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What we now call Colorado has been populated for at least 12,000 years, which in human terms is more than four hundred generations, says Tammy Stone, assistant professor of anthropology at CU-Denver.
Stone has written The Prehistory of Colorado and Adjacent Areas, the only history of the human occupation of this area.
The book is an account of the state's human past, based on the archaeological record. It reconstructs past lifeways using current archeological theory. Stone said she employed a regional, rather than a site-specific approach, and presented current explanations of prehistoric Coloradans' subsistence modes at various points in time.
"I want readers to know that archeology isn't about objects and artifacts; it's about people," Stone said. "It is about using the objects to understand how people lived."
The book was published by the University of Utah Press in January 1999.