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9982 BCE
Almost 12,000 years ago Zion's first peoples arrived
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6000 BCE
During the Archaic period (approximately 6000 B.C.- A.D. 500), small groups hunted game and collected wild plants, seeds, and nuts across the broad expanse of the Great Basin and western Colorado Plateau
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598 BCE
Due to climate change and overhunting these animals died out about 8,000 years ago
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582 BCE
As resources dwindled 2,600 years ago, people tuned lifeways to the specifics of place
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518 BCE
Such a culture, centered on Zion, differentiated over the next 1,500 years into a farming tradition archeologists call Virgin Anasazi.
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300 BCE
By about 300 B.C., some archaic groups had begun to supplement wild foods in their diets by cultivating small patches of corn and squash along rivers and near springs
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1218
The Anasazi moved southeast 800 years ago, due probably to drought and overuse
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The Historic period begins in the late 1700s, with the exploration and settlement of southern Utah by Euro-Americans.
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In 1847, Brigham Young led members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) to Utah Territory, establishing settlements in the Great Salt Lake Valley.
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In the 1860s, just after settlement by Mormon pioneers, John Wesley Powell visited Zion on the first scientific exploration of southern Utah
