(HA) = Hilton Austin (ACC) = Austin Convention Center 37 Thursday Morning, April 24 Program Wednesday Evening ■ April 23, 2014 [1] OPENNING SESSION AND PRESIDENT’S FORUM ■ PUBLISHING ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY (Sponsored by President) Room: Ballroom D (ACC) Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Organizers: Suzanne Fish and Deborah Nichols Moderator: Jeffrey Altschul Participants: Kenneth Ames—Discussant Christine Szuter—Discussant Michael Smith—Discussant Sarah Kansa—Discussant John Yellen—Discussant Sarah Herr—Discussant Mark Aldenderfer—Discussant Christopher Pool—Discussant Thursday Morning ■ April 24, 2014 [2] GENERAL SESSION ■ INTERACTION NETWORKS IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST Room: 11AB (ACC) Time: 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Chair: Erin Smith Participants: 8:00 David Lewandowski—Examining the Social Networks During the Pit house-to-Pueblo Transition in the Mogollon Highlands 8:15 Travis Cureton—Cohonina Forts and Line-of-sight Networks 8:30 Karen Harry—Changing Subsistence and Interaction Patterns in the Mt. Dellenbaugh Region of the Shivwits Plateau, Northern Arizona 8:45 Erin Smith and Mikael Fauvelle—A Western Subset of the North American Oikoumene: Regional Interaction between California and the Southwest [3] SYMPOSIUM ■ THE BODY ADORNED: MAPPING ANCIENT MAYA DRESS Room: 18C (ACC) Time: 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Chairs: Alyce De Carteret and Katharine Lukach Participants: 8:00 Jeffrey Dobereiner—Caught by the Coiffure! Subordination, Ceremony and the Significance of Hair Among the Classic Maya 8:15 Nicholas Carter and Alyce De Carteret—Tuupaj: Ancient Maya Ear and Nose Ornaments as Artifacts and Signs 8:30 Katharine Lukach—Uuhaj: Material and Representational Aspects of Ancient Maya Neck and Pectoral Ornaments 8:45 Franco Rossi—All About Xanab: Understanding Ancient Maya footwear 9:00 Alyce De Carteret—Discussant 38 (HA) = Hilton Austin (ACC) = Austin Convention Center Thursday Morning, April 24 [4] GENERAL SESSION ■ LATER PREHISTORY IN AFRICA Room: 17A (ACC) Time: 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Chair: Laurie Nixon-Darcus Participants: 8:00 Kirsten Atwood—Iron Age Cusine at Bosutswe, Botswana: Food and Inequality 8:15 Alexander Antonites—Political and Economic Interactions in the Hinterland of the Mapungubwe Polity, c. AD 1200-1300, South Africa 8:30 Andrew Gurstelle—Ceramic Styles and Regional Interaction in the Savè Hills, Bénin 8:45 Laurie Nixon-Darcus and A.Catherine D'Andrea—Grinding to Sustain Life: An Ethnoarchaeological Approach to Grinding Equipment Use in northern Ethiopia 9:00 Loretta Dibble—Fishing and Land Use: What studies of fishing technology and topography can tell us about pre-historic land use [5] GENERAL SESSION ■ MEDITERRANEAN BRONZE AGE Room: 10A (ACC) Time: 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Chair: Walter Crist Participants: 8:00 Kevin Fisher—Differing Trajectories of Urbanism on Late Bronze Age Cyprus 8:15 Natalie Abell and Eugenia Gorogianni—Industry and Interaction: Craft Producers as Agents of Culture Change in Bronze Age Ayia Irini, Kea, Greece 8:30 Francesca Cadeddu—Settlement strategies and socio-political organization: a methodological approach to the case study of the Sardinian Bronze Age 8:45 Peter Day, Eleftheria Kardamaki, Aikaterini Demakopoulou, Joseph Maran and Alkestis Papadimitriou—Transport