Spring 2010 Schedule
March 22 The earliest stages in Rapa Nui's (Easter Island) Polynesian Settlement: Hanga 'Anakena re-interpreted using a geo-archaeological, chronological and landscape approach. Dr. Simon Bickler, Clough and Associates Ltd., and Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia.

Abstract. This seminar describes one aspect of work in progress within the late Roger Green's research programme in the construction of scenarios for the early developments in Polynesian religious structures within Eastern Polynesian. The focus in this seminar is Rapa Nui or Easter Island. In our view what is missing for Rapa Nui is documentation bearing on the earlier colonisation portion of its cultural historical sequence. To capture and date this interval requires the application of Bayesian methods in the interpretation of multiple sets of radiocarbon determinations documenting the colonisation process for all of southeastern Polynesia. That starts with the Mangareva/Pitcairn/Henderson two-way zone of intense interaction that began during an interval before cal. AD 1000. In our model an initial landfall is deemed to have occurred sometime before cal. AD 1100, rather than during the century after AD 1200 along the lines proposed in the model by Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo in several recent publications beginning in 2006. The chronological refinements to interpreting a database of around 100 14C determinations having a conventional radiocarbon age (CRA) of 500 years or more. The radiocarbon dates are combined with a re-evaluation of the stratigraphy of excavations in Anakena to create a coherent framework for continual change in the landscape of the island from its initial occupation through to the 13th to 14th century AD. In this period the erection of the first ahu platforms associated with anthropomorphic statues also start to document developments within the island's religious structures. Thus various earlier and simpler forms among ahu platforms first occur along most coastal zones on the island between cal. AD 1280-1415.

For Hunt and Lipo's piece in Science click here.
April 12 Artifacts versus Ecofacts: Redefining Material Culture in the Ancient Mediterranean Carrie Murray, Visiting Research Scholar, Department of Art History, University of Virginia.
April 22 Evolution or Devolution?: Searching for Chiefs in the Archaeological "Dark Ages" of Polynesian Prehistory. Erika Brant and Rebecca Schumann, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia. Note: Thursday at 2:00 p.m.

Abstract.Polynesia has always had chiefs. At least this has long been the consensus amongst scholars of Polynesian prehistory and one reason why anthropologists and archaeologists, particularly those working under neo-evolutionary paradigms, often turn to the literature on Polynesian societies to demonstrate what exactly is meant by the term "chiefdom." Yet, the archaeological record is more equivocal regarding the role of chiefs in Polynesia's prehistory. The spread of finely decorated Lapita pottery during the initial settling of the region indicates chiefly individuals may have arrived with colonizing populations. However, Lapita pottery disappears at around 700 B.C. and it is not until approximately A.D. 1000, with the construction of monumental stone complexes and intensification of agricultural production, that there is once again compelling evidence for the existence of a chiefly class. Material correlates of chiefly power are absent from roughly 1700 years of Polynesian's chronology - a period which includes the Ancestral Polynesian Period and the archaeological "Dark Ages." Such a dearth of evidence must at least partially stem from the fact that archaeological research has tended to focus on periods characterized by monumental architecture and for which ethnographic data is readily available. Being as such, our current understanding of Polynesian prehistory has privileged, and been uncritically shaped by, the last 500 years of the region's prehistory. Given uncertainty surrounding the Polynesian developmental trajectory, this paper also questions the degree to which Polynesian societies exemplify neo-evolutionary models.
April 29 The Agricultural Transition in the Southwest: A Case of Forager Adoption and Continuity or Farmer Migration? Phil R. Geib, Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia. Note: Thursday at 4:00 p.m.
Fall 2009 Schedule
Sept. 7 Organizational Meeting.
Nov. 16 Sliding Scales and Memory Trails: Explorations of Continuity, Change, and Collaboration in Native New England. Steve Silliman, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Boston. 4:00 p.m., Cabell 138.

