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Visit http://www.cdarc.org/what-we-do/information-resources/southwest-archeology-today/ to continue following the latest news in Southwestern Archaeology.Center for Desert Archaeologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632544160503692093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157147949621171095.post-29078105239917330032010-10-19T15:18:00.000-07:002010-10-19T15:32:55.305-07:00Global Conference Explores Preservation Archaeology<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Southwest Archaeology Today - <span style="font-style: italic;">A Service of the Center for Desert Archaeology</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Global Conference Explores Preservation Archaeology</span><br />So, how can we manage these sites in a sustainable fashion? How can we create a system of site selection, preservation, and conservation that helps the local economy protect a cultural treasure that ultimately belongs to the world? How can technology be leveraged to assist these efforts? These are just some of the questions being asked today at Stanford University in California, where a group of experts in conservation, development, archaeology, philanthropy, technology, tourism and travel have gathered to attend the first Forum on Cultural Heritage in a Developing World.<br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-bernstein/why-heritage-matters_b_766566.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-bernstein/why-heritage-matters_b_766566.html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Hollywood is Getting Ready to Tell "The Legend of the Hohokam."</span><br />We’re always on the lookout for interesting films currently gearing up for production, and we’ve been contacted by the team behind the movie The Legend of Hohokam with some news on directors circling the project. The Hohokam people disappeared from their Arizona homeland in the 15th century and this new film will tell their story, we’re promised, in the style of Dances with Wolves and Apocalypto.<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2en9lso">http://tinyurl.com/2en9lso</a> - HeyUGuys.Co.Uk<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">'Threads of Memory' Exhibition to Showcase Spanish Influence in American History</span><br />The pieces of paper and the maps that hang on the museum walls are like images rotated in a viewfinder toy camera — they become more intricate as the exhibit progresses. The conquered, explored and colonized territory, from the tip of Mexico to 17 U.S. states, is shown in black ink and in colored illustrations, all preserved on hemp paper. Spain's involvement in the American independence is something not everyone realizes, said Josef Díaz, curator of Southwest and Mexican Colonial Art and History Collections. One man in particular, Don Diego de Gardoqui, helped finance the Revolution.<br /><a href="http://www.santafenewmexican.com/SantaFeNorthernNM/A-shared-heritage">http://www.santafenewmexican.com/SantaFeNorthernNM/A-shared-heritage</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Arizona Archaeological Council’s Annual Conference Scheduled for Friday and Saturday, October 29-30, 2010</span><br />AAC’s annual conference is at Arizona State Museum this year! The public is invited to attend scholarly presentations by regional archaeologists 2 p.m. – 5 p.m. on Friday and 10 a.m.- 3 p.m. on Saturday. Schedule and abstracts posted soon. A reception on Friday from 5-7 p.m. includes a used book sale, offering huge selections in southwestern anthropology. Books start at $1, journals as low as 25¢. Conference registration is $10 per person/free for AAC members. Contact Dr. James Watson to register at 520-621-4794. Not an AAC member? Join now at the link below.<br /><a href="http://arizonaarchaeologicalcouncil.org/aac/">http://arizonaarchaeologicalcouncil.org/aac/</a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Texas Archeological Society Meetings to be held this Weekend!</span><br /> Archeologists Convene at the Omni Hotel in Corpus Christi, Oct. 22, bring your artifacts for identification! You’re invited to Texas Archeological Society (TAS) annual meeting on October 22 at the Omni Bayfront Hotel, 900 North Shoreline Blvd., Corpus Christi, 78401. Friday, October 22 at 3:30 the first Round Table session will be “Archeology without Borders” and will feature speakers from Texas and Mexico with Native Americans as commentators. At 7:00 PM on Friday the topic “Native Peoples of the Texas Coast: Prehistory to Today” will be presented by archeologists Dr. Robert Ricklis, Rich Weinstein and Jose Medina. This Forum is free and open to the public.<br /><a href="Http://www.txarch.org">Http://www.txarch.org</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Call for Papers - "Origin Stories: Narratives of North American Diversity, 1400-1700" </span><br />Presenting the 28th Annual Visiting Scholar Conference, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, April 22-23, 2011. The dynamic nature of Native American, European, European, American, and African American identities and interactions in North America between 1400 and 1700 is often acknowledged, but rarely elaborated. Past descriptions, as well as many current accounts, focus on a combination of “guns, germs, and steel,” as though history was a wave from Europe that swept across America bringing modernity, capitalism, and democracy. Archaeologists have increasingly been able to reveal a much more complex, diverse, and remarkable record of the Early Modern era.Yet these stories still only reach a limited audience.<br /><a href="http://www.cai.siuc.edu/vspages/wilshusen/callforpapers.html">http://www.cai.siuc.edu/vspages/wilshusen/callforpapers.html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">NAGPRA at 20 Symposium Planned</span><br />Please join the National NAGPRA Program, The George Washington University's<br />Department of Museum Studies and Department of Anthropology, and several other partners for a two-day symposium to recognize the 20th anniversary of the passage of NAGPRA. A preliminary agenda and registration information, as well as lodging information (including a list of hotels costing under$100 night), can be found on the National NAGPRA Program website. The symposium is free but will be limited to 250-260 participants due to space limitations. Therefore, we strongly encourage you to register early.<br /><a href="http://www.nps.gov/history/nagpra/TRAINING/NAGPRA_at_20.html">http://www.nps.gov/history/nagpra/TRAINING/NAGPRA_at_20.html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers Offering a Workshop on Exhibition Development</span><br />"Telling Our History: Exhibition Development, ” November 8-12, 2010<br />Hosted by The Navajo Nation Museum. Comprised of four and one-half days of learning through presentations, dialogue, hands-on experience, and on-site visits to museum exhibits in the area. Tribal museum and cultural center directors and staff will learn about and share information that address the basics of exhibit development. Each day will include interactive activities, lessons from case studies and model museums, and opportunities for participants to learn from one another. Application Deadline: November 1, 2010 (participants accepted on a rolling basis; apply as soon as possible). Registration Fee: $125 (covers 3 lunches, 3 dinners and all course materials; any other meals will be on your own). Getty Scholarships: A limited number of travel scholarship are available from NATHPO thanks to the support of The Getty Grant Program. For more information and all applications, follow the link below.<br /><a href="http://www.nathpo.org/NNMTP/2010ExhibitsWorkshop.html">http://www.nathpo.org/NNMTP/2010ExhibitsWorkshop.html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Avocational Archaeologists Found the Verde Valley Archaeological Center </span><br />Enough is enough. That is the mantra of some dedicated folks who are now pulling out all the stops in an effort to build a facility to house what treasures is left. Ken Zoll, current president of the Verde Valley Chapter of the Arizona Archaeological Society, along with two past presidents, Dr. Jim Graceffa and Sharon Olsen, and a handful of others have recently formed a new organization, the Verde Valley Archaeology Center. "We want to stop the bleeding," says Zoll, "We have been approached by some folks who have private collections and are also committed to keeping them in the Verde Valley. For that reason and some others, we believe now is the time to get started."<br /><a href="http://verdenews.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=38701">http://verdenews.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=38701</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Historic Preservation or Public Art for the Rose Bowl: A Fight over One Percent</span><br />Historic preservation won, leaving art proponents miffed at their ongoing losing streak before the Pasadena City Council. Usually, city law requires developers to pay 1% of major construction projects’ cost to a public arts fund, to be spent on commissioning new art works at the development site. But when a project involves renovations to a historic landmark, such as the 88-year-old Rose Bowl, officials have the choice of commissioning new art with the 1% fee, or applying it to restoring worn or damaged historic elements of the site so they look new again.<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2u7j5fb">http://tinyurl.com/2u7j5fb</a> - Los Angeles Times<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Mesa Verde Holds Groundbreaking on New Research and Visitor's Center</span><br />With the scrape of modern shovels and traditional Native American digging sticks against the rocky soil of Mesa Verde National Park, 80 years of dreams became reality Friday. Park officials, visiting dignitaries and about 150 spectators gathered to celebrate the start of construction on the $12.1 million Mesa Verde Visitor and Research Center being built at the park's entrance. Superintendent Cliff Spencer opened the ceremony, commenting on the magnitude of the occasion.<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/36x2dyw">http://tinyurl.com/36x2dyw</a> - Durango Herald<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Lecture Opportunity (Cortez)</span><br />The Hisatsinom Chapter of the Colorado Archaeology Society will present archaeologist Jerry Fetterman on November 2, 7:00 p.m., at the Cortez Cultural Center. His talk, "McLean Basin: North of Hovenweep - on the State Line" examines the results of archaeological surveys in the McLean Basin Area of the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument. These surveys have been conducted over the past several years for the Bureau of Land Management by Woods Canyon Archaeological Consultants, Inc. and Smith Environmental and Engineering. Jerry Fetterman, a resident of Yellow Jacket, has been an archaeological researcher in southwest Colorado for 35 years. Since his graduation from University of Colorado in 1977, he has conducted hundreds of projects throughout the Four Corners Region. This presentation is free and open to the public. For more information about the talk or the Hisatsinom Chapter, please contact Marcie Ryan, 882-3391.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Employment Opportunity (Comstock TX)</span><br />Grow with SHUMLA, As The New Deputy Executive Director. SHUMLA is an internationally recognized nonprofit education and archeological research center located in the community of Comstock on the Southwest Texas border west of Del Rio. We seek a Deputy Executive Director ready to grow, professionally and personally, with us. The Deputy Director of SHUMLA will oversee education operations: motivating and supervising staff and volunteers; evaluating curriculum; promoting new programs; and writing grant proposals to support the vision. Contact Elton Prewitt <eprewitt@shumla.org/> with a letter of interest to receive a copy of the job specifications. Information about SHUMLA and its activities and programs can be found at <a href="http://www.shumla.org">http://www.shumla.org</a><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Employment Opportunity (Short Deadline)</span><br />The BLM El Centro, CA Field Office is currently advertising for a Term<br />GS-07/09 Archaeologist. Below is the job announcement number for USAjobs.<br />The job announcement closes 10/22, so people need to get their applications<br />in ASAP. Please help spread the word! Thanks! Reference " FS-383168-AK10"<br /><a href="http://www.usajobs.gov/">http://www.usajobs.gov/</a><br /><br />Thanks to Gerald Kelso for contributing to today's newsletter.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Publication Note - Southwest Archaeology Today Newsletter Upgrade in Progress</span><br />This newsletter will take a break next week as we migrate to a new server that will allow the Center for Desert Archaeology to do a better job of sharing the news about archaeology, anthropology, and historic preservation in the American Southwest. For our readers who have enjoyed the newsletter here at Blogspot, this will be the final full newsletter posted at this location. We hope you will follow us over to the new home for Southwestern Archaeology Today in early November.Center for Desert Archaeologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632544160503692093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157147949621171095.post-6893886496803156182010-10-08T13:48:00.001-07:002010-10-08T13:59:26.929-07:00Arizona Republic Endorses a Preservation Approach to Ballot Initiatives<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >Southwestern Archaeology Making the News - <span style="font-style: italic;">A Service of the Center for Desert Archaeology</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >Arizona Republic Endorses a Preservation Approach to Ballot Initiatives</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Prop. 301 would divert all of the Land Conservation Fund, which voters approved 12 years ago, into a one-time-only budget patch. It would sacrifice long-term benefits that include educational funding, community open space, and protection for archaeology, habitat and scenic resources on trust land.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/2ae4xe5">http://tinyurl.com/2ae4xe5</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> - Arizona Republic</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >Data Recovery Nearly Complete at the Site of the Future Peoria Palo Verde Park</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">On a hot September afternoon, archaeologist Mark Hackbarth tread carefully across the fenced site that is dotted with short sticks with pink and orange markers. He looked for "hot spots" of Hohokam activity. The archaeologist has been using a device that sends radar pulses to capture subsurface images. "This is as good as it gets as far as archaeological sites go," Hackbarth said, pointing dirt-lined fingers to a dug-up area.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">http://tinyurl.com/2ec4fr7 - Arizona Republic</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >Archaeology under Attack</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Somewhere out there, there's a modern Western explorer who decided he had something so important to say that it had to be slathered in silver paint on a remote rock wall full of ancient petroglyphs in the national forest. The mysterious etchings depicting people, animals and a blazing sun are in a box canyon known as Keyhole Sink in the Kaibab National Forest east of Williams, a mountain town off Interstate 40 that has welcomed sojourners since its namesake, fur trapper "Old Bill" Williams, explored the locale in the early to mid-1800s.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/22m263c">http://tinyurl.com/22m263c</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> - Arizona Republic</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >Poster Contest for Utah Archaeology Week</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Archaeology Week isn't until May 7-14 but the Antiquities Section of State History is now inviting Utah residents to participate in the Utah Archaeology Week Poster Contest. Cash prizes will be offered in three categories: grand prize: $250; secondary school winner: $100; elementary school winner: $100.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/2v5dpzj">http://tinyurl.com/2v5dpzj</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> - Deseret News</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >Contractor Selected for New Mesa Verde Visitor Center</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">PCL Construction Services of Edwards has been awarded a $12 million contract from the National Park Service to build a visitor and research center at Mesa Verde National Park.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.vaildaily.com/ARTICLE/20101005/BIZ/101009910/-1/RSS">http://www.vaildaily.com/ARTICLE/20101005/BIZ/101009910/-1/RSS</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >Tour / Hiking Opportunity </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Wilderness Hike to the Dittert Site,Saturday October 16, 2010. “Coyote, Doctor Dittert, and the Ancestors” Dr. Dittert said this site was built over a Chacoan outlier-like site. Others say it is closer to Mogollon country and influence. It may be the last mansion locally built before the difficult times of the 1270s. Come find out about two great ancestral cultures of the southwest, and decide for yourself if this is where they met, whether they got along, and why they chose this place. Modern interpretations are in flux. In the late 1200s drought was pervasive as was the likelihood of political upheaval.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.cdarc.org/sat/dittert_hike_2010.doc">Http://www.cdarc.org/sat/dittert_hike_2010.doc</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">New Website Documents Efforts to Preserve the Colonial Missions of Chihuahua</span> (from Gloria Eugenia Alvillar)</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">My cousin who lives in Chihuahua, Chihuahua has sent this website on the mission reconstruction effort there. The video on the bottom half of the page is very well done. There is a Tarahumara governor who speaks toward the end of the film and it is moving. I would love to do a translation so that it can be shown in English. The narrative is respectful of all who participated in the legacy that is ours today. There are two architects from Valencia, Spain who are working on this effort and a small book has been published on how to restore old Spanish missions. Enjoy.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.misionescoloniales.org/">http://www.misionescoloniales.org/</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >Crow Canyon Announces New Three-Year Field Project</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The new project shifts our focus in a number of ways: from the end of the ancestral Pueblo occupation to the beginning, from the final migration out of the region to the initial migration in, and from the best-understood period of ancestral Pueblo history to the least understood. The Basketmaker Communities Project: Early Pueblo Society in the Mesa Verde Region will focus on the earliest substantial period of ancestral Pueblo settlement in the Mesa Verde region, known as the Basketmaker III period (A.D. 500–750), and will investigate where these initial settlers came from, what their society was like, and the ways these early farmers impacted a pristine environment.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.imakenews.com/crowcanyon1/e_article001886894.cfm?x=b11,0,w">http://www.imakenews.com/crowcanyon1/e_article001886894.cfm?x=b11,0,w</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >Hueco Tanks Interpretive Fair Scheduled for October 16 and 17th</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The Hueco Tanks State Park & Historic Site's 2010 Interpretive Fair Weekend will be held from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. October 16, and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. October 17. Attractions of the two-day event will include Native American dancing and drumming, folklorico dancers, pictograph, birding and nature tours and booths. Tours will begin at 8 a.m. both days of the fair, and will include birding tours, nature hikes, rare plant tours, hiking tours and tours to Native American pictograph sites. Visitors can browse informational booths on local history, desert wildlife, area parks and native plants. There will also be food, art and gifts for sale. An evening campfire storytelling program will start at 6 p.m. Saturday, October 16. The fair will be held at Hueco Tanks State Park & Historic Site, 6900 Hueco Tanks Rd. #1, El Paso, TX 79938. From US Highway 62/180, turn north onto Ranch Road 2775. Continue through the park gate to the headquarters building. The park is 32 miles northeast of El Paso.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >Lecture Opportunity (Irvine)</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The Pacific Coast Archaeological Society's October 14th meeting will feature Dr. Steven R. James speaking on “Archaeological Field Schools in California and the American Southwest: Historical Perspectives and Personal Reflections.” Meeting information: Thursday, October 14, 2010, 7:30 pm at the Irvine Ranch Water District, 15600 Sand Canyon Ave., Irvine, CA. Meeting is free and open to the public.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.pcas.org/">http://www.pcas.org</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >Student Employment Opportunity (Delores)</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The Curatorial Program at the Bureau of Land Management - Anasazi Heritage Center is recruiting for qualified students who are interested in learning about the museum profession – particularly museum collections management for BLM and the Department of the Interior. The Student Temporary Experience Program (STEP) is temporary employment in the Federal government that provides the student with an opportunity to gain experience in the Federal government.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.cdarc.org/sat/ahc_step.doc">Http://www.cdarc.org/sat/ahc_step.doc</a>Center for Desert Archaeologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632544160503692093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157147949621171095.post-26752681210533845182010-10-01T12:53:00.000-07:002010-10-01T13:09:08.842-07:00Tutuveni Petroglyphs Provided with Extra Protection<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Southwestern Archaeology Making the News - <span style="font-style: italic;">A Service of the Center for Desert Archaeology</span></span><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Tutuveni Petroglyphs Provided with Extra Protection</span><br />Recognized as a sacred site by the Hopi people, the Hopi "Tutuveni" petroglyph area located near Tuba City and state Highway 89 contains the largest, most significant concentration of Hopi clan symbols found anywhere in the American southwest.<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2c9xem6"><b>http://tinyurl.com/258rwz5 - Navajo Hopi Observer</b></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Archaeologists Dismiss Clovis Comet Impact Theory</span><br />New research challenges the controversial theory that an ancient comet impact devastated the Clovis people, one of the earliest known cultures to inhabit North America. Writing in the October issue of Current Anthropology, archaeologists Vance Holliday (University of Arizona) and David Meltzer (Southern Methodist University) argue that there is nothing in the archaeological record to suggest an abrupt collapse of Clovis populations. "Whether or not the proposed extraterrestrial impact occurred is a matter for empirical testing in the geological record," the researchers write. "Insofar as concerns the archaeological record, an extraterrestrial impact is an unnecessary solution for an archaeological problem that does not exist."<br /><a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-09/uocp-nef092910.php">http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-09/uocp-nef092910.php</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Lost City Musuem Celebrates 75 Years of Interpreting Ancient Nevada</span><br />"Most people don't know that in Southern Nevada, we had such large-scale, prehistoric populations," says Dr. Karen Harry, an archaeologist and professor in the anthropology department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "It's kind of a big deal."<br /><a href="http://www.lvrj.com/neon/the-artifacts-of-life-103698249.html">http://www.lvrj.com/neon/the-artifacts-of-life-103698249.html<br /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">23 Historic Preservation Efforts in Nevada Canceled</span><br />The 23 historic preservation projects awarded funding from the Nevada Commission on Cultural Affairs earlier this year are the latest casualties of the state's budget crisis.<br />Historic Preservation Officer Ron James said the grants totaling $3 million were pulled back after the announcement that the state has no capacity to issue new bonds this coming budget cycle.<br /><a href="http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20100923/NEWS/100929904/1001">http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20100923/NEWS/100929904/1001<br /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Artifacts Stolen From Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site</span><br />The National Park Service says burglars stole buffalo hides and historical weapons from two historic sites in southeastern Colorado.<br /><a href="http://www.newsfirst5.com/news/artifacts-stolen-from-colorado-historic-sites/">http://www.newsfirst5.com/news/artifacts-stolen-from-colorado-historic-sites/</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Symposium on the Archaeology of the Arizona Strip is Scheduled for November</span><br />On Friday, November 12, and Saturday, November 13, 2010, the Kaibab Vermilion Cliffs Heritage Alliance will sponsor an archaeological symposium in Page, Arizona, Discovering the Archaeology of the Arizona Strip Region: Learning from the Past - Planning for the Future. The symposium will bring together agency archaeologists, professionals, students, tribal representatives, and the public to discuss questions that will guide a research design for the coming decades on the Arizona Strip north of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. On Friday night, November 12, keynote speakers Don and Catherine Fowler will share their archaeological experiences in the region. The public is invited without charge to the evening sessions. Early registration is $35.00 until October 1, 2010, after October 1 registration is $50.00.For symposium information and to register go to<br /><a href="http://www.public.asu.edu/%7Eohara/AZstrip.htm">http://www.public.asu.edu/~ohara/AZstrip.htm</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Mesa Verde For Kids</span><br />here’s no time to be nervous. The kids charge ahead up the 32-foot ladder, squeezing through a narrow, 12-foot tunnel, walking in toeholds carved into dusty sandstone. Imagine if you could only get into your office or house via toeholds carved into rock. Imagine cooking by tossing a hot rock into a waterproofed basket filled with stew fixings and grinding corn with a rock. Imagine living with your family in small stone rooms. Imagine no TV or video games to entertain the kids — just stories passed down from generation to generation.