Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. (SWA) Southwestern Archaeology Special Interest Group (SASIG) " Got CALICHE ? " Newsletter Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of the Greater Southwest! Tuesday April 16, 2002 ***************************************** MEXICO http://www.thenewsmexico.com/noticia.asp?id=23286 A splendidly illustrated book compiles the works of anthropologists, graphic designers, archaeologists and historians, taking the reader on a journey through the past, present and future of Mexico. ARIZONA http://www.yumasun.com/artman/publish/story_1019.shtml The city will be rolling out plans for the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area in the coming weeks, and the public is urged to comment and hopefully give its blessing. See yumaheritage.com. Congress designated Yuma Crossing as a National Heritage Area in October 2000 because of its historical significance in settlement of the West. http://www.abqjournal.com/venue/travel/654409travel04-14-02.htm For 700 years, twin cliff dwellings have looked down on the ebb and flow of life in central Arizona's Tonto Basin. From about A.D. 1300 to 1450, a small group of prehistoric people lived in the now weathered cliff dwellings of stone and mud mortar. Archaeologists call them the Salado. NEW JOB OPPORTUNITIES (AZ,NM) http://www.swanet.org/zarchives/jobs/jobs2002/lmas041502.pdf http://www.swanet.org/zarchives/jobs/jobs2002/kal041502.pdf http://www.swanet.org/jobs.html Current Opportunities COLORADO http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/arts/article/0,1299,DRMN_55_1084516,00.html The $4.2 million project had proceded to the point where the Colorado historical Society was prepared to go out for bids for construction, but it had not spent the 25 percent of budget that could have saved it from the knife. UTAH http://www.sltrib.com/04152002/utah/728515.htm Without any road signs, brochures, advertising or official maps, the collection of a thousand-and-counting dinosaur footprints has drawn more than 300,000 visitors from 74 countries. http://www.thespectrum.com/news/stories/20020415/localnews/137951.html Because science is so important in our lives, The Spectrum and Daily News will now offer weekly columns on various scientific disciplines, including archaeology, astronomy and geology. NEVADA http://www.nevadaappeal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=NA&Date=20020415&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=204150103&Ref=AR State Historic Preservation Officer Ron James said he is working to develop an exhibit on saloon archaeology. The exhibit will be based on four archaeological digs of former saloon sites in Virginia City. James will give a lecture on the digs April 23 as part of the Nevada State Museum's Frances Humphrey Lecture Series. CALIFORNIA http://www.uniontrib.com/news/uniontrib/sun/news/news_0n14pechanga.html Gary DuBois, cultural resources director for the Pechangas, has been talking about a museum, roughly midway between Los Angeles and San Diego, that would borrow thousands of artifacts from the Southwest Museum, an underfunded but widely respected institution founded by Los Angeles collectors in the early 20th century. TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGY http://members.aol.com/nonverbal2/diction1.htm http://members.aol.com/nonverbal2/bigmac.htm Got Stratigraphy? This site teaches stratigraphic principles and identifies the pickle horizon of the Big Mac, a mass-produced beef sandwich whose stratified layers mark an incredibly long prehistory. CYBERIA http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20020406/562548.html&qs=jeet There has been a massive expansion in the last two decades of museums focusing on items taken from everyday life, such as cutlery, clothing, furniture as well as folk and popular art. To fill the ever greater demands for antiques and bygones, cultural institutions have had to turn to once-despised collectors, whose personal idiosyncrasy now benefit society at large. http://wwics.si.edu/outreach/wq/WQSELECT/CANTOR.HTM John Fordīs The Searchers is positively Aeschylean in the way it uses the theme of revenge to explore the complex and ever shifting boundary between civilization and barbarism. Getting students to "read" popular cultural critically may well become our task as teachers in an age increasingly dominated by the mass media. The process of beginning with popular culture and attempting to ascend from it to higher levels of reflection has a name: the Socratic method. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48202-2002Apr14.html "Underlying the 'noble savage' myth," Stanish said, "is a political agenda by both the far right and far left. The right tries to turn the 'savages' into our little brown brothers, who need to be pulled up. On the left, they have another agenda, that the Western world is bad." http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/14/books/review/14HOLTLT.html?pagewanted=print&position=bottom The evidence for Darwinism looks awfully strong. The core thesis that all living things have a common ancestry, long supported by the pattern of structural similarities among them and by the fossil record, has received stunning new confirmation from molecular genetics. Despite the ingenuity of the neo-creos, the Not Darwinism part of their strategy is pretty clearly a failure. ***************************************** Contact the Newsletter Editor: swa@dogyears.com (e-mail) www.swanet.org (url) 602.882.8025 (cell phone) 603.457.7957 (digital fax) 775.269.0943 (digital fax) Post letter mail and other media to: Southwestern Archaeology, Inc., P.O. Box 61203 Phoenix AZ, USA 85082-1203. SWA invites you to redistribute SWA's "Got CALICHE?" Newsletter. 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