Jars and Commodity Exchange in the Mycenaean World: Tiryns and Midea 9:00 Walter Crist—Games of Thrones: Board Games and Social Complexity in Bronze Age Cyprus [6] GENERAL SESSION ■ SOUTH AMERICA Room: 13AB (ACC) Time: 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Chair: Rosicler Silva Participants: 8:00 Wm. Haas—Residential Mobility, Site-Size Variation, and Archaic Foragers of the Altiplano 8:15 María Álvarez, María Gutiérrez and Cristian Kaufmann—The Role of Hog-nosed Skunk in the Subsistence of Hunter-Gatherers of the Pampean Region of Argentina 8:30 Gustavo Martinez, Luciano Prates, Gustavo Flensborg, Luciana Stoessel and Ana Paula Alcaraz —Radiocarbon Chronology of the Humid Pampa Subregion of Argentina: archaeological signal, demographic processes and population dynamics. 8:45 Weston McCool and Bradley Parker—Household Maize Beer Production in the Andes: An Ethnoarchaeological Investigation 9:00 Rosicler Silva and Julio Rubin—Archaeological Sites, Natural Processes, Anthropic Activity and Conservation of the Central Plateau of Brazil 9:15 Gerson Levi Lazzaris and Erika Marion Robrahn-González—Management of urban and archaeological settings: a case study of the Port of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (HA) = Hilton Austin (ACC) = Austin Convention Center 39 Thursday Morning, April 24 [7] GENERAL SESSION ■ NATIVE AMERICAN LAND USE IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST Room: 9B (ACC) Time: 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Chair: E Adams Participants: 8:00 Stacey Jordan—The Emerging Archaeology of Ford Dry Lake: Recent Results from California’s Chuckwalla Valley 8:15 Jesse Murrell and Cassandra Keyes—Archaic Land Use of the Taos Plateau and Rio Grande del Norte, New Mexico 8:30 Jim Railey—Long-term Trends in Far Southeastern New Mexico: Zooming In and Out 8:45 E Adams and Samantha Fladd—Preceramic Migration and Landscape Formation along Lower Chevelon Canyon, Northeastern Arizona 9:00 Christopher Crews—Cultural Changes in the Piedre Lumbre Valley, NM during the Developmental-Coalition Transition 9:15 Wendy Sutton—Imaging a Prehistoric Landscape: Water Management at Chim ney Rock, a Pueblo II Settlement in Southwest Colorado [8] SYMPOSIUM ■ ADVANCES IN THE INVESTIGATION OF PRE-COLUMBIAN GUERRERO AND OAXACA, MEXICO Room: 8B (ACC) Time: 8:00 AM - 9:45 AM Chairs: Cinthya Vidal and Israel Roman Ramos Participants: 8:00 Guy Hepp—La Consentida and Initial Early Formative Period Social Organization on the Pacific Coast of Oaxaca, Mexico 8:15 Victoria Menchaca and Sarah Barber—Ballcourts, Ceremonial Centers, and Trade Routes in the Manialtepec Basin of Oaxaca’s Central Coast 8:30 Israel Roman Ramos—The Beginning of a Long Journey: Archaeology and Cul tural Heritage Promotion Along the Southeast Coast of Guerrero, Mexico 8:45 Israel Hinojosa-Balino and Gerardo Gutierrez—Archaeological Settlement Pat terns in the Province of Tlapa, Guerrero 9:00 Angel Rivera—Una introducción al estudio de los monumentos grabados de Cerro de la Tortuga, costa de Oaxaca. 