Hamilton Professor of Anthropology Tom Jones was quoted in a Salt Lake Tribune story exploring the newest archaeological work in Utah's Danger Cave. The cave is famous for being the site from which a "Desert Culture" model of human habitation was compiled. The model is now the blueprint for much of Southwest archaeology.
Currently, Danger Cave is being used in an attempt to explain how adaptive humans and plants were to rapid changes in climate. Archaeologists involved in the project hope to use such information to predict future climate trends. Jones hailed Jennings and his original work that first targeted Danger Cave as a useful resource. "To undertake a project like this at that time would be to most people just overwhelming. But today, everybody who takes an archaeology course in college knows of this site and what he did for archaeology here," Jones said.
