Salinas: Archaeology, History, and Prehistory

By David Grant Noble

Book Overview

Describes how early cultures settles in what is now an arid, lifeless basin. Once a fertile area of lakes and ponds, the flats attracted game animals and prehistoric hunters. Historians and archaeologists detail the native cultures and the rock art of the Salinas flats. Salinas concludes with discussions of the Spanish presence at Quarai and the turbulence surrounding the Spanish Inquisition.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0941270785
• ISBN13: 9780941270786
• Release Date: May 1982
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.1" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up