8ociety for California SJlrchaeolngy

NEWSLETTER

8anfa <J<osa J'ltteetings a Sreal 8uccess !

Good attendance, excellent papers, fine local arrangements and organization and a nice facility, a very pleasant awards banquet, and (as usual) several out­standing parties helped to make the 1986 Annual Meetings of the SCA a great success.

The book displays were a popular place to gather and browse between sessions.

SCA President Mark Raab (1) and Local Arrangements and Facilities Chair Jim Quinn (r) at the No-host Cocktail Party

J'Vtore fDeiails Jnside

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The Awards Banquet was one of the major events of the 1986 Annual Meetings. Many of the Society's members look forward to the Banquet each year because it reflects some of the greatest satisfactions that derive from membership in the Society After all, the Society embodies the sense of community and shared values that tie together archaeologists throughout California. In selecting some of our own for special recognition, all of us find greater satisfaction in our actions and commitments from public recognition of archa,eology's ideals. Beyond that, who would miss the opportunity to see someone "roasted" by friends and colleagues?

This year's Banquet program began with a drawing for three door prizes generously donated for this purpose by Coyote Press. The prizes included a full-color lithographic print of Salinan Indian rock art, a set of color postcards with photographs of some of the Native Californian baskets in the Lowie Museum collection, and a copy of Volume I of the Final Report of the New Melones Archeological Project, now being published by Coyote Press. This part of the program was very well conducted by Tom Layton and Jan Whitlow­Hoffman.

Three awards were presented by Mark Raab, SCA President. Two of these were Mark R.

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Harrington Awards for outstanding contributions to conservation archaeology The third was the Lifetime Achievement Award.

M. R. Harrington Award

The M. R. Harrington Award was created in 1979 to recognize those individuals and groups who have made significant contributions to the con­servation of California's archaeological resources outside of the t1aditional academic structure. Tb.is year, for the first time, two awards were presented. The two recipients of this award and the citations of their achievements are as follows:

William Seidel The Harrington Award was presented to

William Seidel for outstanding achievements in support of: development of California's Com prehensive Heritage Management Plan; work with the California Heritage Data Management system; and coordinating the flow of vital information about legislative activities affecting archaeology in California. For those of us working on these topics on behalf of the Society, it was quite apparent that Bill is something of an unsung hero. Working on his own time and as a private individual, Bill has been unrelenting in his support of these crucially important projects and activities. Bill has attended a vast number of meetings and generally promoted

a better representation of archaeology in public policy-making than most of us know. (Bill did not attend the banquet, so we were unable to get a photograph for the Newsletter.)

Michael J. Moratto

Michael J Moratto was presented with the M. R. Harrington Award for outstanding achieve­ments, including completion of the much­publicized New Melones Archeological Project, and publication of California Archaeology (Academic Press, 1984), a major synthesis of archaeology in California. Completion of the New Melones Project is significant because a few years ago the project was cited by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget as an example of waste and mis­management in the nation's archaeological preservation program. The problems surrounding this project were a major black eye for the profession (including a 60 Minutes television expose). The project has been turned around since Mike assumed the role of principal investigator, and under his management is being successfully concluded. The publication of California Archaeology also represents a major achievement, as it has provided researchers throughout the world with a comprehensive treatment of California's past.

SCA Lifetime Achievement Award Presented to Albert B. Elsasser

It was with special pleasure that the Society presented its Lifetime Achievement Award to Albert B. Elsasser This award, of course, recognizes an outstanding, life-long contribution to

SCA President Mark Raab (l) and Albert B. Elsasser (r) during the "roast" accompanying the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Michael J . Moratto following presentation of the Harrington Award.

California archaeology. It is difficult to imagine a more deserving person. His professional credits are far too numerous to cite here. But his long list of publications, distinguishing teaching, museum work, and field projects, along with the many students that he has trained in our field, testify to an exceptional and life-long contribution to California archaeology

To help present the award in proper SCA style, Vera Mae Fredrickson organized a fine "roast" for Al which included several "Shaggy Al" stories and remarks from several former students and continuing colleagues.

