Archeology

New Year

I wish you all a Happy New Year. May the coming year treat you and your loved ones well. As I write this, Louisville and Superior, Colorado, are burning…in a Winter–time wildfire. At least five or six hundred homes have…

Plowed Fields

Living in the Four Corners, we’re surrounded by archaeology. Sometimes it seems  as though the whole place is an archaeological site. Case in point: you’re driving in Southwestern Colorado, pass by plowed fields, and you notice an unplowed island in…

Ruins on the Colorado Sage Plains

A few months ago, I was out roaming the Great Sage Plains with my Faithful Hound, Jack. We came to a series of clearings in the Sage, slightly raised hummocks that were covered with scattered rubble. Hmm. This looked like…

Hovenweep Adventure

A couple of weeks ago, I was out driving the back roads near Hovenweep. I was looking for old ruin sites, ones off of the beaten path. There was a storm blowing in, but I wasn’t worried about it. I…

Sharpening Grooves

I thought this was interesting. These lines in the rock are “sharpening grooves” worn into the wall of the canyon near the Monarch Cave Ruins (Butler Wash, Utah). This group of them are worn into the canyon wall at the…

Gila Woodpecker

I was down in Scottsdale, Arizona a few days ago and went on a couple of walks in the desert. The sky was impossibly blue, there were birds singing everywhere. Gosh it was nice. This Gila Woodpecker was peering out…