October Ancient America Lectures and Conferences

[michaelruggeri]

October 2-4
15TH Biennial Mogollon Archaeology Conference
Western New Mexico University Museum will host the 14th Mogollon Archaeology Conference
REGISTRATION: The draft conference schedule, registration, fees, and additional information will be
available by mid-summer 2008 at www.wnmu.edu/univ/museum.htm and sent via e-mail. Unfortunately,
registration cannot take place via email.
The registration fee for the conference is $50.00 if you pre-register prior to September 5, 2008. We encourage you to pre-register and to indicate the various activities in which you wish to participate by using the enclosed registration form. Your Mogollon Archaeology Conference packets can be picked up
at the Opening Reception/Registration on Thursday, October 2, 2008, between 4 pm and 6 pm. Late
registration (after September 5) or on-site registrations add $10.00.
You may also register during the opening reception on Thursday, October 2, or at the Global Resource Center (GRC) on Friday, October 3 between 7:30 and 10:00 A.M. You must pre-register for the Friday evening dinner at the Buckhorn to obtain the dinner entrée you require. A few tickets for the dinner will be reserved on a first come first served basis for late registrants, but a specific entrée cannot be guaranteed.
PAPERS: Those individuals interested in presenting papers are requested to submit a title and an abstract by Friday, August 29, 2008. Please submit your name, address, contact information,
institutional affiliation, paper title, author(s), and an abstract not to exceed 100-words to the Conference
Program Chair/Organizer (BettisonC@wnmu.edu) via e-mail (please see Paper Title/Abstract
Information document). ALL papers will be limited to 15-minutes in length.
Papers or presentations are limited to Mogollon archaeology (including Jornada Mogollon and Northern Chihuahua) with a cut-off date of A.D. 1400-1450. Due to time limitations, papers concerned with
Historic and Archaic groups are discouraged unless the paper pertains directly to the evolution of Mogollon groups. Abstracts will be reviewed by a Conference Program Committee.
Western New Mexico University and Museum
Silver City, NM
http://www.swanet.org/2008_pecos_confer ... n_conf.pdf




October 3-5
2008 Arkansas Archaeological Society Annual Meeting.
Arlington Hotel,
Hot Springs, Arkansas
http://www.arkarch.org/index.php?pages/annmeet




October 8-11,
The 31st Great Basin Anthropological Conference
University Place, Portland State University,
Portland, Oregon.
For information regarding the upcoming conference you may contact:
Dr. Virginia Butler - Program Chair - Department of Anthropology
Portland State University - Portland, OR 97207
(503) 725-3303 - butlerv@pdx.edu
The call for papers and information about the meeting will appear in Spring 2008.




October 9, 7:30 PM
Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Lecture
"Prehistoric Heated Rock Cooking Features of the Central Transverse Mountain Ranges"
The presentation will focus on archaeological examinations of "earth ovens," "grills," and "burnt rock middens" found in the San Gabriel Mountains, Castaic Mountains, and the Cajon Pass Divide. Radiocarbon dating of charcoal indicates that heated rock cooking facilities were initially used by Archaic populations at desert margins of the Transverse Ranges more than 7500 years ago and that the use of these structures gradually became more commonplace during subsequent millennia. After about 2300 years ago, there was marked intensification in the firings of heated rock food cooking structures. Formally distinct rock-lined earth ovens, which are proposed as hallmarks for the arrival of Uto-Aztecans, also appear in the archaeological record at about that time. After 300 years ago, heated rock cooking appears to have declined in the Transverse Ranges. The spatial and temporal distributions of heated rock food structures serve as useful measures of resource intensification in the Transverse Ranges since the early Holocene.
15600 Sand Canyon Avenue
(between the I-5 and I-405, next to the Post Office)
Irvine, California
http://www.pcas.org/meetings.html




October 9, 7:30 PM
Arizona Archaeology Society, Phoenix Chapter Lecture
"Payson to Heber Project Results"
Pueblo Grande Museum
4619 E. Washington,
Tucson, Arizona
http://www.azarchsoc.org/phoenixchapter.html#section3






October 14th, 7:00 PM
"Petroglyphs of the Taos Area -Twenty-three years of recording petroglyphs in North-Central New Mexico"
Paul, with the help of many local volunteers, began recording petroglyphs quite by accident when they discovered the Big Arsenic Springs Petroglyphs during an archaeological inventory within the Rio Grande Gorge in 1985. This group of BLM volunteers formed the Taos Archaeological Society within a couple of years, and has been recording petroglyphs ever since. This visual slide presentation documents some forty petroglyph sites located and recorded by the Taos Archaeological Society over the last two decades.
Kachina Lodge
Taos, New Mexico
http://www.taosarch.org/






