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Paperback / softback. New. With an estimated 10,000 ancient rock art sites, Nine Mile Canyon has long captivated people the world over. The 45-mile-long canyon, dubbed the "World's Longest Art Gallery," hosts what is believed to be the largest concentration of rock art in North America. But rock art is only part of the amazing archaeological fabric that scholars have been struggling to explain for more than a century. Jerry D. Spangler takes the reader on a journey into Nine Mile Canyon through the eyes of the generations of archaeologists who have gone there only to leave bewildered by what it all means. The earliest collectors in the 1890s were determined to recover collections for museums but never much cared to understand the people who left the artefacts. Then came a cadre of young scientists-the first to be trained specifically in archaeology- who found Nine Mile Canyon to be an intriguing laboratory that yielded more questions than answers. Scholars such as Noel Morss,…
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Nine Mile Canyon: The Archaeological History of an American Treasure Paperback - 2013
by Jerry D. Spangler
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- Title Nine Mile Canyon: The Archaeological History of an American Treasure
- Author Jerry D. Spangler
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First edition
- Pages 280
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, UT
- Date 2013
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781607812265 / 1607812266
- Weight 2.08 lbs (0.94 kg)
- Dimensions 10.09 x 8.48 x 0.69 in (25.63 x 21.54 x 1.75 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Indians of North America - Utah - Nine Mile, Petroglyphs - Utah - Nine Mile Canyon
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012031967
- Dewey Decimal Code 709.011
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