[Aztlan] October Ancient America Lectures and Conferences

Tue Sep 30 00:12:56 CDT 2008

October 2-5
"The 2nd Annual Maya at the Playa"
Many Events including the lectures below;
"Child sacrifice and the perception of childhood in Classic Maya  
culture"
"Caching and Trashing Animal Bones: Why Maya Zooarchaeologists Don't  
Find Enough Faunal Remains in Middens"
"Privilege or Pitfall?  The Politics of Health and Identity at Waka',  
Guatemala"
"The Maya the Year 2012"
"The Truth in Small Matters: Determining Stone Tool Use and the  
Reconstruction of Maya Life in Two Communities"
"Human Sacrifice Among the Ancient Maya:  Evaluating the Evidence"
"Architectural Manifestations of Power and Prestige: Examples from  
the Classic Period Maya Sites of Cahal Pech, Xunantunich and Caracol,  
Belize."
"The archaeological site of La Rejolla" "Thoughts on the  
Personification of Diseases among the Ancient Maya"
"Ritual and Performance in the Formation of Collective Memory: some  
examples of Social Continuity from El Perú-Waka', Guatemala, and  
Cahal Pech, Belize."
Palm Coast, Florida
http://www.mayaattheplaya.com/Site/M@PHome.html

October 2-4
15TH Biennial Mogollon Archaeology Conference
Western New Mexico University Museum will host the 14th Mogollon  
Archaeology Conference
REGISTRATION: The draft conference schedule, registration, fees, and  
additional information will be
available by mid-summer 2008 at www.wnmu.edu/univ/museum.htm and sent  
via e-mail. Unfortunately,
registration cannot take place via email.
The registration fee for the conference is $50.00 if you pre-register  
prior to September 5, 2008. We encourage you to pre-register and to  
indicate the various activities in which you wish to participate by  
using the enclosed registration form. Your Mogollon Archaeology  
Conference packets can be picked up
at the Opening Reception/Registration on Thursday, October 2, 2008,  
between 4 pm and 6 pm. Late
registration (after September 5) or on-site registrations add $10.00.
You may also register during the opening reception on Thursday,  
October 2, or at the Global Resource Center (GRC) on Friday, October  
3 between 7:30 and 10:00 A.M. You must pre-register for the Friday  
evening dinner at the Buckhorn to obtain the dinner entrée you  
require. A few tickets for the dinner will be reserved on a first  
come first served basis for late registrants, but a specific entrée  
cannot be guaranteed.
PAPERS: Those individuals interested in presenting papers are  
requested to submit a title and an abstract by Friday, August 29,  
2008. Please submit your name, address, contact information,
institutional affiliation, paper title, author(s), and an abstract  
not to exceed 100-words to the Conference
Program Chair/Organizer (BettisonC at wnmu.edu) via e-mail (please see  
Paper Title/Abstract
Information document). ALL papers will be limited to 15-minutes in  
length.
Papers or presentations are limited to Mogollon archaeology  
(including Jornada Mogollon and Northern Chihuahua) with a cut-off  
date of A.D. 1400-1450. Due to time limitations, papers concerned with
Historic and Archaic groups are discouraged unless the paper pertains  
directly to the evolution of Mogollon groups. Abstracts will be  
reviewed by a Conference Program Committee.
Western New Mexico University and Museum
Silver City, NM
http://www.swanet.org/2008_pecos_conference/pecos_downloads/misc/ 
15_mogollon_conf.pdf

October 3-5
2008 Arkansas Archaeological Society Annual Meeting.
Arlington Hotel,
Hot Springs, Arkansas
http://www.arkarch.org/index.php?pages/annmeet

Friday, October 3rd, 7:00 PM
Pre-Columbian Society of Washington DC Lecture
"A Decade on the Trail: Archaeological, Ethnohistorical and Remote  
Sensing
Studies of Chunchucmil's Place Within the Communication Networks of  
the Classic Period Maya"
David Hixson.
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/

October 5, 11:00 a.m.
Met Museum Gallery Talk
"Only Human? An Exploration of Figural Imagery in Precolumbian Art"
Gallery Talk Stanchion, Great Hall
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City
http://www.metmuseum.org/calendar/

Sunday, October 05, 4:00 PM
AIA Lecture
Payson Sheets, University of Colorado
"How did the Maya Feed the Multitudes"
Santa Rosa Junior College,
Rm. 2009
Lark Hall,
Santa Rosa, California
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10124&society_code=all

October 8-11,
The 31st Great Basin Anthropological Conference
University Place, Portland State University,
Portland, Oregon.
For information regarding the upcoming conference you may contact:
Dr. Virginia Butler - Program Chair - Department of Anthropology
Portland State University - Portland, OR 97207
(503) 725-3303 - butlerv at pdx.edu
The call for papers and information about the meeting will appear in  
Spring 2008.

