Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. (SWA) Southwestern Archaeology Special Interest Group (SASIG) "Got CALICHE?" Newsletter Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of the Greater Southwest! Saturday August 25, 2001 ***************************************** ARCHAEOLOGICAL VANDALISM http://www.npca.org:80/magazine/march_april/shipwrecks.asp The laws commonly used to protect sites on land provide some safeguards for underwater resources. But significant gaps remain. http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues01/sep01/pot_hunters.html In the deserts of the Southwest, pothunters are stealing a priceless heritage. Illegal trade in antiquities ranks as the fourth most lucrative illicit business after drugs, guns and money laundering. http://www.lcsun-news.com Two Deming brothers were sentenced Wednesday to a year in federal prison for illegal pot hunting and ordered to pay almost $20,000 to restore a prehistoric Mimbres pueblo damaged by their digging. James L. Quarrell, 63, and Michael L. Quarrell, 66, were convicted in October in U.S. District Court of excavating, damaging, altering and defacing an archaeological resource in the Gila National Forest. They also were convicted of conspiracy. http://www.daily-times.com The restitution costs were based on archeologists' estimates of the costs of restoring the site and retrieving scientific data which could have been available prior to the violation. Bob Schiowitz of the Gila forest said Thursday that the Quarrells are related to a man named Michael Quarrell convicted in a similar case 25 years ago. ANTHROPOLOGY http://www.shef.ac.uk/~assem/issue6/index.htm August 2001 Issue 6: Editorial, Research Papers, Opinion, Reviews - the Sheffield graduate journal of archaeology. From: American Anthropologial Association <@aaanet.org> 100th Annual Meeting, November 28-December 2, 2001 Marriot Wardman Park Hotel, Washington DC. Beginning this year, the AAA Preliminary Program will be available on the AAA Web site, . This includes the schedule of all sessions and meetings as well as all registration and housing forms. Please check the web site beginning 1 September. http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=010825000889&query=archaeologists Obituary: Julian Alfred Pitt-Rivers: born London 16 March 1919; Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley 1956-57; Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago 1957-69; Professor, London School of Economics 1972-77. Pitt-Rivers's grandfather was archaeologist Augustus Pitt Rivers. AL SUR http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=214585 Many Mayan kings dressed as women and appropriated women's procreative roles as they engaged in genital bloodletting. The kings fed gods on human blood and tissue, including their own, and in response the gods provided humans with corn. And humans are thought to be made of corn. TEXAS http://www.geocities.com/cvas.geo/fair.html THC makes available matching grants, $1 for every $2 provided by the group hosting the fair. "Surviving West Texas-style" comes alive at Fort Concho National Historical Landmark during the Concho Valley Archeological Society fair in San Angelo, October 6. http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/452537_windmills_24pr.html The Aermotor Windmill Company premiered in Chicago in 1888. Within a few years, anyone passing through the country's most desolate, rural outreaches in the Southwest and West saw the towering windmills whose vanes bore the block-lettered Aermotor logo with the Chicago address. NEW MEXICO http://www.abqjournal.com/paperboy/text/news/423224news08-23-01.htm The hill near Galisteo is covered with black volcanic rock on which hundreds of petroglyphs are carved. http://www.sfnewmexican.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2264719&BRD=2144&PAG=461&dept_id=367954&rfi=6 Conservation groups and the National Park Service say New Mexico should restore a modern-day highway through Glorieta National Battlefield to the original dirt-track status it enjoyed as a segment of the Santa Fe Trail to draw more Civil War buffs and their tourist dollars to the area. COLORADO http://www.daily-times.com A fashion show of traditional Ute clothing, a beading workshop, and Ute storytelling will take place Saturday at the Anasazi Heritage Center. UTAH http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,295020055,00.html? Jim Bridger probably wasn't really the first white man to see the Great Salt Lake. The 1836 map of Warren A. Ferris is some three decades ahead of its time in the accurate detail of rivers, lakes and place names. The map covered from Missouri to central Nevada on the east-west and from the Grand Canyon to Yellowstone on the north-south. CALIFORNIA http://www.inlandempireonline.com/news/stories/082401/nmet24.shtml Folks at Metropolitan Water District want to build a museum and education center dedicated to the history of water in California. The Water Education Center will likely break ground in a year to 18 months. It will be separate from the Western Center For Archaeology and Paleontology, which will house mastodon fossils and other finds unearthed during the reservoir's construction. CYBERIA http://www.pioneerplanet.com/news/mtc_docs/116917.htm The Ramsey County Historical Society began to realize the possibilities of showing the lives of both Europeans and natives back into the mid-19th century. The Dakota are very much a part of the story. The histories are very much intertwined, and much is gained in telling how the natives and the Europeans learned from one another. http://www.newswise.com/articles/2001/8/CANNIBAL.VAN.html?sc=wire Cannibalism is one of the last real taboos of modern society. As such, it evokes a powerful mixture of fascination and revulsion. So strong are these preconceptions, in fact, that both the public and the scientific community have repeatedly fallen prey to them. A new anthropological study finds that cannibalism was not always aggressive and barbaric, but, in at least one case, was done with the best of motives. ****************************************** Contact the Newsletter Editor (Brian W. Kenny): (W) 602.882.8025 / (F) 603.457.7957 or . Send books, letter mail, and other media to: Southwestern Archaeology Inc, PO Box 61203 Phoenix AZ, USA 85082-1203. 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