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Excavating an Early Archaic level at North Creek Shelter
This view looking down on the North Creek Shelter archaeological site shows Brigham Young University graduate students excavating an Early Archaic level. At almost 10,000 years old, North Creek Shelter is the oldest known site occupied by humans in the southern half of Utah and one of only three such archaeological sites state-wide that date so far back in time.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant BCS 0818971.]
Learn more about this research in the BYU news release What the locals ate 10,000 years ago. (Date of Image: 2007-08)
Credit: Joel C. Janetski, Department of Anthropology, Brigham Young University
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