Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. (SWA) Southwestern Archaeology Special Interest Group (SASIG) " Got CALICHE ? " Newsletter Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of the Greater Southwest! Friday January 18, 2002 ***************************************** GREATER SOUTHWEST http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/17/arts/17MEXI.html?pagewanted=all Don Juan de Oñate is said to have once cut off the right feet of Indians [at Acoma]. A monument, set to be completed by the end of this year and dedicated in 2003 in El Paso, is controversial. There are always two sides to history. Indian people throughout Texas and New Mexico revile Oñate. Last year residents of New Mexico were mired in a debate over whether to erect a statue of an Indian leader named Popé in Statuary Hall in the Capitol in Washington. Historians say that in 1680, Popé negotiated treaties among several Indian tribes and led a massacre of some 500 Spanish settlers that temporarily ended the colonizing of New Mexico. [The statue has since won approval]. NEW MEXICO http://www.gallupindependent.com/todaysnews.html The restoration of San Esteban del Rey church and convent at Acoma "Sky City" was one of 55 projects to be chosen among 368 applicants for designation as a Save America's Treasures Project and receiver of grant moneys for 2002. The mission is being restored by the tribe with help of Cornerstones Community Partnerships using traditional methods and local workers. Acoma is considered to be the oldest continuously inhabited site in the United States. ARIZONA http://www.azstarnet.com/star/today/20117highlight.html William Doelle, president of Desert Archeology Inc. and Center for Desert Archeology, discussed the history of Tucson at the Pathfinder brown-bag meeting at Arizona Historical Society. From: Darlene Lizarraga Saturday, February 9 TRADING POSTS AND INDIAN TRADE BLANKETS: BENEFIT TRUNK SHOW AND LECTURE with JIM BABBITT: Traders and trading families have histories and traditions that are as much a part of Arizona's history as the goods and native cultures they have represented for more than a century. One such century-old trading dynasty is the Babbitt family of northern Arizona. Jim Babbitt still owns and operates Babbitt's Backcountry Outfitters in Flagstaff, which specializes in the sale of Indian trade blankets. Mr. Babbitt will share his insight in an informal slide presentation, as well as show and sell a vast array of trade blankets by Pendleton and Ramona Sakiestewa. Lecture at 10 a.m., show and sale 10-4. Free and open to the public. Arizona State Museum is located just east of the Main Gate at Park Avenue and University Boulevard on the UA campus in Tucson. 520.621.6302 http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?brd=1817&pag=460&dept_ID=222071 Archaeologists from Statistical Research Inc., discovered what may be an ancient Hohokam irrigation canal near the southwestern boundary of the Casa Grande Ruins last week. http://www.sonorannews.com/sonorannews/myarticles.asp?P=477280&S=374&PubID=8412&EC=0 [Editor's Note: Spur Cross Ranch - check out petroglyphs in photo]. http://www.communitypapers.com/dailycourier/myarticles.asp?P=535544&S=400&PubID=8118&EC=0 By a unanimous vote, the council approved an agreement between a number of parties: the city, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office, the Arizona State Museum, Prescott City Centre Limited Partnership, the Prescott Historical Society, and the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Horizon. The agreement sets out the terms of at least a month of archaeological digging that must take place before the city and its partners, M3 Companies, can begin building the downtown parking garage at the planned South Granite Street site. The work will cost about $132,000, of which the local Sharlot Hall Museum will cover about $11,000 by serving as curator for the artifacts. The city will pay about $80,000 of the remaining cost, while M3 will pay about $40,000. http://www.communitypapers.com/dailycourier/myarticles.asp?P=535543&S=400&PubID=8118&EC=0 The City Council took a step toward the work this week, when it approved a memorandum of agreement with the National Park Service, the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office, the Arizona State Parks, the Arizona State Museum, and the Yavapai Prescott Indian Tribe for data recovery at Willow and Watson lakes. Now the agreement goes to the other parties for their approval. http://www.communitypapers.com/dailycourier/myarticles.asp?S=400&P=535501&PubID=8118&EC=0 Dr. Robert Clark Euler, 77, of Prescott died Jan. 13, 2002, at the Yavapai Regional Medical Center. Dr. Euler was born Aug. 8, 1924, in Brooklyn, New York, to William and Viola (Clark) Euler. Dr. Euler served as a Captain in the United States Marine Corps during WWII and the Korean War. He continued his military service from 1950 through 1952 as a U.S. Marine Corps reservist. Dr. Euler received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in Economics from Northern Arizona University. He continued his education at the University of New Mexico where he received his Ph.D. in Anthropology. Dr. Euler's career encompassed research, teaching and consulting. He was the chairman of the Anthropology Department at both Northern Arizona University and the University of Utah. Dr. Euler also taught at Arizona State University, Prescott College and at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo. Dr. Euler