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Announcements frm SAS

Annual Scholar Symposium (2) – Cancelled due to COVID 19

Annual Scholar Symposium (2) – To be rescheduled at a later date
By
2019 Scholarship Recipients
Saturday March 28, 2020
1:00 – 4:30 p.m.
at
Sylvan Oaks Library
6700 Auburn Boulevard
Citrus Heights, CA 95621

Three scholarship recipients from 2019 will present on their research.
Program

1:00 – Set up
1:15 – “Field excavation at Scladina, Belgium” by Sarah Foley
2:15 – “Ethnographic/ethno historical analysis of social identities of women in Sonoma County between 1900 and 1945” by Bee Thao
3:15 – “Historic Native American village excavation in Northern Sierras” by Jonathan Garcia
4:00 – 4:30 – Clean up
Sarah Foley
Sarah graduated from University of California, Davis in 2020. She is preparing for graduate school by attending a field school at Scladina, Belgium and volunteering with excavations at Régismont-le-Haute, France. The scholarship offset expenses for the field school.

Jonathan Garcia
Jonathan graduated from Sonoma State University in 2019. He used the scholarship to attend a Chico Archaeological Field School. This field school involved the excavation of a historic Native American village in the Northern Sierras in California.

Bee Thao
Bee is a master’s student at Sonoma State University. She has had several years of professional experience in cultural resource management with exposure to Asian American archaeological cultural materials and sites. In 2019 she conducted an ethnographic/ethno historical research project on how Chinese, Japanese and Filipina women in Sonoma County created and maintained multiple social and cultural identities between 1900 and 1945. She used the scholarship to offset expenses associated with oral history interviews of Asian American woman.

Now We’re Cooking: The Role of Fire and cooked Food in Neanderthal Extinction

Now We’re Cooking:The Role of Fire and Cooked Food in Neanderthal Extinction

By Anna Goldfield, PhD Archaeologist

Saturday, October 19, 2019

1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

at Maidu Museum & Historical Site

1970 Johnson Ranch Drive, Roseville, California 95661
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Join us to celebrate International Archaeology Day. We have teamed with Maidu Museum & Historical Site to increase the public’s awareness of archaeology. Sacramento Archeological Society will feature a presentation on Neanderthal by Anna Goldfield, PhD, Archaeologist and host of The Dirt Podcast.  She will explore some of the physiological differences between Neanderthals and Anatomically Modern Humans, and will discuss what role the use of fire and a cooked versus a raw diet might have had on the rate of extinction of Neanderthal populations.  Maidu Museum & Historical Site will offer hands on archaeological experience for children and family tours of their historical site.

Entrance Fee Charged $5

Questions? Please contact Jan Johansen at janjohansen@sbcglobal.net or Maidu Museum and Historical Site at 916.774.5934.

Dr. Goldfield is a zooarchaeologist and science writer whose research focuses on Neanderthal physiology and nutrition. Currently, she is also an anthropology instructor at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento and a writer for the online anthropology journal Sapiens.org (https://www.sapiens.org/column/field-trips/neanderthal-body/). In addition Anna is the co-host of The Dirt, a podcast about archaeology, anthropology, and our shared human past (www.thedirtpod.com).

Sierra Rock Art Field Trip

Sierra Rock Art Field Trip
Led by FSRA
Thursday, September 26, 2019
10:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Friends of Sierra Rock Art (FRSA) (www.sierrarockart.com) are leading a one-day field trip to two Sierra rock art sites for SAS members on Thursday, Sept. 26. Participants will meet near the Boreal/Castle Peak I-80 exit at 10:30 a.m. and depart from Donner Summit at about 5:00 p.m.

Nolan Smith, FSRA board member and Bill Drake, FSRA president will lead the outing.

We will visit two sites: Sky Castle and Donner Summit

The outing is limited to SAS members. Registration will be first come first served basis. Membership in Sacramento Archeological Society is required. All participants are required to sign two Agreements prior to the tour, one for confidentiality and the other for hold harmless.
To register for this outing, contact Jan Johansen at janjohansen@sbcglobal.net.

SAS Potluck Social

SAS Potluck Social
Saturday, September 7, 2019
3:00 – 7:00 p.m. at
Dan & Victoria Foster’s
The social will start at 3:00 p.m. with a potluck dinner around 5:00 p.m.
Please bring a dish to share and any beverages you might wish. There is a barbecue and swimming pool – bring your swim suit.
For additional information and/or directions please call Dan at 279-444-2099.

Eclectic Symposium

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 Valleyby 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.

 

Annual Scholar Symposium (2) February 2019

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) January 2019

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 

Cutting Edge Evolutionary Anthropology Research

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.

Viewing California’s Past through Seeds and Science

Viewing California’s Past through Seeds and Science

Saturday, October 20, 2018
Lectures 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
at Maidu Museum & Historical Site
1970 Johnson Ranch Drive, Roseville, California 95661

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Celebrate International Archaeology Day. Maidu Museum & Historical Site will offer hands on archaeological experience for children and family tours of their historical site. Sacramento Archeological Society will feature lectures on how plants can be used to investigate California prehistory and how skeletons can shed light on the participation of women in California warfare.

1:00 – “Archaeobotany in California: Exciting Things Learned from the Remains of Every Day Activity.” by Eric Wohlgemuth, Principal Investigator and Chief Archaeobotanist, Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Inc. – Archaeobotany, the study of plant remains from archaeological sites in California.

2:00 – “Warrior Women of Central California” by Al Schwatala – recent research conducted with Marin Pilloud of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno on the active participation of women in combat in California.

Entrance Fee Charged
Questions? Please contact Jan Johansen at janjohansen@sbcglobal.net or Maidu Museum and Historical Site at 916.774.5934

SAS Potluck Social

SAS Potluck Social
Saturday, September 8, 2018
3:00 – 7:00 p.m.

Dan and Victoria Foster are graciously hosting a new member Society Social on Saturday, September 8 at their farm. The social will start at 3:00 pm with a potluck dinner around 5:00 pm. At this informal event we will have time to get to know each other especially new members and of course talk about archaeology.

Please bring a dish to share and any beverages you might wish. There is a barbecue and swimming pool – bring your swim suit.

For additional information and/or directions please call Dan at 916-261-4075.