Archaeology -- Colorado
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Hannah Wormington, head of the archaeology department at the Colorado Museum of Natural History and lead archaeologist at the Turner-Look Site, discusses local historian Al Look’s contributions to archaeology and the importance of amateur archaeologists. Her lecture was an installment of the Museum of Western Colorado’s First Annual Lecture Series. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration...
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Chuck Lundy and interviewer Al Look talk about a Fremont Indian excavation in No Thoroughfare Canyon, about the archaeologist Hannah Marie Wormington and her work at the Turner-Look Site in Utah, and about Native American fossil finds on Glade Park, Colorado. They also speak about Colorado National Monument founder John Otto, about dinosaur fossils discovered by “Dinosaur Jim,” the paleontologist James Jensen, and about dinosaur bones found by...
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William Whatley Jr. speaks about the excavation of ancestral Native American sites in the Four Corners region and the broader Southwest. He discusses trends in archaeological methodology and thought, and archaeological discoveries that were predominant at the time of his interview in 1981 (Whatley later became the archaeologist for the Pueblo of Jemez). The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County...
