see you tomorrow. You intended for there to be only a few items in the spreadsheet you attached, right? Also, I took a look at the Rutherford county stuffy & sent them a few questions. They are getting back to me today. I think we'll have a good template for the next time you do this.
Zada
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>From: Karen Mudar <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Jun 2, 2010 6:57 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: NPS Archeology E-Gram May 2010
>
>May 2010 Archeology E-Gram
>
>DOI Archeologists Work to Protect Sites During Oil Spill Response
>Within four days of the burning and sinking of the oil drilling rig
>‘Deepwater Horizon’ in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, archeologists from
>NPS and FWS were compiling information about vulnerable archeological sites
>on park lands, preparing updated response planning documents, and preparing
>to assess resources threatened by oil. At least 8 national parks, 30
>national wildlife refuges, and 28 state parks and preserves ring the Gulf
>and may be affected by oil coming ashore. While the movement of the oil is
>unpredictable, Gulf Islands National Sea Shore, Dry Tortugas National Park,
>and Florida Key National Wildlife Refuge are likely to be most vulnerable
>once the oil gets into the Loop Current.
>
>Many Federal and state agencies, including the USCG, NPS, FWS, NOAA, MMS,
>and DoD are involved in this unprecedented response to a disaster. NPS
>Director Jarvis is acting as the Incident Commander for DOI. We are seeing
>good cooperation and sharing of resources between agencies to ensure
>protection of archeological resources both during the initial response and
>the recovery period. Archeologists will be needed during clean-up to
>protect sites from heavy equipment. On May 11, NPS Southeast Archeology
>Center (SEAC) Director David Morgan began deploying teams of archeologists
>to national parks on the Gulf. Everglades National Park Chief of Cultural
>Resources, Melissa Memory, is coordinating park archeologists’ responses in
>southern Florida.
>
>The NPS Cultural Resources Washington Support Office is assisting the
>response efforts by providing personnel and information. The NPS Cultural
>Resources national coordinator for the gulf oil spill incident is Ann
>Hitchcock. She is engaged in developing protocols for removing oil from
>cultural resources. Jeff Durbin will coordinate NPS Section 106 compliance
>that relates to the oil spill.
>
>Using NOAA data that is updated daily, the CRGIS Program, has developed
>regional maps that combine oil slick movements, points where oil has come
>ashore, national historic and natural landmarks, and historic properties
>and districts. The WASO Archeology Program has produced park overview maps
>that combine data from ASMIS (Archeological Site Management Information
>System) and LCS (List of Classified Structures), and databases. SEAC and
>park personnel also provided data for maps, which will support decision
>making and field operations. In addition to maps, a number of guidance
>documents developed after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska are also
>available.
>
>NPS employees can find these and other resources on the Spill Response
>Cultural Resources Sharepoint Site at
>https://portal.doi.net/c/deepwater/npscr/pages/default.aspx.
>
>Non-DOI employees can find information about the oil spill on the following
>websites:
>NOAA- www.noaa.gov/
>NPS Oil Spill Response – www.nps.gov/aboutus/oil-spill-response.htm
>DOI Oil Spill Response – www.doi.gov/deepwaterhorizon/index.cfm
>National Oil Spill Response – www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com
>
>2010 Wildland Fire Season Outlook: A Call to NPS Archeologists
>According to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) in Boise, ID,
>several regions of United States have the potential to experience active
>wildland fire seasons in 2010 (http://www.nifc.gov/news/NR_Outlook2010.pdf
>).
>
>The strong El Niño winter weather pattern has produced drier than normal
>conditions in the Northern Rockies of Montana and Idaho, parts of eastern
>Washington, northwestern Wyoming, a portion of south-central Oregon
>stretching down into the northeastern corner of California, and the leeward
>Hawaiian Islands. Several other regions of the country are also abnormally
>dry heading into late spring and early summer: the northern Great Lakes
>region, central Alaska, southern Arizona, and a section of southern
>Georgia, Alabama, and northern Florida. These areas, however, will probably
>benefit from normal seasonal rains by midsummer.
