They Who Have Gone Before: Footprint in the sands of time

In Jon Foyt's 19th novel, archaeologists Jackson and Danica Alioto jump at an opportunity to explore a new field in their careers- the pre-Roman Etruscans. Meanwhile, Stuart Sweet eagerly accepts a chance to tell about the Anasazi...whoops, to be politically correct: the Ancestral Puebloans of New Mexico.

Their lives come together in the tombs of the Etruscans and the Grand Kiva of Chaco Canyon. All at an academic conference in an Etruscan Museum-where new information about they who have gone before come to light under the Etruscan Sun (actually, on a rainy day in Italy) and by Sweet's students in the dusk of a fall night in the Grand Kiva discovering an answer to the question as to who drew the plans of Pueblo Bonita, an enormous prehistoric building.