Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. (SWA) Southwestern Archaeology Special Interest Group (SASIG) "Got CALICHE?" Newsletter Free Subscription @ Sunday June 18, 2000 ****************************************** MEXICO http://www.nandotimes.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500217676-500309385-501692815-0,00.html Mixteco farmers used to bury gifts of cigarettes, sweets and an agave-based brew called "pulque" in their cornfields. The age-old tradition has died out. Anthropologist Michael Kearney has seen the young leave. "They either have to migrate or starve," he said. The states with the greatest land degradation also have the highest rates of migration. CALIFORNIA http://www.ocregister.com/community/hotel00618cci.shtml A restored stage stop once housed overnight guests riding the Butterfield Stage Lines between Los Angeles and Orange County. http://www.sacbee.com:80/news/news/local12_20000617.html The Heritage Foundation of Loomis will raise money for the restoration of the city's historic fruit sheds. http://www7.mercurycenter.com:80/premium/local/docs/radiation17.htm An Air Force nuclear reactor could potentially be used as a research tool in archaeology, anthropology, and other disciplines. ARIZONA http://www.azcentral.com:80/news/0618tribe.shtml Tribal leaders trace the problem dating back 147 years to the Gadsden Purchase, when the United States bought 30,000 square miles of land from Mexico. That purchase did not account for the needs of indigenous residents. http://www.bestfares.com:80/travel_center/desks/public/200006/10080720L.asp On the Defiance Plateau in Arizona, an octagonal log hogan sleeps five, and comes with a pot-bellied stove, campfire storytelling, ancestral crafts, blue cornbread with eggs and bacon, and Anasazi cave dwellings. COLORADO http://vh60009.vh6.infi.net:80/living/docs/center061800.htm Crow Canyon Archaeological Center offers an exploration of the petroglyphs and pictographs of rock art sites. The Center also offers a dig site, Shields Pueblo, repeatedly occupied between A.D. 700 and 1250. http://insidedenver.com:80/news/0618cham8.shtml We have 100 years of history that people can go up and touch. A Colorado Historical Society preservation fund kicked in about $200,000 to help restore the exterior of the buildings. http://insidedenver.com/news/0618pike8.shtml Architect Lonn Frye's Chicago-based firm has restored at least 25 Carnegie-endowed libraries around the nation. The Pikes Peak Library District has raised $1.3 million, $800,000 of that from the Colorado Historical Society's preservation fund. NEW MEXICO http://www.zianet.com/snm/skeleton.htm Caņon Bonita was named Skeleton Canyon after an 1882 ambush left fifteen Mexicans dead. For years thereafter, their bones provided grisly souvenirs. The trail had been one of several favored trails of the Apaches in their migrations to and from Mexico's Sierra Madre Mountains. CYBERIA http://www.binghamtonpress.com:80/binghamtonnews/local/Sunews6.html Remains were found by archaeologists from Binghamton University. The 2,000-year-old American Indian remains were reburied in a public ceremony which concluded with a "death feast." A serving of the food eaten at the feast was returned to the burial site and placed in the grave before it was completely covered. http://www.apbnews.com:80/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/06/16/artcrime_antiquities0616_01.html According to archaeologist Christopher Ratte, what is on sale is almost all stolen recently. There is a deep division between museums and archaeologists, with the former worried about wholesale seizure of long-held collections and the latter hoping for a precedent to hasten the return of illegally excavated antiquities. ****************************************** SWA invites you to redistribute SWA's "Got CALICHE?" newsletter. Thanks for reading! Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. . Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of the Greater Southwest. Editor: Brian W. Kenny SWA Address: P.O. Box 61203 Phoenix AZ USA 85082-1203 E-mail: FAX : 603.457.7957