9:15 Jeffrey Brzezinski, Arthur Joyce and Sarah Barber—The Construction and Use of Public Space at Cerro de la Virgen, Oaxaca, Mexico 9:30 Juan Sereno-Uribe—Discussant [9] FORUM ■ MAYA ARTISTS AND THEIR AUDIENCES Room: 8A (ACC) Time: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Moderator: Michael Carrasco Participants: Maline Werness-Rude—Discussant Mary Katherine Scott—Discussant Kaylee Spencer—Discussant [10] POSTER SESSION ■ COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSES AND SOURCING STUDIES IN ARCHAEOLOGY Room: Ballroom F (ACC) Time: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM 40 (HA) = Hilton Austin (ACC) = Austin Convention Center Thursday Morning, April 24 Participants: 10-a Alice Hunt and Robert Speakman—Protocol for the analysis of archaeological ceramics and sediments by pXRF 10-b Jacob Adams and Sam Coffman—Testing the Accuracy of Minimum Analytical Nodule Analysis (MANA) Using PXRF: An Experimetnal Approach 10-c Signe Valentinsson, Matthew C. Sanger and Anna M. Semon—Large-scale pXRF survey of archaeological ceramics from the American Southeast 10-d Chris Young—TRAVELIN’ RHYOLITE: SOURCING LITHIC RAW MATERIAL IN RELATION TO THE JOHANNES KOLB ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE (38DA75) 10-e Anne Parfitt and Patrick McCutcheon—Chemical Sourcing of Obsidian Lithic Fragments from the Grissom Site (45KT301) to Study Intra-site and Inter-site Source Variability 10-f Cody Dalpra, Carol Delher, Molly Boeka Cannon and Bonnie Pitblado—Petro graphic Analysis for Quartzite Sourcing in the Gunnison Basin, Colorado 10-g Shilo Bender—Costs and Strategies of Obsidian Procurement in the Southwest Borderlands 10-h Stephanie Mack—Sizing Up: Chert Cobble Bed Sourcing within the Petrified Forest National Park 10-i Sachiko Sakai—Luminescence Dating and Chronological Reconstructions in the Arizona Strip and Adjacent Areas in the American Southwest 10-j Lindsey Komes and Winifred Creamer—LA-ICPMS analysis of clay and ceram ics from San Marcos Pueblo 10-k Khori Newlander—Comparing Compositional Data Acquired by pXRF and LA- ICP-MS for Cherts in Eastern Nevada 10-l Ying Lin, Khori Newlander, Nathan Goodale and David Bailey—Chert and Obsidi an Calibrations for pXRF Based on National and International Standards 10-m David Cranford—Analyzing 18th century Catawba pottery and a lead glazed sherd using portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) 10-n Heather Walder and Laure Dussubieux—Identifying American native and Europe an smelted coppers with pXRF: a case study of artifacts from the Upper Great Lakes region 10-o Rebecca Wiewel—Protohistoric Community Formation in the Central Arkansas River Valley: The Use of Compositional Analysis to Identify Regional Interaction 10-p Dora Lambert—ICP-MS Analysis of Sediment for Sourcing Ceramic Sherds in Shkodër region of Northern Albania [11] POSTER SESSION ■ ARCHAEOLOGICAL CERAMICS Room: Ballroom F (ACC) Time: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Participants: 11-a Hans Barnard, Augusto Cardona Rosas and Maria Lozada—The Ramada Ce ramic Tradition in the Vitor Valley (Arequipa, Peru) around 850 CE 11-b Fernando Franchetti and Nuria Sugrañes—Pots in Northern Patagonia: Design Characteristics, Functionality and Variability 11-c Valentina Martinez and Carmen Sanchez—Ceramic Technological traditions in coastal Ecuador 11-d Anna Mazin, Olivia Navarro-Farr and P. Nick Kardulias—Gendering Ceramic Production in Hohokam Society 11-e Claire Barker—Corrugated Pottery and Communities of Practice 11-f Alison Livesay—Black, White, and Red All Over: Mimbres Oxidized Ceramics 11-g Neill Wallis, Thomas Pluckhahn, Ann Cordell and Michael Glascock—Under standing Woodland Period Social Interactions through Integrated Analyses of Pottery (HA) = Hilton Austin (ACC) = Austin Convention