[Aztlan] February Ancient Americas Lectures and Conferences

Fri Jan 30 22:36:35 CST 2009

February 2, 6:00 PM
Southwest Seminars Lecture
"Painted Walls, Pots and Images on Stone in the Pueblo Rio Grande"
Polly Schaafsma
Hotel Santa Fe
1501 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://southwestseminars.org/SouthwestSeminars.org/Voices_in_Stone_2009.html

February 3, 7:00 PM
Oregon Archaeological Society Lecture
"Condors and Archaeology"
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI)
1945 SE Water Street,
Portland, Oregon.
http://www.oregonarchaeological.org/events.htm

Wednesday, February 04, 2009, 7:00 PM
AIA Lecture
Heather McKillop, Louisiana State University
"Underwater Maya: Ancient Maya Wooden Architecture and the Salt  
Industry"
Orlando Museum of Art
Orlando, Florida
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10124&society_code=all

Wednesday, February 4, 7:30 PM
"Tree Rings and Archaeology: Beyond Just Telling Time in the  
Prehistoric Southwest"
Join Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary and Dr. Ronald Towner as he  
presents "Tree Rings and Archaeology".  Dendroarchaeology, the use of  
tree-ring data to address archaeological issues, has played an  
important role in the archaeology of the Southwest. Tree-ring dates  
are precise and accurate to the year, and sometimes season, and have  
been used to calibrate other methods of dating archaeological sites.  
In addition to precise chronological data, tree-ring dates also  
contain information about past human behaviors and environmental  
conditions. This presentation discusses the use of tree-rings from a  
variety of sites in the Southwest to explore the timing and struggles  
on various past societies in the area.
Pueblo Grande Museum
Phoenix, Arizona
http://www.ci.phoenix.az.us/PUEBLO/edcalndr.html

Thursday, February 05, 2009, 7:00 PM
AIA Lecture
Michael Fuller, St. Louis Community College- Meramec (Stone Lecture)
"Cahokia: An Ancient Kingdom in the Mississippi Valley"
Sewall Hall,
Rice University
Houston, texas
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10124&society_code=all

Friday February 6th, 7:00 PM
Pre-Columbian Society of Washington DC Lecture
"Recent Finnish-Bolivian Archaeological Research at Two Tiwanaku  
Period Sites in the Lake Titicaca Basin"
Dr. Antti Korpisaari of University of Helsinki, a 2008-2009 Fellow at  
Dumbarton Oaks.
Even though it is not nearly as well-known or famous as the Inca  
Empire, the Tiwanaku culture (c. AD 500–1100) nevertheless holds an  
important place in the cultural history of the South Central Andes.  
The Tiwanaku heartland was situated in the southern Lake Titicaca  
Basin. Portable artworks remarkably similar to those typically found  
in this heartland are spread over a huge area encompassing much of  
highland Bolivia, as well as parts of South Peru and North Chile. In  
his talk, Dr. Antti Korpisaari of the University of Helsinki, Finland,  
will concentrate on the results of the archaeological excavations  
recently carried out by a Finnish-Bolivian team at two Tiwanaku sites  
situated in the Titicaca Basin, in present-day Bolivia. The first of  
these is the Late Tiwanaku cemetery site of Tiraska, at which 32  
burials were investigated in 1998–2003. These tombs featured centrally  
in Korpisaari's 2006 Ph.D. dissertation, Death in the Bolivian High  
Plateau: Burials and Tiwanaku Society. Following the end of the  
Tiraska fieldwork, the Finnish-Bolivian team directed its attention to  
the island of Pariti, situated some kilometers to the southwest of  
Tiraska. On Pariti, in 2004, Korpisaari and his colleagues located two  
deep pits filled with intentionally smashed Tiwanaku ceramics of high  
artistic and technical quality. Subsequently, they were able to  
reconstruct hundreds of these vessels, many of which are finer than  
almost any vessels or sherds recovered in the extensive excavations of  
the "capital city" of Tiwanaku. Korpisaari will illustrate and discuss  
a number of the most beautiful Pariti ceramic vessels as well as,  
toward the end of his talk, touch upon the research he is currently  
carrying out at Dumbarton Oaks as Fellow in Pre-Columbian Studies.
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/

