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Ancient Voices
by Rebecca Lintz, Library Director

People chose Colorado for their home over 12,000 years ago.  Ancient Voices provides a window into the fascinating life and culture of our prehistoric neighbors.  Learn how Colorado’s unique geography shaped the lives of our earliest inhabitants, as it shapes our lives today.
Explore the book, manuscript, and photo collections of the Stephen H. Hart Library to learn more about Colorado’s first citizens and their world. Find out how archaeologists discover and interpret the evidence of ancient cultures and allow us to share their lives and history.

Resources

Books: 
The Archaeology of Colorado.  Steve Cassells
Great Excavations: Tales of Early Southwestern Archaeology.  Melinda Elliott
Earth, Water, and Fire: The Prehistoric Pottery of Mesa Verde.  Norman Oppelt
Ice age Hunters of the Rockies.  Dennis J. Stanford
North American Indian Mythology.  Cottie Burland
Early Prehistoric Agriculture in the American Southwest.  W. H. Wills
Indian Songbook.  Jean Allard Jeancon
The Story of Pueblo pottery.  H. M. Wormington
Richard Wetherill:  Anasazi/with maps and drawings by the author. Frank McNitt
Stone Tools:  Theoretical Insights into Human Prehistory.  George Odell
Prehistoric Astronomy in the Southwest.  J. McKim Malville
Crooked arrow:  a Novel of Southwestern Prehistoric Indians of the 13th century.  Franklin Barnett
Geologic antiquity of the Lindenmeier site in Colorado.  Kirk Bryan
Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica.  Cheryl Claassen
Mesa Verde National Park: Shadows of the Centuries.  Duane Smith
Mesa Verde National Park:  Reproductions from a Series of Photographs. Laura Gilpin
Stones speak and waters sing:  The life and works of Gustaf Nordenskjold

Manuscript collections: 
Mesa Verde National Park:  1892-1950.  MSS # 428
Jean Allard Jeancon.  MSS # 343
Hanna Marie Wormington: MSS # 1558

Maps: 
Contour map of Mesa Verde National Park.  Passenger Department, Denver & Rio Grande railroad
Sketch map of the southern part of the United States: showing the distribution of the linguistic stocks of American Indians…Woodbury Lowery
Colorado: the queen jewel of the Rockies: …a review of its Indians…with a map and 54 plates.  Mae Lacy Baggs
American Indian tribes/illustrated with photos and maps.  Marion Gridley

Articles:  The Colorado Magazine
“Apishapa Valley: Petroglyphs”
“Basketmakers”
“Prehistoric Peoples of Colorado”
“Petroglyphs: Symbols and Meaning”

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