[Aztlan] FEBRUARY ANCIENT AMERICA LECTURES AND CONFERENCES

Tue Jan 29 17:01:09 CST 2008

Friday February 1st, 7:00 PM
Pre-Columbian Society of Washington DC Lecture
"The Structure of the Maya Cosmos Revisited: Old Men and Monsters"
Simon Martin,
University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Sumner School,
1201 17th Street, NW,
Washington, DC.
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)
http://www.pcswdc.org/

February 1, 5:30 PM
Friends of Archaeology Lecture Series
"Impacts? Clovis and Folsom Archaeology of the Southwestern United  
States"
Dr. Bruce Huckell,
Research Director,
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico.
New Mexico Film Museum Theater
(the old Jean Cocteau Theater),
418 Montezuma,
Guadalupe District, Santa Fe.
For Museum of New Mexico Foundation members, cost is $12 per lecture  
or $50 for the series. For non-
MNMF members, cost is $15 per lecture or $65 for the series. Reserve  
tickets by calling the Friends of
Archaeology reservation hotline at 505-992-2715 ext. 8. Please leave  
your name and phone number, and
a volunteer will call you back for complete reservation and payment  
information.

February 4, 6:00 PM
Southwest Seminars Lecture
"Understanding Conflict in Pueblo History: New Perspectives on Old  
Archaeology"
Dr. James Snead
Archaeologist, Associate Professor, and Anthropology Program Coordinator
George Mason University,
Fairfax, Virginia
Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://www.southwestseminars.org/Ancient_Sites_2008.html

Monday, February 04, 2008, 7:30 PM
AIA Lecture
"From Colonization to Complexity: First Peopling to Monumental  
Architecture in North America"
David Anderson, University of Tennessee (Stone Lecture)
Chan Auditorium,
Admin. Science Bldg., UAH
Central Florida (Orlando)

Friday, February 8, 2008, 7:30 PM
Maya Society of Minnesota Lecture
"Cycles of Development from Ancient to Modern Times in the Yalahau  
Region of the Yucatan Peninsula"
Drew Science Building,
Room 118,
Hamline University
Dr. Scott Fedick is Associate Professor in the Anthropology  
Department at the University of California - Riverside. Dr. Fedick  
will present findings from recent and ongoing archaeological and  
ecological research in northern Quintana Roo, Mexico.  Dr. Fedick is  
a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California,  
Riverside, and is Director of the Yalahau Regional Human Ecology  
Project, which has been conducting investigations ranging from  
ancient use and modification of wetlands, to regional settlement  
dynamics, climate change, and the cosmological basis of community  
planning.  The presentation will emphasize cycles of development in  
the region from the Late Formative of two thousand years ago to the  
current explosion of growth associated Cancun and the Maya Riviera
http://www.hamline.edu/mayasociety/Lectures%20and%20Workshops% 
202007-2008.htm

February 8, 5:30 PM
Friends of Archaeology Lecture Series
"A Synthesis and Commentary on Catastrophe and Archaeology"
A panel of archaeologists
(including Drs. Robert Dello-Russo and Eric Blinman, Office of  
Archaeological Studies).
New Mexico Film Museum Theater
(the old Jean Cocteau Theater),
418 Montezuma,
Guadalupe District, Santa Fe.
For Museum of New Mexico Foundation members, cost is $12 per lecture  
or $50 for the series. For non-
MNMF members, cost is $15 per lecture or $65 for the series. Reserve  
tickets by calling the Friends of
Archaeology reservation hotline at 505-992-2715 ext. 8. Please leave  
your name and phone number, and
a volunteer will call you back for complete reservation and payment  
information.

