Goodman Point Video Documentation Project

The Goodman Point Video Documentation Project is a multivocal history that documents the perspectives of multiple individuals involved in the Goodman Point Archaeological Project, conducted by Crow Canyon from 2005 through 2010 in partnership with the Southeast Utah Group of the National Park Service. As part of that project, Crow Canyon staff, assisted by student and adult participants in the Center's various programs, test-excavated 17 sites located in the Goodman Point Unit of Hovenweep National Monument. All the sites were part of an extensive ancient Pueblo community dating from from the late eleventh through the twelfth centuries A.D.

The interviews from which the following videos were derived were conducted between 2007 and 2010. To view a video, click on the name of the person. (Complete interviews are archived at Crow Canyon.)

Corky Hays

Superintendent, Hovenweep and Natural Bridges national monuments
Topic: The partnership between the National Park Service and Crow Canyon (4:00)

Ernest M. Vallo, Sr.

Cultural consultant from the Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; former Crow Canyon Native American Advisory Group and Board of Trustees member
Topic: Visiting archaeological sites with respect (2:21)

Florence Lister

Archaeologist, archaeological historian, and author
Topic: The evolution of archaeological inquiry in the Mesa Verde region (7:42)

Mark Varien

Vice president of programs, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
Topic: The Goodman Point Unit: preservation and research (6:05)

Kristin Kuckelman

Senior research archaeologist, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center; director of the Goodman Point Archaeological Project, Phase I
Topic: Phase I excavations (Goodman Point Pueblo) (6:18)

Grant Coffey

Supervisory archaeologist, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center; director of the Goodman Point Archaeological Project, Phase II
Topic: Phase II excavations (small-site testing) (6:05)

Pat Fulks

Lifelong area resident and granddaughter of Goodman Point homesteaders
Topic: Fulks family history and growing up near the Goodman Point Unit (4:51)

This project was paid for in part by a grant from the State Historical Fund, a program of History Colorado (the Colorado Historical Society), and through a cooperative agreement with the Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit and the Southeast Utah Group of the National Park Service.