[Aztlan] MARCH ANCIENT AMERICAS LECTURES AND CONFERENCES

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

A busy month for lectures and conferences. Our co-moderator Dave  
Hixon will be giving a lecture this month on March 8 on "Satellites,  
Surveys and Simulations: Settlement Archaeology of Ancient Chunchucmil"

Mike Ruggeri


February 28-March 2, 2008
2008 Annual Conference
The Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference
Ocean City, Maryland
For meeting details and to register visit http:// 
www.maacmidatlanticarchaeology.org/conference.htm


February 28-March 2, 2008
XXXII Maya Meetings
University of Texas at Austin
The specialized Workshops will run from Monday, 25 February to  
Thursday, 28 February 2008 (4 days).
The Symposium runs from Friday, 29 February, to Sunday, 2 March 2008.
This year we will focus on Copan, Honduras. Copán ranks among the  
most interesting Maya sites for many reasons; among these are its  
vast number of hieroglyphic texts and figurative stelae. For its  
relative small size (many@ other sites in the Maya lowlands are  
physically larger), the amount of inscribed materials at Copán are  
truly astounding, suggesting that in some way the inhabitants of this  
ancient kingdom were particularly interested in literate culture and  
iconography.
http://www.utmaya.org/
Registration:
http://utdirect.utexas.edu/txshop/list.WBX? 
component=0&application_name=ARTHISRY


Friday, February 29, 4:00 pm
"Grain Ingrained: or, how Eurocentric Views of Agriculture Shape our  
Understanding of the Origins of New World Crops."
Michael Blake
University of British Columbia
  Today, most of the earth's population depends for its very  
existence on the reliable production of cereal crops-primarily wheat,  
maize, and rice.  Western views of the primacy of these and other  
major cereals have become increasingly entrenched during the past 500  
years...since the Age of Exploration.  In post-Enlightenment  
thinking, grain production was regularly equated with civilization  
and linked with beliefs in the moral superiority of Western  
economies.  In fact, these views can be traced back at least to Roman  
times but it is likely that they emerged much earlier with the spread  
of agricultural peoples out of the ancient Near East.  How have these  
Western notions linking agricultural practice with fundamental  
definitions of "civilized" society shaped anthropological and  
archaeological ideas about agriculture histories in non-Western  
settings?  I explore some of the ways that these Eurocentric views of  
agriculture have limited our understandings of food production in the  
Americas.  Theories of maize origins and spread, and the ongoing  
puzzles that maize has engendered, provide an example of the enduring  
legacy of our Eurocentric relationships with grain crops.
Fowler A139
Fowler Building, UCLA


March 1, 2008, 11:00 AM
Part of Arizona Archaeology and Heritage Expo…
"Mesoamerican Style and Symbolism in Hohokam Architecture and Artifacts"
This is one of a series of lectures pertaining to Southwestern Roots  
in Central Mexico: 4,000 Years of Cultural Continuity
Arizona State Museum,
Room 309.
Tucson, Arizona
http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/public/index.shtml


March 1, 2008, 5:00 PM
Part of Arizona Archaeology and Heritage Expo…
"Tutuveni: Hopi Social Memory in Stone"
Wesley Bernardini from the University of Redlands discusses his  
research and documentation of Tutuveni, the famous petroglyph site on  
the Hopi Salt Trail. This lecture celebrates the publication of the  
200th volume in the Arizona State Museum Archaeological Series.
Center for English as a Second Language  (CESL) Auditorium,
one building east of Arizona State Museum north.
Tucson, Arizona
http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/public/index.shtml


Sunday, March 2, 3:00-5:00 PM
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Lecture
"Moche Tombs at Dos Cabezas"
Christopher B. Donnan addresses the topic of his most recent book  
detailing the
excavation of five extraordinary Moche tombs at Dos Cabezas, a site  
located about
300 miles northwest of Lima. Donnan will discuss his team's  
remarkable discovery of
the stunning ceramics and metalwork that reveal aspects of Moche  
funerary practice
and the sophistication, both artistic and technical, of the ancient  
civilization.
A book signing and reception in the Fowler's Courtyard follows the  
lecture.
Parking: Convenient parking is available in LOT 4, accessible from  
Sunset Blvd at
Westwood.
Lenart Auditorium
Fowler Museum
UCLA, Los Angeles
www.fowler.ucla.edu


March 3, 6:00 P
Southwest Seminars Lecture
"Chimney Rock: A Terrestrial View of a Celestial Place"
Dr. Wolky Toll
Archaeologist; Office of Archaeological Studies, Museum of New Mexico
Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://www.southwestseminars.org/Ancient_Sites_2008.html