Spring 2009 Schedule
Jan. 26 Organizational Meeting.
Feb. 9 Starved Pythons and Sated Ancestors: Archaeological Perspectives on the Rise and Collapse of the Hueda Kingdom, 1650-1727 AD. Neil Norman, Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary.
March 9
Black-Figure On the Black Sea: Athenian Pottery from Berezan (Ukraine) Tyler Jo Smith, McIntire Department of Art, University of Virginia.
March 16 Finding their Place in the Swahili World: Archaeology around Mikindani, Tanzania Matt Pawlowicz, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia.
March 23 Cow Bones, Quahogs, and Colonialism: Food Choice as a Venue for Collaborative Archaeological Research .Mike Fedore, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia.
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Anxiety in Town and Country: Struggles for Power and the Transformation of Systems of Food Production in Third Millennium B.C. Upper Mesopotamia .Phil Trella, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia.
Fall 2008 Schedule
Sept. 2 Organizational Meeting.
Sept. 16 Technologies of Power: Ritual Economy and Ceramic Production in the Terminal Preclassic Period Holmul Region, Guatemala. Michael G. Callaghan, Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University.
Sept. 30 Spatial Structure and Community at Andean Hillforts. Liz Arkush, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia.
Oct. 3
Special Event 		Modeling Bronze Age Political Economies Tim Earle, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University. Location: Third Floor (Kaleidoscope), Newcomb Hall. Time: 1:00 p.m. Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology's Speaker Series.
Oct.14 Fall Break.
Oct. 21 Reconstructing the population history of San Marcos Pueblo, New Mexico, from surface collections. Fraser Neiman, Department of Archaeology, Monticello. Based on a collaboration with Ann Ramenofsky, University of New Mexico.
Nov. 11 The Economic Organization and Cultural Cohesion of Fugitive Slave Communities in 19th-Century Kenya. Lydia Wilson, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia. Click here for an abstract.
Nov. 18 Animistic Ecology and Emergent Complexity in the Bolivian Andes. John Janusek, Dumbarton Oaks. Location: Third Floor (Kaleidoscope), Newcomb Hall. Time: 4:00 p.m.
Dec. 2 Jades as Inalienable Possessions in Ancient Mesoamerica. Brigitte Kovacevich, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia.

Spring 2008 Schedule
Jan 24. Organizational Meeting.
Feb 2. Special Event A Symposium Celebrating the Repatriation to Italy of Acrolithic Sculptures from Morgantina Organized by Mac Bell, Professor, Department of Art, UVA. Auditorium of the Harrison Institute/Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia. The program is here.
Feb 7. Feasting Archaeologists: A Roundtable.
Feb 21. Headless Ancestors and Wild Barley: Thinking about the Forager-Farmer Transition and Neolithic "Inequality" from the Ground Up. Ian Kuijt, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Notre Dame. Note: 158 Campbell, 4:30 p.m.
Background reading:
March 6 Spring Vacation
March 20. Architectural Counterpoint: Gentry Houses, Violence, and the Evolution of Race in the Chesapeake and Jamaica. Fraser Neiman, Monticello. Based on a collaboration with Louis Nelson(UVA), Jillian Galle(DAACS), and Edward Chappell (CWF).
April 3. Post-SAA Passa-Passa. Catch up on posters and talks by fellow Brown-Baggers you might have missed!
April 17. More Post-SAA Passa-Passa. Catch up on posters and talks by fellow Brown-Baggers you might have missed!

Fall 2007 Schedule
Sept.6 Organizational Meeting.
Sept. 20 Current literature discussion. Bring a discussion question!

"Climate, history and human action" by Roderick J. McIntosh, Joseph A. Tainter and Susan Keech McIntosh. In The way the wind blows: climate, history and human action , edited by Roderick J. McIntosh, Joseph A. Tainter and Susan Keech McIntosh, pp.1-44. Columbia University Press, New York (2000). Click here to download the article.

Special Event
Sept.28 		Ancient Americašs Big Bang and the Archaeology of Citationality and Conjuncture. Tim Pauketat, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series. Friday,1-2:45 p.m., Brooks Hall Library.

Here's Professor Pauketat's blurb: Tim Pauketat has written on the relationships between agency, materiality,identity, and power in ancient North America, particularly the pre-Columbian developments in the upper Midwest down through the Mid-South and Southeast. He has advocated an archaeology that emphasizes studying how the past was constructed, practiced, and commemorated. This lecture explores a dramatic historical rupture, Cahokiašs Big Bang, which altered for all practical purposes the histories of Native Americans across half the continent more than nine centuries ago. The archaeological story hinges on a supernova, trans-regional peace-making, migrations, and human sacrifice.
Nov. 8 Expanding Ethnoarchaeology: Historical Evidence and Model-Building in the Study of Technological Change. Michael Schiffer, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona
Nov. 29 TBA. Dell Upton, Shea Professor, Department of Architectural History, University of Virginia
Spring 2007 Schedule
Jan. 25 Organizational Meeting.
Feb. 8
Current literature discussion. Bring a discussion question!

