Spring 2004 Schedule

January 23
Organizational meeting

January 30
Professor Mary Miller, Dept. of History of Art, Yale University
The Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya:  A Preview of the Exhibition Opening at the National Gallery of Art, April 2004

February 6
Rose Drew, MA, Peabody Museum, Yale University
Beam Theory vs. Cortical Mass:  Can You Ever Be Too Thin?  The Interplay of Bone Geometry, Workload Indicators, and Putative Status

February 13
Dr. Cherra Wyllie, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Hartford
Art, Archaeology, and Narrative and Zapotal, Veracruz, Mexico

February 20
Professor Harvey Weiss, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University
“…7 generations since the collapse of Akkad”

February 27
Heather Hurst, PhD Student, Dept. of Anthropology, Yale University
Late Pre-Classic Maya Murals at San Bartolo, Guatemala:  New Discoveries

March 5
Robert Rosenswig, PhD Candidate, Dept. of Anthropology, Yale University
Cuauhtemoc and the Olmec World

March 26
Professor Harold Juli, Dept. of Anthropology, Connecticut College
Perspectives on Mexican Hacienda Archaeology

April 16
Dr. Christina Ewald, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Yale University
Dress and Ethnicity in the Early Middle Ages:  The Fibulae of the So-Called Slavic Type

April 23
Students of the Archaeological Field Class (ANTH/ARCG 278) with Professor Marcello Canuto, Dept. of Anthropology, Yale University
Recent Research at the Henry Whitfield House, Guilford, Connecticut

April 30
Dr. Nick Bellontoni, CT State Archaeologist
Connecticut Archaeology and Historic Cemeteries