Papers Presented at Conferences
2018
Sagebiel, Kerry L., Helen R. Haines. Posthumous Pots: Postclassic Ceramic Contexts and Chronology at Ka’kabish, Belize. Paper presented at the South-Central Mesoamerican Conference, 19-20 October 2018.
2017
Haines, H.R. and A. Shugar. Rings on her fingers, and Bells on her toes: Objects of Adornment from Chultun C-1, Ka’kabish, Belize. Paper presented at that Chacmool Conference, 8-12 November 2017. Session: Cross-cultural approaches to Mesoamerican costume and identity (Organized by Sharisse McCafferty.
Haines and Sagebiel “What’s in a Name?”: Questing the Idea of an Olmec Origin for Jade Spoons. Paper presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC.
Sagebiel and Haines. Ancestors, Agency, and Formation Processes: Interpreting Problematic “Smash and Trash Deposits” at Ka’kabish, Belize <. Paper presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC.
Sagebiel and Haines. Fools Make Feasts, and Wise Men Eat Them: Interpreting Problematical “Smash and Trash Deposits” at Ka’kabish, Belize. (second author with Kerry L. Sagebiel). Paper presented at the 15th Annual Belize Archaeology Symposium, San Ignacio, Belize, 27 June – 30 June, 2017.
2016
Kerry Sagebiel. “Exploring the Unnamed Era: Pre-Mamom Pottery in the Maya Lowlands of Yucatan, Peten, and Belize,” to be held April 8, 2016 at the Society for American Archaeology 81st Meeting, Orlando. Debra Walker, Chair.
Haines, Sagebiel, and C. Belanger. Is and Isn’t produce each other: An Unusual Architectural Amalgamation at Ka’kabish. Paper presented at the 14th Annual Belize Anthropology and Archaeology Symposium, San Ignacio, Belize, 27 June - 1 July, 2016.
Sagebiel, Kerry L., Helen R. Haines, and Joshuah Lockett-Harris. “Smash-and-Trash Deposits at Ka’Kabish, Belize: How Theoretical and Analytical Approaches Can Affect Interpretation. Paper presented at the Mid-West Mesoamerican Meeting, March 2016.
2015
“There is no death! What seems so is transition”: Difficulties in identifying political boundaries between Lamanai and Ka’kabish (first author with Elizabeth Graham, Kerry L. Sagebiel, and Linda Howie). Paper presented at the 13th Annual Belize Anthropology and Archaeology Symposium, San Ignacio, Belize, 29 June - 3 July, 2015
Joshuah Lockett-Harris, Helen R. Haines, and Kerry. Place Making, Authority, and Ancestors: New Evidence of Developing Middle Formative Socio-Political Complexity from Ka’Kabish, Northern Belize. Presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, CA.
Kerry Sagebiel. Dragons through a Ceramic Lens: Evidence for a North-Central Belize Ceramic (Sub)-Sphere. Presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, CA.
Helen R. Haines, and Kerry Sagebiel. “A Mischief that is Past and Gone”: Situating Ka’Kabish in the Larger Ancient Maya Political Landscape. Presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, CA.
Toni Ann Gonzalez and Helen R. Haines. "Forth from this Dark and Lonely Hiding Place": Chultun Excavations at Ka'Kabish. Presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, CA.
2014
Haines, Helen R., and Kerry L. Sagebeil
In a Borrow’d Name: The Ka’Kabish, Lamanai, Altun Ha Connection? (first author with Kerry L. Sagebiel). Paper presented at the Mid-West Mesoamerican Meetings, DelKalb, IL. March 29, 2014.
Haines, Helen R., Kerry Sagebiel, and Cara Tremain. “Footprints on the sands of time”[1]: Constructing a history for the ancient Maya site of Ka’Kabish, Belize. Paper Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas.
Kerry Sagebiel and James J. Aimers. “Betwixt and Between: The Ceramics of Ka’Kabish, Belize.” Paper Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas.
Toni A. Gonzalez and Helen R. Haines. Bats, Bones, and Bells: Towards a Greater Understanding of Ancient Maya Chultun Use at Ka’Kabish, Belize. Paper Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas.
