MARCH ANCIENT AMERICA EVENTS

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Friday, March 2, 7:30 PM
Maya Society of Minnesota Lecture
"Pleasing the Hearts of their Gods: The Architectural, Sculptural, and
Literary Legacy of K'inich Janaab Pakal and K'inich Kan B'ahlam." Dr.
Michael Carrasco, Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Art,
University of Cincinnati.
Dr. Carrasco will present new interpretations of the texts and
iconography of K'inich Janaab Pakal and K'inich Kan B'ahlam at Palenque
in Chiapas, Mexico. He will demonstrate how buildings, sculpture, and
poetically crafted hieroglyphic records of myth and history were
conjoined to communicate a theologically complex, politically powerful,
and aesthetically pleasing record of the ritual steps taken by K'inich
Kan B'ahlam on his long road to becoming king of Palenque. Dr. Carrasco
will also advance a different interpretation from the usual take on
Palenque's history, architecture, and iconographic programs, based on
new glyphic interpretation..
Drew Science Building, Room 118
Hamline University
Hewitt Ave. & Snelling Ave.,]
St. Paul, Minn.
http://www.hamline.edu/mayasociety/

Friday, March 2, 7:00 PM
PreColumbian Society of Washington DC Lecture John Verano "A Hole in the
Head: Trepanation in Ancient Peru" Trepanation is the oldest surgical
procedure known from antiquity, extending back more than 5,000 years in
Europe, and to at least the fifth century BC in the New World. Since the
first discoveries of prehistoric trepanned skulls in the mid-nineteenth
century, the practice and motivation for ancient trepanation have been
topics of considerable interest to anthropologists and medical
historians. According to one recent estimate, more than a thousand
articles, as well as several full-length books have been published on
the subject. The idea that trepanation was practiced in prehistoric
times by cultures with simple technology and limited medical knowledge
was slow to be accepted by western science. However, a growing body of
evidence over the past century suggests that a surprising number of
ancient cultures experimented with cranial surgery. Andean South America
is distinguished by having more prehistoric trepanned skulls than the
rest of the world combined. Why was trepanation so common in ancient
Andean cultures, and why did the practice emerge? My lecture will survey
the skeletal evidence for trepanation in ancient South America, with a
focus on surgical techniques, success rates, and motivations for the
procedure. My study is based on the examination of more than 700
trepanned skulls housed in various museums in Peru and the United
States. These skulls were collected from archaeological sites throughout
the Central Andean highlands and coastal Peru, and date from c. 400 BC
to c. AD 1500. The large size of this sample allows us to examine
questions such as the evolution of trepanation techniques through time,
success rates of ancient trepanners, and the possible motivations for
cutting holes in the head. Sumner School
1201 17th Street, NW,
Washington, DC.
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/
March 2
University at Albany, SUNY, Anthropology Department - 2007 Speakers
Series
"Kaqchikel Chronicles and Linguistics"
University at Albany,
State University of New York,
Humanities 354,
Albany, NY
http://www.albany.edu/anthro/ speakerseries.htm

Saturday, March 3, 9:00 AM -12 PM
Maya Society of Minnesota
Saturday Workshop
"Hieroglyphic Inscriptions of Palenque: New Interpretations and
Questions Surrounding Texts From the Age of K'inich Janaab Pakal and His
Sons."
At the Saturday morning workshop Dr. Carrasco will discuss in more
detail the new discoveries and problems in the hieroglyphic texts of
Palenque. Based on new glyphic interpretation, his workshop will contend
that there is a greater connection between the iconographic and textual
programs of Kan B'ahlam and his father Janaab Pakal, than is normally
suggested. Additionally, Dr. Carrasco will show that much of the art and
literature of this period concerns rituals surrounding the patron
gods—as opposed to the traditional view that Pakal and Kan B'ahlam
were primarily interested in legitimating their right to rule. Giddens
Learning Center 6s (the Anthropology Lab) Hamline University Hewitt Ave.
& Snelling Ave.,]
St. Paul, Minn.
http://www.hamline.edu/mayasociety/

Sunday, March 4
"Mounds, Maces and Other Mississippian Manifestations in Southeast
Missouri".
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
Collinsville, Illinois
Interpretive Center Auditorium.
www.cahokiamounds.com

Sunday, March 4, 2:00 PM
Casas Grandes Lecture Series
Dr. Paul Minnis
"Friends in High Places: Casas Grandes' Neighbors" Museum of Indian Arts
& Culture / Laboratory of Anthropology Museum Hill off Old Santa Fe
Trail
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://www.indianartsandculture.org/

