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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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[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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2012
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2 Books on 1 DVD--Everything you need to start rock painting! Learn how to create amazing rock art to decorate your room, give as gifts and impress friends and family! All it takes is some paint, a few rocks, your imagination and this DVD loaded with two books by expert rock painter Lin Wellford. Enjoy 21 how-to-paint projects including amazing animals (giraffes, elephants, bears, monkeys) and other fun subjects (hamburgers, cars, school buses, houses...
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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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2015.
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"An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants. In The Lost World of the Old Ones, David Roberts expands and updates the research from his 1996 classic, In Search of the Old Ones. As he elucidates startling archaeological breakthroughs, Roberts also recounts his past twenty years of far-flung exploits in search of spectacular prehistoric ruins and rock-art...
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[2010]
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"Fremont is a culture first defined by archaeologist Noel Morss in 1928 based on characteristics unique to the Fremont river drainage. Intially thought to be a simple sociopolitical system, recent reassessments of the Fremont (ca. 300-1300 A.D.) assume a more complex society. This volume places Fremont rock art in this contemporary context. Author Steven Simms offers an innovative model of Fremont society, politics, and worldview using the principles...
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[2018]
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The earliest rock art - in the Americas as elsewhere - is geometric or abstract. Until now, however, no book-length study has been devoted to the deep antiquity and amazing range of geometrics and the fascinating questions that arise from their ubiquity and variety. Why did they precede representational marks? What is known about their origins and functions? Why and how did humans begin to make marks, and what does this practice tell us about the...