SAS Eclectic Symposium

Saturday, March 16, 2019

1:00 – 4:30 p.m.

North Highlands – Antelope Library

4235 Antelope Road

Antelope, CA 95843

Open to the Public

We are pleased to feature three varied topics at the symposium: Roman archaeology, ethnobotany and rock art in Baja.

Program

1:00     Introduction

1:15 – “Italian excavation” by Kim Frasse

2:15 – “Plant remains from Oak Flat, CA-SBA-3931, an interior habitation site in Cuyama Valley” by Gloria Howat Brown

3:15 – “A Journey through Baja: Ancient Rock Art, Gray Whales, Murals and Sculptures” Bill Drake

For more information contact Jan Johansen at janjohansen@sbcglobal.net.

Looking into the Past -Scholar Symposium

2018 Scholarship Recipients

Saturday February 16, 2019

1:30 – 5:30 p.m.

at

North Natomas Library

4660 Via Ingoglia

Sacramento, CA 95835

Don’t miss the exciting program presented by 2018 scholarship recipients. They will be providing latest research on Neanderthals/Homo sapiens in Europe, first people in North America on Channel Islands and the interaction between Native Americans and early settlers near Clear Lake, California.

Program

1:30 – Introduction

1:45 – “Paleolithic excavation in Trou Al’Wesse –Belgium” by Ryan Gallagher

2:30 – “Burnt bone analysis – Bukovac, Serbia” by Giulia Gallo

3:15 – Break

3:30 – “Paleocoastal Lithic Analysis- California Channel Islands” by Kevin Smith

4:15 – “Historic archaeological excavation – Bear Creek Ranch” by Ryan Poska

Annual Scholar Symposium (1)

2018 Scholarship Recipients Plus
Saturday, January 26, 2019
1:00 – 4:30 p.m.
at
North Highlands – Antelope Library
4235 Antelope Road
Antelope, CA 95843

We are pleased to feature two recipients of our 2018 scholarships and a film on the search for earliest people in the New World.

Program
1:00     Introduction
1:15 – “Pompeii Artifact Life History Project” by Aaron Brown
2:15 – “Excavation and technological analysis of Donggutuo stone artifacts” by Corey Johnson
3:15 – “The Peopling of the Americas”  film by the Gault School of Archaeological Research, Texas 

Sacramento Archeological Society, Inc.’s
 Annual Membership Meeting
Featuring
Cutting Edge Evolutionary Anthropology Research
“Study of bone use-wear using 3D surface texture analysis”
By University of California, Davis Scholar, Naomi L. Martisius
“Heat treatment of silicate rocks”
By University of California, Davis Scholar, Sara Watson
Saturday, December 8, 2018
12:00 – 6:00 p.m.  

At our annual meeting we are pleased to have two scholars who received SAS scholarships in 2018 present their research and field work. Naomi L. Martisius, a graduate student at University of California Davis will speak on her research leading to a unique methodology for study of bone use-wear using 3-D surface texture analysis.  Sara Watson, also a graduate student at University of California Davis will feature incites from her lab training at the University of Tubingern, Germany on heat treatment of silicate rocks.

Annual Meeting Program
12:00 – Meet and Greet
12:30 – Lunch
1:30 – SAS Annual Meeting with election of officers
3:00 – Naomi L. Martisius, “Study of bone use-wear using 3 D surface texture analysis”
4:00 – Sara Watson, “Heat treatment of silicate rocks”

PLEASE provide your RSVP by Monday, December 3 to Carolyn McGregor at  sabrina53@earthlink.net.