Schedule

Friday, Oct 28    ::    Saturday, Oct 29    ::    Sunday, Oct 30


12:00 - 1:00 pm William Conklin lecture:

      Tiwanaku and Huari Textiles:
      Commonalities, Differences and the Implications


At the Baird Auditorium in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History


1:00 - 5:00 pm Exhibitions in DC:
   Retratos: 2000 Years of Latin American Portraits
   National Museum of the American Indian
   Gods and Empire: Huari Ceremonial Textiles – special tour for conference participants from 3:00 to 5:00 pm



6:00 - 9:00 pm Reception and refreshments at the Society of Woman Geographers with a presentation by Monica Barnes, David Dickason, David Fleming:

      Flight over the Andes:
      The Pioneering Air Photographs of Mary U. L. Meader


Location: 415 E Capitol St SE (202-546-9228, on-street parking available)

Directions from Union Station Metro (Red Line, 0.8 mi walk): go south (toward Capitol) across Columbus Circle onto 1st St NE, turn left/east on E Capitol St SE and continue just past 4th St SE

Directions from Eastern Market Metro (Blue/Orange Line, 0.6 mi walk): go northwest (toward Capitol) on Pennsylvania Ave, turn right/north on 6th St SE, turn left/west on E Capitol St SE and continue just past 4th St SE

Directions from Capitol South Metro (Blue/Orange Line, 0.6 mi walk): go north (toward Capitol) on 1st St SE, turn right/east on E Capitol St SE and continue past 5th St SE

 

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Saturday, Oct 29

All sessions in AU's Ward Building, Room 1 (See Full Campus Map)

8:00 - 8:30 am Coffee and refreshments

8:30 - 8:35 am

8:35 - 8:40 am
Welcome from Bill Leap, Chair, AU Dept of Anthropology

Welcome from Dean Kay Mussell, AU College of Arts and Sciences


8:40 - 10:40 am EARLY MORNING SESSION: Moderator, Joan Gero

Location: AU Ward Building, Room 1

8:40 - 9:00 Jim Richardson (Carnegie Museum of Natural History)
Atlantis: Are There Drowned Sites on the Continental Shelf?

9:05 - 9:25 Kary Stackelbeck (University of Kentucky)
Variability in Middle Preceramic Lifeways on the North Coast of Perú:
Implications for Addressing Long-Term Culture Change in the Central Andes


9:30 - 9:50 Bernhard Lorenz (Büro für Geophysik)
Geophysical Survey at Sechín Bajo, an Initial Period Site in the Casma Valley, Perú

9:55 - 10:15 Elka Weinstein (University of Toronto)
Depictions of the Cucurbitaceae in Chorrera Ceramics

10:20 - 10:40 Lucy Salazar (Yale Peabody Museum)
Analysis of Metal Artifacts from the Gallinazo Group, Virú Valley, Perú


10:45 - 11:00 am Coffee break


11 am - 12:40 pm LATE MORNING SESSION: Moderator, Anita Cook

Location: AU Ward Building, Room 1

11:00 - 11:20 Anne Peters (Cornell University)
A Tello and Mejía Revival: Recontextualizing the Paracas Materials

11:25 - 11:45 Jeff Splitstoser (The Catholic University of America)
The Chavín Textiles of Cerrillos, Ica Valley, Perú

11:50 - 12:10 Helene Bernier (University of Maryland)
For Daily Life or for Rulers' Artifice?
The Purposes of Craft Specialization at Moche


12:15 - 12:40 Lloyd Anderson (Ecological Linguistics)
History and Distinct Polities in Moche Fineline Pottery



12:45 - 2:00 pm


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Lunch break





2:00 - 3:35 pm EARLY AFTERNOON SESSION: Moderator, Pablo de la Vera Cruz

Location: AU Ward Building, Room 1

2:00 - 2:20 Daniella Jofré, Jason Nesbitt, John R. Topic, Kory Tyka Avila Vereau, Alfredo Melly Cava, Anne Albers, and Nathan Contant (Trent University, Yale University and Proyecto Yanacocha, Cajamarca, Perú)
The Ceremonial Landscape of Huamachuco:
A Report on the Catequil Project 1998-2005