Incidentally, the SCA Lifetime Achievement award includes a complimentary life membership in the SCA.

'Tfie SCJl congratu[ates tfiese tliree fine inaiviauafs for tlieir many contri6utions to Cafijomia arcliaeofogy.

SCA Officers 1986-1987 From left to right: Jane Gothold, Treasurer Larry Bourdeau, Secretary· Mark Raab, President; Susan Hector President Elect; Ed Kandler, Society Counsel; John Parker Southern Vice President; and Robert J. Jackson, Northern Vice President.

SC'51l <Buttons SCA logo buttons are

still available through SCA Secretary Larry Bourdeau (address on page 11). These unique symbols of our organi­zation can be obtained for $1.50 each by mail. Order several as gifts and help support the SCA. Get them while they last!

'lime lo 9<enew ? !? It may be time to renew your SCA

membership. Please check your address label. If it reads "Mar 31 1986" ypu have expired and this is your last Newsletter.

This Newsletter is being sent to all recently expired 1986 members as well as those paid up for 1987 If you have not yet renewed for 1987 please do so the SCA needs your continuing support. Membership rates are as follows :

Regular Student Senior Life Contributing Institutional

$15.00 $7.00 $7.00

$175.00 $100.00 $15.00

Please send your dues directly to the SCA Business Office (address on page 11).

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Tom Layton and Jan Whitlow-Hoffman during the Awards Banquet. Jan is again demonstrating appropriate attire for archaeological meetings.

SCA Newsletter

Replacing Ron May, who has done a fine job as Newsletter editor but is suffering from chronic overwork, are new co-editors Trudy Haversat and Gary Breschini. We need news, announcements, or other material which may be of interest to SCA members. We are especially interested in news­letters from archaeological/historic preservation groups. We are expanding to 12 pages (when news is available), so keep the information coming in! Send materials to the address on page 11.

Next Newsletter Deadline May 25

Sllrclraeology aml :Public :Policy

On February 5, 1986, Congress was asked to rescind 79% of the $20,412,000 allocated as the States' portion of the Historic Preservation Fund for fiscal year 1986. Congress has 45 legislative days from the date of the request to approve or reject the proposal. Action is expected toward the middle of April. The remaining 21 % has already been released and represents approximately $124,000 for California. If Congress upholds the recision request, that most likely will be the extent of federal reimbursement for this fiscal year.

If Congress rejects the recision, California can expect to receive the remaining 79%, or $466,000 (if the Gramm-Rudman reduction of 4.3% for fiscal 1986 or some other deficit reduction factor is not applied). If Gramm-Rudman is applied, then California's apportionment in the absence of recision will be $560,000. That amount is $151,000 less than the $711,000 received for fiscal 1985. There could be as much as three months delay in the transfer of any funds to the States.

Any reduction in federal funds may neces­sitate a review of program activities in the Office of Historic Preservation and require a setting of new priorities. There is no way to know which, if any of these possibilities will materi~lize, or when.

Once the uncertainties have been resolved, OHP will be in good position to assess the situation and take appropriate, informed action.

Office of Historic Preservation

California's Heritage and SHPO: What Future?

by Carroll Pursell Late in the 19th century, an elderly

American engineer recalled his experience as a youthful apprentice: his education, he said, consisted of asking a question if he wanted, and getting an answer if he could.

Our relationship with the State Office of Historic Preservation is somewhat analogous: we probably don't ask enough questions, but even when we do, answers are not always forthcoming. The Office (and the Officer, with her staff) is responsible for a number of federally mandated programs from statewide planning to tax act certification. Not all of these have been vigorously

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pu~sued over the years, but as the accompanying article [below] makes clear the entire enterprise is now in great jeopardy.

