Prehistoric Museum News

Fossil Fest returns to the Prehistoric Museum November 15!

This hockey season, explore each of the destinations on your own journey of Ice Age discovery as you cheer on the Utah Mammoth!

NEW EXHIBITION: MUTUALISM - Crucial Relationships on the Colorado Plateau - April 12, 2025

The Prehistoric Museum invites everyone to come to our annual Fremont Fest, May 10th!

This gives museum members access to free admission to over 100 museums

Amateur and professional Utah based artists and artisans exhibit there art for the annual Castle Country Community Art Show. (Closed)

Dippy: The World's Oldest Celebrity Exhibit (Closed)

The Prehistoric Museum invites everyone to come to our annual Fremont Fest, May 9th – 12th! This is part of the Utah Archaeology and Historic Preservation Month, with great events found all around the state. The theme this year is Houses and Homes of the ...

Starting this coming semester, Fall 2023, the Prehistoric Museum is pleased to announce free admission to all middle school and high school students in Carbon and Emery Counties.

The Prehistoric Museum is pleased to announce its inaugural Fremont Fest, part of Utah’s Archaeology and Historic Preservation Month.

The Prehistoric Museum at Utah State University Eastern will be accepting submissions from amateur and professional Utah based artists and artisans February 23-25 for the Castle Country Community Art Show.

Washakie was probably born in Montana between 1798 and 1804. His father, a member of the Flathead tribe, was killed by the Blackfeet when Washakie was four or five. His mother, a Shoshone, took her young family to live with the Lemhis.

The still, tranquil beauty of Utah's mountains and deserts, long admired by artists, was born from a turbulent past. Massive environmental and geologic changes in deep time, along with continued erosion, created a landscape with stratigraphy laid bare.

The Ute or Nuche communities of this region in the 1800s included the Uintah on the Tavaputs Plateau, the Uncompahgre around Grand Junction, and the Sheberetch in the location that we call Moab.

These figurines were discovered in March, 1950, by Clarence Pilling of Price, Utah in a small side canyon of Range Creek. They have since been called in archeological circles, the “Pilling Figurines.”

The Prehistoric Museum's most ambitious exhibit featuring the ancient cliff dwellers of Southeastern Utah. The exhibit centers around a full-sized, walk-through cliff dwelling apartment, and highlights some of the artifacts recovered from the Westwater (F...

A slab-lined pithouse is the most common house type encountered in the archaeological record of the Fremont culture. A shallow pit was lined with stone and covered with a wood and mud superstructure.

Utah is an extraordinarily rich state in terms of its archaeological past. Indians have lived in every part of the state from extremely ancient times, and have left rock art reminders of their presence in all parts of the state.

Projectile point are often “diagnostic” for archaeologists, and when found on a site they contribute a lot of information about what happened there, especially when photographed and recorded in the context of the “assemblage,”