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>Tuesday January 18, 2000
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>NEVADA
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>http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/carson/948175256.html "Nevada Women on the
>Road to Change, 1890-1920" will be on display at the Carson Valley Museum
>and Cultural Center from March 1 through June 30.
>
>UTAH
>
>http://www.desnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,150006847,00.html? A group wants to
>resurrect the mill as a living history park that can still spin wool
>blankets. Friends of the Mill is led by Wilson Martin, the state
>preservation director for the Utah Division of State History. The mill fits
>with the No. 1 reason people travel -- tourists are looking for an
experience.

>COLORADO
>
>http://www.daily-times.com/areanews/areanews.asp The local cultural center
>set up shop in the E.R. Lamb Mercantile building, originally built in 1909.
>It started out with archaeology and has expanded over the years to include
>other cultures.
>
>http://www.gjsentinel.com/auto/feed/news/local/2000/01/16/948002893.10549.64
>85.0039.html A county commission has dedicated $4,500 toward a study of the
>gym to determine if it is worthy of restoration. The community has applied
>for $10,000 in additional grant money from the Colorado Historical Society.
>The gym was a Works Project Administration project, built in 1936, and has
>several unique and valuable structural characteristics.
>
>ARIZONA
>
>From: Lucinda Andreani <[log in to unmask]> The 6th Gender & Archaeology
>Conference: Gender Archaeology Across the Millennia: Long Vistas, Many
>Viewpoints. October 6-8, 2000, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ.
>The conference should be quite interesting with international presenters
>and a full line-up of other activities, a reception and keynote on Friday,
>a reception at MNA on Saturday, and tours Sunday. The conference chair is
>Dr. Kelley Hays-Gilpin. Point at http://www2.nau.edu/gender2000/ or link
>from http://www.nau.edu/~anthro/ . We cannot accept registration via the
>web, but registrants can print off the form and mail it in with the
>appropriate conference fees. Contact Lucinda Andreani
><[log in to unmask]> with any questions.
>
>http://www.azstarnet.com/public/dnews/192-7691.html Historic
>preservationists have launched a last-ditch effort to save the second-most
>important historical structure in town, after the San Xavier Mission.
>
>http://www.bensonnews-sun.com/news/stories/00011201n.html 'Pomerene,
>Arizona and The Valley of the San Pedro, A History' was published last
>October, 15 years after Larson began compiling data for her so-called
>scrapbook. The book itself resembles an encyclopedia and documents facts
>and events in the history of Pomerene and the greater San Pedro Valley.

>TEXAS
>
>http://www.borderlandnews.com/story2.shtml Like most traditional Tigua
>burials, Sanchez's funeral was Roman Catholic blended with tribal custom.
>The Tribe won't elect a new cacique until Dec. 31, 2000.

>CYBERIA
>http://cjonline.com/stories/011800/kan_ruins.shtml A new federal
>designation may lead to the preservation of the Quindaro Ruins, an
>abandoned town site along the Underground Railroad.
>
>http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=81284577 The
>K-12 school was designed in 1921, when Pueblo Style was just making its
>mark in Santa Fe, N.M. A rare Minnesota example of the Pueblo Style, 1921
>is a remarkable date for the style to have escaped from the Southwest.
>
>http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,150006730,00.html? Long the
>epitome of agrarian life, old wood barns are vanishing from the American
>countryside.
>
>http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,145019410,00.html? Napoleon's
>lack of concern for Egyptian artifacts and the arrogance of Paris culture
>are bound by Crocodile's story. He's a stolen artifact who becomes a part
>of Paris culture.
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>Caliche (n) 1. A form of calcium carbonate found in thick stratigraphic
>accretions and thin depositional lenses, and widely dispersed in desert
>soils; 2. In prehistoric times, an economic mineral material mined by
>Native peoples of the American Southwest and Mexico and used for plaster in
>the construction of pit house floors, granaries, platform mounds, ball
>courts and other types of community infrastructure; 3. The bane of backhoe
>operators and gardeners when found in concrete-like deposits; 4. A gritty,
>powdery substance (not unlike industrial-gauge sandpaper) that shreds nasal
>mucous membranes and whipsaws and dessicates the exposed flesh of
>archaeologists; 5. Keyword-filtered journalism, short-lived news blurbs and
>timely press releases -- information about the archaeology, anthropology
>and history of the American Southwest -- received from individual
>contributors, and from media wirefeeds and search bots crawling the
>World-Wide Web.
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