October 2014 Ancient Americas Lectures and Conferences October 1, 7:00 PM Illinois Valley Archaeological Society Lecture Technological and Social Dimensions of Late Prehistoric Pottery: A Central Illinois River Valley Case Study Andrew J. Upton, Doctoral Student, Michigan State University and an R. Bruce McMillan Museum Intern This presentation will discuss two relevant issues to the study of Late Prehistoric period (circa 1100-1550 AD) pottery in eastern North America: the technological ramifications of the shift to shell tempering and modern theoretical and methodological means of understanding the social contexts of pottery manufacture, use, and exchange. The Illinois State Museum—Dickson Mounds is located between Lewistown and Havana off Illinois Routes 78 and 97. ExperienceDicksonMounds October 1, 7:30 PM AIA Lecture Early Humans in the Americas: When Did They Arrive and Where Did They Come From?” Steven R. Holen The question of when humans first entered the Americas and by what routes has been one of the most vexing and controversial subjects in American archaeology for over 130 years. We discuss the history of the controversy and offer new evidence from our own field and museum research that suggests humans entered the Americas thousands of years earlier than previously thought. However, the final answer to the question is still elusive and more research is needed. Oak Hammock at the University of Florida Williston Road at SW 25th Terrace Gainesville , Florida archaeological.org/lectures/abstracts/13116 October 1, 7:30 PM Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary Lecture Early Archaeology of Pueblo Grande” Dr. Todd Bostwick The Early Archaeological Excavations of the Pueblo Grande site. Dr Bostwick has conducted archaeological research in the Southwest for over 35 years and is the Senior Research Archaeologist for PaleoWest Archaeology in Phoenix and Director of Archaeology for the Verde Valley Archaeology Center in Camp Verde. Pueblo Grande Museum 4619 E Washington St Phoenix, Arizona pueblogrande October 1, 12:00 PM Archaeological Research Facility, Univ. of California Lecture Integrating Paleoethnobotanical Approaches in the Study of Food: a Case Study from the Peruvian Preceramic” Dr. Neil Duncan, Post Doctoral Researcher, Stanford University Recent research at early monumental sites on the coast and inland valleys of Peru have revealed more complex economies, evidence for long distance interregional exchange, and have resulted in a reevaluation of models for the development of complexity in the region as early as 4000 years ago. Research at Buena Vista, a small monumental center in the Chillón Valley, highlights the potential contributions integrated approaches in paleoethnobotany can provide toward understanding early agriculture, exchange networks 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility) Univ. of California Berkeley, California events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/arf.html?event_ID=81803&date=2014-10-01&filter=Secondary%20Event%20Type&filtersel=1474 October 2-4 2014 Midwest Archaeological Conference The MAC 2014 meetings will be held Thursday through Saturday evening at the Hilton Garden Inn just west of the University of Illinois campus. Room blocks are reserved at both the Hilton as well as Hawthorne Suites located across the street from the Hilton. The conference room rate is $109/night at both locations. When making reservations, please use the Group code MAC14 to ensure you receive the conference rate. We are urging all conference attendees to reserve your hotel rooms as soon as possible since the U of I football schedule changed shortly after we had finalized the contract for the conference and this weekend is now a home football weekend. We will be sending out reminders periodically as we move closer to the conference dates. GROUP CODE: MAC14 Hilton Garden Inn 1501 S Neil St Champaign, IL 61820 (217) 352-9970 Hawthorne Suites 101 Trade Center Dr, Champaign, IL 61820 (217) 398-3400 midwestarchaeology.org/annual-meeting/upcoming-meetings October 2, 7:00 PM AIA Lecture Early Humans in the Americas: When Did They Arrive and Where Did They Come From?” Steven R. Holen The question of when humans first entered the Americas and by what routes has been one of the most vexing and controversial subjects in American archaeology for over 130 years. We discuss the history of the controversy and offer new evidence from our own field and museum research that suggests humans entered the Americas thousands of years earlier than previously thought. However, the final answer to the question is still elusive and more research is needed. Florida Atlantic University, GN 102 777 Glades Road Boca Raton, Florida archaeological.org/events/16429 October 3, 6:45 PM Pre-Columbian Society of Washington DC October Lecture Society and Politics at the Center of the Cosmos: The Archaeological Project of the Ceremonial Center of Tibes, Ponce, Puerto Rico L. Antonio Curet, PhD For over 15 years the Archaeological Project of the Ceremonial Center of Tibes in Ponce, Puerto Rico has been studying the changes, processes, and conditions for the development of social stratification in the region. Located in southern Puerto Rico, Tibes is, to date, the oldest civic ceremonial site on the island. Research suggests that the site may have began as a small settlement and around AD 900-1000 experienced a change in the use of space that included the construction of multiple ballcourts and plazas. Because of these changes, Tibes