Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. (SWA) " Got CALICHE ? " Newsletter Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of the Greater Southwest! Thursday September 23, 2004 ***************************************** EDITOR'S NOTE Many of you probably know about the beta gmail service . I switched to gmail , and I thoroughly enjoy it's e-mail storage capacity and search functionality. The folks at google recently provided me with six (6) opportunities to invite others to sign up for a free beta gmail account. I would like to allocate these slots to Southwesternists who can best make use of such services. To use gmail most efficiently, I had to switch from the Internet Explorer browser to the free Mozilla Firefox browser . It's pretty good alright... ;> ("I suggest dumping Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which has a history of security breaches. I recommend instead using Mozilla Firefox. It's not only more secure but also more modern and advanced, with tabbed browsing and a better pop-up ad blocker." -- Walt Mossberg, Wall Street Journal, Sept 16, 2004 ). COLORADO http://www.westword.com/issues/2004-09-23/news/message.html Wayne Laugesen, a columnist for the Boulder Weekly, believed that an order directing local homeowner Paul Wenig to reinstall antiquated windows he'd removed from his historic residence needlessly endangered two children who lived there. Rather than simply writing about this tale, however, Laugesen thrust himself into the middle of it. Without receiving a go-ahead from Wenig, he gathered up seventeen of the old windows and systematically smashed them, then arranged for a bulldozer to run them over. In "A Case for Theft," his September 9 column for the Weekly, Laugesen proclaimed that "every broken window was a score for fatherhood, husbandry and God-given liberty. It was my own Boston Tea Party and a smashing blow against the city's latest attack on family, children, property rights and prosperity." Boulder officials haven't ruled out the possibility of striking back. UTAH http://radio.ksl.com/index.php?sid=121036&nid=19 Jeremy Shane Craig, 22, had his initial appearance Tuesday on a charge of felony violation of the antiquities protection law. If convicted, he could serve one to five years in prison. Craig, of Huntington, faces a preliminary hearing Oct 19 on the charge stemming from the vandalism last summer of a panel in the Buckhorn Draw of the San Rafael Swell. http://www.thespectrum.com/news/stories/20040921/localnews/1274677.html Historic preservation efforts has begun on a ghost town called Giles in Wayne County. Organizers are looking for any information about pioneers in the area that their descendants or others may have collected. They are in search of photos, stories and other information that will help piece together the story of the town. http://www.swanet.org/zarchives/urara/oct04_vestiges.pdf Vestiges October 2004, Newsletter of URARA -- Utah Rock Art Research Association NEW JOB OPPORTUNITY (UT) http://www.swanet.org/zarchives/jobs/jobs2004/lsd092204.pdf http://www.swanet.org/jobs.html Current Opportunities Editor's Note: Send your volunteer positions and job announcements for posting! For-profit firms and not-for-profit organizations may post paid and volunteer position announcements at http://www.swanet.org/jobs.html NEVADA http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2004/sep/22/092210072.html Legislation to auction off 100,000 federal acres in Lincoln County passed a key House committee Wednesday. Of the proceeds, 5 percent would go to the state education fund, 45 percent to Lincoln County for economic development, and 50 percent to the Interior Department for management and protection of archaeological resources and conservation. ARIZONA http://www.navajohopiobserver.com/NAVAJOHOPIOBSERVER/myarticles.asp?P=1011270&S=392&PubID=13084 The Arizona Ethnobotany Research Association (AERA) has been working with indigenous herbalists and healers in the documentation and preservation of traditional plant knowledge since 1983. From: Jack & Jane E. Grenard About 10 years ago we notified the leadership of the Desert Foothills chapter of AAS about the ruin of an historic site on the lower northeastern slope of Black Mountain, in Carefree. The 10-meter-square site once held a tubercular cabin (eyewitness report, 1989). The cabin burned. Remains include melted glass bottles, rusted can lids, steel strapping from 2 suitcases or valises, and a wrought-iron bedstead, the latter identified by John Hohmann as from about 1900. As far as we know, no survey of this site was ever made. The land, part of the Hawksnest subdivision of Carefree, is about to be developed. Soon the site likely will get scraped. That urgency is why we again make known to the archaeological community this knowledge of the site. We can show its location to anyone interested. http://www.azcentral.com/community/ahwatukee/articles/0922AR-petroglyphZ14.html What is referred to as the "28th Place Site," an 18-acre piece of land near Kyrene Akimel A-Al Middle School, has 89 recorded petroglyphs, or rock artworks. The oldest petroglyphs on the site are believed to date to the ancient Hohokam era, which lasted from A.D. 700 to 1450. http://www.willcoxrangenews.com/articles/2004/09/22/news/news5.txt For more than a century, archaeologists and historians have searched for the trail Francisco Vazquez de Coronado used from 1540-1542 to travel from what is now northern Mexico to the Pueblo of Zuni in New Mexico. http://www.eacourier.com/articles/2004/09/22/news/news04.txt How close are researchers to finding the true Coronado Trail? Not very. The CDA has a map which shows four possible routes. NEW MEXICO http://www.lamonitor.com/articles/2004/09/22/headline_news/news03.txt Council unanimously passed a motion to acknowledge, and support, the expenditure by the Los Alamos Historical Society of federal funds administered by the Atomic Heritage Foundation. The $223,000 will support Manhattan Project historic preservation activities in the county that includes the acquisition, operation and maintenance of historic properties. It also includes the preservation of oral histories and artifacts and the development of a Web site detailing Manhattan Project history. http://www.thedailypress.com/artman/publish/article_2084.shtml A stone cairn will be dedicated Saturday, Oct. 9, and will hold a bronze plaque with a photo of Geronimo. From: Neal Ackerly Dos Rios Consultants, Inc., is pleased to announce completion of its report on the Lake Valley Mining District (1879--1950) in Sierra County, NM. The report summarizes the history of mining operations, population data for the town, ledger records from the town's mercantile store, and associated mine features, structures and refuse. The report will be distributed on CD in pdf format; no hard copies -- it is almost 900 pages long. Contact Neal Ackerly (nackerly@zianet.com, 505.534.0035) for details on obtaining a copy. CYBERIA http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0923/p13s01-stgn.html For decades, the Clovis culture has held sway as the oldest in the New World. Now, Al Goodyear is holding his breath in anticipation. Within days, the affable archaeologist expects to read the results of lab tests indicating that stone tools he recently found in South Carolina are 25,000 years old -- or older. Such results would be explosive. They would imply that humans lived on this continent before the last ice age, far earlier than previously believed. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17450 The long, unbalanced, difficult, and ambiguous special relationship, at once intimate and arm's-length, between the Native American population and the American anthropological profession -- a relationship Ishi and Kroeber so compactly summed up -- is, now that the former is no longer so resourceless and the latter no longer so assured, under a good deal of pressure. ***************************************** Post letter mail and other media to: Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. P.O. Box 61203 Phoenix AZ, USA 85082-1203 602.697.5754 (cellular) Go ahead! Pick up the phone and call us! 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. 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