>Got CALICHE? http://www.swanet.org/caliche.html
>Wednesday Noverber 24, 1999
>
>It is time for us to step away from the keyboard to gobble turkey and give
>thanks for all we have and all we have been allowed to accomplish. Happy
>Thanksgiving! Brian Kenny and Matthias Giessler, Southwestern Archaeology,
Inc.
>
>SPECIAL REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE
>
>From: Judith A. Habicht-Mauche [log in to unmask] I am trying to find an
>obituary or other biographical information on either A. Helene Warren or
>Elizabeth Garrett. Both women were independent petrographic analysts who
>worked throughout the SW, but particularly in New Mexico, during the
>1960s-80s. I have not been able to find anything in the Peabody-Tozzer
>Library data base--which is usually pretty comprehensive in this regard. I
>would greatly appreciate any other leads people could send me. Thanks!
>Judith Habicht-Mauche, University of California, Santa Cruz.
>
>OKLAHOMA
>
>http://www.nando.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500060727-500100344-500419097-0,0
>0.html The Tulsa Race Riot Commission agreed to move ahead with a plan for
>limited excavation. Excavation of a 3-foot by 6-foot area would enable
>forensic scientists to determine if any bones date to the time of the riot.
>The commission considered reparations, including scholarships, museums,
>memorials and direct payments to race riot survivors and victims' families
>as restitution for one of the nation's worst acts of racial violence.
>TEXAS
>
>http://www.sptimes.com:80/News/112499/TampaBay/Holiday_s_evolution_i.shtml
>Texas claims the first North American Thanksgiving, held by Spanish
>raiders, back in 1541.
>
>NEW MEXICO
>
>http://www.lamonitor.com/headline2.html Two of the Baca Ranch board
>positions will automatically include the superintendent of Bandelier
>National Monument and the supervisor of the Santa Fe National Forest.
>Enabling legislation requires that within two years of federal purchase of
>the Baca, the trust develops a "comprehensive program for the management of
>lands, resources, and facilities" within the ranch, and that this program
>provides "for operation of the ranch as a working ranch, consistent with
>the protection and preservation of the scenic, geologic, watershed, fish,
>wildlife, historic, cultural and recreational values of the (Baca Ranch)."
>
>http://www.newschoice.com/Newspapers/MidStates/LasCruces/default.asp
>Lifetime and longtime residents who have old documents or pictures that
>chronicle Mesilla's history are being asked to share those with town
>officials. A photo dates back to about 1852, and Mesilla officials and many
>residents were unaware a photo of the original church existed until it was
>published in the Sun-News as part of its daily photos commemorating the
>city's sesquicentennial. Anyone who wants to share old photos and documents
>of Mesilla's past can call Town Hall at 524-3262.
>
>http://www.abqjournal.com/news/1bones11-24-99.htm Bones and artifact were
>sent to the state Office of the Medical Investigator in Albuquerque for a
>preliminary investigation. Larry Baker, executive director of Salmon Ruins
>Museum in Bloomfield. Baker and two other archeological investigators went
>to the site and sifted through dirt to try to find clues about how old the
>material might be.
>
>http://www.daily-times.com/areanews/areanews.asp Barry Cooper,
>superintendent of Aztec Ruins National Monument, said that the Four Corners
>is rife with potential finds like Tuesday's. In August 1998, remains
>believed to be those of Ancestral Puebloans, also known as Anasazi, were
>found at BHP Minerals La Plata Mine coal pit. The origin of the four humans
>and a DOG was placed somewhere between 400 AD and 1300 AD.
>
>The newsletter of the Albuquerque Archaeological Society (Volume XXIV, No
>11, November 1999) reports that Bruce Huckell's DOG, Chuska, found a Folsom
>site along Boca Nega wash.
>
>ARIZONA
>
>http://www.azcentral.com/advert/kartchner/ Kartchner Caverns
>
>http://www.swanet.org/glyphs/g9912.pdf The weekend of December 4 and 5th
>will be the annual fiesta at Tumacacori National Historic Park - a
>historical and cultural celebration honoring the peoples of the Pimeria Alta.
>
>http://www.swanet.org/glyphs/g9912.pdf AAHS January field trip is to the
>Sierra Ancha.
>
>NEVADA
>
>http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/1999/nov/23/509391074.html
>The MacDonald Center for the Arts and Humanities was awarded $10,000 to
>create a traveling museum with hands-on learning stations to teach fifth
>grade elementary students ancient history and archaeology.
>
>CYBERIA
>
>http://www.detnews.com/1999/metro/9911/24/11240133.htm Casper was surfing
>the Internet when he saw a university posting about its stolen meteorite.
>Casper called the museum, turning over Collins' name and telephone number.
>Collins was arrested and the meteorite was returned to the museum. The
>meteorite was unearthed in the Canyon Diablo Meteor Crater, a 600-foot hole
>in a desert near Flagstaff, Ariz., where a larger meteorite crashed 20,000
>to 40,000 years ago.
>
>http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/11/24/timfgnusa02004.html?999
>DNA from mammoths have been recovered and sequenced, but are too damaged to
>make cloning the long-extinct creatures possible.
>
>
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