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Utah Prehistory Week
During Utah Prehistory Week you can learn about Utah's long-ago past and have fun while doing it.
Statewide:
- events
- lectures
- demonstrations
- and tours
will give you insight into groups who made their lives here for thousands of years before people started writing history.
Utah Prehistory Week is scheduled for May 3rd - May 10th, 2008. Celebrate Utah's rich and diverse prehistory at events that are held all over the state--events such as tours to important archaeological and paleontological sites, free public lectures, museum tours, and many hands-on events.
Prehistory week will begin with the annual Prehistory Open House at the Rio Grande Depot on Saturday, May 3, 2008. Sponsored by State History.
The open house will include:
- hands-on activities for kids
- spear and atlatl throwing
- Navajo tacos
- and demonstrations on prehistoric technology and rock art.
2008 Calendar of Events and Related Programs
BLANDING
Edge of the Cedars State Park
May 3rd and 4th
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Event: Four Corners Indian Art Festival. Over fifty Native artists representing at least 15 tribal Nations and Puebloan communities will gather to display and sell their artwork. The festival will also include two days of back-to-back performances featuring several dance groups, as well as traditional and contemporary musical performances and many demonstrations including piki bread making, basketry, beadwork, weaving, and pottery-making, taste-tempting traditional foods, and children’s activities (which will include atlatl throwing and pottery-making)
Location: The Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum, 660 West 400 North, Blanding, Utah 83411.
Contact information: (435) 678-2238.
http://stateparks.utah.gov/parks/edge-of-the-cedars/events-by-month.html?month=5
Cost: Free and open to the public.
KANAB
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Visitor Center
May 12th
10:00 - 11:30 am
Event: "The Tommy Turf Site: A Discussion of the Human Skeletal Remains" by Matt Zweifel of the Bureau of Land Management.
Location: Grand Staircase-Escalante National Mounument Visitor Center, Address: 745 E. Highway 89, Kanab, UT, 84741 Contact information: 435-644-4680, email Matthew_Zweifel@blm.gov for more information or visit http://www.ut.blm.gov/monument/
LEHI
Prehistory Week Celebrations at the Hutchings Museum
further details coming soon.....
Location: Hutchings Museum, 55 North Center, Lehi, UT 84043
Contact Information: (801)768-7180 or
email hutchingsmuseum@lehicity.com
Thanksgiving Point
Event: May Museum Monday
Time: Monday evenings from 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Location: Museum of Ancient Life Lobby, Thanksgiving Point
Contact: Jordan Johnson at 766-5013
Price: Adults (ages 13+): $10, Children (ages 3-12): $8 *No charge for Thanksgiving Point and Museum Members
May 5th
Event: Utah Pre History Week Scavenger Hunt and Craft
May 10th
11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Event: Utah Pre History Week Celebration. Millions of years before human beings migrated to Utah, this was a land
teeming with prehistoric animals. Come to this celebration to learn
about paleontology (the study of fossils, including dinosaurs) and also
archaeology (the study of past human cultures) through activities, and crafts.
Location: Museum of Ancient Life, Thanksgiving Point
Contact: Jordan Johnson at 766-5013
Cost: Adults (ages 13+): $10, Children (ages 3-12): $8
http://www.thanksgivingpoint.com/
MOAB
Grand County Civic Center
May 2nd
7:00 pm
Event: Lecture & visual presentation by David Sucec. Title: "Sacred Images: The Holy Ghost and The Spirit Figure in the Archaic Barrier Canyon Rock Art Style." Unique qualities of the Holy Ghost panel in Canyonlands National Park and Utah's prehistoric rock art and the Archaic culture painting styles in general will be discussed.
Location: Moab Information Center,
Main & Center Street, Moab, UT
Cost:
The lecture is free and open to the public. Sponsorsed by the Grand County Historical Preservation Commission, Dan O'Laurie Museum of Moab, Canyonlands Natural History Assn., with contributions from the Sunflower Hill Luxury Bed-and-Breakfast and Big Horn Lodge.
May 7th
Event:
A community presentation on preserving and protecting objects and places sacred to Native American tribes. Author Andrew Gulliford, professor of Southwest Studies and History at Ft. Lewis College, Durango, Colo., will take the audience on a slideshow tour and introduction to the nationwide movement to preserve, protect and promote survival of Native American cultural ways and sites, including discussion of tribal efforts in Utah.