>
>While El Niño denied normal snowfalls and winter rains in some parts of the
>country, it had a dampening effect in other regions heading into the
>traditional summer fire season. The mountainous areas of Arizona, New
>Mexico, southern Utah, and southern Colorado were inundated with heavy
>snows over the winter, and forested areas will probably not have enough
>time to dry to critical levels before summer rains begin to fall.
>
>Wildland fires, fire management operations taken to suppress or manage
>them, and post-fire conditions can have detrimental consequences for
>archeological resources. Many NPS archeologists currently serve as Resource
>Advisors (READs) during active incidents and as members of Burned Area
>Emergency Response (BAER) teams that assess post-fire conditions. The
>efforts of these individuals have successfully protected many archeological
>resources and mitigated fire-related damages to others on NPS lands.
>
>The need for READs and BAER team members remains great, however. Those
>interested in what it takes to participate and training opportunities are
>encouraged to contact PWR Archeologist/BAER Coordinator Nelson Siefkin
>(510.817.502) or National BAER Coordinator Rich Schwab (208.387.5642).
>
>NPS Archeology Program Celebrates National Oceans Month
>From coastal settlement to maritime battles, archeology illuminates
>relationships between people and the oceans. Visit the website of the NPS
>Archeology Program for ideas on places to go and things to do regarding
>oceanic archeology. Check out the new front page
>http://www.nps.gov/archeology/index.htm or go directly to the Oceans Month
>feature at http://www.nps.gov/archeology/months/june10.htm. (See all the
>monthly pages at http://www.nps.gov/archeology/months/index.htm).
>
>In July and August, the front page will feature summertime archeological
>happenings in the NPS, like public archeology days or special events. Let
>us know your plans, give a link, and we'll include information in the next
>front page monthly update. E-mail [log in to unmask] to submit announcements.
>
>Two Sentenced for Looting Yakama Nation Cultural Site
>Tiffany E. Larson, 24, and Devin W. Prouty, 27, both of Goldendale,
>Washington, were sentenced on May 12, 2010, for damaging and removing
>archeological resources from an historic Yakama Nation site, in Spearfish
>Park, Klickitat County, Washington. The park is Federal land managed by the
>U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. On August 15, 2009, Larson and Prouty were
>apprehended at while looking for arrowheads and collecting stone fragments
>that were culturally altered. Signs at the entrance to the park note that
>"Destruction, injury, defacement, removal, or any alteration of public
>property is prohibited." Neither Larson nor Prouty had a Federal permit for
>archeological excavation of historic or prehistoric resources, or for
>removal of archeological objects.
>
>The Yakama Nation archeological damage assessment determined that there
>were three areas of measurable disturbance and that the cost to
>rehabilitate the area was $6,690.08. Larson and Prouty received sentences
>of two years probation and were ordered to pay that amount in restitution.
>Both were also ordered to perform 150 hours of community service for the
>Yakama Nation and banned during the period of probation from going into
>Spearfish Park.
>
>The investigation was conducted by the Yakama Nation Cultural Resources
>Program, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fisheries Enforcement, the U.S. Army
>Corps of Engineers, and the Klickitat County Sheriff’s Office.
>
>DOI Secretary Approves Cape Wind Energy Project
>Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has approved the Cape Wind renewable
>energy project on submerged Federal lands in Nantucket Sound, but will
>require the developer of the $1 billion wind farm to agree to additional
>binding measures to minimize the potential adverse impacts of construction
>and operation of the facility. The Advisory Council of Historic
>Preservation had recommended rejecting the proposed project and Native
>American tribes also objected to construction of the wind farm on Horseshoe
>Shoals.
