Ancient Americas: Anasazi History

ANASAZI MIMBRES PLATE BOOKPLATES (Sample available)
art by Aroas. Condition: NEW package of 10 bookplates made by pacaritambo books. The peel-off label stock is heavier than most bookplate materials and is matte and not glossy. We can also personalize the bookplates if you like ($1.50 extra) - email us the name you want on the bookplate. They are as perfect as possible, and we feel the subject matter is much different than you can get any where else. 4.0" H x 3.0" W. Content: This is a combination of Anasazi pottery artwork with and inset of, at least, Mimbres-inspired design. Any questions or for a sample, click here to email us.
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ANASAZI PETROGLYPHS BOOKPLATES (Sample available)
art by Dmstudio. Condition: NEW package of 10 bookplates made by pacaritambo books. The peel-off label stock is heavier than most bookplate materials and is matte and not glossy. We can also personalize the bookplates if you like - email us the name you want on the bookplate. They are as perfect as possible, and we feel the subject matter is much different than you can get anywhere else. 3.5" H x 3.5" W. Content: Petroglyphs can be found all over the Southwest from West Texas to California. Some petroglyps represent actual animals (deer, armadillos, etc.) while others are mysterious and seem to depict creatures from outer space (ok, some people think that). All are beautiful and worthy of being preserved wherever they are found. Any questions or for a sample, click here to email us.
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KOKOPELLI DANCING BOOKPLATES (Sample available)
art by V. Protsak. Condition: NEW package of 10 bookplates made by pacaritambo books. The peel-off label stock is heavier than most bookplate materials and is matte and not glossy. We can also personalize the bookplates if you like - email us the name you want on the bookplate. They are as perfect as possible, and we feel the subject matter is much different than you can get anywhere else. 3.3" H x 3.4" W. Content: Kokopelli is most likely the most famous of all the ancient American petroglyphs. "Kokopelli is a fertility deity, usually depicted as a humpbacked flute player (often with a huge phallus and feathers or antenna-like protrusions on his head), who has been venerated by some Native American cultures in the Southwestern United States. Like most fertility deities, Kokopelli presides over both childbirth and agriculture. He is also a trickster god and represents the spirit of music." (Wikipedia) Any questions or for a sample, click here to email us.
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KOKOPELLI ON STONE BOOKPLATES (Sample available)
art by sdmix. Condition: NEW package of 10 bookplates made by pacaritambo books. The peel-off label stock is heavier than most bookplate materials and is matte and not glossy. We can also personalize the bookplates if you like - email us the name you want on the bookplate. They are as perfect as possible, and we feel the subject matter is much different than you can get at a big store. 3.5" H x 3.2" W. Content: Kokopelli is most likely the most famous of all the ancient American petroglyphs. Here he is depicted playing his flute on "sandstone." "Kokopelli is a fertility deity, usually depicted as a humpbacked flute player (often with a huge phallus and feathers or antenna-like protrusions on his head), who has been venerated by some Native American cultures in the Southwestern United States. Like most fertility deities, Kokopelli presides over both childbirth and agriculture. He is also a trickster god and represents the spirit of music." (Wikipedia) Any questions or for a sample, click here to email us.
