February Ancient Americas Lectures and Conferences
- From: mike ruggeri <michaelruggeri@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:39:43 -0800 (PST)
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
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient America Museum Exhibitions, Conferences and
Lectures
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