Both the Reagan administration in Wash­ington and Deukmejian administration in Sacra mento seem to view heritage issues either with indiffere.n~e. o.r. when they touch on the regulatory respon,s1b1hties of government, with absolute hostility Added to this basic lack of support in general now comes a massive hemorrhage of Funds a zero federal budget for the Office if the National Park Service has its way.

The heritage community in California has gotten used to viewing the SHPO as one of the family, to be chided and nudged on occasion, but always to be nurtured and defended against outsiders. The current co~bination of con servative ideology and budgetary attack, however, may mean that we will have to rethink our relationship. If SHPO fails to exert leadership in this crisis, or worse, collaborates in carrying out the radically destructive policies of the Reagan and Deukmejian administrations, we will be forced to develop new friends and new strategies. At the very least, it is time to begin asking many more questions and insisting on timely, straight answers.

Adapted from California History Action Vol. 4, No. 2, Spring 1986

SHPO in 1986: Not Shipshape The Executive Board of the SCA met in Santa

Rosa on February 16th to receive information and to discuss the current state of affairs at the Office of Historic Preservation. In addition to the SCA Board, John Merritt and Bill Sugaya represented the California Preservation Foundation and the Heritage Action Steering Committee. Dennis Harris and Judy Cunningham represented CCPH.

Funding is again the crisis, and requires immediate attention from all heritage groups. At issue is whether the OHP budget will be main­tained at current funding levels, be reduced by Gramm-Rudman-Hollings, or be gutted by the National Park Service. Apparently, NPS intends to pursue a zero funding objective for Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 1987

Full Funding For FFY 1985, OHP's budget is $1,113,000, of

which $711,000 or 64%, comes from federal funds. These figures, however, are misleading inasmuch as $125,000 of federal funds have been frozen and are not being allocated. This indudes $20,000 (out of $60,000) budgeted for consultants, all funds

budgeted for the information centers, all funds for development of the State Plan, and all funds for development of archaeological standards.

For FFY 1986, even full funding would result in a decrease in monies to OHP This is because a change in the formula by which NPS grants funds to the states results in a loss of $119,999 from the current funding level. In addition, all states are required to allocate 10% of their federal funds to the Certified Local Government (CLG) program. This means another $59,000 must go to a specific budget category which did not exist in FFY 1985. Thus, the total reduction in federal funds, under so­called full funding, is $1 78,000.

In fairness to NPS, part of the reduction apparently is the result of OHP's own inaction. The formula used for states that had already developed certified CLG program awarded them extra points. This new program provides funds to local governments who have been certified by a state office to carry on specific preservation, identification, planning, and management functions. California's CLG program had not been reviewed by NPS; thus, we lost funds to other states.

The loss of $1 78,000 under full funding may be offset by an increase of $50,000 in state funds. Even if such funds are forthcoming they are slated to be used exclusively for maintaining the current OHP staff.

Under full funding, only two of the eight grants programs the historical surveys and the information centers would remain, but their funds would be reduced 60% and 10% respectively. What is worse, no one expects full funding. r!...-n ......... ..- o .... ~.._,.._ u,,..11 .:-- ,.. "-" J. CAJ..U. J..U. -~\oU.UJ.U, Q.J.J.- .&..A.VJ..1.JJ..lE:j 13

Under Gramm-Rudman-Hoiiings, NPS funds available to the states would be reduced 4.3%. Instead of current $711,000, the OHP would receive approximately $566,000, a loss of $145,000, or 20% of current funds. Needless to say, all six programs receiving $0 under the full funding scenario also would be eliminated under G-R-H. The amount necessary to maintain the OHP likely would remain the same, meaning that $409,000 would still go to the staff and office. Less than $101,000 would remain for grants, and this would likely be divided between information centers and historical surveys. But each of the programs would be cut drastically: 28% and 67% respectively. Also keep in mind that, under G-R-H, federal funds would be cut 4.3% each succeeding year.

