Archaeometry at SAA 75 - F, April 16

The annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology will be in St. Louis, April 14-18.

Friday Morning April 16, 2010

[105A] WORKSHOP SOIL CHEMISTRY ARCHAEOCHEMICAL WORKSHOP
Room: Landmark 1 (R)
Time: 8:00 AM–12:00 PM

[117] ELECTRONIC SYMPOSIUM THE CANVAS OF SPACE: METHOD AND THEORY OF SPATIAL INVESTIGATIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Room: 224 (AC)
Time: 8:00 AM–10:00 AM
Organizers and Chairs: Kimberly Kasper and Margaret Morris
Participants:
Eva Hulse—Jill of All Trades and Master of None?: The Challenges of Doing Soil Chemistry Analysis as an Archaeologist
Kimberly Kasper and Kevin McBride—The Spatial Significance of Plants
Quentin Lewis—Unequal Variables: GIS and Spatialities of Inequality
Brian Jones—An Exploratory Data Analysis Approach to Artifact Density Correlation
Meredith Hardy—It’s a Small World? Settlement and Interaction on St. Croix, Virgin Islands
Ezra Zubrow, Eva Hulse, Greg Korosec and Dustin Keeler—Supra-regional Issues in Archaeology
Ray Whitlow—Linking Spatial Theories and Archaeological Data with the help of Formal Ontology
Margaret Morris—Are We the Tools of our Tools? Understanding Impacts of GIS Approaches on Archaeological Research
Elizabeth Lynch—Bedrocks Metates along the Chaquaqua Drainage: Building an Conceptual Framework for Prehistoric Landscape Knowledge
Sarah Sportman—Daily Practice, Social Identity and the Organization of Domestic Space at Hammondville, NY, 1870-1900
Angele Smith—Archaeological Landscapes: Exploring Scale, Movement and the Politics of Spatiality
Christine B. Anderson—Scottish Space: A Multidisciplinary Approach

[121] POSTER SESSION ADVANCE IN EXCHANGE STUDIES THROUGH COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS
Room: Exhibit Hall 1 (AC)
Time: 9:00 AM–11:00 AM
Organizer and Chair: Laure Dussubieux
Participants:
121-a Alison Carter—LA-ICP-MS of Carnelian and Agate: Analysis of Geological Sources from Central, South, and Southeast Asia and Beads from Iron Age sites in Cambodia
121-b Rahul Oka, Chapurukha Kusimba and Vishwas Gogte—Using Chemical Analyses (LA-ICP-MS) of Ceramics to Investigate Ancient Commercial Behaviors: Trade Booms, Market Capture, and Competition in the Indian Ocean Trade
121-c Mark Golitko and John Edward Terrell—Applications of LA-ICP-MS to the Study of Holocene Social Networks on the Sepik Coast of Papua New Guinea
121-d Emily Stovel—Looking Closely at One in the Face of Many: Characterizing San Pedro de Atacama Ceramics
121-e Jennifer Zovar—LA-ICP-MS Analysis of Ceramics from Late Prehispanic Bolivia
121-f Sutee Veerawan—Technological Variation of the Production of Glazes on Khmer Ceramics from Ban Kruat, Thailand
121-g Laure Dussubieux, Richard Cox, Mark Golitko and Patrick R. Williams—ICP-MS with Adaptable Chamber Laser: Quantitative Analysis of Glass, Metal and Ceramic Artifacts in the Museum Environment
121-h Misty Brum, Ryan Williams, Abigail Levine and Charles Stanish—Basalt Sources in the Andean Altiplano
121-i Kevin Vaughn, Laure Dussubieux, Ryan Williams and Sarah Cross—Changing Political Economy in Nasca: A Pilot Compositional Analysis of Ceramics from the Kroeber Collection
121-j Sofia Chacaltana—Using LA-ICP-MS Method to Observe Imperial – Local Dynamics in the Upper Moquegua Valley during Inca Occupation
121-k Nicola Sharratt, Mark Golitko, P. Ryan Williams and Laure Dussubieux—Clay Procurement in the Middle Horizon; LA-ICP-MS Analysis of Wari and Tiwanaku Ceramics from the Moquegua Valley, Peru
121-l Mamadou Cissé, Susan McIntosh, Laure Dussubieux and Marilee Woods—Early Glass Trade at Gao Saney (Mali): 700–1000 A.D.

