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MESA
VERDE NATIONAL PARK
Of Sandstone, Ladder, and Sky
Susan Lamb
32 pages with 30 color images. 9”x9”
ISBN 1-58071-001-8
$5.95 
Our
Mesa Verde Pocket Portfolio©
Book provides in-depth information on the human and
natural histories of the Park as well as spectacular
color photography.
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Today,
Mesa Verde is relatively remote and most of us reach
it only after hours of driving. It might be dificult
to unbend enough to appreciate such a place if it were
truly trapped in the past, but Mesa Verde is very much
alive. The plants and creatures familiar to the people
who lived here long ago are all around us still. Trees
rustle in the breeze, crickets chirp, magpies cluck...There
are so many sounds, yet underneath a profound stillness
also. I find myself noticing not only birdsong and beebuzz
but also the tiny movement of a lizard on a rock, a
larkspur gleaming cobalt in the shadows, the sun’s
wamth when I step out of the shade...
According
to traditional narratives, people first settled Mesa
Verde during a long migration that began when human
beings climbed up from a dark, cold, nether world into
this one. Each place they lived taught them more about
how to live in a society and a world that asked much
of them. Their time at Mesa Verde was important but
their destiny lay elsewhere. They continued on to found
new communities, including those where Puebloan people
still live today on the Hopi mesas of northern Arizona
and in New Mexico along the upper Rio Grande and its
tributries and at Zuni, Acoma, and Laguna...
Members
of twenty-four native nations trace their ancestry to
the people of Mesa Verde. It was long assumed that these
people couldn’t possibly remember anything about
the distant past, and the science of archeology almost
ignored them. But anthropological studies revealed that
cultures who pass on their histories verbally have a
formulaic way of doing so that ensures a remarkable
degree of accuracy. A team of skeptical archeologists
changed their approach after taking a river trip through
the Grand Canyon with Puebloans who knew what would
be around each bend not from experience, but from ancient
songs...
—From
“Of Sandstone, Ladder, and Sky” by Susan
Lamb
Of
Sandstone, Ladder, and Sky
Susan Lamb
32 pages with 30 color images. 9”x9”
ISBN 1-58071-001-8
$5.95
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