Southwest Archaeology Today for Oct. 22, 2009

Southwestern Archaeology Making the News – A Service of the Center for Desert Archaeology

– Researchers Report on Major Clovis Discovery in Sonora: Scientists have discovered a site containing the most extensive evidence seen so far in Mexico for the Clovis culture. The find extends the range of America’s oldest identifiable culture, which roamed North America about 13,000 years ago. The bed of artifacts in the state of Sonora in northwest Mexico also includes the bones of an extinct cousin of the mastodon called a “gomphothere”. The beast was probably hunted and killed by the Clovis people, known for their distinctive spear points, who mysteriously disappeared within about 500 years of leaving their first archeological traces.
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091021/full/news.2009.1034.html?s=news_rss

– The Center for Desert Archaeology Launches New Website: We are pleased to announce that our new website is up and running. Check out http://www.cdarc.org, and let us know what you think. We hope that you are as pleased with the updated content and more streamlined organization as we are. And there is so much more to come! Stay tuned as we continue to develop this new digital resource.
http://www.cdarc.org

– “Irrefutable” Evidence in the Case of Everett Ruess Refuted: A skeleton found in the Utah wilderness last year was not that of Everett Ruess, a legendary wanderer of the 1930s, despite initial forensic tests that seemed to have solved an enduring mystery, his nephew told The Associated Press. “The skeleton is not related to us,” Brian Ruess, a 44-year-old software salesman in Portland, Ore., said late Wednesday.
http://cbs4denver.com/local/AP.NewsBreak.Family.2.1263150.html

– Friends of Arizona Archives Meeting Planned for Tuesday Oct 27 (Phoenix): Tuesday, October 27, 11:00 am at the Arizona State Library and Archives agency second floor conference room. This is in the 1938 addition to the state capitol on the second floor, 1700 W. Washington in Phoenix. Free parking available at Wesley Bolin Plaza.

– Nature Conservancy Presents the Hohokam of the Hassayampa River (Wickenburg): Find out who lived along the Hassayampa River in ancient times at The Nature Conservancy