January Ancient America Events

Thursday, January 11, 7:30 pm.
"The Role of Salmon Pueblo in the Chacoan and post-Chacoan Worlds of
the Middle San Juan Region"
Pueblo Grande Museum,
4619 E. Washington St.,
Phoenix, Arizona,
http://www.cdarc.org/pages/articles.php?req=read&article_id97


Jan. 12, 7:30 pm.
Houston Archaeological Society Lecture
"The Brushy Creek Clovis Site."
M.D. Anderson Hall (Building 20)
3900 Mt. Vernon
University of St. Thomas campus
http://www.txarch.org/activities/calendar.html


January 12-January 14, 2007
2007 Braunstein Symposium
"Figurines of Ancient Mesoamerica: Power and Guidance"
UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas,
Nevada This will be the second annual symposium of what is hoped to
be a long tradition of bringing scholars together to discuss and
discover selected topics of ancient Mesoamerican figurines.

Papers to be presented include:

Understanding the Use of Preclassic Articulated Pottery Figurines
from the Southern Isthmus of Tehuantepec - Violeta Vázquez Campa

Setting the Tone: Classic Maya Figurines in Performance and Music-
making - Christina Halperin

With Hands and Molds: An Analysis of the Technology of Figurines -
Matilde Ivic de Monterroso

Pots with Faces: A Comparative Analysis of Ceramic Vessels with Human
Faces from Eastern Guerrero - Mary E. Pye and Gerardo Gutierrez

Along the Rivers and through the Woods: Cancuén's Figural Contacts -
Erin Sears

The symposium is open to scholars and graduate students. Registration
for this event is limited, and will be handled on a first come, first
served basis.
The symposium is open to scholars and graduate students. Registration
for this event is limited, and will be handled on a first come, first
served basis.
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History, UNLV 4505 Maryland Pkwy
Box 454012
Las Vegas, NV 89154-4012
Phone: (702) 895-1402
http://hrcweb.nevada.edu/ museum/


January 13, 1:30 PM
Pre-Columbian Society of the University of Pennsylvania Museum Lecture
"From Site Q to Sak Nikte': Chronicle of a 40-year Classic Maya
Mystery"
About 40 years ago, some exquisite Classic Maya art pieces flooded
the antiquities market from an unknown site. A Yale graduate student,
Peter Mathews, came to believe that these monuments came from an as
yet unknown ancient Classic Maya city. He coined the moniker Site Q,
an abbreviation for the Spanish phrase ¿sitio que?, or which site?
Thus began a decades long quest for the origin of these works of art
and for what else such a site could divulge. Eventually, scholars
eventually learned that Site Q was called anciently called Sak
Nikte', or White Plumerà a Flower, but its location remained a
mystery. Compelled by the mystery, they named the site La Corona for
the crown-like shape of one of its main architectural complexes and
suggested that La Corona was Site Q. In 2005, during a second
archaeological expedition to La Corona, Dr. Canuto confirmed that La
Corona was indeed Site Q by finding a perfectly preserved monument
bearing more than 140 carved hieroglyphs identical to those of Site
Q. He will address his findings in his January talk.
University of Pennsylvania Museum
3260 South Street
Philadelphia, PA
http://www.precolumbian.org/


Saturday, January 13, 1:15 PM
Gallery talk
"Animals and plants of the Ancient Mexicans"
Room 27
British Museum
London, England
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/whatson/events/index.html


Sunday, January 14, 2:00 PM
"Dickson Mounds: New Perspectives on the Rise of Mississippian on the
Cahokia Frontier"
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
Collinsville, Illinois
Interpretive Center Auditorium.
www.cahokiamounds.com


January 17, 8:00-9:30 pm
Institute of Maya Studies Lecture
"The Inka Trail to Machu Picchu: A Botanist's Perspective" Dr. Lauren
Raz,
Curator of the Herbarium at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. Dr.
Lauren Raz's trip to the Inka trail was a fulfillment of a lifelong
dream, not a formal research expedition. In June of 2005, Lauren
hiked a portion of the Inka Trail with some colleagues from the New
York Botanical
Garden. This program will cover the most well known stretch of the
trail from the Sacred Valley, outside of Cuzco, to Machu Picchu.
Along this route
are hundreds of Inka sites, each one a window into Inka agricultural
and ceremonial life, and of these, Machu Picchu is the largest and
most well studied. The trail is also fascinating from a natural
history perspective
because it traverses several altitudinal zones, representing
different forest types and spectacular Andean flora.
Miami Museum of Science,
3280 South Miami Avenue,
across from Vizcaya,
Maya Hotline: 305-235-1192
http://mayastudies.org


January 18, 5:00 PM
"Xunantunich's Royal Residence: Shifting Power and Collapse of an
Ancient Maya City"
(Sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center and the Mellon Foundation)
Stanford Archaeological Center
Building 500,
just off Stanford's Main Quad.
http://archaeology.stanford.edu/lectures.html


Friday, January 19, TBA
"Obsidian as a Commodity: It's Importance, Production, and Exchange
in Ancient Mesoamerica"
University of Kentucky
Department of Anthropology
211 Lafferty Hall
Lexington, KY
http://www.as.uky.edu/anthropology/museum%20of%20anthropology.htm


Saturday, January 20, 1:15 PM
Gallery talk
"Native American Sacred Landscapes"
Room 26
British Museum
London, England
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/whatson/events/index.html


January 24, 8:00-9:30 pm
Institute of Maya Studies Lecture
"Comparative Architecture Part I: Materials and Methods – A
comparison of
building construction techniques through the ages and different
Civilizations"
Part I will emphasize wood and stone technology, properties and
assemblies, from wood beams and dry megalithic stone construction to
the arches, vaults and domes of the Egyptians and Minoans through the
Maya and
up to Gothic architecture. With an emphasis on material properties
Miami Museum of Science,
3280 South Miami Avenue,
across from Vizcaya,
Maya Hotline: 305-235-1192
http://mayastudies.org


January 28, 11:00 AM
"A Precolumbian Bestiary: Animal Imagery in the Ancient Americas"
Explores how different cultures of the ancient Americas used animal
imagery, including depictions of powerful predators, on objects
associated with every aspect of their lives.
Gallery Talk Stanchion,
Great Hall
Metropolitan Museum
New York
http://www.metmuseum.org/search/iquery.asp



Mike Ruggeri's Ancient America Museum Exhibitions, Conferences and
Lectures
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmerica/index.html





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