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Landscape of the Spirits
Hohokam Rock Art at South Mountain Park
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High above the noise and traffic of metropolitan Phoenix, Native American rock art offers mute testimony that another civilization once thrived in the Arizona desert. In the city's South Mountains, prehispanic peoples pecked thousands of images into the mountains' boulders and outcroppingsâimages that today's hikers can encounter with every bend in the trail.
Todd Bostwick, an archaeologist who has studied the Hohokam for more than twenty years, and Peter Krocek, a professional photographer with a passion for archaeology, have combed the South Mountains to locate nearly all of the ancient petroglyphs found in the canyons and ridges. Their years of learning the landscape and investigating the ancient designs have resulted in a book that explores this wealth of prehistoric rock art within its natural and cultural contexts, revealing what these carvings might mean, how they got there, and when they were made.
Landscape of the Spirits is the first book to cover these ancient images and is one of the most comprehensive treatments of a rock art location ever published. It conveys the range of different rock art elements and compositions found in the South Mountainsâanimals, humans, and geometric shapes, as well as celestial and calendrical markings at key sitesâthrough accurate descriptions, drawings, and photographs. Interpretations of the petroglyphs are based on Native American ethnographic accounts and consider the most recent theories concerning shamanism and archaeoastronomy.
Written in a simple and accessible style, Landscape of the Spirits is an indispensable volume for anyone exploring the South Mountains, and for rock art enthusiasts everywhere who wish to broaden their understanding of the prehistoric world. It is both an authoritative overview of these ancient wonders and an unprecedented benchmark in southwestern rock art research at a single geographic location.
Todd Bostwick, an archaeologist who has studied the Hohokam for more than twenty years, and Peter Krocek, a professional photographer with a passion for archaeology, have combed the South Mountains to locate nearly all of the ancient petroglyphs found in the canyons and ridges. Their years of learning the landscape and investigating the ancient designs have resulted in a book that explores this wealth of prehistoric rock art within its natural and cultural contexts, revealing what these carvings might mean, how they got there, and when they were made.
Landscape of the Spirits is the first book to cover these ancient images and is one of the most comprehensive treatments of a rock art location ever published. It conveys the range of different rock art elements and compositions found in the South Mountainsâanimals, humans, and geometric shapes, as well as celestial and calendrical markings at key sitesâthrough accurate descriptions, drawings, and photographs. Interpretations of the petroglyphs are based on Native American ethnographic accounts and consider the most recent theories concerning shamanism and archaeoastronomy.
Written in a simple and accessible style, Landscape of the Spirits is an indispensable volume for anyone exploring the South Mountains, and for rock art enthusiasts everywhere who wish to broaden their understanding of the prehistoric world. It is both an authoritative overview of these ancient wonders and an unprecedented benchmark in southwestern rock art research at a single geographic location.
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Publisher
University of Arizona PressYear
2016Print ISBN
9780816521845, 9780816521838eBook ISBN
9780816536436Table of contents
- COVER PAGE
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- CONTENTS
- COLOR PLATES
- FIGURES
- MAPS AND TABLES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 1. LEARNING THE LANDSCAPE
- 2. INVESTIGATING ANCIENT ART IN THE SONORAN DESERT
- 3. DATING HOCK ART IN THE SOUTH MOUNTAINS
- 4. SMALL CRITTERS INSECTS AND OTHER ARTHROPODS
- 5. CREATURES OF THE UNDERWORLD AMPHIBIANS, REPTILES, AND FISH
- 6. OUR FOUR-LEGGED BROTHERS MAMMALS
- 7. FRIENDS OF THE UPPER WORLD BIRDS
- 8. HUMANS AND SPIRIT BEINGS ANTHROPOMORPHS
- 9. ABSTRACT MYSTERIES GEOMETRIC DEGIGNS
- 10. SALUTING THE SUN A HOHOKAM CALENDAR
- 11. DREAMS, MEMORIES AND SIGNS A SUMMARY OF SOUTH MOUNTAINS ROCK ART
- NOTES
- REFERENCES CITED
- INDEX