Assorted Archaeology Addresses From Curator Feinman

At the Society for American Archaeology conference in New Orleans (April 17– April 21), he gave five presentations, two symposium discussions, one commentary, a co-authored paper, and a multi-authored poster. After a brief trip back up to Chicago, Gary traveled south to Santa Marta, Colombia, where he presented an invited keynote address, entitled “Archaeology’s Conceptual Heritage: A Foundation Not a Cage,” at the biannual Congreso Colombiano de Arqueología. He also participated in a Closing Question and Answer session at the Congress in which he helped sum up the meeting’s thematic focus on heritage. After his return, Gary and Adjunct Curator Linda Nicholas were contributors to a two-day workshop on Indigenous Roads and Nodes of North and Central America: Urbanism, People, and Infrastructure, at the Mansueto Institute, University of Chicago, where they spoke on, “Routes of Obsidian Exchange in Prehispanic Mesoamerica.” The workshop is intended to serve as a foundation for a longer-term collaborative working group whose comparative focus will be on communication networks across time and space.
May 24. 2024