Olympics; Utah; Salt Lake City (Utah); Winter Olympic Games (19th : 2002 : Salt Lake City, Utah)
The mascots of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics represented the land and culture of Utah and the American West. Inspired by images from ancient petroglyphs, Powder the Hare, Coal the Bear and Copper the Coyote were chosen as ideal icons for...
This fossil leaf is from the Populus family, a group of trees that includes aspens and cottonwoods. It was uncovered in the rocks of the Green River Formation in Utah. This formation developed over 40 million years ago in deposits that are the...
The Green River Formation, an area extending through Wyoming, Colorado and Utah, is known throughout the world for its excellent preservation of fossils. This formation developed over 40 million years ago in deposits that are the remains of large...
Cliff-dwellers; Indians of North America -- Southwest, New; Pueblo Indians; Implements, utensils, etc.; Anasazi
The Ancestral Puebloans (Anasazi) lived in the present-day Four Corners region, which includes New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona. They lived in this area from AD1 and AD1300 and are thought to be the ancestors of the modern Pueblo Indians now...
The Camarasaur is a sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Jurassic Period over 145 million years ago. It is the most common “long neck” dinosaur of its time. This animal had spoon-shaped teeth which it used to strip plants of their...
This is just one of the bones that made up the spinal column of the long neck dinosaur Apatosaurus. These dinosaurs could grow up to seventy feet long and weigh up to twenty tons. They lived during the Jurassic, about 213 to 144 million years ago,...
Cliff-dwellers; Indians of North America -- Southwest, New; Pueblo Indians; Bowls (Tableware); Anasazi
The Ancestral Puebloans (Anasazi) lived in the present-day Four Corners region, which includes New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona. They lived in this area from AD1 and AD1300 and are thought to be the ancestors of the modern Pueblo Indians now...
Cliff-dwellers; Indians of North America -- Southwest, New; Anasazi; Storage jars; Pueblo Indians
The Ancestral Puebloans (Anasazi) lived in the present-day Four Corners region, which includes New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona. They lived in this area from AD1 and AD1300 and are thought to be the ancestors of the modern Pueblo Indians now...