[123] POSTER SESSION ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE 2010: PART I

(Sponsored by Society for Archaeological Sciences)

Room: Exhibit Hall 1 (AC)
Time: 9:00 AM–11:00 AM
Organizers: Christopher Wolff, Javier Iñañez and Jeff Speakman
Chair: Andrew Boehm
Participants:
123-a William I. Woods, Laurent Verslype, Bailey K. Young, Paul Hudson and Ines Leroy—Geoarchaeological Investigations of a Medieval Castle and Outer Bailey (Walhain, Belgium)
123-b Leslie G. Cecil, Melissa Logan and Linda Scott Cummings—Ancient Maya Food Processing as Evident Through Grater Bowls
123-c William Whitehead—Using pXRF to Identify Local versus Non-local Wood Use in the Lake Titicaca Basin
123-d Christian Wells—Alkaline Earth Metals as Human Activity Markers in Archaeological Soils
123-e Sharon Hull, Mostafa Fayek and Joan Mathien—Fingerprinting Turquoise Deposits in the American Southwest
123-f Tim Riley—Coprolite Research in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands: A Record of Individual Dietary Decisions
123-g Martin Giesso, Victor Durán, Valeria Cortegoso, Lorena Sanhueza R. and Michael Glascock—Provenance of Obsidian Artifacts from Sources in Central Argentina and Central Chile
123-h Corinne Rosania—Paleozoology and North American Black Bear (Ursus americanus) Ecology
123-i Andrew Boehm, Conor Hall and Erik Otarola-Castillo—Experimental Bison Butchery: Is Marrow Extraction Worth It?
123-j Erik Gjesfjeld—Analysis of Ceramics from Kuril Islands, Russian Far East
123-k Nathan Stevens and Douglas Harro—Lithic Use-Wear Analysis using Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy
123-l Thomas Urban, Krysta Ryzewski and John Hermance—Cumberlandite: Using Residual Gravity to Delineate an Historically Important Ore Body
123-m Michael Hilton—Petrographic Thin Section Analysis of Plaster Floor Construction and Pyrotechnology from the Site of Ashkelon, Israel
123-n Kyle Freund and Robert H. Tykot—Lithic Technology and Obsidian Exchange Networks in Bronze Age Nuragic Sardinia (Italy)

[126] FORUM QUIET CRISIS IN AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY
Room: 232 (AC)
Time: 9:00 AM–11:45 AM
Organizer: Michael Gregg
Chairs: Paul Goldberg and David Killick
Participants:
Paul Goldberg—Discussant
Ofer Bar-Yosef—Discussant
Ariane Burke—Discussant
Michael Chazan—Discussant
Robert Tykot—Discussant
Charles Kolb—Discussant
Hector Neff—Discussant
Douglas Price—Discussant
John Yellen—Discussant
Anna Roosevelt—Discussant

[132] FORUM QUANTIFICATION AND PRESENTATION: EFFECTIVE MEANS OF PRESENTING PLANT EVIDENCE IN ARCHAEOLOGY
Room: 225 (AC)
Time: 10:00 AM–12:00 PM
Organizers: Christine Hastorf, Matthew Sayre and Julie-Anne Bouchard-Perron
Chair: Shanti Morell-Hart
Participants:
Chantel White—Discussant
Leo Hosoya—Discussant
Stafanie Jacomet—Discussant
Judith Field—Discussant
Deborah Pearsall—Discussant
Gyoung-Ah Lee—Discussant
Naomi Miller—Discussant
David Goldstein—Discussant

Friday Afternoon April 16, 2010

[147] SYMPOSIUM FURTHER CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS AN INTERNATIONAL INVENTORY OF PREHISTORIC MINES AND QUARRIES
(Sponsored by Prehistoric Mines and Quarries Group)
Room: 230 (AC)
Time: 1:00 PM–3:45 PM
Organizers: David Field and Peter Topping
Chair: David Field
Participants:
1:00 Dani Nadel, Sagi Filin, Danny Rosenberg and Reuma Arav—Detailed Three-dimensional Characterization of a Flint Quarrying Complex in Mt. Carmel, Israel
1:15 Christopher Noll—The Development of Lithic Extraction Areas in the Okanogan Highlands During the Late Holocene: Evidence From Curlew Lake, Washington
1:30 Neil Hauser, Wayne Wilson and Robert Wunderlich—Web-Based Lithic Source Database
1:45 Phillip Johnson—Where the Hard Stone is Found: Investigations of Pre-contact Basalt Tool Industries at Tutuila, Amerika Samoa
2:00 Paul Katz—Formal Extraction Sites on the Southern High Plains of North America
2:15 John Rissotto—Establishing an Inventory of Middle and Upper Paleolithic Chert Quarries across North-Central Spain
2:30 Adrian L. Burke and Pierre M. Desrosiers—The Naparutalik Siltstone Quarry, Nunavik, Canada
2:45 Jenneth Curtis, Pierre Desrosiers, Adrian Burke and Jamie Brake—Documenting the Ramah Chert Quarries in Torngat Mountains National Park of Canada
3:00 Ivan Gatsov and Petranka Nedelcheva—Flint Hoards form the Prehistoric Settlement at Pietrele Romania and the Problem of Raw Material Procurement
3:15 Olaf Jaime-Riveron, Dolores Tenorio, Thomas Calligaro, Oscar Neill Cruz and Ranferi Juárez—Jade quarries of Mesoamerica used by the Olmecs
3:30 Peter Topping—Discussant