February 6, 7:30 PM
Maya Society of Minnesota Lecture
"From Classic Inscriptions to Chol Folktales--One Thousand Years of  
Maya Literary Tradition"
Nicholas A. Hopkins
Epigrapher and instructor (retired),
Florida State University
Drew Science 118
Hamline University
St. Paul, Minnesota
Chol (Mayan) storytellers from the Palenque area relate a variety of  
traditional tales in a special way, and narrators who don't follow the  
canon are often called down and made to start over. In this  
presentation, modern Chol narratives will be explored, with examples  
from sacred myths, traditional folktales (including a lot of scary  
"ghost stories"), and personal histories. Once the storytellers'  
narrative style is understood, very interesting parallels can be seen  
in Classic period Maya hieroglyphic texts. The argument will be made  
that these texts, separated by 1000 years or more, represent two  
pieces of the same literary tradition, the elite Great Tradition of  
the Classic and the folk Little Tradition of modern times.
Drew Science 118
Hamline University
St. Paul, Minnesota
http://www.hamline.edu/mayasociety/MSM_LIST_lectures_and_worksh_Spring_2009.htm

February 6 - February 8, 2009
Sixth Annual Maya Symposium and Workshop
Tulane University
"Maya Calendars and Creation"
Featuring guest speakers from the fields of archaeology, art history,  
epigraphy, ethnohistory, linguistics, and archaeoastronomy, the 2009  
symposium promises to be a memorable weekend spent exploring and  
discussing Maya creation mythology, divination and prophecy, and  
calendar systems.  We hope you will join us in New Orleans next  
February for the Sixth Annual Maya Symposium and Workshop.
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA
For more information, contact Denise Woltering or visit:
http://stonecenter.tulane.edu/MayaSymposium/

February 7, 9:00 a.m-12 p.m.
Maya Society of Minnesota Workshop
"Hieroglyphic Workshop Looking at Classic Texts"
Nick Hopkins
This workshop will look at instances of Classic Maya hieroglyphic  
inscriptions paralleling the structure of traditional Chol folktale  
narratives. No background with Maya hieroglyphic writing is necessary
Giddens Learning Center 6s
(the Anthropology Lab),
Hamline University
St. Paul, Minnesota
http://www.hamline.edu/mayasociety/MSM_LIST_lectures_and_worksh_Spring_2009.htm

Februry 10, 7:00 PM
Taos Archaeological Society Lecture
  "Southwest Ceramics"
C. Dean Wilson - Director,
Pottery Analysis Laboratory,
Office of Archaeological Studies
Ceramic data is being used to examine trends relating to the sequence  
and nature of the prehistoric ceramic occupation of the Northern Rio  
Grande. One important issue currently being explored is the origin of  
Pueblo groups in the Northern Rio Grande, who are often assumed to  
have migrated from the San Juan region during the thirteenth century.  
Instead, ceramic evidence from various projects suggests a long,  
continual Puebloan population beginning by at least A.D. 900 that grew  
and expanded into other areas of the Northern Rio Grande during the  
thirteenth century.
Ceramic data is also being used to examine the nature of historic  
Spanish occupations in Northern New Mexico. Native ceramics were among  
the most common artifacts in assemblages in the Palace of the  
Governors from the early seventeenth to the late nineteenth  
centuries.  Data indicates that most of the pottery at Spanish sites  
was produced by nearby Pueblo or Apache groups. Trends in the forms  
and style of Native pottery from historic sites are being used to  
examine changes in the relationship between Indian producers and  
Spanish consumers
Kit Carson Electric
118 Cruz Alta Rd,
Taos, New Mexico
http://www.taosarch.org/Default.aspx?pageId=98127&eventId=32561&EventViewMode=2&CalendarViewType=1&SelectedDate=2/16/2009

