Kept a secret for more than 50 years by land owner Waldo Wilcox, archaeologists have announced a stunning ancient Indian settlement:
For more than 50 years, rancher Waldo Wilcox kept most outsiders off his land and the secret under wraps: a string of ancient Indian settlements so remarkably well-preserved that arrowheads and beads are still lying out in the open.
Archaeologists are calling it one of the most spectacular finds in the West.
Hidden deep inside Utah’s nearly inaccessible Book Cliffs region, 130 miles (208 kilometers) from Salt Lake City, the prehistoric villages run for 12 miles (19 kilometers) and include hundreds of rock art panels, cliffside granaries, stone houses built halfway underground, rock shelters and the mummified remains of long-ago inhabitants.
The site was occupied for at least 3,000 years until it abandoned more than 1,000 years ago, when the Fremont people mysteriously vanished.
It's an amazing find, or revelation really. Wilcox did an amazing job as caretaker for a half-century. But I suspect none of those long dead Utah residents ever heard of Moroni.
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