October Ancient Americas Lectures and Conferences


Listeros,

October is a very busy month in the world of the Ancient Americas.

Mike Ruggeri

LECTURES AND CONFERENCES

Thursday, October 1, 6:30 PM
British Museum Gallery Talk
“Aztec Imperial Art Before The Spanish Invasion”
BP Lecture Theatre
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/september/object_and_image_in_mexico.aspx


October 1-4
"The Third Annual Maya at the Playa Conference"
Palm Coast, Florida
This four-day conference will be filled with workshops, lectures, and
performances that showcase the magnificent achievements of the Maya,
both
past and present. Come study and interact with a host of the world's
most
accomplished archaeologists while relaxing in a peaceful seaside
setting.
Featured guest speakers will include Merle Greene Robertson, Bill
Saturno,
Mark van Stone, Jaime Awe, Arlen and Diane Chase, Armando Anaya, Harri
Kettunen, James Garber, Stanley Guenter, Ramzy Barrois, Reiko
Ishihara,
Robert Sitler, Jennifer Piehl, David Lee, James Stemp, Gyles Iannone,
Ben
Thomas, Gabe Wrobel, Patricio Balona, Ashley Kistler, Allan Cobb,
Joaquin
Rodriguez, Jim and Christy Pritchard, Patsy Holden, and Katrin Kopka.
Presented by American Foreign Academic Research and the Archaeological
Institute of America.
Workshop space is filling up quickly so reserve your seats in advance.
Please visit www.mayaattheplaya.com for more details.
"Continuity and Change in the Final Days of a Maya City: The Palace
Ballgame panels at Waka’"
David Lee
Southern Methodist University
The Mesoamerican ballgame is emblematic of ancient Mesoamerican elite
culture. While archaeological research has greatly expanded our
understanding of this ancient practice, new discoveries continue to
expand our knowledge of this “sport of life and death”2. A series of
panels and panel fragments found on in the Royal palace complex at the
site of Waka’ in Western Petén, Guatemala are new pieces in the puzzle
of understanding this ancient game and its role in Maya social and
political arenas at the waning of Classic Maya civilization. This
lecture expands on information presented briefly at the 2008 M@P but
more specifically examines these artifacts in the context of the
ballgame as a whole and considers their implications to our
understanding of the final days of this ancient city.
"The Political Geography of the Usumacinta Region during the Late
Classic"
Dr. Armando Anaya
Lowland Maya kingdoms political jurisdictions’ waxing and waning
during the Late Classic Period, as well as political alliances between
them, is a current theme for debate among regional specialists who
have principally relied on geographical models to interpret them.
Recently, however, the historical content in sculpted monuments
erected during this period has played a larger role. From these we now
know that the Kan dynasty extended its political influence from
Calakmul to the Upper and Middle Usumacinta River area during the
reign of Yuknoom Ch’een II (The Great), who not only instigated
military campaigns against his opponents, but also ratified regional
governors loyal to his cause for at least fifty years (from 636 to 686
A.D.). His overwhelming role modeled the region’s political geography.
In this paper sculpted monument, epigraphic information, economic
geography models, and physical landscape characteristics provide a
multiple sourced model from which to infer political geography, in
which the boundaries between different kingdoms in the Upper and
Middle Usumacinta region acquire a more fluid structure that were
adjusted to fit political alliances derived from Calakmul’s
expansionist strategies throughout the Late Classic Horizon.
"The Out-of-Towners: A Consideration of Non-local Individuals and the
Cosmopolitan Nature of Maya Cities"
Dr. Jennifer Piehl
The recent expansion of isotopic databases that identify non-local
individuals resident in Maya cities has led to much discussion of
topics such as migration, mobility, intermarriage and ethnicity. The
isotopic data join archaeological indications of “foreign” individuals
and groups around which arguments about the nature of Maya politics
and economics have long centered. This lecture will present several
examples for which we have multiple lines of evidence for the presence
of non-local individuals, derived from osteological and archaeological
investigations. It will discuss the many possible reasons for the
presence of these out-of-towners, and consider the implications of
this evidence for the understanding of the composition of ancient Maya
cities. The increasing evidence for the cosmopolitan nature of many
Maya communities will be contextualized with respect to modern
concerns about nationality, “foreignness”, and immigration.
"Analysis and Evaluation of Lintel Beams in Maya Building
Construction"
Joaquin J. Rodriguez III
This paper concerns stress analyses and proportional reviews of
structural lintel beams in Maya buildings. The lintels reviewed are
those built from stone (cursorily) and from wood (in detail). The wood
lintels reviewed include simply supported and fixed-ends. Simply
supported lintels are those that just barely rest at each end (jambs)
of entryways. Fixed-end lintels are embedded in the masonry wall and
at a significant distance. All lintels were used by the Maya to
support the heavy masonry of vaulted construction over openings. These
openings are found either at the main entrance of buildings or at
passages between multiple vaults. In both cases, they are found where
the main weight would bear.
This paper involves analytical stress analysis, evaluation of
construction techniques and statistical analysis of reduced data. We
have taken into consideration a comparison of techniques and levels of
technology along a chronological time line and across cultural and
political subgroups. We have also attempted an interpretation of
cultural trends.
“Grounding” Maya Complexity: Landscape, Settlement Patterns, and LIDAR
radar at Caracol, Belize"
Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase
University of Central Florida
Because of the all encompassing rainforest, situating Maya sites
within landscapes has been a lingering issue in the Maya area from the
beginning of research on this ancient civilization. While the central
architecture of many sites has been mapped and excavated, the
settlement surrounding these centers only became a focus for research
in the last fifty years. And, progress in recording this settlement
has been slow and time-consuming. Ancient land-use has also proven
difficult to address. Many different perceptions of Maya site size
and land-use exist because of the difficulty in dealing with large-
scale landscape issues. And, these various perceptions condition the
range of discussion over ancient Maya social complexity. This
presentation covers new data revealed by the application of LIDAR
radar to the site of Caracol, Belize and discusses the complex
relationships that once existed between the ancient Maya and their
landscape.
"The Creation of Kumatzim Jay, Local Museum and Educational Center,
Tecpan, Chimaltenango, Guatemala"
Dr. Reiko Ishihara
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library
Despite the countless great advancements in our scholarly
understanding of the prehispanic Maya culture and society, this
knowledge is not often shared with or presented to the local
indigenous people, the descendants, with whom archaeologists work in
the field to obtain the data on which our interpretations are based.
Certainly this is not always the case, as there is a growing awareness
as manifested in the programs that exist with the aim to include and
integrate local people in the process of creating knowledge. In the
case of public primary education in Guatemala, although multicultural
education (specifically referring to indigenous cultures) is
highlighted in the newly developed curriculum in line with the Peace
Accords, the current status of formalized teaching of local history
and cultural identity issues in the classrooms remains minimal. The
talk will present the results of the first phase of a community
education project “Kumatzim Jay” in Tecpan, Chimaltenango, Guatemala,
where a sizable collection of archaeological materials presents an
opportunity for their use as a teaching tool, both in the museum and
in the classrooms. Artifact analysis of the collection along with
other documentation procedures have been conducted, forming the
foundation of the project. The educational modules that have been
developed to teach Social Sciences and Maya Mathematics will also be
discussed.
"From A Land Down Under: Stone Tools from Maya Caves in Belize"
Dr. James Stemp
Keene State College
There has been a tremendous amount of research done in Maya caves,
particularly in Belize. Although some stone tools, such as Archaic
points and very finely made bifaces, have been analyzed, the rest of
the lithic assemblages have undergone rather cursory examination. The
analysis of the remaining obsidian and chert tools and debitage from
four caves (Stela Cave, Actun Halal, Actun Chapat, and Uayazba Kab) in
Belize reveals intriguing patterns of manufacture and use that, until
recently, have not seen the light of day. The stone tools from these
Maya caves are similar in a number of interesting ways, suggesting
some common behaviors in the subterranean locales; however, each
assemblage is unique, indicating that aspects of individual agency
must have also contributed to the choices of the tool-makers and tool-
users. How stone tools were incorporated into Maya rituals that took
place in caves remains a difficult question to answer. But a better
understanding of the lithic artifacts increases the likelihood that we
may better reconstruct the complex experiences of the Maya who
ventured into the land down under.
"Pushing My Way Through the Jungle"
Dr. Merle Greene Robertson
This presentation will recap accounts from Dr. Robertson’s career in
the Maya world. Tikal, Seibal, Dos Pilas, the Petexbatun, Bonampak,
Itsimte, Ixkun, and Palenque will be among the sites revisited.
Palm Beach, Florida
www.mayaattheplaya.com


