Southwest Archaeology Today for July 17, 2006

Archaeology Making the News: A Service of the Center For Desert Archaeology

– Bonding with the Past, Rael Galvez’s Career as New Mexico State Historian: As Estevan Rael-Galvez tells it, when his grandmother drew his hand across an ancient adobe wall in Taos Pueblo, she knew it would instill in the boy she called “the little old man” an unbreakable bond with his roots. Rael-Galvez says his work reminds him constantly of his past, by the blanket woven by his grandmother, which hangs on the wall of his office, and the job itself, as New Mexico’s state historian. In the spirit of Uruguayan journalist Eduardo Galeano, Rael-Galvez says he is not a historian but, rather, “a writer who would like to continue to rescue the kidnapped memory of my land and people.”
http://www.roswell-record.com/archives/071606/news08.html

– New Insights into Central American Paelodemography may Have Important Implications for Southwestern Archaeology: When Hernando Cort