Geography faculty (and 'expert climber') Larry Coats and others were recently featured on the PBS show "Time Team America: Range Creek." 

Range Creek in eastern Utah is perhaps the most stunning archeaological find in North America in a century, and U-geographers (along with other U of U faculty, researchers and students) are involving in uncovering its wealth of information about the Fremont people and their fate.  

Located in the remote Book Cliffs region of eastern Utah, Range Creek is the kind of site archaeologists dream about. The sage-covered meadows and rocky cliffs are scattered with the remnants of an ancient people: pit houses half-buried in the sand, mysterious petroglyphs scratched into the rock walls and bits of pottery and stone tools lying where they were dropped over a thousand years ago. Best of all, most of the hundreds of archaeological sites remain virtually untouched, providing a rare opportunity to find out what may have happened to the Fremont people who once flourished here. Time Team probes the ground, scales the cliffs and learns what life was like in these canyons a thousand years ago

 Time Team America website