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AN ANASAZI WELCOME
by Kay Matthews. B&W illustrations by Barbara Belknap. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1992 Red Crane (Santa Fe) soft cover, no printing given. While the interior is clean, tight & perfect, shelf-wear has not been king to the cover - edgewear with rubbings along spine and a hinge crease front spine. Questions encouraged. Content: Nora and Maud move with their family to the Southwest where they begin to build an adobe house. It is hard for them to understand their new home whee plants have thorns instead of leaves and instead of grass there are rocks and sand. With the help of Gramps, Anasazi ghost Eya, and all the creatures - lizards, birds, spiders, and snakes - who also have their homes there, they learn to respect not only the land but the different kinds of people and animals who make it a special palce. This book teaches childre that reverence for the land, its history, peoples, and animals will allow us all to live in peace and harmony. Ages 6+. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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The AZTEC TREASURE HOUSE: New and Selected Essays
by Evan S. Connell. Condition: NEW 2001 Counterpoint large hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. Tiny edge wear to DJ edges. Remainder mark bottom edges. Content: A collection of new and selected essays by master craftsman Connell. He has long been attracted to the visionary and eccentric, to those people and events slightly outside the mainstream of human experience. His subjects are people of passion and purpose, events of legend and desire. He offers stories of the Anazasi, the "old ones" of the southwestern desert, of the grand explorers Marco Polo, Columbus, Magellan, and Ibn Batuta, of heretics, fanatics, scientists, cranks, and geniuses. There are tales of fabulous advances made in anthropology, archeology, astronomy, and linguistics. This is a book of great "celebrations of man's insatiable drive to probe unknown frontiers [that] read like superb novels," says Grover Sales. "[They] establish Connell as an important writer-poet-thinker with a truly original mind." The book comprises two previous collections, The White Lantern and A Long Desire, and two new essays never published in trade book form. The whole amounts to a dazzling monument to the career of one of America's finest writers. A few pieces consider historic clashes between "those traditional opponents Science and Religion." Fascinated by people who probe the outer limits of knowledge and geography, Connell provides a blow-by-blow account of the famous debate between Thomas Huxley and Bishop Wilberforce over evolution and describes the searing conflict between Galileo and the Catholic Church over heliocentrism. "White Lantern" the best essay of the bunch passionately (even enviously) details the amazing race to the South Pole between pragmatic Norwegian Roald Amundsen and romantic Englishman Captain Robert Scott, in a narrative even Jon Krakauer would admire. Connell sagely points out that "Amundsen, the victor, is not as renowned as the loser," because a dead hero (Scott died on the return trip) is more likely to captivate the public's imagination. Confessing a hopeless attraction to "buried treasure, monsters, ghosts, derelict ships, inexplicable footprints, and luminous objects streaking through the sky," Connell chronicles journeys of absolute, disastrous futility the searches for Atlantis, the Seven Cities of Gold and the Northwest Passage. These skillfully crafted essays will please any history, science or adventure buff. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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CERAMIC PRODUCTION IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST
edited by Barbara J. Mills and Patricia L. Crown. B&W drawings, maps, & photos illustrate. Condition: NEW 2000 University of Arizona Press (Tucson) Trade Paperback, second printing. Content: This volume covers nearly 1,000 years of southwestern prehistory and history, focusing on ceramic production in a number of environmental and economic contexts. From the Anasazi, Mimbres, and Mogollon peoples to pueblo peoples, this is a discussion of pottery through the ages. Excellent! [1 copy available]
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THE CLIFF DWELLERS OF THE MESA VERDE
by G. Nordenskiold. B&W photos plus the Author's era photos and original sketches of landscape, dwellings, and pottery. Condition: UNREAD 1990 Mesa Verde Museum Assn. huge soft cover, no printing given. Tiny edge wear to front cover fore edge. Content: Originally published in 1893 in Sweden, this book is an archaeological jewel if you are interested in the ancient Anasazi. Text and drawings are detailed. Excellent! Questions encouraged. [1 copy available]
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COYOTE'S CANYON
