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— Data-Sharing Reports — Mammoth Rub Update — Annual Meeting ‘05 2 Society for California Archaeology Newsletter Volume 38, Number 4 A quarterly newsletter of articles and information essential to California archaeology. Contributions are welcome. December 2004 Lead articles should be 1,500-2,000 words. Longer articles may appear in installments. Send submissions as hard copy or on diskette to: SCA Newsletter, Department of Anthropology, CSU Chico, Chico CA 95929-0401 or as email or attachments to: <[email protected]> The SCA Executive Board encourages publication of a wide range of opinions on issues pertinent to California archaeology. Opinions, commentary, and editorials Regular Features appearing in the Newsletter represent the views of the authors, and not necessarily those of the Board or Editor. Lead article authors should be aware that their articles From the President may appear on the SCA web site, unless they request Amy Gilreath . 3 otherwise. SCA Business and Activities Editorial Staff Legislative Liaison . 4 Managing Editor . Greg White (530) 898-4360 Information Center Liaison . 6 Contributing Editors CAAMP Committee . 7 Avocational News . Elena Nilsson Reworked Committees, Liaisons. 9 Curation . Cindy Stankowski CASSP Workshops . 10 Education . Elena Nilsson Federal Agency News . Russ Kaldenberg Data-Sharing Meeting Reports . 12 Field Notes . Michael Sampson 2005 Annual Meeting Update . 15 Historical Archaeology . open Information Centers . Lynn Compas Bennyhoff Grant Proposals . 16 Membership . Vicki Beard In Sympathy . 16 New Publications . Denise Thomas Field Notes . 18 OHP . Michael McGuirt Legislation . Stephen Bryne 2005 Election Position Statements . 20 CASSP . Chris and Beth Padon News and Announcements State Agency News . open SCA at INAH Symposium . 22 Newsletter Deadlines New Directions in the Humanities . 22 For Issue . Deadline Kent Lightfoot’s New Book . 23 March . February 20 June . May 20 ICOMOS Appeal . 23 September . August 20 Marshalltown Awards . 23 December . November 20 Opinion and Comment . 24 Calendar Submissions New Publications . 24 position open: . temporarily send submissions to [email protected] Out of the Pits Advertising Rates* XPIs: More Than Just a Passing Phase 1/4 page . $70 Don Laylander . 19 1/2 page . $100 Full page . $175 Articles * - Ads that run three or more consecutive issues receive a 15% discount. Rubbing Rocks, Vernal Pools, and the First Californians: Front Cover: Rubbing Rock at Cornudas Pursuing the Rancholabrean Hypothesis Mountain, New Mexico. Photo by E. Breck Parkman. 26 LeRoy Unglaub, 2002. SCA Newsletter 38(4) 3 From the President e Historia, CASSP was extolled any number of times as the kind of SCA Executive Board program that Mexico’s Baja California SCA Executive Board archaeologists work to develop. 2004-2005 Overall, the SCA/INAH cross-borders program stays healthy and active, thanks in large part to Ken Wilson. President: Amy Gilreath, Far Western Anthropo- SCAHome.org, recently logical Research Group, Inc., 2727 Del Rio Place, proclaimed “nearly perfect” by Terry Suite A, Davis, CA 95616; W: (530) 756-3941. Jones, is in place and stable on the net, email: [email protected] n the spirit of the Holidays—count with updated Society News and Immediate Past President: Elena Nilsson, URS your blessings, be of good cheer, Information, event dates, contact Corporation, 1550 Humboldt Road, Suite #2, and so on—if you would indulge information, and 6 ½-years’ worth of I Chico, CA 95928; W: (530) 893-9675. past issues posted-up as pdf files. Our me, I’d like to share my list of the email: [email protected] many SCA programs and volunteers for Proceedings have been brought current, which I’m thankful. Being President and Sharon Waechter, Don Laylander, President-Elect: Shelly Davis-King, Davis-King & continues to be very gratifying, and I and Greg White keep us totally on Associates, P.O. Box 10, Standard, CA, 95373-0010. wish the best of luck to each of the track for timely receipt of this next Tel: (209) 928-3443. candidates for the Board. Having read one. In every week that goes by, there e-mail: [email protected] their position statements in this issue, I are several specific reasons why I am know that it will be a pleasure to serve thankful for the wonderful, steady Southern Vice-President: Terry Jones, Social with each. service that Melinda Pacheco and Sciences Department, CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, 1 Greg White provide running our Grand Avenue, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407; W We have a long list of successful Society’s Business Office. And, as the (805) 756-2523; programs for which key volunteers and Annual Meetings draw near, I am email: [email protected] members deserve credit and kudos. As especially appreciative of Tom Origer a regular member, I must confess that I and others with our CAAMP, for Northern Vice-President: Karin Anderson, Redwood was aware of only about three of these getting us squared-away with Annual National and State Parks, Cultural Resources, P.O. programs, and had NO idea of the Meeting venues for the next several Box 7, Orick, CA 95555. Tel: (707) 464-6101 x scale and success of others. I’m years. 