March 2014 Ancient Americas Lectures and Conferences March 1, 9:00 AM-4:45 PM The Annual Conference on South Carolina Archaeology Where: Rare Books Room, Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia 8:30-9:00 – Morning Reception & Registration 9:00 – Welcoming Remarks 9:10 – Christopher Judge – “The Woodland Problem is the Same Old Riddle: Documenting the Woodland Period in the Great Pee Dee River Drainage of South Carolina“ 9:30 – Sean Norris & Ramona Grunden – “Excavations at 38FL425, a Woodland Period Occupation and Burial Site on the Lynches River, Florence County, South Carolina“ 9:50 – J. Christopher Gillam – “Thinking Outside of the Rocks: A Holistic View of the Peopling of the Americas” 10:10 – Robert C. Costello & Kenneth E. Steffy – “Wyboo Chert: an Update and Overview“ 10:30-10:40 – Break 10:40 – Albert C. Goodyear and Joseph E. Wilkinson – “Prehistory at High Creek Plantation: A Black Mingo Chert Source and Quarry in Calhoun County, S.C.“ 11:00 – Cameron Howell – “Woodland Components at 38PN3 and 38GR1“ 11:20 – Eric Poplin & Jon Bernard Marcoux– “Late Woodland Ceramic Traditions in the Central and Southern SC Coast“ 11:40 – Keith Stephenson & Karen Smith – “The G. S. Lewis-West Site in Regional Context“ Noon-1:00 – Lunch 1:00 – Carl Steen – “Slavery on the Pee Dee: The View from the Kolb Site“ 1:20 – Kara Bridgman Sweeney – “Subregional Side-Notched Traditions in the Coastal Plain” 1:40 – Joseph M. Herbert, Ann S. Cordell, & Michael S. Smith – “Hanover Phase Ceramics” 2:00 – Rebecca Shepherd – “Going Up the Country: A Comparison of Elite Ceramic Consumption Patterns in Charleston and the Carolina Frontier“ 2:20-2:30 – Break 2:30 – Sarah Nowell – “Faunal Analysis of Fort Congaree“ 2:50 – Carolyn D. Dillian – “The Little River Neck Shell Midden: New Questions and New Methods for Research“ 3:10 – John Littlefield – “The Design and Creation of CSS David: Memoirs of the Boats Builder“ 3:30-3:40 – Break 3:40 – Keynote Address – Dennis Blanton – “Ayllon, De Soto, or X Man? Making Sense of the Early 16th-Century Artifacts at the Glass Site“ 4:45 – ASSC Board Meeting assc.net March 1-2 42nd Annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory University of Wisconsin Milwaukee’s Hefter Center 3271 N Lake Drive Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Join us to share research results and interact with regional colleagues. Students are encouraged to attend. In keeping with tradition, there is no registration fee, although advance notice of intent to attend is appreciated. Deadline for submissions for papers and posters is January 31, 2014. Milwaukee is located about an hour and a half’s drive north of Chicago, and can be reached relatively easily by train (Amtrak) and bus, as well as by car and plane (MKE, Mitchell Airport). The Hefter Center and the UWM campus are located about a mile north of the city, with easy access via scenic Lake Drive, and bus service from downtown on route 30U. Questions? Please contact Jean Hudson at [email protected] for more information. www4.uwm.edu/letsci/conferences/mcaaae2014/ March 2, 1:00-5:00 PM Mesonet; Southern California Mesoamerican Network Annual Conference Dr. Hector Neff on Plumbate Factories on the Soconusco Coast Dr. Anabel Ford; Lidar and Settlement Patterns Dr. C. Roger Nance; Ceramic Sequences from Jalisco and Iximche Santiago Andres Garcia; Mesomerica in the Classroom Martin Luther King Jr. Hall Lecture Hall 1 CalState LA 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, California mesoamericansocietycsula.tumblr March 2, 7:00 PM Arkansas River Valley Chapter of the Arkansas Archeological Society Lecture Not Just a Gary Point: The Woodland Period in Arkansas and the Greater Southeast” Dr. Elizabeth Horton, Station Archeologist, Toltec Mounds State Park, will provide an overview and new understandings regarding one of the major cultural periods in Native American history. Arkansas Tech Univ., Russellville, Baswell Technionery arkarch.org/2014_Arch_Month_brochure.pdf March 4, 7:00 PM2 Hisatsinom Chapter of the Colorado Archaeology Society Lecture Seven Basketmaker III Black-on-white Bowl Motifs” Linda Honeycutt Each motif is derived from a photographic data base of 1,200 ceramics from approximately 60 Basketmaker III sites in Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. Linda Honeycutt, now retired, worked as an archaeologist in the Four Corners region for more than 30 years. Contact Kari Schleher at 505-269-4475 with questions. Methodist Church, 515 Park Street, Cortez, Colorado (NO URL) March 4, 6:15 PM Archaeology Cafe Tucson Lecture The Lives of People and Houses—Mimbres and Beyond” Dr. Peggy Nelson (ASU) Casa Vicente 375 S. Stone Avenue, Tucson, Arizona archaeologysouthwest.org/event/the-lives-of-people-and-houses-mimbres-and-beyond/ March 4, 6:30 PM Ancient Paths to Power: Archeology and Iconography in the Prehistoric Southeastern United States Dr. George Lankford, Professor Emeritus, Lyon College will discuss art, iconography and oral traditions as a way to reconstruct the worldview of American Indians during the Mississippian period. Univ. of Arkansas, Monticello, Forest Resources Bldg. Conference Room arkarch.org/2014_Arch_Month_brochure.pdf March 5, 12:00 PM UCLA Cotsen Institute Pizza Talk The Early Andean Village: Examining Emergent Complexity in the Northern Lake Titicaca basin, Peru” Abagil Levine Fowler Museum Building, Room A222 UCLA bit.ly/1jz5vik March 5, 7:30 PM Pueblo Grande Museum Lecture Chaco Mystery Solved?” John A. Ware Executive Director of The Amerind Foundation, Inc. In this talk, Ware argues that the key to understanding eleventh century Chaco may lie in deciphering differences and similarities among the living descendants of the Chaco Anasazi: the historic Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Arizona. 