>
>Salazar disagreed with the Advisory Council’s conclusion that visual
>impacts from the proposed wind farm provide a rationale for rejecting the
>siting of the project. The 25 square mile Cape Wind Associates LLC facility
>project site is about 5.2 miles from the mainland shoreline, 13.8 miles
>from Nantucket Island and 9 miles from Martha’s Vineyard. In no case does
>the turbine array dominate the view shed, Salazar said.
>
>Salazar emphasized that the Department has taken extraordinary steps to
>fully evaluate Cape Wind’s potential impacts on traditional cultural
>resources and historic properties, including government-to-government
>consultations with the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) and the
>Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and that he was “mindful of our unique relationship
>with the Tribes and carefully considered their views and concerns.” Salazar
>said he understood and respected the views of the Tribes and the Advisory
>Council, but noted that, as Secretary of the Interior, he must balance
>broad, national public interest priorities in his decisions.
>
>Salazar pointed out that Nantucket Sound and its environs are a working
>landscape with many historical and modern uses and changing technologies. A
>number of tall structures, including broadcast towers, cellular base
>station towers, local public safety communications towers, and towers for
>industrial and business uses are located around the area. Three submarine
>transmission cable systems already traverse the seabed to connect mainland
>energy sources to Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Island. Significant
>commercial, recreational and other resource-intensive activities, such as
>fishing, aviation, marine transport and boating have daily visual and
>physical impacts, and have long coexisted with the cultural and historic
>attributes of the area and its people.
>
>The Secretary also disagreed that it is not possible to mitigate the
>impacts associated with installation of piers for wind turbines in the
>seabed. A number of marine archeological studies have indicated that there
>is low probability that the project area contains submerged archeological
>resources. Most of the area has been extensively reworked and disturbed by
>marine activities and geological processes.
>
>Because of concerns expressed during the consultations, Interior has
>required the developer to change the design and configuration of the wind
>turbine farm to diminish the visual effects of the project and to conduct
>additional seabed surveys to ensure that any submerged archeological
>resources are protected prior to bottom disturbing activities. Under these
>revisions, the number of turbines has been reduced from 170 to 130,
>reconfiguring the array to move it farther away from Nantucket Island,
>reducing its breadth to mitigate visibility from the Nantucket Historic
>District, and painted off-white. A Chance Finds clause in the lease
>requires the developer to halt operations and notify Interior of any
>unanticipated archeological find. The Clause in the lease only halts
>operations if cultural resources or indicators suggesting the possibility
>of cultural habitation are found but also allow the Tribes to participate
>in reviewing and analyzing such potential finds.
>
>Interior will require additional and detailed marine archeological surveys
>and other protective measures in the project area. Remote sensing tools
>will be used to ensure seafloor coverage out to 1000 feet beyond the Area
>of Potential Effect. More predictive modeling and settlement pattern
>analyses also will be conducted as well as geotechnical coring and analyses
>to aid in the identification of intact landforms that could contain
>archeological materials.
>
>At average expected production, Cape Wind could produce enough energy to
>power more than 200,000 homes in Massachusetts. Horseshoe Shoals lies
>outside shipping channels, ferry routes, and flight paths but is adjacent
>to power-consuming coastal communities. One-fifth of the offshore wind
>energy potential of the East Coast is located off the New England coast and
>Nantucket Sound receives strong, steady Atlantic winds year round.
>
>Registration Open for 2010 Pecos Conference
>The 2010 Pecos Conference will be held in Silverton, CO, August 12-15. The
>conference was initiated at Pecos, NM, in 1927, by A. V. Kidder for the
>sharing of information about Southwestern archeological research. Ever
>since, with the exception of a ten-year hiatus, it has been held annually
>at various Southwest locations. This will be the 73rd meeting for
>professional and avocational archeologists and the interested general
>public to present papers and recent Southwestern archeological research.
