December 2014 Ancient Andean Lectures and Conferences
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December 3, 6:00 PM
Great Wonders Lecture Series; Penn Museum
"The Monumental Geoglyphs of Amazonia"
Clark L. Erickson, Ph.D., Curator-In-Charge, American Section
Traditionally, the archaeologists have the vast Amazon region of South America to be a cultural backwater compared to the better-known civilizations that developed in the Americas. Scholars stress the limitations of tropical environments and lack of critical technological innovations to sustain civilizations. In recent years, the documentation of intensive agriculture, black earth, managed forests, hydraulic engineering, and large settlements has questioned traditional assumptions. Dr. Erickson has documented fascinating monumental earthworks called geoglyphs, ring ditches, or geometric enclosures that cover several acres to nearly a square mile. The geometric patterns suggest a concern for landscape design, high visibility, and aesthetics. Deep ditches imply that huge volumes of earth moved. Various hypotheses are presented for the functions of earthworks. The existence of earthworks of such magnitude and density throughout Western Amazonia shows the ability of native peoples to transform their landscapes at a massive scale.
Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
http://penn.museum/public-programs/great-wonders-lectures.html?utm_source=greatwonders&utm_medium=unknown&utm_campaign=redirect
December 4, 5:30 PM
Dumbarton Oaks Lecture
“The Mayo Chinchipe-Marañón Culture: Pandora's Box in the Upper Amazon”
Francisco Valdez
Institut de Recherche pour le DÉveloppement
This lecture will present the results of recent archaeological work carried out on the eastern slopes of the Andes and focuses on the discovery of a new Prehispanic culture that originated in the Chinchipe river basin on the border of present day Ecuador and Peru. Carbon dating (5500 BP) places the finds in the early Formative Period in Ecuadorian chronology and in the Archaic or Preceramic period of Peru. Architectural evidence reveals a small village built around a central sunken plaza with two artificial platforms. The eastern platform served as the base of a temple with a spiral configuration, at the center of which lay a ceremonial hearth with a cache of greenstone offerings. Several tombs have been documented with fine ceramic vessels; exquisite polished stone bowls and mortars, as well as hundreds of turquoise and malachite beads fragments of Strombus sea shells, and small sculptures. Direct evidence of corn (Zea mays), beans (Fabacceae), manioc (Manihot esculenta), sweet potato (Ipomooea sp.), Name (Dioscorea sp.), Arrowroot (Maranta sp.), hot peppers (Capsicum sp.), cacaco (Theobroma sp.) and coca (Erythroxylum coca). These exciting finds show that the upper Amazon selva was a key node in the early cultural developments of Northwestern South America and in the emergence of Andean Civilization.
Francisco Valdez is a research fellow at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement in France, and holds a PhD in Ethnologie et Sociologie Comparative from the University of Paris X (Nanterre) and l’École Pratique des Hautes Etude. Valdez specializes in the ethnological prehistory of tropical America, and has led archaeological research in Ecuador, Mexico and France. His publications address the rise of early complex societies in upper Amazonía, the evolution of the pre-classic to post-classic societies of western Mexico, the early metallurgy of coastal Ecuador, and more recently the first social use of cacao in the Americas.
