[Aztlan] June Ancient Americas Lectures and Conferences

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

Here is the June events calendar.

Mike Ruggeri


June 1, 6:00 PM
Ancient Sites and Ancient Stories 2009
Southwest Seminars Lecture
"Peopling of the Americas: Implications of the Gault Site"
Dr. Michael B. Collins, Archaeologist and Research Associate, Texas  
Archaeological Research Laboratory, University of Texas
http://southwestseminars.org/SouthwestSeminars.org/Lectures.html



June 3, 6:00 PM
Great Sites Lecture Series
Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Lecture
"Tikal: Changing Views of Ancient Maya Urbanism"
Jeremy A. Sabloff, Curator in the American Section,
discusses the major contributions of the Penn Museum's
Tikal Project and the current scholarly understandings of this great  
Maya city.
Reception follows.
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
33rd and Spruce Streets in West Philadelphia. Spruce Street becomes  
South Street just east of the Museum.
Since the South Street Bridge is closed for construction, the I-76  
exits for South Street cannot be used.
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/events/calitem.php?which=1824



THURSDAY, JUNE 4TH, 7:00 PM
Archaeological Society of British Columbia
Colin Grier,
TOPIC: RECONSTRUCTING THE ECONOMICS OF LONG-TERM SETTLEMENT IN THE  
SOUTHERN GULF ISLANDS [PDF]
Research underway in the southern Gulf Islands of the Salish Sea  
represents a multifaceted approach to reconstructing the long-term  
settlement history of Coast Salish peoples. Taking a multi-site,  
comparative perspective, research focuses on six key cuspate spit- 
based village sites that capture five millennia of pre-contact Salish  
history. This talk outlines the research goals for the project,  
presents a model for understanding the co-evolution of cuspate spit  
landforms and Coast Salish lifeways, and situates southern Gulf  
Islands pre-contact history in relation to archaeological arguments  
concerning the origins of social complexity on the Northwest Coast.
JOYCE WALLEY LEARNING CENTRE,
VANCOUVER MUSEUM
1100 CHESTNUT STREET, VANCOUVER
http://www.asbc.bc.ca/events.html


June 5, 1:15 PM
“Ancient Mexican Sculpture”
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


Friday, June 5th
Pre-Columbian Society of Washington DC Lecture
"From Periphery to Center: Re-evaluating a Teotihuacan-centered  
political economy during the Late Classic and Epiclassic periods in  
Central Mexico"
Alexander Benitez Assistant Professor of Anthropology at George Mason  
University
The Toluca Valley, west of the Valley of Mexico, played an important  
role in the Late Classic to Epiclassic period (circa AD 550-900)  
transition in Central Mexico. This transition was a direct result of  
the fragmentation of pan-Mesoamerican political, ideological and  
economic networks controlled by the major city of Teotihuacan in the  
Valley of Mexico. Teotihuacan’s economic and political dominance in  
Central Mexico is often attributed to its control of both obsidian  
outcrops and obsidian trade networks. Dr. Benitez will explore the  
impact of the Teotihuacan decline on the peripheral Toluca Valley  
region by focusing on the acquisition and consumption of obsidian  
tools at the Late Classic to Epiclassic period platform mound site of  
Santa Cruz Atizapan. His presentation will illustrate how and why  
local and regional exchange networks of important commodities such as  
obsidian can co-exist or even supersede large scale trade networks  
directed by centers such as Teotihuacan.
Bio data: Alexander Benitez is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at  
George Mason University. He is an archaeologist whose current research  
focuses on Late Classic and Epiclassic period (A.D.500-900) obsidian  
trade and political economy in the Toluca Valley, Central Mexico. Dr.  
Benitez has also studied Late Post-Classic period ceramics excavated  
by the Toluca Valley Project, National Museum of Natural History. He  
currently directs the GMU Mesoamerican Collections Project, a student  
driven research project that is assisting the National Museum of the  
American Indian in identifying its 40,000+ cataloged objects from  
Mesoamerica. He is currently finishing two journal articles on the  
obsidian research in the Toluca Valley and two articles on the museum  
research project. He is also co-authoring a monograph on the Post- 
classic rural household archaeology of the Toluca Valley.
Sumner School, 1201 17th Street, NW,
Washington, DC
http://www.pcswdc.org/