Friday, October 2, 6:30 PM
Pre-Columbian Society of Washington DC Lecture
"CHICOMOZTOC (UUC YABNAL) AND BOLON CH'EN: CHICHÉN ITZÁ IN THE MAYA
SPHERE OF HIGHLAND/LOWLAND ORIGIN MYTHOLOGY, PILGRIMAGE, AND TRADE"
Across the Maya zone, at least from Early Classic times, there have
been recorded examples of a pair of personified toponyms containing
the numbers 7 and 9. Kubler (1977) was one of the first scholars to
discuss this couplet with a significant database, but the author (1995
& 1997) has offered the first reading of the pair suggesting that they
specifically reinforce claims of elite ancestry from two ancient
places of Mesoamerican origin, one Highland (that is, Teotihuacan)
which became the Nahua Chicomoztoc, “Seven Caves”; the other Lowland
(Maya), Bolon Ch'en “Nine Wells.” It will be demonstrated how early
and pervasive this Cosmogonic Couplet was in the Mesoamerican Lowlands
with examples taken from Early Classic Copán to “Uuc Yabnal,” likely
an early name for Chichén Itzá before the Itzá and other invasions in
the Epiclassic Period. The origin couplet served to establish a
Highland/Lowland legitimacy for rulership hypothetically based on real
kinship ties, which may be tested in future research, and the
pilgrimage relationships which are proposed here as the key to
understanding the basic sacred charter that established participating
elites in the great trading networks across Formative Mesoamerica, and
beyond, through the Classic, Epiclassic and Post Classic Periods,
right up to the Spanish conquest.
About the Speaker: Dr. John B. Carlson, a radio and extragalactic
astronomer by training, is Senior Lecturer in the University Honors
Program, University of Maryland, College Park, and the Director of the
Center for Archaeoastronomy. An expert in Native American astronomy
specializing in studies of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Dr. Carlson is
the editor of the ARCHAEOASTRONOMY Journal, published by the
University of Texas Press.
Sumner School,
1201 17th Street, NW,
Washington, DC.
http://www.pcswdc.org/


October 2-3
16th Biennal Jornada Mogollon Archaeology Conference
The El Paso Museum of Archaeology
4301 Transmountain Road,
El Paso, Texas
http://www.cdarc.org/sat/16th_jm_cfp.doc


October 2-4
2009 Colorado Archaeological Society Annual Meeting
Colorado State University-Pueblo Hotel.
The Clarion Inn Hotel
Pueblo, Colorado
http://www.coloradoarchaeology.org/2009%20Annual%20Meeting/index.htm