>
>For more information and to register, go to
>http://www.swanet.org/2010_pecos_conference/index.html
>
>CRM Journal Features Interview with Hester Davis
>The summer 2009 issue of CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship featured
>an interview with Hester Davis, who has a been a leader in cultural
>resource management. You can get a copy of this back issue for free by
>emailing a request to [log in to unmask]
>
>CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship addresses the history of,
>development of, trends, and emerging issues in cultural resource management
>in the U.S. and abroad. Its purpose is to broaden the intellectual
>foundation of the management of cultural resources. The journal is written
>for practitioners in the cultural resources fields, including preservation,
>history, architecture, museology, conservation, ethnography, archeology,
>cultural landscapes, folklore, and related areas; scholars in colleges and
>universities who teach, study, and interpret cultural resources; and other
>members of the heritage community. Subscribe for free online and find back
>issues at http://crmjournal.cr.nps.gov/Journal_Index.cfm .
>To be considered as a peer reviewer for manuscripts or to write reviews of
>publications (books, websites, or exhibits), send an email to
>[log in to unmask] stating your interest. Include your contact
>information as well as your topical and geographic areas of expertise.
>
>NASA Offers Remote Sensing Training for Archeologists
>The NASA Space Archaeology Program is offering a workshop “Introduction to
>Satellite and Aerial Remote Sensing for Archeologists” June 29 – July 1,
>2010 at the Geospatial Innovation Facility, University of California,
>Berkeley. Course objectives include:
> Identifying elements in the remote sensing process of greatest
> relevance to archeological research.
> Introduction to the most widely available and reasonably priced image
> types, from multispectral to synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to
> archeologists.
> Introduction to image enhancement and analysis techniques that have
> been of greatest use to archeologists, as well as those techniques
> showing promise.
> Development of criteria for choosing images for analysis, how to use
> them, and tools needed.
> To develop a mutual support group of archeologists working with this
> technology.
>
>Course prerequisites include at least one year of experience with GIS and
>image enhancement software, familiarity with aerial or satellite remote
>sensing imagery in archeological research or archeological resource
>protection, and professional standing in the archeological community.
>
>
>For more information and for an application, go to
>www.culturalsite.com/articles/NASA_Aerial_and_Satellite_Remote_Sensing_for_Archaeologists_Course_Application.pdf
>
>
>2010 Biennial Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESU) Network National
>Meeting
>The 2010 Biennial Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESU) Network
>National Meeting will be held June 22-24, 2010, Howard University School of
>Law, Washington, DC. CESUs provide research, technical assistance, and
>education to Federal land management, environmental, and research agencies
>and their partners. CESU efforts bring together scientists, resource
>managers, and other conservation professionals from across the biological,
>physical, social, and cultural sciences to conduct coordinated,
>collaborative applied projects to address natural and cultural heritage
>resource issues at multiple scales and in an ecosystem context.
>
>Who should attend? Representatives from CESU partner universities and
>colleges; Federal natural and cultural resource managers, scientists,
>educators, and agency leaders; prospective Federal and nonfederal partners.
>
>New this year: 1.) An Orientation Session for Federal and nonfederal
>partners new to the network. The session will provide an opportunity for
>representatives from new partner organizations and new representatives from
>existing organizations to learn more about the program, ask questions, and
>interact with new and existing partners from around the CESU Network. 2.) A
>Host University Directors Meeting will provide a forum for sharing among
>unit leaders related to best practices, experiences, lessons learned,
>emerging issues, and future possibilities. 3.) A “Speed Dating” Dialog
>Session will allow Federal agency representatives and nonfederal partners
>to engage in face-to-face conversations to identify potential connections
>and synergies for future collaboration on topics of mutual interest.
>Numerous topical areas will be arranged for brief table discussions to link
>needs and capabilities among partners. 4.) A fun and informative walking
>tour of the National Mall; NPS staff will provide an insider's view of
>managing the Nation's Backyard!
