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
(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
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