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Volume 63 | Number 20
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CELEBRATING THE RESIDENTIAL PARK COMMUNITIES FOR 63 YEARS
MIZELL SENIOR CENTER Keeping Adults Active, Engaged, Independent and Healthy — Page 6 NATURE LECTURE: “PURPLE HUMMINGBIRD: A BIOGRAPHY OF ELIZABETH WARDER CROZER CAMPBELL” Wednesday, January 17 Presented by Joan Schneider Park, learn this true-life story and the origins of landscape archeology as we know it today. The lecture will begin at 6:30 p.m. in The Learning Center (TLC) at the Palm Springs Public Library – 300 S. Sunrise Way, Palm Springs. Elizabeth Warder Crozer Campbell and her husband, William Campbell, found themselves forced to move to the Mojave Desert in 1924, its dry climate proving to be the best for William’s frail lungs burned by mustard gas in World War I. They camped at Twentynine Palm Oasis in what is now Joshua Tree National Park, homesteaded nearby, and became a central part of that early community.
Life in the remote, stark landscape contrasted sharply with Elizabeth’s early years of wealth and privilege in Pennsylvania. Her resilient spirit made the best of what at first seemed like a bleak situation: she became an amateur archaeologist and explored the desert. A keen observer and independent thinker, she soon hypothesized that prehistoric people had lived in the California deserts along the shores of late Pleistocene lakes and waterways much earlier than was then believed. She devised a means for testing her hypothesis and found evidence to support it. Her interpretations, however, conflicted with the archaeological paradigm of the day and she was dismissed by for-
mally trained archaeologists. Even so, she and her husband continued their work, convinced of the accuracy of her findings. Four decades later the archaeological establishment validated and accepted her ideas. Campbell’s research ultimately revolutionized archaeological thought, forming the basis of today’s landscape archaeology. Joan S. Schneider, Ph.D., manages the archaeological aspects of Earthwatch’s Archaeology of the Mongolian Steppe project. Recently retired from her position as associate state archaeologist, Colorado Desert District, with the California State Parks, she continues to teach and pursue her research interests. Her
archaeological research focuses on the reasons why prehistoric people (particularly women) chose certain stones for tools and vessels, and how the stone chosen relates to the tasks performed or uses of the artifacts. Dr. Schneider has worked for over 20 years in the deserts of the world, including the Colorado, Mojave, Sonoran, and Negev deserts. She has conducted field research projects in Israel and in Joshua Tree and Death Valley National Parks in the U.S., as well working as an archaeological field school director for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Presented in partnership with the Desert Institute of Joshua Tree National Park.
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