Steven R. Shaffer opens a window to the prehistoric past with the production of Written In Stone: The Prehistoric Native American Rock Art of the Ohio Valley. The one-hour public television documentary explores the little-known and often endangered prehistoric Native American petroglyphs (rock carvings) and pictographs (rock paintings) which survive in Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, Illinois and Pennsylvania.

Created with the assistance and support of professional archaeologists Dr. Carol Diaz-Granados, Dr. Charles Faulkner, and William "Rex" Weeks Jr. and supported by .the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma (former inhabitants of the Ohio Valley) and the Native American History Council of West Virginia. The documentary will be narrated by veteran actor Gary Sandy, best known for his role as Andy Travis in the television classic WKRP in Cincinnati. Production for Written In Stone is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2005.

About Steven Shaffer
Born and reared in the Ohio Valley, Shaffer saw his first petroglyph at age ten and has never lost his fascination for these ancient images. He recently worked as a communications writer for Corning Cable Systems, a world leader in the fiber optics industry, before returning to those subjects he enjoys best - history and prehistory. Shaffer's latest large project is the book Old Wounds: American's WWII Servicemen in German and Japanese Prisoner-Of-War Camps.