National Park Service Redirected Funding

If all of this is not sufficiently disturbing, NPS is now pursuing a proposal to reduce FFY 1986 federal funding by a whopping 79%. If successful, NPS would allocate only $124,000 to California's OHP there would be no money for any grant program. Of the $124,000, $12,400 would have to go to CLGs. The remainder would only be sufficient to begin shutting down OHP, which may be the NPS's objective, since NPS projects zero-level funding for FFY 1987 NEPA, CEQA, National Register and Landmarks programs would be dead, even if the laws remained on the books.

OHP's Response In response to a request from the Resources

Agency, the OHP is ready making plans to seek full state funding of the projected deficit in federal funding for FFY 1986 while it develops a fee-for­service proposal to be implemented in FFY 1987 This could mean something like $700 per National Register nomination and $40 per environmental review. Obviously the costs to local governments and the private sector would increase substantially under a fee-for-service program. In turn, private and local initiative would decrease, compliance would be reduced, and historic preservation would suffer a tremendous setback.

Heritage Organization's Response

Representatives of SCA, CPF HASC, and CCPH agreed to contact key members of the California congressional delegation in an effort to stop NPS from implementing its zero-level funding objective. On the home front, all meeting participants agreed the best approach is to work through the Historical Resources Commission and urge it to take the initiative in pressuring OHP to fulfill federal mandates. Given SHPO's decision to eliminate funding for the State Plan under all three budget scenarios, representatives also agreed that heritage groups must seek to reinstate funding and press SHPO to make a commitment to the plan.

HASC will convene a follow-up meeting March 29th during the SCA conference at the El Rancho Tropicana Hotel in Santa Rosa. At that time, SCA, HASC, CPF and CCPH will map a strategy for further action.

In the meantime, CCPH members can help by picking up the phone, calling their local Assembly representatives, and urging them to support SB 958.

Adapted from California History Action Vol. 4, No. 2, Spring 1986

Funding for Restoration of the Neary-Rodriguez Adobe Cut!

The legislative analyst has recommended that funding of the third and final phase of restoration at the Neary-Rodriguez adobe at Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park be deleted from the upcoming fiscal years budget.

The analyst's objections were based on the fact that cost estimates are preliminary and not based on completed working drawings. The working drawings are funded and expected to be completed in September or October when the FY 1986-87 construction funds were expected.

The analyst's recommendation was made in January, 1986. Since then DPR project manager Jim Jackson developed additional cost estimates and justifications, responding to the issues raised in the analysis. However it went to press as originally submitted and has been disseminated to the legislature with a negative recommendation.

During phases I and II intensive archaeo -logical, archival, and architectural investigations have taken place. As a part of this year's efforts to prepare for phase III, DPR archaeologists have worked with OSA demolition crews carefully dismantling later architectural features, learning and recording much information about the structure. Two in-depth reports were generated.

Today the adobe is a doorless, windowless, floorless, plasterless, shell with a mended and patched old roof. It lies in readiness for phase III restoration/reconstruction planned for this year. Archaeologists, student interns, and volunteers are removing the loose dirt above the original adobe floors and finding quantities of artifacts associated with Native American habitation. The building is -v-u.lnerable if left unoccupied. Leaving this fragile resource in its present condition for an entire fiscal year to prepare more exact cost estimates is unthinkable. This is the only remaining building of the Santa Cruz mission. It musLbe protected and restored in a timely fashion lest its resurrection also be its demise.

It is too late to turn back now. Phase III work is expected to continue through the next two fiscal years. It will end with a fully restored mission neophyte family quarters, the only one in existence. It will interpret the Native American experience at the missions, contrasting that life with their precontact lifeways. The evolution and history of this adobe has been studied throughly for the past two years. It is now time to invest in the building's restoration, reconstruction and inter­pretation for the -public.

