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Show gal anthro class i Cedar City, you learn while you dig By DENNIS McCARTY Chronicle Staff Writer ;j CITY It looks like a typical : made of typical barren southern sith. But members of an unusual. ;i -you-dig summer anthro-; anthro-; class have found that thelow little a miles outside Cedar City holds ;.ito an ancient culture. mound contains the remains of a :oric village inhabited by the Fre-: Fre-: Culture from approximately 1050 SAD. ': diss, co-directed by John Marwitt !se Jennings, both instructors in rpology , includes students from all -i United States. Although offered : fa graduate students, it includes a airs, one junior and one freshman. -sasked why he had chosen the site i class, Dr. Jennings replied, "Be- extreme complexity makes it a iili school. This is the hardest site i" a seem to be two main reasons for iiss of the field class, which is in Ml year. One is the city and the Jennings himself. Helm, a graduate student from State, said "Dr. Jennings has ifmtastic reputation. I wanted to him. It's an interesting site." 3 Can, a fourth-quarter freshman I Expedition member removes dirt which he anticipates will lead to artifacts pertaining to early Fremont civilizations. The group must remove tons of dirt with the skill of a surgeon in order to uncover the delicate artifacts and human remains they seek. the area and the original inhabitants' evident lack of care with fire. A pit house would often burn and be abandoned. After it had filled with debris, one or more new houses would be dug in the same area. This makes excavating excava-ting one house without partially destroying destroy-ing one or two others very touchy. The site, which is on land owned by Carl Evans of Summit Utah , has also been used by Southern Utah State College and UCLA. from Michigan, said Dr. Jennings was also his reason for going on the "dig". The Fremont Village originally consisted con-sisted of houses which were pits dug in the ground andcoveredby thatched roofs supported by poles. The purpose of the field class, besides teaching students, is to gather facts about the culture of the people who inhabited the village. This task is made more difficult than one might expect by the dry climate in ML ' p-' . '?'';,' '.' ' ' '' r . L r:rX h- v" : - ' 7 J. fr'if'j. v ' . r -m m.,- V ' .... - -tvi , -:,- . . .. z: ci? I-X.. . ,w have found, while running , iftf review progress from the depths of their exca-w exca-w reference to the Fremont Culture, they are re- |