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Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of the Greater Southwest!

Sunday April 27, 2003

CHIHUAHUA

2003 Pecos Conference

http://www.swanet.org/zarchives/pecos/2003/index.html
http://www.swanet.org/zarchives/pecos/2003/2003 Pecos Conference.pdf

Editor's Note:

Please re-distribute this information about the 2003 Pecos Conference. We have an obligation to re-affirm the many cooperative partnerships among Southwestern and northern Mexican archaeologists, and to demonstrate confidence in international travel. We strongly encourage your attendance at the 2003 Pecos Conference in Chihuahua, if just to let both security control freaks and iconoclast zealots know that they have not and shall not win their fear-mongering games. Along the Mexico-USA border, we must be free, and emotionally and culturally open, to share and grow better scientifc research, commerce, and our personal and historical relationships.

TEXAS

http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/042603/new perrytonoil.shtml
Harold Courson personally funded or served as a major contributor to numerous excavation projects. A series of historical and archaeological surveys include the Buried City Archaeological Project, the Horace Rivers Site, the Cooper Folsom Site and historical research and scientific excavation of the ship LaBelle and Fort St. Louis.

http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/042603/new restoringhistoric.shtml Wayne Snider and wagon-man Bill Thompson buy antique wagons and, using mostly parts from other rolling relics, restore the wagons to their original condition and color. Then they design and build chuck boxes, making them individually for each wagon. Little has changed since 1866 when pioneer cattleman Charles Goodnight built a chuck box and put it on the back of a wagon, creating a mobile pantry and kitchen. Before 1866, cattlemen used wagons to carry provisions, but Goodnight put the box on the back and created the chuck wagon of lore. As people perceive the world becoming more complicated and impersonal, the chuck wagon looms as a nostalgic symbol of a simpler, better time.

NEW MEXICO

http://www.daily-times.com/Stories/0,1413,129%257E6574%257E1352036,00.html The Aztec Museum has been awarded 1,775 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. These grants help museums lay groundwork for effective collections management. The CAP grant supports a two-day visit by a conservation professional who reviews the overall condition of the museum's collection, storage and exhibition conditions, and collections practices. The conservator's recommendations help the museum establish an action plan to conserve their treasures for years to come.

COLORADO

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~156~1350918,00.html
I met a history buff who once came to Pueblo just to visit the El Pueblo Museum, built on the site of the 1842 fort and trading post on the Arkansas River. This cultural crossroads of the Southwest is now an archaeological dig in the center of the city. The history buff was surprised to hear that a new museum is now under construction. I reported another nod to history that might interest him: the restoration of Spanish street names in what was once the town of South Pueblo. The settlement was built on land that had been the northern fringe of Mexico.

UTAH

http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Apr/04262003/utah/51565.asp
http://www.swanet.org/zarchives/zmisc/utmuseum.jpg
A young man receives recorded information over a telephone on Friday as he pauses at an anthropology exhibit at the Utah Museum of Natural History on the University of Utah campus. The mural is a reproduction of the Barrier Canyon pictograph in central Utah.

Editor's Note:

I imagine Lilly Tomlin's phone operator character, Ernestine, at the museum, saying "Hello? Is this the ancestor to whom I am speaking?"

ARIZONA

http://www.azdailysun.com/non sec/nav includes/story.cfm?storyID=64733 Chief ranger Kim Watson, left, and archaeologist Al Remley discuss the problem of stolen artifacts from Wupatki, Sunset Crater...

NEVADA

http://www.elynews.com/display/inn news/news24.txt
The East Ely Railroad Depot Museum's membership program presents an opportunity for the public to support the preservation of Nevada's mining and transportation heritage. Thousands of documents from the history of the Nevada Northern Railroad are available for research and information.

CALIFORNIA

http://www.cistory.org/festival
Northern California Indian Storytelling Festival, Hoopa CA, May 3, 2003.

http://www.pe.com/localnews/sanbernardino/stories/PE NEWS nbpast26.a1a4b.html Pauline Murillo has written a book, "Living in Two Worlds," about her early years. The rest is oral history, passed from generation to generation. That's how the story of San Bernardino County's first residents has been told. The first 100 years of San Bernardino County saw an evaporation of American Indian culture, he said, but the last 50 have seen a revival. Murillo said she is trying to preserve the Cahuilla language and she teaches her children the oral history passed on by her ancestors.

ROUTE 66

http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/0425tourismnotes25.html
Preservationist Jim Conkle and other Route 66 enthusiasts will make more than 60 stops to post new Route 66 "Roadside Attraction" signs that tell the story of these special sites, treasured landmarks and vintage establishments.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS & ANTHROPOLOGISTS

http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/24/news/local/news13.txt George Frison, University of Wyoming professor emeritus, will present a program titled, "Prehistoric Hunters: Fallacies, Possibilities, and the Archaeological Record."

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/crime/nyc-bones0427,0,4919785.story?coll=nyc-topheadlines-left The Hip Job Of Analyzing Skeletal Remains falls to Amy Mundorff. She lays out skeletal remains in an anatomical position. "That way I know what I'm missing. And if I have duplicate pieces, then I know I have more than one person there, and that has happened," she said.

http://www.brainerddispatch.com/stories/042603/new 0426030011.html
The Minnesota Senate voted 64-0 on Tuesday to get rid of a requirement that government bodies hire professional archaeologists when someone suspects an archaeological or historic site on public lands or waters. Under the bill, they could hold off until such a site is predicted to exist based on scientific investigation.

MORE ARTIFACTS ON EBAY

http://www.daily-times.com/Stories/0,1413,129%257E6572%257E1352046,00.html The Fifth Avenue Grocery in Roundup closed in 1952, and stayed closed until late last year. Thousands of items, most of them in mint condition, were locked in a time warp for 50 years. Starting next week at an auction house in Billings, the contents of the store will go on sale..

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=iraq&s=easterbrook041503.1
Practically everything about the military campaign went spectacularly well. Since the Tikrit palace was taken without a fight, let's propose that its chandeliers, grand pianos, artwork, and such be auctioned on eBay -- proceeds to help finance the reconstruction of Iraq. Imagine what collectors would pay for a brocade antique couch with Saddam Hussein's DNA residue. For a bed he didn't dare sleep in. For the lovely silver used by his food tasters. For the gurneys that took out his food tasters' bodies. What am I bid?

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