[Aztlan] May Ancient Americas Lectures and Conferences

Wed Apr 29 01:56:38 CDT 2009

May 1-May 2
Nahua Workshop
"Issues in Nahua Identity and Language: Past and Present"
University of Maryland
This interdisciplinary workshop will explore current research on  
identity and language among Nahuatl-speakers from historical and  
contemporary perspectives. Scholars will explore a variety of ways of  
conceptualizing the relation between Nahuatl-speakers and colonial and  
national Mexican society and institutions. How has religious ideology,  
schooling, or the creation of written texts mediated the creation of  
identities? Papers will also explore the challenges of using  
ethnography or using textual analysis to understand the nature of  
intercultural relations and of social and linguistic change. To what  
extent do ethnographic fieldwork or textual sources allow scholars to  
recognize and conceptualize change in Nahuatl-speaking communities and  
peoples?
Friday, May 1
2:00 pm
Jane Hill / Keynote address (University of Arizona)
Uto-Aztecan as a Mesoamerican Language Family: Implications for  
Understanding Aztecan and the Nahua
3:30 pm
Jacqueline Messing (LASC Fellow)
Identity and Narrative in Colonial Tlaxcala, Mexico
4:00 pm
Jonathan Amith
The practice and politics of Nahuatl standardization: Local and  
national identity in conflict
4:30 pm
Comment
Saturday, May 2
8:45 am
Breakfast
9:15
Jim Maffie (LASC Fellow)
In Huehue Tlamanitiliztli and la Verdad: Philosophical Language and  
Identity in Friar Bernardino de Sahagún’s Colloquios y doctrina  
chistiana
9:45
Berenice Alcantra Rojas (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Authorship and Translation in Doctrinal Nahuatl Texts from the  
Colonial Period. 10:15 Comment, Alejandro Cañeque, Department of  
History, University of Maryland, College Park
10:30
Break
10:45
Alan & Pamela Sandstrom (Indiana University-Purdue)
Huastecan Nahua Ethnic Identity, Processes of Globalization, and the  
Protestant Invasion
11:15
John Sullivan (University of Zacatecas)
The IDIEZ Project: Countering the Deculturization of Nahuas at Mexican  
Universities
St. Mary's Hall - Multipurpose room
University of Maryland, College Park
11:45
Comment
http://www.lasc.umd.edu/Events/Workshops.html

