Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. (SWA) " Got CALICHE ? " Newsletter Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of the Greater Southwest! Monday June 16, 2003 ***************************************** NEW MEXICO http://www.alamogordonews.com/Stories/0,1413,160%257E9602%257E1457414,00.html One of todays archeological concerns involves the storage of artifacts and items revealed from research such as this, Eidenbach said. The cost of keeping things stored forever is rising and space is diminishing. Museums spend from $400-500 a cubic foot per year for climate controlled storage space for artifacts. http://www.abqtrib.com/archives/news03/061403_news_roadside.shtml Open skies, silence and pocked basalt boulders scratched with cryptic images make more than a park for some visitors to the Petroglyph National Monument - it's a church. If Albuquerque City Council acts on Monday to approve a capital spending proposal, it will be a church with a four-lane highway running through it. ARIZONA http://www.sweatmagazine.com/story.cfm?story_id=5100&departmentid=20 Charles and Robert Bronson ran an ice delivery business, providing ice from the mountain to Globe residents since the turn of the 20th century. Ice House Canyon was named after the old family business. http://www.dailystar.com/star/today/30615WWNEIGHBORHOODS2fekw.html By the end of the decade, about 65,000 homes - around 17 percent of Pima County's approximately 375,000 houses - will hit or pass the half-century mark by city estimates. Tucson is studying the idea of "conservation districts" that would guide renovation and construction projects. Conservation districts would be less stringent than the local historic districts. UTAH http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Jun/06152003/sunday/65774.asp Utah's small towns are filled with historical museums celebrating their founding. http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Jun/06152003/commenta/66018.asp Who are the people behind the growing preservation movement? They fall into four main categories: purists, preservation entrepreneurs, local preservationists, the passive preservatioists. The next generation values historic architecture more than the present one does. We should save old buildings not just because they serve current needs, but because they have historic and cultural value that transcend the present. Preservationists are in for the long haul. ***************************************** 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. SWA's newsletters are "txt" format only, contain no attachments, and are virus free. Newsletter archives and free subscription . For information archived on SWA's server, visit . Thanks for reading today's edition! Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. (SWA) - A 501(c)(3) customer-centric corporation dedicated to the ethnographic study of the scientific practices of the American Southwest and the Mexican Northwest. Our goal is to create and promote diverse micro-environments and open systems in which archaeologists can develop their talents and take the risks from which innovation and productivity arise.