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When a priceless Arapaho artifact, a petroglyph known as "The Drowning Man," is stolen, Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley join forces to find the culprits, only to discover that the crime may be linked to an unsolved seven-year-old case involving stolen artifacts and murder.
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2022.
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Craig Childs bears witness to rock art of the Colorado Plateau—bighorn sheep pecked behind boulders, tiny spirals in stone, human figures with upraised arms shifting with the desert light, each one a portal to the open mouth of time. With a spirit of generosity, humility, and love of the arid, intricate landscapes of the desert Southwest, Childs sets these ancient communications in context, inviting readers to look and listen deeply.
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"Rock art, a modern misnomer that originated in Europe, is a categorical term that includes purposeful human modification of in-place rock surfaces by pecking, scratching, incising, engraving, drilling, carving, grinding, and painting to produce preconceived images. Thus, the bedrock grinding surfaces resulting from grinding activities to produce seed flour are not considered rock art, nor is a decorated pebble considered rock art."
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[2018]
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Rock Art explores the fascinating history of ancient human-made stone markings that have puzzled historians, archaeologists, and hikers alike for centuries. What is rock art, and who created these mysterious symbols, and why are so many pieces of artwork similar across disparate and long-forgotten cultures? How was rock art made--and, more importantly, why? These questions and more are addressed in this comprehensive guide, complete with full-color...
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[1994]
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"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."
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c1998
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Based on the time period of 1200 AD and the petroglyph's location in what is now New Mexico, Hubert Allen proposes that ancestral Puebloans are the likely creators of the famous "petroglyph calendar" of the American southwest. The ancient Native Americans of the Pueblo community lived communally and were dependant on agriculture. Like all agrarian societies, understanding the seasons was essential to their survival. Western ethnographers have documented...
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[2016]
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To those who once walked these fins of sandstone, the landscape was alive with meaning and metaphor in a fourth-dimension--a collective vision of a landscape deeply connected to their culture, senses, and their landscape. Writer Jonathan Bailey brings back layers of dimension to archaeological sites in Utah and Arizona's canyon country by highlighting the significance of seeing beyond the second dimension--that which is carved on the rock face itself--to...
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2020.]
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"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...
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2015
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Hundreds, even thousands, of years before Europeans arrived in North America, American Indians had made their homes here. These many groups adapted to the varied lands and climates of what would later become the United States. Each group developed its own culture and history.
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