4619 E. Washington St. Phoenix, Arizona phoenix.gov/recreation/arts/museums/pueblo/calendar/index.html March 7, 7:30 PM Maya Society of Minnesota Lecture Salt and the Coastal Maya: Tracing Ancient Yucatans Top Export Scott Johnson, Director, Emal Archaeological Project, Honorary Research Associate, Washington University 118 Drew Science, Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota sites.hamline.edu/mayasociety/ March 7, 6:45 PM Pre-Columbian Society of Washington DC March Lecture The Taaj: Exploring a Religious Order at Xultun, Guatemala Franco Rossi Ancient murals are rare in the Maya world, but rarer still are the archaeological remains of these murals’s creators. Rossi will explore recent research at the Classic period Maya site of Xultun, Guatemala, where the recent discovery of a late mural in the Taaj group provides an exciting opportunity to examine scribal practice and courtly culture at this large center. The mural depicts not only portraiture of elite figures in a courtly scene, but also presents a palimpsest of roughly sketched minute calendrical glyphs interspersed among those painted figures. In 2012, focused excavations were conducted at the Taaj group yielding new insight into the lives of the poorly known artisans who inhabited it. This presentation details these recent archaeological excavations, discusses the mural in light of these investigations, and examines the link between its content and new discoveries made within the group and the history of Xultun. Franco Rossi is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Archaeology at Boston University, where he specializes in the archaeology of Mesoamerica with special focus on the social politics, epigraphy and iconography of the Ancient Maya. Leaving business in 2005, Franco had his official “Maya archaeology” start with the Philadelphia branch of the Pre-Columbian Society. He also volunteered at the University of Pennsylvania Museum for two years as a docent and exhibition research assistant. He began studying Maya hieroglyphics as part of the Philadelphia Pre-Columbian Society’s Glyph Group. Rossi is now in his sixth year of graduate study. He has conducted epigraphic research for the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Princeton Art Museum. He is currently a Junior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks where he is working on a dissertation concerning his archaeological work at Xultun, which was carried out as part of William Saturno’s San Bartolo Regional Archaeological Project. Sumner School 17th & M Streets, N.W. Washington DC pcswdc.org/monthly_lecture.php Friday, March 7, 5:00 PM Institute of Archaeology University College London “Maya War in the Late Classic Period; A Game Theoretical Perspective” Mads Jorgensen Room 612 Institute of Archaeology University College, London (NO URL) March 7-8 The 2014 Nahautl Workshop at the University of Maryland Recent Work in Nahua Studies” The Latin American Studies Center of the University of Maryland is sponsoring its third Nahuatl event at its College Park campus. This workshop is an interdisciplinary meeting designed to explore current research in Nahua studies, including pre-contact, colonial, and contemporary topics. The draft program includes talks by John Millhauser, John F. Schwaller, Ann De Leon, and others. The meeting is free and open to all. For more information and a copy of the program, contact Jim Maffie at [email protected]. Friday, March 7 John Millhauser, “Poverty in the Aztec Empire: Ambiguities in the Ethnohistoric and Archaeological Record” Janice Robertson, “On the Workings of the Codex Mendoza’s Place-Name Signs: Decolonizing Aztec Picture-Writing” Jerome Offner, “Cognitive Landscapes in the Codex Xolotl: Reading an Authentic Nahua(tl) Text” Comment, Ralph Bauer Saturday, March 8 Breakfast Pete Sigal, “Queering and Querying Nahuas: From Bernardino de Sahagún to La Otra Conquista” John F. Schwaller, “The Mexican Marathon: Running as a Feature of Pre-Columbian Ritual” Comment, Juan Daneri Break Willard Gingerich, “Verse-Phrase Structure of Oral Poetics in a few Nahuatl Texts” Ann De Léon, “A Reflection on the Representation and Enactment of Aztec Warfare in Popular Cultural Artifacts” Comment, Alan Sandstrom Lunch St. Mary’s Hall Multi-purpose Room University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland lasc.umd.edu/Flyers/Spring%202014/Nahua%202014%20Conference%20Poster.pdf March 8, 1:00 pm Archaeology Southwest Lecture “Exploring Chaco’s Legacy” Douglas Gann, Preservation Archaeologist and Digital Media Specialist Gann will share a chronological virtual reality tour of Chaco Canyon and the Salmon and Aztec Pueblos in the centuries between A.D. 800 and 1150. The tour is made possible through Archaeology Southwest’s new virtual reality system, developed by Dr. Gann. Casa Malpais Museum 418 Main Street, Springerville, Arizona archaeologysouthwest.org/event/exploring-chacos-legacy/ March 11, 7:30 PM AIA Lecture Sacred Spaces and Human Sacrifice: The Nasca Lines in their Cultural and Religious Context Christina Conlee The Nasca Lines of southern Peru have long been an enigma for archaeologists and lay people alike. Many theories have been proposed about what they were used for and why they were constructed. In the last 20 years archaeologists have learned much more about the ancient Nasca people and we are now able to understand the lines as an important part of their religion. These were sacred