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Please write expressing your views to: Patrick Johnston, Chairman Assembly Subcommittee on Resources and

Parks State Capitol Sacramento, CA 95814

Robert Presley, Chairman Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Sub­

committee State Capitol Sacramento, CA 95814

Calaveras Resident Halts Construction Calaveras resident Ina Davies took matters

in hand when she observed bulldozers on her neighbor's property and noticed that surveyors had flagged a route over her land. Davies made a phone call to Judy Cunningham, who found out that the Calaveras County Water District (CCWD) was constructing a road for the North Fork Hydro­electric Project. Immediate concern focused on several Native American grinding stones possibly endangered by the construction.

More calls revealed that Calaveras County had no jurisdiction over the project and raised questions as to whether CCWD had conducted an archaeological survey of private lands affected by the project. Phone calls finally reached SHPO, and that office took action after confirming that CCWD had permission to proceed with construc­tion on the condition that an archaeological survey would be done after final road placements had been determined. SHPO's Dan Bell was on the site within a few hours and road construction has been suspended on unsurveyed lands until appropriate surveys and evaluations are complete.

Central Sierra Archaeological Society Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 2, February 1986 (Adapted from California History Action, Vol. 4, No. 2, Spring 1986)

A Plea To Save the San Diego Mission! SCA members and institutions are implored

to write letters to save the San Diego Mission from a Diocese plan to build an auditorium (Bingo Palace) atop the Indian cemetery and original tile floors. Dr. Raymond Star, Department of History, San Diego State University, recently issued a letter requesting correspondence to:

Most Reverend Pio Laghi Apostolic Delegate 3339 Massachusetts Ave. NW Washington, DC 90008 (begin with: Your Excellency:)

On February 26, 1986 the City of San Diego granted Monsignor I. Brent Eagen, Chancellor, Catholic Diocese of San Diego (P.O. 80428, San Diego, CA 92138), a 180 day time extension on the delay in issuing a building permit. The Historic Sites Board continues to request a supplemental Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and archae­ology report, to which Monsignor Eagen has refused. The City Attorney has advised that unless the Diocese voluntarily responds, the City must legally issue the permit (it is a ministered action that is normally exempt from CEQA and covered only by the thinnest threads of legal constraint due to a City Ordinance protecting listed historic sites.)

In "The Changing Face of Mission San Diego" (Journal of San Diego History, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 1-26, Winter 1986), Dr. Norman Neuerberg has demonstrated a U.S. Government ·1854 plat, a September 1860 plat, and a sketch of1874 by Henry L. Oak which show the 1781 cemetery directly under the location of Monsignor Eagen's proposed auditorium. Tiled floors of industrial buildings built in the 1808-1815 period surround the cemetery and were cut through in the 1850s as a U.S. Army cemetery. The Diocese proposes drilling twenty 30-inch pilings through the area of the floors and cemetery to support the auditorium.

Letters to Apostolic Delegate Pio Laghi are certain to initiate Papal inquiry and may save the historic site from the destruction of the auditorium. Please encourage friends and relatives to respond.

Ronald V May March 12, 1986

San Juan Bautista Restoration Halted The Monterey diocese of the Catholic Church

announced on September 27th that it was halting work at Mission San Juan Bautista to study res­toration problems. The announcement followed the issuance of a report by Leo Barker Marlis Thurber, and David Look of the National Park Service,-who visited the Mission on September 9th.

The Church, concluded Barker, had authorized "techniques that are not appropriate for preservation of the mission OT historical values." His team verified that the Church was using Portland cement to replaster adobe walls as well as treating wall paintings inside the Mission in­discriminately. However, David Look, well known in the preservation community for his work in masonry restoration and an active leader in the Association for Preservation Technology, observed that "it's premature without a real assessment to come to the conclusion that what's been done is wrong."

The Monterey diocese has agreed to pay for a technical study costing between $3000 and $5000 in cooperation with the National Park Service. Assessment of the work done on the Mission and the damage which it may have caused will take several months, but restoration work will not resume until the study is completed. For further information contact David Look, Historical Architect, National Park Service, 450 Golden Gate Avenue, Box 36063, San Francisco 94102, or Ted Elisee, diocesan director of communications of Monterey

Adapted from California History Action Vol. 4, No. 1, Winter 1986

r:N"ew Publications Railroad Logging Systems

The Shasta-Trinity National Forest has published two reports on individual railroad logging systems in northern California. Both reports are available by contacting the Forest Archaeologist, Shasta-Trinity National Forest, 2400 Washington Ave., Redding CA 96001.

