rock paintings

Describes over fifty ancient rock art sites in the American Southwest and includes driving directions, photographs, side trips, and insight into the cultures that created the artworks.

Explores the importance of rock art, discussing how it helps researchers learn about the past, profiling important sites, and exploring the meanings of the images.

Describes the 1994 discovery made in Chauvet, France, of a cave with Stone Age rock paintings, and discusses the significance of cave art to people living in prehistoric as well as modern times.

Miranda, a nature-loving, athletic fifteen-year-old, goes on a backpacking trip to look for Indian paintings in the canyons of southern Utah, where she feels a mystical connection to the women who were there before her.

Discusses the subject matter, techniques, and cultural significance of the paintings and engravings made on rocks, both inside caves and in the open air, by primitive people around the world.

An illustrated exploration of the ancient rock art of Africa, providing information about the land and people of Africa, the discovery of rock art, and its styles, subjects, sites, and dating; and looking at the paintings and engravings found in specific regions of Africa.

As punishment for painting on public property in Chicago, Beto is sent to spend the summer with relatives in Fremont, Utah, where he discovers that rock paintings are being looted and decides to do something about it.

An introduction to native American art through petroglyphs and pictographs.

Provides an introduction to petroglyphs, the ancient images found on stones throughout the southwestern United States, with discussion of the lives of the native people who inhabited the region, and how and why they created the rock drawings.