Author Description

This is an "easy to read and understand" guidebook for all people interested in Indian Rock Art and Ruins. It shows a real understanding of the earliest inhabitants of North America, who populated the Southwest from approximately 8000 B.C. to AD 1300. The author gives detailed directions to rock art and ruin sites, which were left behind by these inhabitants, in the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah and Wyoming. The book is beautifully illustrated with 23 full color photographs and 46 black and white photographs. There are seventeen chapters on rock art sites, seven chapters on practical information such as food/cooking, camping, day hiking, photography, conditioning, etc. and three introductory chapters on prehistory and the different theories concerning the emergence and disappearance of the these archaic people, who are sometimes called the "Anasazi". The book is educational, practical and humorous.