<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2bv37qh">http://tinyurl.com/2bv37qh</a> - Ventura County Star<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Celebrating The Twelfth Annual Traditional Native American Indian Feast & Fundraiser Festival San Xavier Plaza</span><br />The Traditional Native American Indian Feast & Fundraiser Festival for the Golden Eagle Feather Award and Scholarship will be celebrating its TWELFTH ANNUAL, on Saturday, October 2, 2010, from 6pm to 9 pm at the San Xavier Plaza, Tucson, Arizona. This event is open to everyone.<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2bmxup7">http://tinyurl.com/2bmxup7</a> - Tucson Citizen<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Montezuma Castle National Monument Celebrates 50th Anniversary</span><br />In the shadow of nearly 1,000-year-old ruins, Marie Carone joined a celebration of a small, but significant milestone in the Verde Valley's history. The visitor's center at Montezuma's Castle, the popular national monument, is turning 50-years old.<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/26qo8t2">http://tinyurl.com/26qo8t2</a> - ABC 15.com<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Taking a New Look at Old Digs: Trampling Animals May Alter Stone Age Sites</span><br />Archaeologists who interpret Stone Age culture from discoveries of ancient tools and artifacts may need to reanalyze some of their conclusions. That's the finding suggested by a new study that for the first time looked at the impact of water buffalo and goats trampling artifacts into mud.<br /><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100923162408.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100923162408.htm</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Legend Rock Encodes 10,000 Years of Beliefs</span><br />Ice Age paintings and carvings in Europe are revered as sublime achievements of early humans, yet the prehistoric rock art in the American West is far less known. At Legend Rock in central Wyoming, 10,000 years of profound beliefs are inscribed on red sandstone cliffs.<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2eagwtn">http://tinyurl.com/2eagwtn</a> - The Wall Street Journal<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">El Paso Museum of Archaeology Offers Free Tours</span><br />The El Paso Museum of Archaeology is offering free docent-led tours of the museum and its surrounding Chihuahuan Desert Gardens. Tours for families with children will be at 1 p.m. today and on Oct. 9 and Oct. 24. Adult tours will be at 10 a.m. on Wednesday and again on Oct. 13 and Oct. 20. Reservations are not necessary. To enjoy the gardens, wear suitable clothing, shoes and sun protection. The museum is at 4301 Trans Mountain. Information: 755-4332. - El Paso Times.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act: Back to Basics</span><br />The National Trust for Historic Preservation has issued a major new report evaluating how the federal government is meeting its statutory obligations to consider the effects of its activities on America’s historic and cultural resources. The report, entitled Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act: Back to Basics, urges federal agencies to take more seriously their obligations to comply with the basic statutory mandate (on the books since 1966) to consider the effects of their activities on the nation’s heritage.<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/28mnkmw">http://tinyurl.com/28mnkmw</a> - National Trust for Historic Preservation<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Lecture Opportunity (Cortez)</span><br />Hisatsinom Chapter of the Colorado Archaeology Society presents "Recent Investigations Along the Chaco North Road: The Artifacts Don't Lie!" by Jim Copeland on Tuesday, October 5, 7:00 p.m. at the Cortez Cultural Center. Jim Copeland has been the Senior BLM archaeologist for the Farmington Field Office for the past 19 years. His investigations along previously unstudied sections of the famed Chaco North Road have identified consistent patterns in road artifact distributions and physical characteristics north of Pierre’s Ruin, a large Chaco outlier complex located along the road. Research also shows that the phenomenon of parallel roads extend twice as far north of Pierre’s Ruin than previously known, and may ultimately reach the escarpment of Kutz Canyon, where the North Road via a prehistoric stairway descends into the badlands. Aerial photo and archaeological site and artifact data also indicates that the North Road continued to Aztec Ruins. This talk is free and open to the public. For more information about the talk or joining Hisatsinom, call Diane McBride at 560-1643.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">National Register Update</span><br />Congratulations to all those involved with listing the following places on the National Register of Historic Properties: Tonto National Monument Visitors Center, Tucson's Erskine P Caldwell House, the Don Martin Apartmentment House, the First Joesler House, Gable House, Haynes Building, Heckler House, and Type A and B Joesler Buildings, as well as Clarkdale's Tuzigoot Musuem,<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Reminder - First Archaeology Expo Planning Meeting for the 2011 Arizona Archaeology and Heritage Awareness Month.</span><br />This coming Tuesday, October 5, 2010 at 1:00 PM at the Deer Valley Rock Art Center, 3711 W Deer Valley Rd in Glendale, AZ. Please come and share your ideas as the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) initiates planning for the 2011 Arizona Archaeology Expo that will be held on March 26-27, 2011 at the Deer Valley Rock Art Center (Center) in Glendale. We will be touring the Center's grounds, exchanging ideas with the various partners, discussing programming, publicity, lay out and organization, sponsors, funding, off-site activities, etc. The SHPO values our partnerships with you we hope to see you at this meeting, and at future planning efforts, for the 2011 Arizona Archaeology and Heritage Awareness Month public programming. For More Information, Please Contact: Ann Howard, Public Archaeology Programs Manager State Historic Preservation Office 602/542-7138, avh2@azstateparks.gov<br /><br />Thanks to Carrie Gregory, Gerald Kelso, Brian Kreimendahl and Adrianne Rankin for contributing to today's newsletter.Center for Desert Archaeologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632544160503692093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157147949621171095.post-57499872617818569722010-09-24T11:23:00.000-07:002010-09-24T11:33:08.637-07:00Politics Push Back Bill to Expand Casa Grande Ruins National Monument<span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Southwestern Archaeology making the News - <span style="font-style: italic;">A Service of the Center for Desert Archaeology</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Politics Push Back Bill to Expand Casa Grande Ruins National Monument</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Casa Grande Ruins National Monument expansion bill (HR 5110) received a substantial majority of votes on Thursday (Sept. 23), with 244 votes for, and 174 votes against. However, the bill was considered under “suspension,” which requires a two-thirds majority. The bill did not reach that threshold, so it failed.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/38gkv97">http://tinyurl.com/38gkv97</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Center for Desert Archaeology</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/37byc2q">http://tinyurl.com/37byc2q</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> = Arizona Republic</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Arizona Republic Advocates Expansion of Casa Grande Ruins</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The U.S. House of Representatives is taking a recorded vote today on a proposal to expand the boundaries of Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. If any bill should be a slam dunk, this is it. The significance of the site was obvious more than a century ago, when it became America's first archaeological reserve in 1892. It was designated as a national monument in 1918.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/39yfbnw">http://tinyurl.com/39yfbnw</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Arizona Republic</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">The Site of a Coronado Skirmish Uncovered in New Mexico</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">A battleground in the first major conflict between Europeans and Native Americans in what would become the U.S. Southwest is a vacant lot on the west side of Albuquerque. For a century, archaeologists and pot hunters have known of the ruins called Piedras Marcadas ("marked boulders") — once one of at least a dozen thriving Tiwa-speaking villages in the central valley of the Rio Grande, known collectively as Tiguex (pronounced tee-wesh).</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/3adx4u2">http://tinyurl.com/3adx4u2</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Santa Fe New Mexican</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Archaeologists Claim Evidence for "Genocide" at Small Pit House Village</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Crushed leg bones, battered skulls and other mutilated human remains are likely all that's left of a Native American population destroyed by genocide that took place circa 800 A.D., suggests a new study. The paper, accepted for publication in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, describes the single largest deposit to date of mutilated and processed human remains in the American Southwest.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.enn.com/lifestyle/article/41799">http://www.enn.com/lifestyle/article/41799</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Field School Students Excavate Folsom Site Near Albuquerque</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Imagine finding evidence of one of the first human groups known to have traveled through the middle Rio Grande Valley in the Southwestern United States. That’s what students in Anthropology 375/575 did this summer as they excavated a Folsom site on a mesa west of Albuquerque. It was named Deann’s site after Deann Muller, the student who found it during a survey of the area in 2001.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/3y9wywg">http://tinyurl.com/3y9wywg</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - University of New Mexico</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Don Garate Passes</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Don Garate, a Rio Rico resident known for his colorful depictions of Juan Bautista de Anza II, died Tuesday of brain cancer at his son Gene’s home in Kansas. He was 59.</span> <span style="font-family: verdana;">While depicting Anza II, a Spanish captain who led an expedition in 1775 from Tubac to establish the first overland route to present-day San Francisco, Garate appeared in full costume with a red-trimmed navy blue cape and a black hat, sometimes on horseback.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/2wnqtc2">http://tinyurl.com/2wnqtc2</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - The Nogales International</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">(Related Story) A Tribute to Don Garate's Final Performance as Juan Bautista De Anza Available on Youtube</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">F or over 25 years Don Garate has played the role of Juan Bautista de Anza for the National Park Service, Tumacacori National Historic Park. He has embodied the legacy of Anza for us all to enjoy today. Presented here is a five minute tribute to Don excerpted from an in-production video on Anza, "Legacy of a Journey" being prepared for the Park Service for distribution in the summer of 2011.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTJF-8ners4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTJF-8ners4</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Paul S. Martin Passes</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Paul S. Martin developed the idea that early humans had hunted North America's Ice Age big game, including ground sloths, camels, mammoths and mastodons, to extinction. Paul S. Martin, the University of Arizona geoscientist who developed the idea that overhunting drove North America's large Ice Age mammals extinct, died Sept. 13 at his home in Tucson, Ariz. He was 82.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.uanews.org/node/34237">http://www.uanews.org/node/34237</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">The Ancient City Underneath Phoenix</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">My hometown is greater Phoenix. Peel back just the top couple of feet there, and you'll find the remnants of a sprawling society of farmers who lived in adobe villages a thousand years ago.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128778236">http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128778236</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Native American Cultural Preservation - Without a Casino</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Like other native Americans, the Hopi of Arizona have faced adversity, including seeing their homeland, or tutsqua, shrink from more than 18 million acres to 1.5 million acres today. Hopi groups disagree about how to preserve their culture: Build a casino or remain gambling-free? Encourage tourists or restrict them? Their responses have stayed on the conservative side – they have twice voted down building a casino. But now, with the support of their tribal government, the progressive Upper Moenkopi have built the first major Hopi hotel, the Moenkopi Legacy Inn near Tuba City.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/36xk2bk">http://tinyurl.com/36xk2bk</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - The Christian Science Monitor</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Astronomy Evening At Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Saturday, October 2, 2010 - Take advantage of New Mexico’s magnificent dark skies by attending the season’s final astronomy evening at Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument on Saturday, October 2nd beginning at 5:00 p.m.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.cdarc.org/sat/gcd_astronomy3.doc">http://www.cdarc.org/sat/gcd_astronomy3.doc</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Ms Word Document\</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">The Story of George Hubbard Pepper</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">George Hubbard Pepper (1873-1924) landed a very big job anthropologically speaking.</span> <span style="font-family: verdana;">He directed the excavation of one of the wonders of the American West, Pueblo Bonito, the 800-room Native American brick complex built 1200 years ago in the Arizona (sic) desert.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.silive.com/entertainment/arts/index.ssf/2010/09/native_art.html">http://www.silive.com/entertainment/arts/index.ssf/2010/09/native_art.html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Nanodiamonds Discovered in Greenland Ice Sheet, Contribute to Evidence for Cosmic Impact</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Nanosize diamonds have been discovered in the Greenland ice sheet, according to a study reported by scientists in a recent online publication of the Journal of Glaciology. The finding adds credence to the controversial hypothesis that fragments of a comet struck across North America and Europe approximately 12,900 years ago.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100914143626.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100914143626.htm</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">National Park's Entrance Fees Waived this Saturday</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">This Saturday, Sept 25, the National Park Service is offering free access to 392 national parks to commemorate National Public Lands Day, reports the America's Great Outdoors Campaign, a community-based conservation awareness effort.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.enn.com/lifestyle/article/41808">http://www.enn.com/lifestyle/article/41808</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">2011 Pecos Conference to be held on the Arizona Strip</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The 2011 Pecos Conference of Southwestern Archaeology will be held in the Kaibab National Forest on the “Arizona Strip,” north and west of the Colorado River, August 11-14. The site is an open park at Mile-and-a-half Lake, 8 miles south of Jacob Lake and 2.5 miles west of SR 67. Jacob Lake is located at the intersection of US 89A and SR67 between Lee’s Ferry and Fredonia. Individuals and organizations interested in assisting in the organization as partners, sponsors, or vendors may contact David Purcell at davidepurcell@gmail.com. Additional information will be released as it is available through this channel and the conference website, which is in development. Please prepare for a celebration of the archaeology and history of the Arizona Strip, southwestern Utah, and southern Nevada in the 99th year of Arizona Statehood!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">First Archaeology Expo Planning Meeting for the 2011 Arizona Archaeology and Heritage Awareness Month. </span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">This coming Tuesday, October 5, 2010 at 1:00 PM at the Deer Valley Rock Art Center, 3711 W Deer Valley Rd in Glendale, AZ. Please come and share your ideas as the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) initiates planning for the 2011 Arizona Archaeology Expo that will be held on March 26-27, 2011 at the Deer Valley Rock Art Center (Center) in Glendale. We will be touring the Center’s grounds, exchanging ideas with the various partners, discussing programming, publicity, lay out and organization, sponsors, funding, off-site activities, etc. The SHPO values our partnerships with you – we hope to see you at this meeting, and at future planning efforts, for the 2011 Arizona Archaeology and Heritage Awareness Month public programming. For More Information, Please Contact: Ann Howard, Public Archaeology Programs Manager State Historic Preservation Office 602/542-7138, avh2@azstateparks.gov</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Lecture Opportunity: Tubac</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Hohokam Southern Frontier Revisited: Recent Excavations at the Continental Site in Green Valley. Thursday October 14, 2010, 7 PM at Santa Cruz County’s North County Facility 50 Bridge Road, Tubac, Az. This presentation at the Santa Cruz Valley Chapter, Arizona Archaeological Society monthly meeting will illustrate and discuss all of the archaeological investigations that have been conducted at the Continental prehistoric site. Despite the toll that historic and modern developments have taken on this site, more than 100 intact archaeological features have been found still buried there, and 44 of those features have been excavated.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.cdarc.org/sat/%20southern_hohokam_frontier.pdf">http://www.cdarc.org/sat/ southern_hohokam_frontier.pdf</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Hiking Opportunity: Chaco Migrants Meet Mountain Mogollon</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Saturday, 16 October, 2010. Find out about two great ancestral cultures. Decide if this is where they met, whether they got along, how they differ, and why they chose here. Dittert Site. 4 mile hike. 5 hours. 9 AM El Malpais NCA Ranger Station. Grants, New Mexico. 505.280.2918</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.cdarc.org/sat/dittert_hike.doc">Http://www.cdarc.org/sat/dittert_hike.doc</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Reminder</span> - Only one week left to submit proposals for the Arizona History Conference. Proposals must be submitted by October 1, 2010, to Bruce J. Dinges, c/o Arizona Historical Society, 949 E. 2nd St., Tucson, AZ 85719. Only one proposal per presenter. Include name, address, phone number, and biographical information, along with title of presentation and no more than one page of description.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.arizonahistory.org/2011conv/2011call.html">http://www.arizonahistory.org/2011conv/2011call.html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thanks to Brian Kreimendahl and Adrianne Rankin for contributing to today's newsletter.</span>Center for Desert Archaeologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632544160503692093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157147949621171095.post-47974701788714507132010-09-14T12:55:00.000-07:002010-09-14T13:03:00.281-07:00Ray Thompson to Speak at Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society Meeting<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: verdana;">Southwestern Archaeology Making the News - <span style="font-style: italic;">A Service of the Center for Desert Archaeology</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: verdana;">Ray Thompson to Speak at Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society Meeting (Tucson)</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dr. Thompson will be presenting the monthly AAHS lecture on Monday, Sept 20th at 7:30 pm in DuVal Auditorium, UMC, 1501 N. Campbell Ave. Dr. Thompson's will share his stories of southwestern archaeology in a talk entitled "The Real Dirt of Southwestern Archaeology: Tall Tales from the Good Old Days." The event is free and open to the public.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;">San Xavier - "A Gift of Angels"</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">It’s possible to become so familiar with something that we begin to take it for granted. We begin to overlook the meaning and the beauty that is present in the details. Bernard Fontana is a leading authority on Mission San Xavier del Bac, and the author of A Gift of Angels. “It was a huge undertaking,” he says, “to photograph the building and façade in detail.” Bernard, or "Bunny," to you and I, has been quite curious about this church for many decades, and he’s devoted a large part of his life to the scholarly interpretation of the San Xavier del Bac.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/sanxavier">http://tinyurl.com/sanxavier</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: verdana;">Huhugam Ki Museum Lecture Series Begins at the Salt River Maricopa Community Building </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">"Onk Akimel–Va Shly’ay" Huhugam Ki Museum presents 3 nights of community talks, starting Thursday Sept. 30, 2010. “Finding Traces of Our Past: What Will Your Grandchildren Tell Their Grandchildren?” will be presented at the SRPMIC Cultural Preservation Program and Archaeology Program, Salt River Community Building, Longmore and McDowell from 6;00pm to 8;00pm. Light supper served at 5:30pm</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.cdarc.org/sat/3_nights_poster.pdf">http://www.cdarc.org/sat/3_nights_poster.pdf</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: verdana;">Gary Nabhan to Speak at the Arizona Humanities Council's 2010 Lorraine W. Frank Lecture (Tucson)</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Arizona Humanities Council is proud to announce that this year's featured speaker is Gary Paul Nabhan. Gary Nabhan is an internationally known writer, lecturer, food and farming advocate whose work has long been rooted in the U.S. / Mexico borderlands region. He is a Research Social Scientist at the Southwest Center of the University of Arizona. The talk will be held at the Leo Rich Theater in Tucson, Friday, Oct 22, 2010 with the reception starting at 5:30 pm. The lecture will begin at 6:30. This event is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is requested at the link below.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.azhumanities.org/lwf_lecture5.php">http://www.azhumanities.org/lwf_lecture5.php</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: verdana;">NATHPO Training Program on Dangerous Chemicals in Artifacts Offered</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Many museum collections were treated with pesticides to preserve them. Often there are no records and staff is unaware of what might be on the collection or how it may affect researchers. This class is designed for museum curators and others who work with Native American and ethnographic collections. It details methods to mitigate hazards from chemicals and pesticides and health issues stemming from their use on artifacts. Participants in Dangerous Materials: Chemical Poisons in Native American and Ethnographic Artifacts work through sections on their own. Materials and resources include online literature, slide lectures and dialog between students and the instructor through online forums. The course is limited to 20 participants. The instructor, Dr. Nancy Odegaard is the Conservator and Head of the Preservation Division for Arizona State Museum. She is also a Professor in the Department of Anthropology. Nancy manages and supervises staff and programs in the conservation lab, advises on museum environmental issues, and seeks to promote the preservation of collections through improved exhibition and storage conditions. Registration deadline is Friday, Sept 24th, 2010.