A presentation and tours are planned for Saturday, Oct. 7, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Lowry Pueblo’s status as a National Historic Landmark.
The free celebration will begin at the Anasazi Heritage Center, where Bureau of Land Management archaeologist Vince MacMillan will talk about the work at Lowry Pueblo, including LiDAR imaging, a film produced in conjunction with the nonprofit CyArk, Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record documentation and visual landscape documentation.
BLM staff and volunteers will provide guided tours of Escalante Pueblo and the Wetherill Family exhibit at the Anasazi Heritage Center. Activities for children ages 8 and older will be available from Southwest Colorado Canyons Alliance and Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. A parent should accompany children.
After lunch on your own, two shuttles will depart the Anasazi Heritage Center at 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. for Lowry Pueblo for tours, including atlatls spear throwing for the kids.
The shuttles will return to AHC about 2:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
For more information, visit http://bit.ly/Lowry50.