Location: Grand County Civic Center, 182 N. 500 West.
Contact information:
(435) 259-3686
Cost:
The lecture is free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Grand County Historical Preservation Commission and Dan O'Laurie Museum of Moab.
PRICE
College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum
May 3rd - 10th
Event: A full week of activities including activities for Kids, vendor and craft demonstrations, pottery, jewelry and music.
Location: 155 East Main, Price
Contact information: Chanel Atwood, (435) 613-5754, museum.ceu.edu
Cost: Fees apply
PROVO
BYU’s Museum of Peoples and Cultures
May 10th
10am-3pm
Event: Utah Pre History Week Block Party. Come celebrate Utah Pre History Week with the Museum of Peoples and Cultures! Demonstrators will present hands on activities including: rock art, flint knapping (arrowheads), and pottery making. Museum tours will be held throughout the day and will include our new exhibition Kachinas of the Southwest: Dances, Dolls, and Rain. There will be a special dance performance by the Native American performing group Morning Star and free food will be provided.
Cost: Free and open to the public
Location: The Museum of Peoples and Cultures: 700 North 100 East, Provo, Utah 84606
Contact information: (801) 422-0020, mpc.byu.edu
SALT LAKE CITY
Utah State History
April 18th - May 10th
Event: Prehistory Week Public Artshow.
Artwork inspired by Utah’s archaeological past will be exhibited at the Rio Gallery. Original photographs, sculptures, pottery, and replicas
will be on display as part of the monthly Salt Lake Gallery Stroll from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on April 18. The art will remain up through Utah Prehistory Week.
This year’s Utah Prehistory Week poster contest winner, Erny Kuncl, will be at the Rio Gallery on April 18th to sign posters, which features his stunning black and white photograph of a ruin in Butler Wash, San Juan County. The posters will be available to the public free of charge.
Location: Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande Street, Salt Lake City.
Contact Information: Ron Rood at (801) 533-3564 or email rrood@utah.gov
Cost: Free and open to the public.
May 3rd, 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Event: Open House - spear and atlatl throwing, hands-on activities for kids, and demonstrations on prehistoric technology and rock art. Navajo Tacos to purchase. Utah Prehistory Week Poster Winners Award Presentation will be at 11:00 am in the Gallery area.
Location: State History, 300 S. Rio Grande Street (300 S. 455 W.)
Cost: Free to the Public
Contact Information: Renae Weder, (801) 533-3529
Sponsors: Salt Lake/Davis Chapter Utah Statewide Archaeological Society, Utah Friends of Paleontology, Utah Division of State History, and Utah Geological Survey
May 10th
Event:
Tours of Danger and Jukebox Caves. Don’t miss your chance to visit these two caves with professional archaeologists from the Antiquities Section.
Space is limited and reservations are required.
Contact Information: Sorry, the tours are full.
Cost: Free
Utah Museum of Natural History
May 3rd,
1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Event: Discovery Class: Native People of Utah for 4th and 5th Grade students. A fun, hands-on activity-based way for them to learn more about the first people who lived and survived in Utah. Make pottery, try your hand at throwing an atlatl, and weave your own cordage out of plant materials.
Location: Utah Museum of Natural History, 1390 East Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City, Utah
Cost:
$20 per child / $16 for UMNH Members.
Contact Information:
(801) 585-3948,
http://www.umnh.org/
Utah Friends of Paleontology
Annual Meeting 2008
May 2nd
Event: Field trip to Trilobite collecting sites with Val & Glade Gunther.
Event: 7:00 PM, Opening social and BBQ with hosts: Elaine and Ron Jones.
May 3rd
Event: Annual Meeting
May 4th
Event: Field trip. Meeting point TBA, site TBA.
Conference details and registration can be found at www.utahpaleo.org
SEVIER
Freemont Indian State Park and Museum
May 9-11th
All Day Events
Events: Mountain Man Rendezvous
Atlatl Competition
Knap-In (flintknapping)
Location: All activities take place at Freemont Indian State Park and Museum
Contact Information: Kari Carlisle, Museum Curator, (435) 527-4631 or email karicarlisle@utah.gov http://stateparks.utah.gov/parks/fremont/
Cost: all events are free with paid park fee of $6.00 per vehicle.
CHECK BACK SOON FOR ADDITIONAL EVENTS........
NOTE: We have tried to make this calendar of events as complete and accurate as possible. We recommend, however, that you call ahead for events you want to attend.