February 12, 7:30 PM
Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Lecture
"Environmental and Biotic Consequences of Major Extraterrestrial  
Impact over North America 12,900 Years Ago"
Dr. James P. Kennett
Researchers have discovered remarkable, widespread geological and  
archaeological evidence for a major extraterrestrial collision over  
North America 12,900 years ago. Massive energy release from this  
impact caused continental-wide wildfires and other severe  
environmental changes. The YDB ET (Younger Dryas boundary  
extraterrestrial event) impact hypothesis appears to be consistent in  
explaining at least three major events that have long puzzled the  
scientific community: 1) the massive, abrupt extinction over North  
America of many large mammal (e.g. mammoths, camels, sloths, saber  
tooth cats) and bird taxa; 2) the abrupt disappearance of the Clovis  
Culture, the first widely distributed peoples of North America; and 3)  
the triggering of abrupt cooling over broad areas of Earth and  
associated major change in ocean circulation.
James Kennett is Professor Emeritus in Earth Sciences at UCSB and  
Research Professor with the Marine Science Institute, of which he was  
Director from 1987 to 1997.
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

February 17, 7:00 PM
"Shield Rock Art: Lessons from the Valley of the Shields"
Dr. Lawrence Loendorf
The Valley of the Shields site in south-central Montana contains 27  
localities with Castle Garden Style shields. In 1987, Dr. Lawrence  
Loendorf excavated and uncovered a cultural layer associated with the  
making of the rock art. Charcoal offered a radiocarbon age of AD 1100  
to 1150. In 2007, Loendorf re-opened excavations, recovering chipped  
stone tools used to incise the designs, fragments of pigment, a rodent  
incisor gouge, and more. Five shallow hearths, apparently used to  
prepare pigments, were found with the tools. The most important  
discovery was the age of the hearths, which were filled with remnants  
of juniper, pine, and sagebrush charcoal. In his presentation,  
Loendorf will address the 400-year disparity in the dates of sagebrush  
charcoal and pine charcoal and explain why the Valley of the Shields  
is more correctly dated at AD 1500 to 1550. Further, learn why this  
discovery is important to archaeologists working in Colorado, Wyoming,  
and Montana. Says Loenderf: "All radiocarbon dates for sites where the  
charcoal was not identified are potentially invalid. This means that  
nearly all radiocarbon dates at High Plains sites for the past 50  
years need to be reassessed - and may be incorrect. This has  
unbelievable implications for our understanding of Colorado's past."
Community Room
Falcon Substation
Colorado Springs Police Department
7850 Goddard
Colorado Springs, Colorado
http://www.coloradoarchaeology.org/pikepeak.htm

February 16, 2009, 7:30 PM
Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society Lecture
"On a Foundation of Potsherds: Building a New Model of the Phoenix  
Basin Hohokam"
Duval Auditorium,
University Medical Center,
1501 North Campbell Avenue (north of Speedway).
Tucson, Arizona
http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/aahs/lectures.shtml

February 16, 6:00 PM
Southwest Seminars Lecture
"The Rest of the Story; Mimbres Painted Pottery"
Dr. Jerry Brody
Hotel Santa Fe
1501 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://southwestseminars.org/SouthwestSeminars.org/Voices_in_Stone_2009.html

February 19, 4:00 PM
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
Timothy R. Pauketat
"Citationality and Cult: Between Agency and Astronomy in Ancient North  
America"
Timothy R. Pauketat
Dr. Pauketat, Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois,  
Weatherhead Fellow at the School for Advanced Research.
Hibben 105
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM
http://www.unm.edu/~maxwell/

