The 39th Annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory Print
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Friday, 18 February 2011 09:47

Website: http://adn.missouri.edu/archaeologyconference/

At the Museum of Art and Archeology - Pickard Hall
University of Missouri – Columbia
February 26-27, 2011
(The Conference is Free and Open to the Public)

Program

Friday, February 25

Pre-Conference gathering at 7:30pm on Broadway Brewery
816 East Broadway Columbia, MO 65201
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Saturday, February 26
Morning Session (8:30 - 12:15)

8:00 - 8:30 Registration / Coffee & Pastries

8:30 - 8:40 Welcome Remarks

8:40 - 9:05
New Collaborations in the Upper Amazon
Bartholomew Dean, Sydney Silverstein, Joshua Homan, University of Kansas
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9:05 - 9:30 Multi-Scalar Comparisons in the Intermediate Area
Scott D. Palumbo, William A. Locascio, Alex Martín, and Adam C.J. Menzies
College of Lake County, University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, St. Francis Xavier University
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9:30 - 9:55
Geophysical Investigations at an Inca Site in Northwestern Ecuador
Donald W. Johnson
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9:55 - 10:20
Yumbos of northwestern Ecuador as seen through burial customs
Ronald D. Lippi and Alejandra M. Gudiño
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10:20-10:35 Morning Break

10:35 - 11:00
Lightning in Pre-Columbian and Colonial Andean Religion and Culture
John E. Staller
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11:00 - 11:25
Narrative Composition in the Andes
Catherine J. Allen,
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11:25 - 12:20 Keynote Presentation:
Royal Tunics: From Inca to Huari and Tiahuanaco
Their reflection of Political and Ritual Hierarchy

Dr. Tom Zuidema, (University of Illinois)

12:20 - 2:00 Lunch Break

Afternoon Session 2:00 – 6:30

2:00 - 2:25
The ethnohistory of adornment within the Tupi linguistic family: proto-condition and ethnographic examples
Brittany Long & Curtis Atkinson
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2:25 - 2:50
The ethnohistory of the Tupi language family in the Amazon
Abigail Middleton and Curtis Atkisson
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2:50 - 3:15
Passage Rituals of the Tupi: Celebration through scarification and seclusion
Stephanie Mundwiller
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3:15 - 3:40
Seeing the Stones of Chavin
Mary Weismantel
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3:40-4:05
Arrowroot and Llerén: The Archaeology of Two Neotropical Root Crops
Deborah M. Pearsall
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4:05 – 4:30 Afternoon Break

Afternoon Session II 4:30 - 6:30

At the Anthropology Museum
Swallow Hall (two buildings from Art & Archaeology Museum)

Reception in honor of Dr Tom Zuidema
Research and Contributions

Guest Speakers:
Catherine Allen
Bill Isbell
Debbie Pearsall
Jeff Parson
Sergio Chavez
Mary Weismantel

Business Meeting 6:15 – 6:30

Dinner at an Italian Restaurant at 7:00pm

Sunday, February 27

8:00 - 8:15 Coffee / Registration

8:15 - 8:40
A Small-scale society of Late Period in Valle Fértil, Middle West of Argentina (1000-1600DC): a preliminary approach over production and consumption from isotopic and osteometric analysis
Pablo Cahiza and Juan Pablo Aguilar
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8:40 - 9:05
Tiahuanaco Funerary Patterns at the Site of Cundisa in Copacabana, BoliviaSergio and Stanislava Chavez
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9:05 - 9:30
Venus as the centerpiece of the ancient Andean Moche Guerrero and Tiwanaku Gateway of the Sun calendric reliefs
Ann O. Laffey
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9:30 – 9:55
Promise and Problems of Food Residue Phytolith Assemblage Analysis
Robert Thompson
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9:55 - 10:10 Morning Break

10:10 -10:35
Effects of Seabird Guano Fertilization on the Stable Isotope Composition of Plants: Results from a Controlled Study
Paul Szpak, Jean-François Millaire, Fred J. Longstaffe, Christine D. White
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10:35 – 11:00
Placing Pisanay: Excavations at a Sihuas Valley Site, Arequipa, Peru
Jo Ellen Burkholder & Erika Simborth Lozada
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11:00 - 11:25
Ritual Human Sacrifice in the Andes: A Case from the Perceramic Period?
Coutts, K.H., A. Chu and J. Krigbaum
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11:25 - 11:50
Ritual Feasting at Buena Vista: Special Foods, Ancient Cultigens or Interzonal Interaction in Late Preceramic Peru
Neil A. Duncan
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11:50 - 12:15
Implications of canal architecture at the songoy-cojal site complex, zaña valley, peruKayeleigh Sharp and Natalia Guzman-Requen
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12:15 - 12:40
Health and Labor at Armatambo, Perú: How Bioarchaeology Contributes to the Study of Social Complexity
Keith Chan
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Meeting Adjourn

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