[151] SYMPOSIUM ISSUES AND METHODS IN ARCHAEOBOTANY
Room: 106 (AC)
Time: 1:00 PM–4:00 PM
Organizers: Jade D Alpoim Guedes and Christina Warinner
Chairs: Christina Warinner and Jade D'Alpoim Guedes
Participants:
1:00 Shanti Morell-Hart—Practical Re-imagining of Ancient Plant Use
1:15 John Marston—Identifying Agricultural Risk Management Using Paleoethnobotanical Remains
1:30 Ksenija Borojevic—Investigating Modes of Arrival of Charred Seeds at tel Kedesh, Upper Galilee
1:45 Kristie Martin—The Missing Sister: Assessing Variability in Fort Ancient Subsistence Systems
2:00 Dana Bardolph—Finding Food in Features: A Spatial Analysis of the Lamb Site
2:15 Christine Sievers—Experiments with Fire and Carbonization of Buried Seeds
2:30 Leo Aoi Hosoya—Processed Food in Neolithic: Experiments and Ethnography on Wild Food Plant Processing for reconstruction of Prehistoric Subsistence Strategies in East Asia
2:45 Jade D'Alpoim Guedes and Ming Jiang—Going back to Baodun: Challenges for Archaeobotanical sampling in the Chengdu Plain
3:00 Amanda Henry, Timothy Rose, Alison Brooks and Dolores Piperno—Assessing Dental Calculus as a Source of Archeological Plant Microfossils Using ESEM/EDS
3:15 Rebecca Mountain and Ksenija Borojevic—Preliminary Analysis of Fiber Source from Ancient Cordage
3:30 Gary Crawford—Discussant
3:45 Patti Wright—Discussant

[161] POSTER SESSION ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE 2010: PART II

(Sponsored by Society for Archaeological Sciences)

Room: Exhibit Hall 1 (AC)
Time: 3:00 PM–5:00 PM
Organizers: Javier Iñañez, Christopher Wolff and Robert Speakman
Participants:
161-a Michael D. Glascock, Martin Giesso, Victor Duran, Adolfo Gil and Gustavo
Neme—Trace-Element Characterization of Obsidian Sources in Central Argentina and Central Chile Using XRF and INAA
161-b Javier Inanez, Jeremy Bellucci, Richard Ash, William F. McDonough and Robert J. Speakman—Pb Isotope Characterization of Majolica Pottery from Spain and the Americas
161-c Suzanne Eckert and William D. James—Using LA-ICP-MS to Determine Production Provenance for Basalt Tempered
161-d Robert Speakman, Christine France, Paul Sheppard, Nadia Jimenez Cano and Nicole Little—Stable Isotopic and Chemical Indicators of Volcanic Eruptions in Tree Rings from Parícutin, Mexico—Implications for Dating Prehistoric Eruptions
161-e Carl Lipo, Jelmer Eerkens and Sachiko Sakai—Ceramic technology diffusion among prehistoric mobile populations of the California deserts
161-f Christopher Wolff, William Fitzhugh and Robert Speakman—The Utility of pXRF in the Assessment of Slate Procurement and Exchange by the Maritime Archaic of Newfoundland and Labrador
161-g Christopher Crews—Obsidian Procurement in the Piedra Lumbre Valley: 130 Obsidian bifaces from GR-2
161-h Julie A. Woods, Matthew T. Boulanger, Elizabeth S. Chilton, David V. Hill and Michael D. Glascock—Giving Voice to Choice: Integrating Scientific, Ethnographic and Historical Analysis to Understand 17th Century Native Pottery from Western New England
161-i Eric Bartelink and Phillip Johnson—Paleodietary Patterns on Tutuila Island,
American Samoa: Evidence from Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis
161-j Destiny Crider—Pottery Paints and Technological Traditions: PIXE Characterization of Central Mexican Epiclassic and Early Postclassic Pottery
161-k Joel Blickstein , Stephanie Chen, Hirzi Amirkhanov, Bonnie A.B. Blackwell and Anne R. Skinner—ESR Dating an Oldowan Site in Dagestan, Southern Russia
161-l James Daniels and Mark Becker—Geophysical Investigation and Archaeological Excavation of a Late Prehistoric Site
161-m Daniel Welch—Dispersal of Volcanic Glass Resources in Ceramic-Period Samoa: Resource Control and Long-Distance Trade
161-n Julie Boreham—Hidden Worlds made Visible
161-o Emily McClung de Tapia—Stable Carbon Isotopes applied to Landscape Reconstruction: Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico

My Apple iPad first impressions....

