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The pensive side of blog author Jim Collette. Photo by Tom Bartels.
Canyon Time
A Personal Journal of the Grand Canyon Archaeological Project
About GCAP
Grand Canyon National Park is home to thousands of archaeological sites—from the stone tools of Paleo-Indian hunters to historic forays by modern-day Native Americans and Euro-American pioneers. Many of these sites are at risk from natural and human-caused impacts. The Grand Canyon Archaeological Project (GCAP) is a joint research and public education venture between the National Park Service (NPS) and the Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA), Flagstaff. Their goal: to gather important data from sites that are being actively eroded before that information is destroyed forever. Not since the 1960s has archaeological research been conducted in the Canyon on this scale. Join us as the NPS and MNA uncover the cultural heritage of one of the greatest natural wonders of the world…the Grand Canyon!
About Jim Collette
Jim Collette is an archaeologist for the Grand Canyon Archaeological Project. Jim participated in the first intensive archaeological survey of the Grand Canyon river corridor in 1990-1992. In 2007 he returned as a member of the Grand Canyon Archaeological Project--working on several of the same sites that were recorded 15 years earlier. He and his family live in a straw bale house at the foot of the San Francisco Peaks.
The pensive side of blog author Jim Collette. Photo by Tom Bartels.
Canyon Time: A Personal Journal of the Grand Canyon Archaeological Project. Copyright (c) 2007 Jim Collette. Canyon Time is not affiliated with the National Park Service (NPS) or the Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA). Commentary expressed in Canyon Time are those of the author and do not reflect the opinions of the NPS or MNA.