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The Silicon Valley region is a laboratory for research into high technology communities due to its robust and varied industrial base, the use of information technologies, organizational innovations, and its broad cultural diversity.In the years since its inception, this website has reflected the ebb and flow of data collection and dissemination.What is the impact of living with global flows and cultural diversity?What happens when technology permeates everyday life?SiliconValley and Busier than Ever!After 2002, the research team focused on three new directions.Use this site as an ongoing archive and portal
It will contain working papers, links to research partners and projects, and related Silicon Valley research.As always, the very divergent nature of the project is its greatest asset.Potential collaborators, research associates, partners for our graduate students in applied anthropology and friends of the project can contact us to explore further possibilities.The Shala Valley Project
Directors
Michael L.SVP fieldwork is conducted by permission of the Albanian Institute of Archaeology,
Tirana, and the Albanian Academy of Sciences.Field Season Report
The 2006 Field Season Report
The 2007 Field Season Report
Published and Forthcoming Articles on the SVP
Galaty, M.Bronze and Iron Ages in Northern Albania.April 2005, edited by I.University of Texas at Austin.From Points A to B: The Shala Valley Project and the
Albanian Middle Paleolithic.International Centre for Albanian Archaeology Monograph
Series No.In Albanian with English abstract.Work Moves the Path':
The Origin and Evolution of Northern Albanian Mountain Landscapes.Cultural Resource Management in Southeast
Europe: The Example of Albania.Prehistoric Occupation of the Albanian Adriatic Coast.Valley Project, Northern Albania: Results of the 2006 Field Season.Northern Albania, 'Ecotourism,' and
the Shala Valley Project: Prospects and Challenges.Frontiers and Fronts: Prioritizing Conflict
in the Balkans.Ethnohistory, Santa Fe, NM, November 19, 2005.The Shala Valley Project (SVP): Isolation and
Interaction in the High Mountains of Northern Albania.University of Paris X, November 15, 2005.Valley Project: Investigating Isolation and Incorporation in Highland Northern
Albania.History and Archaeology of the Northern Albanian High Mountain Country.Archaeology Month public lecture, sponsored by the Mississippi Department of
Archives and History and the Mississippi Archaeological Association.College, Jackson, MS, October 28, 2004.Albanian Institute of Archaeology, Tirana, Albania
E.Explore the ancient Near East and find lesson plans using the Teacher Resource Center.Shop at the Suq for everything from Oriental Rugs to Nubian tea!Enjoy a free documentary film on the ancient Near East as part of the Sunday Film Series.Bring your family to the Oriental Institute Museum for a special family event.Become a volunteer at the Oriental Institute.Take a guided tour of the Oriental Institute Museum galleries.Learn about the ancient Near East through interactive computer kiosks.Free slide set with purchase of Life in Ancient Egypt curriculum guide.Journey to the Middle East with the Oriental Institute Travel Program, led by OI scholars.Through it flows the lower Orontes River, whose floodwaters have deposited a thick layer of alluvium.The Amuq is part of the Hatay province of the Republic of Turkey.But the valley has been densely occupied since at least 6000 B.The Oriental Institute returned to the Amuq in 1995, initiating new archaeological projects.The pottery and other artifacts excavated at these sites provide one of the longest and most reliable chronological sequences of stratified cultural material in the entire Near East.Archaeologists still use the Oriental Institute's Amuq sequence as a means of dating sites elsewhere in the Levant.Unfortunately, the Second World War forced the Oriental Institute to abandon work in the Amuq after 1938.But the Amuq Survey was resumed in 1995 under the leadership of Prof.David Schloen was appointed as the general director of the Amuq Survey in July 2005.He is responsible for the general oversight of the project on behalf of the Oriental Institute.The combined watersheds extend nearly 500 miles from northwest to southeast and range from about 60 to 100 miles wide.The basin is surrounded by mountains, except for a gap in its western edge, at the Carquinez Straits.Kern River in the south.The CVP serves farms, homes, and industry in California's Central Valley as well as major urban centers in the San Francisco Bay Area; it is also the primary source of water for much of California's wetlands.Consists of 20 dams and reservoirs, 11 powerplants, and 500 miles of major canals, as well as conduits, tunnels, and related facilities.State and Federal wildlife refuges and wetlands, pursuant to the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA).Trinity River Divisions