Well i got my Apple iPad today at about 12pm just when i got back from running some errands. It was interesting because on my UPS tracking it still showed it at the UPS facility. I got to talking to the UPS driver and she was telling me it was a nightmare with all the units shipping. I mentioned, how it said that my unit had shipped on the 30th but didn't come to the U.S. until the 2nd. It seemed to have been delayed and caught up in shipping in China.

She said yes, it seems they had some big delays with the Chinese government when it came to exporting these things. Also, because of these shipping times, iPads going out to many of the stores were being received later then expected. The driver had mentioned how Best Buy was supposed to get it yesterday and didn't get it till this morning at 9am. So even though my little iPad took a while to get here, I was very happy to receive her in my hands today.

One thing i did notice was that they did a good job packing the Apple box within the brown plain shipping box. It was a small box in which the unit was suspended in the air by using some cardboard bracers on the side. As i took the box out and began to open the plastic seal I noticed the beautiful detail Apple takes in its product box design. The box looked beautiful with the wording and images around the different sides. I have always love the boxes that apple puts their products in. Its actually a shame to dis guard them.

As I opened up the unit I saw the little iPad in its protective plastic cover. I lifted it out and noticed that below it was a nice little package unit with a card instruction sheet, some legal paper work and of course 2 Apple white stickers (more flare for the car).

Under the card was an Apple sync cord and a square electric plug for recharging the device. This has got to be the smallest power unit I have ever seen from Apple. It has a very cute and compact design. The two electric prongs collapse in when not in use. On the other side is a USB plug opening for plugging your sync cord in to recharge your iPad.

My unit came fully powered(100%) and ready to go. I went and hooked it up to my Mac. The iTunes opened up and I went through the short registration process for the unit. Then i spent sometime syncing over a few things and shopping in the iTunes store.

I went and picked up a few of the new iPad related appz: iBooks, iWork for iPad collection(Keynote, Pages, Numbers), and a few other goodies. I then tried them out after everything was done downloading and syncing up. I had also made sure my iPad connected up to my Airport Extreme Wi-Fi connection.

As i sat back on the couch and began to use the unit, I did notice the weight a little bit. I know its only 1.5 pounds but you do notice the feeling. After a while i didn't mind it but i did notice myself shifting the unit around in different positions as i used it. I went and started trying out the various apps.

The iPhone apps seemed to work fine, i was using then in the iPhone size then also 2x sized up too filling up the screen with the app. There is a 2x button in the lower right hand corner for enlarging the app on your unit to fill the screen. I did noticed some pixelizing in the graphics and even text when using 2x. It wasn't too bad, but i did notice it.

The iPhone apps all worked fine without any issues. I also tried some of the various news apps like BBC and AP and they worked fine too. The pages loaded up quick and the video worked without a hitch. I will have to say that the more i used it the more i enjoyed it too.

The ibooks app that was free came with a free children's book to try. I enjoyed using it and flipping through the pages. I also noticed something interesting too. If you choose to look at the books available through the ibooks store, you can actually download a sample of the book to look through it before deciding to purchase it. It was fast, easy and simple to use. One of the reasons I love Apple products is for the most part its something you can pick up and use without spending time going through manuals on figuring it out.

I had to try out one of my favorite iPhone games, "Plants vs. Zombie". I played it double sized and it looked great. I loved the big screen for playing and it was a bit more addictive playing now then on my iPod Touch unit. I know this larger sized screen is going to be a great platform for games. On the iPhone the screen is ok but on the iPad its just plain AWESOME.

I also had a chance to watch some movies that i had picked up from the iTunes store. I was blown away by how good the movies looked. I watched some of "Bicentennial Man" and the classic "Blade Runner" movie. I will tell you I've watched Blade Runner on a few different media platforms and on my iPad i was totally blown away by the richness and color on the unit. I watched it in the wide screen format and also the full screen format where it scales up the movie to fill the whole screen. Both looked awesome.

Then i tried out the three iWork apps that i had purchased. They worked great. It really put me in use with the virtual keyboard and I enjoyed using it to enter my input. Truthfully, i had seen the videos and photos of it but until i actually had a chance to use it first had i didn't realize how nice it was.

I am not a small man and i do have big hands. But, I will tell you for a big man this small little device was perfect. The more i used it the more i was glad and happy that i chose to order it now. So if you want my honest opinion on my first impressions about the iPad, it is AWESOME. Yep, so good that I had to yell it out loud.

I know there will be future released with more things added to the unit. But, I will definitely enjoy this one until then. So if you are considering getting an iPad all i can say is go down to the Apple store and see for yourself how great this unit is and be the judge of it yourself. I don't think you will be disappointed, this unit is a wise investment.