Center 41 Thursday Morning, April 24 11-h Karen Smith and Vernon J. Knight—Swift Creek Design Elements and their Layouts 11-i Rachel Briggs—Nixtamalization in the Prehistoric Southeastern United States 11-j Jeanette Harlow, Elizabeth Niespolo, Sachiko Sakai and Carl Lipo—Thermal Properties and Functional Advantages of Olivine-Tempered Moapa Ware: a Com parative Study 11-k Vincent Warner—It’s About Time: Using Relative Dating and Seriation to Identify Trends in Northeastern Missouri Late Woodland Pottery Decoration. 11-l Sarah ODonnell—Investigating Ozarks Marginality: A Study of Late Prehistoric Ceramics from the Northern Ozark Highland of Missouri [12] POSTER SESSION ■ LIFE, DEATH, DIET, AND DISEASE IN PREHISTORIC NORTH AMERICA Room: Ballroom F (ACC) Time: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Participants: 12-a Martin Welker and Patricia Lambert—Subsistence and Trauma: The Southeast in Perspective 12-b John Krigbaum, Neill Wallis, Nicholas Coutu and Christina Holland—Weeden Island Paleodiet and Mobility: Isotopic Results from Three Coastal Sites in Northern Florida 12-c Elizabeth Nelson and Christine Halling—Evidence for Skeletal Fluorosis at the Ray Site: a Pathological Assessment and Description of Community Health 12-d Christine Halling and Elizabeth Nelson—Bone Resorption of the Distal Radius and Ulna: a Case Study from the Ray Site 12-e Megan Schwalenberg—A Comparative Analysis of the Dental Health of Two Middle Woodland Burial Populations in the Lower Illinois Valley 12-f Greg Kauffman—Stable Isotope Analysis of a Middle Woodland Population from North-central Kansas 12-g Christian Cruz-Morales—Correlation of Death Rate and Periodontal Disease in the Prehistoric Human Remains of Pueblo Bonito [13] POSTER SESSION ■ TECHNICAL ANALYSES IN ARCHAEOLOGY Room: Ballroom F (ACC) Time: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Participants: 13-a Paul Buck and Donald Sabol—SUB-PIXEL DETECTION OF ARCHAEOLOGI CAL MATERIALS USING NASA SATELLITE AND AIRCRAFT DATA 13-b Adam Wiewel and Jesse Casana—UAV-based Archaeological Aerial Thermography 13-c Michael Chodoronek, Matthew Douglass and Sam Lin—Photogrammetry applications in feature and site documentation: case studies in southeastern Alaska and northwestern Nebraska 13-d Brendan Culleton and Douglas Kennett—Developments in Radiocarbon and Sta ble Isotope Preparation of Archaeological Materials at the Penn State Human Paleoecology and Isotope Geochemistry Lab 13-e Wendy Cegielski, Grant Snitker, Gayle Timmerman, C. Michael Barton and Bette Otto-Bliesner—Reconstructing Local Paleoclimate Data with Global and Local Variables: A Re-examination of “Downscaling” with Updated Paleoclimate Models 13-f Grant Snitker—Exploring the Dynamics of Anthropogenic Fire Regimes through Agent Based Modeling (ABM) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) 42 (HA) = Hilton Austin (ACC) = Austin Convention Center Thursday Morning, April 24 13-g Ursel Wagner, Rupert Gebhard, Zsolt Revay, Peter Albert and Friedrich E. Wagner—Chlorine determination in iron artifacts by prompt gamma activation analysis (PGAA) 13-h Alexandr Schipani—The Use of the Scapula to Determine Biological Sex 13-i Cassandra Fitzgerald—Retest of a Recently Developed Method of Sex Determi nation on the Distal Humerus 13-j Warren Lail, David Sammeth, Shannon Mahan and Jason Nevins—A Non-De structive Method for Dating Human Remains 13-k Kelsey Roepe and Megan Perry—A