Friday, March 7, 7:00 PM
Pre-Columbian Society of Washington DC Lecture
"Adaptations to Changing Environments: A Tale of Two Ancient Maya  
Wetlands in Belize"
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/


March 7, 3:00 PM
Institute of Mesoamerican Studies Lecture
Christian Wells (University of South Florida)
"The Cornfield
Spirits: Nonmaterial Motives for Cultivating Landscapes in the  
Ancient Maya World."
Christian Wells (University of South Florida)
Humanities 354
State University of New York
Albany, NY
http://www.albany.edu/anthro/speakerseries.htm


Friday, March 7, 7:30 PM
"Finding Maize in Formative Mexican Pottery"
Bob Thompson is Lecturer at the University of Minnesota.  Since his  
move to Minneapolis in 1990 he has been studying microscopic plant  
remains recovered from food residues in prehistoric pottery.  He  
completed his dissertation in 2007, and he has studied prehistoric  
maize from New York to Chile.  Currently he is working on maize and  
prehistoric pottery from the Mixteca Alta in Oaxaca and is pursuing  
funding from the National Geographic Society to continue his work in  
Oaxaca and Veracruz.
Drew Science Building,
Room 118,
Hamline University
St. Paul, Minnesota
http://www.hamline.edu/mayasociety/Lectures%20and%20Workshops% 
202007-2008.htm


March 7-9, 2008
50th Annual Caddo Conference
Northwestern State University,
Natchitoches, Louisiana
http://www.nsula.edu/regionalfolklife/2008CaddoConf/2008CaddoConf.html


March 8, 1:00 PM
Walters Art Museum and John Hopkins University Fifth Annual  
Distinguished Lecture "Gold of the Ancient Americas : Artists and  
Patrons in the Land of El Dorado in Ancient American Art"
Warwick Bray,
from University College, London
Colombian gold works are legendary for their resplendent forms and  
technical excellence. The promise of gold lured early explorers to in  
search of " El Dorado " and the treasures he commanded. For ancient  
Americans however, such gold objects had practical and symbolic  
functions in daily life. By combining studies of these objects with  
laboratory analyses of metals and with 16th-century historical  
accounts Bray will examine gold working as a social phenomenon and  
consider a series of questions: Who were the goldsmiths and what  
techniques did they employ? Who were their patrons and customers? How  
were gold works used within society as a whole?
Professor Warwick Bray is Emeritus Professor of Latin American  
Archaeology, University College, London . He has participated in  
numerous excavations and traveled extensively in Latin America. Co- 
author of The Penguin Dictionary of Archaeology, and with Linda  
Manzanilla, co-editor of The Archaeology of Mesoamerica (1999), he  
has published widely on Pre-Columbian
Graham Auditorium
Walters Aret Museum
Baltimore, Maryland
http://www.thewalters.org/eventscalendar/eventdetails.aspx?e=829


Saturday, March 8, 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
"Workshop; Archaeology Behind the Microscope:  Food Residues as a  
Small Feature"
Giddens Learning Center 6s
(the Anthropology Lab),
Hamline University.
St. Paul, Minnesota
http://www.hamline.edu/mayasociety/Lectures%20and%20Workshops% 
202007-2008.htm


March 8
The Pre-Columbian Society of the University of Pennsylvania Museum
Lecture
"Satellites, Surveys and Simulations: Settlement Archaeology of  
Ancient Chunchucmil"
David Hixson
Tulane University,
Department of Anthropology
http://www.precolumbian.org/


Saturday, March 8, 7:00 PM
"New Archaeological Discoveries in Oaxaca"   Marcus Winter of  
Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History will discuss  
recent excavations at several sites that shed light on the Mixes,  
Zapotecs, Huaves and other peoples. The southern Isthmus region of  
Oaxaca has received relatively little attention from archaeologists  
until the past five years. Important discoveries he will discuss  
include early village sites dating back to 1500 B.C.; interaction  
with the Olmec, Zapotec and Maya civilizations; and the rise of  
complex societies in the southern isthmian region. Winter has  
directed explorations of various regions of Oaxaca since he began  
working in the institute's Oaxaca office in 1974. He teaches at the  
National University of Mexico in Mexico City and in the University of  
Chicago undergraduate program in Oaxaca.