I want to say Thank You for all the people who helped to bring this unit to market and to all the employees at Apple. But, especially Thank You to Mr. Steve Jobs. Steve has always given us something to blow our minds and this is definitely another one of them.

Archaeometry at SAA 75 - Th, April 15

The annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology will be in St. Louis, April 14-18.

You can check out the full program, but I'll list the sessions, that in my biased opinion, are largely archaeometric/geoarchaeological in content. But, there are many archaeometric presentations among other sessions, as there should be.

The sessions sponsored by the SAS are in red.

For the first day of the conference, Th, 15 April:

Thursday Morning
 

[4] SYMPOSIUM RESIDUE ANALYSIS 1: THE TAPHONOMY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESIDUES

(Sponsored by Society for Archaeological Sciences)

Room: 232 (AC)

Time: 8:00 AM–9:45 AM

Organizer: Maria Raviele

Chair: Hanneke Hoekman-Sites

Participants:

8:00 Andrew Barker, Barney Venables, Stanley Stevens and Steve Wolverton—

Exploring Protein-Ceramic Interactions Using TOC Analysis, Protein Assays and

LC-MS

8:15 Zuzana Chovanec—An Experimental Approach to the Analysis of Opium

Residues

8:30 William Lovis, Gerald Urquhart, Robert Feranec and John Hart—Alkali Processing

of Maize and Resultant d13C Values on Systematic Experimental Carbonized

Residue C3 Food Mixes

8:45 Maria Raviele—The Implications for Maize Microbotanical Taphonomy via

Experimental and Archaeological Residues

9:00 Shannon Tushingham, Jelmer Eerkens, Oliver Fiehn, Jimmy Nguyen and Diana

Nguyen—Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Alkaloid Residue

in Ancient and Experimental Pipes

9:15 Charlotte Pevny, Tim Riley, James Wiederhold and Daniel Welch—Usewear and

Residue Analyses on Tools from the Lower Pecos Canyonlands: Exploring Tool

Function through Experimental Comparison

9:30 Kathryn Puseman, Linda Scott Cummings and Melissa Logan—Organic Residues:

Prehistoric Signatures and Curation Contamination

  

[5] GENERAL SESSION AGRICULTURE, ANIMALS AND CLIMATE IN MAYA LOWLANDS

Room: 102 (AC)

Time: 8:00 AM–10:00 AM

Chair: Robert Rosenswig

Participants:

8:00 Christine Dixon—Agricultural Organization and Field Boundaries: A Brief Look at

Cerén, El Salvador

8:15 Payson Sheets—What Were the Maya Doing with All That Manioc at Ceren?

8:30 Robert Rosenswig, Daniel Seinfeld, Sean Higgins and Wilberth Cruz Alvarado—

Ancient Maya Food from Formative Period San Estevan, Belize

8:45 Kristen Scudder—An Investigation of Turtle Use at Isla Cilvituk, Campeche,

Mexico

9:00 Wendy Solis—Ancient Maya Exploration of the Jute (Pachychilus Spp.) at the Site

of Minanha, West Central Belize

9:15 Andrea Prentice, Elizabeth Webb, Christine White and Elizabeth Graham—Stable

Isotope Dendroclimatology using Tropical Trees and Wooden Artefacts from

Lamanai, Belize

9:30 Kelley Rich and C. Fred T. Andrus—Oxygen Isotope Geochemistry of the

Freshwater "Jute" Snail (Pachychilus sp.): A Potential Ultra-local Seasonal

Paleoclimate Proxy for Tropical Mesoamerica

9:45 Bruce Dahlin—A Tale of Three Cities: Revisiting the AD 536 Event in the Maya

Lowlands

[10] FORUM SCIENCE IN SUPPORT OF ARCHAEOLOGY: WHAT IS STATE-OF-THE-ART?

(Sponsored by PaleoResearch Institute)

Room: 241 (AC)

Time: 10:00 AM–12:00 PM

Organizer: R. Varney

Chair: Linda Scott Cummings

Participants:

Kathryn Puseman—Discussant

R. Varney—Discussant

Linda Scott Cummings—Discussant

Chad Yost—Discussant

Melissa Logan—Discussant

 [12] FORUM ESTABLISHING TDAR: THE DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD

Room: 240 (AC)

Time: 8:00 AM–10:30 AM

Organizer and Chair: Francis McManamon

Participants:

Margaret Nelson—Discussant

Katherine Spielmann—Discussant

Keith Kintigh—Discussant

Francis McManamon—Discussant

Julian Richards—Discussant

Fred Limp—Discussant

 [23] SYMPOSIUM ACROSS BOUNDARIES: INTEGRATING ARCHEOLOGY & SCIENCE

Room: 225 (AC)