Saturday, October 3, 10:00 AM
“The Olmec Art Style: A Study of Art, Ideology and Cross-Cultural
Encounters
in Formative Period Mesoamerica”
F. Kent Reilly, III, Center for the Arts and Symbolism of Ancient
America, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas.
Ahead of a major forthcoming Olmec exhibit at the de Young Museum, we
are pleased to announce a lecture by Professor Kent Reilly.
Olmec civilization, which flourished in southern Mexico, is now
identified as the dominant cultural expression of early and middle
Formative period Mesoamerica (1500-500 B.C.). Olmec-style art objects
have been crucial in determining the current identification of what is
Olmec and what is not. These objects can continue to add new insights
to Formative period and later Mesoamerican research, but it is
important to clearly determine what the term "Olmec" really means. In
reality, the label Olmec is applied both to an archaeological culture
centered in a Gulf coast "heartland" and to an early, geographically
dispersed pre-Columbian art style.
In this lecture, Kent Reilly proposes that the artifacts, symbols, and
motifs created in the Olmec style would be better classified as ritual
objects that functioned in a geographically dispersed ceremonial
complex. This Middle Formative Period Ceremonial Complex should be
defined as the shared thematic focus through which esthetics, ideology
and rulership charter were visually expressed throughout much of
Formative period Mesoamerica. The variations in thematic content
within Olmec art and the regional distinctions identifiable in many of
the Formative period artifact complexes are evidence of ideological
and political variation among the ethnic groups whose interaction
created the Olmec style and underscored the complexity of cross-
cultural encounters in Formative period Mesoamerica.
Location; Koret Auditorium,
de Young Museum,
San Francisco (Free admission)


October 3, 9:00-4:00 PM
Missouri Archaeological Society Fall Symposium
"Northeast Missouri Paleo Points"
John Chapman
Includes slide show of Clovis and Dalton points from northeast
Missouri.
"Paleoindian Chronology and Lifeways"
Julie Morrow
Using data to model what life would have been like for groups living
in the Paleoindian era, this paper describes the Midcontinental United
States during this period.
"Rest in Pieces?: How NAGPRA Threatens to Hinder the Study of the
Physical Remains of the First Americans"
Bryan Wolford
This paper explores Native American views regarding preservation of
their culture. It is presented in four parts: theories of the original
routes taken for the occupation of the Americas; what the Native
American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 (NAGPRA) is;
how it applies to two important federal cases; and how other study
applications of NAGPRA operate.
"Late Paleoindian and Early Archaic Mobility Patterns in Southwest
Missouri: Debitage Attribute Evidence from the Big Eddy Site"
Christopher Cotter and Elizabeth Sobel
This paper presents data generated by an attribute analysis of
debitage recovered from Late Paleoindian and Early Archaic deposits at
Big Eddy. Evidence for a gradual decrease in human mobility during
this time is evaluated.
"Late Paleoindian Occupations at the Alley Mill Site, Shannon County,
Missouri"
Jack H. Ray and Rolfe D. Mandel
This paper will describe excavations at the Alley Mill Site (23sh159)
in 1992 and two 2009 studies that explore significant Dalton findings.
This paper regards movement of exotic raw materials into the
southeastern Ozarks.
"Archaeological Investigations at Seven Sites along the REX–East
Pipeline, Pike County, Missouri"
Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist, Gray and Pape, Inc., and AMEC
Earth and Environmental, Inc.
Results of recent archaeological excavations at seven prehistoric
sites in Pike County, northeastern Missouri. Sites were investigated
to recover and preserve information from National Register of Historic
Places–eligible sites along the route of the Rockies Express Pipeline–
East (REX–East).
After the Symposium, we encourage you to explore the petroglyphs
displayed in the park’s interpretive shelter.
The Symposium is free and open to the public, but an R.S.V.P. to the
MAS office (417-836-3773;lhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) is requested.
Thousand Hills State Park
Kirskville, Missouri
http://associations.missouristate.edu/mas/archmonth/symposium.html


Saturday, October 3, 1:15 PM
A British Museum Lunchtime Talk
“Curator's introduction to Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler”
Colin McEwan, exhibition curator
BP Lecture Theatre
British Museum
London, England
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/september/object_and_image_in_mexico.aspx


October 3-4
The 28th Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory
New Paltz, New York
COFFEE AND BAGELS WELCOME
Masucci - Pryamids, Ritual Platforms or House Mounds? Function and
Meaning at Loma de los Cangrejitos, Ecuador
Szpak et al. - Isotopic Evidence for Camelid Diet and Management
Practices in the Virú Valley, Northern Peru (Early Intermediate
Period)
Downeyetal.-LookingforLithicsintheVirúValley,Perú:WorkingWithOld
Sources and New Technology
COFFEE BREAK
Fuchs and Lorenz - Sechín Bajo, the origin of ceremonial circular
sunken plazas in costal Perú?
Wiersema - Moche Architectural Vessels: Small Structures that Provide
Big Clues about the Role of Architecture in Moche Religion
Brooks et al. - Mercury and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Ancient Perú
Webb et al. - Exploring Long- and Short-Term Dietary Variability
through Stable Carbon- and Nitrogen-Isotope Analysis of Human Tissues
from Nasca, Peru (AD 550- 1000)
Van Hosen and Arriaza - Characterizing the micromorphology and
chemistry of sediments associated with Chinchorro mortuary materials
using SEM, EDS, and XRD
Johnson - Coastal Geoglyphs Of Peru And Chile – When And Where Did
They Originate?
COFFEE BREAK
Turner et al. - Where You Lived or What You Ate: Isotopic Assessment
of Pathological Conditions at Machu Picchu, Perú
Toyne - Bioarchaeological Identification of Ritual Behaviors at the
Temple of the Sacred Stone, Túcume, Perú
BUSINESS MEETING RECEPTION Keynote Lecture Verano - Andean
Bioanthropology: recent trends and future prospects
COFFEE AND BAGELS
Barnes - Towards a Biography of John Victor Murra Haeberli - The
Impact of Textiles on Central Andean Cultural Chronologies Feliciano -
Vengeful Virgins and Subversive Devils in Andean Catholic Dance
COFFEE BREAK
Fleming - Can we ever understand the Inca empire? Nystrom and Malcolm
- Sex Specific Phenotypic Variability and Post-marital
Residence among the Chiribaya of Southern Perú
CONCLUDING REMARKS
http://caralperu.typepad.com/ncaae/


