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A Field Guide to Rock Art Symbols of the Greater Southwest. (book reviews)

American Indian Quarterly, The,  September, 1994  by Cole, Sally J.

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The cover description of this book identifies it as a key to the interpretation of American rock art that can be used in the field and as a reference volume. The interpretive key involves pages of "finders" (drawings) that correspond to three descriptive categories of Native American rock art: human-like, animal-like, and abstract.

The finders and descriptive categories allow the reader to compare examples of rock art with those illustrated and discussed on the following pages to determine "ascribed meanings" based on published works cited in the text. Sources of ...

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