Friday, February 8, 12:00 PM
JAR Specialized Seminar
"Nomadic Legacies: Native North American Residential Mobility
and Decision-making."
Dr. Regna Darnell
Anthro 178
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
maxwell at unm.edu
http://www.unm.edu/~maxwell/index.html

Saturday, February 9, 2008, 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Maya Society of Minnesota Workshop
"Ancient Maya Agriculture and Land Management: Assessing Ancient Maya  
Sustainability"
Giddens Learning Center 6s
(the Anthropology Lab),
Hamline University
Dr. Fedick's research specialty is in ancient Maya cultivation  
systems, plant use, and land management.  This workshop will review  
approaches to land evaluation from the competing perspectives of   
traditional framers and government agencies in order to provide  
insights on both modern and ancient trajectories of agricultural  
sustainability.  The workshop will also provide an overview of the  
vast resources of indigenous edible plants utilized by Maya
http://www.hamline.edu/mayasociety/Lectures%20and%20Workshops% 
202007-2008.htm

February 9
The Pre-Columbian Society of the University of Pennsylvania Museum
Lecture
Simon Martin, University of Pennsylvania Museum, Specialist in Mayan  
Epigraphy
http://www.precolumbian.org/

February 10, 2008, 11:00 AM
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gallery Talk
"Man and the Supernatural in the Precolumbian World"
Concepts of the supernatural were expressed in many ways in  
Precolumbian art. An examination of selected pieces highlights some  
of these concepts, as well as differences and similarities across  
cultures, time, and geography.
Gallery Talk Stanchion, Great Hall
Met Museum
New York City
http://www.metmuseum.org/search/iquery.asp

February 11, 6:00 PM
Southwest Seminars Lecture
"Finding Leaders in the Distant Archaeological Past"
Dr. John Kantner, PhD, RPA
Vice-President, Academic & Institutional Advancement and Archaeologist
School for Advanced Research and the Human Experience
Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://www.southwestseminars.org/Ancient_Sites_2008.html

Tuesday, February 12, 7:00 PM
Taos Archaeological Society Lecture
"Experimenting with Early Pueblo Communities in the Northern Rio  
Grande" Jeff Boyer
The historic Pueblo communities of the Northern Rio Grande region  
appear, at first glance, to be stable groups of people living in  
compact, aggregated villages. Archaeological examinations of sites  
dating between about AD 900 and 1200 in the Northern Rio Grande, on  
the other hand, provide tantalizing glimpses of ancestral Puebloans  
experimenting with concepts of place and community at a time when  
most of them lived scattered across their landscapes. Although the  
material forms of those experiments seemed to have varied, they show  
a consistent concept of the center or middle place, a critical point  
for Puebloan communities. If we are assessing those material forms  
correctly, we are seeing that the aggregated Pueblo communities with  
which we are familiar were not new community forms when they appeared  
in the region after about AD 1200; rather, they grew from expressions  
of center or middle places that were in use before Pueblo people  
began living next-door to each other.
San Geronimo Lodge,
1101 Witt Rd
Taos, New Mexico
http://www.taosarch.org/id26.html

Thursday, February 14, 7:00 PM
Indian Peaks Chapter
Colorado Archaeology Society Lecture
"Mantle's Cave Site"
Dinosaur Room,
Colorado University Museum,
Boulder, Colorado
http://www.indianpeaksarchaeology.org/eventDetail.php?id=13

