Award winning cinematographer Paul Goldsmith spent years filming and photographing the tens of thousands of Native American petroglyphs and pictographs of the Coso Range on the edge of the Mojave Desert in southeastern California. This amazing rock art locale is located on the China Lake Naval Weapons Range and is largely off limits to visitors. Created over thousands of years, the art collection contains images of shamans, animals, anthropomorphs, and mysterious abstract forms.
With 160 color photos, this volume is a visual delight showing examples of all the art of the Cosos, a people who seem to have disappeared about 800 years ago. Goldsmith supplements these photos with a narrative that is both personal and well informed. He treks into the remote desert canyons, and he meets archaeologists, Native Americans, a psychologist, an artist, bow hunters, and the base commanding officer, all with insights on the rock art. This book will delight everyone with an interest in Native American rock art.
