The Ancient Pueblo people also known mistakenly as the Anasazi were a prehistoric Native American culture located around the present day Four Corners" areas of the Southwest United States. This area encompasses the Colorado Plateau & extends from central New Mexico to southern Nevada Utah & Arizona. The topography of this panoramic region varies greatly including high plateaus vast horizontal mesas sleep walled canyons & sandstone windows & bridges sculpted by water erosion. In cliff areas with harder stone rock overhangs formed & served as building sites for adobe dwellings often accessible only by rope or rock climbing. Numerous national parks & monuments such as Mesa Verde Grand Canyon Sunset Crater & Chaco Canyon provide stunning scenery & a well-preserved window into the areas fascinating prehistoric past. Divided geographically this expanded edition
Includes:: tips on visiting reservations attending ceremonies buying arts & crafts & adjusting to " Indian time". The revised format provides easy reader access to a wealth of information &
Includes:: dozens of new sites selected places to stay eat & shop a calendar of various powwows & other tribal ceremonies a section on language points of interest maps & 16 pages of full colour photographs. The book also examines locations such as the Gila Cliff Dwellings Monument the Taos Pueblo & The Denver Art Museum which houses an extensive collection of North American native art."