February 19, 7:00 PM
"Discovering C.B. Moore's Lost Mounds and Enclosures in North Florida"
Michael Russo, Ph.D.
Work in the panhandle of Florida by the National Park Service has  
identified five large ring middens and five mounds lost to the  
archeological world since 1902 when C.B. Moore looted the mounds for  
their burial pottery. These sites represent the only extant Weeden  
Island and Swift Creek village/ceremonial complexes left along  
Florida's rapidly developing northwest coast, and as such, present  
opportunities for gaining new insights into patterns of settlement and  
spiritual life. A discussion will be presented of the problems that  
hounded teams of archeologists for years in their searches for these  
long-lost sites.
Weedon Island Preserve Cultural and Natural History Center
Florida
http://www.cgcas.org/speakers.htm

Thursday, February 19, 1:15 PM
British Museum Gallery Talk
"Colour Symbolism in Ancient Mexico"
Room 27
British Museum
London, England
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/colour_symbolism.aspx

February 21, 2:00 PM
The Department of the History of Art, The Johns Hopkins University,  
and the Walters Art Museum's Sixth Annual Distinguished Lecture in the  
Art of the Ancient Americas
"Food of Power: The History of Chocolate among the Ancient Maya"
Dorie Reents-Budet, Scholar of Mayan Art and renowned curator   
Visiting Curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Mint Museum,  
Charlotte; Senior Research Associate in the Department of  
Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian  
Institution, and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology  
and Anthropology.
Chocolate drinking rituals were at the heart of Classic Maya social  
politics. New archaeological data and analyses of Maya ceramics, many  
of which are painted with palace scenes depicting chocolate drinking  
feasts, reveal that the tradition has ancient roots before 1200 BCE.  
Explore the Mayan history of chocolate among the Maya from its  
earliest beginnings in Honduras and Belize to its full expression  
during the Classic Period (250-850), through unsurpassed pictorial  
ceramics created for the Maya nobility.
Reents-Budet is a specialist in the visual arts of ancient Maya and  
author of Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classic  
Period (Duke University Press, 1994). In collaboration with Virginia  
M. Fields she produced the exhibition and catalog Lords of Creation:  
the Origins of Sacred Maya Kingship for the Los Angeles County Museum  
of Art (2005). Her work, "The Social Context of Kakaw Drinking Among  
the Ancient Maya" appeared in Chocolate in Mesoamerica: a Cultural  
History of Cacao, edited by Cameron L. McNeil (University Press of  
Florida, 2006).
Graham Auditorium
Walters Art Musum
http://www.thewalters.org/eventscalendar/eventdetails.aspx?e=1148

February 23-March 1, 2009
The 2009 Maya Meetings
"Calakmul; Epigraphy, Archaeology and New Research"
AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center,
The University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, TX.
http://www.utmesoamerica.org/news.php

Events Schedule
http://www.utmaya.org/MM2009-EventsSchedule.pdf

Online Registration;
http://utdirect.utexas.edu/txshop/list.WBX?component=0&application_name=ARTHISRY

February 26, 2009, 7:00 PM
Verde Valley Chapter,
Arizona Archaeological Society Lecture
"Cultural Interplay of the American Southwest in the Mexican Northwest"
3250 White Bear Road,
Sedona Public Library
Sedona, Arizona
http://www.azarchsoc.org/verdevalleychapter.html

Saturday, February 28, 1:15 PM
British Museum Gallery Talk
"Games and Contests in Ancient Mexico"
Room 26
British Museum
London, England
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/games_and_contests.aspx

February 28, 10:30 AM
"Hopewell Interaction: the Crystal River Site and Gateways to  
Interregional Contact and Trade"
Richard Estabrook,
Public Archaeologist,
Regional Director FPAN,
"Hopewell Interaction: the Crystal River Site and Gateways to  
Interregional Contact and Trade"
Indian River State College
Wolf High Technology Center
Stuart, FL.
Directions:  From I-95: Take Exit 101 and follow Route 76 (Kanner  
Highway) north/east.  Make a right onto Salerno Road.  Follow Salerno  
Road for approximately 2 miles.  The College campus is on the right.
http://www.sefas.org/index_files/Page1124.htm

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