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 .