Show GOLDEN EAGLE ” T Page Five Allosaurus Docs CEU have a dark past? Although there is some doubt about the dark past there can be no doubt that CEU has a din- osaur skeleton in its closet or rather its prehistoric museum Along with "Al" the Allosaurus who stixxl 15 ft high and was 30 ft long (not the kind of critter you'd like to meet in a dark alley) (he College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum featurin' innt comprehensive collection of Fremont Indian artifacts in existence plus numerous other displays Now in its seventh year the CEU Prehistoric Museum has boon visited by over 70000 people Plans arc now being made to ihublc the museum’s present display artifacts skeletons and murals which depict this area’s archaeological history Most of the relics are of the Fremont Indian Culture which inhabited Eastern Utah from approximately 500 AD to 100 A D Just why these Indians left still remains a mystery They were basically agriculturalists Most notable of the artifac-t- s on display are the Pilling Figurines which were discovered by Clarence Pilling of Price in a small side canyon of Range Creek in 1950 Made of unbaked clay the figurines are in pair of male and female Their esti0 mated age is years Archeological literature considers the figurines to be the best in the Southwest of comparative age in regards to beauty and technical construction Also on display at the museum is a collection of petroglyphs from the cliffs of Nine Mile (Canyon Exact copies they were made by covering the petroglyphs with latex then traasfer-rin- g the likeness onto plaster slabs These Nine Mile Canyon petroglyphs have been called the finest in the U S by Alice Hunt in a paper published by the Petroleum 800-90- size in the city hall and thereby make room for a camptosaurus skeleton and other exhibits which are now being assembled An outgrowth of one of professor Don Burge's night geology i lasses in 1901 the museum was founded in an effort to preserve and publicize some of the unique and archeological geological wonders of Eastern Utah Probably foremost among these are dinosaur the Cleveland-Ilovquarry and the Indian petrogly-ph- s (writings) in Nine Mile Canyon located 25 miles southeast of d Shown above are charts and displays in the Prehistoric Museum Price the Clevcland-Iloy- d quaold is Allosaurus’s the "Al" rry 15000 The grounds stomping dinosaur bones which have been taken from the quarry since it was reopened by the University of Utah in 1900 rank it as the biggest treasure trove of dino-'sabones yet discovered ur Skeletons from the quarry are now on display at Princeton: University: Ann Arbon Michigan: the Nebraska State Museum: the University of Utah the Tokyo ' Museunf: L A Co Museum Rome England Canada the BYU Museum and the College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum Designated as a National landmark by the Bureau of land Management the quarry will soon sport a visitor's center 'Al" the museum’s headliner ft is the most renowned alumnus of the quarry in the Eastern Utah area One hundred forty million years ago he roamed this area with his dinner enmnanions ik the ramntnsanrus the Stegosaur us ami the Rmntfwfinnis of Sinclair Oil fame Shlkinr around on his powerful hi"d lees he was a fierce ramlwre fment-entewho was elwavs trving to nut the bite on the other dinosaurs !Tdnf ire recks whisk brooms onllnns nf i1p to cement the fmcmenfs niphpr fh" Un'’Pr-'i'of TTtnti ovriwiiH “A1V hnlf Iwvips from the pnirrv's Dinosaur mural in Prehistoric Museum painted by Carbon Art League r) i s ir u5 Mnden Cursor of the at riftli and Wnncnfl M'lf-pnfli" 1 1 of IT d'd flin nrrd'n'dnprv A nrfmnr pnd mondini 'liinppn Piirotn- eum's s 'f T v - ' a Ui- - "j : y--: nf tlin Rnwwy n hn f'O'IT mnc nirninr nrenared and f'i'l" hiirini Prfrr as- - ti-- P "Al1 "" the world he worth Jrn Comnosed non Is n pHlrmipd Mr Hr-p- e hv wpI"'!1 of ' 7fl nerrenf artunl honr e"d wi ner cent nlastrr casts "Al" is alo one of the most authentic ad sophisticated dinosaur mounts in the world Tn addition to the iwmloolrnl wonders of Eastern Utah like "Al" the museum also has on yjii V' a 1 r - rnmnnr n oWp to having lte Mn"i Op of four nerprMnd At'emnm to - r-:- rum tor TVn It'iiw Tl-- in nold r Vnnrf ffWlonv tfni'piim MiKPHin 4 - ’ U k: v lw Don a ' V'”-- ' m v off ' : - -- - ‘'-'- j' - ’jra jVf I 7 iiJ copy of some Nine Mile Canyon petroglyphs on display at the Prehistoric Museum Skeleton of a Fremont Indian In typical burial position found in Nine Canyon Dating back more than 800 years the skeleton and grave have been restored exactly the way they were discovered and placed In the museum exhibit mm A 21 I K MUe |