Matthew H. Johnson, 2006. "On the nature of theoretical archaeology and archaeological theory." Archaeological Dialogues,13(2):117-132. Click here to download the article.

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Feb. 9 Special Event "Exploring an Early Greek City: Five Seasons of Excavation at Azoria in Eastern Crete". Professor Margaret Mook, Iowa State University. 5:00 P.M., Campbell 160. Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America.
Feb. 22 “Influence of German Missionary Trade on Labrador Inuit: Analysis of Historical and Archaeological Records”. Beatrix Arendt, Department of Anthropology, UVA.
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March 8 Spring Vacation.
March 22 "A Plaza-ble Conjecture: the Origins of Complex Group Identities in the Salinas Pueblo District, New Mexico." Matthew Chamberlin, Deptartment of Sociology/Anthropology and International Beliefs and Values Institute, James Madison University, and Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University.
April 5
"'Now the God of the Spaniards is Dead': The Archaeology of Pueblo Revolution and Revitalization in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico". Matthew J. Liebmann, Department of Anthropology, College of William & Mary. 222 Cabell Hall.
April 19
 		"Negotiating with Nicotiana: An Investigation of the Role of Tobacco Smoking and Pipes in Native and European Relations in the Middle Atlantic" Beth Bollwerk, Department of Anthropology, UVA.
Fall 2006 Schedule
Aug. 31 Organizational Meeting: summer research updates and speakers for the Fall.
Sept. 12
Special Event 		"Recent Archaeological Fieldwork in Thebes, Greece." Anastasia Dakouri-Hild, Visiting Assistant Professor in Prehistoric Art and Archaeology, McIntire Department of Art, University of Virginia,> Assistant Director for Research, IATH. 5:30 pm, 160 Campbell Hall. Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America.
Sept. 14 Current literature discussion. Bring a discussion question!

"Genes versus agents. A discussion of the widening theoretical gap in archaeology" by Kristian Kristiansen, with comments by Ulrich Viet, John Robb, Stephen Shennan, and rejoinder by Kristiansen. Archaeological Dialogues Volume 11(2):77-132, 2004. Click here to download the article.

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Sept. 28 "Enter the Countryside: Regional Approaches to Palace Settlement Systems in Coastal Benin West African 1600-1750AD." Neil Norman, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia.
Oct. 12 Current literature discussion. Bring a discussion question!

"Public Archaeology and Indigenous Communities," by Mike Parker Pearson and Ramilisonina, in Nick Merriman (ed). Public Archaeology. London: Routledge, 2004, pp. 224-39. Click here to download the article.

"Reconstruction as Ideology: The Open-Air Museum at Oerlinghausen, Germany," by Martin Schmidt. In Peter Stone G. and Philippe G. Planel (eds). The Constructed Past: Experimental Archaeology, Education and the Public. London: Routledge, 1999, pp.146-56. Click here to download the article.

Oct. 13
Special Event 		"Archives and Ancestors: Reinterpreting Death and Demography in Chaco Canyon" Stephen Plog and Carrie Heitman, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia. 1:00-1:45 p.m. Brooks Hall Library. Sponsored by Anthropology Department Friday Speakers Series.
Oct. 17
Special Event 		"The Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery(DAACS)Expands into the Caribbean" Jillian Galle, DAACS Project Manager, Monticello Department of Archaeology. Tea at 3:30, talk at 4:00. Berkeley Room, Jefferson Library, Kenwood. Sponsored by the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, Monticello. For directions click here.
Oct. 20
Special Event 		"Cana of the Galilee: from Jewish Village to Christian Pilgrimage Site". Professor Douglas R. Edwards, University of Puget Sound 5:00 pm, 160 Campbell Hall. Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America.
Oct. 20-21
Special Event 		Monticello Archaeology Lab Open House. Walking tours of the the Monticello Plantation Archaeological Survey. Location: Archaeology Lab, Monticello. For more information, click here.
Oct. 26 "Creolization and Ethnogenic Bricolage in African Diasporas." Chris Fennell, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois.
Nov. 9 "State-Sanctioned Violence in the Prehispanic Andes." Tiffiny Tung, Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University. Location: Cabell 311. Click here for the abstract.
Nov. 30 "The Seal Impressions from Gilund: Evidence of Administration and Contact in Chalcolithic Western India" Marta Ameri. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University and Research Associate , Metropolitan Museum of Art.University. Click here for the abstract.