was selected for study as it appeared to be the ideal place to study social changes and the development of stratification. From its inception, the project has successfully developed a multi-stage, multi-disciplinary, and multi-scalar approach that has led to a better, but still incomplete, understanding of the social and political conditions of pre-contact societies of the region. This presentation will begin with a general overview of the ancient history of Puerto Rico, will continue with a summary of the project’s aims, goals, strategies, and finds, and will end with a discussion of our interpretations of the evidence at hand. L. Antonio Curet is a Curator of the National Museum of the American Indian. His research focuses on cultural and social change in the ancient Caribbean, but he has participated also in archaeological projects in Arizona and Veracruz, Mexico. He has directed several projects including excavations at La Gallera, Ceiba, Puerto Rico and the Archaeological Project of the Valley of Maunabo. Since 1995 he has conducted excavations at the Ceremonial Center of Tibes, Ponce, Puerto Rico and in 2013 began co-directing a regional project in the Valley of Añasco in Western Puerto Rico. Curet has published multiple articles in national and international journals, a book on Caribbean paleodemography, and has edited volumes on Cuban archaeology, the archaeology of Tibes, Puerto Rico, and long-distance interaction in the Caribbean. Sumner School 17th & M Streets, N.W. Washington DC pcswdc.org/events/ October 3, 7:30 PM Maya Society of Minnesota Lecture A Dynastic Shrine at Holmul and the Rise of the Kaan Kingdom of the Maya Francisco Estrada Belli, Research Assistant Professor of Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, Boston University. 100E Giddens Learning Center, Hamline University St. Paul, Minnesota sites.hamline.edu/mayasociety/ October 3, 12:00 PM School of Human Evolution and Social Change Lecture Living, Eating and Dying in the Driest Desert in the World: Biogeochemical Analysis of Paleodiet in Formative Period Northern Chile” William J. Pestle, University of Miami Department of Anthropology Northern Chiles Atacama Desert is one of the most unforgiving landscapes on the planet, however a variety of complex risk mitigation strategies facilitated long-term human occupation of the region. Using a burgeoning corpus of human, floral and faunal stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data, the present work examines patterns of mobility, exchange and social interaction in northern Chiles Formative Period (1500 B.C.-A.D. 500). While the geographic barriers and harsh climatic conditions of the Atacama Desert, in concert with substantial logistic considerations, established constraints on human diet at the site and local levels, regional dietary variation speaks to frequent and possibly even regular inter-zonal movements of people and/or foodstuffs. SHESC 340 Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona https://asuevents.asu.edu/living-eating-and-dying-driest-desert-world-biogeochemical-analysis-paleodiet-formative-period-north October 4, 9;00 AM-12:00 PM Maya Society of Minnesota Lecture Workshop: Civilization in Coastal Guatemala before and after the Classic Period Francisco Estrada Belli 6S Giddens Learning Center (Anthro Lab), Hamline University St. Paul, Minnesota sites.hamline.edu/mayasociety/ October 8, 7:30 PM Cleveland Archaeological Society Lecture “The Newark Earthworks: A Wonder of the Ancient World” Bradley Lepper, Curator of Archaeology, Ohio Historical Society The Newark Earthworks, in Central Ohio, is the largest set of prehistoric, geometric earthen enclosures in the world. The earthworks, or mounds, were built by the Hopewell cultural group between 100 B.C. and A.D. 400 by moving and shaping soil or rocks to form new topographical structures. These carefully crafted mounds covered nearly five square miles and were built using more than seven million cubic feet of natural material. A sophisticated knowledge of geometry and astronomy was encoded into the architecture of this ceremonial center, which may have also been a gathering place for pilgrims from across eastern North America. Cleveland Museum of Natural History Murch Auditorium Cleveland, Ohio classics.case.edu/cleveland-archaeological-society/lectures/ October 4, 12:00 PM Western National Parks Association and Archaeology Southwest Lecture Who Called the Tucson Basin Home in the Distant Past? (and Why That Matters) Bill Doelle and Matt Peeples Doelle and Peeples will provide an overview of life in the southern Southwest in the distant past, with particular attention to lines of evidence—how do we know what we know? RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. Call Western National Parks Association at 520-622-6014 to reserve your seat. The National Parks Store 12880 N. Vistoso Village Dr. Tucson, Arizona archaeologysouthwest.org/pdf/WNPA_HOBO_ArchSW_Series_flyer_090914_2.pdf October 5, 11:00 AM Metropolitan Museum Gallery Talk Structuring the Mesoamerican City” Explore the rich history and culture of the Mesoamerican city, and uncover elements of its households, plazas, and temples. Taryn Matusik Gallery 534 (Vélez Blanco Patio) Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City bit.ly/1pxlYDP October 6, 5:30 PM AIA Lecture Pre-Columbian Monumental Landscapes in the Bolivian Amazon” Dr. Clark L. Erickson, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Anthropology Traditionally, the archaeologists have