In an uncharacteristically short interview given at his 88th birthday party, Al Look tells local radio personality Bob Collins about helping to publish a comic newspaper at the University of Nebraska, about the dinosaur find in No Thoroughfare Canyon that led to his interest in archaeology, and about a dig on an Ancestral Pueblo culture site near Montrose, Colorado. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration...

In two speeches, Al Look discusses archaeological evidence of ancient American Indian cultures in Colorado and the Southwest. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the Museums of Western Colorado and the Mesa County Historical Society.

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...