October 15–19, 2008
"2008 Annual Meeting of the
Midwest Archaeological Conference"
*CALL FOR PAPERS*
Hyatt Regency Hotel
333 Kilbourn Ave.
Milwaukee, WI*
*ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 15, 2008*
Please submit abstracts via the MAC webpage on SPORG –
https://www.sporg.com/registration?org_id=33814
If you cannot use the web page to submit your abstracts, email Word or rtf
files to: Robert J. Jeske at jeske@uwm.edu
*Individual Paper and Poster Abstracts* - Abstracts must be no more than 100
words in length.
*Symposium Abstracts* - All abstracts for symposia must be submitted as a
complete packet, including symposium abstract, and all individual abstracts.
Paper presentations must be 15 minutes in length maximum.
Individuals presenting papers must be active (2008) members of MAC and
registered at the meeting. Co-authors not presenting need not be MAC
members, nor be registered at the ia Richards, pbrownr@uwm.edu.
Hyatt Regency Hotel
333 Kilbourn Ave.
Milwaukee, WI
http://www.midwestarchaeology.org/meetings.htm




Thursday, October 16, 7:30 PM
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's "Third Thursdays" program:
"The 'Deep Structure' of Early Archaic Rock Art: Human Universals"
On a global scale, all earliest art-making traditions consist of abstract-geometric motifs and nonfigurative patterns, regardless of whether they occur on portable objects or on rock surfaces. This is also true for the rock art of the American West, which houses a wealth of nonrepresentational images, both painted and engraved. To shed light on this most enigmatic yet fascinating imagery, which to many rock art researchers is of little interest since it seems to offer no insights into the minds of its creators, Professor Malotki resorts to human universals and cutting-edge ideas gleaned from neuroscience and
evolutionary psychology. In addition to presenting novel ideas, he hopes to heighten awe and respect for the area's rock art legacy through striking photographs.
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center,
5100 W. Ina Road Bldg. 8
(northwestern Tucson metro area).
520-798-1201
info@oldpueblo.org.
http://www.oldpueblo.org




October 24-25
"Advances in Hohokam Archaeology"
The conference will highlight the results of recent research in Hohokam archaeology and reflect on how far our understanding of the Hohokam has come in the past 25 years. A centerpiece of the conference will be a panel discussion with participants from the last "big" Hohokam conference held 25 years ago. This call for papers is intended to solicit abstracts from interested presenters for papers and posters. Abstracts should include the author's name, affiliation, and a 100–150 word summary of the main topic of the paper or poster. Students are especially encouraged to submit abstracts—an award will be given for the best student presentation. AAC intends to publish the results of the conference. Interested presenters should submit a paper/poster title and abstract to Dr. Douglas Craig by September 1, 2008.
Pueblo Grande Museum in Phoenix, Arizona on
http://arizonaarchaeologicalcouncil.org/index.php




October 24–26
79th Texas Archeological Society Annual Meeting
SPRING CALL FOR PAPERS
Holiday Inn Park Plaza Hotel,
Lubbock, Texas,
The Annual Meeting is returning to Lubbock in 2008, and in some ways the TAS is coming home. Many of the pioneers of Texas Archeology and founders of the TAS got their starts in the Southern Plains!
Individual Papers – Titles and Abstracts are due by September 1, 2008.
Symposia – Titles and Abstracts are due by August 15, 2008.
Poster Presentations – Titles and Abstracts are due by September 1, 2008.
Abstracts should be submitted to the Program Chair, Dr. Tamra Walter, via email to papers@txarch.org or send to:
Dr. Tamra Walter, Associate Professor
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work
Texas Tech University
PO Box 41012
Lubbock TX 79409-1012
http://www.txarch.org/Activities/Annual ... index.html




October 28, 6:30 PM
Farmers Branch Historical Park
"Hunter-Gatherer Mortuary Practices during the Central Texas Archaic" Beginning over 10,000 years ago and continuing until the arrival of the Spanish in the 1500s, hunter and gatherer societies occupied the Edwards Plateau of central Texas. Dr. Bement's analysis reveals a growing elaboration in burial rituals during the period and uncovers important data on the diet and health of these societies. He will discuss climate change based on faunal remains and compare burial goods such as freshwater shell, marine shell, turtle and stone artifact with those found at other mortuary sites.
Dallas, Texas
http://www.dallasarcheology.org/




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