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ROME – Digging for Rome’s new subway has unearthed the charred ruins of an early 3rd-century building and the 1,800-year-old skeleton of a crouching dog that apparently perished in the same blaze...
DATE: June 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Last month, archaeologists and volunteers helped to stabilize and restore a historic frontier cabin near Blanding, Utah. The Shumway Cabin site, located on the banks of Recapture Wash, is part of...
DATE: June 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
After nearly dissolving in February, the Southwest Colorado Canyons Alliance has found new life. On Wednesday, the friends group for Canyons of the Ancients National Monument and the Bureau of Land...
DATE: May 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News
A recently rediscovered rock-art panel at the Sand Island Campground near Bluff, Utah, is now within the new Bears Ears National Monument. The ancient petroglyphs along the San Juan River were...
DATE: Jan. 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Janet Lever-Wood will present “Recording Rock Art on the San Juan River, Southeast Utah,” at the Jan. 3, 2017, meeting of the Hisatsinom Chapter of the Colorado Archaeology Society in Cortez. The...
DATE: Dec. 15, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News
The investigation into a group of Fort Lewis College students who vandalized ancient Native American sites in Utah was all but closed after one student came forward and took responsibility,...
DATE: Dec. 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News
A group of Fort Lewis College students defaced ancient Native American ruins in the Comb Ridge area near Bluff, Utah, while on an outdoor retreat in October. According to FLC spokesman Mitch Davis,...
DATE: Nov. 29, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News
Archaeology Society to meet Tuesday The Hisatsinom Chapter of the Colorado Archaeology Society will host Gail LaDage at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Methodist Church, 515 Park Street, in Cortez. LaDage...
DATE: Oct. 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News
The 81st annual Conference of the Colorado Archaeological Society will be held Oct. 7-10 at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction. The conference will feature a Friday meet-and-greet and...
DATE: Sept. 18, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News
SANTA FE (AP) – Don Dickens reached a peak on The Promontory at Yellowstone National Park, certain he would saunter down a few hundred feet and find the 40-pound chest of treasures that Santa Fe...
DATE: Sept. 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Regional News
Florence Lister, a prominent archaeologist in the American Southwest died Sunday at her home in Mancos. She was 96. “She succeeded in a field that was dominated by men, and she found her own niche,...
DATE: Sept. 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News
A recent poll commissioned by The Pew Charitable Trusts has found that 55 percent of Utah residents support the idea of a Bears Ears National Monument. Forty-one percent oppose the idea....
DATE: Aug. 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News