 

Spring 2006 Schedule

 

Jan. 26

A Multiscalar Approach to Understanding Ceramic Assemblage Variation among Woodland-Period sites on the Lower Chattahoochee and Apalachicola Rivers Karen Smith, Archaeology Department, Monticello and Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia.

 

Feb.9

Status, Gender and Memory in Third Millennium Syria: A "Royal" Cemetery a Tell Umm el-Marra Glenn Schwartz, Whiting Professor of Archaeology, Department of Near Eastern Studies, The Johns Hopkins University.

 

Feb. 24
Special Event

From the Bottom Up: Socio-politico Organization at an Ancient Maya Urban Center. Scott Hutson, fellow in Pre-Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections 1 p.m., Brooks Hall Library .

 

March 1
Special Event

Hilltop Forts and Regional Politics in the Late Prehispanic Titicaca Basin, Peru. Elizabeth Arkush, Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Wayne State University. 12:15 p.m., Brooks Hall Library .

 

March 9

Spring Break

 

March. 16

Powhatan's Werowocomoco: Constructing Polity, Place, and Personhood in the Chesapeake, A.D. 1200 - 1609. Martin Gallivan, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary.

 

March 30

Remains of a Day: Molluscs, Palaeodiet and Elite Consumption in Late Bronze Age Thebes . Anastasia Dakouri-Hild, Department of Art, University of Virginia. Brooks Hall Library -- on the third floor.

 

April. 6

Houses and House Estates in Early Hohokam Society. Douglas B. Craig, Principal Investigator, Northland Research. Brooks Hall Library -- on the third floor.

 

April 27

SAA Meetings.

 

 

 

 

Fall 2005 Schedule

 

Sept. 1

Organizational Meeting: summer research updates and speakers for the Fall.

 

Special Event
Sept. 14

The Hellenistic City at Morgantina, 1955-2005 Malcolm Bell, III Professor of Art History, University of Virginia. Department of Art, McIntire Lecture Series. 6:00 p.m., 153 Campbell Hall.

 

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Sept. 15

Assyrian Urbanism: an ethnoarchaeological approach. Lynn Rainville, Sweetbriar College.

 

Sept. 29

Collapse as Social Process: Case Studies from AD 1150 Chaco Canyon, N.M., and Third Millennium B.C. Southeast Anatolia. Phil Trella. Department of Anthropology, UVA.

 

Special Event
October 11

Cult, Continuity, and Cultural Identity at the Etruscan Settlement of Poggio Colla (Florence) Professor Gregory Warden, Southern Methodist University. Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America. 5:30 p.m., 160 Campbell Hall

 

Oct. 13

Abnormal as the Norm: Variability in the Treatment of Human Remains in the pre-Columbian Southwest. Kerriann Marden. Smithsonian Institution.

 

Oct. 27

Doing Prehistory with Language: Semantic Change and Borrowing in the Proto-Yucatecan (Mayan) Kinship Lexicon. Eve Danzinger, Department of Anthropology, UVA.

 

Special Event
Nov. 10

The First City at Morgantina, 1955-2005. Carla Antonaccio Professor of Classical Studies, Duke University, Co-Director of the Excavations at Morgantina. Department of Art, McIntire Lecture Series. 6:00 p.m., 160 Campbell Hall.

 

Special Event
Nov. 15

Colonial Afro-Caribbean Vernacular Architecture. Grant Gilmore, Island Archaeologist and Director of the St. Eustatius Center for Archaeological Research . Sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians. 5:00 p.m., 158 Campbell Hall.

