May 2009 Archeology E-Gram

Registration Open for Pecos Conference
The Pecos Conference will be held at the Cortez Cultural Center, Cortez,
CO, August 6-9. The conference was initiated at Pecos, NM, in 1927 by A. V.
Kidder for the sharing of information about Southwestern archeological
research. Ever since, with the exception of a ten-year hiatus, it has been
held annually at various Southwest locations. This will be the 72nd meeting
for professional and avocational archeologists and the interested general
public to present papers and recent Southwestern archeological research.

For more information and to register, go to
http://pecos.cortezculturalcenter.org/index.shtml

Katherine Slick Named New Executive Director of US/ICOMOS
Katherine Slick has been named the next Executive Director of US/ICOMOS.
She will take over the position held for fourteen years by Gustavo Araoz,
who was elected last October as the first American President of ICOMOS.
Slick comes to US/ICOMOS after serving as SHPO and Historic Preservation
Division (HPD) Director for the State of New Mexico since 2003. Over the
last six years, HPD has added more than 100 cultural properties to the
State Register, involved dozens of communities in the annual celebration of
Heritage Preservation Month and increased the scope of its granting
activities. During her tenure, Slick worked with the BLM and the NPS on a
potential World Heritage nomination and a multi-property nomination of El
Camino Real de Tierra Adentro to the National Register of Historic Places.


US/ICOMOS is a not-for-profit organization, and the American component of
ICOMOS, the international membership organization composed of more than 130
National Committees of practitioners and supporters of heritage
conservation throughout the world. As one of the largest and most active of
the National Committees of ICOMOS, US/ICOMOS is the principal venue for
ensuring that American accomplishments in heritage conservation are known
and shared worldwide, as well as keeping the American preservation
community informed of conservation achievements and needs in other
countries.

Nominations Open for the NPS Appleman-Judd-Lewis Award
Nominations are open for the NPS Appleman-Judd-Lewis Award for 2008. The
Appleman-Judd-Lewis Award recognizes expertise and outstanding
contributions to cultural resource stewardship and management by NPS
employees. Offered annually, the award is given in three categories—one for
a park superintendent, one for a facility maintenance specialist, and one
for a cultural resource specialist. The award aims to encourage creativity
in cultural resource stewardship and management practices and projects,
particularly those that may serve as examples or models for programs
service-wide.

Nominees must be current, full-time permanent NPS employees who have made
outstanding contributions to cultural resource stewardship and management
during the award year. Grade and length of service are not factors in the
selection of recipients. Winners of regional Appleman-Judd-Lewis awards are
eligible for these national awards. Recipients of the national awards will
each receive an engraved award and $2,500 at a special ceremony on or near
the anniversary of the NPS, August 25.

This award was originally established in 1970 to honor Roy E. Appleman, a
highly respected NPS historian who started to work for the NPS in July 1935
and retired as Chief of the Washington Office Branch of Park History
Studies in July 1970. In 1979, Henry A. Judd's name was added to the award
upon his retirement as Chief Historical Architect to recognize his
long-term efforts to preserve park historic structures. In 2006, Ralph H.
Lewis' name was added to honor and commemorate his pioneering contributions
to museum management within the NPS and to the museum profession at large.

Nominations are due to the Associate Director, Cultural Resources by July
10, 2009.

FLETC Archeological Resources Protection Training
The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) presents a thirty-seven
hour class which provides training in all aspects of an archeological
investigation and subsequent prosecution of the crimes. Archeological
Resources Protection Training is taught by accomplished instructors that
are nationally recognized subject matter experts in the fields of law
enforcement, archeology and law. The class cumulates in a twelve-hour
archeological crime scene practical exercise where law enforcement officers
and archeologists work as a team to investigate and document a crime scene.
Attendees will gather and process physical evidence, write incident
reports, executive summaries, search warrants, damage assessments, and
provide testimony in a courtroom scenario.

This class is open to all sworn law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and
Federal archeologists. To register please contact your agency’s training
representative at FLETC.

Dates:
      September 14-18, 2009 – Department of the Navy, Jacksonville, FL
(XP-ARPTP-903)
      September 21-25, 2009 - San Juan Public Lands Center, Durango, CO
(XP-ARPTP-904)
      October 19-23, 2009 - Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Bayfield,
WI (XP-ARPTP-101)
      November 02-06, 2009 - Jean Lafitte NHP&P, New Orleans, LA
(XP-ARPTP-102)

Contact: FLETC Senior Instructor Charles Louke, (912)280-5188

Badlands NP Program with Pine Ridge Reservation Rockyford School Students
Students from Rockyford Elementary School on the Pine Ridge Indian
Reservation came to Badlands NP to set up a Lakota style tipi on May 6,
2009.With Park Ranger Ellen Conroy, twenty-five 7th grade students from the
science and social studies classes participated in the event. The students
carried the poles and canvas to the tipi location, set up and raised the
tripod and arranged the remaining poles before setting the canvas in place.
During the lesson, the students learned the steps of setting up a tipi in
the Lakota style.

