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The Bureau of Land Management Tres Rios Field Office has designated three areas of critical environmental concern in Montezuma and San Miguel counties. The new amendment to the 2015 Resource...
DATE: Feb. 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
The Colorado General Federation of Women’s Clubs is celebrating its 125th anniversary by honoring early members who played a key role in the establishment of Mesa Verde National Park in 1906. On...
DATE: Oct. 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News
Among the kivas, pit houses and other remnants of prehistoric humans in the Four Corners, archaeologists at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center are looking for clues to learn how ancient people...
DATE: Sept. 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News
AZTEC – A Colorado historian is leading a team to survey inscriptions left by settlers and others on the ceilings of 900-year-old ruins in northwestern New Mexico. Fred Blackburn and his team will...
DATE: Sept. 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News
Needham Elementary fourth graders hurled balls through the air with hand-held launchers last week to learn the mechanics of ancient spear throwing tools used by archaic Native Americans. Ball...
DATE: Sept. 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News
New construction typically doesn’t bulldoze through a graveyard, so why is it OK for the Colorado Department of Transportation to destroy and pave over a large settlement of Native American ruins...
DATE: Sept. 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News
A large, extensive network of Native American ruins was recently discovered just outside Durango on top of Florida Mesa, and it’s kind of blowing archaeologists’ minds. “As an archaeologist with...
DATE: Aug. 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News
Bear and deer wander among piñon-juniper forests of the Mesa Verde escarpment, where ancestral homes, plazas and kivas of the Native American Puebloan culture remain undisturbed. But what will...
DATE: Aug. 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
On a low, grassy ridge near a ponderosa pine forest north of Dolores, archaeologists and volunteers identified stones last week that Native Americans likely shaped more than 1,000 years ago. The...
DATE: July 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
An issue with a gate blocking the road to Yucca House National Monument south of Cortez appears to have been resolved. On Tuesday, Mesa Verde National Park Superintendent Cliff Spencer reported...
DATE: April 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News
Hundreds of items collected by amateur archaeologists and treasure hunters from the 1930s to the 1960s are being returned to Native American tribes for repatriation by Center of Southwest Studies....
DATE: April 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News
For years, archaeologists have been documenting hundreds of wooden shelters left by Native Americans in northern Colorado, in a time-is-of-the-essence project as the land reclaims the historic...
DATE: March 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
