Kevin T. Jones is an archaeologist and writer who lives and works off-grid in the rugged canyon country of Southwestern Colorado. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Utah and served as Utah state's archaeologist of for seventeen years. He is the author of A Quick Trip to Moab, an environmental thriller, The Shrinking Jungle, an anthropological novel, and Standing on the Walls of Time, essays about and inspired by Native American Rock Art (with photographs by Layne Miller).