[Aztlan] FEBRUARY ANCIENT AMERICA EVENTS

[michael ruggeri]

Friday, February 2nd, 7:00 PM
PreColumbian Society of Washington DC Lecture
"Nahuatl Potsherds, Or, The Meanings of Ruined Things for Central  
Mexicans and Europeans"
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/


February 2-4, 2007
The 4th Annual Tulane Maya Symposium and Workshop
"Murals and Painted Texts by Maya Ah Tz'ibob"
This year's symposium offers a glimpse of Maya life through images  
and hieroglyphic texts painted by Maya scribes called ah tz'ibob.  
Murals from the northern Maya area will be the focus of discussions  
by archaeologists, epigraphers, and art historians, with additional  
examples from elsewhere in the Maya world. We will explore the  
earliest murals, recently discovered at Late Preclassic San Bartolo,  
to the latest pre-Columbian examples from the Late Postclassic sites  
of Mayapán and Tulum.
Friday, February 2, 7:00-8:00 PM
Keynote Address by Karl Taube:
"Windows to Another World: Murals of Ancient Mesoamerica."
Free and open to the public.
This talk will be held in the Freeman Auditorium on Tulane's campus.
Our keynote speaker, Dr. Karl Taube, will discuss his research on  
painted imagery from the Preclassic to Postclassic Maya lowlands.
Saturday, February 3
All lectures on Saturday, February 3
will be held in the Freeman Auditorium.
9:00-9:15 AM; Preliminary remarks
9:15-10:00; Prehispanic Maya Paintings from the Architecture of the  
Yucatán Peninsula: A Survey
Merideth Paxton
10:00-10:45; Murals and Painted Texts from Ek' Balam
Alfonso Lacadena, Leticia Vargas, and Víctor Castillo
10:45-11:00 REFRESHMENT BREAK 11:00-11:45; Mural Painting at Chichén  
Itzá
Virginia Miller
11:45-12:30 PM; Postclassic Murals at Mayapán: A Window into the  
Mesoamerican World View
Susan Milbrath and Carlos Peraza Lope
12:30-2:00LUNCH
2:00-2:45;
Acts of Creation and Kingship: The Murals of San Bartolo, Guatemala
William Saturno
2:45-3:30; Early Classic Maya Paintings from the Holmul Region and  
the Maya-
Teotihuacan Affair
Francisco Estrada-Belli
3:30-3:45 REFRESHMENt
BREAK
3:45-4:30; Conserving the Painted History of Chamá: Image, Text, and  
Politics in Maya Polychrome Pottery
Elin Danien, Lynn Grant, and Gene Ware
4:30-5:00; DISCUSSION
Sunday, February 4
9:00-12:00 PM We welcome you to join the presenters on Sunday morning  
as they gather for an informal discussion of their research as it  
relates to the symposium theme.
STONE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Tulane University
100 Jones Hall
New Orleans LA 70118
ph: (504) 865-5164
rtsclas at tulane.edu


Saturday, February 3, 1:15 PM
Gallery talk
"Warriors and Weapons in Ancient Mexico"
Room 27
British Museum
London, England
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/whatson/events/index.html


February 5, 6:00 PM
Soutnwest Seminars Ancient Sites and Ancient Sories Lecture
"Unraveling Historical Myths: The View from San Marcos Pueblo"
Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://SouthwestSeminars.org


Tuesday, February 6th, 3:30-5:00pm
C.J. MacCurdy Professor of Anthropology, Yale University
  "Debating Chavín: A Critical Analysis of the Recent Excavations at  
Chavín de Huántar, Peru."
Dr. Burger is a scholar in Pre-Columbian Peruvian studies,  
specializing in the Formative Period (1800-200 BCE) and Chavin  
Horizon for over 20 years. He is the author of the most comprehensive  
volume to date on this period of pre-Hispanic Peru: Chavin and the  
Origins of Andean Civilization, Thames and Hudson (1992). His field  
excavations at sites such as Chavín de Huántar and Huaricoto in the  
highlands, and Mina Perdida, Cardal, and Manchay Bajo on the coast  
have fundamentally advanced our understanding of Formative Period  
development and interaction. Dr. Burger has further been involved in  
extensive research on the studies of early Andean trade goods,  
material exchange, and food consumption. In addition, Dr. Burger is  
Curator of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University,  
which recently sponsored "Machu Picchu: Unveiling the Mystery of the  
Incas," an exhibition highlighting Hiram Bingham's 1912 expedition to  
this renowned site.
The University of Texas at Austin
ART 1.102