>
>For more information, go to www.cesu.psu.edu/meetings_of_interest.htm
>
>BOR Releases Film about Looting of Military Cemetery
>The BOR has released a film about Federal efforts to stop looting of a
>cemetery associated with historic Fort Craig, Socorro County, New Mexico.”A
>Helluva Way to Treat a Soldier” examines the history of the fort and the
>looting of the fort’s cemetery. A century after his death, the remains of a
>19th century Buffalo Soldier named Thomas Smith were stolen from the Fort
>Craig cemetery. Private Smith's remains were kept as a trophy for over 30
>years in the home of one of the Southwest's most prolific looters. While
>the man who took Mr. Smith’s remains died before prosecution, or even
>detection, the film carries a strong warning about the penalties of theft
>of archeological heritage and links looting to the destruction of
>knowledge.
>
>Fort Craig was established in 1853 and, by 1861, was the largest fort in
>the Southwest with over 2,000 soldiers, as well as families and other
>civilians. Fort Craig soldiers fought Confederate soldiers and, after the
>Civil War was won, housed Buffalo Soldiers, military units of African
>American soldiers, led by European American officers (see “The Archeology
>of Buffalo Soldiers and Apaches in the Southwest”
>www.nps.gov/archeology/sites/npSites/guadalupeMts.htm ). Fort Craig was
>decommissioned in 1885, and the bodies in the nearby cemetery were
>dis-interred and buried elsewhere.
>
>
>
>Fort Craig passed into private hands in 1895 and, at that time, it was not
>illegal to dig in the ruins of the fort. The property was eventually
>donated to Archaeological Conservancy by the Oppenheimer family and
>transferred to the Bureau of Land Management in 1981. The nearby cemetery,
>however, remained Federal property. When looter Dee Brecheisen began
>digging in the cemetery in the early 1970s, he was destroying and stealing
>Federal property (ARPA was not passed until 1979). Brecheisen quickly
>discovered that a number of bodies had been left behind when military
>personnel moved the cemetery. While Federal archeologists later estimated
>that Brecheisen opened as many as 20 graves, only one set of remains were
>recovered, those of Thomas Smith.
>
>
>
>Shortly after his death in 2004, Federal archeologists received a tip that
>Brecheisen had illegal human remains and artifacts. It wasn’t clear whether
>he sold any of the looted items. Authorities found some Civil War and
>Native American artifacts in his home, but the collections had already been
>auctioned off by his family. Authorities also found piles of prehistoric
>pottery sherds, military buttons, and other artifacts, vividly detailed in
>the film. Smith’s remains were later returned by an anonymous person.
>
>
>
>Investigators believe Brecheisen also dug up grave sites in Fort Thorn and
>Fort Conrad, and prehistoric burial sites in the Four Corners region. He
>may also have taken the Fort Craig burial plot map, found among his things
>but missing from the National Archives.
>
>
>
>To prevent further looting, BOR archeologists in 2008 removed the rest of
>the burials that had been overlooked when the cemetery was moved. The
>remains of 39 men, 2 women, and 26 infants and children were later
>reburied.
>
>
>
>Situating a film about looting within a historical context that includes
>both European and African Americans that the public can easily identify
>with complements a growing body of film and literature about looting of
>Native American sites. The film features cameo appearances by BOR FPO Tom
>Lincoln and BOR archeologists Jeffry Hanson and Mark Hungerford.
>
>
>
>A short version of “A Helluva Way to Treat a Soldier” was shown at the 7.5
>Film Fest at the Society of American Archaeology’s 75th Anniversary meeting
>and was chosen as the winner out of 66 entries.
>
>
>Federal Publications: Kingsley Plantation Ethnohistorical Study by
>Antoinette T. Jackson and Allan F. Burns
>Ethnohistorical research provides a rich historical dimension to the
>current archeological investigations at Kingsley Plantation, Tumucuan
>Ecological and Historic Preserve, Jacksonville, Florida. A primary focus is
>Zephaniah Kingsley, a European American who occupied the plantation from
>1812 to 1837 (and whose nephews owned it after him), and who eventually
>migrated to Haiti. He married an enslaved Senegalese woman from a “royal”
>family, Anta Majigeen Ndiaye, and, together, they managed the plantation,
>and the enslaved people who labored on it, and raised four children while
>negotiating Florida European American society.