Time: 8:00 AM–12:00 PM

Organizers: Alejandra Gudino and Marcela Sepulveda

Chair: Alejandra Gudino

Moderator: Ron Lippi

Participants:

8:00 Fernanda Falabella and Oscar Andonie—Manejo diferenciado de materias primas

en la producción cerámica Aconcagua de Chile central. Una evaluación mediante

análisis de activación neutrónica instrumental

8:15 Robert Thompson—The Research Potential of Maize Cob Phytoliths in Food

Residues with Examples from Ecuador

8:30 Gerardo Fernandez Martinez —La Arrqueometria en el Contexto de la Educacion

Superior

8:45 Donald Johnson—Geophysical Investigations at an Inca Site in Northwestern

Ecuador

9:00 Richard Burger —Three decades of sourcing Andean obsidians: changing

collaborations, changing realities

9:15 Veronica Williams—Pottery Manufacture, Proveniences, and Pigments of Pre Inca

and Inca Archaeological Sites in Southern Andes

9:30 Brandon Lewis—The Challenges of Incorporating Archaeometry into

Archaeological Field Programs

9:45 Julie Farnum and Elizabeth Righter—Multi-disciplinary integration in the study of

the Pre-Columbian Tutu Village, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands

10:00 Mario Rivera, Daniel E. Shea and Jorge Moya—Dendroarchaeology in the

Atacama Desert, Northern Chile

10:15 Arthur Rostoker—A pedestrian approach to Tropical Forest Archaeology: in

advance of magic bullets.

10:30 Alejandra Gudino and Ron Lippi—How to get along: Lessons from a tropical rain

forest

10:45 Marcela Sepulveda and Eric Laval—Trabajo interdisciplinario para abordar el

estudio de las pinturas rupestres

11:00 Guillermo de la Fuente—The Abaucán Sur Research Project: initial stages in the

collaboration between archaeologists and archaeometrists (Dpto. Tinogasta,

Provincia de Catamarca, Argentina).

11:15 Michael Glascock —Discussant

11:30 Izumi Shimada—Discussant

11:45 Luis Barba—Discussant

Thursday Afternoon

 [44] POSTER SESSION HISTORY AND TRAJECTORY OF IRRIGATION AND WATER

ANAGEMENT IN THE SOUTHERN SOUTHWEST

Room: Exhibit Hall 1 (AC)

Time: 12:30 PM–2:30 PM

Organizer: James Vint

Chair: Fred Nials

Participants:

44-a Fred Nials—The Geomorphic and Stratigraphic Setting of Agricultural Features in

the Las Capas Site, Arizona

44-b William E. Doolittle—A View from the Other Side of the Fence

44-c Gary Huckleberry—Early Prehistoric Canals Identified along Rillito Creek and the

Santa Cruz River, Tucson, Arizona

44-d Jonathan Mabry—Paleoclimatic and Environmental Contexts for Early Agriculture

and Water Control in the Desert Borderlands, Southwestern U.S. and

Northwestern Mexico

44-e Hoski Schaafsma—Manipulated Landscapes and Altered Soils: Squeezing Water

Out of a Dry Landscape

44-f Michael Lindeman, Gary Huckleberry and Henry Wallace—The Martinez Hill to AMountain

Irrigation Community

44-g David Wright, Wesley Miles, and Kyle Woodson—Hohokam Irrigated Agricultural

Fields on the Middle Gila River

44-h James Vint—Persistence of the Las Capas Canal System, 950 B.C.-800 B.C.

44-i Kyle Woodson—New Insights on the Snaketown Canal System and Hohokam

Irrigated Fields

 [55] SYMPOSIUM RESIDUE ANALYSIS 2: CURRENT APPLICATIONS OF RESIDUE ANALYSIS

TO ARCHAEOLOGICAL QUESTIONS

(Sponsored by SAS [Society for Archaeological Science])

Room: 232 (AC)

Time: 1:00 PM–4:00 PM

Organizer: Hanneke Hoekman-Sites

Chair: Maria Raviele

Participants:

1:00 Hans Barnard, Alek Dooley and Kym Faull—The Search for Molecular Evidence of

Ancient Wine

1:15 Rosa M Lamuela Raventos, Rosa Guasch, Olga Jaúregui and Cristina Andres-

Lacueva—Chemicl Analysis of Old Egyptian Wine Residues

1:30 Hanneke Hoekman-Sites—How did Animal Product Use Change through time on

the Great Hungarian Plain during the Neolithic and Copper Age Periods?