October 6, 6:00 PM
Archaeology Cafe; Center for Desert Archaeology Event
"Deserts, Diets, and Dentition: How the Introduction of Agriculture
Affected Ancient Oral Health"
Dr. James T. Watson, Assistant Curator of Bioarchaeology at the
Arizona State Museum
Casa Vicente,
375 S. Stone Avenue,
Tucson, Arizona
http://www.cdarc.org/pages/articles.php?req=read&article_id=809


October 6, 7:00 PM
Oregon Archaeological Society Lecture
"Let Sleeping Dogs Lie--Archaeology in the Dark Zone of Lava Tube
caves in Southwest Washington"
(co-author of paper by same name, John Fagan) Lecture by: Cheryl Mack,
Archaeologist, Gifford Pinchot National Forest. OMSI, Portland, OR
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI)
1945 SE Water Street,
Portland, Oregon
http://www.oregonarchaeological.org/events.htm


October 6, 6:00 PM
Tucson Archaeology Cafe Lecture
Center for Desert Archaeology Event
Dr. James T. Watson, Assistant Curator of Bioarchaeology at the
Arizona State Museum
"Deserts, Diets, and Dentition: How the Introduction of Agriculture
Affected Ancient Oral Health"
Casa Vicente
375 S. Stone Avenue,
Tucson, Arizona
http://www.cdarc.org/pages/articles.php?req=read&article_id=809


October 6, 6:00 PM
St. Augustine Archaeological Society Lecture
"Wakulla Springs Lodge Site: Window to Early Peoples of Florida"
Jim Dunbar, Senior Archaeologist at the Florida Bureau of
Archaeological Research, will describe the recent National Geographic-
supported investigations at the Wakulla Springs Lodge, a site near
Tallahassee that has provided an undisturbed context likely dating to
the first appearance of humans in Florida.
Flagler Room,
Flagler College
St. Augustine, Florida
http://saaa.shutterfly.com/


October 7, 7:00 PM
"A History of the Ancient Southwest"
Dr. Stephen Lekson, will speak about his new work A History of the
Ancient Southwest, a book that has been described as "among the most
provocative and forward-looking books in archaeology today."
In recognition of this special evening, Gila Cliff Dwellings WNPA
bookstore will offer signed copies of A History of the Ancient
Southwest at the special tax-free price of $35.00 (regular price
$39.95). Proceeds from the sales provide funding for this and other
Park programs. For more information or to reserve a copy of A
History of the Ancient Southwest please contact Becky Latanich at
(575) 536-9461 or becky_latanich@xxxxxxxx
WNMU Global Resource Center Auditorium
Silver City: Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
New Mexico
(NO URL)


October 7, 7:00 PM
“The Cultural Florescence of Paracas”
Ann Rowe
This is organised through the Anglo-Peruvian Society who will be
charging £7.00 for members and £9.00 for non members, however as it is
being hosted at UCL they will be kindly allowing UCL students, staff
and honoraries to come for free. It would be helpful if those who are
interested could e-mail me so I can give a list to the Anglo-Peruvian
society (so they can prepare the correct amount of Pisco Sour!)
Main Lecture Theatre (G6) of the Institute of Archaeology
Institute of Archaeology
University College, London
Ph: (0)20 7679 1538
Fax: (0)20 7383 2572
Londo, England
(NO URL)


October 8, 7:00 PM
Tubac/SCC AAS Lecture
"The Chaco Phenomenon"
North County Facility
50 Bridge Road
Tubac, Arizona
(NO URL)


October 8, 7:30 PM
Pacific Coast Archaeology Society Lecture
Britt W. Wilson
"The Desert Serrano"
Most of us know the Serrano as the “mountaineers” (from the Spanish
translation of Serrano), but they had their beginnings in the
Twentynine Palms area — a desert environment. Mara was the world they
came from, and that name is preserved today in the name “Oasis of
Mara” located at today's Joshua Tree National Park Headquarters in
Twentynine Palms. Mr. Wilson has discovered numerous Serrano sites in
the desert and has visited sites recorded 20-30 years ago by other
archaeologists. He will be presenting a Power Point presentation which
will also include images from his survey work in Big Bear this summer.
Mr. Wilson is an archaeological technician conducting surveys
throughout southern California and Nevada. He has a deep interest in
native cultures particularly the Apache, Cahuilla, and Serrano people.
Previous to working as an archaeological technician, he was the
Cultural Resources Coordinator for the Morongo Band of Mission
Indians. Mr. Wilson is also a volunteer archaeological surveyor for
the Bureau of Land Management. He has recorded over 200 new sites
throughout the southern California region including village sites,
rock art sites, rock shelters, milling sites, etc. He has worked in
Anza Borrego State Park, the San Bernardino National Forest, and BLM
lands across southern California in addition to his work on Indian
reservations.
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


Thursday, October 8, 6:30 PM
British Museum Evening Lecture
“Moctezuma and the Rites of World Renewal”
BP Lecture Theatre
£5, concessions £3
Richard Townsend, Art Institute of Chicago, and author of The Aztecs,
discusses Aztec (Mexica) royal rites with reference to archaeological
sites, sculptures, landscapes and manuscripts.
British Museum
London, England
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/september/object_and_image_in_mexico.aspx


October 8, 10:00 AM
Metropolitan Museum of Art Gallery Talk
"The Search for El Dorado"
This talk explores Precolumbian gold objects, demonstrating the
diversity of cultures in the Americas prior to the arrival of
Europeans through distinctive metalwork from Colombia, Costa Rica,
Panama, and Peru
Tours Sign, Great Hall
Metropolitan Museum
New York City
http://www.metmuseum.org/