The Music Room of Dumbarton Oaks
1703 32nd Street,
NW Washington, DC
(NO URL YET)
Dumbarton Oaks Lecture
“The Mayo Chinchipe-Marañón Culture: Pandora's Box in the Upper Amazon”
Francisco Valdez
Institut de Recherche pour le DÉveloppement
This lecture will present the results of recent archaeological work carried out on the eastern slopes of the Andes and focuses on the discovery of a new Prehispanic culture that originated in the Chinchipe river basin on the border of present day Ecuador and Peru. Carbon dating (5500 BP) places the finds in the early Formative Period in Ecuadorian chronology and in the Archaic or Preceramic period of Peru. Architectural evidence reveals a small village built around a central sunken plaza with two artificial platforms. The eastern platform served as the base of a temple with a spiral configuration, at the center of which lay a ceremonial hearth with a cache of greenstone offerings. Several tombs have been documented with fine ceramic vessels; exquisite polished stone bowls and mortars, as well as hundreds of turquoise and malachite beads fragments of Strombus sea shells, and small sculptures. Direct evidence of corn (Zea mays), beans (Fabacceae), manioc (Manihot esculenta), sweet potato (Ipomooea sp.), Name (Dioscorea sp.), Arrowroot (Maranta sp.), hot peppers (Capsicum sp.), cacaco (Theobroma sp.) and coca (Erythroxylum coca). These exciting finds show that the upper Amazon selva was a key node in the early cultural developments of Northwestern South America and in the emergence of Andean Civilization.
Francisco Valdez is a research fellow at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement in France, and holds a PhD in Ethnologie et Sociologie Comparative from the University of Paris X (Nanterre) and l’École Pratique des Hautes Etude. Valdez specializes in the ethnological prehistory of tropical America, and has led archaeological research in Ecuador, Mexico and France. His publications address the rise of early complex societies in upper Amazonía, the evolution of the pre-classic to post-classic societies of western Mexico, the early metallurgy of coastal Ecuador, and more recently the first social use of cacao in the Americas.
The Music Room of Dumbarton Oaks
1703 32nd Street,
NW Washington, DC
(NO URL YET)
December 5, 6:45 PM
Pre-Columbian Society of Washington DC December Lecture
"Contributions to World Heritage by the PERU LNG Project"
Gregory D. Lockard, PhD
This talk will present the results of the PERU LNG Archaeological Project (the Project). The PERU LNG Project involved construction of a natural gas pipeline, a liquefaction plant, and a marine terminal. The pipeline extends from the eastern slopes of the Andes to the Pacific coast. The PERU LNG Archaeological Project was required before construction permits could be secured from the Instituto National de Cultural (INC), Peru's cultural resources regulator at the time. As one of the largest archaeological investigations in the history of Peru, the Project included surveys, site evaluations, and rescue (i.e., data recovery) excavations—all in compliance with an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment and Peruvian laws and regulations. Also, a robust, INC-approved archaeological monitoring program was implemented during construction. A total of 137 archaeological sites were rescued, and an additional 140 sites were investigated as chance finds (i.e., inadvertent discoveries) under the Monitoring Plan. Sites ranged from major archaeological complexes to very small artifact scatters. The talk will focus on the four major complexes that were investigated: Pumapuquio, a highland Wari residential and administrative center; Corpas, a highland Warpa/Wari agricultural, residential, and ritual center;Rumajasa, a highland Cari/Chanka funerary site; and Bernales, a coastal Chincha site associated with a small adobe platform mound. Because every site discovered in the affected area was fully excavated, regardless of its size, integrity, or significance, the Project produced a complete archaeological picture of the ancient cultural landscape of the affected area and the results have contributed significantly to our understanding of Peru's past.
Greg Lockard received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico in 2005. His graduate studies focused on the Moche and Chimu cultures of the north coast of Peru. His dissertation was "Political Power and Economy at the Archaeological Site of Galindo, Moche Valley, Peru." From 2011 to 2014, he led a multidisciplinary team providing all cultural resources support for the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Response project along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. Archaeological surveys conducted during the project identified 115 new sites and revisited 447 previously recorded sites. From 2008 to 2011, Greg served as the lead archaeologist for the PERU LNG Project. He is currently a Senior Consultant at Environmental Resources Management (ERM) in Washington, D.C.
Sumner School
17th & M Streets, N.W.
