Art in the Pre-Hispanic Southwest: An Archaeology of Native American Cultures - Paperbackby Radoslaw Palonka (Author) This book examines the development of pre Hispanic Native American cultures in the American Southwest and Mexican Northwest from the Paleoindian period until the appearance of the first Europeans in the sixteenth century through studies of settlements, rock art, and pottery iconography. Author Biography Radoslaw Palonka is associate professor in the Department of New World Archeology, Institute of Archaeology of the