[Aztlan] JUNE ANCIENT AMERICA LECTURES AND CONFERENCES

Wed May 30 23:49:26 CDT 2007

Friday, June 1, 7:00 PM
The Pre-Columbian Society of Washington, D.C Lecture
"New and Overlooked Pre-Columbian Art from the Princeton University  
Art Museum"
Bryan R. Just, Ph.D.
Curatorial Assistant, Art of the Americas
Princeton University Art Museum
While a number of Pre-Columbian objects at the Princeton University  
Art Museum have garnered notable scholarly attention and frequent  
inclusion in major international exhibitions, many other important  
and engaging works remain relatively unknown. In preparation for  
several forthcoming exhibitions and an anticipated, online museum  
catalog, the presenter has had the opportunity to seek out such  
hidden treasures for investigation and inclusion. This talk will  
provide an off-site tour of the Princeton University Art Museum's  
Mesoamerican collection, highlighting several of these relatively  
understudied objects as well as some new acquisitions. Examples will  
include Olmec, Maya, and Eastern Nahua artifacts, among others.
Sumner School,
1201 17th Street, NW,
across the street from National Geographic. Metro: Farragut North (on  
the red line) and Farragut West (on the Blue/Orange line) Washington,  
DC.
http://www.pcswdc.org/

June 4, 6:00 PM
"Mexico, Peru, and Guatemala: Modern Peasant Potters and Their  
Contributions to Understanding the Unwritten Past"
This series is a benefit for the Archaeological Conservancy.
Hotel Santa Fe,
1501 Paseo de Peralta.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Connie at
Southwestseminar at aol.com
466-2775 for additional information.
SouthwestSeminars.org

June 9, 1:30 PM
Pre-Columbian Society of the University of Pennsylvania Museum Lecture
"Terminal Classic Art and Politics in the Pasión Region: The Case of  
Machaquila Stela 2"
Bryan Just, PhD; Princeton University Art Museum
Bryan Just,
PhD Curatorial Assistant,
Princeton University Art Museum
In the final decades of the eighth century A.D., dramatic changes  
swept through the political landscape of the Pasión region of the  
Southern Maya Lowlands. In A.D. 761, the king of the Dos Pilas  
polity, K'awiil Chan K'inich, enigmatically went out of his capital  
city, leaving in his wake a political void that several lords of  
neighboring cities sought to fill. Among the competitors was a lord  
from the small city of Machaquila known only by the titles Ochk'in  
Kaloomte' Aj Ho' Baak. This lord's first stela commission, Machaquila  
Stela 2, provides an excellent encapsulation of several visual and  
rhetorical strategies involved in the region's political jostling.  
Close analysis of Stela 2 will serve in this presentation as a center- 
point of more general discussion of how art and inscriptions were  
involved in the competition for regional dominance by the 'petty  
kings' of the Pasión region in the Terminal Classic period.
The Glyph Group will work with Bryan on Machaquila Stela 2, and other  
Machaquila texts
Beginning at 10:00 am. Visitors are welcome to both the Talk and the  
Glyph Group.
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
The University of Pennsylvania Museum
Room 345,
3260 South Street,
Philadelphia, PA
http://www.precolumbian.org/

June 9, 11:00 AM
"Man and the Supernatural in the Precolumbian World"
An examination of selected pieces from the region highlights some of  
the many concepts of the supernatural, as well as differences and  
similarities across cultures, time, and geography. Free with Museum  
admission
Gallery Talk Stanchion, Great Hall
Metropolitan Museum
New York City
http://www.metmuseum.org/search/iquery.asp

June 11, 6:00 PM
Dr. Kathleen Whitaker
Director, Indian Arts Research Center,
School of Advance Research
"Chief White Antelope Blanket"
This series is a benefit for the Archaeological Conservancy.
Hotel Santa Fe,
1501 Paseo de Peralta.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Connie at
Southwestseminar at aol.com
466-2775 for additional information.
SouthwestSeminars.org

Monday, June 11, 7:00 PM
Denver Chapter of the Colorado Archaeological Society Lecture
Ann Johnson discussing archaeology
of the Yellowstone area.
Ricketson Auditorium,
Denver Museum of Nature and Science, City Park,
2001 Colorado Blvd.
Enter through the west (Leprino Atrium) entrance.

June 13-15
"The Chibchan Area: Advancing hypotheses and perspectives on Pre-  
colonial Frontiers and Contact in Middle and South America"
Leiden University, The Netherlands.
This seminar aims to establish a space for debating in depth during  
three days the regional patterns regarding pre-colonial cultures  
geographically situated in the Intermediate Area and adjacent regions  
in Honduras; Nicaragua; and Venezuela. The seminar has the following  
goals:
1) To achieve a summary of the present state of knowledge concerning  
nature and intensity of interaction within the Chibchan area and the  
adjacent Upper Intermediate Area to the North and the Venezuelan area  
to the southeast;
2) To further a multi-disciplinary and international discourse on the  
Chibchan area and in doing so propose new lines of investigation
3) To explore and discuss the possible existence of ideological  
traditions shared across temporal periods and geographic regions;
4) To compare and evaluate archaeological, iconological, linguistic,  
and historical set of data, in order to initiate the design of how  
materials and groups interacted in the area.
For further details concerning application for participation and  
partial reimbursement of travel and/or accommodation costs, please  
contact Alex Geurds
(a.geurds at let.leidenuniv.nl).