Cristina Verdugo, Toni Gonzalez and Helen Haines. An Analysis of Skeletal Material from Chultuns C-1 and B-2 at Ka’Kabish, Belize: A Reconsideration of the Mortuary Function of Chultuns. Paper Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas.
Kerry L. Sagebiel and Helen R. Haines. Never Ending, Still Beginning: A New Examination of the Ceramics of Ka’Kabish, Belize. Paper presented at the 14th Annual Belize Archaeology and Anthropology Symposium, San Ignacio, Belize, July 2-5, 2014.
2013
Helen R. Haines and K. Sagebiel. “Plant thou no roses at my head”: A discussion of the Middle Formative period buried deposits at Ka'Kabish, North-Central Belize. Paper presented at the Belize Archaeology Symposium, San Ignacio, Belize.
Toni A. Gonzalez and Helen R. Haines. Exploring the Ritual Function of Chultuns; a Taste From Ka’Kabish. Paper presented at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Honalulu, Hawaii. April 2013.
2012
Alec McLellan. Settlement Survey at the Ancient Maya Site of Ka’Kabish in Northern Belize. Paper presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, Tennessee. April 18-22, 2012.
Alec McLellan. Casting a Light in the Wilderness: The Ancient Maya site of Ka’Kabish, in Northern Belize. Paper presented at the Belize Archaeology Symposium, San Ignacio, Belize, June 25 – 29, 2012.
Helen R. Haines. “When We Two Parted”: Remaking the Ancient Maya Political Landscape of North-Central Belize. Paper at the 45th Annual Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Alberta, November 10th 2012.
Cara Tremain. Making use of a plundered past: archaeological investigations at looted sites in Belize. Paper at the 45th Annual Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Alberta, November 10th 2012.
Helen R. Haines. What does it mean to build?: Symbolic landscapes, construction and identity at Ka’Kabish. Paper presented at the 54 International Congress of Americanists, Vienna, Austria, July 15-20, 2012.
2011
Cara Tremain. Investigations in Looters’ Trenches: The Architectural Indicators of Change at Ka’Kabish, Northern Belize. Paper presented at the 44th Annual Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Alberta, November 2011.
Helen R. Haines and James J. Aimers. In the Beginning: Creating a Chronology for Ka’Kabish, Belize. Paper presented at the Belize Archaeology Symposium, San Ignacio, Belize, June 29 – July 1, 2011.
Helen R. Haines. Curiouser and Curiouser: A Glimpse into the Early History of Ka’Kabish. Paper presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, California. March 30-April 3, 2011.
James J. Aimers and Helen R. Haines. The Pottery of Ka'Kabish. Paper presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, California. March 30-April 3, 2011.
Cara G. Tremain. Utilization of Looters’ Trenches at Structures D4 and D9, Ka’Kabish, Northern Belize. Paper presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, California. March 30-April 3, 2011.
2010
Helen R. Haines. How the Other-Half Lived: Continuing discussions of the enigma that is Ka’Kabish. Paper presented at the Belize Archaeology Symposium, Belize City, June 30 – July 2, 2010.
2008
Helen R. Haines and Clifford Patterson. Suburbia, Maya Style?: Results of the Preliminary Investigations at Ka’Kabish and the Intermediary Settlement Zone in the Lamanai Periphery. Paper presented at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Helen R. Haines. Does Size Really Matter? A Reopening of the Discussion of Site Size and its Relation to Political Primacy. Paper presented in the session Power in the Maya Area and the Mesoamerican Southeast Periphery I, at the Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. November 7-10, 2008.
2007
Helen R. Haines. Causeway Terminus, Minor Centre, Elite Refuge, or Ritual Capital? Ka’Kabish, A New Puzzle on the Ancient Maya Landscape of North-Central Belize. Paper presented at the Belize Archaeology Symposium, Belize City, July 4-6, 2007.
[1] Longfellow “A Psalm of Life”
Sagebiel, Kerry L., Helen R. Haines. Posthumous Pots: Postclassic Ceramic Contexts and Chronology at Ka’kabish, Belize. Paper presented at the South-Central Mesoamerican Conference, 19-20 October 2018.
