[Aztlan] JULY ANCIENT AMERICA LECTURES AND CONFERENCES

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

July is always a less busy month.

Mike Ruggeri



July 10, 7:00 PM

2008 Four Corners Lecture Series
"Large-Scale Irrigation and Organizational Complexity During the  
Hohokam Millennium"
Aztec National Monument,
Aztec, NM
http://www.nps.gov/meve/planyourvisit/4c_lectureseries.htm


Friday, July 11th
Precolumbian Society of Washington DC Lecture
"Of Mountains, Caves, and People: Landscape and Identity in Classic  
Maya Texts and Images"
Alexandre Tokovinine
"This presentation addresses the questions of how Classic Maya  
represented their landscape and how they identified themselves in  
relation to certain places. I discuss what written narratives and  
images can tell us about the Classic Maya notions of place and  
community. I also present some evidence suggesting that, although the  
Classic Maya world was divided into dozens of independent kingdoms,  
these kingdoms saw themselves as parts of larger geopolitical groups  
based on shared identities."
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/


July 12, 7:00 PM
Metropolitan Museum Gallery Talk
"Man and the Supernatural in the Precolumbian World"
Highlights concepts of the supernatural in selected pieces from the  
Precolumbian era, and compares these objects across cultures, time,  
and geography.
Gallery Talk Stanchion, Great Hall
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City
http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp


July 15, 11:00 AM
"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 of Art
New York City
http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp


July 22, 7:30 PM
"New World Beginnings: The Peopling of Ice Age America"
Dr. David Meltzer
Fort Burgwin Dining Hall
SMU-in-Taos Campus,
Hwy 518, 6 miles south of Talpa
New Mexico
http://tinyurl.com/6fospa


July 29, 7:30 PM
"Pueblo People Then and Now: The View from the Mesa Verde Region"
Dr. Mark Varien,
Research Director, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, CO.
Fort Burgwin Dining Hall on the SMU-in-Taos Campus, Hwy 518,
6 miles south of Talpa
New Mexico
http://tinyurl.com/5lo3ov


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