had published more than 150 publications. Dr. Euler presented his research papers to the Society for American Anthropology, Society for Applied Anthropology, the American Anthropological Association, and the International Congress of Americanists and internationally at the International Conference on Climate and History at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. He was a Research Anthropologist for the Grand Canyon National Park. Dr. Euler was the Tribal Anthropologist for the Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe. He enjoyed photography, camping and numerous Colorado River boat trips. Dr. Euler is survived by his wife, Gloria of Prescott; daughters Catherine Anne Euler of Otley, England, Dorothy Harkey of Flagstaff; sons, William Euler of Flagstaff, Thomas Euler of Austin, Texas; three stepdaughters, Patricia Gagnon, Michele Gagnon, Sherry Gagnon of Prescott; stepson, Daniel Gagnon; three grandchildren, seven step-grandchildren and four step-great-grandchildren. A memorial service will be held Sunday, Jan. 20, at 1 p.m. at the American Lutheran Church, 1085 Scott Dr., Prescott. A reception will follow the service at the church. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions to the Prescott Chapter of the American Archaeological Society, P.O. Box 1098, Prescott, AZ 86302. The Hampton Funeral Home cared for the family's arrangements. http://www.grandcanyontourguide.com/grandcanyontourguide/myarticles.asp?P=535317&S=388&PubID=8114&EC=0 Rrancher Durward Glen Reed has avidly tackled the pinyon/juniper invasion so prevalent on land in the Southwest. His mode of attack has been a hydraulic agra-axe attached to a skid-steer. Because it is so light on the land, Webber said using the agra-axe eliminated the need for 100 percent archaeological surveys in low site density areas, which adds to its cost effectiveness. CALIFORNIA http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EthnoHistory/message/176 Hearst Museum Director (Academic Administrator): With one of the finest archaeology and ethnology collections in the nation, the museum has an annual operating budget of $2.8 million, a staff of 28, and the physical plant has 88,235 square feet of space. The director will provide executive leadership for all aspects of the museum's fund raising goals and board development, university research and education programs, curatorial program, outreach and public programs, and administrative operations. http://www.ocregister.com/local/fountain00117cci2.shtml Orange on Saturday celebrates the completion of a $2 million renovation of its historic heart. The renovation is a major success. "I'm totally jazzed," said Adrienne Gladson, past president of the Orange Community Historical Society. http://www.nctimes.net/news/2002/20020103/84809.html MiraCosta Costa has introduced new offerings in archaeology and also continues a Spanish-language immersion program in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, that Palomar suspended after Sept. 11. TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGY From: Teresa Paglione Mining artifacts: I found some "hand steel" in a tunnel in Hawai'i that was hand dug about 1900-1910 and wondered if anybody could help me get some background information on these tools. I know they were used to dig the hole where the sticks of dynamites were to be placed. Another instrument which looked like a large dental tool with a spoon like attachment at one end and a twisted point at the other was used to clean the hole so when the dynamite was "pounded" in, it would not accidently blow. Would like to know what the second instrument was called. As well as references. If anyone has information, please reply to . Thanks! From: alshal@aol.com (via nmac-l) From: Leslie Overstreet The Smithsonian Center for Materials Research & Education issued a report on the effects of irradiation on a variety of materials http:/www.si.edu/scmre/mail_irradiation.html. Leslie K. Overstreet, Curator of Natural-History Rare Books, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, NHB 51/MRC 154, Washington DC 20560-0154; 202.357.3161 http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12212 Amour Online was intended to provide an anthropology of online dating sites. It was to be a Darwinian project of classifications, dividing the hundreds of sites that have sprung up into a kind of flora and fauna of online personals. And that's what's fascinating about online dating. It reflects the human propensity for classification. ANTHROPOLOGISTS http://home.worldonline.dk/~nbc/arcus.html This paper reports on Inuit Internet users in the Arctic regions of Canada, Alaska and Greenland, as they themselves are shaping the use of information technology. Modern technology and traditional knowledge are not inconsistent. Some anthropologists have come to realise that the sealed and confined space they went searching for does not exist - that the world as a whole is as big at home as abroad, and cyberspace is a social construction. CYBERIA http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/neanderthals/ In 1856, bones of an unrecognizable hominid turned up in Germany's Neander Valley. Despite a century and a half of study and debate, Neanderthals remain an enigma. "Neanderthals on Trial" is scheduled for broadcast January 22. EDITOR'S NOTE "Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. 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