by Terry Tempest Williams. Stunning color photos by John Telford. Condition: NEW c. 2000 Gibbs-Smith soft cover, fourth printing. Content: "These things are real: desert, rocks, shelter, legend" (Judith Fryer). Coyote's Canyon evokes the beauty and mystery of southern Utah's desert canyons--home to Navajo and to the Anasazi who came before, and spiritual homeland to the Coyote Clan, thousands of individuals who draw nourishment from this land. This collaboration between photographer John Telford and writer Terry Tempest Williams is an intimate meditation on one of the earth's most extraordinary landscapes. Telford's spectacular color photographs of the region's canyons, mesas, hidden waterways, arches, Anasazi cliff dwellings, and desert vistas are rich with the reflected ligh that elevates rock into sculpture. Tempest Williams' stories celebrate the legend and ritual surrounding this sacred place, creating a compelling new mythology for desert lovers--persons quietly subversive in the name of the land. Taken together, these photographs and words are an invitation, an initiation into the desert's sanctuary of secrets-- Coyote's Canyon. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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CUCKOO FOR KOKOPELLI
by Dave Walker. Color photos and some beautiful color artwork illustrate. Condition: NEW 1999 Northland Publishing (Flagstaff) Trade Paperback, second printing. Content: Ok, this is not a great scholarly work on the ancient Southwest symbol so associated with the Anasazi, but it's interesting and it's fun. AND it presents some great artwork. Reviewer: "Dave Walker gives you a modern twist on the ancient myth turned recent Southwest icon. The author also offers you some illustrations of the modern marketing of the Kokopelli. Overall, the book is fun and easy reading. A good book for a day in the park, ride on an airplane or just a lazy day! However, he does provide a section which provides solid information on the history of and speculation on personage of Kokopelli." [1 copy available]
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ENEMY ANCESTORS: The Anasazi World with a Guide to Sites
by Gary Matlock. Beautiful color photos by Scott Warren. Condition: NEW 1991 Northland large soft cover, second printing. Beautiful production values - color photos - heavy slick paper stock. Content: Reviewer: "Anasazi 101. This is a traveler's guide as well as a "textbook." You don't have to know a lot about American Indian culture, archaeology, or history to enjoy and learn from this crash-course about the different pre-European inhabitants of the Four Corners area of the Southwestern United States. Gary Matlock leads us through the stories of these different peoples as pieced together from discoveries in their mysteriously abandoned architecture, cities, pottery, roads, canals, and items found in their trash heaps. Beautiful photographs by Scott Warren flesh out the text by illustrating examples of the art, structures, and landscapes. A guide at the end of the book lists agencies to contact before going to visit, what to expect, and tips on the manner of approach." Still relevant. [1 copy available]
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GLIMPSES OF THE ANCIENT SOUTHWEST
by David E. Stuart. B&W photos and maps plus original drawings by Scott Andrae. Condition: NEW 1985 Ancient City Press Trade Paperback, 4th printing. Content: This is an excellent overview of the architectural heritage of the prehistoric Native Americans, usually referred to as "Anasazi" in New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona. Why he left out the ruins in Utah, I have no idea. The essays are entertaining, yet still enlightening, and are beneficial for both the newcomer to Ancient Americas and the long-time fan. Excellent photos and maps! [1 copy available]
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HOHOKAM: Prehistoric Cultures of the Southwest series
by Rose Houk. Beautiful color photos with map on back cover. Condition: NEW 1992 Southwest Parks and Monuments Assn. soft cover (stapled wraps), no printing given. Content: Although the Hohokam are grouped with the Anasazi, they are technicall not considered Anasazi. They inhabited the Sonoran Desert, produced beautiful pottery, and gave us Casa Grande. Fascinating civilization. [1 copy available]
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IF ROCKS COULD TALK (Children's Book)
illustrations by B. Jane Bush. Text by Diane Goldsmith. Brown & white illustrations. Condition: NEW 1994 Dale Seymour soft cover, no printing given. Book only. Content: Explore prehistoric drawings made by Native Americans. This book has history, descriptions and illustrations of rock art, dwellings, and artifacts. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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IMAGES ON STONE: The Prehistoric Rock Art of the Colorado Plateau (Plateau magazine of Museum of Northern Arizona)
by Donald E. Weaver. Jr. B&W photos and drawings plus loads of beautiful color photos. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1991 Museum of Northern Arizona, Plateau magazine, Volume 55, number 2, soft cover, 5th printing. Tanning to cover edges and page edges. Tiny edge wear. Content: Subjects covered in this volume: Introduction; Petroglyphs and Pictographs; Images on Stone; Dating Rock Art; Recording Rock Art; and Rock Art Sites. Excellent. [1 copy available]
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IN SEARCH OF THE OLD ONES: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest
by David Roberts. B&W photo section. Condition: NEW 1998 Touchstone Trade Paperback, second printing. Light tanning to page edges. Short remainder mark bottom edges. Content: Six hundred years ago, the Anasazi, said to be the ancestors of the Hopi, Zuni and other Pueblo peoples, left their homes in the region known as the Four Corners, where Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona converge, and disappeared. They had inhabited the area for perhaps 5000 or more years. They left behind pots, weavings, tools, monuments, human remains and, above all, their astounding cliff "palaces," containing apartments of as many as 20 rooms each. Many of these are still viable but so fragile that, in the national park lands where most are located, they are closed to the public. Roberts has spent 20 years exploring the region, and he recounts the history of the discoveries, the appalling thefts of artifacts, the cave paintings and his own transcendent experiences in stumbling upon some vestige of this lost civilization. His awe at the region's beauty, with its sheer cliffs, canyons and mesas, and at the testaments to an unknown culture will be contagious for readers. Questions welcome. [2 copies available]
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INDIANS OF THE MESA VERDE
by Don Watson. Great B&W photos of Mesa Verde and its artifacts. Condition: UNREAD c. 1990s Mesa Verde Museum Assn. Trade Paperback, no edition or printing given. Content: Reviewer: "gives the reader an excellent view into the world of these Ancient Americans and their way of life in their cliff dwellings. Little is sugar-coated to be politically-correct. The world of these Indians is accounted for by showing different chores through the seasons- from farming in the warmer months to the old and arthritis-ridden soaking up the feeble heat of the sun in the winters of southwestern Colorado. Don Watson's book is worth having if you want to keep in mind that a whole culture once existed at that almost-mystical place before it had to endure the scourge of being a National Treasure subject to the ravages of public use and wear." There are later printings of this book, but not any new editions. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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KOKOPELLI: Flute Player Images in Rock Art
by Dennis Slifer & James Duffield. Color photo section. B&W reproductions of Southwestern rock art. Condition: NEW 1993 Ancient City Press (Santa Fe) Trade Paperback, first edition, fourth printing. Content: Kokopelli, the mysterious, humpbacked fluteplayer of the American Southwest, has been a sacred figure to Native Americans since prehistoric times. Fertility symbol, rain priest, roving minstrel and trader, hunting magician, and trickster, Kokopelli was painted and carved on rock walls and boulders from the time of the Anasazi (the Ancient Ones) to the 1700s. Today, Kokopelli is still portrayed by Pueblo Indians in ceremonies, dances, songs, and stories; and he is also becoming popular in the art and literature on non-Indians. In Kokopelli: Fluteplayer Images in Rock Art, geologists Dennis Slifer and Jim Duffield present the most extensive survey ever conducted on rock art depictions of the humpbacked fluteplayer. The authors, whose research took them into remote canyons, hillsides, and river courses of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah, discovered more than 300 rock art portraits of Kokopelli, including many that had never been documented - or presented in book form. In this richly illustrated volume they give descriptions of several dozen sites in the Southwest where the most compelling of archaic figures may be found drawn or etched in stone. To round out their study, the authors provide a generous sampling of Native American myths and stories about Kokopelli and other, related figures from the mythic past, as well as vivid reports of how Kokopelli was pictured on prehistoric southwestern pottery and kiva murals. With more than 300 drawings, color and b/w photographs, maps, over 90 bibliographic citations, an appendix of images, and a helpful glossary of terms, Kokopelli is the perfect guide for lay readers and professionals alike. [Note: It is my understanding that Anasazi is a Navajo word translated to " the Ancient Ones Who Are Our Enemies."] [1 copy available]
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KOKOPELLI: The Making of An Icon
by Ekkehart Malotki. Wonderful color photo section. B&W photos and drawings illustrate. Condition: NEW 2004 Univ. of Nebraska Press soft cover, first printing. Content: Kokopelli is one of the favorite images of North American folkloric ideology. The likeness of a flute player with a hump, aged over 1,000 years through the oral and artistic traditions of the Hopi, can be found all over the southwest. Malotki, a professor of languages, analyzes the mystical fascination people have for the Panesque player of the flute. Kokopelli has been used in forms varying from wall decorations to characters in popular literature. Malotki believes that there is a connection between Kokopelli and two of the Hopi gods and uses Hopi text and folktales to share with the reader the many stories surrounding Kokopelli and to reveal what he sees. Throughout this book, numerous samples of the flute player are displayed to show the reader the multiple types of characters that have existed in this form. Anyone interested in the Hopi, or mythological characters, will enjoy this thoroughly intriguing investigation into a Native American legend. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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MESSAGES ON STONE; Selections of Native Western Rock Art
