Friday, August 11, 2006

The Experimental Offspring Unite!

The Archaeological Sciences of the Americas 2006 Conference is coming up in September and I thought I would just paste a copy of the powerhouse of BYU "wonderkind" that will be presenting...REPRESENT!


ORGANIZED SESSION: A CORE CONCERN: THE ROLE OF EXPERIMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY IN TECHNOLOGY STUDIES
ORGANIZERS: A. R. Woods and M. Searcy
1:30 – 2:00 Moving from Guessing to Educated Guessing: Testing the Ethnographic Record with Experimental Archaeology – M. Searcy
2:00 – 2:30 Quantifying Observable Change in the Visual Appearance of Heat Treated Chert – C. Watkins, C. B. Jardine, and S. Ure
2:30 – 3:00 Two Examples of Experimental Archaeology: Methodology, Findings, and Comparisons – D. Yoder
3:00 – 3:30 Constructing a Curriculum: Teaching Ancient Technology and Replication - A. Woods
3:30 – 4:00 Use-Wear or Not Use-Wear: An Experiment to Investigate the Notches in Ribs Recovered From Durango Basketmaker II Contexts – B. Scheiver
4:00 – 4:30 Discussion – J. Clark

P.S. - It looks like we have 30 minutes a piece now. We better start writing!!!

2 comments:

PBN said...

Looks good Mike, thanks for posting it.

RustLover said...

Congrats all you contributors. I'm looking forward to hearing reports about how it all went and summaries of your various projects.