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>Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. (SWA)
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>Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of the Greater Southwest!
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>Wednesday May 29, 2002
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>NEW MEXICO
>
>http://www.lcsun-news.com/Stories/0,1413,115%257E7442%257E637971,00.html
>Ceremonies are being planned to mark the completion of years of work to
>renovate the old Nuestra Seora de la Candelaria Church in the village of
>Doa Ana. State Sen. Mary Jane Garcia, D-Doa Ana, said a tardeada is planned
>for 6 p.m. Saturday outside of the historic church to celebrate completion
>of its restoration. For at least the past six years, Doa Ana teens have
>volunteered on weekends and summers to help rebuild the church. The 
>volunteers
>were organized through New Mexico Cornerstones, a nonprofit organization
>dedicated to restoration of historic buildings throughout the state.
>
>COLORADO
>
>http://mr_sedivy.tripod.com/colorado44.html
>Hernando Cortés burned crosses on the hides of the small herd he brought
>with him to Mexico. The vaqueros passed the custom on to US cowboys, who
>developed and refined their own calligraphy.
>
>http://www.thenewsmexico.com/noticia.asp?id=25639
>Colorado is one of 14 states, which continue to employ branding officials.
>It was around 1865 that Colorado's ranchers began to register their brands.
>
>CALIFORNIA
>
>http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.052202/221420439
>In response to County's decision to file a lawsuit challenging the Community
>Redevelopment Agency's City Center Redevelopment Plan, the CRA maintains
>that the County's pending lawsuit hurts taxpayers and delays the creation
>of new housing, historic preservation, and economic development.
>
>ANTHROPOLOGISTS
>
>http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/05/29/000529hnhuman.xml
>Intel anthropologist Genevieve Bell researched shopping by following a
>group of five women on a shopping spree. It turned out shopping day had
>a particular ritual. Bell took three basic lessons away from the trip:
>there are different ways of shopping; shopping is a social activity; shopping
>is a learned skill, with aspects that are passed on from one person to
>another.

[Anita's note: Isn't this sociology rather than anthropology?]


>http://www.ocregister.com/nation_world/28nycookcci4.shtml
>In the view of Richard W. Wrangham, a professor of anthropology at Harvard,
>the culinary arts may well be what made us human in the first place. "There's
>no record anywhere of any people who have lived without cooking," he said.
>
>Editor's Note:
>I venture he hasn't dined in Aberdeen... ;>
>
>HUMAN REMAINS
>
>http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020524-7675980.htm
>In their zeal to fill time, broadcasters did wonders for anthropology.
>Forensic specialists were among featured "experts" brought in to speculate.
>Yesterday, CNN went so far as to interview a university anthropologist
>who studies human decomposition due to maggots, weather and water.
>
>http://www.thenewsmexico.com/noticia.asp?id=26582
>In Mexico City, the law has required family members to dig up bodies after
>as little as seven years to make room for the more recently departed. An
>estimated 1.4 million people occupy such temporary graves in Mexico City.
>Things are so cramped that a market has sprung up in which families willing
>to evict their loved ones can get thousands of dollars for the space. "We
>have to be practical. There is no longer room for emotion," said Raul 
>Escobar,
>head of the city's funeral services department.
>
>VANDALS
>
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4405742,00.html
>The tombaroli are the sharp end of a billion-pound racket in smuggled 
>artefacts.
>A chain of corruption ferries vases, plates and figurines to buyers who
>might appreciate their beauty but who, in the process of obtaining them,
>obliterate their archaeological value. The illicit trade in stolen 
>antiquities
>is allowed to flourish, say archaeologists, because dealers, collectors
>and museum curators have persuaded governments around the world to turn
>a blind eye.
>
>HISTORIC PRESERVATION
>
>http://www.businesswire.com/photowire/pw.051002/221302288.shtml
>Otis Elevator has donated funds to install an elevator as part of a 
>renovation
>of one of Plains Georgia's historic buildings.
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