Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. (SWA) Southwestern Archaeology Special Interest Group (SASIG) " Got CALICHE ? " Newsletter Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of the Greater Southwest! Saturday March 02, 2002 ***************************************** ARIZONA http://www.startribune.com/stories/425/1707620.html When hotelier Fred Harvey, who peppered the Southwest with hotels, restaurants and gift shops, hired Colter to design buildings, he gave her nearly complete creative control. Hopi House is built out of yellow stone and adobe in the centuries-old style of the Hopi Indians. The three-story building, with external wooden ladders linking each level, was a combination workshop, church and dormitory, designed to show tourists an entire way of Indian life in an afternoon. From: Robert Haynes The bowl that Sky asked about looks much more like Laguna or possibly Isleta (from Laguna Colony there?) than Hopi. Made for the curio trade, most likely between 1880-1910? See Batkin 1987:191. Sold at Santa Fe RR stops (Albuquerque, Laguna Pueblo esp.) and in curio shops especially after the railroad got to the Santa Fe area in 1880. Whatever, it ain't Hopi. JJ Brody. SMITHSONIAN http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-smithsonian-science0301mar0 1.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dpolitics%2Dheadlines A special commission's final report is likely to be delayed until late fall. Studies from the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Public Administration are expected to be completed in August. The science panel wants to analyze them before completing its own report. The goal is to use all available data to produce a report that will show how to improve science at the Smithsonian, recruit top researchers and set benchmarks for measuring progress. CYBERIA http://wwics.si.edu/outreach/wq/WQSELECT/IGNOR.HTM The assumption of the Enlightenment was that ignorance is, always and everywhere, a curse. Knowledge could only contribute to happiness. There is, however, a countercurrent in the Western tradition: this current of thought portrays the human pursuit of knowledge, whether about the world or the self, as a curse under which we suffer and from which we should struggle to free ourselves. The deeper issue is not whether knowledge through science is possible (it is); the issue is whether that knowledge is good, and on this question serious minds have been divided since the very beginning of our civilization. http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/jones.html Why has so much heat been generated over sociobiology and evolutionary psychology? At stake in this intellectual battle is the mind of man: are we creatures whose mental life and manifest behaviour are largely influenced by the legacy bequeathed to us by evolution though natural selection, as other animals are, or are we somehow free of Darwinian influences, possibly as the result of a general-purpose big brain that allows us to act as we choose within the confines of a given cultural context? http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i25/25b01401.htm Random Insanity: Scientifically speaking, Letters of Recommendation are meaningless and should be disregarded. Soliciting and writing and reading of unpaid letters of recommendation is a scandalous failure of common sense. It is corrupt, dishonest, unscientific. The deans who depend on it should be ashamed of themselves. ***************************************** 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. We also request your timely news articles, organizational activities and events, technical and scientific writings, and opinion pieces, to be shared with our digital community. Free Subscription