The Lost World of the Old Ones Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest

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The Lost World of the Old Ones  Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest
Author : David Roberts
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Language : English
Release Date : 13 April 2015
ISBN : 9780393241891
Pages : 368 pages
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The Lost World of the Old Ones Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest by David Roberts Book PDF Summary

An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants. In this thrilling story of intellectual and archaeological discovery, David Roberts recounts his last twenty years of far-flung exploits in search of spectacular prehistoric ruins and rock art panels known to very few modern travelers. His adventures range across Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado, and illuminate the mysteries of the Ancestral Puebloans and their contemporary neighbors the Mogollon and Fremont, as well as of the more recent Navajo and Comanche.

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