Edited for content. >"Got CALICHE?" Newsletter >Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of the Greater Southwest! > >Thursday August 2, 2001 > >***************************************** > >TEXAS > >http://midlandtx.hearstnp.com/SelectStory/story_id=21700 "Los Alamos >and the Bomb" will be the subject of the upcoming American Airpower >Heritage Museum's "Remembrance of War" seminar series Saturday, Aug. 4. > >COLORADO > >http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_776490,0 0.html >Lake City may be the state's best-kept secret. It's off the beaten >track, tucked away in the San Juan Mountains 55 miles southwest of >Gunnison. Legendary cannibal Alferd Packer is an interesting part of >the history. The courtroom where Packer was tried for murder in 1883 is >still used today. > >http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_786706,0 0.html >The main obstacle to Colorado statehood was a dearth of people, a mere >39,000 settlers in 1870. The railroad and the discovery of silver >changed all that. By 1880, Colorado boasted more than 194,000 citizens. > >ARIZONA > >From: Craig A Fuller <[log in to unmask]> Military target sites in >northwestern Arizona -- I think this will mainly be of interest to >those of you in the Kingman area. I found it while looking around the >USGS web site <http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of00-355/>. It is >an article on the recovery of desert vegetation in military target >sites in the Mohave and Cerbat Mountains of northwestern Arizona. The >target sites were cleared of vegetation during military exercises in >1942-1943 and have not been subsequently disturbed. > >http://www.azcapitoltimes.com/azcapitoltimes/myarticles.asp?p=413183&S=459& PubID=7350&EC=0 >James Douglas developed the Copper Queen in Bisbee and ran Phelps Dodge >operations in Arizona. He oversaw development of mines at Morenci, >Globe, and ultimately Jerome in Arizona and Nacozari and Cananea in >Sonora. > >TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES > >http://www.dce.unr.edu/hrm/ Heritage Resources Management Program at >the University of Nevada, Reno <http://www.dce.unr.edu/hrm/hrmbro.pdf> > >PRESERVATION > >http://www.eparks.org/media_center/PressReleaseDetail.asp?id=59 A >nationwide poll indicated that 76 percent of Americans believe the >priority of the Park Service should be to protect plants, animals, and >historical artifacts. Citizen emphasis on funding these goals runs >counter to President Bush's plan to apply virtually all new funding to >refurbishing park buildings and roads. > >http://www.eparks.org/media_center/analysis.asp Protection of the >national parks requires that a substantial amount of the President's >pledge be redirected from road building to wildlife. In short, less >money for bricks and mortar and more for plants and animals. > >From: John Douglas <[log in to unmask]> via <fpforum> BLM's new Web >site, <http://www.blm.gov/heritage/> "Cultural Heritage and Fossil >Resources on the Public Lands" is weighted toward Historic >Preservation, with additional overviews of BLM's Tribal Coordination, >Heritage Education, Fossil Resource, Museum and NAGPRA program >components. A PDF copy of our "BLM Cultural Resources at Risk" report >may downloaded. > >VANDALS > >http://www.texnews.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=GRAVEROBBERS2-08-01-01&cat=AN >It is unconscionable for anyone to dig a grave and claim they are >preserving the past. It's a way for them to ease conscience, to tell >themselves they are not really robbing graves. > >TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGY > >From: [A reader] <[log in to unmask]> I am firmly of the opinion that >the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Indeed, the >Macintosh is counterreformist and has been influenced by the methodical >path of the Jesuits... It is catechistic: the essence of revelation is >dealt with via simple formulae and sumptuous icons. Everyone has a >right to salvation. DOS is Protestant, or even Calvinistic. It allows >free interpretation of scripture, demands difficult personal decisions, >imposes a subtle hermeneutics upon the user, and takes for granted the >idea that all can reach salvation. [ATTRIBUTION: Umberto Eco (b. 1932), >Italian semiologist, novelist. Excerpted from "La Busina di Minerva" in >'Espresso (September 30, 1994); anonymously translated and posted on >the Internet in October 1994. "The Software Schism," Harper's (January >1995). The Columbia World of Quotations. Columbia University Press.] >P.S. What does that make Juno? > >EDITOR'S REPLY: Juno is of mixed faith -- probably born of parents one >of whom was Jehova's Witness, and the other Unitarian Universalist. >Juno knocks on people's doors, but can't remember why. > >CYBERIA > >http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/jul01/trim01073101a.asp An urban >archaeological dig puts archaeology in close reach with amenities as >communication and shelter, things that real archaeologists are >sometimes forced to go without. > >http://www.charlotte.com/neighbors/meck/mcover0801.htm A group of UNC >Charlotte anthropology students and their professor discovered the >ruins of Robinson's old stone house, the setting for a sensational >divorce case in the 1850s. > >http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12421-2001Jul31.html If >you want to reach someone in one of the 54,000 Russian villages without >any telephone service -- say, an anthropologist in a remote village of >33 homes -- there is but one reliable way. >****************************************** > >Contact the Newsletter Editor (Brian W. 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