February Events
Friday, February 2nd, 7:00 PM
PreColumbian Society of Washington DC Lecture "Nahuatl Potsherds, Or,
The Meanings of Ruined Things for Central Mexicans and Europeans"
Sumner School,
1201 17th Street,NW,
Washington, DC.
The school is at 17th and M Streets, across the street from National
Geographic. Metro: Farragut North (on the red line) and Farragut West
(on the Blue/Orange line) http://www.pcswdc.org/
February 2-4, 2007
The 4th Annual Tulane Maya Symposium and Workshop "Murals and Painted
Texts by Maya Ah Tz'ibob" This year's symposium offers a glimpse of Maya
life through images and hieroglyphic texts painted by Maya scribes
called ah tz'ibob. Murals from the northern Maya area will be the focus
of discussions by archaeologists, epigraphers, and art historians, with
additional examples from elsewhere in the Maya world. We will explore
the earliest murals, recently discovered at Late Preclassic San Bartolo,
to the latest pre-Columbian examples from the Late Postclassic sites of
Mayapán and Tulum.
Friday, February 2, 7:00-8:00 PM
Keynote Address by Karl Taube:
"Windows to Another World: Murals of Ancient Mesoamerica." Free and open
to the public.
This talk will be held in the Freeman Auditorium on Tulane's campus. Our
keynote speaker, Dr. Karl Taube, will discuss his research on painted
imagery from the Preclassic to Postclassic Maya lowlands. Saturday,
February 3
All lectures on Saturday, February 3
will be held in the Freeman Auditorium.
9:00-9:15 AM; Preliminary remarks
9:15-10:00; Prehispanic Maya Paintings from the Architecture of the
Yucatán Peninsula: A Survey
Merideth Paxton
10:00-10:45; Murals and Painted Texts from Ek' Balam Alfonso Lacadena,
Leticia Vargas, and Víctor Castillo 10:45-11:00 REFRESHMENT BREAK
11:00-11:45; Mural Painting at Chichén Itzá
Virginia Miller
11:45-12:30 PM; Postclassic Murals at Mayapán: A Window into the
Mesoamerican World View
Susan Milbrath and Carlos Peraza Lope
12:30-2:00LUNCH
2:00-2:45;
Acts of Creation and Kingship: The Murals of San Bartolo, Guatemala
William Saturno
2:45-3:30; Early Classic Maya Paintings from the Holmul Region and the
Maya-
Teotihuacan Affair
Francisco Estrada-Belli
3:30-3:45 REFRESHMENt
BREAK
3:45-4:30; Conserving the Painted History of Chamá: Image, Text, and
Politics in Maya Polychrome Pottery
Elin Danien, Lynn Grant, and Gene Ware
4:30-5:00; DISCUSSION
Sunday, February 4
9:00-12:00 PM We welcome you to join the presenters on Sunday morning as
they gather for an informal discussion of their research as it relates
to the symposium theme.
STONE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Tulane University
100 Jones Hall
New Orleans LA 70118
ph: (504) 865-5164
rtsclas@tulane.edu
Saturday, February 3, 1:15 PM
Gallery talk
"Warriors and Weapons in Ancient Mexico" Room 27
British Museum
London, England
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/whatson/events/index.html
February 5, 6:00 PM
Soutnwest Seminars Ancient Sites and Ancient Stories Lecture "Unraveling
Historical Myths: The View from San Marcos Pueblo" Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://SouthwestSeminars.org
Tuesday, February 6th, 3:30-5:00pm
C.J. MacCurdy Professor of Anthropology, Yale University
"Debating Chavín: A Critical Analysis of the Recent Excavations at
Chavín de Huántar, Peru."