Hale Science Building,

Room 270,
CU-Boulder campus.
For more information on the lecture call 303-735-3055.
http://www.Colorado.EDU/eventscalendar/cgi-bin/frame.cgi?  
parent=date&sdate=3/01/2008&edate=3/31/2008


March 10, 6:00 PM
Southwest Seminars Lecture
"Living at the Edge Along the Rio Pecos: Settlement at San Jose and  
San Miguel del Vado"
Tom Windes
Adjunct Lecturer of Anthropology, University of New Mexico
Retired Archaeologist, Chaco Canyon Culture National Park Museum,  
National Park Service
Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://www.southwestseminars.org/Ancient_Sites_2008.html


Monday, March 10, 2008, 7:00 PM
AIA Lecture
"Early Human Populations in the New World: A Biased Perspective"
James Adovasio, Mercyhurst College (Joukowsky Lecture)
Oberlin College, Art Building

http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10124&society_code=all


Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 3:00 PM
AIA Lecture
"Mesa Verde's World"
Stephen Lekson, University of Colorado Museum of Natural History  
(Stone Lecture)
Toledo Museum of Art
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10124&society_code=all


March 11, 3:30 PM
School for Advanced Research
"The Archaeology of Cannibalism"
John Kantner.
The 1990s was the decade of cannibalism in American archaeology. Six  
books on the topic inspired a media circus that quickly polarized  
discussions of prehistoric violence. John Kantner, SAR Vice  
President, stumbled into the fray with the coincidental publication  
of two articles on Ancient Puebloan cannibalism. Ten years later he  
discusses what archaeologists learned about the record of violence in  
the past and archaeologists' responsibilities in reporting this  
grisly aspect of human behavior.
Boardroom in the Administrative Offices of the School for Advanced  
Research (SAR)
660 Garcia Street
Santa Fe, New Mexico
505-954-7203
www.sarweb.org.


March 11, 7:00 PM
The Friends of Tijeras Pueblo Lecture
"Dogs of the Southwest"
Dody Fugate
Dogs played a substantial part in the culture of the early peoples of  
the Southwest. This talk will examine the role of dogs both in ritual  
and in daily life in the area prior to the arrival of Europeans. The  
talk will also address these roles in relation to the larger context  
of Mexico and South American cultures of the same time period.
Dody Fugate is the Assistant Curator, Archaeological Research  
Collections, at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of  
Anthropology.
Sandia Ranger Station,
Tijeras, New Mexico
http://www.abqarchaeology.org/events.shtml


March 13, 5:30 pm
Peabody Museum Lecture
"Storied Walls: Murals of the Americas."
William Saturno, Assistant Professor of Archaeology, Boston University.
Peabody Museum
Cambridge, Mass.
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/current_events.html


March 13, 7:30 PM
Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Lecture
"Anza-Borrego Archaeology"
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


March 15, 8:00 AM-5:30 PM
Midwest Mesoamericanist Conference
Breaching Visual Pleasure: Tactility in Courtly Scenes at Palenque
Catherine Burdick (University of Illinois – Chicago)
The Late Preclassic Political Landscape: Tzacauil and Yaxuna, Yucatan
Scott R. Hutson and Carrie Todd (University of Kentucky)
Paste Recipes and Clay Sourcing: Continued Modeling Of Pottery  
Production in the Core of the Tarascan State
Amy J. Hirshman (West Virginia University), Helen P. Pollard  
(Michigan State), Jeffrey R. Ferguson (Research Specialist,  
Archaeometry Laboratory, University of Missouri Research Reactor),  
and Michael D. Glascock (Group Leader, Archaeometry Laboratory,  
University of Missouri Research Reactor)
Classic Period Barkcloth at Tikal, Guatemala
Hattula Moholy-Nagy (U. Pennsylvania)
Haciendas and Ranchos
Thomas Charlton and Cynthia L. Otis Charlton (University of Iowa)
Zapotec and Mixe Long-Term History in the Nejapa Region of  
Southeastern Oaxaca, Mexico
Stacie King (Indiana University)
Water Mountains and Blood Sacrifice in Contemporary Nahua Religion
Alan R. Sandstrom and Pamela Effrein Sandstrom (Indiana University- 
Purdue University Fort Wayne)
Preliminary Research on Protohistoric Maya Sites in the Lowlands of  
Chiapas and Petén
Joel Palka (Anthropology and Latin American Studies, University of  
Illinois, Chicago)
New Research at the Chan Site: The 2000 Year History of an Ancient  
Maya Farming Community in Belize
Cynthia Robin (Northwestern University)
Late Postclassic State Formation in Tlaxcala, Mexico
Richard Blanton and Lane Fargher (Purdue University)
The Architectural Sequence at Cerro Portezuelo
Fred Hicks (University of Louisville)
The Pastoral Niche in Prehispanic Mesoamerica: How did a Civilization  
without Domestic Herbivores Work?
Jeff Parsons (University of Michigan)
Purdue University,
Stewart Center, Room 322,
West Lafayette, Indiana
http://web.ics.purdue.edu:80/~blantonr/confhomepage.html