places where ceremonies were performed and offerings were made to ensure fertility and the continuation of society. Willamette University, Room TBA Salem, Oregon archaeological.org/events/12313 March 11, 6:30 PM Friends of Tijeras Pueblo Lecture Unique Pictographs of Central Baja” Milford Fletcher Interpretive Center Behind the Sandia Ranger Station Tijeras, New Mexico friendsoftijeraspueblo.org/currentlectureflier.html March 11, 7:30 PM Santa Fe Archaeological Society Lecture Archaeological Sites in Santa Fe National Forest Mike Bremer Santa Fe Community Foundation, 501 Halona St. On the SE corner of Paseo de Peralta and Haloma Santa Fe, New Mexico sfarchaeology.org/html/calendar.html March 12, 8:00 PM Institute of Maya Studies Lecture Ancient Maya Cities Series Presentation: Copan and lts Recorded History – What do the Hieroglyphs at Copan Reveal? Marta Barber Copan, together with Palenque, is probably the site that has contributed the most to the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphic writing. Epigraphers tell us that the scribes of Copan knew how to manipulate the language in ways other major sites didn’t. Just from the precision of the carvings, it’s not hard to conclude that they took their writing seriously. It is not the writing, but the legacy of Copan’s 16+ rulers that will be the focus of my talk. What they left behind is magnificent. The story is not over yet; with the recent discoveries at El Rastrojon, another chapter is being revealed. The Institute of Maya Studies (IMS) meets at the Miami Science Museum, 3280 South Miami Avenue, across from Vizcaya; Maya Hotline: 305-279-8110. Subscribe to the full-color e-mailed version of our monthly IMS Explorer newsletter at: instituteofmayastudies.org March 12, 7:00 PM Arizona Archaeological Society; Desert Foothills Chapter Lecture Prehistoric Salt Procurement” Todd Bostwick, AZ Humanities Community Building (Maitland Hall) of the Good Shepherd of the Hills Church, 6502 E. Cave Creek Road, Cave Creek, Arizona azarchsoc.org/DesertFoothills March 12, 12:00 PM Illinois State Museum Lecture Out of Beringia: Genetics, Paleo-ecology, and Archaeology” John F. Hoffecker, INSTAAR/University of Colorado-Boulder & Illinos State Museum Human geneticists argue that most Native Americans are derived from a population isolated from its source in Asia for thousands of years before dispersing in the Americas, and some suggest that the isolated population was located in Beringia during the Last Glacial Maximum [LGM] (i.e., “Out of Beringia” or “Beringian Stand-still” model). Evidence has accumulated for decades that central Beringia supported a shrub tundra environment with some trees and experienced relatively mild temperatures during the LGM, apparently reflecting the effect of moist air from the North Pacific Ocean. The central Beringian shrub tundra zone represents a credible LGM refugium for humans and may have been the only substantive source of wood at high latitudes during this interval (roughly 28,000 to 17,000 years ago). The Yana River sites document human occupation of northwestern Beringia before the LGM. The absence of archaeological sites dating to the LGM may be explained by the inundation of central Beringia after 12,000 years ago. Sites dating to the post-LGM period include (1) an industry that is recently derived from Northeast Asia (Dyuktai) after 15,000 years ago, as well as (2) another industry or industries (Ushki-Nenana) that has no obvious antecedents outside Beringia and may be an archaeological proxy for the hypothesized “Beringia Standstill” population that occupied central Beringia during the LGM and subsequently dispersed southward to the Americas. ISM Research & Collections Center, 1011 E. Ash Street in Springfield. Springfield, Illinois museum.state.il.us/ismsites/rcc/events.html?EventID=2132 March 13 Pacific Coast Archaeological Society The Intersection of Archaeology and Restoration Biology in the Age of the Anthropocene Dr. Todd Braje Earth’s ecosystems are rapidly changing, driven largely by human activities, including the overexploitation of wildlife, habitat degradation, and climate change. These anthropogenic impacts are occurring on such a large scale that they have fueled the assertion that we now live in the Anthropocene, an epoch dominated by human influence. To help understand and confront these environmental challenges, researchers increasingly recognize the need for new data and approaches. One such approach is historical ecology—broadly defined as the use of paleobiological, archaeological, and historical data to better understand ecological change and human-environmental interactions over thelongue durée. Archaeological research on California’s Northern Channel Islands is offering new perspectives on the deep historical patterns of human adaptations and impacts on marine and terrestrial ecosystems. These include possible trophic cascadestriggered in kelp forest ecosystems by intensive human hunting of sea otters beginning as early as 8000 years ago, a measurable decline in the average size of key shellfish prey species through time, changes in the relative abundances of many sea mammal species, and the introduction of dogs and foxes to fragile island biota. Ultimately, these data can offer important baselines for the modern management of marine fisheries and coastal ecosystems around the globe. Dr. Todd Braje is an anthropological archaeologist and assistant professor at San Diego State University. Over the last ten years, the majority of his archaeological field research has been conducted on California’s Northern Channel Islands where he investigates the 