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—Hundreds of Good Looking Archaeologists Can't Be Wrong!
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Current events:
Next NAA Quarterly Board Meeting is in Austin on July 19 at 3:00 p.m.
—Eva Jensen, President
The next quarterly board meeting will be held at the Bob Scott campground, Saturday July 19, at 3:00 p.m. The campground is just east of Austin, NV, on Highway 50, at Bob Scott summit. On Saturday morning at 9:30, we will have a tour of the historic churches of Austin. Meet at 9:15 at Cedar and Main in Austin (there was a parking area on the northeast corner last time I was there). All NAA members and guests are welcome to join us for the tour and board meeting.
We have the group area reserved at Bob Scott campground and some board members will be camping Friday and Saturday night. For other lodging information and information about Austin check out these web sites: http://austinnevada.com/index.html and http://www.ausnvhistsoc.com/
Basic Site Stewardship Training Class on August 1 in Virginia City
—Sali A. Underwood, Site Stewardship Coordinator, State Historic Preservation Office
Due to an overwhelming demand we are offering a Basic Site Stewardship Training Class on Friday August 1, 2008 in Virginia City at the Comstock History Center located at 20 North E Street. This class may fill up quickly so please RSVP as soon as possible so that we can guarantee you a seat and manual. I look forward to seeing you all there and thank you again for your interest in becoming a volunteer archaeological site steward!
2008 Great Basin Anthropological Conference October 8-11, 2008 at Portland State University
—Virginia L. Butler, GBAC Chair
2008 GREAT BASIN ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONFERENCE
Portland, Oregon
Beyond the Fringe: Interactions Between Great Basin Peoples and Their Neighbors
The 31st biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference will be held October 8-11, 2008 on the campus of Portland State University at University Place in downtown Portland, Oregon. In keeping with the conference location outside the Great Basin, the theme of this year's gathering is Beyond the Fringe: Interactions Between Great Basin Peoples and Their Neighbors. With one symposium dedicated to this concept, a second honoring the contributions of anthropologist Kay Fowler, and several other sessions in the works, the 2008 conference promises to be a fine one.
The conference will begin on Wednesday afternoon (Oct. 8th) with registration and a cash-bar reception. Presentations begin on Thursday morning (Oct. 9th) and continue through Saturday mid-day (Oct. 11th). Friday night's banquet will feature local cuisine, award presentations, and dance, with music by Hammerstone. Several field trips are planned for Saturday afternoon (Columbia Gorge Rock Art; Missoula Flood Features/Archaeology of The Dalles; Archaeology of a Plankhouse Village on the Lower Columbia).
Presentations related to all anthropological sub-disciplines are welcome. Submission forms for symposia, and individual papers and posters are available on the GBAC website for downloading and should be e-mailed to Dr. Dennis Jenkins.
Symposia organizers should submit packages by July 1. Please e-mail digital copies of the symposium title, a 150-word abstract, list of paper titles, and their 150-word abstracts. Please include the name and affiliation of the organizer(s), participants, and discussants.
Contributed paper and poster abstracts should be submitted by August 1.
All updates will be on the GBAC website.
2008 Meeting of the Nevada Archaeological Association
Many thanks to all who helped make the 2008 conference a success.
$3.1 Million Awarded for Historic Preservation Across Nevada
—Associated Press - March 22, 2008 7:15 PM ET
CARSON CITY (AP) - Las Vegas' old federal building-post office and Virginia City's old Fourth Ward School are among beneficiaries of $3.1 million in grants for historic preservation projects awarded by a state commission.
The $350,000 grant for the Las Vegas project was the largest awarded this year by the Nevada Commission for Cultural Affairs, which announced the latest round of grants Friday.
The city of Las Vegas is restoring the downtown federal building-post office as a museum and cultural center.
The Fourth Ward School project, which has received money annually since the state grants program was created 14 years ago, was awarded $120,000 to finish the job.
Another popular tourist attraction in Virginia City, Piper's Opera House, was given $110,000.
In Reno, the commission voted $102,000 to begin restoration of the Fleischmann Atmospherium-Planetarium on the University of Nevada, Reno campus.
The Lear Theater project in downtown Reno was awarded $110,000, but commissioners warned that it won't receive any more money in the future unless organizers "get their act together."
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An Important Message Concerning the SHPO & Smithsonian Site numbers
—Karyn de Dufour, Data Manager, State Historic Preservation Office
On April 1, 2008 all northern Nevada Smithsonian site numbers will be assigned through SHPO. If you need a Smithsonian number, please contact myself and/or Elyse Jolly my data entry assistant. We will be working with the Harry Reid Center this next fiscal year (July 2008-June 2009) to transfer Southern Nevada site number assignment to SHPO as well.
Our process isn't much different than how Maggie Brown at NSM had been assigning the numbers. However, there are a few new twists.
- If you are working on federal land and a federal agency number is required, please obtain that number before requesting a Smithsonian number. Otherwise, contact SHPO directly for a Smithsonian number.
- If you have several sites needing a number, we prefer to work with GIS shapefiles.
- You can send us your shapefile and we will annotate the file directly with the Smithsonian numbers you need.
- If you only have a few sites, we, just like Maggie, require a copy of the IMACS forms and site maps. We prefer this to be done digitally in a .pdf or .doc format. However, we will accept faxes if that's all you've got.
- Also, we would like to gather some basic project information at the time of your request. This will allow us to input the data into NVCRIS in a preliminary format (those map layers labeled CRM Resources and CRM Investigations in NVCRIS). Those items are:
- Project Lead (i.e. BLM, USFS, BOR, NPS, etc.)
- Lead Project number (if you have it)
- Sponsor (i.e. XYZ Mining, Sprawl-R-Us Corp., etc.)
- Title of Report (even a preliminary or working title)
- Acreage of project
- Representative TRS's (no more than 3 sections)
If you have any questions about this new process, do not hesitate in contacting me.
In addition, I am currently working on rolling up about 3,000 new resources and about 700 new inventories into NVCRIS. I'll email everyone when that rollup has occurred. This is the first of many rollups. We hope to be regularly adding data to NVCRIS by this summer.
Also, if you are finding any data problems in NVCRIS, drop me an email or give me a call.
Thanks!
Karyn de Dufour
Data Manager
State Historic Preservation Office
100 North Stewart Street
Carson City, NV 89701
(775) 684-3447
kmdedufo@clan.lib.nv.us
Three Corners Conference Proceedings Journals
—Gregory R. Seymour, NAA President
The Three Corners Conference was held in Las Vegas in October of 2005 and 2007 to report on current research that has been conducted in southern Nevada, southern Utah, and Arizona and California along the Lower Colorado River. The proceedings journal is available here. Your purchases will help finance the third conference in the fall of 2009.
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