Washington DC
http://www.pcswdc.org/events/
Pre-Columbian Society of Washington DC December Lecture
"Contributions to World Heritage by the PERU LNG Project"
Gregory D. Lockard, PhD
This talk will present the results of the PERU LNG Archaeological Project (the Project). The PERU LNG Project involved construction of a natural gas pipeline, a liquefaction plant, and a marine terminal. The pipeline extends from the eastern slopes of the Andes to the Pacific coast. The PERU LNG Archaeological Project was required before construction permits could be secured from the Instituto National de Cultural (INC), Peru's cultural resources regulator at the time. As one of the largest archaeological investigations in the history of Peru, the Project included surveys, site evaluations, and rescue (i.e., data recovery) excavations—all in compliance with an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment and Peruvian laws and regulations. Also, a robust, INC-approved archaeological monitoring program was implemented during construction. A total of 137 archaeological sites were rescued, and an additional 140 sites were investigated as chance finds (i.e., inadvertent discoveries) under the Monitoring Plan. Sites ranged from major archaeological complexes to very small artifact scatters. The talk will focus on the four major complexes that were investigated: Pumapuquio, a highland Wari residential and administrative center; Corpas, a highland Warpa/Wari agricultural, residential, and ritual center;Rumajasa, a highland Cari/Chanka funerary site; and Bernales, a coastal Chincha site associated with a small adobe platform mound. Because every site discovered in the affected area was fully excavated, regardless of its size, integrity, or significance, the Project produced a complete archaeological picture of the ancient cultural landscape of the affected area and the results have contributed significantly to our understanding of Peru's past.
Greg Lockard received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico in 2005. His graduate studies focused on the Moche and Chimu cultures of the north coast of Peru. His dissertation was "Political Power and Economy at the Archaeological Site of Galindo, Moche Valley, Peru." From 2011 to 2014, he led a multidisciplinary team providing all cultural resources support for the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Response project along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. Archaeological surveys conducted during the project identified 115 new sites and revisited 447 previously recorded sites. From 2008 to 2011, Greg served as the lead archaeologist for the PERU LNG Project. He is currently a Senior Consultant at Environmental Resources Management (ERM) in Washington, D.C.
Sumner School
17th & M Streets, N.W.
Washington DC
http://www.pcswdc.org/events/
Dec. 6th, 2:00 PM
"Art and Architecture of Pre-Columbian Americas”
"Art and Architecture of Pre-Columbian Americas”
Dr. Adam Herring
Dr. Adam Herring, Professor of Art History from SMU, is a specialist in the art of the pre-Columbian Americas, with current research addressing Inca architecture and spatial practice.
Meeting Rooms
Irving Arts Center
3333 N. MacArthur Blvd.
Irving, Texas
http://www.irvingartscenter.com/Performances/EventsCalendar/EventDetail.aspx?id=704
Dr. Adam Herring, Professor of Art History from SMU, is a specialist in the art of the pre-Columbian Americas, with current research addressing Inca architecture and spatial practice.
Meeting Rooms
Irving Arts Center
3333 N. MacArthur Blvd.
Irving, Texas
http://www.irvingartscenter.com/Performances/EventsCalendar/EventDetail.aspx?id=704
December 7, 9:45 PM-5:00 PM
South American Archaeology Seminar
Co-sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the School for Advanced Studies, University of London and the Institute of Archaeology
Seminar organiser: Bill Sillar
9.45am - Coffee / Registration
• 10:15am - Nicole M. Slovak-Villano (Santa Rosa Junior College, USA) Changing Dynamics on Peru’s Central Coast: An Analysis of Physical and Cultural Variables from Early and Late Middle Horizon Tombs at Ancón, Peru
• 10:45am - Katarzyna Marciniak (University of Warsaw, Poland) Zooarchaeology analysis of skeletal remains from Inca ceremonial and administrative centre Maucallacta
• 11.15am - Daniel A. Contreras (Kiel University, Germany) Reconciling Sequences and Peering at the Horizon: Bayesian Modelling of Excavation, Architectural, and Ceramic Chronologies at Chavín de Huántar
Lunch
• 12:45pm - Alice V. M. Samson (University of Cambridge, UK) Becoming villagers in the pre-Columbian Caribbean
• 1:15pm - José Iriarte (University of Exeter, UK) Pre-Columbian fire-free land use of Amazonian savannas.
