[Aztlan] JUNE ANCIENT AMERICAS LECTURES AND CONFERENCES

[michael ruggeri]

June 3, 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


June 4, 5:45 pm
Peabody Museum Curator's Talk
"Fragile Memories: Archaeology and Community at Copán, 1891–1900."
The Peabody Museum
11 Divinity Avenue,
Cambridge, MA,
within the Harvard campus.
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/current_events.html


Wednesday June 4, 7:30 PM
Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary Meeting "Lost Beneath the Lake;  
Excavations in the Tonto Basin"
 From 1989 to 2003 Glen Rice, in collaboration with a number of  
colleagues at Arizona State University, directed the excavation of  
139 Classic Period sites (A.D. 1250 to 1450) in the Tonto Basin,  
including five platform mounds and the surrounding settlements.  This  
generated a large data set about the organization of Classic Period  
platform mound communities showing that the development of Hohokam  
complexity was based on ritual rather than economic integration.
Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park
4619 E. Washington Street,
Phoenix AZ
http://www.ci.phoenix.az.us/PUEBLO/edcalndr.html#May


Friday June 6th
Pre-Columbian Society of Washington DC Lecture
John Carlson
"Pilgrimgage to the Serpent of Light and Shadow: The Equinox Descent  
of Kukulkan at Chichen Itza"
John Carlson is Senior Lecturer in University Honors, and Director,  
Center for Archaeoastronomy, University of Maryland
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/


Monday, June 9, 7:00 PM:
"Life and Death in Ancient Durango: Results of the Animas-La Plata  
Archaeology Project"
As part of the Animas La-Plata reservoir project, from 2002-2005 SWCA  
Environmental Consultants excavated 74 archaeological sites in Ridges  
Basin and on Blue Mesa, just south of the modern town of Durango,  
Colorado. These include Paleoindian, Archaic, Basketmaker II, and  
early Pueblo I sites. The talk will present some of the highlights of  
these excavations and explore issues of early agriculture and the  
rapid development and dissolution of some of the earliest villages in  
the Four Corners area.
Ricketson Auditorium,
Denver Museum of Nature and Science, City Park, 2001 Colorado Blvd.
Enter through the west (Leprino Atrium) entrance.
http://www.coloradoarchaeology.org/Denver/index.htm


June 12, 7:30 PM
Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Lecture
"Excavations at the Kohen Lake Site, Western Mojave Desert"
Dr. Mark Sutton
June 12, 7:30 PM
Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Lecture
"Excavations at the Kohen Lake Site, Western Mojave Desert"
Dr. Mark Sutton
Excavations underaken at the Koehn Lake site (CA-KER-875) revealed a  
Rose Spring Complex site situated on a lakeshore containing an  
extansive deposit and structures. The work at this site is important  
to an understanding of changing settlement and subsistence patterns  
across the Mojave Desert for the last several thousand years and may  
be related to larger-scale population movements into southern  
California and across the Great Basin.
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



June 14

The Pre-Columbian Society of the University of Pennsylvania Museum

Lecture

"Current Issues in the Usumacinta
Drainage Area"
David Pentecost,
TV producer and member of the Rios Maya Committee
http://www.precolumbian.org/


June 15, 3:00 PM
"Amazonian Bird Feathers in Ancient Peruvian Art: Color-Texture- 
Symbolism"
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
The Metropolitan Museum
New York City
http://www.metmuseum.org/search/iquery.asp


June 15, 3:45 PM
"Their Treasures Are the Feathers of Birds: The Craft and Beauty of  
Ancient South American Featherworking"
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
The Metropolitan Museum
New York City
http://www.metmuseum.org/search/iquery.asp


June 16, 7:P30 PM
Arizona Archaeological and Historical Lecture
"Landscapes of Fraud: Mission Tumacacori, the Baca Float, and the  
Betrayal of the O'odham"
Thomas Sheridan
Duval Auditorium,
University Medical Center,
1501 North Campbell Avenue
(north of Speedway).
Tucson, Arizona
http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/aahs/lectures.shtml


June 17, 7:30PM
Albuquerque Archaeological Society Lecture
"Ceramic Manufacture at Pottery Mound," Hayward Franklin.
Identification of local vs. intrusive pottery is critical for  
inferences about processes of trade and exchange networks in the  
prehistoric Southwest. At the Classic Period pueblo of Pottery Mound,  
recent studies are identifying the characteristics of the clays and  
tempers of the locally dominant glazeware pottery. These materials in  
the pottery are then matched to naturally-occurring ceramic materials  
to determine resource utilization. Results show that reconnaissance  
in the vicinity of settlements can reveal many possible sources of  
ceramic (and other) raw materials.
Albuquerque Museum
Albuquerque, NM
http://www.abqarchaeology.org/events.shtml


June 18, 7:30 PM
2008 Four Corners Lecture Series
"Mother Earth, Father Sky, & All Our Relations"
Cortez Rec Center,
Cortez, CO
http://www.nps.gov/meve/planyourvisit/4c_lectureseries.htm


June 19, 7:00 PM
2008 Four Corners Lecture Series
"Archaeology at the Point Site: The Totah Archaeological Project"
Aztec National Monument,
Aztec, NM
http://www.nps.gov/meve/planyourvisit/4c_lectureseries.htm


June 25, 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
The Metropolitan Museum
New York City
http://www.metmuseum.org/search/iquery.asp



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Lectures

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