Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. (SWA) " Got CALICHE ? " Newsletter Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of the Greater Southwest! Saturday September 28, 2002 Reply to Reply to ***************************************** TEXAS http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/092302/new_wagon.shtml Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument will celebrate Texas Archaeology Awareness Month by holding special tours of the pueblo-style ruins and petroglyphs site at the monument. The programs will be held at 2pm Oct 5 and 12. The tour only happens during Texas Archaeology Awareness Month and reservations are required, as each tour is limited to 25 participants. http://www.asurampage.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/09/26/3d9381ed7dac5 The treasures of the E.H. Danner Museum of Telephony in San Angelo will be accessible from all over the world after the Angelo State University debut of a website that offers a history of the telephone and provides a "virtual" look at the museum's artifacts, including one of Thomas Edison's first telephones. COLORADO http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20020924wo71.htm The people who built Cliff Palace, and thousands of other smaller cliff dwellings in the Four Corners Region of the southwestern United States, are known to historians as the Anasazi. For more than 400 years, these people built their stone settlements, called pueblos, on the flat mesa tops. Then suddenly, in the late 12th century, they abandoned these villages and began constructing new dwellings. Historians are not sure why the Anasazi went to so much trouble to build in such inconvenient places. UTAH http://www.sltrib.com/09272002/utah/1782.htm The U.S. House on Thursday approved a package of bills that includes funding for a new Utah Museum of Natural History on the University of Utah campus. The museum will display more than 1 million artifacts and specimens that preserve Utah's archaeology, paleontology, biology and geology. NEW JOB OPPORTUNITIES (CO,AZ) http://www.swanet.org/zarchives/jobs/jobs2002/ucb092702.pdf http://www.swanet.org/zarchives/jobs/jobs2002/epa092702.pdf http://www.swanet.org/zarchives/jobs/jobs2002/ars092702.pdf http://www.swanet.org/jobs.html Current Opportunities ARIZONA http://www.azstarnet.com/star/today/20927Sabinopreserved100yrs.html Sabino Canyon endures as a desert oasis. The earliest actual evidence found at Sabino is a single Plainview spear point that dates to about 7500 B.C., said Allen Dart, executive director of the Old Pueblo Archaeology Center. http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0927/p13s01-alar.html Ansel Adams took shots at the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, and other locations in northeastern New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, and Colorado on a two-week camping trip that began Sept. 27, 1937, exactly 65 years ago today. The Center for Creative Photography, which Adams founded at the University of Arizona, is believed to have contact sheets and negatives for most of the images in the show. http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=5333044&BRD=1817&PAG=461&dept_id=222071&rfi=6 There is an approximate 14-acre location that is probably a portion of the Grewe Site. This section will not be developed, and may possibly be donated to the Archeological Conservancy. Winters notes that there have been archeological pressures put on him and other developers that "were not reasonable, nor even ethical." In "some cases" private and public archeologists have demanded large fees to dig a site that did not have to be dug and explored. CALIFORNIA From Grace Johnson Aficionados of exotic art and textiles who don't have time or budget to trot the globe will find an intriguing alternative at the San Diego Museum of Man's 8th Annual Collectors Club Auction, Saturday, October 19, 2002. This year's event features an array of rare and exotic works from around the world. The auction is organized each year to raise funds to purchase and curate objects. The $5 Donation for the entry fee includes a catalog and bidding number. Please call the Museum at 619.239.2001 for information. ARCHAEOLOGISTS http://www.aaanet.org/press/an/index.htm McGimsey argues that an effective Register of Professional Archaeologists can "help assure adequate field training; facilitate the movement of personnel among teaching, research, management and outreach; and in concert with the AAA and other societies, it can work toward assuring adequate and appropriate funding, and encourage improved communication among all practioners." http://members.aaanet.org/an/0210/dia-comm.cfm "Do we wish the archaeological resources remaining to us, and upon which we all depend, to be investigated and defended by a true profession of registered archaeologists with common goals and standards and an established means for oversight, or do we truly and honestly believe that as much or more can be achieved by an unorganized aggregate of individuals (of widely diverse capability) who are not held to any consistent standards by anyone?" KENNEWICK MAN http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news/1033127754314152.xml Four Northwest tribes say they want the right to appeal a federal judge's decision that allows scientists to study the ancient skeleton called Kennewick Man. TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGY http://members.aaanet.org/an/0210/ke-iip.cfm Innovations in Photography: This is the first of seven monthly articles that will cover innovations in photography for the most important equipment areas, including: camera bodies, lenses, film, film scanners, digital cameras, digital printing techniques and image-processing software. If you have a question about innovations in photography or photography equipment that you'd like Eugene F Lally to answer, see www.lallyphotography.com. http://www.sciencenews.org/20020921/bob8.asp Alex Wiedenhoeft has spent the past 7 years answering the same question about 10,000 times. "What kind of wood is this?" To identify wood, Wiedenhoeft says he can deal with samples as small as half the size of a kitchen match. Alex Wiedenhoeft, Center for Wood Anatomy Research, Forest Products Laboratory, One Gifford Pinchot Drive, Madison WI 53705-2398. ***************************************** Contact the Newsletter Editor: archaeologist@rocketmail.com dogyears@dogyears.com www.swanet.org (url) 602.882.8025 (cell phone) 603.457.7957 (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. SWA's daily newsletter deals with quotidian issues of anthropology and archaeology -- cultural survival, time and space, material culture, social organization, and commerce, to name just a few. 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