Kevin Jones was raised in National Parks, where his father was a ranger. He learned to love archaeology during his Jr High and High School years when his family lived at Dinosaur National Monument in northwestern Colorado. He went to college at Colorado State University, where he received his BA in Anthropology. He attended graduate school at the University of Utah where he received MA and Ph.D. degrees, and served as State Archaeologist of Utah for 17 years. He currently resides with his wife, Barbara Evert, and two dogs on 42 acres off the grid in Pleasant View, Colorado, near the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument and within sight of the Bears Ears. In addition to STANDING ON THE WALLS OF TIME, Kevin is the author of the anthropological novel THE SHRINKING JUNGLE.