2017
Haines, H.R. and A. Shugar. Rings on her fingers, and Bells on her toes: Objects of Adornment from Chultun C-1, Ka’kabish, Belize. Paper presented at that Chacmool Conference, 8-12 November 2017. Session: Cross-cultural approaches to Mesoamerican costume and identity (Organized by Sharisse McCafferty.
Haines and Sagebiel “What’s in a Name?”: Questing the Idea of an Olmec Origin for Jade Spoons. Paper presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC.
Sagebiel and Haines. Ancestors, Agency, and Formation Processes: Interpreting Problematic “Smash and Trash Deposits” at Ka’kabish, Belize <. Paper presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC.
Sagebiel and Haines. Fools Make Feasts, and Wise Men Eat Them: Interpreting Problematical “Smash and Trash Deposits” at Ka’kabish, Belize. (second author with Kerry L. Sagebiel). Paper presented at the 15th Annual Belize Archaeology Symposium, San Ignacio, Belize, 27 June – 30 June, 2017.
2016
Kerry Sagebiel. “Exploring the Unnamed Era: Pre-Mamom Pottery in the Maya Lowlands of Yucatan, Peten, and Belize,” to be held April 8, 2016 at the Society for American Archaeology 81st Meeting, Orlando. Debra Walker, Chair.
Haines, Sagebiel, and C. Belanger. Is and Isn’t produce each other: An Unusual Architectural Amalgamation at Ka’kabish. Paper presented at the 14th Annual Belize Anthropology and Archaeology Symposium, San Ignacio, Belize, 27 June - 1 July, 2016.
Sagebiel, Kerry L., Helen R. Haines, and Joshuah Lockett-Harris. “Smash-and-Trash Deposits at Ka’Kabish, Belize: How Theoretical and Analytical Approaches Can Affect Interpretation. Paper presented at the Mid-West Mesoamerican Meeting, March 2016.
2015
“There is no death! What seems so is transition”: Difficulties in identifying political boundaries between Lamanai and Ka’kabish (first author with Elizabeth Graham, Kerry L. Sagebiel, and Linda Howie). Paper presented at the 13th Annual Belize Anthropology and Archaeology Symposium, San Ignacio, Belize, 29 June - 3 July, 2015
Joshuah Lockett-Harris, Helen R. Haines, and Kerry. Place Making, Authority, and Ancestors: New Evidence of Developing Middle Formative Socio-Political Complexity from Ka’Kabish, Northern Belize. Presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, CA.
Kerry Sagebiel. Dragons through a Ceramic Lens: Evidence for a North-Central Belize Ceramic (Sub)-Sphere. Presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, CA.
Helen R. Haines, and Kerry Sagebiel. “A Mischief that is Past and Gone”: Situating Ka’Kabish in the Larger Ancient Maya Political Landscape. Presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, CA.
Toni Ann Gonzalez and Helen R. Haines. "Forth from this Dark and Lonely Hiding Place": Chultun Excavations at Ka'Kabish. Presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, CA.
2014
Haines, Helen R., and Kerry L. Sagebeil
In a Borrow’d Name: The Ka’Kabish, Lamanai, Altun Ha Connection? (first author with Kerry L. Sagebiel). Paper presented at the Mid-West Mesoamerican Meetings, DelKalb, IL. March 29, 2014.
Haines, Helen R., Kerry Sagebiel, and Cara Tremain. “Footprints on the sands of time”[1]: Constructing a history for the ancient Maya site of Ka’Kabish, Belize. Paper Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas.
Kerry Sagebiel and James J. Aimers. “Betwixt and Between: The Ceramics of Ka’Kabish, Belize.” Paper Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas.
Toni A. Gonzalez and Helen R. Haines. Bats, Bones, and Bells: Towards a Greater Understanding of Ancient Maya Chultun Use at Ka’Kabish, Belize. Paper Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas.
Cristina Verdugo, Toni Gonzalez and Helen Haines. An Analysis of Skeletal Material from Chultuns C-1 and B-2 at Ka’Kabish, Belize: A Reconsideration of the Mortuary Function of Chultuns. Paper Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas.