by William Michael Stokes & William Lee Stokes. B&W drawings illustrate. Condition: NEW 1997 Sandstone Publishing (Utah) soft cover, 14th printing. Content: From the thousands of objects and symbols the authors and others have observed, they have assembled a number of groups with meanings that are relatively clear. These groups are presented alphabetically (Apparal, Fun & Games, Hunting, etc.) with brief comments in the following pages. An excellent primer for petroglyphs, rock art, and/or pictographs. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE MIMBRES INDIANS
by Rex E. Gerald. One drawing of a reconstructed Mimbres village. Condition: UNREAD 1968 El Paso Centennial Museum pamphlet (stapled wraps), no printing given. Content: A nice overview of the mysterious Native Americans who gave us all that beautiful black & white pottery. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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MIMBRES MYTHOLOGY (Southwestern Studies Monograph # 56)
by Pat Carr. B&W photos illustrate. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1979 UTEP Trade Paperback, Southwestern Studies Monography # 56. Pale loss of color around edge of covers with a name loose end page. Interior clean & tight. Content: Mythology and religion of the Mimbres peoples of the Southwest deduced from their beautiful black on white pottery and Pubelo folklore comparisons. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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MONTEZUMA CASTLE
by Albert Schroeder and Homer Hastings. B&W maps and photos illustrate. Condition: Gently pre-read, If at all, 1961 National Park Service Handbook Series # 27 soft cover (stapled wraps), 40 pages. Content: The history and geology of Montezuma Castle in Arizona built by the amazing Sinagua peoples who were contemporaries of the Anasazi. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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PEOPLE OF THE MESA VERDE COUNTRY: An Archaeological Remembrance
by Ian M. Thompson. Color maps of the area form the end pages. B&W photos of artifacats with B&W drawings and decorations by Richard Cornelius. Condition: NEW 2002 Crow Canyon-EarthTales Press soft cover, no printing given. Content: Author Ian Thompson lived virtually all his life in a single place- the Four Corners region. For five decades he explored, studied and wrote about its past and present inhabitants and their relationship to the landscape. When he died in 1998 he left behind this unfinished project. Ian had wanted to synthesize for general readers what the 20th century told us about this very special place. This book cannot be what he hoped to complete before his death, but it is a facsimile of what he had imagined and began the previous year. Edited and published posthumously, People of the Mesa Verde Country is a grateful memorial to Ian Thompson and an opportunity to enjoy the reflections of a man who understood, better than most, why the past matters as profoundly as it does. Thompson was the executive director of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center from 1987 to 1990 and the director of research from 1995 to 1997. BTW, Crow Canyon (in beautiful downtown Cortez, Co.) has one-day digs you can experience. Great fun and educational. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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PETROGLYPHS: Ancient Language / Sacred Art
by Sabra Moore. Wonderful, detailed 2-tone drawings by the Author. Condition: NEW 2003 Clear Light hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), second printing. Content: Though not intended as a survey (the subject matter is too broad), this book provides a glimpse of the beautiful artwork created by Native Americans through the centuries with 106 excellent renderings of petroglyphs and pictographs taken from such diverse media as rocks and shells. Carefully drawn by Moore, a professional artist, the pictures provide more detail than is often conveyed by photographs. Images from across the United States are subdivided by region. Also included are regional listings of sites where tourists can view some of the originals, though names and phone numbers of places to contact for information are unfortunately not included. The pictures are accompanied by descriptive text that helps put the artwork in context both historically and artistically. Reviewer: "Sabra Moore's book, in which texts and drawings mingle harmoniously, has given a well-informed and concise overview of the North American rock art. In addition, I think that having the viewpoint from an artist's eye is useful to understand beyond the intellect the possible meanings and purpose of this "ancient language/sacred art" of the petroglyphs. Perhaps, after reading this text-art book, one can visit rock art sites again in a different way, not just seeing the carved boulders any more, but looking at and perusing them instead." Rock Art sites: Southwest (of course), the Southeast, California, Great Plains, Great Lakes, Northwest-Arctic, with Bibliography. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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PREHISTORIC ASTRONOMY IN THE SOUTHWEST