Wednesday, February 7, 2007, 6:30 PM
"From Tenochtitlán to Mexico City: The Creation, Destruction, and Re- 
creation of a Great American City"
Thomas B. F. Cummins, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre- 
Columbian and Colonial Art
Single lecture $18; $12 for Members.
Registration is required; please call 617-495-4544.
Harvard Universtiy Museums
Norton Lecture Hall
Fogg Museum
Cambridge, MASS.
Harvard University Art Museums Fall http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/ 
events/lectureseries.html


Wednesday, February 7, 5:30 PM
Tom Dillehay, Vanderbilt University
"Living Monuments: Aesthetics and Spiritualism of Chilean Araucanian  
Landscapes"
Illustrated
Tom Dillehay, Vanderbilt University
ICC Auditorium
Georgetown University
Washington DC
http://www.doaks.org/publiclectures.html


Wednesday, February 7, 7:30pm to 9:00pm "New-Found Solar Alignment  
Petroglyph Site In South Mountain Park"
Community Room
Pueblo Grande Museum
Phoenix, Arizona
www.pueblogrande.org


February 8, 6:30-9:00 PM
Smithsonian Resident Associate Program Seminar
"Guatemala's Ancient World of the Maya"
Michael Coe, Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of Anthropology, emeritus,  
at Yale University Location: TBA-Washington, DC
Home to the Maya civilization, Guatemala is a center of stunning  
archaeological sites. Archaeologist Michael Coe explores astounding  
ruins and unveils the latest discoveries. Along the way, he enters  
the political and religious world of the ancient Maya as revealed  
through their art and hieroglyphic inscriptions.
Coe begins by focusing on pre-Classic sites dating to the dawn of  
Maya civilization (400 B.C.–200 A.D.), including Kaminaljuyu, the  
remote site of San Bartolo–whose wall murals tell the story of the  
birth and death of the maize god–and El Mirador, an enormous jungle  
city with what is probably the world's largest pyramid. He then moves  
to the great cities of the Classic period (200 A.D.–900 A.D.),  
including Tikal, a ceremonial metropolis spread over 25 square miles,  
and Piedras Negras, a city on the River of Ruins (the Usumacinta  
River). Finally, Coe discusses the likely reasons for the great  
collapse of the Classic civilization.
Advance registration is required.
http://residentassociates.org/
(202) 357-3030 or (202) 252-0012
Email: CustomerService at ResidentAssociates.org

February 8, 7:30 PM
Pacific Coast Archaeology Society
"Between the Wetlands and the Coastal Prairie - 8,000 Years of  
Prehistory in West Los Angeles"
Irvine Ranch Water District,
15600 Sand Canyon Avenue
(between the I-5 and I-405, next to the Post Office)
Irvine, Calif.
http://www.pcas.org/meetings.html


February 10, 1:30 pm
Pre-Columbian Society of University of Pennsylvania
"Xunantunich's Royal Residence: Shifting Power and the Collapse."
Richard Leventhal, PhD, University of Pennsylvania Museum, Curator,  
American Sector: Excavations in the 1990s of the ancient Maya city of  
Xunantunich in Belize revealed new information about its Royal  
Residence during the Late Classic. Large-scale shifts of the location  
of the royal residence within the Xunantunich city center provide a  
picture of the shifting power structure at the site and throughout  
the Maya lowlands during a time period just prior to and leading into  
the collapse. In addition, small-scale changes in the nature and form  
of the royal residence provide us with a detailed picture of the  
shifting relationship between the elite and the residents of  
Xunantunich, which helps us to understand the nature of the city as  
well as the process of collapse leading to the final abandonment of  
the southern Maya lowlands.
University of Pennsylvania Museum
3260 South Street
Room 345
Philadelphia, PA
http://www.precolumbian.org/


Saturday, February 10
The East Texas Archeological Conference
Robert R. Muntz Library
University of Texas at Tyler Campus Tyler, Texas.
http://www.txarch.org/activities/calendar.html


February 10 and 11, 2007
The 35th Annual Midwest Conference on
Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory at SIUC, IL

Childhood Health and Morbidity in Ancient Chilean Cultural Groups: A  
Preagricultural vs. Agricultural Comparison


 From Yaya-Mama to Tiwanaku: Changing Materiality, Temporality, and  
Religious Ideology in altiplano carved monolith traditions

What was the Tiwanaku Phenomenon? - Ceremonial Architecture at  
Palermo, Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru

Post-Tiwanaku Ethnogenesis in the Coastal Moquegua Valley, Peru

The Ushnu of Viña del Cerro as a Site for Astronomical Observation  
and Cult to Mountains in Atacama

