Cultural Heritage and Paleontology
Man in blue hat crouches over partially revealed dinosaur bone in the ground

Mother’s Day Site helps unlock ancient mysteries while asking more questions

Over the last 30 years, the Mother's Day site in southern Montana has produced more than 2,600 specimens including the most complete juvenial sauropod skull ever found.
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South Korean TV station receives interpretation of Three Rivers Petroglyph Site

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One of the more than 21,000 glyphs of birds, humans, animals, fish, insects and plants, as well as numerous geometric and abstract designs, are scattered over 50 acres of New Mexico's northern Chihuahuan Desert at the Three Rivers Petroglyph National Monument site.

Las Cruces District staff lead tour of Three Rivers Petroglyph Site

Story and photos by William Wight, BLM Las Cruces District Office Public Affairs Specialist.

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Volunteers from the Natural History Museum of Utah work at the T2 Tyrannosaur excavation site

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument nets important dinosaur discovery

Story by David Hercher, Paria River District Public Affairs. Photos courtesy of Dr. Randy Irmis, Natural History Museum of Utah Chief Curator.

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Jeanne Panfely
The cabin in 2016, the day it was officially added to the National Register of Historic Places.

On This Day in 1872, western novelist Zane Grey was born!

Grey’s prose drew visitors by the thousands, and helped make the Rogue River a premiere destination for world class steelhead fishing, recreation, and wildlife viewing.
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James Hart
Graphic illustration of a flint arrow head.

Podcast: Some Points About Archaeology

Let's imagine you're on a hike and you come across an old stone arrowhead, an old tin can, or some other type of artifact. What should you do? Why?
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