Dr. Burger is a scholar in Pre-Columbian Peruvian studies, specializing
in the Formative Period (1800-200 BCE) and Chavin Horizon for over 20
years. He is the author of the most comprehensive volume to date on this
period of pre-Hispanic Peru: Chavin and the Origins of Andean
Civilization, Thames and Hudson (1992). His field excavations at sites
such as Chavín de Huántar and Huaricoto in the highlands, and Mina
Perdida, Cardal, and Manchay Bajo on the coast have fundamentally
advanced our understanding of Formative Period development and
interaction. Dr. Burger has further been involved in extensive research
on the studies of early Andean trade goods, material exchange, and food
consumption. In addition, Dr. Burger is Curator of the Peabody Museum of
Natural History at Yale University, which recently sponsored "Machu
Picchu: Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas," an exhibition highlighting
Hiram Bingham's 1912 expedition to this renowned site.
The University of Texas at Austin
ART 1.102
Wednesday, February 7, 2007, 6:30 PM
"From Tenochtitlán to Mexico City: The Creation, Destruction, and Re-
creation of a Great American City"
Thomas B. F. Cummins, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-
Columbian and Colonial Art
Single lecture $18; $12 for Members.
Registration is required; please call 617-495-4544. Harvard Universtiy
Museums
Norton Lecture Hall
Fogg Museum
Cambridge, MASS.
Harvard University Art Museums Fall http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/
events/lectureseries.html
Wednesday, February 7, 5:30 PM
Tom Dillehay, Vanderbilt University
"Living Monuments: Aesthetics and Spiritualism of Chilean Araucanian
Landscapes"
Illustrated
Tom Dillehay, Vanderbilt University
ICC Auditorium
Georgetown University
Washington DC
http://www.doaks.org/publiclectures.html
Wednesday, February 7, 7:30pm to 9:00pm "New-Found Solar Alignment
Petroglyph Site In South Mountain Park"
Community Room
Pueblo Grande Museum
Phoenix, Arizona
www.pueblogrande.org
February 8, 6:30-9:00 PM
Smithsonian Resident Associate Program Seminar "Guatemala's Ancient
World of the Maya"
Michael Coe, Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of Anthropology, emeritus, at
Yale University Location: TBA-Washington, DC Home to the Maya
civilization, Guatemala is a center of stunning archaeological sites.
Archaeologist Michael Coe explores astounding ruins and unveils the
latest discoveries. Along the way, he enters the political and religious
world of the ancient Maya as revealed through their art and hieroglyphic
inscriptions. Coe begins by focusing on pre-Classic sites dating to the
dawn of Maya civilization (400 B.C.ˆ200 A.D.), including Kaminaljuyu,
the remote site of San Bartoloˆwhose wall murals tell the story of the
birth and death of the maize godˆand El Mirador, an enormous jungle
city with what is probably the world's largest pyramid. He then moves to
the great cities of the Classic period (200 A.D.ˆ900 A.D.), including
Tikal, a ceremonial metropolis spread over 25 square miles, and Piedras
Negras, a city on the River of Ruins (the Usumacinta River). Finally,
Coe discusses the likely reasons for the great collapse of the Classic
civilization.
Advance registration is required.
http://residentassociates.org/
(202) 357-3030 or (202) 252-0012
Email: CustomerService@ResidentAssociates.org
February 8, 7:30 PM
Pacific Coast Archaeology Society
"Between the Wetlands and the Coastal Prairie - 8,000 Years of
Prehistory in West Los Angeles"
Irvine Ranch Water District,
15600 Sand Canyon Avenue
(between the I-5 and I-405, next to the Post Office) Irvine, Calif.
http://www.pcas.org/meetings.html
February 10, 1:30 pm
Pre-Columbian Society of University of Pennsylvania "Xunantunich's Royal
Residence: Shifting Power and the Collapse." Richard Leventhal, PhD,
University of Pennsylvania Museum, Curator, American Sector: Excavations
in the 1990s of the ancient Maya city of Xunantunich in Belize revealed
new information about its Royal Residence during the Late Classic.
Large-scale shifts of the location of the royal residence within the
Xunantunich city center provide a picture of the shifting power
structure at the site and throughout the Maya lowlands during a time
period just prior to and leading into the collapse. In addition,
small-scale changes in the nature and form of the royal residence
provide us with a detailed picture of the shifting relationship between
the elite and the residents of Xunantunich, which helps us to understand
the nature of the city as well as the process of collapse leading to the
final abandonment of the southern Maya lowlands.