 

Special Event
Nov. 16

The Search for the Battle of Actium. Professor William M. Murray, University of South Florida Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America. 5:30 p.m., 160 Campbell Hall

 

Nov. 24

Thanksgiving Break

 

Spring 2005 Schedule

 

Jan. 27

Fallen through the cracks: Reconsidering Houses in Chacoan Prehistory, Chaco Canyon, NM, AD 850-1200 . Carrie Heitman, Department of Anthropology, Unversity of Virginia.

 

Feb.10 Special Event

Gating Union: The Politics of Making a Historically Black Community. Mieka Brand Woodson Predoctoral Fellow, and Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia. NOTE: 4:00 p.m., Berkeley Room, Jefferson Library, Kenwood. Sponsored by the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, Monticello. For directions click here.

 

Feb.15 Special Event

"Islamizing the Berbers: Excavations at Volubilis and the First Centuries of Arab Conquest of North Africa Prof. Elizabeth Fentress Institute of Archaeology University of London NOTE: 5:30 p.m., Campbell Hall . Sponsored by the Charlottesville Chapter of the American Institute for Archaeology.

 

Feb. 17

Toilet, Temple and Topography: Social Meaning in Pompeii's Built Environment. Kevin Cole, Department of Art History, Unversity of Virginia.

 

March 3

Kakasbos 'Protector of Frontiers': Rock-cut Votive Reliefs from Southwest Anatolia. Tyler Jo Smith, Department of Art History, University of Virginia.

 

March 10

Spring Break.

 

March 17 Special Event

Investigating Chesapeake slavery at Fairfield Plantation, Gloucester County, Virginia Dave Brown, Department of History, College of William and Mary. NOTE: 4:00 p.m., Berkeley Room, Jefferson Library, Kenwood. A DAACS fellowship talk, sponsored by the Digital Archaeological Archive of Chesapeake Slavery and the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, Monticello. For directions click here.

 

March 24

"And they took away the stones from Ramah": Lithic Raw Material Sourcing and Eastern Arctic Archaeology. Stephen Loring, Arctic Studies Program, Smithsonian Institution.

 

 

April 14

SAA Presentation Potluck. A sample of the cool stuff you missed.

  • Of Parsimony and Patrimony in the Eastern United States . Jeff Hantman.
  • Road Rooms and Ritual Features of the Bluff Great House in Regional Context. Carrie Heitman and Phil Geib.
  • The Bluff Great House Mounds: Intensional Creations or Simply Disposal Areas? Emily Cubbon, Phil Geib, and Carrie Heitman.
  • Site Characterization: the Definition of Archaeological Sites using Survey and Excavation Data. Sara Bon-Harper and Derek Wheeler.

 

April 28

Ancestors and Origins: Configuring Social Organization Through the Built Environment in Northern Mexico. Abby Holeman, Department of Anthropology, UVA.

 

Fall 2004 Schedule

 

Sept. 9

Organizational Meeting: summer research updates and speakers for the Fall.

 

Sept. 14 Special Event

Jamestown Rediscovered: The Buried Truth about America's Birthplace. William Kelso, Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. Sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Tuesday, 4:00-5:00, VFH, Basement Conference Room. For directions click here.

 

Sept. 23

Domestic Assemblages from Morgantina: Some Preliminary Observations. Justin Walsh, Department of Art History, UVA.
NOTE: Start time for Justin's talk is 6:00 p.m.

 

Oct. 1 Special Event

Archaeology of New Philadelphia: Multivalent Histories of a Diverse Frontier Town Chris Fennell, University of Illnois. UVA Department of Anthropology Friday Speaker Series, co-sponored by the Interdisciplinary Program in Archaeology. Friday, 1:00-3:00, Brooks Hall Library.

 

Oct. 7

Celts - Ancient, Modern, Postmodern: Archaeology and the Politics of Identity. Micheal Dietler, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago. Berkeley Room, Jefferson Library, International Center for Jefferson Studies, Monticello. For directions click here.

 

Oct. 8 Special Event

The Archaeology of Colonization and the Colonization of Archaeology: Theoretical Challenges from an Ancient Mediterranean Colonial Encounter. Micheal Dietler, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago. UVA Department of Anthropology Friday Speaker Series. Friday, 1:00-3:00, Brooks Hall Library

 

Oct. 21 Special Event

Under the Roots of the Oak Tree: Archaeology in Britain’s National Trust . Mark Newman, Head Archaeologist in the Northern Territory of the National Trust of Britain. 4:00pm, Jefferson Library,International Center for Jefferson Studies, Monticello. For directions click here.

