At 11:36 AM 10/06/1998 -0700, you wrote:
>I am preparing to investigate a utopian socialist colony (occupied
>1914-1917+) called Llano del Rio in the California Desert and wonder if
>anyone else has conducted archaeological testing/data recovery at sites of
>this type. I'm particularly interested in the types of research themes
>others have used to focus their work at such colonies.  Thanks for any
>leads.
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As a matter of fact, I ran into Sarah Tarlow's home page, while assembling
the "world atlas of archaeology on the web": She's at the University of
Wales at Lampeter:
http://archaeology.lamp.ac.uk/tarlow/starlow.html
 
and also, Jon Sellars in Iowa is working on a Utopian community:
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hope this helps
 
kris
Kris Hirst
Office of the State Archaeologist
The University of Iowa
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