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September 18-21, 1997
The 3rd Biennial Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference will be held
in Bozeman, Mont. For information, please contact Ken Cannon, National Park
Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Federal Bldg., Room 474, 100 Centennial
Mall North, Lincoln, NE 68508-3873, (402) 437-5392 ext. 139, fax (402)
437-5098, email ken_cannon@nps.gov; or Jack Fisher, Department of Sociology,
Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717-0238, (406) 994-5250, fax (406)
994-6879, email isijf@msu.oscs.montana.edu, www
http://www.montana.edu/wwwrmac.
September 22-26, 1997
XII Congreso Nacional de Arqueología Argentina will be held at
the Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque
S/N, 1900 La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. For additional information, please
call (54 21) 25-6134, fax (54 21) 25-7527, or email museo@isis.unlp.edu.ar.
September 22-26, 1997
X Reuniao da Sociedade de Arqueologia Brasileira will be held in Rio de
Janeiro. For more information, contact Maria Cristina Tenerio or Sheila M. F.
Mendonca de Souza, Departamento de Antropologia, Museu Nacional, Quinta da Boa
Vista sn. Sao Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. CEP 20 940 040, (55 21) 590-3789
ext. 2154 or 222-6390, fax (55 21) 280-8194 or 262-6139,
sferraz@manguinhos.ensp.fiocruz.br, maducris@ax.ibase.org.br, or
http://www.painet.com.br/~tfranco.
October 2-5
The Society for Industrial Archaeology will hold its 1997 Fall Tour in
Alexandria, La. An extant turn-of-the-century sawmill, complete with railroad
equipment, is the pièce de résistance. Other sites include
plywood and paper mills, other process industries, and locks and dams. The
event is hosted by the Louisiana Forestry Association and sponsored by the
Rapides Parish Cooperative Extension Service and the National Center for
Preservation Technology and Training. For additional information, please
contact Lauren B. Sickels-Taves, P.O. Box 597, Natchitoches, LA 71458, (318)
352-5747, fax (318) 352-6619, email taves@cp-tel.net. For a copy of the
registration, fax-on-demand will be available as of July 1, 1997, at (318)
357-3214.
October 4-5, 1997
The 16th Annual Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and
Ethnohistory will be held at the University of Maine, Orono. For
information, contact Dan Sandweiss, Department of Anthropology, S. Stevens
Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5773, email
dan_sandweiss@voyager.umeres.maine.edu.
October 13-18, 1997
XIV Congreso Nacional de Arqueología Chilena will be held at the
Dirección de Bibliotecas y Archivos, Universidad de Chile,
Copiapó. For more information contact Miguel Cervellino, Casilla de
Correo 134, Copiapó, Chile, phone/fax (56 52) 21-2313.
October 15-18, 1997
The Museum Computer Network Annual Conference will be at the Union
Station Hyatt Regency, St. Louis, Mo. The conference will address issues
relating to successful communication and how it is fundamental to fulfill the
educational mission of cultural heritage institutions: to interpret and
exhibit. For information, contact Michele Devine, Museum Computer Network, 8720
Georgia Ave., Suite 501, Silver Spring, MD 20910, (301) 585-4413, email
mcn@mcn.edu.
October 18-19, 1997
The Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposium will have a theme of
"Variations in the Expression of Inka Power." The symposium is open to scholars
($40) and advanced graduate students ($30). Registration is limited to 200; the
fee is due by October 1, 1997. Information on area hotels and taxis will be
sent to registrants once their registration is confirmed. For information,
contact Pre-Columbian Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, 1703 32nd St., N.W., Washington,
DC 20007.
October 24-26, 1997
Taming the Taxonomy: Toward a New Understanding of Great Lakes
Archaeology is the theme of the 1997 Joint Symposium of the Ontario
Archaeological Society and the Midwest Archaeological Conference, to be held at
the Novotel Hotel, North York, Ontario. Currently an imponderable number of
traditions, cotraditions, horizons, phases, and "cultures" are in use in the
archaeological literature of the Great Lakes region. The goal is to identify
new directions for a taxonomy that would enhance communication among
researchers in neighboring regions. For information, please contact Ronald F.
Williamson, Archaeological Services, 528 Bathurst St., Toronto, Ontario M5S
2P9, Canada, (416) 966-1069, fax (416) 966-9723, email
archaeology@sympatico.ca.
November 5-8, 1997
The 54th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference
will be held at the Radisson Hotel, Baton Rouge, La. For more information,
contact David Kelley, Coastal Environments, 1260 Main St., Baton Rouge, LA
70802, email cei@premier.net.
