SIUC CAI: Conference Program 2007

24th Annual Visiting Scholar Conference

The Archaeology of Anthropogenic Environments

PROGRAM

Friday, March 23

8-8:45 Check-in

8:30-8:45 Opening Remarks

8:45-9:15 "Sustainable Harvesting versus Overuse of Animal Resources on the Northwest Coast."

Sarah K. Campbell, Western Washington University

Virginia L. Butler, Portland State University

9:15-9:45 "Prehistoric Human Impacts on Marine and Terrestrial Mammals, Fish, and Shellfish: Examples from the American Southwest and the Channel Islands of Southern California."

Steven R. James, CSU Fullerton

9:45-10:15 "Terminal Archaic Settlement Pattern and Land Cover Change in the Rio Ilave, Southwestern Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru."

Nathan Craig, Field Museum

10:15-10:45 Break

10:45-11:15 "Paleoecological Analyses of Lake Sediment Reveal Prehistoric Human Impact on Forests at Anthony Island UNESCO World Heritage Site, Queen Charlotte Islands, Canada."

Terri Lacourse, University of British Columbia

Rolf W. Mathewes, Simon Fraser University

Richard J. Hebda, Royal British Columbia Museum

11:15-11:45 "Prehistoric Anthropogenic Impacts to Local and Regional Faunas Are Not Ubiquitous."

R. Lee Lyman, University of Missouri

11:45-13:15 Lunch (on your own)

13:15-13:45 "The End of Eden: The Long-term Impact of Metallurgical Pollution at Faynan in Jordan."

Russell Adams, McMaster University

John Grattan, University of Wales Aberystwyth

13:45-14:15 "Reconstructing an Engineered Environment in the Central Andes: Landscape Geoarchaeology at Chavín de Huántar, Peru."

Daniel Contreras, Stanford University

14:15-14:45 "Transformations of Anthropogenic Ecology in the Late Prehistoric Southwest."

Suzanne K. Fish, University of Arizona

14:45-15:15 Break

15:15-15:45 "Anthropogenic Changes to Lowland Rainforest Habitats in Tropical Southeast Asia? Potential Clues Using Stable Isotope Data Derived from Tooth Enamel from the Late Pleistocene-Holocene Site of Niah Cave (Sarawak, East Malaysia)."

John Krigbaum, University of Florida

15:45-16:15 "Anthropogenic Environments, Resource Stress, and Settlement Pattern Change in the Eastern Mimbres Area."

Karen Gust Schollmeyer, Arizona State University

16:15-16:35 Discussant

Paul Fish, University of Arizona

16:35-17:00 Open discussion

18-20:30 Reception at Hunan Restaurant

Saturday, March 24

8-8:15 Late check-in

8:15-8:45 "Theoretical and Methodological Contributions of Environmental Archaeology: Examples from Amazonia and Subsaharan Africa."

Anna C. Roosevelt, University of Illinois-Chicago

8:45-9:15 "Archaeopalynology and Phytolith Analysis in the Study of Anthropogenic Landscapes in Jordan."

Carlos E. Cordova, Oklahoma State University

9:15-9:45 "Anthropogenic Fire for Long-Term Landscape Management: Geoarchaeological Evidence for Systematic Burning in the Upland Southwest."

Christopher I. Roos, University of Arizona

Alan P. Sullivan III, University of Cincinnati

Calla McNamee, University of Calgary

9:45-10:15 Break

10:15-10:45 "An Ethnoarchaeological Investigation of Biological Indicators for the Environmental Impact of Ancient Settlements."

Lior Weissbrod, Washington University St. Louis

10:45-11:15 "Looking at the Forest as a Fragmented Archaeological Artifact: Toward an Archaeology of Anthropogenic Tropical Forest."

Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo, University of Florida

11:15-11:45 "The Effect of Cultivation Techniques on Small Game Populations: An Archaeological Example from the Hohokam Region."

Rebecca Dean, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

11:45-13:15 Lunch (on your own)

13:15-13:45 "The Scale of Late Prehistoric Disturbance Regimes in the Southeastern United States: An Intensely Humanized Landscape or a Mosaic of Human Modification?"

Scott C. Meeks, University of Tennessee

13:45-14:15 "Landscape Legacies of Prehistoric Agricultural Land-use in the Perry Mesa Region, Central Arizona."

Melissa Kruse, Arizona State University

Hoski Schaafsma, Arizona State University

14:15-14:45 "Environmental Management and Policy Using Ecological Indicators Derived from Archaeological and Historical Data."

Thomas Foster, Northern Kentucky University

Virginia Dale, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

14:45-15:15 Break

15:15-15:45 "Learning from Prehispanic Anthropogenic Environments: Applied Archaeology and Rural Development in Northwest Honduras."

Karla L. Davis-Salazar, University of South Florida

E. Christian Wells, University of South Florida

15:45-16:15 "The Call of the Wild."

Jack Frazier, Smithsonian Institute

16:15-16:35 Discussant

Paul Minnis, University of Oklahoma

16:35-17:00 Open discussion

18-20:30 Banquet and Keynote Address at Touch of Nature Environmental Center

Graeme W.W. Barker, Director, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University

Sunday, March 25

8-12:00/15:00 Optional excursion to Caholia Mounds State Historical Site

For further information contact:

Rebecca M. Dean
Center for Archaeological Investigations
Mail Code 4527
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Carbondale, Illinois 62901
Office: (618) 453-5032
FAX: (618) 453-8467
rdean@siu.edu