18th Annual Maya Symposium Workshops

9:00 am – 12:00 pm Forum 

Reconsidering Classic Maya Captivity
Marc Zender, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University

10:30 am – 12:00 pm Talk

Middle Preclassic Interactions in the Middle Usumacinta Region: A View from Aguada Fénix
Verónica Amellali Vázquez López, Middle American Research Institute/Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University

LUNCH 12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Workshop Set I

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Reawakening Tunica: a Recently ‘Sleeping’ Language of Louisiana
Judith Maxwell, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Lidar Workshop A: Modeling Land and Water with Lidar-Derived Terrain Models
Luke Auld-Thomas, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University

Workshop Set II

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Lidar Workshop B: Assessing Architecture and Inequality through Lidar in the Southern Maya Lowlands
Laura Gilabert Sansalvador, Universitat Politècnica de València
Francisco Estrada-Belli, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Introduction to the Ch’orti’ Maya Language
Kerry Hull, Department of Religion, Brigham Young University