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Hosted by: Department
of Anthropology, University of Arkansas
Co-sponsor: Arkansas Archeological Survey
Organizers: Marvin Kay, Kenneth
Kvamme, JoAnn Kvamme, Department
of Anthropology, Main 330, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701.
Phone: (479)575-2508; Fax: (479)575-6595
Internet site: http://www.uark.edu/depts/anthinfo/Plains/index.htm
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Program Elements of the 61st Conference
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Venues
Conference
Headquarters. The
conference headquarters is the Radisson Hotel, on the hill in downtown
Fayetteville.
Meeting Rooms.
All sessions will be held on the fourth floor of the University of
Arkansas Continuing Education Center, adjacent and attached to the Radisson.
Open Cash Bar,
Banquet, Conference Speaker. These Friday events will be
held in the Town Center, a meeting facility one block south of the Continuing
Education Center.
Abstract Deadline
was: August 29, 2003.
Papers
& Posters: Presentations are limited to 20 minutes. Posters
are displayed for one-half day sessions.
Registration:
Pre-Register! Pre-registration
is available at a reduced rate until October
15: $40, or $25 for students (the respective fees are $50 and
$40 after that date). Download the Registration Form and send it in!.
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Accomodations:
The Conference Hotel is the Radisson, located in historic downtown
Fayetteville. It is the tallest building in Fayetteville and easily
recognized. It connects with the University of Arkansas Center
for Continuing Education; both will be locations of conference activities
and meetings. The Radisson is located at 70 N. East Avenue, Fayetteville,
AR 72701. For reservations call (479) 442-5555 or toll-free 1-800-333-3333.
The Early Bird party and the banquet will be in the Radisson. The
conference rate for sleeping rooms is $78.00 per night. A breakfast
bar will be available for $8.95.
Other hotels:
- Clarion Inn.
Hwy 62 & I540, 479-1-800-2237275
- Holiday Inn
Express. 1251 N. Shiloh Dr. 479-444-6006
- Qulaity Inn.
523 S Shiloh Dr. 479-444-9800
- Motel 6. N.
College Ave. Will give AARP rate, about $39/night, must say with Plains
Conference. 479-443-4351
- Style Inn. Bed
and Breakfast, $85/2people/night + tax, includes breakfast, or rooms
with fireplace and Jacuzzi, $105/2 people/night + tax. includes breakfast,
117 W. Rock (see stayinnstyle.com).
Getting to Fayetteville:
Free
airport shuttle to run Tuesday, Wednesday evening & Sunday morning
A limited free shuttle
service will be available to transfer participants and attendees of the
conference between the Radisson and the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport.
This service will be available from 2-8 pm on Wednesday, and from 7:30-11:00
am on Sunday morning. Approximately every hour round trips will be made
in a University of Arkansas vehicle; look for the van or a student holding
a "Plains Conference" sign. Sunday morning arrangements may
be made at the Conference Reservation Desk.
Driving
- From the South:
Take I-40 to I-540 North (exit 7). From I-540 North to Razorback
Road (exit 61). Turn right on Razorback Road, heading north. Turn right
on Sixth Street and continue to business 71 (School Street). Turn left
to town center. The Radisson is the tallest building visible on the
left.
- From the North:
Take I-540 South to Fayetteville, exit on Business 71 and continue
south on College Avenue to the old town center. The Radisson is the
tallest building visible on the right.
- From the East:
Take Hwy 412 to I-540. See directions from north.
- From the West:
Take Hwy 412 east via Cherokee Turnpike from Tulsa, OK, to I-540
South. See directions from north.
- Airport information:
Check the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport web site for current
infomation about airlines and cities served by XNA, at: http://www.nwara.com.
Driving directions from airport: From XNA to Fayetteville Turn
east (left at airport exit) and go to Cave Springs. From Cave Springs,
continue traveling east six miles on Hwy 264 to I-540. See directions
from the North.
Parking
Free parking is available to all guests of the Radisson in the parking
deck to the east. Additional free parking can be found in the Town Center
parking lot, a block away, available to conference participants (see Map
1, back page).
Optional Field
Trips: We are pleased to host two fieldtrips: an all-day one prior
to the meeting on Wednesday, October 22, to the World Heritage Spiro site
in eastern Oklahoma, and a half-day trip the afternoon of Saturday, October
25, to Pea Ridge National Historic Military Park, in northwest Arkansas.
These fieldtrips would be in University of Arkansas buses and will depart
from the lobby of the Radisson. The Spiro fieldtrip will depart at 8:30
am; the Pea Ridge trip will depart at 1:30 pm. The fieldtrips are contingent
on no fewer than 25 pre-registrants for each trip. A maximum of 35 can
go on each trip.
Spiro: Weather
permitting, this trip will visit the Narrows rock art site near Mountainburg,
Arkansas, then go to Cavanah Mounds in south Fort Smith, Arkansas, before
reaching Spiro. Spiro has a visitor's center/gift shop, and a walking
tour of the major remaining and reconstructed mound groups, including
the Craig Mound. Following the Spiro tour we will lunch at the rustic
and delicious White Horse Mountain Bar-B-Q about 20 miles to the west,
then go through the Lee Creek drainage to Paris Mound in east Oklahoma,
and return to Fayetteville. Cost per person: $20.00. This
fieldtrip is filling fast!
Pea Ridge: This
is the location of the March, 1862, Civil War battle that kept the State
of Missouri within the Union. On the way to Pea Ridge we shall also visit
the Civil War battlefield at Prairie Grove, Arkansas, just to the west
of Fayetteville, then travel to Pea Ridge, visit the exhibit center and
tour the battlefield, before returning in the late afternoon. Cost per
person: $15.00.