May 1-3
Archaeological Society of New Mexico
2009 Conference,
“Between the Mountains, Beyond the Mountains
Contributions to the Archaeology
of the Northern Rio Grande”
Schedule of Papers - Saturday, May 2nd
MORNING PAPERS
8:30 to 9:30
Introductions & Welcome
9:30 to 9:45
Paul Williams
“Galisteo matters”
9:45 to 10:00
Glenna Dean
“Northern Rio Grande Heritage”
10:00 to 10:15
Coffee Break
10:15 to 10:30
Carrie Leven
“Update on Historic Mining Sites in the Taos Mountains of the Questa  
Ranger District, Carson National Forest, New Mexico”
10:30 to 10:45
Michael S. Burney
“The Historic Archaeology of Hard-Rock Gold Mining in Northern Taos  
County.”
10:45 to 11:00
Francisco Ochoa
“Interpreting Petaca Boulder and Related Historical Petroglyphs of the  
Rio Grande Gorge.”
11:00 to 11:15
Mathew Barbour
“A Trial By Fire”
11:15 to 11:30
David Kirkpatrick
11:30 to 11:45
Ted Frisbee
“Cerrillos Turquoise and Beyond That Blue Horizon.”
11:45 to 12:00
Ron Barber
“Stone Calendars”
Saturday (May 2) Talks & Meetings:
AFTERNOON PAPERS
1:30 to 2:00
Membership meeting
2:00 to 2:15
Robert Dello-Russo and Patricia Walker
“Late Paleoindian Mobility in Northern New Mexico.”
2:15 to 2:30
Jeff Boyer
“Sundance site.”
2:30 to 2:45
Richard Ford
“New Perspectives on the Jicarilla Apache In the Greater Taos Area.”
2:45 to 3:00
Kurt Anschuetz
“Movement Is Life: Cultural Transformation
in the Tewa Basin of North-Central New Mexico Between AD 1250 and 1350.”
3:00 to 3:15
Coffee Break
3:15 to 3:30
Steve Townsend
“Tecolote Pueblo Developmental and
Coalition Bastion of the Eastern Anasazi.”
3:30 to 3:45
Victoria Evans
“The Representation of Plants in Hohokam Pottery Design.”
3:45 to 4:00
Warren K. Lail
“Behavioral Regions on the Southern Park Plateau.”
4:00 to 4:15
Linda Wheelbarger
“2009 Totah Archaeological Project Update.”
4:15 to 4:30
Brian Britten
“A New and Thoughtful Approach.”
Taos Convention Center,
Don Fernando Hall,
120 Civic Plaza,
about 2 miles north of the Quality Inn ('downtown', near the Plaza).
There’s parking on the west side of Camino de la Pacita.
Taos, New Mexico
Bandelier Lecture
8:30 PM, May 2nd - Sagebrush Inn
Taos, New Mexico
“Back Where It All Began: Ancestral Puebloan Development in the
Northern Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico”
Steven A. Lakatos
Project Director, New Mexico Office of Archaeological Studies
For decades the development Puebloan society in the northern Rio  
Grande Valley of New Mexico has been modeled on the archaeological  
patterns of the Colorado Plateau.  This is due in part to the limited  
amount synthetic research presented in academic literature on the  
early archaeological periods (AD 500-900) of northern Rio Grande  
Valley. Recently, however, several lines of evidence have been  
presented that strongly suggest Rio Grande pueblo development stems  
from deeply imbedded intrinsic patterns. Initially strong patterns  
within a matrix of high variation were forged by the interaction  
between agricultural and nonagricultural communities. Although these  
patterns remained stable for over 400 years, population growth and  
movement resulted in the enhancement of enduring patterns along with  
the development of sub regional variation by the AD 1200s. In addition  
to the development of sub regional patterns, demographic shifts also  
placed these archaeological communities on a trajectory toward  
aggregation and the eventual enculturation of immigrant groups. The  
sum of these experiences is what gives the pueblo communities of the  
northern Rio Grande Valley their unique character.
http://www.taosarch.org/

May 1-3
The 6th Annual Meeting of the Nevada Rock Art Foundation
Casablanca Hotel
Rock Art Foundation
Mesquite, Nevada
http://www.nvrockart.org/events_files/NRAF 2009_AM Registration.pdf

Friday May 1st, 7:00 PM
Pre-Columbian Society of Washington DC Lecture
"Khonkho Wankane and the Rise of a Formative Ritual Cult in the  
Bolivian Andes"
John Janusek, Department of Anthropology,
Vanderbilt University. 2008-2009 Dumbarton Oaks fellow."
What gave rise to Tiwanaku, the Lake Titicacaplace culture that Inca  
rulers associated with the origins of Andean civilization? Ongoing  
research in the Machaca region just south of the Tiwanaku Valley  
provides intriguing clues. This paper summarizes archaeological  
investigation in and around the monumental site of Khonkho Wankane.  
While for years Khonkho Wankane has been considered a Tiwanaku  
regional center, the iconography of its extant stone monoliths is  
decidedly in an earlier, formative style. Our excavations, combined  
with a comparative analysis of Khonkho’s lithic imagery, indicate that  
Khonkho was an early center focused on periodic ritual-political  
gatherings and specific cultic practices. Our research offers  
suggestive evidence for understanding the origins of urbanism and  
complex societies in the south-central Andes.
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/

May 1, 4:45 PM
Northeast Mesoamerican Epigraphy Group
Anthony Aveni will be discussing his recent research on the time  
intervals recorded in Mayan hieroglyphic codices.
Arts & Sciences building,
Room 243 (the Linguistics Lab)
University at Albany
1400 Washington Avenue,
Albany, NY
(No URL)

Saturday, May 2, 10:30 AM
SunWatch 2009 Lecture Series
Archaeoastronomy in the Americas
"Prehistoric Astronomy in the American Southwest"
J. McKim (Kim) Malville, Emeritus Professor of Astrophysical and  
Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder
SunWatch Indian Village and Archaeology Park
2301 W. River Road
Dayton, Ohio
(937) 268-8199
http://www.sunwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1

