[Aztlan] ADDITIONAL MARCH EVENT

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

The University of Minnesota Institute for Advanced Studies is having  
a symposium with lectures of interest to Ancient Americanists. I have  
posted below the lectures from the symposium that are of interest to  
our community including the plenary address by David Freidel.

Mike Ruggeri



Humans Through Deep Time: Archaeology and the Pace of Change  
Conference Symposium



Thursday, March 13

9:00-12:00 – Session 1: Pace of Human Dispersals

“When Is a Revolution not a Revolution? Archaeology and the Nature of  
Behavioral Change in Human Evolution” - Alison Brooks (Anthropology,  
George Washington University)

“Expanding Horizons: Earliest Human Dispersals Out of Africa” -  
Martha Tappen (Anthropology, University of Minnesota)

“Conflicting Clocks: Exploring the Scale, Tempo, and Mode of the  
Peopling of the Americas” - David Meltzer (Anthropology, Southern  
Methodist University)

Discussant: David Fox (Geology, University of Minnesota)



Thursday, March 13, 2008, 5:00 PM
"The Pace and Direction of Change in Lowland Maya Civilization"
David Freidel presents the plenary address for the conference, Humans  
Through Deep Time: Archaeology and the Pace of Change.
Lowland Maya civilization is the longest enduring and most extensive  
geographically of the several discrete social and cultural traditions  
together constituting Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Still defined into  
three major phases, Preclassic, Classic and Postclassic, Maya  
civilization is a rich, complex and controversial laboratory for  
scientific investigation into the evolutionary behavior of ancient  
complex society. Dramatic periods of regional change mark the  
transition from Preclassic to Classic and Classic to Postclassic -  
the famous Classic Maya Collapse - still remain disputed after a  
century of scholarship. Freidel draws on his own research and  
interpretations over the last thirty years to review current models  
for change in Maya civilization as championed by archaeologists today.


1:00-4:00 – Session 4: Narratives of Time
“Time as Ruler, Ruler as Time: Calendars and Monarchy in Ancient  
Egyptian and Maya Civilizations” - Stanley P. Guenter and David A.  
Freidel (Anthropology, Southern Methodist University)

“Cosmological Narratives: Animal-Warriors in Pre-Christian  
Scandinavia” - Lotte Hedeager (Archaeology, Oslo University)

Discussant: John Soderberg (Anthropology, University of Minnesota)

Free and open to the public.
Institute for Advanced Study, 612-626-5054
Cowles Auditorium,
Hubert H. Humphrey Center,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Campus
http://www.ias.umn.edu/DeepTime.php


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