March 5, 6:00 PM
Soutnwest Seminars Ancient Sites and Ancient Stories Lecture
"Innovations in 14th Century. Pueblo Pottery: Old & New Data, Old
Questions, New Insights"
Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://SouthwestSeminars.org

Tuesday, March 6, 8:00 PM
The Dallas Archeological Society Lecture We are please to have as our
guest speaker Dr. Harri Kettunen, faculty member and researcher from the
University of Helsinki.
Dr. Kettunen is a well known researcher and educator in Maya Studies,
having lectured and published on numerous topics of iconography and
epigraphy in ancient Maya culture.
Room 153
Heroy Building,
Southern Methodist University,
Dallas, Texas
http://www.dallasarcheology.org/

Wednesday, March 7, 7:30pm to 9:00pm
"11th Century Cohonina Migration Near the South Rim of the Grand Canyon"
Community Room
Pueblo Grande Museum
Phoenix, Arizona
www.pueblogrande.org

March 10, 2007 - March 15, 2007
The XXXI Maya Meetings at Texas
"The River Cities: Archaeology and History at Yaxchilan, Piedras Negras,
and Pomona"
University of Texas at Austin, Austin,
The annual Maya Meetings at the University of Texas at Austin feature
lectures and worskhops on the latest advances in Maya archaeology and
hieroglyphic decipherment.
The Maya Meetings at Texas
The University of Texas at Austin
Department of Art and Art History
1 University Station, D1300
Austin, Texas 78712
http://www.utmaya.org/

Sunday, March 11, 2:00 PM
Dr. Elizabeth Bagwell
"Archaeology on the Edge: Adventures on the Casas Grandes Western
Border"
Museum of Indian Arts & Culture / Laboratory of Anthropology Kathryn
O'Keefe Theatre
Museum Hill
off Old Santa Fe Trail
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://www.indianartsandculture.org/

March 12, 6:00 PM
Soutnwest Seminars Ancient Sites and Ancient Stories Lecture "Five
Acres: Disputed Land and Disappearing Landscapes in the Galisteo Basin"
Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://SouthwestSeminars.org

Tuesday March 13, 7:00 PM
"Pottery Mound Revisited: A New Ceramic Study" Recent ceramic research
at Pottery Mound has been oriented toward refining the exisiting
relative and absolute chronology. Preliminary findings, reported a year
ago, have now been supported by substantial data analysis and
interpretation. Examination of over 38,000 potsherds from a test
conducted in 1979 by Linda Cordell reveal some interesting trends. The
Mera glaze sequence has been re-evaluated, and an extension of the
site's time span is indicated. Sandia Ranger District Station
on Hwy 337 (the old South 14)
just under 1/2 mile south of the light in Tijeras, New Mexico. http://
www.friendsoftijeraspueblo.org/ourevents.html

March 15-18, 2007
49TH ANNUAL CADDO CONFERENCE
Reynolds Center,
Southern Arkansas University
Magnolia, Arkansas
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Arkansas Archeological Survey and Southern Arkansas University are
pleased to announce the 49th Caddo Conference to be held in the new
Reynolds Center on the campus of Southern Arkansas University in
Magnolia, Arkansas—located deep in the beautiful pine forests of
southwestern Arkansas and in the original heartland of the Caddo. Papers
are invited on the archeology, history, and culture of the Caddo Indians
and the area of the Caddo homelands in Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and
Oklahoma.
Send paper titles/abstracts by February 15, 2007 to: David Jeane,
Arkansas Archeological Survey, SAU
Box 9381, Magnolia, AR, 71754, e-mail dje...@centurytel.net, phone
870-235-4230.
Reynolds Center,
Southern Arkansas University
Magnolia, Arkansas
http://www.saumag.edu/archeology/

Thursday March 15, 7:30 to 9 p.m
"Kokopelli: Mystery of a Flute Player"
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center,
5100 W. Ina Road
Bldg. 8,
in the Marana Town Limits,
Arizona.
Kokopelli, that flute-playing fellow of southwestern Indian archaeology
and art, represents numerous stories of Arizona from traders to the
south to the magical ceremonies of the Hopi. Kokopelli represents the
importance of music to the well-being of our ancient cultures, including
the Ancestral Puebloan and Hohokam cultures. Dr. Cravath explains the
myths and takes the audience on a journey through the magic,
iconography, and story of Kokopelli.
http://www.oldpueblo.org/january.html

