Show Students Dig for far Clues To Prehistoric Cultures r ino aur National Nath Monti went ment long n renter center for Cor st studies K Ji or dinosaUr hones bones bias hns been the It scene ne for of oC Calora Col rn nl l trying to leArn about the Indians who on once lIVed there ns In the park by CU have f been the only major 31 analytic studies conducted on mn the several shorter have na been written on the nr at of the monument by others THIS SUMMER five CU stu dents directed d by Larry Leach CO doctoral candidate ate and anI ten tea cling assocIate excavated a cave C overhang containing arti art f facts and fossils in neatly sep layers EvIdence was US found In more anore than 14 f foot ct or of 1 that t l the h site had beers occupied d Crop 1000 or B i C A approximately A n 1 Nine or 30 10 dIstinct groups oc occupied u led the area nr tI David A Bret echo ho liar ag ted a year tour ar survey bf l tb the area uran saId th the will wUl shed Con bl light on the and nd history of Col- Col Color Col or do and nd northeastern Utah C of f the project is Dr Roberta Rob rt Jr Lister hIE HE S SITE TE excavated ted this s vas coat an Inaccessible area ir a along Jones Creek In just across the state line FHe a CU students carried In their supplies for the week e tion lort by raft on the Green River and over a two hole trAll up the Jones tole C Creek ek Canyon While While titer they 1 e ng theng b the bI I re a flash flood hIt bit the t c camp sik air t th the t tent nt and fireplace l and washing n J Y om ome 1 of the artifacts the they had collected R sold s ld the artifacts fo found nd In the pit from flom th the earliest Indians resemble those found to the east In the dins or of Wyoming Later In left items alms to cultures livIng tn it Utah t to the west the early Inhabitants primArily hunters bunters who also halt Ish- and gathered rood food growing Ud in the area They lived In groups and used caVe ov ov for lor shelter THIS TYpE TYsE or of culture con l with only slight unlit A Df D 00 the Indians l lt t h I ed to toas as the Fr rt gro group be poW pottery ry and started growing large amounts or of corn The e Frem Tremont nt group lived In permanent villages and lInd had hod shallow subterranean semI hOLISM dug ug Into the lii sides c of hills The walls stet eh cored o c C with brush hrush and clay and the roof was held up by poles 1 IS A gap It in the Iris his of oC the area until the Span St ish cume ume at the end nJ of the century Dr said They found tHe Indians to the and 1 Shoshones to the th north MIth living 11 in much the same Ramo way as the earlier noma nomadic c chunters hunters Despite the fa fact t that exten she sive research has been ted on the dinosaurs that roani ed this are area sore mOle than than mil lI lion n years ago little study has been made of the more recent human occupants THE INDIAN cultures In the area were simple and no than to people lived d there at any one time Dr said thi this makes S it more mOle difficult to find artifacts What speCimens are found ate are not especially inter esting For example pottery Is Isn n not t brightly d decorated corri as Is the Pueblo pOtt pottery ry ot of the soUthwest SINCE 1963 62 and graduate students most anost of them from CU have ed cd hi the location of ar al sites in the square miles or the monument They have made test excava lions at at 23 sites the ark t-ark Service ft fi Danced the survey of all ar- ar artha ar tha olo leal sItes In the mono meet to prevent them from b be Ing d destroyed Tourist visits to fhe he monument have hilve Increased from tOSS 8 ln in 1958 C to In 1965 This means m ans more ro roads ros s will have to be built The puk patk either will build roads around the sites or excavate excavate art ar- sites before road rond construction bt begins tHE UNIVERSITY of Cobra Colora do Mus Museum um under th the director Hugo G C Rodeck sponsored the first major excavations InDino In Dino National Monument in 1939 and 1940 Other Other CU groups led by bf arid fister returned to the monument In 1948 and 1949 1949 These Th lie groups excavated several sites ln in the Castle park falk areil area Ih the eastern section of the monument Students participating In the 1000 su summer work in Dinosaur National Monument were Kenneth tenneth W Ball Bali son of George W SV Ball Dr of Ben Ben- Bent t D n c n D Hayden Bayden sOrt Son At F D Hayden ot of Upper Montclair J Richard B TIpton son on of Basil f Tipton of Mt Oxford Leadville and andEric 11 Eric c A Varney son or of F lit Id varney Varney of Fa Fairfax lax Va |