University of Pennsylvania Museum
3260 South Street
Room 345
Philadelphia, PA
http://www.precolumbian.org/
Saturday, February 10
The East Texas Archeological Conference
Robert R. Muntz Library
University of Texas at Tyler Campus Tyler, Texas.
http://www.txarch.org/activities/calendar.html
February 10 and 11, 2007
The 35th Annual Midwest Conference on
Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory at SIUC, IL
Childhood Health and Morbidity in Ancient Chilean Cultural Groups: A
Preagricultural vs. Agricultural Comparison From Yaya-Mama to Tiwanaku:
Changing Materiality, Temporality, and Religious Ideology in altiplano
carved monolith traditions
What was the Tiwanaku Phenomenon? - Ceremonial Architecture at Palermo,
Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru
Post-Tiwanaku Ethnogenesis in the Coastal Moquegua Valley, Peru
The Ushnu of Viña del Cerro as a Site for Astronomical Observation and
Cult to Mountains in Atacama
Two calendars on Chuquibamba textiles
The Hospital of San Andrés (Lima, Peru) and the search for the Royal
Mummies of the Incas
The Yanaconas of Potosí: A Social Analysis of Labor in the Toledan
Visita
Environmental Coring in SW Guayas Province, Ecuador: Dating of Sequences
and Preliminary Results
Stone Structures and Temporary Encampments: Subsistence Patterns and
Residential Architecture at the Late Archaic Site of Caballete, Rio
Fortaleza, Perú
Episodes of War in the Early Horizon and Late Intermediate Period: New
Dates from the Fortress of Acaray, Huaura Valley, Peru
Warfare and Defensive Architecture on the Inca Frontier in Northern
Ecuador
Old Problems and New Issues and Evidence for the Archaeology of the
Central Coast: The Case of Cajamarquilla
Ideology and the Development of Social Power at the Site of Panquilma,
Peruvian Central Coast
Ceramic Traditions and Ethnohistorical Boundaries. Do they match? A case
from Conchucos, Ancash, Peru
Rethinking Funerary Analysis in Andean Archaeology: Perspective from
Sicán and Pachacamac
Archaeological Applications of a Portable XRF Spectrometer at Huaca
Loro, Peru: Results and Implications
Ceramic Production and State Control: A View from a Hinterland Middle
Sican Ceramic Workshop
Bioarchaeological Impacts of European Conquest in Peru: Health,
Identity, and Ethnogenesis in the Lambayeque Valley (AD 1536-1750)
Lawson Auditorium 161
Southern Illinois University
Carbonale, Illinois
http://www.pachacamac.net/midwest/
Sunday, February 11, 2:00 PM
"Wickliffe Mounds: A Mississippian Mound Center in Western Kentucky"
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
Collinsville, Illinois
Interpretive Center Auditorium.
www.cahokiamounds.com
February 12, 6:00 PM
Soutnwest Seminars Ancient Sites and Ancient Stories Lecture "Living in
the Shadow of Chaco"
Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://SouthwestSeminars.org
February 14-17, 2007
95th College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference New York
"Drawing Blood: Images of Sacrifice and Identity in the Americas, Pre-
Hispanic to Contemporary"
The image of blood evokes ideas of birth, death, regeneration,
fertility, purification, suffering and redemption. Consequently, blood
plays an integral role in human creative expression. In the Americas,
blood has a long visual history spanning the pre-Hispanic, Viceregal,
and Modern periods up to the present day. This session seeks to explore
the role of blood as an expression of sacrifice and identity in the
pictorial history of the Americas, past and present. Contact: Juliet
Wiersema Department of Art History and Archaeology University of
Maryland Email: jbwier@umd.edu or
Pamela Huckins
Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Email: pamela.huckins@nyu.edu
Friday, February 16, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA
Public Lecture Series
" The Great Caral Controversy: The Oldest City in the New World?"
