From chacmool at ucalgary.ca Wed Mar 3 10:41:43 2010 From: chacmool at ucalgary.ca (Chacmool Archaeology Association) Date: Wed Mar 3 10:41:49 2010 Subject: [Chacmool-l] Chacmool Elections Message-ID: <4fbb0ee178a41f052a5af410a081fe4b.squirrel@webmail.ucalgary.ca> Attention Chacmool members. If you are looking for a fun volunteer experience for your CV and a desk in the department, this is an excellent opportunity. Chacmool is looking for volunteers for the executive for the 2010-2011 school year. We are looking for enthusiastic individuals for all positions. President: Help organize, participate, coordinate and oversee all activities of the Chacmool Archaeolgical Association. Vice President: Responsible for all aspects of Chacmool publications. Treasurer/Secretary - Responsible for the accounting of Chacmool financials Social/Webpage Coordinator - Maintain Chacmool webpage and organize social events. Nominations will be accepted from March 1st up to the General Meeting on March 12th. Elections will be held at the General Meeting in room ES 859 on March 12th at 5:00 PM. Posters are up around the department with the same information, and don't hesitate to ask at the Chacmool office if you have any questions or comments on any of the positions. Derek Graf Social Coordinator From chacmool at ucalgary.ca Sat Mar 6 08:11:53 2010 From: chacmool at ucalgary.ca (Chacmool) Date: Sat Mar 6 08:12:04 2010 Subject: [Chacmool-l] Events and Elections Reminder Message-ID: <002101cabd3f$5bb24700$1316d500$@ca> Greetings Chacmool, Don't forget that elections for 2010-2011 Chacmool will be held this Friday, March 12th, at a General Meeting in ES 859. Autumn Whiteway, Student Director for the Archaeological Society of Alberta, has provided us with the list of upcoming events below, several of which involve faculty or students from our department. -Lance Upcoming Events "Understanding Past Diet in Siberian Fisher-Hunter-Gatherers from Lake Baikal, Russia", Dr. M. Anne Katzenberg, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Presented by the Archaeological Society of Alberta Date: March 17, 2010 Time: 7:30-9:00PM Location: Earth Sciences Building, Room 162 (Tom Oliver Lecture Theatre) University of Calgary Who: Presented by the Archaeological Society of Alberta Free and open to the public (and a door prize!) Abstract: What were the dietary choices for prehistoric people living along the shores of Lake Baikal? Was the technology available to make use of those resources? Evidence from chemical analysis of bone and other archaeological methods are used to reconstruct past diet and to explore dietary variation over time in Neolithic and Bronze Age Siberia. Calgary Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities, Room 162 (Tom Oliver Lecture Theatre), Earth Sciences, University of Calgary Title: Horemheb & the genesis of 'Mithraism' in Ancient Egypt Speaker: Rosalind Park Date: 5 March 2010 Time: 7:30 p.m. Madame Park will talk about some speculations about Horemheb, and his 'tomb' at Saqqara not being a tomb, but a type of clandestine meeting place for his army generals. She will present arguments that the funerary texts of his later tomb in the Valley of the Kings show that an Egyptian style type of 'Mithraism' was practiced some 1,500 years before Roman soldiers took hold of the ideology. Madame Park has UK degrees in Archaeometry [B.Sc], & Cultural Astronomy [MA], with archaeology post grad field-work done in Israel. A member of the International Association of Egyptologists since 1998 and, from time to time, publishes and lectures on medicine and/or religious astronomy in Ancient Egypt. Date: 9 April 2010 Title: Egypt Rocks: Buildings, Statues and the Geology of Egypt Speaker: Paul English Date: 7 May 2010 Title: Early farming in the Egyptian Nile Valley and in Northeastern Africa Speaker: Mary McDonald Date: 4 June 2010 Title: Abydos Speaker: Julius Szekrenyes Chacmool Noon Hour Lecture Series, Wednesdays at noon, Room ES 859, University of Calgary Dept. of Archaeology Mar 10, 2010 Lindsay Amundsen, MA Student: Location, Location, Location - An Application of GIS to the Blackfoot Ecological and Social Landscape Calgary Society for Mediterranean Studies 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. Social Sciences 541, University of Calgary 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 THE FIRST WEST COAST GRADUATE CONFERENCE IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE Held on April 2-3, 2010, and hosted by the Department of Greek and Roman Studies and the History of Medicine and Health Care Program at the University of Calgary, AB (Canada). This conference is open to graduate and postdoctoral students across North-America (particularly the West Coast states and provinces) working in all fields related to the history of medicine and health care from ancient times to the modern period. Our mission is to foster interdisciplinary and transchronological exchanges and provide a forum for sharing and discussing graduate research by peers and faculty from a variety