October 8, 8:00-9:30 PM
Institute of Maya Studies Lecture (rescheduled due to hurricane Ike)
DVD Presentation of "Cracking the Maya Code" with commentary by Steve  
Mellard
This is a definitive look back at how a handful of pioneers  
deciphered the intricate system of hieroglyphs developed by the Maya.  
One of the greatest detective stories in all of archaeology, it had  
never been told in depth before. With glorious footage of Maya  
temples and art, this documentary culminates in the fascinating  
account of this once magnificent ancient civilization's ingenious  
method of communication.
Institute of Maya Studies
Miami Science Museum,
3280 South Miami Avenue,
across from Vizcaya;
Maya Hotline: 305-235-1192; http://mayastudies.org

October 9, 7:30 PM
Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Lecture
"Prehistoric Heated Rock Cooking Features of the Central Transverse  
Mountain Ranges"
The presentation will focus on archaeological examinations of "earth  
ovens," "grills," and "burnt rock middens" found in the San Gabriel  
Mountains, Castaic Mountains, and the Cajon Pass Divide. Radiocarbon  
dating of charcoal indicates that heated rock cooking facilities were  
initially used by Archaic populations at desert margins of the  
Transverse Ranges more than 7500 years ago and that the use of these  
structures gradually became more commonplace during subsequent  
millennia. After about 2300 years ago, there was marked  
intensification in the firings of heated rock food cooking  
structures. Formally distinct rock-lined earth ovens, which are  
proposed as hallmarks for the arrival of Uto-Aztecans, also appear in  
the archaeological record at about that time. After 300 years ago,  
heated rock cooking appears to have declined in the Transverse  
Ranges. The spatial and temporal distributions of heated rock food  
structures serve as useful measures of resource intensification in  
the Transverse Ranges since the early Holocene.
15600 Sand Canyon Avenue
(between the I-5 and I-405, next to the Post Office)
Irvine, California
http://www.pcas.org/meetings.html

October 9, 7:30 PM
Arizona  Archaeology Society, Phoenix Chapter Lecture
"Payson to Heber Project Results"
Pueblo Grande Museum
4619 E. Washington,
Tucson, Arizona
http://www.azarchsoc.org/phoenixchapter.html#section3

Thursday, October 09, 6:00 PM
AIA Lecture
Cameron McNeil, Queens College, CUNY (Stone Lecture)
"The Fragrance of Ritual Spaces: Flowers in Ancient Maya Temples and
Tombs at Copan, Honduras"
Eureka Theatre,
Science Museum of Virginia,
2500 W. Broad St.,
Richmond, Virginia
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10124&society_code=all

Friday, October 10, 5:30 PM
Dumbarton Oaks Lecture
"The Cold War History of the Maya Decipherment"
Michael D. Coe, Yale University
Music Room at Dumbarton Oaks
Washington DC
http://www.doaks.org/public_events/lectures.html

October 11-12
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.
Annual Symposium
"Scripts, Signs, and Notational Systems in Pre-Columbian America"
Dumbarton Oaks is pleased to announce the annual Pre-Columbian  
Symposium will be held this year in the Music Room of Dumbarton Oaks  
in Washington, D.C. Organized with Elizabeth Boone and Gary Urton,  
the symposium will focus on record-keeping in Pre-Columbian  
Mesoamerica and the Andean region.
Long before Europeans came to the American shores, groups or classes  
of people charged with record-keeping in Mesoamerica and the Andes  
developed graphic and visual-tactile systems to record and pass on  
information concerning their understanding of the world they  
experienced. Indeed the Americas--along with Mesopotamia, Egypt, and  
China--was one of only four locales where writing developed  
independently. This conference is not concerned with identifying,  
defining, or separating out "writing" from other signing and  
communication systems within Pre-Columbian societies. Rather, the  
gathering is intended to gain critical and comparative insights into  
the types of sign, script, and notational systems devised by  
indigenous Americans for the purposes of recording and conveying  
knowledge and information. To these ends, speakers will address the  
relevant cultural categories of writing, recording, and notational  
systems; the intellectual and technical practices these systems  
comprised; how and for what purposes recording systems were employed  
(i.e., their relevance and social context within their respective  
societies); and the signing and recording strategies by which  
information was stored and communicated.
The symposium speakers include: Elizabeth Boone (Tulane University),  
Oswaldo Chinchilla (Museo Popol Vuh, Universidad Francisco  
Marroquín), Tom Cummins (Harvard University), Stephen Houston (Brown  
University), Margaret Jackson (Stanford Humanities Center), Alfonso  
Lacadena (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Federico Navarrete  
Linares (Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad  
Nacional Autónoma de México), Michel Oudijk (Universidad Nacional  
Autónoma de México), Frank Salomon (University of Wisconsin), David  
Stuart (University of Texas at Austin), Karl Taube (University of  
California, Riverside), Javier Urcid (Brandeis University), and Gary  
Urton (Harvard University).
Space for this event is limited, and registration will be handled on  
a first come, first served basis. For further information, please  
contact the Pre-Columbian Studies Program at Dumbarton Oaks
pre-columbian at doaks.org
202-339-6440).
http://www.doaks.org/research/pre_columbian/ 
doaks_pco_scholarly_meetings.html

