GEORGE C. FRISON INSTITUTE 1 OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY GoFrI UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING BULLETIN No. 9 MARCH 2002 Director and editor: Marcel Kornfeld Co-editor: Mary Lou Larson George C. Frison Institute Production Manager: Lynda Payne University of Wyoming E-mail: [email protected] P.O. Box 3431 Phone: (307) 766-6920 University Station Fax: (307) 766-2473 Laramie, WY 82071-3431 Web: http://uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu/Anth/frison/frison.html INSTITUTE NEWS Dr. Mary Lou Larson led off a series of Early sites discovered in Bighorns. Two of the presentations on Institute projects. She spoke Institute projects have just returned Paleoindian about her GIS study of southwestern Wyoming. dates from the foothills of the Bighorn Mountain. Dr. Kornfeld presented on Middle Park, Black Two Moon Shelter (see more below) yielded a Mountain, Paint Rock and other projects, and Dr. 10,060 BP date in association with a Folsom George C. Frison discussed the current research point. This is one of a few fluted points from any and enhancement of facilities at the Hell Gap Site. rockshelter in North America and the only one in the eastern Rocky Mountains. The other Paleoindian date is 8090 BP from a rockshelter in Paint Rock Canyon (see more on this project below). Fundraising campaign planned for Jackson. The Institute will be having an invitation only fundraising dinner at the home of Edward and Shirley Cheramy in Jackson on the weekend of August 3-4, 2002. The fundraising event is part of a plan initiated last September at the Friends of the Frison Institute Annual meeting. Friends of the Frison Institute – September 2001 Meeting The 2002 Friends of the Frison Institute Several guests, including Professor Victor Mair Meeting will be held on September 26 in (the Institute Speaker), students, and spouses Laramie. joined Friends for lunch. (Continued on Page 2 – Friends of Institute) Friends of the George C. Frison Institute (FoI) met September 27, 2001. Introductory remarks at CONTENTS: the meeting were made by Drs. Oliver B. Walter ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT NEWS (p. 3); (Dean, College of Arts and Sciences) and Audrey NEWS FROM THE OFFFICE OF THE STATE C. Shalinsky (Head of the Anthropology ARCHAEOLOGIST (p. 4); MEETING Department). Dean Walter emphasized the ANNOUNCEMENTS (p. 5); FUNDING (p. 5); FELLOWS, RESEARCHERS, AND LECTURERS prominence and growth of the Anthropology (p. 5); 2002 INSTITUTE FIELD PROJECTS (p. 6); department, while Dr. Shalinsky stressed OTHER 2002 FIELD PROJECTS (p. 7); RESULTS departmental activities, facility development, and OF 2001 PROJECTS (p. 8); DONORS AND progress towards a PhD program in anthropology. APPRECIATIONS (p. 10); Additional information Honorary Chair, Dr. George C. Frison led the for 2002 volunteers, project dates, and contacts; Letter meeting to volunteers; Volunteer application form, after pg. 12. (Continued from Page 2 – Friends of Institute) 2 GoFrI BULLETIN No. 9 March 2002 Less than a week after arriving in the U.S., Dr. (Department Head, Anthropology), Oliver Walter Andrei Sagalaev, this year’s Fulbright Scholar at (Dean, College of Arts and Sciences). the Institute, gave a presentation during lunch on Siberian Shamanism. Dr. George Gill of the Arts and Sciences Board of Visitors Tours the Anthropology Department also gave a lunch time Black Mountain Archaeological District. Dr. presentation on Easter Island and his latest Marcel Kornfeld took the A&S Board of Visitors research on this topic. on a tour of archaeological sites on the Black Mountain outside of Shell, Wyoming. The The afternoon session consisted of brainstorming district consists of a number of open air and ideas for development of Institute programs. The rockshelter sites that have been under "Wyoming Archeology Minute" for WNPR was investigation by the Institute since 1993. The revisited, which would increase the visibility of group was introduced to Bighorn region the Institute. Various ideas regarding fundraising prehistory and to a range of archaeological sites including a reception in Jackson Hole and found in the foothills of the Bighorns. acquiring a new tractor and backhoe were discussed. Kristi Wallin, the new Director of College Development attended the meeting and discussed the University fundraising campaign and the available state matching funds. Frison Institute hosts summer WAS meeting. The Frison Institute hosted the Wyoming Archaeological Society summer meetings at the Hell Gap site on June 16, 2001. Society members toured the site and choose between excavations at Locality I and mapping a historic mine near camp as some of their activities. Other events included A&S Board of Visitors at Black Mountain a barbecue and a tour of the Spanish Diggings quartzite quarry. The 2001 Frison Institute Speaker was Dr. Victor Mair of the University of Pennsylvania. FoI members. The group now consists of 25 Dr. Mair spoke about his research in the Tarim members, four of whom are ex-officio: Jean M. Basin of western