Two calendars on Chuquibamba textiles

The Hospital of San Andrés (Lima, Peru) and the search for the Royal  
Mummies of the Incas

The Yanaconas of Potosí: A Social Analysis of Labor in the Toledan  
Visita

Environmental Coring in SW Guayas Province, Ecuador: Dating of  
Sequences and Preliminary Results

Stone Structures and Temporary Encampments: Subsistence Patterns and  
Residential Architecture at the Late Archaic Site of Caballete, Rio  
Fortaleza, Perú

Episodes of War in the Early Horizon and Late Intermediate Period:  
New Dates from the Fortress of Acaray, Huaura Valley, Peru

Warfare and Defensive Architecture on the Inca Frontier in Northern  
Ecuador

Old Problems and New Issues and Evidence for the Archaeology of the  
Central Coast: The Case of Cajamarquilla
Ideology and the Development of Social Power at the Site of  
Panquilma, Peruvian Central Coast

Ceramic Traditions and Ethnohistorical Boundaries. Do they match? A  
case from Conchucos, Ancash, Peru

Rethinking Funerary Analysis in Andean Archaeology: Perspective from  
Sicán and Pachacamac

Archaeological Applications of a Portable XRF Spectrometer at Huaca  
Loro, Peru: Results and Implications

Ceramic Production and State Control: A View from a Hinterland Middle  
Sican Ceramic Workshop

Bioarchaeological Impacts of European Conquest in Peru: Health,  
Identity, and Ethnogenesis in the Lambayeque Valley (AD 1536-1750)

Lawson Auditorium 161
Southern Illinois University
Carbonale, Illinois
http://www.pachacamac.net/midwest/


Sunday, February 11, 2:00 PM
"Wickliffe Mounds: A Mississippian Mound Center in Western Kentucky"
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
Collinsville, Illinois
Interpretive Center Auditorium.
www.cahokiamounds.com


February 12, 6:00 PM
Soutnwest Seminars Ancient Sites and Ancient Sories Lecture
"Living in the Shadow of Chaco"
Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://SouthwestSeminars.org


February 14-17, 2007
95th College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference
New York
"Drawing Blood: Images of Sacrifice and Identity in the Americas, Pre- 
Hispanic to Contemporary"
The image of blood evokes ideas of birth, death, regeneration,  
fertility, purification, suffering and redemption. Consequently,  
blood plays an integral role in human creative expression. In the  
Americas, blood has a long visual history spanning the pre-Hispanic,  
Viceregal, and Modern periods up to the present day. This session  
seeks to explore the role of blood as an expression of sacrifice and  
identity in the pictorial history of the Americas, past and present.
Contact: Juliet Wiersema
Department of Art History and Archaeology University of Maryland
Email: jbwier at umd.edu
or
Pamela Huckins
Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Email: pamela.huckins at nyu.edu


February 19, 6:00 PM
Soutnwest Seminars Ancient Sites and Ancient Sories Lecture
"Comancitos: Indo-Hispano Rituals of
Captivity and Redemption"
Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://SouthwestSeminars.org


Thursday, February 22, 7:30 p.m.
The Museum of Anthropology at Wake Forest University in Winston-  
Salem, NC
"/Apocalypto: /Fact and Fantasy in Mel Gibson's Maya World,"
a panel discussion .
www.wfu.edu/moa


February 26, 6:00 PM
Soutnwest Seminars Ancient Sites and Ancient Sories Lecture
"Dreams, Myths and a World View"
Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://SouthwestSeminars.org


Tuesday, February 27, 8:00 PM
AIA Lecture
"In the Shadow of the Sleeping Giant: Discovering Ancient Maya  
Communities Along the Sibun River"
Pennsylvania State University,
Carpenter Hall, Room 107
University Park, PENN.
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10124&society_code=all


February 28, 5:30 pm
Gordon R. Willey Lecture
"The Newly-Discovered Monumental Carved Monolith at the Aztec Great  
Temple, and the Tomb of the Emperor Ahuizotl"
Leonardo López Luján,
Senior Researcher and Professor of Archaeology at Museo del Templo  
Mayor,
Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Geological Lecture Hall
11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
within the Harvard campus.
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/new.html


Wednesday, February 28, 7:30 PM
AIA Lecture
"In the Shadow of the Sleeping Giant: Discovering Ancient Maya  
Communities Along the Sibun River"
Dickinson College,
Weiss Hall, Room 235
Chambersberg, PENN.
maggidic at dickinson.edu
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10124&society_code=all



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