Saturday-Sunday, October 11-12
27th Annual Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory
University of Maine in Orono, ME
Keynote speaker: Peruvian archaeologist Luis Jaime Castillo  
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) will be the keynote  
speaker. He is a Moche specialist and will talk on his 18 years of  
research at San José de Moro and the northern Jequetepeque valley, Peru.
Call for papers/deadline: If you are interested in presenting a paper  
at the conference, please submit a title, author list, and abstract  
(up to 150 words) to Dan Sandweiss ( dan.sandweiss at umit.maine.edu) by  
September 24. We will email and post the final schedule on Sept. 26.
We will soon begin posting conference information on this site,  
please bookmark it.
tel. 207-581-1889, fax 207-581-9310
University of Maine
Orono, ME
http://www.climatechange.umaine.edu/Research/news/AAE.html

October 14th, 7:00 PM
"Petroglyphs of the Taos Area -Twenty-three years of recording  
petroglyphs in North-Central New Mexico"
Paul, with the help of many local volunteers, began recording  
petroglyphs quite by accident when they discovered the Big Arsenic  
Springs Petroglyphs during an archaeological inventory within the Rio  
Grande Gorge in 1985.  This group of  BLM volunteers formed the Taos  
Archaeological Society within a couple of years, and has been  
recording petroglyphs ever since.  This visual slide presentation  
documents some forty petroglyph sites located and recorded by the  
Taos Archaeological Society over the last two decades.
Kachina Lodge
Taos, New Mexico
http://www.taosarch.org/

October 15, 8:00-9:30 PM
Institute of Maya Studies Lecture
"Architecture and Society, Maya Style"
Dr. Edward Kurjack
Social interpretation of Maya architecture presents several problems  
that remain to be resolved. What sort of organization constructed the  
monumental buildings at the centers of Maya communities? How can we  
tell the difference between ordinary houses, elite palaces, community  
structures and temples? Should we consider the Maya builders master  
masons or architects? Traditional styles are associated with Maya  
architecture at Río Bec, the Chennes, the Puuc, the East Coast, etc.  
What is the ethnological equivalent of these styles? My own research  
suggests that each large site seems to possess its own style. This is  
due to the instability of political leadership from generation to  
generation – efficient rulers followed by less competent individuals.  
Nevertheless, if architecture is defined as durable, useful and  
beautiful, Maya buildings exceeded those requirements.
Institute of Maya Studies
Miami Science Museum,
3280 South Miami Avenue,
across from Vizcaya;
Maya Hotline: 305-235-1192; http://mayastudies.org

October 15–19, 2008
"2008 Annual Meeting of the
Midwest Archaeological Conference"
*CALL FOR PAPERS*
Hyatt Regency Hotel
333 Kilbourn Ave.
Milwaukee, WI*
*ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 15, 2008*
Please submit abstracts via the MAC webpage on SPORG –
https://www.sporg.com/registration?org_id=33814
If you cannot use the web page to submit your abstracts, email Word  
or rtf
files to: Robert J. Jeske at jeske at uwm.edu
*Individual Paper and Poster Abstracts* - Abstracts must be no more  
than 100
words in length.
*Symposium Abstracts* - All abstracts for symposia must be submitted  
as a
complete packet, including symposium abstract, and all individual  
abstracts.
Paper presentations must be 15 minutes in length maximum.
Individuals presenting papers must be active (2008) members of MAC and
registered at the meeting. Co-authors not presenting need not be MAC
members, nor be registered at the ia Richards, pbrownr at uwm.edu.
Hyatt Regency Hotel
333 Kilbourn Ave.
Milwaukee, WI
http://www.midwestarchaeology.org/meetings.htm

