Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. (SWA) " Got CALICHE ? " Newsletter Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of the Greater Southwest! Sunday February 8, 2004 ***************************************** WHO SHALL INTERPRET THE PAST ? http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/02/05/40223ffe39c79 Intelligent design has some trapping of science, but it has a foregone conclusion. Evolutionists are bound to change their views if they discover something that contradicts their previous findings and understanding of life. http://www.geo.arizona.edu/~/abingham/ A Geologist interprets the geology of sand dunes. http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2004/feb/06/020610202.html A researcher at the University of Nevada, Reno is using samples of submerged, ancient trees to study the ecological history of a Sierra Nevada lake in the Tahoe basin. http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/artshum/arts/performance/ARCHAEOLOGY/Dem_Bones.html Archaeology excavation as performance: the dramatisation of the past within heritage contexts. http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/02/05/kennewick.man.ap/index.html Scientists can study the Kennewick Man -- 9,300-year-old remains found in Washington state -- despite the objections of some American Indian tribes, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. http://www.sfnewmexican.com/print.asp?ArticleID=39945 Taos Pueblo has banished a Santa Clara tribal member from for writing essay about the tribe's sacred deer dance. The order, which means Naranjo is banished from Taos Pueblo, states he could be arrested if he crosses onto tribal land. He didn't obtain permission from tribal officials to publish the essay, said the order. http://www.gallupindependent.com/todaysnews.html Chester Kahn, the noted Navajo artist, depicts traditional life on both the Zuni Pueblo and on Navajoland. http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/centralphoenix/articles/0206phxindian0206Z4.html They carved their names decades ago into the massive brick walls of Phoenix Indian School's Memorial Hall. A rare federal grant will ensure their names, along with hundreds of other Phoenix Indian School students who etched their names into the bricks, will not be forgotten. http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~33~1938375,00.html Preservationists talk a lot about the aesthetic value of saving an historic home, building or neighborhood, but rarely do they sum up the economic impact of their work. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20040206-9999_1mc6winner.html Elizabeth Jane "Jennie" Cloud Wimmer was involved in the single most important event in California history. On the morning of Jan. 24, 1848, a nugget was spotted in the water of the American River. The nugget was taken to Wimmer, and she used the old folk method of letting the nugget sit overnight in lye soap water. If it came out shiny, it was gold, if not, it was just a rock. The nugget tested pure. Wimmer lifted it from her kettle and pronounced it gold. The California Gold Rush was on. Editor's Note: And now they're going to blame a woman for it... http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/020604dnmetmoving.1b9c5.html If the Ellis House -- the oldest-known surviving farmhouse in South Dallas -- leaves South Dallas, would it still be a historic place? http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2004-01/movies.html The George Eastman House will restore 108 film titles from 1911 to 1918. The project is one of nine Save America's Treasures grants administered by the National Endowment for the Humanities. http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1076063533150440.xml Kurt Vonnegut has a master's degree in anthropology, but he can't tap dance. http://www.geocities.com/thenietzschechannel/onthe2.htm#2e25 "There is no set of maxims more important for an historian than this: ..[that] everything that exists, no matter what its origin, is periodically reinterpreted by those in power in terms of fresh intentions; that all processes in the organic world are processes of outstripping and overcoming, and that, in turn, all outstripping and overcoming means reinterpretation, rearrangement, in the course of which the earlier meaning and purpose are necessarily either obscured or lost" -- The Birth of Tragedy and the Genealogy of Morals (by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche). ***************************************** Contact the Newsletter Editor: archaeologist@rocketmail.com Restatement of Disclosure Notice posted at www.swanet.org: is a public e-mail address for SWA and the "Got CALICHE?" newsletter editor. 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