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The New Schedule is Available On Line (3/15).  Click here.

The Alaska Consortium of Zooarchaeologists and the Public Education Group is co-sponsoring the 2010 meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association in Anchorage, Alaska between March 24 and 27, 2010 at the Millennium Hotel.  

The Millennium Hotel 

Special rates for aaa attendees: 

    $85 a night for Single and Double Occupancy
    $105 a night for a Triple Occupancy
    $125 a night for a Quadruple Occupancy

    Our group code is 1003Anthro.  The rates extend from 2 days before the conference begins through 2 days after the end of the conference.

    Some of the amenities include
    Free Parking
    Free scheduled shuttle service to downtown Anchorage
    Wireless internet
    Free 24-hour shuttle to the airport
For more information about the hotel, please visit their website through the link above.  Rooms rented through the Millennium by conference attendees also help support the costs for the meeting rooms.

 Instructions to Presenters

Papers: 20 minute blocks are provided for each paper.  This includes time for setting up at the beginning of the paper  and questions.  Please limit your paper to 15 minutes  to keep the sessions running on time.  Organizers will be asked to  keep the papers within the time allotted for each paper.  Make sure you meet with the organizer for your session well ahead of  time (day before, hours before) to load  your presentation on the  laptop that will be used in your session.  There will not be time to do this just before you present.

Posters:  We are still working on the poster schedule.  Posters should be no more than 4 feet wide and no more than 3 feet high.  We will provide either velcro tabs or tacks depending on the kind of surface on the board.  You can put up little brochure boxes in front of your poster if you'd like to provide reduced paper versions for people.

Organizers:  You need to bring a laptop or make sure one is available from one of your participants to use in  your session.  The hotel will not provide laptops.  There will be an AV person to assist you with the projector and the equipment.  His name is Mark Rollins.   Make sure the participants in your session all have their presentations loaded onto the laptop the day before or several hours before the session begins.  Please limit the papers to their 20 minute blocks.  People count on the papers being presented when they are scheduled as they move from session to session.  If a participant does not show, do not move the schedule up.  Just insert a 20 minute break in that slot so the papers  are still presented when originally scheduled.

Final Schedule

Final Program

Invited Speakers:
Our banquet speaker will be Brian Fagan.  The title of his talk is Come, let me tell you a tale.  It will be about archaeology, the wider audience andwhy the past is important to the present.  

Dr. Fagan will also give a public talk the evening of March 25th at 7:30pm:
Water: The Triumph of Gravity- Brian Fagan takes us on a journey through more than ten thousand years of human relationships with water.  What lessons are there from the past for us in a world with finite water sources?  The public presentation will be at the Wendy Williamson Auditorium on the University of Alaska Anchorage campus, thanks to the sponsorship of the College of Arts and Sciences, UAA.  Parking is free after 7pm.  

Brian Fagan 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
    Writing Archaeology

Photograph by Leslie Newhart

Ann Fienup-Riordan, our luncheon speaker, is  known for her work with indigenous communities and making anthropological information available to the general public.  Her presentation title is The Past is Old, the Future is Traditional: Ircenrraat, the DOT, and the Inventiveness of Tradition.

Dr. Fienup-Riordan 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

from left to right: Anne Fienup-Riordan, John Alexie,
and Joe Spein

Symposia - preliminary listing 

An updated program with the schedule will be available the first week in March.

    ACZ Workshop - March 24 morning and early afternoon.  Topic will be Pleistocene Mammals.  See the workshop page.

    Curation Workshop methods for artifacts - March 24 (Wednesday) afternoon - contact Monty Rogers (mjr at lavabit.com)

    Educational  Hands-on Activities (come and play!)- Organized by the Public Education Group.

Hands-on activities illustrating traditional skills or scientific techniques are good ways to engage the public in prehistoric lifeways and scientific research.  This ongoing workshop will allow visitors to try different activities and come away with skills and documentation that will enable them to teach these activities in their communities.

    Film Room: The Public Education Group will also have a room to show educational films.