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The Alaska Consortium of Zooarchaeologists and the Public Education Group will be co-sponsoring the 2010 meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association in Anchorage, Alaska between March 24 and 27, 2010 at the Millennium Hotel.
A Preliminary Program can be downloaded in a PDF at the bottom of this page. More detailed information about the conference and accommodations is also available at (click on) Alaska Consortium of Zooarchaeologists.
Special sessions and the speakers' topics will focus on anthropology and the public.
Our banquet speaker will be Brian Fagan. He is well known for many popular books in archaeology including
The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
From Black Land to Fifth Sun: The Science of Sacred Sites
From Stonehenge to Samarkand: an Anthology of Archaeological Travel Writing
The Great Journey: the Peopling of Ancient America
Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and the Archaeologists in Egypt
Return to Babylon: Travelers, Archaeologists, and Monuments in Mesopotamia
A Brief History of Archaeology: Classical Times to the Twenty-First Century
Ann Fienup-Riordan, our luncheon speaker, is similarly known for her work with indigenous communities and for making anthropological information available to the general public. She has written many books on Yup'ik knowledge and culture with people from southwest Alaska. Some of these are:
Agayuliyararput: Our Way of Making Prayer (translated by Marie Meade)
Eskimo Essays
Yupiit Qanruyutait (translated by Alice Rearden with Marie Meade)
Hunting Tradition in a Changing World: Yup'ik Lives in Alaska Today (with William Tyson, Paul John,Marie Meade, and John Active)
The Real People and the Children of Thunder Ciuliamta Akluit: Things of Our Ancestors (translated by Marie Meade)
Yup'ik at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin: Fieldwork Turned on Its Head
Symposia - preliminary listing
Please go to the PDF file below for the most current information on Symposia.
Film Room: The Public Education Group will also have a room to show educational films. If you have produced an educational movie about anthropology contact Erika Malo with your title and abstract submission and the length of your movie.
Book Sales: Greg Dixon of NPS will arrange for tables for book sales, or arrange to have people sit with your books if a representative is not able to attend the meeting. Please contact him at Greg_Dixon@nps.gov before March 16 so that proper table space can be allotted. We have only a maximum of 16 tables available this year and 13 have already been reserved as of January 12.
Belzoni Society: The Belzoni Society is not an official part of the Alaska Anthropological Association but coincidentally the Belzoni Society Meeting always occur Saturday evening after the aaa business meetings. The time and location will be placed on this page.
ACZ Workshop - March 24. Topic will be Pleistocene Mammals. Details forthcoming.
Educational Workshops - Details forthcoming. Organized by the Public Education Group
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