May 4, 6:00 PM
Ancient Sites and Ancient Stories 2009
Southwest Seminars Lecture
"Fair & Fiction of Cannibalism in the Early Puebloan Southwest"
Dr. John Kantner, RPA, Archaeologist and Vice-President, School for  
Advanced Research on the Human Experience
Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://southwestseminars.org/SouthwestSeminars.org/Lectures.html

May 5, 1:15 PM
“Ancient Mexican Ceramics”
British Museum Gallery Talk
Elizabeth Baquedano
Room 27
British Museum
London, England
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/june/ancient_mexican_sculpture.aspx

May 5, 7:00 PM
Oregon Archaological Society Lecture
“Testing the Pointing Cairn Hypothesis: Analysis of
Stacked Rock Features in South Central Oregon”
Stephen Jankowski, M.S. Graduate Candidate,
Central Washington University
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI)
1945 SE Water Street
Portland, Oregon
http://www.oregonarchaeological.org/events.htm

May 5, 6:00 PM
Center for Desert Archaeology and Archaeology Cafe Event
"Ongoing Excavations at the Las Capas Site on the Santa Cruz River"
New canal systems dating back 3000 years are being uncovered at the  
site.
Doug Gann will be moderating the discussion. He is an expert in  
creating 3-D computer models of archaeological sites.
There is an excellent short film on the work at the site here;
http://ondemand.azpm.org/videoshorts/watch/2009/3/19/kuat-archaeologists/
Casa Vicente
375 S. Stone Ave.
Tucson, Arizona
http://www.cdarc.org/pages/articles.php?req=read&article_id=763

May 7, 7:30 PM
Archaeological Institute of America-The St. Louis Society Lecture
“A Crossroads of Conquerers Revisited: Latest Finds of el Peru - Waka.”
Professor David Freidel, Washington University.
Missouri History Museum,
5700 Lindell Blvd at DeBaliveiere,
Forest Park
St. Louis Missouri
http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/aia/

May 7, 7:00 P.M.
“Dogs of the Southwest”
Dody Fugate, Asst. Curator of Archaeological Research Collection,
The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology,
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Recent research from southwest United States suggests that the  
practice of burying dogs as divine 'escorts' was far more widespread  
among ancient Americans than previously thought - indeed: 'The earlier  
the [human] burial, the more likely you are to have dog in it,'  
according to Ms. Fugate,
Hundreds of prehistoric dogs have been found buried throughout the  
southwestern United States
Robert Hoags Rawling Library
100 E. Abriendo Ave.
Pueblo, Colorado
http://www.coloradoarchaeology.org/Pueblo/Pueblo 
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May 7, 7:30 PM
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
TOPIC: THE LONG-TERM CHRONOLOGY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL DEPOSITS IN THE  
STAVE WATERSHED, SOUTHWESTERN BRITISH COLUMBIA [PDF]
DUNCAN MCLAREN
The stylistic qualities of surface scattered artifacts collected from  
68 sites in the inundation zones of Stave and Hayward Reservoir  
suggest that the area has been continuously occupied since late  
Pleistocene times. Recent archaeological management work undertaken in  
the study area has focused on conducting subsurface evaluative tests  
in areas where there are significant surface lithic scatters.  
Evaluative testing was conducted to assess the integrity of deposits  
and to collected samples for radiocarbon dating. A total of 51  
radiocarbon dates from archaeological matrices were sent for analysis.  
Dates from every millennium between 10,350 and 290 radiocarbon years  
BP have been returned, confirming the hypothesis of the long-term  
occupation of this region and enabling the comparison of technologies  
and tool types from different eras.
Duncan McLaren currently operates Cordillera Archaeology which  
specializes in providing archaeological consulting services. He is  
also an adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology at the  
University of Victoria.
JOYCE WALLEY LEARNING CENTRE, VANCOUVER MUSEUM
1100 CHESTNUT STREET,
VANCOUVER, BC
http://www.asbc.bc.ca/events.html

