In Search of the Old Ones: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest
Written by David Roberts
Narrated by Kaipo Schwab
4/5
()
About this audiobook
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.
David Roberts
David Roberts is a hugely talented and versatile artist and author. David began his career in fashion illustration, and his sharp eye for form and composition is showcased beautifully in his books with Andrea Beaty, which include Ada Twist, Scientist and Iggy Peck, Architect. His work ranges from feisty retellings of fairy tales created in collaboration with his sister, Lyn (Little Red, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel), to his brilliantly funny books with Julia Donaldson such as Tyrannosaurus Drip, The Troll and The Cook and the King. In 2006 he won the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize Gold Award for his line drawings in Mouse Noses On Toast, and Little Red was shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal. David’s sense of humour shines through in all his work, but especially his illustrations for The Bolds series by Julian Clary and the madcap Dirty Bertie books. Suffragette: The Battle for Equality was David’s first self-authored book and is an exquisitely illustrated history of the women’s suffrage movement, which has been a passion of David’s since his school days.
More audiobooks from David Roberts
The Pueblo Revolt: The Secret Rebellion That Drove the Spaniards Out of the Southwest Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last of His Kind: The Life and Adventures of Bradford Washburn, America's Boldest Mountaineer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Mountain of My Fear and Deborah: Two Mountaineering Classics Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Rosie Revere, Engineer Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Iggy Peck, Architect Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ada Twist, Scientist Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Mountain: My Time on Everest Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOn the Ridge Between Life and Death: A Climbing Life Reexamined Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to In Search of the Old Ones
Related audiobooks
Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sandstone Spine: Seeking the Anasazi on the First Traverse of the Comb Ridge Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Man Who Walked Through Time: The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Bears Ears: A Human History of America's Most Endangered Wilderness Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Underland: A Deep Time Journey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tracing Time: Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rising from the Plains Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Desert Soliloquy: A Perfectly Sane Misanthrope Hides in the Desert Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Comanche Empire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Journey of Coronado Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sacred Sites: The Secret History of Southern California Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInca Lands Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Days of the Incas Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Open Wounds: A Native American Heritage Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Archaeology For You
The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/51177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed: Revised and Updated Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Anunnaki Chronicles: A Zecharia Sitchin Reader Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ancient Celts: Second Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Buried: An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Gold of the Gods Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Return of the Gods: Evidence of Extraterrestrial Visitations Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Pocket History of Human Evolution: How We Became Sapiens Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/524 Hours in Ancient Athens: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Pathways to the Gods: The Stones of Kiribati Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Mystery of Doggerland: Atlantis in the North Sea Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When Humans Nearly Vanished: The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Signs of the Gods? Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/524 Hours in Ancient Egypt: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for In Search of the Old Ones
48 ratings5 reviews
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fascinating account of the author's travels in the four corners area and other places trying to learn more about the mysterious Anasazi or ancient pueblo people. Makes me want to learn a lot more. The Wetherills from the Mesa Verde area were early ranchers that discovered a lot of places and sound like people worth learning about.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A nice travelogue (?). The author isn't the best writer, but he is good at conveying his sense of purpose, and the emotions that he encounters on his trek. It's also a nice intro into the whole Anasazi thing from a non-scholarly type, it puts a more human face on many of the aspects of this particular search for knowledge.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Disappointed w/ this....scattered writing w/ not lots of depth to it. Tis hard to understand why all the Naional Parks sell it....doesn't anybody review these things?
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book is similar to Craig Childs' book on the Anasazi culture, House of Rain, although Roberts is a little more orthodox in his thinking and less willing to go out on a limb than Childs. Still, reading the two books together will give you an excellent understanding of the culture and people who disappeared from the desert southwest in the 12th century.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5If you enjoy the story of the Anastazi and the mystery around the Southwest Native Americans this is a great book. Would be a great way to plan a trip to the area or as in my case encourages me to read Hanted Mesa again. A good read for Native American enthusist, Backpacking, camping enthusist and desert entthusist.