Danger Cave still evokes life as it was at a Great Salt Lake of 8,000 years ago
The cave overlooked a marshy wetland 8,000 years ago, and water fed by nearby springs provided a rich location for hunter-gatherers to set up base camp for the winter.
(Judy Fahys | InsideClimate News) Ron Rood of Metcalf Archaeological Consultants leads tours of western Utah's Danger Cave, which is considered one of the most important archaeological sites in the Great Basin. Detritus in the cave, which humans have frequented for more than 12,000 years, helps tell the story of how humans confronted climate change.