Friday, May 8
Ohio Archaeological Council Spring Membership Meeting
9:30-10:00: Coffee, donuts, and bagels
10:00-10:20: The Possum Hollow site (33CT645), a stratified floodplain  
site in Clermont County, Ohio, Anne B. Lee
10:20-10:40: A Newly Discovered Newtown Phase Village in Southern  
Ohio: A Preliminary Assessment, Matthew P. Purtill
10:40-11:00: Discovery of an Early Woodland Paired-post Structure  
During Recent Investigations in Adams County, Ohio, Jeremy A. Norr,  
Matthew P. Purtill, and Jonathan B. Frodge
11:00-11:15: Break
11:15-12:15: Business Meeting
12:15-1:30: Lunch (cookout)
1:30-1:50: The Patton Site (33AT990): A Sedentary Middle Woodland  
Community in Southeastern Ohio, Sarah Weaver and Elliot Abrams
1:50-2:10: The Wildcat Site (33My499), a Small Fort Ancient Habitation  
in Dayton, Ohio, Robert Cook
2:10-2:30: Excavations, Ancient and Modern, at the Moorehead Circle at  
Fort Ancient, Robert Riordan
2:30-2:40: Break
2:40-3:00: The 2008 Excavation at the Heckleman Site (33Er14),  
Investigating Northern Ohio Hopewell, Brian Scanlan
3:00-3:20: Potential Rankin-era Archaeological Features at the Rankin  
State Memorial, Ripley, Ohio, Michael Striker
3:20-3:40: A Window into Hahn: Middle Fort Ancient at a Late Fort  
Ancient Village, Robert Genheimer
3:40-4:00: Archaeology in Eddie Rickenbacker’s Back Yard: Searching  
for a World War I Hero’s Youth, Jarrod Burks
Battelle-Darby Creek Metropark
Cedar Ridge Lodge,
1775 Darby Creek Drive,
Galloway, Ohio.
http://www.ohioarchaeology.org/joomla/

May 8, 7:00 PM
Archaeological Society of British Columbia; Nanaimo Branch
“Investigating Gender and Mortuary Variability in the Pre-contact  
Archaeology of the Canadian Plateau”
Celia Nord
Until recently, southern interior British Columbia archaeological  
research has concentrated primarily upon the investigation of housepit  
village sites from the last 4,000 years (Nicholas 1997:90). This has  
restricted our understanding of the development and range of pre- 
contact lifeways to a narrow window of time and a limited view of  
social, political and economic organization of small-scale societies.  
While several recent studies hint at a greater range of past  
behaviour, especially in terms of “complexity” (e.g., Prentiss and  
Kuijt 2004), the numerous unpublished reports by British Columbia  
consulting archaeologists often give only generalized views of Plateau  
societies.
Within the field of consulting archaeology (and even within academia),  
it is not uncommon for a previous precedence to be used without  
question and for reports to be recycled as templates. This ensures,  
that if there is a lack of references to women in the archaeological  
reports, that this data will be recycled unchallenged. This disparity  
needs to be addressed, particularly in terms of subjects not  
previously researched in the Canadian Plateau, such as gender.  
Fortunately, in recent years, there has been an increase in the use of  
gender archaeological theory (e.g., Nelson and Rosen-Avalon 2002) and  
feminist anthropological theory (e.g., Ackerman 2003) within the  
discipline. However, the representation and visibility of women in the  
past, especially in the Canadian Plateau region, still suffers from  
serious neglect, resulting in an incomplete and skewed understanding  
of the nature of Plateau society over time.
Malaspina University-College
Education/Social Sciences Building (356) in Room 109 or Room 111
Nanaimo, British Columbia
http://www.asbcnanaimo.nisa.com/lectures.html