• 1:45pm - Jose Oliver (University College London, UK) New Radiocarbon Dates & Starch Grain Analyses from the Site of Saladero, Lower Orinoco, Venezuela
Tea
• 3:00 - Sara Gonzalez (Birkbeck and Oxford University, UK) Colonial Portraits of the Incas and Andean Cultural Heroes.
• 3:30 - Leonora Duncan (British Museum, UK) Public Perceptions of El Dorado: A Case Study from the British Museum
• 4:00 - Alexandra Morgan (Independent scholar, UK) The Riddle of the Tiahuanacoïd Stelae
All welcome!
Please e-mail Bill Sillar to reserve a place at the seminar. Participants will be asked to make a contribution of £7.50 towards the cost of coffee, tea, lunch & administration on the day.
Room 612, Institute of Archaeology
University College of London
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/calendar/articles/20131207
December 11, 6:00 PM
Walters Art Museum Lecture
"Learning by Watching: Andean Textiles and the Fabric of Culture"
Andean textile specialist Dr. Anne Tiballi, the Andrew W. Mellon Curricular Facilitator at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, will present an engaging talk, exploring the production of ancient American textiles, their significance, and their impact on the broader material culture of the ancient Americas.
The Walters Art Museum
600 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, Maryland
http://thewalters.org/events/eventdetails.aspx?e=3595
December 13, 1:30 PM
Meeting of the Pre-Columbian Society at the Penn Museum
"Dogs from Sitio Conte, Panama: Finding the Story Behind the Bling"
Katherine Moore, PhD; Mainwaring Teaching Specialist in the Center for the Analysis of
Archaeological Materials, Penn Museum; University of Pennsylvania, Department of Archaeology
The site of Sitio Conte in western Panama is famous for its chiefly tombs dating from the period
A.D. 450 -900. The imagery from the burial offerings show fabulous animals in beautiful designs on
ceramic vessels and gold plaques. The offerings also include remarkable richness in animal bones, teeth, and other "scary" parts of animals such as sharks and rays. As part of an upcoming exhibit at the Penn Museum:Beneath the Surface: Life, Death, and Gold in Ancient Panama, the animal remains from Burial groups 11 and 12 were reexamined for the first time since they were excavated in the 1940s. Dr Moore will examine the relationship between dogs and people at this time, and ask it what would take to produce this piece of jewelry and what it might have meant.
Katherine Moore is an archaeologist who has worked on animal bones from across the Americas, the Middle East, and Africa. She is the Mainwaring Teaching Specialist in the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials at the Penn Museum and lectures in archaeology for the Department of Anthropology. Her major research work concerns the transition from animal hunting to herding in the Andes of Peru and Bolivia. She has also worked on the archaeology of the bone tool production in Bolivia.
Room 345
Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
http://www.precolumbian.org/nextmeeting.HTM
South American Archaeology Seminar
Co-sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the School for Advanced Studies, University of London and the Institute of Archaeology
Seminar organiser: Bill Sillar
9.45am - Coffee / Registration
• 10:15am - Nicole M. Slovak-Villano (Santa Rosa Junior College, USA) Changing Dynamics on Peru’s Central Coast: An Analysis of Physical and Cultural Variables from Early and Late Middle Horizon Tombs at Ancón, Peru
• 10:45am - Katarzyna Marciniak (University of Warsaw, Poland) Zooarchaeology analysis of skeletal remains from Inca ceremonial and administrative centre Maucallacta
• 11.15am - Daniel A. Contreras (Kiel University, Germany) Reconciling Sequences and Peering at the Horizon: Bayesian Modelling of Excavation, Architectural, and Ceramic Chronologies at Chavín de Huántar
Lunch
• 12:45pm - Alice V. M. Samson (University of Cambridge, UK) Becoming villagers in the pre-Columbian Caribbean
• 1:15pm - José Iriarte (University of Exeter, UK) Pre-Columbian fire-free land use of Amazonian savannas.