13,000 year history of human-environmental interactions and the application of archaeological records to modern fisheries management. His diverse research includes fieldwork at some of the oldest sites along the New World Pacific Coast, occupied by Pleistocene maritime voyagers, and nineteenth century commercial abalone processing camps, created by Chinese immigrants during the California gold rush. Along with over 50 academic journal articles, Dr. Braje has published a book, Modern Oceans, Ancient Sites, and a co-edited volume, Human Impacts on Seals, Sea Lions, and Sea Otters. His current research projects include a large-scale survey for historic abalone fishing camps on Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz islands and an excavation project at a large Native American village, Qshiwqshiw, on Santa Rosa Island. Irvine Ranch Water District Community Room, 15500 Sand Canyon Avenue (between the I-5 and I-405) Irvine, California pcas.org/meetings.html March 13, 7:00 PM Arizona Archaeological Society; Phoenix Chapter Lecture Sears Point Rock Art and Beyond, Synopsis of the 2008-2012 Recording Project. Evelyn Billo Utilized for centuries by many cultures, the National Register Sears Point Archaeological District (SPAD) is located along the rich riparian habitat of the Gila River. Currently managed by the Yuma District of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), a large portion of the District is designated an Area of Critical Environmental Concern and is still utilized by several of the 15 Tribes that claim cultural affiliation there. Responding to a BLM request for comprehensive rock art recording, Rupestrian CyberServices (Evelyn Billo and Robert Mark) and Plateau Mountain Desert Research (Donald E. Weaver, Jr.) mapped approximately 2000 petroglyph panels and 100 features including rock piles, rock rings, artifact scatters, a rock shelter, several apparent natural and constructed hunting blinds, geoglyphs, and scattered rock alignments. They also mapped many historic features and an extensive network of prehistoric, historic, and animal trails. Recording and photographing SPAD required a three-year effort with the help of 50 volunteers, and some unusual techniques. Pueblo Grande Museum Phoenix, Arizona azarchsoc.org/Phoenix March 14, 6:00 PM Central Mississippi Valley Archeological Society Lecture A Late Ice Age Infant Burial From the Anzick Clovis Site, Park Co., Montana” Dr. Julie Morrow will discuss the only burial associated with the Clovis culture and its significance for the peopling of the New World. ASU Museum Room 157, State University arkarch.org/2014_Arch_Month_brochure.pdf March 15, 9:00 AM-6:00 PM Penn Museum Annual Maya Symposium “Voices of the Past: Maya Research Today Scholars, first-time visitors, enthusiasts, and lovers of all things Maya are invited to take part in a full day of special Maya-related programming. Guests hear from experts, including Curator Richard Leventhal and Associate Curator and Keeper Simon Martin, both of the Penn Museums American Section—as well as scholars and students specializing in a variety of Pre-Columbian disciplines, including Oswaldo Chichilla, Yale University, and Frauke Sachse, University of Bonn, Germany. Topics of discussion range from ancient environmental issues, to historic excavation sites, to the future of Maya heritage. $40, General Admission; $30, Penn Museum members; $20, full-time College Students with ID. Registration, available at: PENN MUSEUM MEMBERS ONLY: the ticket purchase price for Museum Members is incorrect on the registration link: it is $40, instead of $30. DO NOT register until it has changed to $30! 8:30 – 9:10 am Registration in the Kress Gallery 9:10-9:20 Opening Comments 9:20-10:00: Richard Leventhal, Curator, American Collection, Penn Museum; 10:00-10:40 Franco Rossi, Boston University, current Dumbarton Oaks Fellow Coffee Break Lightning Talks: short presentations: 11:00 -11:20 Sarah Kurnick, University of Pennsylvania 1120 – 11:40: David Rogoff, University of Pennsylvania 11:40 - 12:00: Joanne Baron, University of Pennsylvania 12:00 to 1:30 pm Lunch 1:30 – 1:50: Lynn Grant, Head Conservator, Penn Museum 1:50 - 2:10: Tiffany Cain: University of Pennsylvania 2:10 – 2:30: Christa Cesario: University of Pennsylvania 2:30- 3:10 : Frauke Sachse: University of Bonn, Germany Coffee Break 3:30 - 4:10: Oswaldo Chichilla: Professor of Anthropology, Yale Universi 4:10 - 4:50: Simon Martin, Associate Curator and Keeper, Penn Museum 5:00-6:00 pm: Reception with Cash Bar Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia Pennsylvania penn.museum/events-calendar/details/1263-maya-symposium.html March 15, 1:00 PM The Zuni Region across the Lost Century: A.D. 1450–1540” Preservation Archaeologist Matt Peeples The period between A.D. 1450 and the arrival of Coronado in 1540 has often been depicted as a ‘lost century’ in the Southwest. During this period, most of the region saw a substantial decline in population, large scale population movements, and rapid changes in the organization of the communities that remained. The Zuni region of west-central New Mexico is one of only a few places in the northern Southwest where large agricultural villages that were first constructed during the late prehistoric period continued to be inhabited through the ‘lost century’ and into the historic period. In this talk, I will summarize several lines of archaeological and biological evidence to explore the origins, timing, and consequences of immigration into the Zuni region and the establishment of the communities encountered by de Niza and Coronado at contact. Casa Malpais Museum 418 