Midwest Conference on Mesoamerican Archaeology and Ethnohistory
Cochrane-Woods Art Center Room 157, 5540 S. Greenwood Ave.
University of Chicago, March 16-17, 2018
Friday, March 16, Keynote address
5-6 pm Lowland Maya Archaeology in a Gilded Age: The University of Pennsylvania Museum’s Tikal Project
Hattula Moholy-Nagy, Consulting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Reception to follow
Saturday, March 17
8:30-8:50 Coffee
8:50-9 Opening remarks
9-9:25 Formative pottery at the Tayata site, Mixteca Alta: A regional and macro-regional perspective
Maria Teresa Palomares Rodriguez, doctoral student, Southern Illinois University
9:25-9:50 The Tale of the Maya Urns from Lake Petha, Chiapas: Context, Iconography, Sourcing, Surprises
Joel Palka, Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
9:50-10:15 I Threw it All Away; Consumer goods at the 19th century Maya refugee site at Tikal, Guatemala
James Meierhoff, doctoral student, University of Illinois at Chicago
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:10 Dressing: Essence and Transformation in Maya Iconography
Karon Winzenz, Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
11:10-11:35 Vitality Materialized: On the Piercing and Adornment of the Body in Mesoamerica
Andrew Finegold, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
11:35-12 Comparative Analysis of Copper Artifacts from Mensabak, Chiapas, Mexico
Jackson Krause, Joel Palka, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago
12-1:30 Lunch break
1:30-1:55 Stones of Sight: Ethnographic and Ethnohistorical Analogies for Interpreting Classic Maya Effigy Flints and Obsidians
Zachary Hruby, Northern Kentucky University
1:55-2:20 The invention of an ancient object for the art market: a case study of Greater Nicoya style metates
Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur, Graduate student, The Ohio State University
2:20-2:45 Postclassic Quetzalcoatl in the American Southeast
Alice B. Kehoe, Professor Emeritus, Marquette University
2:45-3:15 Break
3:15-3:40 Storm God Chasing in the Valley of Oaxaca
Andrew Kracinski, University of Illinois at Chicago
3:40-4:05 ‘It’s Our Tradition to Maintain the Forest:’ Indigenous Water Management in San Miguel Totonicapán
Matthew Krystal, Associate Professor, North Central College
4:05-4:30 Calling the Rain, Cutting the Storm: Cultural Models Research as a Pathway to Understanding the Relationship Between Nature and Humans in a Semi-Rural Central Mexican Community
Charles Stapleton, Northern Illinois University and College of DuPage; Maria Stapleton, Northern Illinois University
4:30 Wrap-up
5-8 pm Reception at the Field Museum
Celebrating the Mummies exhibition, and in conjunction with the Annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian
Archaeology and Ethnohistory
Please enter through the West entrance to the Museum
This conference is supported by generous sponsorship from the University of Chicago Art History Department, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Neubauer Collegium, and the Oriental Institute
Kaqchikel-grown coffee donated by Conscious Bean Coffee, courtesy of Matthew Krystal