China. His presentation Auel, Susan L. Bupp, Cher Burgess, Jim Chase, emphasized the discovery and interpretation of Edward Cheramy, Forrest Fenn, Professor numerous well preserved mummies from the Emeritus George C. Frison (Honorary Chair), T. region. Dr. Mair argues that the Tarim Basin Clay Gibbons, Gail Gossett, Ray Gossett, Elmer mummies represent Indo-European groups that A. Guerri (Chair), State Representative Jim expanded eastward in the Bronze and Iron Ages Hageman, Dana Harper, Mike Kammerer, and preceded Chinese groups in this region. Dr. Marcel Kornfeld (Director of the Institute), Rhoda Mair also presented the Susan B. Cone Lecture Lewis, Mike McGonigal, State Senator Mike Series in the history department. Massie, Mark H. Mullins, Leslie Pfeiffer, P. Jaye Rippley, Dennis J. Stanford, and Terry The Program Advisory Committee (Drs. Wilson. Ex-officio members include: Kristi Michael E. Harkin, Robert L. Kelly, Marcel Wallin (A&S Dean’s Office, Director of Kornfeld, David J. Rapson, and Charles A. Reher) Development); Lois Gelb (A&S Dean's Office, met for the purpose of evaluating the fellowship Executive Director of Advancement), William A. applications and to discuss the appointment of a Gern (VP for Research), Audrey Shalinsky replacement director while the Institute director is on sabbatical in the 2002-2003 academic year. Dr. 3 GoFrI BULLETIN No. 9 March 2002 George C. Frison will be the Institute director Dr. Lewis R. Binford presented the Mulloy from August to December 2002 and Dr. Robert L. Lecture last spring. Dr. Binford, of Southern Kelly will serve as the director from December Methodist University in Dallas, presented his 2002 to May 2003. ideas on hunter-gatherers and the origin of agriculture. At the reception following the public Co-operative agreement between the Wyoming lecture, he signed his most recent book from the Archeological Foundation (WAF) and the University of California Press, titled Institute for continued investigation of the Hell "Constructing Frames of Reference". Gap Site signed last year was put into effect. The construction of a temporary structure over part of LEUKERBAD, SWITZERLAND WATER Locality I was the first step in the proposed 10 STUDY by Sarah Strauss year project. The first season of excavation was During the first six months of 2001 Dr. Strauss completed (see below). conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Leukerbad, Switzerland. She expects to return to this Alpine village three times during 2002 to complete data collection for this National Science Foundation funded project on the social life of water. The project comprises four main aspects: participant- observation and ethnographic interviews; survey data for residents and visitors to this village; seasonal biogeochemical water quality analyses; and archival research, including the exciting discovery of the nearly-forgotten 500 year record of village land use and other transactions. This document, a leather-bound book written in medieval Latin and early-modern German, was Protective Structure over Locality I of the Hell Gap Site started in 1699, copying documents from early in the 16th century; it contains entries through 1908, Dr. David J. Rapson, Adjunct Associate at which point the community ceased to record Professor of Anthropology, continues to these transactions and events by hand. We have investigate the Hell Gap faunal assemblage. He been able to make a digital image of each page of has completed the lab analysis of Locality I and the volume and store the electronic version on a assisted Dave Byers in the analysis of the Agate CD-ROM; additionally, we are having the entire Basin bone bed from Locality II. book translated into modern German, so that the members of the community can again have access ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT NEWS to their rich history. Doctoral Program taking shape. Perhaps the most exciting news from the department is the ETHNOHISTORY PROJECT by Michael continued progress towards the doctorate Harkin and Lin Poyer program. After last year's approval of the program This year marked the beginning of a multi-year by the University of Wyoming Trustees, the project on the ethnohistory of public lands in details of the program are being developed by Wyoming and the region. During the current year various faculty committees. Program two contracts, from the US Forest Service and the announcements will be available at most Bureau of Land Management (BLM), totaling professional meetings. Come see our new $250,000, are supporting the research efforts of brochures, posters, and other promotional three student and two non-student employees. material in the graduate school section booths at This project was featured in an article and the SAAs in Denver. editorial in The Casper Star-Tribune in January 4 GoFrI BULLETIN No. 9 March 2002 2002. During spring 2002 Dr. Harkin is teaching Constructed in 1852, Seminoe's Fort was an ethnohistory practicum, in order to train abandoned in 1855, re-occupied in 1856 and students to work on the project in the future. burned in 1857.