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At the Crow Canyon Archeological Center, an instructor informs students, part of a cadre in the center's visiting residential program for young people, about the Anasazi, the ancestors of today's Pueblo Indians. The center conducts digs and other archaeological research, education and preservation programs, and partnerships with American Indians in the artifact-rich valleys and mesa tops of Montezuma County in the southwest corner of Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp More

At the Crow Canyon Archeological Center, an instructor informs students, part of a cadre in the center's visiting residential program for young people, about the Anasazi, the ancestors of today's Pueblo Indians. The center conducts digs and other archaeological research, education and preservation programs, and partnerships with American Indians in the artifact-rich valleys and mesa tops of Montezuma County in the southwest corner of Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp More

Some of the artifacts extracted, cleaned and catalogued, and protected in this "curation room" at the Crow Canyon Archeological Center. The center conducts digs and other archaeological research, education and preservation programs, and partnerships with American Indians in the artifact-rich valleys and mesa tops of Montezuma County in the southwest corner of Colorado. These objects eventually are given to the Anasazi Heritage Center in Dolores, Colorado, which displays the culture and history of the Ancestral Pueblo people

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp More

At the Crow Canyon Archeological Center, students, part of a cadre in the center's visiting residential program for young people, learn about the Anasazi, the ancestors of today's Pueblo Indians. The center conducts digs and other archaeological research, education and preservation programs, and partnerships with American Indians in the artifact-rich valleys and mesa tops of Montezuma County in the southwest corner of Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp More

At the Crow Canyon Archeological Center, an instructor informs students, part of a cadre in the center's visiting residential program for young people, about the Anasazi, the ancestors of today's Pueblo Indians. The center conducts digs and other archaeological research, education and preservation programs, and partnerships with American Indians in the artifact-rich valleys and mesa tops of Montezuma County in the southwest corner of Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp More

At the Crow Canyon Archeological Center, instructors inform students, part of a cadre in the center's visiting residential program for young people, about the Anasazi, the ancestors of today's Pueblo Indians. The center conducts digs and other archaeological research, education and preservation programs, and partnerships with American Indians in the artifact-rich valleys and mesa tops of Montezuma County in the southwest corner of Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp More

Excavation Project Director Caitlin Sommer carefully removes an object in a pit at the Crow Canyon Archeological Center. The center conducts digs and other archaeological research, education and preservation programs, and partnerships with American Indians in the artifact-rich valleys and mesa tops of Montezuma County in the southwest corner of Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp More

Excavation Project Director Caitlin Sommer carefully removes an object in a pit at the Crow Canyon Archeological Center. The center conducts digs and other archaeological research, education and preservation programs, and partnerships with American Indians in the artifact-rich valleys and mesa tops of Montezuma County in the southwest corner of Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp More

An early bread oven of the Anasazi, or "ancient ones," sheltered at the Crow Canyon Archeological Center. The center conducts digs and other archaeological research, education and preservation programs, and partnerships with American Indians in the artifact-rich valleys and mesa tops of Montezuma County in the southwest corner of Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp More

At the Crow Canyon Archeological Center, an instructor informs students, part of a cadre in the center's visiting residential program for young people, about the Anasazi, the ancestors of today's Pueblo Indians. The center conducts digs and other archaeological research, education and preservation programs, and partnerships with American Indians in the artifact-rich valleys and mesa tops of Montezuma County in the southwest corner of Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp More

At the Crow Canyon Archeological Center, an instructor informs students, part of a cadre in the center's visiting residential program for young people, about the Anasazi, the ancestors of today's Pueblo Indians. The center conducts digs and other archaeological research, education and preservation programs, and partnerships with American Indians in the artifact-rich valleys and mesa tops of Montezuma County in the southwest corner of Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp More

Directional sign at the Crow Canyon Archeological Center, an anthropological research and educational organization that partners with American Indians in Montezuma County, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within More

Interior of a recreated hogan, or adult residence, of the early Anasazi, or "ancient ones," built at the Crow Canyon Archeological Center in southwestern Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The center conducts digs and other archaeological research, education and preservation programs, and partnerships with American Indian More