Note: Edited for articles on historical archaeology.
>Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. (SWA)
>"Got CALICHE?" Newsletter
>Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of the Greater Southwest!
>
>Wednesday October 04, 2000
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>
>PRESERVATION
>
>From: Mary S. Carroll <[log in to unmask]> The National Center for
>Preservation Technology and Training announces its 2001 Preservation
>Technology and Training Grants in historic preservation. The Center is a
>National Park Service initiative to advance the practice of historic
>preservation in the fields of archeology, architecture, landscape
>architecture, materials conservation, ethnography and ethnohistory. All
>proposals will be considered that seek to develop and distribute
>preservation skills and technologies for the identification, evaluation,
>conservation, and interpretation of cultural resources. Grants will be
>awarded on a competitive basis, pending the availability of funds. Proposal
>deadline: February 1, 2001. The complete 2001 PTTGrants announcement -
>including the request for proposals and instructions on how to prepare and
>submit applications - will be available November 1, 2000 via NCPTT's World
>Wide Web page at <http://www.ncptt.nps.gov> and via return e-mail. E-mail
>requests should be addressed to <[log in to unmask]>, leaving the
>subject and message line empty. The guidelines will be forwarded
automatically.
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>CALIFORNIA
>
>http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/10/03/timnwsnws01026.html A
>historical red black rose bred in the 19th century has been tracked down on
>the prison island of Alcatraz in what was once the head warden's garden.
>
>UTAH/WYOMING
>
>http://www.trib.com/HOMENEWS/WYO/MormonSwap.html A land swap that would
>give the Mormon Church ownership of a historic site remains stalled while
>the church looks for equally historic land to trade. The Church of Jesus
>Christ of Latter-day Saints wants to obtain the Martin's Cove (WY) site
>from the BLM. Some 150 pioneers who became bogged down by a blizzard in
>1856 died of cold and starvation at the site. The pioneers were mostly
>European immigrants walking the Mormon Trail to Salt Lake City.
>TEXAS
>
>http://www.austin360.com/statesman/editions/today/metro_state_11.htm Fred
>MacArthur Bean wrote 35 books about crime, the Old West and history. One of
>his most unusual stories was about Pershing's pursuit of Pancho Villa in
>Mexico.
>
>VANDALS
>
>http://www.abqjournal.com/news/140756news10-03-00.htm One of two Espanola
>men has pleaded guilty to stealing several religious artifacts from a
>160-year-old adobe Catholic church in Hernandez. The men wanted to sell the
>artifacts to buy beer.
>
>http://www.canoe.ca/OttawaNews/OS.OS-10-03-0008.html Vandals dug up one of
>the graves in the cemetery at the lost settlement of Grant recently.
>
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