Utah Canyon Holds Ancient Civilization Secrets

In a Utah canyon, scientist hve discovered the ruins of a century old Fremont Indian civilization. Traces of the Fremont Indians have been traced to as far back as 300 BC. This huge collection of ruins is affording the archeologists an ability to discover more about the mysterious tribe. It is very intersting that both the Fremont and the Anasazi disapeared at about the same time. Both were differnet in makeup. The Fremont were hunters and the Anasazi were primarily farmers. So far they have unearthed 300 sites and have explored about 5% of the canyon. Also they have noted that there are dwelling built into the cliff sides as well.

RANGE CREEK CANYON, Utah - The newly discovered ruins of an ancient civilization in this remote eastern Utah canyon could reveal secrets about the descendants of the continent's original Paleo-Indians who showed up before the time of Christ to settle much of present-day Utah.


Archaeologists estimate as many as 250 households occupied this canyon over a span of centuries ending about 750 years ago. They left half-buried stone-and-mortar houses and granary caches, and painted colorful trapezoidal figures on canyon walls.

"It's like finding a van Gogh in your grandmother's attic," Utah state archaeologist Kevin Jones said.

The so-called Fremont people, named after a Spanish explorer who never met them, remain a poorly understood collection of widely scattered archaic groups. Yet they represent a tenuous link to the earliest inhabitants of North America, who are believed to have arrived by way of the Bering Strait more than 10,000 years ago.

Fremont Indians

I suspect that the conditions of primitive existence were so difficult that the few civilizations that started cities and survived (ie egyptians, sumerians, etc) and kep them going are the exception rather than the rule. Whoever built the city the aztecs assumed as their capital abandoned it, the mayans abandoned their cities, the omlecs abandoned theirs, the mound builders abandoned theirs, and who ever built harrapan abandoned it too, along with so many others.