The Legacy of Adolph Bandelier

The Legacy of Adolph Bandelier
The name Bandelier derives from Swiss-born Adolph F. Bandelier, who, as a boy, was brought to Illinois by his parents. He grew up encouraged by his father to become a businessman. He tried that early in life and was miserable. His true vocation lay in history and archaeology. In 1880, Bandelier obtained a yearly stipend from the Archaeological Institute of America, allowing him to head for the Southwest and devote himself to scholarly investigation.  http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Bandelier-s-monumental-tale

Salado Polychrome Pottery – A View from Archaeology Southwest’s Mule Creek Underground Blog
A major part of our research at Mule Creek—and in the Upper Gila region in general—is to identify compositional and stylistic variability in Salado polychrome pottery (also known as Roosevelt Red Ware) through time and across space. We are using these data to track processes of migration, population coalescence, and long-distance interaction in the study area. I talked about typology in my previous post; today I’ll talk about style. https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/what-we-do/investigations/salado/mule-creek/mule-creek-underground/

National Park Service Considering Historic Designation for the Butterfield Overland Trail
The National Park Service (NPS) is seeking public comments concerning the suitability and feasibility of designating the Butterfield Overland Trail as a national historic trail. This NPS study and environmental assessment, which is in its initial information-gathering phase, will address the historic route in states from Missouri to California. http://www.ky3.com/news/ky3-national-park-service-should-butterfield-overland-trail-be-a-national-historic-trail-20120406,0,2814939.story?track=rss

Maxwell Museum Returns Mexican Artifacts
The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico has returned to Mexican officials artifacts believed to be of Pre-Columbian origin. The Consulate of Mexico announced the return of the artifacts late Tuesday. The items include beads made of shell that are estimated to be around 700 years old. http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2012/04/04/abqnewsseeker/maxwell-museum-returns-artifacts.html

Study Indicates that Heritage Tourism Revenues Are Increasing in the Navajo Nation
Spending by visitors to the nation’s largest American Indian reservation has increased by nearly one-third over the past several years, and Navajo Nation officials are pointing to word of mouth for the uptick in interest in the sprawling reservation. Spanning parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, the Navajo Nation covers more than 27,000 square miles. It borders the Grand Canyon and sits on the southern edge of the sandstone cliffs, spires and red desert expanses that make up Monument Valley.  http://nativetimes.com/business/features/7050-study-tourism-spending-up-across-navajo-nation

Greek Austerity Measures Continue to Threaten Archaeological Record
Faced with massive public debt, Greece is finding that its fabled antiquity heritage is proving a growing burden — with licensed digs postponed, illegal ones proliferating, museum staff trimmed and valuable pieces stolen. Greece’s historic remains have become our curse,” whispered an archaeologist at a recent media event organised to protest spending cuts imposed on the country for the past two years as a condition for European Union and International Monetary Fund loans. http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/04/06/12/amid-debt-crisis-archaeology-becomes-greeces-achilles-heel

Lecture Opportunity – Santa Fe
Southwest Seminars presents a lecture by Winston Hurst, Independent Archaeologist and Director, Comb Ridge Heritage Initiative Project, Blanding, Utah, who will give a presentation entitled: Finding Deep History at Comb Ridge. Presented on April 16 at 6pm at Hotel Santa Fe. Admission is $12. Part of the Ancient Stories II lecture series given to honor and acknowledge the work of The Archaeological Conservancy. 505 466-2775

Lecture Opportunity – Tucson
16 April, 2012, DuVal Auditorium (inside UMC), 1501 N. Campbell Ave. Ben Nelson’s talk Power, Distance, and Mesoamerican – US Southwest Interaction will cover new work assessing occurrence of multiple objects and symbols in a wide range of sites, focusing on the critical area of Northern Mexico, through which passed “trade goods” found at impressive distances from their sources in today’s American Southwest. These goods are now thought of as costly signals of trust between distant partners whose relationships in turn served local leaders as practical and cosmological validation of their political power.

Lecture Opportunity – Tucson
Thursday April 26, 2012, free presentation in Tucson Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” dinner presentation (this month only, on the Fourth Thursday!) is “Hohokam Classic Period Interaction: A University Indian Ruin Perspective” with University of Arizona professors Paul Fish and Suzanne Fish, at Dragon’s View Asian Cuisine, 400 N. Bonita Avenue Tucson, 6 to 8:30 p.m.  In this program archaeologists Paul and Suzanne Fish will discuss the recent investigations and their insights into the changing regional interaction of the Hohokam Classic period, as evidenced by the site’s differential acquisition of polychrome pottery and other resources from far away, including obsidian from distant quarries, exotic cherts, and pottery of Zuni and Sonoran origin. Guests may select and purchase their own dinners from the restaurant’s menu. Reservations are due by 5 p.m. Wednesday April 25 by calling 520-798-1201.