>Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. (SWA)
>
>"Got CALICHE?" Newsletter
>Thursday September 14, 2000
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>EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
>
>California <http://www.swanet.org/jobs/hdr091300.pdf>
>Arizona / New Mexico <http://www.swanet.org/jobs/aai091300.pdf>.
>All Opportunities <http://www.swanet.org/jobs.html>.
>
>UTAH
>
>http://www.sltrib.com:80/09132000/utah/21706.htm South Jordan city wants a
>federal grant to renovate the old South Jordan Elementary school and use it
>for a community museum.
>
>COLORADO
>
>http://www.denverpost.com/business/biz0913a.htm A 43-year-old movie set
>made up of two lots and 28 buildings gathered from old mining ghost towns
>across the state will be offered in an auction. All 28 buildings in the
>town, from the phalanx of trading posts to the saloon, restaurant and
>stable, come from ghost towns across the state. Assembled in 1957, the
>town's century-old Tabor Store came straight from Alma.
>
>http://www.gjsentinel.com/auto/feed/news/local/2000/09/13/968852764.15175.57
>01.0153.html The Seventh Street Historic District is of great value to the
>community. Grand Junction is protecting the North Seventh Street Historic
>Residential District by keeping out trucks.
>
>NEW MEXICO
>
>http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/166375_palace_10tex.A.html The
>Palace of the Governors is one of the top five historically significant
>buildings in the country. Museum officials hope that by adding a $32
>million-dollar annex and re-enforcing existing walls, the original
>structure will be better protected and able to tell its own tale of history
>in the Southwest. The palace, built by the Spanish colonial government in
>1610, is the oldest public building in the United States. David Snow,
>curator of historical collections and an archaeologist by trade, said that
>the New Mexico museum has done little to extend Santa Fe history outside of
>the state. To him, the renovation could be a way to put Spanish colonialism
>in its larger world context and show the comparisons, for example of life
>at Plymouth and life in Santa Fe. "The housewives here in Santa Fe can be
>compared to those in Williamsburg. They were all doing the same stuff."
>
>ARIZONA
>
>http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/heritage_center/swhist_cult/9_12_00tours.html
>Tumacacori National Historical Park will offer four special tours to its
>sister missions, Guevavi and Calabasas. The free tours are by reservation
>only. They are scheduled for Oct. 18, Nov. 15 and Dec. 15. Each tour will
>last about four hours, from 1 to 5 p.m., and will consist of not more than
>14 people. Reservations for the tours may be made by calling (520) 398-2341
>Ext. 0.
>
>http://www.cia-g.com/~gallpind/todaysnews.html#anchor1 The Hopi Buttes
>region of northeastern Arizona is the focus of a proposed interdisciplinary
>study by the United States Geological Survey. USGS geologists met with Hopi
>and Navajo tribal hydrologists, geologists, archaeologists, ethnobotanists
>and educators here recently to discuss climate change and human land use in
>historic and prehistoric times in the arid lands of the Hopi Buttes on the
>Hopi and Navajo reservations.

>CALIFORNIA
>
>http://www.sacbee.com/news/calreport/calrep_story.cgi?N398.HTML Officials
>in one California county are replacing signs with stenciling, painted
>symbols on the pavement. "They can't steal these," said Vivian Davies,
>founder of the California Historic Route 66 Association. Route 66, dubbed
>"the mother road" in John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath," stretched
>2,448 miles from Chicago to Los Angeles. A main route West in the 1920s and
>1930s, it became a relic when the interstate highway system was built. In
>recent years, Route 66 has become a tourist attraction, drawing thousands
>to retrace the route. The tourist boom also brought souvenir hunters.
>
>http://www7.mercurycenter.com:80/premium/local/docs/river13.htm City
>Council expanded the River Street Historic District. According to planners,
>the expanded district will have a better chance of being included in the
>National Registry of Historic Places.
>
>VANDALS
>
>http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/166338_lacemetery_10t.html A
>French Quarter antiques dealer has been sentenced to six years in prison
>for his role in a ring that looted artifacts from historic cemeteries to
>sell to collectors.
>
>CYBERIA
>
>http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/09/14/text/p18s2.html Fires make an
>archaeologist's job much easier, but it helps looters find sites, too, and
>they'll pillage. It's a push-me, pull-me kind of a thing. The BAER teams
>survey an area after a fire, assess problems, and suggest ways to avert
>disasters like the destruction of an archaeologically important site.
>
>http://unisci.com/stories/20002/0410006.htm Plastic bags degrade organic
>material on pottery, and most potsherds are washed when brought into a
>collection. Washed pottery may contain residue, but currently only
>destructive methods can extract that residue. Never cleaned pottery sherds
>are spectacularly dirty and may provide stable carbon isotope to determine
>when corn was adopted.
>
>http://www.oregonlive.com:80/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/news/oregonian/00/09/
>sc_41archa13.frame Statewide activities for "Respecting Oregon's Heritage"
>begin Friday.
>
>http://www.usatoday.com:80/usatonline/20000913/2636939s.htm Under the
>Historic Homeownership Assistance Act now before Congress, buyers would get
>an income tax credit equal to 20% of the cost of rehabilitating a historic
>home in a historic district, up to $20,000. The National Park Service
>estimates that about 300,000 homeowners would use the credit at a cost to
>the Treasury of $1.2 billion over 10 years.
>
>http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposters/wpahome.html The WPA 1936-1943
>collection consists of 907 original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as
>part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal.
>
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