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Cowboys and Cave Dwellers: Basketmaker Archaeology in Utah's Grand Gulch
The tortuous canyon country of southeastern Utah conceals thousands of archaeological sites, ancient homes of the ancestors of today's Southwest Indian peoples. Late in the 19th century, adventurous cowboy-archaeologists made the first forays into the canyons in search of the material remains of these prehistoric cultures, called "basketmaker". Rancher Richard Wetherill an...more
Hardcover, 208 pages
Published
April 1st 1997
by School of American Research Press
(first published 1997)
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"Written by a local Southwest Utah native, the book focuses on Cedar Mesa's Grand Gulch, a system of canyons west of Blanding, UT, first explored by the Wetherill brothers, discoverers of Mesa Verda ruins. Richard Wetherill and his brothers have been much maligned by modern archaeologists, who accuse them of systematically looting the treasures of the four corners region, with llittle observance of proper digging techniques. Nevertheless, based on his stratigraphic observations, Richard Wetheril...more
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