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Windows of the Past Wish You Were Here©
Book combines a short, yet concise essay on the Southwestern
Cultural Heritage sites, along with poetry and stunning
photography which give the visitor a well-rounded view
of the many parks featured.
First
came the hunters. Out of the mists of Siberia, tiny
bands ventured eastward across the land bridge of the
Bering Strait and ever deeper into a territory stretching
from pole to pole, where no human being had trod before.
It was a momentous migration that would affect the history
of mankind, but it is doubtful that the participants
had any sense of the extraordinary. As they penetrated
further inland, their casual coming was prolonged into
permanence at the end of the Ice Age with the rising
of sea waters, which resubmerged the land connection
between the Eastern and Western hemispheres. So here
they were.
Generation
after generation, successive waves of men and women
rolled southward, pulled by the tidal force of large
mammals whose land this was. By some fourteen thousand
years ago, possibly even earlier, the migrants had settled
around the bog-filled basins and grassy prairies of
the southern section of North America. Human history
dawned over the Southwest and the Colorado Plateau,
which would much later be the scene of an unfolding
saga, the leading characters of which were a people
we know today by the Navajo name of Anasazi.
—From
“The Prehistoric Drama” by Florence C. Lister
Enjoy
your visit to these sites but please keep in mind that
these sites are an integral part of our national heritage
and just as significant as the great chapels, castles,
shrines, and walls of Europe and Asia. Just as the Vatican
and St. Paul’s Basilica are sacred to Christianity,
these sites are sacred to the descendants of their original
inhabitants. Please treat them with the same respect
as you would your own sacred relics.
—From
“About Your Visit” by Jim Wilson
The
Prehistoric Drama
Florence C. Lister; poetry by Lynn Wilson
96 pages. 8”x7.375”
ISBN 1-939365-22-7
Sorry, out of print.
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