Thursday morning, Oct. 8, 1998 - Minsky Recital Hall, Class of 1944 Hall

Dan Sandweiss & Kirk Maasch (University of Maine)

Welcome

Thor Heyerdahl (Founder and Past President of the FERCO Scientific Committee)

Introductory Remarks

Daniel F. Belknap (University of Maine)

A Marine Perspective on Mid-Holocene Climate in Northeastern North America

David Sanger (University of Maine)

Mid-Holocene Cultural Dynamics in Northeastern North America

George Jacobson (University of Maine)

Mid-Holocene Climate and Vegetation of Eastern North America

David G. Anderson (Southeast Archaeology Center-National Park Service), Michael Russo, and Kenneth Sassaman

Mid-Holocene Cultural Dynamics in Southeastern North America

Madonna L. Moss (University of Oregon)

Mid-Holocene Cultural Dynamics on the Northwest Coast of North America

Douglas Kennett (University of California-Long Beach)

Mid-Holocene Climate and Culture of California

Barbara Voorhies (University of Colorado)

Mid-Holocene Cultural Dynamics in Western Mesoamerica

ENSO James Shulmeister (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

Mid-Holocene Climate in the Southwestern Pacific

Michael Gagan (Australian National University)

Coral Reconstructions of the Mid-Holocene ENSO

Atholl Anderson (Australian National University)

Mid-Holocene Cultural Dynamics in the Central and Western Pacific

Friday, Oct. 9, 1998

Betty J. Meggers (Smithsonian Institution) (In absentia)

Mid-Holocene Cultural Dynamics in Eastern South America

Lonnie G. Thompson (Ohio State University)

Mid-Holocene Climate in the Andes

Harold B. Rollins (University of Pittsburgh)

Mid-Holocene Climate in Western South America: A Malacological Perspective

James B. Richardson III, (Carnegie Museum/University of Pittsburgh)

Mid-Holocene Cultural Dynamics in Northwestern Peru

Martin Grosjean (University of Berne, Switzerland)

Mid-Holocene Climate in the Chilean Andes

Calogero M. Santoro (University of Tarapacá, Chile)

Mid-Holocene Cultural Dynamics in Chile

Melanie Riedinger (Northeastern Illinois University)

Mid-Holocene Climate: A Galapagos Perspective

Konstantin Lutaenko (Russian Academy of Sciences-Far Eastern Branch)

Mid-Holocene Climate in the Northwestern Pacific

Irina Zhushchikhovskaya (Russian Academy of Sciences-Far Eastern Branch)

Mid-Holocene Cultural Dynamics in the Northwestern Pacific Region

Tracy Lie Dan Lu (Australia)

Mid-Holocene Cultural Dynamics in China

Saturday morning, Oct. 10, 1998 - 100 D.P. Corbett Building

Wibjorn Karlen (Stockholm University, Sweden)

Mid-Holocene Climate in Scandinavia

Lars Larsson (Lund University, Sweden)

Mid-Holocene Cultural Dynamics in Northern Europe

Wibjorn Karlen (Stockholm University, Sweden)

Mid-Holocene Climate in Africa

Fred Wendorf (Southern Methodist University)

Mid-Holocene Cultural Dynamics in Africa

Heidi Cullen (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University)

Mid-Holocene Climate in the Middle East

Harvey Weiss (Yale University)

Mid-Holocene Cultural Dynamics in the Middle East

Andrew Bush (University of Alberta, Canada)

A Modeling Perspective on Mid-Holocene Climate of the Pacific Basin