The 2005 AAPA meeting, our
seventy-fourth annual meeting, will be held at the Hilton Milwaukee City Center
Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. There will be 651 podium and poster
presentations in 36 sessions, with a total of almost 1,250 authors participating.
The program includes eight podium symposia and four poster symposia on a
variety of topics: lorises and galgos, dental anthropology, sexual dimorphism,
75 years of the AAPA, adaptability of Mexican populations, Callimico,
burned human bones, Southwestern US bioarchaeology, the metabolic syndrome, and
human genetic variation. The program also includes the Third Annual Wiley-Liss
Symposium; this year’s topic is the human – non-human primate interface, and
includes talks by a number of distinguished colleagues from across the globe.
As in past years, this year’s meetings
reflect the international nature of our meetings. Roughly 21 percent of the
senior authors live outside the United States, representing 22 nations. The
largest representation is from the United Kingdom (31 senior authors), Canada
(25), Japan (12), Germany (10), Austria (8), Mexico (7), Spain (7) and
Australia (5). Our meeting also serves as an important avenue for presentation
of student research; about 36 percent of all first authors are students.
This is the fourth year that we have
used an online registration system for payment of registration fees and
submission of abstracts. The entire
meeting volume is once again available at the AAPA web site: http://www.physanth.org.
As in the past, we will meet in conjunction
with a number of affiliated groups including the American Association of
Anthropological Genetics, the American Dermatoglyphics Association, the
Dental Anthropology Association, the Human Biology Association (Wednesday and
Thursday, April 6 – 7 ), the Paleoanthropology Society (Tuesday and Wednesday,
April 5 – 6), the Paleopathology Association (Tuesday and Wednesday, April 5 –
6), and the Primate Biology and Behavior Interest Group.
The following pages provide a map of the
Hilton City Center Milwaukee; a summary table of conference events; a daily
conference schedule, including meetings of affiliated associations, editorial
boards, workshops, and various business meetings; a detailed listing of AAPA poster
and podium sessions; the abstracts of the presentations; and an index of the
authors showing the session numbers of their presentations.
AAPA activities commence on Wednesday
evening, April 6, with a panel discussion organized by our Career Development
Committee. The discussion is titled
“Give me a job, any job! ... Or, how to read between the lines in job ads,”
with an introduction by Marilyn London, and panelists Lorena Madrigal (University
of South Florida), Kaye Reed (Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State
University), and Mark Teaford (Johns Hopkins University) participating. This
event will be followed by our annual reception. Poster and podium sessions
begin Thursday morning and continue through Saturday afternoon.
The plenary session, held on Thursday
evening, is an event entitled “ ‘Bones’ of the Academic Ancestors.” In honor of the 75th Anniversary of the
founding of the AAPA, a panel of physical anthropologists will present eight
“osteobiographies.” See if you can
identify all eight “academic ancestors.”
The student and regular member with the most correct answers will win a
refund of their meetings registration fee (ties to be settled by a drawing at
the Business Meeting), so you won’t want to miss any of the plenary session.
Our annual luncheon on Friday features Bob Martin, Vice President of Academic
Affairs and Curator in Biological Anthropology at The Field Museum, speaking on “The Evolution of Human
Reproduction.” Our annual business meeting is on Friday evening. On Saturday evening,
we will have our Student Awards Reception.
The AAPA Program, Local
Arrangements, and Executive Committees cordially invite you to our seventy‑fourth
annual meeting. We look forward to seeing you in Milwaukee.
Lyle W. Konigsberg
AAPA Vice President and
Program
Committee Chair
Hilton Milwaukee City Center
Upper Lobby – The upper lobby has two rooms
which will be in use during the AAPA meetings.
The Monarch Ballroom will house the book exhibitors. The Empire Ballroom will be for all poster
sessions. The drawing below shows the
layout for posters. Please note that
the Empire Ballroom is not wheelchair accessible. “Backhouse” access is available near posters 4 and 5, but there
are steps between the following poster areas: 1 – 14, 15 – 22, 23 – 42, 43 –
50, and 51 – 64.
Fourth Floor – The fourth
floor is the location for the Walker, Mitchell, MacArthur, Miller, Schlitz, and
Wright Rooms. Meetings registration is
between the elevators and the staircase (marked with an asterisk).
Fifth Floor – The fifth
floor is the location for the Crystal and Regency Ballrooms and the Oak, Kilbourn,
Meir, and Founders Rooms.
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Tue Morning
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Tue Afternoon
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Tue Evening
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Wed Morning
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Wed Afternoon
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Wed Evening
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Fourth Floor,
by staircase
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PS & PPA Registrations,
8 am – 5 pm
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PS & HBA Registrations, 8 am – 5 pm
PPA Registration, 8 – 10 am
AAPA Registration, 9 am – 5 pm
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Empire
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PPA & PS Poster Sessions
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PPA Poster Session
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HBA Poster Session
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Crystal
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PPA Podium Session
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PPA Podium Session
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AAPA Reception, 8 – 11 pm
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Regency
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PS Podium Session
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