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The Ancient Cultures of the Grand Canyon [Part One – Paleo-Indians]
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Featured June 2 , 2007
By Tawa Acoma [posted for him here because of ACTA deadline]
The Grand Canyon, the vast slice of ecotourism Americana has been a hub of human activity in the Southwest for the last one hundred years. Post-Industrial Americans have been intrigued with the canyon spanning all the way back to President Theodore Roosevelt’s visit to the canyon in the early 1900s. But the canyon has always been a favored destination of mankind. There has been evidence of human activity inside the canyon well before Teddy’s trip. Some scholarly estimates place human activity inside the canyon at 6,000 BCE or 8,000 years ago!
Numerous ancient trails run throughout the canyon from the rim to the river. These trails are the greatest visual remainder that humans have walked here for thousands of years. Over the last fifty years, scholars have been now asking several questions regarding the human presence at the Grand Canyon. Who lived in the canyon, during what time periods, and why did they choose to live in such an environmentally uninviting place? Small nomadic bands of Paleo-Indians from the earliest days of their North American arrival were within the canyon sometime before 6500 BCE. These men and women most likely followed the big game of the time period. Perhaps, large mammals such as the mammoth and giant sloth met their demise at the bottom of the canyon. These pre-Archaic people left behind only two clues – a pair of spear points that have been classified to the time period. From 6500 BCE until about 1250 BCE, the Grand Canyon was occupied by the Archaic peoples. Coming in the next ACTA edition... |
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