Archaeology

Dr. Benjamin Pykles will deliver the 2022 Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture, titled “Historical Archaeology and the Latter-day Saint Past” Thursday evening at 7:00 in the Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall at Utah State University.

In 1928, Elmer Cook, a rancher in Hagerman, Idaho, found fossilized bones belonging to ancestors of the modern horse. They were 3 ½ million years old.

R.E. Burrillo is an archaeologist and conservation advocate. He is the author of Behind the Bears Ears: Exploring the Cultural and Natural Histories of a Sacred Landscape. He joins us to talk about his new book, 'The Backwoods of Everywhere: Words from a Wandering Local.'

Utah has launched a “Pledge to Protect the Past” campaign to protect archaeological sites and artifacts. To discuss, we're joined by Elizabeth Hora and Angelo Baca.

The Utah State Historic Preservation Office said Utah is covered in over 100,000 archaeological sites. While this can be exciting for visitors, it also presents more opportunities for vandalism, intentional and unintentional.

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For decades, researchers assumed the monkeys depicted on a 3,500-year-old painting in Greece were from Africa, just across the Mediterranean. But recently…

We’re talking about an ancient ancestor of modern anchovies, a fearsome fish that swam the seas about 55 million years ago — and, like so many other…

Bill Lipe is professor emeritus of anthropology at Washington State University. He has spent much of his more than 50 year career in Utah archaeology…

The Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference is happening today through Saturday in Logan and will cover such topics as Japanese Railroad Worker…