March 15, 7:30 PM
"The Kipp Ruin: Exploring a Solado Pueblo on the Lower Mimbres River" El
Paso Archaeological Society Lecture
An illustrated presentation by Dr. William H. Walker, New Mexico State
University.
This lecture will highlight Dr. Walker's recent excavations of a pueblo
near Deming, NM.
Traditionally seen as part of the Mimbres culture heartland, this pueblo
demonstrates that by AD 1300, a different culture occupied this region
of southern NM.
Dr. Walker will discuss the implications of this discovery and how it
fits into the prehistory of the greater Southwest. El Paso Museum of
Archaeology
in the auditorium
4301 Transmountain Rd. http://www.epas.com/newsletter.htm

March 16
University at Albany, SUNY, Anthropology Department - 2007 Speakers
Series
"Maya Archaeology in Peten, Guatemala"
University at Albany,
State University of New York,
Humanities 354,
Albany, NY
http://www.albany.edu/anthro/ speakerseries.htm

Saturday, March 17, 2007
30th Annual Midwest Conference on Mesoamerican Archaeology and
Ethnohistory
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois
Harris Hall
http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/anthropology/midwest/

Sunday, March 18, 2:00 PM
Dr. Timothy Maxwell and Rafael Cruz Antillón "Beyond Borders: An
International Archaeological Program in the Casas Grandes Region" Museum
of Indian Arts & Culture / Laboratory of Anthropology Kathryn O'Keefe
Theatre
Museum Hill
off Old Santa Fe Trail
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://www.indianartsandculture.org/

March 19, 6:00 PM
Soutnwest Seminars Ancient Sites and Ancient Sories Lecture "War,
Galisteo Style: Exploring the Crisis of the Late Coalition Period" Hotel
Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://SouthwestSeminars.org

March 19, 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 of Art
New York City
http://www.metmuseum.org/calendar/index.asp

March 21, 8:00-9:30 PM
Institute of Maya Studies Lecture
"Mural Painting at Chichén Itzá"
Virginia Miller, PhD.
Like most Mesoamerican cities, at its height Chichén Itzá was awash
in color: plazas, buildings, and relief sculpture were all stuccoed and
painted in vivid hues. Although they have mostly vanished, murals once
covered the
exterior and interior walls of many buildings at Chichén Itzá. In
the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a series of copyists were able
to record and reconstruct the original appearance of some of these wall
paintings, most notably those from the Upper Temple of the Jaguars, the
Temple of the Warriors complex, and the Nunnery. Unlike murals at other
Maya sites, those at Chichén contain no hieroglyphic texts to shed
light on the events and personages represented, with the result that we
must rely on the images alone to determine if the scenes are religious,
mythological, or historical.
My presentation will first focus on the copies that have been made over
the years of these murals, as well as recent scientific analyses of the
pigments and painting techniques. Secondly, I will examine details of
Maya life that can be gleaned from the wall paintings, such as
landscape, flora and fauna, and domestic architecture, and particularly
methods of warfare and ritual human sacrifice.
Miami Museum of Science,
3280 South Miami Avenue,
across from Vizcaya,
Maya Hotline: 305-235-1192
http://mayastudies.org

Sunday, March 25, 2:00 PM
Dr. Christine VanPool
"Casas Grandes Cosmology"
Museum of Indian Arts & Culture / Laboratory of Anthropology Kathryn
O'Keefe Theatre
Museum Hill
off Old Santa Fe Trail
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://www.indianartsandculture.org/

March 26, 6:00 PM
Soutnwest Seminars Ancient Sites and Ancient Stories Lecture "Galisteo
Basin Rock Art"
Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://SouthwestSeminars.org

Tuesday, March 27, 2007 at TBA
AIA Lecture
"Early Human Populations in the New World: A Biased Perspective" James
Adovasio, Mercyhurst College
Room: TBA
University of Alabama at Huntsville
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10124&society_code=all

March 28, 8:00-9:30 PM
Institute of Maya Studies Lecture
"Much Ado About Nothing: The Maya Concept of Zero" Explore the concept
of zero that the Maya knew and used hundreds of years before the
Europeans used it. Discover the difference between nothing and zero.
Learn the important value of zero. This presentation explores the
importance of zero as a number and placeholder in the Maya and Hindu
numbering system. The difficulty in using the Roman or Babylonian
numeral systems is compared to the ease of the Maya and Hindu systems.
Join us and
learn nothing!
Miami Museum of Science,
3280 South Miami Avenue,
across from Vizcaya,
Maya Hotline: 305-235-1192
http://mayastudies.org

Wednesday, March 28, 8:00 PM
AIA Lecture
"What the Hell Are They Doing: Some Thoughts on Paleoindian and Upper
Paleolithic Behavior"
James Adovasio, Mercyhurst College
Loyola Unversity,
Nunemaker Auditorium,
New Orleans, LA
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10124&society_code=all

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