In Search of the Old Ones, David Roberts
In Search of the Old Ones, David Roberts
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In Search of the Old Ones
Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest

Author: David Roberts

Narrator: Kaipo Schwab

Unabridged: 8 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/20/2017


Synopsis

An exuberant, hands-on fly-on-the-wall account that combines the thrill of canyoneering and rock climbing with the intellectual sleuthing of archaeology to explore the Anasazi.

David Roberts describes the culture of the Anasazi—the name means "enemy ancestors" in Navajo—who once inhabited the Colorado Plateau and whose modern descendants are the Hopi Indians of Arizona. Archaeologists, Roberts writes, have been puzzling over the Anasazi for more than a century, trying to determine the environmental and cultural stresses that caused their society to collapse 700 years ago. He guides us through controversies in the historical record, among them the haunting question of whether the Anasazi committed acts of cannibalism.

Roberts's book is full of up-to-date thinking on the culture of the ancient people who lived in the harsh desert country of the Southwest.

About David Roberts

David Roberts (1943-2021) was the author of dozens of books on mountaineering, adventure, and the history of the American Southwest. His essays and articles have appeared in National Geographic, National Geographic Adventure, and the Atlantic Monthly.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lukasz

"With respect to the Anasazi, at least we have begun to know just how much we do not know." I love the general area of Four Corners, where Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico meet. My wife and I have traveled extensively there and we know many of the locations appearing in David Roberts' In Searc......more

Goodreads review by Kev

I am amazed at David's extensive travels afoot the myriad ways of the Colorado Plateau. It will break your heart and fire your imagination what we have learned in the last 10-15 years about the mysterious vanished culture whose tantilizing remnants one must use guile & cretivity to unlock & apprecia......more

While there is information presented on the Anasazi [the ancient Native Americans] gleemed from other writings, this work comes across as a travelog of the author's exploration of Anasazi sites. It does give some information and conjecture about these ancient people whose culture disappeard from the......more