Signs of Life: Rock Art of the Upper Rio Grande

By Dennis Slifer

Book Overview

In sheer number of sites, the rock art of the Southwest is without equal in North America. Signs of Life takes the reader on a rock art tour of the upper portion of the Rio Grande drainage, that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580960057
• ISBN13: 9781580960052
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Ancient City Pr
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Signs of life in Native rock art

This is a detail scholar work on petroglyphs in Southwest human activities. The numerous artists left their master-pieces as their genesis in cultivating the land and survival. Page 127 is a collection of petroglyph on a boulder with a turtle. Chinese myth told of the land was rested on a turtle. Page 134 is a petroglyph of a thunderbird, in Chinese myth, thunder came from a bird. Page 144 pointed out the Mystery Rock is a hoax created by U of New Mexico students in 1930. However, there were ancient Oracle Bone scripts in different rock art sites, they need to explore and research. Page 243 is a Jornada style pictograph of a mask with a tongue handing out. Is there any connection between this area and Mexico unearthed Sun calendar stone the center man face with tongue sticking out. It is a wonderful reading and learning with brief paper tour of the area.