[Aztlan] Ancient Americas January Lectures and Conferences

[michael ruggeri]

January 6, 2009, 7:00 PM
Oregon Archaeological Society Lecture
"Dennis Jenkins on the Paisley Cave"
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
1945 SE Water Street
Portland, Oregon
http://www.oregonarchaeological.org/events.htm


Wednesday, January 7, 7:30 PM
"Tim's Cave: The discovery of three large, intact Sinaguan clay pots  
in a cave near Sedona"
Pueblo Grande Museum
Phoenix, Arizona
http://www.ci.phoenix.az.us/PUEBLO/edcalndr.html


January 8, 2009, 7:30 PM
Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Lecture
"Mineral Pigments of California Indians"
Irvine Ranch Water District,
15600 Sand Canyon Avenue
(between the I-5 and I-405, next to the Post Office)
Irvine, California
http://www.pcas.org/meetings.html


Friday January 9th, 7:00 PM
Pre-Columbian Society of Washington DC Lecture
Friday January 9th, 7:00 PM
Pre-Columbian Society of Washington DC Lecture
"An Archaeological Perspective on the Inca Provincial Administration  
from the South Central Andes"
Veronica Williams of the Institute of Archaeology, University of  
Buenos Aires.
2008 Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks"
In this lecture, Dr. Williams will offer a general view on the  
expansion of the Inca state towards the south of Cusco, which  
comprises the sub-area of the western valleys of the south central  
Andes and northwestern Argentina. She posits that, contrary to  
previous research, the Inca state had a strong political, economic,  
and ideological intervention in the study area. Available  
archaeological evidence suggests that Inca state intervention was far  
from being indirect. One of the motives for that intervention was the  
need to gain access to economic resources of the Pacific Coast (animal  
feces, minerals), coastal valleys (subtropical agriculture), pre- 
mountain range valleys (maize and potato farming, metallurgy), puna  
(animal husbandry, tubers, salt, and obsidian) and eastern yungas  
(feathers, coca, cebil, wood, honey, etc.). In this context, Dr.  
Williams will describe different state installations meant to  
administrate and control those territories. These state installations  
include infrastructure like tambos, administrative centers, roads,  
apachetas, qollcas, and ceremonial places (wak'as, shrines). She will  
also analyze portable objects such as ceramics, metals, textiles, and  
lapidary in the context of political organization of the state. Dr.  
Williams' interest focuses on power strategies used by the Inca state  
to control and administrate previously mentioned territories. However,  
an interregional comparative study shows considerable differences of  
material expressions of state administration, which are interpreted as  
different levels of intensification in the operation and working of  
power and administration structures.
About the Speaker: Dr. Verónica I. Williams is Researcher, National  
Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Argentina/  
Institute of Archaeology, and Facultad, Filosofía y Letras,  
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a 2008  
Fellow in Pre-Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks.
Sumner School,
1201 17th Street, NW,
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).
Washington, DC.
http://www.pcswdc.org/


January 9-10, 2009
Institute of Andean Studies 49th Conference
University of California-Berkeley
(510) 525-7816
mwf at uclink.berkeley.edu .
http://www.instituteofandeanstudies.net/


January 15, 2009, 7:30 PM
Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society Lecture
"Rock Art of the Lower Pecos Region"
Duval Auditorium,
University Medical Center,
1501 North Campbell Avenue (north of Speedway).Tucson, Arizona
http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/aahs/lectures.shtml


January 17-18, 2009
"3rd Braunstein Symposium on Figurines"
SATURDAY, January 17, 2009
8:30 am to 9:00 am Registration
9:00 am to 9:30 am Opening Ceremonies
9:30 am to 11:30 am
Pam Miller (College of Eastern Utah)
Fremont Figurines of Utah with a Special Emphasis on the Pilling  
Figurines
Kelley Hays-Gilpin (Northern Arizona University)
Three Figurine Traditions in Northern Arizona and New Mexico: Gender and
Gestures
11:30 am to 12:00 am Break
12:00 am to 1:00 pm Christine VanPool (University of Missouri)
Women of the Sun: Southwestern Effigies and the Cosmology of Feminity
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Lunch – served in exhibit hall
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Kata Faust (University of California, Riverside )
Effigy Head Vessels and Celestial Symbolism in Ancient Huastec Art and  
Thought
Rosemary A. Joyce (University of California, Berkeley)
Patterns of Identity: Group Membership in Honduran Formative Figurines
4:00 pm to 4:30 pm Break
4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Julia Hendon (Gettysburg College)
The Marriage Figurines of Western Honduras:  Style, Context, and Meaning
Ann Cyphers (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
Face to Face, Head to Head: Exploring the Significance of Olmec  
Figurines
6:30 pm to 8:00 pm Evening Reception
SUNDAY, January 18, 2009
8:30 am to 11:30 am
John E. Clark (Brigham Young University)
Covering their Nakedness: Early Mesoamerican Figurines and Clothing
Gerardo Gutiérrez (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en
Antropología Social)
An Exploration of Nahualism and an Olmec Transformation Figurine from
Guerrero, Mexico
Erin Sears (University of Kentucky, Lexington)
The High Road or the Low Road?: Late Classic Maya Figurines within the  
Alta
Verapaz-Petén regions, Guatemala
11:30 am to 12:00 am Break
12:00 am to 1:00 pm Lisa Overholtzer (Northwestern University)
Molding Materiality and Producing Place: The Life Histories of Ceramic  
Figurines a
Postclassic Xaltocan, Mexico
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Lunch – served in exhibit hall
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Symposium wrap-up
UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum
4505 Maryland Parkway
Las Vegas, NV
http://hrc.nevada.edu/museum/Calendar/index.html


Monday, January 19, 2009, 7:30 PM
AIA Lecture
Norman Hammond, Boston University
"Exploring La Milpa, a Classic Maya City in Belize"
Courtyard by Marriott,
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10124&society_code=all


January 26, 6:00 PM
Southwest Seminars Lecture
"Beauty in Daily Life; Portable Art of the Ancient Southwest
Dr. Eric Blinman
Hotel Santa Fe
1501 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://southwestseminars.org/SouthwestSeminars.org/Voices_in_Stone_2009.html



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