by J. McKim Nalville and Claudia Putnam. Detailed B&W drawings, photos, and star maps. Condition: Very Good 1989 Johnson Trade Paperback, no printing given. Although this book looks new, I did some light highlighting on the first 6 pages of the book. The rest is pristine. Content: Archaeoastronomy is a discipline pioneered at Stonehenge and other megalithic sites in Britain and France. Many sites in the southwestern United States have yielded evidence of the prehistoric Anasazi’s intense interest in astronomy, similar to that of the megalithic cultures of Europe. The authors describe the astronomical alignments at the well-known sites of Chaco Canyon and Hovenweep and present new evidence, based on recent field work of alignments at Yellow Jacket, Chimney Rock, and Mesa Verde. Drawing on the archaeological evidence, ethnographical parallels with historic pueblo peoples, and mythology from other cultures around the world, the authors present theories about the meaning and function of the mysterious stone alignments and architectural orientations of the prehistoric Southwest. Malville is a professor of astronomy at the University of Colorado. Elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his work in solar astrophysics, he has concentrated in recent years on studies of the ancient astronomy of India and the American Southwest. [2 copies available]
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RICHARD WETHERILL: ANASAZI: Pioneer Explorer of Southwestern Ruins (Revised Edition)
by Frank McNitt. B&W photo section and B&W detailed maps of the sites by the Author. Condition: Gently pre-read 1976 University of New Mexico Press Trade Paperback, revised edition, second printing. No major problems, just an older pre-read book. Content: Anasazi, the Navajos’ name for the "Ancient Ones" [actually, "the Ancient Ones Who Are Our Enemies"] who preceded them into the Southwest, is the nickname of Richard Wetherill, who devoted his life to a search for remains of these vanished peoples. Reviewer: "To the archaeologists Richard Wetherill is a villain -- an uneducated cowboy who plundered the ruins of the pre-historic civilization of the Southwestern Indians. Author McNitt takes the opposite tact, portraying Wetherill as an upright honest man whose accomplishments, the first scientific examinations of the great ruins at Mesa Verde and Chaco Canyon, far outweigh his faults. Adding to the enigma of Wetherill is the matter of his death -- murdered in cold blood by a Navajo Indian debtor according to this author, the loser in a gunfight caused by his own cattle rustling according to others. Wetherill inspired strong passions in both life and death. This is a fine biography. The first few chapters may be hard slogging as the book goes through Wetherill's early life, but the chapters of Wetherill's life and work at Chaco Canyon leading up to his death in 1910 are fascinating. The author follows up the shooting of Wetherill with a full description of the trial of his killer and the aftermath of his death. This is a Western tale worthy of an epic movie and one has to wonder why it has not attracted Hollywood's attention. McNitt makes a persuasive case that Wetherill's reputation was the victim of ambitious Eastern academics, jealous of his discoveries, and government Indian agents, jealous of his influence among the Navajo. I was impressed at how little dated were his descriptions of the ancient civilizations of the Anasazi, although the book was written in 1957. Was Wetherill a hero or a villain? The controversy about his character makes for a fascinating read." Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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ROADS TO CENTER PLACE: A Cultural Atlas of Chaco Canyon and the Anasazi
by Kathryn Gabriel. Wonderful B&W photos and detailed maps illustrate. Condition: NEW 1991 Johnson Trade Paperback, second printing. Content: Within the canyon country of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado, the Anasazi built an elaborate system of carefully engineered roadways. Many of the roads connect to sites in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, and required an enormous amount of human labor to create. Nearly 200 miles of roads have been documented inthe past fifteen years by a handful of investigators, but the function and significance of these roads remain a mystery. Kathryn Gabriel, a journalist and researcher with a lifelong interest in Chaco Canyon and the Anasazi, examines Chacoan road systems, using analogies drawn from such diverse phenomena as the use of road metaphors in Pueblo Indian traditions and astronomical alignments of southwestern sites. "Roads to Center Place" is more than a guide to road corridors and archaeological features; it is a map to a lifeway. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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ROCK ART OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST
text by Scott Thvbonv. Color photos by Fred Hirschmann. Condition: NEW 1999 Graphic Arts Center Publishings over-sized softcover with tiny edgewear at one corner. Inside are some of the most detailed and beautiful petroglyph photos ever published. Content: Hirschmann, a former ranger in the Southwest, takes us on a rock-art journey from Texas to the caves of Santa Barbara, the wealth and diversity of Indian rock paintings and carvings astonish us with their beauty, mystery, and spirituality. This new softbound edition presents a broad range of intriguing work spanning more than 4,000 years. Spectacular! And the text is detailed and interesting. Questions welcome. [2 copies available]