Main Street, Springerville, Arizona archaeologysouthwest.org/event/the-zuni-region-across-the-lost-century-a-d-1450-1540/ March 15, 1:15 PM British Museum Gallery talk Gold in Ancient Mexico Room 27 British Museum London, England bit.ly/1hr1bkg March 15, 12:30 PM Hill Country Archaeological Association Lecture The Gatlin Site (41KR621) in Kerrville: Prehistoric Living Re-visited Eric Oksanen The Gatlin Site spans more than 6,000 years of human activity. Who did what, when, how, and why? Sifting through the enormous assemblage of artifacts and features, we examine how the site was used and changed through time and critique the decisions made in the analyses. Riverside Nature Center, 150 Francisco Lemos Street, Kerrville, Texas hcarcheology.org March 16, 2:00 PM Cahokia Mounds Winter Lecture Series Mound 72 Reconfigured: New Information on the Beaded Cape Burial Kristin Hedman, PhD, Illinois State Archaeological Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Recent isotope and osteological analyses of Mound 72 individuals by ISAS have revealed some surprising results. In addition to providing new evidence for the movement of individuals and diversity in diet at Cahokia, we discovered that the individuals associated with the central Beaded Cape burial feature are not as they appear. This new information will be presented and implications for interpretations of Mound 72 will be discussed. Cahokia Mounds Interpretive Center Collinsville, Illinois cahokiamounds.org/visit/ March 16, 2:30 PM Alianza de las Artes Lecture Stone of Heaven & Earth: The Symbolism of Jade in Ancient Maya Thought Karl Taube University of California, Riverside Sharp Auditorium, Hamilton Bldg., Denver Art Museum alianza-dam.org/events.php March 17, 7:30 PM Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society Lecture “Hunting, Farming and Human Impacts on the Pre-Historic Southwest Environment” Karen Gust Schollmeyer Humans have always influenced local plants and animals in the environment around their settlements. As settlements become larger and longer-lived, these impacts become more pronounced and can have positive, neutral, or negative consequences for the people who live there. In many times and places, people have wondered how to maintain access to important wild plants and animals as local human populations expanded, a situation that continues to concern people today. Archaeology can help us address this issue by providing long-term information on how plants and animals responded to different sorts of human activities over very long time scales, the choices past people made to adapt to these changes, and the consequences of those choices for continued access to important resources. Permanent farming villages in the Southwest show interesting patterns in plant and animal remains. Some species thrived, maintaining or increasing their presence in the areas around villages. Others did not; large hoofed mammals in particular became less common over time in many areas. People in some locations were able to maintain higher levels of long-term access to these sensitive resources, while in other places access declined. Long-term access to different plants and animals was related partly to characteristics of the species themselves (like habitat needs and reproductive rates). Village location also played a large role, particularly locations in relation to productive habitat areas and to dense human populations. Understanding the factors influencing whether people lost, maintained, or increased their access to different plants and animals over long time spans in the past may help us plan our use of them in the future, including assessing ways to balance conservation with economic needs and social values. University Medical Center’s Duval Auditorium, 1500 N Campbell Blvd, Tucson, Arizona az-arch-and-hist.org/programs-2/lectures/ March 18 Archaeology Café Phoenix Lecture Early Agriculture in the Southwest” An archaeologist with Desert Archaeology, Inc., examines a re-created field area within the roughly 3,000-year-old expanse of irrigation canals and bordered fields currently under excavation at Las Capas in the Tucson Basin. More than fifteen acres of fields were once present. Jim Vint explains what new discoveries from the Santa Cruz River valley are revealing about early agriculture in the southern Southwest. Macayos Central 4001 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, Arizona archaeologysouthwest.org/event/archaeology-cafe-phoenix-early-agriculture-in-the-southwest/ March 18, 7:30 PM Whatever Happened to Cabeza de Vaca? Baker Morrow Cabeza de Vaca is one of the most beloved explorers of the Southwest, wandering through southern New Mexico in the late 1520s or early 1530s as he became the first European to walk across North America. His memoir of the trek, the Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition, is also the founding work of American literature, translated by Fanny Bandelier and others many times and widely read to this day. But what became of Cabeza de Vaca once his epic ten-year journey was finished? Mr. Morrow is the founder of the Master of Landscape Architecture Program at UNM’s School of Architecture and Planning, where he currently serves as the University’s first Professor of Practice. A third-generation New Mexican, he is the author of Best Plants for New Mexico Gardens and Landscapes and the co-editor of Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of the American Southwest. His most recent book is Cabeza de Vaca’s The South American Expeditions, 1540-1545, for which he was the translator. Albuquerque Museum of Art and History 2000 Mountain Road NW Albuquerque, New Mexico March 18. 