May 8-10
Tularosa Basin Conference
The Tularosa Basin possesses a deeply rich culture history that  
extends from the early Paleoindian period, nearly 12,000 years ago, to  
include the Archaic period and Jornada Mogollon occupation of  
scattered camps, rock art, pit house settlements, and pueblo  
villages.  The historic period is often represented by colorful, yet  
tragic events, including settlement of the basin, founding of villages  
and towns, conflict of ethnic groups, dispute resolution (old-West  
style), development and resource exploitation, and military impacts  
and expansion.  Much of the Basin’s history is linked to its unique  
and complex natural resources that include the white gypsum deposits  
that form White Sands National Monument, the geology of the Sacramento  
and San Andres mountains, and the Valley of Fires volcanic flow.  The  
Basin’s diverse vegetation ranges from Desert Chihuahaun to Sub- 
Alpine, transcending eight zones. The Tularosa Basin Conference has  
been organized to disseminate information from recent archaeological  
and historic studies, engage and involve the public in our heritage  
resources, advance research, support and celebrate historic  
preservation, and document cultural change and continuity.  Join us,  
as experts gather from various fields, and ethnographic discussions  
are presented from local residents who have lived the history of the  
Tularosa  
Basin 
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May 9
South American Archaeology Seminar in London
Co-sponsored by: The Institute for the Study of the Americas & The  
Institute of Archaeology, UCL
10.30 am    Coffee
11.00 am    *Speaker intending to confirm*
11.35    *Clarissa Sanfelice Rahmeier *(Department of Anthropology,  
UCL) Enclosing land, restricting bodies, disclosing society: land  
ownership, domestic architecture and social identity in the / 
estâncias /of South Brazil, 19th century
12.10 noon *Mettelise Fritz Hansen *(Department of American Indian  
Languages and Cultures, University of Copenhagen)  /Wachaques /(raised  
fields) of Chan Chan, an archaeological and ethnographic assessment of  
their function and significance.
Lunch
2.00 pm    *Warwick Bray* (Institute of Archaeology, UCL)  Prehispanic  
Coca-chewing in the Caribbean Mainland?
2.35     * Patrice LeCoq *(Université Paris 1, Panthéon Sorbonne,  
Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie) Choqek'iraw: the Inca site with llama  
wall mosaics inspired from textiles.
Tea
3.30     *Gerson Levi-Lazzaris *(Vanderbilt University)  Fractal  
Hegemony in the Amazon: a Ninam (Yanomamo) example for a theoretical  
frame in ethnoarchaeology
4.05      *Cristiana Bertazoni Martins*  (Museu de Arqueologia e  
Etnologia, Universidade de São Paulo) Considerations on relationships  
between the Huarochirí Manuscript and Western Amazonia.
Everyone is welcome.  You are asked to make a contribution of £5 .00  
towards the cost of coffee, tea, lunch & administration (you may pay  
on the day but please e-mail b.sillar at ucl.ac.uk so that we can order  
the right amount of sandwiches!)
Institute of Archaeology UCL,
34 Gordon Square, London
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/events/seminars/south-american/2009-may.htm

Saturday, May 9, 1:30 PM,
Pre-Columbian Society at the University of Pennsylvania Museum Meeting
“The Art of Performance: Song, Sound, and Breath in the Iconography of  
Preclassic Kaminaljuyú”
Lucia Henderson PhD Candidate, Department of Art and Art History,  
University of Texas at Austin
The talk examines a group of monument fragments from the Late  
Preclassic Maya site of Kaminaljuyú, Guatemala, many of which have  
never been published or seen by the public before. They are all  
fragments of silhouette sculptures, thin, one-sided, bas-relief cut  
outs, a strange format almost unique to Kaminaljuyú. They show figures  
singing, speaking, or playing musical instruments: the earliest  
incontestable images of musical performance known from the Maya area.  
As such, these fragments appear to have much to say not only about the  
role of performance, song, music, and speech at Kaminaljuyú, but about  
the manner in which kings and the office of rulership were structured  
during this early period in the history of Mayan civilization.
Music, song, and speech are well attested throughout Mesoamerica as  
ways of communicating with and summoning the gods. Such sacred sounds  
were also closely tied to concepts of the breath soul, which was  
believed to animate humans, gods, and even material objects. As  
evidenced by these silhouette fragments, the Preclassic inhabitants of  
Kaminaljuyú believed that acts of music, song, and speech were worthy  
of being sculpted in stone and populated their site with musicians and  
performers that continued to play, sing, and speak in perpetuity.
At least two of the sculptures specifically identify rulers with  
sacred sound. One image even appears to show the ruler as the  
embodiment of wind, the breath soul, and speech or song. These  
sculptures, therefore, not only emphasize the time depth of  
performance in the Maya area, but demonstrate that the power of kings  
was rooted in performance in a very visible way. In other words, these  
sculptures indicate that performance played an active and essential  
role in the execution of ritual and the maintenance of kingly power  
during the Preclassic period. As not only the performer of songs and  
speech, but the embodiment of these things, the Preclassic Kaminaljuyú  
king marked himself as a human manifestation of sacred sound, watery  
wind, and the most vital and important of breath souls.
Lucia Henderson is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art and  
Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation  
work centers on the beginnings of Maya art and iconography, with  
particular focus on the bas-relief sculptures at the Preclassic site  
of Kaminaljuyú, Guatemala. Lucia is a recipient of the prestigious  
Donald D. Harrington Fellowship and, in addition to her dissertation  
research, is slated to begin an underwater archaeology project in  
northwestern Peten, Guatemala, this summer.
Room 345
University of Pennsylvania Museum
33rd and Spruce Streets
Philadelphia, PA
http://www.precolumbian.org/

