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>Thursday October 31, 2002
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>GREATER SOUTHWEST
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>http://www.mammothtimes.com/times2002/Arborglyphs10-31.html
>Aspen trees have an average life-span of 80-90 years, and, in time, the
>trees will return to the earth, taking their odd artworks - their arborglyphs
>- with them. A living "museum" of Basque carvings exists from Washington
>state to Texas and from California to North Dakota. Archaeologists are
>busy recording these arborglyphs and interviewing Basques about the 
>significance
>of the drawings. The arborglyphs are private art, and the Basques are 
>tight-lipped
>about the feelings they turned into arborglyphs.
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>NEW MEXICO
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>http://santafenewmexican.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=2144&dept_id=419948&newsid=5882600&PAG=461&rfi=9
>The residents can't afford to move their mobile homes. But once the land
>is cleared, the county will proceed with signing a purchase agreement 
>sometime
>in December. The land then becomes a part of the county's open space and
>trails program. The Archaeological Conservancy would maintain, preserve
>and excavate the property.
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>From: Bill Doleman <[log in to unmask]>
>http://www.swanet.org/zarchives/misc/1947_roswell_crash.pdf
>You're not gonna believe this "archeology news": Attached is the official
>announcement of an until-now secret OCA project sponsored by the SCI FI
>Channel. A live chat with me is coming tonight on SCIFI.com/chat, and a
>2-hr documentary airs Nov. 22 at 6 and 9 pm MST. The project has even moved
>SCI FI to mount a drive to get the gov't to release more info (see the
>"petition" tab on the home page). What a trip! Briefly, SCI FI contracted
>with our office to conduct archeological testing and some remote sensing
>(ground conductivity and and hi-powered metal detection) at the putative
>first impact site, where a "gouge" was presumably left behind by the craft
>that hit, made a gouge, left some debris, and skipped onwards to a final
>impact site where the craft and bodies were found. What did we find? You'll
>have to wait for the show... Cheers, Bill
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>ARIZONA
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>From: Mike Foster <[log in to unmask]>
>SWCA, Inc. Environmental Consultants invites interested professional 
>archaeologists
>to visit the ongoing excavations of a portion of historic downtown Prescott.
>The City of Prescott and Prescott City Centre Limited Partnership are 
>sponsoring
>the excavation of an area along Granite Street just west of Whiskey Row
>and south of Gurley Street. The area is being developed for a parking garage
>and lofts. The area was destroyed in the 1900 fire that devastated much
>of downtown Prescott. Significant Chinese and Euroamerican remains dating
>between 1860 and 1900 have been found. A site tour is planned for 7 November
>2002 between 10:00 and 12:00. Michael S. Foster, Ph.D. Senior Project Manager
>602.274.3831.
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>http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/local/10_30_02rio_nuevo.html
>Tucson officials are searching nationwide for a consulting firm to create
>an interpretive master plan for Tucson Cultural Origins Park. The park
>is a core element of the Rio Nuevo project that actually will include two
>parks: Mission San Agustín Cultural Park, west of the Santa Cruz River;
>and Tucson Presidio Historic Park downtown.
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>CALIFORNIA
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>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/10/30/MN178522.DTL
>All but 10 of California's House and Senate members, all Republicans, are
>sponsoring a bill that would provide $10 million in Interior Department
>matching grants to help finance a $50 million program for saving the missions
>founded by the Franciscan Order. The rest of the money for what planners
>foresee as a five-year restoration project would come from the state and
>private donors.
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>http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/Stories/0,1413,206%257E22097%257E957479,00.html
>Local architecture buffs are praising Pasadena's decision Monday to adopt
>a historic preservation ordinance, saying it will help protect Pasadena's
>  architectural and cultural heritage, foster civic pride and enhance the
>city's reputation as a tourist destination. "The whole point is that there
>are times when the ability of a person to demolish or irrevocably change
>a truly historic, landmark-quality building competes with the interest
>of a community to save and enjoy that building as part of its architectural
>legacy,' Mossman said. "The public good outweighs an individual's right
>to destroy something of great architectural value.'
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>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/30/arts/design/30NIEM.html
>A house in Santa Monica, Calif., designed by Oscar Niemeyer recently changed
>hands, and preservationists fear that its new owner may tear it down.
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>AND ALL THIS SCIENCE I DON'T UNDERSTAND. IT'S JUST MY JOB FIVE DAYS A WEEK
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>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/30/books/30BERN.html
>Is history science? Contrary to the common conception, it is, or at least
>it uses the same methods as the natural sciences. It isn't that history
>has changed over the years, become more scientific, but that science has
>become more historical. Science has abandoned the linear, predictable 
>Newtonian
>world of the past in favor of a new world defined by Einstein's theory
>of relativity and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Scientists like 
>Einstein
>couldn't do laboratory experiments. They relied on thought experiments,
>and a thought experiment is like a historical narrative. And a narrative
>is an investigative tool. It uses the mind to isolate variables in the
>effort to simulate how something happened, in science and in history, and
>to determine the causes.
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>From: Anthropology News <[log in to unmask]>
>Anthropology News 43(8) November 2002 
>http://www.aaanet.org/press/an/0211dia-comm.htm
>Leila Monaghan, who recently took an elementary education course in teaching
>science, comments, "Science ain't what it used to be." Prediction is no
>longer seen as the ultimate goal of all science. Biology has usurped physics
>as the ruler in science. With these changes, Monaghan, suggests that the
>value of anthropological research could rise.
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