Season 3 // Episode 2: The Trade of Cacao
/What do three pieces of 1000-year-old pottery from the desert of Chaco Canyon have in common with the rainforests of Mexico?
Read MoreSeason 3 // Episode 1: Trade
/For thousands of years, the Mesa Verde region has been part of a hemispheric trading network where people were connected all the way down into Central and South America, over into the southeastern United States, and as far west as California.
Read MoreSeason 2 // Episode 4: #VisitWithRespect
/Sometimes we don’t know how to visit a place.
Read MoreSeason 2 // Episode 3: Augmented Reality
/In this episode, we hear about efforts to re-interpret the historic dioramas that have been on display in the park museum for nearly a century.
Read MoreSeason 2 // Episode 2: Two Spirits
/Indigenous people across the continent have always observed more than two genders.
Read MoreSeason 2 // Episode 1: Art In The Park
/In this first episode of season 2, we’re talking about the Artist-in-Residence program at Mesa Verde National Park.
Read MoreSeason 1 // Episode 5: Esther
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From the 1940s until the 1970s, one of the most well-known exhibits in Mesa Verde's museum contained a human body - the mummified remains of a young woman known as Esther.
Read MoreSeason 1 // Episode 4: Ancient Corn, Modern Questions
/Corn or "maize" has been a significant part of life for the Hopi and Pueblo people for ... well, for as long as any of them can remember.
Read MoreSeason 1 // Episode 3: Loving the Past to Death
/What do you mean hiking shoes are the enemy?
Read MoreSeason 1 // Episode 2: What's An Anasazi?
/Didn't they disappear or something?
Read MoreSeason 1 // Episode 1: The Preservation Paradox
/To act or not to act.
Read MorePilot // Episode 3: Moving On
/Why did people leave the Mesa Verde region? It wasn't just the drought.
Read MorePilot // Episode 2: Corn = Life
/Archaeologists replicate ancient corn harvests.
Read MorePilot // Episode 1: Revealed By Fire
/Wildfires present both threats and opportunities to archaeological research.
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