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TRAVEL BACK IN TIME--VIRTUALLY

Archaeological, historic, and fossil sites are unique portals to the past. Here, we invite you on virtual tours of some of our favorites: sites that are especially rich in evidence of past lives and past cultures.
Photo of Lowry Pueblo National Historic Landmark EXPLORE THE LOWRY PUEBLO NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK
Located within the Canyon of the Ancients National Monument and once home to about 100 people, this 1,000-year-old settlement was constructed by farmers who also hunted small game, made elaborately decorated pottery, and wove cotton obtained by trade. A series of image galleries and online activities were created by BLM's Anasazi Heritage Center in Dolores, Colorado.
VIRTUAL EXHIBIT FROM THE SILVER BELL MINING DISTRICT
BLM worked with the Arizona State Museum to create "Vignettes in Time," a web tour of archaeological investigations in southeast Arizona. Sites include the prehistoric Nogales Wash Site Complex, the Silver Bell Mining District, and an early 20th-century National Guard encampment.
THE EMPIRE RANCH: PRESERVING WESTERN HERITAGE
The Empire Ranch House is the centerpiece of BLM's Las Cienegas National Conservation Area near Tucson, Arizona. This slide show describes the historic ranch and present-day volunteer and educational programs.
OF STONE AND STORIES: PUEBLITOS OF DINETAH
This online version of a traveling exhibit tells the stories of the Dine, the Navajo people, during the turbulent period from 1500 to 1800, when the worlds of the Navajo, Spanish, and Pueblo people met. The web site was developed by the New Mexico State Office of BLM.

THE BONES OF MINERAL HILL CAVE
A cave on BLM lands in northeastern Nevada has yielded a vast collection of bones of all sorts--from extinct oxen, camels, and llamas-- and many other mammals. Many are 30,000 to 50,000 years old and exceptionally well preserved. Includes a workshop paper on the site by staff from BLM's Elko Field Office.

HISTORY OF THE TREADWELL MINES OF ALASKA
 An online tour of a world-class gold mine at the turn of the 20th Century, when thousands of prospectors rushed to Alaska to find fortune. (Requires QuickTime player to listen to the narrated version). Produced by the BLM Juneau Mineral Information Center.

GRAHAM COUNTY, ARIZONA, PALEONTOLOGY DISPLAY
Photo tour of a display of BLM fossils at the Graham County Historical Society in Thatcher, Arizona. The display has become a popular exhibit for school groups. Produced in cooperation with BLM's Safford Field Office. Photo at left is shell of giant land tortoise, 28 inches long.

POSTER OF COX RANCH, NEW MEXICO, RESEARCH PROJECT
Poster presented at the Society of American Archaeology conference by the Washington State University and the Socorro, NM, office of BLM. Describes the Cox Ranch Pueblo Community, in west-central New Mexico, and an ongoing survey and excavation project designed to explore this Chaco-era community (A.D. 1050-1130).


WARDELL BUFFALO TRAP REVISITED
Photo tour highlighting the excavation of a buffalo trap and kill site by BLM archaeologists and volunteers near Pinedale, Wyoming in the summer of 2005. Originally excavated in 1970, the Wardell Buffalo Trap site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Additional excavation was necessary to prevent looting and prepare the site for stabilization and long term protection.

Researchers at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry

UNCOVERING ALLOSAUR PELVIC BONES AT THE CLEVELAND-LLOYD DINOSAUR QUARY
This virtual tour takes you to BLM's Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry as the Utah Museum of Natural History uncovers pelvic bones from an Allosaur during the 2001 field season.

DISCOVER A HOLLOW-CRESTED DUCK-BILLED DINOSAUR AT THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR MUSEUM
A new exhibition at the U.S. Department of the Interior Museum spotlights an eccentric-looking herbivore named Parasaurolophus that roamed the U.S. Southwest 70 to 80 million years ago.

NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE WEB-BASED PALEO-DATABASE
This Web-based Paleo-database site represents a partnership project between the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
and the New Mexico Bureau of Land Management


WESTERN GREAT BASIN BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT ARCHAEOLOGY AT THE HEARST MUSEUM
An image laden interactive web site featuring images from the museum collections, most of which have never been displayed before or were buried in unpublished reports.

Photo of Hidden Cave area

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF HIDDEN CAVE, NEVADA
A virtual tour and history of the archaeological excavations of Nevada's Hidden Cave. The rich artifact assembly cached inside Hidden Cave provides important clues about Desert Archaic life ways.

Photo of San Juan Basin, New Mexico


FOSSILS FROM NEW MEXICO'S SAN JUAN BASIN
Each year scientists from the State Museum of Pennsylvania travel to the San Juan Basin in northwest New Mexico to collect dinosaurs and other fossil vertebrates under permits from the Bureau of Land Management. This virtual tour allows you to see field notes and photos from work done between 2002 and 2005.

Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite


RED GULCH DINOSAUR TRACKSITE
At BLM's Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite, you can imagine yourself walking along an ocean shoreline 167 million years ago with dozens of other dinosaurs, looking to pick up a bite of lunch from what washed up on the last high tide.

cabin 12


GARNET GHOST TOWN, CABIN 12 STABILIZATION
A detailed look at the stabilization of a century old cabin at the ghost town of Garnet in western Montana.


archaeological excavation at Chaco Frontier 1


CHACO FRONTIER COMMUNITIES PROJECT
On the southern frontier of the Chaco system Dr. Andrew Duff of Washington State University, in partnership with Bureau of Land Management's Socorro, New Mexico Field Office has been conducting research on community dynamics. Secrets of the National Register of Historic Places Great House Pueblo, Chaco Frontier I, have been revealed during three seasons of excavation conducted by WSU's summer field school

cattle drive on the Magdalena Trail, 1950


THE MAGDALENA TRAIL
The Magdalena Trail ranks in importance with the famous Chisum and Goodnight-Loving Trails. What sets it apart is that its cattle drives continued into the 1970’s.Learn the trails history and explore the modern day trail as it passes through central New Mexico .


Chiles Homesite
CHILES HOMESITE
Douglas Point, on the banks of the historic Potomac River, has been home to human populations for thousands of years. Now owned by the Bureau of Land Management, the Douglas Point area hosts diverse plant and animal populations as well as a historic homesite occupied as early as the 18th century.


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