Early Bird Party:
The Early Bird Party will begin at 7 pm, Wednesday, October 22, in the
Sequoyah Room of the Radisson. .
Board Meetings:
The Plains Anthropological Society will host a Board of Directors retreat
from 10 am - 5 pm on Wednesday, October 22, at the Continuing Education
Center, Room 402. The Board will meet again following the PAS annual business
meeting on Friday, October 24, in Room 403-404.
Evening Reception:
The Arkansas Archeological Survey, at 2475 N. Hatch, off North
Garland Avenue, will host a reception on Thursday, October 23, 7:00-9:00
pm. Conference attendees will have the opportunity to tour the new building,
including some of its labs and curation facilities, and examine its world-class
display of Southeastern ceramic vessels. The stone effigy pipe known as
"Big Boy" will be on display (pick the original from two replicas
on display and you could win a conference t-shirt). Transportation by
bus will be available between the Radisson and the reception about every
20 minutes between 6:30-9:30 pm.
Business Meeting:
The annual business meeting of the Plains Anthropological Society will
be held on Friday, October 24, 4:45 pm, in the Continuing Education Center,
Rooms 403-404.
Open Cash Bar:
An Open Cash Bar will be offered on Friday, October 24, 6:30 pm, in the
Dogwood Room of the Town Center.
Conference Banquet:
The Conference Banquet will begin at 7:30 pm, Friday, October 24, in the
Dogwood Room of the Town Center, catered by Cowboy Bar-B-Que. Omnivorous
food options will be available. The winner of the Student Paper Award
will be announced at this event, and several drawings for prizes will
be held. The banquet cost is $25.00 per person. A van will be available
to shuttle individuals who require assistance from the Radisson to the
banquet hall.
Conference Speaker:
Elliott West, Alumni Distinguished Professor of History, University of
Arkansas-Fayetteville, will present "An Historian Approaches with
Humility and Trepidation," in the Dogwood Room of the Town Center
at 8:30 pm, on Friday, October 24. His doctorate is from the University
of Colorado-Boulder, and his specialty is the American West and the American
Indian. Among Elliott's many publications are The Way to the West:
Essays on the Central Plains, and Growing Up with the Country:
Childhood on the Far-Western Frontier; both received the Western Heritage
Award for the best nonfiction book on the American West. More recently,
University of Kansas Press published The Contested Plains: Indians,
Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado; it won the Francis Parkman
Prize for the year's best book in American history. As we shall see, Elliott
is first and foremost a storyteller of the Plains and its colorful history
that often is stranger than fiction. This event is open to all conference
registrants regardless of banquet attendance.
Student Paper Competition:
will be held in a session Thursday morning, October 23, Room 404, with
7 presenters.
Books & Exhibits:
Vendor space for books and other exhibits will be located in Rooms 410-411
of the Continuing Education Center. The rooms will be open on Thursday
and Friday, October 23-24, from 8:30-5:00 pm, and on Saturday morning
from 8:30-12:00.
Conference souvenirs
Mugs with the meeting logo will be distributed to meeting participants;
a limited number of additional ones will be on sale for $4.00. T-shirts
with same design in various colors and sizes are available by pre-order.
A limited number of shirts will be made available for sale on-site for
$12.00. These items will be available in the registration area.
Hospitality Room:
The McIlroy Room of the Radisson has been reserved as a conference hospitality
room. Out of respect to other hotel guests, conference attendees are encouraged
to socialize, celebrate, or otherwise party in this room. It is available
during all hours of Thursday and Friday.
Child Care
Kirsty's Child Care will accept walk-ins, space permitting, from 8am -
8 pm, daily. They are located at 1905 E. Mission Blvd. (about 3 miles
northeast of the Radisson). Phone: 571-4000.
Corporate
Sponsors are being sought! The Plains Anthropological
Conference is an annual, international meeting of individuals interested
in the past and present people, land use, landscapes, and climate of the
Plains and adjacent regions. About 400 generally register for the meeting,
while overall participation will be about 600. Attendees are typically
university professors and students, or representatives of government agencies
and environmental impact firms, their spouses and dependents. The conference
helps support the journal Plains Anthropologist, a Native American
Student scholarship, and an award for the best presentation by an undergraduate
or graduate student. Academic presses and research firms dealing with
archaeology or computer technology frequently utilize conference exhibit
space.
Corporate sponsorship
will be acknowledged at appropriate conference venues, at the conference
business meeting, in the published conference program and abstracts, and
in conference resolutions published in Plains Anthropologist. One
may elect to sponsor conference activities, a scholarship, to defray administrative
costs of the conference, or support its receptions, coffee breaks, a banquet,
roundtable luncheons, or the journal. Sponsorship can be in the form of
a monetary contribution (to a conference account administered by the UA
Division of Continuing Education) or a donation of equipment, expendable
supplies, food, reference works, or facilities. Books about Plains archaeology
and native peoples are especially welcome for the Student Paper Competition.
Contact
Jo Ann Kvamme for further information.
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About The Logo
The 61st Conference Logo is a petroglyph of a human figure wearing what
is interpreted as a feather headdress holding an unidentified paddle or
fan-shaped object, from the Narrows shelter (3CW35), near Mountainburg,
Arkansas. The Narrows petroglyphs are stylistically similar to Plains
rock art, but contain influences from both the Plains Tradition and Eastern
Woodland styles. The Narrows was officially recorded as an archeological
site in 1934, when a crew under the University of Arkansas Museum Director,
Samuel C. Dellinger, visited the site.
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