Stone Chisel & Yucca Brush, Franklin Silver Medal Winner by Ekkehart Malotki

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New  copy of this silver medal Benjamin Franklin award winner. Retails new for .00
Description:
Product Details
Hardback:
210 pages
Publisher:
Kiva Publishing; First Edition (2002)
Language:
English
ISBN-10:
1885772270
ISBN-13:
978-1885772275
Product Dimensions:
10 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches
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As an introduction to the study of rock art,
Stone Chisel & Yucca Brush
features stunning photographs of petroglyphs and pictographs from the Colorado Plateau.
The combination of outstanding rock art imagery and slid interpretive information is designed not only to introduce the layperson to the exciting field of rock art studies, but also to appeal to those familiar with the subject.
For each rock art image, general location and chronological information is provided.
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About the Author
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Ekkehart Malotki is professor emeritus of languages at Northern Arizona University where he taught German, Latin, and Hopi from 1977 until 2004. For more than twenty-five years, his work as an ethnolinguist focused on the preservation of Hopi language and culture. In addition to over a dozen bilingual works on Hopi semantics and oral literature, he has published three children's books based on authentic Hopi stories. For over ten years, he was the principal data contributor to the Hopi Dictionary/Hopikwa Lavaytutuveni. He also provided the Hopi titles, including that of Koyaanisqatsi, to Godfrey Reggio's movie trilogy on our destructive behavior toward this planet. Among his most recent publications are Earth Fire: A Hopi Legend of the Sunset Crater Eruption, Hopi Tales of Destruction, and Kokopelli: The Making of an Icon. During the last fifteen years, his passion for rock art has taken him to the Sahara, to the Paleolithic caves in France, to Italy, Scandinavia and Mexico, and twice to Australia. In addition, he has devoted much of his time to the photography and interpretation of the rock art of the American Southwest. Both of his rock art works have received prestigious awards. Tapamventi: The Rock Art Galleries of Petrified Forest and beyond, co-authored by Patricia McCreery, won an award of excellence from the National Park Service, and Stone Chisel and Yucca Brush: Colorado Plateau Rock Art, co-authored by Donald E. Weaver, a Benjamin Franklin Award winner.