Highlights of Previous Meetings of the Pre-Columbian Society
at the University of Pennsylvania Museum.
March 8, 2008 David R. Hixson,
"Satellites, Surveys and Simulations:
Settlement Archaeology of Ancient Chunchucmil, NW Yucatan, Mexico"
February 9, 2008, Simon Martin, "Gods
within Gods: Theosynthesis and the Making of Divine Identity among the
Ancient Maya"
January 12, 2008: Dr. Charles Golden, "Seeing
is Controlling: Vistas
and Politics in the Piedras Negras and
Yaxchilan Kingdoms"
December 8, 2007 Dr. Bryan Just
"Mesoamerican Visual Culture at
the Princeton University Art Museum"
November 10, 2007, Cherra Wyllie, Ph.D. "The
Murals of El Zapotal, Veracruz, Mexico"
October 14, 2007 Peter Roe, "It Takes Two to
Launch a Dart: Complementary-Opposition in Ancient Chavín Art
and Architecture"
September 8, 2007 Dr. John Justeson, State
University of NY at Albany, "Who was Where in Ancient Mesoamerica?"
June 9, 2007, Bryan R. Just,
"Terminal Classic Art and
Politics in the Pasión Region:
The Case of Machaquila Stela 2"
May 12, 2007 Judith Storniolo, "Establishing
the character of the
Cholti Maya"
March 10, 2007 Marshall Joseph Becker,PhD,
"Wampum: Native American
Money or Belts Used for Diplomacy?"
February 2007, Dr. Richard Leventhal,
"Xunantunich’s Royal Residence:
Shifting Power and the Collapse."
January 13, 2007 Marcello Canuto, PhD.,
"From Site Q to Sak
Nikte': Chronicle of a 40-year Classic Maya Mystery"
December 9, 2006 Elizabeth Benson, "The
War
Club: An Important Moche Symbol"
November 11, 2006 Chalon Rodriguez, M.D.,
"Pre-Columbian Medicine"
October 14, 2006 Dr. Susan Evans, "Unraveling
the Net
Jaguar, An Enigmatic Motif of the International House in Teotihuacan"
September 9, 2006 Dr. David Webster,
Pennsylvania State University:
"The Great Tikal
Earthwork: Fortification or Folly?"
June 10, 2006 Chris Jones, "Imaging the
Acropolis at Quirigua"
Saturday May 13, 2006 Dr. Jeremy Sabloff,
"It Depends on How We Look at Things: Perspectives
on the Postclassic Period in the Northern Maya Lowlands."
March
11, 2006 Dr. Elin Danien, "Mary Louise Baker,
archaeological
Artist–in–Residence at the University of Pennsylvania Museum"
February 11, 2006 Dr. Miranda
Stockett, "Exploring Concepts of Gender and
Sex in Ancient Mesoamerica: Understanding Variability in
Ancient Maya
Gender Ideologies and
Practices"
January 14, 2006 Marc Zender,
"Tisosikatzin: The Names of an Aztec Emperor, and the Nature of Aztec
Writing"
December 10, 2005 Adrienne Mayor,
"Fossil finds and legends in New Spain".
November 12, 2005 Mary Ciaramella,
"Pottery Making in the Madrid
Codex"
Julia C. Miller, October 2005, "Booming or
Busting:
Reading Social Change in Copan Architecture"
September 10, 2005 Dr. Robert
Laughlin,
"Mayan Hearts in the Making and on Show."
June 11, 2005 Allen Christenson "From the
Dark
Waters: Creation Imagery among the Highland Maya."
May 14, 2005 Matthew Restall, "Mayas and
Africans"
March 12, 2005 Elin Danien, “Not Your
Mother's Hot Chocolate: The Ancient Maya and Their Amazing Beverage”
February 13, 2005 John Pohl , “History on a
Mixteca Pitcher."
January 8, 2005 Wendy Bacon, "Image as
Artifact, Image as Text: The Dwarf Motif on Classic Maya Stelae, or, a
Text Without a Context is a Pretext".
December 11, 2004 Jeffrey C. Splitstoser “The
Feathered Effigy of Cerrillos, Ica Valley, Peru”
November 13, 2004 Lynn Foster, "The
Surprising
Importance of Mesoamerican Gold."
October 9, 2004 David Oestreicher
"Unmasking
the Walam Olum: a Nineteenth Century Hoax"
September 11, 2004 Heather Hurst, “The San
Bartolo
Murals: Late Preclassic Painting Techniques and Styles.”
June 12, 2004 John Burkhalter, "Music from
the
Land of the Jaguar"
May 8, 2004 Simon Martin:
"Courtly
Art of the Ancient Maya: Highlights from the National Gallery of Art
Exhibition".
March 13, 2004 Dr. Elin Danien:
"Visions,
Shamanism, Peyote and the Huichol"
February 14, 2004 Judi Storniolo, "Two
Worlds,
Two Journeys: A Pilgrimage to Esquipulas."
January 10, 2004, Dr. Lowell S.Gustafson,
"Ancient
Maya Gender Identity and Relations."
December 13, 2003 Dr. Penny C Morrill:
"Pre-Columbian Influence on William Spratling's Silver."
November 8, 2003 Dr. Charles Golden: "The
Frontiers
of Authority in Classic Maya Kingdoms: New Evidence from the Usumacinta
River."
October 11, 2003 Melissa S. Murphy: "Coca
leaf
chewing and the Inca: Evidence from Puruchuco-Huaquerones, Peru"
September 13, 2003 Sharon Aponte
Misdea,
"Triks' Tikal,
or, (Mis)Adventures in Archiving"
June 14, 2003 Mary Ciaramella, "The Idol
Makers
in the Madrid Codex:
Parallels with Landa."
May 10, 2003 Loa Traxler, "Veni, Vidi, Vici?
Yax K'uk' Mo' and
the Founding of the Copan Dynasty."
March 8, 2003 Elin Danien: "Excavating
Piedras
Negras in the 1930's"
February 8, 2003 Cameron L.McNeil:
"Chocolate,
Flowers, Cattails and Corn:
Ritual Plant Use and Environmental Exploitation
at Copan, Honduras"
January 11, 2003, Dr. Theodore Schurr: "A
Molecular
Genetic Perspective on the Peopling of the Americas."
December 14, 2002, John
Burkhalter:
"Music from the Land of the Jaguar"
November 9, 2002, Marcello Canuto,
"Settlement
in the Rural Areas Around Copan, Honduras"
October12, 2002 Dr. Jill Furst.
"Mojave:
the Other Southwest Pottery"
September 14, 2002, Gabrielle Vail,
CONCEPTIONS
OF
TIME IN THE POSTCLASSIC MAYA CODICES
June 8, 2002, Justin Kerr, “The Many Faces
of
God A-Prime"
May 11, 2002 Heather
Hurst:
"Painting the Murals of Bonampak"
March 9, 2002, Pamela Hearne Jardine,
"Conditions
and cultural change on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana in
the1890's"
February 9, 2002 Mathew H Robb: "The
Provenience
and Repatriation of the Palenque 'Tablet of the Cross'"
January 12, 2002 Dr. Clark L.
Erickson:
"The Pre-Columbian Domestication of the Amazon"
list continued prior to 2002
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