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>Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of the Greater Southwest!
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>Sunday May 20, 2001
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>AL SUR
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>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/A46291-2001May18.html The
>enigmatic Nazca Lines are facing raiders seeking pre-Inca artifacts,
>scarring the terrain with hundreds of burrows amid the figures here, and
>near even older shapes around the neighboring town of Palpa. The damage
>underscores Peru's desperate struggle to preserve national patrimony.
>Archaeologists are watching helplessly as conservation is losing out to
>commercial interests. Peru lacks funds not only to protect important sites,
>but also to research them -- a problem shared by much of the developing
>world, including archaeologically rich Latin America.
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>TEXAS
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>http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/915717 The pioneering
>attitude of women of the West is represented by Clara Brown, a former slave
>who is reported to be the first black woman to cross the plains during the
>Gold Rush.
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>NEVADA
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>http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-other/2001/may/18/511842565.htm
>l The Goldfield Hotel was the finest hotel between Denver and San
>Francisco, said the historian for the nearly 100-year-old property. The
>hotel rarely has been open to the public in the last 20 years.
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>http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2001/May-19-Sat-2001/news/16133905.html All
>of the history of Southern Nevada in one place.
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>CYBERIA
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>http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=84185919
>Archaeology has a contribution to make to debates about violence, said
>archaeologist Jonathan Haas of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History.
>Some argue that war is about 10,000 years old, a social invention analogous
>to agriculture, cities, and political states. Others contend that war is
>much older, maybe even millions of years old. If so, it must be a much more
>basic element of human nature, like language or tool-making. But the
>antiquity of war doesn't make it genetic, said Steven LeBlanc, an
>anthropologist at Harvard University.
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