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Southern Illinois University Carbondale  

25th Center for Archaeological Investigations Visiting Scholar Conference
Biological and Archaeological Variation in the New World

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Downloadable resources:
Conference brochure (PDF)
Conference poster (PDF)



SCHEDULE

All sessions will be held at the Southern Illinois University Student Health Center Auditorium.
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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



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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)



Please direct all enquiries to Benjamin M. Auerbach, Ph.D.