Bayesian Approach to Investigating Age-at- Death of Subadult Archaeological Samples 13-l Travis Jones, Daniel Bigman and Jeff Speakman—Testing Alternative Methods for Unmarked Burial Identification 13-m Anthony Krus, Robert Cook and Derek Hamilton—A little bit longer: The date of events at the SunWatch site [14] GENERAL SESSION ■ PREHISTORIC TEXAS Room: 14 (ACC) Time: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Chair: Jason Barrett Participants: 8:00 Jason Barrett, Richard Weinstein, Roger Moore and Charles Frederick—Cached, Dropped, or Ritually Deposited?: Dimond Knoll's Enigmatic Lithic Assemblage and the Archaeology of Motive 8:15 J. Javi Vasquez, Vance T. Holliday, Arthur H. Harris and Susan M. Mentzer—An Overview of Investigations at Sierra Diablo Cave, Texas (2008-2013) 8:30 Joseph Luther—THE BONEYARD: A 12,000 YEAR HISTORY 8:45 Nathanael Dollar—Testing Intensification Theory Using Lower Pecos Coprolites 9:00 Casey Riggs—Seasonal Plant Community Use by Late Prehistoric Hunter-Gath erers in the Eastern Trans-Pecos Archaeological Region of Texas 9:15 Haley Rush—The Rowe Valley Site (41WM437): A Study of Toyah Period Subsis tence Strategies in Central Texas 9:30 Steve Carpenter—Grand Parallel - A Consistent Latitude of Caddo and Late Woodland Multimound Centers from Eastern Texas to the Lower Mississippi Valley 9:45 Juan Gonzalez, Bobbie Lovett and Russell Skowronek—Deflation Troughs, Water and Prehistoric Occupation of the South Texas Sand Sheet [15] SYMPOSIUM ■ WHAT'S HAPPENING ON THE FRINGE: TESTING A NEW MODEL OF CROSS-CULTURAL INTERACTION IN ANCIENT BORDERLANDS Room: 9A (ACC) Time: 8:00 AM - 10:45 AM Chairs: Ulrike Green and Kirk Costion Participants: 8:00 Ulrike Green and Kirk Costion—Seeing What’s Happening on the Fringe: Explor ing the Visual Representation of Cross-Cultural Interaction 8:15 Bryan Hanks—Social Processes and Frontier Dynamics in the Late Prehistoric Eurasian Steppes 8:30 Peter Wells—Objects, Decoration, and Writing: Dynamics of Communication Media in the Roman Frontier Zone of Temperate Europe 8:45 Peter Andreas Toft—Modeling complex cultural encounters in contact and colo nial Greenland (1690-1900 AD) - possibilities and limitations of the interaction zone model (HA) = Hilton Austin (ACC) = Austin Convention Center 43 Thursday Morning, April 24 9:00 Stuart Smith and Michele Buzon—Cross-Cultural Interaction in the ancient Egyp tian and Nubian Borderland 9:15 Madeleine Gunter—Modeling Colonial Encounter: An Analysis of Trade Networks on the Seventeenth-Century Eastern Siouan Frontier 9:30 Meghan Buchanan—Reconfiguring Regional Interactions in the Face of Cahoki an Decline: A View from the Common Field Site, MO 9:45 Maeve Skidmore—Cusqueños, Huareños, and the Wari: an evaluation of intense cultural exchange in the Middle Horizon Cusco region of Peru 10:00 Verity Whalen and Corina M. Kellner—Modeling Late Nasca societal interaction on the south coast of Peru 10:15 Kirk Costion and Ulrike Matthies Green—Modeling the Prehistory of Regional Interactions in the Moquegua Valley, Southern Peru 10:30 Bryan Feuer—Discussant [16] SYMPOSIUM ■ MOVING ON: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN MOBILITY Room: 18A (ACC) Time: 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM Chairs: Steven Kuhn and Amy Clark Participants: 8:00 Douglas Bird and Rebecca Bliege Bird—Constructing Martu country: mobility and trophic facilitation in Australia’s Western Desert 8:15 Todd Surovell and Matthew O'Brien—Mobility at the Scale of Meters 8:30 Ariane Burke, Dario Guiducci and James Steele—Seeing our way: perception of the landscape and patterns of hominin dispersal. 