Archaeological Investigations at Two Historic Camps of the McCloud River Lumber Company and the McCloud River Railroad. This report deals with the fieldwork at two early-1920s camps along the railroad system which lie within proposed timber harvest units. Some 90 historic sites had been recorded on this railroad logging system, but no in-depth fieldwork had been done. One of the primary project goals was to define a prototype of features and artifacts at the camps in order to set up bases for comparison ~:ith ether sites and more easily evaluate site significance.

More data were recovered during fieldwork than were expected from these two sites that had been significantly disturbed by recent roads and logging activities. The major features were large trash dumps. They include very little glass, a significant number of fragmented white ironstone dishes, numerous butchered bones which still require analysis, and hundreds of cans. Historical Archaeology on the La Moine Lumber and Trading Company Railroad Logging System. This report is a detailed study of this company's operations in the early 1900s. The railroad logging system was determined eligible to the National Register in 1981, and a USDA/Forest Service timber sale is scheduled to impact about one-third of the system. With the approval of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, a data

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recovery plan was prepared to mitigate direct impacts and some potential indirect impacts. This included archival research, oral interviews, consultation with forestry and environmental specialists, and intensive fieldwork at five railroad logging camps. Each structure, board and/or artifact concentration, and dump area was recorded by clearing brush and excavating to uncover all feature elements in an effort to determine original size and function.

Fieldwork involved about one quarter of the project time. The scope of the data recovery project is believed unique in that archival research and oral histories were given almost equal time. Hopefully, other railroad logging studies will provide some consistency in data analysis by using the same four research domains and taking advantage of all available information sources.

Trudy Vaughan Coyote & Fox Enterprises 2514 Roca Lane Redding, CA 96003

Jield Schools University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara,

CA 95053 Five units of academic credit are offered in

the Department of Anthropology/Sociology Uni­versity of Santa Clara. The Archaeological Field School will be directed by Dr. David R. Huelsbeck, who has designed a research project around the grounds at the 1777-1834 Mission Santa Clara. Tuition is $710.00 and the deadline for applications is May i -, i 986.

Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, MA 01566

Dr John Warrell, Director of Research at OSV and David Simmons will offer a Field Archaeology course for $600 through Clark University at OSV and the Emerson Bixby Site in Barre, Mass. Research will center around Bixby life as an early 19th century blacksmith and farmer. The students will also work in the OSU living museum recreating the years from 1 790 to 1840.

Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843

Dr D. L. Hamilton, Department of Anthro­pology, Texas A & M, will offer 4-6 unit!? in under­water archaeology at the pirate village of Port

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Royal, Jamaica, which sunk in the earthquake of 1692. The school is from June 3, 1986 to August 11, 1986. The fees for Texans are $626.00 and non­Texans are $1006.00.

UCLA Museum of Cultural History, SSA Haines Hall, 405 Higard Ave., Los

Angeles, CA 90024

Paul Farnsworth is offering a field session at Mission Nuestra Senora de La Soledad. The course is from June 30, 1986-August 8, 1986.

Scottish Institute of Maritime Studies, University of St. Andrews, Fife, KY16-

9AJ, Scotland Dr Colin Martin, Dr Robert Prescott,

Professor Christopher Smout, and Mr Nicholas Dixon offer a unique postgraduate program in maritime archaeology. The program emphasizes history and ethnology of maritime communities. The program emphasizes underwater archae­ology, the history of the ship, Scottish overseas trade and maritime communities of the world. A one week field trip to the Underwater Training Center at Fort Bovisand, Plymouth will also include visits to the Exeter Maritime Museum, H.M.S. Victory, and the Mary Rose at Portsmouth.

