High Country News

Pillaging the Past

Craig Childs explores the fine line that separates archeology from grave-robbing in the American Southwest.

by Craig Childs, Apr 28, 2008
Leave it alone

Archaeology is, or at least ought to be, about more than just picking up artifacts to gather dust on the shelves of crowded museum storerooms.

by Jonathan Thompson, Apr 28, 2008
How to find a 13,000 year-old mammoth

After seeing a drawing of a wooly mammoth in a Utah cave, the author ponders on the possibility they existed along with the humans who inhabited the U.S. Southwest years ago.

by Andrew Gulliford, Jan 19, 2012
Teetering on the Edge of the Cedars

The Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum in Blanding, Utah, fights for its life as the state cuts funding.

by Adam Roy, Mar 20, 2011
Kicking and screaming, the BLM makes a deal

The petroglyphs at Nine Mile Canyon in Utah are finally receiving some protection from oil and gas development.

by Jodi Peterson, Jan 19, 2010
Dear friends

Rick Craig wins Nelson Algren Award; visitors; Bill Frank Jr. and John Echohawk win Wallace Stegner Award; HCN is looking for good writers

by Jodi Peterson, Dec 11, 2006
The missing puzzle piece

In southwestern Colorado’s Crow Canyon, archaeologists are working with Native Americans to solve the historical mysteries of the Four Corners area.

by Ernest Atencio , Dec 03, 2008
Anasazi outpost dodges the drill

Hovenweep National Monument in remote southeastern Utah narrowly escapes an attempt to lease nearby land for oil and gas drilling

by Matt Jenkins, Dec 20, 2004
Revamped road to Chaco may be the park's ruin

Archaeologists are worried that a plan to upgrade the 16-mile gravel road to Chaco Canyon in New Mexico could lead to more tourism and possibly harm the park’s fragile ruins

by Laura Parkus, May 30, 2005
Head games in the hot, hot desert

In The Way Out, Craig Childs tells the true story of how he and a friend explored a Utah desert and, at the same time, journeyed through their own memories

by Lee Ross, Jul 25, 2005