CONFLICT, CONQUEST, AND THE PERFORMANCE OF WAR IN PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICA
Friday, 14 October 2011
9:00 am Coffee on the Terrace
9:30 am Welcome (Music Room) Jan Ziolkowski, Dumbarton Oaks Joanne Pillsbury, Dumbarton Oaks
9:45 am Andrew Scherer, Brown University Battlegrounds and Battered Bodies
Session I: The Contexts and Landscapes of War Moderator: Joanne Pillsbury
10:00 am Arthur Joyce, University of Colorado, Boulder Debating Warfare in Late Formative Oaxaca
10:45 am Luis Jaime Castillo Butters, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú War and Conflict, Control and Negotiation among the Mochicas of Northern Peru
11:30 am Coffee on the Terrace
11:45 am Andrew Scherer, Brown University & Charles Golden, Brandeis University War in the West: History, Landscape, and Classic Maya Conflict
12:30 pm Lunch in the Orangery
Session I, part 2 Moderator: Charles Stanish
2:00 pm Elizabeth Arkush, University of Pittsburgh Physical Barriers and Social Connections: Defensive Landscape in the South-Central Andes
2:45 pm Gerardo Gutiérrez, University of Colorado, Boulder Aztec Battlefields in Eastern Guerrero: A Landscape Analysis of the Conquest of the Kingdom of Tlapa-Tlachinollan
3:30 pm Coffee on the Terrace
3:45 pm Dennis Ogburn, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Examining the Extent and Variability of Inca Conquest Warfare
4:30 pm Matthew Restall, The Pennsylvania State University Invasion: The Maya at War, 1520s–1540s
5:15 pm Discussion & Announcements
5:30 Reception in the Orangery
Saturday, 15 October 2011
8:45 am Coffee on the Terrace
Session II: Victors, Vanquished, and the Performance of War Moderator: Elizabeth Boone
9:15 am John Verano, Tulane University The Performance of War
9:30 am Takeshi Inomata, University of Arizona The Politics and Performance of War in Maya Society
10:15 am Tiffiny A. Tung, Vanderbilt University A Social Bioarchaeology of Militarism and Ritualism in the Wari Empire
11:00 am Coffee on the Terrace
11:15 am Ximena Chávez Balderas, Museo del Templo Mayor, INAH The Polysemy of Sacrifice at the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan and Its Role in Regards to Warfare: A Taphonomic Perspective
12:00 pm J. Marla Toyne, University of Central Florida The Fall of Kuelap: Bioarchaeological Analysis of Death and Destruction on the Eastern Slopes of the Andes
12:45 pm Lunch in the Orangery
Session II, part 2 Moderator: David Webster
2:00 pm George Lau, University of East Anglia A Materiality of Opposition: On Ancient Conflict and Organization in Peru’s North Highlands
2:45 pm Eugenia Ibarra, University of Costa Rica Exploring Warfare and Prisoner Capture in Indigenous Southern Central America
3:30 pm Coffee on the Terrace
3:45 pm John Verano, Tulane University Warfare and Captive Sacrifice among the Moche of Ancient Peru: The Battle Continues
4:30 pm Discussion John Haldon, Princeton University
5:15–6:15 pm Cocktails on the Terrace