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Title Section Last update
Pictographs and petroglyphs Essay 10/12/2011
Medicine Lodge Encyclopedia 1/9/2012
Colby Mammoth Site Encyclopedia 12/8/2011
Legend Rock Encyclopedia 12/8/2011
Medicine Wheel Encyclopedia 12/8/2011

Recent Articles

Encyclopedia | Finley Bison Kill Site
The Finley Site, located near Eden in Sweetwater County, Wyo., was used by early American Indians to trap and kill bison. The Finley Site is an early Holocene Paleo-Indian bison-kill and processing...
Encyclopedia | The Vore Buffalo Jump
The Vore Buffalo Jump, a natural sinkhole where ancient tribes drove bison to butcher them, now lies adjacent to I-90 near Sundance, Wyo., and is open to the public during the summer.
Encyclopedia | White Mountain Petroglyphs
The White Mountain Petroglyphs in the Red Desert north of Rock Springs, Wyo., feature hundreds of images carved into a rock face between 1,000 and 200 years ago. The site is on Bureau of Land...
Encyclopedia | Medicine Wheel
The Medicine Wheel, a ring of limestone boulders 80 feet in diameter with 28 spokes radiating from a central cairn, lies on an open mountaintop at an elevation above 9,600 feet in Wyoming’s Bighorn...
Encyclopedia | Legend Rock
Legend Rock, about 30 miles northwest of Thermopolis, Wyo., features nearly 300 images carved or pecked into a rock cliff by ancient peoples over thousands of years.
Encyclopedia | Colby Mammoth Site
Remains of at least seven mammoths, probably from a meat cache dating back more than 11,000 years, were found when the Colby Mammoth site east of Worland, Wyo., was excavated by a crew under Wyoming...
Encyclopedia | Medicine Lodge Archaeological Site
Medicine Lodge State Archaeological Site, northeast of Hyattville, contains pictographs and petroglyphs left by Wyoming’s ancient people, as well as an attractive, state-run campsite and small museum...