The Central Valley Project facilites include reservoirs on the Trinity, Sacramento, American, Stanislaus, and San Joaquin Rivers.Clair Engle Lake, Lewiston Lake, and Whiskeytown Reservoir, and diverted through a system of tunnels and powerplants into the Sacramento River for the Central Valley.Water is also stored and reregulated in Shasta Lake and Folsom Lake.State Water Project and local water rights holders, flows into the Sacramento River.Other CVP contractors, Sacramento River water rights contractors, and water rights holders divert water directly from the Sacramento and American Rivers.This canal delivers water to CVP contractors and exchange contractors on the San Joaquin River and water rights contractors on the Medota Pool.The CVP water is also conveyed to the San Luis Reservoir for deliveries to CVP contractors through the San Luis Canal.Water is stored in the New Melones Reservoir for water rights holders in the Stanislaus River watershed and CVP contractors in the northern San Joaquin Valley.State Water Project (SWP) water.The SWP water flows in the Sacramento River to the Delta and is exported from the Delta at the Banks Pumping Plant.The Banks Pumping Plant lifts the water into the California Aqueduct, which delivers water to the SWP contractors and conveys water to the San Luis Reservoir.The Central Valley Project reservoir operations are coordinated to obtain maximum yields and deliver water into the main river channels and canals of the project in the most efficient and economical manner.Distribution of water from the main canals to the individual users is the responsibility of the local districts.Irrigation distribution systems use lateral canals and pipelines to convey water from the main canals to individual farms.Franchi Diversion Dam, in the Friant Division; the Sly Park Unit, and the San Luis Unit, the storage and conveyance facilities of the project are operated by the Bureau of Reclamation.Each irrigation district operates its own distribution system.The Sly Park Unit is operated by El Dorado Irrigation District.The Westlands Water District operates Reaches 1 and 2 of the Coalinga Canal.The demand for food and fiber occasioned by this influx gave impetus to the great agricultural development of the valley.Dry farming of wheat and barley continued to expand until the latter part of the century, then declined as other grain regions were developed.Meanwhile, irrigation farming developed to the dominant position it now occupies.Need for the Central Valley Project
Water Supplies.This condition produces seasonal floods and droughts with heavy winter and spring runoffs, leaving a shortage of water in the summer and autumn when it is most needed for irrigation.Suisun Bay for crops and industry.While these projects were subject to State and local laws, their planning was concerned with relatively small tracts of land and not with the valley as a unit.The resulting conflicts of rights and interests present an imposing problem in water development which will probably not be completely resolved for years.Since then, many reports detailing and enlarging on the plan have been prepared by Federal and State agencies.Reclamation has participated in these studies and has published several reports.In 1931, the Division of Water Resources submitted to the legislature the State Water Plan, which included a comprehensive plan for using the water resources of the Central Valley.Authorization
The state legislature passed the California Central Valley Project Act in 1933.Funds for construction of the initial features of the Central Valley Project were provided by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 (49 Stat.When the Rivers and Harbors Act was reauthorized in 1937 (50 Stat.American River features were authorized under the act of October 14, 1949 (63 Stat.November 1979,
Construction
Construction of the initial units of the Central Valley Project began in October 1937 with the Contra Costa Canal.The entire canal was completed in 1948.First delivery of water was made on August 16, 1940.Shasta Dam, keystone of the Central Valley Project, was awarded July 6, 1938; work was started in 1938 and was essentially complete in 1945.The Corps completed Folsom Dam in 1956, turning over operation and maintenance to Reclamation after completion.The Congress integrated more Corps projects into CVP during the 1960s and 1970s.The Corps continued to operate and maintain several dams in the Central Valley.Construction details for each feature are included in Project Dataweb under the appropriate division or unit.Army Corps of Engineers for joint action during flood emergencies.Title XXIV, the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA).The CVPIA amends the previous authorizations of the California Central Valley Project to include fish and wildlife protection, restoration, and mitigation as project purposes having equal priority with irrigation and domestic uses and fish and wildlife enhancement as a project purpose equal to power generation.San Joaquin Delta Estuary
Achieve a reasonable balance among competing demands for project water, including requirements for fish and wildlife, agriculture, municipal and industrial and power contractors.Reclamation Reform Act
The 160 acre limitation rule endured many challenges in the course and Congress, aimed at eliminating various exemptions in reclamation law that allowed farmers with much larger landholdings to receive CVP water.By 1980, the political climate favored the passage of legislation that recognized the reality of modern California farming operations."Archaeological field work, research, and field school in the Sangro Valley (Abruzzo, Italy) conducted by the Soprintendenza Archeologica dell'Abruzzo (Italy), the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford University (UK), and Oberlin College (USA)."Thomas of The University of Texas.Trenches in the Podere Funghi,
overlooking the Mugello Valley, in the 2004 field season.Poggio Colla was first excavated from 1968
to 1972 by Dr.Mugello Valley Archaeological Project continued
excavation in 1995.Additionally, we have published, and will continue to publish,
timely interim reports in scholarly journals.Students from North American and European universities
participate in the excavation project each summer.To see the most recent progress of the
site, see 2007 Field Season.For background information and the history
of the site, see History.
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