A photo would be nice . . .

Please get some pictures on here so the public can see this exciting find. Is it on private land, BLM land or Indian land?

I do hope it's not on Indian land because if that's the case, we probably won't be seeing any pictures...

Yes!! Photos please!

I can't wait to get ma and the kids and see if we can dig up them dumb ruins with our big ol ATVs.

I don't think it takes a college degree to make this statement,

"There were probably more people living in the area at one time that now," he said

I would say he's probably right seeing how the area is all buried now and probably wasn't buried then.

I think he was referring to the current area population vs the population "at one time" -- meaning there may have been more people living in the area 1,200 years ago than live there now.

He was referring to the Kanab area, not just the few square feet where the ruins were found. It doesn't take a college degree to understand that.

Ditto re: Photos

I know what he meant. It was just a little pun on how he said it. Duh? It's like saying, "half of playing this game is 100% mental".

Why in the world would they rebury it? Where is the brains in that??

"What was interesting was finding shells and what appears to be turquoise,"

I am confused at this statement because I have family that grew up with Navajo Indians and have learned about them since I was little and I thought that turquoise was a prized jewel for Indians kinda like gold in today's world. So to find what is supposed to be an Idian ruin and find turquoise in it for it to so "interesting" just doesn't make sense to me because that is what people wanted when they had to get dressed up for ceremonies. Would we be amazed if someone once found a house from one of our cities that turns into a ruin and they find a gold necklace in it or a diamond ring? Why would that be so "interesting" when it is common?!

Just read oblostoman above.

re:"Why in the world would they rebury it"

well, seeing how much the ruins of other sites have been ransacked, reburying is the only way to protect it until more monies are available to preserve/exhibit it.

I too particularly enjoyed the photos accompnying this great story. Oh wait, there aren't any photos! Those crazy acheologists and there non-working digital cameras!

I guess there goes our chances of seeing pictures huh?........LOL!!

I never saw the picture to the fallen arch? So I am waiting on pix on two things.

I'm with Oblostoman! I'm gonna go to Home Depot and bah me a new shuvel. Did that there article say suntin about Jewels? I'm gonna dig me a treasure!

UDOT has an archaeologist on staff? What would you say that person does most of the time?

It was probably buried by UDOT with pavement. I wonder what else we're driving over?

Having had family living around Kanab for a good many years, this is not a surprising find. Lots of evidence of earlier-than-Navajo stuff in the area. The Navajo, like AZ's Apache, were late-comers into the region.

The shells and turquoise are interesting because they were treasured by the earlier peoples and much was traded from way down south into Mexico and up obviously into southern Utah now. Nuevas Casas Grandes, in Chihuahua, also has turquoise and shells. It's also a good ways from the ocean and from turquoise mining areas. Anthropologist friend of ours who is now excavating in Mexico, tells us that turquoise and malechite were traded in a three-way trade pattern between the Gulf of Mexico, Cornwall, and the Mediterranean area during Phoenician times.

We have a place in Kanab and it is amazing how many people's homes are built on old Indian sites. One of our neighbors has a museum quality collection of stuff they found while building their house and garage. Interesting story!

Who knows?They may keep digging and discover one of those lost cities mentioned in the B.O.M.