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Language
English
Description
This classic guide to New Mexico and Arizona Indian ceremonials is the best single reference for visitors to dances at the Rio Grande Pueblos, Zuni Pueblo, the Hopi Mesas, and the Navajo and Apache reservations. It describes the principal public ceremonials along with some more obscure dances that are rarely performed today.
Author
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
Carved from cliffs and canyons, buried in desert rock and sand are pieces of the ancient past that beckon thousands of visitors every year to the American Southwest. Whether Montezuma Castle or a chunk of pottery, these traces of prehistory also bring archaeologists from all over the world, and their work gives us fresh insight and information on an almost day-to-day basis.
Descriptions of long-ago people are balanced with tales about the archaeologists...
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Publisher
Grand Canyon Association
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
This overview of Grand Canyon prehistory is a comprehensive but popular look at the people who have inhabited the Grand Canyon region for the past twelve thousand years. It includes chapters on the architecture, art, and tools of the prehistoric Puebloan people, as well as information about modern-day Native Americans.