Wilcox is the one that originally showed the archaeologists these sites at range Creek and I think that he deserve some credit here for preserving and all these years he could have looted it himself but he chose to leave it
Great video. Waldo Wilcox's story inspired me to write a ghost / archaeology story based on what would happen if someone were protecting a canyon like this because it was cursed / haunted.
LMFAO "I don't want hippies digging me up and picking the gold out of my teeth when I die." That guy is seriously a farmer in western co/eastern utah. L O L.
Great stuff! I appreciate you posting it.Cool to be able to learn on youtube!I've read a lot about Range Creek and this has added to my fascination. I really hope that people that go there do everything to ensure it's kept as intact as possible. It'd be horrible to have it looted and destroyed like most archaeological sites. Hoping I'm dead wrong but it's probably inevitable.
The complexity of glyphs, lifestyle, and art of the Fremont culture is at a very high level, which begs the question: just who (and prove it genetically) are these peoples related to TODAY?? Or did they go south or dispurse in the great change of the 1300's and just disappear forever?
@@robertallen6710 im not sure on that, but I do know they can be used for storage. They still use kiva for ceremonies. Its representation of where they came from. Underground and came up to the surface like the ant people. So interesting.
I'm stuck in the middle on this. On one hand if you leave the artifacts, bodies, etc undisturbed then ultimately mother nature will claim them and all is lost and forgotten. On the other hand, bodies, artifacts and all that awesome stuff could be preserved in museums much like Egyptian artifacts, mummies etc are and the world can learn and appreciate them and most importantly they will live forever that way and be free from risk of looters and such.
As an archaeologist studying the Fremont, I can give some clarification. Tools, basketry, figurines etc. are usually collected because of potential looting. Most of the time, we only find sites because these looters or ranchers have told us about them (which is rare). Burials are either left alone or are excavated/collected, but this is based off of what the tribes want done. Most of the time they will complete ceremonies on the remains and have them reburied. These granaries and rockshelters provide us a lot of information on when agriculture was adopted and why they transitioned from hunting and gathering to farming. We record everything about what we collect, including the exact location, placement, attributes of artifacts, etc.
I'm an avid ruin hunter and have found some absolute gems in northern Arizona and southern Utah. I have found some really amazing artifacts too. What I find sad is just going a quick search on Ebay you find hundreds of artifacts from my area that I hike and explore and no one does a damn thing about it. I found an artifact in a Sedona ruin and took pictures of it and a month later I found it on Ebay....told my local rangers and law enforcement and nothing was done. Very sad but I am with Make It Mike.....if you don't take it now and preserve it someone else will and it will end up in a garage sale bin for 50 cents somewhere.....pisses me off.
Mike Bennett Hi Mike! Thank you for trying to contact someone. I would recommend contacting the state archaeologist, the BLM and/or a local Cultural Resource Management office. They will help :) Thank you!! I wish there were more people in the public like you!
All good points being made here. Studying the information left behind is very important to most. History can fill in the voides of the unknown. But some waking the Earth only care about the money aspect which to me is very sad. The Indians that lived there should be respected & remains protected above everything thing else. I read about the sell & purchase of the property in my local paper. Was fantastic by the land & the richness it held. And how Wilcox family had really hide it's secrets all those years. Finally made a trip to Utah a couple years ago. Didn't make it there because I ran out of time. UTAH has so much to see😂. I hope more than anything thing else the land & it's information can be studied & protected peaceful at the same time.
The years they state for these people are poor guesses. Shortly after the flood this land was inhabited. It is a absolute carnage what the government did to all the original inhabitants of our country. All for greed.....
The greatest travesty is what UNMH and the likes did to the place, and more importantly what they did to Waldo Wilcox, whom without they would know only the tiniest fraction about this place.
