Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. (SWA) " Got CALICHE ? " Newsletter Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of the Greater Southwest! Friday May 14, 2004 ***************************************** UTAH http://www.ut.blm.gov/NewsReleases/may7a.html Marquardson has been teaching archaeology focused on Native American studies for 15 years. Almost 100 students take his course each year. While en route to Mesa Verde National Park, the students toured the Lowry Pueblo and the Anasazi Heritage Center. Teachers interested in becoming certified Intrigue of the Past instructors may contact Craig Harmon, Richfield BLM Field Office, . ARIZONA http://www.fhtimes.com/times/5-12-04/letter-%20boatman.htm Fountain Hills Middle School History Club will participate in National History Day. http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/opinion/21681.php Protests over the demolition were sparked by an April 12 article in the Arizona Daily Star. This particular battle is the wrong one to fight. To put it bluntly, in this case there's nothing left to preserve. To act effectively for historic preservation, we need to fully informed before we act. NEW MEXICO http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/000177.html#more Carole Nagengast, University of New Mexico chair and professor of anthropology: "Human Rights, Power and Difference: The Scholar as an Activist." At UNM, Nagengast teaches a popular anthropology course on human rights. CYBERIA http://www.nyas.org/ebriefreps/main.asp?intSubsectionID=822 The downside of gated communities: reality may not meet expectations; safety and a sense of community may prove illusory; children raised behind gates may become more fearful; community codes can severely constrain conduct, free speech, and legal rights; open space is diminished; gated architecture creates a "landscape of fear." ***************************************** 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. Unless your e-mail is marked 'confidential' or 'not for publication' -- SWA actively presumes that your correspondence IS a 'letter to the editor' forwarded for publication consideration and public consumption. SWA reserves the right to edit publishable correspondence for format, brevity and clarity. If you desire private corrrespondence with the editor, a personal e-mail address is provided (at www.swanet.org, click on "Contacts" button, then "Brian Kenny"). ***************************************** Post letter mail and other media to: Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. P.O. Box 61203 Phoenix AZ, USA 85082-1203 602.697.5754 (cellular) 602.372.8539 (digital fax) 603.457.7957 (digital fax) http://www.swanet.org (url) http://www.swanet.org/images/license.pdf 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.