June 11-12
Conference on Archaeoastronomy of the American Southwest
"Creating Sustainability in American Southwest Archaeoastronomy  
Research." This conference will be held in Camp Verde, Arizona.  The  
Camp Verde/Sedona/Verde Valley area was selected for this first event  
because of its unique location at the entrance to several National  
Monuments, including Montezuma Castle, Montezuma Well and Tuzigoot, as  
well as the U.S. Forest Service National Heritage sites of Honanki,  
Palatki and V-Bar-V, with abundant collections of rock art and many  
archaeological and astronomical sites. The Arizona Archaeological  
Society is proud to sponsor this inaugural event.
Thursday, June 11
11:00 - 4:00
Registration (Lodge Lobby)
01:00 - 2:30
Workshop: Publishing Archaeoastronomy Articles in Professional Journals
Thomas Hockey, PhD, University of Northern Iowa, and
Managing Editor, Archaeoastronomy - The Journal of Astronomy in Culture
02:30
BREAK
03:00 - 4:30
Workshop: Standardizing Archaeoastronomy Recordation Terms and Forms
Todd Bostwick, PhD, Phoenix City Archaeologist
Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park
06:00
Reception
07:00
Conference Dinner
Distinguished Service Award in Archaeoastronomy of the American  
Southwest
Stephen McCluskey, PhD, Professor Emeritus, West Virginia University
Friday, June 12
08:00 - 10:00
Registration
09:00
Welcome and Conference Theme
09:15
Ben Luce and Anna Sofaer
Modeling and Analysis of the Chaco Canyon Sun Dagger
09.40
J. McKim Malville and Andrew M. Munro
Rethinking the Astronomy of Chaco Canyon
10:05
Andrew M. Munro, J. McKim Malville and John Nickerson
Calendrical Stations in Chaco Canyo
10:30
BREAK -- POSTER PRESENTATION OPPORTUNITY
11:00
Ron Sutcliffe
Moonrise at Casa Rinconada
11:25
Anna Sofaer, William Stone and Michael Marshall
Possible Lunar Relationships of Sites on Elevated Locations of the  
Chaco Region
12:00
LUNCH
01:00
POSTER PRESENTATION OPPORTUNITY
01:35
E.C. Krupp, Evelyn Billo and Robert Mark
Star Trek: Recovery and Review of the First Alleged Supernova Rock Art
02:00
Gregory E. Munson, Larry V. Nordby and Bryan C. Bates
Reading, Writing, and Recording the Architecture: How astronomical  
cycles may be reflected in the architectural construction at Mesa  
Verde National Park, Colorado
02:25
BREAK -- POSTER PRESENTATION OPPORTUNITY
02:50
Von Del Chamberlain
Sonsela Buttes: Where Stars Fell Down to Earth
03:15
Todd Bostwick
Hohokam Archaeoastronomy
03:45
PANEL DISCUSSION – The Future of American Southwest Archaeoastronomy
Todd Bostwick, Bryan Bates, Tom Hockey, Stephen McCluskey
04:30
Adjourn
06:45
Optional - Leave for Archaeoastronomy Star Party at the Tuzigoot  
National Monument
Saturday, June 13
08:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00
Ann Owen
Sky Watchers of Adobe Canyon
09:25
Ken Zoll
Archaeoastronomy of the Southern Sinagua
09:50
Gerald Snow
A Possible Calendric Spiral Petroglyph in Picture Canyon, Flagstaff, AZ
10:15
Victor B. Fisher
Classic Object Lessons in Southwestern Archaeoastronomy
10:40
John L. Ninnemann and J. McKim Malville
Using Photography to Test Hypotheses in Southwestern Archaeoastronomy
11:00
Closing Remarks
11:30
Optional -- Leave for tour of V Bar V Heritage Site and its sun calendar
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Michael Aljets
A Boulder/Pictograph/Polaris Alignment and a Possible Correlation to  
Mesoamerican Cosmology
Robert Dragon
The Winter Sky Petroglyph at Roundy Crossing
Kirby Gchachu, Daniel Pedro and Anna Sofaer
Interactive Computer Model of the Sun Dagger Site of Chaco Canyon
F. W. Martin and E. F. Martin
A Calendar Site in Montezuma Canyon
James Walton
Opportunities for Archaeoastronomical research on Peterson Mesa in  
Southwestern Colorado
Suzan Bradford
The Celestial Southwest: The Sky Was Their Spielberg
Paul Rodriguez
Petroglyph of Solar Eclipse?
Hubert A. Allen, Jr., and Teresa Bennett
Archaeoastronomy in the American Southwest: Finding a Center That Will  
Hold
http://www.caasw.org/