• 1:45pm - Jose Oliver (University College London, UK) New Radiocarbon Dates & Starch Grain Analyses from the Site of Saladero, Lower Orinoco, Venezuela
Tea
• 3:00 - Sara Gonzalez (Birkbeck and Oxford University, UK) Colonial Portraits of the Incas and Andean Cultural Heroes.
• 3:30 - Leonora Duncan (British Museum, UK) Public Perceptions of El Dorado: A Case Study from the British Museum
• 4:00 - Alexandra Morgan (Independent scholar, UK) The Riddle of the Tiahuanacoïd Stelae
All welcome!
Please e-mail Bill Sillar to reserve a place at the seminar. Participants will be asked to make a contribution of £7.50 towards the cost of coffee, tea, lunch & administration on the day.
Room 612, Institute of Archaeology
University College of London
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/calendar/articles/20131207
December 11, 6:00 PM
Walters Art Museum Lecture
"Learning by Watching: Andean Textiles and the Fabric of Culture"
Andean textile specialist Dr. Anne Tiballi, the Andrew W. Mellon Curricular Facilitator at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, will present an engaging talk, exploring the production of ancient American textiles, their significance, and their impact on the broader material culture of the ancient Americas.
The Walters Art Museum
600 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, Maryland
http://thewalters.org/events/eventdetails.aspx?e=3595
December 13, 1:30 PM
Meeting of the Pre-Columbian Society at the Penn Museum
"Dogs from Sitio Conte, Panama: Finding the Story Behind the Bling"
Katherine Moore, PhD; Mainwaring Teaching Specialist in the Center for the Analysis of
Archaeological Materials, Penn Museum; University of Pennsylvania, Department of Archaeology
The site of Sitio Conte in western Panama is famous for its chiefly tombs dating from the period
A.D. 450 -900. The imagery from the burial offerings show fabulous animals in beautiful designs on
ceramic vessels and gold plaques. The offerings also include remarkable richness in animal bones, teeth, and other "scary" parts of animals such as sharks and rays. As part of an upcoming exhibit at the Penn Museum:Beneath the Surface: Life, Death, and Gold in Ancient Panama, the animal remains from Burial groups 11 and 12 were reexamined for the first time since they were excavated in the 1940s. Dr Moore will examine the relationship between dogs and people at this time, and ask it what would take to produce this piece of jewelry and what it might have meant.
Katherine Moore is an archaeologist who has worked on animal bones from across the Americas, the Middle East, and Africa. She is the Mainwaring Teaching Specialist in the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials at the Penn Museum and lectures in archaeology for the Department of Anthropology. Her major research work concerns the transition from animal hunting to herding in the Andes of Peru and Bolivia. She has also worked on the archaeology of the bone tool production in Bolivia.
Room 345
Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
http://www.precolumbian.org/nextmeeting.HTM
Dec. 18th, 7:00 PM
Professor Nicholas Wood
Professor Nicholas Wood, MFA, Professor of Art and Art History at University of Texas at Arlington, is a multi-media artist working with clay. His informal talk will address the sophisticated techniques used by the Ancient Peruvian cultures in the creation of their clay objects.
Meeting Rooms
Irving Arts Center
3333 N. MacArthur Blvd.
Irving, Texas
http://www.irvingartscenter.com/Performances/EventsCalendar/EventDetail.aspx?id=704
Professor Nicholas Wood
Professor Nicholas Wood, MFA, Professor of Art and Art History at University of Texas at Arlington, is a multi-media artist working with clay. His informal talk will address the sophisticated techniques used by the Ancient Peruvian cultures in the creation of their clay objects.
Meeting Rooms
Irving Arts Center
3333 N. MacArthur Blvd.
Irving, Texas
http://www.irvingartscenter.com/Performances/EventsCalendar/EventDetail.aspx?id=704
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