the vast Amazon region of South America to be a cultural backwater compared to the better-known civilizations that developed in the Americas. Scholars stress the limitations of tropical environments and lack of critical technological innovations to sustain civilizations. In recent years, the documentation of raised field agriculture, black earth, managed forests, hydraulic engineering, and large settlements in the Amazon has questioned traditional assumptions. Dr. Clark L. Erickson, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Anthropology, has documented fascinating monumental earthworks called ring ditches or geoglyphs that encircle areas of several acres to nearly a square mile. Some earthworks are precisely constructed in geometric patterns that suggest a concern for landscape design, appearance, and aesthetics. Deep ditches imply that huge volumes of earth moved. Various hypotheses are presented for the functions of earthworks. The existence of earthworks of such magnitude and density throughout Western Amazonia shows the ability of native peoples to transform their landscapes at a massive scale Shepard Krech III Lecture; Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology Brown University, Building and room TBD 21 Prospect Street Providence, Rhode Island archaeological.org/events/16640 October 7, 5:30 PM Archaeology Café (Tucson) Lecture Many Roads to the Truth: : The Paul Sidney Martin Collections.”” Dr. Stephen E. Nash (Denver Museum of Nature & Science) Casa Vicente 375 S. Stone Avenue, Tucson, Arizona archaeologysouthwest.org/event/archaeology-cafe-tucson-many-roads-to-the-truth/ October 8, 7;00 PM Illinois State Museum Lecture Recent Geophysical and Archaeological Investigations at the Golden Eagle Site (11C120)” Jason King, Center for American Archaeology, Kampsville, Illinois The Golden Eagle site (11C120), located near the confluence of the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, in Calhoun County, is the only known Lower Illinois Valley mound site that includes an earthen enclosure. The site is frequently discussed in regional interpretations of moundbuilding traditions, particularly for the Middle Woodland, although few details are known. Archaeological investigations have been limited to topographic mapping, small-scale pedestrian surveys, and limited inspection of an erosional cross-section on the eastern side of the embankment. In 2013, the Center for American Archeology (CAA) in Kampsville, Illinois, initiated a multi-sensor geophysical survey at the site, followed by excavations during the summer of 2014. Results from these initial investigations have allowed us to characterize dimensions and structural details for mounds at the site, portions of the embankment-and-ditch enclosure, and the distribution of subsurface anomalies. ISM Research & Collections Center, 1011 East Ash Street (enter the building from 10 ½ Street between Ash & Laurel Streets), Springfield, Illinois museum.state.il.us/ismsites/rcc/events.html?EventID=2347 October 8, 6:30 PM Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center Lecture The Archaeology of Silver Mound” Dr. Connie Arzigian, MVAC Senior Research Associate; Lecturer, Dept. of Sociology/Archaeology Breaking rocks for 13,000 years. People have been visiting Silver Mound, near Hixton, WI, since the end of the ice age. What has been drawing them there? From how far away did they travel? What did they do there? How do we know all this? Learn about this important site and see a display of some of the materials that have been found there, including some of the oldest artifacts in the state Jackson County Banks Community Room, Black River Falls, Wisconsin mvac.uwlax.edu/events-displays/?event_id1=31 October 8, 7:30 PM Cleveland Archaeological Society Lecture “The Newark Earthworks: A Wonder of the Ancient World” Bradley Lepper, Curator of Archaeology, Ohio Historical Society The Newark Earthworks, in Central Ohio, is the largest set of prehistoric, geometric earthen enclosures in the world. The earthworks, or mounds, were built by the Hopewell cultural group between 100 B.C. and A.D. 400 by moving and shaping soil or rocks to form new topographical structures. These carefully crafted mounds covered nearly five square miles and were built using more than seven million cubic feet of natural material. A sophisticated knowledge of geometry and astronomy was encoded into the architecture of this ceremonial center, which may have also been a gathering place for pilgrims from across eastern North America. classics.case.edu/cleveland-archaeological-society/lectures/ October 8, 7:30 PM Missouri History Museum Lecture Naj Tunich and the Founding of Maya Cave Archaeology Dr. James Brady, California State University, Los Angeles, discusses the preeminent Maya cave site, Naj Tunich, which boasts the most cave architecture ever found. Lee Auditorium Missouri History Museum Lindell and DeBaliviere on the north side of Forest Park St. Louis, Missouri mohistory.org/node/9966 October 8, 7:30 PM Arizona Archaeological Society: Desert Foothills (Cave Creek) Chapter The Sears Point Archaeological District is an extensive complex site across terraces south of the Gila River and west of present day Gila Bend with over 2000 panels of petroglyphs. There are thousands of petroglyph elements and archaeological elements including geoglyphs, rock piles, rings, alignments, cleared areas, trails, and historic features from the 1800s as well as temporary habitation. Evelyn Billo, our presenter, studied Rock