June 14-16
Third International Copan Congress
Copán, Honduras
Four of the featured speakers include:
- William Saturno, San Bartolo Project, USA
- Barbara Fash, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, USA
- Hector Escobedo, Proyecto El Peru-Waka, Guatemala
- Mercedes de la Garza, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Altogether, a total of 18 presentations will be given during the  
three-day
conference.
The conference will commence on the eve of June 13 with an inaugural  
cocktail event at the Hotel Posada Real. On June 14, the Third  
International Copán Congress will open with an inaugural ceremony by  
Manuel
Zelaya, president of Honduras.
Other events and activities in the Maya cultural program intended to  
disseminate the heritage left by the ancient Maya culture include  
lunch with
delicious traditional foods, morning tours guided by natives, various  
festivals, traditional Maya games, and a farewell concert.
At the start of each day, attendees will experience a morning tour of  
their
choice, which will be selected from the following:
- Main Archaeological Park of Copán
- Las Sepulturas, a residential ward which helped archaeologists  
understand
how the Maya lived during the days before the collapse of Copán
- Copán Village Museum and Sculpture Museum
- Bird Park and Butterfly Park, parks which exhibit exotic species  
native to
the tropic rainforests of Mesoamerica
Concluding each day¹s activities, participants will attend the following
special events:
- Mundo Maya culinary festival, including traditional Maya cuisine,  
such as
corn, beans, chili peppers, and squash
- Maya fireball tournament, a series of political/religious ballgames  
set in
a stadium that were widely played throughout Mesoamerica in which  
captured
nobles face their conquerors
- Mundo Maya Arts and Crafts Expo
- Farewell concert featuring popular Honduran folk guitar player  
Guillermo
Anderson and La Papaya Central American Orchestra, featuring skilled  
musicians from the Central American nations
Information on travel and accommodations at the Third International  
Copán Congress is available through Jackie or (Mr.) Terry Evans,  
Roátan Charters
at (toll-free) 1-800-282-8932, ext. 309, by emailing  
copan2007 at roatan.com,
or at www.letsgohonduras.com and www.roatan.com. Further event  
information
is available at www.copancongress.com.

Sunday, June 17, 2:00 pm
"The Pueblo I Period in the Durango Area: Insights from Animas- 
LaPlata Project Excavations."
Ridges Basin and Blue Mesa near Durango excavations revealed an early  
Pueblo I village center surrounded by clusters of smaller habitation  
sites. Potter will compare the sites' ages, structures, and  
settlement patterns to more western Pueblo I settlements in terms of  
aggregation, migration, and cultural diversity.
Anasazi Heritage Center,
27501 Hwy 184 west of Dolores, Arizona
(970) 882-5600
http://www.co.blm.gov/ahc/spexbt.htm

June 18, 7:30 PM
Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society Lecture
"Pueblo Social History: Some Old and New Ideas" Duval Auditorium,
University Medical Center,
1501 North Campbell Avenue (north of Speedway)
Tucson, Arizona
http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/aahs/lectures.shtml

June 24, 11:00 AM
"Images of Fertility in Mesoamerican Art"
A survey of Mesoamerican art created during the 3,000-year period  
from the Olmec to the Aztec, with a focus on objects related to the  
natural world and to the fertility of humans. Gallery Talk Stanchion,  
Great Hall
Metropolitan Museum
New York City
http://www.metmuseum.org/search/iquery.asp

Sunday, June 24, 2:00 pm
"Time, Trees, and Prehistory"
Origins and promise of tree-ring dating (dendrochronology).
Anasazi Heritage Center,
27501 Hwy 184 west of Dolores, Arizona
(970) 882-5600
http://www.co.blm.gov/ahc/spexbt.htm

June 29-July 2
American Rock Art Research Association (ARARA) 34th Annual Conference
ARARA's 34th Annual Conference will convene the weekend before the  
4th of July in southeastern Montana, an area surrounded by  
pictographs and petroglyphs. Pictograph Cave, a Montana state park  
(www.pictographcave.org) just south of the city, is an example of  
sites available for visits in the region. 7
Call for Papers and Instructions for submitting a paper http:// 
www.arara.org/2007_arara_paper_call.html

June 30, 1:15 PM
Gallery Talk
"Women and Gender in Ancient Mexico"
Room 27
British Museum
London, England
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/whatson/events/index.html

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