 

Nov. 4

Archaeology and the National Park Service Terry Childs, National Park Service.

 

Nov. 18

Seriation and Costly Signals: the Case of Pipestem Bore Diameters from 17th-century Jamestown . Fraser Neiman, Monticello.

 

Dec. 2

Stable isotopes and determining dietary preferences in ancient humans. Steve Macko, Department of Environmental Sciences, Unversity of Virginia.

 

Spring 2004 Schedule

 

Jan. 22

Kinship and the Dynamics of the House: Rediscovering Dualism in the Pueblo Past Carrie Heitman and Steve Plog. Department of Anthropology, UVA. Click on the title to download a copy of Carrie's and Steve's paper.
Special added attraction ... An Update on the Chaco Digital Initiative. Steve Plog.

 

Feb. 5

The Future of Archaeology in Anthropology. Discussion led by Adria LaViolette, Department of Anthropology, UVA.

 

Feb. 19

Reading the Walls of Pompeii: the Interaction of Public and Private Space on the South Side of the Forum. Kevin Cole, Department of Art History, UVA.

 

 

March 19

Unpretentious goods: ceramic production and consumption at the interface of large and small scales of analysis. An ethnoarchaeological study from Ghana.
Maria das Dores Cruz, Department of Anthropology, William and Mary. Friday, 4:30 p.m.. Click here for an abstract.

 

April 1

SAA Meetings in Montreal.

 

April 8

After the Chaco Collapse: Exploring the Post-Chaco Era in Southeastern Utah. Cathy Cameron, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado
Thursday, 12:00 Noon, Archaeology Lab, Brooks Hall .

 

 

New Persepctives on Chesapeake Pipes. Anna Agbe-Davies. Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania and Department of Archaeological Research, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Thursday, 5:00 p.m. Archaeology Lab, Brooks Hall.

 

April 22

Galatian Gordion: A Celtic Town in Central Anatolia. Mary Voigt, Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary. Wednesday, 5:00 p.m. Click here for an abstract.

 

Fall 2003 Schedule

 

Sept. 4

Fall Organizational Meeting: Summer research updates, speakers for the Fall.
Thursday, 5:00 p.m.

 

Sept. 18

The Chaco Digital Initiative. Steve Plog, Department of Anthropology, UVA.
Thursday, 5:00 p.m. NOTE: Cancelled because of Isabel and rescheduled for second semester.

 

Oct. 9

Memory Capture in American Cemeteries. David Small, Lehigh University.
Thursday, 5:00 p.m.

 

Oct. 16

Early Urbanism in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, Mexico. Chris Glew, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan.
Thursday, 5:00 p.m.

 

Special
Event:
Oct. 17,18

Annual Archaeology Month Open House at the Monticello Archaeology Lab.

  • walking tours of the Plantation Archaeological Survey.
  • demonstrations of the new DAACS Web site.
  • overviews of current research projects.

Department of Archaeology, Monticello.
Friday, 10:00-4:00, Saturday 10:00-4:00

 

Special
Event:
Oct. 23

Writing Collaborative History: U.Va. and the Monacan Indian Nation.Chief Kenneth Branham, Karenne Wood, Daniel Red Elk Gear and George Whitewolf, Monacan Indian Nation; and Professor Jeff Hantman, Department of Anthropology, UVa.
Thursday, 4:00-6:00 p.m. Dome Room, The Rotunda.
For reservations, visit http://www.virginia.edu/outreachvirginia

 

Oct. 30

Historical and Archaeological Investigations of a Confederate Encampment and a Freedman's Home at James Madison's Montpelier. Matt Reeves, Archaeology Department, Montpelier.
Thursday, 5:00 p.m.

 

Nov. 12

Recent Research at the Foster Family - Venable Lane Site. Ben Ford, Rivanna Archaeology.
Wednesday, 5:00 p.m.

 

Nov. 27

Thanksgiving

 

Dec. 4

Underwater Excavations at Alexandria, Egypt. Jean Yves Empereur, Director of Research, CNRS and the Director of the French Center for Alexandrian Studies in Alexandria, Egypt. Dr. Empereur's work was recently featured on PBS's Nova
Thursday, 5:00 p.m.