8:45 Ian Wallace, Lynn Copes, David Raichlen and Theodore Garland, Jr.—Mobility as a nexus of biological organization 9:00 David Raichlen, Brian Wood, Adam Gordon, Frank Marlowe and Herman Pontzer—Scale-free foraging in human hunter-gatherers: Lévy walks are a fundamental feature of human mobility 9:15 Steven Churchill, Christopher Walker and Adam Schwartz—Large-bodied carnivores as a model for predicting Neandertal home range size 9:30 Marcus Hamilton—The ecology of hunter-gatherer residential mobility 9:45 Steven Kuhn, W. Randall Haas and Luke Premo—Are individual mobility patterns emergent from resource distributions? A modeling approach. 10:00 Antonin Tomasso and Guillaume Porraz—Embedded procurement: between assumption and facts. An overview on the Upper Paleolithic from the Mediterranean corridor (Provence and Liguria) 10:15 Amy Clark—Time and Space in the Middle Paleolithic: Spatial Analysis of Open Air Sites in France 10:30 William Rendu—Neandertal mobilities in Southwestern France: A zooarchaeological perspective. 10:45 Robert Kelly—Discussant [17] SYMPOSIUM ■ SOCIETAL STABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: PAPERS IN HONOR OF KARL W. BUTZER Room: Ballroom G (ACC) Time: 8:00 AM - 11:15 AM Chairs: Carlos Cordova and Arlene Rosen Participants: 8:00 Carlos Cordova—Bridging disciplines in a global context: Environment and soci ety in Karl Butzer’s academic journey 44 (HA) = Hilton Austin (ACC) = Austin Convention Center Thursday Morning, April 24 8:15 Laura Basell, Tony Brown, P Toms, D Ongwen and C Kinyera-Okeny—Human Evolution at the Headwaters of the Nile 8:30 Steven Rosen—Basic Instabilities? Climate and Culture in the Negev over the Long Term 8:45 Joanne Rowland and Judith Bunbury—Environmental change in the western Nile Delta from the Middle Palaeolithic into the Neolithic: new considerations regarding the mobile and settled communities in the vicinity of Merimde Beni Salama 9:00 Clive Waddington—Paradise lost, paradise regained: Mesolithic resettlement of the north-east British coast after a catastrophic North Sea tsunami 9:15 Georgina Endfield—Re-particularizing climate: the importance of context, culture and complexity 9:30 Tony Brown—Examining the Archaeology - Soil Erosion Paradox 9:45 Arlene Rosen—Geoarchaeology at the Edge: Measuring the pulse of process and human agency at the interface of landscape and site in Neolithic through Iron Age China 10:00 Timothy Beach, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, Thomas Guderjan and Samantha Krause—Maya Wetland and Floodplain Formation: Societal Stability and Environmental Change 10:15 Jonathan Flood—Settlement Continuity and Change on the Mochlos Plain in East Crete 10:30 Isabel Rivera-Collazo and Amos Winter—Human adaptation strategies of abrupt climate change ca3.8kya 10:45 Joseph Schuldenrein—Geoarchaeology, Forensics, and the Prosecution of Saddam Hussein: A Case Study from the Iraq War, 2005-2008 11:00 Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach—Discussant [18] SYMPOSIUM ■ ALONG THE CORRIDOR AND BEYOND THE APE: MULTI- SCALE INVESTIGATIONS OF THE NAVAJO-GALLUP WATER SUPPLY PROJECT, NORTHWEST NEW MEXICO (Sponsored by PaleoWest Archaeology) Room: Ballroom C (ACC) Time: 8:00 AM - 11:30 