2:25 - 2:45 Benjamin Alberti (Framingham State College)
Gender, Form, and Substance:
Interpreting Anthropomorphic Vessels from Northwest Argentina


2:50 - 3:10 Amy Groleau (SUNY Binghamton)
Housework Is Never Done:
Ritual Offerings and the Maintenance of a Conchopata Household


3:15 - 3:35 William H. Isbell, Masaki Doi, and Juan B. Leoni (SUNY Binghamton)
A New Type of Architectural Model:
Implications for the Development of Huari



3:40 - 4:00 pm Coffee Break


4:00 - 6:00 pm LATE AFTERNOON SESSION: Moderator, Carola Aguilar

Location: AU Ward Building, Room 1

4:00 - 4:20 Mary Glowacki (Pre-Columbian Archaeological Research Group, Inc., Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research)
Excavations at Cotocotuyoc

4:25 - 4:45 Ryan Williams, D. Nash, S. de France, M. Moseley, A. Miranda, M. Ruales (The Field Museum, University of Florida)
Excavating an Imperial Brewery at Cerro Baul

4:50 - 4:10 Francis Hayashida (Pennsylvania State University)
Chicha Production on the North Coast of Perú:
Ethnoarchaeological Observations from Piura


5:15 - 5:35 Lidio M. Valdez, Nilton Rios, Craig Smith, and Annette Baus (University of Victoria, Canada)
Wari Ceremonial Ceramics From La Oroya, Acarí Valley, Perú

5:40 - 5:50 pm Susanna Arce Torres (Museo Regional De Ica)
Conservación del Patrimonio Arqueológico en la Costa Sur


6:00 - 6:15 pm Business Meeting


6:30 - 8:30 pm RECEPTION in the UNIVERSITY CLUB, Mary Graydon Center, American University, sponsored by the Catholic University of America

 

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Sunday, Oct 30 

All sessions in AU's Ward Building, Room 1 (See Full Campus Map)

8:00 - 8:35 am Coffee and refreshments

8:30 - 10:30 am EARLY MORNING SESSION: Moderator, Susana Arce Torres

Location: AU Ward Building, Room 1

8:30 - 8:50 Leonardo Benitez and Alexei Vranich (University of Pennsylvania)
Urban Planning and Conveying the Sacred at Tiwanaku

8:55 - 9:15 Charles Hastings (Central Michigan University)
Archaeology and Sustainable Development in the Eastern Andes of Perú

9:20 - 9:40 Andrea M. Cuellar (University of Lethbridge)
Social Hierarchy, Demographic Change and the Organization of Agricultural Production among the Quijos Chiefdoms of Ecuador's Eastern Piedmont

9:45 - 10:05 Elisenda Vila Llonch (University of Maryland)
Litters for the Living, Litters for the Dead

10:10 - 10:30 Steve Wernke (University of North Carolina)
A Negotiated Settlement:
Reducción and the Prehispanic Landscape in the Colca Valley, Perú



10:35 - 10:50 am Coffee break


10:50 - 1:50 pm LATE MORNING SESSION: Moderator, TBA

Location: AU Ward Building, Room 1

10:50 - 11:10 Carrie Brezine (Harvard University)
House of Cords: Investigating the Rapaz Khipu

11:15 - 11:35 Ruth Anne Phillips (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Art of the Andes in US Architecture, 1910-1940

11:40 - 12:00 Joanne Pillsbury and Lisa S. Trever (Dumbarton Oaks and Harvard University)
The King, the Bishop and the Creation of an American Antiquity

12:05 - 12:25 Catherine J. Allen (George Washington University)
Computerized Programs of Ch'uncho Dance Choreography

12:30 - 12:50 Ann Rowe (The Textile Museum, Washington DC)
Indigenous Costume in Quito

12:55 - 1:15 Isabel Yaya (University of New South Wales)
The Import of Initiation:
Politics and Kinship in the Account of Yahuar Yahuac's Childhood


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