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.nathpo.org/NNMTP/DangerousMaterialsApplication.html">http://www.nathpo.org/NNMTP/DangerousMaterialsApplication.html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: verdana;">Archaeo-Nevada Society Begins this Year's Lecture Series</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Archaeo-Nevada Society started its 2010-2011 season with its first meeting Sept. 9th with a talk given by Mark Boatright BLM Archaeologist for Redrock Canyon National Conservation Area. His talked was about the archaeological happenings a at the conservation area with an emphasis on the rock rings throughout the area. The Society meets monthly September through May on the second Thursday at 7 pm on the College of Southern Nevada West Charleston Campus in building K room 228. All are welcome for our monthly lectures. Octobers meeting will feature Chuck Williams from the Redrock Canyon Interpretive Association discussing the rockart in Redrock Canyon. For information about membership contact Bruce Holloway at bholloway9@cox.net </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: verdana;">Rock Art Symposium Announcement</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Rock Art 2010, the 35th annual Rock Art Symposium presented by the San Diego Museum of Man, will meet on Saturday, November 6, 2010, at the Otto Center at the San Diego Zoo on Park Blvd. in San Diego's Balboa Park. This day-long event offers participants the opportunity to share in the results of rock art research around the globe, presented in slide-illustrated lectures. Registration is $40 for students and Museum members, $50 for general admission, including a commemorative ceramic mug. The Rock Art 2010 Flyer with registration information and directions to the Symposium is now available at the link below.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.museumofman.org/sites/default/files/RA2010Flyer.pdf">http://www.museumofman.org/sites/default/files/RA2010Flyer.pdf</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: verdana;">Rock Art Symposium Call for Papers</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">If you have rock art research to report, or a new discovery to announce to the world, we are accepting proposals for Rock Art 2010 papers until available time on the program is filled. To submit a paper, send the title and a brief abstract by e-mail to RockArt2010@cox.net <> no later than October 30, 2010. E-mail is preferred, but abstracts can be mailed if necessary to Ken Hedges at the San Diego Museum of Man, 1350 El Prado, San Diego, CA 92101</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: verdana;">National Register Report</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Congratulations to Pima County's Robles Ranch House, for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: verdana;">Public Archaeology at Fort St. Joseph is the Latest Feature on the Archaeology Channel</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Engaging the public in an archaeological project requires some stimulation of the imagination. As an example, the field school team at Fort St. Joseph in western Michigan take the public back to French colonial times in Making the Past Come Alive: Public Archaeology at Fort St. Joseph, the latest video feature on our nonprofit streaming-media Web site, The Archaeology Channel. Fort St. Joseph, begun as a French Jesuit mission in the 1680s, was one of the earliest European settlements in the western Great Lakes and an important link among the remote settlements of New France. For almost 80 years, French priests, enlisted men, and traders lived here closely with the native Potowatomi and Miami. After 1781, the fort eventually eroded away and its location was forgotten until its relocation by the Western Michigan University field School. WMU now carries out a very active public archaeology program at the site. </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.archaeologychannel.org/">http://www.archaeologychannel.org</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thanks to Gerald Kelso for contributions to today's newsletter.</span>Center for Desert Archaeologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632544160503692093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157147949621171095.post-42283346295462291532010-09-07T11:29:00.000-07:002010-09-07T11:37:00.024-07:00The Archaeological Institute that Helped Define Santa Fe<span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Southwestern Archaeology Making the News - <span style="font-style: italic;">A Service of the Center for Desert Archaeology</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">The Archaeological Institute that Helped Define Santa Fe</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Adolph Bandelier was broke. Although he had received a $1,200 grant to explore the indigenous peoples and wondrous ruins of New Mexico, that money went quickly to travel and supplies. Exasperated, curious and probably a little bitter, Bandelier investigated the disbursements of funds dedicated to archaeology by American institutions. The vast majority of gifts and funds, he found, went to classics, the study of ancient civilizations in Europe. Very little money and very little attention went to scholarship of American antiquities. The United States needed a center for its own archaeology.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/400-9SARS">http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/400-9SARS</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Archaeology Cafe Tonight in Tucson</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The next Archaeology Café will convene on Tuesday, September 7, 2010. We will be joined by a panel of archaeologists from William Self Associates, Inc., who will discuss their work at the Marsh Station Road (MSR) site. This 20-acre site is located near the confluence of Cienega Creek and Mescal Wash, southeast of Tucson. MSR was inhabited at several points in time between 1050 B.C. and A.D. 1400. The panel—which will be led by project director Michael Boley—will share what they have learned about life and subsistence at MSR, especially during the Early Agricultural and Hohokam Sedentary (Middle Rincon) periods. Their findings have implications for use of the “hinterlands” concept in Hohokam archaeology in the region.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/343syqd">http://tinyurl.com/343syqd</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Center for Desert Archaeology</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Tribes Seek Faster Repatriation of their Ancestors' Remains</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Amid the broken treaties, confiscated lands and other injustices that Native Americans have endured at the hands of white people, few are as personal as the removal of their buried ancestors. For a culture that assigns special meaning to burial rites, it's been painful, Native Americans say, knowing that the remains of tens of thousands of their ancestors have been unearthed, carted off and kept in various federal agencies, museums and other institutions - and not being able to do much about it. </span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.argusleader.com/article/20100830/NEWS/8300314/1001/news">http://www.argusleader.com/article/20100830/NEWS/8300314/1001/news</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Impact Hypothesis Loses Its Sparkle: Shock-Synthesized Diamonds Not Found</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">About 12,900 years ago, a sudden cold snap interrupted the gradual warming that had followed the last Ice Age. The cold lasted for the 1,300-year interval known as the Younger Dryas (YD) before the climate began to warm again. In the August 30 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of scientists led by Tyrone Daulton, PhD, a research scientist in the physics department at Washington University in St. Louis, reported that they could find no diamonds in YD boundary layer material.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100830152530.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100830152530.htm</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Lima Beans Domesticated Twice</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lima beans were domesticated at least twice, according to a new genetic diversity study by Colombian scientists. Big seeded varieties known as "Big Lima" were domesticated in the Andean Mountains, while small seeded "Sieva" and "Potato" varieties originated in central-western Mexico.The researchers also discovered a "founder effect," which is a severe reduction in genetic diversity due to domestication. This means that today's Lima bean varieties contain only a small fraction of the genetic diversity present in their respective wild ancestors.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100831222310.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100831222310.htm</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Sacred Site gets Respite</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">PALA, Calif. – A site in rural San Diego County deemed culturally and environmentally sensitive by Indians was given a respite Aug. 5 from being turned into a landfill. The Pala Band of Mission Indians, whose community sits two miles away from the site, and an environmental group, objected to the application to operate the proposed 1,770-acre landfill filed from Gregory Canyon Landfill Ltd of San Diego, the tribe said in a press release. A San Diego County public agency rescinded its previous green light on the application after the tribe and the Natural Resources Defense Council pointed out the lack of financial responsibility and other inaccuracies in the application, the tribe said in the press release.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/38fwj5s">http://tinyurl.com/38fwj5s</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Indian Country Today</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Supaulovi Village and the City of Winslow Host Suvoyuki Day Celebrations</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sipaulovi Village hosts Suvoyuki Day on Sunday, September 12, 2010 at Hopi Second Mesa in northeastern Arizona. The day begins at 5:00 a.m. MST with registration for the 5-mile traditional foot race and 2-mile fun run and walk. From 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. MST, enjoy the Food and Artists Market, walking tours, and lectures. All events originate at the Sipaulovi Visitor Center on Second Mesa and are open to the public. Follow signs from the Highway 264/87 junction to the village.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.cdarc.org/sat/suvoyuki.doc">http://www.cdarc.org/sat/suvoyuki.doc</a><span style="font-family: verdana;">- MS Word Document</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">2011 - Arizona Archaeology And Heritage Awareness Month Poster Design Competition</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Arizona State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) is pleased to announce a call for original designs to be used on the 2011 Arizona Archaeology and Heritage Awareness Month (AAHAM) poster. The winning poster design will receive $250.00! In addition to being featured on the AAHAM poster, the chosen design will also be utilized on other 2011 AAHAM publicity tools, e.g., the statewide Listing of Events brochure, bookmarks, websites, and other venues/materials to be determined by the SHPO. The poster design should address the theme for the month: “Arizona Through Time: Stories of Stone”</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.cdarc.org/sat/poster_competition.doc">http://www.cdarc.org/sat/poster_competition.doc</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - MS Word Document</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Coffee with the Curators at ASM</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Join us Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 3 Pm in the Arizona State Museum Library for a cup of coffee and an informal conversation with one of our curators! Dr. Dale Brenneman, assistant curator of documentary history, talks about the challenges—and the fun—of working with Spanish colonial documents to research the history of Native peoples. Enjoy freshly brewed coffee donated by Tucson Mountain Coffee Roasters and a delicious assortment of cookies donated by Paradise Bakery and Café. Future conversations on Oct 6, Nov 3, and Dec 1.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Publication Announcement - Leaving Mesa Verde - Peril and Change in the Thirteenth-Century Southwest</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Crow Canyon is pleased to announce the publication of Leaving Mesa Verde: Peril and Change in the Thirteenth-Century Southwest. The 14-chapter volume, published by the University of Arizona Press, is edited by Dr. Timothy Kohler, regents professor at Washington State University (WSU) and a Crow Canyon research associate; Dr. Mark Varien, Crow Canyon vice president of programs; and Aaron Wright, a Ph.D. student at WSU and a preservation fellow at the Center for Desert Archaeology. As the title suggests, the book examines the depopulation of the northern Southwest, with a focus on the Mesa Verde region.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.imakenews.com/crowcanyon1/e_article001851348.cfm?x=b11,0,w">http://www.imakenews.com/crowcanyon1/e_article001851348.cfm?x=b11,0,w</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Hiking Opportunity - 1230 to 1930. How Much has Changed</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Grants, New Mexico – Saturday, September 11 - Hike from the stunning Lobo Canyon petroglyphs into the heart of BLM El Malpais NCA wilderness. End at a homestead built on a “Mogasazi” site in Mexican Spotted Owl habitat. Look for evidence that technology in the 1230s was more helpful than in the 1930s.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.cdarc.org/sat/1230_to_1920.doc">http://www.cdarc.org/sat/1230_to_1920.doc<br /></a><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Lecture Opportunity (Irvine CA)</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Pacific Coast Archaeological Society's September 9th meeting will feature Dr. John Collins speaking on “An Introduction to Southwest and Southern California Indian Baskets.” Meeting information: Thursday, September 9, 2010, 7:30 pm at the Irvine Ranch Water District, 15600 Sand Canyon Ave., Irvine, CA. Meeting is free and open to the public. For information follow the link below.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.pcas.org/">http://www.pcas.org</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Travelogue - Navajo National Monument</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The visitor center at Navajo National Monument traces the history and culture of both the ancient cliff dwellers and the Navajo Nation through displays of centuries-old pottery; sandals, cord, cloth and baskets woven from fibers of native plants; flaked stone tools; wooden utensils; shell, bone and turquoise beads and ornaments; and demonstrations by contemporary Navajo artisans of such traditional crafts as rug-weaving.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/3azpeeq">http://tinyurl.com/3azpeeq</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - The Chieftan.Com</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Travelogue - Mesa Verde</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">There's no time to be nervous. The kids charge ahead up the 32-foot ladder, squeezing through a narrow, 12-foot tunnel, walking in toeholds carved into dusty sandstone. Imagine if you could only get into your office or house via toeholds carved into rock. Imagine cooking by tossing a hot rock into a waterproofed basket filled with stew fixings and grinding corn with a rock. Imagine living with your family in small stone rooms. Imagine no TV or video games to entertain the kids — just stories passed down from generation to generation.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38937842/ns/travel-family_travel/">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38937842/ns/travel-family_travel/</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thanks to Adrianne Rankin for Contributions to Today's Newsletter.</span>Center for Desert Archaeologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632544160503692093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157147949621171095.post-58426818000259256472010-08-29T17:00:00.000-07:002010-08-29T17:09:18.940-07:00Ground Grains - What the Locals Ate 10,000 Years Ago<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Southwestern Archaeology Making the News - <span style="font-style: italic;">A Service of the </span></span><a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-style: italic;" href="http://www.cdarc.org/">Center for Desert Archaeology</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">What the Locals Ate 10,000 Years Ago</span><br />ScienceDaily (Aug. 23, 2010) — If you had a dinner invitation in Utah's Escalante Valley almost 10,000 years ago, you would have come just in time to try a new menu item: mush cooked from the flour of milled sage brush seeds. five summers of meticulous excavation, Brigham Young University archaeologists are beginning to publish what they've learned from the "North Creek Shelter." It's the oldest known site occupied by humans in the southern half of Utah and one of only three such archaeological sites state-wide that date so far back in time.<br /><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100823131743.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100823131743.htm</a><br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2ehhook">http://tinyurl.com/2ehhook</a> - Desert News<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Cactus Genes Connect Modern Mexico to Its Prehistoric Past</span><br />ScienceDaily (Aug. 23, 2010) — In prehistoric times farmers across the world domesticated wild plants to create an agricultural revolution. As a result the ancestral plants have been lost, causing problems for anyone studying the domestication process of modern-day varieties, but that might change. A team led by Fabiola Parra at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) has managed to trace a domesticated cactus, the Gray Ghost Organ Pipe (Stenocereus pruinosus) to its living ancestor that can still be found in the Tehuacán Valley in Mexico.<br /><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100823113420.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100823113420.htm</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">New Foundation Practices Preservation in Central Arizona</span><br />While some people look at an old building or an abandoned site and see an eyesore, Gem Cox and other members of the Florence Heritage Foundation see an opportunity for history to come alive. “Our mission is to preserve our heritage and historic icons — buildings, sites and history,” said Cox, who serves as the president of the Florence Heritage Foundation, which was formed in 2009 and incorporated this year. Cox said that witnessing the degradation of many historic sites in the area helps to motivate the foundation.<br /><a href="http://trivalleycentral.com/articles/2010/08/27/front/doc4c77e53a6f952162784750.txt">http://trivalleycentral.com/articles/2010/08/27/front/doc4c77e53a6f952162784750.txt</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Former Arizona State Parks Archaeologist Marilyn Mlazovsky Passes</span><br />Former Cultural Resources Manager for Arizona State Parks, Marilyn Mlazovsky, M.A., passed away on August 15, 2010. Marilyn was an archaeologist and often attended conferences and workshops throughout the state. With over 25 years in the cultural resources arena, she came to Arizona from the US Forest Service in California and Utah where she managed the USFS Heritage and Paleontology programs for a number of Forests. Marilyn also worked with the USFS International Forestry Section on a multi-government, multi-disciplinary team in Micronesia. She was a great fan of the Phoenix Symphony and can be remembered with donations to that organization. - From Ann Howard, AZ State Historic Preservation Office.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Rosetta Stone Releases Navajo Language Tutorial Software</span><br />Rosetta Stone, creator of the renowned language learning software, on Tuesday released its Navajo version, the first large-scale language revitalization project for the dialect. Navajo, traditionally an oral language, still is spoken by more than 100,000 people, making it the most common American Indian language north of Mexico. Yet use and fluency among the younger generations is on a decline with about 50 percent of Navajo age 17 and younger unable to speak their native language at all, according to data from the 2000 U.S. Census.<br /><a href="http://www.daily-times.com/farmington-news/ci_15886128?source=rss">http://www.daily-times.com/farmington-news/ci_15886128?source=rss</a><br /><br />Congratulations to Tucson's Menlo Park Nationhood and Mesa's Fraiser Fields Historic District, Both now listed on National Register of Historic Places.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Video Link about Revitalizing Piman Agriculture</span> (from Tom Wright)<br />Here's a link to a short video about some traditional Pima agricultural practices as currently being revitalized in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community: Archaeologists should pay special attention to Jacob Butler's comments about "rock mounds" and "rock spirals" starting at about 2 minutes, 40 seconds into the video. Think about the features he uses in his garden, and then imagine what they would look like after about 1000 years. Anybody who has recorded Hohokam rockpile fields, in the Northern Tucson Basin or elsewhere, will have a pretty good idea of the result. Also watch his use of a digging stick at 4:55, and the "double-dug" garden at 6:30.<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/channeldown2earth#p/u/6/UpUD2vWMO6U">http://www.youtube.com/channeldown2earth#p/u/6/UpUD2vWMO6U</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Lecture Opportunity (Glendale)</span><br />The Agua Fria Chapter of the Arizona Archaeology Society is offering a free lecture on Archaeological Findings During Light Rail Excavations, on Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 6:00 PM at the Glendale Public Library Auditorium, 5959 West Brown (south of Peoria Ave). Membership is not required. The speaker, Hoski Schaafsma, is a Ph.D. student in Archaeology at Arizona State University. He participated in the Light Rail archaeological excavations near Sky Harbor Airport. His presentation will feature photographs of a major Hohokam field system that was discovered. For more information contact Sandy Haddock, (480) 481-0582, azmacaw44@cox.net.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Arizona Archaeology Expo Scheduled for 2011</span><br />Arizona Archaeology and Heritage Awareness Month has been sceduled for march 1 – 31 with the Archaeology Expo Scheduled for March 26th and 27th. The State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) is pleased to announce that the theme for the 2011 celebration of Arizona Archaeology and Heritage Awareness Month (AAHAM) is: “Arizona Through Time: Stories of Stone.” The Expo will be held at the Deer Valley Rock Art Center (DVRAC) (3711 W. Deer Valley Road, Phoenix, 85308. The first Expo Planning Meeting will be held at the DVRAC on October 5, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. More detailed information will follow soon. SHPO will be sending out participation forms in late September for the AAHAM statewide Listing of Events brochure and for the Archaeology Expo.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Can the Wiki System Help to Save Antiquities?</span><br />The field of archaeology and the timeworn Middle East would not seem the obvious places to look for a wiki revolution. But next month in Jordan, officials who oversee that country’s vast store of antiquities will begin an experiment aimed at bringing 21st-century tools to the task of protecting ancient sites, which is an especially pressing need in neighboring Iraq, where looting is once again on the rise.<br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/arts/design/25getty.html?_r=1">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/arts/design/25getty.html?_r=1</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Cambodian Archaeology on the Archaeology Channel</span><br />The rich cultural history of Cambodia has generated an impressive archaeological record that until recently received little world attention. Raising awareness of this country’s remarkable legacy and the challenges posed for those exploring it is our motive in selecting Gold Diggers and Temple Rescuers: A Cambodian Expedition to be the latest video feature on our nonprofit streaming-media Web site, The Archaeology Channel.<br /><a href="http://www.archaeologychannel.org/">http://www.archaeologychannel.org<br /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Training Opportunity (Mt Pleasant, SC)</span><br />"Effective Interpretation of Archeological and Cultural Heritage Resources" a 5-day workshop that will enhance interdisciplinary communication skills for using a team<br />approach to develop and produce effective public interpretation and education programs and products.<br /><a href="http://www.nps.gov/history/seac/course-of-study/FOSU-CHPI_2010/index.htm">http://www.nps.gov/history/seac/course-of-study/FOSU-CHPI_2010/index.htm<br /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Employment Opportunity (Tucson)</span><br />Harris Environmental Group, Inc. is seeking an archaeological Project Director to direct compliance projects for federal, state, and commercial clients. Archaeological experience in the Southwestern United States is required. Candidates must meet Secretary of Interior standards, including a graduate degree in archeology, anthropology, or closely related field plus at least one year of full-time professional experience or equivalent specialized training in archeological research, administration or management; at least four months of supervised field and analytic experience in general North American archeology, and demonstrated ability to carry research to completion. Compensation package will be commensurate with experience. For more information on Harris Environmental Group, see www.heg-inc.com. To apply, please send resume and letter of interest via email to Lisa Harris, President, at lharris@heg-inc.com.