February 15-17, 2008
Fifth Annual Tulane Maya Symposium and Workshop
"Sacred Cenotes Hidden Caverns; Rituals, Beliefs and Everyday Life  
Relating to Caves and Cenotes Among the Maya"
We explore the physical and sacred geography of the Maya region, Maya  
origin stories and beliefs focusing on caves and cenotes, and rituals  
associated with these locales.
Between now and October 15th, we are offering a 50% discount on  
registration for the symposium.
Friday, February 15th
9:00 AM -12:00 PM K-12 Educator workshop given by Dr. Bryan Just.  
Priority registration given to K-12 educators, open to all on a space  
available basis. The workshop material will give a general overview  
of the symposium theme. All Friday workshops will be held in the  
Latin American Library.
The Maya Underground: An Introduction to the Ancient Maya and Their  
Ideas about Caves, Cenotes, and the Underworld, by Bryan Just
1:30 PM -4:30 PM Participants may register for one of the workshops  
being offered on Friday afternoon.
Caves, Cenotes, Cosmology, and Calculations, (beginning level) by  
Anthony Aveni
Maya Glyphic Inscriptions in the Naj Tunich Cave, (intermediate/ 
advanced level) by Markus Eberl
7:00-8:00 PM Keynote Address by George E. Stuart: The Hole Truth:  
Reflections on Fifty Years of Maya Cave and Cenote Research. Free and  
open to the public. This talk will be held in the Freeman Auditorium  
on Tulane's campus.
Saturday, February 16th
All lectures on Saturday, February 16 will be held in the Freeman  
Auditorium.
9:00-9:15 AM
Gabrielle Vail, Opening remarks
9:15-10:00
Cenotes and Caves of the Maya Region:  Natural Archives of  
Paleoenvironmental Information, Mark Brenner
10:00-10:45
Emerging from the Dark: The Development of Maya Cave Archaeology,  
James Brady
10:45-11:00
REFRESHMENT BREAK
11:00-11:45
Rituals and Meanings Related to Maya Human Disposals in Caves and  
Cenotes, Vera Tiesler and Andrea Cucina
11:45-12:30 PM
Caves, Sinkholes, and Springs in Maya Art and Writing, Marc Zender
12:30-2:00
LUNCH
2:00-2:45
"Giving the Devil His Due…": Ah Tanlahob Chac (The Servants of Chac)  
and Colonial Yucatec Maya Rituals and Offerings in Caves and Cenotes,  
1550-1750, John Chuchiak
2:45-3:30
Prohibido Tocar Este Cenote:  The Archaeological Basis for the Titles  
of Ebtun, Rani Alexander
3:30-3:45
REFRESHMENT BREAK
3:45-4:30
Modern Kaqchikel Altars:  Making and Re-making Sacred Spaces, Judith  
Maxwell
4:30-5:00
DISCUSSION
Sunday, February 17th
9:30-12:00 PM We welcome you to join the presenters on Sunday morning  
as they gather for an informal discussion on the role of caves and  
cenotes in the Maya region.
Abstracts and Bios
  STONE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Tulane University
100 Jones Hall
New Orleans LA 70118
ph: (504) 865-5164;  fx:(504) 865-6719; rtsclas at tulane.edu
http://stonecenter.tulane.edu/MayaSymposium/

Saturday, Feb. 16, 8:30 AM-4:00 PM
15TH ANNUAL EAST TEXAS ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE
Robert M. Muntz Library (Room 401)
University of Texas at Tyler
http://www.dallasarcheology.org/

February 17, 2:00 PM
Cahokia Mounds Winter Lecture Series
"The Ohio Hopewell"
Dr. Bradley Lepper
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
30 Ramey Street, Collinsville, IL 62234
cahokia.mounds at sbcglobal.net       618-346-5160
www.cahokiamounds.com.

February 18, 6:00 PM
Southwest Seminars Lecture
"Reopening Trenches in Pueblo Bonito: Chaco Stratigraphy Project"
Dr. Wirt 'Chip' Wills
Archaeologist and Professor of Anthropology
University of New Mexico
former Research Associate,
School for Advanced Research and the Human Experience
Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://www.southwestseminars.org/Ancient_Sites_2008.html

February 21, 7:30 PM
El Paso Archaeological Society Lecture
"Pueblo Migrations in the Southern Southwest: Perspectives from  
Arizona and New Mexico"
Karl Laumbach
Recent investigations in the San Pedro Valley of southern Arizona  
have provided compelling evidence on a regional scale of two  
successive migrations from the Ancestral Pueblo homeland into the  
eastern borderlands of the Hohokam World. Concurrent investigations  
in the Rio Alamosa drainage of west central New Mexico have suggested  
two successive migrations from the Ancestral Pueblo World into the  
northern Mogollon World at approximately the same intervals. This  
paper compares and contrasts data used to detect migrants as well as  
the timing, tempo, social scale, and ultimate impact of population  
movement. Similarities and differences between the case studies have  
methodological and theoretical implications for migration studies  
that extend beyond the Southwest.
El Paso Museum of Archaeology
in the auditorium
4301 Transmountain Rd.
El Paso, Texas
http://www.epas.com/newsletter.htm

