Utah's History

Archaeologists know that people have lived in the land now called Utah for more than 12,000 years. Thanks to a recently discovered ice age campsite. There, experts found a spear point used to hunt mammoths, as well as bones from waterfowl that prehistoric people probably cooked. Native american tribes formed over thousands of years, including the Navajo, Goshute, Ute, Paiute, Bannock, and Shoshone. Their descendants still live in the state today. The first spanish explorers reached the land by 1776.