Thursday, October 16, 7:30 PM
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's "Third Thursdays" program:
"The 'Deep  Structure' of Early Archaic Rock Art: Human Universals"
On a global scale, all earliest art-making traditions consist of  
abstract-geometric motifs and nonfigurative patterns, regardless of   
whether they occur on portable objects or on rock surfaces. This is  
also true for the rock art of the American West, which houses a  
wealth of nonrepresentational images, both painted and engraved. To  
shed light on this most enigmatic yet fascinating imagery, which to  
many rock art researchers is of little interest since it seems to  
offer no insights into the minds of its creators, Professor Malotki  
resorts to human universals and cutting-edge ideas gleaned from  
neuroscience and
evolutionary psychology. In addition to presenting novel ideas, he  
hopes to heighten awe and respect for the area's rock art legacy  
through striking photographs.
Old  Pueblo Archaeology Center,
5100 W. Ina Road Bldg. 8
(northwestern Tucson metro area).
520-798-1201
info at oldpueblo.org.
http://www.oldpueblo.org

October 18, 2008
"Mesoamerican Mythologies Symposium"
This one-day conference brings together some of the foremost scholars  
to present their research on and knowledge about
ancient Mesoamerican Mythological belief systems and to discuss how  
these mythologies are reflected in their art, architecture, and  
sacred texts.
The symposium guest speakers include
Karl Taube, Michael Coe, Wendy Ashmore, David Stuart, John Pohl, and  
Leonardo Lopez Lujan
Speakers' Reception and Dinner are open to the public
(with separate registration) featuring our Keynote Speaker
Dr. Mary Miller, Yale University
Beckman Center of the
National Academies of Sciences and Engineering
Irvine, California
www.mesoamericanmythologies.info

October 22, 3:00 PM
"Transformation in Art of the Ancient Americas"
Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas, Texas
http://www.dallasmuseumofart.org/Dallas_Museum_of_Art/Experience/ 
Programs___Events/ID_010975

October 24-25
"Advances in Hohokam Archaeology"
The conference will highlight the results of recent research in  
Hohokam archaeology and reflect on how far our understanding of the  
Hohokam has come in the past 25 years. A centerpiece of the  
conference will be a panel discussion with participants from the last  
"big" Hohokam conference held 25 years ago. This call for papers is  
intended to solicit abstracts from interested presenters for papers  
and posters. Abstracts should include the author's name, affiliation,  
and a 100–150 word summary of the main topic of the paper or poster.  
Students are especially encouraged to submit abstracts—an award will  
be given for the best student presentation. AAC intends to publish  
the results of the conference. Interested presenters should submit a  
paper/poster title and abstract to Dr. Douglas Craig by September 1,  
2008.
Pueblo Grande Museum in Phoenix, Arizona on
http://arizonaarchaeologicalcouncil.org/index.php

October 24–26
79th Texas Archeological Society Annual Meeting
SPRING CALL FOR PAPERS
Holiday Inn Park Plaza Hotel,
Lubbock, Texas,
The Annual Meeting is returning to Lubbock in 2008, and in some ways  
the TAS is coming home.  Many of the pioneers of Texas Archeology and  
founders of the TAS got their starts in the Southern Plains!
Individual Papers – Titles and Abstracts are due by September 1, 2008.
Symposia – Titles and Abstracts are due by August 15, 2008.
Poster Presentations – Titles and Abstracts are due by September 1,  
2008.
Abstracts should be submitted to the Program Chair, Dr. Tamra Walter,  
via email to papers at txarch.org or send to:
Dr. Tamra Walter, Associate Professor
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work
Texas Tech University
PO Box 41012
Lubbock TX 79409-1012
http://www.txarch.org/Activities/AnnualMeeting/am2008/index.html

October 28, 6:30 PM
Farmers Branch Historical Park
  "Hunter-Gatherer Mortuary Practices during the Central Texas  
Archaic" Beginning over 10,000 years ago and continuing until the  
arrival of the Spanish in the 1500s, hunter and gatherer societies  
occupied the Edwards Plateau of central Texas.  Dr. Bement's analysis  
reveals a growing elaboration in burial rituals during the period and  
uncovers important data on the diet and health of these societies. He  
will discuss climate change based on faunal remains and compare  
burial goods such as freshwater shell, marine shell, turtle and stone  
artifact with those found at other mortuary sites.
Dallas, Texas
http://www.dallasarcheology.org/

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