February 21, 7:30 PM
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's "Third Thursdays"
"Ancient Burial practices at the Yuma Wash Hohokam Archaeological Site"
bioarchaeologists John A. McClelland and Jessica Cerezo-Roman
Recent excavations at Yuma Wash, a Tucson-area Hohokam Classic period  
(A.D. 1100-1450) archaeological site, have revealed a diverse range  
of burial practices including primary inhumation, primary cremation,  
and secondary cremation. The guest speakers for this presentation  
will identify demographic patterns, and examine differences related  
to the size and configuration of burial pits and the types and  
numbers of funerary objects present. Some of the variation in burial  
treatment may have to do with changes in customs over generations,  
but the differences probably also reflect social diversity, variation  
in practices between contemporaneous lineages, differences in  
treatment related to the age of the deceased or circumstances related  
to death, and different stages in a complex mortuary ritual. Burials  
were found to be concentrated in some areas of the archaeological  
site but no major differences were apparent in the burials'  
depositional situations. The guest speakers will compare their  
observations about the Yuma Wash site burials with burial practices  
reported at other Hohokam Classic period sites investigated in recent  
years, to point out how a study of burial practices on a larger scale  
can expand our understanding of Hohokam society and ideology.
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center,
5100 W. Ina Road Bldg. 8
(northwestern Tucson metro area)
520-798-1201 or info at oldpueblo.org.
http://www.oldpueblo.org/february.html

February 22 – 24, 2008
The 36th Annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian  
Archaeology and Ethnohistory
The University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://www.mcaaae.com/calleng.html

February 25, 6:00 PM
Southwest Seminars Lecture
"Corn in Chaco Canyon"
Dr. Linda Cordell
Senior Scholar, School of Advanced Research; Professor Emeritus of  
Anthropology and Former Director, Museum of Natural History,
University of Colorado;
and Author, Prehistory of the Southwest (New World Archaeological  
Record: Archaeology of the Southwest; with DeWitt Jones,
Anasazi World; Dynamics of  Southwest Prehistory;
and Chiles to Chocolate: Food the Americas Gave the World
Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://www.southwestseminars.org/Ancient_Sites_2008.html

February 26th, 7:30 pm
San Diego County Archaeological Society Lecture
"Complexity in the Upper San Luis Rey River:  Testing True and  
Waugh's Model of San Luis Rey Settlement Patterns"
San Diego County Archaeological Society is pleased to present Russ  
Collett who will speak about a paper he wrote with Richard D.  
Schultz  about settlement patterns in northern San Diego County.   
Delbert True and Georgie Waugh (1981, 1982) posited Late Prehistoric  
settlement models for the San Luis Rey (SLR) River and the southern  
flank of Palomar Mountain. Within their study area they noted  
numerous SLR I period, and fewer, but larger SLR II period  
settlements. They also indicated an increasing emphasis towards  
bipolar settlement in the latter period.   Additionally, they  
predicted settlements elsewhere along the San Luis Rey River would  
follow similarly.  The results of Shultz and Collett's research in  
the upper reaches of the San Luis Rey watersheds appear to contradict  
True and Waugh's observations and their predictions for consistency  
within the river system.
Los Peñasquitos Ranch adobe
(within Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve).
Located south of the Rancho Peñasquitos area of San Diego County.
Take Black Mountain Road to the Canyonside Park Driveway, just north  
of Mercy Road in Rancho Penasquitos. Drive west past the ball fields  
and parking lots, following the signs to the Ranch House. Access is  
on the dirt road, through the white wooden gate (open during visiting  
hours). Parking is located next to the large barn. The adobe  
structure is south of the barn.
http://www.sandiegoarchaeologicalsociety.com/speakers.htm

February 28, 5:30 pm
Peabody Museum
Tatiana Proskouriakoff Lecture
"All in the Family: Reconstructing Classic Maya Royal Genealogies."
Peter L. Mathews, Professor of Archaeology,
La Trobe University; Co-Director, Naachtun Archaeological Project.
Peabody Museum
Cambridge, Mass.
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/current_events.html

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

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