Call for references/pdf's

Hey all -

Here's my third and final post of the afternoon. (I'm binging.) In relation to my dissertation work and in helping out Tim Kohler for a side project on modeling population fluctuations in the SW, I'm going to be trying to create some kind of an individual-body-based Fremont census database (niner). Basically, I'm looking for records of Fremont burials/skeletal remains along with associated demographic info (sex, age, etc.), date(s), and provenience.

Over the past few years, I've been compiling a good-sized library of Fremont articles and publications. Basically, I've got everything that's freely available and accessible online from Malouf (1940) to present (~150 individual articles plus the Antiquities Section pubs and the Utah Archaeology's), as well as whole or partial inventories of the actual specimens from BYU, USU, UMNH, Antiquities, and Joan Coltrain. So, I'm good with all that, but it's the gray lit and other not-easily-accessible venues where I'm lacking. The next time I'm down in the area, I'll try to get my hands on some of the MPC publications, but if anybody knows of any reports mentioning Fremont remains off the top of their heads, pass that info on this way. You don't have to actually go and dig through them page by page (although I might be able to pay you in hugs and candy), just a reference would suffice. I could take it from there.

Thanks again for the help -


BRAD

This just in

Ran across this by accident today. Looks like a probable Fremont burial was found in a front yard just west of the UofU campus. Good to see Derinna Kopp still in action. Tough to see her without Kevin and Ron.

Get the story here.

Who's in charge, here, anyway?

Jack Broughton came up last week for a seminar presentation, and I went out to dinner with him, Karen Lupo, Dave Schmitt, Tim Kohler, and others. They were quizzing me on the situation surrounding the Antiquities Section firings, and I was doing pretty well until they asked, "So, without a state archaeologist, who's overseeing the work in Utah?" I was stumped.

I asked this of Dr. Yoder in an email the other day, but I'd like to get everybody's thoughts. With all the crap that's gone down surrounding archaeology in the state of Utah over the past while, who really is in charge now? Everything is so fractured and fragmented now. (Kudos to the powers that be. Your plan to trivialize Utah's cultural resources even further has worked beautifully.)

My top three archaeologists in descending order of influence/authority/etc: Dave Yoder--Chief PLPCO Archaeologist, Lori Hunsaker--Deputy SHPO, Jim Allison--UPAC President and actual practicing archaeologist (no offense, Dave).

Am I missing anyone? I know there are others with more tenure and experience in the state. In any case, we all know it's a pretty screwed up time right now. (Our own department isn't flying the flag that high, either, from what I've been hearing.) But, for as low-key and laid-back as I am (I might have one lonely activist bone in my body), these kinds of problems actually make me want to work in Utah to try and fix what appears to be a really messed-up situation.

Thoughts?