Additional information on the 2nd Annual Rocky Mountain Pre-Columbian Association Research Colloquium
September 24, 9:00 AM-5:00 PM
2nd Annual Rocky Mountain Pre-Columbian Association Research Colloquium
"Current Research in the Ancient Americas”
Denver Museum of Nature & Science- Ricketson Auditorium
The event will bring together an interdisciplinary
panel of scholars addressing the current research projects of scholars
from across the Rocky Mountain region. In each session scholars will
present their work in short, informal presentations followed by
discussion.
9:00 a.m.
Coffee reception
9:15 a.m.
Welcome and introduction
Michele Koons
9:30 a.m.
Session I
1) "Animistic Practices in Formative-Period Oaxaca: Political and
Ontological Implications"
Arthur A. Joyce, University of Colorado, Boulder
Sarah B. Barber, University of Central Florida
2) "From Classic to Post-Classic in the Mixteca-Puebla Region"
Carlos Rincón Mautner, Independent Scholar
3) "Revisiting Coatepec: How Chichen Itza Participated in the
Development of the Paradigm"
Annabeth Headrick, University of Denver
4) "Mixtec Codex-Style Imagery from Early Postclassic Nicaragua"
Geoffrey McCafferty and Sharisse McCafferty, University of Calgary
11:00 a.m.
Break
11:15 a.m.
Session II
1) "Fickle Fellowships: A Biological Distance Study of Wari-era
Populations in the Nazca Drainage, Peru"
Christine M. Pink, Metropolitan State University of Denver
2) "Environmental Crisis and the Emergence of Empire: Intercommunity
Violence During the Late Formative and Early Middle Horizon in Coastal
Arequipa, Peru"
Beth Koontz Scaffidi, Vanderbilt University
3) "Inka Craft and Ritual Production: Compositional Analysis of
Ceramic Pigments from the Temple of the Sun, Pachacamac"
James A. Davenport, University of New Mexico
12:30-1:45 p.m.
Lunch break
1:45 p.m.
Session III
1) "Art on the Margins: Olmec Monuments in the Gulf Hinterlands"
Jill Mollenhauer, Metropolitan State University of Denver
2) "Social Memory, Nostalgia, and 'Conscious Archaism' at the
Medicinal Trail Site, Northwestern Belize"
David M. Hyde, Western State Colorado University
Fred Valdez, Jr., The University of Texas at Austin
3) "Patterns of Postclassic Reoccupation in the Eastern Yucatan Peninsula"
Sarah Kurnick, University of Colorado, Boulder
4) "Archaeology, Linux, and the Dark: The Illicit Antiquities Trade in
Pre-Columbian Artifacts on the Dark Web"
Aaron Theis, Archaeological Institute of America, Denver Society, and
Colorado Archaeological Society, Denver Chapter
3:15 p.m.
Break
3:30 p.m.
Session IV
1) "Analysis of Social Organization and Ideology through Mortuary
Assemblages at Los Guachimontones, Jalisco, Mexico"
Jones LeFae, University of Colorado, Denver
2) "Did Ancient Costa Rican Villages Form Alliances to Mitigate
Environmental Hazards?"
Payson Sheets, University of Colorado, Boulder
3) "Combing through the evidence: Interpreting Women's Coiffures of
the Ancient Chibchan, Costa Rica, Greater Nicoya region"
Faye Olsgard, Metropolitan State University of Denver
4:45 p.m.
Closing remarks:
Catherine DiCesare
5:00 p.m.
Reception
For questions and further information contact
Michele.Koons@dmns.org<mailto:Michele.Koons@dmns.org>.
Please RSVP to Michele.Koons@dmns.org by September 12th.
The conference is free and open for all to attend
Denver Museum of Nature & Science- Ricketson Auditorium
2001 Colorado Blvd.
Denver, Colorado