Images in stone
By: photography by David Muench ; with introduction, captions, and text by Polly Schaafsma.
Contributors: Schaafsma, Polly.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Brown/Trout Publishers
Published: 1995
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- Antiquities; Petroglyphs -- West (U.S.); Picture-writing -- West (U.S.); Rock paintings -- West (U.S.); West (U.S.) -- Antiquities
Description: Presents photos of the petroglyphs and pictographs chipped, chiseled, and painted in prehistoric and historic times onto boulders and rock walls in the Southwest and in California, Baja California, and the Columbia River gorge. Anthropologist Polly Schaafsma provides an introductory essay and commentary on the background of the people who created the rock art and the world they inhabited.