Art for over 30 years. Robert Mark, co-presenter, earned his Ph.D. in Geology from Stanford in 1972. The Community Building (Maitland Hall) The Good Shepherd of the Hills Episcopal Church, 6502 East Cave Creek Road, Cave Creek, Arizona azarchsoc.org/event-899951 October 8, 7:00 PM Homolovi Chapter; Arizona Archaeological Society Lecture Arizona engineer and author Charly Gullett presents growing evidence that prehistoric engineers in Chaco Canyon and their hereditary descendants were not simply building monumental architecture to pile rocks in interesting shapes. These ancient engineers were constructing an architectural metaphor of their worldview. This worldview, much like our own, contained a significant mathematical component—something we now call fractal geometry—a form of prehistoric ethnomathematics not mainstreamed in modern science until the 1970’s. As a result of this research, two entirely new and previously unknown mathematical concepts in geometry were uncovered and are directly attributable to Chacoan engineering. Supporting this amazing scientific achievement is a remarkable petroglyph that has led to modeling an instrument for the mathematical calculations necessary in the design and construction of this unique prehistoric architecture. A demonstration of this model will be included in the presentation and followed by a typically lively question and answer session with the speaker; his books on these topics will be available for purchase. Winslow Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center (Historic Lorenzo Hubbell Trading Post), 523 W. Second St, Winslow, Arizona (NO URL) October 9, 5:00 PM Athens County Historical Society & Museum Lecture How the “Hopewell” Built Their World” Dr. Paul Patton from Ohio University Landscape management and modification has been recognized as an important component of almost all human economies. Among the most conspicuous of these modifications in the Woodlands region of Eastern North America is the Hopewellian construction of large geometric earthworks and mound centers for ceremonial use. Despite the “grand scale” of landscape modification at these centers, forthcoming data from Middle Woodland period habitation sites indicate many of the populations associated with these earthworks were also practicing large-scale management and modification of the ecological zones surrounding their villages and hamlets in order to promote production and control over dietary and architectural resources. In this lecture, we will explore the nature of Hopewellian subsistence practices with particular attention to data from archaeological excavations in the Hocking Valley and the surrounding regions. This lecture will further consider what long-term effects these prehistoric practices may have had on the forests of southeastern Ohio. 65 N. Court Street, Athens, Ohio https://facebook/permalink.php?id=158930490799753&story_fbid=731085466917583 October 9, 7:30 PM Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Lecture A Possible Shamans Cache from CA-SNI-240 on San Nicolas Island Dr. Patricia Martz An unusual feature was discovered during recent test excavations at CA-SNI-240 on San Nicolas Island, California.The feature was layered with the upper layer containing an inverted black abalone shell with an asphaltum cake overlying selected artifacts, including a fishhook fragment, a killed tegula shell and several right femurs of Brandts cormorant. Directly beneath this was a second smaller black abalone covering selected artifacts, including net weights, a polished steatite cobble, a fossil moon shell, and several left femurs and metacarpals of sea otter. SNI-240 is located across the road from the ceremonial complex at CA-SNI-25. A radiocarbon date places the site within the same period of occupation. This find provides the basis for comparisons and additional insights regarding ritual behavior on the California Channel Islands. Patricia Martz is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at California State University, Los Angeles, where she taught from 1989 to 2007. Her research interests and concerns include prehistoric coastal and island adaptations and the preservation of our diminishing archaeological and cultural sites. She was Principal Investigator for the San Nicolas Island Archaeological Research Program for over 15 years. This Legacy grants funded program has provided archaeological field training and research and publication opportunities for numerous students. In addition to several lengthy reports for the Navy on file at the South Central Coastal Information Center at CSU Fullerton, publications documenting work at San Nicolas Island include “Prehistoric Settlement and Subsistence on San Nicolas Island” in Proceedings of the Sixth California Islands Symposium (2005); “Complexity and the Late Holocene Archaeology of San Nicolas Island” in Catalysts to Complexity Late Holocene Societies of the California Coast. (2002); and “The Maritime Hunter-Gatherers of San Nicolas Island, California: An Analogy to Rapa Nui?” in Proceedings of the Pacific 2000 Conference, Hawaii. Dr. Martz served as Prehistoric Archaeologist for the State Historical Resources Commission (SHRC) from 1990 to 1997. Under her leadership, the SHRC Curation Committee produced the State Curation Guidelines. Currently, she is founder and president of the California Cultural Resources Preservation Alliance, Inc., a nonprofit organization of archaeologists, advocationalists, historians, and Native Americans working together