Kerry L. Sagebiel and Helen R. Haines. Never Ending, Still Beginning: A New Examination of the Ceramics of Ka’Kabish, Belize. Paper presented at the 14th Annual Belize Archaeology and Anthropology Symposium, San Ignacio, Belize, July 2-5, 2014.
2013
Helen R. Haines and K. Sagebiel. “Plant thou no roses at my head”: A discussion of the Middle Formative period buried deposits at Ka'Kabish, North-Central Belize. Paper presented at the Belize Archaeology Symposium, San Ignacio, Belize.
Toni A. Gonzalez and Helen R. Haines. Exploring the Ritual Function of Chultuns; a Taste From Ka’Kabish. Paper presented at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Honalulu, Hawaii. April 2013.
2012
Alec McLellan. Settlement Survey at the Ancient Maya Site of Ka’Kabish in Northern Belize. Paper presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, Tennessee. April 18-22, 2012.
Alec McLellan. Casting a Light in the Wilderness: The Ancient Maya site of Ka’Kabish, in Northern Belize. Paper presented at the Belize Archaeology Symposium, San Ignacio, Belize, June 25 – 29, 2012.
Helen R. Haines. “When We Two Parted”: Remaking the Ancient Maya Political Landscape of North-Central Belize. Paper at the 45th Annual Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Alberta, November 10th 2012.
Cara Tremain. Making use of a plundered past: archaeological investigations at looted sites in Belize. Paper at the 45th Annual Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Alberta, November 10th 2012.
Helen R. Haines. What does it mean to build?: Symbolic landscapes, construction and identity at Ka’Kabish. Paper presented at the 54 International Congress of Americanists, Vienna, Austria, July 15-20, 2012.
2011
Cara Tremain. Investigations in Looters’ Trenches: The Architectural Indicators of Change at Ka’Kabish, Northern Belize. Paper presented at the 44th Annual Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Alberta, November 2011.
Helen R. Haines and James J. Aimers. In the Beginning: Creating a Chronology for Ka’Kabish, Belize. Paper presented at the Belize Archaeology Symposium, San Ignacio, Belize, June 29 – July 1, 2011.
Helen R. Haines. Curiouser and Curiouser: A Glimpse into the Early History of Ka’Kabish. Paper presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, California. March 30-April 3, 2011.
James J. Aimers and Helen R. Haines. The Pottery of Ka'Kabish. Paper presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, California. March 30-April 3, 2011.
Cara G. Tremain. Utilization of Looters’ Trenches at Structures D4 and D9, Ka’Kabish, Northern Belize. Paper presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, California. March 30-April 3, 2011.
2010
Helen R. Haines. How the Other-Half Lived: Continuing discussions of the enigma that is Ka’Kabish. Paper presented at the Belize Archaeology Symposium, Belize City, June 30 – July 2, 2010.
2008
Helen R. Haines and Clifford Patterson. Suburbia, Maya Style?: Results of the Preliminary Investigations at Ka’Kabish and the Intermediary Settlement Zone in the Lamanai Periphery. Paper presented at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Helen R. Haines. Does Size Really Matter? A Reopening of the Discussion of Site Size and its Relation to Political Primacy. Paper presented in the session Power in the Maya Area and the Mesoamerican Southeast Periphery I, at the Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. November 7-10, 2008.
2007
Helen R. Haines. Causeway Terminus, Minor Centre, Elite Refuge, or Ritual Capital? Ka’Kabish, A New Puzzle on the Ancient Maya Landscape of North-Central Belize. Paper presented at the Belize Archaeology Symposium, Belize City, July 4-6, 2007.
[1] Longfellow “A Psalm of Life”
Posters Presented at Conferences
Grant Smith, Jocelyn Williams, and Helen Haines
2019 Differential Diagnosis in Pathology: Postclassic Maya from Ka'kabish, Belize. Poster presented at the 47th annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Physical Anthropology, Banff, Alberta. (PDF)
2019 Differential Diagnosis in Pathology: Postclassic Maya from Ka'kabish, Belize. Poster presented at the 47th annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Physical Anthropology, Banff, Alberta. (PDF)
Formal Colloquia and Addresses
Helen R. Haines
*2013 Recent Research at Ka’Kabish, Orange Walk, Belize. Department of Behavioural Science, University of Michigan Dearborn, March 22, 2013.