Professor Michael Moseley
University of Florida
Author of "Inkas and their Ancestors"
Harry and Yvonne Lenart Auditorium
Fowler Building, UCLA
www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ioa
February 19, 6:00 PM
Southwest Seminars Ancient Sites and Ancient Stories Lecture
"Comancitos: Indo-Hispano Rituals of
Captivity and Redemption"
Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://SouthwestSeminars.org
February 21, 8:00-9:30 PM
Institute of Maya Studies Lecture
"Climate and the Collapse of Maya Civilization" Larry C. Peterson,
Professor, Acting Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Rosenstiel School
of Marine & Atmospheric Science, Marine Geology and Geophysics,
University of
Miami.
This program will summarize results of a study of undisturbed marine
sediments from the anoxic Cariaco Basin in the southern Caribbean Sea.
Changes in the chemical composition of these sediments reflect
variations in river input and the hydrological cycle over northern
tropical South America.
A seasonally resolved record of river input and regional rainfall shows
that
the collapse of Maya civilization in the Terminal Classic Period
occurred
during an extended regional dry period, punctuated by more intense
multiyear
droughts centered at approximately 810, 860, and 910 AD. These new data
suggest that a century-scale decline in rainfall put a general strain on
resources in the region, which was then exacerbated by more severe
drought
events, contributing to the social stresses that led to the Maya demise.
Miami Museum of Science,
3280 South Miami Avenue,
across from Vizcaya,
Maya Hotline: 305-235-1192
http://mayastudies.org
Thursday, Feb. 22, 5:00 p.m
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA LECTURE "Memory and Materiality at
Chaco Canyon: Ritual Practice and the History of Great Houses" Dr.
Barbara Mills, Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Acting Head, Department
of Near Eastern
Studies, U. of Arizona
Tucson Society
Chavez Building Rm 110
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
http://www.ioa.ucla.edu/WebCalendar/view_entry.php?id=117&date=20070216
Thursday, February 22, 7:30 p.m.
The Museum of Anthropology at Wake Forest University in Winston- Salem,
NC
"/Apocalypto: /Fact and Fantasy in Mel Gibson's Maya World," a panel
discussion www.wfu.edu/moa
February 26, 6:00 PM
Soutnwest Seminars Ancient Sites and Ancient Stories Lecture "Dreams,
Myths and a World View"
Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://SouthwestSeminars.org
Tuesday, February 27, 8:00 PM
AIA Lecture
"In the Shadow of the Sleeping Giant: Discovering Ancient Maya
Communities Along the Sibun River"
Pennsylvania State University,
Carpenter Hall, Room 107
University Park, PENN.
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10124&society_code=all
February 28, 5:30 pm
Gordon R. Willey Lecture
"The Newly-Discovered Monumental Carved Monolith at the Aztec Great
Temple, and the Tomb of the Emperor Ahuizotl" Leonardo López Luján,
Senior Researcher and Professor of Archaeology at Museo del Templo
Mayor,
Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology Geological Lecture Hall
11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
within the Harvard campus.
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/new.html
February 28, 8:00-9:30 PM
Institute of Maya Studies Lecture
"Comparative Architecture Part II: Sites and Sights" Joaquín J.
Rodriguez III, P.E., SECB, Consulting Structural Engineer, is an elected
member of the IMS Board of Directors, having served as president from
2002 through 2005.
This program features a comparison of building construction techniques
through the ages and different civilizations. Part II will emphasize
examples of similar techniques from diverse cultures ˆ from the
Egyptians
and the Persians, up through Gothic architecture, to that of the Maya
and
the Inka.
Miami Museum of Science,
3280 South Miami Avenue
across from Vizcaya
Maya Hotline: 305-235-1192
http://mayastudies.org
Wednesday, February 28, 7:30 PM
AIA Lecture
"In the Shadow of the Sleeping Giant: Discovering Ancient Maya
Communities Along the Sibun River"
Dickinson College,
Weiss Hall, Room 235
Chambersberg, PENN.
maggidic@dickinson.edu
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10124&society_code=all
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News and Links
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/MIKERUGGERISANCIENT
Mike Ruggeri's Maya Archaeology News and Links
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/MIkeRuggerisMaya
MIKE RUGGERI'S MOUND BUILDERS/ ANCIENT SOUTHWEST NEWS AND LINKS
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/MIKERUGGERISMOUND
Ancient America, Mesoamerica and Andean Museum Exhibitions, Lectures and
Conferences
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmerica
Mike Ruggeri's Andean Archaeology News and Links
http://community.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/MikeRuggerisAndean
PreColumbian Society of Washington DC Lecture "Nahuatl Potsherds, Or,
The Meanings of Ruined Things for Central Mexicans and Europeans"
Sumner School,
1201 17th Street,NW,
Washington, DC.