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ROCK ART OF THE WESTERN CANYONS
edited by Jane Day, et al. B&W drawings, photos, and art. Condition: UNREAD 1989 Denver Museum of Natural History - Colorado Archaeological Society Trade Paperback, no printing given. Light edge wear with a very short shelf wear "scratch" top front cover. Interior clean & very tight. Content: In recent years anthropologists, art historians and informed laymen have become increasingly interested in the rock art of the western US. In response to this interest a symposium was held at the Denver Museum ofo Natural History in April of 1987 to addres some of the recent research in this fascinating field. The enthusiastic response of both the participants and audience led to the publication of the papers presented in this volume. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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SACRED IMAGES: A Vision of Native American Rock Art
by Leslie Kelen and David Sucec. Foreword by N. Scott Momaday. Spectacular color photos by Craig Law, John Telford, Tomm Till, and Philip Hyde. Condition: UNREAD 2006 Gibbs-Smith (Utah) very large soft cover, 4th printing. Content: Reviewer: "No one really knows what was in the minds of the people who made the prolific, and mysterious rock art of the southwest. Therefore most reputable books on rock art simply describe in dry archeological detail the design elements and locations of the various panels. Leslie Kelen is more of an oral-historian than a scientist. He simply recorded the words and stories the modern Native Americans tell about the art in their area. He combined this with a fine, scientifically accurate introductory essay on ancient cultures, and spectacular photography. The result is a real experience of Canyon Country Rock Art. The book captures the beautiful inscrutability of the rock art and some of the best stories commonly told about it. Many of the local Native Americans are both steeped in their native heritage, and well aware of the scientific community's analysis. This is not a book for scientists. It is a book for people fascinated with the southwest and who wish to add new colors and possibilities to their ruminations on rock art. This is a book for visitors to the southwest who want to see more deeply into the landscape they are traveling through. I have been a guide in the southwest canyon country since 1996, and this is the number one rock art book I recommend to clients." Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE SERPENT AND THE SACRED FIRE: Fertility Images in Southwest Rock Art
by Dennis Slifer. I assume there are B&W photos and drawings. See below. Condition: NEW (shrink-wrapped) 2000 Museum of New Mexico Press soft cover, since the book is shrink-wrapped I can't tell the printing number - or illustrations. Content: The Southwest holds a treasure trove of prehistoric rock art, the fascinating images of petroglyphs and pictographs spanning thousands of years of Indian culture. Fertility has been identified as one of the most obvious and persistent themes in rock art, the record resplendent with symbols of birth, death, and procreation. Three-time rock art author Dennis Slifer takes a wide and deep look at symbols of fertility and fecundity, meticulously documenting drawings made by prehistoric cultures and the historical tribes of today's greater Southwest, and comparing the symbols with those fertility symbols found in rock art sites around the world. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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SIGNS OF LIFE: Rock Art of the Upper Rio Grande
by Dennis Slifer. Wonderful B&W drawings & photos with a color photo & map section. Condition: NEW 1998 Ancient City Press Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: Reviewer: "Relative to his work for the state of New Mexico as a water resource geologist, Slifer sees that "one of the principal ideas conveyed by rock art is a sense of place in the landscape...the creation of people who knew intimately their surroundings...they were keenly aware of territory since they walked everywhere; they knew which way the water ran because it was a life-sustaining element." The book includes descriptions of more than a hundred rock art sites in the region beginning near the headwaters of the Rio Grande in Colorado and progressing downstream through New Mexico to south of El Paso, Texas, with more than 300 illustrations, selected not only to represent the various styles, but to be visually interesting and when possible, not previously published. Some relatively unknown sites are presented from more than a decade of fieldwork in the region. Drawings are used when the rock art is so deteriorated that it doesn't photographs well. It begins with background information on the land and its people, progresses to a discussion of rock art styles, then goes to specific sites, first in the Ancestral Pueblo area, then the Mogollon. The last chapter is about public sites, for those who have no local informants to lead them to lesser known ones. As would be expected, throughout the book Slifer ties the rock art to the landscape, as well as the culture. This is a thoroughly researched, well-written, gracefully presented book, a must-have guide to the region for anyone interested in its rock art." Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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STORIES AND STONE: Writing the Ancestral Pueblo Homeland