of disciplines and institutions. For further information, please visit the website. with inclusion of this link: http://homepages.ucalgary.ca/~gmedconf/ 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 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) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.ucalgary.ca/pipermail/chacmool-l/attachments/20100306/e052c768/attachment.html From chacmool at ucalgary.ca Wed Mar 10 10:08:12 2010 From: chacmool at ucalgary.ca (Chacmool) Date: Wed Mar 10 10:08:43 2010 Subject: [Chacmool-l] 2010 Chacmool Conference Call for Abstracts Message-ID: <000901cac074$445e98f0$cd1bcad0$@ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I take this to indicate that either there has been a large increase in member interest and enthusiasm for the Association, or a keen desire to get rid of the incumbents. Either way, I was proud to see the way it went down, and about 15 of us celebrated at the Den afterwards . . . good times. Secondly, we will be having a career day on Saturday the 10th or 17th of April, from 1000 to 1200, likely in the Tom Oliver Theater (main floor, Earth Sciences Building). The date will be narrowed down in the next week once feedback from the consulting firms has been received. We will also attempt to get a representative from Parks Canada there as well. The purpose of this event is to give students a chance to find out what the different CRM firms do, what you might do if you were working for them, meet and greet their representatives, and provide r?sum?s/CVs to these representatives. This can, and has, resulted in employment for students. Therefore it is very important that you get to work on your r?sum?s now in order to be prepared for this event. More details will be provided when available. Once again, congrats to the new Chacmool Exec. Lance Evans President Chacmool Archaeological Association -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.ucalgary.ca/pipermail/chacmool-l/attachments/20100313/8fabdd7b/attachment.html From chacmool at ucalgary.ca Sat Mar 13 21:22:06 2010 From: chacmool at ucalgary.ca (Chacmool Archaeology Association) Date: Sat Mar 13 21:22:11 2010 Subject: [Chacmool-l] Movie Message-ID: <6d2ab94a80e3e527684acdcfe95e516b.squirrel@webmail.ucalgary.ca> Movie night has returned and the movie this time will be: The Big Lebowski It will be shown Thursday March 18 as a move to not compete with Friday night events. The movie will take place at 6:00 in ES859. This was requested by our current president becaue of the name of our new president. Hope to see everyone there. William Swan Chacmool Archaeological association From chacmool at ucalgary.ca Mon Mar 22 17:36:16 2010 From: chacmool at ucalgary.ca (Chacmool) Date: Tue Mar 23 08:22:24 2010 Subject: [Chacmool-l] CAA: Volunteers for Conference and Poster Competition Message-ID: <000301caca18$776f9e30$664eda90$@ca> Please forward the below information to interested parties as you see fit. Volunteers Wanted The Canadian Archaeological Association needs your help for this year's Annual Meeting in Calgary, during 28 April - 2 May, hosted at the Palliser Hotel in downtown Calgary. We need volunteers for the following: Conference Packet Assembly (envelope stuffing, basically) Registration (taking money, giving receipts, banquet tickets, and conference packages) Setup/take down of the Silent Auction Room Session Room Attendants (just be in room ready to help if needed) At a minimum, conference volunteers will be compensated for their time with $8 per hour (12 hours volunteer time = free admission to conference) and a post-conference party hosted by the Chacmool Archaeological Association, and the opportunity to purchase CAA Banquet tickets for half price ($35). If you have questions or would like to volunteer for the conference, please check out the CAA Annual Meeting website or contact Lance Evans by email: lance@globalphunk.org. Poster Competition Announcement This year at the CAA's there is going to be an Undergraduate Student Poster Competition. In order to be eligible for this award you must be the first author of a poster being presented at the conference. There will be a first, second and third place, all with cash prizes. Moreover, the three winners will also receive free tickets to the conference banquet (normally $75) where they will receive their award. If you want to be considered for this award please forward your name, affiliation, and poster title to Monica Nicolaides: m_nicolaides@hotmail.com. Thank you, Lance Evans President Chacmool Archaeological Association -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.ucalgary.ca/pipermail/chacmool-l/attachments/20100322/26676d47/attachment.html From chacmool at ucalgary.ca Sat Mar 27 11:14:01 2010 From: chacmool at ucalgary.ca (Chacmool) Date: Sat Mar 27 11:14:11 2010 Subject: [Chacmool-l] Upcoming Dates: MRU Presentation and Career Info Session Message-ID: <002f01cacdd0$e56bcf60$b0436e20$@ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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