Coffee, Clever T-Shirts, and Papers in Honor of John S. Justeson

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Coffee, Clever T-Shirts, and Papers in Honor of John S. Justeson" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This is a symposium in honor of John Justeson’s career as a friend, scholar, teacher, and mentor. John has published extensively on the history and structure of Mesoamerican art and writing traditions, including Olmec, Epi-Olmec, Mayan, and Zapotec, as well as the calendrical and astronomical reckoning systems. Together with Terrence Kaufman he codirected a major project on the linguistic documentation of the languages of Mesoamerica leading to many PhD dissertations, grammars, and dictionaries. Topics for the symposium will include ways of understanding how information is processed and organized in spoken and written languages as well as material culture, especially in Mesoamerica, but also the Near East, the Mediterranean, and India/Pakistan.