to promote the protection and preservation of cultural sites. Irvine Ranch Water District Community Room, 15500 Sand Canyon Avenue (between the I-5 and I-405) Irvine, California pcas.org/meetings.html October 10-11 The 18th Biennial Mogollon Archaeology Conference” Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology at New Mexico State University will be held at the Corbett Center Auditorium on the NMSU campus on Friday and Saturday Oct 10-11, 2014, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day. A reception for registration will be held at the NMSU Museum( Kent Hall) from 5-7 pm Thursday Oct. 9, 2014. The sessions will contain presentations by 40 leading archaeologists from Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Nevada, and Mexico on Mogollon Archaeology including Mimbres, Jornada, and Northern Chihuahua Areas. Although the papers are technical, they can be appreciated and enjoyed by avocational and armchair archaeologists as well. The conference website provides a preregistration form, preliminary program, maps, and other useful information. For more information contact: Dr. Lonnie C. Ludeman, Conference Chair e-mail: lcludeman@zianet Telephone: 575 522-1691 lonjul.net/mog2014/ October 10-13 Utah Rock Art Research Association Annual Symposium Kanab Middle School, 639 S. Cowboy Way Kanab, Utah utahrockart.org/symposium/index.html Saturday, October 11 Western National Parks Association and Archaeology Southwest Lecture Who Called Oro Valley Home in the Distant Past?” RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. Call Western National Parks Association at 520-622-6014 to reserve your seat. The National Parks Store 12880 N. Vistoso Village Dr. Tucson, Arizona archaeologysouthwest.org/pdf/WNPA_HOBO_ArchSW_Series_flyer_090914_2.pdf October 12, 2:00 PM The Amazing Newark Earthworks Brad Lepper, Curator of Archaeology The Newark Earthworks, built by the Hopewell culture 2,000 years ago, is the largest set of geometric earthworks ever built -- anywhere. The earthworks have such a sophisticated knowledge of geometry and astronomy built into them that you might think ancient aliens had a hand in the design of this monumental architectural masterpiece. You might think that, but youd be wrong. Come and find out just how smart Ohios ancient American Indians really were. Ohio History Center 800 E 17th Ave, Columbus, Ohio https://facebook/permalink.php?id=158930490799753&story_fbid=731085466917583 October 13, 11:00 AM Metropolitan Museum Gallery Talk Structuring the Mesoamerican City” Explore the rich history and culture of the Mesoamerican city, and uncover elements of its households, plazas, and temples. Taryn Matusik Gallery 534 (Vélez Blanco Patio) Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City bit.ly/1rztbJj October 13, 7:00 PM Agua Fria Chapter of the Arizona Archaeological Society A New Theory About Ceramic Sherds” Our speaker, Walter “Dutch” Duering, has been involved with Arizona Archaeology for over fifty years. He worked for the Arizona Department of Transportation for many years, participating in numerous archaeology projects throughout the state. He is currently an Associate Curator of Anthropology at the Arizona Museum of Natural History. West Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 5904 W. Cholla St., Glendale, Arizona (off 59th Avenue, south of Cactus). Contact Tim Cullison, 602-863-9744 tcullisonaz@gmail October 14, 7:00 PM Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse Lecture Who Was Here First? Exploring the Peopling of the Americas” Dr. Jessi Halligan, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology/Archaeology, UW-L; MVAC Research Associate For most of the twentieth century, scientists were sure they knew how and when the Americas were first colonized. We thought that the first people entered the New World during the last Ice Age (around 14,000 years ago) using the Bering Land Bridge that connected Asia to Alaska. They then followed mammoths and other big game into North America through an “ice-free corridor” between the enormous glaciers that covered most of Canada. Once they emerged south of the glaciers, they rapidly spread south and east to cover the entire continent by 13,000 years ago. Over the past decade, new research has provided challenges to every portion of this narrative, indicating that the story of the peopling of the Americas is both much more complex and much more interesting than we originally thought. This talk will present some of the archaeological data that have challenged this theory and will discuss why we still do not know exactly what happened, even after a century of research. University of Wisconsin La Crosse, Cartwright Center, Port OCall La Crosse, Wisconsin archaeological.org/events/17071 October 14, 7:15 PM The Santa Fe Archaeological Society Lecture How Oceanographic Effects Influenced the Prehistoric Colonization of Islands: a Pacific-Caribbean Comparison Scott Fitzpatrick Pecos Trail Cafe Santa Fe, New Mexico sfarchaeology.org/html/calendar.html October 14, 6:30 PM Friends of Tijeras Pueblo October Lecture Where on Earth Was the Coronado Expedition Going? Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint Virtually every person who signed up and spent money to outfit for the Coronado expedition of 1539-1542 was sure that they were bound for Cathay or some other equally marvelous part of the Far East, India as it was then known. Even after the expedition had been abandoned, former expeditionaries insisted that they had reached the verge of Greater India. It took another generation for general acceptance of the separateness of the American and Asian land masses. The Flints are historians and Spanish paleographers who have been engaged in research on the early Spanish colonial period in Mexico and the American Southwest for the last 35 years. Their ground-breaking documentary research leads the field of current Coronado Expedition research. The Flints have conducted extensive research in many archives in Mexico, Spain, and the United States. Both separately and as a collaborative team, they have published many articles and chapters and seven recent books on the Coronado entrada and its social, political, and intellectual context, its membership, and its consequences, as well as on the early Spanish colonial period more generally. Among those are Shirley Cushing Flint, No Mere Shadows: Portraits of Widowhood in Early Colonial Mexico and Richard Flint, No Settlement, No Conquest: A History of the Coronado Entrada. Sandia Ranger Station, Tijeras, New Mexico friendsoftijeraspueblo.org/welcomehomepage.html October 15, 8:00 PM Institute of Maya Studies Presentation The Holmul Kingdom and the Rise of a Maya Empire” with Dr. Francisco Estrada-Belli The discovery of a spectacularly decorated and inscribed building at Holmul recently brought this site to the forefront of Classic Maya history. These finds come to fill perhaps the largest gap in our knowledge of it, the sixth century CE. This was a time of great turmoil in the lowlands. It has been referred to as the Tikal Hiatus because of the dearth of historical texts at Tikal and elsewhere. New information is now revealing the existence of a royal lineage at Holmul with connections to both Tikal and the Kaan kingdom and the role it played during the initial phase of their long-lasting confrontation. Francisco Estrada-Belli is Adjunct Professor at Tulane University, Research Associate at American Museum of Natural History, and President of Maya Archaeology Initiative. The Institute of Maya Studies 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 October 15-18 The 34th Great Basin Anthropological Conference” The Riverside Hotel 2900 W Chinden Boulevard Boise, Idaho https://regonline/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1294217 October 16, 5:00 PM Athens County Historical Society & Museum Lecture Possible Astronomical Alignments of Ohio’s Earthworks” Tom O’Grady from Ohio University. Archaeologists have been studying the earthworks left on the Ohio landscape by the cultures known as the Adena, Hopewell and, Monongahela/Fort Ancient peoples for almost two centuries. But only in the last two decades have the works of the mound builders been surveyed by astronomers. The more they look, the more they find that much of the construction was based in detailed math and geometry and not a small part of these earthworks appear to have been built in alignment with significant rising and setting locations of the Sun and the Moon and other astronomical phenomena. 65 N. Court Street, Athens, Ohio https://facebook/permalink.php?id=158930490799753&story_fbid=731085466917583 October 16, 7:00 PM Central Gulf Coast Archaeological Society Lecture Taino vs. Spaniard: The First Act of European Discovery in the Americas Weedon Island Preserve Cultural and Natural History Center 1800 Weedon Dr NE St Petersburg, Florida archaeological.org/events/16775 October 17, 1:30 PM Museum of Fine Arts Houston Lecture “Fangs, Feathers, and Fins: Sacred Creatures in Ancient American Art” Presented by Chelsea Dacus, assistant curator, the Glassell Collections; the arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas; and Antiquities Since the dawn of time, humankind has been fascinated with the creatures that populate the world. In the Americas, wildlife such as the jaguar, harpy eagle, and howler monkey became religious symbols of divinity and rulership, playing significant roles in religion and society. Artworks were made in the images of these beings to bestow supernatural powers, to protect, and for worship. Other masterpieces were made to transform humans into other creatures or to show that transformation. Using examples from the exhibition Fangs, Feathers, and Fins: Sacred Creatures in Ancient American Art, Chelsea Dacus explores the meanings of different animals to the cultures of the ancient Americas and the ways these meanings were expressed through art, allowing a window into the beliefs and practices of cultures long vanished. Law Building, Lower Level 1001 Bissonnet Houston, Texas mfah.org/calendar/inside-mfah-fangs-feathers-and-fins-sacred-creatur/10167/ October 18, 2:00 PM AIA Lecture Mimbres, More than an Art Style” Stephen Lekson Mimbres is a world famous art tradition from the 11th century in southwestern New Mexico. Images on Mimbres pottery appear widely on modern decorative art; Mimbres pots are prized items in museums around the world. Yet there are no Mimbres national monuments or parks, nor is Mimbres widely known as an ancient society. New excavations at Woodrow Ruin and the Black Mountain site (by Lekson and his students) and other Mimbres sites show that Mimbres was a remarkable chapter in the history of the ancient Southwest. Mimbres towns, in their time, were larger than contemporary Anasazi/Pueblo sites to the north. And Mimbres towns were longer lived, with histories in centuries compared to Anasazi/Pueblo sites which lasted a generation or two. Mimbres was a player: first deeply engaged first with Hohokam, and later with