Laboratory of Anthropology, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83843

Dr Roderick Sprague is offering 4 units of field archaeology at a 19th century Chinese placer mining camp in the Clearwater River drainage of Pierce, Idaho. The Chinese community spanned the 1860s to 1885. Applications must include $53.25 for undergraduate and $70.25 for graduate credit. The deadline is March 29, 1986 for the Juiy 29 to August dig.

Social Science Dept., Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407

Dr Robert Hoover is offering 6 units of field archaeology at Mission San Antonio de Padua, Jolon, California from June 16 to July 25, 1986. The Mission operated from 1771 to 1834. Applications of $635 must be made by May 30, 1986.

Earth watch

"It would be a wonderful help to our efforts to recruit volunteers for Dr William Fash of Northern Illinois University (for his work at Copan) and for Dr John Humphrey of the University of Michigan and Dr Susan Stephens of Luther College (who direct the excavations at

Carthage) and for Blair Gibson of UCLA (who needs diggers for work in County Clare, Ireland). These are only three of over two dozen archaeo­logical expeditions for which we've been asked to find paying volunteers."

If you'd like more information about any of the archaeological projects Earthwatch is sponsor ing this year please contact:

Earth watch 680 Mt. Auburn Street Box403 Watertown, MA 02172 (61 7) 926-8200

Channel Islands National Park The National Park Service, Western

Region, has accomplished a multi-phased field project in Channel Island National Park to assess submerged historic and a~chaeological resources. Coordinated with location National Marine Sanctuary, side-scan sonar and magnetometer woik in the vicinities of San Miguel, Santa~ ·Rosa, Santa Cruz, and Anacapa Islands was dorie from the~_National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admini­stration research vessel RV Fairweather irl: early May 1985. In August, three research ·cruises involving NPS Submerged Cultural Resources Unit personnel, NPS field ranger staff, and NPS field archaeologists were held. These included further magnetometer work, ground-truthing dives, and mapping dives. Maritime historical and archaeological backb1 ound research l-1as bee11 accomplished by NPS staff from San Francisco and by NOAA-funded overviews prepared by two Santa Barbara experts. Project coordinators were Don Morris, Park Archaeologist, and Roger Kelly, Regional Archaeologist NPS.

Results include preparation of draft studies which address maritime events within the San Miguel Island area and suspected locations of shipwrecks within the Sanctuary and Park, whose administration is in cooperation with California State Lands Commission. An assessment of potential underwater prehistoric resources focused on intertidal and offshore locations. Side-scan sonar was not as useful as a resource discovery method as were magnetometer transverses. Anomalies within suspected locations of maritime historical resources were observed near San Miguel Island but in some cases ground trothing

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was not possible. Locations of two historic ship­wrecks and an aircraft were confirmed. Mapping of the wreck of the Goldenhorn (1883-1892), an iron-hulled, four-masted bark of British registry was done. Good visibility and extensive remains enabled videotape, still photography and measured maps to be prepared. Dive teams also sketched the wreck of Aggi (1894-1915) a three-masted, iron­hull frigate, built in Scotland but operated by a Norwegian firm. The remains of a Grumman AF-25 Guardian aircraft (1940s-1950s) were observed and sketched. Existing draft reports will be expanded into a report by Morris.

1986 Great Basin Anthropological Conference Call For Papers

The 1986 Great Basin Anthropological Con­ference will be held at the Showboat Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada. The host institution will be Nevada State Museum and Historical Society State Mail Complex, Las Vegas, NV 89158; the Local Arrangements Chairperson is Jeanne Wilson Clark (702) 385-0115. The Program Chair is Donald R. Tuohy Nevada State Museum, Capitol Complex, Carson City, NV 89710 (702) 885-4812. Proposals for symposia or sessions and papers are due May 30, 1986, and the absolute deadline for all submissions is August 15, 1986.

