Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. (SWA) " Got CALICHE ? " Newsletter Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of the Greater Southwest! Saturday February 7, 2004 ***************************************** NEW MEXICO http://cnjonline.com/engine.pl?station=clovis&template=storyfull.html&id=4279 Today marks the 75th year since a local amateur archaeologist discovered Clovis Man at Blackwater Draw, about six miles north of Portales and 14 miles southwest of Clovis. Researchers believe Clovis Man may have been North America’s oldest occupant; Clovis people lived between 11,500 and 13,000 years ago. http://cnjonline.com/engine.pl?station=clovis&template=storyfull.html&id=4278 Ridgley Whiteman, a teenager who regularly explored the site in search of those who came before him, is credited with discovery of Clovis Man. In 1929, Whiteman sent three letters, accompanied by a sample of mammoth bone and an arrow point, to the Smithsonian Institution. http://www.mountainviewtelegraph.com/141318mtnview02-05-04.htm The Friends of Tijeras Pueblo are fundraising for the new education center under construction at the Tijeras Pueblo Archaeological Site. From: Neal Ackerly http://www.nmheritage.org/endangered/2004.htm THE 2004 LIST OF NEW MEXICO'S MOST ENDANGERED PLACES ARIZONA http://www.svherald.com/articles/2004/01/29/news/news3.txt In Naco, a New Mexico couple plans on building a home on top of a lot where there are clearly marked graves and county officials are saying it is perfectly legal to do so. Boyd Nicholl of the Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum said the cemetery was called the Naco Graveyard, and added he estimates that more than 10 bodies have been buried there. John Madsen of the Arizona State Museum said the New Mexico couple wrote a letter to him Dec. 17 restating their intentions they had made months beforehand. Madsen said that if the New Mexico couple get no replies from the public notices, they will be allowed to proceed with their project without worrying about any remains that are buried there. CALIFORNIA From: Grace Johnson San Diego Museum of Man 12th Latin American Symposium: Shamanism, Mesas, and Cosmologies in the Central Andes, Saturday, March 6, 2004 -- The symposium will give a focused "ethno-archaeological" overview of the subject matter, dealing with both archaeological and ethnohistorical evidence for pre-Hispanic shamanism in the Andes. It will give us insight regarding cosmological concepts underlying the rites and power objects of contemporary shamans, including ethnological interpretation of the ritual paraphernalia and practices of contemporary shamans inhabiting parts of the Andes where pre-Columbian cultural legacies are still alive. In these regions, shamanism enjoys a widespread popular appeal because it is effective in meeting a basic human need to attribute meaning to existence. Participating scholars include Raquel Ackerman (California State University, Los Angeles), Joseph Bastien (University of Texas at Arlington), Inge Bolin (Malaspina University College, British Columbia, Canada), Jorges Flores (Cuzco, Peru), Bonnie Glass-Coffin (Utah State University), Donald Joralemon (Smith College, Massachusettts), Luis Milliones (Lima, Peru), Mario Polia (Rome, Italy), Douglas Sharon (P.A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, California), Donald Skillman (Logan,Utah), and John Rick (Stanford University, Califonia). Museum of Man, Gill Auditorium, Administration Building, Registration 800 a.m., Program 830 a.m. - 500 p.m. A wine and bocaditos reception will be held in the Museum Saturday evening, following the Symposium. Latin American Symposium registration is $55 for Museum members and students, $75 for non-members. All proceeds of the Latin American Symposium support educational programs of the Museum. TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGY http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpID=348&NewsID=523805&CategoryID=7227&show=localnews&om=1 After dinner, they boarded a Santa Fe passenger train, the Missionary, at 11 p.m. bound for Clovis, New Mexico, where a Ford Tri-motor was waiting to take them on their final leg of the journey to Los Angeles. The itinerary can be found online at www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/aviation. www.ruf.rice.edu/~pound www.behindthename.com/random.html http://www.kleimo.com/random/name.cfm Need a new nomme de plume for email? Adjust the obscurity factor depending on how bizarre you like your names served up. ANTHROPOLOGISTS http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Books/Content?oid=oid:53338 Often invisible from the mainstream and still somewhat misunderstood, the modern anthropologist is relegated by society to either intriguing fictional character or bearer of great cocktail party conversation. CYBERIA http://www.philosophynow.org/issue44/44radke.htm Charlie Brown is an existentialist. 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