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(0)David Grant Noble
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English
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This fourth edition of David Grant Noble's indispensable guide to archaeological ruins of the American Southwest includes updated text and newly opened archaeological sites. In addition to descriptions of each site, Noble provides time-saving tips for the traveler. Filled with photos of ruins, petroglyphs, and artifacts, as well as maps, this is a guide every traveler needs when exploring the Southwest.
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viii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"Stationed at the U.S. Army's counterintelligence headquarters in Saigon, David Noble was sent north to launch the first covert intelligence-gathering operation in Vietnam's Central Highlands. Living among the Montagnard -- the region's indigenous tribal people, deemed critical to winning the war -- Noble documented their training, as American Green Berets taught them to use rifles rather than crossbows and spears, while confronting his own challenges...
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ix, 174 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 28 cm
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English
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"How did Southwestern peoples subsist in the arid reaches of the Great Basin? When and why did violence erupt in the Mesa Verde region? Who were the Fremont people? How do some Hopis view Chaco Canyon? These are a few of the topics addressed in Living the Ancient Southwest. The essayists in this new highly-illustrated anthology also write about the beauty and originality of Mimbres pottery, the rock art in Canyon de Chelly, the history of the Wupatki...