Time to visit the Price Prehistoric Museum
If you’re a student at Utah State University Eastern looking for something to do and interested in Utah’s history and prehistory, take a trip to the Price Prehistoric Museum. On the left side of the building, there are exhibitions about the indigenous peoples who lived here, including the Navajo, Pueblo, and others. You can see how they ate, how they hunted, and what they used. Something I really liked was their gardening techniques. They would plant corn, beans, and squash, and they would all work together. This is called the three sisters’ technique and can be found all over Mesoamerica; many people still use it in their gardens today.
They also have pottery that is both functional and beautiful for storing all sorts of stuff like food, water, and so on, and the Pueblo, Anasazi, and others made their homes in a similar fashion, built from earth, with tight-knit communities.
Some of the artifacts are thousands of years old; however, some things never change. We still use pottery and eat some of the same things today.
On the right side of the museum are the prehistoric exhibits featuring dinosaurs and other animals that lived at the same time, not just land animals, but also aquatic and aerial life.
They also have a place where they clean dinosaur bones and other artifacts. There’s even a sandbox where you can pretend to be an archaeologist. Back in the day, when they were mining, they found dinosaur tracks on the ceiling of the mines, and they correlated with Carbon County.