*2012 Prestige, Power and Politics: The Life and Death of an Ancient Maya City. Evolution, Ecology, and Behaviour Seminar Series, Department of Biology, McMaster University. November 28, 2012.
*2012 Reconsidering Ideas about Early Maya Political Organisation. Distinguished Lecture Series, RoyalOntarioMuseum, Toronto, Ontario. January 21, 2012.
*2011 What Lies Beneath: Excavating an Ancient Maya Ruin in Belize, Central America. Trent Oshawa Research Day Symposium. April 12, 2011.
*2011 Hierarchy, Heterarchy, or Hegemony?: Reconsidering ideas about early Maya polity organisation. Anthropology Lecture Series, University of Toronto, St. George. February 4, 2011.
Others
*2010 Cara G. Tremain. A tale of two structures: an Archaeologist, nine weeks, and two looted ancient Maya pyramids. Thomas H.B. Symons Seminar Series, TrentUniversity, ON.
Helen R. Haines
*2013 Recent Research at Ka’Kabish, Orange Walk, Belize. Department of Behavioural Science, University of Michigan Dearborn, March 22, 2013.
*2012 Prestige, Power and Politics: The Life and Death of an Ancient Maya City. Evolution, Ecology, and Behaviour Seminar Series, Department of Biology, McMaster University. November 28, 2012.
*2012 Reconsidering Ideas about Early Maya Political Organisation. Distinguished Lecture Series, RoyalOntarioMuseum, Toronto, Ontario. January 21, 2012.
*2011 What Lies Beneath: Excavating an Ancient Maya Ruin in Belize, Central America. Trent Oshawa Research Day Symposium. April 12, 2011.
*2011 Hierarchy, Heterarchy, or Hegemony?: Reconsidering ideas about early Maya polity organisation. Anthropology Lecture Series, University of Toronto, St. George. February 4, 2011.
Others
*2010 Cara G. Tremain. A tale of two structures: an Archaeologist, nine weeks, and two looted ancient Maya pyramids. Thomas H.B. Symons Seminar Series, TrentUniversity, ON.
Informal Presentations
Haines, Helen R.
*2012 Recent research in Maya Archaeology at Ka'Kabish, Orange Walk District, Belize. New York Society Archaeology Society – Houghton Chapter. Buffalo Museum of Science, March 21, 2012.
*2011 Beneath the Trees: Excavation of a MayaCity, Belize, Central America. Explorers’ Club, Toronto Chapter. February 11, 2011.
2011 What Lies Beneath: Excavating an Ancient Maya Ruin in Belize, Central America. Trent Oshawa Research Day Symposium. April 12, 2011.
Others
*2012 Tremain, Cara G. Updates from the jungle: The 2012 Field Season at Ka'Kabish, Belize. Paper to be presented at the Noon Hour Lecture Series, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary. Alberta, November 28th 2012.
*2011 Tremain, Cara G. One Small Loot for Man, One Giant Loot for Mankind: Illegal Excavations in Ancient Maya Architecture. Noon Hour Lecture Series, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. October 26th 2011
*2012 Recent research in Maya Archaeology at Ka'Kabish, Orange Walk District, Belize. New York Society Archaeology Society – Houghton Chapter. Buffalo Museum of Science, March 21, 2012.
*2011 Beneath the Trees: Excavation of a MayaCity, Belize, Central America. Explorers’ Club, Toronto Chapter. February 11, 2011.
2011 What Lies Beneath: Excavating an Ancient Maya Ruin in Belize, Central America. Trent Oshawa Research Day Symposium. April 12, 2011.
Others
*2012 Tremain, Cara G. Updates from the jungle: The 2012 Field Season at Ka'Kabish, Belize. Paper to be presented at the Noon Hour Lecture Series, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary. Alberta, November 28th 2012.
*2011 Tremain, Cara G. One Small Loot for Man, One Giant Loot for Mankind: Illegal Excavations in Ancient Maya Architecture. Noon Hour Lecture Series, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. October 26th 2011