Society for American Archaeology VOLUME 17 SEPTEMBER 1999 NO. 4 Awards Past . ". it is my great pleasure to award the Honorable Bruce Babbitt with the Society's 1999 Public Service Award for his lifetime dedication to the protection, preservation, conservation, Presentation of the 1999 SAA Public and public interpretation of this nation's rich and diverse Service Award to Secretary of the archaeological heritage." (See page 4) Interior Bruce Babbitt by SAA President Keith Kintigh and Future . Featuring two new awards An award of $500 is presented in The Society for American Archaeology calls memory of the late Dienje M. E. for nominations for its awards to be presented at the 2000 Kenyon to support the research of Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. SAA's awards are presented for women archaeologists in the early important contributions in many areas of archaeology. If you stages of their graduate training. This wish to nominate someone for one of the awards, please send a year's inaugural award will be made letter of nomination to the contact person for the award. The to a student pursuing research in letter of nomination should describe in detail the contributions of zooarchaeology, which was Kenyon's the nominee. In some cases, a curriculum vitae of the nominee or specialty. copies of the nominee's work also are required. Please check the descriptions, requirements, and deadlines for nomination for The new Student Paper Award is individual awards, listed on pages 16 and 17. designed to recognize the best student research paper presented at the Detail of winning Student Poster, 1998 --Resource Depletion, Annual Meeting. Papers will be Extinction, and Subsistence Change in Southern New Zealand by evaluated on both the quality of the Lisa Nagaoka arguments and data presented and the paper's contribution to our understanding of some aspect of archaeology. SAA CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Table of Contents Guest Editor's Corner Obituary -- Williams Letters to the Editor NRHP Nominations Archaeopolitics Working Together -- Cooperative Research In Brief . Secularism in Context Money Matters Chaco Conference Fund Raising Committee Insights -- WAC 4 COSWA Corner Interface -- Geophysics . Public Education -- Update Networks -- CRM and the Internet Making Arcaeologists American Antiquity, Books Reviewed N.M. Workshops News and Notes Public Relations -- Magazines Positions Open Student Affairs Calendar SAA Call for Nominations The SAA Bulletin (ISSN 0741-5672) is published five times a year and is edited by Mark Aldenderfer, with editorial assistance from Karen Doehner. Deadlines for submissions are: December 1 (January), February 1 (March), April 1 (May), August 1 (September), and October 1 (November); send to SAA Bulletin, Dept. of Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3210. 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Items published reflect the views of the authors and publication does not imply SAA endorsement. Copyright © 1999 by the Society for American Archaeology. All rights reserved. Guest Editor's SAA and the Combined Corner Federal Campaign With the editor currently delayed in Mark J. Lynott Tibet, I've been given the opportunity to take over his corner this issue. I've In September 1999, federal archaeologists just returned from a survey season in Germany with will have the opportunity to make charitable 16 students and volunteers from the United States and contributions through the Combined Federal Japan, and my mind is still preoccupied with the Campaign for the year 2000. The Combined experience. In particular, and perhaps relevant to the Federal Campaign includes a large number Bulletin's focus on the role of archaeology in society, and wide variety of charitable organizations, I am struck once again by the strong position of and federal employees have the opportunity archaeology in Germany. to make single direct payments to organizations, or arrange for payments My views are derived from the small corner of through payroll deductions. The Society for southern Germany where I work, but the trends there American Archaeology has been approved seem to be generally applicable to other areas as well. by the Combined Federal Campaign First of all, state-sponsored fieldwork appears to be (Organization #1022) and is eligible for thriving (see the Web page at contributions beginning this fall. www.bawue.de/~wmwerner/english/lda.html), in contrast to a few years ago, when many government This is an excellent and convenient funds were diverted during the early days of opportunity for federal archaeologists to reunification. This summer I witnessed excavations of make a financial contribution to SAA. sites from the Middle Paleolithic through the Iron Readers of the Bulletin are certainly familiar Age, and later periods receive even more attention with all of the programs of the Society, and and funding. In a rather new development, many every one of us benefits from one or more of archaeologists have turned as well to private SAA's activities. The Combined Federal corporations to supplement public financing. Campaign is an opportunity for each of us to make a contribution that will benefit Museums also are active, with a number of traveling archaeology and the programs of SAA. If and special exhibits on display. The small museum of every federal archaeologist were to prehistory in the town of Bad Buchau has received contribute as little as $2 per pay period, money from the European Union to help construct together we could raise thousands of dollars. full-sized replicas of Neolithic and Bronze Age With a contribution of $5 per pay period, houses. European funds also are assisting in the you can personally donate $130 to SAA in construction of an "archaeological trail" to link sites the year 2000. You don't have to be a across many kilometers and mark each with member of SAA or even an archaeologist to explanatory placards, photos, and, in some cases, contribute to SAA through the Combined partial reconstructions. These projects reflect the great Federal Campaign. All federal employees public interest in local archaeology, an interest that are eligible to contribute. begins in elementary schools and is documented by numerous visits of school classes to the museum. One When the Combined Federal Campaign village is building a hostel to house visiting classes literature arrives in your office, please take who come from afar to learn about prehistory and the time to seriously consider a contribution natural history. to SAA (Organization #1022). Almost everyone can afford to make a small This awareness of, and interest in, archaeology among contribution, and together, we can make a the local population is admirable, and certainly aids me in my own fieldwork, as local farmers and major contribution to the Society and help landowners have been generally quite receptive to my expand its programs and activities. · requests to dig on their property. It seems logical to assume a connection between this receptivity and Mark J. Lynott, a vice-chair of SAA's Fund early education. · Raising Committee, is manager of the Midwest Archeological Center in Lincoln, Mike Jochim is a professor at UC-Santa Barbara. Nebraska. back to top of page Call for Applications and Nominations LETTERS TO THE for SAA-Administered Scholarships EDITOR for Native Peoples from the United States and Canada I read with interest the Student Affairs column "Archaeology as a Way of Life: Advice from The Society for American Archaeology (SAA) is the Sages," [SAA Bulletin 17(3): 26]but was pleased to announce the SAA Arthur C. Parker disheartened to discover that, of the 21 "sages" Scholarship and National Science Foundation (NSF) consulted, only one was from outside the Scholarships for Archaeological Training for Native university/museum/research institution Americans and Native Hawaiians for the year 2000. academic axis. The one nonacademic actually Together, these scholarship programs will provide works for the U.S. Forest Service, I believe, four awards of $3,000 each to support training in rather than the National Park Service, but I archaeological methods, including fieldwork, was stunned that no private sector analytical techniques, and curation. archaeologists were included in this piece. These scholarships are intended for current Contrary to Dr. Clark's assessment that most studentshigh school seniors, college undergraduates, archaeology Ph.D.s would prefer academic and graduate studentsand personnel of Tribal or other jobs, there are many, many of us who have Native cultural preservation programs. Native chosennot settled forcareers in cultural Americans and Pacific Islanders from the United resource management. The reasons for this States, including U.S. Trust Territories, and choice are manythe opportunity to direct Indigenous peoples from Canada, are eligible for research projects on a scale and with funding these scholarships. Individuals may apply for these levels that most academics can't even dream scholarships themselves, or they may be nominated of, the satisfaction and excitement of bringing by a current professor, high school teacher, or archaeology to the pubic, and the sense of cultural preservation program supervisor.