October 9, 7:30 PM
Maya Society of Minnesota Lecture
"Style Matters: Classic Maya Pottery and Nuclear Chemistry"
Classic Maya art is a painterly tradition, the pictorial pottery being
foremost among its manifestations. Pottery painting styles
characterize specific regions, sites and royal dynasties, and embody
ancient politics and social interaction. The marriage of art history
and nuclear chemical analysis of the pottery illuminates Classic
period patterns of behavior and moments in aristocratic history that
survive nowhere else in the archaeological record.
Dorie Reentz-Budet
Drew Science 118 (south of Old Main),
Hamline University
St. Paul, Minnesota
www.hamline.edu/mayasociety/MSM_LIST_lectures_and_worksh_Fall_2009.htm


October 9, 7:00 PM
AIA Lecture
"The Early History of Chocolate"
Rosemary Joyce, University of California, Berkeley (Anawalt Lecture)
Chocolate is a widely appreciated luxury today, the center of multi-
national trade. Most people know that chocolate originated in Central
America. What is less well known is the recent explosion of knowledge
about the early history of Theobroma cacao, the plant from which
chocolate is made. This talk explores recent research, including my
own work in Honduras, that has pushed the origins of human use of
cacao back before 1100 BC. It considers what we now know was a wide
range of ways of using cacao, including the possibility that the
earliest use of cacao was for a fermented, alcoholic beverage.
Touching on modern advances in archaeological chemistry, new
understandings of the social life of food, and contemporary concerns
about the roles women played in past societies, this journey through
the history of chocolate is a window into the ways archaeology has
developed in the last 20 years.
Farnsworth Pavilion at the Student Center,
Rice University,
Houston, Texas
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10124&society_code=all


October 9-10
Dumbarton Oaks Annual Symposium
PAST PRESENTED: A SYMPOSIUM ON THE HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ILLUSTRATION
Friday, 9 October
Session I: "Early Modern and Eighteenth-century Scientific
Illustration"
Moderator: Joanne Pillsbury, Dumbarton Oaks
Joanne Pillsbury, Dumbarton Oaks
Perspectives
Alain Schnapp, Université de Paris I
"The Impact of the Discovery of the New World on the Development of
European Antiquarianism"
Leonardo López Luján, Museo del Templo Mayor, Instituto Nacional de
Antropología e Historia
"The First Steps on a Long Journey: Archaeological Illustration in New
Spain in the Eighteenth Century"
Lisa Trever, Harvard University
"The Uncanny Tomb Illustrations in Martínez Compañón’s Trujillo del
Perú"
Session II:
"Illustration for an Emerging Discipline: Nineteenth-century Currents
and Their Legacy"
Moderator: Elizabeth Boone, Tulane University
Khristaan Villela, University of New Mexico
"Beyond Stephens and Catherwood: Ancient Mesoamerica as Public
Entertainment in the Early Nineteenth Century"
Natalia Majluf, Museo de Arte de Lima
"The Indian Body in Archaeological Illustration. Peru, ca. 1840-1900"
Adam T. Sellen, Centro Peninsular en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales,
Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México
"Nineteenth-century Photographs of Archaeological Artifacts and
Collections in Mexico"
Byron Hamann, University of Chicago
"Drawing Glyphs Together"
Peter Galison, Harvard University
"Picturing Objectivity"
Saturday, 10 October
Session III: Twentieth Century
Moderator: Virginia Fields, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Scott R. Hutson, University of Kentucky
“Unavoidable Imperfections”: Historical Contexts for Representing
Ruined Maya Buildings
Jason Weems, University of California, Riverside
“Wings Over the Andes: Aerial Photography and the Dematerialization of
Archaeology ca. 1931"
Bryan Just, Princeton University Art Museum
"Mediated Monuments: Photography, Maya Sculpture, and Art History in
the First Half of the Twentieth Century"
Daniel Schavelzon, Universidad de Buenos Aires
"Drawing Archaeology: Francisco Mujica and the Creation of a Modern
Mexican Past"
Session IV: New Directions
Moderator: Gary Urton, Harvard University
Stephen Houston, Brown University
"The Way Things Were: Imaginative Reconstructions of Mesoamerican
Life"
Barbara Fash, Peabody Museum, Harvard University
"Beyond the Naked Eye: Multidimensionality of Sculpture in
Archaeological Illustration"
John Rick, Stanford University
"Realizing the Potential of Digital Models and Images: Beyond
Visualization"
http://www.doaks.org/research/pre_columbian/doaks_pco_symposium_2009_10_09.htm


October 9-12
Utah Rock Art Research Association 2009 Symposium
Cedar City, Utah
http://www.utahrockart.org/symposium/index.shtml


October 10, 1:30 PM
Pre-Columbian Society at the University of Pennsylvania Museum Lecture
"Women in Stone: Understanding Classic Period Maya Female Ajaws"
The Classic period Maya created a number of monuments depicting
politically powerful women. Notably, a handful of these monuments
depict not just politically powerful women, but female ajaws, or
female divine rulers. This presentation will take a closer look at
the Classic period
Maya female ajaws and their representations on monuments – topics that
have attracted the attention of only a few archaeologists. In
particular, it will consider how the female ajaws acquired their
authority; how they transferred their authority to their successors;
and how they chose to portray themselves on monuments as a means of
maintaining their authority
during their reigns.
Sarah Kurnick is a doctoral student in the anthropology department at
the University of Pennsylvania. She is studying Maya archaeology and
is currently conducting dissertation research in the Mopan Valley of
Belize. She has also done field work along the Pacific coast of
Guatemala and in Yucatán, Mexico.
Room 345
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
http://www.precolumbian.org/