The school is at 17th and M Streets, across the street from National
Geographic. Metro: Farragut North (on the red line) and Farragut West
(on the Blue/Orange line) http://www.pcswdc.org/
February 2-4, 2007
The 4th Annual Tulane Maya Symposium and Workshop "Murals and Painted
Texts by Maya Ah Tz'ibob" This year's symposium offers a glimpse of Maya
life through images and hieroglyphic texts painted by Maya scribes
called ah tz'ibob. Murals from the northern Maya area will be the focus
of discussions by archaeologists, epigraphers, and art historians, with
additional examples from elsewhere in the Maya world. We will explore
the earliest murals, recently discovered at Late Preclassic San Bartolo,
to the latest pre-Columbian examples from the Late Postclassic sites of
Mayapán and Tulum.
Friday, February 2, 7:00-8:00 PM
Keynote Address by Karl Taube:
"Windows to Another World: Murals of Ancient Mesoamerica." Free and open
to the public.
This talk will be held in the Freeman Auditorium on Tulane's campus. Our
keynote speaker, Dr. Karl Taube, will discuss his research on painted
imagery from the Preclassic to Postclassic Maya lowlands. Saturday,
February 3
All lectures on Saturday, February 3
will be held in the Freeman Auditorium.
9:00-9:15 AM; Preliminary remarks
9:15-10:00; Prehispanic Maya Paintings from the Architecture of the
Yucatán Peninsula: A Survey
Merideth Paxton
10:00-10:45; Murals and Painted Texts from Ek' Balam Alfonso Lacadena,
Leticia Vargas, and Víctor Castillo 10:45-11:00 REFRESHMENT BREAK
11:00-11:45; Mural Painting at Chichén Itzá
Virginia Miller
11:45-12:30 PM; Postclassic Murals at Mayapán: A Window into the
Mesoamerican World View
Susan Milbrath and Carlos Peraza Lope
12:30-2:00LUNCH
2:00-2:45;
Acts of Creation and Kingship: The Murals of San Bartolo, Guatemala
William Saturno
2:45-3:30; Early Classic Maya Paintings from the Holmul Region and the
Maya-
Teotihuacan Affair
Francisco Estrada-Belli
3:30-3:45 REFRESHMENt
BREAK
3:45-4:30; Conserving the Painted History of Chamá: Image, Text, and
Politics in Maya Polychrome Pottery
Elin Danien, Lynn Grant, and Gene Ware
4:30-5:00; DISCUSSION
Sunday, February 4
9:00-12:00 PM We welcome you to join the presenters on Sunday morning as
they gather for an informal discussion of their research as it relates
to the symposium theme.
STONE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Tulane University
100 Jones Hall
New Orleans LA 70118
ph: (504) 865-5164
rtsclas@tulane.edu
Saturday, February 3, 1:15 PM
Gallery talk
"Warriors and Weapons in Ancient Mexico" Room 27
British Museum
London, England
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/whatson/events/index.html
February 5, 6:00 PM
Soutnwest Seminars Ancient Sites and Ancient Stories Lecture "Unraveling
Historical Myths: The View from San Marcos Pueblo" Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://SouthwestSeminars.org
Tuesday, February 6th, 3:30-5:00pm
C.J. MacCurdy Professor of Anthropology, Yale University
"Debating Chavín: A Critical Analysis of the Recent Excavations at
Chavín de Huántar, Peru."
