CALENDAR

April 19­22, 2000
The Society for California Archaeology (SCA) will meet at the Riverside Convention Center in historic downtown Riverside, California. The official conference hotel is the Holiday Inn Select across the downtown plaza from the convention center. Hotel reservations can be made at a special rate by calling (909) 784-8000 or faxing (909) 369-7127 and asking for the SCA block. The plenary session and meeting theme is "Early Peoples of the Pacific Coast of North America." Field trips are planned to the site of the developing Western Center for Archaeology and Paleontology in Hemet and the California State Citrus Heritage Park in Riverside, as well as an evening event at the UCR-California Museum of Photography. For further information, contact Joan S. Schneider, Local Arrangements Chair, tel: (909) 787-3517, fax: (909) 787-5934, email: jschneid@citrus.ucr.edu, Web: scanet.org.

April 26­29, 2000
The Western Social Science Association Annual Meeting will be held at the Town and Country Resort and Convention Center in San Diego, California. The anthropology section seeks papers on all subfields and topics, but interdisciplinary and/or western states focus is encouraged. For information, contact Barbara Lass, Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, 103 Kroeber Hall, #3712, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720-3712, tel: (510) 526-1245 or (510) 642-6843, email lass@uclink4.berkeley.edu.

April 26­29, 2000
The fourth biennial CINARCHEA Internationales Archäologie Film Festival will feature films about archaeology made between 1996 and 2000, at the Stadtgalerie in central Kiel. The program includes recent international productions, previous international prize winners, notable older productions, and films about experimental archaeology. The associated scholarly conference will emphasize underwater archaeology. For further information, contact Kurt Denzer, Director, CINARCHEA, Breiter Weg 10, D-24105 Kiel, Germany, tel: + (49-431) 57-94-941/942, fax: (49-431) 57-61-94-940, email: agfilm@zentr-verw.uni-kiel.de, Web: www.uni-kiel.de/cinarchea/index.htm.

May 15­19, 2000
The 32nd International Symposium of Archaeometry (Archaeometry 2000) will be held in Mexico City. For information, contact Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, UNAM Circuito Exterior s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán 04510 Mexico, D.F., Mexico, fax: + (525) 622-9651 or + (525) 665-2959, email: archaeom@servidor.unam.mx, Web: www.archaeometry.unam.mx.

May 19­21, 2000
The Third National Conference on Women and Historic Preservation will be held at Mount Vernon College, Washington, D.C. It is sponsored by the Preservation Planning and Design Program, University of Washington; the Regional Director, Northeast Region, National Park Service; and the Organization of American Historians; and hosted by the American Studies Department and Historic Preservation Program, George Washington University, and the Women in Power Leadership Program, George Washington University at Mount Vernon College. For more information, contact Gail Dubrow, Conference Chair, Conference on Women and Historic Preservation, Preservation Planning and Design Program, University of Washington, P.O. Box 355740, Seattle, WA 98195-5740, email: womenpres@hotmail.com, Web: www.caup.washington.edu/WomenPres.

May 22 and 27, 2000
The 9th Annual Short Course, "Death-Scene Archaeology: Field Methods in the Location, Recovery, and Interpretation of Human Remains from Outdoor Contexts," will take place at Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania. The course will expose participants to state-of-the-art techniques employed by forensic anthropologists in the location, archaeological recovery, and taphonomic interpretation of human remains from outdoor and fire-related forensic scenes. Comprehensive lectures by experts in a variety of forensic fields will be supplemented with hands-on opportunities in the collection of a wide range of scene evidence. For further information, contact Dennis Dirkmaat, tel: (814) 824-2105, email: dirkmaat@mercyhurst.edu.

June 5­10, 2000
Screenings of the 3rd AGON International Meeting of Archaeological Film of the Mediterranean Area will be held at the Apollon Theater at 19 Stadiou St. in Athens, Greece. Daytime sessions will focus on films about Mediterranean archaeology from prehistory to modern times. Documentaries about folk art and other endangered Mediterranean popular traditions will be shown at evening sessions, along with productions highlighting other aspects of Mediterranean culture. Award winners may be featured at additional screenings. For information, contact Maria Palatou, Secretary. AGON 2000 c/o Archaiologia ke Technes (Archaeology and Arts), 4a Karitsi Square, 105 61 Athens, Greece, tel/fax: + (30-1) 33-12-991.

