation on agricultural productivity in the  
Teotihuacan Valley (Mexico) during the Late Postclassic, or Aztec  
period.  Her research at the Teotihuacan Valley village site of  
Cihuatecpan resulted in the only completely excavated Aztec palace in  
the Aztec heartland, and her further research into Aztec palaces led  
to a symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, organized with Joanne Pillsbury  
(they are co-editors of the symposium volume, Palaces of the Ancient  
New World [2004]).  Evans co-edited with David Webster Archaeology of  
Ancient Mexico and Central America, an Encyclopedia (2001), and her  
recent book Ancient Mexico and Central America: Archaeology and  
Culture History won the Society for American Archaeology's 2005 Book  
Award.
Room 345
Pre-Columbian Society of the University of Pennsylvania Museum
33rd and Spruce Streets,
Philadelphia, PA
http://www.precolumbian.org/othermeetings.HTM


Saturday, October 14, 11 a.m.
"Aztec Moments, Chicano Cosmovision: Imagining a Place for Aztlan"
David Carrasco, a distinguished historian of religion at Harvard  
University, has published extensively on Aztec ritual, ceremonial  
centers, and sacred spaces. His talk will compare the Aztecs'  
imaginative and creative responses to colonization with the ways that  
Mexican and Mexican-American artists, scholars, and activists have  
recalled Aztec myths and symbols in constructions of their  
contemporary identity.
Newberry Library
60 W. Walton Street
Chicago, IL
http://www.newberry.org/


October 16, 7:30 pm
Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society
"Sojourns in the Foothills: The Trials of Ancient Human Adaptations  
in the Upper Reaches of the Safford Valley"
Duval Auditorium,
University Medical Center,
1501 North Campbell Avenue (north of Speedway).
Tucson, Arizona
http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/aahs/lectures.shtml


Monday, October 16, 6:00 PM
AIA Lecture
Michael Blake, University of British Columbia
"The Archaeology of Maize: Ancient America's Most Important Crop"
Courtyard by Marriott,
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10124&society_code=all


Tuesday, October 17, at TBA
AIA Lecture
Michael Blake, University of British Columbia
"The Archaeology of Maize: Ancient America's Most Important Crop
University of Arizona Campus,
Room TBA
Tucson, Ariz.
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10124&society_code=all


Wednesday, October 18, 7:30 PM
AIA Lecture
Michael Blake, University of British Columbia
"The Archaeology of Maize: Ancient America's Most Important Crop"
UNLV Campus, Room TBA
Las Vegas, Nevada
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10124&society_code=all


  Wednesday, October 18, 8:00 PM
Institute of Maya Studies Lecture
  "Weaving Among the Maya"
Professor Ellen Jacobs
With earth's cotton and silk, with brilliant dyes and treasured  
wooden looms, the Maya weaver's hand reverently repeats a creation  
ritual that tells an ancient tale.
Miami Museum of Science,
3280 South Miami Avenue
across from Vizcaya.
A small donation is requested for nonmembers.
http://www.mayastudies.org/html/meetings.html


Thursday, October 19, 7:00 p.m.
"1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus"
Charles Mann, Author
Journey back in time to an American land you've never known. Mann  
will discuss his best-selling book, which traces the "pre-history" of  
the Americas and debunks myths about the first inhabitants of this  
land.You'll learn about the sophisticated cities of the Aztecs, the  
agricultural advances of pre-Columbian Indians in Mexico, and then  
hear how the Field's own anthropological research is contributing to  
this story.
Cost: $8, students/educators $7, members $6
Pre-Registration Required
Field Museum of Chicago
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/CalendarSystem/Search_Type.asp?Type=LEC


Thursday, October 19, 6:00 pm
Reception, 5:30 pm
"Mapping the New World for the Spanish Kings"
Speaker: Barbara Mundy, Fordham University
On either side of the Atlantic, both Spaniards and Aztecs used maps  
for practical and symbolic purposes.  After the
Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire, the Spanish crown attempted to  
make its new global empire visible through maps.  In response to  
these imperial ambitions, maps made in sixteenth century Mexico show  
the transformation of indigenous mapping traditions, as new maps and  
new understandings of space were forged in the New World.
Newberry Library
60 W. Walton Street
Chicago, IL
http://www.newberry.org/