March 17, 7:30 PM
Arizona Archaeological and Historical Lecture
"Geoglyphs: The Orphans of Rock Art"
John Fountain
Duval Auditorium,
University Medical Center,
1501 North Campbell Avenue
(north of Speedway).
Tucson, Arizona
http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/aahs/lectures.shtml


Thursday, March 20, 2008
Dumbarton Oaks Lecture
"From Warrior's Shields to Bishop's Miters: Mexican Feather Art, 1500– 
1600
Illustrated"
For reservations and additional information: 202-339-6440
Dumbarton Oaks
Washington DC
http://www.doaks.org/publiclectures.html


March 20, 2008, 7:30 PM
Old Pueblo Third Thursday Lecture
"Excavations at a Prehistoric Gateway Community in the Upper San  
Pedro Valley"
Old Pueblo Auditorium,
5100 W. Ina Road
Bldg. 8,
Tucson metro area.
http://www.oldpueblo.org/december.html


March 20, 11:00 AM
Gallery Talk
"Radiance from the Rain Forest: Featherwork in Ancient Peru"
The brilliantly colored feathers of Amazonian birds were a luxury  
that was used to serve various ceremonial and secular purposes. This  
exhibition spotlights examples of high-status apparel and accessories  
dating from the third millennium B.C.
Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing,
1st floor
Metropolitan Museum
New York City
http://www.metmuseum.org/search/iquery.asp


March 21, 6:45 PM
Smithsonian Resident Associate Program Lecture
"The Mayans and Their Stairways to the Stars" Anthony Aveni, Colgate  
University and George Scheper, Johns Hopkins University
Einstein Planetarium of the National Air and Space Museum,
4th Street & Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC
Clearly fascinated with the stars and planets, the Mayans had a  
sophisticated knowledge of astronomy and mathematics that allowed  
them to clock Venus's orbit around the sun to within one day's  
accuracy in 500 years. Why was Venus so important to the Mayans?
Scholars Anthony Aveni and George Scheper examine Mayan history and  
culture through their extraordinary monumental structures, art,  
texts, and inscriptions. An in-depth look at the Mayan obsession with  
the sky and an archaeoastronomical study of the orientations of  
pyramids reveal what ends were served by their knowledge of the  
heavens. The program concludes with a preview of the sky on the day  
the Mayans predicted the world would end.
Aveni is a professor of astronomy, anthropology, and Native American  
studies at Colgate University. Scheper is a faculty associate in  
advanced academic programs at Johns Hopkins University.
Advance registration is required.
The Smithsonian Associates
PO Box 23293
Washington, DC 20026-3293
Phone: (202) 357-3030 or (202) 252-0012
Email: CustomerService at ResidentAssociates.org
http://residentassociates.org/


Tuesday, March 25, 2008, 7:00 PM
AIA Lecture
"The Fremont of Range Creek Canyon, Utah"
Renee Barlow, Utah Museum of Natural History; Salt Lake Community  
College (Stone Lecture)
North Lake College Campus,
Room TBA,
Dallas Texas
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10124&society_code=all

March 26 - March 30, 2008
Society of American Archaeology
73rd Annual Meeting
Vancouver, BC, Canada
http://saa.org/meetings/index.html


Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 7:30 PM
AIA Lecture
"The Fremont of Range Creek Canyon, Utah"
Renee Barlow, Utah Museum of Natural History; Salt Lake Community  
College (Stone Lecture)
Chapman Auditorium,
Trinity University,
San Antonio, Texas
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10124&society_code=all

March 28, 11:00 AM
Gallery Talk
"Radiance from the Rain Forest: Featherwork in Ancient Peru"
The brilliantly colored feathers of Amazonian birds were a luxury  
that was used to serve various ceremonial and secular purposes. This  
exhibition spotlights examples of high-status apparel and accessories  
dating from the third millennium B.C.
Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing,
1st floor
Metropolitan Museum
New York City
http://www.metmuseum.org/search/iquery.asp


March 28, 2008, 7:30 PM
"Male Bonding Around the Campfire: Constructing Myths of Hohokam  
Militarism"
Old Pueblo Auditorium,
5100 W. Ina Road
Bldg. 8,
Tucson metro area.



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