Dr. Burger is a scholar in Pre-Columbian Peruvian studies, specializing
in the Formative Period (1800-200 BCE) and Chavin Horizon for over 20
years. He is the author of the most comprehensive volume to date on this
period of pre-Hispanic Peru: Chavin and the Origins of Andean
Civilization, Thames and Hudson (1992). His field excavations at sites
such as Chavín de Huántar and Huaricoto in the highlands, and Mina
Perdida, Cardal, and Manchay Bajo on the coast have fundamentally
advanced our understanding of Formative Period development and
interaction. Dr. Burger has further been involved in extensive research
on the studies of early Andean trade goods, material exchange, and food
consumption. In addition, Dr. Burger is Curator of the Peabody Museum of
Natural History at Yale University, which recently sponsored "Machu
Picchu: Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas," an exhibition highlighting
Hiram Bingham's 1912 expedition to this renowned site.
The University of Texas at Austin
ART 1.102
Wednesday, February 7, 2007, 6:30 PM
"From Tenochtitlán to Mexico City: The Creation, Destruction, and Re-
creation of a Great American City"
Thomas B. F. Cummins, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-
Columbian and Colonial Art
Single lecture $18; $12 for Members.
Registration is required; please call 617-495-4544. Harvard Universtiy
Museums
Norton Lecture Hall
Fogg Museum
Cambridge, MASS.
Harvard University Art Museums Fall http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/
events/lectureseries.html
Wednesday, February 7, 5:30 PM
Tom Dillehay, Vanderbilt University
"Living Monuments: Aesthetics and Spiritualism of Chilean Araucanian
Landscapes"
Illustrated
Tom Dillehay, Vanderbilt University
ICC Auditorium
Georgetown University
Washington DC
http://www.doaks.org/publiclectures.html
Wednesday, February 7, 7:30pm to 9:00pm "New-Found Solar Alignment
Petroglyph Site In South Mountain Park"
Community Room
Pueblo Grande Museum
Phoenix, Arizona
www.pueblogrande.org
February 8, 6:30-9:00 PM
Smithsonian Resident Associate Program Seminar "Guatemala's Ancient
World of the Maya"
Michael Coe, Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of Anthropology, emeritus, at
Yale University Location: TBA-Washington, DC Home to the Maya
civilization, Guatemala is a center of stunning archaeological sites.
Archaeologist Michael Coe explores astounding ruins and unveils the
latest discoveries. Along the way, he enters the political and religious
world of the ancient Maya as revealed through their art and hieroglyphic
inscriptions. Coe begins by focusing on pre-Classic sites dating to the
dawn of Maya civilization (400 B.C.ˆ200 A.D.), including Kaminaljuyu,
the remote site of San Bartoloˆwhose wall murals tell the story of the
birth and death of the maize godˆand El Mirador, an enormous jungle
city with what is probably the world's largest pyramid. He then moves to
the great cities of the Classic period (200 A.D.ˆ900 A.D.), including
Tikal, a ceremonial metropolis spread over 25 square miles, and Piedras
Negras, a city on the River of Ruins (the Usumacinta River). Finally,
Coe discusses the likely reasons for the great collapse of the Classic
civilization.
Advance registration is required.
http://residentassociates.org/
(202) 357-3030 or (202) 252-0012
Email: CustomerService@ResidentAssociates.org
February 8, 7:30 PM
Pacific Coast Archaeology Society
"Between the Wetlands and the Coastal Prairie - 8,000 Years of
Prehistory in West Los Angeles"
Irvine Ranch Water District,
15600 Sand Canyon Avenue
(between the I-5 and I-405, next to the Post Office) Irvine, Calif.
http://www.pcas.org/meetings.html
February 10, 1:30 pm
Pre-Columbian Society of University of Pennsylvania "Xunantunich's Royal
Residence: Shifting Power and the Collapse." Richard Leventhal, PhD,
University of Pennsylvania Museum, Curator, American Sector: Excavations
in the 1990s of the ancient Maya city of Xunantunich in Belize revealed
new information about its Royal Residence during the Late Classic.