 

Spring 2003 Schedule

 

Jan. 23

A Wooden Nickel: Idealized Depictions of Monticello's West Front. Sara Bon-Harper, Department of Archaeology, Monticello. Thursday, 4:30 p.m.

 

Feb. 6

Cultural Contact, Integration, and Material Style: Arslantepe and Kazane, Upper Mesopotamia. Sevil Baltali, Department of Anthrpology, UVA. Thursday, 5:00 p.m.

 

Feb. 20

"A Wild and Romantic Country": Human Interactions and Perceptions of the Forests at Montpelier. Dan Druckenbrod, Department of Environmental Sciences, UVA. Thursday, 4:30 p.m.

 

Special
Event:
Feb. 21

Corporate Aspects of Personhood and Embodiment among the Classic Maya.  Susan Gillespie,Department of Anthropology University of Florida, Friday, 1:00 p.m. Anthropology Library, Third Floor. Brooks Hall. Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series.

 

March 6

Spring Break

 

March 20

The Diversity of Countries: Anglican churches in Virginia, South Carolina, and Jamaica" Louis Nelson, Department of Architectural History, UVA. Thursday, 4:30 p.m. Click here to download a draft of Louis's paper. Louis will offer a brief illustrated synopsis of his paper, but the bulk of this session will be devoted to discussion of the written version.

 

March 27

Still making history in Banda. Ann Stahl, Department of Anthropology, SUNY, Binghampton. Thursday, 5:00 p.m.

 

Special
Event:
March 28

"Altered States: Political economic dislocation and its effects in the Central Volta Basin, AD1500-1750 Ann Stahl, Department of Anthropology, SUNY, Binghampton. Friday, 1:00p.m. Anthropology Library, Third Floor, Brooks Hall.

 

April 3

Ceramics and Cosmology: Exploring Color Symbolism in Prehispanic Pueblo Pottery. Steve Plog, Department of Anthropology, UVA. Thursday, 4:30 p.m.

 

April 17

From Pig Bones to Palaces: Investigating Urbanism in Upper Mesopotamia. Pati Wattenmaker, Department of Anthropology, UVA. Thursday, 5:15 p.m.

 

May 1

Architecture and Empire: An Inca Imperial Estate and the Conquest of the Ayamarka Homeland. Stella Nair, Samuel Cress Curatorial Fellow, National Gallery of Art. Thursday, 4:30 p.m.

 

Fall 2002 Schedule

 

Aug 29

Organizational Meeting. Out first session features brief (5-minute) updates from all on current research projects. We'll also draft a roster of speakers for the Fall Semester. Jeff Hantman has volunteered to supply the Brown Bag contents.

 

Special
Event:
Sept 9

Burnt Corn Pueblo: Landscape and Conflict in the Pre-Columbian American Southwest. James Snead, Department of Anthropology, George Mason University. Monday, 4:30 p.m.

 

Sept. 24

Palatial Workshops in Late Bronze-Age Greece. Natasha Dakouri-Hild, Department of Art History, UVA. Teusday, 4:30 p.m.

 

Oct. 10

Slave Daily Life & Mortuary Practices on a Piedmont Plantation: an archaeological and historical investigation of the enslaved African Americans on the Sweet Briar Plantation. Lynn Rainville, Department of Anthropology, Sweet Briar College. Thursday, 5:00 p.m.

 

Special
Event:
Oct. 15

Lyrical Indian Words and Arrow Points: Archaeology and the Encounter of Monacans and Colonists in Albemarle County Jeff Hantman, Department of Anthropology. Tuesday, 7:30 p.m., Room 153, Campbell Hall. Sponsored by the Virginia Museum of Natural History.

 

Special
Event:
Oct. 19

Open House at the Monticello Archaeology Lab.Walking tours, featuring the Department's ongoing research into Monticello's vanished argricultural landscape, leave the lab at 10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 1:00, 2:00,and 3:00. Saturday, 10:0 0a.m.-4:00 p.m., Archaeology Lab, Monticello.

 

Oct. 24

Subfloor pits and the social dynamics of 18th-century Chesapeake Slavery: a game-theoretic approach. Fraser Neiman, Department of Archaeology, Monticello Thursday, 4:30 p.m.