July 6­8, 2000
The 4th Bianual Conference of Oaxaca Studies, an international symposium and conference, will be held at the Ex-Convento de Santo Domingo, Oaxaca, Mexico. The deadline for abstracts is May 15, 2000. Abstract forms and registration information are available on the Web at www.goshen.edu/~billoa/WELTE.html or www.welte.org. For information, contact William O. Autry, Goshen College, 1700 S. Main St., Goshen, IN 46526-4797, tel: (219) 535-7402, email: billoa@goshen.edu.

July 10­14, 2000
The International Congress of Ame-ricanists will hold its 50th meeting in Warsaw, Poland, with the theme, "Praying for Rain: Style and Meaning as a Response to the Environment in Ancient American Art and Architecture." This symposium will address art and architecture as the most tangible and enduring manifestation of human reaction to the environment in the Americas, with emphasis on the adversarial aspects of the human/nature relationship. Interdisciplinary papers will incorporate ecological, archaeological, ethnohistorical, and art historical data. For information, contact E. Michael Whittington, Curator of Precolumbian and African Art, Mint Museum of Art, 2730 Randolph Rd., Charlotte, NC, 28207, tel: (704) 337-2074, fax: (704) 337-2101, email: mwhittington@mintmuseum.org, or Virginia E. Miller, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, University of Illinois, 202A Henry Hall, 935 W. Harrison St., Chicago, IL 60607-7039, tel: (773) 413-2467, fax: (773) 413-2460, email: vem@uic.edu.

June 15­17, 2000
The 15th International Symposium on Latin American Indian Literatures (LAILA) will be held at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. For information, contact Luis Arata, Program Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Languages, and Philosphy, Quinnipiac College, Hamden, CT 06518, tel: (203) 281-8658, email: luis.arata@quinnipiac.edu.

August 7­12, 2000
The Fifth International Conference on Easter Island and the East Pacific will be sponsored by the Easter Island Foundation and hosted by the Hawai'i Preparatory Academy on Hawai'i Island. Papers will focus on Polynesian prehistory, island landscape studies, arts of the Pacific, Polynesian languages and literature, colonization and exploration, paleobotany, and conservation issues. For further information, contact Pacific 2000, Easter Island Foundation, P.O. Box 6774, Los Osos, CA 93412, email: rapanui@compuserve.com.

October 3­7, 2000
The Rassegna Internazionale del Cinema Archeologico, an annual festival of recent international production about all aspects of archaeology and associated subjects, will be held in Rovereto, Italy. The main theme of the 11th edition will be, "The Origin and Development of European Culture and Civilization." The entry deadline is May 8, 2000. For information, contact Dario Di Blasi, Director and Claudia Beretta, International Press. Mu-seo Civico, Largo S. Caternia 43, 38068 Rovereto (TN), Italy, tel: + (39-464) 439-055, fax: + (39-464) 439-487.

October 5­7, 2000
The 27th Great Basin Anthropological Conference will be held at the David Eccles Conference Center, Ogden, Utah. Consult our Web site www.hass.usu.edu/~gbac2000 for news, abstract submissions, member input regarding conference organization, conference location information, and later, for registration and program details. For further information, contact Steven Simms, Utah State University, email: ssimms@hass.usu.edu.

October 23­28, 2000
VIIe ICRONOS Festival Interna-tionale du Film Archéologique is a biennial festival of films about archaeology highlighting an intensive archaeology awareness week. Screenings will be held in the Athenée Municipal in Bordeaux's historic district. Ancient Civilizations of the Orient will be the main theme, but the program also will include other domains of archaeology. For information, contact Président Philippe Dorthe, Commissaire Général Pascal Louis, or Chargée de mission Laetitia Dion, Association du Festival International du Film Archéologique (AFIFA), 20 Quai de la Monnaie, 33800 Bordeaux, France, tel: + (33-556) 94-22-20, fax: + (33-556) 94-27-87, email: afifa@imaginet.fr, Website: www-icronos.montaigne.u-bordeaux.fr.

