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A stone’s throw from modern day Wendover, Danger Cave is a time capsule into the lives of some of the earliest people to call Utah home.

Advertisement: The paleohistory that his team analyzed in the stalagmites that formed in Leviathan cover nearly the same time frame that humans first started using Danger Cave, which is now considered one of the Great Basin’s most important human history sites. The stalagmites are created by the slow buildup of calcium carbonate layers as water droplets fall from the cave ceiling. They offer a “readable” record, much like the tree ring records that are a staple of climate scie...

Earlier climate change had life-changing effects on the ancient people who stayed in Danger Cave. Fresh water that supported fish and abundant wildlife dried up and left inhabitants with the labor-intensive chore of extracting tiny seeds form pickle weed and other drought-hardy plants, the archaeological record shows. Of course, in the past, there were a lot less people in the West needing less of finite water supply. Photo by Judy Fahys/InsideClimate News EDITORS NOTE:    Mountain Journal i...

4:39 Climate change had life-changing effects on the ancient people who stayed in Danger Cave. Freshwater that supported fish and abundant wildlife dried up and left inhabitants with the labor-intensive chore of extracting tiny seeds from pickleweed and other drought-hardy plants, the archaeological record shows. Credit Judy Fahys/InsideClimate News The ancient people of western Utah’s Danger Cave lived well. They ate freshwater fish, ducks and other small game, according to detritus they lef...