Show I Evidence Shows Man in Moab I For Over Ten Thousand Years Prehistoric man has been in the Moab area f for r the last years according to evidence fo found by Mr and Mrs Dallas Tanner of Moab An article written written written writ writ- ten by Alice Hunt professional archaeologist of Denver and Dallas Dallas Dallas Dal Dal- las Tanner local amateur tells of the several different prehistoric prehistoric tonic groups present in the vicinIty vicinity vicinity vicin vicin- ity of Moab and of the distinctive distinctive tive arrowheads that each group used The article appears in the July issue of American Antiquity ty the publication of the Society for American Archaeology a so society society so- so clety of and amateur amateur amateur ama ama- archaeologists Mrs Hunt and Mr Turner have analyzed the extensive carefully catalogued collection of the Tanners and have decided that at least three different ancient man groups must have lived near Moab The oldest has been termed the Moab Complex and on sites I of this culture have been found Folsom points making the complex complex complex com com- plex approximately years old The La Sal Complex peoples Jived mostly in the mountains after which they were named and they seem to have lived there after the time of the Moab Complex peoples Last In the series serles are peoples whose tools are called the Uncompahgre Uncompahgre Uncompahgre Un- Un Complex They lived In both the desert and the mountains at about the time of Christ All groups must have been basically hunters from the types and numbers of chipped stone tools found by the Tanners Tan ners in their years of site col col- Also in the article is a brief but interesting analysis of the geology of the Moab region in late Pleistocene and recent times by Charles B. B Hunt of the U. U S. S Geological Survey |