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UTAH ARCHEOLOGY Vol. 2, No. 2
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SALT LAKE CITY. yTAH
A Newsletter June 1956
CONTENTS Editor's Notes Radiocarbon Dates From Danger Cave, Utah, J.D. Jennings Role of Museums & Educational Institutions in the Functioning ~ of Local Anthropological Societies, S.F. Borhlgyi ~etrographs, J. H. Gunnerson Antiquities Act
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EDITOR'S NOTES Summer Activities
Pi'ans fore~tcavations in Utah are taking form. Th ' University of California, Los Angleles, summer field school in archeology will again be housed in the College of Southern Utah dormitories at Cedar City, Utah. Excavation will be at the north edge of Paragonah, Utah, from June 18 to July .27. ,
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Your editor will be in the field from July I to August 15 with a small ~ield school for the University of Utah. This party will be mobile, and will dig for a week or ten days at each of several sites within about 25 miles of Emery, Utah. Visitors will be welcome at both digs. It would be well to check with the Deparcment of Anthropology at the University just before visiting our dig to find out where the group is. !h~ll!!h ~~~tewide
Archeological Society The rapid growth in membership of the US~S has been most gratifying. In the course of a ye~r we have achieved a membership of about 150. Thus, the interest in Utah archeology seems great enough to '<tJ6u'rant: mak:1.ng our organization more formal and increasing its
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I have just returned fr.om the annual meeting of the Society fer:.: American Archeology, held this year at Lincoln, Nebraska. At this meeting one long se's s:ton ~,yas devoted to the organization and problems of local archeological societies a.nd I came away with many ideas for the development of the USAS. I am reprinting in part an article distributed by Mre Borhegyi at this meeting in which he described the Oklahoma Archeological Society. I feel sure that we can adopt many of the ideas he presents and I would like to hear from all members of the USAS as to (1) 'Colhether or not you fa.vor an organization of this type, (2) ow you would like ours to differ, and (3) any other comments which you might have concerning our organization. I sincerely hope that enough of you will attend the Great Basin Ar.cheological Conference in Salt Lake c,;tty i)1~ t he Un iversity of Utah Ca.mpu~ , August 19-21, to take action on formalizing our organizatione If there are enough members present, we can arrange for a special meeting, so please make yourselves known when you register . If a.ny D.¡f you (lid not receive Vol 2, No.. 1 of Utah G
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