Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. (SWA) " Got CALICHE ? " Newsletter Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of the Greater Southwest! Sunday April 20, 2003 ***************************************** TEXAS http://www.thc.state.tx.us/medallionmag/medallionPDFs/MD03-03.pdf The University of Texas at Austin (UT) hosts a symposium on Tejana history October 16–18, 2003. The event, held at UT’s Bass Lecture Hall, features three days of presentations and discussions, with scholars and students from around the country. Call 512.475.6973 for more information. http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net Texas Beyond History is a web site developed by archeologists and educators at TARL to provide information and images about the people and places that helped shape modernday Texas. Currently, there are 23 site exhibits, but others are in the works and will be added soon. The goal is to create 200 exhibits over the next five years. NEW MEXICO http://www.daily-times.com/Stories/0,1413,129%257E6574%257E1336626,00.html This year, New Mexico designated three new state Scenic Byways: Native Heritage Byway, in northern New Mexico; El Llano del Frontera, in northeastern New Mexico; and the High Road to Taos. The state's new push to explore the byways coincides with national "See America's Byways Day" on May 10. http://www.ruidosonews.com/Stories/0,1413,165%257E9426%257E1317814,00.html Pecos National Historic Park, May 10, under project leader Ruth Hartswick. The park, dedicated to the preservation of a prosperous pueblo abandoned in 1838, will offer a Saturday evening program. Trees less than two feet in height will be removed on the project to allow reestablishment of historical pastures and to reduce the danger of wildfire. For more information, call Hartswick at 505.294.3551 or . COLORADO From: Jim Igoe (via eanth-l) I am writing to inform you of our new Masters program in the department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado at Denver -- Sustainable Development and Political Ecology. This program seeks to connect critical theory to applied practice that is geared towards creating alternatives to mainstream development and conservation models -- emphasizing conservation with equity and respect for cultural diversity. We seek to provide our students with a balance of methodological nuts and bolts (with emphasis on participatory approaches) combined with theoretical rigor (with emphasis on theories of power and globalization). This program is relevant to students who wish to become applied anthropologists, as well as those who wish to go on to a PhD program. Interested parties are encouraged to visit or . http://durangoherald.com/asp-bin/article_generation.asp?article_typenews&article_path/news/news030419_1.htm Human bones, believed to be hundreds of years old, have been unearthed at Fort Lewis College. UTAH http://www.onlinepressroom.net/udced/StateHistory.asp Utah State Historical Society Issues Call for Papers: The Utah State Historical Society invites submission of paper proposals for its 2003 annual meeting, to be held in Salt Lake City on Friday, September 12, 2003. Proposals on any Utah-related topic will be considered. Send a one-or two-page proposal to Kent Powell, Utah State Historical Society, 300 Rio Grande, Salt Lake City, UT 84101, no later than April 30. Please include a brief description of the topic and research base as well as a brief biographical profile of the presenter. Proposals can also be e-mailed to . ARIZONA http://yumasun.com/artman/publish/articles/story_5024.shtml William Bradshaw found a better and shorter route from coastal California to La Paz in the late spring of 1862. Using information from an Indian, he followed a mountain pass east of Los Angeles and traveled down into the desert, crossed the low area where the Salton Sea is now located, and then came east to the Colorado River near La Paz. He built a ferry landing at the river six miles south of La Paz and began gathering tolls they charged to miners bound for the diggings. Bradshaw met death by suicide while drunk. It claimed he believed he was being chased by ghosts and went into a carpenter shop where he got a sharp knife. The paper reported "with one stroke (he) nearly severed his head from his shoulders." NEVADA http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/docs/dca/press/2003/04-08b.htm Award-winning Nevada historian and author Sally Zanjani will host a free public discussion and slide show featuring stories and photos from her new book, "The Glory Days in Goldfield, Nevada" at the Nevada State Museum on April 22. Zanjani’s new Goldfield book is an extensive photographic essay with more than 160 photographs, including photographs that have never been published. Her museum program features many of these rare photographs as she leads the viewer on a tour of the town from its early days as a mining camp, through its heyday as the largest city in Nevada, to its partial destruction and eventual decline. CALIFORNIA http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/22050/files/2003%20gov%20award%20brochure%20sample_.pdf http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/22050/files/2003%20GOV%20NOM%20FORM.pdf The Governor’s Historic Preservation Awards are presented annually under the sponsorship of the State Office of Historic Preservation (OHP) to organizations that demonstrate notable achievement in historic preservation. The purpose of the Governor's Historic Preservation Awards is to reward meaningful achievement in historic preservation and to increase public awareness, appreciation and support of historic preservation throughout the state. Nominations must be postmarked no later than April 30, 2003. CYBERIA http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53294-2003Apr18.html The National Park Service plans to turn over as many as 1,708 jobs to private companies by the end of fiscal 2004 in a process that could cost as much as $3 million, curtail workforce diversity and have "serious consequences" for visitor services, the agency's director said. The plan would affect a wide variety of park service jobs across the country, including those of archaeologists, museum curators, maintenance workers, architects, computer technicians, engineers, security guards and laborers. The National Park Service Police would not be affected. The draft does not indicate how soon privatizations and job competitions would begin. ***************************************** Contact the Newsletter Editor: archaeologist@rocketmail.com dogyears@dogyears.com www.swanet.org (url) 602.697.5754 (cellular) 602.372.8539 (digital fax) 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. Our electronic potlatch and digital totemic increase rites focus and multiply historic preservation activities in the Greater Southwest. 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