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| 25th Center for Archaeological Investigations Visiting Scholar Conference Biological and Archaeological Variation in the New World ||||||||||||||||||||PROGRAM
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All sessions will be held at the Southern Illinois University Student Health Center Auditorium. Click on titles of presentations to link to abstracts. |
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25 April 8:00 - 8:45 8:45 - 9:00 9:00 - 9:30 9:30 - 10:00 10:00 - 10:30 10:30 - 11:00 11:00 - 11:30 11:30 - 11:40 11:40 - 12:10 12:10 - 2:00 2:00 - 2:30 2:30 - 3:00 3:00 - 3:30 3:30 - 4:00 4:00 - 4:10 4:10 - 5:00 6:00 - 7:30 26 April 8:00 8:30 - 9:00 9:00 - 9:30 9:30 - 10:00 10:00 - 10:30 10:30 - 11:00 11:00 - 11:30 11:30 - 12:00 12:00 - 1:30 1:30 - 2:00 2:00 - 2:30 2:30 - 3:00 3:00 - 3:30 3:30 - 5:00 27 April 8:00 Back to top |
Friday
Registration / Check-in Opening remarks Benjamin M. Auerbach (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) Random genetic drift and the peopling of the Americas: evidence from ancient skeletal remains Joseph F. Powell (University of New Mexico) Paleoamerican and Amerindian morphological variation: implications for the settlement of the New World Mark Hubbe (Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile), Walter A. Neves (Universidad de São Paulo, Brazil), Katerina Harvati (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) A model to understand early human demographic variation and Mt haplogroup distribution in the Americas José Lanata, Luis Martino, Cristina Dejean, Ana Osella, Francisco R. Carnese (Universidad de Buenos Ares) Break Technological change as a contributor to craniofacial differences between PaleoIndians and later peoples: a Pacific Northwest example James C. Chatters (AMEC Earth and Environmental, Inc.) Summary of papers on the early Holocene Searching for the Eurasian roots of Native American populations: evidence from mtDNA, Y chromosome and autosomal DNA studies Theodore G. Schurr (University of Pennsylvania) Lunch Ancient human genetic variation in the Americas Brian M. Kemp (Washington State University), Ripan S. Malhi (University of Illinois) Native American genomic variation Ripan S. Malhi (University of Illinois), Brian M. Kemp (Washington State University) Population history of the South Andean coastal region Ken-ichi Shinoda (National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo), Sonia Guillén (Centro Mallqui), Izumi Shimada (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) Break Summary of papers on the genetic evidence Discussion Kenneth Sassaman (University of Florida) Reception at Hunan Restaurant Saturday Late registration Skeletal variation and environmental diversity in northwestern North America Jerome S. Cybulski (Canadian Museum of Civilization) Discrete dental trait evidence of migration patterns in the Northern Southwest Kathy R. Durand (Eastern New Mexico University) The spread of agriculture into the North American Desert West: language, genes and teeth James T. Watson (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis) Break Giants among us? Detecting North American patterns of migration from variation in postcranial morphology Benjamin M. Auerbach (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) Humeral and femoral variation in the American Great Plains Daniel J. Wescott (University of Missouri - Columbia) Skeletal evidence of cultural variation: mutilation related to warfare and mortuary treatment Christopher W. Schmidt, Rachel Lockhart, Christopher Newman, Anna Serrano, Melissa Zolnierz (University of Indianapolis) Lunch Climate variation, biological adaptation, and postcranial metric variation in precontact North America Kathyrn A. King (State University of New York - Oswego) Biological variation in the ancient Andes: climatic, hypoxic, and dietary factors Karen J. Weinstein (Dickinson College) Body proportions in recent Native Americans: colonization history versus ecogeographical patterns Richard L. Jantz (University of Tennessee), Paul Marr, Claire Jantz (Shippensburg University) Break Archaeological panel discussion Sunday Optional excursion to Cahokia site (space is limited to the first 15 to sign up) |