Chaco, and finally as a major element in the rise of the great city of Casas Grandes. Many aspects of modern Pueblo Indian life and worldview began, apparently, in Mimbres. New data suggest a dynamic new history of Mimbres – the southwest’s most famous ancient art style, but least known major culture. The Autry’s Historic Southwest Museum, Mt. Washington Campus 234 Museum Drive Los Angeles, California archaeological.org/lectures/abstracts/16151 Saturday, October 18 Western National Parks Association and Archaeology Southwest Lecture Sonoran Desert Lifeways, Past and Present” The National Parks Store 12880 N. Vistoso Village Dr. Tucson, Arizona archaeologysouthwest.org/pdf/WNPA_HOBO_ArchSW_Series_flyer_090914_2.pdf October 18-19 The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory University of Vermont Burlington, Vermont uvm.edu/~anthro/NCAAE/index.php October 20, 7:30 PM Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society Lecture “Homes of Stone, Place of Dreams: The Ancient People of Flagstaff” Christian E Downum In this presentation I will tell of how ancient hunters first came to the Flagstaff area toward the end of the last Ice Age, then I will describe a much later time when descendants of these hunters began to farm and live in pit house and pueblo villages. My discussion focuses on the unique nature of the Flagstaff environment and the reasons why this area is considered by the modern Hopi to be Pasiwvi (“The Place of Deliberations”). The pueblo people of Flagstaff had their feet planted firmly in the earth that they farmed, but their social connections reached far across the real world and their ideas soared well into the cosmos. Flagstaff was, and is, a place of harsh physical realities but also a place of great beauty and meaning. University Medical Center’s Duval Auditorium, 1500 N Campbell Blvd, Tucson, Arizona az-arch-and-hist.org/2014/06/christian-e-downum-homes-of-stone-place-of-dreams-the-ancient-people-of-flagstaff/ October 20, 10:00 AM AIA Lecture Shells and Archaeology” Come learn how Prehistoric Native Americans used shells in their everyday lives. Shells were used as tools, construction materials, for food, and to create artwork and jewelery. Crushed shell was even used as temper for ceramic vessels. Shells excavated from archaeological sites have much to teach archaeologists! Florida Oceanographic Society 890 Northeast Ocean Boulevard Stuart, Florida archaeological.org/events/16577 October 20, 6:00 PM Native Seeds Lecture Our Sacred Maiz Is Our Mother: Indigeneity and Belonging in the Americas Dr. Roberto Cintli Rodriquez, University of Arizona Join us and learn about Dr. Roberto Cintli Rodriquezs new book, Our Sacred Maiz Is Our Mother: Indigeneity and Belonging in the Americas. He will discuss the long history of maíz cultivation and culture, its roots in Mesoamerica, and its living relationship to Indigenous peoples throughout the continent, including Mexicans and Central Americans now living in the United States. Conservation Center 3584 E. River Road Tucson, Arizona nativeseeds.org/46-community/301-october-nss-salon October 21, 6:00 PM AIA Lecture Recording Rock Art in the Southwest: Old Imagery, New Technology” ow do archaeologists record rock art without touching surfaces? Join Dr. Benjamin Alberti and Framingham State Honors students as they provide an overview of the archaic rock art from northern New Mexico studied by the Gorge Archaeological Project (Barnard College/Framingham State). Exciting new computational photographic imaging technologies that reveal further secrets behind the images will be demonstrated. Framingham State University 100 State Street Framingham, Massachusetts archaeological.org/events/16619 October 21, 5:30 PM Archaeology Café Phoenix Lecture Dr. Jerry Howard (Arizona Museum of Natural History) will explain how he became the leading expert on irrigation canals built and maintained by the Hohokam people of ancient Arizona Macayos Central 4001 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, Arizona archaeologysouthwest.org/event/archaeology-cafe-phoenix-how-hohokam-canals-changed-my-life/ October 21, 7:30 PM Albuquerque Archaeological Society Lecture Baker H. Morrow will discuss his book, Fray Alonso de Benavides’s History of New Mexico, 1630, which Mr. Morrow edited and translated. The most thorough account ever written of southwestern life in the early seventeenth century, Fray Alonso de Benavides, a Portuguese Franciscan, was the third head of the mission churches of New Mexico. In 1625, Father Benavides and his party traveled north from Mexico City to New Mexico. This riveting narrative provides portraits of the Pueblos, the Apaches, and the Navajos at a time of fundamental change. It also gives us the first full picture of European colonial life in the southern Rockies, the southwestern deserts and the Great Plains, along with an account of mission architecture and mission life and a unique evocation of faith in the wilderness. A practicing landscape architect in Albuquerque, Baker H. Morrow, FASLA, is founder and professor of practice in the landscape architecture program, School of Architecture, at the University of New Mexico. Mr. Morrow has been a principal of Morrow Reardon Wilkinson Miller, Ltd, Landscape Architects, for the past 41 years. His office has earned over 125 design awards and citations since 1980. In 2001, Mr. Morrow became the first native New Mexican to be elected a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Albuquerque Museum of Art and History 