<br /><br />Thanks to Gerald Kelso and Adrianne Rankin for contributions to today's newsletter.Center for Desert Archaeologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632544160503692093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157147949621171095.post-49636118640702015312010-08-23T11:55:00.000-07:002010-08-23T12:04:42.227-07:00Craig Child's New Book Dives Head-First into Southwest Archaeology's "Underbelly"<span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Southwestern Archaeology Making the News - <span style="font-style: italic;">A Service of the Center for Desert Archaeology</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Craig Child's New Book Dives Head-First into Southwest Archaeology's "Underbelly"</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Childs' "Finders Keepers" is a fascinating book, full of swashbuckling pothunters, FBI raids, greasy museum curators who don't really care and many, many other characters (including ghosts). "This is a book about the underbelly of archaeology, from both a personal and a global perspective," he explains. But it is not a simple moral tale, as he suggests: "To say the archaeologist is right and the pothunter is wrong seems instinctive, but why? And is it true?"</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/3a3d4y4">http://tinyurl.com/3a3d4y4</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Los Angeles Times</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">"Collectors" Reflect on the Blanding Raids, One Year Later</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The nation's largest and longest-running Indian artifact show opened last year under a cloud of fear and uncertainty as a federal investigation into the sale of Native American artifacts intensified throughout the Four Corners region. Since then, suicide has claimed the government's informant and two defendants, the prehistoric Indian art market has bottomed out, some collectors' lives have been turned upside down and several federal indictments have resulted only in probation for some of those accused of plundering artifacts from federal lands.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/2eszh4j">http://tinyurl.com/2eszh4j</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Santa Fe New Mexican</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">(Related Story) Colorado Artifact Dealer Pleads Guilty</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">A Grand Junction man has pleaded guilty to selling an ancient American Indian artifact that was taken from public land by a Utah state archaeologist. Robert B. Knowlton, 67, originally was indicted for illegally selling three artifacts. He pleaded guilty Tuesday to two misdemeanor charges related to the sale of a Cloud Blower pipe from Blanding, Utah, to a government informant.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/24xhl2o">http://tinyurl.com/24xhl2o</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Durango Herald</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Arizona Site Stewards Make Rare Find Near Flagstaff</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Site Stewards Christine Stephenson and Rich Rogers and myself (Bern Carey) were out monitoring sites with Dr. David Wilcox of the Museum of Northern Arizona during February 2009. Rich Rogers happened to see a small piece of pottery exposed at the bottom of a gully created in a slope of volcanic cinders. Upon closer examination it appeared that what was being exposed by erosion of the volcanic cinder slope was a prehistoric pot.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://azstateparks.com/volunteer/v_site_feature.html">http://azstateparks.com/volunteer/v_site_feature.html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Luke AFB Construction Project Requires Archaeological Mitigation</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Archaeologists hired by Luke Air Force Base will excavate seven sites where hundreds of Native American artifacts have been found to clear the way for construction of the military's largest solar array. Base officials were aware of the artifacts sites before recently launching a project to install more than 50,000 solar panels manufactured by SunPower Corp. The panels, paid for by Arizona Public Service Co., would generate power that the utility company would sell to its Valley customers. Luke would receive a fixed electricity rate for providing land for the panels.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/25q236q">http://tinyurl.com/25q236q</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Arizona Republic</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">History of an Intertribal Conflict at Laguna Pueblo</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">New Mexico author Erna Fergusson in 1955 noted that all is not harmony in an Indian pueblo, as many whites mistakenly believe. She was referring to bitter factionalism within the Native villages that has undoubtedly been part of daily life since prehistoric times. Upheavals at Taos, San Ildefonso and Isleta have been studied and written up by anthropologists. Less well-known is the case of Laguna, where the interference of whites living in the pueblo contributed to a permanent split between traditionalists and progressives.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/2ahfarl">http://tinyurl.com/2ahfarl</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Santa Fe New Mexican</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Help Promote Historic and Cultural Resources through the "America's Great Outdoors" Initiative.</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Many of you are already familiar with the Obama administration’s America’s Great Outdoors Initiative, which seeks to reconnect all people-- but especially youth-- with nature, including cultural and historic resources. As an initial step, the government is soliciting examples of creative ways in which local communities are already doing this successfully. If you have examples of local (non-federal) programs and projects that are successfully educating and engaging communities in history and culture via the “great outdoors” please submit them online through the web site that has been set up for this purpose.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.doi.gov/americasgreatoutdoors/">http://www.doi.gov/americasgreatoutdoors/</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Self-Expression: From Newspaper Rock to Facebook</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">an you read these headlines, still posted on Newspaper Rock for all the world to see a millennia after they were etched in stone? Self expression is one of our most fiercely defended American values, a newly released survey of Americans has found, and that truth has extremely deep roots these ancient etchings suggest.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.freep.com/article/20100820/NEWS07/100820012/1025/rss05">http://www.freep.com/article/20100820/NEWS07/100820012/1025/rss05</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Dwindling Green Pastures, Not Hunting, May Have Killed Off the Mammoth</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">ScienceDaily (Aug. 17, 2010) — A massive reduction in grasslands and the spread of forests may have been the primary cause of the decline of mammals such as the woolly mammoth, woolly rhino and cave lion, according to Durham University scientists.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100817211052.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100817211052.htm</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Training Opportunity in Oral History, September 23 (Tucson)</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Cienega Watershed Partnership Oral History Work Group is sponsoring an oral history training workshop on September 23, 2010, in Vail, Arizona. The workshop will be instructed by Jim Turner and will focus on the basic techniques from organizing the work and conducting interviews to evaluating results. The work shop is supported by a grant from the Bureau of Land Management and is part of the Oral History Work Group's focus to collect, manage and disseminate oral histories in southeastern Arizona. To register, contact Shela McFarlin, shela_mcfarlin@yahoo.com. Maximum of 30 registrants. A bag lunch is required for the 9 to 3 workshop. Cost: $5.00.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;">Great Kiva Research to be the Topic of Cortez Colorado Archaeology Society Meeting</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Hisatsinom chapter of the Colorado Archaeology Society will hold its monthly meeting at the Cortez Cultural Center on Tuesday, September 7, at 7:00 p.m. Linda Wheelbarger will provide updates on her ongoing investigations of the Point Site outside of Farmington. The 2009-2010 San Juan College field school excavations at the Point Site revealed a great kiva estimated to be nearly 16 m in diameter. Great kiva research will be presented through the perspective of chronology, distribution, architectural features, masonry styles, associated ceramics types, Puebloan traditional context, and Puebloan continuity.</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Cortez Cultural Center is at 25 North Market Street in Cortez. For more information on the program or Hisatsinom, the Montezuma County chapter of the Colorado Archaeology Society, please contact Diane McBride at 560-1643.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Opportunity to Tour the TJ Site (Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument)</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument will offer a ranger-guided tour of the TJ Site on Saturday, September 4, 2010. Visitors to Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument have the unique opportunity to explore the TJ Site, an unexcavated surface pueblo that is usually closed to the public. This free tour of the TJ site will be offered on Saturday, September 4th at 11:00 a.m. and will last approximately 1 ½ hours. The tour is limited to 20 people and reservations should be made in advance by calling the Gila Visitor Center at (575) 536-9461. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Astronomy Evening to be Held At Gila Cliff Dwellings</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Saturday, September 4, 2010, Take advantage of New Mexico’s magnificent dark skies by attending the season’s second astronomy evening at Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument on Saturday, September 4th beginning at 7:00 p.m.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.cdarc.org/sat/gcd_astronomy.doc">http://www.cdarc.org/sat/gcd_astronomy.doc</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - MS Word Document</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Mesa Museum Seeks Volunteers</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Arizona Museum of Natural History in Mesa is recruiting volunteers to serve as gallery interpreters once a week. Training in archaeology, paleontology, geology, interpretation techniques and customer service will be offered 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Mondays in October and Nov. 1 in the theater at the museum, 53 N. Macdonald.For more information, call (480) 644-2760, e-mail yvonne.petersen@mesaaz.gov</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.azmnh.org/">Http://www.azmnh.org</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - East Valley Tribune</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Unique Symposium to Examine the Meaning of Night in Ancient Mesoamerica </span>(Washington DC) Pre-Columbian Society Symposium, “Under Cover of Darkness.” The Pre-Columbian Society of Washington, D.C., is accepting registrations for its 17th annual symposium, to be held on Saturday, September 25, at the U.S. Navy Memorial and Naval Heritage Center in downtown Washington, D.C. This year’s symposium, Under Cover of Darkness: The Meaning of Night in Ancient Mesoamerica, covers a topic that has been largely understudied to date. Presenters include Linda Brown of George Washington University; Cecelia Klein of the University of California at Los Angeles; John Pohl of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA; Kent Reilly of Texas State University at San Marcos (moderator); Keith Prufer of the University of New Mexico, and Marc Zender of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.pcswdc.org/">Http://www.pcswdc.org</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Employment Opportunity (Phoenix)</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Desert Archaeology Inc. is seeking archaeological personnel for upcoming projects in the Phoenix metropolitan area. An archaeological testing and data recovery project is expected to begin sometime in September and last from two to four weeks. Further work may include monitoring projects, cultural resources surveys, and other archaeological testing/data recovery projects. Experienced field technicians are sought, but entry level archaeologists will be considered. Some supervisory positions may be available. Wages will be competitive and commensurate with experience. There will be no lodging or per diem associated with this local Phoenix work. If you are interested, please email a cover letter, resume, and references to Kathy Henderson at khenderson@desert.com or fax to 480-967-9211.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thanks to Cherie Freeman and Adrianne Rankin for contributing to today's newsletter.</span>Center for Desert Archaeologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632544160503692093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157147949621171095.post-70173508509398039232010-08-17T11:15:00.000-07:002010-08-17T11:22:11.555-07:00Legal Battle over Geronimo's Remains Continues<span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Southwestern Archaeology Making the News -<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"> A Service of the Center for Desert Archaeology</span><br /><br />Legal Battle over Geronimo's Remains Continues</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Descendants of Geronimo say they aren't giving up their legal effort to find out once and for all if the venerable Apache chief's remains are ensconced at Yale. A Washington judge late last month dismissed a suit demanding that Yale's Skull and Bones society turn over a skull and other remains that, according to legend, are inside the club's building in Connecticut.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/2co6dhg">http://tinyurl.com/2co6dhg</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - UPI.Com</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Sacred Objects Repatriated to Northern California Tribe</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">White deerskins, condor feathers and head dresses made of bright red woodpecker scalps are among more than 200 sacred artifacts that are once again in the possession of a Northern California Indian tribe. The Yurok Tribe celebrated the items' return this past week — among the largest repatriation of Native American sacred objects ever — from the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/2a6ubvx">http://tinyurl.com/2a6ubvx</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Earthlink</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Hiking Opportunity with El Malapis NCA</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">BLM's El Malpais NCA hosts a ranger-led 2 mile hike, "Ancient Graffiti -</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sacred Altar", on 8/28/10 to the Aldridge Petroglyph Panels. Come to</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Grants, New Mexico and delve into the wonders and wisdom of the ancestor's</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">creations. Info at 505.280.2918.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.cdarc.org/sat/8-28-10-aldridge.doc">http://www.cdarc.org/sat/8-28-10-aldridge.doc</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - MS Word Document</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Lecture Opportunity (Phoenix)</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Arizona State University’s Deer Valley Rock Art Center will kick off its fall season of events with a free lecture at 1 p.m., Sept. 4, titled “Hopi Pőnawit ~ Along Ancient Trails and the Cultural Landscape of the Hopi People.” Speaking will be Micah Loma’omvaya, a Hopi tribal member of the Bear Clan from Songoopavi Village on Second Mesa, Ariz. Loma’omvaya earned a B.A. degree in anthropology from the University of Arizona in 1997 and has worked in the field of anthropology since the age of 17.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://asunews.asu.edu/20100726_hopilecture">http://asunews.asu.edu/20100726_hopilecture</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Lecture Opportunity (Tubac)</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Center for Desert Archaeology’s Southwest Field Representative Andy Laurenzi will give a presentation to the Santa Cruz Valley Chapter of the Arizona Archaeological Society on September 9, 2010, 7 PM, at the North County Facility at 50 Bridge Road in Tubac. His topic will be the expansion of the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. The presentation is free and open to the public.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.cdarc.org/sat/laurenzi_press_release.doc">http://www.cdarc.org/sat/laurenzi_press_release.doc</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">UKTV Documentary Examines Possible Clovis Connection to Solutrean Europe</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1mPD3jbF5k</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Ancient Armenia is the latest Topic on the Archaeology Channel</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Built more than 2000 years ago as the grand capitol city of Armenia, Tigranakert succumbed to the Mongol invasion of the Thirteenth Century and came to light again only in 2005. We are pleased to bring this underappreciated story to the world in Tigranakert: An Armenian Odyssey, the latest video feature on our nonprofit streaming-media Web site, The Archaeology Channel </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.archaeologychannel.org/">http://www.archaeologychannel.org</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thanks to Terry Colvin and Cherie Freeman for contributing to today's newsletter.</span>Center for Desert Archaeologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632544160503692093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157147949621171095.post-30445622086897649852010-08-09T10:49:00.000-07:002010-08-09T10:55:21.113-07:00Arizona Legislature Sweep of Heritage Funds Imperils San Xavier del Bac<span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Southwestern Archaeology Making the News - <span style="font-style: italic;">A Service of the Center for Desert Archaeology</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Arizona Legislature Sweep of Heritage Funds Imperils San Xavier del Bac</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The mission known as "The White Dove of the Desert" shimmers with the unworldly glow of a mirage in the dry flatlands south of Tucson. San Xavier del Bac, with its asymmetrical towers, elegant curves and exuberant decoration, is the best example of Spanish colonial architecture in the nation. It's such an important window into the past that it was one of the original listings when the National Register of Historic Places was established in 1966. |</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/246clwd">http://tinyurl.com/246clwd</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Arizona Republic</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Center for Desert Archaeology Researcher Featured on the History Detectives</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The August 16, 2010, episode of “History Detectives” will feature Center Preservation Fellow Aaron Wright. Aaron asked the team to investigate the authenticity of an inscription in Phoenix’s South Mountain Park. The inscription includes the name of Fray Marcos de Niza, and is dated 1539.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.cdarc.org/2010/08/06/center-researcher-featured-on-pbss-history-detectives/">http://www.cdarc.org/2010/08/06/center-researcher-featured-on-pbss-history-detectives/</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">In Memory of Jo Anne Medley</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">We are sad to inform you all that Jo Anne Medley, a fourteen-year veteran of the State Historic Preservation Office staff, passed away Wednesday, August 4, 2010. We will all miss her deeply not only as a professional colleague but as a good friend and wonderful individual.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.cdarc.org/sat/j_a_m.doc">http://www.cdarc.org/sat/j_a_m.doc</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - MS Word Document</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">El Malpais Hike Scheduled for August 14, "Chaco Migrants Meet Mountain Mogollons"</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Dittert Archaeological Area, Grants, New Mexico</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Some say this site is a Chacoan outlier. Others say it is closer to Mogollon country and influence. Come find out about two great ancestral cultures of the southwest, and decide for yourself if this is where they met, whether they got along, and why they chose this place. Modern interpretations are in dynamic flux. In the late 1200s drought was pervasive as was the likelihood of political upheaval. The Dittert site was built atop a Chaco era site (Pueblo 2), and may have been the last mansion in this area during Pueblo 3 times.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.cdarc.org/sat/el_malpais_hike.doc">http://www.cdarc.org/sat/el_malpais_hike.doc</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - MS Word Document.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Yet Another Light Sentence in 4 Corners Looting Case</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">A Utah man who once bragged about taking American Indian artifacts from federal lands avoided jail time Thursday after a federal judge said he decided to show leniency after reading letters from the man's two daughters. U.S. District Judge Dee Benson said he planned to give Aubry Patterson, 57, prison time but changed his mind after reading the letters, which said Patterson was an "amazing father" who had a hard life but always "provided for us and put food on the table." Patterson's teary daughters accompanied him to court.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/24n5tyq">http://tinyurl.com/24n5tyq</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Washington Examiner</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Steve Jobs Wins Right to Demolish Historic California Mansion</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">If the long saga of Steve Jobs and the Jackling House were a screenplay, we would be at the climactic moment. The billionaire computer king has won his long battle for permission to tear down the historic 1920s mansion he detests. Preservationists who fought him in court for six years have dropped their lawsuit, leaving the town of Woodside free to issue a permit for the 17,000-square-foot home built for copper baron Daniel Jackling to be razed.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_15669725?nclick_check=1">http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_15669725?nclick_check=1</a>Center for Desert Archaeologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632544160503692093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157147949621171095.post-36762396017539556622010-08-03T15:05:00.000-07:002010-08-03T15:13:55.371-07:00Kewa Pueblo Looks to Redevelop Historic Trading Post<span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Southwestern Archaeology Making the News - <span style="font-style: italic;">A Service of the Center for Desert Archaeology</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Kewa Pueblo Looks to Redevelop Historic Trading Post</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ray Tafoya's mind races with all kinds of ideas about how his pueblo can turn an old trading post into the cornerstone of a redevelopment that could bring jobs, business and tourists to this enclave west of Interstate 25. As he drives from the center of the village here north toward the burned-out 1920s adobe building that will be rebuilt with a $1 million federal grant, he rattles them off.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Trading-up">http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Trading-up</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Drug Wars in Mexico May End Popular Kino Mission Tour Program</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The escalating shootouts between Mexican drug gangs in Sonora have created another casualty. Kino Mission Tours, which for 35 years has taken thousands of people on weekend trips to get to know and appreciate the history and culture of northern Sonora, is on the brink of discontinuing the tours.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://azstarnet.com/news/local/article_338345ea-160a-5018-bf57-6e96526b0b40.html">http://azstarnet.com/news/local/article_338345ea-160a-5018-bf57-6e96526b0b40.html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Results from the Arizona Historic American Landscapes Survey</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">As the Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS), sister program to HABS and HAER, celebrates its 10thanniversary, I thought you would be interested in seeing what has been going on in AZ. The American Society of Landscape Architects members are people you can talk to about documenting landscapes and the possibility of getting volunteers to help with documentation that will be archived at the Library of Congress. Their expertise is currently in built landscapes, but HALS is available to all historic and cultural landscapes. Feel free to share this with others.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.asla.org/ppn/Article.aspx?id=25942">http://www.asla.org/ppn/Article.aspx?id=25942</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Santa Fe Antiquities Dealer's Remains Believed to be Found in Panama</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Two weeks ago, Panama authorities and investigators found bones they think are Icelar's in a shallow grave on a Bocas del Toro property near the body of another American missing since March, Cheryl Lynn "Cher" Hughes. Hughes' husband identified her body.