Archaeology Week Offers Free Events Around Utah

Utah Archaeology Week runs May 7 - 14. It offers free lectures, field trips and other activities at various sites around the state.

Statewide events will give you insight into groups who made their lives here for thousands of years before people started writing history.

The week begins with State History’s annual Archaeology Week Open House at the Rio Grande Depot on Saturday, May 7, 2011, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm.

The open house includes:

• hands-on activities for kids
• spear and atlatl throwing
• Navajo tacos
• demonstrations of prehistoric technology.

See the calendar of events for the week.