From chacmool at ucalgary.ca Wed Feb 3 16:31:54 2010 From: chacmool at ucalgary.ca (Chacmool) Date: Wed Feb 3 16:32:08 2010 Subject: [Chacmool-l] Movie, Poster Contest, and Points Message-ID: <003401caa529$119f1180$34dd3480$@ca> Some announcements and reminders from Chacmool: 1) Poster Contest for Chacmool 2010 is on. The contest is open to all. The winner, in addition to being immortalized via their work on the walls of the Department, will also receive some sort of cash prize that I haven't quite decided on. This year's theme is Archaeology in the Public Eye (Public Archaeology). If you have questions, please ask the conference committee at the Chacmool office or by email: chacmool2010@gmail.com 2) Point Collection Display: This will occur on Friday, February 12th, from 1pm to 3pm in ES 859. If you have an interest in lithics, particularly those of the northern plains, you should not miss this opportunity. 3) Friday Movie: This Friday, February 5th, we will be screening the ever popular "Corn and the Origins of Settled Life in Meso-America" at 5pm (~45 minutes long). Join us at the Den at 4pm (or before) to close the week before we head to the Department for the film. Thanks, Lance -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.ucalgary.ca/pipermail/chacmool-l/attachments/20100203/f6058f5f/attachment.html From chacmool at ucalgary.ca Thu Feb 4 14:56:16 2010 From: chacmool at ucalgary.ca (Chacmool) Date: Thu Feb 4 14:56:22 2010 Subject: [Chacmool-l] ASA Upcoming Events Message-ID: <003601caa5e4$e095a330$a1c0e990$@ca> Patrick Carmichael Febuary 17th 2010 7:30PM Earth Sciences Room 162 "Moche Erotic Art: Sex and Death in Ancient Peru" Abstract: Human sexuality is a universal phenomenon, but sex acts and their meaning vary with context and culture. Ancient Peru - an area of the world where culture and sexual mores developed independent of Old World infl uences - provides a check on variety in human sexuality with imagery that has been variously described as fertility related, erotic, pornographic, or morally degenerate. The Moche people, who flourished on the north coast of Peru in the fi rst centuries A.D., recorded the most intimate details of their sex lives in ceramic effigy vessels. Why? Drawing upon archaeology, ethnohistory, and ethnography to create an indigenous cultural context within which to view the subject matter, this presentation argues that, for the Moche, non-propagative sexual practices were part of a continuum which transcended the procreation/pleasure dichotomy, and ultimately were directed at the dead. Calgary Chapter of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities: 5 February 2010 Time: 7:30 p.m. Title: Coins of the Ptolemies Speaker: Geraldine Chimirri-Russell Place: Nickle Arts Museum Calgary Chapter of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities: March 5, 2010 Time: 7:30PM University of Calgary, Earth Sciences Building, Room 162 (Speaker and Title TBA)- First Friday of Each month until May Calgary Society for Mediterranean Studies 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. Social Sciences Building, Room 541 Monday, February 22, 2010 Keith Sidwell, University of Calgary, Alberta A Taste for Attic Salt? Were Athenian Old Comedies Performed in Magna Graecia? Friday, March 19, 2010 Victoria Wohl, University of Toronto, Ontario The Family and the Law in Classical Athens Monday, March 29, 2010 David Konstan, Brown University, Rhode Island Do Animals have Emotions? The View from Ancient Greece Chacmool Noon Hour Lecture Series- 12-1:00PM, Earth Sciences Building, Room 859 Feb 10, 2010 Shawn Morton, MA Student: Tales from Belize - The First Season of the Caves Branch Archaeology Survey Big Rock Lecture: A New Battle for Historical Shipwrecks: On the Swedish Vasa and the English Mary Rose Submitted by kenben on Mon, 2010-01-11 14:19. Event Date 2010-02-03 18:30 Location Big Rock Grill 5555- 76th Avenue SE Description Farideh Jalilehvand will share her experience with us on how chemistry is saving historical shipwrecks in museums around the world. Together with her international collaborators, she has found that the large amounts of sulphur embedded in the oakwood of the famous 17th century Swedish warship Vasa may destroy it as the sulphur compounds oxidize into sulphuric acid. A similar sulphur problem has been found in the Mary Rose, the principle warship in the Henry VIII's navy. Please join us while Jalilehvand explains how chemistry holds the key to the conservation of these magnificent ships as they face their newest battle! Drinks 6:30 pm Dinner 7pm Talk 8:15 pm Cost $45 per person (includes drinks, dinner, talk) Call: (403)720- 3239 (Mon- Fri, 8:00am - 4:30 pm) to purchase tickets. Alberta Palaeontological Society A Tale of Two Reefs: Coral reefs versus sponge reef mounds from the Western Atlantic Jurassic-Cretaceous shelf margin Speaker: Leslie Eliuk Dalhousie University, Earth Sciences Dept. 7:30 PM Friday, February 19th, 2010 Mount Royal University, Room B108 PALEO 2010 Annual Paleontology Symposium Presented in conjunction with the C.S.P.G. Paleontological Division, Alberta Palaeontological Society and Mount Royal University Earth Sciences Department Lectures and Poster displays (Saturday, March 13th, 2010, 8:30 AM-5:15 PM) Workshops (Sunday March 14th, 2010, (9:00 AM- 4:00 PM) Saturday lecture events and poster viewings are free and require no registration. Sunday workshops do require registration and minor fee. Mount Royal University 4825 Richard Road S.W. Calgary, Alberta Saturday March 13th Lectures (held in Jenkins Theatre) Speakers confirmed so far include (talk titles are tentative): 8.30-8.45 AM Introduction by APS President Wayne Braunberger 8.45-9.15 AM Craig Dylke. New Zealand's fossils: remnants of a lost continent 9:15-9.45 AM Danielle Fraser, Jordan Mallon, Rob Furr, and Jessica M. Theodor, Univ. of Calgary Using high dynamic range imaging in vertebrate paleontology 9.45-10.15 AM Lisa Bohach, FMA Heritage The art, culture and science of Iniskims 10.15-10.30 AM Coffee Break 10.30 -11.00 AM Darren Tanke, Royal Tyrrell Museum Reconstruction of scows used in early paleontological research and a commemorative expedition planned for 2010. 