AM Chairs: Shawn Fehrenbach and Jason Chuipka Participants: 8:00 Kevin Thompson, Thomas Motsinger and Joseph Tuomey—Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project (NGWSP): Now We’re Getting Somewhere 8:15 Joseph Tuomey and Ernie Rheaume—Perspectives on NGWSP from the Bureau of Reclamation: 8:30 Jason Chuipka—Looking Beyond the APE: Landscape Level Research in the San Juan Basin and the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project 8:45 Shawn Fehrenbach, Nikki Shurack and Daniel Rucker—Managing Digital Data in the Laboratory for NGWSP 9:00 Kirk Anderson—The Physical Landscape and Paleoclimates of the San Juan Basin 9:15 Cory Breternitz—Summary of the NGWSP Cultural Resources Inventory 9:30 Dennis Gilpin—Family, Community, and Regional Social Interaction among the Diné of the Tohlakai Area 9:45 Saul Hedquist and Kye Miller—Reach 12A Sites and Ritual Deposition in a Regional Context 10:00 Lindsey Clark and Dean Wilson—Ceramic Variation and Occupation History of Site NM-Q-18-120 10:15 James Moore, Nancy Akins, Dean Wilson, Pamela McBride and Karen Wening— (HA) = Hilton Austin (ACC) = Austin Convention Center 45 Thursday Morning, April 24 Artifacts and Assemblages from Reach 12A of the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project 10:30 Ronald Maldonado—The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project as seen from the Navajo Nation Historic Preservation Department 10:45 Paul Reed—Discussant 11:00 Richard Wilshusen—Discussant 11:15 Questions and Answers [19] SYMPOSIUM ■ CHARACTERIZATION OF ANDEAN CERAMICS Room: 19A (ACC) Time: 8:00 AM - 11:30 AM Chair: Isabelle Druc Participants: 8:00 Estefania Vidal Montero and Mauricio Uribe—Pottery and Social Complexity in Tarapacá, Atacama Desert (Northern Chile) 8:15 Isabelle Druc—Forams in My Plate: Ceramic Production in Puemape, North Coast of Peru 8:30 Michele Koons—Internal vs. External: An Examination of Moche Politics through Similarities and Differences in Ceramic Style 8:45 Ann Laffey—Empires Crafted of Clay: Earthenware Archaeometrics and the Characterization of Gendered, Multi-Scalar Political Expressions of Middle Horizon Andean Earthenware Vessels. 9:00 Alicia Gorman, Jelmer Eerkens and Kevin Vaughn—Electron Microprobe Analysis of Nasca Polychrome Ceramic Pigments 9:15 Matthew Piscitelli, Sofia Chacaltana Cortez, Nicola Sharratt, Mark Golitko and P. Ryan Williams—Inferring Socio-Political Dynamics in the Moquegua Valley through Geochemical Analysis 9:30 Jason Toohey—Ceramic Exchange and Community Interaction in the Late Pre hispanic Cajamarca Basin, Northern Peru 9:45 Krzysztof Makowski, Iván Ghezzi, Hector Neff and Gabriela Oré—Networks of Ceramic Production and Exchange in the Late Horizon: Characteriza tion of Ceramic Styles and Clays on the Central Coast of Peru 10:00 James Davenport—Literal Providers of Food and Drink: Examining Inka Imperial Control through Pottery 10:15 Silvana Raquel Alina Bertolino, Udo Zimmermann, Marcos Gastaldi and Andrés Laguens—The Ceramics and Pigments from Piedras Blancas (600- 1000 AC), Aguada Culture: Clay Provision, Technology, and Social Change at the Ambato Valley (Argentina). 