Poverty Point contains a collection of earthworks built during a 600-year period. The mounds are concentric half-circles, 4 to 6 feet high with an outside diameter of three-quarters of a mile apart. With no human remains or heaps of shells, archaeologists assume that these mounds were simply symbols of power and wealth. Dating to the Late Archaic period, […]
There was a government shutdown, so being in Canyon de Chelly was pretty fortunate for us. Because the park is part run by an Indian tribe, the park remained open and we were able to enjoy it while most other National Monuments were closed. See the night pictures of the Milky Way by clicking here…
Link to Wikipedia Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is a national monument located in Colorado. Famous for the abundant and exceptionally preserved insect and plant fossils that are found in the mudstones and shales of the Florissant Formation, the formation is Eocene (approximately 34 million years old) in age and has been interpreted as a […]
Link to Wikipedia Dinosaur National Monument is located in the Uinta Mountains on the border between Colorado and Utah where the Green River meets the Yampa River. The park contains over 800 paleontological sites and has fossils of dinosaurs including Allosaurus, Deinonychus, Abydosaurus and various long-neck, long-tail sauropods.