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The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest
David Roberts
Roberts exploring Ancestral Puebloan ruins across the canyonlands — cliff dwellings, granaries, rock art. Each site is a detective story about a people who left and didn't leave a forwarding address.
archaeology
desert
Indigenous knowledge
Narrative Nonfiction
American Southwest
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Published
2015
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