UPAC Winter 2009 Semiannual Meeting

Salt Lake City, Utah

February 27-28 2009

"A Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Utah Archaeology"

final schedule with paper abstracts (pdf) (February 23 2009)
Call For Papers and Agenda Items (December 1 2008)

LOCATION

Salt Lake City Public Library
Conference Room, 4th Floor
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City, Utah
Library Website

The library's underground parking facility can be accessed by turning mid-block from eastbound 400 South. Parking in this facility is free for the first half-hour, then $1.25 per half-hour after that.

SCHEDULE SUMMARY

Friday, February 27, 2009
9:00 – 12:00 Research Presentations
1:00 – 4:00 UPAC Business Meeting

Saturday, February 28, 2009
9:00 – 12:00 Research Presentations

Detailed Schedule

Research Presentations
Friday, February 27

9:00 William Eckerle and John C. Ravesloot (Western GeoArch Research and William Self Associates, Inc.), Off-Site Geoarchaeological Investigations of the Old River Bed and Distal Sevier River Alluvial Plain, Millard County, Utah for the UNEV Pipeline: 2008-2009.

9:15 Rachelle Green (University of Utah), Excavation Update for site 42Em2861 in Range Creek, Utah.

9:30 Jamie Clark (University of Utah), Excavation Update for site 42Em2861 in Range Creek, Utah.

9:45 Ronald J. Rood and Derinna V. Kopp (Antiquities Section), Archaic Human Remains from Utah: New Discoveries.

10:00 Derinna V. Kopp (Antiquities Section), The Tommy Turf Site (42Ka6030): A Basketmaker II Mass Grave.

10:15 BREAK

10:30 Rand A. Greubel (Alpine Archaeological Consultants, Inc.), Highlights of the Ruby Pipeline Survey, Northern Utah.

10:45 Rigden A. Glaab (Washington State University, Pullman), Understanding Social Resiliency: The 2008 Season of the Tavaputs Archaeological Research Project.

11:00 Corinne Springer (Utah Museum of Natural History, Range Creek Field Station), Smoke Signals.

11:15 Heidi Roberts (HRA Inc., Conservation Archaeology), Barbie Turns Fifty This Year. Are You Ready?

11:30 Ellen "Bat" Smith (SWCA), Wood, Brick and Metal; Eureka Utah's History as Seen Through its Architecture.

UPAC Business Meeting
Friday, February 27

I. Welcome – Kelly Beck, President
II. Approval of Winter 2008 Minutes – Scott Whitesides, Secretary
III. Treasurer’s Report & Discussion of Expenditures – Marty Thomas, Treasurer
IV. Nominations for: Vice President - Governmental Affairs & Research, Secretary, and Newsletter Editor – Andy Yentsch, Vice President, Membership & Ethics
V. Website Report – Rachel Quist, Webmaster
VI. Newsletter Report – Kenny Wintch, Newsletter Editor
VII. Utah Archaeology Report, David Yoder & Chris Watkins, Editors
VIII. UPAC – BLM Consulting Party Report – Betsy Skinner, Vice President, Government Affairs & Research
IX. Public Outreach and Utah Prehistory Week – Ron Rood, Curriculum Director
X. Linear Sites Guidelines: Application Update – Jon Baxter, Bighorn Archaeology & Peter Ainsworth, BLM – SLFO
XI. State Agency Announcements
XII. Federal Agency Announcements
XIII. Special Presentation: UMNH Collections Closure – Michelle Knoll, Utah Museum of Natural History
XIV. Special Presentation: Preservation Action – Matt Seddon, Preservation Action
XV. Awards – Kelly Beck, President & Andy Yentsch, Vice President, Membership & Ethics
XVI. Adjournment

Research Presentations
Saturday, February 28

9:00 R. Kelly Beck (Public Lands Policy Coordination Office and University of Utah), Obsidian Field Processing and Transport in Utah’s Mineral Mountains.

9:15 Brian R. McKee (William Self Associates, Tucson, Arizona), Preliminary Results of the UNEV Pipeline Project XRF Obsidian Sourcing Study.

9:30 Mark B. Estes (University of Nevada, Reno), Paleoindian Obsidian Conveyance Zones and Movement in the Great Basin.

9:45 Suzanne Eskenazi (HRA Inc., Conservation Archaeology), Cactus Processing in the St. George Basin, Washington County, Utah.

10:00 Leticia A. Neal (University of Nevada, Reno), Legacies on the Landscape: Material Culture and Rock art at Indian Creek, Utah.

10:15 BREAK

10:30 Christopher Morgan (Utah State University), Climate Change, Uncertainty, and Mobility: Numic Expansion in Central California.

10:45 Mark Bodily (Dept. of Anthropology, BYU), Shifts in Human Occupation at North Creek Shelter (42GA5863): An Analysis of Chipped Stone Artifacts.

11:00 Brad Newbold (Dept. of Anthropology, BYU), Home Sweet Home or Happy Hunting Ground? Insights into Fremont settlement in Utah Valley through faunal analysis.

11:15 Scott Ure (Dept. of Anthropology, BYU), The Seamons Mound Burial: A Fremont Burial on the Shores of Utah Lake.

11:30 Jonathan Till (Abajo Archaeology), It’s About Time: Excavation and Research at 42Ws325, a Virgin Anasazi Hamlet.

11:45 Josh Trammell and Chris Parker (University of Utah), Exploring Geophyte Use in the Northern Great Basin and its Archaeological Consequences.