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A collection of artistic renderings of ancient native art from six North American regions. Descriptionsaccompany each illustration, providing information on location of the original image, the culture it came from, and what is known about its significance and meaning for the people who created it. The b&wdrawings provide clearer images of the petroglyphs than can normally be achieved with photography.Includes brief introductions on the visible language...

"The territory's past is rich, complex, and relatively unstudies. There is a lot or rock art...and this book is the first comprehensive survey of what until now has been piedra incognita." "this book fills a large void in the rock art record and presents many sites previously unrecorded. I especially appreciate the authori's objective and unbiased approach."

Through 128 dramatic photographs, Hirschmann takes you on a journey to rock art sites from southwestern Texas through Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado and on to Southern California.

"The deep sandstone canyons, desert mesas, and ancient cliff dwellings of Bears Ears area hold pottery and projectile points, baskets and petroglyphs - and countless stories. For more than twelve thousand years, the wondrous landscape of southeastern Utah has defined the histories, cultures, and lives of everyone who calls it home. In Behind the Bears Ears, R. E. Burrillo takes readers on a personal journey of discovery through the narratives and...

A collection of color photographs of Southwestern landscape, ruins, and rock art.

The recent phenomenal growth of interest in rock art, on a near-global scale, provides an extraordinary opportunity for rock art researchers to transmit their enthusiasm, scientific approach, and interpretive results to the general public. This book provides an aesthetic and intellectual experience satisfying to both the novice and the academic researcher.