Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. (SWA)
Southwestern Archaeology Special Interest Group (SASIG) 

" Got CALICHE ? " Newsletter
Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of the Greater Southwest!

Wednesday December 26, 2001

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TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGY

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/12/25/dig.divide.thoughts.idg/index.html
[It is] our misconception that "knowledge workers" are only highly educated elites. In fact, local tacit knowledge and the information of everyday people are just as important.

HISTORIC PRESERVATION ?

http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/STORY.eb01096aac.b0.af.0.a4.534f.html
The "Littlest Skyscraper," was built in 1919 during the North Texas oil boom. Mr. Groves, who has restored two other buildings in the Depot Square Historic District, hopes to create a novel venue. The historic integrity of the buildings will be maintained.

http://www.myinky.com/ecp/national_business/article/0,1626,ECP_753_919921,00.html
Malls are being razed and reborn. At The Crossings, front porch steps, narrow streets and designs harken back to small towns before World War II.

http://www.modbee.com/local/story/1373719p-1443146c.html
It was a common saying that Henry Miller could "travel from the Idaho line to the Mexican border and camp on his own land every night." His house is now a restaurant.

http://www.examiner.com/opinion/default.jsp?story=OPsundayforum.1223w
A 95-year-old Victorian in North Beach named the San Remo is the focus of a nationally watched legal dispute before the California Supreme Court, a case that asks whether a few small property owners should be singled out to bear the cost of social problems.

SMOKE 'EM IF YOU GOT 'EM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22655-2001Dec24.html
The Forest Service began developing a smoke jumper unit in 1939. On July 12, 1940, Rufus Robinson and Earl Cooley jumped into history by parachuting to a fire on Martin Creek on Idaho's Nez Percé Forest. During WWII, Conscientious Objectors served as volunteer smoke jumpers <http://www.historicmontana.com/HMPcoming.htm>.

COLLECTORS

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/breaking/1225nativityset25.html
Robert and Sally Trotter have collected 150 nativity sets from around the globe. "What we get hooked on is the way the same thing is expressed differently in every culture," said Robert, a professor of anthropology at Northern Arizona University.

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