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/panama-murder-for-web">http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/panama-murder-for-web</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Planning Meeting for the Arizona Centennial Celebrations in Southern Arizona</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Arizona Centennial Commission and Arizona Historical Advisory Commission cordially invite you to the Southern Arizona Centennial Summit on Tuesday, August 10, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. at the Randolph Golf Course Club House, Copper Room, 600 S. Alvernon Way, Tucson This summit will give elected officials, business and community leaders the opportunity to hear first-hand about signature projects, signature events and official sanctioned events being planned by the Arizona Centennial Commission, in collaboration with the Arizona Historical Advisory Commission and its Centennial Legacy Projects</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.cdarc.org/sat/az_centennial.pdf">http://www.cdarc.org/sat/az_centennial.pdf </a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">ASU Archaeologist Helps Model Human Impact on Land</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Computer modeling is broadening the scope of archaeology by not only providing a better understanding of the past but also by predicting what might occur in the future. That topic, as related to human-environment interaction, is at the core of “Living in the Past and Looking Toward the Future,” an Inside Science News Service article featuring Arizona State University archaeologist Michael Barton.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://asunews.asu.edu/20100729_barton">http://asunews.asu.edu/20100729_barton</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Calling All Crow Canyon Interns</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Crow Canyon Archaeological Center is searching for our former interns! We want to know where you are and how you’re doing! If you or someone you know was an intern at Crow Canyon (in education, field, lab, zooarch, or envarc), please contact Alicia Holt at 800-422-8975 x 135 or aholt@crowcanyon.org. Share your story with us!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Visit Your National Parks for Free, August 14-15</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">U. S. Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today announced that the National Park Service will waive entrance fees on August 14 and 15 to encourage all Americans to visit our national parks. The entrance fees being waived at the 146 sites usually charge for admission range from $3 to $25. There are 246 other parks that do not have entrance fees so you can plan a free visit year-round. The fee free waiver does not include other fees collected in advance or by contractors—such as fees charged for camping, reservations, tours and use of concessions.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.nps.gov/">Http://www.nps.gov<br /></a><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Publication Announcement from Left Coast Press</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">"Indigenous Archaeologies: A Reader on Decolonization" Edited by Margaret Bruchac, Siobhan Hart, and H Martin Wobst August 2010, 400 pages, $34.95 (Paper). Relationships with indigenous peoples has become a key issue in the practice of archaeology worldwide. Collaborative projects or projects directed and conducted by indigenous peoples themselves have become a standard feature of the archaeological landscape, community concerns are routinely addressed, oral histories incorporated into research. This reader of original and reprinted articles – many by indigenous authors – is designed to display the array of writings around this subject from around the globe, many difficult to access in standard academic settings. Cases range from Australia to Arctic Russia, from Africa to North America. Editorial introductions to each piece serve to contextualize these works in the intersection of archaeology and indigenous studies. This is ideal course text in both subjects, as well as a valuable reference volume.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://lcoastpress.com/book.php?id=162">http://lcoastpress.com/book.php?id=162</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thanks to Carrie Gregory and Beth Grindell for contributions to today's newsletter.</span>Center for Desert Archaeologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632544160503692093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157147949621171095.post-13117328009943860582010-07-27T13:05:00.000-07:002010-07-27T13:12:34.898-07:00New Study to Examine Social and Political Contexts of Hohokam Ceramic Production<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-family:verdana;" >Southwestern Archaeology Making the News - <span style="font-style: italic;">A Service of the Center for Desert Archaeology</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >New Study to Examine Social and Political Contexts of Hohokam Ceramic Production</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Can a manufacturing industry purr along without a class system of managers and workers? That's part of a longtime mystery that may soon be solved: How did a prehistoric, egalitarian people called the Hohokam produce large quantities of decorated ceramic vessels without a "manager" hierarchy?</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.physorg.com/news198857381.html">http://www.physorg.com/news198857381.html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >Genetic "Reconstruction" Indicates High Degree of Diversity in Origins of New World Paleolithic Populations</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Anthropologist have believed for a while that humans migrated to the Americas in a relatively short period from a limited area in northeast Asia across a temporary land corridor that opened across the Bering Strait during an ice age. However, government archeologist Alejandro Terrazas says the picture has become complicated because the reconstruction resembles people from southeastern Asian areas like Indonesia. "History isn't that simple," Terrazas told the Associated Press (AP). "This indicates that the Americas were populated by several migratory movements, not just one or two waves from northern Asia across the Bering Strait."</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/3ybmoc9">http://tinyurl.com/3ybmoc9</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> - Red Orbit</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >Audit Finds Fault With NAGPRA Administrators</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">But the first official audit of the government agency that administers NAGPRA portrays a troubled organization that has failed to serve tribes well, and does not always give a fair hearing to scientists' claims. The final report, from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), is expected by autumn, but Nature has obtained a draft that is currently under review. Both the GAO and the NAGPRA office in Washington DC declined to comment on the draft.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Warning - the following link contains an image of human remains of unknown archaeological provenance.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466422a.html">http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466422a.html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >New BYU Exhibit Examines Ancient Life in Utah</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">A new exhibit at Brigham Young University’s Museum of Peoples and Cultures brings into focus the efforts to preserve and study these sites and the thousands of artifacts they have yielded. Beneath Your Feet: Discovering the Archaeology of Utah Valley conveys the story of the Fremont. These pre-Columbian Indians, who populated much of Utah due to their farming prowess, coaxed crops from arid soils from 400 AD until the record of their occupation fades away in the 13th century.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/2vfjy3b">http://tinyurl.com/2vfjy3b</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> - Salt Lake Tribune</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >Excavations Provide Glimpse of Life in Old Town San Diego</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">the four-year effort led by San Diego State University professor Seth W. Mallios has turned up more than 60,000 artifacts from the well behind the house, and more from two other locations on the property. “It’s this great timeline of the way life was lived here from the 1940s back to the 1850s,” said Mallios, whose youthful enthusiasm complements his sterling credentials.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jul/21/peek-old-town-lore/">http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jul/21/peek-old-town-lore/</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >Archaeo-Nevada Society Starts Fall Season September 9th</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Archaeo-Nevada Society a 501c3 organization begins its' fall season September 9,2010 at 7 pm on the College of Southern Nevada campus. Mark Boatwright BLM archaeologist about archaeological activities in the Redrock Canyon National Recreation Area. The Society meets September through May on the second Thursday of each month at 7pm at the College of Southern Nevada W. Charleston campus. Speakers are local archaeologists and historians from Nevada. Memberships include an informative monthly newsletter. The Society was formed in 1962 its' goal is the education about and protection of Nevada's past. The society has established a archaeology/anthropology scholarship at CSN to aid students. For information about membership or donations to the scholarship fund contact Bruce Holloway at bholloway9@cox.net</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >The Santa Fe Railyard Park Wins National Park Service Award of Merit in Site Design</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Public, private and international design firms from more than 20 states and five countries vied for honors in the inaugural Designing the Parks competition. Entries had to engage people, expand beyond traditional boundaries and demonstrate reverence for place, sustainability, informed decision-making and an integrated development process. The National Park Service’s Denver Service Center, in partnership with the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, recognized outstanding examples of park design in four categories: master planning, site design, building design and historic preservation.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/234sywc">http://tinyurl.com/234sywc</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> - Designing the Parks Awards (PDF)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >Kick Off Planning Meeting for the 2011 Arizona Archaeology And Heritage Awareness Month</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Monday, August 23, 2010 at 10:00 a.m, at the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), Arizona State Parks, 1300 W. Washington, Phoenix, in the Basement Boardroom. Please come and share your ideas as the SHPO initiates planning for the 2011 Arizona Archaeology and Heritage Awareness Month (AAHAM) celebration. We will be deciding on a theme for the month, identifying our partners, discussing the 2011 Arizona Archaeology Expo (to be held at the Deer Valley Rock Art Center, Phoenix, Arizona), and exchanging ideas for the promotion of this important educational program within our state. For More Information, Please Contact: Ann Howard, Public Archaeology Programs Manager, SHPO, 602/542-7138, avh2@azstateparks.gov</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >Publication Announcement - Ceramic Makers' Marks</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Left Coast Press Announces the publication of Erica Gibson's Ceramic Makers' Marks, available for pre-order before the October 2010 release date. Erica Gibson’s comprehensive guide provides a much-needed catalogue of ceramic makers' marks of British, French, German, and American origin found in North American archaeological sites. Consisting of nearly 350 marks from 112 different manufacturers from the mid-19th through early 20th century, this catalog provides full information on both the history of the mark and its variants, as well as details about the manufacturer. A set of indexes allow for searches by manufacturer, location, mark elements, and common words used. This guide will be of interest not only to historical archaeologists, but material culture specialists, collectors, museum professionals, students, art historians, and others interested in ceramics. Coming October 2010, 256 pages, $24.95 Paper.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://lcoastpress.com/book.php?id=315">http://lcoastpress.com/book.php?id=315</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >Reminder and Link Update - TAS Annual Meeting Planned for Oct 22-24</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Early registration continues through October 7 ($89 hotel reservations, too). This is also the end date for requesting a Banquet ticket or a table in the Exhibit Room. PDF and online forms for Texas Archeological Society Annual Meeting and Exhibit Room registrations are now available through the TAS website.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.txarch.org/Activities/AnnualMeeting/am2010/index.php">http://www.txarch.org/Activities/AnnualMeeting/am2010/index.php</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">A note of congratulations to the residents of the Indian Ridge Historic District in Tucson for their inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. The properties were added to the register on July 16th, 2010.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Thanks to Carrie Gregory and Gerald Kelso for contributing to today's newsletter.</span>Center for Desert Archaeologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632544160503692093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157147949621171095.post-70907357900945858582010-07-19T11:31:00.000-07:002010-07-19T11:40:35.982-07:00Huhugam Ki Musuem Shares Dual Perspectives on Hohokam and Huhugam<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-family:verdana;" >Southwestern Archaeology Making the News - <span style="font-style: italic;">A Service of the Center for Desert Archaeology</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >Huhugam Ki Museum Shares Dual Perspectives on Hohokam and Huhugam</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The museum serves a dual function, according to Pacer Reina, an assistant there. Not only is it a source of information about the Hohokam to the world at large, it's an important cultural resource for the nearly 9,000 members of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, on the east side of the Valley. The Pima believe they are descended from the Huhugam, which is becoming the preferred transliteration (although Hohokam is still widely used). The museum helps the community's children understand their heritage, Reina said.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/337apvj">http://tinyurl.com/337apvj</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> - Arizona Republic</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >Acting Superintendent Opens Mesa Verde to Back-Country Tours</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">“The resources are fabulous,” he says, “and the staff is very good, which makes my job easier. Mesa Verde National Park is in a great part of the country.” Nelligan is excited about the new Visitor and Research Center currently under construction which will house the park’s collection of over 4,000,000 artifacts in a state of the art facility. Under his leadership, three new backcountry tours are open to Mug House, Spring House and Wetherill Mesa, and in conjunction with the Mesa Verde Foundation, prominent artists recently had a day to paint plein aire style at Long House.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.gjsentinel.com/opinion/articles/acting_superintendent_opens_up">http://www.gjsentinel.com/opinion/articles/acting_superintendent_opens_up</a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >12th Annual National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers Training Meeting Scheduled</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">On Monday, August 9, 2010, NATHPO is offering a pre-conference, NAGPRA-related training session this year, "Using 43 CFR 10.11 to Return 'Culturally Unidentifiable' Native American Human Remains and Associated Funerary Objects." This one-day training will focus on the new regulatory section finalized on May 14, 2010, that requires the return of "culturally unidentifiable" Native American remains to Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations. This training session is a follow-up to last year's workshop, "Using the Culturally Unidentifiable Native American Inventories Database." This important database includes listings and information on over 124,000 individual Native Americans and almost one million associated funerary objects. If you are attending the entire annual meeting, this one-day training is included in your registration fee. If you only want to attend the one-day training, there will be a $100 registration fee.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.nathpo.org/PDF/NATHPO2010workshop.pdf">http://www.nathpo.org/PDF/NATHPO2010workshop.pdf</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >Mesa Arizona Has Tremendous Potential for Historic Preservation</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Former Mesa Mayor Don Strauch smiles when he drives past his childhood home, the Fuller-Strauch house, about once a month. For Strauch, 84, viewing the Mission Revival house built in 1906 in Mesa's West Second Street Historic District is a way to stay in touch with his roots in the Valley's largely rootless society. It brings back memories of his long-deceased family members and reminds him of nights he spent as a boy on the sleeping porch in a bed that hung from chains.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/2arzufs">http://tinyurl.com/2arzufs</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> - Arizona Republic</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >Echos of the Old West at Nevada's Hamilton Ghost Town</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Time was when Hamilton's streets bustled. The largest of several camps spawned by rich horn silver discoveries on Treasure Hill in 1867, Hamilton served a district population of about 30,000 miners and the usual hopefuls and riffraff lured by boom-towns. Today, Hamilton's scatter of ruins rising spectrally from the sagebrush and pinyons lure only those seeking glimpses of the Old West.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/24rdgpb">http://tinyurl.com/24rdgpb</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> - Las Vegas Journal</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >Lecture Opportunity (Durango)</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Crow Canyon research archaeologist Susan Ryan will give a talk at 7 p.m. July 23 at the center, 23390 Road K in Cortez. Ryan will discuss the ancestral Puebloan communities in the central Mesa Verde region that remained occupied despite severe drought in 12th century.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.crowcanyon.org/">http://www.crowcanyon.org </a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >Lecture Opportunity (Tucson)</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society Presents Linda Mayro and Roger Anyon speaking on "Preserving the Past for the Benefit of Future Generations: Accomplishments of the Pima County Historic Preservation Bond" Tonight, Monday, July 19 at 7:30 pm in the DuVal Auditorium at the University Medical Center, 1501 N Campbell Ave.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/2723djk">http://tinyurl.com/2723djk</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> - Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Employment Opportunity</span><br />Currently this is just a heads up, but we will be posting an announcement on USA JOBS shortly for a GS9/11 archaeologist in the Moab Field Office. The applicant must have 4 months experience in the region. Contact Leigh Grench, Archaeologist with the BLM - Moab Field Office at 435-259-2114 for more information.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Thanks to Gerald Kelso for contributing to today's newsletter.</span>Center for Desert Archaeologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632544160503692093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157147949621171095.post-84113647396005812692010-07-13T12:50:00.001-07:002010-07-13T13:00:15.923-07:00Another Light Sentence in 4-Corners Artifact Case<span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Southwestern Archaeology Making the News - <span style="font-style: italic;">A Service of the Center for Desert Archaeology</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Another Light Sentence in 4-Corners Artifact Case</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Nicholas K. Laws has maintained he never collected ancient American Indian artifacts for sale, but when he was offered money by a federal informant the father of three desperately needed it. "For my client, this was not a living," Laws' attorney, Randy S. Ludlow, said in federal court Monday. "He was never doing it to make a fast buck."</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/263o2ef">http://tinyurl.com/263o2ef</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Washington Examiner</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Documentary Project "Postcards from the Parks" Looks to Resuscitate Arizona State Park System</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Due to budget cuts enacted by the Arizona State Legislature and signed by Governor Jan Brewer, the state's park system is on the verge of complete collapse. A documentary film project entitled "Postcards from the Parks," created by four friends who visited all of the parks over a six-month period, details the problems our state parks face and</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">how it effects us all.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.cdarc.org/sat/postcards.doc">http://www.cdarc.org/sat/postcards.doc</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - MS Word Document</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Hopi Government Renews Pledge to Stop Snowmaking on San Francisco Peaks</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Hopi Tribe's legislative body voted unanimously Thursday to use any remaining legal avenues to stop snowmaking at Arizona Snowbowl, the tribe's leader said Friday. "Ultimately and straightforwardly, we're just opposed to any snowmaking at all," said Chairman Le Roy Shingoitewa.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.azdailysun.com/news/local/31987aeb-5ac7-5af2-888b-0ad50d48e1dc.html">http://www.azdailysun.com/news/local/31987aeb-5ac7-5af2-888b-0ad50d48e1dc.html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Extinction of Woolly Mammoth, Saber-Toothed Cat May Have Been Caused by Human Predation</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">New analysis of the extinction of woolly mammoths and other large mammals more than 10,000 years ago suggests that they may have fallen victim to the same type of "trophic cascade" of ecosystem disruption that scientists say is being caused today by the global decline of predators such as wolves, cougars, and sharks.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100701072732.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100701072732.htm<br /></a><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Hips Don't Lie: Researchers Find More Accurate Technique to Determine Sex of Skeletal Remains</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Research from North Carolina State University offers a new means of determining the sex of skeletal human remains -- an advance that may have significant impacts in the wake of disasters, the studying of ancient remains and the criminal justice system.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100706112601.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100706112601.htm<br /></a><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Viejas Ceremonial Sanctified Burial Site to be Protected ‘In Perpetuity’</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">California Attorney General Jerry Brown filed a lawsuit June 24 against a water district which continued construction on a site that has been determined to be sacred to the Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians and should be permanently protected.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/southwest/97664204.html">http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/southwest/97664204.html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Excavation Tour Opportunity (Tucson)</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">EcoPlan Associates, Inc. is conducting data recovery excavations at several archaeological sites on the Santa Cruz floodplain, in Tucson, along Interstate 10 between Prince and Ruthrauff Roads in advance of Arizona Department of Transportation road widening and reconstruction of the Prince Road traffic interchange. Thus far, excavations have revealed extensive Early Agricultural occupation of the area, as well as both later Hohokam (Rillito/Rincon) and earlier Middle Archaic components. Please join EcoPlan archaeologists for a tour of the project area and a summary of our findings on Wednesday July 21, 2010 at 7 am. The tour will meet at the intersection of Prince Road and Business Center Drive, west of I-10 (Exit 254). On-street parking is available. Please note that hard hats and reflective safety vests are REQUIRED of all visitors. Please bring your own. Carpooling is encouraged. Please contact Dan Garcia (480 733 6666 x105 or dgarcia@ecoplanaz.com) with any questions.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Mesa Verde Region and Crow Canyon to Share Pueblo Cultures Via Preserve America Grant</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mesa Verde Country will give its Indian Arts and Culture Festival a boost and translate its website into languages around the world with a Preserve America grant. "It's helping us to go global," said Mesa Verde Country Tourism Director Lynn Dyer. The $89,822 grant has been a long time coming, Dyer said. Mesa Verde Country applied for it in conjunction with Crow Canyon Archaeology Center in 2007, but payments were delayed because of the economy.