October 10, 9:00 AM
Maya Society of Minnesota Workshop
"The Fabrics of Classic Maya Politics, Economics and Ideology"
Cloth was an exceptionally valuable commodity among the Classic Maya,
although its near total absence in the archaeological record has
hindered our recognition of its seminal role. Cloth epitomized social,
political and economic power and was a key player in rituals of
governance and religion. These facets of ancient Maya fabric will be
explored via ethnohistory, archaeology, art history, and agricultural
data.
Dorie Reents-Budet
Giddens Learning Center 6s (the Anthropology Lab),
Hamline University(southeast corner of Hewitt and Snelling),
St.Paul, Minnesota
www.hamline.edu/mayasociety/MSM_LIST_lectures_and_worksh_Fall_2009.htm


Tuesday, October 13, 7:00 PM
Taos Archaeological Society Lecture
"Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project Update"
Kit Carson Electric
118 Cruz Alta Rd,
Taos, New Mexico
Suzie Frazier, Project Coordinator for the Project
Suzie Frazier is the Project Coordinator for the Mesa Prieta
Petroglyph Project. Previously she served as Co-Chair of the Vecinos
Del Rio Petroglyph Committee, a rock art recorder, and a volunteer
trainer for recording teams. She helped envision and develop the
Summer Youth Internship Program and participated as a volunteer
educator and field work instructor with the project since its
inception. Revising the school curriculum, recruiting schools,
training teachers and coordinating the school project is a priority.
Responsibilities also include continuous communication and education
with local landowners and community leaders.
http://www.taosarch.org/


October 13, 7:00 PM
Friends of Tijeras Pueblo Lecture
"Petroglyph Recording in the Hagan Valley"
Dr. Milford Fletcher
Using the latest technology of Global Positioning Units, high-speed
computers, and digital cameras volunteers from the Albuquerque
Archeological Society have recorded several hundred petroglyphs in the
vicinity of the historic Hagan coal-mining district north of the
community of San Antonio. The data gathered have been computerized for
visual comparisons and analysis and can now be compared to other
computerized databases such as Petroglyph National Monument and the
large petroglyph site east of Pueblo Blanco in the Galisteo basin.
Recorders have encountered life-sized deer, large shields and a
variety of images that are unique to the area.
Dr. Milford Fletcher is retired from the National Park Service and was
trained as animal ecologist. He has been a cultural resources
consultant to the governments of India and France, and worked six
months at the Nabatean city of Petra under contract with the Kingdom
of Jordan. He has worked on a number of petroglyph recording projects,
has published several papers on the subject, and has visited and
studied rock art and wild caves in eight different countries. He is a
frequent speaker in the rock art community.
Sandia Ranger Station,
Tijeras, New Mexico
http://www.abqarchaeology.org/events.shtml



Tuesday, October 13, 1:15 PM
A British Museum Gallery Talk
“The Arts Before and After Moctezuma”
Room 27
British Museum
London, England
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/september/object_and_image_in_mexico.aspx


October 14, 2009; 5:30 PM
“From the Cave of Origins to the City of Sacrifice...and Beyond: A
Mesoamerican Odyssey in a Recovered 16th-Century Mexican Codex”
Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin
America
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Harvard University,
11 Divinity Avenue,
Cambridge, MA 02138
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/node/151


October 15, 7:00 PM
Houston Archaeology Society Lecture
“The Caddo Indians of the Middle Sabine River Basin”
The Caddo Indians, who lived in northeast Texas and adjoining parts of
Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma for at least the last 1,000 years of
prehistory and whose word for friend or ally—taysha—gave Texas its
name, were farmers who built ceremonial centers and lived in villages
that were clustered around these centers. Recent excavations at one of
these ceremonial center-village complexes, the Pine Tree Mound site in
Harrison County, have shed new light on settlement of the middle
Sabine River basin between AD 1300 and 1650. This talk explores how
these excavations unfolded and what they tell us about this group of
Caddo people. The presentation will be led by Ross C. Fields and
Eloise F. Gadus of Prewitt and Associates, Inc.
Information: Michael Bailey, 979.848.3705
mbailey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Houston Archeological Society
Carriage House,
Clayton Branch Library,
5300 Caroline St.
Houston, Texas
www.houstonarcheology.org.


October 15, 7:00 PM
Central Gulf Coast Archaeological Society Lecture
"Recent Exploration on the 27-meter Ledge at Little Salt Spring."
Steve Koski,
Weedon Island Preserve Cultural and Natural History Center
727-453-6500
1800 Weedon Dr NE
St Petersburg, Florida
http://www.cgcas.org/index.html


October 15 , 7:30 PM
Old Pueblo “Third Thursdays” Lecture
"Anarchy in Ancient Arizona: Breakdown of Hohokam Society after A.D.
1000”
with archaeologist William L. Deave
Southern Arizona’s ancient Hohokam culture is perhaps best known for
its
extensive irrigation systems; an iconography including depictions of
plants, animals, and people expressed in shell, stone, and clay;
cremation death ritual; and a regionalized ceremonial system focused
on
public architectural features interpreted as ballcourts. The Hohokam
heartland lay north of Tucson along the Gila and Salt rivers. In the
eighth century A.D., Hohokam culture spread across central and
southern
Arizona including the Tucson Basin. Conventionally, the Hohokam
culture
tenure across this region is thought to have persisted until the end
of
prehistory in the middle fifteenth century. In this presentation
archaeologist William A. Deaver presents a different view, contending
that Hohokam cultural influence and tenure in the Tucson Basin ended
at
the conclusion of the Colonial period, in the mid tenth century. At
that
time, he suggests, ballcourts cease to be used, ballcourt settlements
ceased to be centralized focal points of communities, many established
settlements were abandoned, population was redistributed across the
landscape, and the intensive importation of pottery, stone, and shell
objects from the Gila Basin into the Tucson area was greatly
diminished.
The collapse of the Hohokam way of life in the Tucson Basin led to a
period of anarchy in which authority was decentralized and became
vested
in the heads of individual households.
El Parador Mexican Restaurant,
2744 E. Broadway Blvd.
6 to 8:30 p.m. $18 per person includes restaurant buffet dinner,
coffee,
tea or soft drink, tax and gratuity, plus the presentation; the buffet
is
per person, one time through, and not all you can eat
Tucson, Arizona
http://www.oldpueblo.org