11.00-12.00 PM Marianne Collins, ArtoFact. History, mystery and baywatch: Illustrating the animals of the Burgess Shale 12-1.30 PM Lunch break and Poster Session 1.30-2:00 PM Scott Persons, University of Alberta Changing the face of tyrannosaur rear ends: tail muscle reconstruction in theropod dinosaurs 2.00-2.30 PM Ariana Carabajal, Museo Carmen Funes, Argentina, and Philip Currie, University of Alberta. Cranial endocast of the Jurassic theropod Sinraptor dongi (Currie & Zhao) 2.30-3:00 PM Victoria Arbour, Mike Burns, University of Alberta My ankylosaur is a big dumb tank! Ankylosaur reconstructions in the scientific literature and popular media 3.00- 4.00 PM Philip Currie, University of Alberta Dinosaurs in science and art 4.00-4.15 PM Coffee Break 4.15-5.15 PM Scott Sampson, , Utah Museum of Natural History, University of Utah Dinosaurs of the lost continent of Laramidia (Book signing afterwards) WORKSHOPS (Sunday March 14th), Room B213, Mount Royal University. 9 -12 AM: Permian Vertebrate Fossils from North Central Texas Presenter: Jason Anderson, University of Calgary Cost: $15 per person. This workshop will cover the faunas typical for the classic Permian localities of northern Texas. There will be a brief introduction to the history of collecting in the Permian of Texas. This will be followed by a survey of the most common fossils found. Small collections of fossils from a few localities will be provided for workshop participants to examine and identify. Screenwashed sediments may also be available for participants to examine for fossil remains. Jason Anderson is a paleontologist and Assistant Professor with the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Calgary. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Paleontology, coeditor of Major Transitions in Vertebrate Evolution (with Hans-Dieter Sues), and a contributing author to Prehistoric Life, The McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology 2009, and the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science, 10th Edition. He is the author of over 30 articles on the early evolution of Paleozoic tetrapods. 1- 4 PM Make-a-Saurus Presenter: Brian Cooley Cost: $25 per person including cost of materials Using a variety of simple materials and methods, participants will learn how to make their own dinosaur which they will be able to take home at the end of the workshop. Children should wear clothes that they don't mind getting dirty. Brian Cooley has been making sculptures of dinosaurs for over twenty-five years. His sculptures may be seen in museums all over the world, most notably the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta. He and his wife, Mary Ann Wilson, are co-authors of the children's book Make-A-Saurus. To register for workshops contact Mona Marsovsky (403) 547-0182 or monahome@telus.net . Make cheque payable to the Alberta Palaeontological Society, P.O. Box 35111, Sarcee Postal Outlet, Calgary Alberta, Canada T3E 7C7. Deadline for workshop registration is March 1st, 2010 For information on the lecture program please contact Philip Benham (Philip.Benham@shell.com ) or phone (403)-691-3343. To inquire about submitting a poster please contact Wayne Braunberger (president@albertaplaeo.org ) or phone (403) 278-5154 _____ WindowsR phone-your Windows stuff, on the go. See more. _____ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.ucalgary.ca/pipermail/chacmool-l/attachments/20100204/ade64db9/attachment-0001.html From chacmool at ucalgary.ca Tue Feb 9 16:30:08 2010 From: chacmool at ucalgary.ca (Chacmool Archaeology Association) Date: Tue Feb 9 16:30:14 2010 Subject: [Chacmool-l] Movie night Message-ID: <978c5cb9097f87fd02254613e76d97f6.squirrel@webmail.ucalgary.ca> Chacmool is going to do another movie night this Friday, February the 12th. At the last movie night there were a total of two suggestions for the next movie and I have selected the one that I could get a copy of. So this Friday join us at the Den around 4:00 and then at 5:30 we move up to ES859 for: 10,000BC Keep in mind that we are watching this as Archaeologists so open ridicule is allowed. William Swan Chacmool Archaeological association From chacmool at ucalgary.ca Thu Feb 25 08:12:34 2010 From: chacmool at ucalgary.ca (Chacmool) Date: Thu Feb 25 08:12:42 2010 Subject: [Chacmool-l] Lunch at the Den Today Message-ID: <005d01cab62c$f62003f0$e2600bd0$@ca> Sorry for the late notice, but there will be a joint Graduate Archaeology Student Association (GASA) and Chacmool lunch today in the Red Room at the Den, 12 Noon. Get there on time to get in on free beer sponsored by the two organizations. -Lance -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.ucalgary.ca/pipermail/chacmool-l/attachments/20100225/2904ab41/attachment.html