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/2uut4le">http://tinyurl.com/2uut4le</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Durango Herald</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Call For Papers For 81st Texas Archeological Society Annual Meeting</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">October 22-24, 2010 Omni Bayfront Hotel, Corpus Christi, Texas (361) 887-1600 TAS code:1450 0809 629 The Conference theme is Archeology without Borders. </span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">You’re invited to join friends and colleagues for the 81th annual meeting of TAS. We hope to encourage colleagues south of the Rio Grande to attend and share their research with us. Papers and posters will be featured in sessions Friday afternoon and all day Saturday. The Public Forum and Career Social will attract regional visitors. Meetings and awards will honor many who have contributed to the Society and Texas archeology.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.cdarc.org/sat/tas_cfp_10.doc">http://www.cdarc.org/sat/tas_cfp_10.doc</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - MS Word Document</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Rock Art Scholar Returns To The Anasazi Heritage Center</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Sally Cole, author and rock art expert, will give a talk and slide show at the Anasazi Heritage Center at 1 p.m. on Sunday, August 8. Cole will give her presentation on the human form in rock art, which was canceled last June due to technical difficulties. Admission will be free throughout the day. Cole is the author of "Legacy on Stone: Rock Art of the Colorado Plateau and Four Corners Region." Her book is considered the best regional rock art reference currently in print.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://%20www.blm.co.gov/ahc">http:// www.blm.co.gov/ahc</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Lecture Opportunity - Tucson</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The monthly Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society lecture will be given by Roger Anyon and Linda Mayro. The topic is Preserving the Past for Future Generations: Accomplishments of the Pima County Historic Preservation Bond Program. Monday, July 19th, 7:30 pm. DuVal Auditorium, UMC, 1501 N. Campbell Ave. Free and open to the public.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Position Announcement - Assistant Curator of Archaeology</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The University of Arizona, Arizona State Museum (ASM), invites applications for an Assistant Curator of Archaeology (Mandated Programs Administrator) with tenure-equivalent status. The position serves as the ASM Director's designee to administer Arizona Revised Statute §§41-841 et seq. and ARS §41-865 through ABOR Chapter VIII ASM Rules. The incumbent is expected to collaborate across a wide range of state, county, municipal, and federal agencies on issues related to the implementation of the Arizona Antiquities Act and the protection of the state's archaeological resources.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.cdarc.org.sat/asm_cofa_info.pdf">http://www.cdarc.org.sat/asm_cofa_info.pdf</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thanks to Vincent Murray and Adrianne Rankin for contributions to today's newsletter.</span>Center for Desert Archaeologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632544160503692093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157147949621171095.post-25069840284340158452010-07-06T13:12:00.000-07:002010-07-06T13:23:28.780-07:00Clovis News - Atlatls, Linguistic Evidence, and Mitochondrial DNA<span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Southwestern Archaeology Making the News - <a href="http://www.cdarc.org"><span style="font-style: italic;">A Service of the Center for Desert Archaeology</span><br /></a><br />Melting Glacier Reveals Clovis Era Atlatl Dart</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Global warming is turning out to be a savior for archaeologists like Craig Lee from the University of Colorado at Boulder, who are finding ancient relics in recently melted ice patches. Lee's lucky strike is the oldest known atlatl dart, an early wooden spear-like hunting weapon, in the Rocky Mountains.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/atlatl1">http://tinyurl.com/atlatl1</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Discovery News</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">New Linguistic Studies Illuminate Migrations Across Bearing Sea Land Bridge</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Research illuminating an ancient language connection between Asia and North America supports archaeological and genetic evidence that a Bering Strait land bridge once connected North America with Asia, and the discovery is being endorsed by a growing list of scholars in the field of linguistics and other sciences. The work of Western Washington University linguistics professor Edward Vajda with the isolated Ket people of Central Siberia is revealing more and more examples of an ancient language connection with the language family of Na-Dene, which includes Tlingit, Gwich'in, Dena'ina, Koyukon, Navajo, Carrier, Hupa, Apache and about 45 other languages.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/2vq982e">http://tinyurl.com/2vq982e</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Seattle Times</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">North America's First Peoples More Genetically Diverse Than Thought, Mitochondrial Genome Analysis Reveals</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">ScienceDaily (June 29, 2010) — The initial peopling of North America from Asia occurred approximately 15,000-18,000 years ago. However, estimations of the genetic diversity of the first settlers have remained inaccurate. In a report published online in Genome Research, researchers have found that the diversity of the first Americans has been significantly underestimated, underscoring the importance of comprehensive sampling for accurate analysis of Mitochondrial DNA.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100628170926.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100628170926.htm</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Reminder - Join the Center for Desert Archaeology on July 8th for a Special Presentation with an International Perspective on Heritage Preservation</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Center for Desert Archaeology and the Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation invite you to a special evening with Center member and distinguished guest Ian George, who will share an overview of England’s Inherited Landscape. Mr. George serves as Inspector of Ancient Monuments for English Heritage in the West Midlands. His presentation will take us on a journey through time to some of the most treasured features of England’s historic landscape. English Heritage is a national organization whose purpose resonates with that of the Center—championing special places, advising the government, sharing heritage widely now, and protecting it for the future. The program will be held in the Copper Hall of Tucson’s own landmark, the historic Hotel Congress. Admission is free. Guests are welcome to mingle and enjoy a no-host bar before and after the presentation, which will begin at 6:00 p.m.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.cdarc.org/2010/06/18/special-evening-englands-inherited-landscape-2/">http://www.cdarc.org/2010/06/18/special-evening-englands-inherited-landscape-2/</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Mesa Verde Plans for Building of New Visitor's Center</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mesa Verde National Park officials are making plans for a September groundbreaking ceremony for the new visitors center and curatorial facility. The park took the first step toward construction of the multimillion dollar project at a pre-bid meeting last week</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/35f2xgj">http://tinyurl.com/35f2xgj</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Durango Herald</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Exploring History and Identity in the Old West</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Was Kit Carson hero or villain? Or both? The answer would seem to be a foregone conclusion for a predominantly-Navajo audience, among whom the famous “Indian fighter” is often remembered for his role in the Long Walk of 1864, when thousands left their fertile homeland on a forced march to the bleak Bosque Redondo.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/97164039.html">http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/97164039.html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">New Mexico Archaeology Camp Provides Teens with Archaeological Education</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">A homestead site dating to around 1918 was recently discovered west of Hobbs and provided a perfect opportunity for Smith to allow youth interested in archeology to help excavate the site. The week-long Junior Archeology Camp had seven students. They learned the techniques to excavate the site during two days of classroom training and excavated portions of the site.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/education/hobbs-teens-dig-archaeology-camps">http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/education/hobbs-teens-dig-archaeology-camps</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">The Story of Prescott's Infamous Smoki</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Like most legends, the story of the Smoki People is a combination of fact, fiction, rumor and speculation. "I always thought we were honoring the Native Americans," Prescott resident and bank employee Irene Winter said.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/36kq8tw">http://tinyurl.com/36kq8tw</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Part I - Prescott Dailt Courier</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/33a7xx5">http://tinyurl.com/33a7xx5</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Part II - Prescott Daily Courier</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Tour Opportunities from the Archaeological Conservancy</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Archaeological Conservancy still has space available on three of its fall tours:</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">"Best of the Southwest" September 18 - 28, 2010. Experience the cultural and scenic diversity of the American Southwest. Our trip explores Native American cultures, both past and present, in New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. "Effigy Mounds of the Upper Mississippi Valley, September 25 - 29, 2010. In what is now Wisconsin, prehistoric Native Americans constructed about 20,000 earthen mounds, more than in any other area of comparable size. We will visit the best surviving example of these fascinating constructions, with an emphasis on the sites of the Effigy Mound culture which created mounds in the shapes of mammals, birds and reptiles. "Oaxaca" October 29 - November 8, 2010. Join us during one of the most unusual festivals anywhere, Day of the Dead. On this day, people prepare home altars and cemeteries to welcome the dead, who are believed to return to enjoy the food and drink they indulged in during life. For more information you may request a tour brochure at (505) 266-1540 or visit the link below.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.blogger.com/www.archaeologicalconservancy.org/tour.html">www.archaeologicalconservancy.org/tour.html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Historic Archaeology of the Great Lakes Region on the Archaeology Channel</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The early history of the North American colonial frontier takes on more meaning when archaeologists recover direct evidence left behind at key sites. The search for such evidence can be very trying and may require both persistence and endurance, as demonstrated by In Search of Fort St. Joseph, the latest video feature on our nonprofit streaming-media Web site, The Archaeology Channel.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.archaeologychannel.org/">http://www.archaeologychannel.org</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thanks to Adrianne Rankin for contributing to today's newsletter.</span>Center for Desert Archaeologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632544160503692093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157147949621171095.post-53043147557739244012010-06-29T14:01:00.000-07:002010-06-29T14:09:00.439-07:00BYU Field School Wraps Up Excavations at the Wolf Site<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: verdana;">Southwestern Archaeology Making the News - <span style="font-style: italic;">A Service of the Center for Desert Archaeology</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">BYU Field School Wraps Up Excavations at the Wolf Site</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The 2010 Brigham Young University Archaeological Field School recently completed excavations at Wolf Village (42UT273), a large Fremont farming village in northern Utah near the south end of Utah Valley. The site appears to have been occupied mostly in the A.D. 1100s and 1200s, although there is some evidence of earlier occupation. Excavations include complete or nearly complete exposure of four structures, including two adobe-walled houses, and test excavations into four other structures. One of the adobe houses had a vent shaft and a series of exterior wooden buttresses supporting its walls, while the other was associated with a massive storage pit that had a roof still partially intact over it. Excavations also yielded several figurines, large quantities of maize, several shell and turquoise items, and the usual assortment of stone tools and debitage, pottery, and animal bone. A Facebook photo album showing some of the findings can be accessed at the link below</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=17977&id=100000416637044&l=56f48bb86e">http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=17977&id=100000416637044&l=56f48bb86e</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Dr Laurence C. Harold Passes</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dr. Laurance C. (Larry) Herold, a geographer at the University of Denver, passed away in March of 2010. He had a long term interest in trincheras in northern Mexico. He began his career in archaeology, working as a ranger at Mesa Verde and then with Fred Wendorf on the Ranchos de Taos survey at Fort Burgwin. He is survived by his wife Joyce, long time curator of anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and student of Native American basketry.</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">A tribute to Dr. Herold may be found at:</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://blogs.du.edu/today/news/geographer-traveled-the-world-but-loved-teaching-the-most">http://blogs.du.edu/today/news/geographer-traveled-the-world-but-loved-teaching-the-most</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Receive Grant to Survey Ceramics Collection</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">A $57,370 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services will let the state-run Museum of Indian Arts & Culture in Santa Fe survey its collection of 5,300 whole and reconstructed archaeological ceramics vessels. The collection includes examples of some of the earliest known Mogollon and Ancestral Puebloan ceramics and others made during the 17th and 18th centuries.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/97174799.html">http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/97174799.html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Its Time for the Museum of Northern Arizona Hopi Festival of Art and Culture</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Hopi village of Orayvi is considered the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in the United States. Its traditions go back centuries, but in more recent times, a new tradition has taken hold in Orayvi - also known as Old Oraibi - and other Hopi villages. For 76 years, Hopis have traveled to Flagstaff to participate in a festival that showcases their artists and performers. The 77th annual Hopi Festival of Arts and Culture is next weekend at the Museum of Northern Arizona.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/32n7gaf">http://tinyurl.com/32n7gaf</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Arizona Republic</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Studies of Skull Morphology Suggest a Pair of Ancient Migrations into the Americas</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Recent morphological studies of two groups of skulls support the idea that the New World was settled in two migratory waves, not one, as has been previously suggested by genetic studies. Paleoanthropologists from Brazil, Chile and Germany came to this conclusion by comparing the cranial morphology (or shape of the skulls) of an older group of remains, dating back 11,000 years ago with a more recent gropup of Amerindian skulls. Based on the test results, the scientists believe that 2 groups, one earlier and one much later, began settling the New World via Beringia; the now-submerged land bridge connecting present-day Russia with Alaska.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/297sjmt">http://tinyurl.com/297sjmt</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Yahoo News</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Plein Air Painting Summer Show At Anasazi Heritage Center</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Plein Air Painters of the Four Corners will present their 2010 summer exhibition at the Anasazi Heritage Center from July 1 through September 6 (Labor Day). An opening reception will take place at the museum on July 4, 2010 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. This will be a juried event. The paintings on exhibit will be offered for sale. Proceeds benefit both the artists and the nonprofit Canyonlands Natural History Association. The paintings will feature landscapes and features of the Four Corners area.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.co.blm.gov/ahc">http://www.co.blm.gov/ahc</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Preserving Navajo History In Canyon De Chelly</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Every spring and summer, after the winter thaw allows, about a dozen Navajo families still return to their old homesteads at the bottom of Arizona's Canyon de Chelly. The canyon has cradled human civilization for thousands of years. Early Puebloans, ancestors of the Hopis, built cliff dwellings high in the sandstone alcoves. And the canyon has been a sacred refuge to the Navajos for centuries.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.gpb.org/news/2010/06/28/preserving-navajo-history-in-canyon-de-chelly">http://www.gpb.org/news/2010/06/28/preserving-navajo-history-in-canyon-de-chelly</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">O'odham Saguaro Harvest Keeps Tribal Traditions Alive</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">At a small camp nestled at the end of a dirt road in the heart of Saguaro National Park, Stella Tucker keeps a time-honored tradition of the Tohono O’odham tribe alive. Every summer, Tucker and her family return to their small camp to gather fruit from the saguaro cactus until the monsoon rains come. Tucker uses saguaro fruit to make syrup, jam and a wine that is used in a Tohono O’odham wine ceremony.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://wildcat.arizona.edu/news/tribal-tradition-lives-on-1.1494024">http://wildcat.arizona.edu/news/tribal-tradition-lives-on-1.1494024</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thanks to Jim Allison, Jeff Boyer, Terry Colvin, Adrianne Rankin, and Wolky Toll for contributing to this week's newsletter.</span>Center for Desert Archaeologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632544160503692093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157147949621171095.post-62283243440164952892010-06-22T12:01:00.000-07:002010-06-22T12:08:09.149-07:00Join the Center for Desert Archaeology for a Special Presentation on Heritage Preservation<span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Southwestern Archaeology Making the News - <span style="font-style: italic;">A Service of the Center for Desert Archaeology</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Join the Center for Desert Archaeology on July 8th for a Special Presentation with an International Perspective on Heritage Preservation</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Center for Desert Archaeology and the Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation invite you to a special evening with Center member and distinguished guest Ian George, who will share an overview of England’s Inherited Landscape. Mr. George serves as Inspector of Ancient Monuments for English Heritage in the West Midlands. His presentation will take us on a journey through time to some of the most treasured features of England’s historic landscape. English Heritage is a national organization whose purpose resonates with that of the Center—championing special places, advising the government, sharing heritage widely now, and protecting it for the future. The program will be held in the Copper Hall of Tucson’s own landmark, the historic Hotel Congress. Admission is free. Guests are welcome to mingle and enjoy a no-host bar before and after the presentation, which will begin at 6:00 p.m.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.cdarc.org/2010/06/18/special-evening-englands-inherited-landscape-2/">http://www.cdarc.org/2010/06/18/special-evening-englands-inherited-landscape-2/</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Despite Public Objections, Santa Fe Indian School is Proceeding with Plans to Demolish Historic Paolo Soleri Amphitheater</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">A memorial to be held Sunday for former U.S. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall will be one of the last gatherings at the Paolo Soleri ampitheater in Santa Fe. The Santa Fe Indian School, will destroy the famous, half-century old amphitheater named for its designer, architect Paolo Soleri. The City of Santa Fe and the state Cultural Properties Review Committee asked the school to reverse its decision last week.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/2vu87zk">http://tinyurl.com/2vu87zk</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - New Mexico Independant</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Excavations Continue on the Harris Site</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">For the fourth summer in a row, archeology students from the University of Nevada Las Vegas and Paradise Valley Community College in Phoenix have come to the Mimbres Valley to do field work and study the ancient culture of the Mimbres people. Barbara Roth of UNLV has been studying the Mimbres culture since 1992 and for the past four years has brought her students to excavate at the Harris Site, on the Stewart Ranch, recognized by archaeologists as the largest known pithouse village in the Mimbres area.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.scsun-news.com/ci_15340889?source=most_emailed">http://www.scsun-news.com/ci_15340889?source=most_emailed</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Students from the University of Texas at San Antonio Excavate Spanish Colonial Ranch</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">To the untrained eye, the grass-covered mounds at the end of County Road 144 could be mistaken for nothing more than a local dumping site or someone's abandoned, overgrown property. But these are actually the remains of the 18th century ranching outpost for San Antonio's Mission Espada. It was called Rancho de las Cabras, a settlement that once covered 1,000 acres of what was then the rugged terrain of northern New Spain.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/237zqvt">http://tinyurl.com/237zqvt</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - My San Antonio.com</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Efforts Continue to Nominate Route 66 to National Register of Historic Places</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The California Preservation Foundation, the National Park Service Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program, and consultant Mead & Hunt is to hold informational presentations June 14-17, along Route 66. The group is to visit Needles on June 17, with a meeting beginning at 6 p.m. in the Wagon Wheel restaurant, 2420 Needles Hwy. This will be the first visit by the project team to the route during a year-long process to complete a National Register Multiple Property Documentation Form.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.thedesertstar.com/articles/2010/06/16/news/local/news889.txt">http://www.thedesertstar.com/articles/2010/06/16/news/local/news889.txt</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Phoenix Historic Preservation Commission Helps to Renovate Historic Adobe Home</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Last year, Black took her retirement nest egg and purchased almost 10 acres of south Phoenix farmland, vacant except for an old, neglected adobe Spanish colonial revival. With the help of her general contractor, Mike Schrader, they're removing and repairing years of water and fire damage and detrimental "improvements" by previous owners."I just feel it is what I was supposed to do," Black said. "I think it's going to be a beautiful new historic home for the city. I want it to be my retirement home."</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/2553tkk">http://tinyurl.com/2553tkk</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Arizona Republic</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Friends of Cedar Mesa Launch New Website</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Celebrate Cedar Mesa" took place last Saturday in Bluff, Utah, organized by Friends of Cedar Mesa, Mark Meloy, and Bluff-area folks. It was good to see so many of you there. Now that Mark is off on his summer pro-fun circuit, I’d like to introduce you to the new Friends of Cedar Mesa website, http://cedarmesafriends.org. The group exists to promote stewardship of Cedar Mesa’s natural and cultural resources. We’ve posted some information and photos from the event, including some great links to archaeological research courtesy of Bill Lipe. Please bookmark the website—there’s much more information on the way.