December Ancient Americas Lectures and Conferences
Mike R
December 1, 7:00 PM
Illinois Valley Archaeological Society Lecture
"The 2009 Morton Site Excavation"
Dr. Michael Conner
Dickson Mounds Museum
West Central Illinois, near the Illinois River between the towns of
Lewistown and Havana.
It is 200 miles southwest of Chicago, 45 miles southwest of Peoria,
and 60 miles northwest of Springfield.
http://museum.state.il.us/ismsites/dickson/events.htm
December 1, 6:30 PM
The Pre-Columbian Society of Washington, D.C. is sponsoring a lecture
at the Embassy of Peru
“Inka Architecture at Tambo Colorado”
by noted University of California-Berkeley Professor Jean-Pierre
Protzen.
This 1-hour illustrated lecture will be followed by light
refreshments
graciously provided by the Embassy of Peru. Due to space limitation,
seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Embassy of Peru,
1700 Massachusetts Ave., NW,
Washington, DC
http://www.pcswdc.org/
Friday, December 4, 4:00 PM
UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Seminar Series in War, Conflict and Society
CITY WALLS AND FRONTIER FORTIFICATIONS:
INTERREGIONAL VARIATION IN LATE PREHISTORIC
WARFARE IN MIDWESTERN NORTH AMERICA
Gregory D. Wilson
Reception to Follow after the Lecture
Wilson compares evidence of fortifications, catastrophic burning,
weaponry,
and skeletal trauma from the Mississippian (A.D. 1000-1425) American
Bottom
and Central Illinois River Valley (CIRV), revealing variation between
these regions
in terms of the scale, intensity, and outcomes of inter-group
hostilities.
Cahokia as an expansive and politically complex regional polity was
more
insulated from the chronic raiding and sporadic, large-scale, direct
confrontations
that took place in the CIRV. Settlements in the CIRV were smaller and
less
politically complex frontier towns in which warfare was an escalating
phenomenon
that ultimately culminated in the abandonment of the region.
Fowler A22
UCLA
http://www.ioa.ucla.edu/news-events/events-calendar/dec4-seminar
Sunday, December 6, 3:00pm
AIA Lecture
“The Petroglyphs of the Nasca Valley and "The Nasca Lines"
Ana Nieves
The Grande River System in Peru's Department of Ica is best known for
the large scale drawings on the desert floor collectively known as
"The Nasca Lines." The name "Nasca Lines" is a broad generalization,
however, often used to describe a wide variety of geoglyphs in
various
styles. In fact, geoglyphs of different types can be found not only
in
the Nasca Valley and the adjacent pampas (elevated plateaus), but
also
in the northernmost valleys of the river system. In recent years, the
area's geoglyphs have been studied alongside smaller scale examples
of
rock art, i.e. petroglyphs. That research has taken place primarily
in
the Palpa Valley, where petroglyph sites are well-known. As part of
her doctoral research, Nieves conducted a rock art survey of the
Nasca
Valley and was able to document 26 petroglyph sites in this valley
alone. Nasca Valley petroglyphs were clearly comparable to Paracas
and
Nasca iconography and, interestingly, some of this valley's
petroglyph
motifs are also designs found among the "Nasca Lines." Ana Nieves'
lecture provides an overview of this rock art survey, and focuses in
particular on the relationship between petroglyph sites and the
area's
geoglyphs.
Dr. Ana Nieves is Assistant Professor in the Art Department,
Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago.
Location: Room G90,
Sabin Hall, UW-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
http://www4.uwm.edu/archlab/AIA/lectures.cfm
December 6, 6:45 PM
Pre-Columbian Society of Washington DC Lecture
“Identity Politics: Huastec Sculpture and the Postclassic
International Style and Symbol Set”
Kim Richter
Kim Richter is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History
at UCLA and is currently a Junior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks in
Washington DC.
The most frequent and significant subject matter of Postclassic
Huastec sculptures is the human form. Male and female figures,
probably nobles, are represented in a standardized way: standing
either in the standard-bearer pose or with the hands on the abdomen
and wearing an elaborate costume. The corpus of over 500 documented
stone sculptures leaves no doubt that this medium was the one of the
principal forms of artistic expression in the Huastec region. Most
sculptures were removed from their original locations in the late
nineteenth century without proper documentation of their
archaeological context. Nonetheless, Huastec sculptures may be
historically contextualized by comparing them to other visual
traditions in Mesoamerica. A stylistic and iconographic analysis of
these remarkable sculptures provides insight to how the Huastec fit
into the cultural fabric of the Postclassic Mesoamerica world system.
My research aims to embed Huastec figural sculptures in the artistic
matrix of Mesoamerica and demonstrate that they were inscribed with a
regional variation of the Postclassic international style and symbol
set to legitimize local rulership.
Sumner School
1201 17th Street, NW
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).
Washington, DC.
http://www.pcswdc.org/
December 8, 7:00 PM
Doña Ana Archaeological Society Program.