October 15, 7:30 PM
South Suburban Archaeological Society Lecture
"These Walls Can Talk: Lessons from Ancient Pueblo Architecture"
Jonathan E. Reyman, PhD - Illinois State Museum
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


Thursday, October 15, 7:00 PM
Dallas Museum of Art Lecture
"How to Build and Empire: Performance and Spectacle as Inca Expansion
Strategy"
Larry Coben, Archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania and
Executive Director of the Sustainable Preservation Initiative, will
discuss how the Inca utilized ritualized performance, spectacles, and
theatricality to create, grow, and maintain their empire. Performance
was one of the most critical elements of the Inca's rapid expansion.
The Inca maximized the time, resources, and nature of these
performances in areas where warfare and internal strife were greatest
$15 for the public, discounts available for DMA members, students, and
seniors
To purchase tickets, call 214-922-1826 or e-mail
PublicPrograms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Theater, Center for Creative Connections
Dallas Museum of Art
http://dallasmuseumofart.org/Events/Lectures/index.htm


October 15-18
2009 Midwest Archaeological Conference
The 2009 MAC Annual Meeting will be held October 15-18th in Iowa City,
Iowa jointly sponsored by the University of Iowa Office of the State
Archaeologist (OSA) and Museum of Natural History (MNH). Both OSA and
MNH are easy walking distance from the conference hotel.
Sheraton Hotel
210 South Dubuque Street
Iowa City, Iowa
Organizer;
John F. Doershuk, Ph.D., RPA
State Archaeologist
University of Iowa
700 Clinton St., Iowa City, IA 52242-1030
Ph. 319-384-0751; Fax 319-384-0768
john-doershuk@xxxxxxxxx
http://www.uiowa.edu/~osa/index.html
http://www.midwestarchaeology.org/


Saturday, October 17, 10:30 AM
AIA Lecture
"The Early History of Chocolate"
Dr. Rosemary Joyce from the University of California, Berkeley
Explore the history of chocolate and discover just how long people
have used the not-always-sweet pods of the cacao tree. Today,
“chocolate” is a tasty treat that has become a widely appreciated
luxury that most people know originated in Central America, and is a
focus of multi-national trade. Less well-known is the growing body of
knowledge about the early history of Theobroma cacao, the plant from
which chocolate is made. Join Dr. Rosemary Joyce, who will share
information from her own work in Honduras, on a journey to learn how
recent research has pushed the origins of human use of cacao to before
1100 B.C. – more than 1000 years earlier than previously believed.
Dr. Joyce’s presentation will touch on modern advances in
archaeological chemistry, new understandings of the social life of
food, and contemporary concerns about the roles women played in past
societies. With a look at the wide range of ways cacao was used,
including the possibility that its earliest incarnation may have been
as a fermented alcoholic beverage, this talk will ultimately provide a
window into how archaeology has developed in the last 20 years.
SunWatch
2301 W. River Road
Dayton, Ohio
http://www.sunwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=4&Itemid=8


October 18, 2:00 PM
“Ice Age Peopling of the Americas: Do Stones and Bones Tell the Same
Story?”
Dr. Ted Goble of the Center for the Study of First Americans at Texas
A&M University will give a talk on Early Man. During summer 2009, Dr.
Goble worked on an Early Man site in Alaska’s Bering Strait.
LaVerne Dutton, 254.675.4004, labernied@xxxxxxx
Bosque Museum
301 S. Ave. Q.
Clifton, Texas
http://www.bosquemuseum.org/calendar.htm


October 18, 3:00 PM
El Paso Archaeological Society Lecture
"Bear or Bison?"
Dr. David Kirkpatrick
A rare stone mammal effigy was found during monitoring of Mogollon
site (AD 1100-1200) near Deming, New Mexico. The large effigy is made
of quartz porphyry and measures 6 inches long and 3 inches wide, Bear
effigies have been found from Casas Grandes north into New Mexico.
However, bison effigies are rarely found in the Southwest. This
illustrated presentation will discuss the site, the effigy, and
similar effigies found in New Mexico.
David is an Associate Director with Human Systems Research, Inc. in
Las Cruces, New Mexico. He earned his MA and PhD at Washington State
University. Since 1972, he has conducted archaeological surveys and
excavations in New Mexico, including the McSween House in Lincoln, New
Mexico, West 800 Instrumentation Bunker at the Trinity Site, and the
Mawell-Abreu house on the Santa Fe Trail. A long time member of EPAS,
Dave has served as First Vice President and is currently the editor
for The Artifact
http://www.epas.com/newsletter.htm


October 19, 7:30 PM
Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society Lecture
"Migration History of the Hopi"
Eric Polingyouma
Duval Auditorium,
University Medical Center,
1501 North Campbell Avenue (north of Speedway)
Tucson, Arizona
http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/aahs/lectures.shtml


Oct. 19, 7:30 PM
Santa Fe Archaeological Society Lecture
"The Mysteries of Chaco Canyon"
Anna Sofaer
Courtyard by Marriott,
3347 Cerrillos Rd,
Santa Fe, New Mexico
(505) 473-2880
http://sfarchaeology.org/html/calendar.html


