This collection consists of 81 black-and-white prints which document part of the huge task of an archaeological survey of Glen Canyon prior to its flooding in 1963. This survey was headed by Jesse Jennings of the University of Utah Anthropology Department, whose forward to the first report follows this page. The collection includes photographs of excavations, artifacts, cliff dwellings and some of the surveyors. The collection was kept in the original order in which it appeared in a photo album.
Collection is arranged by excavation site.
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Due to its archaeological content, this collection may or may not be restricted to
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Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
For more photographs and information on the survey, see the reports themselves, available in Special Collections under the call number E 51 U8.
Processed by Special Collections Staff.
Around 1956, archaeologists and biologists from the University of Utah, including Jesse Jennings and the Museum of Northern Arizona including Gene Field Foster, used National Park research grants and planned an emergency survey of Glen Canyon. 1958 and 1960, 250 archaeological sites were discovered within the canyon.
Excavations began during the summer of 1958 on 16 sites, findings began to show evidence of prehistoric people living permanently on the highlands south of Glen Canyon and on the Cummings Mesa. Probably farming in the Lower Glen Canyon on a seasonal basis, and gathered raw materials. To prove this thesis of seasonal habitation, criteria such as architectural units, locations of trail systems, occurrence of ceremonial structures, prevalence of burials, and position of natural and cultural strata were investigated.
Most of the cultural remains found are chipped stone tools (lithic materials), including projectile points, scrapers, drills, knives, choppers, and ground stone tools and manos (grinders). Petroglyph panels are found throughout Glen Canyon
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