The 16th Annual Northeast
Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory

was held
October 4 and 5, 1997
at the
University of Maine
Orono, Maine

For further information, please contact:

Daniel H. Sandweiss
University of Maine
Dept. of Anthropology
5773 South Stevens Hall
Orono, ME 04469-5773
tel: 207-581-1889
E-mail: dan_sandweiss@voyager.umeres.maine.edu
or daniels@maine.maine.edu

Saturday afternoon, October 4, 1997
1:05-1:30 pm: Maria Masucci (Drew University), Heuristic Devices or Wild Geese: The use of cultural phases in Ecuadorian Archaeology
1:30-1:55 pm: Trisha Thorme (Cornell University), Chemical Characterization of Alluvial Deposits and Initial Period Pottery from the Lurín Valley, Peru
1:55-2:20 pm: Isabelle C. Druc (Yale University), Ceramic exchange at the time of Chavín de Huántar: The results of a production and provenience study
2:20-2:45 pm: Emily Kaplan (National Museum of the American Indian), Technical Studies of Inka and Colonial Period Painted Wooden Keros: A Progress Report
2:45-3:10 pm: Leon G. Doyon & Richard L. Burger (Yale University), Compositional Analysis of Inca Ceramics: An Exploratory Approach Using the Electron Microprobe (SEM)

3:10-3:30 pm: Beverages in the Atrium

3:30-3:55 pm: Patrick R. Williams and Donna J. Nash (University of Florida), Burning Down the House: Differential Patterns of Construction and Abandonment on Cerro Baúl
3:55-4:20 pm: Alexei Vranich (University of Pennsylvania), Investigations at the temple of Pumapunku
4:20-4:45 pm: Sonia Alconini (University of Pittsburgh), The Akapana Ceramics in the Continuity/Discontinuity Debate: A Case of Ritual Paraphernalia during Tiwanaku IV and V
4:45-5:10 pm: Clark L. Erickson (University of Pennsylvania), Climate Change and Middle Horizon Agrarian Collapse: An Archaeological Perspective
5:10-5:35 pm: William H. Isbell (Binghamton University), The Built Environments of Huari and Tiwanaku

DINNER (options on and off campus, info available in the Atrium)

From 7:30-10:00 pm, there will be a get together in the Hudson Museum, in the Maine Center for the Arts (across from the D.P. Corbett Building) Cash Bar, munchies provided.

Sunday morning, October 5, 1997
8:30-9:00 am: Beverages and Pastries--Atrium of the Donald P. Corbett Building
9:00-9:25 am: Hendrik Van Gijseghem (Université de Montreal), Variability in domestic architecture during the late occupation of the Moche site
9:25-9:50 am: Claude Chapdelaine (Université de Montreal), Trace-Element Analysis of Metal Artifacts from the Moche Site, North Coast of Peru
9:50-10:15 am: David Fleming and Monica Barnes, Earthquake Damage to the Nazca Puquios

10:15-10:35 am: Beverages in the Atrium

10:35-11:00 am: Dwight T. Wallace (SUNY Albany), Ancón Textiles Of The Initial Period And Early Horizon
11:00-11:25 am: Charles M. Hastings (Central Michigan University), Population Scarcity in an East-Andean Valley of Northwest Argentina
11:25-11:50 am: Darrell S. Gundrum (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), An Orientation Towards Meaning in Chavin Iconography, Cosmology and Ritual Movement

11:50 am-1:00 pm: Lunch on your own.

1:00-1:15 pm: Stacy Shafer (University of Maine), Remote Sensing and Coastal Change in Peru: Beach Ridges in Northwest Peru
1:15-1:30 pm: Daniel F. Belknap (University of Maine), Anthropogenic Preservation of the Chira Beach Ridge Plain
1:30-1:45 pm: Patricio I. Moreno (University of Maine), Late Glacial Climate, Fire and Paleoindians in the Chilean Lake District
1:45-2:10 pm: David Johnson, The Relationship between the Lines of Nazca and Water Resources
2:10-2:35 pm: Lloyd Anderson, The Historical Chronology of Peru: Integrating the Sources
2:35-3:00 pm: J.L. Hollowell, River Crossing