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Show Special Programs Slated At Anasazi Village Park BOULDER Anasazi Indian Village Museum will celebrate Utah's Archaeology Week with the i tompletion of new display showing Wifacts most of which were exca-vatedatthepark. exca-vatedatthepark. Archaeology Week, April 11 to I " has been proclaimed by Gover-nr Gover-nr Norman Bangerter to educate inform the public about Utah's Prehistoric peoples and to instill a "eed to protect and preserve haeological sites. At Anasazi, the new display case was partially made possible through the donations of proceeds from sales of artworks by Boulder artists Spike Ress and his wife Ruthann Ress. The case was designed de-signed by Jay Nielsen of Jay's Creations Cre-ations in Salt Lake City and built and installed by the Division of Parks and Recreation Southwest Regional Maintenance crew at Cedar City. The display will show artifacts excavated since the museum was opened in 1970, but not displayed previously due to a lack of display space. The display is divided into four cases. The first shows chipped stone tools such as arrowheads, knives and drills. The arrowheads include the largest number of a type of arrowhead known as Bull Creek Points to come from any archaeological site. The case also contains a bow and an arrow in the differing stages of manufacture. These are modern copies that are meant to show what those made by the Anasazi Indians probably looked like. The second case contains 1 1 of the nicer whole pots found in the park. Some of the more unusual ones include a red jug that had cracked and which an Anasazi had attempted to mend by drilling holes in it. Also in the case is a corrugated pot shaped like the body of a duck which has not been recorded at any other Kayenta The third case contains miscellaneous miscel-laneous items from the site including includ-ing a turquoise necklace, a shell necklace (with 120 shells probably from California), a figurine, two possible fetishes, a petroglyph on a stone, and other artifacts, some of which are of unknown use. The fourth and final case shows copies of different types of tools used by the Anasazi Indians. It provides information on how the tools were made and also contains a "atlatl," probably the most significant signifi-cant artifact on display in the museum. mu-seum. It was found a few years ago in a cave in another state park in southern Utah and has been tenta- tively dated by carbon 14 dating as being about 6,000 years old. An atlatl is a throwing device that was invented as an improvement for the , hand-thrown spear. Its use allowed a spear to be thrown significantly further and with greater accuracy. After many thousands of years of use, the atlatl was replaced by the bow and arrow. Anasazi State Park is open daily from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Additional Addi-tional information is available from Supt. Larry Davis or his assistant Dee Hardy at 335-7308. |