Southwestern Archaeology Special Interest Group (SASIG) "Got CALICHE?" newsletter Sign up @ Sunday May 7, 2000 ****************************************** NEVADA http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2000/may/06/050600207.html The Nystrom House provided the six-week residency needed to obtain a divorce in Nevada in the early 1900s. Folklore describes tales of newly divorced women throwing their wedding rings into the Truckee River. The house is now on the National Register of Historic Places, recognized for its role in making the "quickie divorce." ARIZONA http://detnews.com:80/2000/nation/0005/03/a02-47962.htm Volunteers in an Elder Hostel program have documented about 2,000 Basque tree carvings ranging from self portraits to nude women. From: Scott M. Kwiatkowski Arizona Archaeological Council members are invited to submit contributions for the summer issue of the AAC Newsletter. Information on current or upcoming events, research, letters to the editor, employment opportunities, recent publications, and items of general interest to Arizona's professional archaeological community are all welcome. The deadline for submissions is Monday May 15, 2000. From: Allen Dart Old Pueblo Archaeology Center has opportunities for volunteers to help clean, label, and catalog archaeological artifacts recovered from sites on Fort Huachuca, near Sierra Vista, Arizona. The collections include prehistoric artifacts from Pre-Columbian Native American sites as well as objects recovered from historical sites. Most of the artifacts being processed are from an ancient Indian village that was occupied from about A.D. 600 to 1300. The historical materials are from archaeological sites used after the Army post was established in 1877 to block raiding Chiricahua Apaches from escaping into Mexico and to protect the increasing number of settlers in Arizona. The artifact processing activity is sponsored by the U.S. Army at Fort Huachuca under a contract issued to Old Pueblo through Tucson's Engineering and Environmental Consultants, Inc. The artifact work is being done at the Fort Huachuca Archeological Laboratory and Curation Facility from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, May 18, and from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Friday, May 19, and will continue every Thursday and Friday, except holidays, through June. To get to the laboratory from Sierra Vista, enter Fort Huachuca through the main gate, turn right on Brainard Road, then turn right again onto Machol Avenue and follow the signs to the lab. The activity is free and open to the public. For information and reservations call Old Pueblo Archaeology Center at (520) 798-1201 and ask for Darla Pettit. NEW MEXICO http://www.abqjournal.com/news/23817news05-07-00.htm The state historic preservation office is interested in saving Salazar school, designed by architect John Gaw Meem. By mid-July, state Historic Preservation officer Elmo Baca may nominate Salazar and six other schools to the state Register of Historic Places. http://www.sfnewmexican.com/localnews/index.las Donna Piatt does not care who John Gaw Meem was. Montaņo is encouraging the school board to do the research to give historic status to the remaining schools. The debate is whether the community can preserve the historical integrity of the schools and still give Santa Fe students what they need. To be deemed a historic site on the state register, a building must be at least 50 years old, and meet at least one of these requirements: have significance to the community as a whole; have some association with a significant person; have significant design characteristics; and have some archaeological significance. COLORADO http://insidedenver.com:80/news/0507grav8.shtml Pioneer and American Indian grave sites are protected by state law. They're being found more often in now-booming rural counties, said state archaeologist Dr. Susan Collins. CYBERIA http://www.oklahoman.com/cgi-bin/shart?ID=485065&TP=getarticle Jesse James's mother charged visitors 25 cents to see her son's grave, and another 25 cents for one of the pebbles covering the tomb. In July 1995, a forensics team exhumed the body buried in Jesse James' grave to determine its identity. And 611 miles away in Granbury, Texas, another grave awaits the experts' scrutiny, waiting again to put the legend, and the man, to rest. http://www.oregonlive.com:80/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/news/oregonian/00/05/nw_41pomp03.frame An overgrown grave site is to be cleared of sagebrush, and a turnout for tourists cut along the side of a gravel road. The resting place of Jean Baptiste Charbonneau has fallen into disrepair since being named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. http://www.bergen.com/morenews/remains7200005077.htm Archaeologists have found the headless remains of a Spanish conquistador in the ruins of an old city. Hernandez de Cordoba joined in the conquest of Mexico and founded cities under Spanish rule in 1524. Pedrarias Davila had him decapitated for treason two years later. http://www.nandotimes.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500201313-500278067-501450683-0,00.html In "Skull Wars," Thomas places Kennewick Man in that troubled context of Indian-anthropologist relations. http://insidedenver.com:80/news/0507bould.shtml The National Trust for Historic Preservation selected 12 cities that have an ability to maintain well-managed growth, dynamic downtown areas, commitments to historic preservation and economic bases of locally owned businesses. http://www.oregonlive.com:80/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/news/oregonian/00/05/nw_51klal04.frame Young people once again are speaking the language of the Klallam Tribe -- lost until an alphabet was created in the 1990s -- now that the nearly defunct language has been recorded and preserved as part of the Heritage Language program. http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/today/news_93417f83249d91d00073.html The last native speaker of the Catawba Indian language, praised as a preservationist, was not Catawba a Smithsonian linguist says. 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