[Aztlan] JUNE ANCIENT AMERICAS LECTURES AND CONFERENCES

Sun Jun 1 16:08:32 CDT 2008

This notice of events has the title of my presentation listed
incorrectly as "Current Issues in the Usumacinta Drainage Area"

Here is the correct information, as shown on the website of the
Pre-Columbian Society at the University of Pennsylvania Museum:

Saturday, June 14,  2008, 1:30pm,  Room 345

David Pentecost, Television Producer and Editor:

"Usumacinta - New Threats and New Discoveries"

The return of plans to exploit the Usumacinta River for hydro power,
and continued invasions by settlers and narco traffickers, have
created new pressures on the ecology and cultural legacy of the
Usumacinta watershed. Recently completed video reports explore the
political and cultural forces at work on the southern border of
Mexico.

Dave Pentecost is a television producer and editor with 30 years of
experience in Mexico and Guatemala. He has produced reports on the
archaeology and politics of the region for ABC, Discovery, and
National Geographic.

http://www.precolumbian.org/nextmeeting.HTM

On 6/1/08, michael ruggeri <michaelruggeri at mac.com> wrote:
> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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/
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> 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
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> 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
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> June 14
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> The Pre-Columbian Society of the University of Pennsylvania Museum
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> Lecture
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> "Current Issues in the Usumacinta
> Drainage Area"
> David Pentecost,
> TV producer and member of the Rios Maya Committee
> http://www.precolumbian.org/
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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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> Mike Ruggeri's Ancient America Museum Exhibitions, Conferences and
> Lectures
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> http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmerica/index.htm
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