May 10, 11:00 AM
Metropolitan Museum Gallery Talk
“Precolumbian Masks: Expressions of Reality”
Views several Precolumbian masks to explore Central American ideas  
about the transformation from one identity or life stage to another.
Tours Sign, Great Hall
Metropolitan Museum
New York City
http://www.metmuseum.org/search/iquery.asp

May 11, 6:00 PM
Ancient Sites and Ancient Stories 2009
Southwest Seminars Lecture
"A Tale of Three Valleys: Chaco and Post Chaco in the Middle San Juan  
Region"
Paul F. Reed, M.A., Preservation Archaeologist and Chaco Scholar at  
Salmon Ruins, Center for Desert Archaeology
Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://southwestseminars.org/SouthwestSeminars.org/Lectures.html

Tuesday, May 12th, 7:00 PM
Taos Archaerology Society Lecture
Mike Adler - Executive Director, SMU-in-Taos
“Pot Creek Pueblo and its Importance to Taos Valley”
Ft Burgwin Dining Hall
6580 Highway 518
Taos, New Mexico
http://www.taosarch.org/Default.aspx?pageId=98127&eventId=45542&EventViewMode=2&CalendarViewType=1&SelectedDate=5/20/2009

Tuesday, May 12, 7:00 pm
Friends of Tijeras Pueblo Lecture
“Finding the Center Place:  Indigenous Development, Population  
Movement, and Migration into the Northern Rio Grande”
James L. Moore
Project Director, Office of Archaeological Studies
Museum of New Mexico
A hotly debated issue in Southwestern archaeology has long been the  
fate of the Pueblo inhabitants of the Mesa Verde region as they  
abandoned their homes near the end of the thirteenth century, never to  
return.  Many archaeologists believe that most of these people moved  
directly to the Northern Rio Grande, becoming ancestral to many of the  
modern pueblo villages.  Other archaeologists believe that the picture  
is not quite as clear.  This talk will re-examine this issue from a  
Northern Rio Grande perspective using archaeological and ethnological  
information to suggest that the process of migration from the Mesa  
Verde region to the Northern Rio Grande is neither clear-cut nor  
certain, and will offer a different perspective on this phenomenon.
Sandia Ranger District Station on Hwy 337 (the old South 14)
just under 1/2 mile south of the light in
Tijeras, New Mexico
http://www.friendsoftijeraspueblo.org/ourevents.html

May 13, 12:00 PM
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Lecture
“Archaeologies of Annihilation: Warfare, Ritual, and Burning in the  
Ancestral Pueblo Southwest”
  James Snead (Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, George  
Mason University & Research Associate, Cotsen Institute)
Cotsen Seminar Room (Fowler A222)
UCLA
Laura Lliguin
laural at ioa.ucla.edu
794-4837
http://www.ioa.ucla.edu/news-events/events-calendar/pizza-talk-24