>
>Much is made of the fact that Anta owned enslaved people in America but, as
>a high status individual in Africa, her family may also have owned enslaved
>people. Only in America was social status linked to skin color. Zephaniah
>and Anta’s children were able to transcend these contradictions between
>wealth and expectations of social status, and all married European
>Americans. The majority of descendents of the children who stayed in
>Florida after their parents migrated to Haiti, however, married people who
>were identified as African Americans in the U.S. census.
>
>This research also took as a subject a family that had been part of
>Zephaniah and Anta Kingsley’s enslaved population. Esther Lottery was born
>on Kingsley Plantation about 1825, and descendents remain in the
>Jacksonville area.
>
>Against this backdrop of slavery and slave owning, the authors examine
>important events of the past two hundred years of habitation of Fort George
>Island, beginning with Zephaniah and Anta’s tenure, and ending with the Klu
>Klux Klan, the assassination of Malcom X, and the Civil Rights movement.
>Chapters 1 and 2 focus on the Kingsley family history and fortunes. Chapter
>3 encompasses branches of the descendent families, including some from
>Haiti. Chapters 4 and 5 look at some of the more recent history of the
>island, and oral histories of recent inhabitants of the Fort George Island
>community. The authors rightly emphasize that slavery is not the only story
>to be told, but only one among many stories of people connected to the
>island.
>
>Data collection for the study was facilitated by the gathering of former
>inhabitants and descendents of inhabitants of Fort George Island at the
>“Kingsley Plantation Heritage Festival” held annually. Oral history is
>augmented by archival research, summarized in four appendices: genealogical
>charts, census data, and a fascinating table of occupations held by African
>Americans in the U.S. in the first part of the 20th century. This
>well-written study is a welcome addition to historical and archeological
>research of Kingsley Plantation.
>
>(This study provides background information for two archeological studies
>about Kingsley Plantation to be presented in future as Projects in Parks.
>For a condensed version of the study, see “The Kingsley Plantation
>Community in Jacksonville, Florida: Memory and Place in a Southern American
>City” in CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship at
>http://crmjournal.cr.nps.gov/04_article_sub.cfm?issue=Volume%206%20Number%201%20Winter%202009&page=1&seq=2)
>
>Projects in Parks: Archeology in Alaska Park Science
>Alaska Park Science is a semi-annual journal that shares the results of
>research in Alaska's 15 national parks and preserves, and focuses on
>cultural and natural resources, and the physical and social environment.
>Since the first volume was published in 2002, Alaska Park Science has
>published over 14 articles about archeology and prehistory in 10 parks.
>Through this research, the NPS manages our vital cultural and natural
>resources better.
>
>Read the full story at www.nps.gov/archeology/sites/npsites/akParkSci.htm
>
>Projects in Parks is a feature of the Archeology E-Gram that informs others
>about archeology-related projects in national parks. The full reports are
>available on the Research in the Parks web page
>www.nps.gov/archeology/sites/npSites/index.htm or through individual issues
>of the Archeology E-Gram. Prospective authors should review information
>about submitting photographs on the Projects in Parks web page on
>InsideNPS.
>
>Archeology E-Gram, distributed via e-mail on a regular basis, includes
>announcements about news, new publications, training opportunities,
>national and regional meetings, and other important goings-on related to
>public archeology in the NPS and other public agencies. Recipients are
>encouraged to forward Archeology E-Grams to colleagues and relevant mailing
>lists. The Archeology E-Gram is available on the News and Links page
>www.nps.gov/archeology/public/news.htm on the NPS Archeology Program web
>site.
>
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>Parks, submit citations and a brief abstract for your peer-reviewed
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