AN OPEN FORUM FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS
 
BOSTON UNIVERSITY
NOVEMBER 9, 1996
 
8:30 A.M. Registration and Coffee
 
9:15 A.M. WELCOME
 
9:30 - 11:15 SESSION I
The Social Aspects of Labor and Production
Mary Beaudry, Moderator
 
"The Economic Typology of the Small Farmer in Roman Italy and Sicily"
Alex Ingle, Boston University
 
"A Proposed Model for the Application of Phytolith Evidence to the
Interpretation of the Mycenaean Linen Industry"
Susan E. Allen, Bryn Mawr College
 
"Sidewalks and Yardscapes: Landscape and Worker Housing in a Coal Company
Town"
Karen Bescherer Metheny, Boston University
 
"Sex  and the Social - Ecology of Production in Yorubaland: Old Questions
and Their Archaeological Implication"
Akin Ogundiran, Boston University
 
11:30 - 1:00 Session II
Technical Aspects of Production
Julie Hansen, Moderator
 
" Counting Pots: Pot-marks and the Organization of Pottery Production in
8th Century B.C. Ithaka"
Nancy Symeonoglou, Washington University
 
"Work in the Abandoned Roman City of Emporiae"
Alan Kaiser, Boston University
 
"Megara: A Bidemoniational Coinage System in the Hellenistic Period"
Isabelle Pafford, San Francisco State University
 
"Prehispanic Economic and Agricultural Production in the Mixteca Alta,
Oaxaca, Mexico"
Frank Crohn, University of Connecticut
 
2:30 - 4:15 Session III
Techniques of Archaeology
Kenneth Kvamme, Moderator
 
"The Archaeology of Santa Rosa: Walking Through Three Thousand Years of
Unwritten Precolumbian History of Pacific Guatemala"
Francisco Estrada Belli, Boston University
 
"The Opus Sectile Panels from the Bir Ftouha Annex" Christine Zitrides,
Florida State University
 
"Ground Penetrating Radar and Site Definition: Empuries, Spain"
Margaret S. Watters, Boston University
 
"Bulldozers and Bureaucrats: Archaeology in Post-Cold War Eastern Europe"
Mark C. Greco, Boston University
 
4:30 - 5:30 Session IV
Rethinking the Role of Work: A Panel Discussion
Sheila Bond,  Norman Hammond,  Heather Lechtman,
Clark Maines,  Curtis Runnels
 
Clemency C. Coggins, Moderator
 
6:00 - 7:00 P.M. RECEPTION
 
THERE IS NO REGISTRATION FEE FOR THIS CONFERENCE
 
Conference Location
 
Stone Science Building Room B50
675 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts
 
 
If you have any questions regarding the conference please contact Lee
Payne, Graduate Conference Committee, Department of Archaeology, Boston
University, 675 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215.
(email [log in to unmask]) Questions? Call 617-353-3415.
 
Housing Information
Free housing for graduate students
 
There are a limited number of "bring your own bedding" housing spaces
with BU graduate students available for those traveling to the
conference. These will be assigned in the order received. Send requests
with number of people in party to Todd Reck , Graduate Conference
Committee, Department of Archaeology, Boston University,
675 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215. (email [log in to unmask]).
 
Area Hotels
The following hotels are also convenient to the conference:
 
Howard Johnson, 575 Commonwealth Ave., (617) 267-3100, (800) 654-2000
Beacon Inn, 1087 and 1750 Beacon St., (617) 566-0088, (800) 726-0088
Beacon Street Guest House, 463 Beacon St., (617) 536-1302
Best Western Terrace Motor Lodge, 1650 Commonwealth Ave., (617) 566-6260,
                                        (800) 528-1234
Copley Square Hotel, 47 Huntington Ave., (617) 536-9000
Boston Back Bay Hilton Hotel, 40 Dalton, (617) 236-1100, (800) 445-8667
Holiday Inn Boston at Brookline, 1200 Beacon St., (617) 277-1200,
                                                (800) 465-4329
Sheraton Boston Hotel and Towers, 39 Dalton, (617) 236-2000, (800) 325-3535
American Youth Hostels, 12 Hemenway, (617) 536-9455
 
Sponsored by the Archaeology Graduate Student  Association, the
Department of Archaeology at Boston University, and the Humanities
Foundation of the College of Liberal Arts of Boston University