October 20
Pikes Peak Chapter; Colorado Archaeological Society
"SW Rock Calendars and Ancient Time Pieces"
Alan Dart, a principal investigator in the Tucson Office of EcoPlan
Associates, Inc. will discuss historically known sky-watching
practices of various southwestern peoples and how their ancestors'
observations of the heavens may have been commemorated in ancient
architecture and rock symbols. He will illustrate how cardinal,
solstice, and equinox alignments and possible calendrical reckoning
features at Arizona's Casa Grande Ruins and Picture Rocks petroglyph
sites, New Mexico's Chaco Canyon archaeological district, the
Hovenweep area of Utah, and the Mesa Verde and Chimney Rock regions of
Colorado may relate to ancient Native American ritual.
Allen Dart
Community Room
Falcon Substation of the Colorado Springs Police
Department
7850 Goddard
Colorado Springs, Colorado
http://www.coloradoarchaeology.org/PPC/ppcOct09.htm


October 20, 7:00 PM
“The Buckeye Knoll Site (41VT98)”
Dr. Robert Ricklis, an expert in the archeology of the Texas coastal
region and the ethnohistory of native groups of the area, will discuss
his work at the Buckeye Knoll site. The site is an Early-Late Archaic
burial site near Victoria. Sponsored by Brazosport Archaeological
Society and Brazosport Museum of Natural Science.
Brazosport Museum of Natural Science,
400 College Blvd.
Clute, Texas
www.bmns.org


October 22, 6:30 PM
“The Browning Site (41SM195A)”
This presentation will be made by Mark Walters, a member of the Texas
Archeological Stewardship Network and research fellow at the Center
for Regional Heritage Research at Stephen F. Austin State University.
The talk focuses on a buried Woodland period component—a period when
the bow and arrow were introduced, agriculture became increasingly
important and lifeways became more sedentary—at the Browning site,
which is located in eastern Smith County, on a family farm owned by
Walters. The presentation will summarize archeological investigations
that have been conducted at the site since 2002. The results of that
work have been published in various archeological journals. Of major
importance is the role these cultures played in the development of the
Caddo culture after AD 900. Sponsored by Gregg CHC and Gregg County
Historical Society.
Gregg County Historical Museum,
214 N. Fredonia St.
Longview, Texas
http://www.dallasarcheology.org/


October 23, 7:00 PM
Texas Archeological Society Public Forum
The Friday night public forum features Dr. Jean Clottes and Dr.
Carolyn Boyd, SHUMLA executive director. Both are world-recognized
rock art researchers. Dr. Boyd will discuss recent advances in rock
art research of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands, and Dr. Clottes will talk
about the rock art of the Lower Pecos and its place on the stage of
world rock art.
Del Rio Civic Center (Red Oak Room),
1915 Veterans Blvd.
Del Rio, Texas
http://www.dallasarcheology.org/


Friday, October 23, 7:00 PM
AIA Lecture
“Four Thousand Years of Andean Gold”
Mark Aldenderfer, University of Arizona (Stone Lecture)
University of Central Florida,
Building 99, Room (PSY) 108,
4000 Central Florida Blvd.,
Orlando, Florida
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10124&society_code=all


October 23-25
The Texas Archeological Society’s 80th Annual Meeting
Del Rio, Texas
http://txarch.org/Activities/AnnualMeeting/am2009/index.php


Saturday, October 24, 1:15 PM
A British Museum Lunchtime Talk
“Curator's introduction to Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler”
Colin McEwan, exhibition curator
BP Lecture Theatre
British Museum
London, England
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/september/object_and_image_in_mexico.aspx


October 27, 7:30 PM
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Lecture
Lecture by Dr. Gary Stickel (Director, Environmental Research
Archaeologists)
Dr. Gary Stickel will present his research team’s exciting new
discovery of a Clovis site located on the Malibu coast. The Clovis
culture is the oldest identifiable culture in the New World. The two
major competing theories on the origin of the Clovis culture will be
discussed, and it is quite possible that the Farpoint Site will yield
data to support the correct theory. The site is important to our
world-wide understanding of how the planet was originally inhabited by
early peoples. As Dr. Dennis Stanford, Director of the Smithsonian
Institution Paleoindian/Paleoecology Program, put it: “...the
discovery of a Clovis age occupation at the site is extremely
important not only for the local archaeological record, but for
understanding the earliest prehistory of the Americas.” The ingenious
hunting system with which Clovis hunters brought down the mammoths and
other “mega-fauna” will also be presented and Dr. Stickel will discuss
the importance of protecting this nationally significant site.
Laura Lliguin; laural@xxxxxxxxxxxx
(310) 794-483
Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Building
UCLA
http://www.ioa.ucla.edu/news-events/events-calendar/malibu-ice-age/


Thursday, October 29, 5:30 PM
Dumbarton Oaks Lecture
"Birds in Ancient Latin America"
Elizabeth P. Benson, Former Curator, Pre-Columbian Collection,
Dumbarton Oaks
For reservations and information email or call 202-339-6984
The Music Room
Dumbarton Oaks,
Washington D.C.
http://www.doaks.org/public_events/lectures.html


Thursday, October 29, 6:00 PM
British Museum Lecture
“Moctezuma's Predecessors: In Search of Mexica Kings”
Dr Leonardo López Luján, director of the recent excavations in search
of a possible royal tomb in front of the Templo Mayor in Mexico City,
explains the discoveries of an impressive new sculpture of the Earth
goddess Tlaltecuhtli and the spectacular offerings marking the
entrance to the tomb.
BP Lecture Theater
British Museum
London, England
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/september/object_and_image_in_mexico.aspx


Saturday, October 31, 1:15 PM
British Museum Lecture
“Cortés and Moctezuma: A Continuing Enigma”
Sir John Elliott, University of Oxford, discusses the period from the
arrival of the Spaniards to the death of Moctezuma, showing at each
point what evidence is available to historians, how fragile it is, and
how many problems remain unsolved.
Stevenson Lecture Theatre
British Museum
London, England
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/september/object_and_image_in_mexico.aspx


October 31-November 1
Ohio Archaeological Council Fall 2009 Conference
“New Approaches in Ohio Archaeology”
Reese Center,
Ohio State University
Newark, Ohio
http://www.ohioarchaeology.org/joomla/

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