Painters in Prehistory: Archaeology and Art of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands

by Harry J. Shafer

Hardcover, 2013

Status

Checked out

Call number

E78.T4 P35

Publication

Trinity University Press (2013), 304 pages

Description

"The remnants of prehistoric Lower Pecos people reveal lifeways unlike those anywhere in the world. The people who inhabited what is now Texas left artifacts that provide information about 12,000 years of existence, the last 7,000 of which are still astoundingly evident. Includes maps, charts, tables, photographs, and drawings"--Provided by publisher.

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LibraryThing member billsearth
This author combines two themes and does a very good job on both. The first two thirds of the book describe in detail the way of life and geographic distribution of the rock art prehistoric painters of mostly Texas. In the last third of the book the author describes the styles of rock art found in
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Texas and has examples of each with extensive text detail on each. References are abundant throughout the book. There is large general index. Everything about the prehistoric artists and the art is documented, illustrated, photographed, categorized, aged, indexed and summarized.
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Language

Original language

English

Physical description

304 p.; 10.2 inches

ISBN

1595340866 / 9781595340863

Barcode

34662000985736
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