May 14, 7:00 PM
School for Advanced Research Lecture
"The Early History of Chocolate"
John Henderson
Mesoamericans were making beverages from cacao before 1000 BC.
Chocolate is so iconic in American and European culture today that it  
is difficult to imagine life without it. In fact, chocolate was  
unknown to the Western world until the 16th century, when Spaniards  
learned of it from the Aztecs. New archaeological evidence shows that  
Mesoamericans were making beverages from cacao before 1000 BC. Dr.  
Henderson's rich talk takes a careful look at archaeological evidence  
that indicates chocolate was an essential component of all important  
ceremonial and social occasions among the Aztecs and their  
Mesoamerican neighbors, and was so valuable that the cacao seeds even  
served as a form of money.
James A. Little Theater,
New Mexico School for the Deaf,
1060 Cerrillos Road
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://www.sarweb.org/members/lecturespresent.htm

May 14, 7:30 PM
Pacific Coast Archaeology Society Lecture
“The Chumash World at European Contact: Power, Trade, and Feasting  
Among Complex Hunter-Gatherers”
When Spanish explorers and missionaries came onto Southern  
California's shores in 1769, they encountered the large towns and  
villages of the Chumash, a people who at that time were among the most  
advanced hunter-gatherer societies in the world. The Spanish were  
entertained and fed at lavish feasts hosted by chiefs who participated  
in extensive social and economic networks. Drawing from archaeology,  
historical documents, ethnography, and ecology, Dr. Gamble will  
describe daily life in the large mainland towns along the Santa  
Barbara Channel coast, focusing on Chumash culture, household  
organization, politics, exchange, warfare, feasting, and ritual.
  Lynn H. Gamble is Professor of Anthropology at San Diego State  
University and a past President of the Society for California  
Archaeology. Her recent book and publications have focused on a wide- 
range of topics, including the Chumash at European contact, the origin  
of the plank canoe in the New World, exchange in southern California,  
adaptations to paleoclimatic change, representation and forgeries in  
museum collections, and challenges surrounding site preservation. She  
currently is the Editor of the Journal of California and Great Basin  
Anthropology. Her book, Power, Trade, and Feasting among Complex  
Hunter-Gatherers: The Chumash World in 1769, will be available for  
purchase and signing.
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.htm

May 15-16
2009 Conference on Mesoamerica
"Continuity and Change in Mesoamerican History From the Pre-Classic to  
the Colonial Era"
Salazar Hall
This conference on Mesoamerica commemorates the first centennial of  
Tatiana A. Proskouriakoff’s birth. Born in 1909 in Tomsk, Siberia  
(Russia), Proskouriakoff migrated with her family to the United States  
in 1916. She studied architecture and archaeology at the University of  
Pennsylvania, and began doing fieldwork on Maya sculpture and  
architectural reconstruction in Piedras Negras, Guatemala (1936-1937),  
Copán, Honduras (1938-1939), Chichén Itzá (1939-1940), and in Mayapán  
(1951-1955). In her first published article (1944), Proskouriakoff  
linked historical inscriptions in carved jade found in Chichén Itzá  
with the history of rulership in Piedras Negras, thus making it  
possible to undertake stylistic analysis of Classic Maya monuments and  
to understand the inscriptions in Maya sculptures and glyphs of the  
historical succession of rulers. Proskouriakoff’s work during the  
1950s dealt with Mexico’s Gulf Coast, giving due emphasis to the  
meaning and function of the ancient ballgame as found in regional  
sculpture. While at the Peabody Museum (Harvard University),  
Proskouriakoff began her detailed stylistic analysis of Maya  
hieroglyphic inscriptions in the belief that, more so than a record of  
ritual and calendric information, the contents were historical in  
scope. This breakthrough in Mesoamerican research led to  
Proskouriakoff’s historical dating of ruling dynasties in Yaxchilán,  
México (1964). Recognized for her fieldwork and publications on Maya  
inscriptions, architectural reconstructions, and the stylistic  
analysis of Maya sculpture, Proskouriakoff is also remembered for her  
contributions to the interpretation of ideological features in  
Mesoamerican art, religion, and native reverence toward ancestors. In  
1984, Guatemala honored Proskouriakoff with the Order of the Quetzal.  
She died in 1985. Proskouriakoff’s book, Maya History, appeared  
posthumously in 1993 as a testimony of a life devoted to the study of  
Mesoamerica. In this commemoration of Proskouriakoff’s birth, the  
conference organizers invite papers on the following topics:
1.) Tatiana Proskouriakoff and her contributions to Mesoamerican  
studies.
2.) Maya Epigraphy.
3.) Mesoamerica and its historical periods
4.) The Epiclassic and multiethnic urban centers
5.) Art and ideology in Mesoamerican Artifacts
6.) Mesoamerican cave archaeology
7.) Landscape, skyscape, and architectural design
8.) Colonial ethnohistorical narratives and the question of historical  
periods
9.) The Mexica and the Triple Alliance during the reign of Moctezuma  
Xocoyotzin
10.) Religion, divination, and lunar symbolism in The Codex Borgia
11.) History and ideology in the work of Spanish cronistas of the 16th  
century.
12.) Mesoamerican culture and language in the work of Franciscans,  
Dominicans, Augustinians, and Jesuits during the Colonial era.
13.) Mesoamerica as a linguistic area: continuity and change in  
indigenous language texts.
14.) Architecture, painting, literature, and sculpture: the encoding  
of Mesoamerican cultural features during the Colonial Era.
15.) Transculturation in Art and History of 16th Century Mesoamerica
The deadline for a one-page abstract of conference papers is April 17,  
2009. Please send your abstract as an electronic attachment to rcantu at calstatela.eduor 
  mail to the following address:
Prof. Roberto Cantú
Department of Chicano Studies
California State University, Los Angeles
5151 State University Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90032
Telephone: (323) 343-2195
Location;
Salazar Hall
E184,
California State University,
Los Angeles, California

