Highlights of Previous Meetings of the Pre-Columbian Society at
the University of Pennsylvania Museum.
January 14, 2012, John Justeson, PhD: "Mesoamerican Concepts of
Number and Numeration and the Invention of the Long Count"
December 10, 2011 Robert Sharer, PhD: "Is the
Past an Accident? Second Thoughts about Some Past Maya
Research"
November 12, 2011 Drs. Victoria and Harvey
Bricker: "Astronomical Records in the Hieroglyphic Writings of the
Pre-Columbian Maya"
October 8, 2011 Marshall Becker, PhD:
"Mahamickwon and Cultural Change in Southern New Jersey: The Story
of a Lenopi Family and Native Conservatism from 1660 to after
1810"
September 10, 2011 Christopher Jones,
PhD: "Personal Discoveries at Tikal in the 1960’s"
June 11, 2011 Talk: Michael Coe, PhD: "Time
and Space in Southeast Asia and Mesoamerica: Connection or
Disconnection?" and Codex Wookshop: Dr. Gabrielle
Vail, New College of Florida in Sarasota, "Venus
Deities among the Prehispanic and Contemporary Maya"
May 14, 2011 Reiko Ishihara, PhD: "Bridging
the Chasm Between Religion and Politics: Archaeological Evidence
of Maya Ritual Practices at Aguateca, Peten, Guatemala"
March 12, 2011 Marc Zender, PhD: "Reading
Maya Art"
February 12, 2011 Joanne Baron, PhD
Candidate in Anthropology, U of Pa: "Before the Faces of
their Gods: Classic Maya Patron Deities and Classic Maya
Communities"
January 8, 2011 Christa Cesario, PhD
Candidate: "Reimagining Ritual in La Mission, San Francisco, CA"
December 11, 2010 Loa Traxler, PhD:
"Presenting the Maya in 2012: Exhibition Challenges, New Ideas,
and Public Engagement"
November 13, 2010 Dr. Cherra Wyllie: "The
Arts of the Book in Ancient Mesoamerica"
October 9, 2010: Rob Fergus, PhD: "The
Woodpecker is a Witch! Birds among the Modern and Ancient
Maya"
September 11, 2010 Lynn Grant: "Conservation
without Borders: Conservation Consultations in Honduras and
Guatemala"
June 12, 2010 Justin Kerr: "Signposts of the
Otherworld"
May 8, 2010 Gabrielle Vail, PhD :
talk: "Re-Interpreting Balankanche: Ritual Use of Sacred
Space in Cave Contexts" and workshop: "Crocodilians and World
Renewal Events in the Maya Codices"
March 13, 2010 Dr. Wendy Bacon,
"Xultun: A Cyclical Pattern of Stelae Erection Over 250 Years"
February 13, 2010 Nick Hopkins, PhD: "One
Thousand Years of Maya Literary Tradition: From Classic
Inscriptions to Chol Folktales"
January 9, 2010 Inga Calvin: "Text,
Pseudo-Text, and Context: A Study of Classic Period Maya Ceramic
Inscriptions"
December 12, 2009 Lawrence Coben:
"Creating an Empire: Spectacle, Theatricality, Performance
and Power in the Inka State"
November 14, 2009 John Burkhalter:
“Breaking Wind: the Trumpet and Conch Horn in Maya and Aztec Art”
October 10, 2009 Sarah Kurnick: "Women in
Stone: Understanding Classic Period Maya Female Ajaws"
September 12, 2009 Dr. Timothy
Pugh: “Spanish Things in Maya Worlds: the Archaeology
of First Contact”
June 13, 2009 Christopher Jones and Federico
Paredes, "Architectural Narratives at Quirigua: 400 to 800 AD"
May 9, 2009 Lucia Henderson PhD Candidate,
University of Texas at Austin: "The Art of Performance: Song,
Sound, and Breath in the Iconography of Preclassic
Kaminaljuyú"
March 14, 2009 Abigail Seldin: "Flying with
the Fourth Crow: A Reflection on Curating 'Fulfilling a Prophecy'"
February 14, 2009 Clark Erickson, PhD,
University of Pennsylvania: "Pre-Columbian Monumental Earthworks
of the Amazon"
January 10, 2009 Joanne Baron "Noble or
Savage? Western Representations of Human Sacrifice among the
Aztecs"
December 13, 2008 Jennifer A. Loughmiller
Newman: "Maize as Food, Maize as Drink at the Site of Calakmul"
November 8, 2008 Yolanda Alcorta and
Ana Maria Zaugg: "Color and Symbol Evolution in Maya Textiles"
October 11, 2008 Elin Danien, PhD., "HOW TO
CATCH A PAINTED METAPHOR: Creating an exhibition out of pots,
gods, and chocolate, with a little obsession on the side"
September 20, 2008 Jeffrey
Blomster, "Oaxacan Perspectives on Olmec
Interaction in the Early Formative"
June 14, 2008 David Pentecost,
"Usumacinta - New Threats and New Discoveries"
May 10, 2008 Marc Zender, Ph.D.:
"Frederick Mitchell-Hedges and the Skull of Doom of Lubaantun"
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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