5210. guessing that is the case for many e-mail: [email protected] members, and so I’d like to try to The Southern and Northern Data round-out your education, and bring Sharing meetings were rewarding from Secretary: Janine Loyd, P.O. Box 7602, Cotati, CA, you current. First, let me heap praise both a personal and a professional 94931. Tel: (707) 584-8200. on Greg White for our quarterly standpoint. The papers were engaging e-mail: [email protected] Newsletter: the content is unfailingly (one highlight at the Southern DSM high-caliber (Thanks, Members, Keep was Andy York’s unsettling image of a Treasurer: Stacy Schneyder, Jones&Stokes Associates, 2600 V Street, Sacramento, CA 95818; those articles coming), the look and stone cylinder; Kristina Crawford and W: (916) 739-3000; email: feel of the Newsletter is great, Heidi Pierson were a highlight at the [email protected] timeliness of distribution is very good, Northern DSM, co-anchoring a feature on Basque arbor glyphs); the venues and it is the envy of any state’s rival SCA Business Office: Greg White, Department of were great; and attendance was good publication. Our Native American Anthropology, CSU Chico, Chico, CA 95929-001; Programs Committee, avant garde for (though we’d always like to see more (530) 898-4360; email: [email protected] 6+ years, just received a Governor’s of you). Many thanks to Terry Jones Preservation Award, accepted by Janet (Southern DSM) and Karin Anderson (Northern DSM) for organizing them Eidsness, accompanied by Bill SCA Business Office Mungary and Larry Myers, and developing such appealing Department of Anthropology Chairperson and Executive Secretary, programs. Many thanks to Susan California State University, Chico Chico, CA 95929-0401 respectively, of the California Native Alvarez and Fort Hunter Liggett for American Heritage Commission. Our hosting the Southern, and to Shasta Ph (530) 898-5733 Fx (530) 898-4220 Site Stewardship Program (CASSP), Community College for hosting the led by the Padons and supported by Northern. M/Th: 8:00-5:00 BLM, serves as a role model for W: 12:00-5:00 programs just now beginning to The 2005 Annual Meetings are [email protected] develop in other states and countries! being pulled together quite nicely by At the recent 5th Bi-National Meetings Glenn Gmoser (Local Back Cover: CAASP site stewards visit a site in the (continued page 24) of the Instituto Nacional Antropologia Arrangements) and Mojave National Preserve. Photo by Chris Padon. SCA Newsletter 38(4) 4 SCA Committees 2004-2005 SCA Advanced Annual Meeting Planning Tom Origer (707) 584-8200; [email protected]. Business and Activities Annual Meeting Local Arrangements, 2005 Glenn Gmoser (916) 651-8167; [email protected] Annual Meeting Program Chairs, 2005 Kelly McGuire (530) 756-3941; [email protected] Bill Hildebrandt (530) 756-3941; resources that exist nowhere else.” [email protected] Committee and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista, who Archaeology Month Representatives Liaison Reports sponsored the bill to put the land into Laura Leach-Palm(530) 756-3941; trust for the tribe at no cost, also said [email protected] he was satisfied no changes would be Bennyhoff Memorial Award made to the remote area. Patricia Mikkelsen (530) 756-3941; Legislative Liaison [email protected] Legislation to restore California’s CA Arch Site Stewardship Program Stephen Bryne historic Spanish missions headed to Chris Padon (562) 432-1801; [email protected] SCA Legislative Liaison the president for his signature after Beth Padon (562) 432-1801; final passage by Congress. The House [email protected] The House Resources Committee passed the California Missions Curation Representative voted in September to add 990 acres Preservation Act, approving $10 Cindy Stankowski (619) 239-1868; to the Riverside County [email protected] million to refurbish the 21 adobe reservation of California’s structures. President Bush is expected Education/Avocational Pechanga Band of Luiseno Elena Nilsson (530) 893-9675; to sign the bill. Rep. Lois Capps (D- [email protected] Mission Indians. Tribal chairman CA), stated that “Our state’s missions Mark Macarro and federal officials said Fundraising are in dire need of structural attention Eena Nilsson (530) 893-9675; that the Bureau of Land and major rehabilitation, without [email protected] Management property has no Dana McGowan (916)-739-3095; immediate repairs, centuries-old [email protected] commercial value or development buildings and artifacts could be lost.” potential, and the tribe is better Membership For example, Mission San Miguel Vicki Beard (707) 584-8200; equipped to maintain it than the Arcangel, near Paso Robles, was [email protected] federal government. “Protecting the damaged by an earthquake in Native American Programs sanctity of these lands through December 2003 and needs an Janet Eidsness (530) 629-3153; conservation and resource [email protected] estimated $26 million to $30 million management is of the highest priority in retrofitting and repairs.