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Video: Torn – Recovering California’s Stolen Cultural Heritage | Watch ViewFinder Online | KVIE Public Television Video
Torn – Recovering California’s Stolen Cultural Heritage+ADD Aired: 08/20/2014 27:10 Rating: NRIn the desolate Owens Valley, looters have been stealing or destroying ancient artifacts, including petroglyphs thousands of years old. Join archeologists, Native American tribal members, and federal land officials as they try to recover these priceless pieces of the past, while restoring and protecting […]
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Evidence of Hobbling, Torture Discovered at Ancient Massacre Site in Colorado | Western Digs
he site of a gruesome massacre some 1,200 years ago in southwestern Colorado is yielding new evidence of the severity, and the grisly intensity, of the violence that took place there. First excavated in 2005 near the town of Durango, the site known as Sacred Ridge was in some ways a typical early Pueblo settlement, […]
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Grisly Mass Grave in Utah Cave Is Evidence of ‘Prehistoric Warfare,’ Study Says | Western Digs
Nearly a hundred skeletons buried in a cave in southeast Utah offer grisly evidence that ancient Americans waged war on each other as much as 2,000 years ago, according to new research.Dozens of bodies, dating from the first century CE, bear clear signs of hand-to-hand combat: skulls crushed as if by cudgels; limbs broken at […]
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Recapping the Recapture Canyon ATV protest | Friends of Cedar Mesa
Posted on May 13, 2014 A first hand report by Executive Director, Josh Ewing Frustrated with years of delay from the BLM in deciding the fate of a proposed ATV trail in Recapture Canyon, protestors rode their machines into the Canyon on Saturday, May 10th. Because of recent events where BLM employees had been threatened […]
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Photo of the day: Doors, Chaco Culture National Historic Park
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Photo of the Day: Grand Gulch Primitive Area, UT
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Prehistoric artists left mysterious marks | Reno Gazette-Journal | rgj.com
There’s a mystery to be solved in the Great Basin Desert. The clues date back thousands of years and are found in the form of petroglyphs and pictographs — rock art left by people living on the shores of Lake Lahontan, an ancient lake that once covered portions of northwest Nevada, northeast California and southern […]
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Panther Cave: Rock Art in Danger
Panther Cave: Rock Art in Danger Carolyn Boyd, executive director of the SHUMLA School, and noted expert on the rock art of the Lower Pecos, offers new interpretations of the region’s rock art based on the extensive research by the SHUMLA-led team. Carolyn Boyd, executive director of the SHUMLA School, and noted expert on the […]
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Aztec Ruins Vandalized
AZTEC — Last weekend, vandals entered Aztec Ruins and caused several thousand dollars’ worth of damage to the ancient site. At least two individuals entered the ruins and proceeded to climb over fragile walls and enter closed ruin rooms. In one area, they attempted to break into a locked hatch which protected original plaster and […]
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Winter Survey!
Ahh, a winter CRM survey project. This evening I find myself in a rather scary, “extended stay” hotel on the outskirts of the Colorado Springs airport. From what I’ve found on the internet, the combined odors of cat urine and ethyl in the corridors and stairwells would indicate the sinister presence of the “Meth Industry.” […]
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Today’s Photo: Afternoon thunderstorm over the Book Cliffs
Extending almost 200 miles east to west–from Palisade, Colorado to Price, Utah–the Book Cliffs form the southern and western edge of the Tavaputs Plateau. They provide a very scenic backdrop to an area rich in archaeology ranging from historic mining and ranching sites, to archaic rock art panels and paleo-indian hunting and gathering sites.
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Today’s Photo: Just for fun – A rare Utah find
You find the strangest things on an archaeological survey. This little gem was found in a small clearing, northwest of Eureka, Utah. It isn’t quite 50 years old, so someone will have to come back and document it later.
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Sun Advocate – Contributors to offer reward for info on 9 Mile vandalism – October 6, 2011
Contributors to offer reward for info on 9 Mile vandalism Print Page Email Page Share Get Reprints By JOHN SERFUSTINI Sun Advocate associate editor Several companies and organizations interested in protecting the archaeology of Nine Mile Canyon against vandalism have pooled their resources to offer a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction […]
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Today’s Photo: Not a photo at all…
Located “somewhere” in the Cisco Desert, Utah.
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Day 2: Historic Water Transportation System…
I think we’re done. At least, we finished walking/inventorying our ditch. All we have left is a visit with a local historian in the morning, who may or may not be convinced of the ditch’s true significance (or lack thereof, as is the case). What did we discover during this ditch survey? The local farmer/ditch […]