March Ancient America Lectures and Conferences

March 1, 5:30 pm
FOUNDER'S LECTURE
"Moche Portraits from Ancient Peru"
Christorpher Donnan 
Lecture and Reception
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge, Mass,
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/current_events.html


March 1, 12:15-1:00 p.m.
"Lords of Creation and Sacred Maya Kingship",
Dallas Museum of Art    
http://www.dallasmuseumofart.org/Dallas_Museum_of_Art/View/Maya/ID_053405



Friday, March 3, 2006, 7:00 pm
"Recent Excavations at Teotihuacan"
Saburo Sugiyama
Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks
Precolumbian Society of Washington DC
Sumner School,
1201 17th Street, NW,
Washington, DC.
http://www.pcswdc.org/


March 3-4
Andean Symposium
Archaeology Center Conference Room,
Stanford University
Building 500, Main Quad
Stanford CA 94305
http://archaeology.stanford.edu//workshop.html


March 3-5, 2006
29th Annual Midwest Conference on Mesoamerican Archaeology and
Ethnohistory
Beloit College, Wisconsin
Contact: Philip Arnold
Email: parnold@xxxxxxx


March 4, 2:00 PM 
"Teotihuacán and the Maya"
Dr. Lori Boornazian Diel,
Dallas Museum of Art    
http://www.dallasmuseumofart.org/Dallas_Museum_of_Art/View/Maya/ID_053405



March 6, 6:00 PM
Southwest Seminars Presents
Ancient Sites and Ancient Stories
"Jemez Cave: Earliest Agriculture in Northern New Mexico"
Location; Hotel Santa Fe
http://www.SouthwestSeminars.org
 

March 7, 2006
AIA Lecture
"Colonization to Complexity: From First Peopling to Monumental
Architecture in Eastern America."
Frank H. McClung Museum
1327 Circle Park Drive
The University of Tennessee,
Knoxville
http://web.utk.edu/~classics/aia/aia-lect.html

Tuesday, March 7, 1:15 PM
"The Medium and the Message: Introduction to Mesoamerican
Cosmology"
Gallery Talk
British Museum
Room 27
London, England
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/whatson/events/index.html


March 8, 7:00 pm
"Recent Excavations at Barger Gulch"
University of Colorado Museum,
Dinosaur Room
Indian Peaks Chapter
Colorado Archaeological Society (IPCAS)
http://www.indianpeaksarchaeology.org/IPCAS/Events03.htm


Thursday, March 9, 7:00 p.m. 
"When the Music Had to Stop: Frontality and Representation in Maya
Art"
Mary Miller,
curator and co-author: The Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya and Maya
scholar at Yale University,
examines how Maya artists mastered representation and narratives on
painted ceramics.
Horchow Auditorium 
Dallas Museum of Art    
http://www.dallasmuseumofart.org/Dallas_Museum_of_Art/View/Maya/ID_053405



March 14-19, 2006
The Maya Meetings at Texas
"The Palenque Mythology; Old Gods and New Readings"
University of Texas at Austin, Texas
http://www.utmaya.org/


March 15, 12:15-1:00 p.m.
"Words of Creation: The Origins of Maya Writing,"
Stanley Guenter
Dallas Museum of Art    
http://www.dallasmuseumofart.org/Dallas_Museum_of_Art/View/Maya/ID_053405



March 16, 2006, 7:30 pm
"Aztec Hearts and Minds: Aztec Religion in the Archaeological Record."
South Suburban Archaeological Society
Marie Irwin Community Center,
18120 Highland Avenue,
Homewood, Illinois http://www.museum.state.il.us/iaaa/southprograms.htm


March 16th 
"The Archaeology of Materiality and Memory at Chaco Canyon, New
Mexico"
Archaeology Center Conference Room,
Stanford University
Building 500, Main Quad
Stanford CA 94305
http://archaeology.stanford.edu//workshop.html


Saturday, March 18, 1:15 PM  
"Music and Musical Instruments in Ancient Mexico" 
Gallery Talk
British Museum
Room 27
London, England
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/whatson/events/index.html


March 21
"Teotihuacan: what we know and don't know about the greatest early city
in Mesoamerica"
George Cowgill
Archaeology Center Conference Room,
Stanford University
Building 500,
Main Quad
Stanford CA 94305
http://archaeology.stanford.edu//workshop.html


March 23, 5:15 PM
Workshop:
"Fates of Complex Societies: Declines, Breakdowns, and Reformulations"
George Cowgill 
Archaeology Center Conference Room,
Stanford University
Building 500,
Main Quad
Stanford CA 94305
http://archaeology.stanford.edu//workshop.html


Thursday, March 23, 5:30 pm
"The Metalsmiths of Machu Picchu"
Yale Peabody Museum
New Haven. Conn.
http://www.peabody.yale.edu/events/mpseries.html


March 25, 2:00 PM 
"The Afterlife of Maya Kings"
Dallas Museum of Art    
http://www.dallasmuseumofart.org/Dallas_Museum_of_Art/View/Maya/ID_053405



March 25, 11:00 a.m.
"The Mesoamerican Ballgame"
Gallery Talk Stanchion,
Great Hall
The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
New York
 

March 27, 6:00 PM
Southwest Seminars Presents
Ancient Sites and Ancient Stories
"New Light on Mesa Verde"
David Grant Noble
Editor, Author, Photographer:
In Search of Chaco, New Perspectives of An
Archaeological Enigma
Location; Hotel Santa Fe
http://www.SouthwestSeminars.org
 
  
March 29, 12:15-1:00 p.m.
"The Branch and the Scorpion: Maya Textiles from Guatemala's Pacific
Coast", Dallas Museum of Art    
http://www.dallasmuseumofart.org/Dallas_Museum_of_Art/View/Maya/ID_053405



Friday, March 31, 2006, 8:00 PM
AIA Lecture
"Cliff Dwellings: Hard Times in the Ancient Southwest?"
Stephen Lekson,
Stanford University,
Cummings Art History Building
Annenberg Auditorium
Stanford, CA


March 31, 7:00 p.m.
"A Precolumbian Bestiary: Animal Imagery in the Ancient Americas"
Gallery Talk Stanchion,
Great Hall
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York







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