[Aztlan] JANUARY 2008 ANCIENT AMERICA AND MESOAMERICA LECTURES AND CONFERENCES

[michael ruggeri]

Friday January 4th, 2008, 7:00 PM
The Pre Columbian Society of Washington, D.C. Lecture
"Chili Peppers in the Archaeological Record: the Impact of  
Microfossils on Our Understanding"
Linda Perry, Postdoctoral Fellow, Archaeobiology Program, Department  
of Anthropology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Sumner School,
1201 17th Street, NW,
Washington, DC.
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/


January 10, 2008, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM,
"Gold, Bone, Feathers, and Clay: Moche Warriors, Trophy Heads, Nazca  
Sorcerors, Tiwanaku Mantles, and Wari Mosaics"
Koret Auditorium
de Young Museum
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco
http://www.thinker.org/deyoung/calendar/day.asp? 
categoryid=2&calendarid=3034&day=2%2F4%2F2007


January 10, 7:30 PM
Pacific Coast Archaeological Society
"Settlement and Ceremony at Landing Hill: A Place Remembered
Landing Hill, once a part of Hellman Ranch, is a low uplift between  
Alamitos and Anaheim Bays in the city of Seal Beach that has long  
been known for its many archaeological sites. Excavations at six of  
these sites during 2000 and 2001 in advance of a planned housing  
development provided a wealth of information, but it was not until  
construction began in the summer of 2002 that the full archaeological  
significance of Landing Hill became apparent. Tightly controlled  
grading and additional hand excavations ultimately revealed a wide  
array of utilitarian and ceremonial artifacts, as well as an  
extensive mortuary complex containing some 36 human burials, an  
animal interment, and a large feature containing cremated bone and  
many ceremonial items. More than 100 radiocarbon dates – many of  
which provide direct dates of burials and cremations – reveal  
important changes in environment, settlement organization, and  
mortuary practice here over the past 6,000 years. This presentation  
will describe the major findings at Landing Hill and consider them in  
light of regional models of southern California prehistory.
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


January 11 - 12, 2008
"The 48th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Andean Studies"
Berkeley, California.
For the registration form and program and further details, please  
visit the
Institute's new website: http://instituteofandeanstudies.net


January 12, 2008
The Pre-Columbian Society of the University of Pennsylvania Museum
Simon Martin, University of Pennsylvania Museum, Specialist in Mayan  
Epigraphy
"The Murals of Calakmul"
http://www.precolumbian.org/othermeetings.HTM


January 17-19, 2008
"20th Anniversary Southwest Symposium
Movement, Connectivity, and Landscape Change"
8:30 – 11:30 Session I: Reconsidering Our Views: 20 Years Later,  
organized and chaired by Paul E. Minnis and Charles L. Redman
1:00 – 4:00PM Session II: Movement organized and chaired by Catherine  
Cameron and Scott Ortman
Movement has been an essential aspect of native land use in the  
American Southwest for millennia. The papers in this session bring  
methodological and theoretical issues related to population movement  
and ethnogenesis into focus
by developing comparisons among well-documented cases. Pairs of  
authors go beyond causal explanations to compare population movement,  
especially how migrants were integrated into the societies they  
joined or lived adjacent to in their destinations. Several pairs of  
authors explore the development of new social formations as a result  
of population movement. Throughout the papers in this session,  
movement is seen as an integral aspect of how people define  
themselves and the land (20 minute papers with 60 minutes for  
discussion).
A Framework for Controlled Comparisons of Ancient Migrations in the  
Southwest, Becoming Hopi, Becoming Tiwa: Two Pueblo Histories of  
Movement,
Standing Out Versus Blending In: Pueblo Migrations and Ethnic Marking,
Pueblo Migrations in the Southern Southwest: Perspectives from  
Arizona and New Mexico,
Ensouled Places: Ethnogenesis and the Making of the Dinetah and Tewa  
Basin Landscapes
Saturday, January 19
Carson Ballroom, Old Main, Tempe Campus, ASU
8:00 AM - 11:00 Session III: Landscape Changest
Landscape change examines the nature and longevity of human  
modifications to Southwestern landscapes. In the Southwest, human  
actions have affected soils and biotic communities at varied temporal  
and spatial scales, and these changes, in turn, have affected various  
dimensions of human behavior. Papers in this session will explore the  
consequences of human actions affecting soils, plants, and animals  
through 1) analyses of archaeological and environmental data linked  
closely with sustainable subsistence and settlement, 2) analyses of  
specific archaeological case studies, and 3) modeling of  
environmental transformations
Anthropogenic Ecology in the American Southwest,
the Plant Perspective
Soil and Landscape Responses to American Indian Agriculture in the  
Southwest,
Investigating the Consequences of Long-Term Human Predation of r- 
Selected Species: Experiments in the Upland Southwest,
Was Hunting a Sustainable Practice in the American Southwest?
Legacies on the Landscape: The Enduring Effects of Long-Term Human- 
Ecosystem Interactions
2:00 – 5:00PM Session IV:
Connectivity refers to the influence of actions and processes across  
broad spatial and temporal scales. Social change in any area can be  
understood not just in terms of historical contingency but also as a  
combination of local, regional, and pan-regional influences, the  
latter of which may occur at extremely broad scales. In this session,  
connectivity will be examined as an intentional phenomenon as well as  
the unintended consequence of change in other places and times
Irrigation Communities and Communities in Diaspora,
The Chaco Connection: Intervisible Landscapes,
Ritual Places and Landscapes: Connecting Southwest People and  
Societies across Time and Space,
The Past is Now: Hopi Connections to Ancient Times and Places,
Historiography and Archaeological Theory at Bigger Scales
http://www.public.asu.edu/~ndwilso1/



Wednesday, January 23, 2008
6:00pm-8:00pm
Cotsen Institure of Archaeology Lecture
"The Ice Maiden: Inca Mummies, Mountain Gods, and Sacred Sites in the  
Andes."
Dr. Johan Reinhard
Explorer-in Residence at the National Geographic Society and Senior  
Research Fellow at the Mountain Institute, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Reinhard is best known for finding the Inca Ice Maiden on a  
Peruvian mountaintop in 1995. Since that time he has led expeditions  
which have resulted in more than a dozen Inca human sacrifices being  
found on mountain summits in the southern Andes. This research is  
providing dramatic new insights into the Inca culture, which was one  
of the most important to develop in the New World. While in Argentina  
in 1999 he found three of the world's best-preserved mummies on  
Llullaillaco--at 22,000' the world's highest archaeological site. Dr.  
Reinhard will describe his experiences and present a brief summary of  
the latest findings, ranging from the results of DNA studies to the  
analysis of rare artifacts.
Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Museum
Lecture is free to the public.
Parking is $8.00 at Sunset and Westwood.
http://www.ioa.ucla.edu/WebCalendar/month.php?year=2008&month=01



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