Thursday, October 19, 7:30 to 9 p.m "Protohistoric Period Archaeology  
of Southern Arizona"
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center,
5100 W. Ina Road Bldg. 8,
in the Marana Town Limits, Arizona. http://oldpueblo.wordpress.com/


October 19, 7:30 PM
El Paso Archaeological Society
"El Paso Polychrome:Form and Function "
El Paso Polychrome is a very common ceramic type in the Jornada  
Mogollon region.Produced at the same time as both Mimbres and Casas  
Grandes Pottery, the less refined El Paso Polychrome has received  
considerably less attention. While El Paso Polychrome sherds are  
often found in the Jornada Mogollon region, whole vessels are not.  
Despite their rarity, when El Paso Polychrome vessels are found, the  
diversity of forms is intriguing, hinting at some possible functions,  
including the brewing of fermented beverages, such as corn beer or  
pulque. There is ample prehistoric and ethnographic evidence that  
Indian groups produced beverages in Mexico and the greater Southwest.
El Paso Museum of Anthropology
http://www.epas.com/newsletter.htm


OCTOBER 19-22, 2006
The 30th Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference
GOLDEN NUGGET, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
Submissions for symposia, papers, and posters are now being accepted  
via email or mail to the program co-chair at the addresses below.  
Submission forms are available for download at the website.
Symposia organizers should submit packages by June 1, 2006.
Please include digital and hard copies of the symposium title, a 100- 
word abstract, a list of paper titles, and their 100-word abstracts.  
Please include the name and affiliation of the organizer(s),  
participants, and discussions.
Barb Roth, GBAC Co-Chair, Anthropology Department, UNLV, Las Vegas,  
NV 89154.
Phone (702) 895-3640
email: barbara.roth at unlv.edu.
http://www.gbac.whsites.net/index2.html


Friday, October 20, 7:00 PM
Florida Atlantic University Sixth Annual
Maya Hieroglyphic Workshop and Lecture Series
"Sacred Texts and Painted Books: Yucatec Maya Rituals and Beliefs on  
the Eve of the Spanish Conquest"
Dr. Gabrielle Vail
Social Science Building
Room 250
Saturday, October 21, 9:00 am-5:00 pm
Hieroglyphic Workshop:
Reading the Maya Codices
Dr. Gabrielle Vail
FAU Social Science Building
Room 190.
Lectures are free and open to the public. For workshop: pre-  
registration
required; no charge for currently enrolled College or University  
students;
general public: $35.00 donation requested for materials for the  
workshop.
To register, contact Cynthia Wilson at FAU
(561) 297-3230,
cwilson at fau.edu
Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Road
Boca Raton, FL


October 21, 2006
Maya Murals Symposium
"Mysteries of Ancient Maya Murals"
The New World Archaeology Council, Orange County AIA Society,
and The Anthropology Department of U. C. Riverside are sponsoring a  
one-day Maya Symposium
Following the recent discovery [ March 2001 ] of the magnificent Late  
Pre-Classic Maya murals at San Bartolo, much focus and research has  
been directed at ancient Maya murals in Guatemala and the Maya  
highlands of the Yucatan Peninsula. This symposium will explore the  
latest research on ancient Maya murals at Cival, Calakmul, Chitzen  
Itza, and Puuc, as well as San Bartolo. World class archaeologists,  
epigraphers, and iconographers will present their latest findings and  
views on the "mysteries" contained in these ancient murals.
Guest speakers: Karl Taube, Simon Martin, Stephen Houston, William  
Ringle, Heather Hurst, and Bill Saturno.
Beckman Center
Irvine, California
http://pages.prodigy.net/gbonline/NWAC/


October, 21 - 22, 2006
25th Northeast Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and  
Ethnohistory
cerickso at sas.upenn.edu
Department of Anthropology
University Museum
University of Pennsylvania
Tel: (215) 898 - 2282
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~cerickso/Northeast_Meetings/contact.htm


