Summary Schedule of Presentations and Events

(scroll down for the Detailed Schedule of Presentations and Events)

Friday Evening

8:00 - 11:00pm
The University of Pennsylvania campus
Cash bar and Informal Reception (location to be announced)

Saturday Sessions

8:00am - 6:00pm

Rainey Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum)

Registration and Coffee in the Mosaic Gallery (1st floor of the Penn Museum, please enter through Kress Entrance--the side door entrance on the east of the building with lots of glass and security control panel—The Penn Museum formally opens at 10:00am on Saturdays).

Sunday Sessions

8:00am - 1:00pm

Rainey Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum)

8:00 - 8:30am
Coffee in the Mosaic Gallery (1st floor of the Penn Museum, please enter through Kress Entrance--the side door entrance on the east of the building with lots of glass and security control panel—The Penn Museum formally opens at 12:00am on Sundays).

Detailed Schedule of Presentations and Events

Oral Presentations and Titles

SATURDAY MORNING (October 21, 2006)
Rainey Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

8:00am:
Coffee and Refreshments

8:45am:
Welcome by Hosts

9:00am
Alvaro Ruiz (Northern Illinois University), Nathan Craig (The Field Museum), Winifred Creamer (Northern Illinois University), Jonathan Haas (Field Museum), Gerbert Asencios (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos), Jesus Holquín (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos) and Rebecca Osborn (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Preliminary Results from Excavations at Caballete, a Late Preceramic Site in the Fortaleza Valley.

9:20am
Thomas Pozorski (University of Texas-Pan American) and Shelia Pozorski (University of Texas-Pan American)
Domestic Architecture at Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke, Casma Valley, Peru.

9:40am
Thomas Zoubek (Stamford Historical Society Museum)
Exploring the Cultural Identity and Relationships of Peru's North Coast Agricultural Societies during the Initial Period (c.2100-1100 B.C.).

10:00am
Discussion

10:15am
Coffee Break

10:30am
Katie Caljean (Drew University) and Maria Masucci (Drew University)
Weaving Tradition: An Archaeological Reconstruction of Andean Textile Technology and Traditions in Coastal Ecuador.

10:50 am
Elizabeth Arkush (University of Virginia)
Warfare, Chronology and Causality in the Northern Titicaca Basin.

11:10am
Sofia Chacaltana (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Inka Strategies of Control in the Southern Andes: The Role of Camata Tampu, an Inka Waystation in the Upper Moquegua Valley of Peru.

11:30am
Gregory Zaro (University of Maine-Orono)
Agricultural Landscapes Past and Present: Long-term Thinking along the Peruvian South Coast.

11:50am
Discussion

12:05pm
Lunch Break

SATURDAY AFTERNOON (October 21, 2006)

2:00pm
Katherine Moore (University of Pennsylvania)
Pastoral Strategies and Camelid Breeding in Formative Bolivia.

2:20pm
Joerg Haeberli
Emergence of and Transition from Rayed Heads to Staff Gods in the South Central Andes.

2:40pm
Nicola Sharratt (University of Illinois, Chicago), P. Ryan Williams (Field Museum), Maria Cecelia Lozada (University of Chicago), Michael Moseley (University of Florida), and Donna Nash (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Late Tiwanaku Bioarchaeology and Iconography: Rescue Excavations at the Tumilaca la Chimba Cemetery.

3:00pm
Discussion

3:15pm
Katharine Meade Davis (Harvard University)
Interpreting Spaces outside the Core: Muru Ut Pata, Tiwanaku.

3:35pm
John Janusek (Vanderbilt University)
Recent Research at Khonkho Wankane, Bolivia: Steps toward a Reappraisal of State Emergence in the Andean Altiplano.

3:55pm

Javier Escalante (Unidad Nacional de Arqueología de Bolivia)
Excavation of the Akapana Pyramid, the Site of Tiwanaku, Bolivia.

4:15pm
Discussion

4:30pm
Coffee Break

4:45pm
Robert Wittman (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
Us vs. Art Thieves.

5:05pm
Business Meeting

SUNDAY MORNING (October 21, 2006)
Rainey Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

9:00am
Coffee and Refreshments

9:30am
J. Marla Toyne (Tulane University), Bernarda Delgado Elias (Museo del Sitio Túcume), Alfredo Narváez Vargas (Museo del Sitio Túcume), and Natalia Guzman Requena (Museo Nacional Sicán)
Mortuary Treatment of Human Sacrificial Victims at the Templo de la Piedra Sagrada, Túcume, Peru.

9:50am
Tiffiny A. Tung (Vanderbilt University)
Warfare, Raids, and Ritual Violence in the Wari Empire: A Bioarchaeological Study of Trauma among Populations from Conchopata and the Majes valley, Peru.

10:10am
John W. Verano (Tulane University), Alexei Vranich (University of Pennsylvania Museum), and Kristen Gardella (University of Pennsylvania)
Skeletal Remains from a Unique Dedicatory Offering at Tiwanaku.

10:30am
Discussion

10:45am
Leo Benitez (University of Pennsylvania)
Sky and Landscape in the Formative Period Southern Titicaca Basin: Archaeoastronomy of Three Sunken Courts.

11:05am
Blenda Femenias (University of Pittsburgh)
National Patrimony and International Prestige: The Legacy of Paracas at the Exposición Ibero-Americana (Seville, 1929).

11:25am
Discussion

We highly recommend seeing two exhibitions on Sunday afternoon

Under European Eyes: Conquistadors and Arts of the New World at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Saturday hours are 10am to 4:30pm; Sunday hours are 1:00 to 5:00pm. Exhibit is free to conference attendees.

Tesoros/Treasures/Tesouros: The Arts in Latin America, 1492-1820 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Paid tickets are required and tickets are issued for a specific date and time. Saturday and Sunday hours are 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Please note: last tickets issued 90 minutes before museum closing.

Poster Presentations and Titles

SATURDAY (October 21, 2006) and SUNDAY (October 22, 2006)
POSTER DISPLAY: First and Basement levels of Hallways outside Rainey Auditorium

William E. Brooks (George Mason University), Victor Piminchumo (Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Trujillo), Hector Suarez (Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Trujillo), John C. Jackson (U.S. Geological Survey), and John P. McGeehin (U.S. Geological Survey)
Mineral Pigments from Tacainamo, Chan Chan, Northern Peru.

María-Auxiliadora Cordero (University of Pittsburgh) and Richard Scaglion (Carnegie Museum of Natural History)
Piartal Pottery from Northern Ecuador: New Interpretations from an Old Museum Collection.

Fredrik T. Hiebert (National Geographic Society), Kirk Frye (Taraco Archaeological Project), Stefan Austermühle (Asociación Mundo Azul)
Sonar Research on Potential Ancient Settlements below Current Southern Titicaca Lake Levels in Bolivia.

Alejo Rojas Leiva (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú).
El Sistema Codificado de Categorización Laboral Inca.

Calley Levine (University of Pennsylvania) and Ariela Nurko (University of Pennsylvania)
Creating Digital Reconstructions at the Site of Tiwanaku.

Anne H. Peters (Dumbarton Oaks)
Rebuilding Context for Paracas Necropolis: 2005-6 Results.

Mario A. Rivera (Beloit College), Manuel Palacios-Fest (Terra Nostra Earth Science Research), and Daniel E. Shea (Beloit College)
Prehistoric Agriculture and the Rise of Village Life in the Atacama: The Ramaditas Project.

Jeffrey C. Splitstoser (Catholic University of America) and Anne E. Tiballi (Binghamton University)
Parenthetical Notation: A New Method for Recording Spin and Ply.