1:45 Casey Riggs and Tim Riley—Resource Processing in the Chihuahuan Desert: A

Microbotanical Analysis of Stone Tools from West Texas

2:00 Melissa Logan and Linda Scott Cummings—Organic Residue Analysis: Finding

Evidence of Foods Using FTIR

2:15 Neil Duncan—Gourd Artifact Residues and Macroremains Reveal Feasting in Late

Preceramic Peru

2:30 Robert Lusteck—Small Things Forgotten: Recovery of Phytoliths from Food

Residues

2:45 Mary Malainey, Phillip J. Innes and Timothy J. Figol—Taking a Second Look:

Results of the Re-analysis of Archaeological Lipid Residues from North America

and Beyond

3:00 Andrea D. Crider—The Use of Residue Analysis in Determining Resource

Procurement Strategies: A View from Appalachia

3:15 Eleanorea Reber—Absorbed Residue Analysis from the George Reeves site

(11S650), an Emergent Mississippian Blufftop Settlement

3:30 Sean Rafferty—Analysis of Tobacco Pipe Residues through GC/MS and Raman

Microscopy

3:45 Daniel Seinfeld—Carbon Isotope Analysis of Ceramics from Two Sites in

Mesoamerica

Thursday Evening April 15, 2010

 [85] SYMPOSIUM ANTHROPOLOGICAL GEOPHYSICS: SCALE AND CONFIGURATION IN THE

ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD

Room: 106 (AC)

Time: 6:00 PM–8:15 PM

Organizers: James Enloe and Jason Thompson

Chair: Jason Thompson

Participants:

6:00 Jason Thompson—Ground-Penetrating Radar and Imaging of Complex

Subsurface Archaeological Materials

6:15 Lawrence Conyers—Ground-penetrating Radar Visualization Techniques for

Anthropological Analysis

6:30 Shawn Patch and Danny Gregory—Refining Middle Woodland Site Structure:

Ground Penetrating Radar Investigations at Site 40Mi70, Marion County,

Tennessee

6:45 William Whittaker— Limitations of Expectations: Ground-Penetrating Radar

Survey of Five Frontier Forts

7:00 Victor Thompson, Phillip Arnold, Thomas Pluckhahn and Amber VanDerwarker—

Shallow Geophysics and the Analysis of Persistent Places

7:15 Ben Vining—Assessing the Complexity of Built Archaeological Environments: A

Multi-data Geophysical Approach

7:30 Jennie Sturm—Using GPR to Study a Historic Denver Neighborhood

7:45 Lawrence Conyers—Discussant

8:00 James Enloe—Discussant

 [89] SYMPOSIUM ARCHAEOASTRONOMY IN THE AMERICAS

Room: 242 (AC)

Time: 6:00 PM–9:00 PM

Organizer: Bob Benfer

Chair: Rubén Mendoza

Participants:

6:00 Rubén Mendoza—Archaeoastronomy and Solar Eucharistic Worship in the

Millennial New World

6:15 Andrew Munro—Astronomy and the Design of Late Bonito Great Houses at Chaco

Canyon

6:30 Kim Malville and Nancy Malville—The High Communities of Chimney Rock:

Ceremony, Trade, and Astronomy

6:45 Francis Scardera, Laurie Rush, Margaret Schulz and Randy Amici—Consideration

for astronomically-aligned stone features in the Northeast

7:00 Michael Grofé—The Copán Baseline and the Outlier Stelae: The Orion

Hearthstones and the Solar Zenith

7:15 Rosanna Quiroz Ennis—Eclipses and the Southern Cross at Cañada de la Virgen

7:30 John Major Jenkins—Astronomy and the Long Count

7:45 James Zeidler—Archaeoastronomy, Community Plan, and Domestic Structure

Orientation at Real Alto, Coastal Ecuador: Why Don't the Houses Face the Plaza?

8:00 Phyllis Pitluga—Andean Milky Way Model Tested on Nasca Zones 6-7-8

8:15 Larry R. Adkins and Robert A. Benfer—Lunar Standstill Phenomena at the

Preceramic Buena Vista Site in Perú

8:30 Robert Benfer—New Solar Alignments from Buena Vista, Peru

8:45 Steven Gullberg—Cosmology of Inca Huacas: Designed Effects of Light and

Shadow

[97] GENERAL SESSION NEW TECHNICAL APPLICATIONS TO CARIBBEAN ARCHAEOLOGY

Room: 240 (AC)

Time: 6:30 PM–9:00 PM

Chair: James VanderVeen

Participants:

6:30 Jason Laffoon, Menno Hoogland and Roberto Valcarcel Rojas—Exploring Mobility

and Origins in Caribbean Contexts: An Isotopic Perspective

6:45 Claudette Casile—Statistical Perspectives on the Palynological Investigation of

