(3-0135) New Directions in Mesoamerican Archaeology

11/15/2018

8:00 AM - 9:45 AM

Presenter(s)

D. Blair Gibson

El Camino College
Luis Gomez-Gastelum

Professor
Universidad de Guadalajara
Ruben Mendoza

California State University, Monterey Bay
Nadya Prociuk

Texas Archeological Research Laboratory
University of Texas at Austin
Kenneth Seligson

Lecturer
University of Southern California
Venicia Slotten

Graduate Student
University of California, Berkeley

8:00 AM - 8:15 AM
The Late Classic Landscape of the Zapotitan Valley, El Salvador: Archaeological Evidence from Joya de Cerén
Venicia M. Slotten – University of California, Berkeley
8:15 AM - 8:30 AM
The Project A in the archaeology of Western Mexico
Luis Gomez-Gastelum – Universidad de Guadalajara
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM
Jade Earth, Turquoise Fire: The Epiclassic Bifurcation of Cosmology, Rank, and Prestige in Highland-Lowland Mesoamerica
Ruben G. Mendoza – California State University, Monterey Bay
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
Northern Gulf Coast Trade in the Mesoamerican Postclassic: The Evidence from Brownsville
Nadya H. Prociuk – University of Texas at Austin
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
The Prehispanic Maya Limestone Industry: Changing Resource Conservation and Extraction Practices as Indicators of Societal Transformation
Kenneth Seligson – University of Southern California
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM
Corporeality and Identity Formation in Classic Period Mesoamerica
Agapi Filini – El Colegio de Michoacán
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Viewing Classic Maya Political Systems with Irish Eyes
D. Blair Gibson – El Camino College