June 15, 7:30 PM
Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society Lecture
"Mounds and Migrants: New Prospectives on the Hohokam Collapse"
Jeffery Clark, Center for Desert Archaeology
Duval Auditorium,
University Medical Center,
1501 North Campbell Avenue (north of Speedway)
Tucson, Arizona
http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/aahs/lectures.shtml



June 16, 7:00 PM
Pikes Peak Chapter, Colorado Archaeological Society Lecture
“Ecological Context of Basketmaker Rock Art at the Narrows in Grand  
Gulch, Utah”
Dr. Doug Reagan will speak about the possible influence of physical  
and biological conditions on Basketmaker rock art and how ecological  
context strongly influences culture, which in turn provides clues to  
understand past environments.
Dr. Doug Reagan is an ecologist with more than 30 years' experience in  
research, environmental assessment, and teaching. In the mid-1960s, he  
was a site foreman of the Hell Gap Archaeological Expedition in  
Wyoming. He has conducted ecological projects involving indigenous  
cultures in Africa, North America, South America, Papua New Guinea,  
and the Philippines. Dr. Reagan received his master's degree in  
biology from the University of New Mexico and his PhD in zoology  
(ecology) from the University of Arkansas.
7850 Goddard
Community Room at the
Falcon Substation of the Colorado Springs Police
Department
http://www.coloradoarchaeology.org/PPC/ppcJun09.htm


June 18, 7:30 PM
South Suburban Archaeological Society Lecture
"Fulton County, IL-The Birthplace of American Archaeology: Early  
Excavations at Dickson Mounds & Other Spoon River Sites"
Alan D. Harn
Illinois State Museum-Dickson Mounds
Marie Irwin Community Center,
18120 Highland Avenue,
Homewood, Illinois.
Call Helen Hardman, SSAS Program Chair at (708)748-7806 for more  
information
http://www.museum.state.il.us/iaaa/southprograms.htm


June 18, 7:30 PM
Old Pueblo Third Thursdays Lecture
“Archaeological Excavations at the Redtail/Silverbell Coachline Site”
Eric Klucas
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center,
2201 W. 44th Street
Tucson, Arizona
(Tucson Unified School District’s Ajo Service Center, just west of La
Cholla Blvd., ½-mile north of John F. Kennedy Park)
http://www.oldpueblo.org/


June 19-21
World Convention of Mayan Archaeology
"The Tombs of the Sacred Lords and the Secrets of Jade".
The event will provide scientific, historical and cultural exchange  
between Guatemala, United States, Mexico, Belize and Honduras. The  
event will present a series of lectures by world renowned experts in  
Mayan archeology and anthropology.
The opening gala will be celebrated with several extraordinary events  
of cultural richness and beauty. The Folkloric Ballet of Guatemala,  
Marimba artist Maestro Baudilio Ordoñez, a Mayan Culture Pictorial  
exhibition by Alejandro Wer, exhibition of a remarkable collection of  
Jade masks, exhibition of Pre-classic Maya Pottery, among others.
The Convention will highlight the natural and archaeological richness  
of Guatemala. Academics, students and visitors will have the  
opportunity to experience the unique beauty, mysteries, fascination  
and science of Mayan Archaeology and the history of Jade.
The list of World experts in Mayan archeology and anthropology who  
will present lectures is long and exiting: (names are in order of  
appearance according to the preliminary program
Mary Louise Ridinger
Christa Schieber de Lavarreda
Miguel Orrego
Edgar Carpio
Francisco Estrada Beli
Daniel Aquino
Federico Fahsen
Lini Grazioso
Coloe Anorisu
Arthur Demarest
Tomas Barrientos
Jaime Avre
David Bedat
Richard Hansen
Hector Escobedo
Location; La Antigua Guatemala,
www.eventosantiguaguatemala.com


June 20, 2:00 PM
“Chichen Itza: The Site, the City, and the Cenote “
Illustrated Presentation
This illustrated presentation by museum director Marc Thompson  
discusses the history of exploration, interpretation, and the  
significance of the ancient Maya urban center of Chichen Itza. This  
program is held in conjunction with the temporary exhibit Temple of  
the Warriors: Rebuilding a Maya Monument.
For more information: (915) 755-4332 or guidamr at elpasotexas.gov
El Paso Museum of Archaeology
El Paso, Texas
http://www.elpasotexas.gov/arch_museum/events.asp

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