Marie Galante, FWI

7:00 John Jones, Peter E. Siegel, Nicholas P. Dunning and Deborah Pearsall—Human

Occupation and Settlement on Trinidad: Pollen Evidence from a Series of

Sediment Cores

7:15 Hayley Mickleburgh and Roberto Valcarcél Rojas—What's in a Smile? Patterns of

Dental Wear and Pathology at El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba

7:30 James VanderVeen—Evaluating Classic Taíno Culture History: An Interesting

Intersection of Carbon Dating, Cholesterol, and Ceramics

7:45 Emma Bate—Lucayans and Spaniards: Early Contact at the Long Bay Site, San

Salvador, Bahamas

8:00 William Pestle—Intra-societal Dietary Variation in Pre-historic Puerto Rico

8:15 Michael Young—Technological Style and the Atlantic World System: A Case

Study in African-Caribbean Pottery from Montserrat

8:30 Stephan Lenik—French Jesuits and Plantation Landscapes in the West Indies

8:45 Paula Saunders—Up from the Ground: An Architectural Study of Enslaved

Houses at a Nineteenth-Century Coffee Plantation in Jamaica

The iPad is here - Saturday April 3, 2010

The day has arrived for the official delivery of the new Apple iPad. There has been a lot of talk in various directions about the iPad. I've read a number of articles where people are for it and think its the greatest thing since sliced bread. But, then there are the 'HATERS' who can't seem to find anything good to say about it.
The most interesting thing i've noticed is that there is no middle ground. Its either you love it or hate it.

Well i think its 'AWESOME' and I LOVE ITlove it. I know it might be easy to say things like it doesn't have a camera or this or that. But, how bout we focus on the positive things and go from there. Its easy to be negative and I'm sorry but i like to be positive about things in life first, then go from there.

So some of the reasons why I Love the new Apple iPad:
1. It's another amazing product by Apple. Face it folks, Apple is on the cutting edge of technology and design. They have produced a number of things that have definitely changed the way we live today for the better. In the most recent years we have been blessed with the iPhone and iPod Touch devices.

2. Change is a good thing. The new iPad is not like anything we have seen before. Yes, I've heard people comment on it being an iPhone on Steroids. But, I have to humbly disagree. I think it's a step into a new direction at small, light and amazing portable technology. This new step is the perfect developing ground for so many new innovate ways of doing things.

Imagine the uses in a hospital for taking notes and dictations. A doctor can speak his diagnosis into the unit and with some software it translates the doctors words into text and also attaches it to one file in a medical data base. Then in the future if there is any question of what was written it can easily be seen without any mis interpretation. This is one example of many different areas where the iPad can take us to the next level and beyond.

3. The Apple iPad is the beginning of a new way of how we see light, portable and useful technology. It is more then just a colorful Kindle. Its the start of introducing to us a more simpler way of working with technology. One of the reasons for the popularity of the iPhone/iPod Touch units is because anyone can pick it up and use it without too much thought or manual reading required.

4. Tons of Apps already available rite now. The Apple iPad has over 1,300 approved appz on the day of its release. Also, don't forget the 150,000 appz it can use that are available for the iPhone/iPod Touch too. There are more appz for this unit then any other portable device. With one big thing, there are a ton of them that are FREE that work great. No one else can even come close to saying this.

5. This unit could be a great learning tool for kids. Today kids are always complaining about how heavy their book bags are with all those big, clunky, heavy books they need to haul around for class everyday. Now, they don't need to worry about hurting their backs because on this platform we can put all those books in one small, compact easy to carry place.

6. Appeal for groups of all ages. When you see this device there is something so pleasant and appealing about it. Its not to big and clunky like so many other portable units on the market today. Also, you don't need a mouse to use it.

On this past Wednesday, there was a show on ABC called "Modern Family" where they had the unit as part of the story. One of the most amazing things that i saw was a Birthday Cake app. The woman held up the iPad as the virtual candles flickered then as the guy blew on the touch surface the candles moved like someone was blowing them out and wala they were blown out. The next thing you see is the smoldering candles just like they normally would. I love this app.

7. Apple has always been the leader in bringing new ideas and ways of using technology to the public. The one thing Apple is known for is walking to the beat of its own drum. I can remember many times where when they took the leap forward, it wasn't a step, but a great big Jump into the new way of doing things and it was AWESOME.

8. If you loved the iPhone/iPod Touch you will love the iPad because its the next stage of evolution in the world of technology. Yes, I know it doesn't have a camera but so what. There are hundreds of other great features that are currently available now. So you can wait and be a closet iPad fan or step up to the plate and enjoy what we have today.

So these were just a few of my feelings on this amazing new technology from Apple.

Our lives have forever been changed by Apple and Steve Jobs, and i for one want to say Thank You to all the people at Apple and to Steve Jobs for giving us some great goodies. I am proud to be a loyal supporter of amazing advanced technology from Apple.