 

Nov. 7

Face Time: Making Sense of a Remarkable Prehistoric Wooden Mask from the Virginia Piedmont. Dennis Blanton, Department of Anthropology UVA and William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research. Thursday, 5:00 p.m. Jefferson Library at Kenwood. DIRECTIONS: Head up Route 53 towards Monticello. Go past the Monticello entrance. Continue one quarter mile. You'll see the entrance to Kenwood -- the International Center for Jefferson Studies -- on your right.

 

Nov. 21

Discussion of "The Ascendence of Hunting in the Califormnia Middle Archaic" , William R. Hildebrandt and Kelly R. McGuire, 2002, American Antiquity 67(2):231-256. Thursday, 4:30 p.m. Click here to download this article.

To read it, you will need a copy of Adobe's Acrobat Reader.

 

Spring 2002 Schedule

 

Jan. 17

The Nanticoke Indians and Chicone Indian Town: Group Identity, Persistence, and Change in the Context of European Contact and Colonization. Virginia Busby. Department of Anthropology, UVA.

 

Jan. 31

Agencyfest I: Discussion of "Agency in archaeology: paradigm or platitude." Marcia-Anne Dobres and John E.Robb, 2000. In Agency in Archaeology, edited by Marcia-Anne Dobres and John Robb, pp. 3-17. Routledge London. Click here to download this article.

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Feb. 14

Rocking the Boat in Pompeian Archaeology: the Pompeii Forum Project. John Dobbins, Department of Art History, UVA.

 

Feb. 28

Mythical Giants of the Chesapeake: An Evaluation of the Archaeological Construction of "Susquehannock". Lisa Lauria, Department of Anthropology, UVA.

 

Mar. 14

Spring Break

 

Mar. 28

Micro-Matters: An Assessment of Micro-Archaeological Techniques and Results from Four Upper Mesopotamian Sites Lynne Rainville, Department of Anthropology, UVA.

 

Apr. 11
Special Event

The prehistoric art of the Chauvet Cave in France. Dr. Jean Clottes, Scientific Advisor Ministry of Culture, Conservateur General of French Heritage. Time: 8:00 p.m. Place: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts . For more information click here.

 

Apr. 25

The Dimensions of War: Understanding Prehistoric Conflict in East-Central Arizona Julie Solometo, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia.

 

May 8

Agencyfest II: Note the day and time change: WEDNESDAY, 4:00 p.m. Place: Brooks Hall
Discussion of two archaeological case studies:
"Agents of change in hunter-gatherer technology", Ken Sassaman. Click here to down load it.
"Craft to wage labor: agency and resistance in American historical archaeology", Paul Shackel. Click here to down load it.
In Agency in Archaeology, edited by Marcia-Anne Dobres and John Robb, pp. 148-168 and 232-246. Routledge, London.

 

Fall 2001 Schedule

 

Special
Event:
Oct. 10

The Dead Have No Rights?: Jefferson's Conflicted Legacy in American Archaeology. David Hurst Thomas, Curator of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History. TIME: 5:30. PLACE: Room 153, Campbell Hall

 

Oct. 18

Building Tensions: Architecture and Slavery at Andrew Jackson's Hermitage, Jillian Galle, Department of Anthropology, UVA and DAACS, Monticello.

 

Special
Event:
Oct. 20

Open House at the Monticello Archaeology Lab.Walking tours, featuring the Department's ongoing research into Monticello's vanished argricultural landscape, leave the lab at 11:00, 12:00, 1:00, 2:00,and 3:00. TIME: 10:00 a.m. -4:00 p.m. PLACE: Archaeology Lab, Monticello.

 

Nov. 1

Demography and Regional Organization in the Virginia Interior: AD 1000 - 1700. Jeff Hantman, Department of Anthropology, UVA.

 

Nov. 15

Doing a Poster Session at the SAA's: Why and How (with a couple of award winning examples). Fraser Neiman, Monticello.

 

Nov. 29

No Session: AAA Meetings

 

Dec.13

Evaluating Collapse from the Endpoints of Power: Consumption and Exchange in Third Millennium B.C.E. Southeast Turkey. Phil Trella, Department of Anthropology, UVA.