October 22, 1:30 pm
Gallery Talk
"Mesoamerica: Reading Maya Glyphs"
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
3260 South Street
Philadelphia, PA
events at museum.upenn.edu


  Monday, October 23, 12:00 PM
"Women as Ballplayers in Ancient Maya Society" Did women take part in  
the famous ballgames of the Maya?
UCSD Ph.D. candidate Maria Ramos presents her most recent research on  
the subject.
Gill Auditorium.
San Diego Museum of man
1350 El Prado, Balboa Park
San Diego, CA
http://www.museumofman.org/html/education_publicprograms.html


Wednesday, October 25, 8:00 PM
Institute of Maya Studies Lecture
"Uxmal: Perfection in Architecture"
Scott Allen
Like other Puuc sites, Uxmal flourished in the Late Classic period  
(around 600-900 AD). Puuc architecture has several predominant  
features, most notably constructions with a plain lower section and a  
richly decorated upper section. Carvings most commonly found include  
serpents, lattice work and masks of the god Chaac.
http://www.mayastudies.org/html/meetings.html


Wednesday, October 25, 7:30 p.m.
"Maya Gods & Kings: The Mural of San Bartolo"
William Saturno
Examine one of the greatest Maya finds of all time—a chance  
discovery by Saturno's team in Guatemala in 2001. This breathtakingly  
well- preserved mural, dating to 100 BCE, shines new light on the  
religion and political structure of the preclassic Maya civilization.
Field Museum of Chicago
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/CalendarSystem/Search_Type.asp?Type=LEC


Thursday, October 26, at TBA
AIA Lecture
Marcello Canuto, Yale University
"The Classic Kingdoms of the Maya: New Discoveries, Novel Ideas"
Mexican Cultural Center
Washington DC
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10124&society_code=all


Thursday, October 26, 6:30 pm
Lecture
"Turquoise Mosaics from Mexico"
In SL
British Museum
London, England


Friday, Oct. 27, 7:00 PM
"Mirador Basin - Cradle of Maya Civilization" Prof. Richard Hanson
Co-Sponsored by the St. Louis Art Museum. St. Louis Art Museum  
Auditorium, Forest Park
http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/aia/


Friday, October 27, at TBA
AIA Lecture
Marcello Canuto, Yale University
"The Classic Kingdoms of the Maya: New Discoveries, Novel Ideas"
New YorkTBA
Society Contact
Rita P. Wright
212-998-8568
rita.wright at nyu.edu
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10124&society_code=all


Monday, October 30, 7:00 p.m.
"The 13th-Century Depopulation of Sand Canyon Pueblo and the Mesa  
Verde Region"
UNSOLVED MYSTERY: WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ANCIENT PEOPLES OF THE FOUR  
CORNERS? SERIES
Kristin Kuckelman, senior research archaeologist, Crow Canyon  
Archaeological Center
Sand Canyon Pueblo, occupied from approximately 1250-1280, was one of  
the largest ancient villages in the Mesa Verde region. Crow Canyon  
excavations revealed detailed and remarkable evidence of what caused  
the complete depopulation of the region by ancient Pueblo farmers in  
the late 13th century. Kuckelman will share the results of her  
comparative analyses of artifacts from Sand Canyon Pueblo, which  
reveal substantial changes in subsistence near the end of the  
occupation and shed new light on the causes of this extraordinary  
emigration. Kuckelman joined Crow Canyon's research staff in 1989.  
She holds an M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. She has  
conducted archaeological research throughout the western United  
States since 1979 and is considered the foremost authority on the  
topic of ancient warfare and violence in the Mesa Verde region.
Ricketson Auditorium
Series ticket: $40 Museum and Crow Canyon member, $52 nonmember.
Individual tickets: $12 Museum and Crow Canyon member, $15 nonmember
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
2001 Colorado Blvd.,
Denver, Colorado
http://www.dmns.org/main/en/General/Education/AdultProgram/Lectures/ 
Programs/13thCentury.htm



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