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Product Description Detailed full-color photographs provide insight into the changing patterns of ancient life illuminated by the mysterious art in the canyons of the Coso Range, located near Death Valley in the Mojave Desert, the richest concentration of rock art in the Western Hemisphere. From Booklist Gr. 4^-6. From the author and photographer who count The Ancient Cliff Dwellers of Mesa Verde (1992) among their successful collaborations comes another book about ancient Native Americans. Here they focus on the rock art found in the Coso Range of eastern California, which, with more than 100,000 examples, "is the richest concentration of rock art in the Western Hemisphere," and some of the drawings are at least 6,000 years old. Explaining that the term rock art refers to drawings that are carved or engraved into stone or are painted on rock surfaces, Arnold describes the various methods that were used to create the designs. She also discusses climatic changes in the area, beginning with the last Ice Age, and surmises what life might have been like for those ancient people. Unfortunately, her citations consist of "archaeologists call" or "experts agree," and she provides no sources of further information. Hewitt's wonderful full-color photographs show the landscape as well as a profusion of the ancient images and may inspire a sense of wonder in kids when they see the images and consider their age. The photos will draw browsers; their curiosity will lead them into the text. Glossary. Sally Estes From Kirkus Reviews Arnold (Fox, p. 894, etc.) visits the Mojave Desert's Coso Range for a look at some of the US's oldest, most durable--and most enigmatic--art. It's a good choice of location, with over 100,000 examples discovered: depictions of sheep, deer, coyotes, lizards, hunting tools and scenes, human figures both plain and adorned with feathers or other regalia, and more abstract images. Arnold describes the clever methods researchers use to date the petroglyphs and deduce who made them, and why; Hewitt's large, sharp full-color photographs capture the variety of the art and communicate a sense of their arid, remote setting. More cogent--and better illustrated--than Jennifer Owings Dewey's impressionistic Stories On Stone (p. 294), this offers an intriguing glimpse into an ancient mystery. (glossary, index) (Nonfiction. 9-11) -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. Review "An appealing book on a little-known subject." -- Review