Large-scale shifts of the location of the royal residence within the
Xunantunich city center provide a picture of the shifting power
structure at the site and throughout the Maya lowlands during a time
period just prior to and leading into the collapse. In addition,
small-scale changes in the nature and form of the royal residence
provide us with a detailed picture of the shifting relationship between
the elite and the residents of Xunantunich, which helps us to understand
the nature of the city as well as the process of collapse leading to the
final abandonment of the southern Maya lowlands.
University of Pennsylvania Museum
3260 South Street
Room 345
Philadelphia, PA
http://www.precolumbian.org/
Saturday, February 10
The East Texas Archeological Conference
Robert R. Muntz Library
University of Texas at Tyler Campus Tyler, Texas.
http://www.txarch.org/activities/calendar.html
February 10 and 11, 2007
The 35th Annual Midwest Conference on
Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory at SIUC, IL
Childhood Health and Morbidity in Ancient Chilean Cultural Groups: A
Preagricultural vs. Agricultural Comparison From Yaya-Mama to Tiwanaku:
Changing Materiality, Temporality, and Religious Ideology in altiplano
carved monolith traditions
What was the Tiwanaku Phenomenon? - Ceremonial Architecture at Palermo,
Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru
Post-Tiwanaku Ethnogenesis in the Coastal Moquegua Valley, Peru
The Ushnu of Viña del Cerro as a Site for Astronomical Observation and
Cult to Mountains in Atacama
Two calendars on Chuquibamba textiles
The Hospital of San Andrés (Lima, Peru) and the search for the Royal
Mummies of the Incas
The Yanaconas of Potosí: A Social Analysis of Labor in the Toledan
Visita
Environmental Coring in SW Guayas Province, Ecuador: Dating of Sequences
and Preliminary Results
Stone Structures and Temporary Encampments: Subsistence Patterns and
Residential Architecture at the Late Archaic Site of Caballete, Rio
Fortaleza, Perú
Episodes of War in the Early Horizon and Late Intermediate Period: New
Dates from the Fortress of Acaray, Huaura Valley, Peru
Warfare and Defensive Architecture on the Inca Frontier in Northern
Ecuador
Old Problems and New Issues and Evidence for the Archaeology of the
Central Coast: The Case of Cajamarquilla
Ideology and the Development of Social Power at the Site of Panquilma,
Peruvian Central Coast
Ceramic Traditions and Ethnohistorical Boundaries. Do they match? A case
from Conchucos, Ancash, Peru
Rethinking Funerary Analysis in Andean Archaeology: Perspective from
Sicán and Pachacamac
Archaeological Applications of a Portable XRF Spectrometer at Huaca
Loro, Peru: Results and Implications
Ceramic Production and State Control: A View from a Hinterland Middle
Sican Ceramic Workshop
Bioarchaeological Impacts of European Conquest in Peru: Health,
Identity, and Ethnogenesis in the Lambayeque Valley (AD 1536-1750)
Lawson Auditorium 161
Southern Illinois University
Carbonale, Illinois
http://www.pachacamac.net/midwest/
Sunday, February 11, 2:00 PM
"Wickliffe Mounds: A Mississippian Mound Center in Western Kentucky"
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
Collinsville, Illinois
Interpretive Center Auditorium.
www.cahokiamounds.com
February 12, 6:00 PM
Soutnwest Seminars Ancient Sites and Ancient Stories Lecture "Living in
the Shadow of Chaco"
Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://SouthwestSeminars.org
February 14-17, 2007
95th College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference New York
"Drawing Blood: Images of Sacrifice and Identity in the Americas, Pre-
Hispanic to Contemporary"
The image of blood evokes ideas of birth, death, regeneration,
fertility, purification, suffering and redemption. Consequently, blood
plays an integral role in human creative expression. In the Americas,
blood has a long visual history spanning the pre-Hispanic, Viceregal,
and Modern periods up to the present day. This session seeks to explore
the role of blood as an expression of sacrifice and identity in the
pictorial history of the Americas, past and present. Contact: Juliet
Wiersema Department of Art History and Archaeology University of
Maryland Email: jbwier@umd.edu or
Pamela Huckins
Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Email: pamela.huckins@nyu.edu
Friday, February 16, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA
Public Lecture Series
" The Great Caral Controversy: The Oldest City in the New World?"
