Christopher W. Merritt, Ph.D., State Historic Preservation Officer With trembles strong enough to shake “the dignity out of all judicial procedures,” [i] at Salt Lake City’s courts, the 6.6 magnitude earthquake rattled homes, businesses, and nerves from Boise, Idaho to Richfield, Utah and Rock Springs, Wyoming to Elko, Nevada. Dr. …
A Colorful History: Black Rock’s History and Graffiti Woes
Christopher W. Merritt, Ph.D. Utah State Historic Preservation Officer It is unclear when the first human laid eyes upon the geological oddity now called “Black Rock” on the southern shores of the Great Salt Lake. But it was likely a Native American from the Paleoindian or Early Archaic period, evidence …
March 2020 Newsletter
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What’s going on with the Moab Rock Art Nomination to the National Register?
Here at the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) one of our main duties is to identify and nominate properties to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) program. We take this seriously. Utah has over 100,000 known archaeological sites that encompass at least 12,000 years of human history, and the …
February 2020 Newsletter
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January 2020 Newsletter
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December 2019 Newsletter
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November 2019 Newsletter
November marks Native American History Month! Click this link to view the November 2019 Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/0c2c6c8ae9fd/utah-public-archaeology-network-newsletter-november-3694181 Want to get Utah Public Archaeology Network’s newsletter delivered directly to your email inbox? Click here and never miss another cool story or awesome archaeological event!
Utah Commits to Combat Archaeological Vandalism!
On Friday, January 24 over 80 people from 44 organizations participated in person or on a webinar in Utah Public Archaeology Network’s (UtahPAN’s) inaugural meeting! Everyone brought incredible energy and ideas to the meeting, and there was widespread agreement that the problem is dire, but reversible. This is the year …
UtahPAN 2020: Combat Vandalism
[Note: We are re-posting this excellent post from a few weeks ago that was originally shared primarily with archaeologists.]It’s December already! Your mysterious narrator has spent the last week snowed in under heaps of mashed potatoes and butternut squash, and emerges now to take a look back at the year …
Finding Patterns in Plant Ecology
Guest post by Morgan from Abbott Botanical Assessments Plant blindness is a common affliction found among members of the public and scientific community alike. This ranges from not recognizing differences between monocots and dicots to not understanding that plants are exclusive to certain ecosystems. Humans are hard-wired to see patterns, …
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