Dr. Holley Moyes
"Archaeology in the Underworld: The Ritual Caves of Mesoamerica"
Caves have been used as ritual spaces in Mesoamerica from as early as
1200BC until today, but archaeologists have only begun to understand
the function and meaning of caves within ancient Mesoamerican ritual
practice and cosmology. This program discusses our current state of
knowledge and illustrates some of the more interesting finds from
caves in the last decade.
Good Samaritan Auditorium,
3011 Buena Vida Circle,
Las Cruces, New Mexico
http://www.epas.com/newsletter.htm
December 8, 7:00pm
Pensacola Archaeological Society Lecture
“Wakulla in the Sandhills: Analysis of a Late Weeden Island Site in
the Northwest Florida Interior Uplands,”
Bowden Bld., 120 E Church St.,
Pensacola, Florida
http://uwf.edu/archaeology/archsoc/
December 9, 12:00 PM
Penn Museum Scholars Lunch Lecture Series
"Memory, Power And Heritage Among The Maya Of Belize"
Richard M. Leventhal, Professor of Anthropology, University of
Pennsylvania, Curator, American Section and Founder and Director of
the Penn Cultural Heritage Center.
This presentation examines the nature of the past among the ancient
and modern Maya of Belize. The ancient Maya site of Xunantunich will
be discussed along with the connection between the ancient sites of
southern Belize and the local modern Maya and the national government
of Belize.
Classroom 2.
Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology
3260 South Street at the intersection of Spruce Street and 34th
Street.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
http://www.penn.museum/events-calendar/details/115-memory-power-and-h...
Wednesday, December 9, 10:00 AM-4:00 PM
Museum of the American Indian Symposium
"Surveying the Legacy of the Inka: Archaeological Research along the
Qhapaq ñan"
Noted scholars, including Gary Urton, Roberto Bárcena, Victoria
Castro, Jose Pino,Monica Bolaños, and Mauricio Uribe, offer
illustrated lectures focusing on the magnificent road network that
the
Inka (Inca) developed more than 500 years ago.
American Indian Museum
Rasmuson Theater, 1st Floor
Washington DC
http://www.nmai.si.edu/subpage.cfm?subpage=events&second=dc
December 10, 7:00 PM
"Outsmarting Rising Water for 8000 Years: An Archaeology of Ancient
Cultures of the St. Johns River Valley"
Dr. Kenneth Sassaman
Dr. Sassaman, Associate Professor in the UF Department of
Anthropology, will speak as part of the Evening at the Whitney
Series,
sponsored by Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience. The Public is
Welcome
The talk will draw on our nearly 10 years of fieldwork in the middle
St.Johns, as well as some recent analyses, that help us to understand
how Archaic communities dealt with a constantly drowning environment.
Dr. Sassaman will briefly relate this work to some of the modern
issues surrounding science and politics of climate change.
Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience
9505 Ocean Shore Blvd,
Marineland, Florida
http://saaa.shutterfly.com/
December 10, 2010, 7:00 PM
The Santa Cruz Valley Chapter of the Arizona Archaeological Society
"Marana dig reveals pre-Hohokam agricultural settlement"
Archaeologist James Vint will present the findings from the just-
completed excavation of one of the earliest irrigation-based villages
in the American Southwest yet documented. The Santa Cruz Valley
Chapter of the Arizona Archaeological Society
North County Facility at 50 Bridge Road
Tubac, Arizona
http://www.azarchsoc.org/santacruzchapter.html#section3
Dec. 10, 7:30 PM
Arizona Archaeological Society, Phoenix Chapter
"Excavations in the Chevelon Ruin"
Rich Lange, Arizona State Museum
Pueblo Grande Museum
4619 E. Washington,
Phoenix, Arizona
http://www.azarchsoc.org/phoenixchapter.html#section3
Thursday, December 10, 6:00 PM
“Aztec Calendrical Thought: Visual Form, Imperial Significance”
William Barnes,
John B. Davis Lecture Hall
Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center
Macalester College
St. Paul, Minnesota
http://www.hamline.edu/mayasociety/AIA December Lecture 2009.pdf
December 12, 1:30 PM
Pre-Columbian Society at the University Museum Lecture
"Creating an Empire: Spectacle, Theatricality, Performance and Power
in the Inka State”
Lawrence Coben
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology
3260 South Street,
Philadelphia, PA
http://www.precolumbian.org/othermeetings.HTM
December 17, 7:00 PM
Central Gulf Coast Archaeological Society Lecture
"Rethinking the Significance and Long-Term Histories of Archaic Shell
Mounds along the Middle St. Johns River."
Asa Randall
Weedon Island Preserve Cultural and Natural History Center
800 Weedon Dr NE
St Petersburg, Florida
http://www.cgcas.org/index.html
Dec 21, 7:30 PM
Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society Lecture
“Fast Approaching Zero: Tree-Ring Dating at Mesa Verde”
Stephen Nash
Duval Auditorium,
University Medical Center,
1501 North Campbell Avenue (north of Speedway)
Tucson, Arizona
http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/aahs/lectures.shtml
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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient America Museum Exhibitions, Conferences and
Lectures
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