27th Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
Central Michigan University - February 27, 1999

Conference Schedule

Friday Evening, 26 February 1999

Great Northern Restaurant

INFORMAL GATHERING
6:00 PM - CLOSING

Drop in as you arrive in town for dinner, drinks, desert, snacks, etc.

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Saturday, 27 February 1999

Pierpont Auditorium
Applied Business Studies Complex, Grawn Hall
Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan

Final Program

REGISTRATION
8:00 - 8:30 AM

SESSION I:  ECUADOR AND NORTHERN PERU
8:30 - 10:30 AM          Chair:  Karen Chávez

• Earl Lubenski (University of Missouri-Columbia):
  Obsidian Exchange in Ecuador

• Robert Thompson (University of Minnesota):
  New Perspective on the Adoption of Maize in Northwestern South America

• John Staller (Beloit College):
  The Possible Origins and Role of Specialized or Status Traders (Mindalá) to Complementarity in Formative Ecuador

• Kayoko Toshihira (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign):
  Early Societies of the Chicama Valley:  Complex or Non-complex?

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MID-MORNING BREAK
10:30 - 11:00 AM

SESSION II: PERU AND THE TITICACA BASIN
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM          Chair:  Rod Kirk

• Robin Beck (Northwestern University):
  Yanapata-Alta: The Evolution of Corporate Space at a Middle Formative Center, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia

• Karen Chávez and Sergio Chávez (Yale University/ Central Michigan University):

Trumpets as Ritual Paraphernalia in the Yaya-Mama Religious Tradition of the Lake Titicaca Basin

• Sergio Chávez (Yale University/ Central Michigan University): 
  Tonqo Cultivation at High Altitudes:  Implications for the Archaeology of the Lake Titicaca Basin

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CONFERENCE LUNCHEON
12:30 - 2:00 PM 

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SESSION III: CHILE
2:00 - 4:00 PM          Chair:  Charles Hastings

• Joel E. Myres (University of California at Irvine) and Scott R. Woodward, Mark J. Rowe, and Ray T. Matheny (Brigham Young University):
  Regional Genetic Differences and Ancestral Population Interactions:  An Approach to Andean History

• Mario A. Rivera (Andes Archaeological Consultants): 
  Chinchorro and Alto Ramirez Maritime Adaptation:  Two Coexisting Northern Chilean   Traditions Dating to 1000 B.C.

• Dan Shea (Beloit College): 
  Dietary Variety and Coastal Connections at the Ramaditas Site, Tarapaca, Chile

• Richard Sutter (Indiana University - Purdue University at Fort Wayne): 
  A Blind Test of Subadult Skeletal Sexing Techniques Using Known-Sex Mummies from the Azapa Valley, Chile:  A VERY Preliminary Report

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MID-AFTERNOON BREAK
4:00 - 4:30 PM          Chair:  Sergio Chávez

SESSION IV:  LOWLANDS, HIGHLAND-LOWLAND TRANSITIONS, AND ETHNOHISTORY
4:30 - 6:00 PM

• Virgil Roy Beasley (Northwestern University): 
  Settlement Patterns of the Sambaquis of Santa Catarina, Brazil

• Charles M. Hastings (Central Michigan University): 
  Probing the Cochabambas Yungas:  Reconnaissance in the Eastern Andes of Boliva

• Catherine Julien (Western Michigan University): 
  Inca Dates

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BUSINESS MEETING
6:00 - 6:05 PM

Selection of next year's conference location.

The Embers Dining

DINNER BANQUET
7:00 - 9:00 PM

• 7:00 PM:  Cocktails and cash bar
• 7:30 PM:  Dinner

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Private Home

EVENING RECEPTION
9:00 - 11:00 PM

About 10-15 minutes' west of town.  Directions will be provided at the conference.

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