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://cedarmesafriends.org/">http://cedarmesafriends.org</a>Center for Desert Archaeologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632544160503692093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157147949621171095.post-26804161070260442912010-06-15T11:04:00.000-07:002010-06-15T16:43:07.426-07:00Southwestern Archaeologist David Gregory Passes<span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Southwestern Archaeology Making the News - <span style="font-style: italic;">A Service of the Center for Desert Archaeology</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Archaeologist David Gregory Passes</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"> We are sad to report that on the evening of June 13, 2010, David A. Gregory passed away in Show Low, Arizona. Dave had been working from his home in Pinetop for the Center for Desert Archaeology and for Desert Archaeology, Inc. He had experienced a series of health complications in recent years, but he had always battled his way back from the brink.</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Dave’s remarkable skills as a field archaeologist, his intelligence, and his broad mastery of the archaeological literature were applied with his signature intensity throughout his career. Mike Jacobs noted: “I have admired immensely his work, not only at Las Colinas, but especially his more recent work on Archaic and Early Agricultural Period sites here in Tucson and on the Zuni Origins book with Dave Wilcox. His collected body of work includes some really significant contributions that will stand as a tribute to him for years to come.” And Doug Craig summed things up in a grand, straightforward way: “I consider Dave to have been one of the great southwestern archaeologists of our generation.”</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"> In order to continue to expand Dave’s already considerable legacy, the Center for Desert Archaeology has established the David A. Gregory Research Fund—a permanent, endowed fund. Contributions are tax deductible, and may be sent to: Center for Desert Archaeology, 300 North Ash Alley, Tucson, AZ 85701. Plans for a memorial service and celebration of Dave’s remarkable life are not final at this time. They will be announced here and as broadly as possible when they are final.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Archaeologist Gary Yancy Passes</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The AAS received the sad news that Gary Yancy passed away on May 28th. He was a stalwart of the AAS, having served as our Chair beginning about 1989 and ending in 2003. He was a mentor, a cheerleader, keeping us supplied with enthusiasm and cheer. He traveled the whole state to visit every chapter.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.azarchsoc.org/">http://www.azarchsoc.org/</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Center for Desert Archaeology President William Doelle Testifies Before Congress on the Potential Benefits of Expanding Casa Grande Ruins National Monument</span> </span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">“The Casa Grande Ruins National Monument preserves the remains of an ancient Hohokam farming community and “Great House,” one of the largest prehistoric structures built in the United States. It is one of our most famous cultural landmarks and is prominent in Akimel O’odham, Tohono O’odham and Hopi oral traditions.”</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/cdarc-doelle-cg">http://tinyurl.com/cdarc-doelle-cg</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Center for Desert Archaeology</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Representative Kirkpatrick Argues for Expansion of Casa Grande Ruins National Moument</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick urged a House Natural Resources subcommittee to push forward on her legislation to expand the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument in a hearing on that bill held Thursday. Her testimony before the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands pointed to the bill’s potential to grow the tourism industry and bring new jobs to the area while protecting a unique Arizona treasure.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/2uafuq3">http://tinyurl.com/2uafuq3</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Tri Valley Central</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/cdarc-kirkpatrick">See Also http://tinyurl.com/cdarc-kirkpatrick</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Center for Desert Archaeology</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Stephanie Meeks Named New President of National Trust for Historic Preservation</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Stephanie currently serves as president and CEO of Counterpart International, a $110 million development organization operating in 25 countries. She earlier spent 18 years at The Nature Conservancy, one of the largest and most influential conservation organizations in the world where she held a number of leadership positions including chief operating officer and, for nearly a year, acting president and CEO.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://blogs.nationaltrust.org/preservationnation/?p=10568">http://blogs.nationaltrust.org/preservationnation/?p=10568</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">BYU Field School Excavating Fremont-Era Village</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Named the Wolf Site, after the property owner, this Fremont village site dates to AD 1100. The site is relatively large and contains a mixture of adobe wall square house structures and round pithouse structures as well as adobe lined fire pits, fish and mammal bones, ancient corn, arrow points, arrow shaft straightener, shell beads groundstone, and pottery fragments.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/byu-fremont-village">http://tinyurl.com/byu-fremont-village</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Examiner.com<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Bridge to Gila Cliff Dwellings Now Open to Automobiles</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The New Mexico State Department of Transportation staff has reopened the West Fork Bridge to vehicles, which means that visitors will now be able to drive directly to the Cliff Dwellings trailhead. Effective Friday, June 11 entrance fees, which had been waived since the bridge was closed, will resume at $3.00 for individuals over 16 years and $10.00 for families. For further information, please contact the Gila Visitor Center at (575) 536-9461.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Guided Tour of TJ Ruin Scheduled for July 17th</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument will offer a ranger-guided tour of the TJ Site on Saturday, July 17, 2010. Visitors to Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument have the unique opportunity to explore the TJ Site, an unexcavated surface pueblo that is usually closed to the public. This free tour of the TJ site will be offered on Saturday, July 17th at 11:00 a.m. and will last approximately 1 ½ hours. The tour is limited to 20 people and reservations should be made in advance by calling the Gila Visitor Center at (575) 536-9461</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Santa Clara Man Accidentally Unearths Ancient Human Remains</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">A man digging in his yard in Santa Clara unearthed a human skull that has been determined by the New Mexico Office of Medical Investigator to be ancient remains. On Friday, a resident of Cleveland Street in Santa Clara was building forms to pour concrete to build an addition to his home when he struck something hard while digging and started to dig it up, OMI Field Deputy Melissa Arzaga said.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.lcsun-news.com/ci_15249768?IADID">http://www.lcsun-news.com/ci_15249768?IADID</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">A Cooler Pacific May Have Severely Affected Medieval Europe, Southwest North America</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">June 10, 2010 — A new study has found a connection between La Nina-like sea surface temperatures in the central Pacific and droughts in western Europe and in what later became the southwestern United States.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100609122842.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100609122842.htm</a><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/38nscbv">http://tinyurl.com/38nscbv</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - National Geographic</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Prehistoric pet? Dog burial found in Orange County</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">It might have been a treasured pet, or the victim of traditional destruction of property after its owner's death. The reason for its burial remains a mystery. But 18 centuries ago, someone carefully positioned the body of a small dog in what was likely a shallow grave in the marshlands of Laguna Canyon, then turned over a stone grinding bowl to cover the animal.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.ocregister.com/news/dog-252748-burial-href.html">http://www.ocregister.com/news/dog-252748-burial-href.html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Travelogue - Stepping Back in Time at Chimayo N.M.</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">In the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains along the high road to Taos, N.M., the brown paths winding into Chimayó match the tan buildings and lend a timeless look. About 30 miles north of Santa Fe, Chimayó is a treasure of ancient cultures, mountain scenery and Mediterranean climate.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/385pqwh">http://tinyurl.com/385pqwh</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Dallas Morning News</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Lecture Opportunity (Tucson)</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh will present the monthly Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society Lecture, "Massacre at Camp Grant: Forgetting and Remembering Apache History". The lecture will be June 21st at 7:30 pm at DuVal Auditorium, UMC, 1501 N. Campbell Ave. Free and open to the public.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://tinyurl.com/aahs-chip">http://tinyurl.com/aahs-chip</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> - Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Archaeology of the Aegean is the Latest Feature on the Archaeology Channel</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Nowhere is the imprint of ancient human activity more visibly evident than in the Aegean region of today’s Turkey. You can witness a remarkable series of well preserved, substantial, impressive, and well documented ancient cities and buildings from the Classical world–and the modern context in which they exist--in The Aegean, the latest video feature on our nonprofit streaming-media Web site, The Archaeology Channel.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.archaeologychannel.org/">http://www.archaeologychannel.org</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thanks to Adriane Rankin for contributions to today's newsletter.</span>Center for Desert Archaeologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632544160503692093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157147949621171095.post-80686737704190805822010-06-08T10:49:00.000-07:002010-06-08T10:55:37.509-07:00Utah Family Helps to Excavate Ancestral Home<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Archaeology Making the News, <span style="font-style: italic;">a Service of the Center for Desert Archaeology</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Utah Family Helps to Excavate Ancestral Home</span><br />On Saturday, many descendants of the Benjamin F Johnson and Joel H. Johnson families gathered to assist the Uinta National Forest Archaeologist, Charmaine Thompson, and the local residents of Spring Lake with the excavation of the foundation of the B. F. Johnson home. Because The home was so large and made of adobe's, it was dubbed the "Mud Castle," and is located between Payson and Santaquin, Utah, on the East side of highway 6.<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2f4tswm">http://tinyurl.com/2f4tswm</a> - Daily Herald<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">NBC News Covers Arizona State Parks Crisis</span><br />"It would make it very easy for illegal collectors to come in here and dig up the sites and do irreperable damage." - Karen Berggren, former Homolovi Ruins State Park Manager.<br /><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/ns/nightly_news#37541223">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/ns/nightly_news#37541223</a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">BLM’s El Malpais National Conservation Area Presents the Next Chapter of "Walking with the Ancestors" Hikes</span><br />Celebrate Summer Solstice and beat the heat with a sunrise hike to possible solstice-marking petroglyphs and the mesa top site, Citadel. Discover El Malpais secret cool weather and the active time for its wildlife. The hike will be held on Saturday, June 19th.<br /><a href="http://www.cdarc.org/sat/el_malpais_solstice.doc">http://www.cdarc.org/sat/el_malpais_solstice.doc</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">New Issue of Preserve America Newsletter Available</span><br />This issue focuses upon the selection of Wayne Donaldson as the new chairman of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, and the termination of Preserve America Funding.<br /><a href="http://www.preserveamerica.gov/newsletter/june10/june10.htm">http://www.preserveamerica.gov/newsletter/june10/june10.htm<br /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Avocational Archaeologist Rex Owens Donates Research Materials to Thatcher Museum</span><br />The personal notes and books of amateur archaeologist Rex Owens of Eden are at the Graham County Historical Society Museum in Thatcher. Though not on display yet, the donated items are being cataloged by museum volunteers and will soon be a welcome addition to reference and research materials housed in the museum, said Hal Herbert, museum historian.<br /><a href="http://www.eacourier.com/articles/2010/06/04/news/doc4c059c7a02d5a394961150.txt">http://www.eacourier.com/articles/2010/06/04/news/doc4c059c7a02d5a394961150.txt</a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">X-Rays Fail to Find Clovis Tool Remnants in Controversial Ancient Bison Remains</span><br />Architect (sic) Steve Kenady examined the bones of an ancient, extinct giant bison by x-ray today at Orcas Family Health Center, unarguably the clinic's oldest "patient". Kenady was checking for remnants of stone tools that could have been used to slaughter the animal, but the scans revealed nothing but bison bone. The discovery roughly three years ago piqued curiosity in the global scientific community, inspiring new theories of human migration to the Pacific coast because some of the bones bear the marks of human butchery using stone tools. Earlier theories had maintained that the Clovis people were the earliest inhabitants of the region, but the bones, estimated by radiocarbon dating in an Irvine lab to be roughly 14,000 years old, pre-date the Clovis era by 800 years.<br /><a href="http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/sanjuans/isj/news/95810309.html">http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/sanjuans/isj/news/95810309.html</a>Center for Desert Archaeologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632544160503692093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157147949621171095.post-86598763857175296442010-06-01T16:25:00.000-07:002010-06-01T16:35:07.000-07:00Arizona Archaeology Council Publishes Statement on Arizona State Park Closures<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Southwestern Archaeology Making the News - <span style="font-style: italic;">A Service of the Center for Desert Archaeology</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Arizona Archaeology Council Publishes Statement on Arizona Park Closures</span><br />The Arizona Archaeological Council (AAC) writes to you as a state-wide organization of professional archaeologists whom have expressed considerable concern for the fate of cultural resources in state parks being affected by the current economic crisis. We understand that economic changes are forcing the State of Arizona to make difficult decisions and severe cuts, and the state parks have suffered disproportionately as a result. To this end, the AAC would like to make a position statement regarding, and offer assistance with, the protection and continued diligent management of cultural resources held in trust at Arizona’s State Parks.<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/aac-az-state-parks%20-%20Arizona%20Archaeology%20Council">http://tinyurl.com/aac-az-state-parks - Arizona Archaeology Council</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">12th Annual Meeting of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers Scheduled</span><br />Information on the 12th Annual NATHPO Meeting that will be hosted by the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin the week of August 9, 2010, is now on the NATHPO website. This year's theme is "Respecting our Heritage, Protecting our Quality of Life, Strengthening our Future." Our children and young people of today are the future cultural leaders of tomorrow. Our decision to highlight Native youth – in addition to our annual discussions on current cultural preservation issues – is to encourage Native communities to continue preserving, protecting, and rejuvenating their respective languages and traditional lifestyles and unique cultures. We will be showcasing Native youth programs and hope that Native youth from across the country will be able to join us.<br /><a href="http://www.nathpo.org/meetings/12meeting.htm">http://www.nathpo.org/meetings/12meeting.htm</a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">New Publication Summarizes Clovis Technologies</span><br />A new book on the stone and bone tool technologies of Clovis culture of 13,500 years ago, published by faculty at Texas State University, is the first complete examination of the tools themselves and how the Clovis culture used them and transmitted their production. The book, “Clovis Technology (International Monographs in Prehistory, Archaeological Series 17),” covers the Clovis culture's making and use of stone blades, bi-faces and small tools as well as artifacts such as projectile points, rods, daggers, awls, needles, handles, hooks and ornaments made from bone, ivory, antler and teeth.<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/clovis-tech">http://tinyurl.com/clovis-tech</a> - San Marcos Daily Record<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Learn More About Stone Tool Technologies at the Valles Caldera National Preserve</span><br />Stone tool "flintknapping" and atlatl-throwing demonstration in the Valle Grande, Sunday May 30, 2010, Valles Caldera National Preserve. Come out to the Valles Caldera National Preserve and spend a day with skilled flintknappers demonstrating how tools<br />are made from obsidian.<br /><a href="http://www.cdarc.org/sat/stone_tool_demo_2010-05-30.pdf">http://www.cdarc.org/sat/stone_tool_demo_2010-05-30.pdf</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Bill Introduced to Transfer the Valles Caldera National Preserve to the National Park Service</span><br />Management of the Valles Caldera National Preserve would be transferred to the National Park Service under legislation by New Mexico's senators. Sens. Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall, both D-N.M., introduced the measure Thursday. According to a Government Accountability Office report, the northern New Mexico preserve is years behind schedule in developing a management control system, and a path to be financially self-sustained by 2015 will be a major challenge.<br /><a href="http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/environment/valles-caldera-may-move-to-park-service">http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/environment/valles-caldera-may-move-to-park-service</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Lecture Opportunity (Irvine, CA) - Life by the Lakes in Laguna Canyon</span><br />The Pacific Coast Archaeological Society's June 10th meeting will feature Roderic McLean, Paul E. Langenwalter II, and Joyce Stanfield Perry speaking on “Buried Sites Archaeology: Life by the Lakes in Laguna Canyon during the Intermediate and Late Prehistoric Period.” Meeting information: Thursday, June 10, 2010, 7:30 pm at the Irvine Ranch Water District, 15600 Sand Canyon Ave., Irvine, CA. Meeting is free and open to the public.<br /><a href="http://www.pcas.org/">http://www.pcas.org</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">The Ancient Maya Developed Rubber Compounds Hundreds of Year Before Goodyear</span><br />The researchers "have compiled a compelling case that ancient Mesoamerican peoples were the first polymer scientists, exerting substantial control over the mechanical properties of rubber for various applications," said materials scientist John McCloy of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, who was not involved in the research.<br /><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-rubber-20100531,0,1397986.story">http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-rubber-20100531,0,1397986.story</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">"I told you I was sick" - The Last Wish of James Deetz</span><br />It was those close family ties that inspired Wheelock to carve Deetz's gravestone. Though he had no formal training in stone carving, he decided to do research and carve a replica of Deetz's favorite. That stone, which marks the grave of Elizabeth Tillson, is on Burial Hill in Plymouth, the cemetery where some of the first English colonists are buried. He found the reference to the Tillson stone in Deetz's book, "In Small Things Forgotten," which has a section on stones and stone carvers, he said. "I tried to research the cutter and it was in my house all along," he said<br /><a href="http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100530/NEWS/5300323">http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100530/NEWS/5300323</a><br /><br />Thanks to Gerald Kelso for contributing to today's newsletter.Center for Desert Archaeologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632544160503692093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157147949621171095.post-38359691366965239472010-05-25T15:19:00.000-07:002010-05-25T15:39:13.034-07:00Representative Kirkpatrick Introduces Legislation to Expand Casa Grande Ruins National Monument<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Southwestern Archaeology Making the News - <span style="font-style: italic;">A Service of the Center for Desert Archaeology</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Representative Kirkpatrick Introduces Legislation to Protect the Adamsville Ruin and Expand Casa Grande Ruins National Monument</span><br />It might have been an upscale residential neighborhood back in its day - 700 years ago.Now the massive mound of earth - topped with faint remains of ancient walls and pieces of prehistoric pottery - is poised for a possible new heyday as part of Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. The site east of Coolidge, known as the Adamsville Ruin, is part of a proposed 415-acre expansion of the monument. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, D-Ariz., last month introduced a bill that would add ancient canals, ball courts, platform mounds and fields to the preserve, which is centered on a four-story casa grande, or great house.<br /><a href="http://azstarnet.com/news/local/article_ae99ef90-0f87-59c1-97fb-0314a010c595.html">http://azstarnet.com/news/local/article_ae99ef90-0f87-59c1-97fb-0314a010c595.html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">All State Parks and Historic Sites Listed as Part of the National Trust's 11 Most Endangered Sites</span><br />Past decades have dealt several windfalls to historic preservation. Thanks to the broadening of the movement to include places with social historical relevance, as opposed to a focus on mansions and political-history sites, “We’re seeing more diverse faces,” says Valecia Crisafulli, acting vice president of programs at the National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP), “and certainly the Modernist thread is bringing in younger people.” More recently, the Great Recession has provided another jumpstart, as frugal Americans are visiting nearby historic state parks and other sites more frequently. Yet the economic downturn has put those very travel destinations in jeopardy. Budget cuts are forcing closure of myriad state-owned properties, particularly in Arizona, California, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. For that reason, this year NTHP listed all state parks and state-owned historic sites as one of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/25x68jx">http://tinyurl.com/25x68jx</a> - The Architectural Record<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">National Science Foundation to Require Data Management Plans for All Future Research</span><br />(From Digging Digitally) On or around October, 2010, NSF is planning to require that all proposals include a data management plan in the form of a two-page supplementary document. The change reflects a move to the Digital Age, where scientific breakthroughs will be powered by advanced computing techniques that help researchers explore and mine datasets.<br /><a href="http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=116928&org=NSF&from=news">http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=116928&org=NSF&from=news</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Special Guided Tour of the TJ Site near Gila Cliff Dwellings Announced</span><br />Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument will offer a ranger-guided tour of the TJ Site on Saturday, June 12, 2010. Visitors to Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument have the unique opportunity to explore the TJ Site, an unexcavated surface pueblo that is usually closed to the public. This free tour of the TJ site will be offered on Saturday, June 12th at 11:00 a.m. and will last approximately 1 ½ hours. The tour is limited to 20 people and reservations should be made in advance by calling the Gila Visitor Center at (575) 536-9461.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Dam Construction Results in Several Archaeological Excavations in Southern Utah</span><br />A site once occupied by prehistoric Puebloan people, which includes multiple American Indian remains, is being excavated before the place is scraped away to make room for a dam and reservoir. The ruins will eventually be flooded by the Jackson Flat Reservoir, being built by the Kane County Water Conservancy District to hold water normally lost in the summer months. It will be piped from Kanab Creek and used by farmers and possibly leased by the city and Kane County.