ANASAZI—ANCIENT PEOPLE OF THE ROCK [SOLD]

ANASAZI—ANCIENT PEOPLE OF THE ROCK

Photographs by David Muench

Text by Donald G. Pike

Publisher: American West Publishing Company, Palo Alto, California

Hardcover, first edition 1974

127 color and black and white photographs, 192 pages. Very good condition

Contents

The People who have Vanished

Portfolio: Mesa Verde

Out of the Earth

Portfolio: Kayenta

Wind from the South

Portfolios: Sinagua—Salado

Children at the Gate

Portfolio: Canyons and Mesas

Onto the Rock

Portfolio: Chaco Canyon

Sons of Light

The Dark Wind

Portfolio: Rio Grande Ancients

Into the Memory

Portfolio: Contemporary Pueblos

Historic Photographs by Adam Clark Vroman

Summary

In this moving book, master-photographer David Muench captures the stark beauty, the drama, the mystical quality of the ruins.  From afar he surveys their vast scale and magnificence of the barren landscape from which they rise. Coming closer, he admires their craftsmanship and re-creates a feeling of what it might have been like to live here so long ago.  One can almost see the ghosts of these gentle, creative people still dwelling in the rock.

The fascinating text by historian Donald G. Pike tells what is already known about the Anasazi and traces the scientific manhunt in which generations of archaeologists have worked to learn more.  In the pattern on a fragment of pottery or the growth rings of a weathered old post, they may find some important new piece to the puzzle.  Gradually, through their patience and ingenuity, a shadowy picture of the lost People of the Rock is beginning to emerge.