PROGRAM 

Thursday, April 24, 2008

3:30-4:30  Session 1:  Bones and Stones

Chair:  Stephanie Smith

3:30  Elizabeth Atchley, Finding Faces: The Use of Facial Reconstruction in Forensic Anthropology
3:45  Stephen Fullerton, NAGPRA - The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
4:00  Chris Cotter, An Analysis of Debitage from the Big Eddy Site: Implications Regarding Variation between Paleoindian and Late Archaic Lithic Technologies
4:15  discussion

4:45-6:00  Session 2:  Remains of the Day

Chair:  Chrissy Wallace

4:45  Hayley Laird, Site Formation Processes and Modern Material Culture: An Example From Hooten, Cave Missouri
5:00  Renee Hoenshell, Abandoned Sites along Route 66
5:15  Kelli L. Keith, Soldiers of the Past: Rifle Range Graffiti at Fort Leonard Wood
5:30  discussion

Friday, April 25, 2008

3:00-4:15  Session 3:  Investigations Far and Near

Chair:  Jonathon Koch

3:00  Frank Burkybile, Palmwine production in Guinea-Bissau 
3:15  Johnda Shears, Student Biases Toward Male and Female Circumcision
3:30  Leslie Hayes, Metaphors, Media and the Middle East 
3:45  Cammie Jennings, Have We Lost Our Youth? Jump Rope Rhymes in Kansas City
4:00  discussion
    
4:30-6:00  Session 4:  Orality and Literacy

Chair:  Frank Burkybile

4:30  Ellen Schwartze, Learning Bilingual: Language Acquisition at Home and at School
4:45  Heidi Kaut, Human Information Retention: Oral vs. Literary 
5:00  Brittany Beck,  Literacy and Modernist Literature  
5:15  Courtney K. Smith, The Linguistic Characteristics of 1337: Online Communication as a Dialect and Orthography
5:30  Amy Fleming, Orality in the Written Culture of Instant Messaging 
5:45  discussion