The Rocky Mountains of the American West have been a cultural crossroads for millennia. From the mammoth hunters of the Plains to the Ancestral Pueblo villages of the Colorado Plateau to the flourishing Hispanic diaspora in downtown Denver, the Rocky Mountains have been home to a breathtaking array of peoples. Since 1900, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science has been dedicated to documenting and understanding this unique region’s human and natural history. Today, the fourth largest natural history museum in the United States, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science serves as steward to tens of thousands of irreplaceable cultural treasures, representing hundreds of cultural groups across centuries of time.
Many of the objects embody the Rocky Mountain’s fascinating and complex past, while others serve to bring hidden corners of the globe to Denver. For the first time, this lavishly illustrated book presents—and celebrates—the Denver Museum of Nature & Science’s exceptional anthropology collections.
As currently planned, this book, Crossroads of Cultures: Anthropology Collections at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, will be published in the fall of 2009 by the University Press of Colorado.
