Ebook: The Lost World of the Old Ones
Author: Roberts David
- Tags: Antiquities, Indians of North America--Antiquities, Indians of North America--Southwest New--Antiquities, Pueblo Indians--Antiquities, Rock paintings, Rock paintings--Southwest New, Sacred space, Sacred space--Southwest New, Travel, Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities, Indians of North America -- Southwest New -- Antiquities, Sacred space -- Southwest New, Rock paintings -- Southwest New, Southwest New -- Antiquities, Roberts David -- 1943- -- Travel -- Southwest New, Southwest New -- Description and trav
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Language: English
- epub
An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants.
For more than 5,000 years the Ancestral Puebloans—Native Americans who flourished long before the first contact with Europeans—occupied the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. Just before AD 1300, they abandoned their homeland in a migration that remains one of prehistory's greatest puzzles. Northern and southern neighbors of the Ancestral Puebloans, the Fremont and Mogollon likewise flourished for millennia before migrating or disappearing. Fortunately, the Old Ones, as some of their present-day descendants call them, left behind awe-inspiring ruins, dazzling rock art, and sophisticated artifacts ranging from painted pots to woven baskets. Some of their sites and relics had been seen by no one during the 700 years before David Roberts and his companions rediscovered them.
In The Lost World of the...