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Tells the story of a group of researchers, naturalists, adventurers, cooks, immigrants, and scientifically curious teenagers who came together in the late 1930s to embark upon a series of ambitious expeditions never before, or since, attempted. Their mission: to piece together the broken shards of the Channel Islands' history and evolution.
Endeavouring to understand the sway of the frontier on religion in the US, this book follows Mormon-American conflicts, from the Utah War and the antipolygamy crusades to the Reed Smoot hearings. The story of Mormonism's move toward American acceptability represents a larger story of the US's transition toward modernity and religious pluralism.
For 12,000 years, people have left a rich record of their experiences in Utah's Capitol Reef National Park. In The Capitol Reef Reader, award-winning author and photographer Stephen Trimble collects the best of this writing.
Revealing both successes and shortcomings, it considers how Cultural Resource Management can face the challenges of the future. Chapters offer a variety of perspectives, covering highway archaeology, inclusion of Native American tribes, and the legacy of the NHPA, among other topics.
Presents the multiyear archaeological investigations of Cerro Juanaquena and related sites in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico. The authors place their work in a regional and theoretical context, providing detailed analyses of radiocarbon dates, structures, features, and artifacts.
The first full account of the journey and discoveries of an archaeological expedition into the American Southwest. In 1931 a group from Harvard University's Peabody Museum accomplished something that had not previously been attempted - a four-hundred-mile horseback survey of prehistoric sites through some of the West's most rugged terrain.
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