THE CONFERENCE WAS A BIG SUCCESS, THANKS TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED, VOLUNTEERED AND ATTENDED.
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JRI is in principal charge of organizing this conference and we are seeking sponsors and supporting organizations. If you would like to help, please contact David Greenwald or Judith White, to find out how you can help. The conference will be open to the public and we plan to have about 30 speakers who have been conducting research around the globe. We have several sites in the local area that we will be featuring and more across the American Southwest. We welcome sponsorships from individuals, corporations, non-profits and we will have space for vendors.
We have various levels and types of sponsorship forms. Please click on the name to download a form.
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Please download the Registration Form Here and return it to Jornada Research Institute.
PO Box 684
Tularosa, NM 88352
(575) 430-8854
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List of Speakers 1 - 12
Allen Dart, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, Tucson, Arizona. Astronomical Observations at Southern Arizona’s Picture Rocks, Signal Hill, and Casa Grande Great House Archaeological Sites.
2. Denise Ruzicka, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Associate State Archaeologist, Fresno, California. Astronomical Alignments at the Harris Site in the Mimbres Valley, New Mexico.
3. MJ Sharp, Independent Researcher, Durham, North Carolina. Megalithic Imagery as Contemplative Portals, Cornwall, UK.
4.Radosลaw Palonka, Jagiellonian University, Krakรณw, Polland & Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado; Ross Gralia & Maiya Gralia, Canyons of the Ancients National Monument and Sand Canyon-Castle Rock Archaeological Project, Colorado; and Vincent MacMillan, Canyons of the Ancients National Monument/US Bureau of Land Management, Dolores, Colorado. Archaeoastronomical Investigations of Ancestral Puebloan Rock Art in the Sand Canyon Area of Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, Colorado.
5. Timothy R. Pauketat, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Dr. Susan M. Alt, Indiana University, Bloomington. The Roots of Greater Cahokiaโs Celestial Geometry, Mississippi Valley, USA.
6. Simon Banton, Independent Researcher, Wiltshire, England, and Associate of the Royal College of Science, Imperial College, London. The Astronomy of Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, UK.ย
7. Lenie Reedijk, Independent Researcher, Eibergen, The Netherlands. Sirius and the Maltese Temples: Precession Imprinted in Stone, Malta and Gozo.
8. Bryan Bates, Society for Cultural Astronomy in the American Southwest, Flagstaff, Arizona. A Cultural Interpretation of a Wupatki National Monument Solar Calendar.
9. David Greenwald, Jornada Research Institute, Tularosa, New Mexico, and John Groh, Torrance County Archaeological Society and Jornada Research Institute. Archaeoastronomy Associations of the Great Kiva at Creekside Village, a Formative Period Irrigation Community in the Tularosa Basin of Southern New Mexico.
10. Carolyn Kennett, Society for the History of Astronomy, Helston, Cornwall, UK. Moonlit Monuments: Exploring the Lunar Standstill Season in the Bronze Age Granite Uplands of Southwest UK.
11. Daniel Brown, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, England. Shadows and Meaning โ Exploring a Standing Stone at Gardomโs Edge, Peak District, UK.
12. Logan York, Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, Miami, Oklahoma. Hopewell: A Look to the Stars (working title).
List of Speakers 13 - 26
13. Anna Sofaer, Solstice Project. Written on the Landscape: Mysteries Beyond Chaco Canyon.
14. Mark Raney, Independent Researcher. Towards an Understanding: Stars and Ceremonial Timing in the American Southwest and Mesoamerica.
15. Ron Barber, Stone Calendar Project & Jornada Research Institute. Stone Calendars: Seasonal Recordings of Ancient Southwest Astronomers.
16. Alonso Mรฉndez, Independent Researcher/Cultural Astronomer and the Solstice Project. Centering The World: The Astronomy of Creation at Palenque.
17. Cherilynn Morrow, NASA PUNCH Outreach Team, Southwest Research Institute, and G. B. Cornucopia, Interpreter, Chaco Canyon National Park (retired). Rock of the Sun in Chaco Canyon.
18. David Purcell, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Southwestern Archaeology, Inc., and PaleoCultural Research Group. An Ancestral Puebloan Solar Observatory of Wupatki National Monument, Arizona.
19. Samuel Duwe, Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma. Becoming the Tewa World: Exploring an Ancient, Dynamic and Pragmatic Cosmology
20. Ron Sutcliffe, Yakanal.com and Chimney Rock National Monument. Major Lunar Standstill Architecture at Chimney Rock National Monument and Casa Rinconada at Chaco Culture National Historic Park
21. GB Cornucopia, Interpretive Ranger, Chaco Culture National Historic Park (retired), and Davd Valentine, Filmmaker. The Astronomy of Chaco Canyon and Beyond
22. McKim (Kim) Malville, Professor Emeritus, Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, and Vice President European Society for Astronomy in Culture.ย The Supernova of 1054 and Major Lunar Standstills at Chimney Rock.
23. Andrรฉs Morgan Medina, Linguist and Ethnographer of Mesoamerican cultures, Coordinator of the National Tourist Guides Collective, and President of the Union of Accredited Tourism Guides. The City as a Representation of the Cosmic Order in Central Mexico and the Oaxaca Zone: Teotihuacan and Monte Alban.
24. Michael Grofe, Ph.D., Sacramento City College, Specialist in Maya Hieroglyphic Writing and Archaeoastronomy, and President of Mayas for Ancient Mayan (MAM). Sidereal Calculations in the Dresden Codex Lunar Table.
25. James Krehbiel, Professor Emeritus, Ohio Wesleyan University and Archaeoastronomy Survey of Southeast Utah Project. Sightlines and Site Lines, Ancient Astronomy in Southeast Utah.
26. Myles Miller, Principal Investigator with Versar, Inc., and Research Associate at Jornada Research Institute; Larry Loendorf , President of Sacred Sites Research, Inc.; Mark Willis, Consultant and Independent Researcher and Sacred Sites Research Director; and Tim Graves, Assistant Principal Investigator with Versar, Inc. Solar Orientations in Jornada Mogollon Pueblos and Rock Imager.
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