Professor Michael Moseley
University of Florida
Author of "Inkas and their Ancestors"
Harry and Yvonne Lenart Auditorium
Fowler Building, UCLA
www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ioa
February 19, 6:00 PM
Southwest Seminars Ancient Sites and Ancient Stories Lecture
"Comancitos: Indo-Hispano Rituals of
Captivity and Redemption"
Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://SouthwestSeminars.org
February 21, 8:00-9:30 PM
Institute of Maya Studies Lecture
"Climate and the Collapse of Maya Civilization" Larry C. Peterson,
Professor, Acting Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Rosenstiel School
of Marine & Atmospheric Science, Marine Geology and Geophysics,
University of
Miami.
This program will summarize results of a study of undisturbed marine
sediments from the anoxic Cariaco Basin in the southern Caribbean Sea.
Changes in the chemical composition of these sediments reflect
variations in river input and the hydrological cycle over northern
tropical South America.
A seasonally resolved record of river input and regional rainfall shows
that
the collapse of Maya civilization in the Terminal Classic Period
occurred
during an extended regional dry period, punctuated by more intense
multiyear
droughts centered at approximately 810, 860, and 910 AD. These new data
suggest that a century-scale decline in rainfall put a general strain on
resources in the region, which was then exacerbated by more severe
drought
events, contributing to the social stresses that led to the Maya demise.
Miami Museum of Science,
3280 South Miami Avenue,
across from Vizcaya,
Maya Hotline: 305-235-1192
http://mayastudies.org
Thursday, Feb. 22, 5:00 p.m
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA LECTURE "Memory and Materiality at
Chaco Canyon: Ritual Practice and the History of Great Houses" Dr.
Barbara Mills, Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Acting Head, Department
of Near Eastern
Studies, U. of Arizona
Tucson Society
Chavez Building Rm 110
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
http://www.ioa.ucla.edu/WebCalendar/view_entry.php?id=117&date=20070216
Thursday, February 22, 7:30 p.m.
The Museum of Anthropology at Wake Forest University in Winston- Salem,
NC
"/Apocalypto: /Fact and Fantasy in Mel Gibson's Maya World," a panel
discussion www.wfu.edu/moa
February 26, 6:00 PM
Soutnwest Seminars Ancient Sites and Ancient Stories Lecture "Dreams,
Myths and a World View"
Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://SouthwestSeminars.org
Tuesday, February 27, 8:00 PM
AIA Lecture
"In the Shadow of the Sleeping Giant: Discovering Ancient Maya
Communities Along the Sibun River"
Pennsylvania State University,
Carpenter Hall, Room 107
University Park, PENN.
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10124&society_code=all
February 28, 5:30 pm
Gordon R. Willey Lecture
"The Newly-Discovered Monumental Carved Monolith at the Aztec Great
Temple, and the Tomb of the Emperor Ahuizotl" Leonardo López Luján,
Senior Researcher and Professor of Archaeology at Museo del Templo
Mayor,
Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology Geological Lecture Hall
11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
within the Harvard campus.
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/new.html
February 28, 8:00-9:30 PM
Institute of Maya Studies Lecture
"Comparative Architecture Part II: Sites and Sights" Joaquín J.
Rodriguez III, P.E., SECB, Consulting Structural Engineer, is an elected
member of the IMS Board of Directors, having served as president from
2002 through 2005.
This program features a comparison of building construction techniques
through the ages and different civilizations. Part II will emphasize
examples of similar techniques from diverse cultures ˆ from the
Egyptians
and the Persians, up through Gothic architecture, to that of the Maya
and
the Inka.
Miami Museum of Science,
3280 South Miami Avenue
across from Vizcaya
Maya Hotline: 305-235-1192
http://mayastudies.org
Wednesday, February 28, 7:30 PM
AIA Lecture
"In the Shadow of the Sleeping Giant: Discovering Ancient Maya
Communities Along the Sibun River"
Dickinson College,
Weiss Hall, Room 235
Chambersberg, PENN.
maggidic@dickinson.edu
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10124&society_code=all
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