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III International Symposium on the Ancient Maya in Japan:

Recent Interdisciplinary Research in

Maya Archaeology

13 (Fri./Vie.):

 

10:30-10:45: Opening / Inauguración

 

10:45-11:45:

Kunihiro Morishima, Seiichi Nakamura, Akira Ichikawa,

Nobuko Kitagawa, Mitsuaki Kuno, Yuta Manabe, Kotaro Hikata,

Ami Sakakibara & Akira Nishio

Non-destructive Imaging of Maya Temple with Cosmic-ray Muons: Research Project at Copan in Honduras

(Talk in Japanese)

 

11:45-12:45:

Seiichi Nakamura

Unraveling the Copan Dynasty:

A New Perspective on Copan’s Early Classic Period as seen through the Latest Research (Talk in Japanese)

 

12:45-14:00: Lunch / Almuerzo

 

14:00-15:00:

Akira Ichikawa

A Letter from Chalchuapa: Reassessing Kaminaljuyú Chronology and Social Processes in Southern Mayan Area through Radiocarbon Dating

(Talk in Japanese)

 

15:00-16:00:

Yoshiyuki Iizuka, Tomás Barrientos, Andrea Sandoval,

Pablo Estrada & Shintaro Suzuki

Non-Invasive Chemical Investigation on Stone Artifacts in Ancient Guatemala

(Talk in Japanese)   

 

16:00-16:15: Break

 

16:15-17:15:

Kazuo Aoyama

Microwear Analysis of Lithic Artifacts and pXRF Analysis of Obsidian Artifacts from Ceibal, Guatemala

(Talk in Japanese)

 

17:30-18:30: Discussions / Discusiones

13 (Vie/Fri)

14 (Sat./Sab.):

 

10:00-11:15:

Carolyn Freiwald & T. Douglas Price

Isotopes, Residential Histories, and Migration in Mesoamerica

(Talk in English)  

 

11:15-12:30:

Vera Tiesler

Feeding the Gods in Eastern Mesoamerica:

The Bioarchaeology of Human Sacrifice and Related Forms of Ritual Body Processing

(Talk in English)

 

12:30-14:00: Lunch / Almuerzo

Visit to the Archaeological Museum at the Okayama University

Tour por el Museo de arqueología en la Universidad de Okayama

 

14:00-15:00:

Shintaro Suzuki

Regional Bioarchaeology on the Southeastern Borderland of the Maya Area:

Migration and Warfare

(Talk in Japanese)

 

15:00-16:15:

Héctor Mejía

Rescuing the Past:

Salvage Archeology as an Instrument for Scientific Research

(Rescatando el pasado:la arqueología de rescate como un instrumento para la investigación)

(Talk in Spanish)

 

16:15-16:30: Break

 

16:30-17:45:

Marcello Canuto

Lidar Technology and the Classic Period Population of the Maya Lowlands:

New Data, New Challenges

(Talk in English)


18:00-19:00: Discussions / Discusiones

14 (Sab/Sat)

15 (Sun./Dom.):

 

13:00-14:15:

Tomás Barrientos

The Development of Maya Archaeology: Two Hundred Years of Research

(El desarrollo de la arqueología Maya: Doscientos años de investigaciones)

(Talk in Spanish)

 

14:15-15:30:

Boris Beltran

The Mural Paintings from San Bartolo, Guatemala:

Discovery and Strategies for Preservation

 (Descubrimiento de la pintura mural de San Bartolo y su estrategia de conservación)

 (Talk in Spanish)

 

15:30-16:00: Break

 

16:00-17:15:

Felix Kupprat

An Archaeology of Communication: Approaching Maya Hieroglyphic Texts

(Una arqueología de la comunicación: los alcances del estudio de los textos jeroglíficos mayas)

 (Talk in Spanish)

 

17:30-18:30: Q & A and Closing / Sesión de preguntas y clausura

15 (Dom/Sun)
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