2000 Mountain Road NW Albuquerque Museum of Art and History 2000 Mountain Road NW Albuquerque, New Mexico abqarchaeology.org/news.shtml October 23, 7:00 PM Arizona Archaeological Society: Verde Valley Chapter Lecture Men and women in the Hohokam Economy Sophie Kelly, PhD., RPA (Registered Professional Archaeologist) Cultural Resources Manager, Arizona State Parks, Arizona Site Stewardship Coordinator (Dr. Kelly will present on changes in the roles of men and women in the Hohokam economy during the transition between in the Pre-Classic and Classic Period, circa 1100 AD). Sedona Public Library, 3250 White Bear Road Sedona, Arizona azarchsoc.org/VerdeValley October 24-26 5th Annual South-Central Conference on Mesoamerica Tulane University The conference provides a venue for scholars, students, and the interested public from across the south-central U.S. to share ideas, information, and interpretations. The conference is free and open to the public, and we hope you will join us. This year, the meetings will feature Dr. John Watanabe as keynote speaker, a reception after the keynote, and papers presented by scholars and students of Mesoamerica. The huge schedule here; southcentralmeso.org/PreliminarySchedule_websiteversion.pdf Lavin Bernick Center (LBC) on Tulanes campus New Orleans, Louisiana southcentralmeso.org/directions.html October 24-26 Texas Archaeological Society Annual Meeting San Marcos, Texas txarch.org/Activities/AnnualMeeting/am2014/index.php October 24-26 Arizona Archaeological Society Annual Meeting “Avocational Archaeology in Arizona: Fifty Years of Excellence The Theater, Arizona Museum of Natural History, 53 N. MacDonald, Mesa, Arizona azarchsoc.org/page-1862680 October 24, 1:00 PM School of Human Evolution and Social Change Lecture The Archaeology of Social Inequality: Aztec Case Studies” SHESC 350B Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona https://asuevents.asu.edu/archaeology-social-inequality-aztec-case-studies October 25, 1:30 PM Bowers Museum Lecture Digging for Knowledge: Discovering the Ancient Maya Kingdom of El Zotz, Guatemala Dr. Thomas G. Garrison, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, USC, discusses recent discoveries at the site of El Zotz, Guatemala. Spectacular excavation of preserved Early Classic (AD 300-600) temples provide key insights into the origins of Maya kingship. By connecting iconography to royal ancestors, the sacred landscape, and the roles of the ruler, the first kings of El Zotz ensured respect from foreign dignitaries as well as the local populace. Bowers Museum Kershaw Auditorium 20th & Main Streets Santa Ana, California bit.ly/1sAHSOk Saturday, October 25 Western National Parks Association and Archaeology Southwest Lecture Why the Past Matters” The National Parks Store 12880 N. Vistoso Village Dr. Tucson, Arizona archaeologysouthwest.org/pdf/WNPA_HOBO_ArchSW_Series_flyer_090914_2.pdf October 27, 1:00 PM-5:00 PM Mesoamerica Network Symposium Janine Gasco (CSU-DH), Anthropogenic Landscapes of Soconusco, Chiapas, Past and Present Richard Lesure (UCLA), The Formative of Central Tlaxcala from a Multiscalar Perspective Susan Schroeder (Emerita, Tulane University), Remembering Tlacaelel: A Work in Progress Intermission Followed by reception and celebration to honor Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett, the Network’s “founding mother.” Story-telling, roasting, and tales from the field, hosted by Bruce Love. contact phone310-794-4837 UCLA, Fowler Museum A139 Los Angeles, California ioa.ucla.edu/news-events/events-calendar/mesoamerica-network October 29, 7:00 PM Baton Rouge Chapter, Louisiana Archaeological Society Lecture Archaeological Analysis of Submerged Sites on the Gulf of Mexico Continental Shelf Baton Rouge Chapter, Louisiana Archaeological Society Bluebonnet Regional Branch Library 9200 Bluebonnet Blvd. Baton Rouge, Louisiana archaeological.org/events/16935 October 30, 12:00 PM Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Lecture The Four-Selvaged Peruvian Cloth: Ancient Threads/New Directions” Elana Phipps, President, Textile Society of America Fowler Museum Building, Room A222 UCLA Los Angeles, California ioa.ucla.edu/news-events/events-calendar/pizza-talk-the-four-selvaged-peruvian-cloth-ancient-threads-new-directions October 30, 5:00 PM Athens County Historical Society & Museum Lecture Hopewell Settlement Patterns Around Circleville, Ohio” Dr. Jerrel Anderson from Blennerhassett Museum of Natural history, Parkersburg, WV. The Circleville Earthwork was a major Ohio geometric work separated by 19 miles from the complex of earthworks in Ross County. The Circleville area is still relatively un-urbanized and ideal for finding Hopewell habitation sites. Many habitation sites have been identified and their locations and relationship with the major Circleville Work and some minor area earthworks will be discussed. Habitation sites were found both on the Scioto River flood plains and on higher terraces along streams. There is evidence to suggest that both types of sites were seasonally occupied. The evidence also suggests a large Hopewell population density associated with the Circleville area of Pickaway County, Ohio. Dr. Jerrel Anderson from Blennerhassett Museum of Natural history, Parkersburg, WV. 65 N. Court Street, Athens, Ohio https://facebook/permalink.php?id=158930490799753&story_fbid=731085466917583 Mike Ruggeris Ancient America Museum Exhibitions, Conferences and Lectures bit.ly/11aKJzE
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