Trail of Highways™ Anasazi Heritage Center Dolores, Colorado, Co Hwy 184 5 12 2015 sq2

Trail of Highways™
Anasazi Heritage Center
Dolores, Colorado
Co. Hwy 184  5.12.2015

This is the continuation of the first video on the visit to the center.

Well worth the drive to get there.  The history and artifacts are incredible.  We have 5 short video’s here taking you through the Center and the interpretive trail.   We will also be following up with video’s of the Canyons of the Ancients and 6 different ruins.

On June 9, 2000, a presidential proclamation set aside 164,000 acres of rugged desert canyons and high mesas for preservation as Canyons of the Ancients National Monument.  The Anasazi Heritage Center is the gateway to this significant archaeological landscape, and was completed in 1984 as part of the Dolores Archaeological Program.  Nearly 1,600 archaeological sites—hunting camps, granaries, households, villages, etc.—have yielded artifacts, some of which are on display at the museum today.  Owned and operated by the Bureau of Land Management, the Anasazi Heritage Center also provides information on a number of sites that have benefited from SHF grants.  Nearly $1.5 million dollars has been awarded for approximately 24 projects to various non-profit organizations to conduct research, stabilization, and interpretation involving archaeological resources in the Canyon of the Ancients.  The goal of the Heritage Center is to increase awareness of archaeology and cultural resources, as well as the Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) and other peoples of the Four Corners region.

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