Place and Native Voice Website Launched
The University of Colorado Denver’s School of Public affairs has launched a
website for the Place and Native Voice (PNV) Project. The PNV Project
trains Native American Indian students whose family, clan, or tribe has a
traditional cultural or historical relationship with NPS facilities in the
Intermountain West as cultural resource interpreters. The website includes
an overview of the program and interpretive materials produced by the
American Indian students who have participated in the project.

The PNV project is a co-creation of The University of Colorado Denver’s
School of Public Affairs and the NPS. Continued funding for the PNV Project
comes from the Rocky Mountain CESU and from the Intermountain Regional
Headquarters of the NPS.

To visit the website, go to http://www.placeandnativevoice.org/

James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation Grants Available
The James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation will award research grants of
up to $25,000 to mid-career professionals who have an academic background,
professional experience, and an established identity in historic
preservation or related fields including, architecture, landscape
architecture, urban design, environmental planning, architectural history,
and the decorative arts. While not explicitly listed, archeology may be
pertinent to a research project in any of these fields.

The Foundation will also grant the Richard L. Blinder Award, a biennial
award of up to $15,000 for the best proposal exploring the preservation of
an existing structure, complex of buildings, or genre of building type for
use for a cultural purpose.

To learn more about both awards, go to www.fitchfoundation.org

National Historic Landmarks Grant Program
The National Park Foundation is offering national historic landmark grants
to encourage parks to undertake documentation of new properties that may be
eligible for recognition or to update the documentation of existing
National Historic Landmark and National Register properties. This new or
updated documentation will provide an important tool for guiding
preservation decisions and developing new interpretive programming. Grants
will range from $5,000 to $20,000. Please see the RFP for directions on how
to use the online application. The deadline is August 1st.

The application is online and can be found at
https://www.grantrequest.com/SID_328/?SA=SNA&FID=35009

New PBS Television Series Focuses on Archeology
The Public Broadcasting Corporation will premier a television series
devoted on archeology on July 8, 2009. Time Team America, based on a
popular British program, will travel to five archeological sites in the
U.S. and give viewers a glimpse of excavation and analytical methods of
archeology.

Programs:
      July 8 - The lost colony at Roanoke Island, Fort Raleigh, NC
      July 15 - North America's first human inhabitants, Topper, SC
      July 22 - The first American town founded by a freed slave, New
Philadelphia, IL
      July 29 - Where the Fremont Indians lived 1,000 years ago, Range
Creek, UT
      August 5 - Site of a real Wild West cavalry fort, Fort James, SD

Projects in Parks: Projects in Parks Needs You!
Have you conducted an interesting archeology-related project in a national
park that you would like others to know about, or know someone who has? One
way to tell people about your project is through the Archeology E-gram.
Send a description (up to 500 words) of your project, an abstract, one or
two photographs, and any website links that you’d like distributed to
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.jpg format, at least 800 x 600 at 72 dpi (1200 x 1600 at 150 dpi is
preferred); don’t forget to include captions and credits. We’ll put your
abstract in the Archeology E-gram, and the full text and photos on the NPS
Archeology Program website. Any interpretation, conservation, education, or
research projects in parks that pertain to archeology are welcome.

Archeology E-Gram, distributed via e-mail on a regular basis, includes
announcements about news, new publications, training opportunities,
national and regional meetings, and other important goings-on related to
public archeology in the National Park Service and other public agencies.
Recipients are encouraged to forward Archeology E-Grams to colleagues and
relevant mailing lists.  The Archeology E-Gram is available on the News and
Links page www.nps.gov/archeology/public/news.htm on the Archeology Program
web site.

Projects in Parks is a feature of the Archeology E-Gram that informs others
about archeology-related projects in national parks.  Prospective authors
should review information about submitting photographs on the Projects in
Parks webpage on InsideNPS.  The full reports are available on the Projects
in Parks web page inside.nps.gov/waso/custommenu.cfm?lv=3&prg=279&id=3670
on InsideNPS or through individual issues of the Archeology E-Gram on the
on the News and Links page http://www.nps.gov/archeology/public/news.htm on
the Archeology Program web site.

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