Almost 12,000 Years Ago Zions First Peoples, Who Are Now Almost Invisible, Tracked Mammoth, Giant Sloth, And Camel Across Southern Utah Due To Climate Change And Overhunting These Animals Died Out About 8,000 Years Ago Humans Adapted By Focusing On Mid-Sized Animals And Gathered Foods As Resources Dwindled 2,600 Years Ago, People Tuned Lifeways To The Specifics Of Place Such A Culture, Centered On Zion, Differentiated Over The Next 1,500 Years Into A Farming Tradition Archeologists Call Virgin Anasazi Zions Geology Provided These And Later Pioneer Farmers A Combination Rare In The Desert: A Wide, Level Place To Grow Food, A River To Water It, And An Adequate Growing Season On The Colorado Plateau Crops Grow Best Between 5,000 And 7,000 Feet, Making Zions Elevations -- 3,666 To 8,726 Feet -- Almost Ideal Differences In Elevation Also Encourage Diverse Plants And Animals Mule Deer And Turkey Wander Forested Plateaus Bighorn Sheep And Juniper Prosper In Canyons The Anasazi Moved Southeast 800 Years Ago, Due Probably To Drought And Overuse Soon After, Paiute Peoples Brought A Lifeway Fine-Tuned To Desert Seasons And Thrived In The 1860S, Just After Settlement By Mormon Pioneers, John Wesley Powell Visited Zion On The First Scientific Exploration Of Southern Utah By Hard Work And Faith Pioneers Endured In A Landscape That Hardly Warranted Such Persistence Flash Floods Destroyed Towns And Drought Burned The Crops Only The Will To Survive Saw Paiute, Anasazi, And European Descendants Through Great Difficulties Perhaps Today Zion Is Again A Sanctuary, A Place Of Life And Hope Map Stickers Adults Cool Funny Vinyl Laptop Fishing Patagonia Santa Cruz Beer Gt Graphics Camping Hiking California Smokey The Bear Cooler Hunting Sasquatch Men Zion Table Book Passport Guide Utah Poster Grand Canyon Mountain Yosemite Yellowstone
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