7:00 PM Renewing the World: New Research at the Spiro Ceremonial Center” Dr. George Sabo, Director, Arkansas Archeological Survey, speaks about the ongoing studies of museum collections from the Spiro Ceremonial Center, located just 10 miles west of Fort Smith. These studies include the application of state-of- the-art archeogeophysical prospecting technologies to guide new excavations and expand emerging understanding. Univ. of Arkansas, Fort Smith, Smith-Pendergraft Campus Center arkarch.org/2014_Arch_Month_brochure.pdf March 19, 8:00 PM Institute of Maya Studies Lecture In Gar We Trust: Fish Imagery in Ancient Maya Kingship and Cosmology” Dr. Kevin J. Johnston, Asst. Professor of Anthropology at Ohio State University. In Classic Maya iconography, following his death and prior to his rebirth out of a turtle shell, the young Maize God is carried through the Underworld in the belly of a creature that has often been misidentified as a “feathered serpent.” In fact, this supernatural creature is the peje lagarto, or “alligator fish,” otherwise known as the giant freshwater gar. Glyphs identify the creature as the “guardian” of corn, and it safely carries the latter through the Water House, the liquid realm of darkness, death and danger. Following their deaths, Maya kings also travelled “Jonah-like” through the Underworld in the belly of this great fish. As inscriptions reveal, both Preclassic and Classic royalty erected temples to honor this creature and its role as maize protector. The Institute of Maya Studies (IMS) meets at the Miami Science Museum, 3280 South Miami Avenue, across from Vizcaya; Maya Hotline: 305-279-8110. Subscribe to the full-color e-mailed version of our monthly IMS Explorer newsletter at: instituteofmayastudies.org March 19, 6:30 PM Michigan Archaeological Society; Upper Grand Valley Chapter Lecture “South Flats: An Alternative Explanation for some of Michigan’s Earthworks” Dr. Jan Brashler (GVSU) Baker Hall room 454 MSU campus East Lansing, Michigan miarch.org/chapters/grand-valley.html March 20–23 11th Annual Tulane Maya Symposium On the Maya Trail: Ancient Travelers, Epic Voyages The Middle American Research Institute and Far Horizons are proud to present the Eleventh Annual Tulane Maya Symposium and Workshop. This year’s symposium, titled “On the Maya Trail: Ancient Travelers, Epic Voyages”, will explore the many ways the ancient Maya moved across their landscape, whether for the sake of diplomacy, conquest, commerce, migration, or pilgrimage. The point of the symposium is to emphasize how integral long-distance communication was to ancient Maya society throughout its long history. For 2013, we are excited to announce that this years keynote hosted at the New Orleans Museum of Art will be given by Dr. Karl Taube of the University of California, Riverside who will guide us through the rich world of Mesoamerican art. We will also host a viewing of the Precolumbian collection at NOMA. On Sunday, the Hieroglyphic Forum and the Workshops will focus on the role of women travelers in the Classic Maya civilization. Finally, throughout the weekend, we will also be featuring MARIs exhibit, Faces of the Maya. The Latin American Library houses a collection of Merle Greene Robertsons rubbings, which may be viewed upon request. Tulane University and the New Orleans Museum of Art March 20-23 11th Annual Tulane Maya Symposium On the Maya Trail: Ancient Travelers, Epic Voyages. PROGRAM mari.tulane.edu/TMS/program.html March 24, 7:30 PM San Diego County Archaeological Society Lecture Ritual Symbols in Rock Art:Cupules and Incised Grooves in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands, Texas Cara Ratner Rock art at archaeological sites are often dismissed as a culturally symbolic representation that cannot be objectively or scientifically analyzed or interpreted adequately. Such dismissals are detrimental to understanding all aspects of a given culture.” Although uninformed interpretations of rock art panels are counterproductive, systematic recording and the testing of different hypotheses is a valid way to begin to better understand the possible range of social functions of rock art. This research examines whether indigenous women’s fertility is represented in rock art depictions, known as cupules and groove marks, in the archaeological record. Cupules are defined as a boulder or rock slab covered with small rounded depressions (cupules), usually four to six centimeters in diameter and two to three centimeters in depth. Groove marks are deeply and narrowly incised lines rarely more than two centimeters in depth. In this research, I systematically document and contextualize the pit and groove rock art style in the Lower Pecos, Texas. I also test whether cupules and groove marks are tied to a functional purpose with an experimental project. Los Peñasquitos Ranch House, Canyonside Park Driveway, San Diego, California sandiegoarchaeologicalsociety/index.php/eventsmain/upcoming-events/event/5/2epk58g7ji5dd0ilf1t9ckfbo0 March 27, 6:00 PM Peabody Museum Lecture Forgotten but Not Lost: Unearthing an Ancient Village Preserved by Mexico’s Popocatépetl Volcano Gordon R. Willey Public Lecture by Gabriela Uruñuela and Patricia Plunket Nagoda Two thousand years ago, the pre-Hispanic village of Tetimpa was buried by a massive eruption of Mexico’s largest active volcano. People were forced to abandon their houses as walls collapsed under the weight of falling ashen pumice. Many household objects, though, were preserved, including numerous unique family shrines. In this illustrated talk, archaeologists Patricia Plunket Nagoda and Gabriela Uruñuela will discuss how the remarkable unearthing of Tetimpa has advanced our knowledge of ancient life in Mexico and how this volcanic episode may have shaped the future of regional cities on the rise, such as Teotihuacan and Cholula. Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts https://peabody.harvard.edu/node/151 March 27, 6:30 PM School for Advanced Research Lecture A Tale of Two Pilgrimage Centers: Chaco and Nasca John Kantner The New Mexico History Museum Auditorium Santa Fe, NM sarweb.org/?membership_lecture_john_kantner_2014 Thursday, March 20 2014 Tulane Maya Symposium “On the Maya Trail; Ancient Travelers, Epic Journeys 6:00 – 6:30 pm Welcome and Introductions Denise Woltering Vargas (Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University) Tricia LeBlanc (Dir. of Education, Audubon Aquarium of the Americas) Marcello A. Canuto (MARI/Tulane University) 6:30 – 7:00 pm What do we really know about the ancient Maya? Marcello A. Canuto (MARI/Tulane University) Friday, March 21 9:00 – 9:50 am Introduction to Geography/Environment of the Maya Audubon Institute 10:00 – 10:50 am Historical Perspective on the Maya TBA (TBA) 11:00 – 11:50 am Introduction to Maya Sea Traders Heather McKillop (Louisiana State University) LUNCH 12:00 – 1:00 pm 1:00 – 1:50 pm Integrating the Standards to Create Engaging Curricula on the Maya Denise Woltering Vargas (Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University) Tricia LeBlanc (Dir. of Education, Audubon Aquarium of the Americas) 2:00 pm Conclusion and Evaluation Tour of the Meso Floor New Orleans Museum of Art One Collins Diboll Circle, City Park New Orleans 4:00 – 5:00 pm Keynote New Orleans Museum of Art One Collins Diboll Circle, City Park New Orleans 6:00 – 7:15 pm They of the East: The Maya at Early Classic Teotihuacan Karl Taube (University of California-Riverside) 7:15 – 8:45 pm Reception Saturday, March 22 Symposium Freeman Auditorium Woldenberg Art Center Tulane University 8:00 – 9:00 am Registration & Check-in 8:45 – 9:00 am Welcome & Opening Remarks Marcello A. Canuto (MARI / Tulane University) 9:00 – 9:40 am Mapping Maya Migration Networks during the Classic period Carolyn Freiwald (University of Mississippi) 9:40 – 10:20 am Circling the Cholqij/Tzolkin from Tullan to Pulchich: A Kaqchikel Migration History Judith Maxwell (Tulane University) BREAK 10:30 – 11:10 am Conquest and Commerce: Maya Migrations in the Sixteenth Century Laura Matthew (Marquette University) 11:10 – 11:50 am Cosmopolitan Backwater: What Cacaxtla can and cant tell us about Mesoamerican Travel Claudia Brittenham (University of Chicago) LUNCH Catered lunch will be provided to all participants and registrants. 1:00 – 1:40 pm Maya Merchants Traveling through the Northern Plains of Yucatan: Xuenkal, Chichen Itza Traci Ardren (University of Miami) 1:40 – 2:20 pm Ancient Maya Canoe Navigation: the Kak Naab Wooden Paddle and the Canoe Heather McKillop (Louisiana State University) BREAK 2:30 – 3:10 pm Strangers in a Strange Land: Place-Making Narratives at La Sufricaya Alex Tokovinine (Peabody Museum / Harvard University) 3:10 – 3:50 pm A New Look at the Peten Entrada and its Role in Early Classic History David Stuart (University of Texas at Austin) 4:00 – 5:30 pm The Dance of the Maize God Film screening Freeman Auditorium Woldenberg Art Center Tulane University 5:30 – 6:30 pm Question & Answer session David LeBrun (Nightfire Films) The film’s director, David Lebrun, along with scholars and curators will participate in a panel discussion and Q&A after the screening. Sunday, March 23 Hieroglyphic Forum Room 102 Dinwiddie Hall Tulane University 9:00 am – Noon Panel 6 (Dallas Altar) from La Corona David Stuart (University of Texas at Austin) Marc Zender (Tulane University) Joanne Baron (University of Pennsylvania) Stanley Guenter (Idaho State University) Alex Tokovinine (Peabody Museum / Harvard University) Morning Talk Room 103 Dinwiddie Hall Tulane University 10:30 am – Noon 19th Century Explorers to the Maya Ruins Roxanne Dávila (Tulane University) LUNCH Box lunches will be provided on the 3rd floor of Dinwiddie Hall to those who ordered them on the registration form. The M.A.R.I. Gallery will be open for viewing throughout the lunch break. Afternoon Workshops Dinwiddie Hall Tulane University 1:00 – 3:30 pm The Tikal Marcador Text Marc Zender (Tulane University) Room 415 Pilgrimages to Naj Tunich Stanley Guenter (Idaho State University) Room 305 3:30 – 5:00 pm Emblem glyphs and toponyms Alex Tokovinine (Peabody Museum / Harvard University) Room 415 Maya Patron Deities Joanne Baron (University of Pennsylvania) Room 305 Dinwiddie Hall, Jones Hall, and the Lavin-Bernick Center Tulane University New Orelans, Louisiana mari.tulane.edu/TMS/ New Orleans, Louisiana mari.tulane.edu/TMS/index.html March 22-May 3, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM Newberry Library Seminar Series The Cosmos in Native North American Myths, Legends, and Tales Led by Lee Minnerly Indigenous people routinely observed celestial phenomena as an integral part of daily life, then placed and interpreted what they saw in a context of spiritual and religious meaning. We will survey the rich astronomy-related content found in indigenous North American narrative verbal arts of the post-contact period. Tribes of the Eastern Woodlands, Great Plains, Southwest, California, Pacific Northwest, and Canadian Arctic will be the focus of this instructive collection of non-Western cosmology. The instructor will send preparatory readings in advance of the first session. Lee Minnerly, an archives assistant for the Webster