November 2­5, 2000
The 67th Annual Meeting of the Eastern States Archeological Federation will be held in Solomons, Maryland, hosted by the Archeological Society of Maryland. The meeting will include field trips to the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory and Historic St. Mary's City. William M. Kelso (James-town Rediscovery) is the banquet speaker. Abstracts for proposed papers and symposia are due by June 1, 2000, to Dennis C. Curry, Maryland Historical Trust, 100 Community Pl., Crownsville MD 21032, tel: (410) 514-7664, fax: (410) 987-4071, email: curry@dhcd.state.md.us. The conference headquarters is the Holiday Inn Select, Solomons, tel: (800) 356-2009. The room and field trip reservations and meeting advance registration deadline is October 2, 2000. To be placed on a mailing list, contact local arrangements coordinator Alison Pooley, 32 Delrey Ave., Catonsville MD 21228, tel: (410) 747-1973, email: pooleyd@erols.com.

November 8­12, 2000
The 33rd Annual Chacmool Conference will have as its theme, "Art for Archaeology's Sake: Material Culture and Style Across the Disciplines." This discussion is meant to bridge the gap between archaeology, art history, and material culture studies, considering both the shared and divergent ways in which objects and visual imagery are used to infer behavior and ideology. Style has long been a cornerstone of archaeological analysis, and has been used to distinguish temporal patterns and cultural affiliation, as well as deep structuring principles and intentional communication of symbolic information. Chacmool will host a conversation across the disciplines to break down barriers and share strategies of interpretation. The proceedings of the conference will subsequently be published. For information, contact Marc Zender or Calla McNamee, Chacmool 2000 Abstracts Committee, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary AB T2N 1N4, Canada, fax: (403) 282-9567.

November 10­12, 2000
Envisioning the Past: Constructing Knowledge through Pictorial Traditions of Representations is a ground-breaking, international, interdisciplinary conference bringing together researchers worldwide to discuss the latest insights into the visual representation of anthropological, archaeological, and scientific knowledge. The representation of the past is a new and developing field of research, which addresses the construction of knowledge through visual media, including fine arts, illustrations, museum displays, multimedia, and popular culture. Papers are invited from researchers in archaeology, anthropology, history, art history, and the history and philosophy of science. Abstracts of 500 words or less are due by June 30, 2000 and should be forwarded to Susan Ballard, Conference Coordinator, Envisioning the Past Conference, Dept. of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Highfield, South-ampton, SO17 1BJ, UK, tel: + (44) 023-80-592930, email: seb4@soton.ac.uk, Web: www.arch.soton.ac.uk/DeptStuff/representation.htm.

November 14­17, 2000
The X Encuentro: Los Investigadores de la Cultura Maya will be held in Campeche, Campeche, México, with the theme, "Recent Discoveries in the Maya Area." For more information, contact Ricardo Enclada Argáez, Director de Difusión Cultural, Universidad Autónoma de Campeche, Centro Cultural y Deportivo Universitario, Ave. Agustín Melgar s/n, Campeche, Campeche 24030, México, tel/fax: (981) 6-21-64.

November 15­19, 2000
The 99th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association will be held at the San Francisco Hilton and Towers, San Francisco, California, with the theme, "The Public Face of Anthropology." The deadline for submissions is April 19, 2000. For submission information, see the January 2000 Anthropology News or contact AAA Meetings, 4350 N. Fairfax Dr., Suite 640, Arlington, VA 22203-1620, tel: (703) 528-1902 ext. 2, email: jmeier@aaanet.org.

November 16, 2000
The CBA/BUFVC Channel 4 Film Awards Ceremony will be held in the Great Hall of Edinburgh Castle. These biennial awards are presented by the Council for British Archaeology/British Film & Video Council Working Party to British-made broadcast and non-broadcast productions. Due to a departure from the usual selection process, productions released from 1996 are eligible for the current competition. Prize winners also are screened during the Theoretical Archaeology Group meetings. This year a third prize will be inaugurated for Information Communications Technology presentations, such as CD-Roms and websites. The entry deadline is June 30, 2000. For information, contact Cathy Grant, Honorary Secretary, Council for British Archaeology/British Universities Film & Video Council Working Party, 77 Wells St., London W1P 3RE, England, tel: + (44-171) 393-1500, fax: + (44-171) 393-1555, email: cathy@bufvc.ac.uk, Web: www.bufvc.ac.uk.

November 27­30, 2000
II Congreso de Arqueología de la Región Pampeana will be held in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. For information, write CC 3 Sucursal 1 (7600), Mar del Plata, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina, email: carp2000@mdp.edu.ar