Four Corners Lecture Series Presents Kevin Jones (Standing on the Walls of Time)

Kevin Jones was raised in National Parks, where his father was a ranger. He learned to love archaeology during his Jr High and High School years when his family lived at Dinosaur National Monument in northwestern Colorado. He went to college at Colorado State University, where he received his BA in Anthropology. He attended graduate school at the University of Utah where he received MA and Ph.D. degrees, and served as State Archaeologist of Utah for 17 years. He currently resides with his wife, Barbara Evert, and two dogs on 42 acres off the grid in Pleasant View, Colorado, near the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument and within sight of the Bears Ears. In addition to STANDING ON THE WALLS OF TIME, Kevin is the author of the anthropological novel THE SHRINKING JUNGLE.

[@carolbetzy]

I wonder if rock art in Europe is more respected and more part of an archaeologist’s standard practice to study.

[@BehindtheTrowel]

In the UK/EU we have heritage law that protects and as a result, helps archaeologists preserve and record monuments and new archaeological deposits that may pop up on construction sites.

[@headlessspaceman5681]

@@BehindtheTrowel In the US whoever owns the rock owns the rock art and can sell it, destroy it, or replicate it and mass produce it for gift shops. One of the owners of FoxNews Fascist Propaganda Industry Incorporatad just bought a big chunk of Mill Creek, a popular mostly-public canyon in Moab Utah, a canyon also full of petroglyphs which this guy now owns and can do whatever he wants with. Presumably NO TRESPASSING signs will come first. The Third Reich were obsessed with pristine natural retreats and ancient civilizations too, so no surprise that these new guys are also, although to give them credit, FoxNews/Hannity/Tucker/Ingrahm make the Third Reich look like drooling shambling knuckle-dragging cavemen in comparison.