Tentatively scheduled symposia or sessions: early man, Great Basin rock art, zooarchaeology, historical archaeology, and regional archaeology including Walker River and environs archae­ology eastern and western Mohave Desert archaeology Baja California archaeology, and contributed papers in ethnology, cultural anthro­pology, and other subdisciplines in anthropology.

The Showboat Hotel is offering special conferenc~ rates of $34.00 for single or double occupancy plus 7% room tax. A cocktail party and banquet is planned for Friday, October 10. GBAC dues and pre-registration fee of $10.00 is payable to the Local Arrangements Chairperson now.

Artifacts Thief Sentenced

SALT LAKE CITY Earl Shumway, 28, the first person prosecuted under the U.S. Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979, was given a two­year suspended sentence Monday. He was already serving five years for burglary. He pleaded guilty to stealing baskets and other artifacts in 1984 from 900-year-old Anasazi Indian ruins at Cliff Dwellers Pasture in Utah.

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USA Today March 18, 1986

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Its two purposes are: 'Io facilitate coortiination anti cooperation among arcfuuo£ogist.s in Ca£ifomia: (1) to

stimufate scientific. researcfi. in tfi.e arcfuuo{ogy of Ca£ifomia, (2) to promote anti maintain stantiartfs anti goafs for arcfuuo{ogy in Ca{ifomia, (3 to encourage tfi.e tievefopment anti use of new tecnniques for tfi.e 6etter recovery, interpretation, anti preservation of arcfuuo£ogica£ remains, (4) to contiuct symposia anti meetings for tfi.e presentation of arcfuuowgica{ matters, am{ (5) to pu6{isfi_ anti aisseminate information on arcfi.aeo{ogical researcfi_ in Ca{ifomia.

'Io facilitate efforts 6etween arcfuuo£ogist.s anti a{[ citizens of California: (6) to stimufate greater pu6{ic interest in anti pu6{ic untierstantiing of tfi.e tecnniques anti goafs of arcfuuowgy in

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11pcoming 'Events -April 23-27, 1986. Date has been changed. Society for

American Archaeology, 5lst Annual Meeting, The Clarion Hotel, New Orleans, LA.

-May 1-4, 1986. 11th Annual State Preservation Conference, Monterey. Contact Donna Penwell at (408) 646-3885.

-May 9, 1986. State Historical Resources Commission Quarterly Meeting, Wilmington, California. Contact OHP at (916) 445-8006.

-May 24-26, 1986. American Rock Art Research Association Annual Meeting, Flagstaff, AZ. Contact ARARA, P.O. Box 1539, El Toro, CA 92630.

-May 29-31, 1986. Society of California Archivists Annual Meeting, Claremont, CA. Contact Paul Sigman (818) 840-5424.

-June 2-4, 1986. 9th Biennial Meeting of the American Quaternary Association, University of Illinois­Champagne. Contact Wayne M. Wendland, AMQUA, Illinois State Water Survey, 2204 Griffith Dr., Champagne, IL 61820. (217) 333-0729.

-June 19-21, 1986. Conference of California Historieal Societies Annual Meeting, Sacramento.

-June 20-22, 1986. The Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Annual Meeting, Monterey. Contact Edward A. Olsen, Department of National Security Affairs (56-0S), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 93943.

-September 30-0ctober 3, 1986. American Association for State and Local History Annual Meeting, Oakland. Contact Tom Frye, Curator of History Oakland Museum, 1000 Oak Street, Oakland, CA 94607.

-October 9-11, 1986. 20th Biennial Great Basin Conference, Las Vegas. Contact Don Tuohy (702) 885-4812.

-October 23-26, 1986. California Committee for the Promotion of History Annual Meeting, Bakersfield. Contact Teena Stern (213) 680-2525.

-April 16-18, 1987 (Easter Week). Society for California Archaeology Annual Meeting, Fresno. Contact Kathy Moffitt (209) 487-5163.

-March 24-26, 1988 (tentative). Society for California Archaeology Annual Meeting, Redding.

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