Salinas : Archaeology, History, and Prehistory (Ancient City Press ed.)

Describes how early cultures settles in what is now an arid, lifeless basin.

Once a fertile area of lakes and ponds, the flats attracted game animals and prehistoric hunters.

Historians and archaeologists detail the native cultures and the rock art of the Salinas flats.

Salinas concludes with discussions of the Spanish presence at Quarai and the turbulence surrounding the Spanish Inquisition.