Canyon de Chelly: Its People and Rock Art

Description

With the exception of the Grand Canyon itself| none of the great gorges of the American Southwest is more uniquely beautiful than Canyon de Chelly| with its sheer red cliffs and innumerable prehistoric Indian dwellings. Of all the important centers of prehistoric Anasazi culture| only this magnificent canyon shows an unbroken record of settlement for more than 1|000 years. In this liberally illustrated book| rock art authority Campbell Grant examines four aspects of the spectacular canyon: its physical characteristics| its history of human habitation| its explorers and archaeologists| and its countless rock paintings and petroglyphs. Grant surveys 96 sites in the two main canyons and offers an interpretation of the rock art found there.