edited by Reuben Ellis. Detailed maps and B&W drawings illustrate. Mesa Verde cover photo by David Muench. Condition: NEW 2006 Univ. of Arizona Press Trade Paperback, second printing. Slight lift to the front cover fore edge. Content: From timeless writings to contemporary classics, the contributors weave an unforgettable mosaic of a people and a landscape that continues to inspire wanderers and readers even after four centuries. Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Mesa Verde, Hovenweep . . . For many, such historic places evoke images of stone ruins, cliff dwellings, pot shards, and petroglyphs. For others, they recall ancestry. Remnants of the American Southwest's ancestral Puebloan peoples (sometimes known as Anasazi) have mystified and tantalized explorers, settlers, archaeologists, artists, and other visitors for centuries. And for a select group of writers, these ancient inhabitants have been a profound source of inspiration. Collected here are more than fifty selections from a striking body of literature about the prehistoric Southwest: essays, stories, travelers' reports, and poems spanning more than four centuries of visitation. They include timeless writings such as John Wesley Powell's The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Tributaries and Frank Hamilton Cushing's "Life at Zuni," plus contemporary classics ranging from Colin Fletcher's The Man Who Walked Through Time to Wallace Stegner's Beyond the Hundredth Meridian to Edward Abbey's "The Great American Desert." Reuben Ellis's introduction brings contemporary insight and continuity to the collection, and a section on "reading in place" invites readers to experience these great works amidst the landscapes that inspired them. For anyone who loves to roam ancient lands steeped in mystery, Stories and Stone is an incomparable companion that will enhance their enjoyment. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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TIME DETECTIVES: How Scientists Use Modern Technology to Unravel The Secrets of The Past
by Brian Fagan. Illustrated with B&W drawings, maps, and photographs. Condition: NEW 1996 Touchstone Trade Paperback, third printing. Tiny edgewear. Content: This exhilarating mix of high adventure and serious scholarship explores how modern archeologists are using techniques like computer imaging, infrared photography and pollen analysis to reconstruct ancient cultures. Fagan, an archaeologist, describes Tiwanaku, a vanished city on Lake Titicaca's Bolivian shore (A.D. 5th-11th centuries), where Andean farmers used crop cultivation methods that are now being copied by modern villagers to increase yields. He visits enigmatic Flag Fen in eastern England, where an enormous Bronze Age timber platform rose amid uninhabited wetlands, the site of sacrificial offerings. He combs Wadi Kubbaniya, an obscure Egyptian valley, home to hunter-gatherers 10,000 years before the pharaohs-possible ancestors of ancient Egyptian civilization. He explains how excavations of the mansions and gardens of 18th-century colonial Annapolis, Md., are revealing class divisions between a white elite and African Americans who comprised as much as one-third of the population. Fagan also explores multistory New Mexican pueblos of the Anasazi, a Sumerian temple complex, Blackfoot bison hunt sites on Canadian cliffs and remnants of the Natufian culture-some of the world's earliest farmers - discovered in the 1930s in what is now Israel. [Whether you agree or disagree with Fagan, he always makes you think.] [1 copy available]
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TREADING IN THE PAST: SANDALS OF THE ANASAZI
by Kathy Kankainen (also Editor) and Laurel Casjens (Photographer). Color photos illustrate. Cover illustration by Laurel Casjens. Condition: NEW (shrink-wrapped) 1995 University of Utah Press soft cover, assumed first printing. Content: From approximately AD 1 to 1300, the people we now refer to as Anasazi inhabited parts of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. Their impressive and enigmatic rock art and architectural ruins are well known, but the arid Four Corners climate has also preserved such artifacts as loomed clothes, intricate baskets, and sandals. This book is the most comprehensive volume on Anasazi sandals and weaving technique. Three hundred twelve examples from the extensive holdings at the Utah Museum of Natural History demonstrate the Anasazi genius as skilled textile artists. These examples incorporate colorful geometric patterns and reveal elaborate manipulations of warp and weft. Within the relatively rigid requirements of size, shape, and function, the ancient sandal weavers created almost as many decorative expressions as there are recorded specimens. The impact of the sandals as a group is emotionally and aesthetically powerful - a tribute to the Anasazi sandal weavers. [1 copy available]
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