Show SAN JUAN COUNTY HAS UNTOLD WE ALI present and future generations of utah people are aie being deprived of a priceless and irreplaceable heritage of arche archaeological archeological treasures of inestimable cu cultural cult uial value from various vadious parts of the state which yearly fall to large laige out of state institutions and amateur vandalism hc acco cording iding to dr di J H steward Ste waid head of the department of anthropology and director of the museum at the university of utah dr di steward Ste waid who was formbly lead head of the department of anthropology tf of the university of Michigan Mi chigin since since coin coming ing to the university of utah last summer has made a number of field tris to the various annous arche archaeological archeological treasure stores stoics of utah in no part of the american amena in conti nent nt are aie relies of the fust first human beings to inhabit the new world so as in in utah according tu to dr steward stew aid from the standpoint of archeological archaeological arche wealth utah may inay be said to have the gobi desert and aid the nile valley valle of north america in the san juan drainage area arose ancient and fascinating civilizations chiv il lations unequalled unequal led in in splendor and complexity in any nv other part pait of north america these civilizations spread throughout the state and then mysteriously van dished nowhere in in america is is the spade of the arche archaeologist archeologist so richly rewarded warded le dr steward Stev vaid points out tint that for foi many years these ancient treasures of utah have been excavated by people from without the state who havo have recognized zed their alue while scarcely lone one one thousandth of the mateian taken from the ground has found is way to utah museums museums to be exhibited to the people of UIA U bah iah an and to bs be scientifically studied the university of utah agy ogy museum is is being rearranged re ie ai arranged and catalogued cataloguer catalo gued under the direct direction in of dr di steward the museum includes the famous arche ni archaeological archeological collections of byron cummings Cummin cs and an 1 of the late andrew A kerr keir as well as recent lecent collections of dr steward |