May 15-17
Colorado Rock Art Association Symposium
Cortez Conference Center (CCC)
at 2121 E Main Street.
Cortez, Colorado
http://coloradorockart.org/PAGES/2009symposium.html

May 17, 2:00 PM	
Southwest Iconography Explored Program
“Venus: Divine Star of Ancient America”
In Ancient America, Venus was not the Roman goddess of love and  
beauty, rather ancient Americans tracked the cycle of the planet Venus  
and created far different ways to represent the power of the planet in  
their lives. Part of the Southwest Iconography Explored program series  
by
  Marc Thompson, Ph.D., Director, El Paso Museum of Archaeology
El Paso Museum of Archaeology
El Paso, Texas
http://www.elpasotexas.gov/arch_museum/events.asp

May 18, 6:00 PM
Ancient Sites and Ancient Stories 2009
Southwest Seminars Lecture
"Mapping Tijeras Pueblo"
Dr. Linda Cordell, Archaeologist, Professor Emeritus and director,  
University Museum, University of Colorado, and former Department  
Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Senior  
Scholar, School of Advanced Research on the Human Experience and  
Author, Archaeology of the Southwest, 2nd edition (1997)
Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://southwestseminars.org/SouthwestSeminars.org/Lectures.html

May 18, 7:30 PM
Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society Lecture
"Human Adaptation to Catastrophic Events: Lessons from the 11th  
Century A.D. Eruption of Sunset Crater Volcano"
Mark Elson, Desert Archaeology
Duval Auditorium,
University Medical Center,
1501 North Campbell Avenue (north of Speedway)
Tucson, Arizona
http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/aahs/lectures.shtml

May 19, 7:30 PM
The SMU-IN-TAOS Colloquia Lectures
“On the Edge of Imperialism:  Provincial Chancay of the North Central  
Coast, Peru, AD 1100-1600”
Kit Nelson
Department of Anthropology, Tulane University
Fort Burgwin Dining Hall
SMU-in-Taos Campus,
Hwy 518, 6 miles south of Talpa
Taos, New Mexico
http://smu.edu/taos/2006/colloquia.2006.asp

May 22-25
American Rock Art Research Association Annual Conference
Bakersfield, California
http://arara.org/Conference_2009.html

May 25, 6:00 PM
Ancient Sites and Ancient Stories 2009
Southwest Seminars Lecture
"Reconciling the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act  
with Hopi Tribal History and Identity"
Dr. T.J. Ferguson, Anthropologist and Professor of Practice,  
University of Arizona
Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://southwestseminars.org/SouthwestSeminars.org/Lectures.html

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient America Museum Exhibitions, Conferences and  
Lectures
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