Institute for the History of Astronomy at the Adler Planetarium, holds an MA in anthropology and teaches classes on cultural astronomy and the extraterrestrial life debate. $190 for the series Newberry Library 60 W. Walton St. Chicago, Illinois newberry.org/03222014-cosmos-native-north-american-myths-legends-and-tales March 27 AIA Lecture Ancient American Cities, Religion, and the Case of Cahokia Timothy R. Pauketat In the middle of the 11th century CE, a unique city was constructed along the Mississippi that helps to explain the rise of civilizations everywhere. Like other ancient North American centers and cities, Cahokia was built on a cosmic idea: the sun and moon intersected with the lives of farmers here. New excavation and archaeoastronomical evidence suggests that religion pulled visitors and immigrants into the city and gave them a new identity. Missionaries carried that religion and identity to distant lands before the civilizing experiment imploded. This one city, though it dramatically altered American history, was largely forgotten. University of Georgia, Room TBA Athens, Georgia archaeological.org/events/12179 March 27, 6:30 PM School for Advanced Research Lecture Ruins of Cahuachi, the Ceremonial Center in Nasca One thousand years ago, a monumental religious center emerged in Chaco Canyon that soon grew to dominate the cultural landscape of the northern American Southwest. A millennium earlier, in the Nasca region on the south coast of Peru, a stunning ceremonial center existed with remarkable similarities to Chaco. Most scholars believe pilgrims traveled long distances to experience the majesty of these extraordinary desert centers and engaged in similar ceremonial activities. In a multimedia presentation, archaeologist John Kantner compares the evolution of Chaco and Nasca as a way to understand how and why influential ceremonial centers emerged in the ancient human past. 660 Garcia Street Santa Fe, New Mexico sarweb.org/index.php?membership_lecture_john_kantner_2014 March 27, 7:30 PM AIA Lecture 4000 Years of Andean Gold” Mark Aldenderfer n this presentation I will review the ways in which golden objects were used by four cultures in the ancient Andes: the hunters and gatherers of the Titicaca basin at 2000 BC, the Chavin culture of the central Andes (900 BC), the Moche (AD 400), and the Chimu (AD 1200). Gold first serves as a personal adornment that als has a social meaning, and through time, becomes identified with power and religious ideology. Whitman Room, Ramsey Library University of North Carolina One University Heights Ashville, North Carolina archaeological.org/lectures/abstracts/13139 March 27-29 56th Caddo Conference and 21st Annual East Texas Archeological Conference Ornelas Activity Center, 3402 Old Omen Rd., Tyler, Texas txarch.org/calendar/evt_detail.php?calid=777&month=3&year=2014 March 28, 7:30 PM AIA Lecture Sacred Spaces and Human Sacrifice: The Nasca Lines in their Cultural and Religious Context Christina Conlee The Nasca Lines of southern Peru have long been an enigma for archaeologists and lay people alike. Many theories have been proposed about what they were used for and why they were constructed. In the last 20 years archaeologists have learned much more about the ancient Nasca people and we are now able to understand the lines as an important part of their religion. These were sacred places where ceremonies were performed and offerings were made to ensure fertility and the continuation of society. University of Central Florida, Main Campus, Psychology Building 4000 Central Florida Blvd. Orlando, Florida archaeological.org/events/12169 March 28-29 Annual Midwest Mesoamericanist Meeting Northern Illinois University is pleased to host the Annual Midwest Mesoamericanist Meeting. The conference will take place on Friday, March 28th and Saturday, March 29th, 2014. The meetings will open on Friday with a welcome address and keynote talk in the School of Art (Jack Arends Hall) followed an informal mixer at a local restaurant. The presentations will be held on Saturday in Cole Hall (Jameson Auditorium) with a celebratory reception to follow. The meeting is free and open to the public. The Midwest Mesoamericanist Meeting is sponsored by the NIU School of Art, Department of Anthropology, and the Anthropology Museum. Organizers of the conference are: Dr. Jeff Kowalski, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Jennifer Kirker-Priest, The Anthropology Museum, Dr. Winifred Creamer and Dr. Kerry Sagebiel, Department of Anthropology. Northern Illinois University Cole Hall Room 100 DeKalb, Illinois niu.edu/anthro/Conferences/Midwest_Mesoamericanist/index.shtml March 30, 7:30 PM Michael C. Carlos Museum Lecture Inka Culture of Stone In the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries the Inka of western South America built magnificent structures of rock. They also ate and drank with, dressed, and talked to rocks. In a lecture titled The Inka’s Culture of Stone, Carolyn Dean, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will explore the ways the Inka manipulated rock as a medium, and—more significantly—how they negotiated with and cajoled rock that was capable of resisting human efforts to transport, cut, and fit it into stonemasonry walls. Professor Dean will address two central questions: What did it mean to the Inka to construct using a sentient medium, and what significance was conveyed by an Inka masonry wall? Reception Hall Level 3 Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University 571 South Kilgo Circle Atlanta, georgia carlos.emory.edu/
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