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Results for keyword: Anasazi

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 21, 2011
Craig Childs walks with desert ghosts on the Navajo Nation

The author tries to walk like a ghost through a wild and haunted landscape.

by Craig Childs, Feb 21, 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
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
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
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
Driven to fight

Retired BLM agent Lynell Schalk goes head-to-head with her former bosses over protecting southern Utah’s priceless archaeological sites from off-road vehicle traffic.

by Jen Jackson, Mar 19, 2007
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
Dry-hiking in a desert awash with history

A 61-year-old hiker and two middle-aged friends take an epic hike through Arizona in David Roberts’ new book, Sandstone Spine

by Lee Ross, Oct 16, 2006