[Aztlan] 10TH LONDON SOUTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY SEMINAR

[michael ruggeri]

Dear All,

The next London South American Archaeology Seminar is scheduled for  
Saturday 10th May. At the Institute of Archaeology UCL, 34 Gordon  
Square, London.

The final Program is given below.

Everyone is welcome. But, it is important that you e-mail to confirm  
your participation and order your lunch.  A contribution of £5  
towards the cost of coffee, tea, lunch & administration will be  
required on the day.

Paul Heggarty has kindly provided links to download two of his recent
papers focusing on Andean languages and archaeology (below) in the hope
that this will help generate a good discussion of the issues raised by
David and Paul's paper.


10.30 am Coffee

11.00 am Macarena Cardenas (The Open University) Vegetation and climate
changes in Southern Patagonia during the Glacial-Interglacial transition
correlated with megafauna extinction and human arrival.

11.35 am Jose Iriarte (University of Exeter) Ethnic enclaves, monument
building and post-funerary rites: The emergence of Taquara/Itararé  
mound
and enclosure complexes in the southern Brazilian highlands

12.10 p.m. Gabriel Ramon (Sainsbury Centre, University of East  
Anglia) Martha Bell (University of Wisconsin) On producing ceramic  
evidence: three rules to narrate the pre-colonial past, through  
objects, using Northern Peruvian ethnographic examples

Lunch

2.00 pm Paul Heggarty & David Beresford-Jones (McDonald Institute,
Cambridge) Agriculture and Language Dispersals: Limitations,
Refinements, and an Andean Exception?

Tea

3.45 pm Tim Taylor and Andrew Wilson (University of Bradford) Discrepant
records of Inca child sacrifice? Texts, archaeology, stable isotopes,
and DNA.

This event is Co-sponsored by: The Institute for the Study of the
Americas & The Institute of Archaeology, UCL

Our next meeting will de on Saturday 29th November 2008 - If you would
like to present a paper we would very much like to hear from you.

Bill Sillar and Gill Hey

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Heggarty, Paul, 2007  Linguistics for archaeologists:  principles,
methods and the case of the Incas Cambridge Archaeological Journal
17(3), 311-40

http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/~pah1003/loe/All/PapersDownLoad/2007%20% 
20Heggarty%20-%20Linguistics%20for%20Archaeologists%20-%20Principles,% 
20Methods,%20and%20the%20Case%20of%20the%20Incas.pdf

Heggarty, Paul, 2008 Linguistics for archaeologists:  a case-study in
the Andes Cambridge Archaeological Journal 18(1), 35-56

http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/~pah1003/loe/All/PapersDownLoad/2008%20% 
20Heggarty%20-%20Linguistics%20for%20Archaeologists%20-%20A%20Case- 
Study%20in%20the%20Andes.pdf

A webpage with further information is available at:
www.languagesandpeoples.com/PaulHeggarty.htm