Reading List - "Rock Art Images of Northern New Mexico"
Here is a list of books not contained in "Additional Reading", which covers Rock Art in New Mexico and the Southwest.Guide to Rock Art of the Utah Region: Sites with Public Access.
Dennis Slifer, Santa Fe, New Mexico: Ancient City Press, 2000.
This book directs visitors to sites managed for the public in Utah and surrounding areas.
In Search of the Old Ones: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest
David Roberts, New York, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.
This easy-reading book brings the excitement of discovery to Southwest archaeology, sites and artifacts.
Indians of the Four Corners: The Anasazi and Their Descendants
Alice Marriott, Santa Fe, New Mexico: Ancient City Press, 1996.
This provides a good introduction, with many illustrations, to explain how the Anasazi lived.
Kokopelli: The Magic, Mirth, and Mischief of an Ancient Symbol
Dennis Slifer, Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2007.
The most comprehensive and well-illustrated book on the subject — now revised and updated.
Rock Art in New Mexico
Polly Schaafsma, Albuquerque, New Mexico: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1992.
Thorough and comprehensive, this remains the basic reference book on the topic by a leading expert in the field.
The Serpent and the Sacred Fire: Fertility Images in Southwest Rock Art
Dennis Slifer, Santa Fe, New Mexico: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2000.
Explores the themes of fertility and sexuality, which have been identified as some of the most obvious and persistent themes in rock art of prehistoric cultures in the Southwest and around the world.
Wild Plants and Native Peoples of the Four Corners
William Dunmire and Gail Tierney, Santa Fe, New Mexico: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1997.
A great book with discussion and illustrations of the ethno-botany of Native Americans, past and present, in the Four Corners region of the Southwest.