10:30 Laura Marsh, Isabelle Druc and Cesar Sara Repetto—Sampling Paste for Thin Section: An Andean Case Study of the Initial Steps of Petrographic Research 10:45 Michael Deibel, William Whitehead, Corinne Deibel and Emily Stovel—Archae ometry in San Pedro de Atacama: Using hhXRF and hhFTIR in the Study of Obsidian and Ceramics 11:00 Cathy Costin—Discussant 11:15 Maria Masucci—Discussant [20] SYMPOSIUM ■ ONGOING RESEARCH IN EURASIAN ARCHAEOLOGY Room: 16B (ACC) Time: 8:00 AM - 11:45 AM Chairs: Kathryn Franklin and James Johnson Participants: 8:00 James Johnson—Disassembling Community and Complexity in the Eurasian Bronze Age: Social Transformations during the Middle through Final 46 (HA) = Hilton Austin (ACC) = Austin Convention Center Thursday Morning, April 24 Bronze Ages, Southern Urals, Russian Federation 8:15 Colin Quinn—Modeling Dynamics of Community Organization in Resource Pro curement Zones: A Bronze Age Transylvanian Case Study 8:30 Kristine Martirosyan - Olshansky—Masis Blur, a Neolithic Settlement in the Ararat Plain, Armenia 8:45 Taylor Hermes—Our Complexity Against Theirs: Neolithic Cultures in the Altai Mountains 9:00 Tekla Schmaus—Untangling Data and Entangling Lives in Semirech’ye 9:15 Alan Greene, Charles Hartley and Paula Doumani—Forging a Eurasian Archae ometry: Nine Years of Materials Analysis and Technique Development by The Making of Ancient Eurasia (MAE) Project 9:30 Katherine Haas—Death in the Context of Dying: Comparing Evidence for Differ ential Mortality at Two Bronze Age Cemeteries from Northern Serbia 9:45 Denis Sharapov—Evaluating social developments of the Middle and Late Bronze Age periods (2100BC-800BC) in the Southern Urals, Russia using regional set tlement pattern evidence. 10:00 Lara Fabian—Revisiting Roman-Period Eastern Transcaucasia: Entanglements past and present 10:15 Jacob Winter—Implementing Geoarchaeological Methods to Explore Site Forma tion Processes of Pastoralist Occupations in Eurasia 10:30 Lynne Rouse—Leaving Empires in the Dust: Why core-periphery relationships aren’t helpful for understanding prehistoric Central Asia 10:45 Hannah Chazin and Maureen Marshall—The Chemistry of Mobility: Preliminary Results, Potentials, and Challenges of Isotope Analysis in the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Armenia 11:00 Adrienne Frie—Attitudes towards Animals – Connections between Eurasian Animal Style art and the representation of animals in Southeastern Slovenia 11:15 Robert Spengler—Late Third Millennium B.C. Agriculture in the Foothills of Central Asia: A Mixing Zone for East and South Asian Crops 11:30 Kathryn Franklin— A cosmopolitanism of in-betweens: archaeology of medieval trade and politics in Armenia [21] SYMPOSIUM ■ MOBILITY AND MIGRATION OVER MESOAMERICA IN CLASSIC AND POSTCLASSIC TIMES Room: 10B (ACC) Time: 8:00 AM - 11:45 AM Chairs: Gregory Pereira and Charlotte Arnauld Participants: 8:00 Christine Dixon and Nancy Gonlin—A Site in Motion: Examining Intra-site Mobility at Cerén, El Salvador 8:15 Charlotte Arnauld, Eva Lemonnier and Mélanie Forné—Maya residential architecture, mobility and the Terminal Classic abandonment of lowland urban settlements 8:30 Elizabeth Graham—Mobility and resilience: a perspective from the eastern Maya lowlands 8:45 Jason Yaeger—Hinterland settlement histories, population mobility, and political dynamics in the Mopan River valley, Belize 9:00 Julie Hoggarth, Carolyn Freiwald, Anna Novotny and Jaime Awe—Postclassic Settlement and Population Movement at Baking Pot and in the Belize River Valley 9:15 Andrea Cucina and Vera Tiesler—Population dynamics during the Classic and Postclassic period Maya in the Northern Maya Lowlands: the analysis of dental morphological traits