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Show ' . W . .. fcsaa . . .... ALLAN SWEATFIELD, Vernal, recent graduate from Southern Utah State College is pictured as he explains some recent discoverys at the archeological dig in southern Utah Local student works in So. Utah diggings Allan Sweatfield, a 1980 graduate of Southern Utah State College, worked for SUSC's eight week program in southwestern archeology as a survey supervisor. Sweatfield supervised a rotating crew of three students who were doing a systematic sampling survey of the mesa to determine the kinds of prehistoric occupation there. Encamped on Little Creek Mountain, some 20 miles southeast of Hurricane and about five miles from the Arizona state line, student archeologists are unearthing information about the so-called so-called Virgin Branch of the Kayenta Anasazi, prehistoric inhabitant of southeastern Nevada and the area along the western Arizona-Utah border. Richard A. Thompson, professor of anthropology at SUSC, directs the undergraduate program which offers participants 15 hours SUSC credit in archeological ar-cheological excavation and survey. Sweatfield, is the son of E.A. and Beth Sweatfield, Vernal, and a graduate of Uintah High School. He is married to the former Linda L. Catlett. Allan will attend the University of Utah in the fall and begin work on his masters. |