January 14, 2005

Treasures in the Badlands; Cultural Evolution

I confess that I've always enjoyed prospecting for fossils more than anything else in paleontology. For me, the thrill of exploring a new set of badlands, where no one may ever previously have looked, is what makes fieldwork so addictive. ...

On average, we located about one excellent new site each year that we worked in the Wind River Basin. In 1992, for example, we decided to scout out some new areas well to the west of Buck Spring. As we pushed deeper and deeper into new terrain,