November Ancient Andean Lectures and Conferences

[Mike R]

Monday, November 16, 7:00 PM-9:00 PM
Smithsonian Seminar
“Machu Picchu—Terraces of Enlightenment”
$27-$40
The great Inca citadel Machu Picchu sits high in the Peruvian Andes,
having emerged from beneath the canopy of a rainforest after being
hidden for nearly 400 years. Take a vicarious journey to an
architectural and archeological wonder—a fortress that survived to
become one of the world's greatest enigmas. Through the eyes of
photographer Mike Torrey, who visited and photographed Machu Picchu
during the June and December solstices, and writer Marie Arana, who
lived as a child on the Peruvian coast, explore Machu Picchu's history
and culture, its vegetation and wildlife, and what it reveals about
the lives of the Inca. Learn how Machu Picchu's architecture
incorporates both scientific and spiritual principles: for example,
the way first rays of the sun—worshipped by the Incas as the god Inti—
enter the Temple of the Sun and mark the arrival of the winter
solstice.
Arana is a writer at large for the Washington Post. Torrey is an
architectural photographer. His book Stone Offerings: Machu Picchu's
Terraces of Enlightenment (Lightpoint Press) is available for signing
after the program.
S. Dillon Ripley Center
1100 Jefferson Drive, SW
Metro: Smithsonian Mall Exit (Blue/Orange)
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November 28, 10:30 AM-5:00 PM
Institute of Archaeology UCL, London
South American Archaeology Seminar
Everyone is welcome. Please reply to b.si...@ucl.ac.uk if you wish to
confirm your participation and order your lunch. A contribution of £5
towards the cost of coffee, tea, lunch & administration will be
required on the day.
10.30 am Coffee
11.00 am Bill Sillar (UCL), Sara Lunt (English Heritage) and Rob Ixer
(Good Provenance) Potential sources and implications of the choice of
andesite temper within classic style Inka pottery from Cuzco, did they
really have to work that hard?
11.40 a.m. Diura Thoden Van Velzen (Independent / UCL) Zudañez
Archaeological Project, Bolivia: work in progress
Lunch (12.30-1.30 p.m.)
1.30 p.m. William Brooks (U.S. Geological Survey) Mercury and
Small-Scale Gold Mining in Ancient Perú
2.10 p.m. Mercedes Okumura (Cambridge University) Mid-late Holocene
Brazilian shellmounds: diet and disease
Tea (3.0-3.30 p.m.)
3.30 p.m. Carlos E. Rengifo (University of East Anglia) Tombs of
Specialists at San Jose de Moro: the Construction of Social Identity
during the First Millennium in the Jequetepeque Valley, Peru
4.10 p.m. Quetta Kaye (UCL) Evidence for inter-island transport of
heirlooms: luminescence dating and petrographic analysis of ceramic
inhaling bowls from Carriacou, West Indies.
This event is Co-sponsored by: The Institute for the Study of the
Americas & The Institute of Archaeology, UCL
Institute of Archaeology UCL, 34 Gordon Square, London.
Dr. Bill Sillar
Institute of Archaeology,
University College London,
31-34 Gordon Square,
London WC1H 0PY ENGLAND
Ph: (0)20 7679 1538
Fax: (0)20 7383 2572

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