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INTRODUCTION
The 11th biennial Southwest Symposium will be held in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, during January 8th and 9th of 2010. The Centro INAH Sonora will host the meeting that will be held on the University of Sonora Campus and at the Centro INAH Sonora. In the tradition of past meetings, the 11th Southwest Symposium will provide a forum for archaeologists and other scholars to discuss innovative ideas and to develop networks for anthropological research in the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest. We have organized the symposium to explore key topics in substantial depth and to provide ample time for discussion among all who attend.
The Theme of the Symposium
For most of the 20th century, a handful of US institutions, their professors and students dominated archaeology in the southwestern United States. The development of contract archaeology broadened the extent of and altered the practice of archaeology in the southwest U.S. but reinforced it as a nationalist practice. By the end of the 20th century, however, a nationalist view of the region had become parochial. The Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia established regional centers, museums and expanded research in the northwest of Mexico. Slightly later, an Indigenous archaeology developed as Indian Nations established their own archaeological programs, goals, and methods. Each of these "national" archaeologies focus on different regions, make different assumptions, asks different questions, seeks different answers, emphasize different methods and embraces different theories or worldviews. The 11th Southwest Symposium will further discussions of how to transform these national archaeologies into transnational archaeologies. Transnational archaeologies reach beyond or transcend national boundaries and they do so in numerous ways. They imply a broad vision of historical and cultural processes in the Southwest/Northwest that is not artificially limited by political, cultural, or linguistic borders. They necessarily entail a multi-sited archaeology where researchers work in different "nations". They stand strong when their foundations rest on collaborations across cultural groups. They require archaeologists to reexamine the contributions that archaeology can make to society. They expand the archaeology of the Southwest/Northwest linguistically, culturally and regionally.
Presented Sessions West and North Mexico The international border between Mexico and the United States and the culture area border that separates our region from Mesoamerica has long hampered our understanding of the archaeology of the Southwest/Northwest. The archaeology of West and North Mexico does not fit easily into both culture areas and the degree of fit changes over time. Developments in these areas had direct impacts on the Southwest/Northwest. Indeed, "Mesoamerican influences" on the north most likely originated in these regions and not the core of Mesoamerica . The session will allow scholars working in West and North México to share information and interact with Southwest/Northwest archaeologists. José Luis Punzo (Centro INAH Durango) jlpunzod@hotmail.com Michael Ohnersorgen (University of Missouri- Saint Louis) ohnersorgenm@umsl.edu
AD 1450 to AD 1540: The Lost Century In the century AD 1450 to AD 1540, most of the Southwest/Northwest suffered a significant demographic collapse and transformation of cultures. Scores of regional sequences ended and village based agriculture ceased in areas where it had been practiced for hundreds of years. Outside of the Pueblos , this is a lost century making it difficult to link archaeological traditions and modern Indian Nations and to understand the processes that created the ethnographically known Southwest/Northwest. The international border has hampered our understanding of this century because it structures research but has no meaning for the historical and cultural processes we wish to understand. Indian Nations hold very different perspectives on this century than either U.S. or mexican scholars. John Carpenter (DEA-INAH) chichimecatl@hotmail.com Anna Neuzil Anna Neuzil (EcoPlan Associates) aneuzil@ecoplanaz.com
Collaborating Across Cultures Collaborations that reach beyond or transcend national and cultural boundaries are key to transnational archaeologies. Collaboration implies the integration of goals, interests, and practices between the individuals and/or social groups that work together. It entails a dialogue that goes beyond an instrumentalist concern with resolving a conflict or respecting rights and responsibilities. It requires humility, patience, listening, careful consultation, equality, and respect. Collaboration should be transformative of the parties involved. Each party brings different resources, skills, knowledge, authority and/or interests to a collaborative labor. Collaboration involves the melding of these unique qualities into common goals and practices. This session will address collaboration both across the international frontier and between scholars and Indian Nations. Andrew Darling (Gila River Indian Community) jadarlin@cox.net Davina Two Bears (Navajo Archaeological Department) Davina.Twobears@NAU.EDU
Archaeology and Society The relationship of archaeology to society varies among the nations of the Southwest/Northwest. This session will explore these relationships in the United States, in Mexico, and in Indian Nations. Issues will include public programs, education, heritage, and identity. The papers will be aimed towards a discussion that compares and contrasts these issues in different nations with the goal of transcending and reaching beyond national interests. Elizabeth Bagwell Bagwell.beth@gmail.com Cesar Villalobos (Durham University) czar_in@hotmail.com
Posters Sessions The 11th Southwest Symposium will include a series of open themed poster sessions and a general poster session. We encourage you to submit a poster for either one of the themed sessions or the general session. We strongly encourage you to either make your poster bilingual in Spanish and English or to prepare two posters, one in Spanish and one in English. We would like to receive all proposals by November 30, 2009. For your poster, please e-mail a title and a 100 word abstract in Spanish and English to the organizer of the themed session listed below. For the general session please send the same to either Elisa Villalpando elisavillalpando@hotmail.com, or Randy McGuire rmcguire@binghamton.edu .
Violence in the Southwest/Northwest James Watson (Arizona State Museum) watsonjt@email.arizona.edu
Coastal Archaeology Cristina García (Centro INAH Sonora / Arizona State University) lacrispix@gmail.com Jonathan Mabry (The City of Tucson) Jonathan.Mabry@tucsonaz.gov
Relations between the Southwest/Northwest and Mesoamerica Rafael Cruz (Centro INAH Chihuahua) racruanti@hotmail.com Christine Van Pool (University of Missouri) vanpoolc@missouri.edu
Cliff Dwellings Júpiter Martinez (Centro INAH Sonora) eljupiter@hotmail.com Dona Glowacki (Notre Dame University) dglowack@nd.edu
Contract Archaeology Adrián López-Dávila (Centro INAH Sonora) alopezdavila@hotmail.com Christine Ward (Statistical Research, El Paso) cward@sricrm.com
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