The Journal

Crow Canyon Archaeology Center researcher Kyle Bocinsky, Ph.D., will be featured in an episode of the National Geographic Channel program “Origins” and discuss the architecture and archaeology of the Mesa Verde region.

The episode “Building the Future” is scheduled to air April 17 at 7 p.m., Crow Canyon said in a news release. The episode looks into the subject of human shelter and how it has evolved along with humanity from simple huts to modern skyscrapers. Bocinsky’s segment was filmed in November at the Long House ruin in Mesa Verde.

Bocinsky is a research associate at Crow Canyon and an adjunct research faculty member in the Department of Anthropology at Washington State University. His research has focused on the Ancestral Pueblos of the Southwest, and he has participated in projects in the Pacific Northwest, sub-Saharan Africa and the Tibetan Plateau.

“Origins,” an eight-part series, explores humanity from the dawn of our species through the present.