Award Name New Mexico Book Awards Award category Anthropology/Archeology This book is about a place, the Great Basin of western North America, and about the lifeways of Native American people who lived there during the past 13,000 years.
The authors highlight the ingenious solutions people devised to sustain themselves in a difficult environment.
The Great Basin is a semiarid and often harsh land, but one with life-giving oases.
As the weather fluctuat.