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- Title
THE FAKE ANASAZI OF MANITOU SPRINGS, COLORADO: A STUDY IN ARCHAEOLOGY.
- Authors
Lovata, Troy R.
- Abstract
Visitors have been making their way to Manitou Springs, Colorado, to tour a set of Anasazi cliff dwellings for nearly a hundred years. However, few realize that these ruins lie well outside the range of Anasazi settlement and that they have come to a place that the Anasazi never occupied. The Manitou Cliff Dwellings have been dismissed by many heritage professionals as, at best, a tourist trap. But they were constructed with the blessing of some of archaeology's most powerful and honored pioneers. The Manitou Cliff Dwellings lend insight into the relationship between the discipline of archaeology and the wider public. They offer the opportunity to understand the role that authenticity and authority play in the study of the past and highlight the differences between preservation, explanation, and re-creation.
- Subjects
MANITOU Springs (Colo.); COLORADO; ARTIFICIAL ruins; CLIFF-dwellings; ARCHAEOLOGY; ARCHAEOLOGICAL parks; HERITAGE tourism; PUBLIC relations
- Publication
Southwestern Lore, 2009, Vol 75, Issue 1/2, p62
- ISSN
0038-4844
- Publication type
Article