CONFERENCE EVENTS

From Field To Table: Historical Ecology of Regional Subsistence Strategies March 19-20, 2010 Inn at USC South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology University of South Carolina, Columbia

Friday, March 19th 2010
Carolina Room, Inn at USC

9:00
Commentary and Observations
Carole Crumley, University of North Carolina and The Resilience Center

9:25
The Historical Ecology of Ritual and Monumentality in South Florida
Victor D. Thompson, The Ohio State University, Columbus

9:50
Toward a historical ecology of transportation: The case of Panama
Ashley Carse, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Anthropology

10:15 Break

10:30
Repairing the Damage: Reforestation, Restoration, and the Birth of the Modern Industrial Tree Farm
Emily K. Brock, University of South Carolina

10:55
Social Landscape Analysis: correlating one half of the picture
Ismael Vaccaro, McGill University and O. Beltran, Universitat of Barcelona

11:20
Clams, Seasonality, Long Term Ecosystem Dynamics
Irvy Quitmyer, Florida Museum of Natural History and Chester DePratter, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology

11:50-13:15 PM Lunch

13:20
In the Land of Plenty: Agent-based Approaches to Modeling Subsistence in the Puebloan Southwest
R. Kyle Bocinsky, The Village Ecodynamics Project, Washington State University

13:45
Highland Andes: Merging paleoethnobotanical evidence and archaeometric techniques to track environmental changes due to food production
William T. Whitehead, Ripon College

14:10
Diversity, Standardization, and the State: The Politics of Maize Agriculture in Postclassic Central Mexico
Christopher Morehart, Northwestern University

14:35
Feeding History: Deltaic Resilience, Inherited Practice, and Millennial-Scale Sustainability in an Urbanized Landscape
Jennifer Pournelle, University of South Carolina, and Carrie Hritz, The Pennsylvania State University

15:00 Break

15:15
Legacies on the Landscape: Long-term Socio-ecological Interactions in Southwestern US
Katherine Spielmann, Sharon Hall, Melissa Kruse and Dana Nakase, Arizona State University

15:40
Anthropogenic Traces of Human/Bionomic Interactions in the Great Pee Dee River Valley of South Carolina during the Late Prehistoric Period (A.D. 600-1200)
Christopher Judge, University of South Carolina

16:05
Comparative Historical Ecology of Three Lecos Communities: Situating Livelihoods and Landscape Interactions in the Bolivian Piedmont
Meredith Dudley, Tulane University

16:30
Ground Truthing Historic Rice Plantation Landscapes Using GIS
Lisa Randle, University of South Carolina, Anthropology

16:55
Closing Commentary
David J. Goldstein, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology

Saturday, March 20th 2010
Education Room, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology

8:30
Welcome
Charlie Cobb, Director, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology

8:45
Critical Evaluation of the Sustainability of Agroecosystems of the Prehispanic Mayas - Implications of Hunting and Animal Domestication in the Northern Maya Lowlands
Christopher M. Götz, Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Yucatán

9:10
Creating a Mississippian Landscape in Central South Carolina
Gail E. Wagner, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia

9:35
Southern Slow Foods: Ecological Awareness through Gourmet Heritage
Sarah Quick, Winthrop University

10:00
Climate, Cod, or Culture? Variability in Kodiak Island's Prehistoric Fisheries
Catherine F. West, University of Washington

10:25 COFFEE BREAK

10:40
Future in the Past: How archaeology can save the world
Thomas Foster, University of West Georgia

11:05
Understanding Cognitive Landscapes of Subsistence Through the Reconstruction of Caloric Efficiency, Predictability and Potentiality
Thomas G. Whitley, Brockington and Associates, Inc.

11:30
Along Annual Lines: Considering the Social Roles of Annual and Perennial Components of Agroecosystems in the Development of Social Complexity
David J. Goldstein, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology

11:55
A Good Place: Esthetics of Landscape and Historical Ecology
Amanda Tickner, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

12:20
Closing Commentary
David J. Goldstein, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology

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