Customer Reviews:
 My Rock Art Bible March 4, 2007
Malotki and McCreery have created a masterpiece with this wonderful book. It contains fabulous photographs of seldom-seen sites, plus numerous drawings that allow the reader to compare various figures found throughout the region. Malotki, I suspect, must have spent much time living among the Hopi (as a teacher, perhaps?) because he has considerable knowledge of the Hopi language and culture, and these insights appear often in his explanation of images and their relationship to one another.
Rock art is one of my great passions, and I've photographed a substantial amount of rock art from Northern AZ, Nevada, and California. Tapamveni is, in my opinion, the very best interpretive book on the subject, though limited to the "Palavayu" area in Northern AZ.
If you want to learn about the role and function of rock art in the culture of the ancient ones (to the extent that this is possible in our modern age), this book is invaluable.
If you're looking for a book that gives directions to rock art sites, this is not it. Due to the prevalence of vandalism and the senseless destruction of our precious cultural resources, locations of sites are kept vague - as they should be.
Keep this book out on the coffee table because you will want to refer to it often.
Well researched, informative, beautifully illustrated March 23, 1999
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Tapamveni is a carefully researched, well written, and highly informative book about Petrified Forest's collection of rock art. Its lavish color illustrations are captivating. A must for Indian rock art buffs.
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