November 6-9, 1997
The Eastern States Archaeological Federation will hold its annual
meeting at the Travelodge Hotel and Conference Center, Mt. Laurel, N. J. For
program information, contact Herbert C. Kraft, (201) 761-9543, email
krafther@lanmail.shu.edu; for arrangement information, contact Debra Campagnari
Martin (302) 832-0653, email debbiecm@udel.edu.
November 13-16, 1997
The 30th Annual Chacmool Conference will be held on the theme "The
Entangled Past: Integrating History and Archaeology." Suggested topics include
colonialism and culture contact, oral history, museums and the presentation of
history, photography as a historical resource, perceptions of time,
multivocality in history, and critical analysis of historical sources. For
information, contact Nancy Saxberg, Chair, 1997 Conference Committee,
Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr. NW,
Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada, (403) 220-5227, fax (403) 282-9567, email
13042@ucdasvm1.admin.ucalgary.ca.
November 13-16, 1997
The American Society for Ethnohistory will hold its annual meeting at
the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City. Papers, organized sessions,
special events, and speakers that treat any world area are encouraged. Please
write for submission forms and return to either William O. Autry, 1997 ASE
Program Cochair, P.O. Box 917, Goshen, IN 46527-0917, (219) 535-7402, fax (219)
535-7660, email billoa@goshen.edu, or Jesús Monjarás, Director de
Etnohistoria, INAH, Paseo de la Reforma y Calzada Gandhi, Colonia Polanco, CP
11560, Mexico City, Mexico.
November 19-23, 1997
The American Anthropological Association 96th Annual Meeting will be
held in Washington, D.C. Archaeologists are encouraged to reassert their
presence in the association. For additional information, please contact
Elizabeth Brumfiel, Archaeology Division Program Chair, Department of
Anthropology and Sociology, Albion, MI 49224, (517) 629-0432, email
ebrumfiel@alpha.albion.edu. Be sure to consult the AAA web site at
http://www.ameranthassn.org for the call for papers and meeting forms.
January 7-11, 1998
The Society for Historical Archaeology Annual Meeting will be held in
Atlanta, Ga. To obtain additional information, please consult the web page at
http://www.mindspring.com~garrowga/sha1998/index.html.
February 27-March 1, 1998
The Transition from Prehistory to History in the Southwest will be held
in Albuquerque, N.M. It will include perspectives from both historians and
archaeologists focusing on current research, synthetic presentations, and
theoretical perspectives from southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico. Results
will be published. For more information, please contact Deni Seymour, 2301 Yale
Blvd. S.E., Suite B2, Albuquerque, NM 87106, (505) 246-2606, email
djslmas@aol.com, or Patrick H. Beckett, 317 N. Main, Las Cruces, NM 88001,
(505) 524-8471.
March 25-29, 1998
The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology will be
held in Seattle at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center and the
Sheraton. The deadline for submissions is September 3, 1997. For additional
information, please contact Jonathan Driver, Program Chair, Department of
Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6,
Canada, (604) 291-4182, fax (604) 291-5666, email driver@sfu.ca.
April 1-4, 1998
The 67th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical
Anthropologists will be held at the Salt Lake Hilton, downtown Salt Lake
City, Utah. For program information, contact Clark Larsen, Research
Laboratories of Anthropology, Alumni Bldg., CB# 3120, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3120, (919) 962-3844, email
cslarsen@email.unc.edu. For local arrangements information, contact Dennis
O'Rourke, Physical Anthropology Program, National Science Foundation, 4201
Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230, (703) 306-1758, email dorourke@nsf.gov.
April 8-11, 1998
The 1998 Society for California Archaeology Annual Meeting will be held
at the Hyatt Islandia Hotel in San Diego (800) 233-1234. The program will have
symposia and workshops on diverse subjects including archaeological education
and public outreach, Native American issues, Late Holocene cultures on the
California coast, industrial archaeology, zooarchaeology, and southern
California desert prehistory. For information, contact Michael Sampson,
California State Parks, 8885 Rio San Diego Dr., Suite 270, San Diego, CA 92108,
(619) 220-5323, email msampson@parks.ca.gov.
October 14-17, 1998
The 56th Annual Meeting of the Plains Anthropological Conference will be
held at the Radisson Inn, Bismarck, N.D. For more information, contact Fern
Swenson, State Historical Society of North Dakota, 612 E. Blvd. Ave., Bismarck,
ND 58505, (701) 328-3675, email ccmail.fswenson@ranch.state.nd.us.