<br /><a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_15153724?source=rss">http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_15153724?source=rss</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Did the Clovis People Cause the Earth's Climate to Cool through Megafauna Extinction?</span><br />The rapid decline of mammoths and other megafauna after humans spread across the New World may explain a bone-chilling plunge in global temperatures some 12,800 years ago, researchers reported Sunday. The 100-odd species of grass-eating giants that once crowded the North American landscape released huge quantities of methane -- from both ends of their digestive tracks.<br /><a href="http://news.discovery.com/animals/mammoths-megafauna-global-freeze.html">http://news.discovery.com/animals/mammoths-megafauna-global-freeze.html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Arizona Governor Recognizes 10 for Preserving State’s Heritage</span><br />n Friday, May 14, recipients of the 28th Annual Governor’s Heritage Preservation Honors Awards were recognized -- and the Grand Award winner announced -- to 250 attendees of the 8th Annual Arizona Statewide Historic Preservation Partnership Conference at the du Bois Center on the campus of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. Presenting the awards on behalf of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer were Renée Bahl, Arizona State Parks Executive Director; James Garrison, Arizona State Historic Preservation Officer; and Lisa Henderson, Arizona Preservation Foundation Board President.<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/269x28d">http://tinyurl.com/269x28d</a> - Arizona Preservation Foundation<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">California SHPO Nominated to Chair Advisory Council on Historic Preservation</span><br />Milford Wayne Donaldson currently serves as the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) for the state of California. Mr. Donaldson is affiliated with several historical and preservation organizations and is a past president of the California Preservation Foundation and past chair of the State Historical Building Safety Board, the State Historical Resources Commission, and the Historic State Capitol Commission.<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2dgghpf">http://tinyurl.com/2dgghpf</a> - The Whitehouse<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Sheep is Life Celebration Scheduled for June (Update)</span><br />Call for Artists for the Juried Navajo Rug and Contemporary Fiber Arts Shows<br />at the 14th Annual Sheep is Life Celebration, Diné College, Tsailé Campus, Navajo Nation. Diné be’ iiná, Inc. presents two fiber arts sale shows on Friday, June 18, and Saturday, June 19, during the 14th Annual Sheep is Life Celebration at Diné College in Tsailé, the Navajo Nation. Contact TahNibaa Naataanii, Project Director, at 505.406.7428 for information about submitting work, e-mail info@navajolifeway.org, or go to www.navajolifeway.org. No commission is charged to the artists. Public admission is free.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Travelogue - Pueblo Grande</span><br />The Hohokam people mysteriously disappeared in the 15th century, but glimpses into their quiet, farming-based lives can be still be seen in the middle of metropolitan Phoenix, at the Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park. Occupying 3.24 acres just off of Washington Street and east of Sky Harbor Airport, the museum and village ruins illustrate how the Hohokam were pioneers of desert irrigation and flash food farming. In the museum theater, visitors can watch a 10 minute video that gives a quick history.<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2ut2f4m">http://tinyurl.com/2ut2f4m</a> - Phoenix New Times<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Radiocarbon Dating Featured on the Archaeology Channel</span><br />The concept of radiocarbon dating is fairly simple, but the process that a radiocarbon laboratory goes through is quite detailed, careful and complex. You can follow a submitted sample through the laboratory process (in this case using accelerator mass spectrometry, or AMS) in Dating: The Radiocarbon Way, the latest video feature on our nonprofit streaming-media Web site, The Archaeology Channel.<br /><a href="http://www.archaeologychannel.org/">http://www.archaeologychannel.org</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Employment Opportunity (Monticello Ranger District)</span><br />The Manti-La Sal National Forest, located in southeastern Utah, intends to fill one GS-0193-09 Archaeologist position in the near future. This position that will serve the Moab-Monticello Ranger District and assist the Heritage Program as needed. This is a permanent full time position with a duty station of Monticello, Utah. The position will be filled only at the GS-09 level and has no promotion potential.<br /><a href="http://www,cdarc.org/sat/gs9_monticello.doc">http://www,cdarc.org/sat/gs9_monticello.doc</a><br /><br />Thanks to Gerald Kelso for contributions to today's newsletter.Center for Desert Archaeologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632544160503692093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157147949621171095.post-40952843279216574602010-05-18T11:28:00.000-07:002010-05-18T11:36:40.874-07:00New Technologies for Archaeological Research<span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Southwestern Archaeology Making the News - <span style="font-style: italic;">A Service of the Center for Desert Archaeology</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Laser Scanning In Archaeology Featured in NY Times</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">in the dry spring season a year ago, the husband-and-wife team of Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase tried a new approach using airborne laser signals that penetrate the jungle cover and are reflected from the ground below. They yielded 3-D images of the site of ancient Caracol, in Belize, one of the great cities of the Maya lowlands.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/11/science/11maya.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/11/science/11maya.html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Geographic Information Systems in Archaeology</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Computational modeling techniques provide new and vast opportunities to the field of archaeology. By using these techniques, archeologists can develop alternative computerized scenarios that can be compared with traditional archaeological records, possibly enhancing previous findings of how humans and the environment interact.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://asunews.asu.edu/20100513_archaeologymodeling">http://asunews.asu.edu/20100513_archaeologymodeling<br /></a><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">The "Anasazi" Did not Mysteriously Disappear</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Anasazi, or ancient ones, who once inhabited southwest Colorado and west-central New Mexico did not mysteriously disappear, said University of Denver professor Dean Saitta at Tuesday's Fort Morgan Museum Brown Bag lunch program.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.fortmorgantimes.com/ci_15083924">http://www.fortmorgantimes.com/ci_15083924 </a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">BLM Using Permit System for Crowd Control and Preservation at Moon House</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Moon House ruin on Cedar Mesa has, for many years, been a hiking destination for Richard Schwarz. The first time he visited the ancient Puebloan complex in a remote San Juan County canyon, it wasn't easy to find. But when he saw the celestial paintings on the ceiling of the main room, marveled at the hardy 13th-century fiber lashings holding together the log framing, wondered over the meaning of the pictographs and petroglyphs on the red rock walls, he grew certain it was the best archaeological site he ever would see in southeastern Utah.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.sltrib.com/outdoors/ci_15099190">http://www.sltrib.com/outdoors/ci_15099190</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Navajo Nation Archaeology Departments Documents Newly Rediscovered Petroglyphs Near Williams Az</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">On April 28, Kaibab National Forest heritage program employees conducted a petroglyph documentation class for members of the Navajo Nation Archaeology Department (NNAD). During the hands-on training, Kaibab and NNAD archaeologists documented about 75 percent of the petroglyphs located near a recently discovered Cohonina village site on the Williams Ranger District.</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.williamsnews.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&subsectionID=1&articleID=10236">http://www.williamsnews.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&subsectionID=1&articleID=10236</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Twilight is an Excellent Time to Visit the Deer Valley Rock Art Center</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Twilight. That magic time of day when it’s not daytime – but not quite nighttime, either. Deer Valley Rock Art Center’s public educators will celebrate that transition hour by offering special Twilight Tours six times this summer, beginning June 12.</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">http://asunews.asu.edu/20100511_twilighttours</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Pecos Conference Could Use a Few Good Volunteers</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Contact Volunteer Coordinator - Patrick McDermott (970-903-5522, pmcd95@hotmail.com)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Pecos Conference Field Trips Announced</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.swanet.org/2010_pecos_conference/day4.html">http://www.swanet.org/2010_pecos_conference/day4.html</a>Center for Desert Archaeologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632544160503692093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157147949621171095.post-19493634738494958572010-05-10T10:18:00.000-07:002010-05-10T10:34:33.056-07:00Its Time to Start Planning for the Pecos Conference<span style="font-weight: bold;">Southwestern Archaeology Making the News - <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">A Service of the Center for Desert Archaeology</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Its Time to Start Planning for the Pecos Conference</span><br />The Pecos Conference is an annual conference of archaeologists which is held in the southwestern United States or northern Mexico. This year the conference will be held in Silverton Colorado, August 12-15th.<br /><a href="http://www.swanet.org/2010_pecos_conference/index.html">http://www.swanet.org/2010_pecos_conference/index.html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Legislation to Declare Chimney Rock a National Monument Introduced in the US House of Representatives</span><br />The Chimney Rock National Monument Act of 2010 (H.R. 5223) was introduced on May 4, 2010, and was referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources. The Chimney Rock National Monument Act of 2010 (S. 3303) was introduced on May 4, 2010, and was referred to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/38luhs5">http://tinyurl.com/38luhs5</a> - National Trust for Historic Preservation<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Hohokam Modifications to Salt River Factor into Legal Evaluations of Property Rights</span><br />The judge, in sending the issue back to the commission, acknowledged that that still leaves the question of what should be the test for the river's "natural" condition. "The obvious answer is that it was in its natural condition before the Hohokam people arrived many centuries ago and developed canals and other diversions," Winthrop wrote. But he conceded there is little, if any, historic data from that period.<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2b7uaaa">http://tinyurl.com/2b7uaaa</a> - Arizona Republic<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation to Host Adobe Workshop</span><br />The Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation will be hosting a hands-on adobe workshop May 21st -23rd in the Historic Fort Lowell Neighborhood. The workshop will be led by David Yubeta and Oscar Villa of the National Park Service. This three day workshop is being held Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Exact times and details are still being determined, but the workshop will likely run most of the day on Friday and Saturday and until noon on Sunday. The cost is only $65 for members and $75 for non-members. Space is limited.<br /><a href="http://www.cdarc.org/sat/adobe_preservation.pdf">http://www.cdarc.org/sat/adobe_workshop.pdf</a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Mills Collection of Ancient Ceramics on Display at Eastern Arizona College</span><br />he new Visitor Learning Center at the Discovery Park Campus of the Eastern Arizona College features a display that reveals information about the ancient Indian cultures that once inhabited southeast Arizona, including the Gila Valley. Many Gila Valley residents — especially if they're Eastern Arizona College students — are familiar with the Mills collection of colorful American Indian pottery displayed at the Student Services Building.<br /><a href="http://www.eacourier.com/articles/2010/05/09/news/doc4be4b38fcc218218273300.txt">http://www.eacourier.com/articles/2010/05/09/news/doc4be4b38fcc218218273300.txt</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Bolsa Chica Archaeology is the Topic of the Next Meeting of the Pacific Coast Archaeology Society</span><br />The Pacific Coast Archaeological Society's May 13th meeting will feature Dr. Nancy Anastasia Wiley speaking on “Bolsa Chica Archaeology: A Tribute to Hal Eberhart - Part Two: The Cogged Stones.” Meeting information: Thursday, May 13, 2010, 7:30 pm at the Irvine Ranch Water District, 15600 Sand Canyon Ave., Irvine, CA. Scientific Resource Surveys, Inc. will have an interactive display on cogged stone documentation in the meeting room from 6:30-7:30 pm, prior to the lecture. SRS Photo Director Rezenet Moges will have two computer slide shows running presenting 3-D Photosimile photography and 3-D NextEngine replication scanning; processes used on all the cogged stones collected by SRS. Meeting is free and open to the public. <a href="http://www.pcas.org/">http://www.pcas.org</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Ancient Petroglyphs are Often Targeted for Vandalism</span><br />Art older than the Mona Lisa graces the Mojave Desert’s vermilion rocks, yet the only security system that protects it is secrecy and a harsh landscape. Ancient people once carved animals, human figures and intricate patterns into canyon walls at thousands of sites throughout the desert. But with people accessing these remote areas with off-road vehicles, vandalism and theft has increased.<br /><a href="http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/target-19026-vvdailypress-lisa-ancient.html">http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/target-19026-vvdailypress-lisa-ancient.html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">New Feature on the Archaeology Channel Highlights Film Festival</span><br />The seventh annual installment of The Archaeology Channel International Film and Video Festival will take place May 18-22, 2009. This event, which includes a keynote address by leading First Americans researcher Dr. Jon Erlandson, is highlighted in TAC Festival 2010 Preview, the latest video feature on our nonprofit streaming-media Web site, The Archaeology Channel<br /><a href="http://www.archaeologychannel.org/">http://www.archaeologychannel.org</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Employment Opportunity (Albuquerque)</span><br />Parametrix is seeking a Principal Investigator/Senior Cultural Resources Specialist for our Albuquerque office. This is an opportunity for an experienced archaeologist to become an integral team leader for cultural resource projects as well as a collaborative member of multi-disciplinary teams involving NEPA, planning, and natural resources staff. Interest and knowledge of historic archaeology literature and practices is required. The anticipated first assignment for this position is archaeological lead for a mitigation project that includes testing and data recovery excavations and historic research at a twentieth-century historic mining site in northern Idaho.<br /><a href="http://www.parametrix.com/careers/main.htm">http://www.parametrix.com/careers/main.htm<br /></a><br />Thanks to Carrie Gregory for contributions to today's newsletter.Center for Desert Archaeologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632544160503692093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157147949621171095.post-33134254378359905282010-05-03T14:00:00.002-07:002010-05-03T14:10:59.521-07:00Congresswoman Wants to Expand Nation's Oldest Archaeological Preserve<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Archaeology Making the News - <span style="font-style: italic;">A Service of the Center for Desert Archaeology</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Congresswoman Wants to Expand Nations Oldest Archaeological Preserve</span><br /><br />On Interstate 10 between Tucson and Phoenix is one of America's most enduring ancient mysteries--a giant adobe structure called Casa Grande. It was erected by the Hohokam, a people who built towns where Tucson and Phoenix are today and who turned the desert green with an extensive system of irrigation. Ironically, the modern city of Phoenix was founded by American settlers who cleared out the prehistoric Hohokam canals and reused them for their own farms.<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2ee49qr">http://tinyurl.com/2ee49qr</a> - Gadling.Com<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2e52el6">http://tinyurl.com/2e52el6</a> - Center for Desert Archaeology<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Arizona Republic Declares "Congress Should Expand Monument"</span><br /><br />The Hohokam civilization rose in central Arizona, flourished for a millennium and disappeared before Columbus discovered America. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick introduced a bill last week to preserve the traces of this prehistoric desert culture by expanding the boundaries of Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. Congress should move quickly to approve it. <br />http://tinyurl.com/256mljl - Arizona Republic<br />CRM Firm Embroiled in Texas Ranger Burial Controversy Files for Bankruptcy<br />An archaeology company tangled in civil suits with the city of Waco over its work on the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum has filed for bankruptcy. American Archaeology Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Austin on Thursday afternoon, a court clerk said.<br /><a href="http://www.wacotrib.com/news/92480179.html">http://www.wacotrib.com/news/92480179.html</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Learn About the Other Codetalkers at the Last Archaeology Cafe of the Season (Tucson)</span><br /><br />The last Archaeology Cafe until September 2010 will take place this Tuesday, May 4, 6:15 p.m., at Casa Vicente in Tucson. Our presenter will be Dr. Suzanne Griset, Principal Investigator, Project Manager, and Oral Historian with SWCA Environmental Consultants in Tucson. Suzanne will discuss "The Other Codetalkers: Civilian Native American War Efforts at Navajo Ordnance Depot."<br /><a href="http://www.cdarc.org/2010/02/22/archaeology-cafe-recent-research-at-camp-navajo/">http://www.cdarc.org/2010/02/22/archaeology-cafe-recent-research-at-camp-navajo/</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Civilian Conservation Corps History to be Featured in New Exhibit at the Arizona History Museum</span><br /><br />A 1400 square foot multimedia exhibit tracing the history of the Civilian Conservation Corps and its Arizona projects will soon be on view at the Arizona Historical Society's Arizona History Museum in Tucson. It Saved my Life: Civilian Conservation Corps at the Grand Canyon, 1933-1942 was created by the National Park Service in 2008 to celebrate the CCC's 75th anniversary. The loaned exhibit, with the addition of period photographs and local artifacts from AHS and others, will open on Friday, May 14 with a special evening event from 5 until 7 p.m., when visitors may tour the displays, enjoy light refreshments and hear stories directly from CCC enrollees themselves.<br /><a href="http://willcoxrangenews.com/articles/2010/04/29/news/news18.txt">http://willcoxrangenews.com/articles/2010/04/29/news/news18.txt<br /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Giant Sequoias Yield Longest Fire History from Tree Rings</span><br /><br />A 3,000-year record from 52 of the world's oldest trees shows that California's western Sierra Nevada was droughty and often fiery from 800 to 1300, according to new research. It's the longest tree-ring fire history in the world, and it's from this amazing place with these amazing trees." said lead author Thomas W. Swetnam of the University of Arizona in Tucson. "This is an epic collection of tree rings<br /><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100318093300.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100318093300.htm</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Interior Secretary Salazar Promotes National Parks and Stimulus Efforts at Mesa Verde</span><br /><br />U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was at Mesa Verde National Park on Sunday to highlight nearly $50 million in improvements being made at the park, including a $23 million visitor and research center. The facility, which will be located just south of the park entrance on U.S. Highway 160, will replace the Far View Visitor Center, situated deep in the park and constructed 50 years ago as a temporary field lab. Construction on the new center, which is expected to meet the highest green-building standards, is scheduled to begin in the fall.<br /><a href="http://www.durangoherald.com/sections/News/2010/04/26/Investments_significant/">http://www.durangoherald.com/sections/News/2010/04/26/Investments_significant/</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Hopi Hotel and Conference Center Opens at Moenkopi</span><br /><br />A Hopi village has opened a hotel and conference center billed as the western gateway to the reservation. The Moenkopi Legacy Inn & Suites had its official dedication this week. The hotel features 100 guest rooms, a salt water swimming pool and whirlpool, an outdoor performance plaza and a kiva garden.<a href="http://www.fox11az.com/news/local/92491004.html"><br />http://www.fox11az.com/news/local/92491004.html<br /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Tucson's Mission Gardens Project Seeks Donations and Volunteers</span><br /><br />May is National Preservation Month, and according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the focus this year is: "Old is the new green." Supporters of the Mission Gardens on South Grande Avenue believe the proposed project is a perfect example of that theme.<br /><a href="http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/putting-down-roots/Content?oid=1945862">http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/putting-down-roots/Content?oid=1945862</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Utah Prehistory Week</span><br /><br />May 1st kicks off a week long celebration of Utah’s ancient past and archaeology. Utah Prehistory Week, May 1-8, 2010, is a statewide event in which local communities celebrate ancient heritage. Events are scheduled throughout the state and range from tours of archaeological sites, lectures, kids activities, and museum exhibit openings.<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/27qarh7">http://tinyurl.com/27qarh7</a> - Examiner.Com<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Colorado Celebrates its Heritage</span><br /><br />This May, cities and towns across the state will, once again, host events honoring Colorado's past during Archaeology and Historic Preservation Month. This year's theme is “Pathways to Colorado's Heritage,” and the entire month will feature plenty of free or modestly priced tours, exhibits, lectures, displays and events.<br /><a href="http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20100430/AE/100429764/-1/rss">http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20100430/AE/100429764/-1/rss</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Take a Historic Walk in Colorado with the Santa Fe Trail Caravan</span><br /><br />Take a three-mile hike down the Santa Fe Trail behind an ox-driven Conestoga wagon. Interpreters from Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site will demonstrate trail life in the 1840s. The caravan will leave Sierra Vista Overlook on Highway 350 at 10 a.m. on May 8 and travel to the Timpas Picnic Area. For more information, please contact Rick Wallner at 719-383-5024 or rick_wallner@nps.gov.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Anasazi Heritage Center Celebrates Archaeology Month With Lecture And Free Admission</span><br /><br />Archaeologist Ben Bellorado will speak at the Anasazi Heritage Center on Sunday, May 9, at 1 p.m. in connection with Colorado Archaeology and Historic Preservation Month. Admission to the museum will be free throughout the day.<br /><a href="http://www.cdarc.org/sat/bellorado.doc">http://www.cdarc.org/sat/bellorado.doc</a> - MS Word Document<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Blanding Artifact Looting Defendants to Face Trial in October </span><br /><br />Five defendants netted in a government crackdown on artifacts trafficking will take their case to trial before a federal judge in October. Co-defendants Joseph M. Smith, Meredith Smith, Tad Kreth, Reece Laws and Brandon Laws will take their case to trial before U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart on Oct. 25. The trial is slated to run for two weeks.<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2dhbwps">http://tinyurl.com/2dhbwps</a> - Deseret News<br /><br />Thanks to Carrie Gregory and Adrianne Rankin for contributions to today's newsletter.Center for Desert Archaeologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632544160503692093noreply@blogger.com